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Sh2.5bn budget for Kenyas golden bash

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The lavish spending includes Sh50 million for erecting a bronze statue of retired President Mwai Kibaki holding a copy of the Constitution during its promulgation on August 27, 2010 Stories on Pages 4-5
In footsteps of my father, Juniors story
Mr Mutula Kilonzo Jnr
PROPOSED EXPENDITURE
BY BOB ODALO
Sh50m
Amount for erecting bronze statue of former President Mwai Kibaki
Sh365m
The cost of entertaining guests during the fete
Sh31m
Sitting allowance for members of the steering committee
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hen he was given the microphone to address his first political gathering after he was cleared to contest the Makueni Senate seat, Mutula
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SECURITY | Circumstances in which ocers can use guns expanded
SUNDAY NATION July 28, 2013
Law could lift limitations on rearms use by police ocers

Amendment would allow ocers to shoot to protect property or stop suspects escaping
BY ZADDOCK ANGIRA
[email protected] enya would become the third country in the world to justify the use of rearms by police to protect property if Parliament endorses proposed changes to the police law. The proposals contained in a Bill currently before Parliament would change the current provisions where police ocers may only use rearms to protect life. In the National Police Service (Amendment) Bill 2013, ocers would be justied in using guns to protect property, prevent suspects from escaping custody or stop anyone attempting to rescue a suspect. This is after the Sixth Schedule of the National Police Service Act was amended by introducing three other subparagraphs. The schedule stated that rearms should only be used when less extreme means are inadequate and for the following purposes: saving or protecting life, and in selfdefence or in defence of other person against imminent threat of life or serious injury. (Ipoa) is investigating cases of death or serious injury due to police shootings. In one incident, two people were shot dead after they side mirrors o a car at the Globe Cinema roundabout in Nairobi. The Ipoa is expected in Parliament next Tuesday to give its views regarding the proposals. Its board meets today to nalise the report on the recommendations. The board, however, declined to comment on the proposals. Sources told Sunday Nation that while the Ipoa wants some sections, especially on the use of rearms, reviewed it supports some of the proposals. The amendments, besides giving the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) more powers, also create room for a highly centralised command structure from the IGPs oce. The police boss would be accountable to the President and Cabinet Secretary alone. A person seeking the removal of the IGP on any grounds would have to present a petition to the President setting out the allegations. The Bill also proposes that any police ocer aggrieved by a decision made by the IGP may appeal to a commission in accordance with the procedure laid out by regulations made in consultation with the IGP. This is notwithstanding the fact that the ocer was aggrieved by the IGPs decision.
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More powers
Proposed changes to the National Police Service Bill would give ocers permission to use rearms in more circumstances.
In addition to the Constitutions stipulation on the right to life, Kenya has also ratied the UNs Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Ocials (1990), that requires intentional lethal use of rearms may only be allowed when it is strictly unavoidable in order to protect life. Law enforcement ocials are currently expected to use rearms against persons only in self-defence or defence of others against the imminent threat of death or serious injury. Currently, the Independent Policing Oversight Authority
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GAP MARKETING PROMOTION ocial Stephen Macharia (left) with Daily Nation brand manager June Mwathi (centre) and Betting Control and Licensing Board ocer from Mombasa County John Rutere verify the names of the rst two winners in the UTAJENGA LINI na DAILY NATION promotion held in Mombasa yesterday. Two Nation newspaper readers Julius Ngunga Muia and Samuel Wambugu Ndungu were the lucky winners in the rst draw. They are now the proud owners of serviced oneeighth acre plots in Kitengela. Hundreds of readers in Mombasa gathered to witness the draw and praised the organisers for rewarding Kenyans with a valuable asset. Ms Mwathi encouraged readers from the entire country to participate in the remaining ve draws that will be conducted every two weeks. The next draw will be held at Tuskys United Mall in Kisumu County on August 10. Every time we have a draw, we shall collect entry forms from the entire country; therefore all Kenyans should continue to participate aggressively, Ms Mwathi said.
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Number of men shot dead after they plucked o a vehicles side mirrors at the Globe roundabout
LSK gives ultimatum to Saitoti son case lawyer

BY WANJIRU MACHARIA
[email protected] A Nakuru lawyer entangled in the late Internal Security minister George Saitotis son parentage saga was yesterday given a seven-day ultimatum to respond to claims that he breached client-lawyer trust. The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) asked lawyer John Hari Gakinya to submit a written comment regarding the accusation by Sebastian Maina Ngunju who is claiming to be the biological father of Saitotis only son. Please let us have your written comment regarding the complaint to enable us to make a decision on how to proceed further in this matter, read the letter signed by LSK boss Apollo Mboya. This comes a day after Mr Ngunju wrote a complaint to the Advocates Complaints Commission and copied it to the LSK accusing Mr Gakinya of unprofessional behaviour. Mr Ngunju accused his former lawyer of acting contrary to his instructions by entering into an agreement with Mrs Margaret Saitoti thus undermining his interests and access to justice. He wants lawyer Gakinya investigated for signing a consent letter and withdrawing the case with the advocate representing Mrs Saitoti without consulting him. The complaint letter was also copied to the Deputy Registrar of the High Court, Director of Public Prosecutions, the Chief Justice, Registrar of the Supreme Court, Nakuru Chief Magistrate, and the Kenya Human Rights Commission. The 55-year-old primary school teacher and his wife, Mrs Elizabeth Njeri Maina, had led an application before a Nakuru court seeking to be allowed to privately prosecute Mrs Saitoti for unlawful connement of their son knowing that he had been kidnapped. The couple claimed Zachary Musengi, 28, was their biological son Stephen Wachira Maina who was stolen from their home in Subukia in 1988. The case was withdrawn a week ago following the alleged consent by Mr Ngunju. The letter by LSK was copied to the lawyer representing Mrs Saitoti, Mr Fred Ngatia, the Director of Public Prosecutions and Mr Ngunju. Mr Gakinya wrote to the Ngunjus demanding an apology for alleging that he did not have their consent to withdraw the case.
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BY-ELECTION | Late entrant to race humiliates old hands in politics as he clinches seat in landslide victory
In the footsteps of my father: How Mutula Jnr beat rivals

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Kilonzo Jnr appeared less than enthusiastic about the idea. That was in Wote town on Saturday July 20, only six days to the by-election. His critics were quick to draw a comparison between him and his younger sister Kethi Kilonzo, 36, who was the Wiper Democratic Movement choice candidate for the seat before the IEBC tribunal and the High Court blocked her bid. And, in that comparison, Junior faired badly. But, perhaps, after absorbing the magnitude of his decision, the next four days of campaigning brought to the fore a dierent Mutula Jnr. During that rst public appearance in Wote, Mutula Jnr, 38, told residents that his opponents did not have an advantage over him just because they had campaigned for a longer period. Speaking in Kiswahili, the youthful senator-elect said Kutangulia sio kuka, (starting a race rst does not mean that one will nish ahead). Asked if he would build on his sisters popularity, Mutula Jnr replied: I am riding on so many things. I am riding on the goodwill of Makueni voters, I am riding on myself, I am riding on the positive virtues that are responsible for nurturing me into acquiring the positive things that make life better. In the short period he traversed the county, Mutula Jnr managed to win over those who had doubted his ability. He spoke in uent Kikamba, to the amazement of many. In no time the new entrant in politics was even throwing jibes at political veterans. Some of them were in the Wiper party until recently; we need not treat them harshly, but to treat them as the biblical prodigal son, he said while campaigning in Prof Philip Kalokis home town in Kibwezi region. And, as the voting day drew nearer, so did his condence grow. On July 24, the last day of campaigning, he told voters at Kathonzweni this election has already been won; this is how you will be counting on July 26 the by-election date ... one vote Junior ... two votes Junior three votes Junior four votes Junior ... 10,000 votes ... 100,000 votes Junior Junior 150,000 votes for Senator Mutula Kilonzo Jnr ... He walks like his late father; just look at his steps. You see Mutula Kilonzo Snr. See how he holds the microphone; he even speaks like his dad only that his fathers voice was deeper, Machakos lawyer Joseph Mutinda said. As a young advocate fresh from university, Mr Mutinda was employed by the late Senator Mutula in his Nairobi rm before he transferred him to his branch in Machakos town. Junior is slightly different from his dad; Mutula Senior was strict and stuck to his decision once his mind was made up. Junior is exible; he listens to you and sometimes changes his mind, Mr Mutinda said. Machakos Town MP Dr Victor Munyaka of Muungano Party says Mutula Jnrs victory was a given. His father was respected here in Makueni County, I am sure many voted for Mutula Jnr BY-ELECTION
Cord clinches Makueni seat

Seat fell vacant following death of rst senator from Makueni Mutula Kilonzo (pictured below). There were four other candidates in the race: Philip Kaloki of Narc, John Harun Mwau of PICK, Urbanus Muthoka, an independent candidate, and Jane Kitundu of Labour Party. It was a landslide victory for Mutula Jnr who garnered more than 160,000 votes.
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simply because he was his son, he said. Dr Munyaka said the death of Senator Mutula Senior shocked his voters. It is common to sympathise with grieving families, and Makueni was no dierent. It was only natural for voters here to elect Mutula Junior; people wanted to relate with the sena-
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The age of the new senator-elect of Makueni.
July 26
The date Mutula Kilonzo Jnr was elected new Makueni senator.
tors family and the best way was to vote for the son. By doing this, they had that comforting feeling that the departed soul would rest in peace, said the MP who is serving his second term. Mr Mutula Kilonzo Jnr received his law degree from Nagpur University in India. He also holds a diploma from the Kenya School of Law and is a managing partner of Kilonzo and Company Advocates. He is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of Young Lawyers Committee of the Law Society of Kenya. On his website Mutula Jnr described himself as a husband, father, and an advocate who specialises in all areas of litigation, civil and criminal, a Rotarian, farmer, and a supporter of conservation of the environment. He will have to update it now to include senator. Elders say it was not just a coincidence that his father decided to share his names with his son. He called him Mutula Kilonzo Jnr, it was not just a name; there was more to it, said Mzee John Kyelu Mbuva of Mbooni. Speaking about his last moments with his dad a day before he died, Mutula Jnr believes that the last encounter was a premonition of what was going to happen on July 26. Son, I am going to the paradise (meaning Kwa Kyelu ranch) home at Maanzoni, he said his father told him. Always take charge of your situations. Those were the last words they exchanged. And exactly three months later, the son took his fathers words literally and went on to defeat some of his fathers opponents in a big way.
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GOLDEN JUBILEE | Team proposes lavish spending on activities and projects such as billboards, statues and entertainment
Technocrats draw up a Sh2.5bn budget

Sh50 million proposed for erecting a bronze statue of expresident Kibaki holding aloft a copy of the Constitution during its promulgation in 2010
BY PETER LEFTIE
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This event will perhaps even be bigger than the Presidents inauguration ceremony,
Mutea Iringo, Interior Principal Secretary
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he government could spend a staggering Sh2.5 billion on celebrations to mark 50 years of Kenyas independence if a budget drafted by technocrats is approved by the Cabinet. Budgetary proposals from the Kenya@50 organising committee reveal lavish spending on activities and projects such as billboards, statues and entertainment as the country marks its golden jubilee in the second week of December this year. The huge budget includes Sh690 million for events management and logistics, Sh286 million for conference and exhibition during the one week celebration, Sh300 million for publicity and communication, Sh365 million for entertainment and a handsome Sh320 million to go towards identifying Kenyas most prominent personalities. It also includes Sh50 million for erecting a bronze statue of retired President Mwai Kibaki hoisting aloft a copy of the Constitution during its promulgation on August 27, 2010. In an interview with the Sunday Nation, Interior Coordination and National Government Principal Secretary Mutea Iringo, who chairs the national organising committee, maintained that the Sh2.5 billion budget was yet to be approved by the government but added that the private sector would be brought on board to fund part of it. The budget has not been nalised yet, but I expected it today (Thursday July 25). The plan is that the government should not fund it alone. We want the private sector and other stakeholders to take part. This is everybodys business, and we want all to take part. However, Ive instructed the committee that I dont want to see a budget that is too large, said Mr Iringo.
WHAT WILL BE SPENT
Kenya@50 celebrations draft budget

Identication of Kenyas most inuential personalities Events, management and logistics Entertainment Security, Protocol and Hospitality Publicity and Communication Former President Kibakis bronze statue Conference and Exhibition Quality Assurance Sitting allowance for steering committee members Budget committee Decorations and Flagging Transport Total Sh320m Sh690m Sh365m Sh338m Sh298m Sh50m Sh286m Sh48m Sh31m Sh3m Sh4m Sh6.5m Sh2.5 billion
Kenya Defence Forces soldiers march past the dais at Nyayo Stadium during a past national event. The government could spend a staggering Sh2.5 billion on celebrations to mark 50 years of Kenyas independence.
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The gures are likely to infuriate Kenyans coming in the wake of a month-long countrywide teachers strike that paralysed learning in public schools and a ballooning public wage bill that is consuming over half of the countrys budget. Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) chairman Wilson Sossion criticised the huge expenditure coming at a time when the government says it has no money to improve salaries in the public sector. It is immoral to say the
least. Sh2.5 billion is enough to educate all the needy children in the country. There is nothing to celebrate. Kenya at 50 is more of an ideological reection of the post-independent Kenya than an extravagant spending by the countrys elite. The burden of funding the so-called celebrations will in one way or another be passed over to the taxpayer, said Mr Sossion. Brieng members of the private sector on preparations for the event at a breakfast meeting on Thursday, Mr Iringo declared that
the government was determined to ensure that the event eclipsed President Kenyattas inauguration ceremony on April 9 this year. This event will perhaps even be bigger than the Presidents inauguration ceremony and that is why we want to involve as many people as possible and ensure it is a success, Mr Iringo said. The government, in appreciation of the signicance and magnitude of the 50th anniversary of independence celebrations, constituted the Ministerial 50th Anniversary of Independence Celebrations Preparatory Committee in May 2012, the PS said. This committee comprised officers drawn from the then ministry of Provincial Administration and Internal Security. It held several meetings, and recommended the form and
content of the celebrations in a report submitted in September 2012, he added. He stated that the activities were slowed between September last year and April this year because of the political campaigns leading to the March General Election. Minutes of the committee meeting held on July 9 this year indicate that the budget for former president Kibakis bronze statue was raised from Sh15 million to Sh50 million. It was agreed by the members that the Sh15 million budget for a special monumental bronze statue of H.E. Mwai Kibaki raising aloft a copy of the Constitution should be enhanced to Sh50 million. Members felt that this was necessary so as to have a monument that was of the right scale, the
Kenya to rely on the peaceful March General Election to market itself as

A military parade during the promulgation ceremony of the new constitution on August 27, 2010 .
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BY JOHN NJAGI
[email protected] Kenya will be relying on holding a peaceful election in March to market itself as the ultimate African destination for investors during the upcoming 50th independence celebrations. This is one of the themes prepared by a Cabinet steering committee to mark Kenya at 50 celebrations set to be held in December. Despite the challenges the country is facing, the fact that we did not disrupt businesses and the economy after the last election means the country can build on it to become the leading business destination, said Inte-
rior Coordination Principal Secretary Mutea Iringo, who chairs the committee. The celebrations will be extended to the counties to create a sense of togetherness, he said during a meeting with private sector executives on Thursday. The celebrations theme is unity, diversity and prosperity, with emphasis on unity because of the divisive 2007 and 2013 elections which largely revolved around tribal bloc voting. Unity and nationalism, Mr Iringo said, will be key in unlocking the countrys potential to grow the economy to double digits, and urged Kenyans not to look at the challenges
Tribal bloc voting
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to mark 50 years of uhuru

Sh320m
Money that will be spent on Identication of Kenyas most inuential personalities
festival (Sh15 million), Sh3.3 million for a cultural week between October 10-19 and another Sh3.4 million for a music and cultural festival at the Kenya Cultural Centre in November. The Sh320 million for identication of Kenyas most inuential personalities will go towards their dressing, accommodation and transport to and from Nairobi. Once identied, these inuential persons will be given a token of appreciation, Mr Lui told the committee during its meeting on July 9. Those deceased will be represented by their next-of-kin. He (Lui) also pointed out to the meeting that the funds budgeted for were for dress, accommodation and transport. Although some members felt that in the case of the deceased inuential persons, identication of the next-of-kin may be a challenge, this component was adopted as it is, the minutes read. Mr Iringo is said to have declined to approve the budget last Tuesday without rst getting approval from the Cabinet. Addressing members of the private sector on Thursday, Mr Iringo said the climax of the celebrations will be the simultaneous hoisting of the national ag at Uhuru Gardens and on top of Mt Kenya at midnight on December 12. He challenged the private sector to consider sponsoring some of the events including the funding of the refurbishment of monuments at Uhuru Gardens, the provision of advertising space for Kenya @ 50 activities in the media and putting up of Kenya @ 50 county monumental development projects in remembrance of the 50th Anniversary to be launched by President Kenyatta as part of the celebrations. He also asked the private sector to consider funding the illumination of landmark buildings in various towns that were built between 1900 and1960 for the one-month period between November 15 and December 15. We ask you to fund the production of Kenya @ 50 Reective Journey magazine, that will seek to highlight key achievements through pictorial and print briefs depicting Kenyas corporate revolutionary experiences over the last 50 years, he said. The private sector can sponsor the production of the magazine by posting proles of their achievements, he said.
Contentious Media Bill proposal comes up in House Tuesday

BY JOHN NGIRACHU
[email protected] The House Business Committee will this Tuesday revive the contentious proposal that MPs extend the constitutional deadline by which they ought to pass two Bills on the freedom of the media. Statements from the leaders on both sides, Cord and Jubilee, suggest a likely contest when the motion by the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee is returned on Tuesday afternoon. Sponsored by the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee, progress on the motion was halted last Tuesday when Cord MPs staged a walk-out to protest against their Jubilee counterparts. It requires two-thirds of the House membership to pass the motion since it touches on the Constitution, which means the 216 Jubilee members alone cannot meet the constitutional threshold. Cord had been frustrated in the motion immediately before that when the Jubilee side rallied their numbers to beat back the oppositions attempt to shoot down a proposal to reduce the maturation period of two Bills seeking to give the Inspector-General of the Police more powers. The Cord side lost the initial vote by acclamation and forced the physical one, where each MPs vote is recorded, and lost 63-131 in a demonstration of Jubilees so-called tyranny of numbers. By walking out and frustrating debate, Cord MPs got the rare chance to ex some muscle and demonstrate to their counterparts that they also ought to be involved in making decisions. They have also suggested they wouldnt mind foregoing their leave -- the National Assembly should start its 32-day recess this Friday -- in order to pass the Media Council Bill, 2013 and the Kenya Information and Communications (Amendment) Bill, 2013. Yesterday, CIOC chairman Njoroge Baiya (Githunguri, TNA) was optimistic Cord will have relaxed its stance. Some have assured us they have got no issue with this motion and they appreciate that if we dont pass the Bills it could mean we dont proceed on leave. They have no objection and they see the argument that the delay had nothing to do with Parliament. They are in agreement, said Mr Baiya. He acknowledged that the Cord MPs were simply asking to be included when the leadership of the House decides what needs to be done. The National Assembly would also be happy to avoid having to sit late into the night as it did in August 2011 and 2012 to beat the deadline and pass the Bills set out in the Constitution. Parliament is required to involve all interested parties in preparing legislation by ensuring their views are considered. The media is particularly interested in the two Bills that are required to be passed by August 27. Minority Leader Francis Nyenze told the Sunday Nation: Weve not reached a consensus on that. Our position still stands. It may not be even necessary to convince us. His Jubilee counterpart, Aden Duale, told the Sunday Nation it was not for him to reach out to his Cord colleagues because the motion is not about a government Bill. My position is that the stakeholders must be given four months (to give their input on the media Bills). It was the decision of the House Business Committee to whip our members from both sides. Cord will do their bit and I will do my bit, he said. The Bills mature on August 6, he said, and the National Assemblys calendar says the MPs should be on their recess. Like Mr Baiya, the Garissa Town MP said MPs also ought to be aware of the threat of somebody asking the court to dissolve Parliament if the Bills are not passed as scheduled in the Constitution. The choice is for Parliamentarians. If they feel they dont want to go for recess, thats ne, said Mr Duale. Mr Duale and Mr Baiya were of the feeling that their Cord counterparts were angrier at failing in their attempt to slow the Bills on the police than the extension sought by the CIOC. David Ouma (Ugenya, ODM) downplayed the importance of having the Bills and described the current circumstances as false panic. All we were asking for is consultation. The alternative is to let them bring the Bill, delay the recess and we pass the law. We are telling Jubilee that you cannot use numbers all the time, said Mr Ouma.
minutes read. The meeting further allocated Sh20 million for the acquisition of 20 billboard size portraits of the countrys founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, former presidents Daniel arap Moi and Kibaki and current President Uhuru Kenyatta. This followed a proposal by the presidential master of ceremonies and the committee secretary, Mr Sammy Lui. It was proposed that the billboards should be placed strategically at the entry points of the city. It was also felt that there was a need to have similar billboards in big towns such as Kisumu and Mombasa, the minutes read. On the proposal to spend on 50th Anniversary Publication Popular Edition, the meeting recommended that the copies be enhanced from Sh60,000 to Sh100,000. It was therefore recommended that the budget be raised from Sh120 million to Sh200 million, the minutes read. A Sh338 million budget for security, protocol and hospitality will go towards catering for at least 40 heads of state and government expected to attend the occasion. This will include ve-star hotel accommodation, transport, meals and se-
curity for the two days they are expected to spend in the country. The budget will also cater for invited heads of international organisations such as the African Union, Comesa, East African Community, Igad and others. The committee had suggested a gure of Sh11.5 million for sprucing up Moi International Sports Centre Kasarani which will host the main celebrations,but a section of members proposed an enhanced gure during a meeting last Tuesday. A further Sh170 million is proposed for the hosting of conferences and exhibitions in the week leading to December 12. This would cover hiring meeting rooms at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC), VIP catering, entertainment and security at the events. A letter from the Director-General of the National Museums of Kenya proposes Sh4.2 million for cleaning up Uhuru Gardens on Langata Road that will host part of the events, including unveiling of the Mashujaa Monument. The expenditure also includes Sh120 million ttowards hosting an international investments conference in October as part of the celebrations, a national food
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but focus on potential, especially on areas where the country had done well over the years. Some of the activities planned to mark the golden jubilee include a military parade that will kick o at 8 pm on December 11 and culminate in the hoisting of two sets of national ags at Uhuru Gardens and at the peak of Mt Kenya at the stroke of midnight on December 12. There will be elaborate military drills on December 12 at the Kasarani stadium where part of the attractions will be a parade of 50 people aged 50 years drawn from the countrys 47 counties. There will also be prayer days set aside for the various denominations, among them Muslims, Seventh Day Adventists, Catholics and Protestants, Hindus, Buddhists and Orientals and African traditional religious groups that will culminate in inter-denominational prayers on December 11. This event will perhaps be bigger than the Presidents inauguration ceremony and that is why we want to involve as many people as possible and ensure it is a success, said the PS. The chairman of the Kepsa trade sector board, Mr Jas Bedi, said the fact that the March elections ended peacefully was signicant in the countrys history, adding that Kenya stood a good chance to compete with Nigeria, Egypt and South Africa as the continents leading investment destinations. Africa will be the focus of growth compared to other parts of the world and it will be a fantastic opportunity for the country to position itself as the centre of that growth, he said. He called for a paradigm shift on the part of the government to ensure jobs were created to take care of a bulging population. He pledged Kepsas commitment to be part of the 50th anniversary celebrations, especially the rebranding process, noting that the private sector stood to benet greatly from a revamped economy.
Some (in Cord) have assured us they have got no issue with this Motion
- Njoroge Baiya, CIOC chairman
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POCKET WOES | Bill seeking to compel teaching sta to sign performance contracts on the way
No July pay, Education PS now tells teachers

Ministry ocial tells Knut members who went on strike to brace for consequences for their actions
BY OUMA WANZALA
[email protected] eachers who took part in the recently ended nationwide strike will not be paid their July salaries, the government has said. Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang yesterday said teachers who went on strike for over three weeks must be ready to face the consequences of their job boycott. If you miss to go to work, there are consequences. You only get rewarded for your service, said Dr Kipsang. The government has maintained that the teachers work stoppage led by Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) was illegal. Speaking at Kimalel Secondary School in Wareng during ACK Eldoret Diocese education day, Dr Kipsang, however, said the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) would engage Knut on the issue. There have been reports that the Salaries and Remuneration Commission has asked the Teachers Service Commission to withhold teachers July pay because they absconded from duty. Speaking at the same function,
ACK Eldoret diocese Bishop Dr Christopher Ruto asked the government to pay the teachers salaries in full. The government should not chop the teachers pay. Teachers have families, and it will be unfair to punish them, he said. Teachers, he said, used the right channels to raise their grievances as provided for in the Constitution. It is our prayers that the government and teachers union leaders will sit together and address this issue, he said. Knut Nandi North branch secretary Josephat Serem and his Eldoret East counterpart Sammy Bor warned the government against victimising teachers for taking part in the strike. In our return-to-work formula, we agreed that no teacher would be victimised and we are surprised at the sudden turn of events, said Mr Serem. If the government goes ahead to withhold the teachers pay, he said, they will resort to a go-slow. Meanwhile, the government is developing a policy that will see teachers rewarded for impressive performance through promotions. The government is working on a productivity Bill that will see teachers
MIXED BAG
Pain looms after job boycott gain

n Teachers returned to class with a Sh16.2 billion deal for their commuter, responsibility and reading allowances. n The oer will be implemented in two phases Sh5.7 billion will be released immediately and the rest in the next nancial year. n This will see the lowest and the highest paid teachers take home Sh4,000 and Sh16,000 every month in commuter allowances, repectively.
sign performance contracts, said the principal secretary. He said the ministry was not expecting much opposition to the proposed law given that teachers have been setting targets for themselves. We want to measure what teachers are doing in schools through documentation so that they are rewarded for their work, said Dr Kipsang. There has been concern over teacher absenteeism in schools, therefore, affecting the quality of education.
Knut members chant slogans as they demonstrate outside their Mombasa office during the strike early this month. The government says it wont pay their July salaries.
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GOVERNANCE | County leadership accuse agency of derailing plan
Governors want functions transferred by Aug 10

Transition Authority chair and county bosses agree to end wrangles to make devolution work
BY DANIEL NYASSY
[email protected] cused Wamwangi of doing little to facilitate the transfer of functions to the counties, adding that the delay was a deliberate move to frustrate devolution. Commission on the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) commissioner Ms Catherine Mumma set the ball rolling when she elded eight key questions over the delay. Mr Wamwangi was at pains to explain why a resolution passed by the national summit on devolution chaired by President Uhuru Kenyatta that functions and funds be devolved by July 1 was never eected. Outlining the key concerns raised by the governors and senators, Ms Muma also asked why the national government had taken back some of the funds meant for the counties. But Mr Wamwangi told the meeting that TA Board decided not to transfer all functions to counties. We sent a letter to Attorney General Mr Githu Muigai recommending the transfer of functions and resources, he said. However, rising on a point of order, CIC chairman Mr Charles Nyachae said the letter sent to the Attorney the disbandment of the Transition Authority because it was curtailing devolution. Mr Bule said counties should be allowed to start raising funds to run run their regions because Treasury is not keen on releasing the funds. But according to Mr Munya, the functions have already been transferred in line with the Constitution. Otherwise how did the counties make budgets without knowing the functions? he posed, terming the whole thing as a quagmire. West Pokot Senator Prof John Lenyangapuo said the Transition Authority should avail a list of the functions to the counties, for the leadership to choose which ones they will take up and which ones they will take up later. At the moment, we dont know which functions there are and if you dont tell us, you will later have more problems than your oce can handle after they are gazetted, Mr Lenyangapuo said. During the plenary session, speakers said each county should have the freedom to choose which functions they can manage. According to the Constitution, transfer of functions to counties should be phased out to allow county governments to have build their capacities to govern eectively and put the necessary structures in place.
overnors and senators yesterday gave the National Government up to August 10 to transfer funds and functions to the counties. Reading a joint resolution after a two-day meeting at Leisure Lodge, Mombasa, Council of Governors chairman Isaac Ruto said the leaders had ironed their dierences and resolved to work together. Transition Authority chairman Mr Kinuthia Wamwangi said senators, governors, the authority and other government agents had resolved to end the wrangling to make devolution a success. As you can see we are all here to make devolution work. No one will be left out and no one will be pulling in a dierent direction and anyone who stops us will be crashed, he said. At the meeting, the Transitional Authority came under re over delays to transfer funds from the Treasury to the county governments. County government leaders ac-
Senators Gideon Moi (left), Lesuda Naisula and Sammy Leshore at a forum for governors and senators at Leisure Lodge Beach Resort in Kwale County yesterday.
General by TA had indicated that counties had not fullled the conditions to have the funds and resources transferred to them. CIC got a copy of the letter TA sent to the AG which was contradictory in that it wanted the AG to gazette the transfer of functions but also informed him that the counties had not fullled the conditions. So, this was like telling the Attorney General to gazette the transfer at his own risk, said Nyachae. Meru Governor Mr Peter Munya and his Tana River counterpart Mr Abdi Bule threatened to push for
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Number of weeks governors, senators gave the National Government to transfer funds to county governments
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PEACE | Leaders to jointly seek peaceful solutions to disputes
Kenya in fresh push to have refugees returned to Somalia

Government to lobby for the region to have common stand on the issue
BY AGGREY MUTAMBO
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Our involvement in Somalia has been a burden, both in terms of refugees and our presence militarily
Mr Ken Vitisia
enya will seek to lobby for the repatriation of Somali refugees and campaign for a seat at the UN Security Council when regional leaders converge in Nairobi on Wednesday for a security meeting. A diplomat at the Foreign Affairs ministry said the hosting of Somali refugees has become an unbearable burden and that the government would lobby for the region to take a common stand on the issue. It is in Kenyas interest that we dont have regional conicts because we are a trading nation. If we have peace and stability in the region, it means we can trade more, Mr Ken Vitisia, the Director of the Oce of the Great Lakes Region at the ministry, told reporters on July 25. But Kenyas new push is likely to face opposition because it comes after the High Court on Friday stopped the government from moving refugees living in urban areas back to the camps. Last December the government issued a directive that all refugees in urban areas should be rounded up and assembled at the Thika
Municipal Stadium for transport to the refugee camps. But Justice David Majanja ruled on Friday that the directive was neither fair nor reasonable because it was made in disregard of the refugees rights. Regional leaders are expected in Nairobi from tomorrow ahead of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) meeting on July 31, whose key agenda will be regional security. But Kenya hopes this convergence will provide a permanent solution to internal wars aecting several countries in this part of the continent as well as the attendant crisis that comes with those skirmishes. If the region speaks with one voice, the international community will listen to what the region wants to happen in Somalia, for example. This is an opportunity for us to say, This is the position of the region and let us talk about it. Our involvement in Somalia has been a burden, both in terms of refugees and our presence militarily. It is very important that we nd a common ground on this problem, he said. The July 31 meeting is expected to see more than 11 heads of state arrive in Nairobi to address conicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and the one between Sudan and
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Why summit is vital to Kenya

- It wants regional leaders to commit to ending continual conicts - It wants regional leaders to help address the Somalia issue, return of Somali refugees to their homeland - It wants to advance its image and have regional leaders endorse its candidature of the UN Security Council seat - It wants to court regional leaders to have a common development agenda, advance its foreign policy.
UNHCR chief Antnio Guterres (right) and UNHCR Africa Bureau director George Okoth-Obbo address journalists on the situation in Somalia recently. Guterres proposed that the refugees be repatriated in phases.
Burundi, Tanzania, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Central African Republic, Zambia and Sudan are expected to attend. Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Egypt are also expected to send representatives as well as Poland and Brazil (which are observer states). Kenya will seek to be enjoined in the negotiations aimed at solving the DRC crisis that pits the government with rebels. According to the tentative programme, the conference, to be held at the Windsor Hotel, will also seek to resolve the persistent conflict over oil between Sudan and South Sudan. Kenya may also use the summit to informally seek support for
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South Sudan. Somalia, though not a member of ICGLR, will also be discussed because its instability has aected the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region. Leaders from Uganda, which currently chairs the summit,
a common regional position on Somalia. With all the presidents here, we will inform them what we are doing in Somalia and how the region can come together to assist Somalia. Kenya hosts over 600,000 refugees, most of them from Somalia, who government wants returned home. Although the government has wanted them to go home for some time, organisations like the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and octors without Borders (MSF) warn that it is too early to dismantle the refugee camps. Two weeks ago, UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres proposed a joint commission to help return refuges in phases. MSF also said it would be premature to send Somalis home.
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10 | National News
ROW | Due diligence on the six bidders was not done before evaluation as is the practice
CBK governor at the centre of Sh1.2 billion tender storm

Committee had nullied decision to award the project to Horsebridge after detecting errors in the documents
BY ANDREW TEYIE
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Workers beat old security system to steal banks billions

BY ANDREW TEYIE
[email protected] The Central Bank of Kenya has been hit by a string of thefts in the last 12 months where sta carted away cash in scenes resembling those in the movies. A top CBK manager who did not want to be named because he is not authorised to speak to the Press, said the workers were taking advantage of the outdated security arrangements and the only way to curb the thefts was the installation of a new integrated security management system. According to the manager, workers were getting bolder after discovering how to beat the old security system. In October last year, a CBK worker, Mr James Gichuki Wambugu, was charged with stealing treasury bonds valued at Sh65.6 million. He denied the oence and was released on bond. The top manager pointed out a case where sta stole close to Sh60 million defaced bank notes earmarked for destruction.
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entral Bank of Kenya Governor Njuguna Ndungu is at the centre of a controversy involving a Sh1.2 billion tender to install a state-of-the-art security system at the bank, the Sunday Nation has established. The row pits the governor against the CBK tender committee over a move to award the tender to Horsebridge Networks Systems E. A. Limited to install an integrated security management system at the banks headquarters and branches countrywide. The tender committee chaired by Deputy Governor Harun Sirma had nullied a decision to award the tender to Horsebridge by the technical evaluation team after detecting errors in the tender documents, setting o a series of activities that saw the matter end up at the Public Procurement Oversight Authority. Horsebridge petitioned the Public Procurement and Administrative Review Board saying they had won the tender as the lowest bidder. According to correspondence seen by the Sunday Nation, the tender documents were riddled with errors which Dr Sirmas committee felt could have compromised the outcome. Moreover, due diligence on the six bidders was not done before evaluation as is normal practice. The technical capability to install and maintain the ISMS as quoted was poorly crafted and was not used well by the evaluation team. Evaluation criteria revealed inconsistencies among the individual scores, state the minutes of the tender committee. Horsebridge, an international company with a presence in Kenya, petitioned the Public Procurement Board, who awarded them the tender and dismissed CBK and the tender committee as a wild horse who should be calmed. In view of the foregoing, the board holds that the procuring entity and specically the tender committee is behaving like an unruly horse and it has to be tamed and calmed ... The board orders that this tender be and is hereby awarded to the lowest evaluated bidder Horsebridge Networks Systems, stated Mr Mwaniki Gachora. Prof Ndungu agreed with the Public Procurement Review Boards decision, although the banks lawyer, Mr Fred Ngatia, had advised him to appeal and challenge the boards decision at the High Court. In addition to Horsebridge, ve other companies were evaluated for the contract. They are Orad Limited, Azicon Kenya Limited, Engineered Systems Solutions Limited, Indra Limited and Aua Industria.
Central Bank of Kenya Governor Njuguna Ndungu during an appearance before a parliamentary select committee at County Hall in January last year.
It was the second time the tender committee rejected results of the banks evaluation committee chaired by P.K. Wanyagi. According to internal CBK documents, Prof Ndungu sought Mr Ngatias advice on February 26, 2013 after the matter reached the appeals board. In his letter to the governor, the lawyer said: We are unable to recommend that you proceed to award the tender given the litany of misdeeds which are fully documented regarding the tendering process. Indeed the situation dictates that the tender be advertised afresh and perhaps new guideline considered. Mr Ngatia told Prof Ndungu that allowing the decision to pass would set a bad precedent in future. The board proceeded to award the tender to a particular bidder. To allow such mischief to reign unchallenged would be most injurious to yourselves and all other public entities in that the board might now start to award tenders to all and sundry oblivious that the statutory power to award the tenders is vested upon the procuring entity and to the exclusion of all other entities, Mr Ngatia said. CBK awarded the contract to Horsebridge through a letter of notication on February 24, 2013. This was after the 14-day window to appeal the boards decision had closed. Since then, Horsebridge has not signed a contract. It is understood that the tender committee has resisted attempts to have them okay the award to Horsebridge, occasioning the current stando with the governor. A top manager who Prof Ndungu authorised to speak to the Sunday Nation on Friday defended the governors position on the matter and accused unnamed individuals within CBK of attempting to bring down the governor. He said there was no reason to challenge the ruling by the Public Procurement Review Board. CBK has never been the aggrieved party here. How do we appeal against PPOA, which is a government agency? Who will PPOA be taking to court? Another government agency? asked the aide. The aide claimed that the tender committee drafted an appeal of the boards decision which Prof Ndungu refused to sign. These people wanted to use the governor to cleanse themselves in the event of an investigation, said the aide. The governor does not want to take sides between two CBK committees and the review board. He knows that he is clean and innocent. If you are clean, why fear? That is why he is waiting for due process before he signs the contract, said the manager. In a letter to the CBK Director of Department of Estates dated April 25, 2013, Horsebridge Business Development Manager Phillip Kago asked why CBK has not prepared the contract despite conrmation that they won the tender. Despite the said agreement, you have not forwarded the contract for signing as agreed 23 days after completion of contract negotiation, he said. Mr Kago had not responded to our queries by the time we went to press. In the meantime, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has opened an investigation into the issue. A letter to Prof Ndungu dated April 11 from the EACCs John Lolkoloi demands all documents related to the tender process. Our ocers Messrs Alex Kinyanjui, Tom Mboya and Arthur Opili will be available to collect the documents, Mr Lolkoloi said in the letter to CBK. According to documents, the tender was advertised in July 2012. The tender covers CBK headquarters in Nairobi and its satellite oces in Nyeri, Kisumu, Nakuru, Meru, Kenya School of Monetary Studies and Marshal House. The tender was prompted by theft of currency by sta members, a risk CBK is still exposed to due to their outdated security equipment. The tender included CCTV cameras and a vehicle number plate recognition system that detects rearms or gunpowder in cars or humans without having to frisk visitors and check cars.
He said the workers were caught before they had spent the money. In October last year, another bank worker walked into the strongroom and walked away with Sh200 million treasury bonds. The man was charged and the case is pending in court. However, the most brazen theft was in Kisumu last year when workers tried to steal Sh2.5 billion. According to the manager, the new notes were collected from De La Rues currency printing plant in Nairobis Ruaraka but were not recorded at the CBK headquarters. The notes were transported to Kisumu the following day but security officers discovered the anomaly when the cash was about to be spirited out of the premises. It was one of the most daring attempts by sta members. However, no one was arrested as we could not identify the perpetrators. We recovered the funds after General Service Unit ocers surrounded the oce, said the manager. The new security system comprises CCTV cameras, vehicle number plate recognition equipment that detects firearms or gunpowder in cars or humans without ocers frisking visitors and checking cars. The system has access control points which sense rearms or metals ere when people walk through the doors. The doors will be tted with biometric and face recognition systems which was to be synchronised with passwords allocated to sta members. For those who access CBK strongrooms, apart from the face recognition, biometric and pass codes, there will be a special key to the rooms. The security system will be installed in Nairobi, Mombasa, Nyeri, Eldoret, Meru, Nakuru and Kisumu.
Spent the money
Detects rearms
Were unable to recommend that you proceed to award the tender given the litany of misdeeds
- Lawyer Fred Ngatia
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Courts watch
DISPUTE | Judge queries assertion by CBK that Kenya Akiba carried out banking business without approval
Pyramid schemes: Bank to pay MP Sh2bn

Court nds that bank acted arbitrarily when Banking Fraud Unit raided rms oces and closed it
BY BENSON WAMBUGU
[email protected] new MP associated with three collapsed pyramid schemes will be paid Sh2 billion by the Central Bank of Kenya for having unlawfully closed down the business of a micronance company eight years ago. Mr Justice Alfred Mabeya found CBK to have acted arbitrarily when the Banking Fraud Investigation Unit (BFIU) raided the oces of the Kenya Akiba Micronance at the height of the pyramid schemes crisis and closed its doors following complaints from the investors. Kenya Akiba, whose director is Imenti Central MP Gideon Mwiti Irea, was among the companies named in the task force report on pyramid schemes as having lured investors to contribute money to the fraudulent schemes on the promise of phenomenal returns. The task force chaired by the current Kitui West MP Francis Nyenze named Mr Irea as having been associated with two other pyramid schemes Kenya Business Community Sacco and Kenya Multipurpose Business. Kenya Business collapsed with Sh780 million of investors funds. There was a direct link between Kenya Business and Kenya Multipurpose. Investors funds were siphoned o from Kenya Business to buy properties in Kenya Multipurpose and the same ocials transacted on behalf of the society and the company, the task force said in its report.
Mr Irea moved to court on November 10, 2005 seeking more than Sh930 million in damages, interest and costs of the suit, alleging that CBK acted unlawfully by shutting down his business at Lonrho House and other branches in Ongata Rongai, Kitengela and Voi. Consequently, the judge ordered the regulator to pay the company for damages, interest and costs of the suit and subsequently release conscated log books, computers, title deeds and other nancial records belonging to the micronance. CBK said it had closed the micronance for using unauthorised terms like Finance and Bank indicating the transaction of nancial business. Thereafter, the regulator froze the accounts of the micronance in three banks and locked its doors. The regulator further argued that section 3(1) prohibited the use of Finance and Bank by companies which solicit or accept deposits as dened in the Act except for institutions that are licensed and operate under the Banking or Building Societies Act. However, Justice Mabeya dismissed the allegations, saying the assertion by CBK that Kenya Akiba carried out banking business contrary to
930m
The amount in Kenya shillings that Mr Irea sought in damages, interest and costs of the suit
the Banking Act was a red herring and aimed to cushion the regulator from liability for the blatant, illegal and uncalled-for raid. He said the raid on the companys head oce and branches not only broke the rms backbone as a commercial entity, but also ruined many businesses belonging to more than 6,000 Kenya Akiba customers and affected the livelihoods of 3,000 employees. Upon the closure of Kenya Akiba by CBK, Mr Irea and co-directors were arrested and charged before a city magistrates court with carrying out banking business without approval
contrary to Section 3(1) and 3(2) of the Banking Act and unlawfully accepting deposits without a valid licence. The prosecution called 17 witnesses to testify in the criminal case that ran for six years. However, on September 23, 2011, the magistrate acquitted Mr Irea and co-accused holding that the pyramid scheme masterminds never broke any law when they carried out the business. It is against the basis of the acquittal in the criminal case that Mr Irea sued the CBK for damages, saying the court had cleared the directors of any blame.
Pyramid scheme victims fill in forms issued by a task force set up to explore ways of helping them recover their money, in Nairobi in 2009.
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12 | Opinion
Let leaders embrace politics of conciliation

he political tensions that remain a feature of the nations landscape more than three months after the General Election are unhealthy. In older democracies, and indeed in many nations on the continent that experience intensely competitive elections such as Ghana, there is often a period of disharmony in the immediate post-election period as both sides absorb the results. Yet these nations have the advantage of having statesmen who are magnanimous in victory and gracious in defeat and who are able to rally their people to overcome the bitterness of the election campaign and forge a path forward. Kenya is deeply in need of statesmen with similar deep reserves of goodwill to take the nation forward in this post-election period. A special burden rests on President Uhuru Kenyatta and Cord leader Raila Odinga. With the ethnic and regional divisions that characterise the Kenyan political landscape, the decisions and actions of the top leadership have a major impact on the conduct of their supporters. It is therefore essential that the two main contenders in the presidential election seek ways to rally their supporters to nd a way to unite and deal with the nations most pressing challenge the pursuit of improved social and economic conditions for all citizens. President Kenyatta must take the lead by demonstrating that his government represents a big tent in which regions that strongly supported Cord in the last election can nd accommodation. Mr Odinga, too, must show some level of statesmanship and avoid taking an emotive approach to issues that will signal an era of permanent campaigns, something that will have a damaging eect on the economy, and by extension, negatively impact the lives of wananchi. More broadly, Kenyans must come to the realisation that elections do not have to be a life-or-death aair. It is important that political leaders and their supporters cultivate a culture of conciliation rather than confrontation.
THIS AND THAT | Murithi Mutiga
Divided states like Egypt and Kenya should be run by grand coalitions
ne of the curious things about the crisis in Egypt is that all sides the military, the Muslim Brotherhood and the activists on the streets swear that they are ghting for the people. The Brothers cite the fact that they won in both rounds of the presidential election at the end of May and in mid-June (although they admit they only scraped through by the narrowest of margins, taking 51.7 per cent in the runo). The activists insist they brought out 33 million protesters on the latest day of rage which saw the Muslim Brotherhoods Mohammed Morsy toppled (a nonsensical claim considering it would mean that one in every three Egyptians had taken to the streets, a fact which doesnt square in a nation where a fth of the population is aged below 10). The military, the great beneciary of all this confusion because it is back in the drivers seat following the ouster of the Brotherhood, argues that it is the protector of the revolution and will back the people against terrorists and fools out to cause chaos. Which way forward for Egypt? Well, the best model they can nd on the continent is Kenya in the early days of 2008. The nation was divided down the middle with President Kibaki claiming he was the duly elected leader of the country while Raila Odinga said he was the peoples president and threatened a onemillion-man march to State House
Road deaths unacceptable

n the past three weeks, over 40 lives have been lost in road accidents; 11 people died in the latest crash at Githurai on Thika Road. The accident occurred just a day after the country witnessed the burial of some of the 20 victims of a road accident in Kisii County. But little seems to be happening in terms of arresting the situation. The inaction is informed by lack of a single state oce to take responsibility for the road carnage. This should not be the case. Kenyans must start demanding answers from the National Transport and Safety Authority which, under The National Transport and Safety Authority Act 2012, is mandated to ensure of safe, reliable and ecient road transport services in the country. The authority was inaugurated in April this year, and it immediately disappeared from the scene. The next time anything was heard from it was when it was calling for submissions to a competition to design its logo. The authoritys chairman, Mr Joseph Kamau Thuo, must explain to Kenyans why their loved ones continue to die on the roads in scores while he continues to warm his oce seat, doing nothing.
A government of national unity would spare the nation years of unrest and bloodshed
Unrest and bloodshed:
to get himself installed. The formation of the grand coalition, giving each of the leaders half a loaf, was much criticised at the time. With the benet of hindsight, it is clear now that the coalition was a major success, delivering an economic recovery and a widely accepted new Constitution. Egypt must take the same path. All sides command the support of a substantial enough portion of the population that cannot be ignored. A government of national unity would spare the nation years of unrest and bloodshed. The political clamour in Kenya so many months after the election should also make us ponder whether pluralistic, Jeersonian democracy is the best option for the nation. I have written before that Africa should explore other methods of picking a government rather than the first-past-the-post system which is so divisive. Yet while I back the spirit of Okiya Okoiti Omtatahs proposed amendment, his timing is wrong. The story of the last election is not that one side had superior numbers the population statistics tell a
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All sides command the support of a substantial enough portion of the population
dierent story but simply that the Cord presidential campaign was run extremely incompetently. How could a team that reportedly spent in excess of Sh10 billion not manage to post-election agents across the country, especially in Jubilee strongholds? Where was Cord when Jubilee was drumming up voter registration in its strongholds so that by December 19 most central Kenya counties had turned out around 120 per cent of the target population to the registration centres? Blaming the IEBC is politically convenient because the body cannot ght back. Cord should rst look inwards before insisting on constitutional amendments because it lost an election. Yet on a broader, philosophical level, I heartily agree with those who point out the dangers of a tyranny of numbers system in an ethnically divided society such as ours. Most African communities had a consensus driven system of government in the pre-colonial era. That is probably why the nation has enjoyed its most sustained spells of economic growth when it has had a rainbow coalition government involving all parts of the country, as witnessed in the 1960s and 1970s and lately in the KibakiRaila years. Coalitions are probably the best way to run divided nations like Egypt and Kenya. Murithi Mutiga is the special projects editor, Sunday Nation [email protected]
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FIFTH COLUMNIST | Philip Ochieng
OPINION MAKERS | What they said
He is forever mourning that the government is not giving him recognition, yet he has refused to return six government vehicles and has gone on and bought an illegal siren and is forever driving all over town using the wrong lanes Government Spokesman Muthui Kariuki accusing former Prime Minister Raila Odinga of hanging on to State property and outing trac rules.
We require a paradigm shift in the way we conduct our business ... We lost a lot when companies started carrying out ocial communication electronically. We want to recover this business PostmasterGeneral Enoch Kihara on the Postal Corporation of Kenyas plan to implement a new growth strategy in a bid to remain aoat in an increasingly competitive industry.
We will be following the Bill closely once it is tabled in the British parliament and if need be, a delegation will be sent to the UK... We are ready to appeal against the decision in the United Kingdom courts Meru Senator Kiraitu Murungi while petitioning the British High Commission in Kenya to lobby against the ban of miraa in UK, since the crop is the backbone of people of Meru.
The two MPs shall appoint, on a 50-50 basis, members of the Constituency Uwezo Fund Management Committee that will identify beneciary and make recommendations for disbursment of funds Devolution and Planning Secretary Anne Waiguru on how Members of Parliament and Women Representatives will manage the Sh6 billion for youth and women groups.
I regret having been part of the anti-GM propaganda but I have since had a significant change of heart after doing research and understanding the basic tenets of biotechnology. Oxford University researcher Mark Lynas during a public lecture where he asked Kenya to lift the ban on genetically modied foods if the country wanted to feed its people.
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SUNDAY VIEW | Gitau Warigi
Is Okiya Omtatah a dangerous subversive? Nah, a gady mostly

here has been no end to entertaining sideshows since the Jubilee Government came to power: the Sh100 million-jet-for-hire; the Jomo Kenyatta Airport VIP Lounge saga; voters who registered with expired documents. Every day brings something new. The latest twist in the so-called M4M (March 4th Movement) drama in the intriguing claim by professional activist Okiya Omtatah that he owns it. He says the idea was his and that he is rolling out the movements campaign through a network of volunteers. He describes the campaign as progressive and above board. For all the years I have read about him, Mr Omtatah is not somebody who strikes me as clandestine. Whether he is chaining himself to a fence police headquarters or storming the ministry of Education oces at Jogoo House or the central police station in Nairobi, he does everything in the open. The police find him a terrible nuisance, of course. But nobody thinks of Mr Omtatah as a threat to anything. No wonder the police have totally ignored his protestations that M4M is his brainchild and have not bothered to call him in for interrogation. The guy is quite harmless, I believe. One of the things I have never quite understood is why some brutal chap waylaid the activist one day in a dark alley and knocked out his front teeth. Of course, one cannot rule out some devious fellows going behind the activists back in an attempt to take over his brainchild for
In the open: Whether he is chaining himself at police headquarters or storming ministry of Education oces, he does everything in the open
their own ends. Somebody at the CID seems to be operating on this premise. Otherwise I cant see why the police have not paid Mr Omtatah any heed even as he has phoned them literally begging to be summoned for questioning. Mr Omtatah says his planned campaign seeks to replace the tyranny of numbers with the safety of numbers in deciding elections. The scheme, which since March he has been circulating to practically everybody on his email address list, is to amend Article 158 of the Constitution so the winner of a presidential election is not decided by a one-man-one-vote majority, but by a county-based electoral college. Oddly, I heard Senator Johnstone Muthama of Machakos speaking of this same woolly proposal around the
time Mr Omtatah started circulating his emails. In the wake of the M4M disclosures, Mr Omtatah says he has written to the police and the IEBC informing them of his intention to go ahead with a countrywide signature-gathering campaign he hopes will lead to his desired constitutional amendment. Ordinarily, Mr Omtatah is not somebody you can easily pigeonhole politically. I was quite surprised, in fact, to learn that he had run for senator in Nairobi. His pet campaigns, such as they are, have never seemed to follow any partisan political pattern. You will nd him protesting about food prices, free primary education cash scandals, and police brutality. He even loudly protested when the former Prime Minister purported to suspend Sam Ongeri and William Ruto from the Cabinet. The Constitution allows anybody to do practically anything that pleases him. You are free to herd a whole family of pigs to Parliament Road and spend the rest of the day there shouting yourself hoarse. MPs will still go ahead and raise their salaries. And you will roam the country grumbling how your vote was stolen, or how you are being denied respect . The authorities will ignore you. That is if you happen to be Mr Omtatah. * * * Lately there is a spate of weird stories of men carrying out perversions with animals in certain parts of the country. Donkeys, chicken, cows, goats This is total madness. [email protected] [email protected] Registered at the GPO as a newspaper
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uring eugenics one of the racial madnesses that periodically grip Teutonic Europe an English scientist called H.G. Wells dismissed the continents Latinos, Slavs and Khazari Jews as dirty whites a deliberate racebased distortion of Darwins new evolutionary principles. Eugenics taught that certain races and (within the Caucasian race itself) certain classes and a certain gender carried innately faulty genes. Therefore, a Caucasian super-race was to be created by deploying technology to cleanse the human blood by systematically killing all non-Caucasians, proletarians, women and other carriers. Because bigots have pinheads for brains, even a simple question like how you could create such a race after you had killed all women never entered the minds of the worlds most educated continents scientic elite. Though the Italians were prominent among the races to be eliminated, Italy shows that it never learned any lesson from the tragedies occasioned by certain racial cranks in Germany right next door. Thus you get more racial stupidity in Latino-Slavic football pitches than in Germanic ones. You get it also in political podiums. This week a highly educated Italian politician poured uneducated racial vitriol on another Italian politician. By calling her an orangutang (because she is black), he epitomised the abysmal ignorance of the human genome on which Caucasian bigotry rests. But all human beings including Roberto Carderoli, vice-president of Italys Senate not only look like but are, indeed, apes. Even the blondest Scandinavian is basically a chimp, gibbon, gorilla and orang. In particular outer features, every race is more ape-like than other races, depending only on geography and climate. Yet every race remains typically apish. Only because of life in chilly climes has the Caucasian race evolved its eshy long nose. In short, near the poles, it makes as much biological sense to humanise the nose by thickening and lengthening it as it does to retain the snub nose on the equator. Yet, away from the tropics, you retain the hairiness, thin lips and at bottom of the ape while, within the tropics, you humanise the lips and buttocks (by thickening them) and the skin (by dong the hair). In short, on the equator, it is much more human to do the hair and darken the skin than to carry so much fur on auburn skins. Because the Negro has lived in the tropical habitat where humanity as a whole was born, he has never needed to evolve any drastically dierent nose. But natural selection is a dialectician. So while the Caucasian was humanising the nose, it retained the ancestral apes hairiness, thin lip and at bottom. Contrariwise, as Desmond Morris points out in The Naked Ape, the Negros relative hairlessness, thick lip, bulky bottom and black skin were excellent humanisation processes, namely, developments away from the primordial ape. In short, in the tropics, to blacken is as much to humanise the body as it is, near the pole, to develop a Semitic nose. Both are wonderful biological strategies. But the point Stephen Oppenheimer makes (in Out of Eden) is that none of these external dierentiations ever interferes negatively with the basic humanity of any race which is (a) freedom of the hands as a result of the erect posture, (b) a large and uniquely versatile brain and (c) loose organs of speech. In other words, the species had completed this whole humanisation process at its very evolutionary birth in Africa long before it migrated to other continents. It was in the latter that thanks to drastically dierent climates it separated into various races. Both in time and in evolutionary signicance, then, raciation was completely secondary to our basic humanity. The human tragedy is that the continent which took the lead in discovering this is the one which harbours the most atavistic form of racial bigotry. [email protected]
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To the editor
Serem should not frustrate teachers
I am angered by the news that Salaries and Remuneration Commission boss Sarah Serem has written to the Teachers Service Commission warning it not to pay teachers their July salaries. Serem claims TSC will be acting unconstitutionally by paying for services not rendered . She failed to rein in greedy Members of Parliament and must not now direct her frustration to teachers. Serem ought to have known better that by participating in the strike, the teachers exercised their constitutional rights. Whether the strike was legal or not is a matter that is determined by the courts, a decision which may still be challenged in the same courts. Davis Were, via email.
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TALKING POINT
Equip the youth with tech skills for a brighter future I

f the body language of the leadership of the Jubilee Government is anything to go by, it is apparent that they are intent on revolutionising the education sector. That is why it has turned a deaf ear to those who have been rubbishing its pledge to introduce e-learning and e-teaching in schools by providing laptops to children who will join Class One next year. However, it is what was said by Deputy President William Ruto that was sweet music to those of us who want this country to succeed in its bid to become an industrialised nation. Speaking after touring the South Korean-funded Technology Development Centre in Athi River, he said the government is determined to institute far-reaching changes in the education and industrial sectors to increase the number of skilled professionals. We are fortunate that the government has identied the missing link in our development paradigm, which is lack of skills and competencies obtained in middle-level colleges. Indeed, one of the major causes of unemployment among our youth is that they
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The Cutting Edge

BY THE WATCHMAN
BABY MANIA: The world is, indeed, full of very vain people, remarks Gachiengo Gitau, on the obsessive public excitement about the latest birth in the British royal family, that of Prince Williams son. Says he: Cant the British nationals get something else to do instead of burning so much energy on just one baby? There is nothing wrong with celebrating the birth of a baby, but boundaries have to be drawn. Its a baby, not a god! His contact is [email protected].
A hungry pupil is a distracted learner

A survey by a non-governmental organisation, Uwezo Kenya, has revealed that pupils in most primary schools cannot do assignments given to lower classes. Some of the reasons learners do not concentrate in class include hunger, being overworked, and lack of enough sleep and learning materials. A TV station recently aired a programme that revealed how children from poor backgrounds in Nairobi are forced to sell groundnuts at odd hours to make ends meet. Even with the government devoted to seeing the laptop project implemented, it should also start feeding programmes in primary schools so some of the pupils can be assured of at least one meal a day. Vincent Munga, Nairobi.
Deputy President William Ruto is shown how a lathe machine works by Kevin Ongero, a mechanical engineering student at the Technology Development Centre in Athi River.
are not well-endowed with relevant technological skills, competencies, knowledge and expertise. This is why the government must be lauded for pledging to invest heavily in institutes that oer hands-on training. Our economic growth was being hampered by the lack of a trained and skilled labour force and thus the need to fund and equip institutions to enable youths to contribute to the countrys development. To this end, Ruto said the government will no longer convert middle-level colleges into universities. Instead, it has pledged to build 290 technology institutes in all constituencies in the next ve years. Funds were allocated in the last budget to develop basic infrastructure of at least nine institutes. The South Korean Government has funded the Athi River-based ultra-modern institute to the tune of Sh2 billion. The centre provides practicals in electricity, electronics, telecommunications and mechanics. This is the way forward. Our engagement with development partners should be advised on seeking funding to develop similar institutes. With such partners, there is no stopping Kenya fullling her dream of becoming an industrialised nation. Kimani wa Njuguna, Gatundu South.
HIGHWAY CASH COW: A regular traveller by matatu on the Kisii-Kisumu highway, Fred Mose, says he has numerous times seen drivers out trac rules with impunity, and it is precisely because they literally pay their way through. At almost every roadblock, he claims, conductors often drop a Sh100 note and the vehicle will be waved on to break more rules, before reaching its destination or getting involved in an accident. His contact is [email protected]. PROGRESS REPORT: With the Jubilee coalition leadership marking its rst 100 days in oce, the focus has been mostly on President Uhuru Kenyattas performance, and yet there are 47 governors heading various counties, who should be required to show what they have done since they were also elected on March 4, says Esther Wambui. As a resident of Nairobi, which was formerly fondly referred to as the City in the Sun, she would like Governor Evans Kideros job evaluated. Her contact is [email protected].
RISKY TRAVEL: For Martin Tairo, the national focus should be on Inspector-General of Police David Kimaiyo, who is either unwilling or unable to provide the leadership required to eliminate the mounting insecurity in the country . Martin is unhappy with the way the Nairobi police leadership is dealing with carjacking of bus passengers. He is particularly appalled at the singling out of one of the commuter companies, and warning travellers that they board the buses at their own risk. His contact is tairo@architecturekeny a.com. STINKING INEFFICIENCY: Can Nema go to the rescue of a Kikuyu town resident, the front of whose house the local council has turned into a dumpsite, with nauseating stench hovering all over the place and posing a serious health hazard? pleads Thimba Hiram, a son to the homeowner. He wonders just how toothless the authority, which is mandated to deal with environmental issues, can be. His father has reported to the Kiambu branch and the head oce in Nairobi, to no avail. His contact is [email protected]. FOWL TREATMENT: A resident of Kisauni Road at Nairobi West, Abdi Mohamed, is pained at the treatment of the chickens kept in cages in conditions that have been worsened by the current cold spell that is expected to run well into next month. Though he has nothing against traders making money from selling chickens and other wares, he expects the licensing and public health authorities to ensure that the birds are treated with some care. If contacted through [email protected], Mohamed promises to lead ocials to the cages to free the chickens.
Why the Marriage Bill is important

The Marriage Bill is a major boon to the family institution and those who say the government has no business meddling in peoples private aairs are mistaken. The family is the basic unit of a society and it not only ensures proper socialisation but also the perpetuation of humans. It thus behoves the State to enact rules and regulations to govern this important institution. We must remember that freedom is fundamental but lack of responsibility in the exercise of the same is a recipe for evil. However, I recommend an amendment in the Bill to include an unequivocal denition of what constitute a promise to marry. Austine Ochieng, via email.
Circus around Mandela was unfortunate

It is encouraging to learn that the health of former South African President Nelson Mandela, who has been in hospital for several weeks, is slowly improving. Mandelas illness generated an unprecedented outpouring of emotions in SA and around the world on a scale not seen before. Indeed, he truly is the worlds most respected and adored statesman. Few leaders in history have been loved like Mandela. This is because of his outstanding sacrice and lifelong dedication in the ght for freedom, democracy, liberty, justice, equity, rule of law and human dignity for the marginalised. A casual assessment within South Africa and across the continent shows that no other leader possesses the qualities of this great son of Africa. This is a disgrace. But even more worrying is that even within the larger Mandela family, no son or daughter of his exhibits similar leadership qualities. Instead, unfortunately, what these children excel at is squabbling over where their father will be buried, among other issues. They are intent on damaging the family name while the old man is still alive. Without realising it, this clueless and leaderless family is telling the whole world that Mandela failed miserably at uniting his children. Also, the role the press plays in educating, entertaining and informing the society is absolutely crucial. But the way in which the international media has handled the Mandela hospitalisation saga has been unethical and unprofesional. These overenthusiastic press corps should have respected Mandelas privacy. They owe the icon and his family an apology for being a nuisance when all the family needed was comfort, love and prayers. Enoch Onsando, Mombasa.
Thirty Years Ago

July 28, 1983 President Moi has appointed two judges as members of the Judicial Commission he appointed on June 29 to look into allegations recently made against Mr Charles Njonjo. The two judges are Justice (Mrs) Ee Owuor of the High Court and Mr Justice C. B. Madan of the Court of Appeal, a press statement issued by the Attorney-General, Mr Justice Matthew Muli, said. Mr Jared Benson Kangwana, a Nairobi lawyer, and Mr Benjamin Patrick Kubo, former Mombasa Town Clerk, were appointed secretaries of the commission. Justice Muli said the commission would sit in the Old Chamber of the National Assembly at Parliament Buildings, Nairobi. Mr Njonjo was Minister for Constitutional Aairs until he was suspended from the Cabinet by President Moi on June 29. He subsequently resigned as the MP for Kikuyu.
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STALLING FOR TIME: Concerned about insecurity, the residents of Thome/Mararui estates in Nairobi pooled resources and put up a police post, installing water and electricity supply, says EW, who is surprised that police ocers do not appear keen to move into the houses. He would like the Kasarani police boss to explain why his juniors are still staying in rented houses. Why rent and yet the houses built at the post are ready for occupation? We feel there is something shy. Have a secure day, wont you!
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SUNDAY REVIEW
It was apparent that the voting pattern was inuenced by court action to block Cord candidates
BY EMEKA-MAYAKA GEKARA
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HOW BANKS HELPED STRIKING TEACHERS Banks helped striking teachers survive State salary freeze directive. P. 24
POLITICS, OPINION, ANALYSES, BUSINESS
BY-ELECTION | President and Deputy will have to reach out to these areas, says analyst
Makueni win and Kisii protest reveal discontent with Jubilee

AND JACKLINE MORAA
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he landslide victory of Cord candidate Mutula Kilonzo Jnr in the Makueni by-election and the hostile reception for Jubilee leaders in Kisii on Tuesday have exposed the lingering resentment that some regions have towards the government of President Uhuru Kenyatta. It was apparent that the Makueni by-election result was a protest vote against Jubilee, mainly fuelled by unsuccessful court action to block Cord candidates. The backyard of former VicePresident Kalonzo Musyoka is a Cord stronghold. In Makueni, Cords candidate Mutula Kilonzo Junior garnered 163,232 votes against Jubilee coalition candidate Prof Philip Kaloki, who got 9,762 votes. The jeering of Information Secretary Fred Matiangi and Jubilee pointman in Gusii Prof Sam Ongeri on Tuesday also brought to the fore the antipathy towards the new leadership. Experts reckon that President Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto will have to reach out to Nyanza, Ukambani, Western and Coast regions which largely voted for former Prime Minister Raila Odinga in the March 4 elections to promote national healing and reconciliation. The two enjoy unquestioning support in Central Kenya and the Kalenjin Rift Valley. A number of reasons have been advanced to explain the growing resentment towards the young administration. Uhuru and Ruto seem comfortable with having one half of the country. Their actions and appointments have further alienated the other half, said Prof Egara Kabaji of Masinde Muliro University. The Kisii incident falls within that framework. They have not gone out of their way to woo the rest of the country. A majority of the residents of the Gusii counties of Nyamira and Kisii voted for Mr Odinga in March. The main reason for the resentment has to do with a feeling of exclusion in public appointments, the conduct of the March election, lack of a deliberate eort by President Kenyatta and Mr Ruto to reach out to regions unfriendly to Jubilee, acts supporters perceive as aimed at humiliating Mr Odinga and the empowerment of communities
Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole Lenku
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Minister puts gangs on notice

BY AMINA KIBIRIGE
[email protected] The government will not condone attempts to disrupt the peace and will be ruthless towards those who try to destabilise the country, the Interior Secretary has warned. Speaking at a joint security meeting for Kwale, Mombasa and Kili counties at the Kenya School of Government in Matuga, Mr Joseph ole Lenku called on administration and police ocers to identify and take action on all security reports before the matters become national concerns. We need to identify and address wananchi problems at village level before they escalate and become national issues. If we had identied the sources and reasons behind groupings like MRC, Mungiki and other outlawed sects at the sub-location level, they would never have turned out to be national headaches, he said. His words were echoed by Inspector-General of Police David Kimaiyo who said the ow of information is vital in ghting insecurity. The sanctity of life must be respected at all times, and any aggrieved parties should have in mind other channels to address their issues with the government other than causing animosity, he said. Mr Lenku said citizens should feel the presence of government on the ground to feel adequately served and represented. Service delivery is our responsibility, our duty, our obligation, he said. In ghting insecurity, we need to collaborate so areas with common challenges can be addressed together.
due to devolution. Critics have raised concern that Mr Kenyattas Kikuyu and Mr Rutos Kalenjin communities got the lions share of Cabinet appointments. If you go to some parts of this country such as Western, Luo Nyanza, Ukambani, Coast, Kisii, they say the
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Makueni Senator-elect Mutula Kilonzo Jnr after IEBC handed him the certicate of election yesterday.
WHAT THEY FEEL
Why they are disgruntled

Critics have raised concern that Mr Kenyattas and Mr Rutos communities got a huge chunk of Cabinet jobs. Moreover communities do not identify with some of the Cabinet Secretaries from their regions, most of whom have no connection with the grassroots.
Jubilee Government is operating as if they dont exist, says Prof Kabaji. In Bungoma, Busia, Kakamega they tell you Uhuru and Ruto do not seem to recognise that they are the second-largest community in Kenya. Exclusivity is not helping. The gap continues to grow. Moreover, communities do not identify with some of the Cabinet secretaries from their regions, most of whom are city-based professionals with no connection to the grassroots. And in places such as Ukambani and Coast, the denizens appointed to the Cabinet such as Mrs Charity Ngilu, Najib Balala and Kambi Kazungu had been rejected by voters in their home areas. They are, therefore, seen as imposed CONTINUED ON PAGE 16
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BY-ELECTION | Analyst says President and Deputy ought to reach out to areas that voted overwhelmingly for Cord
Landslide win a protest vote against Jubilee

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 on the people. The Sunday Nation has established that the government has come up with a strategy to reach out to sections of the Kenyan population which have not embraced the new administration. A State House source revealed that a team including the new political adviser to the President and former Cherangany MP Joshua Kutuny has been tasked to move across the country to elicit the cooperation of elected Cord leaders to work together on areas described as of mutual interest. Yesterday, Mr Kutuny indicated that the President was committed to unifying the country by leaders regardless of their political persuasion for the sake of cohesion and to enable Jubilee to meet its growth agenda. The Jubilee leadership is determined to close the divisions that arose from the election. The President leads the whole country; that is why he is keen to reach out to every Kenyan. Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto, who has come under attack for visiting Homa Bay countya Cord strongholdhas cautioned President Uhuru and Mr Ruto against appearing to alienate regions that did not vote for them. I was involved in the crafting of the Jubilee Alliance to end violence between Kalenjins and Kikuyus which aected the rest of the country, says Mr Ruto. The two groups were to be the core, but the rest of the country has to be brought in. You cant rubbish Ukambani, Luo Nyanza, Western and Coast, he said. Mr Alois Muthini, a devolution expert, says the Makueni election was a protest vote against Jubilee, a reaction to a feeling of alienation and defence of community pride and integrity. It was a protest against the conduct of Jubilee in the days to the election. Voters were saying, we may not know exactly what we want but we certainly know what we dont want. They hardly know Kilonzo Jnr, he said. Mr Muthini also reckons county governments have given communities opportunities to participate in governance and shape their destiny without depending on tokens from the national
Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga arrives for a requiem mass for 15 students who died in a road accident. ICT Secretary, James Matiangi and former minister Prof Sam Ongeri were heckled by mourners during the ceremony at the Gusii Stadium.
government. During the Kisii incident, Mr Odinga was given a rousing welcome. But he has come under heavy criticism with accusations that he turned the funeral into a political rally. Yesterday, Dr Matiangi accused Gusii Cord leaders who he said were hell-bent on causing a confrontation between their supporters and Jubilee government leaders. He told Sunday Nation that he had been assured there would be no politics at the gathering and was surprised at the turn of events. I couldnt understand what was going on. It seems they wanted a confrontation between Cord supporters and the Presidents delegation. Church leaders gave the funeral mass a miss because of the organisation. Government spokesman Muthui Kariuki accused the Kisii County government of paying the hecklers at the meeting. Some of the crowed said they were unhappy that the President failed to attend the funeral after they had moved it from Monday to t his schedule. Bomachoge Borabu MP Joel Onyancha,
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Jubilee leadership is determined to close the divisions that arose from the election because the President leads the whole country
Former MP Joshua Kutuny
Stephen Manoti (Bobasi) and Richard Onyonka (Kitutu Chache South) condemned the heckling. A mourning period is not an opportunity to settle political scores, said Mr Onyancha who avoided the mass after Kitutu Chache North MP Jimmy Angwenyi reported the organising committee had refused to hold it in Marani. We feel the mass should have been held in Marani because all ve schools that lost students and teachers are located there, he said. On Friday, the Kisii County government dismissed the claim that it had paid hecklers. The county government cannot stoop so low as to hire hecklers to disrupt a meeting it had organised, moreover a funeral mass for its own citizens, said Deputy Governor Joash Maangi, adding that Mr Angwenyi had said he would encourage Jubilee-leaning MPs to skip the event if it was not held at Marani in his constituency where most of the accident victims came from. It is understood the President skipped the mass on Mr Angwenyis advice.
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THE WEEK THAT WAS | Kwendo Opanga
Can the government prove Governor Ruto wrong?

The complaining MPs have chosen to ignore the fact that he speaks for the governors as chairman of their council
inclusion. They look to governors and senators to champion the cause of devolution. Governors and senators, for their part, have been vocal in criticising government when they have felt its actions appear to go against the spirit of devolution. Governments the world over make commitments, but they have been known to renege on crucial commitments. Kanu, in negotiations for the independence Constitution in London, supported majimbo (regionalism), the main demand of opposition and federalist Kenya African Democratic Union (Kadu). In government, Kanu killed majimbo. History and the nature of politicians tell us that we the people must be vigilant and cautious at all times when dealing with government. Mr Ruto alleges that instead of government rolling out its devolution commitments, it is rolling them back. The Rift Valley MPs need to ask the government to prove Mr Ruto wrong by rolling out and not rolling back its commitments. Why? Apart from representing their constituents and legislating, oversight of government is the other key responsibility of Parliament. If 40 MPs must come out to attack Mr Ruto, then they should also ensure that they are keeping government on the straight and narrow. It is highly unlikely the MPs, despite their numerical strength, will do this, if they want to silence Mr Ruto. Four, the MPs have chosen to ignore one important fact: Mr Ruto speaks for the governors as chairman of their council. The MPs may, by attacking Mr Ruto, have escalated what the media have come to call supremacy wars between the governors and senators on the one hand, and the National Assembly and the Executive on the other. This reinforces the perception that the National Assembly attacks on the Senate and county governments is conrmation that the government is fighting devolution. What the 40 MPs should have done is to ask for dialogue with governors. That is what the Deputy President, Mr William Ruto, quoting the book of Isaiah, asked of striking teachers. Mr Ruto, the Deputy President, cannot be tolerant when MPs from his URP party and Rift Valley backyard his MPs, that is are intolerant of the operating style of Mr Ruto the Governor for Bomet. In other words, are these MPs saying it is wrong for Mr Ruto the Governor to be critical of the government in which Mr Ruto is the Deputy President? Five, in the Rift Valley, URP is rather like the political dad and mum, the same way Kanu was the countrys political baba na mama. Now what happens when baba na mama expels a politician? In the days of Kanu, opposition went underground as those suspended and expelled and their supporters sought inclusion. Is this not more destabilising than the Governor criticising government? My take is that because both President Kenyatta and his Deputy Ruto have committed to implementing devolution, Mr Ruto, as chairman of the governors lobby, governors, senators, MPs and the people of Kenya, must hold them to account. Governor Ruto is doing his bit and MPs should do their oversight bit. Kwendo Opanga is a media consultant [email protected]
MY THOUGHTS | Dominic Wamugunda
Roles: The Governor is doing his bit and legislators should do their oversight role
Disturbing news reects our lack of moral bre
ome 40 Members of Parliament from the Rift Valley region want Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto expelled from the United Republican Party (URP). The lawmakers want the governor expelled because he is increasingly critical of the way the Jubilee Coalition government is handling devolution. Alternatively, the MPs would want Mr Ruto to resign from his position and seek a fresh mandate from the people of Bomet on an opposition party ticket. And, for good measure, I saw and heard one of them make the startling allegation that Mr Ruto was part of a foreign-funded campaign to ght the Jubilee Government. These MPs are profoundly wrong and here is why. One, when Kenyans rose against Kanus constitutional monopoly of power 23 years ago, their main grouse was that the party brooked no criticism however genuine and, through coercion, attempted to impose uniformity of political thought on the populace. Expulsion was the weapon of choice. Two, in 1990, Kanu was 30 years old. It had forced through Parliament a constitutional amendment that turned Kenya into a one-party state by law in 1982 in the wake of a failed military coup. URP, as a party, is still in its diapers and a nascent Jubilee Government has not come under any serious threat. Three, Kenyans want devolution to work. They look to devolution as their route to participation in decision-making and political
Kenyans look to devolution as their route to participation in decision-making
STRAIGHT TALK | Ahmednasir Abdullahi
Idle Odinga spells trouble for UhuRuto R

Problems: Raila has enough time on his hands to ferment problems for the administration
aila Odingas political cycle can be categorised into three distinct phases. He was an agitator during the single party era and used to operate under the radar. He never denied his role in the 1982 attempted coup. During the struggle for multi-party democracy, even though he was in the second tier of luminaries, Raila played the role of a political activist. Lastly, after the death of his father, Raila consolidated his power base and played the role of a political leader with the mandate of a certain constituency. From the time he was elected secretary-general of Kanu until March 2013, Raila was in government in dierent forms and circumstances and played the role of the quintessential politician. It is only in post-March 2013 that Raila holds no elective posts and has no mandate from any political constituency. His only claim to political legitimacy is that he is a party leader. So what role will he play and how should the government treat him? President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto should brace themselves and be prepared to deal with Raila the agitator because it is in this role that the former prime minister is in his element. Uhuru and Ruto should be under no illusion on the mechanisation of Raila as an agitator. They will face all kinds of provocation, undermining, agitation, propaganda and riots. Since he has no real job and too much time on his hands, Raila will be a thorn in the flesh of the new administration. An idle mind is the devils workshop, goes the saying. Raila has enough time on his hands to ferment one problem after another for the administration. Only a well thought-out strategy that takes the ght to him will give the new government breathing space. The ugly scenes witnessed last week during the burial of students who died in Kisii illustrates the point. It was too well choreographed to escape the attention of Kenyans that the heckling that befell some politicians had been planned well in advance. The only good thing that came out of that incident was the new terminology coined by Raila. He talked of the need for Kenyans to unite and stressed the need to ignore the calls of wounded leadership. Obviously he was referring to Uhuru and Ruto, but isnt he really the wounded leader whose actions and calls in the past four months have needlessly divided the country?
Raila is providing divisive and wounded leadership, and that is a great disservice to the country. And because he is still in denial that he lost the presidential election, Raila has continued to hold the country hostage through this personal brand of leadership.
Wounded leadership
Raila stressed the need to ignore the calls of wounded leadership but isnt he really the wounded leader?
A day rarely passes without Raila launching an attack on the Supreme Court and the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). His constant claim that these institutions stole his victory has become an irritant irrelevance. But, for him, this refrain remains his only card to relevance because it reminds Kenyans that he is still around. Raila is now a private citizen with no mandate from the public. He speaks for nobody. His views on issues are personal. He must internalise that. He lost the last election fair and square. The time for campaign and agitation is long gone. It serves no purpose for him to constantly put the country in an agitated state. He must give space to those leaders who were elected by the people. He also needs to stop his attacks on the Supreme Court and IEBC. Private citizen Raila should not delude himself that he can play the role of an opposition leader. Instead, he must come forward and pledge his total loyalty to Uhuru and Ruto and remain a patriotic private citizen.
able to another. Values are therefore social guideposts that disclose to us the cultural norms of our society and specify the way we should behave. A civilised society is one in which the behaviour patterns of its citizens are guided by a value system that is facilitative for the harmonious existence of self and the larger society. Behaviour that is contrary to such cannot be regarded as a mark of civilisation. A look at some of the incidents that are reported in our media gives one the impression that we are still a long way from becoming that civilised society that we have dreamt about. It is true that there are very many good things that happen daily in our context. One must also appreciate that in spite of those who perpetuate a culture of destruction and disharmony, there are many Kenyans of goodwill, who are committed to doing good things. They work very hard to develop themselves and others. Parents are also sacricing a lot to bring up and educate their children. It is worrisome that in a society lled with so much good we continue to see behaviour that leaves one wondering whether we are a sane or a sick society. Just in the last week, I saw reports of incidents that are, to say the very least, disgusting. There was a man who was caught with literary his pants down trying to defile a goat somewhere in Baringo. Another one was said to have deled a chicken. Then there were those four who were said to have deled and killed a donkey somewhere in Muranga. We often see reports of small children being deled by adults some of who are their relatives. We have seen reports of wives hiring thugs to kill their husbands. What is happening to our society? On Tuesday we were treated to real serious drama of the surreal type at a mass funeral in Kisii. My imagination is that there were many parents and relatives of the dead at that funeral who were hurting and wounded. Their interest on that day could not have been who beat or lost to who at the elections. In most African cultures, respect for the dead is a value that cannot be disputed. Whether it was constructive politics or just lies, that event was bad commentary on the value system of our society. Father Dominic Wamugunda is the dean of students and sociology lecturer at the University of Nairobi [email protected]
value is an e n d u ring belief that a specic mode of conduct or state of existence is personally and socially prefer-
Ahmednasir is the publisher, Nairobi Law Monthly [email protected]
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LETTER FROM NEW YORK | Makau Mutua
How Jubilee leaders are playing into Railas hands

You cant eectively govern if you see dire threats and bogey-men everywhere. Most of the threats are imagined
ll isnt well in the house that the son of Jomo built. The Jubilee regime now in its fourth month is in full panic. The digital regime is turning out to be truly analogue. Gone is the euphoria of the early days. No more jacket-less and rolled-up sleeves at State House conferences. The new-look Cabinet of technocrats is invisible. The regime has lunged from crisis to crisis. This seems to be our winter of discontent . Which begs the question why hasnt Jubilee hit the ground running? Methinks I know why. Jubilee has too many bogeymen and soft underbellies. Theres a crisis of condence within the inner sanctum. It wont get any easier with The Hague trials looming. Let me tell you why Jubilee is choking. First, you cant effectively govern if you see dire threats and bogeymen everywhere. Most of these threats are either imagined, or unforced errors . Lets focus on Jubilees most important bogeyman former PM Raila Odinga. Mr Odinga has become a nightmare for Jubilee. But and you can take this to the bank this is none of Mr Odingas doing. Its
UNDUE ATTENTION: Rather than focus on its projects, Jubilee has chosen to lavish Raila with unwanted attention
Jubilee thats turned Mr Odinga into a bugaboo. Rather than focus on its programmes, Jubilee has chosen to lavish Mr Odinga with unwanted attention. Instead of burying Mr Odinga after beating him in the March 4 elections Jubilee has inexplicably decided to resuscitate him. Its the most bone-headed thing Ive ever seen. Mr Odinga was either going to retire, or focus on re-building Cord in readiness for 2017. He appears to have chosen the latter. It would have been in Jubilees selfinterest to let Mr Odinga expend his legendary energies on Cord. But no Mr Kenyattas party has chosen to detract Mr Odinga from Cord. Its done so very crudely by poking Mr Odinga in the eye every chance it gets. You cant humiliate a lion of Mr Odingas international stature and get away with it. Who can forget the mean-spirited slights denying Mr Odinga access to VIP lounges, demanding that he retires from politics to enjoy benets of a former PM, withdrawing bodyguards and ordering that he returns ocial vehicles? I wonder who is advising Mr Kenyatta. A new government has no time to waste chasing after its vanquished opponents. But the government has spent the last two weeks imagining that Mr Odingas former campaign manager, Mr Eliud Owalo, is planning a Kenyan Arab Spring. I laughed so hard I almost cracked a rib. Why make such wild
and baseless claims? Its what we call the theatre of the absurd. It was a ashback to Kanu regimes of yore like former AG Charles Njonjo warning that it was treason to imagine the death of the President. Or the Moi regime accusing me and fellow University of Nairobi leaders of being paid by the Soviets in 1981 to overthrow the government. The Kenyatta regime keeps on making the same mistake time and again. At the Kisii funeral of school children who perished in a tragic accident, Jubilee leaders were shouted down and forced to abandon their speeches. The surging crowd demanded that Mr Odinga addresses them. The former PM didnt disappoint he delivered a stinging critique of Mr Kenyattas edgling government. The crowd ate up every word. It was a good thing Mr Kenyatta skipped the event. Thats the role of the opposition in a democracy. But thats not the way Jubilee mandarins saw it. They accused Mr Odinga of orchestrating their
humiliation. Once again, they played into Mr Odingas hands. They are fuelling him free of charge. Jubilee has made other tragic blunders. Take the debacle over the Makueni Senate seat left vacant by Senator Mutula Kilonzos death. Jubilee spent inordinate energy to block lawyer Kethi Kilonzo from succeeding her dad. This was unseemly, petty, and heartless. As if that wasnt enough, Jubilee sought to block Ms Kilonzos brother lawyer Mutula Kilonzo Jr from running. How these mean-spirited tactics endear Jubilee to the people of Makueni beats me. But Jubilee was bent on alienating Makueni voters with self-inicted wounds. This isnt how you win friends and inuence enemies. This is no way for Jubilee to expand from its traditional strongholds among the Kikuyu and Kalenjin. Has Jubilee ever heard of soft power? No single Jubilee programme has gotten off the ground. Its
But Jubilee was bent on alienating Makueni voters with self-inicted wounds
most touted programme the primary school laptops is teetering on the brink of collapse. Its ill-thought, and seems to be a boondoggle for vulture capitalists. Why would kids be given laptops when they have no desks, or computer-literate teachers? This is a populist project that can only end in tears. Other crises have sucked oxygen out of the regime. It was the legislators who set the ball rolling by raiding the public purse. Kenya has the second highest paid legislators after Nigeria. Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto failed to stop MPs from eecing the public. Quite frankly, it was the teachers not MPs who deserved a pay raise. Its clear the Jubilee regime doesnt have traction. The big elephant in the room is whats going to happen once The Hague trials start in September. I expect that the International Criminal Court will reverse itself and require that Mr Ruto be present for every session of the trial. He will be out of the country for large amounts of time. So will Mr Kenyatta when his trial begins in November. My point is that the government wont have adequate time to get its programmes on track once the ICC trials start. Theres reason for Jubilee to panic. Makau Mutua is Dean and SUNY Distinguished Professor at SUNY Bualo Law School and Chair of the KHRC. Twitter @makaumutua.
COMMENTARY | Priscilla Nyokabi and Gladys Wanga
Women representatives are doing their best to serve T

Unfair: To accuse MPs of not doing anything is to be unfair
he Women of Kenya have had many reasons to celebrate the Constitution of Kenya promulgated on August 27, 2010. One of the gains of women introduced by the Constitution was Article 97 (1) (b) which provides, in relation to the National Assembly composition, 47 women each elected by the registered voters of the counties, each county constituting a single member constituency. IEBC, in conducting the elections on March 4, 2013, named this the Women Member of the National Assembly Seat. The common name of the seat became Women Representative. There were elected and gazetted 47 Women Members of the National Assembly. This is a new armative action seat to increase the number of women in Parliament. Be that as it may, by being labelled women representative, the seat has the traditional roles of a Parliamentarian but with a further expectation to champion the gender agenda in Parliament. Suffice to note that this is an expectation of all women MPs even those elected from constituencies. In fact all women leaders including those serving in the Executive are expected to continue championing the womens agenda in Kenya. Women Representatives wish to inform the general public that after the election on March 4 and announcement of results, the elected women representatives were gazetted by IEBC on March 13, 2013. They together with other Members of Parliament were sworn in on March 28, 2013. The Women Reps from the 47 counties would meet formally for the rst time on March 28. Parliament was adjourned. On April 9, President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto were sworn in and inaugurated into oce. President Kenyatta attended a joint Parliamentary Session of both Senate and the National Assembly on April 16, 2013 to spell out the legislative agenda of his Government. The work of Parliament ocially started on April 16. To accuse MPs of not doing anything before this date is to be unfair. It has taken some time for the 349 MPs to settle down and acquire oces both in Nairobi and in the counties. Women Reps have suered the challenges attendant to this process of settling down. After April 16, the National Assembly started settling down to form its structures -- largely committees. One of the key issues for any MP is to join a committee to serve. The Women Representatives serving in the National Assembly are treated like all other MPs. In fact the new name of Women Representatives is County Members of Parliament as they were elected by everybody at the county -- men, women and youth. The main roles of an MP are law making and legislation; scrutiny of government and oversight and lastly representation of the people. The Women Representatives have a fourth role to champion the womens agenda as they are an armative action seat to increase the number of women in Parliament. One of the early roles of Women Representatives was to join committees and rise in leadership. This objective was achieved. One of the major committees of Parliament is the House Business Committee which has 10 women members, six of them being Women Representatives. In leadership of committees, we have four Women Reps who are Chairs of Education, Regional Affairs, Implementation and Catering Committees. We have other Women Reps who are Vice-Chairs of Legal, Social Welfare and Constitutional Implementation Committees. We have two Women Reps who sit in the Parliamentary Service Commission. It is from the vantage point of the committees that women representatives will be able to champion the womens agenda. It may not be public but in the committees, women will ght and raise their voices on womens issues.
It is important to note that Women Reps will work and grow from the work done by women MPs over the years under the umbrella organisation Kenya Women Parliamentary Association (KEWOPA). Other Kewopa members chair committees including Environment and Health and serve as vice-chairs in committees for instance Public Accounts Committee. Our chair at KEWOPA is Cecily Mbarire and we do have Dr Laboso as the Deputy Speaker, Dr Naomi Shaaban serving as the Deputy Minority Leader and Beatrice Elachi serving as the Majority Chief Whip in Senate. The womens agenda will be better advanced by all women MPs not just the Women Reps. Of course male MPs are partners too as are many other leaders. The Women Reps will serve in an environment already appreciating womens role in leadership as evidenced by President Uhuru and Deputy Ruto. They have appointed women to serve as cabinet secretaries and principal secretaries in critical dockets. Priscilla Nyokabi is the Nyeri County MP and Gladys Wanga is the Homa Bay County MP, [email protected]
It has taken some time for the 349 MPs to settle down and acquire oces
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INTERESTS | Government ocials inuence hirings and sackings
Why job security for NSSF bosses is a mirage

Political intrigue has been responsible for ensuring that the tenure of managing trustees at the fund is ridiculously short
BY ANDREW TEYIE
[email protected] rom the days of Mr Jos Konzolo to newly sacked Tom Odongo, the job of managing the provident fund has been one of the most insecure assignments for
those who dare to dream. Powerful and shadowy individuals in government have always influenced the willy-nilly hiring and sacking of National Social and Security Fund (NSSF) managing trustees in a bid to control the Sh110 billion fund.
From buying of quarries to garbage dump sites, NSSF has been used by politicians in previous regimes as a slush fund and managing trustees who dont play ball are just sacked or hauled before court on trumped up charges. For those who agree to do
their masters bidding, it does not take long before they are discarded for more pliant individuals. Whichever route these managing trustee take never ends well in this high stakes game where politicians always have the nal word. A former managing trustee Naftali Mogere summed up the dilemma faced by his colleagues, past and present. Some learn to run with the hares and at the same time hunt with the hounds because you do not know who will sack you tomorrow. As an MT, you report to everybody and you have to repulse interests on a daily basis, he saidl Mogere, who served as the longest MT between 2002-2005 admitted that the turnover at NSSF was inordinately high. He blamed the NSSF board and government for interfering with running of the fund. A managing trustee has no space. While other boards allow you as the CEO to work, the NSSF Board of Trustees works like management. Some have oces in the building and use NSSF cars and drivers. If MTs question that, they are sacked. Apart from interference from the board, the MT has to contend with many other supervisors who operate under dierent legal framework. Managing trustees are armtwisted by everyone. They are supervised by the ministry of Labour, Retirement Benets Authority, the Treasury and many other players. Every supervisor has his requirements and legal framework within which he operates making it dicult to work, said Mogere. A vocal board member who did not want to be named said the revolving door at the MTs oce was as a result of interests.
We want to audit all the projects whose tenders were awarded during the tenure of Mr Tom Odongo (above)
Labour Secretary Kazungu Kambi
Vested interests
When it comes to government issues, they may know things that we might not know. Every government has its own interests. This happens every time there is a change of guard or when one feels there is something the present person cannot oer. The fund was set up in 1965 as a mandatory workers pension scheme. Then, NSSF was a department under the ministry of Labour. In 1987, Parliament amended the NSSF Act to make it a state corporation and the following year it started operating under a board of trustees with representatives from the government, workers and employers. Since 1988, the fund has
Sh10bn
Value of the tenders awarded for projects at Nyayo Estate and Embakasi Phase Six, between March and May this year
had nine MTs who have left in a controversial manner. Only last week, Labour Secretary Kazungu Kambi red Mr Odongo and called in the Eciency Monitoring Unit to probe how construction tenders worth Sh10 billion were awarded to companies between March and May this year. The projects include Nyayo Estate, Embakasi Phase Six and the Hazina project, among others. We want to audit all the projects whose tenders were awarded during this period, said Mr. Kambi who spoke through an aide. Mr Odongos tenure of less than a year was at least longer than that of Mr Fred Rabongo who served for less than a week before the board blocked his appointment. Mr Rabongo had taken over from Mrs Rachel Lumbasyo in 2006 who was appointed after the exit of Mr Mogere. Mr Odongo had taken over from Mr Alex Kazongo who served for slightly over two years before being red. Before his conrmation on February 7, this year, Odongo had acted for close to six months. According to an exit clause in his contract, his employment could be terminated by either party by giving three months prior notice or payment of an equivalent of three months pensionable pay in lieu of such notice. Yesterday, Central Organisation of Trade Unions Secretary General, Mr Francis Atwoli refused to be dragged into the controversy surrounding Mr Odongos sacking. We have mandated the chairman of the board of trustees to give directions and issue public statements on the matter because we knew it would end up in court. These court matters are delicate. Not just any person can comment on them lest we are cited for contempt, said Mr Atwoli.
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RULING | No evidence to support claims of lack of integrity
Mr Mumo Matemu when he appeared before the parliamentary committee on legal aairs after being nominated for the position of chairman of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission.
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Matemus in-tray full as he resumes oce

Appeal Court gives anti-graft boss his job back after High Court had nullied his appointment
BY LUCAS BARASA
[email protected] now be fully constituted. We are three members, although the quorum is two, Ms Keino told the Sunday Nation. Ms Keino said EACC was faced with huge challenges including devolving its services to the 47 counties. We want all the counties to be corruption-free, Ms Keino said, adding that although EACC had managed to transit sta from the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission, it was conducting job evaluations. Mr Matemus approval by Parliament to head EACC was met with sti opposition especially from the civil society following claims that he misappropriated over Sh37 million belonging to the Agricultural Finance Corporation. than Mr Matemu as the top candidate, retired President Kibaki and former PM Raila Odinga nominated him for the post. On Friday, the judges said although the High Court has powers to review appointment of state and public ocers, it cannot sit as an appeal for reviewing the opinion or decision of the appointing authority. Its conclusion of procedural impropriety on the part of the appointing organ and unsuitability of Mr Matemu cannot be upheld. The Appellate judges said their High Court colleagues Mumbi Ngugi, Joel Ngugi and George Odunga wrongly applied the rationality test in adopting a standard of review. This, they noted, went against the doctrine of separation of powers and if their decision was allowed to stand, it would curtail the functions of other arms of government. According to the judges, Mr Matemus appointment had gone through the entire procedure of appointing a state ocer and they faulted the High Court for revoking his appointment without instituting a proper inquiry into the allegations levelled against him. Parliament intensely debated his nomination on two occasions and in any event, the petitioners who challenged his appointment did not show any evidence to prove that they presented their claims before Parliament when Mr Matemu was being vetted, the court ruled.
thics and Anti-Corruption Commission chairman Mumo Matemu has survived a long court battle but is walking into an institution bedeviled with a myriad of unresolved graft cases. Mr Matemus appointment as head of EACC was confirmed on Friday after the Court of Appeal set aside a High Court ruling that nullied his appointment. A five-judge bench of the Appellate Court ruled that the High Courts decision did not meet the standards of revoking an Executive appointment since it failed to apply the doctrine of separation of powers. Justices Kihara Kariuki, William Ouko, Patrick Kiage, Agnes Murgor and Gatembu Kairu ruled that the evidence placed before the High Court as the basis of questioning Mr Matemus integrity was insufcient, inconclusive and lacked verication. Yesterday, EACC vicechairperson Irene Keino welcomed the confirmation of Mr Matemus appointment saying the anti-graft body will
Lack of evidence
However, the Court of Appeal judges ruled that there was no evidence to prove he was directly involved in the loss of the funds. The process leading to the presentation of Mr Matemus name for parliamentary approval was also questioned with critics saying it lacked transparency and that it was the subject of much controversy. Although the interviewing panel ranked a person other
The number of Appeal Court judges who set aside a High Court ruling that had nullied the appointment of Mr Mumo Matemu as chairman of the anti-corruption commission
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BENEFITS | Regular payment in June cushioned many as the strike raged on
How banks helped teachers survive State salary freeze directive

Money is normally paid into tutors accounts by the 27th before government releases salaries
BY WALTER MENYA
[email protected] yans, most teachers continued to get their pay through private arrangements with some commercial banks. And, as fate would have it, the banks only got their money last week when the government finally paid teachers. Knut chairman Wilson Sossion on Thursday said the Teachers Service Commission had released the salaries for teachers although Kenya Union of PostPrimary Education Teachers members, who had called o their strike earlier, had already received their pay. The banks usually draw from their coers or borrow from the Central Bank of Kenya and other rival banks to pay teachers as early as 25th of every month based on the previous months payslips before the government cheque arrives. It is a business tactic the banks have used to secure the business of thousands of teachers. The deal is also fairly foolproof because of the security the public service employment oers. A majority of teachers maintain accounts with Equity, KCB, National Bank and Cooperative Bank as well as their Saccos. Teachers who spoke to Sunday Nation said they prefer these banks because of other benets such as preferential treatment on loans that is not available to regular customers. I get my pay by 25th of each month and latest by 27th like most private sector employees which is convenient. In December, the bank releases our pay as early as 23rd or 24th, a teacher revealed. Teachers can also be advanced up to Sh100,000 payable within a year for school fees and other emergencies, which is approved on the same day. They can also carry out nancial transactions through the banks agents for a small fee. It means that even on Sundays I can get money next to my home, the teacher added. A teacher who operates an account with a bank that does not oer such services said she envied her colleagues whose lives continued as normal while she could only pray for a speedy settlement between Knut and government for her salary to be paid. With such benets on oer, many teachers have ocked to these banks hence the reason they did not feel the nancial pinch during the strike.
t the height of the month-long teachers strike, the government announced the freezing of salaries to force teachers back to class or at least to the negotiating table. But the Kenya National Union of Teachers, which enjoys backing from the majority of the 278,000 teachers, stood its ground and only backed down after the government shut all public primary schools. But unknown to most Ken-
Convenience
DISCLOSURE
Some teachers who have accounts with certain banks did not feel the pinch from frozen June salaries because the banks had deposited their salaries on time.
The TSC said it was not privy to the private banking arrangements banks have with their clients and neither was the government. The commission, however, faulted the arrangement for undermining government efforts to force teachers to call o the strike early. If there are banks that pay teachers in advance, we are not into that. We dont know how they would sort it out with the teachers because we are not party to such deals. For us, we pay directly into the teachers accounts though we have overheard that they have some arrangements with their banks to receive their pay on certain dates, TSC Secretary Gabriel Lengoiboni told Sunday Nation. However, the general practice among large-scale public and private employers is to set up monthly transfers of bulk salary payments to banks for deposit in individual employee accounts. Mr Lengoiboni said TSC would not be responsible for any losses banks may have suffered as a result of the month-long salary freeze. It is a risk they (banks) took and it could just be one of those bad days, he said. Attempts to have the Kenya Bankers Association CEO Habil Olaka shed light on the matter were unsuccessful as he said he was in Germany and not in a position to comment authoritatively. But Mr Sossion dismissed
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What ocials know ... or not
Banks cannot suer any loss ... teachers are not running away from Kenya Knut chairman Wilson Sossion
If there are banks that pay teachers in advance, we are not into that TSC Secretary Gabriel Lengoiboni
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But he conceded that if the government makes good on its threat to withhold teachers July salaries for the days they were on strike, this would have a serious impact not only on teachers but on the nancial institutions with which those teachers are aliated. If the governments threat comes to pass, it will cripple many nancial institutions. It is not just banks which people seem concerned about but also the statutory deductions to the NSSF and NHIF. It will spark anarchy which we do not wish for at this time, especially after we have been out to protest against the servitude the government has subjected the teachers of this country to, said Mr Sossion. The Salaries and Remuneration Commission has advised the TSC not to pay teachers for the days they did not work in July, arguing that the teachers had absconded from duty. The June salary is not an issue because all the teachers have been paid. It is the July salary we are talking about. And we do not contemplate such an action from the government. We want to see teachers paid their full July salaries plus the allowances that were agreed on in the return-to-work formula, Mr Sossion said. The teachers accepted a Sh16 billion offer from the government to be paid out in two phases, with the lowest paid teacher getting Sh4,000 while top earners will pocket an extra Sh16,000.
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WHIFF OF SCANDAL | Foreign rms performance has been judged less than impressive
House team to reopen oil renery probe

Eyebrows raised over how Indian company acquired 50 per cent stake
BY JOHN NGIRACHU
[email protected] parliamentary committee is set to reopen investigations into the operations of Kenya Petroleum Refineries after MPs questioned how foreign investors acquired a 50 per cent stake in the rm. MPs have demanded that the Energy, Information and Communications Committee looks into the 2009 deal that enabled Indian rm Essar Energy to acquire the shares from Shell BP and Kenol. The MPs are concerned that although Essar was supposed to bring new technology to modernise the refinery, the results have been less than impressive as the company has not met its side of the bargain. What we will be looking at seriously is whether Essar has met its side of the bargain. If not, then we will have to come up with recommendations on what action needs to be taken, a member of the committee told the Sunday Nation. If Essar was supposed to upgrade the facility, and maybe that is why they got such a low price, and they have not done so, then without doubt we will have to make the necessary recommendations to the House, said the MP, who asked not to be named because the Standing Orders forbid discussion of committee matters outside its meetings. It was initially reported that Essar would acquire the stake at Sh435 million ($5 million) but the company paid Sh261 million ($3 million), perhaps as an incentive to speed up modernisation of the renery. On Thursday, Energy Committee chairman Jamleck Kamau said in Parliament the equipment at the renery is valued at more than the Sh261 million Essar paid. We want to understand the agreement between Essar and the government . The agreement is in the custody of the committee, Mr Kamau told MPs. Majority Leader Aden Duale added a new twist to the matter when he claimed he had information that senior people in the last government beneted from the deal.
He said he was willing to present information to the committee when it begins its investigations and he would do so as MP for Garissa Town, not as the link between the Executive and the National Assembly. The committee is also concerned about recent reports suggesting the renery ought to be closed. A statement from the Energy ministry presented by Mr Kamau said some petroleum companies suggested the closure of the refinery to the media because of ill intentions. The government has made it mandatory for oil marketing
ers meeting to agree on the upgrade road map in line with a Cabinet paper, the statement read by Mr Kamau said. Before the suggestion to close down the renery was mooted, a decision had been
taken to upgrade it at a cost $450 million. Essar has said it wants to raise $1.2 billion for a substantial upgrade. To ensure the renery continues running, the government
has threatened to withdraw licences from companies that refuse to buy rened products from the facility. Those who had defaulted have been referred to the Energy Regulatory Commission
for appropriate action after expiry of a show cause letter. Arrangements are being made to extend the current product offtake agreement till the upgrade programme is completed, the ministry said.
REACTION
Committee to dig deeper
We want to understand the agreement between Essar and the government. The agreement is in the custody of the committee Energy Committee chairman Jamleck Kamau
$3m
The amount of money Indian rm Essar Energy paid for a 50 per cent stake in Kenya Petroleum Reneries. It was initially announced that the rm would pay $5 million.
companies to buy petroleum products from the Kenya Petroleum Reneries, and they are not happy about it. This is understood to be the reason for the push to close the renery. A majority of companies are unwilling to buy rened products from Kenya Petroleum Reneries, which they say are expensive and do not guarantee them their prot margins, the ministry said. But members of the committee argue that closing the renery could be disastrous given that oil has been discovered in Turkana and the company is the only rener in East Africa. We need that renery. If we close it, when we start producing oil we will have to export it in crude form and then import the rened product, a member of the team told the Sunday Nation. The MPs dissatisfaction with the manner in which work at the renery is being carried out also seems to be felt at the Energy ministry. The ministry has written to Essar requesting a sharehold-
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UNDER SIEGE | Jubilee leaders have accused Bomet county boss Isaac Rutto of undermining the Deputy President
Bomet Governor Isaac Rutto with whom Jubilee leaders have recently been at war over devolution matters. He has criticised President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto saying they are frustrating devolution.
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Now MPs plot to tame rebel governor

Some 40 leaders allied to the Jubilee coalition have planned to impeach, use ocials from his backyard to keep him busy or bring corruption charges against him
BY JULIUS SIGEI
[email protected] REACTION
AND EMEKA-MAYAKA GEKARA
[email protected] ubilee leaders have come up with a plot to tame Bomet Governor Isaac Rutto for what they see as his undermining their administration as well as working with former Prime Minister Raila Odingas Cord. They are said to be particularly infuriated by what they term as efforts by Mr Rutto to create another centre of power in Kalenjin Rift Valley, using his powerful position as chairman of the council of governors. The combative governor has been lately on the warpath accusing President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto of frustrating devolution and vowing that those who block resources from going to the grassroots will be swept away. The new plot to contain the governor, a highly placed source in government revealed, involves the use of impeachment, propping up senior ocials in his backyard to keep him busy and instituting investigations with the aim of bringing corruption and abuse of oce charges against the former Chepalungu MP. At least 40 MPs from the region who have declared they will have him impeached see the governors recent activities as undermining the Deputy Presidents position as the Rift Valley chieftain. What is also said to worry Jubilee leadership is that given the divisions in the country in the aftermath of the hotly contested March 4 elections, governors aided by the resources at their disposal can create separate centres of power in the country, especially in areas that largely voted for Mr Odinga. That Mr Rutto who is em-
What they have said about devolution
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Aden Duale: Said government had channeled 34 per cent of resources to the counties
Joshua Kutuny: Wants 2017 politics separated from genuine proponents of devolution
Raila Odinga: Alleged to have funded Isaac Ruttos campaigns in last elections
braced by governors from across the political divide chairs the caucus has made the situation all the more worrisome for Jubilee leadership. The concern is said to have been further fuelled by last weeks incident in Kisii where a Cabinet secretary was unable to read the Presidents message of condolence to the relatives of victims of a school bus crash when he was shouted down by mourners. Other government-leaning leaders also faced hostility. In contrast, Mr Odinga was received with excitement and cries of baba, baba. We are assessing the situation keenly, and nothing will stop us from exploiting the lawful channels available to us to stop people out to destabilise the Government using taxpayers money, a senior ocial close to the Presidency told Sunday Nation. He claimed the government was also aware that Raila had funded Mr Rutto through a prominent Mombasa businessman notorious for funding political campaigns.
But Mr Rutto has dismissed the threats, saying MPs have no power to impeach him. He also denies meeting any Cord ocials. He said he was aware that some of his critics had hatched propaganda and falsehoods. I have never met any Cord operative. I chair governors from all the counties in Kenya, but I am the Governor of Bomet under URP. Both the Senate and the National Assembly are controlled by Jubilee and of course the Presidency is Jubilee. What is the problem? Isnt devolution in our manifesto? He has also laughed o eorts to impeach him. Removing a governor is a legal matter. It cant be done on political whim. A governor is not bound by the provisions of Article 103 which say that a Member of Parliament can lose his seat if removed from his party. It does not apply to governors. I would continue serving as governor even if they were to remove me from URP. Mr Rutto has packaged the new administration as centrist, determined to retain resources
at core and is keen to come out as the foremost champion of devolution. Bureaucrats in the national government are misadvising that money given to the counties in the 14 devolved functions be retained at the centre, he said. The former Chepalungu MP has faulted the commitment of the President and Deputy President to devolution and has declared support for a planned referendum to empower senators and governors. The quarrel between the executive and governors was rst sparked o by President Uhuru Kenyattas signing into law the Division of Revenue Bill which not only reduced allocation of revenue to the devolved governments but also placed decision-making on funding of counties on the National Assembly. The senators, who had resolved that the Treasury would allocate Sh248 billion to the counties, are angered that President Kenyatta sided with the National Assembly which had proposed Sh210 billion. Senators, who felt the President
should have listened to them as the constitutionally mandated custodians of devolution, went on the warpath, rallying the public to their side. Initially, Senate Majority Leader Kithure Kindiki and Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen, who chairs the Senate Committee on Devolution, had declared their disapproval of the Presidents move, an act that caused considerable concern to President Kenyatta and his deputy Mr Ruto. The two, however, have gone slowly though they did not withdraw the case before the Supreme Court which seeks to determine whether the Senate or the National Assembly and Executive are right on the Division of Revenue Act. National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale yesterday sought to downplay the Bomet governors headache for Jubilee, saying the governor was within his rights to make political decisions. He is not a threat to the Jubilee government at all. We have channelled 34 per cent of resources to the counties in the rst year alone. How can that be said to be antidevolution? Duale said. New Director of Political Aairs at the Oce of the President Joshua Kutuny yesterday said State House was willing to listen to everybody to separate 2017 politics from genuine proponents of devolution. But in Bomet more than 10 county assembly members vowed they would oppose any move to expel Mr Rutto from URP. Led by Singorwet MCA Joyce Korir and her Kembu counterpart Julius Korir, the leaders also said at a press conference in Bomet town that they had no plans to impeach the governor. Additional reporting by Georey Rono
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MINI-POLL | Mutula Kilonzo Junior savours victory as electoral commission continues to catch ak
IEBC used Makueni to save face after awed March 4 election, says Cord
Kalonzo questions why electronic system that failed in the General Election worked perfectly in Fridays by-election
BY SUNDAY NATION TEAM
[email protected] he Coalition for Reform and Democracy has described the electoral commissions performance in the Makueni by-election as a weak attempt to redeem its image. Speaking to the media in Nairobi yesterday, Wiper Democratic Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka said the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) had used the by-election to save face as the March General Election was awed. The electronic transmission mechanism seems to have worked very well in Makueni, and one wonders why it failed in March. Simple, it was crashed deliberately, he said. This is why, as Cord, we continue to abhor what happened during the General Election and what has happened in Makueni is a direct pointer, he said at the brieng that was also attended by ODM leaders. The people have spoken, and if I was in Jubilee, I would reect on what Kenyans are trying to say, he said. Mr Musyoka congratulated Mr Mutula Kilonzo Jnr for his impressive victory in securing the Makueni Senate seat that fell vacant following the death of his father Mutula Kilonzo on April 27. Junior has probably made history as the senator who only campaigned for three days and got an overwhelming win. I call this a speaking vote, he said. The former vice-president attributed Mr Kilonzo Jnrs win to Jubilees eorts to lock out his sister Kethi Kilonzo. What they did was to get people angry; 90 per cent of those who turned up voted for Mutula Jnr, he said. Mr Musyoka also announced that Wiper planned to take disciplinary action against two party MPs who campaigned for the Jubilee candidate. He said that Wiper chairman David Musila has called a meeting of the disciplinary committee of the National Executive Council and the names of the two MPs will soon be made public. Speaking after the election, Mr Kilonzo Jnr acknowledged it would be dicult to ll his fathers shoes. He challenged his opponents to help him develop the vast county, saying those who planned to contest his victory in court would be wasting their time. In fact, it is me who should be complaining. My picture was pasted on the ballot papers. In Kibwezi, my name was missing on some ballot papers, he said. Official figures released by returning officer Salad Boru showed the Wiper candidate scored a resounding victory after
Kethi Kilonzo had been fronted to succeed her father
FILE | NATION
The twists and turns in Mutula Jnrs battle

BY BENJAMIN MUINDI
[email protected] A chain of misfortunes, or what some may see as destiny, led to Mutula Kilonzo Junior clinching the Makueni Senate seat. With the death of his father, the amboyant and accomplished lawyer Mutula Kilonzo who was the pioneer senator of the county, the shaping of Kilonzo Jnrs destiny started on that fateful April 27. But Kilonzo Jnr was not in the imagination of many as his younger sister, Diana Kethi Kilonzo, had been fronted to succeed their father. She had risen to stardom after becoming the darling of many during the presidential election petition where she eloquently took on senior lawyers in litigation broadcast live on TV. The public and especially social media users had created fan pages on Facebook, and she was a trending topic for days on end on Twitter with calls for her to succeed her father. At first, she expressed reluctance to take part in the by-election before she ostensibly warmed to the idea after Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord) honchos won her over. Her father had been a key personality in the coalition that had lost the petition challenging the March 4 General Election. Jubilee leaders are reported to have approached her to run on their ticket, but she declined the oer, tweeting that she could not side with her late fathers enemies. Her woes started soon after she declared that she would vie for the seat on a Wiper ticket, with the first challenge being her stepmother Nduku who expressed interest in the same seat. This led her to beat a hasty retreat, saying it was not right for a daughter to ght her mother. Nduku was to later drop her bid. But soon after, former assistant minister Agnes Ndetei challenged Kethis eligibility to vie claiming she was not a registered voter. The High Court upheld similar views, and she was locked out, paving the way for her brother.
Former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka (right), Senator James Orengo (centre) and kakamega MP Rachael Ameso Amollo address the Press at the Serena Hotel in Nairobi yesterday. The leaders hailed the landslide win by Mr Mutula Kilonzo Junior in the Makueni senate race.
receiving 163,232 of the 180,329 votes cast. Makueni County has 298,474 registered voters. The National Rainbow Coalitions candidate Prof Philip Kaloki, who had been expected to be Mr Kilonzo Jnrs toughest rival, was a distant second with 9,762 votes. He was closely followed by Mr Harun Mwau of the Peoples Independent Candidates of Kenya who had 6,431. Mr Urbanus Katumo, an independent, was fourth with 517 votes while Labour Party of Kenyas Jane Kitundu was fth with 387 votes. It was a sweet victory for the rst-time politician who beat his rivals even in the areas considered to be their strongholds. He won with ease in Kibwezi East and West constituencies that were represented in the 10th Parliament by Prof Kaloki. In Kibwezi East, he received 14,409 votes against Prof Kalokis 5,997, while in Kibwezi West, he had 29,908 against the latters 1,065 votes. In Kilome constituency, the Senator-elect won overwhelmingly when he received 19,699 votes against Mr Mwaus 1,041. Mr Kilonzo Jnr also won convincingly in Mbooni, the constituency that was represented by his father. He collected 35,650 votes. In Makueni constituency, he got 37,700 votes. The people of Makueni have spoken. Of every 10 people that voted, nine voted for me, Mr Kilonzo Jnr said. His sister Kethi said the county had demonstrated how focused it is by electing her brother. Ms Kilonzo said the electorate had twice shown that they have their hearts, minds and eyes on the future. I sincerely thank the people of Makueni. They have twice this year stood behind and decisively chosen two visionary leaders, she said. ODMs Siaya County Senator, James Orengo also announced that on Tuesday he would hand in his resignation from the Senate Legal Aairs Committee in favour of Mr Kilonzo Jnr. I want to keep a promise which I made in Wote that when Mutula Jnr is elected, I would resign from my seat. I will ask the leadership of Cord in the Senate to nominate and appoint him as a member of the committee, Mr Orengo said,
ANTHONY OMUYA | NATION
Death of his father
Wasting their time
I have just received good news that the Makueni people have elected Cords Mutula Junior. I am very happy that the people have conrmed to the doubting Thomases that they are still ardent supporters of Cord
Former PM Raila Odinga
adding that the Senator-elects father was a member of the same committee. Former prime minister and Cord leader Raila Odinga, who is in the US, hailed Makueni residents for their overwhelming support for Mr Kilonzo Jnr. Mr Odinga also congratulated the Wiper Democratic Party and Cord leaders for ensuring the coalition retained the seat. The former PM thanked Ms Kilonzo for her fight for the seat, saying it inspired Makueni residents to come out in their thousands to vote. I have just received good news that the Makueni people have elected Cords Mutula Junior. I am very happy that the people of Makueni have conrmed to the doubting Thomases that they are still ardent supporters and members of Cord as the majority of Kenyans are, he said. I congratulate Junior. I congratulate the Wiper Democratic Party and the Cord fraternity for refusing to budge. This victory shows our future lies in standing together, especially in times of trial, and Makueni was a big trial on our resolve and unity, Mr Odinga said. The former PM said despite the controversy surrounding Ms Kilonzos bid for the seat, the young lawyer remained a critical member of the coalition and he urged her to stay focused and support her brother and the party. He said Cord believed Jubilee would never forgive her but the coalition would stand by her and the family. Mr Odinga said Cord is determined to lift the youth to key leadership positions. Reported by Lillian Onyango, Dave Opiyo and Linda Anemba
Warmed to the idea
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PAN AFRICAN PARLIAMENT | New members nominated after term expired before the March 4 elections
Five Kenyan lawmakers to join AU House

Names to be presented to the Senate and National Assembly for approval
BY NJERI RUGENE
[email protected] ive Kenyan legislators are set to join the South Africa-based continental Parliament. And for the rst time, Kenyas Senate will be represented in the 235-member Pan-African Parliament. Those who have been picked for the African Union legislative body are Jubilee Senator Kipchumba Murkomen and his Cord counterpart Janet Ongera. In the National Assembly where Jubilee has the majority, the coalition has chosen Kuresoi MP Zakayo Cheruiyot (URP) and Nairobi County Women Representative Rachel Shebesh (TNA) to join the House whose members are drawn from 47 of the 54 AU member States.
The minority Cord coalition has nominated ODM MP for Mbita Millie Odhiambo-Mabona. The names will be presented to the Senate this week for approval before the House takes a 32-day recess. The list will also be subjected to the same process in the National Assembly. The term of Kenyas members of the Pan-African Parliament expired last year ahead of the March 4 elections to pave way for new legislators. Each national assembly of the member states elects or designates ve of its members to the Johannesburgbased Continental House. Before the last elections, Kenya was represented to PAP by Malindi MP Gideon Mungaro and former MPs Gitobu Imanyara, Abdi Bahari, Nkodilas ole Lankas and former Eldoret South
MP Peris Simam. If both Houses of Parliament approve her nomination, Ms Shebesh, a nominated MP in the last Parliament, will be making a return to the Pan-African Parliament, having previously been nominated by her ODM party. Mr Murkomen, a youthful senator and a well-connected Jubilee personality, is the chairman of the all-important Senate committee on Devolved Government. The 34-year old URP senator for Elgeyo Marakwet is a lawyer and a former university lecturer. Ms Ongera, an ODM nominated senator, is the Senate deputy minority whip. Before joining the Senate, Ms Ongera was her partys executive director. Mr Cheruiyot , a former permanent secretary for
Former National Assembly Speaker Kenneth Marende (left) with then Vice-President of the Pan-African Parliament Bethel Nnaemeka Amadi at the opening of a Pan-African Parliament meeting in Mombasa last year.
Internal Security in the Moi administration, is serving his second consecutive term as an MP. Ms Odhiambo-Mabona, an outspoken politician and child rights activist, was a nominated ODM MP in the Tenth Parliament and her election to the Mbita seat saw her emerge as the only woman elected to a single member constituency in Luo Nyanza in the last elections in more than a decade. The Pan African Parliament was inaugurated on March 18, 2004 at the African Union headquarters
NATION | FILE
Zakayo Cheruiyot
Rachel Shebesh
Kipchumba Murkomen
Janet Ongera
Millie Odhiambo
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The parliaments current president Bethel Nnaemeka Amadi says the ultimate aim of the PAP is to give it full legislative powers. Currently, the House only exercises advisory and consultative powers and it holds at least two ordinary sessions annually. Although the parliaments uthority to make decisions is vested both in protocol and the Rules of Procedure in the plenary session, the main work lies in the decisions made by 10 permanent committees.
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United Nations Support Office for AMISOM (UNSOA)
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

CONSTRUCTION OF ASPHALT ROAD AND ASPHALT HARDSTAND IN SOMALIA
United Nations Support Office for AMISOM (UNSOA) seeks expression of interest from suitably qualified firms to take on the following Engineering works for the Construction of Asphalt Road and Asphalt Hardstand in Somalia: Firms interested with a proven track record of relevant catering experience should submit their EOI and include: 1. The Firms company profile and registration certificates not more than 25 pages 2. Last (3) three years audited accounts and references in undertaking similar works 3. Provide UNGM registration number or status 4. For more information the EOI is available on http://www.un.org/depts/ptd/pdf/eoi8953.pdf Submit the above in sealed envelopes, or by e-mail, clearly labeled Expression Of Interest for Construction of Asphalt Road and Asphalt Hardstand in Somalia at the UNSOA Offices by 16:00 Nairobi Time, August 17, 2013 to the address below. The Chief Procurement Officer, UNSOA EOIUNSOA 8953 Construction of Asphalt Road and Asphalt Hardstand in Somalia. Procurement Section C/o, UNON, Block T- 1st Floor P.O. Box 67578-00200, Nairobi, KENYA Fax: + 254-20-762-1571 Email address: [email protected] Please indicate your UN Vendor Registration Number (if applicable) and refer to this EOI in your submission. To ensure that as many competent organizations as possible are reached, this EOI may be forwarded to potential bidders, or suitable names forwarded to the above-mentioned address. Please note that this notice does not constitute a solicitation and UNSOA reserves the right to change or cancel this requirement at any time in the Expression of Interest/ bidding process. Companies short-listed as a result of this EOI will receive enquiries to bid for services to UNSOA. Queries on this EOI may be addressed to [email protected].
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ACCIDENT | Crash claims lives of three foreigners
Wreck of missing plane found in Aberdare Park, all aboard dead

The ill-fated aircraft had left Lentille airstrip in Laikipia on Thursday destined for Wilson Airport, before it went missing
LBY ZADDOCK ANGIRA
[email protected] Trampener. The aircraft had been chartered by Yellow Wings Air Services Ltd. According to Mr Kimaiyo, the flight of the Cessna type 206 aeroplane, registration number 5Y BUG, is suspected to have hampered by the bad weather. The Cessna 206 is usually not pressurised and has a ceilingthe highest maximum height it can flyof 25,000 feet above sea level. On Friday, the National Disaster Operation Centre wrote to the Kenya Police Airwing through the police boss requesting for a helicopter to complement the ground search that entered its second day yesterday. Bad weather had hampered the search for the aircraft, with information from satellite data. Addressing the press on Saturday evening in Kagongo area on the slopes of Aberdare Forest where the search team was carrying out its operation, he said the pilots mobile phone number had been traced several kilometres from Naivasha hence the decision to extend the search. Police ocers from Muranga spent Friday and Saturday combing thickets on the slopes of the Aberdares in search of the plane after receiving reports on Thursday evening that it had disappeared from the radar. The plane had taken o from one of the ranches in Laikipia County with the pilot and two passengers on board said to be Swiss nationals. Flight records showed the plane went o the radar at around Gitiri area in Kahuro. According to Kahuro Deputy Commissioner Fred Muli, a search was immediately mounted soon after the reports of the disappearance were reported. We received information that the missing plane had three people on board and eorts to reach them were futile, said the DC. He had also said there were no traces of the missing plane or any fuselage in the area but that had not stopped the search from proceeding. Also involved in the search of the missing aeroplane were forest rangers manning the Aberdares Ranges which spans Kiambu, Muranga, Nyeri and Nyandarua counties. Another team had also launched a search inside Karurumo Forest in Kangema, usually a very foggy area.
FLOODS | Agony as families displaced after heavy rains
Combing thickets
AND SAMUEL KARANJA

[email protected] pilot and two passengers who went missing over Muranga County aboard a light aircraft were yesterday found dead in the wreckage in the Aberdare National Park. But Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo the rescue and recovery operation was stopped soon after the wreckage was sighted due to bad weather in the Aberdare mountain range. Mr Kimaiyo said if the weather improves rescuers will return to the site today in the morning to remove the bodies and the wreckage. As soon as the wreckage and the bodies were sighted, the weather changed forcing the rescuers to leave, he said. The ill-fated aircraft with three passengers, all reported to be foreign nationals, left Lentille airstrip in Laikipia and was expected to land at Wilson Airport at exactly 5.25 p.m. It however went missing at around 5 p.m. The wreckage was found by the Kenya Wildlife Service helicopter pilot Major Alex Koech but he could not immediately engage in a rescue operation. The pilot of the ill-fated aircraft has been identified as Farrow
25,000
Maximum height, in feet above sea level, that the Cessna 206 cannot operate beyond.
the police headquarters turning down the request for a helicopter to assist in the aerial search. A local air operator, Tropic Air, also joined the search within the Aberdare Ranges bolstering efforts by a ground search team comprising armed ocers and volunteers. The operation was led by Central regional commander Larry Kieng who had before the discovery said that a satellite had traced an international call made to South Africa by one of the three passengers on board before the signal was lost. Mr Kieng said the operation was extended following latest
A family aected by the rising waters of Lake Baringo share a meal outside their hut in Ngiambo village, Marigat in Baringo County yesterday. Some 135 families have been aected, with numerous houses submerged; 40 at Salabani, 50 at Kiserian, 20 at Rukus and 25 at Ngambo area. In the meantime, heavy rains continue to pound the area.
JARED NYATAYA | NATION
MEPS SENIOR M&E OFFICER FOR VERIFICATIONS

IBTCI seeks an M&E and Senior M&E Officer to play a central role in the day-today verification activities carried out by the Monitoring & Evaluation Program for Somalia (MEPS). Based in Nairobi with ongoing work inside Somalia, the team will be responsible for all verification-related activities, including research, planning, training, supervision, database management, quality control and final report editing. The M&E Officer will focus efforts on quality control and report editing. The Senior M&E Officer will be in charge of the overall process for one of the two international donors funding the program. REQUIREMENTS For both positions: - Somali speaker & Kenyan citizenship. - Very strong written English language skills & demonstrated report writing skills and research skills. - Very strong inter-personal and interview skills. For senior position only: - Mid-level management experience working on a similar program focusing exclusively on M&E. - Strong time-management, planning, research, training and team management skills. Highly Desirable for both positions: - Professional journalism, research and /or formal written communication experience. - Local knowledge of Somalia and/or experience working in Somalia.
VACANCY
Police arrest ve linked to bank robberies

BY JAMES KARIUKI
[email protected] Police in Nakuru have arrested five suspects linked to a gang that has been robbing people of cash after bank visits. The ve have been allegedly disguising themselves as police ocers before waylaying and robbing people who withdraw money from banks in the town. Nakuru police chief Bernard Kioko yesterday said they recovered police uniforms and three pairs of handcus from the suspects on Friday night when police stormed their hideout at Free Area estate. The suspects, two of whom are spouses, are said to have been monitoring peoples activities at banks, pursuing those who make withdrawals before robbing them, claiming to be police ocers. The group has been forcing people into unmarked cars at gunpoint before committing the crime. Mr Kioko commended residents for their cooperation, saying police were pursuing crucial leads in eorts to arrest the ring leader of the racket. He warned residents against boarding unmarked vehicles after being arrested. Nakuru is very safe for investment and entertainment especially now that people are providing us information on hideouts for criminals. We have recovered a lot of stolen items worth millions of shillings and for anyone to say Nakuru is unsafe is issuing an alarming report, he said. He added that family feuds had also resulted in a number of deaths and disappearance, saying such incidents should not be blamed on the police, as our work is preventive and responsive to reports received. Any claim that police are involved in crime is misinforming the public since the few ocers found to have been involved are not spared. We have had several charged before courts and we assure residents to have faith in my ocers, he said. Mr Kioko added that patrols in areas known to be targets of criminals had been intensified, especially along the highway. He urged residents to engage in business round-the-clock without fear so as to boost Nakurus status as a business hub. He said they had developed a close working relationship with the county government with a view to expanding job opportunities for all residents.
Nakuru is very safe for investment and entertainment

Police chief Bernard Kioko.
Applications (cover letter with CVs) should be sent via e-mail to [email protected]. Application deadline: Sunday 4 August 2013. Fuller job descriptions available upon request. Only candidates being actively considered for employment will be contacted. There is an immediate vacancy, so interested individuals are encouraged to apply promptly.
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MERU COUNTY GOVERNMENT COUNTY PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD
VACANCIES
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The office of the Governor Meru County wishes to advertise for the following posts: (A) COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER Water, Environment and Natural Resources. Duties and Responsibilities: (i) To supervise the administration and delivery of services in the Environment and Natural Resources department of the county government and all decentralized units and agencies in the County. (ii) Implement county legislation (iii) Implement within the county, national legislation to the extent that the legislation so requires. (iv) Manage and coordinate the functions of the county Environment and natural Resources department. (v) Provide the county assembly with full and regular reports on matters relating to Environment and Natural Resources. (vi) May advise the Governor on matters within your area of jurisdiction. Requirements for Appointment For appointment to this position, a person should: (i) Be a female from Igembe District/Sub County. (ii) Be in possession of a first degree from a University recognized in Kenya. (iii) Satisfy the requirements of chapter six of the constitution (iv) Have knowledge, experience and distinguished career of not less than five (5) years. (v) Understand the diversity, challenges and opportunities within the County (vi) Not be a Public or State Officer (vii) Be visionary and a strategic thinker (viii) Have the ability to work in a multi-ethnic and multi-diversity. (ix) Have capacity to work under pressure to meet strict deadlines. (x) Be committed to be part of a team that will enable the county Government achieve its vision. NB: Masters degree will be an added advantage. (B) WARD ADMINISTRATORS (45 POSTS) The forty five (45) posts will be one (1) for each of the wards of the County. Requirements for Appointment (i) Be a Kenyan Citizen (ii) Be a holder of at least a first degree from a university recognized in Kenya (iii) Working experience of not less than five (5) years; (iv) Have qualifications and knowledge in administration and management; and (v) Satisfy the requirements of chapter six of the Constitution. Duties and Responsibilities The ward administrator shall be responsible to the sub-county administrator for the following: (i) Coordinating, managing and supervising the general administrative functions in the Ward Unit; (ii) Developing policies and plans; (iii) Ensuring effective service delivery; (iv) Coordinating developmental activities to empower the community (v) Providing and maintaining infrastructure and facilities of public service; (vi) Managing the County Public Service; (vii) Facilitating and coordinating citizens participation in the development of policies and plans and delivery of services; (viii) Exercising any functions and powers delegated by the County Public Service Board. (C) HEAD OF COUNTY TREASURY (1 POST) Requirements for Appointment (i) Have served in the grade of Principal Accountant; job Group N in the Civil service and above or in a comparable and relevant position in the Civil Service and Local Authorities for a minimum of two (2) years (ii) Have a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (Finance Accounting Business Administration Commerce) Economics Degree or its approved equivalent. (iii) Have MBA (Finance, Accounting Business Administration, and Commerce); MA in Economics degree or any other relevant field from a recognized university. (iv) Be registered with the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK); and (v) Have shown exemplary leadership qualities. Duties and Responsibilities The officer will be head of Accounting and responsible to the Chief Officer-Finance for the efficient management of Accounting Services at the County. Duties will include: (i) Advising County Government on all accounting matters; (ii) Implementing approved government accounting standards by the Cabinet Secretary; (iii) Designing and developing County Accounting systems; (iv) Providing advice to county government on the best appropriate ad-hoc financial reporting formats; (v) Providing a link between county and national accounting standards bodies on matters relating to public sector financial reporting; (vi) Develop guidelines for county accounting staffing levels and training to ensure technical competence; (vii) Participate in county policy committees; (viii) Oversee the implementation of the approved accounting standards, policies, bases and concepts to ensure compliance; (ix) Undertake capacity building for staff at the county level; (x) Ensuring proper banking arrangements are in place between County Government, CBK and Commercial Bank; (xi) Direct and control operations of the County Exchequer Account; (xii) Participate in the relevant Committees of County accounts; (xiii) Participate in the relevant committees of county assembly as advisor to the members and follow-up on recommendations thereof including County Treasury memorandum; and (xiv) Oversee the Accounting operations of the sub-counties. (D) HEAD OF COUNTY TREASURY (BUDGET EXPENDITURE MANAGEMENT) (1 POST) The officer will be the head of the Budget Supply Unit and be responsible to the Chief Officer-Finance for the efficient management of Budget Expenditure services at the County. Duties and responsibilities (i) Consolidating and prioritizing of areas for allocation of public resources for the County; (ii) Identifying programmes at the county level; by consolidating programmes at the sub county levels for inclusion in the project based budget; (iii) Issuing guidelines on the budget process to be followed by all County Government entities; (iv) Preparing and submitting the County Fiscal Strategy paper (CFSP) in line with the national objectives in the Budget policy Strategy to the County Executive; (v) Preparing and submitting the County Budget Review and Outlook paper (CBROP) to the County Executive Committee; (vi) Publishing and publicizing the CBROP; (vii) Preparing and presenting the Annual and Revised Estimates and other supporting documents to the County Assembly; (viii) Preparing and submitting the relevant draft Bills to the County Assembly; (ix) Ensuring the systems in places are adopted and used as required; (x) Coordination and allocation of resources among sector through the sector process; (xi) Provide leadership in budget management in the county; (xii) Taking charge of matters appertaining to the budget including preparation, printing and submission of the estimates to county Assembly; (xiii) Undertake capacity building for staff at the County level; (xiv) Dealing with County Assembly questions and issues pertaining to expenditure; monitoring the control; (xv) Advising the County treasury on budget management; and (xvi) Assessing the risks involved in new and existing budget policies. Requirement for appointment (i) Have Bachelor of Commerce Degree (Finance, Accounting, Business Adm. Commerce); an Economics Degree or any other relevant field form a recognized university; (ii) Have passed Part III of Certified Public Accountants (CPA) Examination or its recognized equivalent; (iii) Have MBA (Finance Accounting Business Administration Commerce; MA in Economics or its approved equivalent. (iv) Have served in the grade of principal Finance Officer Job group N in the Civil Service or in a comparable and relevant
position in the Public Service for a minimum of two (2) years; (v) Be registered with the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) (vi) Have shown exemplary leadership qualities. (E) RESEARCH OFFICER (PLANNING AND BUDGETING) (1 POST) The Research Officer, Planning and Budgeting will be responsible to the Head of County Treasury. Duties and Responsibilities (i) Preparing a medium term plan, integrated county plans and strategic plans and budgeting for the County; (ii) Coordinating the preparation of county development plans and budgets; (iii) Reviewing the Authoritys development policy strategies; projects and programs; (iv) Assisting counties identifying viable projects; building capacity of county staff to carry out planning and budgeting; and (v) Organizing coordination meetings and workshops with stakeholders and partners. Requirement for Appointment (i) A bachelors degree in any of the following disciplines ;Economics, economics and Mathematics, economics and statistics or any other relevant qualification from a recognized university (ii) A masters degree in either Mathematics ;Planning project management; statistics or any other relevant qualification from a recognized university will be an added advantage; (iii) Minimum of five (5) years working experience; two(2) of which must have been in research using survey techniques and demographic techniques; (iv) Knowledge and experiences in programme based budgeting, planning and financial analysis; (v) Demonstrated merit and ability in research work such as situation analysis and monitoring and evaluation, research methodology, data collection and analysis using appropriate software such as SPSS; (vi) Understanding transition to devolved system of government as provided for in the Kenya Constitution 2010; and (vii) Advanced computer application skills. (F) HEAD OF COUNTY SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT FUNCTION (1 POST) The officer will head the Supply Chain Management Unit and be responsible to the Executive , Finance for the efficient management of Supply Chain Management Services in the County. Duties and responsibilities will include (i) Policy implementation and interpretation on supply chain management; (ii) Advising the Executive Finance on matters pertaining to Supply Chain Management; (iii) Providing guidance in overall supply Chain Management policy and management; (iv) Issuing administrative guidelines on implementation and interpretation of the Act, Regulations and other statutes; (v) Introducing modern inventory management techniques and approach (vi) Implementing e-government procurement strategies; (vii) Interpreting international trade agreements/policies related to procurement; (viii) Providing overall guidance on framework and consortium buying; providing guidance of public private partnerships and concessioning in infrastructure and specialized services; (ix) Partnership in county government asset management; (x) Implementing inventory management information system; (xi) Providing guidance on procurement policies and procedures (xii) Liaising with other finance management functions on issues of procurement; (xiii) Providing overall guidance on contract design and management (xiv) Providing guidance on disposal of county Government inventory and other assets; (xv) Undertaking Capacity building for staff at the County level; (xvi) Advising on quality assurance on goods, works and services; (xvii) Management training and development of County Supply Chain Management personnel; Requirement for Appointment (i) Have served in the grade of Principal Supply Chain Management officer job Group N in the Civil Service or in a comparable and relevant position in the Public Service for a minimum of 2 years; (ii) Have diploma in Supplies Management for its equivalent or its approved equivalent from a recognized university; (iii) Have a bachelors Degree in any of the following; Commerce; Business Administration; Economics; Procurement & supplies Management; marketing; law, engineering or the equivalent qualification form a recognized university. (iv) Have a Masters degree in any of the following;- Procurement and supplies management; Logistics and Supply Chain Management Business Administration Commerce or any other relevant field from a recognized university; (v) Have shown merit and ability as reflected in work performance and results; and (vi) Have shown exemplary leadership qualities. (G) TOWN ADMINISTRATORS (3 POSTS) The three posts will be one each for Meru, Maua and Nkubu. Requirements for Appointment (i) Be a Kenyan citizen; (ii) Be a holder of a degree from a university recognized in Kenya; (iii) Working experience of not less than five years in administration or management either in the public or private sector; (iv) Satisfy the requirements of chapter six of the constitution. Duties and Responsibilities The Town Administrator shall be responsible to the Town Committee for the following:(i) Coordinating, managing and supervising the general administrative functions of the town; (ii) Developing policies and plans; (iii) Ensuring effective service delivery; (iv) Coordinating developmental activities to empower the community; (v) Providing and maintaining infrastructure and facilities; (vi) Managing the Town Public Service; (vii) Facilitating and coordinating citizens participation in the development of policies and plans and delivery of services; (viii) Exercising any functions and powers delegated by the County Public Service Board. For candidate to meet the requirements of Chapter 6 of the Constitution 2012, he/she must have the following:1. A certificate of good Conduct from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) 2. A clearance certificate from the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) 3. A tax compliance certificate from the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) 4. A clearance certificate from the Kenya Anticorruption Commission (KACC) HOW TO APPLY All application should be submitted in a sealed envelope clearly marked on the left side the position you are applying and addressed to: The Secretary, County Public Service Board Office of the Governor P.O. Box 120 - 60200 MERU Important information to all Candidates The applications should reach the Secretary Public Service Board on or before Friday 9th August, 2013. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Shortlisted candidates shall be required to produce their Original National identity cards, Certificates and testimonials.
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LETTER FROM LONDON | Gerry Loughran
Suddenly, everything is bright and beautiful

Economy showing signs of recovery, sporting success on several fronts and now a royal baby
Tourists pour in
worlds most famous baby. News that a healthy boy (eight pounds, six ounces 3.8 kilos) was born to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and the former Kate Middleton, brought cheers from thousands waiting at St Marys Hospital and outside Buckingham Palace, as well as in homes throughout the country. The baby is third in line to the throne after Prince Charles, son of the Head of State Queen Elizabeth II, and his son, the boys father, William. He will be the 43rd monarch since William the Conqueror in 1066. The place of kings and queens in a modern society is debated here regularly but when there is a big royal event, it seems that sentiment and tradition always win out. Stilled, at least for the moment, is discussion about the position of the Queen. Two European monarchs abdicated recently Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands in favour of her son, Prince Willem-Alexander, and the King of the Belgians, Albert II, in favour of his son, Crown Prince Philippe. Since Beatrix is 75 and had spent 33 years on the throne and Albert is 79 and was king for 20 years, there was speculation that the Queen might follow suit. After all, she is 87 and acceded to the throne a mind-boggling 61 years ago. However, there has been no indication that this is her intention. A sidelight on the succession issue is that had the royal baby been a girl, she, too, would have
REGIONAL STABILITY | Nairobi seeks role in Congo
In Tokyo, the royal baby is in the news every day, so I wanted to see and celebrate for myself
or a nation that is fundamentally pessimistic, Britain actually seems to be enjoying itself right now. The economy is showing signs of recovery, weve just had the longest heat wave for seven years, sporting success has come on a multitude of fronts (forget about football!) and there is now a royal baby to coo over. The interest in this latter event was phenomenal, not least from overseas. Just why the future king of a small European country should generate such international fascination is hard to fathom, but seasoned reporters say they never saw so many foreign news people gathered for a royal event. Along with tourists, they came not just from the Commonwealth and English-speaking countries but from the Far East, Europe and South America, too. Japanese tourist Midori Tsuda said: In Tokyo, the royal baby is in the news every day, so I wanted to see and celebrate for myself. And a German visitor, Mattias Rave from Berlin, said: This is a special event. We saw it on TV and we were curious, so weve come to take a look. The Washington Post described the child as the
Seasoned reporters say they never saw so many foreign news people gathered for a royal event
stood third in the monarchical line. * * * The headline in a Sunday magazine demanded, What happened to our love of losing? In last years Olympic Games, Great Britain, a nation of 62 million people, placed third out of 204 countries, behind only the United States (314 million) and China (1.3 billion) and ahead of Russia (143 million). Since then, golfer Justin Rose has won the US Open, Andy Murray won mens singles at Wimbledon, the Lions won their rst Rugby series against Australia in 16 years, distance runner Mo Farah wins medal after medal, and cyclist Chris Froome won the Tour de France one year after his compatriot Bradley Wiggins. There is no area where chauvinism runs more rampant than in sports writing, so it was good to see how even-handed the media were with regard to Froomes strong Africa con-
nections. Froome was born on May 20, 1985 in Nairobi, went to live in South Africa at 14, cycled under the Kenyan ag in several international events including the All-Africa Games and has often said he feels a deep kinship with the country of his birth. BBC Televison carried interviews with his mentor David Kinjah, the professional cyclist who took Froome under his wing when he was only 12. Programmes also showed viewers the demanding tracks which the two negotiated whilst mountain-biking north of Nairobi. * * * My wife was staring unhappily into the bedroom mirror. I look old, fat, ugly and horrible. Can you think of one good thing about me? Your eyesight is perfect, I said. Thats when the fight started. * * * I always go fishing on Saturdays so I got up early as usual, backed the car out of the garage but found the rain was torrential. The radio said it would be bad all day, so I went back to bed, snuggled up to my wifes back and whispered, The weather out there is terrible. My loving wife replied, And can you believe my stupid husband is out shing in that! Thats how the fight started. [email protected]
Foreign Aairs Principal Secretary, Karanja Kibicho
FILE | NATION
Kenya wants to be enjoined in peace eorts in eastern DRC

BY WALTER MENYA
[email protected] Kenya is seeking to be enjoined in the UN-mediated Democratic Republic of Congo peace deal to end the perennial conict in the region. Foreign Aairs Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho told the national coordinators meeting of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) that Kenya wanted to play a key role in ending the interminable cycles of violence in eastern DRC. Mr Kibicho said the government welcomed the peace, security and cooperation framework for the DRC and the region signed in Addis Ababa in February this year. The peace deal, which aims at ending the turmoil in region mainly in the eastern DR Congo, was signed by Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Congo, DRC, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. Kenya supports the regional and international peace initiatives that are aimed at bringing peaceful and durable solutions to the conicts in eastern DRC, Central African Republic and in Sudan and South Sudan, Mr Kibicho said. Kenya, however, looks forward to being enjoined in the framework as soon as possible so as to continue to eectively lend political and diplomatic support to peace building initiatives in the region, he said. The PS also urged the region to pay more attention to trade to improve the economic situation of the people as a way of addressing security issues aecting the region to complement the framework of the peace deal. The ICGLR national coordinators meeting is a rst of several meetings which started yesterday at the Windsor Hotel. It will be followed by a meeting of Defence Chiefs of Sta and Chiefs of Intelligence at the same venue today and the regional ministers meeting on Monday ahead of the ocial opening of the special summit of the ICGLR Heads of State and Government by President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday. Among the Heads of State expected are the presidents of Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Zambia, Central African Republic, the DR Congo and representatives of African Union, UN, World Bank and ADB.
BAROMETER | Lukoye Atwoli
Leaders should tread softly to enhance peace R

Arrogance:
ecently, President Uhuru Kenyatta indicated that one of the greatest challenges of his government will be the unication of this country after decades of ethnic mistrust with regular eruptions of inter-ethnic violence. This is obviously an admission that Kenya is a deeply divided nation, and competing socio-economic and political interests have packaged themselves with ethnic tags. To my mind, it has been clear that this is the case since the early nineties when political competition brought to the fore longstanding ethnic animosity, erupting in the famously labelled tribal clashes. This culminated in the grand slaughter of 2007/2008 that introduced yet another euphemism into our national lexicon -- post-election violence. Bringing lasting peace to this country is therefore quite an onerous task and can, indeed, consume a presidents entire term, and perhaps the full lifespan of an individual. In the event that the president has discovered a clear path out of this unenviable morass, then one can only wish him the very best in navigating through it. One would further expect a refreshingly new approach to the conduct of public aairs that inspires optimism and a sense of new beginnings. Unfortunately the public pronouncements and activities of this government in the few weeks since its installation betray the very antithesis of a unifying force. To a disinterested observer, it would appear that all the institutions of state have conspired to drive a certain agenda that in the Moi days used to be termed singing the same tune. The apparent consonance, even if purely coincidental, between the executive, the judiciary and some independent commissions such as the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is simply staggering, as is the tyranny of numbers rhetoric emanating from Parliament. The arrogant, semi-coherent pejoratives emanating from government spokesmen do little to inspire the image of a unifying government.
Chestthumping rhetoric and denigration of opponents must stop
The arrogant pejoratives emanating from leaders do little to inspire image of a unifying government
If President Kenyattas government is truly interested in leaving behind a prosperous country at peace with itself, there are certain signals they must begin sending to the citizenry. Firstly, the chest-thumping rhetoric and denigration of their opponents must stop. When leaders ght in public, even when they are only sparring in jest, their followers are left confused. Those in power must avoid the temptation to engage every opponent in a war of attrition.
At peace with itself
Leaders must learn to pick their ghts carefully, and only engage in contests that serve to further the greater national interest. The president must, therefore, rein in his more jubilant acolytes, and prevail upon them not to present their opponents as animals unworthy of even basic courtesies and unt to present alternative views on governance. Secondly, government leaders must reach out more substantively to those living in areas that did not substantially support their election. The continuing perceived hostility towards regions that are in the oppositiondoes not augur well for our unied vision, and will only further reduce us into pathetic ethnic enclaves. Magnanimity, contrary to prevailing macho perceptions, is actually a sign of strength. Dr Lukoye Atwoli is Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer at the Moi University School of Medicine [email protected]; Twitter @LukoyeAtwoli
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REPUBLIC OF KENYA COUNTY GOVERNMENT OF UASIN GISHU
COUNTY INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Uasin Gishu County Government is in the process of developing a five year County Integrated Plan (CIDP), a tool which will inform prioritization and funding of county development activities during the period 2013 2017. It is imperative that the people and Government of Uasin Gishu County participate in the writing of this strategic document that will inform departmental work plans and county government of Uasin Gishu annual budgetary allocations. The CIDP will also enable the County Government of Uasin Gishu to implement projects that will ensure socioeconomic development in the county. The CIDP is an important document whose development is required by law (Section 102 of the County Governments Act). The CIDP is a master development framework that outlines key challenges faced by Uasin Gishu County, the resources available as well as key strategies and activities whose implementation will hasten development. The CIDP also takes into account strategies, activities and projects under other plans currently being implemented within the county by state and non-state actors.
Importance of the CIDP:

The CIDP will hasten the speed of development since it provides opportunity for careful analysis of county/ community needs and prioritization for funding. The CIDP provides an avenue for citizens to participate in crafting their own development strategy thus strengthening participatory decision making. The whole process is consultative and transparent. The CIDP will facilitate focussed, efficient and effective use of scarce resources taking into account prevailing needs of County Government of Uasin Gishu communities and available resources. Since it integrates different threads of development, the CIDP provides a framework for coordinated implementation of development projects and activities among the two tiers of government and non-state actors. The CIDP will assist to source additional funding and investments. Government departments and private investors will be invited to invest as guided by the CIDP.
How citizens of UGC can participate in the CIDP development:
The County Government of Uasin Gishu invites the people of Uasin Gishu County to take part in making their CIDP by: Presenting written memoranda/ proposals on priority projects and programs to be pursued by the County Government of Uasin Gishu across the entire county; possible sources of funding for the projects, strategies, and cost saving measures and investments. The memoranda can be presented during the sub-county forums, or sent by mail to the Interim County Secretary, or by e-mail to [email protected]. Participating in sub-county forums to make presentations. Encouraging the general public (including those in diaspora) to take active part in drawing up the CIDP.
UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI SCHOOL OF CONTINUING AND DISTANCE EDUCATION

MASTERS IN PEACE EDUCATION BY DISTANCE LEARNING AUGUST 2013 INTAKE
Minimum Admission Requirements: A Bachelors Degree from the University of Nairobi or any other University recognized by Senate with either; 1. Bachelors Degree with at least Second Class Honours, Upper Division from the University of Nairobi or any other University recognized by Senate 2. Bachelors Degree Second Class Honours, lower division with at least two years of relevant working experience 3. Bachelors Degree with a pass and at least three years of relevant working experience or Postgraduate Diploma 4. Any other qualification equivalent to the above from institutions recognized by University of Nairobi Senate. Mode of study: Distance, Face to face or e-Learning Application procedure Application forms are available at a non-refundable fee of Ksh. 3000/= per application form at the University of Nairobi, main Campus, Post graduate Studies or at the Deans office, School of Continuing and Distance Education (Kikuyu Campus) or at the any of the Universitys Extra Mural Centres in Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Nyeri, Kakamega, Nairobi, meru, Garisa, Kisii and Kapenguria The application fee may be paid by direct Deposit into the UNES/UON account, Barclays Bank Westlands Branch, A/C NO. 03-073-1023948 or by Bankers Cheque. Application forms can also be downloaded from the University of Nairobi website: www.uonbi.ac.ke admissions with evidence of payment of the application fee furnished at the time of submission of of application. Completed forms with two copies of relevant certificates, transcripts, 2 passport size photographs and a copy of the application fee receipt not later than 9th August, 2013 to either: i. The Academic Registrar (Admissions office), main campus, Administration Block, 1st Floor Room A116 or to any UoN Extra Mural Centre (personal Delivery) or ii. Board of Postgraduate Studies; P.O. Box 30197 00100 Nairobi Fees: Ksh. 13,000 per unit. Number of units: 18 For further information contact Admissions Office, Tel: 020-318262 Ext. 28285/28213 or via Email: [email protected] or The Deans office, School of Continuing and Distance Education, Kikuyu Campus. Tel: 020-2028238 or 0720-209996 or via Email: [email protected]; or Departmental email address [email protected] Tel: 0721- 510959 or from any of the Universitys Extra-mural Centres listed below:
1. Nairobi Extra Mural Centre Main Campus, Gandhi Wing P.O. Box 30197 -00100 Nairobi Tel. 020-318262 Ext. 28120 2. Mombasa Extra Mural Centre Jubilee Insurance Building P.O. Box 83732, Mombasa Tel. 020-2026100 3. Nakuru Extra Mural Centre Catholic Diocese of Nakuru Building P.O. Box 1120, Nakuru Tel. 051-212484 4. Kakamega Extra Mural Centre Walias Shopping Complex P.O. Box 422, Kakamega Tel. 056-31038 5. Kisumu Extra Mural Centre Former British Council Library P.O. Box 825, Kisumu Tel. 0722 442556 6. Nyeri Extra Mural Centre N.D.C.U. Building P.O. Box 598-10100, Nyeri Tel. 061-30460
Sub-county Meetings
The County Government of Uasin Gishu would like to request you to attend and make your contributions at the county and sub-county meetings as follows: S.NO. DATE SUB-COUNTY VENUE Kapseret Wareng Secondary School 1. Monday July 29 Nariri Resource Centre Kesses Cheptiret Catholic Church 2. Tuesday July 30 Sambul S.D.A. Church Naiberi Primary School 3. Wednesday July 31 Ainabkoi Chemngoror Community Hall Chepkanga Catholic Church 4. Thursday August 1 Moiben DOs Grounds Moiben Soy Ziwa Catholic Church 5. Friday August 2 Merewet Dispensary Turbo Cheramei Primary School 6. Saturday August 3 Kaptendon Primary School The meetings begin at 9:00 a.m. in the morning, and the deadline for submitting memoranda by post or by e-mail is August 3, 2013. The Interim County Secretary Uasin Gishu County P.O. Box 40-30100 ELDORET.
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BUSINESS
Team set up by Nakuru Governor reveals that PBK does not have title deeds to its farms
BY FRANCIS MUREITHI
[email protected] he nancially troubled Pyrethrum Board of Kenya (PBK) risks losing nearly 2,000 acres of prime land because it it does not have title deeds. A 21-man task force appointed by Nakuru Governor Kinuthia Mbugua established that the land in some of the 19 pyrethrum-growing counties has been grabbed or allocated to individuals. The task force wants the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission to carry out a forensic audit and prosecute former ocials who may have been involved in the sale of property worth billions of shillings. The team, which was set up on April 19, submitted its plan on how to revive the sub-sector to Governor Mbugua on July 23. Some of the prime land in Nakuru for which the PBK has no title deeds includes four acres in the Industrial Area situated some 500 metres from PBK headquarters. A prime plot in Nakuru town worth millions of shillings was found to have been registered to a private company, but there were no documents showing the land had been sold to the company. Nor are there titles for another 46 acres in Londiani township and a piece of land in Meru town whose acreage could not be established. Other parcels in Bomet, Nyahururu, Olkalou and two estates at Shauri Yako and Bondeni estates in Nakuru town, including a 50-acre tract of land in Nyaribari Keumbu in Kisii County, have no valid titles. In Ol Joro Orok, the task force found that 860 acres had been illegally transferred to a private company. The matter is pending in court. The team also fears that 216 acres in Kiptagich in Molo and another 78 acres in Olkalou in Nyandarua may have been sold o to individuals. As a matter of urgency, the PBK must establish the position of the title deeds and seek help from county governors in the respective counties to recover the grabbed land and that illegally allocated to private individuals, the team said in its report. At the same time, the task force revealed that 13 PBK houses in the
A SUNNY DAY
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CORRUPTION | Former parastatal employees accused of selling or renting out its property
BRIEFLY
NAIROBI
Pyrethrum board faces huge losses as land, houses grabbed

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Artisans seek answers on representation

A jua kali sector lobby has urged the government to indicate the ministry under which the sector falls to help avert a funding crisis. Micro and Small Enterprise Federation (MSEF) Vice-Governor Charles Omutanyi said that as a result of confusion between the Labour and Industrialisation ministries they had not benetted from proceeds of Sh3.8 billion allocated as a soft loan for the sector through Equity, K-Rep and Cooperative Banks to boost growith of artisanal businesses.
MIGORI
County ocials in fake receipts racket
UNDOCUMENTED PROPERTY
The land parcels without title deeds

Four acres at Nakurus Industrial area 46 acres in Londiani township A 50-acre tract of land in Nyaribari Keumbu in Kisii County Other parcels in Bomet, Nyahururu, Olkalou and two estates at Shauri Yako and Bondeni estates in Nakuru town
posh Milimani estate in Nakuru town were in deplorable condition, while a guest house had been converted into a milk processing facility. Some former employees who were either retrenched or retired were still occupying PBK houses while others had been rented out without contracts, denying the PBK millions of shillings in rent. The rms huge godowns in Industrial Area in Nakuru town have been leased out, but the task force was unable to secure copies of the lease agreements. Huge tracts of land have also been leased out to individuals who grow pyrethrum but which they do not sell to the board. A Sh350 million ultra-modern processing plant at the CONTINUED ON PAGE 37
In November 2010, farmers in Nyandarua West District alleged that 600 acres of PBK land had been grabbed and sold to prominent individuals by corrupt pyrethrum board ocials.
FILE | NATION
Migori County is losing millions of shillings in revenue through collusion between some chief ocers and their juniors to print fake receipts for collecting fees in markets and bus parks. Migori Governor Okoth Obado said a cartel was determined to enrich itself at the expense of ecient delivery of services . He asked the police to fast track investigations so that the culprits could be arrested and sacked.
NAIROBI
Farmers to get Sh5 more per litre of milk

Brookside Dairy has increased the price it pays for raw milk by Sh5 per litre as it seeks to win farmers loyalty in an increasingly competitive sector. The rm now pays Sh35 per kilo of raw milk to its more than 145,000 farmers across the country and backdated the rate to July 18. According to General Manager John Gethi, this is a deliberate attempt to attract more milk suppliers and retain existing ones ahead of the commissioning of a milk powder plant.
THIS WEEKS INDICATORS

MARKET PERFORMANCE
Points NSE20 Close 4801.63 1 week change Down Index 5.9
TOP GAINERS
Longhorn Olympia E.A Cables Price 10.65 4.65 16.70 % 18.33 14.85 7.40
BIGGEST LOSERS
Price KenGen 16.15 Marshalls 12.00 Home Afrika 19.95 % -6.92 -7.69 -11.33
TOP TRADERS
Price(sh) Safaricom 7.15 Equity 33.50 KCB 42.50 Shares(m) 47m 8m 6m
MARKET TURNOVER
Friday Equities Sh1.86bn Bonds Sh5.47bn Prev Sh7.53bn Sh8.13bn
MACRO INDICATORS
Interest rates Latest(%) 91-day T-Bills 6.863 31/07/2013 182-day T-Bills 6.793 01/08/2013 Compiled by Charles Wokabi
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SUNNY DAY | Sunny Bindra
Dont be a brand; just be the best you can be I

Image:
By focusing on image and perception, we are in danger of forgetting about substance
ts all the rage these days: how are you managing your brand? Not your company or product brand, please understand: your personal brand. You, as a person and individual, now have to worry about how your brand is looking to the world. You will even be told to manage multiple sub-brands: your leadership brand, your employee brand, your family brand. The idea is simple enough: be aware that the world runs on perceptions, and that you can manage perceptions. So dont just let your brand be what it will, blown this way and that; shape it and manage it. This is especially important in the era of mass connectivity and social media: we are now supposed to be very conscious of the digital streams that dene us. I have been asked about my own brand many times of late, and my response is always the same: Im a person, not a brand. Let me focus on being a better person, and the brand will take care of itself. This can be a lonely view in a world dominated by marketing gurus and image managers, so its always a pleasure to come across similar thoughts. Here is Nilofer Merchant, an author, lecturer and director, writing recently on the HBR Blog Network: The truth is this: The brand follows the work. Your brand is the
In todays era of mass connectivity and social media, we are more conscious of our personal brand.
exhaust created by the engine of your life. It is a by-product of what happens as you share what you are creating, and with whom you are creating. Wonderful words. Dont mistake the exhaust fumes for the engine. Dont spend all your time making the exhaust gases smell nice, have the right colours, or have pretty patterns. Look after the engine, and the emissions will be just ne. What we should all be preoccupied with is a search for meaning, not a search for branding. By focusing on image and perception, we are in severe danger of forgetting about substance. Part of the issue comes from a widespread misconception about what a brand actually is. Those who get it, know this: brand is not the spray job on the car, or the ribbon on the package: brand is simply a manifestation of all the internal things we do, good and bad. Those who do many bad things have a lot of image management to do; those who focus wholeheartedly on doing good dont have much to worry
FILE | NATION
People who are true to themselves are the only ones with a chance of doing what matters.
about managing perceptions: the good will shine through, most of the time. If youre going to worry more and more about your packaging you are going to move away from what matters. Whats true for corporations is true for persons: too much attention to brand, image and PR leads only to fakery and inauthenticity. We dress to impress, we craft every word for impact, we make sure were seen in the right places. In my experience of the business world, those with too much budget for the packaging are precisely those with no budget for doing things right in the rst place. People who are true to themselves are the only ones with any chance of doing things that matter. For the rest, the camera lights will eventually go out. Be yourself, not an articial movie of yourself. Be the best person you can possibly be. Be flawed, because everyone is. Dont airbrush your aws; know them and minimise their negative impact. Be consistent, and true to a core belief system. Be natural, not a fashion mannequin. Be true to your origins, not a ventriloquists dummy that spews out insincere words in manufactured accents. Be all those things, and your brand will be just ne. www.sunwords.com
Agriculture Secretary Felix Kosgey (left) during a tour of the pyrethrum boards factory in Nakuru in June.
FILE | NATION
Pyrethrum board has no titles to its farms

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 36 Nakuru factory is wasting away for lack of pyrethrum. The task force was led by Deputy Governor Joseph Ruto. Other members included County Commissioner Amos Gatheca, County Director of Agriculture Leonard Ochieng, his Cooperative counterpart Patrick MakAnyengo and Pyrethrum Growers Association chairman Justus Monda. The task force recommended that the current MD, Dr Isaac Mulagoli, be replaced as he has failed to reverse the fortunes of the board since he was appointed four years ago. However, in a past interview with the Sunday Natio n, Dr Mulagoli dismissed the team, saying he only recognises a task force appointed by the central government and not the county government. Some members of the task force are former employees of the PBK who were in oce when the board started experiencing nancial problems, he said. The task force recommended that a new board be appointed and that a public-private partnership in seed multiplication be encouraged. At the same time the task force wants the distribution of planting materials to be liberalised and the board to enter into partnership with the private sector in the elds of research and development and value addition. Pyrethrum farmers are still owed Sh43 million in arrears since 2008 which has seen many of them shelve plans to continue planting the crop. During a recent fact-nding tour by Agriculture Secretary Felix Kosgey, farmers were assured that a new board would be appointed. Mr Kosgey gave the current board one month to table a revival plan for the parastatal. Two months after he said heads would roll at the board, no action has been taken, and farmers and other stakeholders are now doubting Mr Kosgeys commitment to reviving the sector. It appears the promises of the Cabinet secretary in charge of Agriculture were just hot air as farmers have nothing to celebrate since he came to Nakuru, said Mr Joseph Rotich, a farmer in Molo.
TECHNOLOGY | Sam Wambugu
A simple list will protect your digital assets

hen people think about estate planning, they typically focus on what will happen to their home, car and other physical possessions. In fact, many people will outline specically which possessions they wish to go to certain individuals upon their passing. But have you thought about what will happen to the so-called digital assets in computers, smartphones and other electronic gadgets that we use to access the internet? While we may not realise it, practically all of us are making cyber-copies of ourselves and creating digital assets that will still be here after we are gone. Unfortunately, our laws have not kept up with the quick pace of technologic change. There are no laws in Kenya specifying who has the legal right of survivors to access a deceased loved ones social media accounts, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google + not to mention a host of account types, such as email, banking, shopping, cloud storage, entertainment and gaming, among others. In addition, the ne print that we typically ignore when creating a Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google +, and most other online accounts usually spells out who
Caveat: Generally it is illegal for anyone but you, the creator, to access your account
There are no laws in Kenya that specify who has the legal right to access a deceased loved ones social medial accounts.
may legally access your online account. Generally, it is illegal for anyone but you, the account creator, to access your account even with your express permission. In protecting your digital life, the rst step you should take is to make a list of everything you access digitally or electronically. Obviously, this should include anything that has a real monetary value, such as digital music, book and movie les that you purchased, as well as everything that holds signicant emotional worth, such as family photos and videos, and important emails. In addition, include the name and web address of every online account you access, and a brief description of the service it provides, as well as the information someone would need to login to your account. In many cases, the purpose of the site will be obvious, e.g. Facebook or Flickr. Remember, the purpose of compiling this list is so that someone whom you designate can serve as the executor of your online assets, so dont assume anything will be obvious to him or her. Once you believe your register is complete, the next step is to determine what you want done with each of your online accounts and or digital assets. For example, which online accounts should just be closed? Do you want to appoint a new curator of your online family photograph repository so new images can be added down the road? Next, assign someone you
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trust to serve as your digital executor. Yes, this might be somebody different than the individual you legally appoint as the main executor of your will and it probably should be. Your digital executor needs to be both trustworthy and tech-savvy so he or she understands not only how to access your digital assets but also why each is valuable and what to do with them. Finally, reference your online account/digital asset list in your will, but do not include the actual list. The reason for this is that keeping them separate allows you to regularly update online account/digital asset passwords and assign dierent beneciaries, without needing to pay your lawyer to legally authorise this updated information. Obviously, digital assets like money and investments in online accounts are valuable items you should protect after your death. But your photos and other digital les are valuable, too, if only for sentimental reasons. Strangers may see value, too. Cybersquatters may hijack your web site after youre gone if no ones watching. And you can bet that more than one identity thief would love to get into your email account and computer les. Sam Wambugu is a monitoring and evaluation specialist. Email: [email protected]
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MARKETING | Traders threaten to mobilise farmers to stop selling their beans
Row brewing over coee auction system

Producers want to deal with buyers without intervention of cherry regulator
BY MWANIKI WAHOME
[email protected] battle for the control of coffee marketing has broken out between the Coffee Board of Kenya, the regulator, and the Kenya Coee Producers and Traders Association after KCPTA was removed from managing the Nairobi Coffee Exchange last week. The association says it will push for a system similar to the one used in Ethiopia where buyers are not required to seek licence from the regulator. We are going to push for the introduction of an open market system whereby international buyers are allowed to buy coee without having to be licensed by the Coee Board of Kenya as long as they pay taxes to the government. Countries like Ethiopia have done this and they are excelling. Why should the Kenyan coee farmer be bogged down with restrictions and regulations that only serve the interest of cartels? the association said in a statement signed by chairman Michael Gitau. The association has threatened to mobilise farmers to stop selling their coee through the auction until the marketing issues are straightened out. The government assumed management of the NCE two weeks ago as it opened investigations into alleged forgery of documents and abuse of oce and funds by KCPTA ocials. The move followed the appointment of a transitional exchange committee by Agriculture Secretary Felix Kosgey to run the auction for the next three months as preparations for elections by the stakeholders are concluded. Detectives from the Criminal Investigations Department raided association oces at Wakulima House two weeks ago to search for documents connected with alleged economic crimes committed by the KCPTA ocers during the period they were managing the auction. The CBK managing director Loise Njeru said KCPTA had been removed from managing the auction through legal notice by the ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock. She added that the organisation was not recognised in law to carry out such a function in the coee sector. KCPTA had no linkage to the Coee Act, and I consider it a runaway entity controlling an important aspect of coee sector. This was a discrepancy in law. The ministry of Agriculture gazetted the rules to guide trading at the auction,and we needed to secure the coee trading, Ms Njeru said. The battle over control of coffee marketing comes against the backdrop of reports that farmers may have lost billions of shillings over the years through collusion among the major multinational buyers at the auction, putting in doubt the ecacy of a system that is widely recognised internationally. KCPTA in its latest criticism of the regulator has alluded to the existence of a cartel that has been manipulating prices at the auction and which the CBK failed to reint in. But Ms Njeru denied farmers had lost money through
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Year when amendments were made to the Coee Act, which introduced major conicts of interest.
the auction system, adding that such conclusions were based on erroneous accounts. But she admitted that some practices like marketing agents not paying for coee samples had caused farmers to lose millions of kilos to briefcase buyers who did not participate in the market. The new law, she added, would require that agents pay for all samples. Nonetheless, KCPTA insisted that the board had failed to regulate the sector, leading to exploitation of the farmers by deeply entrenched interested parties, many of them multinational companies. Of major concern to KCPTA, is how such a racket could go on for all those years without the regulators knowledge yet they are mandated to regulate the sector and provide licences for dealers and marketers. Their takeover of the Nairobi Coee Exchange signals and poses more serious problems for the sector since the new committee is comprised of
people known in the sector for not representing the interest of the farmers. KCPTA claimed the regulator had lost relevance as it appeared toothless and perpetuates exploitation of farmers. It is KCPTAs view that CBK should be held responsible any losses that the farmers have incurred and that farmers should be the ones to conduct the auction. The association cited the boards failure to enforce the implementation of recommendations by a task force in 2011 to require marketing agents pay for samples despite a regulation that stipulates: No dealer shall collect any samples from the sample room unless they have paid a fee. There are deeply entrenched interests in coffee marketing involving a few multinational companies that have dominated the auction market over the years. At one time, Deputy President William Ruto, who was then the
Agriculture minister, warned that the auction would be disbanded as it did not serve farmers interests. Amendments to the Coffee Act in 2007 introduced major conicts of interest with dealers undertaking activities in the whole supply chain from the farm to the market by having multiple licences.The amendments allowed dealers and millers to acquire marketers licences, which raised concerns over possible manipulation of prices. We are suering the eects of liberalisation. We have, however, noted these conicts of interest, and we will be seeking the advice of the attorney-general over the matter, Ms Njeru said. A second window introduced at the auction to help farmers get better prices through direct sales has not taken o as less than ve per cent of coee is sold this way. The coee cooperative societies have not been able to increase production to sustainably supply their identified markets.
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The Kenya Coee Producers and Traders Association has threatened to mobilise farmers to stop selling coffee through the Nairobi Coffee Exchance until marketing issues are claried.
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Do not rush into mining rare earth ore, government told

BY MWAKERA MWAJEFA
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AND BOZO JENJE
[email protected] The discovery of rare earth ore with an estimated value of Sh5.6 trillion in the coastal region has touched o mixed reactions from prospective miners, professionals and government agencies eyeing the natural resource. This latest mineral nd at Kwale Countys Mrima Hill is expected to raise Kenyas prole as one of the few countries with such vast deposits of the mineral with myriad uses in the manufacture of electronic products. But Dr Katana Ngala, a senior lecturer at the department of Mining and Mineral Processing at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technologys Taita Campus, is skeptical about the real worth of the deposits.
We are not sure of the value declared since the players are the ones prospecting, he said, indicating that the company involved in exploration could undervalue the deposits to undercut the governments share. The chemistry don cautioned that if international guidelines on mining and disposal of waste are not strictly followed, there was a danger mining activities could become a health hazard to people, animals and plants in the region. Based on a speech given by Mining Secretary Najib Balala in London, Bloomberg Businessweek reported last month that Kenya would be repealing the rule that there be at least 35 per cent local ownership of mining projects, so as to, in Mr Balalas words, crowd investors in, and not out. In his comments, Mr Balala claried that the government would own 10 per cent of mining projects and
A storage facility under construction by Base Titanium in Kwale. Titanium exploration was delayed for more than 15 years due to snags in compensation.
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that the allocation of royalties would vary depending on the mineral being mined. But for Dr Ngala, the evolving mining sector calls for regulation so decisions regarding ownership, deals with investors and revenue sharing are made public to avoid suspicion. There is also a need, he said, for government guidelines to curb the poor governance in compensation that delayed titanium exploration in Kwale for more than 15 years. The don wants the National Environment Management Authority to involve other stakeholders and create a team to monitor mining activities and advise on issues of concern. There is no need to rush the exploration of our natural resources that are intact in the ground. What needs to be done is to follow the legal procedures that the companies are aware of and not allow short cuts to take root at the expense of our political, social and
economic wellbeing, he said. Prof Halimu Shauri, chairman of the Department of Social Sciences at Pwani University wants the rights of communities in mineral-rich areas made public. What we are seeing is that the rich have made laws that favour miners while the local community is mistreated, he said, adding that people all over the world remained poor because they were often short changed in the sharing of mineral revenues. He described as peanuts the compensation mining companies give to landowners to vacate their property and called for a review of mining laws to protect communities in future dealings. Human Rights Agenda Executive Director Yusuf Lule said mining companies need to address the environmental concerns of local residents.
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PROBE | Audit bodys report reveals irregularities in disbursing advances and imprest
Queries over Sh8.6m lent to ex-EPZ boss

Report says the money was released without approval of the board of directors
BY JOHN NGIRACHU
[email protected]
he oce of the auditor-general has questioned the manner in which a former chief executive ocer at the Export Processing Zone Authority was lent Sh8.6 million in the form of salary advances and imprest. In a report tabled in the National Assembly, the auditor-general describes the issuance of the money to Dr Mutule Kilonzo, who left EPZA in August last year, as irregular. The Kenya National Audit Oce said Dr Kilonzo disregarded the government code of regulations on the advance of salary which provides that an advance of not more than one months salary may be granted to an ocer owing to circumstances beyond his control. It further provides that the advance may be granted only when an ocer has no other outstanding salary advances, and there should not be more than two advances in one year. EPZAs internal management policy also provides that in the absence of a written arrangement, recoveries of advances to sta should be through the payroll where deductions are made from their salaries. The former CEO, using the Authoritys senior ocers, approved and authorised
salary advances and other forms of advances for himself without seeking approval from the board of directors, the auditor-general says, noting that was in total disregard of government regulations and the authoritys sta manual governing salary advances. In addition, money granted to the former CEO as imprest should have been recovered within 48 hours after the end of assignments away from his oce, the report adds. Imprest is a form of per diem paid out to employees whenever they leave their work station and is usually accounted for using receipts, with the remainder handed over at the end of the assignment. This amounts to violation of existing regulations and an abuse of oce by the former CEO, the auditor-general concludes. Mr Kilonzo left the EPZA in August 2012 and was initially reported to have been red
Export Processing Zones Authority boss Mutule Kilonzo (centre) with EPZA head of corporate aairs Jonathan Chivalu (right) and EPZA Coast region assistant manager Meshack Kimeu arriving for an investors meeting at a Mombasa hotel two years ago.
by the board of directors over the irregular advances. He, however, denied that version of events and said he had resigned. He later appeared among the more than 115 civil servants who resigned to go into politics and ran unsuccessfully for the Machakos governors seat. A convention organised by the EPZA at the Sarova Whitesands Hotel in Mombasa in May 2012 could also come under scrutiny as the auditor-general says there were apparent improprieties. The rst oence was that the procurement of the hotel for the African Carrribean Pacic Economic Zone convention was through single-sourcing. Further, the Authority sourced for the servicescontrary to the government di-
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The preriod within which money granted to Export Processing Zones Authority CEO as imprest should have been recovered
rectives which stipulate that government institutions should utilise hotel services from government institutions, the report states. The Authority had approved Sh6 million for the convention, says the auditor-general but the actual amount spent was Sh15.5 million, 158 per cent above the approved allocation. As a result, it has not been possible to determine whether the Authority obtained value for money from the convention, the auditor-general concludes. The report will be submitted to the Public Accounts Committee that will then interrogate the EPZA bosses in the presence of ocers from the Kenya National Audit Oce.
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EGYPT CRISIS | Medics spend day ferrying bodies to marques as minister vows to end demos
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Bloodbath in Cairo as protests over ousted Islamist president claim 100

Morsys supporters shot dead as UK and EU condemn loss of life in the troubled country
Cairo, Saturday
ore than 100 people have been killed in protests by supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy in capital Cairo, doctors say. The medics yesterday said more than 1,500 were also injured. However, the Health ministry insisted that only 38 people died and 180 injured. The army ousted Mr Morsy on July 3. He had been formally accused of murder relating to a 2011 jailbreak, and of links to the militant group Hamas. Pro- and anti-Morsy supporters staged huge protests overnight in the capital. The anti-Morsy occupied Cairos Tahrir Square in support of the army, after its chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, urged people to demonstrate to provide a mandate for its intervention. Dozens of Mr Morsys supporters were shot dead. An AFP correspondent counted 37 bodies in an Islamist-run eld hospital at Cairos Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, and the emergency services said other hospitals received 29 corpses. The bloodshed came hours after the military-backed interior minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, warned a long-running sit-in by Morsy loyalists at Rabaa al-Adawiya would be ended following a night of protests. Violence erupted at dawn outside the mosque, where Morsy loyalists have camped since the week, with police ring tear gas at stone-throwing protesters on the airport road, said the ocial MENA news
Malema ocially unveils his party
I call on the Egyptian authorities to respect the right of peaceful protest, to cease the use of violence against protesters, including live re.
An injured supporter of the deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy is given medical aid by doctors in a eld hospital after clashes with riot policemen in Cairo early yesterday.
agency. Buckshot and live rounds were red, but it was unclear from which side. Witnesses told AFP that the police used live bullets, but the interior ministry denied this. By midday yesterday, medical workers began ferrying bodies wrapped in white shrouds to hospitals carrying them on blood-soaked stretchers past a furious throng of Morsy loyalists. Allahu akbar! (God is greatest), chanted the crowd that formed a corridor to waiting ambulances.
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Politician Julius Malema (above) launched South Africas newest political party yesterday to take on his former party, the ruling African National Congress (ANC), in polls next year. Mr Malemas leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) held its rst general assembly in Soweto. A few hundred supporters sporting the EFFs trademark red berets lled a community hall, singing liberation songs and waving ags before they discussed the partys manifesto in a closed session. Some voiced frustrations at the ANC, which they accuse of doing too little to reduce poverty and create jobs for youth. (AFP)
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British Foreign Secretary William Hague.
US slams Cameroon human rights record

Cameroons human rights record has once again taken a hit from the US, less than two weeks after Washington DC bitterly condemned the killing of a gay activist. A new report on the countrys human rights record says impunity remains a problem even though the government tried to punish and prosecute suspected ocials. The most important human rights problems in the country are security force abuses, particularly of detainees and prisoners, denial of fair and speedy public trial, and restrictions on freedom of assembly, the report released at the weekend says. (By Yuh Timchia, Nation Correspondent in Younde.)
Some wept and women ululated deantly as each body The European Union also was taken from the makeshift said it deplored the loss of life morgue in a marble-oored in Egypt. section of the mosque. EU Foreign Aairs Head British Foreign Secretary Catherine Ashton said in BrusWilliam Hague condemned the sels that the authorities should use of force against protesters ensure a speedy transition to in Cairo and accused Egyptian civilian rule. security forces of using live She also repeated demands rounds. that political detainees, inI call on the Egyptian aucluding Mr Morsy, should be thorities to respect the right of released. (BBC and AFP) peaceful protest, to cease the use of violence against protestTO COMMENT ON THESE ers, including live re, and to AND OTHER STORIES GO TO hold to account those responsible, said Mr Hague. www.nation.co.ke
Former DC killed as explosion rips through vehicle

BY ABDULKADIR KHALIF
Nation Correspondent in Mogadishu A huge blast rocked Sanaa Crossroad in North Mogadishu yesterday morning, killing a former district commissioner. Reports indicated that the explosives had been loaded into a car that caught fire and was reduced to a skeleton after the attack. Smoke billowing from the scene of the blast could be seen in many parts of the city. Residents conrmed that Ali Alah, the former district commissioner of Mahaday about 110 kilometres north of Mogadishu, died in the blast. Mahaday is currently controlled by Al-Shabaab, the radical Islamist group opposing the Somali government. The driver of the vehicle escaped unhurt after sensing danger. Sanaa Crossroad is an important public transport terminal and stopover as well as a business centre. It is believed that the car exploded soon after the driver stopped it, a resident contacted by Sunday Nation said. Mr Mohydin Hassan Jurus, the district commissioner of nearby Yakshid District, as well as the district commissioner of Karaan District, Mr Ali Alasso Hassan, conrmed the incident. One person died, said Mr Jurus while Mr Hassan stated that further investigations would be conducted. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but AlShabaab is suspected. On Friday, Sheikh Abdulaziz Abu Musab, the al-Shabaab spokesman, said the organisation had staged more than 100 attacks during the holy month of Ramadhan. Two legislators escaped death on July 24 when their car exploded in Hamarweyne district in downtown Mogadishu. It is believed the explosive devices had been attached to the MPs car. A similar tactic may have been used in yesterdays blast. Police launched investigations into the attack yesterday as it emerged that some of the people who were injured were in critical conditions.
FREETOWN
Court warns members of former rebels party

A Freetown court has ordered members the Revolutionary United Front Party to refrain from drawing attention as their name invokes bad memories. Three senior members of the political arm of the former rebels are standing trial for alleged theft. They are accused of stealing cash in a case involving internal party squabble. The magistrate told the men that the name of their party brings back bad memories to the people, and that they should stop senseless their wars. (By Kemo Cham, Nation Correspondent in Freetown).
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LOOMING DUEL | Fired leader accuses President of creating power vacuum that has created to tension in Juba
Sacked VP now vows to take on Kiir in party poll

After being red over claims of giving the President headaches over power, Machar now eyes top seat in 2015 election
Juba, Saturday outh Sudans sacked Vice-President Riek Machar has vowed to challenge President Salva Kiir for the leadership of the ruling party so that he can run for president in the 2015 election. Mr Kiir dismissed Mr Machar and the rest of the Cabinet on Tuesday following an apparent power struggle. The VP at the weekend said he had accepted Mr Kiirs decision to sack him. On Thursday, the US raised concern that the sackings could threaten the stability of oil-rich South Sudan. It became independent in 2011 after decades of conflict with the north making it the worlds youngest country. Numerous armed groups remain active in the country. Mr Machar said people should remain calm, and not give the president an excuse to declare a state of emergency. This is a constitutional mandate of the president to remove and form a government. This is within the powers of the president. There should be no violence, he said. Mr Machar said he would run for the chairmanship of the ruling party, the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM), before South Sudan holds its rst national election since independence.
This is a constitutional mandate of the president to remove and form a government.

Former VP Riek Machar
Former South Sudan Vice President Riek Machar Teny. Although he has accepted his sacking, he believes President Kiir should appoint a new Cabinet as a matter of urgency.
I have told my colleagues in the politburo that come the next elections in 2015, I would contest those elections, Mr Machar said at a press conference in the capital Juba, Reuters news agency reports. He condemned Mr Kiirs failure to appoint a new government immediately after sacking the Cabinet. We now have a vacuum and this has created apprehension, he said. South Sudans top civil servant Abgon Agao said Mr Kiir would appoint a new Cabinet very soon, possibly early next week. He believed that a good number of dismissed ministers would be reappointed. In the meantime senior civil servants are running the country, one of the worlds least developed. In a statement on Thursday, the US state department said: It is critical that South Sudan stay true to the vision it laid out for itself two years ago at its independence. More than 1.5 million people were killed and a further four million displaced during the conict between the south, where most people are Christian or follow traditional religions, and the mainly Muslim, Arabic-speaking north. But the country has suered chronic
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Number of people who were killed in clashes between Khartoum and South Sudan rebels
economic problems since then and its stability has been hampered by lingering rows over territory and oil with its northern neighbour Sudan. The SPLM led the ght against Khartoum. As well as the cabinet, President Kiir also sacked SPLM head Pagan Amum and 17 police brigadiers. The president gave no clear reason for the move, but analysts say he and Mr Machar have been embroiled in a power struggle for months. (BBC)
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African Union lauds Zimbabwe peace in the run-up to Wednesday elections

HARARE, Saturday The African Union has commended pre-election peace prevailing in Zimbabwe ahead of presidential poll slated for Wednesday. AU Commission Chairperson Nkosazana-Dhlamini Zuma at the weekend said the commission was satised with preparations for the poll. Ms Zuma arrived in Zimbabwe on Wednesday and on Thursday met three presidential candidates President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Kisinoti Mukwazhe. CANDIDATES She also met with Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara, and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission. On the whole, the impression that we got from them (presidential candidates) is that the preparations up to now are satisfactory, Ms Zuma said. We also appreciate the peaceful nature up to now and plead with every Zimbabwean to keep the peace right up to the end, she added. Ms Zuma also implored losing parties in the polls to avoid violence by taking their concerns to courts. If anyone is unhappy with the poll result and want to challenge it, please do it legally through the national legal channels and not through the streets because the streets will cause tension and violence that we dont need, she said. Those who win, she said, must also celebrate in a responsible manner that guarantees security to every Zimbabwean. Ms Zuma conrmed that former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo would be in Zimbabwe to head the 60-member short-term AU election observer mission. The 60 members will join 10 longterm observers from the continental body that has been in the country since June 15. Meanwhile, the AU released its pre-election report in which it acknowledged the peaceful and calm environment in Zimbabwe, but expressed concern over insucient voter education. The mission said it noted the lack of adequate space for participation of civil society in the electoral process, particularly in voter education despite the existence of legislative provisions that enables ZEC and other civil society organizations to conduct voter education. The mission is of the view that the registration process could have beneted from greater cross-sectoral collaboration between ZEC and civil society, it said. Zimbabweans go to the polls next Wednesday to elect a new president, legislators and local councillors. (Xinhua)
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Plan unveils Sh2.6bn projects in S. Sudan
State funeral held for Opposition leader

A state funeral was yesterday held for Tunisian opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi who was killed on Thursday by gunmen in the capital, Tunis. His death has sparked widespread unrest. One protester died in overnight clashes in the southern town of Gafsa. The interior minister said Mr Brahmi, 58, was killed with the same gun as a fellow left-wing politician, Chokri Belaid, who was shot dead in February. A Salast is one of the main suspects involved the murder, ocials said. Gunmen on a motorbike shot Mr Brahmi, who led the nationalist Movement of the People party, in his car on Thursday. Yesterday, thousands of people lined the streets of Tunis as the con wrapped in the national ag passed by under military escort. Mr Brahmi was buried in the same cemetery as another leading opposition gure, Chokri Belaid, who was killed earlier this year. Tunisian Interior Minister Lot Ben Jeddou on Friday said Brahmi was killed by Boubaker al-Hakim, a dangerous radical Salast element who was actively wanted by the police for smuggling weapons into the country. A number of weapons, including automatic pistols and hand grenades, he said, were found in the search of Hakims home. (Agencies)
BY NATION REPORTER
Leading global child charity, Plan International, has unveiled a $30 million (Sh2.6 billion) development support to South Sudan over the next three years. Chief Executive Nigel Chapman (above) at the weekend said the funds would support girl child education, youth employment and humanitarian support, among other projects. Were committed to working with the Government of South Sudan to defend the right of marginalised children, especially girls to ensure they access education and to also eliminate child poverty, he said in Juba after a three-day tour of Plan projects in Africas newest State. Mr Chapman said since 2006, Plan invested more than $30million in health, education, water and sanitation, emergency response support and peace-building initiatives.
Pre-election report
Bitter rivals are back at it
President Robert Mugabe n He is seeking a re-election after ruling more than 32 years. n He is set to defend his seat on his ZANU-PF party. n He has vowed to remain in power at all costs.
PM Morgan Tsvangirai n He is seeking to take the seat that his lost narrowly in 2008. n He beat Mr Mugabe in round one and bowed out of the race citing violence. n He will run on an MDC ticket.
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ANALYSIS | Tsvangirai, who is seeking to unseat Mugabe, expresses worries as reforms fail to take place
South African risks expulsion over weight

Christchurch , Saturday
Authorities in New Zealand have told a South African chef he is too fat to be allowed to live in the country. Immigration ocials said Albert Buitenhuis, who weighs 130kg, did not have an acceptable standard of health. He now faces expulsion despite shedding 30kg since he moved to the city of Christchurch six years ago. New Zealand has one of the highest obesity rates in the developed world, with nearly 30 per cent of people overweight. Mr Buitenhuis and his wife, Marthie, moved from South Africa to Christchurch in 2007. At the time, the chef weighed 160kg. Until now, their annual work visas had been renewed with very little problem, his wife said. We applied year after year and there were no issues, she said. They never mentioned Alberts weight or his health once and he was a lot heavier then. But in early May, the couple was told their work visas had been declined because of Mr Buitenhuiss weight. The irony is that at the moment he weighs less than when we rst arrived in New Zealand and also less than in his rst medical, which was accepted, his wife said. The couple has appealed to New Zealands immigration minister, citing the chefs weight loss. An immigration spokesman said Mr Buitenhuiss application had been rejected because his obesity put him at signicant risk of health complications.
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters dance during the launch of the partys election campaign at Rudhaka stadium in Marondera early this month. MDC leader and Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said he was launching his campaign with a heavy heart, lamenting that no reforms had taken place to ensure the July 31 polls will be free and fair.
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Doubts hang over Mali as Zimbabwe, Togo polls promise new era of peace
Bamako goes to ballot today amid worries of further divisions as IDP problem remains unresolved
BY CIUGU MWAGIRU
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hen Togo went to the polls last Thursday, it opened up a period of nearly one week during which elections in African countries are likely to hold the worlds attention. Coming even as Egypt, DR Congo, South Sudan and Egypt are struggling in the midst of soaring instability, the orderly elections in Togo brought a whiff of hope in a continent where democracy remains an elusive idyll. Following the Togo polls will be the presidential election scheduled for today in Mali, which come soon after the lifting of a ve-month state of emergency to pave way for a three-week campaign that has played out without major incidents. The elections in the two countries will be followed by presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for next Wednesday in Zimbabwe. In a year marked by numerous debates about poll dates, postponement of elections has been the order of the day. Togo itself a country of six million people was a case in point, with the parliamentary elections eventually held on Thursday to choose the occupants of 91 seats having been long delayed. They were preceded by months
of sustained protests organised by opposition groupings fearful that the regime in place would tinker with the polls in a bid to ensure that it maintains a stranglehold on power. Thursdays legislative elections were the rst since 2007, when Faure Gnassingbes party won 50 of 81 seats. Initially, slated for October 2012, the polls were rescheduled twice, even as mediators struggled to bring government and opposition into agreement. The elections marked the latest step in the impoverished countrys transition to democracy after Gnassingbe Eyademas rule from 1967 to his death in 2005. After the death of senior Gnassingbe, the military installed his son Faure Gnassingbe as president in a continuation of a decades-old family dynasty. He won in the presidential elections of 2005 and 2010, but a hawk-eyed, albeit fragmented, opposition denounced the two elections as fraudulent. As for todays presidential polls in Mali, they are taking place only months after France the countrys former colonial power intervened to rid it of problems posed by AlQaeda-linked Islamists. The Islamists were holding key towns in the vast arid north, and were beginning to push further south towards the capital Bamako.
The Islamists were more or less driven into the desert, but the perennially unstable Mali is still grappling with the problem of some 500,000 people who are still displaced after the conict. That notwithstanding, Mali has bowed to pressure from the international community and agreed to hold todays polls.
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The list of candidates hoping to become Malis next president features four former prime ministers
In the meantime, there have been queries about whether the poll, during which voters will have a choice of 27 candidates, is going to unite the long-suffering and hitherto fragmented nation or further divide it. Moreover, many have raised concerns over the diculty of holding todays election so soon after the succession crises that have bedevilled the country, once regarded as one of the West African regions most stable democracies. Still, as the campaign for the presidential election wrapped up Friday, two days ahead of todays election, there was hope that the troubled nation would return to peace after being traumatised by political chaos and war. According to media reports, the list of candidates hoping to become Malis next president features four former prime ministers and an array of political heavyweights, including one woman. The competitors include Haidara Aichata Cisse, a legislator for a constituency near the northern
city of Gao, who will be running against a list of past premiers made up of Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (below), Cheick Modibo Diarra, Modibo Sidibe and Soumana Sacko. Prominent among the candidates is Boubakar Keita, who was prime minister from 1994 to 2000 and president of the National Assembly for ve years from 2002, and is viewed as the main frontrunner alongside Soumaila Cisse. As the Togo and Mali poll results pour in during the coming days, world attention will be focused on Zimbabwe, which has a long history of holding contentious polls. After the 2002 presidential elections, for instance, President Robert Mugabe was widely accused of electoral fraud after he controversially beat his opponent, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, in their rst presidential election. The US and the European Union consequently imposed sanctions on Harare, but they did not seem to have shaken the combative Mugabe. Consequent and massively violent polls held in 2008 saw the veteran ruler losing the rst round of the presidential elections to Mr Tsvangirai. As it happened, Mugabe ran unchallenged in a run-o poll after his opponent pulled out citing violence against his supporters. Predictably, the international community rejected President Mugabes victory , and this time around he was forced into a coalition government with his rivals. After the current urry of polls, world attention is likely to be focused on Guinea Conakry and Madagascar, where controversies over polls have been brewing for too long and have often resulted in cataclysmic violence.
BRIEFLY
MOSCOW
Russia says it wont extradite Snowden

Russia will not extradite fugitive US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden to his home country, Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. President Vladimir Putin has not participated in the discussion of the issue with US, Mr Peskov told reporters at the weekend, adding that the Federal Security Service was in talks with its US counterpart FBI over Snowdens fate. Peskov added that Russia would not hand Snowden to US. (Xinhua)
Imposed sanctions
TOKYO
Japan seeks to acquire drones and marines

Japan should bolster its marine force and introduce surveillance drones, a defence review paper says, highlighting concerns over China and North Korea. The paper also called for better defences against missile attacks and the potential to attack enemy bases. Japans military is constitutionally limited to a self-defence role. But Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is looking to expand the scope of its activities. (BBC)
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IN THE SOUP | Disgraced former presidential aspirant accused of aggravated pimping with 12 others
BRIEFLY
ISTANBUL
Ex-IMF chief faces new case over sex orgies

Strauss-Kahn not yet out of the woods as prosecutors link him to prostitution ring in the Carlton aair
ormer IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is to face trial on pimping charges, French prosecutors said at the weekend. Investigating magistrates have decided he should be tried in connection with an alleged prostitution ring at a hotel in Lille, France. The former presidential hopeful has admitted attending sex parties there, but says he did not know that some of the women were paid prostitutes. The case is the last of the sexrelated allegations faced by Mr Strauss-Kahn. A series of lurid claims have been made about the high prole French gure since he was arrested in New York in May 2011 after a hotel maid said he had tried to rape her. Charges were eventually dropped, and Mr Strauss-Kahn subsequently reached a settlement with the maid, Ms Nassatou Diallo. Two other cases against him have also been dismissed.
Turkey PM threatens to sue Times newspaper
An allegation of sexual assault in Paris in 2003 was not pursued because it had taken place too long ago. And in October last year, French prosecutors ended an investigation into allegations of gang rape at a hotel in Washington after the woman who made the claim retracted her evidence. French prosecutors recommended last month that the Lille allegations known as the Carlton aair after the hotel where the orgies allegedly took place should be dropped. The latest announcement makes clear, however, that the legal diculties of the disgraced politician are not yet over. The investigating magistrates are not obliged, in the French legal system, to follow the advice of the prosecutors, and on this occasion they have not. Mr Strauss-Kahn was originally under investigation for aggravated pimping as part of an organised gang. He is now facing the slightly less serious charge of aggravated pimping as part of a group, along with 12 others. His lawyer told Le Monde that the legal team was under no illusions as to the relentlessness shown by the magistrates
Aggravated pimping
Former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn

towards their client. This decision is based on an ideological and moral analysis, but certainly not on legal grounds, he said. We will demonstrate in the criminal court that it is a total aberration.
KENZO TRIBOUILLARD | AFP
Mr Strauss-Kahn, who stepped down as International Monetary Fund leader after his arrest in New York, had looked like a plausible Socialist challenger for last years presidential elections. (BBC)
This decision is based on an ideological and moral analysis, but certainly not on legal grounds. We will demonstrate in the criminal court that it is a total aberration.
Mr StraussKahns lawyer
Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has threatened legal action against a UK newspaper for publishing an open letter criticising his handling of recent protests. Mr Erdogan accused the Times of renting out its pages for money . Hollywood celebrities and academics were among those who signed the letter this week accusing Turkeys government of dictatorial rule . A row over a park in Istanbul in June triggered widespread anti-government protests. At least four people were killed in the chaos. (BBC)
MADRID
Driver of ill-fated train deals a blow to probe

The driver of the train that derailed killing 78 people has refused to answer initial questions, Spanish police say. Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, who was hurt in the Wednesdays crash, is under guard in hospital. He is suspected of driving too fast round a bend. Reports say the train was travelling at more than double the speed limit at the time of the crash. The case should now proceed to a judicial process , the police added. Spain is in three days of mourning. Police chief Jaime Iglesias, said the driver would be questioned. (BBC)
PUBLIC AUCTION
Duly instructed by our PRINCIPALS, on behalf of the CHARGEE, we shall sell by public auction the under mentioned property together with all the improvements erected therein on:- WEDNESDAY 14TH AUGUST 2013, AT OUR OFFICES AT LEAKEYS STORAGE LTD, LUNGA LUNGA, INDUSTRIAL AREA NAIROBI STARTING AT 11.00 A.M. PRIME AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY FOR AUCTION WITHIN LIMURU REDHILL AREA KIAMBU COUNTY All that parcel of land known as L. R. Number 170/62 (IR 95124) Redhill Area, Kiambu County. The property is situated about 2.6 kilometres off Limuru Road in Redhill Area of Kiambu County. Approach from Ruaka Kabuku (Limuru) Road is via a left turn-off at St. Stephens ACK Church for a distance of about 1.6 kilometres, then right turn at Terrasol Farm for a distance of about 600 metres and finally a left turn onto 56 Baraka Drive for a distance of 400 metres onto the property. The plot extends to 0.8306 of a hectare or 2.0524 of an acre approximately. The title is freehold interest registered in the name of KAWAMAMBANJO LIMITED. Erected on the property is a workshop and a dairy store. PLOT DESCRIPTION: A regular shaped almost level red soil parcel whose boundaries are marked by barbed wire on timber posts, live hedges or open. A portion measuring approximately 14 acre has been fenced off with a perimeter stonewall. Entrance is open. USE: Agricultural. SERVICES: Mains electricity is connected to the property. Piped water is available nearby for connection on demand. Foul disposal would be to pit latrine or septic tank. CONDITIONS OF SALE 1. All interested purchasers are requested to view the property and verify the details, as these are not warranted by the Auctioneer or our clients. 2. Interested bidders are required to pay a refundable deposit of Kshs. 100,000.00 to obtain a bidding number and catalogue at the auctioneers offices, before the auction date. 3. A deposit of 25% of the purchase price must be paid by bankers cheque at the fall of the hammer. The balance will thereafter be payable within thirty (30) days to the chargees advocates. 4. Sale is subject to a reserve price and necessary consent. 5. Further details and conditions of sale are available on request at our offices and viewing of the property can be done during normal working hours by prior arrangements with ourselves. ALL ARE WELCOME.
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2BR & b/sitter avaiable hot shower
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bedroom corner house rent Kes. 30,000.00. Call owner on 0721 533945 (on Lulu road off Transview avenue opposite Athiriver Shalom Community Hospital)
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B476 Business Opportunities

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B740 Land, Plots for Sale
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ovacandos. gtd nth opp sth kanyon pry thka-navsha road (3.9m) cal 0720 771424.
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KBC /Kantafu one acre on tarmac ideal

for petrol station & 40x80 plots Call 0727-441952, 0713-370727 Owner the KAG Church university, off Nairobi-Namanga road. Kshs 2.5Million per 1/4 acre plot. Financing can be arranged. Call; 0727441952
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NGONG Olollua 1/2acr 0702605346 RUAI 1/4ac 1.2M owner 0722115957 SALE of 0.833 acre piece of land along
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Mum, It has been ten years since you left us. We know God has you in His keeping and the hope that we shall re-unite one day keeps us going. Your life on earth was a blessing that we, your family will always treasure. We shall grieve not, rather nd strength in what remains behind as loving thoughts of you are with us forever.
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce the death of David Kawau (Mauni).
Death and Funeral Annoucement
We Miss You Mum
Son of Stephen Kinyanjui and Ann Wambui. Brother of Peter Njoroge. Grandson of Peter Njoroge Mbugua and Monica Wanjiku Njoroge. Nephew of Robert Mbugua (Sisimuka ButcheryNdenderu) and Stephen Wangai (Ireland). Prayers and meetings are being held at his grandfathers home, in Ndenderu (Kagondo).
David Kawau (Mauni)
The cortege leaves Kenyatta University Funeral Home on 29th July 2013 at 9.30am and thereafter funeral and burial at his grandfathers home at Kagondo (Ndenderu) Kiambu County the same day at 11.00am. May God rest his soul in eternal peace. Amen
If we live, we live to the Lord and if we die we die to the Lord, so whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. Romans 14:8
Rebeccah Bogomba Arati
Death and Funeral Announcement
1st Anniversary
Dad, days have turned into a year since you left us. We miss and fondly remember you daily. We thank all who stood and have continued to stand by us during our time of mourning and as we soldier on. Your prayers, support and encouragement have ensured Gods grace remains real and sufcient in our lives.
Dr. Geoffrey Muriki Rukunga
Michael Joseph Moloney

It is with deep sorrow and humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce the death of Michael Joseph Moloney at Aga Khan Hospital on Tuesday 23 July 2013. Michael was the beloved husband of Susan Komora Moloney, father to Habida Moloney Ebo and Bahati Moloney Kituyi. He was the doting grandfather of Brendan Kituyi, Michaela Ebo and Mikal Kituyi. There will be a fundraiser at Loreto Convent Msongari Hall on Sunday 28 July at 3-5pm for friends and family. The funeral will be held at St. Austins Church, Nairobi on Tuesday 30th July at 11.00 am and his body will be laid to rest at the Langata Cemetery thereafter. For contribution by Mpesa 0700610331. May the Almighty Father rest his soul in eternal peace.
Dearly missed by your wife Rose and Children; Yvonne, Allan and Sarah, family and friends. Dad, though the Lord took you home, you will always remain dear in our hearts.
Death and Funeral Announcement
William Wordsworth
Celebration of Life Well Lived

It is with deep sorrow and acceptance of Gods will that we announce the passing on to higher glory of Jedida Ndegwa of Nakuru on 21st July 2013. Daughter of the late Johana Gitahi and the late Milkah Wothaya. Daughter-in-law of the late Ndegwa Githaiga and the late Wangari Ndegwa.
Lawrence Kieru Muiga

1936 2013
We regret to announce the death of Lawrence Kieru Muiga which occurred on the 21st of july after a long illness well borne. Husband of Teresiah Nyokabi. Father of Ann Gitonga, Benard Maina [Katani Quarries], Jane Wanbui, late Margaret Nyakinyua, Peter Muiga [Kenya Prisons], George Kieru [NMG], Joseph Gitonga, Mary Mugure [Hong Kong] Josephat Kiai. Brother of late George kiroe, Kiai Muiga, Mwangi Muiga. Grandfather to 18, great grandfather to 1. Friends and family are meeting at his home in kitengela.The cortege leaves Montezuma funeral home on the 30th of july and thereafter to Mawingo, Kinangop for burial. Romans: 12 15 Rejoice with them that rejoice, weep with them that weep..
Beloved wife of Nelson N. Ndegwa of Nakuru. Sister of Priscilla Otsyula, Rebecca Wanjohi, Gladys Kamere, Jerioth Karuri, Beatrice Wairimu, the late Anne Kagure, Esther Karanja, Grace Muthoni ,Jedidah Mbau, Robert Gachura, Gachahi Gitahi, Erastus Gichuhi, Linus W. Gitahi, Papias Karinga and Peter Ndiritu. Mother of Lydiah Wangari, John Gitahi and Milkah Muthoni.
Jedida Ndegwa
Family and friends are meeting for prayers at Gachahis residence house 240 New Runda next to Mji wa Huruma barrier from 4.00 pm daily. The funeral service and burial will be on Tuesday, 30/7/2013 at 10.00 a.m at the graveside Nakuru North Cemetry, Nakuru.
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Hamilton
The Chiefs showed their class to produce a 17-point surge in the second half, then held on with resolute defence to keep out a strong Crusaders side 20-19 in an epic Vodacom Super Rugby semi-nal in Hamilton yesterday. The defending champions, who were written o before the seminal, stuttered initially, then produced a magnificent second half to place one hand on the title after a tense battle in the heartland of New Zealand rugby.
FORMULA ONE hamilton on pole for Hungarian Grand Prix. P.48, 49
Chiefs hold o Crusaders to storm Super Rugby nal

Stun home side
In the second semi-nals played at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria, Brumbies scored in the closing stages of the match to stun home side Vodacom Bulls 26-23. Chiefs will now welcome Brumbies for the nal next weekend. On a night of high drama in Hamilton where both sides laid into each other, it was the Chiefs who showed more composure and underlined their credentials as defending champions after nishing top of the Super Rugby log. The Crusaders featuring Dan Carter (left) threw everything at them towards the end, but eventually didnt have enough as they slumped to their fth consecutive play-o defeat since their last Vodacom Super Rugby victory in 2008 under former coach Robbie Deans. Still, they looked set to buck that trend after dominating the rst half, using their chances better and looking strong on defence whenever the Chiefs had the ball. But the 17-point blowout in the second half totally changed the game in the home sides favour and forced the Crusaders to play catch-up in the end. They managed to close an 11 point gap in the last 20 minutes to one point. (Supersport.com)
BASKETBALL | World Hope cruise past Baptists
Wings soar over Oryx as Pirates slay poor Zetech

Champs win in womens race but KU men beat fellow students to atone for loss at Nyayo stadium
BY CAXTON APOLLO
[email protected] enya Basketball Federation womens Premier League champions Eagle Wings yesterday demolished Kenyatta Universitys Oryx 64-18 in a one-sided second leg match at the Nyayo National Stadium gymnasium. In the mens Division One league matches at the same venue, Kenyatta Universitys Pirates beat Zetech College 65-49, World Hope pipped stubborn Parklands Baptist 56-55, while Umoja were made to fight hard to edge out Tony Ochiengs Strathmore University 55-52. Reigning champions Eagle Wings maintain their top position in the
Superb Kenya claim zonal Cup qualiers

BY DAVID KWALIMWA
[email protected] The national men and womens volleyball teams remained on course to clinch slots to the World Championships next year, following impressive results at the ongoing Zonal qualifiers in Nairobi and Kampala. The mens team defeated Burundi in straight sets yesterday evening to emerge overall winners of FIVB World Championships African Group H qualiers as curtains came down in the four-nation event at the MTN Arena in Lugogo. The team which is struggling to match the success posted by their female counterparts beat Burundi 3-0 (25-15, 25-15 and 25-17). This result, in addition to the earlier wins against Tanzania and hosts Uganda on Thursday and Friday respectively, saw Kenya return home with 100 per cent winning record from Kampala without dropping a set. Gideon Chenjes team who were involved in an accident on their way to Kampala to participate in this competition will, however, have to return to the drawing board and prepare for battles against stier opposition from West and North Africa in the next qualification phase. The team bus hit three children who were crossing the road around Busia (Kenya) town when the team was traveling to Kampala. Thankfully, nobody was seriously injured, Kenya Volleyball Federation chairman Charles Nyaberi said. Kenya coach Gideon Chenje said: So far so good. We are doing ne.
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Eagle Wingss victory over Oryx in womens basketball league yesterday
standings table with 23 points from 11 wins and one loss. Rivals KPA, who are also eyeing the top spot were yesterday scheduled to host Co-operative Bank in Mombasa and victory will bring the dock women level with Eagle Wings on 23 points. Oryx, who have only managed one win from 11 matches, had little to oer against Eagle Wings, who had Vilma Achieng calling the shots early as the victors lead 16-4 in the rst quarter. Playing without guard Samba Mjomba, Eagle Wings, who will represent Kenya in the Africa Club championship in Rwanda, raced to a deserved 30-14 half-time lead. Annerose Atieno had a great game, scoring game-high 21 points as she led Eagle Wings to a huge 22-2 third quarter advantage just after the students had narrowed the gap 14-10 in the second quarter. It was Silalie Shani who scored 11 points, teaching Oryx some lessons in basketball. Pirates did not disappoint as they kept the re for Kenyatta University burning when they rocked Zetech College 65-49 in the mens Division One League showdown. After Pirates went up 20-8 in the rst quarter, their opponents slowed down to trail 38-19 at the breather.
Vilma Achieng (right) of Eagle Wings gets past Oryxs Brenda Wangui during their womens basketball league match at Nyayo Stadium yesterday. Eagle Wings won 64-18.
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SLEDGING
Controversial Aussie batsman David Warner had to be separated from South Africa A wicketkeeper Thami Tsolekile during his 33-run second innings yesterday.
BARCLAYS ASIA TROPHY
KETISA GAMES
Eldoret Polytechnic began their Kenya Technical Institutions Sports Association (KETISA) Games mens football title defence in style winning their rst two matches on the opening day at their home ground yesterday. Eldoret Polytechnic bank on home advantage as they beat Kenya Water Institute 2-0. David Juma dribbling art seemed to work well for his victorious side as he managed to net the rst goal on 37 minutes. Kevin Mboya added the second late in the game. The Kisumu Polytechnic thumped East Africa School of Aviation 2-0, while National Youth Service Institute of Business studies registered a 1-0 win over National Industries Training Authority (NITA) in other mens football matches yesterday.
TENNIS
SWIMMING
Olympic champion Nathan Adrian has insisted Australias sprint star James Magnussen is the name to beat in the 100m freestyle with the pair set to clash at Barcelonas world championships.
Manchester Citys victory over Sunderland in the Asia Trophy yesterday.
2-1
Champions Eldoret Polytechnic perfect on day one
Youzhny powers into Gstaad nal

Mikhail Youzhny reached his rst nal at the Swiss Open on Saturday with a 6-3, 6-3 workmanlike win over 2008 champion Victor Hanescu. The Russian, who nished runner-up to Roger Federer last month on grass at Halle, will Sunday play the winner from the days second semi, when Spanish fth seed Feliciano Lopez takes on Dutchman Robin Haase. The sunny week in the Alps week had been driven by hype and expectation with Federer and fellow Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka heading the eld.
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ATHLETICS | Africa double champion says teamwork will be key in next months title defence
Kenyas 10,000m trio res warning shot to rivals ahead of Moscow duel
Chepyego, Cherono and Chebet tell opponents to brace for bruising battle in World Championships
BY AYUMBA AYODI
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Owino grabs Coast Open tourney lead
enyas 10,000 metres trio of Gladys Cherono Kiprono, Emily Chebet Muge and Sally Kaptich Chepyego has warned rivals to prepare for a bruising battle as they head to defend the title at the World Championships in Athletics. But Cherono, the Africa 10,000m and 5,000m champion, said they will not target any individual but will embrace teamwork and run their own race. We are all well prepared and enjoying every bit of our training at Kasarani, said Cherono, the Kenya Defence Forces Cross-country champion. I feel no pressure at all because I am in my best form, just waiting for the moment to scoop a podium nish. But we shall embrace unity and help each other to the last bit in the race, explained Cherono, who won the national trials in 33min, 43.03 but holds a personal best 30:29.23sec from her second-place nish in Ostrava Diamond League where she pushed London Olympic champion, Ethiopias Tirunesh Dibaba to victory in 30:26.67, the second best time this season.
BY LARRY NGALA
[email protected] Nyanza Golf Clubs Peter Owino produced a clean two under par back nine for an opening round of two under par 69 to establish a one-shot lead as the 94th edition of the annual Coast Open Golf Championship got underway at the par-71 Mombasa Golf Club course yesterday. The handicap one Owino (above) dropped shots over the third and the stroke index one-fth holes, but birdied the sixth and eighth to level the front nine. He later birdied the 12th, and 14th for his clean 34 at the back nine. I played despite the two bogeys at the front nine. I hope I can maintain the tempo in the second round tomorrow, said Owino, who is seeking his rst Golfer Of The Year title. Vet Lab Sports Clubs Robinson Owiti rolled in two birdie-putts both in the front nine and a super eagle at the 487-yard 17th for an opening round one under par 70. Also joining the leaderboard in day one of the Crown Berger, Keringet and Gold Crown Beverages sponsored-Coast Open, also known as Barry Cup, were Karens Anthony Kinuthia who red one over par 72 to tie for third place with Golf Parks Tony Omuli and Pembe Kondo from Dar es Salaams Gymkhana Club. Omuli started with a two under par 34 in the front nine that included a birdie at the eighth and two bogeys at the back nine. Kinuthia bogeyed the fth and sixth, picked up a birdie at the par three-seventh but three-putted the ninth. He birdied three holes at the back nine but against two bogeys. The two were a shot better than Limurus Francis Kimani while three others, including Mombasa Golf Club chairman Simon Maina. Another Mombasa player Daniel Nduva and Kiambus Steve Karanja tied on three over par 74. At least 22 players managed to return below 80 from the morning session which featured most of the top-ranked players. Half of the eld, particularly those drawn in the afternoon, was still battling it out. Meanwhile, the World Ranking Coast Junior Open championship also held at the same course from Monday to Wednesday saw home player Daniel Nduva shoot an impressive three under par 68 in the third round of the 54-hole event. Nduva had two 75s for a total of ve over par 218 to win by four shots from Nyalis Tahir Mohammed who returned 71, 72 and 79. Another Nyali junior golfer, Adel Balala, shot 81, 72 and 79 for 232 to tie with club-mate Mathew Wahome.
Owiti rolled in two birdies
Strong endurance
We all have the endurance but the coaches are doing a superb job in our nishing kick that has always been our problem, said the 30-yearold Cherono, who won this years Prague Half Marathon in a personal best of 1:06:48. Chebet wants to move on to the track in style, having won the World Cross Country senior womens 8km titles in 2010 and 2013. Chebet, 27, said nothing can stop them from retaining both the 10,000m and 5,000m titles currently held by Vivian Cheruiyot if they put fear aside. The trials was my rst outing since winning the World Cross title in March in Poland. I was little bit heavy during the trials, but I can condently say I
have regained my sprightly legs, ready to rumble in Moscow, said Chebet, who nished ninth at in 10,000m at the 2007 Osaka Worlds. I am hungry for another World title. I will draw inspiration from my performance in the cross country races, but we put God rst, said Chebet, who boost of PB 31:30.22. Japan-based Kaptich, 27, who has fully acclimatised, says their rivals should prepare for a tough battle. We have the title and we know what is expected of us and the challenge we face. We are a credible trio with the potential of even staging a clean sweep, said Kaptich, who has PB of 31:27.76. Kaptich said Kenyas rivals may be
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Age of Africa 10,000m and 5,000m champion Gladys Cherono
Emily Chebet (centre) and Gladys Chebet (right) train with their pacemaker at Kasarani yesterday.
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celebrating that Cheruiyot will not be defending her title but warned that they will face a dierent and more lethal force. Cherono pushed Dibaba to the limit while Chebet showed them how its done at World Cross. They should expect similar thing. It will not be about who has had good times in the season, said Kaptich, the 2001 World Youth 3,000m gold medallist. But head coach Sammy Rono says as much as their training has been smooth, they are not taking the threat posed by Ethiopians lightly. Mesert Defar (30:08.06) and Dibaba (30:26.67) have leading times this season and the battle will be tough. We arent taking anything for granted. Were focusing on allround preparations, said Rono.
We are not taking anything for granted and we are focusing on all-round preparation
Kenya coach Sammy Rono
Nduva and Karanja tied
Champs Kanbis host Kongonis in NPCA league

BY NATION REPORTER
[email protected] The Nairobi Province Cricket Association Super League action resumes today with defending champions Kanbis playing Kongonis at Eastleigh High School. Kanbis, who started the season on a sloppy note, will be hoping to use home advantage to stop the wounded Kongonis. While Kanbis were 33 runs victors over Nairobi Gymkhana, Kongonis managed 48 in their pursuit for 184 against Sir Ali. A win for Kanbis will put pressure on current leaders Sikh Union. Kongonis batting pair of Alex Obanda and Dominic Wesonga failed completely during their loss to Sir Ali. On their part, Kanbis will bank on Rakep Patel and Narendra Kerai to tame Kongonis. Swamibapa struggling Sikh Union host Swamibapa at Simba Union in a match they begin as rm favourites. While Sikh Union have been impressive with four wins from four matches, Swamibapa have struggled, only winning once. The hosts will rely on their impressive youthful players to add miseries on Swamibapa. Jimmy Kamande will be back to lead Stray Lions against Gymkhana. The former national team captain believes the match will be tough as the players from both teams want to impress selectors ahead of the East Africa Premier League. The stage where we are is interesting because most players know their performance at club level will have a bearing on the EAPL selection, Kamande said. At Premier Club, Premier Club will host Manoj Kirais team Cutchi Leva. At the Sir Ali Muslim Club, the hosts will be looking for their second win in a row when they welcome Kanbis Yellow.
Cutchi Leva wicketkeeper Manoj Kirai in a past game.
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STARTING GRID
SUNDAY SCORE FORMULA ONE | Its the 2008 champions fourth pole at the Hungaroring circuit
1st row: Lewis Hamilton (GBR/ Mercedes); Sebastian Vettel (GER/Red Bull). 2nd row: Romain Grosjean (FRA/ Lotus); Nico Rosberg (GER/Mercedes). 3rd row: Fernando Alonso (ESP/ Ferrari); Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/Lotus) 4th row: Felipe Massa (BRA/Ferrari); Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/Toro Rosso). 5th row: Sergio Perez (MEX/McLaren); Mark Webber (AUS/Red Bull). 6th row: Adrian Sutil (GER/Force India); Nico Hulkenberg (GER/Sauber). 7th row: Jenson Button (GBR/ McLaren); Jean-Eric Vergne (FRA/Toro Rosso). 8th row: Pastor Maldonado (VEN/ Williams); Valtteri Bottas (FIN/ Williams). 9th row: Esteban Gutierrez (MEX/ Sauber); Paul di Resta (GBR/Force India). 10th row: Charles Pic (FRA/ Caterham); Giedo van der Garde (NED/Caterham). 11th row: Jules Bianchi (FRA/Marussia); Max Chilton (GBR/Marussia).
UNIQUE FORMULA ONE RACE
Success-hungry Hamilton pips
The Hungarian Grand Prix holds a unique place in Formula 1 history as the rst race ever to take place behind the former Iron Curtain. Now, 27 years after that rst event in 1986, it remains the only race to be held in the long-disappeared Soviet bloc - at least until the expected debut of Russias own race next season. But its appeal lies in more than a quirk of geo-political realities. It is a successful race in its own right. Being down the road from fabulous Budapest certainly does not do it any harm. One of the worlds great cities, cut in two by the famous Danube, Hungarys capital makes it a lovely weekend away from the track. The Hungaroring circuit itself also has its charms. Built in a natural amphitheatre, there are no fast corners, but it is an intensely demanding place for the drivers - its succession of long, mediumspeed corners never seeming to end, giving the drivers hardly any respite in often searing heat.
FAST STATISTICS
McLaren Mercedes Mexican driver Sergio Perez (left) and Mercedes British driver Lewis Hamilton during the second practice session at the Hungaroring circuit in Budapest on Friday. Hamilton pipped Red Bull Sebastian Vettel to todays pole.
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Hungary for facts?

Only of the last Hungarian GPs have been won from pole position. McLaren have won ve of the last six races at the Hungaroring. Heikki Kovalainen scored his one and only F1 victory in Hungary in Circuit distance: Laps:
Mercedes driver pulls o his fastest lap right at the conclusion of the session to edge out defending champion
Budapest ewis Hamilton scorched to a surprise pole for the Hungarian Grand Prix in searing heat yesterday, the Mercedes driver edging out defending champion and season leader Sebastian Vettel. Hamilton bagged his third consecutive pole and fourth of the season with a best lap of 1min 19.388sec with Red Bulls Vettel timing 1.19.426 for a margin of 0.038sec. Frenchman Romain Grosjean in a Lotus was third fastest to take his place on the second row of the grid. It was 2008 champion Hamiltons fourth pole at the Hungaroring circuit. The 28-year-old Briton pulled o his fastest lap right at the conclusion of a closely-fought session, having spent Friday battling handling and balance problems with the new Pirelli tyres. His rivals had been able to test the tyres at Silverstone, where Mercedes were banned from running last week. Hamilton admitted: With the temperatures, it was pretty tough. I was really surprised when I came across the line and they said I got pole. I didnt feel like that was a great lap.
I thought Sebastian had got it. Im really surprised, I thought maybe he made a mistake or something. Ridiculously fast We brought some upgrades this weekend, the guys are working hard and its a result of all hard work theyve put in. Starting on pole denitely helps as its dicult to follow here. Its a long way down to Turn One, but if you can get there rst and try and hold position,
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Starting on pole denitely helps as its dicult to follow here. Its a long way down to Turn One, but if you can get there rst and try and hold position, its denitely advantageous
Lewis Hamilton
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its denitely advantageous. But these guys (Vettel and Grosjean) are going to be ridiculously fast so trying to keep in front or holding onto them is going to be the challenge. Hamiltons latest gambit in temperatures hitting 35 degrees Celsius at the start with track temperature reaching 50 degrees lifted him beyond ve-time champion Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio to a career total of 30 poles. After squeezing defending triple world champion Vettel out Hamilton had on his slowing down lap asked his team: Are we on pole? The response from his care engineer was: Yeah - and we are as surprised as you, mate! Team chief Ross Brawn said simply, brilliant job, Lewis. Vettel praised Hamilton. Lewis did an exceptional job today - you have to hand it to him. But the German, seeking a rst career win in Hungary, stressed: I am still in a good position for tomorrow and we have a good car for the race. I was pretty happy with both laps because I had two sets of new tyres, but maybe I wasnt aggressive enough in the middle. (AFP)
Lap record: secs Michael Schumacher (2004 - Ferrari)

FACT
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
What the drivers are saying

Red Bulls Sebastian Vettel: Hungary has some interesting memories for me. It was my rst F1 race with the Red Bull family so lets hope I can add to my memories by winning there for the rst time before I go on holiday. Williams Pastor Maldonado: There will be new tyres from Pirelli this weekend that combine last years construction with this years compounds, so understanding how these will perform will be a primary focus for the teams as we prepare for this race. Saubers Nico Hulkenberg: Budapest is a city with a great atmosphere and a lot of beautiful old buildings. The circuit is technically challenging and leaves little room for mistakes. If you get o the racing line there, the whole sector is ruined. Lotus Kimi Raikkonen: Its such a slow, twisty circuit, so two things are really important there; good turn-in and good traction. Many times Hungary has been called as the Grand Prix of Finland. A lot of Finns go to this race every year and it is always nice to see the blue and white ags waving. Ferraris Felipe Massa: The Hungarian Grand Prix is a very special event for me, that brings back a lot of memories. Naturally, there are some negative memories from my accident [in 2009], but also positive ones in that I am here today, getting ready for Budapest, healthy and still racing.
Did you know?

Zsolt Baumgartner is the only Hungarian to have competed in his home grand prix - for Jordan in 2003 and for Minardi in 2004.
2.30pm
Hungarian GPs starting time; will be live on SuperSport 6
SUNDAY SCORE
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OPINION | Lewis Hamilton
TIGHT BATTLE | If this gap increases, it will be a very stressful summer break for all of us
Vettel to surprise Hungary pole

ONE-ON-ONE WITH THE CHAMP
We will give it everything
Vettel talks tyres, his car, rivals and more

his weekends Hungarian Grand Prix marks the mid-point of the Formula 1 season, and it is also nearly six months since I rst drove my new Mercedes car. So it is a good time to reect on what we have achieved so far. Overall, it has gone a lot better than I expected it would. Coming to the team, I remember the excitement of having something new and fresh, going to the factory, sitting in the mock-up of the car and making a few changes to the way the team went about things. It was cool to put my mark on a few things. The team obviously have some incredible engineers, but there are always some things that people miss. So I was able to help them modify and improve certain areas, mainly things that would help me in the car. From the rst race onwards, it has just been great to be up there in the mix at the front. I never expected to be ahead of McLaren, for example. Before I drove the car, I thought it was going to be tough to be in the top 10. I honestly meant that when I said it over the winter - just because the team had had a really dicult end to last season. I was thinking it was going to be a tough year. I worked really hard to prepare myself for that because in every other season I have had a chance to win at least one race, and I really didnt think I was going to have a shot. That was difcult to swallow. When I drove the car for the rst time, I tried not to get too overwhelmed with how good it felt because you can easily be misled and then you get to the rst race and youre miles o. But I was taking it all in and then we had a relatively decent result at the rst race, where I nished fth after qualifying third, which was a really good foundation to start from. The team has just got stronger and stronger since then. The car has improved a lot. In the past, this team have struggled to develop the car through the season, but now it is constantly getting better. Second in standings Mercedes are really beginning to look like a championship-winning team, which was my hope when I came here. And I really have high hopes moving forwards. We have had some dicult weekends where we have struggled with the tyres and gone backwards in the races after qualifying at the front, but those races are not as frustrating as you might think when you look back. Thats just the way it is. Falling back is not the greatest thing, but we get stronger towards the end of the races and we are still picking up decent points. For me, the ones that are really dicult are the ones where the car was able to win but I missed out for whatever reason. Despite the diculties, we are second in the constructors championship and it is not impossible we could catch Red Bull, if Nico Rosberg and I can continue to get solid results as a team. For us to be in that position is a really impressive achievement, considering where the team ended up at the end of 2012. The drivers title is obviously a dierent issue. I am already a long way o Sebastian Vettel - 58 points - and he just keeps on racking up the rst and second places, so beating him will be really difcult. But we will give it everything we can, and next year is my real hope. (Courtesy: BBC Sport)
If he continues on his current trajectory, this season could see Red Bulls Sebastian Vettel become only the third man in history - after Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher - to win four consecutive drivers championships. Q: Sebastian, you are rapidly moving towards your fourth consecutive title. Who could stop you? Sebastian Vettel: Nobody, I hope! But if you ask the others they probably will tell you that theyre trying very hard. But, honestly, I am not thinking about the championship and the title too much. Its good to know that youre in a strong position - and that the others have to get there rst - but we are only at midseason so anything could happen between now and the Brazilian chequered ag. If you look back to last year, or 2010 - 2011 was a bit of an exception - it was going down to the wire. So never feel too comfortable where you are - it might be gone fast. Q: Who is big on your radar for a decent challenge? SV: The rst three on the scoreboard of course. Fernando (Alonso) and Kimi (Raikkonen) are consistent and quick. And never underestimate Mercedes - theyve made a huge leap forward from the rst couple of races. Tyres are changing again, so this could mix up the whole matter too. We will see some mixing up even this weekend: new tyres, a unique circuit and very high temperatures - that could result in some surprises. Q: Fernando said here that anyone driving a Red Bull car must be rst. Do you agree? SV: No, I disagree. I know how much work is behind the eort, so his saying that has no relevance whatsoever. Sure, we have a very strong package, but that doesnt fall from heaven. Those who say that should rst look at their own situation and how they can enhance it. Every one of our wins or podium nishes didnt come for free - I know that because I was in the car! (laughs) Q: You were the only one of the big boys at last weeks tyre test. Did it surprise you that at a crucial stage of the season and tyre development the other championship contenders were absent? SV: Maybe they had u, who knows? It was good to test, to get a bit of an idea. Isnt there the saying that practice makes perfect? We are professionals, of course - and we get paid well for that - but that doesnt mean that you cannot improve - there is always something to be learnt. On top of that I like what I do, so I didnt mind testing among the youngsters. Q: Do you feel that you get enough respect from your immediate challengers? Fernando and Lewis Hamilton always speak so well of each other, but Fernando rarely utters a word on you SV: I dont know, but it is also not very high on my agenda. From my personal perception I can say that Ive always felt respected by all the others - from the very beginning, since my rst proper year with Toro Rosso when I was right on the edge because you have to ght for your place among the drivers to have a say. After that season I felt very respected by everybody.
Alonso: We need to close the gap fast

Budapest
s Lotuss Kimi Raikkonen metaphorically rubbed his hands with glee at the prospect of 40 degrees Celsius ambient temperatures here at the Hungaroring, Fernando Alonso was admitting that if Ferrari dont have a really strong race it will impact on the teams morale and motivation during the upcoming summer break. A year ago Alonso left Hungary with a 40-point lead over Sebastian Vettel; this year he is already 34 points in arrears. A good result is important because it is the summer break now and it will be good for the motivation of the team and our focus if we can close the gap with Sebastian a little before then, the Spaniard said. If this gap increases, it will be a very stressful summer break for all of us and hard for motivation, so its important that we do well here. The introduction of Pirellis revised tyres, allied to the expected searing temperatures creates a fascinating scenario, in which anything could happen, though most teams are expecting the pecking order to remain about the same after their experience with the new rubber during the recent young driver test at Silverstone. More open with strategy Well do our normal routine, we just need to maybe be more open with our strategy in case in those temperatures there is any need for an extra stop on Sunday, Alonso continued. Well try to understand this in practice. Raikkonen, meanwhile, was quite loquacious. I think weve always been a bit
more happy when its more warm, he said regarding Lotuss strengths. Now its a bit dicult to say with the new - or dierent - tyres than we raced at the beginning of the year but last year helped us and the tyres should be a mix of this year and last year so lets hope that it works well for us. Dicult to retain advantage Last year the Finn and team mate Romain Grosjean needed just one more lap to overcome winner Lewis Hamilton, who himself said yesterday that the second DRS zone, right after the rst corner, could make it very dicult for a leader to retain his advantage if a following driver gets right in his slipstream in the rst zone along the pit straight. Meanwhile, the FIA have discussed a new penalty system during a meeting of team principals whereby teams who let their drivers leave pit stops with improperly secured wheels will now receive 10-place grid penalties. This
follows the incident in Germany recently where Red Bull released Mark Webbers RB9 when the right-rear wheel had not been tightened fully. The errant wheel then struck and injured a cameraman. There has also been talk of a minimum time for pit stops, after the recent race to create the rst sub-two second tyre change, though that seems unworkable to many. In a bid to improve safety, there will be restrictions on the number of journalists, photographers and camera crews in the pits.
A good result is important because it is the summer break now and it will be good for the motivation of the team and our focus if we can close the gap with Sebastian a little before then
Fernando Alonso
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TUSKER PREMIER LEAGUE | Brewers nally beat an opponent after ve straight matches
Charging Gor open 7-point gap

Omondi, Emuge on the mark as KOgalo silence battling visitors Karuturi Sport at City
BY ODINDO AYIEKO
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or Mahia pulled seven points clear at the top of the Tusker Premier League table following their 2-1 victory over Karuturi Sports as Tusker returned to winning ways beating Kakamega Homeboyz by a solitary goal at the City Stadium yesterday. Goals by Kevin Omondi and Israel Emuge ensured charging KOgalo three points that brought their tally to 35. Omondi put the leaders ahead on 16 minutes after receiving a ne pass from Paul Kiongera who had stolen the ball from Karuturi defender Emanuel Olupot. The goal came with the run of play as Gor piled pressure on the visitors rear guard. KOgalo coach
Bobby Williamson started Omondi ahead of Rama Salim. Omondi did not disappoint. Gor continued to dictate the game though Karuturi also had their chances. John Kiplagat, a former Gor Mahia forward tormented his former side. Twice he forced Jerim Onyango to make saves with his long range shots. Karuturi equalised in the 50th minute after Hussein Mwachiponi picked the ball and passed to Hussein Zzinda who beat Jerim Onyango. Gor players protested the goal feeling Karuturi had beneted from an o side position. Raided the defence Incensed Gor fans caused a fiveminute stoppage of the game. That goal, the rst Gor has conceded in six games, gave Karuturi some fresh energy as the forced the home team into making mistakes in mideld and defence. But Gor settled within a few minutes and re-took the lead when Emuge tapped home from an Innocent Mutiso corner in the 70th minute. F r o m then on it was a cata-
Tusker scored early in the sixth minute via the header of international David Ochieng Cheche from an Ali Abondo cross that Homeboyz keeper Collins Otieno failed to deal with.
Hard work has paid o for us, says Eymael
Brighter side
logue of missed chances by Gor, who raided the Karuturi defence repeatedly. Once again I think we have played well and we deserved the points. We are taking one game at a time and working hard to remain at the top, said Gor Mahia coach Bobby Williamson.
Homeboyz had started the game the brighter side pushing Tusker in their own half. But Tusker used their experience to ensure Homeboyz did not get the goal they so badly needed. Homeboyz came into this game on the back of two wins a 4-1 mauling of Sony Sugar and a 3-1 win over Karuturi. But Tusker too had their own pressure. Despite winning the Top Eight title three days ago after beating Thika United in post-match penalties Tusker had lost their previous games to Mathare United and Muhoroni. They desperately needed a league win and their coach Robert Matano had been put on notice to win or be red. Homeboyz oered little real challenge to a determined Tusker side.
BY ISAAC SWILA
[email protected] AFC Leopards head coach, Luc Eymael, has attributed his teams fantastic ground football to rigorous training that he has introduced at the club. The Belgian took charge of the 13-time Kenyan champions midway through the rst leg, but it was not until the beginning of the second leg that the fruits of his football philosophy begun to bear fruit. We have been working on our brand of attractive football. What you see is as a result of a two-month intensive learning process, he said The team has been enjoying a good run and, speaking to the Sunday Nation, ahead of todays showdown with 2009 champions Sofapaka, the Belgian said he wants his boys to have respect for all their opponents but have no fear for any team. His comments come in the wake of their 4-1 drubbing of Thika United followed by a 2-0 victory over Mathare United. The twin wins were preceded by another 3-0 thumping of Sofapaka. Despite beating Sofapaka in the rst leg, we have no advantage against them. We have to pay attention to all the departments and concentrate tomorrow (today).
We are taking one game at a time and working to remain at the top
Bobby Williamson, Gor Mahia coach
U-17 womens team for camp

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[email protected] The national Under-17 womens team assembles at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani, tomorrow to begin preparations for the 2014 World Cup qualiers. The Harambee Starlets, who are eyeing a place at next years world nals set for Costa Rica, face Equatorial Guinea on the weekend of August 16 to 18 in Malabo before hosting them in Nairobi two weeks later. A total of 50 players have been called up in the provisional squad. Kenya head coach Florence Adhiambo will be using the rst two days to gauge the tness levels of her girls before whittling down the squad to 25. I am not worried of the girls tness levels as most of them have been active in the secondary school games and the CopaCocacola tournament, Adhiambo said. We want to prepare well and only take with us a very strong squad that can bring honour to the country. Should Kenya sail past Equatorial Guinea at the rst hurdle, they will face the winner between Ghana and Congo in the next round.
Gor Mahias Joseph Njuguna controls the ball under pressure from Hussein Zinda of Karuturi Sports during their Tusker Premier League match at City Stadium yesterday. Inset: Gor fans at City Stadium.
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Muhoroni Youth victory in Sony is coach Imonjes delight

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[email protected] Visiting Muhoroni Youth made it two wins in a row after beating Sony Sugar 1-0 at Awendos Green stadium yesterday. Jeremiah Wanjala struck late in the match with a header after being picked out by Kennedy Oduors with a cross in the 87th minute. I am delighted with this score. The boys showed a lot of character and played to instruction, Muhoroni coach Alfred Imonje said in a postmatch interview. At Hope Centre, hosts Nairobi City Stars fell 0-1 to visiting Ulinzi Stars. Kevin Amwayi settled the contest striking in the 82nd minute. Elsewhere, Gor Mahia secretary general George Bwana has lauded the agreement between the club and shirt sponsors Tuzo to extend their sponsorship deal by a further two years to the tune of Sh29 million annually. In an interview with Sunday Nation yesterday, Bwana said that the club had agreed in principle with their shirt sponsors on the details of the new partnership but what was left was for Tuzo to sign between the dotted lines. The two parties had been negotiating for a new agreement this year. The new deal will cater for the wages of the players as well as that the teams technical bench. Players at Gor are entitled to Sh5,000 match winning allowance and a further Sh300 training allowance per day. At the same time the club has shelved plans to have electronic rm Acer come in as co-sponsors citing unforeseeable circumstances. Gor remains one of the most followed football clubs in the country and repeatedly attracts many spectators to their matches, played home or away.
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Gareth Bale has told Tottenham chiefs: I want to join Real Madrid. According to The Sun, the Spanish giants have made an ocial world-record 81million bid for the wing wizard, which has been rejected. Spanish paper Marca, which has close links to Madrid, claimed Bale was furious Spurs turned that oer down even though it pips what Real paid Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo in July 2009. Bale, 24, believes he has an understanding with Spurs chairman Daniel Levy that the club would accept a mind-blowing bid. Marca claim Bale told Levy: You made me a promise. You promised me if we didnt qualify for the Champions League and a good oer turned up youd listen to it.
rsenal manager Arsene Wenger has spoken publicly for the first time about his pursuit of Luis Suarez and admitted he is not close to signing the Liverpool striker. Wenger conrmed the depth of his desire to lure Suarez away from Aneld after he lodged an audacious 40,000,0001 (about Sh5.3 billion) bid for the Uruguay striker earlier this week, but Liverpool were quick to reject the oer and insist they would need a bid in excess of 50 million (about Sh6.7 billion) before they would consider selling their prized asset. The Frenchman made no suggestion that he would increase his current oer by the amount Liverpool are insisting upon, and conceded he is not expecting to announce a new arrival at Arsenal any time soon. We are not close to signing Suarez or anybody else so theres no reason why I should talk about it, he told reporters in Saitama, Japan. There is nothing to say (on the Suarez deal). I have been away now for two or the weeks and its hard to see how things are advanced because everyone is on tour at the moment and
its very dicult to get in touch with people. We are ready to do quick deals but all the transfers do not depend only on us. We are prepared to wait . It looks unlikely before the Emirates Cup (next weekend), but we still have a strong squad. Many Arsenal supporters have become frustrated by the clubs apparently ambitious and so far unsuccessful pursuits of Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain and now Suarez, but Wenger has stressed he would not be concerned if he entered the new season without a big name signing. Want to be title challengers With or without additions we can be title challengers next season, he proclaimed. We try to do the job and we will try to do it well, but nothing has been concluded with anybody. What we want is not a name but a good player. The name is less important. What is more important is the quality of the player. At the moment I must tell you we are not close to signing anybody. Of course we want to do as many top players as we can, but we also have to focus on the players we have and develop them. The Guardian newspaper is reporting that Arsenal will submit an improved oer for Suarez in the coming days, while reports in Spain suggest Real Madrid are not planning to make a move for the Liverpool hit-man who has expressed a desire to move to the Spanish capital. Meanwhile, Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre insists the club remain rm in their determination to keep Suarez. Speaking in Bangkok, Ayre said: Its never been our intention to sell Luis. Weve received 2 separate oers from Arsenal and rejected both. (ESPNSeccernet)
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Rooney still Blues target

Joe Mourinho insisted Wayne Rooney is Chelseas only striker target as the Stamford Bridge side went to war with Manchester United over the England man. An astonishing day of claim and counter-claim ended with the west Londoners accusing Premier League champions United of spreading outright lies over their bid for Rooney. The Blues are expected to increase their oer to 25million this week, but the clubs are at daggers drawn. Meanwhile, following the rst match of his second spell in charge of Chelsea - a 1-0 win over Singha All-Stars here in Thailand, Mourinho made a clear and unequivocal pitch for the heartstrings of the Scouse star. We have not bid for anyone else, he said. And we wont. It is Rooney or bust.
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Fellaini could leave Everton

Roberto Martinez admits he cannot guarantee that Everton will hang on to Leighton Baines and Marouane Fellaini this summer. Everton have rejected a 12million bid for England left-back Baines, while Arsenal are tracking Fellaini. Martinez says Everton have not received any new oers for either star, but admits he may be unable to stop them going if they want to leave Goodison . You should never ask a manager that! said the Blues boss. The modern game does not allow a manager to have that control. I dont think speculation is healthy. We are just trying to become as good as we can before the transfer window closes. If we get clubs talking about our players we take it as compliment.
We are ready to do quick deals but all the transfers do not depend only on us. We are prepared to wait. It looks unlikely before the Emirates Cup (next weekend), but we still have a strong squad
Arsene Wenger
Liverpools Luis Suarez during their friendly with Melbourne Victory in Melbourne on Thursday. Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has urged the want-away striker to repay the faith placed in him by supporters after Liverpools emotional 2-0 win on their pre-season tour in Australia.
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Man Utd setback as Barca insist Fab not for sale

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Barcelona vice-president Josep Maria Bartomeu has told Manchester United that they will not sell midelder Cesc Fabregas at any price. United manager David Moyes revealed on Thursday that the deal was ongoing but the Spanish club insist no oer will be accepted for the 26-year-old. Bartomeu said: Uniteds interest for Cesc Fabregas is obvious, hes a great player but it does not bother us. It does not matter what they oer us, we are not selling him. The Premier League champions have failed with two bids for the former Arsenal player, the latest of which is understood to be 30m plus add-ons. Bartomeu was speaking at new manager Gerardo Martinos rst news conference following his appointment as Tito Vilanovas replacement. Rejected two oers Im not going to involve myself in the clubs accounts, but considering the club has already rejected two oers, I would guess it will reject a third, Martino said. In other words, Fabregas will remain here. United made their rst move for Fabregas on 15 July by tabling a 25m bid and executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward then ew home from the clubs Asia tour to try to secure his capture. However, the Reds have now been told no matter how much they bid, the Spanish champions will not listen to oers. If there was a higher oer would we accept it? No. Were proud that a club like that wants one of our players, added Bartomeu. Fabregas has played 96 times for Barcelona since joining from Arsenal in 2011, including 60 league games. (BBC Sport)
Napoli seal Higuain deal

Napoli have completed the signing of Argentinian striker Gonzalo Higuain from Real Madrid for an undisclosed fee. The 25-year-old, who passed a medical with the ambitious Serie A club last week, has signed a reported ve-year contract at the Stadio San Paolo with reports in Italy suggesting Real have received 40m for the prolic frontman. A statement published on Napolis ocial website read: Napoli have made the signing of Gonzalo Higuain ocial. The Argentinian striker arrives from Real Madrid. Higuain, who scored 107 league goals in six seasons with Real Madrid, becomes the latest addition to Rafael Benitezs Napoli squad.
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Cord leader Raila Odinga on Thursday lead governors to a summit in the US.
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need any person from another government to run their aairs, he said. Later, he told a Kenyan delegation that it was important for Kenyans in the US to invest back in their counties. The foreign investors we are looking for every time will only play a minimal role in spurring economic growth of our county economies. Some investors will invest with a set mind that part of the prots they will make must go back to their mother coun-
tries but if a Kenyan invests back home, that is a win-win situation, Mr Odinga told a team of Kenyans. Speaking on behalf of the summit organisers, Mr Raphael Atore dispelled fears that his group was pushing a political agenda by inviting only governors from one coalition. We have no political agenda. We are not here to campaign for Mr Odinga or any party. We invited Cord governors because they are in the opposition. As opposition-allied leaders, they will carry out investments transparently bearing in mind their roles as the ruling coalitions watchdogs, he said. The Network for Development of Youth said Mr Odinga and the governors will also meet Kenyans living in Texas. The governors accompanying the Cord leader are Dr Alfred Mutua (Machakos), Mr Salim Mvuria (Kwale), Mr Cornel Rasanga (Siaya), Mr David Nkendienye (Kajiado), Mr Patrick Simiyu Khaemba (Trans Nzoia), Mr Joseph Nanok (Turkana), Mr Amason Kingi (Kili), Mr Cyprian Awiti, (Homa Bay) Mr Jack Ranguma (Kisumu), Mr Sospeter O jaamong, (Busia) and the Kisii Governor James Ongwae.
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Honeymooning turtles block runway at JFK

Flights were last week held up at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York a procession of turtles crossing the runway. The Federal Aviation Administration said ights were delayed for 30 minutes. This came after several pilots began reporting turtles from the diamondback terrapin species on one runway just as the morning rush hour was beginning at JFK, according to a radio recording posted on LiveATC.net. Be advised 30ft into the takeo roll, left side of the centre line, theres another turtle, called the pilot of American Airlines Flight 1009. Theres another one on the runway? asked the controller. American 663, a Boeing 737 headed to Fort Lauderdale in Florida, found its way to the runway blocked by three roving reptiles. Airport sta helped clear the creatures, giving them a ride via pickup truck to their beaches. The turtles were trying to get to an ideal location to lay their eggs.
Mr Elijah Mwangi appears to be counting his blessings as wife, Ann, joins him in admiring their triplets at the Nakuru PGH maternity wing last Tuesday. The babies, who were born pre-maturely at 35 weeks, were doing ne.
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Live turtles found in smugglers bags

More than 10,000 live exotic turtles have been found in the luggage of two passengers at an Indian airport. According to Sky News, the two Indian nationals were arrested at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International airport in Kolkata after customs ocials discovered the reptiles packed in their suitcases. 10,043 numbers of exotic varieties of the turtles have been seized from two passengers, residents of Chennai, who were coming from China to Singapore, and landed at Kolkata airport, said assistant commissioner of airport Customs, Nabnit Kumar. The Indian Express reported that the turtles were in three bags waiting to be picked up from a conveyor belt when they aroused the suspicion of customs ocials. The World Wildlife Fund states that nearly all species of sea turtle are classied as endangered and many are at risk of extinction due to human activities. An investigation has been launched into the attempted smuggling case. Xin Hong Tong was arrested earlier in July for trying to smuggle more than 70 turtles from Detroit to Canada. He is now facing six months in jail.
Barking player charged

Antonio Morrison, a college football player from the University of Florida, has been charged with interfering with a police canine and resisting arrest. This came after he was spotted barking at a police dog, international media reported. According to Alachua County Sherris oce, he walked up to the open window of a police car and barked at a dog named Bear. The dog then responded by barking back, prompting an ocer to arrest Morrison for interfering with a police canine. The player was later also charged with resisting arrest. Will Muschamp, University of Floridas head football coach, announced through the teams ocial Twitter account that Morrison has been suspended from the team and will miss at least two games to begin the season.
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Francis Kadenge (1960-2013)
Francis Kadenge, a former AFC Leopards, Reunion FC and Kenya national team player, has died. He passed away on Sunday, July 21, after a short illness.
Kadenge, who had been suering stomach ulcers, began vomiting blood early last week and died at the New Nyanza General Hospital in Kisumu where he was receiving treatment. He was a son of Joe Kadenge, a legendary Kenyan footballer, and Mabel Kadenge. During his career, he played for various teams, including AFC Leopards which he joined in 1982. He helped the club win
the Cecafa Club Cup in 1982 and 1984. Kadenge was husband to the late Ann Omondi and leaves behind three sons Sylvester, Maverick and Wayne. George Bwana, Gor Mahias secretary-general, described the demise of the star as a big blow to football. He was buried yesterday at Gisambai village, Vihiga County.
Beyonc got her hair stuck in a fan while performing during a concert in Montreal, Canada, on Monday. The singers hair got caught in one of the large electronic fans set on stage as she sang her song Halo, international media reported. But she kept belting the song out as a couple of stage hands attempted to pry her strands from the machines whirling embrace. After the ordeal, the singer poked fun at her unfortunate situation by posting a quick Instagram video of the incident and a hilarious handwritten note remixing the lyrics of Halo to t what happened. Gravity cant begiiiiiiin/to pull me out of the fan again/I felt my hair was yankiiiiiiiin/From the fan thats always hatiiiiiiiin, she wrote. I got snatched goodnight all. The 31-year-old is currently on the North American leg of her Mrs Carter world tour. COMPILED BY CARLOS MUREITHI
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I am a regular reader of your column; actually one of the reasons I buy the Sunday Nation. The last article really got on my nerves. How things change! I am certain that Millie burns inside every time she remembers how badly she treated Albert. Nthenge I am a great fan of your articles because they highlight daily life issues. Muriuki I am in Alberts situation and I was almost giving up but your article has encouraged me! I dont know what to do because, unlike Albert, I dress decently and my utterances are accent-free! Ngeno Your articles are creative and have a sense of humour. You challenge and educate readers on things that look routine. Albert Einstein said, The world is a dangerous place not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. You identied your talent, and took responsibility. Muchere I am a great fan of your columns and I always look forward to reading them. I read the Millie and Alberts story and concluded character has everything to do with honesty, reliability, loyalty and standing up for ones beliefs. If only Millie and many other women today could love a man for who they really are and not what they have; then their marriages would be strong. Sarah I like last Sundays article. It was simply the truth and I agree with you. Keep up the good work. Okumu
y subject today was triggered by an article I received two weeks ago from a reader. She wrote that she was in her twenties, and graduated from university with a degree in education two years ago. She, she calls herself Vivere Nandiemo, comes from a humble background. Out of her many siblings, shes the only one that made it to university, thanks to goodwill from relatives, neighbours, and friends, since her parents couldnt aord to pay the tuition fees. After many frustrating months of job-searching, she nally got a job a few months ago as a teacher in a private primary school. It doesnt pay much. After paying rent, setting aside bus fare and money for food, shes left with barely enough to tide her over to the next month. True, her experience is no dierent from that of many other new graduates on their rst job, I mean, you have to start somewhere, right? Its for this reason that Marys thought-provoking email wasnt motivated by this employer whos paying her peanuts to do a job she believes should pay much more, rather, it was motivated by the numerous outstretched hands that expect her to solve all their nancial problems. Allow me to extensively quote her. She wrote: From the very beginning, it was clear to me that I am my familys sole investment, being the only one who has gone up to university. When I graduated, everyone was optimistic that I would get a job and start helping my family right away. I was also upbeat that I would land a well-paying job to make this happen. Immediately I got it, I started receiving all manner of domestic problems to solve. Unfortunately, with her meager salary, this was, and still is impossible. Whats disheartening is that her parents, as well as her siblings who, to
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give credit where its due, sacriced a lot to send her to university, believe that she deliberately refuses to help, and have labeled her ungrateful. In fact, they no longer talk to her, and have even stopped helping their parents, arguing that its now her duty as the educated one in the family to help them. But her siblings are not the only ones habouring a sense of entitlement. Even the extended family, especially those that helped put her through university, look up to her as the one to salvage them from poverty. To those who want a piece of her miserable paycheck, she assures them that shes got the will to help, but her job doesnt allow it. Why then should she be crucied for something thats beyond her control? She writes, It is unfortunate that many people, even those who are close to us, help us with a lot of strings attached. Parents take their children to school as a form of investment for their old age. When their children fail to live up to this expectation, perhaps due to tenable reasons, they are accused of being irresponsible, and some are
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even disowned. If a child succeeds in life and does not assist the parents regardless of how well-o they may be, then that child has failed. Other parents would rather see their children fail to ground themselves in life as long as they are being assisted. Scores of parents are known to milk their children for all their worth, the excuse being that they worked hard to educate them. Even when their children have children to take care of, parents believe that they should come rst. While its good to appreciate the help you receive from others, there are times when you are incapable of doing so in spite of the will to do it. Its a shame that we no longer help without expecting certain immediate returns, she concludes. My question is, is educating your children your God-given duty, or is it a sacrice they should pay you for one day? [email protected]
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Counting the atoms in a human body

HOW MANY ATOMS are there in a human body? Well, it depends on the size of the body. The average adult weighs about 70kg and, even though we know that some people can tip the scale at double that gure, we can still use it to get a fairly good estimate or at least a feel of the order of magnitude. The other quantity needed is the average mass of an atom. Now here the variation is much wider. The heaviest atom is over 200 times the mass of the lightest one. The principle behind the measurement of the mass of an atom is straightforward: you simply re an ion though a magnetic eld of known intensity at a known velocity and then measure the angle of deection. Plug the numbers into a formula and voila! The answer pops out. It turns out that the masses of atoms are range between 0.000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000,001kg and 0.000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,001kg. Those numbers are extremely small, but the latter is 100 times the former. The rst one has 27 decimal places and the second one has 25. Twenty-seven decimal places are a thousandth of a trillionth of a trillionth while the larger number is a tenth of a trillionth of a trillionth. Thus we can immediately expect that number of atoms in a human body should be in the order of thousands of trillion of trillions a number with 27 zeroes. Now the human body contains a lot of water about 55 per cent of the mass. Thus out of the 70kg, about 38kg is water. But a water molecule is made of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen thats why it is written as H O. The mass of one water molecule is about 30 thousandth-trillionth-trillionths of a kilogramme. Therefore, there are 1.27 thousand-trillion-trillion water molecules. We get this by dividing 38kg by the molecular mass. But each molecule has three atoms two of hydrogen and one of oxygen; therefore, this makes a total of 3.8 thousand- trillion-trillion (38 followed by 26 zeroes). The remaining 45 percent of mass (or 22kg) mainly comprises of hydrocarbons; that is compounds of hydrogen and carbon. Other elements are calcium (in bones), nitrogen and phosphorous (both in DNA). All together, they make up about another two thousand-trillion-trillion atoms. This brings the total to about six thousand-trilliontrillions. Or, the number six followed by 27 zeroes. Now thats a huge number. It is about 100,000 times the number of all the stars in the observable universe. Which brings me to a strange idea: What if our universe is just a humongous creature and the stars and galaxies are atoms and molecules that make up this being? Its not farfetched; Ernest Rutherford did a similar extrapolation (albeit in reverse) when he proposed the nuclear model of the atom it looks like the solar system with a nucleus (sun) the centre and electrons (planets) revolving around it in orbits.
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Animal lover walks the talk in

First Lady Margaret Kenyatta joined wildlife conservationists in the walk to rally the world on need to protect the jumbos from poachers
t is said that the average person will walk about 160,934.4 kilometres in a lifetime. Jim Nyamu, a conservationist, has already walked 1,500 km over 64 days, and he is set to walk even more in his quest to raise awareness on the plight of elephants and wildlife at large. It all began last year under the theme Ivory belongs to elephants , and Nyamus walkabout consisted two legs: the rst was from Mombasa to Nairobi and the second w a s from the Maasai Mara Game Reserve to different parts o f
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the country, then back to Nairobi. Through my organisation, Elephant Neighbours Centre, I planned a celebration of Elephants Awareness and Appreciation Day on September 22 at the Galleria Mall in Nairobi, Nyamu told the Sunday Nation. He had taken part in a similar event in Tanzania. So last September he showed videos, distributed pamphlets and talked with the people who stopped by. This way, he realised that Kenyans do not know much about wildlife, and even less so what protecting animals entails. He, therefore, decided to walk to create awareness on the plight of wildlife in Kenya. I talked to my friends and some agreed to walk with me from Mombasa to Nairobi, he said. Dressed in khaki shorts, a T-shirt and sport shoes and carrying a walking stick, the 38-year-old set out on foot from Mombasa on February 9 for the 14-day trek to Nairobi. Ironically he followed the same route taken by ivory and slave hunters in the 18th and 19th centuries. Although Kenya banned sport hunting in 1977, poaching greately reduced the countrys elephant population in the 1980s. And although the menace reduced in the 90s, it has resurfaced over the last few years, forcing the government and conservationists to take drastic measures to protect the jumbo. According to the Kenya Wildlife Service statistics, Kenyas elephant population was reduced from 167,000 in 1973 to 20,000 in 1989 due to increase in ivory trade. As a result of the ivory trade ban in 1989 and increased security eorts by KWS, which was established in 1990, poaching levels went down. KWS says that the elephant population of Kenya by 2010 was estimated at around 35,000 and increasing at the time. Despite international agreements banning the sale of ivory with certain exceptions poaching has again become a major threat to Kenyas elephants and rhinos. Poaching has risen from 177 elephants felled by poachers two years ago to 384 last year. Conservationists say that poaching has especially been driven up by insatiable appetite for game trophies in Asian countries. During his trek, Nyamu would wake up at 5a.m. and begin walking at 6 a.m. His
rst rest would be at noon and then he would continue until he clocked 35 km. He would retire to his tent at 9p.m. Every day, his six-person backup team would fold their tents and drive on to the next shopping centre where they would drum up interest among local residents by telling them about Nyamus quest and the importance of wildlife. By the time I would get there, they would be anticipating my arrival and I would carry the conversation forward, he said. And the residents would tell him what they thought about elephants and what they thought conservationists were doing wrong. On Saturday, February 23, Nyamu and his entourage reached Nairobi after covering the distance of 500 km. But he felt there was more to be done. Even though his resources were limited, he decided to cover another 1,000 km in the Rift Valley and northern and eastern Kenya. If he had been up to it, he said, he would have gone as far as Pokot and Baragoi where poaching is done seriously . He began the second leg of his journey in the Maasai Mara on May 11 and walked to Mai Mahiu, Nakuru, Nyahururu, Ngarua, Sipiri, Subuta, Maralal, Kisima, Mwamba, Laisamis, Marsabit, Isiolo, Nanyuki, Meru, Tharaka-Nithi, Embu, Kirinyaga Nyeri and Thika, returning to Nairobi on June 29. In Nyeri, First Lady Margaret Kenyatta joined him to walk ve kilometres from Mt Kenya Academy, where both addressed students, to Mt Kenya Bottlers. If the First Family is committed to wildlife conservation, shouldnt everyone be? he asked. Several encounters made a strong impression on him. When I was at Archers Post, one poacher surrendered. He came and said he had stopped poaching, Nyamu said, expressing his wish that the Kenya Wildlife Service would declare a two-month amnesty during which poachers could hand over ivory to authorities. When Nyamu was still in the Mara, he talked to a group of local people about why killing rhinos for their horns and elephants for their ivory would end up hurting their livelihoods. Later a woman approached him and handed over a necklace made partly of ivory. It gave me encouragement, he said.
Jim Nyamu at the site where 12 tonnes of ivory were burnt at the Nairobi National Park.
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Rearing to go
The previous night, another woman who thought Nyamu was a tourist approached him with the intention of selling him souvenirs made of ivory from an animal she said she had killed. I could tell it wasnt ivory but bones, he said. Nevertheless, before I began my walk the following day, I called the women from the area and told them how dangerous it is to kill wild animals. When he was giving a talk in Samburu, some old men challenged the communitys young people to protect elephants. If one person has to come all the way from Nairobi for the sake of elephant conservation, then there is a problem, Nyamu recalled one man saying. But not everything was inspirational. He had a rough time with the heat in the coastal areas, and he developed 15 blisters on his feet on the walk to Nairobi. In addition, he suered headaches for the better part of two weeks on the second leg of the trek and had back problems, especially in Samburu due to what he said were loose stones on the road. But all along he was documenting his walk on Facebook and Twitter. Nyamu was born in Kangema, Muranga, and developed an interest in wildlife when he was in Class 8. My uncle brought me a copy of Komba Magazine, Nyamu said, referring to the publication of the Wildlife Clubs of Kenya that inspired him to get into animal conservation. He joined Ichichi Secondary School in 1993, but it didnt have a wildlife club. I requested friends to join me and share
First Lady Margaret Kenyatta (with walking stick) and elephant conservationist Jim Nyamu take part in the Ivory Belongs to Elephants walk on June 25. They were jointed by Environment Secretary Judy Wakhungu (second left) and Wildlife Direct CEO Paula Kahumbu (second right). PHOTO| JOSEPH KANYI
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campaign to save elephants

A boy holds a poster during an anti-poaching sensitisation campaign.
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The number of elephants according to the Kenya Wildlife Service that were killed last year alone. This is a steep rise from the 177 jumbos felled by poachers between 2010 and 2012. According to KWS, the sharp increase is fuelled by demand for elephant and rhino tusks from Asian countries.
my vision, and by third term we had a club, a patron, and had even managed to get people from Nairobi to come and teach us what wildlife conservation is all about, he said. Because of his work with the club, he got a scholarship to study wildlife management at College of Wildlife Management in Mweka, Tanzania, where he was from 1997 to 2000. Before he completed his studies, he joined KWS in 1998 as a research assistant in their elephant programme until 2004 when he left to become a research scientist at the Africa Conservation Centre
Love for wildlife
when he implemented a cross-border elephant project on the Kenya-Tanzania Border. He resigned seven years later to start his own initiative, the Elephant Neighbours Centre, in order to work with young people in conservation . The centre is dedicated to the conservation of wildlife, and its work is based on three pillars: conservation and research, community education and advocacy, and community-based natural resource and management. It also collaborates with KWS and other like-minded institutions. But why elephants? Because they are the keystone species, said the married father of
two. This means that elephants have a disproportionately large eect on their environment relative to their numbers. Nyamu calls elephants a agship group in that they speak for all other animals. In his journey, he had occasion to talk about issues related to animalhuman conict especially lions and snakes in some communities. What became clear to me, he said, is that generally Kenyans dont like wild animals. They live with dogs, for example, but dont associate or feel like they own wild animals. We need to talk about the value of wild animals.
In his native Kikuyu language, nyamu means animal. My greatgrandfathers name was Kamau. But people called him Nyamu because he had a big piece of land where there were many monkeys. They would refer to it as This land of Kamau of animals . Nyamu is set to go on more walks in the coming months. In September, Ill walk for 300 km within Switzerland, then 2,700 km from Kampala to Dar es Salaam in October, 400 km in California in December and next year, a yet-to-be determined distance in China, he said. Last week, Environment Cabinet Secretary Judy Wakhungu warned
that poachers are set to receive heavier penalties as government and other stakeholders step up eorts to protect diminishing elephant populations due to rampant poaching. The Bill proposes a ne of up to Sh5 million and 15 years in jail for oenders. A lm, Battle for the Elephants, premiered in the country on Friday at the Sankara Hotel unearthing the elaborate trade in wildlife trophies, both in China and Kenyas ports and airports. Film director John Heminay said their undercover work took them to major Chinese cities and also the port of Mombasa.
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SUNDAY SERMON
relationships
We must guard against sin of idolising money

ONE MODERN WRITER claims that many Christians listen to Jesus say You cannot be the slave both of God and of money, and then respond: Oh yes we can! Could it be that we have forgotten Gods warnings against greed? Jesus called money the mammon of unrighteousness. Mammon means riches of any kind. In the same breath, Jesus also said we should use it: And so I say to you: Use money, tainted as it is, to win you friends, and thus make sure that when it fails, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings. Jesus asks us to use money to help others. If you have little, theres always a way you can help others. Whether rich or poor, we all tend towards a kind of idolatry. We tend to assume that money is the solution to all our problems. Since we have many problems, we tend to assume that we need lots of money. This attitude becomes the same as idolatry when we place our trust not in God but in our bank account. Those who have a bulging bank accounts tend to assume that their life is secure. To warn us against falling into this defect, Jesus told the parable about a rich man building enormous barns. The man already had barns but he wanted bigger ones to store his abundance of goods. Once he had stored everything away safely, he said to himself: My soul, you have plenty of good things laid by for many years to come; take things easy, eat, drink, have a good time. At the end of the parable, God calls the rich man a fool. The Pharisees, who loved money, jeered at him. Love for money can lead a holy person far from God. So it is when someone stores up treasure for himself instead of becoming rich in the sight of God. We become like Pharisees if we pile up more and more cash in our bank accounts and do nothing to help others. Cash in the bank is really the same as many barns full of an abundance of goods. We fall into idolatry because we measure the good or evil of our lives by calculating how much cash we have. Money becomes the god we worship. The only thing that we dont have to pay for these days is the air we breathe. Because of the way society is structured, it is all too easy for money to become a permanent obsession. When that happens, it does a great deal of good to recall Christs words: Dont worry about what you are to eat and drink. If we are not supposed to worry about even such a necessary item as our daily bread, how much more should we trust God to take care of all the rest!
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What to consider before cohabiting

Couples should not start living together before they have had the where are we going? talk
hinking of moving in together? Everyone has a dierent opinion on come-we-stay relationships. From grandmas Nobody buys a cow when the milks for free, to those who see it as just the next step in their relationship. One things for sure though. Cohabitations here to stay. And it can be a smart move for couples who are already spending most of their time together. But its risky because for many it happens almost by accident. Dating gradually becomes more and more sleep overs, and so you slip into moving in together. Without any discussion about your long term future. So one of you might see living together as a step toward marriage, while the other sees it as a way to postpone commitment. Or is feeling pressured. Or thinks its just a practical matter, like one of you needs a place to live or has lost a job. So dont move in before youve had the where are we going? talk! You also need to be on the same page about stu like your future studies, career ambitions and so on. And if youre not? Dont move in. Slipping into cohabitation wouldnt be such a bad thing if sliding out again were just as easy. But it isnt. You become nancially entangled and nearly a fth of cohabiting women become pregnant. And so you marry. Not because youre
Dont make assumptions but check your expectations are the same. right for one another, but because its the easiest option. So check if your expectations are the same. Dont make assumptions, have the conversation. And if thats uncomfortable, youre not ready to move in. Likewise, if you dont really know one another well enough that takes six months to a year. It helps if youre already spending most nights together each week at least youll know about the dirty clothes everywhere! But if you look forward to the nights you sleep alone? Another warning sign. Is your partner always there when you need them? Do you feel valued and your opinion respected? Can you talk about anything? Do you trust each other? Do you handle conict well? Do you share similar values about things like money, religion and having children? Do you have fun together? Do your lifestyles match up? And dont move in together before discussed the things that would denitely break you up. Like cheating and money! Do you know whether your partners a spender? A saver? Financially secure? In debt? Agree household arrangements up front. Like maybe running a joint bank account for rent, food and bills, so you never have to argue over who pays what. There are some upsides of course, like youll be able to have sex any time you want! But thats also when you discover that your sex drives dont match. Or whatever. So be prepared to sort things out. But so long as youre prepared and do sort things out, living together can be bliss. And if it is, be sure to invite me to the wedding! [email protected]
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LIFESTYLE
How to live a longer and healthier life

Some aspects of our health and vitality are governed by our genes and how our mother behaves during pregnancy, but many lifestyle factors, including tness, diet and weight all impact on our ability to live a long and healthy life. Start young Even before we are born, our health can be aected by the lifestyle choices our mother makes. Studies have shown that if an expectant mother is highly stressed this may impact on their baby, leaving them less able to handle stress later in life. Heavy drinking during pregnancy can lead to foetal alcohol syndrome in babies - which can cause a lifelong learning disability as well as physical problems. Smoking can also aect their development. Having a happy childhood may boost longevity, as a study suggests those who are unhappy in their youth have a greater risk of heart disease as adults. Excercise more The pressures of home and family life can make it feel like theres little time to exercise. Aside from weight loss, there is a lot to gain from exercise and it can make a huge dierence to staying healthy: Take care of your bones In childhood our bones are strong and, if they break, they usually repair quickly. When we get older this process slows down and our joints can become weak and fragile. We begin to lose bone density from our mid-30s, which is a normal part of ageing. Lifestyle factors such as having a calcium-rich diet and exercising frequently can keep bones healthy and minimise the risk of fractures. Sunlight exposure is also crucial to up levels of vitamin D. Stay socially active We all know that friends are important for a happy life, but it has recently been discovered that friendship could actually help us live longer. Studies on loneliness have found that social isolation is associated with a higher rate of death in older people and loneliness is the hidden killer of the elderly. In a similar vein, research has shown people who marry live longer than those who are single. Avoid junk food A good diet is central to overall good health, though avoiding certain foods and drinks may help prolong your life. Eating too much high-calorie food rich in simple carbohydrates (sugars) or fat could lead to weight gain or obesity. Reducing salt intake is also important to keep your heart healthy, as eating too much salt could lead to high blood pressure - which in turn may lead to heart failure, stroke and other complications. Its all in our DNA Although there are measures we can take to help us live a long and healthy life, there may be an element of luck involved - depending on our DNA. Much research into ageing has been focused on the role of telomeres. These are the protective tips found at the end of chromosomes, sometimes likened to the tips of shoelaces. Their role is to safeguard the end of the chromosome and to prevent the loss of genetic information during cell division. Each time our cells divide, the tips of our telomeres become shorter. Eventually they become so short, they stop our cells dividing which means the cells die, which is how we age. - BBC
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Even if they have gone in and out of fashion several times, these casual shoes will never lose their cool factor and its probably the only fashion item boys and girls have no qualms in sharing
Making stued green peppers

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COOKERY
Return of the Converse
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BY CAROL ODERO
here is no doubt about it Converse is not just a shoe brand, it is an actual kind of All American canvas shoe. Their birth in the 1980s has meant that with the 1980s revival, Converse have enjoyed a surge. Women who love them though have had to endure the reputation of being young and lacking in fashion sense. They are, in the eyes of a more traditionalist woman, the kind of thing that you wear if you have no sophistication. Which is interesting, considering that Converse do have Swavorski-studded pairs. And, they have made their way to the red carpet, thanks to young celebrities who have decided to square out their own interpretation of style. Men and teenagers have owned the Converse corner, in fact for decades now, and women who wear them have been the ones who have an allergy to heels and glamour. Men have worn them on the red carpet too with slim-fit formal suits and sometimes even with tuxedos. It sounded like a crazy idea too, but not anymore. Nat-
Converses can be worn with dierent outts from tight skinny jeans, short dresses to shorts. The shoe brings out a playful look.
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urally, there are men who would never be caught dead wearing rubber soles on the red carpet, but, style has a wider interpretation these days. It embraces oddities, peculiarities and quirks. In fact, it welcomes them. Teenagers nd a way to sulk and trendset in them. That does not mean they are easy to wear, or that it is a trend that works for everyone. Converse with skinny jeans is a universal, go-to look for the laid back. They are mostly the Bata Bullets kind too. But, if you have high tops you can tuck your jeans in them. Or, if you have a silk-lined pair, you can fold it out and show o that insouciantly. The trick is to look like you didnt try. For that, you would need to actually like wearing skinnies and Converse. You cant force this kind of laissez faire. Women have worn Converse with short skirts or short shorts that skim the thighs. It can be denim or any kind of fabric including oral and African print. These are mostly lean, youthful ladies too. It works best bared legged. Not unless you have flesh coloured stockings, in which case, why even bother? Coloured or opaque tights work best. Keep in mind that this is perfect for the under 30s. Another way to pull this o with short anything is with knee high socks. Short here does mean short. I told you, its young. Kirsten Stewart, Katy Perry, Rihanna, The older woman can wear her pair too. What you need to do is be smart about it. Go for a summer dress that falls just above the knees and wear with a pair. The skin adds length to your look. It is ideal for a summer feel and vibe, mainly outdoors. Play around with colour your dress, the shoes and the laces. Anything below your knees is old, ages you and proves to everyone how clueless you really are. High tops work with a short, irty dress. Next time you attend Blankets and Wine or The Circle, make this
your go-to look. Also, keep the fabric light and airy. No wool, and very light, blended cotton. Add a denim jacket and a funky hat to complete the look. Not too many accessories. Its designed to be a playful look. There are many, creative ways to play around with Converse laces. Again, for you, the boot cut with Converse is ideal. You dont have to show as much of the shoe. It is a far more comfortable alternative to ballet ats, and works for those out of town trips, airport to airport whether locally or out of the country mainly because they can pass through check points and they protect your feet. Ballet ats cant do explorative walking or rough surfaces. They are not for hard leg work though! Take your cue from women like Drew Barrymore, If you think as a 40-year-old you cant wear Converse, you cannot be further from the truth. Pair them with denim or with well-fitted cigarette pants. The key here is to nd colours and designs that work for you. While the vibrant shades of pink and red are great for the 20 and even 30 year old, yours are more of solids and geometrical print shapes. Plain whites with a twist save you from looking like a nurse out of her shift. Wear boyfriend jeans, roll them up and show o you low Converse. Avoid high tops and wear ankle socks. Take your cues from Jennifer Aniston (yes, she does wear Converse), Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett and Sarah Jessica Parker, women who are considered so iconic when it comes to fashion, it will never be the same again. In your fties and still interested in Converse? Have you seen Ellen DeGeneres? Its her innate style that drives her to these shoes. Or Jodie Foster? There are knee-high Converse boots. Im not sure why you would want to wear them. I know they exist, but steer clear. Not unless you are an artist about to hit the stage. Let a sporty meets smart casual look dictate the feel. If it feels too contrived, its not your kind of thing. Leave it alone.
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COOKERY
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FIGHTING DANDRUFF
Dandru is a common, harmless scalp condition that aects many people. To avoid apply curd on root of hair and leave for 15 mins, it works wonders.
Making stued green peppers

Green peppers, also known as pili pili hoho or capsicums are a good source of vitamin C, B, potassium and small amounts of calcium and iron. They are usually added in stews or used to prepare raw vegetable salads. A unique way of cooking green peppers is to stu them with assorted stung. Try this recipe as an interesting way of serving your vegetables. Preparation time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 20 minutes Serves 2.
Dark, bushy brows a

Although many women will swear by the trimmed pencil-thin eyebrows, bolds brows that were common in the 70s have made a comeback. But you will need more than coloured eye pencils to get the fuller brow
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BY CAROL ODERO
INGREDIENTS: 2 large green peppers 11/2-tsp salt 1 large onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1 tbsp cooking oil -kg mincemeat 1 cup cooked rice 1 egg -tsp rosemary Tbsps chopped dhania 1 tbsp tomato paste 1 tbsp yoghurt A pinch of sugar A pinch of black pepper - beef cube mixed in 1-cup hot water - cup chopped mushrooms
he quest for perfect brows is a never ending one. Mostly because eye brows have become fashionable. That means that they are subject to the whimsy of fashion. On the other hand, they are designed to look fuller, which has been an enduring trend. Fuller, thicker brows are a great idea for the Caucasian or Asians. A lot of African women do not have the luxury of thick brows. That belongs to the men in our lives. Instead, we have weak, insipid brow lines. We can only manufacture them with dark pencils. Which is challenging, especially when thick, dark, elongated brows are referred to as face furniture. In fact, so desired are these kind of eyebrows that they have come to be associated with power. If a woman wants to be perceived as powerful, she needs thicker brows. Thinner ones clearly are not cutting it anymore. On some level this makes perfect sense. It is quite a strong frame. The bold caterpillar brows signify that a woman is serious and powerful.
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METHOD: 1. Slice the top of each pepper and remove the membrane and seeds. Wash pepper cases and sprinkle the insides with salt. 2. Heat oil in a large frying pan and add the onion, garlic, and saut until transparent. Add the mushroom and mincemeat. Fry briey and then add rice, salt, egg, rosemary, and dhania. 3. Fill the pepper cases with the mean and rice mixture. Place in a large saucepan, pour in hot beef cube mixture and steam, covered over low heat for 20-30 minutes. Transfer stued peppers to a serving plate and keep warm. Stir tomato paste and yoghurt into pan with the cube mixture. Season with sugar and black pepper. Serve sauce with stued peppers, together with an accompanying dish.
COOKING TIPS: For variation, you may use red and yellow peppers. Always select peppers, which have a glossy sheen, are heavy for their size and have rm walls and sides. A pepper mill is useful for preparing freshly ground pepper. Freshly ground pepper enhances all the foods it is used on.
Irene Njoroge - lecturer@Irene Institute, Nyeri.
Now, though, brows look like they grew wild, thick and caterpillar-ish, crawling across your forehead. Most women dont necessarily find this pretty. Yet this is where fashion tells us the furniture is moving to. Even sadder,
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Moisturising your dry skin back to life

hold moisture. When sucient oil is lacking, the outer layer of the skin cannot hold enough moisture. When this happens, akiness, dry patches and dehydration occur. How do you know if your skin is dry? The most common tell tale sign is if your skin feels extremely tight and has a parchment texture. It also tends to look ashy and has ne lines. Dry skin acts like a sponge soaking up every bit of moisturiser as you apply it to your face, not leaving a trace. Aging is a slow and natural process. One of the changes that occur is that your skin becomes noticeably drier as time goes by. Dry skin tends to have very small ne pores. How to treat dry skin: Moisturiser is the one product your dry skin cannot be without. Next to cleansing, it is crucial to keep your skin moist all the time, otherwise it will become worse. The roles of moisturiser are signicant. They are a therapeutic treatment to heal dry skin with special ingredients such as humectants and essential fatty acids that help to hold moisture to the skin. Used twice or even thrice a day, the correct moisturiser will give dry skin a new lease of life.
The writer is the national director, Safe Skincare Initiative and beauty therapy lecturer. Any questions? Email safeskin [email protected]
YOUR SKIN
irene njoroge
DRY SKIN IS the exact opposite of oily skin. It occurs when your oil glands produce very little or no oil. Your skins structure is engineered in a way that enables the top layer to
Your can get a brighter complexion with a homemade concoction straight from your own kitchen. Simply apply avocado on your face, the benets are the same as buying product from beauty shop
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DIY FACEMASK
are the new big thing

A make up artist threads a models eyebrows.
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Part of the secret to fuller brows, as it so happens, lies in tinting. Why? Colour captures the tiniest hairs along your brow line and lifts tem out. Suddenly, at a glance, your brow line looks fuller. Thats the beginning of the denition. Pencils generally dont give us as full a shape as we would like, and that is mostly because it is hard to shade in some areas and not others. Yet this is what you must do for a more natural brow. You ll in the areas that are patchy and thin, and brush the rest, and make it look like its all one, long, seamless caterpillar. With this need, Nilam has realized
the world needs more training, and has kits for that, and, along with that will be a new makeup line just for eyebrows. If you were thinking your eyebrows are just those two little things on your face, perish the thought. While hair and beauty tutorials have grown big, few aestheticians, if any, have paid as much attention to womens eyebrows with such intensity locally. So many women try to grow brows, yet if there is a smooth spot your hair just wont grow. And, even worse, the only options when it comes to brows are dark brown pencils or black liner, which looks really harsh. Brow powder is still not
Alternatives dont work
common, and salons and spas just dont use it. Specialised brow care is a truly rare thing. Most women think of brows as functional because we have not been trained to think otherwise, yet a great brow is the most critical part of your beauty and face. We need to start considering eyebrow kits in all their glory, and ask more of our eyebrow specialists. Maybe if we started asking harder questions they would dig deeper. And that means no longer asking how can I get my eyebrows to grow? That isnt the question, because the answer is not hairy, it is aesthetic. That is the kind of skill that needs to go around.
HER METHOD, SHE SAYS, IS A SEVEN-STEP PROCESS THAT FOCUSES ON BROW TREATMENT AND DEFINITION, NOT HAIR REMOVAL.
HEALTH >> LINA NJOROGE
How society can support nursing mothers

World Breastfeeding Week is an event held every year from the 1st to 7th August and this years theme is Breastfeeding Support: Close To Mothers. The theme recognises that successful breastfeeding requires support from family, friends and the community. Mothers are encouraged to exclusively breastfeed their newborns for rst six months. But some women are unable to achieve this fete becauseof various issues such as their health, work issues, or ignorance. And even in cases where mothers get o to a good start, all too often in the weeks or months after delivery, there is a sharp decline in breastfeeding rates. It is during this period that mother needs to be supported. Traditionally, support was provided by the family. But as society changed especially with urbanisation, support for mothers from a wider circle is needed, either from trained health workers, lactation consultants, community leaders or friends. Previously featured during World Breastfeeding Week in 2008, the Circles of Support continue to be vital to breatfeeding successes. They are: Family and Social Network: This are husbands/partners/fathers-to-be, family and friends. Social support includes community support at the market place, within a religious context or at a neighbourhood park. Support during pregnancy reduces stress. Support during labour and birth empowers the mother. Societal support increases the mother condence in her ability to breastfeed. Healthcare system: This includes a multitude of opportunities to support breastfeeding which range from mother-friendly prenatal care and supportive labour and delivery services to postnatal care that facilitates bonding and optimal infant feeding. Workplace: Employed women need support to succeed at work and breastfeeding. The opportunities for mother support are as varied as the work women do, but usually involve facilitating mother-baby contact or expression and storage of breast milk. Government/ Legislation: Women who plan to breastfeed or who are breastfeeding benet from laws that guarantee optimal baby feeding. Legislation that combats aggressive marketing of breastmilk substitutes and enacts paid maternity leave also benets breastfeeding the mothers. Response to Crisis or Emergency This circle of support represents the need for support if a woman nds herself in an unexpected and / or serious situation, with little control. Such situations are: natural disasters, refugee camps, divorce proceedings, critical illness of mother or baby. So this year, lets us make an eort to support breastfeeding mothers.
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GOING PLACES ABERDARES
travel
ASIAN SCENE
A magical place up in the forest

has nowt sa queer as folks, my dad would have said. Which, in translation from his strong Lincolnshire dialect, means Theres nothing as strange as people . Yes, he would have thoroughly enjoyed the trip we had last Sunday to the Ark in the Aberdares. And I reckon he would have enjoyed the people-watching even as much as, if not more than, game viewing. The Ark, like Treetops, Mountain Lodge or Shimba Hills, is a place for watching animals at a waterhole and most of the animal action is after dark and well into the night. The rooms are nothing special: simply a bed, a basin and a shower, where you can grab some sleep when you cant stay awake anymore and where you can freshen up before an early breakfast the next day. There must have been about a hundred guests there last Sunday but, after dinner and by only 9.45 pm, there were only a handful of us in the lounges, up on the viewing platforms, or down in the bunker, and looking out over the saltlick and the pool. Even when a sta member rang the buzzers in the rooms to alert the sleepers (those who had left the switches on) that a family of elephants had arrived, very few guests bothered to put on clothes and emerge from their rooms. Even before dinner, many of the guests, once they had taken a few photos, had retired to the inner lounges and the bar. A group were engrossed in a card game; a couple were curled up on a settee reading novels; a teenager was listening to music through her headphones. So what is the reason? I reckon many of the tourists (hardly any of them, by the way, were local tourists) must have been on typical safaris to the coast, lakes and game parks, and the Ark to them was just another lodge
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BY JOHN FOX
night, they were the stars. There were two young males on the salt lick in the early evening. It was dicult to work out their relationship. After slowly walking around each other for a while, they came close and intimate enough to feed salt into each others mouth with their trunks and then they squared up and separated again. And the family group was fascinating; led by a matriarch who gouged out a hole in the soil with her tusks, for the younger ones to enjoy the salt. While the grown females were very protective of their young, one male youngster was pretending to be brave by making little sorties to mock-challenge a bualo. But there were other interesting animals that came to the Ark that night: three disgruntled bualos, a lone and graceful bushbuck, three genet cats who came for a plate of raw eggs left out on the external stairs two of them black two tiny suni antelopes under the bushes, a mongoose that scuttled among the rocks at the base of the building, and a bush baby that actually got inside and left its droppings on the carpet. Maybe, the carpets in the newly refurbished Ark are too pale to absorb such treatment. But, overall, the decor is good stylish and comfortable. The bedrooms, though small, have brightly painted walls, slatted wood ceilings, hot showers and hot water bottles in the beds at night. When we have first-time visitors to Kenya we often choose the Ark as their introduction to our wildlife. It is a magical place, up in the forest. You are bound to see a lively cast of animals and there must be few other places where you can get so close to elephants. I think I could turn and live with animals, wrote Walt Whitman, the American poet. I remembered that line last Sunday at the Ark. John Fox is Managing Director iDC
Film fans eulogise Indian star

Legendary Indian actor Pran Krishan Sikand died in Mumbai on July 12 aged 93. Pran featured in more than 400 movies in a prolic career spanning over six decades. He will be remembered for his bad-guy roles. Through his lms he captivated lmgoers as a villain and projected the characters he played with ease. He is reputed to have established among lm goers a cult of respect and admiration making the bad guys in the movie as popular as the good guys. At one time he was the highest paid actor in India. He has featured alongside other Bollywood big names of his time such as Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand. However, towards the end of his illustrious career, Pran transformed and starting taking up roles of the good guy in movies like Upkar, Zanjeer and Parichay. In the 60s and early 70s Indian lm lovers in Nairobi and Mombasa would buy movie tickets in advance to watch his movies. Pran recieved numerous prestigious awards for his sterling contribution to the world of Indian cinema. Indian Governments highest honor for Cinema the Dadasahib Palkhe Award was presented to him at his home in Mumbai in May. Filmfare magazine gave him a lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 and Pran was declared the Villain of the Millennium by Star Dust periodical in 2000. Pran, who started out as a photographer but turned to acting in 1940 made a monumental contribution to Hindi cinema. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tweeted Indian Cinema has lost an icon. He was a gentleman and a most collaborative colleague, another magnicent pillar of the Indian lm Industry falls tweeted Amitabh Bachan, another lm legend in India. The legendary actor is survived by his wife, a daughter and two sons.
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Natures best
Visitors who stayed up late were able to see this family of elephants. PHOTO | JAN FOX where they could unwind and sleep after days of being bumped around in minibuses. On this occasion, well over a third of the guests were Chinese. And the sta of the Aberdare Country Club (which is the superb lunch rendezvous for being bussed to the Ark) told us that the majority of the bookings right to the end of August are from Chinese tour companies. But the early-to-bed phenomenon at the Ark is something we have remarked on before when the guests were mainly Europeans. It occurred to us, though, that we are missing an opportunity when there is such a captive audience of Chinese or other East-Asian tourists. Now Charles, the Arks host for the night, gave an excellent talk about the history of the Ark, the ecology of the Aberdare National Park, and the animals and birds that we were encountering. But, given that the East-Asian nations (and particularly China) are the main culprits in the trade for poached ivory and given that China has a death penalty for killing a panda perhaps such Chinese tourists might have had their awareness aroused if they had been asked how they would react if a group of Kenyans were considering visiting China to poach pandas. As for the elephants at the Ark that
Tourist numbers
MOTORING GAVIN BENNETT
Brace yourself for something really scary about Kenyas roads. More scary than watching a truck that is so unroadworthy speeding down the road. More scary than watching another truck trying (and failing) to overtake it on a hill, a round a corner and over a brow. More scary than the next car in the line wasting half-a-dozen precious opportunities to get past this obstruction More scary, even, than the behaviour in the queue of 38 cars that builds up behind this now triple-length blockade, swerving out, pushing in, blasting past a bumper-to-bumper line, overtaking on the inside or forcing oncoming cars o the road. Very slow vehicles are both a direct cause of accidents and a major contributor to the delays and exasperations that lead to the bad attitudes and bad habits that are to blame for the numerous accidents. The impact of very slow vehicles is at or near the very top of the list of factors that make motoring so unpleasant and
Slow drivers are as dangerous as speeding motorists
dangerous. Any qualied and cranially equipped and emotionally well-adjusted driver can see that. But heres what is really scary; over the past decades, including two complete overhauls of the Trac Act, the rise and fall of dierent road safety authorities, and the passage of millions of roadside police checks, there has been not one mention and not one legal measure nor physical act, to address the issue of slow vehicles. Not even a stied burp. Persistently in the past, and now the
top priority of the very latest wisdom of the very largest road safety initiative is excessive speed with the ringing endorsement and massive funding of some almighty international institutions and our own policy makers. There is no polite language to describe this. There is no rationale to justify it. The statistics police gures which identify excessive speed as a leading cause of accidents are glaringly suspect. Where are the facts to support their analysis? What speed is
excessive? How is it specically correlated with cause? Many accident victims are pedestrians and cyclists, for whom the lethal splat speed is about 40kph. Next come passengers, whose prospects are not good if the vehicles they have a headon collision with are each doing, say 50kph. So I ask again: what speed is excessive? Also, spotting vehicles going too fast is dicult. Nabbing those going too slowly is easy. A policeman at a roadside check will rst notice a gap in the trac from one direction. Then, in the distance, he will see a vehicle crawling at the head of a long queue, which will be writhing in anguish. No one designs a truck that will do 20 kph on a busy highway. Any vehicle that moves that slowly is either faulty or overloaded, and should be booked for those oences. The driver should be punished for obstructing trac.
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12 Lifestyle
humour
The day I was held captive in the house

I wish apologise to my friends whom I let down spectacularly last Saturday. Together with Kwame, Kizito and Lutta, we had planned to meet at Cosmos Bar to celebrate the salary increments we earned after the strike but, due to unavoidable circumstances, I was not to make it for the drinking session. Although I am not fully responsible, I will take full responsibility. You see, a day after my birthday, I decided to travel to Nairobi to sort out a few issues at KU so as to ensure I graduate before 2017. It was only after we had passed Kedong that I received news that the strike had been called o the previous day. Remembering how the government has been speaking tough, I did not want to risk the sack. I alighted at Nakuru and boarded a home-bound Msamaria Mwema for the journey back. As soon the government announced that schools would re-open the next Monday, I directed Fiolina to wash all my green Kaunda suits, T-shirts and vests, among other clothes. With school starting on Monday, I want to begin on a clean slate, I told her last Friday. Ensure that all my clothes are washed and ironed by Monday morning. I will do so tomorrow, she said, before proceeding to make supper for me. That evening, Lutta visited and although I told Fiolina to delay in cooking, he stayed until he took supper with us. It was about 11 p.m. when I saw him o. I went back and slept immediately. On Saturday, I was woken up by Fiolinas commotion as she arranged things around that house. I stayed in bed and soon drifted o to sleep. Dre, I am going to the river to wash, I heard her say. I remember mumbling that it was okay, and telling her not to lock the door. I continued sleeping. The strike was coming to an end so I needed to take full advantage and rest. I was woken up by a knock on the door at around 9.30 a.m. Hodi! Hodi! Who is there? I asked. Its Caro, sister ya Kwame, the visitor introduced herself.
I returned to the bedroom where I continued sitting in my birthday suit as Fiolina spoke to her Mum.
Wait a minute, I said as I struggled out of bed. Kuna mandazi ? she asked. Kwame has sent me for ten; we have received emergency visitors. Fiolina had not made any mandazi that morning but we still had the previous days mandazi that I planned to give Caro. I am coming, I said as I looked around for clothes to wear. The trousers I had removed last night were not on the oor and neither were the Kaunda suits that are usually hung against the wall. That is when I remembered that the laugh of my life had gone to wash them at the river. With all the Kaunda suits missing, I decided to wear a T-shirt and my only pair of jeans that Pius gave me. I searched in the basket where we dump dirty clothes and even in several paper bags but these clothes were also missing: they had been taken to the river, too, as per my instructions. Dre, ningoje ama mandazi hakuna? Caro asked. Ngoja kidogo, I said, hoping that I would get something to wear. I was not keen to lose such big money. I even checked in two boxes under the bed but they only held Fios clothes, my old books and other items I do not want to mention here. I heard the main door open as Caro entered the sitting room. Nimekaa hapa nakungojea, she said. After another ve minutes of frantic searching, I gave up. Pole, hakuna mandazi, I told her so that she could go, as there was no way I was leaving the bedroom in my current state. But I can see some here on the table, she said. Six, she answered after I asked her how many were on the table. I then told her to take them. Leave the money on the table, I added. She then said that she could not leave as she had a Sh200 note and she needed change to also buy sugar. I told her to go and bring the money later. Kwani unafanya nini hutaki kuniona? she asked. Ama umeambiwa mimi ni mchawi? I did not answer and she banged the front door on her way out. As soon as she left, I called Fiolina. Her phone went through but I then heard it ring in the sitting room. She had left it at home. With no way to reach her and no one around to send, I had no alternative but to go back to bed and wait for her. It was a cold morning and about half an hour later, it started drizzling. Soon I heard Fiolina return, singing. I peeked through the window and I could see her hanging all the clothes I owned on the drying line. Just as she nished, the drizzle turned into a heavy downpour and she quickly ran into the house. Dre, you are not waking up today? she asked. Sina nguo ya kuvaa, I told her. You have washed everything! Aki pole sana! she said regretfully. I thought I left you one suit. But you are the one who said that I wash everything. Fiolina set about preparing breakfast and she came to the bedroom and handed me a towel. Funga hii kuja tukunywe breakfast. No one will be coming. I tied the small towel around my waist and went to the sitting room. I was half way through my third cup of tea when someone knocked loudly and before we could answer, entered the house. It was Fiolinas mother. Mvua ni nyingi sana, said Truphena as she entered the house. Habari ya watoto wangu? she greeted us. I was dumb struck. In Mwisho wa Lami and its environs, it is an abomination for your mother-in-law to see you bare-chested. Since we could not let her go back into the rain, I quickly disappered into the bedroom as Fiolina lied that I was sick. They continued talking and Fiolina started preparing lunch. She then served the food although I could hear her mother wonder why I had not been invited to join them. I then heard the voices of two other visitors: Kwame and Kizito. Whats wrong with Dre? I heard Kwame ask. My sister came here and she said he refused to leave the bedroom. Is he ok? Fiolina told him that I was okay. It was 2 p.m. They kept talking, and Kwame told her that they had come to pick me but they were waiting for the rain to subside. It stopped raining an hour later, and Fiolina saw o the guests. She then passed by our home, picked Pius clothes and brought them for me to wear. It was around 4.30 p.m. when I left the house. [email protected]
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mwalimu andrew
Long wait
No clothes
I SEARCHED IN THE BASKET WHERE WE DUMP DIRTY CLOTHES AND EVEN IN SEVERAL PAPER BAGS
JOKES
Judge: How does the defendant plead? Lawyer: He denies wrong doing, your honour, and vows not to repeat it again. *** Technological progress has merely provided us with a more ecient means of going backwards. It is better to go nowhere fast, than nowhere slowly. An adult is a deteriorated child. *** Client: Is this camera fool proof? Salesman: Its even damnfoolproof, sir! *** A great-uncle is father of an uncle who has a nephew. A fan is a thing you brush the warmth o with. A hostage is a lady who entertains visitors. A pessimist is never happy unless he is miserable. An inhibition is like an exhibition, only indoors. A lifeboat is so cleverly constructed, it can carry more than it can hold. A bridge hung from one side to another, is called a suspender bridge. *** Teacher: Tell me about The Great Plague? Nigel: It was a serious illness which started with a swelling under the arm, then spread across England. *** James: Did you like the new model? Dean: Not so much. She had a face that could make an onion cry. *** A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns, that individuality is the key to success. A psychiatrist is the next man you start talking to, after you start talking to yourself. Try to sell something old and they say its obsolete. Try to buy it, and its a collectors item. Mother nature gives us twelve years to love our children, before turning them into teenagers. *** Inspector: Married or single? Jennifer: Single by choice....but, not my choice.
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Pain of losing pair of perfectly normal breasts

igh society role models obviously play a big part in promotion of an idea and surgery is not an exception. I remember that when Pat Nixon and Betty Ford, wives of two US presidents, went public on their breast cancer and openly declared that they had had a mastectomy, breast cancer started coming out of the wraps amongst Americans and women readily accepted removal of breast, which was considered the best treatment at the time. Now that Oscar winning actress and UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, has undergone prophylactic mastectomy, because she carries a faulty gene which puts her at higher risk of suering from breast cancer, hopefully other patients will accept preventive mastectomy which is gaining ground under appropriate surgical circumstances. In this connection, I am relating my personal experience which, amongst other things, reiterates the need to change our approach in the light of surgical research and progress. The rst part of the story goes back 25 years when I regularly taught undergraduate and post-graduate students at the Kenyatta National Hospital. I was giving bedside tutorials to a batch of third year students. They were pretty green, having arrived from Chiromo, where they were dissecting cadavers and learning physiology and biochemistry for the last two years. They had just entered the hospital, proudly donning their white coats, with the newly acquired stethoscopes hanging round their necks. Alright, Miss Waiguru, tell us about this patient you have just examined, I said to the young lady whose badge loudly proclaimed her name. My patient is Mrs Mulli, a 47-yearold lady, Miss Waiguru started. Hold it there, I said, Tell me why it is important to know a patients name. Miss Waiguru and her classmates seemed puzzled at my unusual question. Since there was utter silence, I replied myself: I think the dearest word to any person is his or her name and being referred by it is uplifting to their morale. Besides it is highly discourteous to call patients by their bed numbers or their diagnoses, as commonly happens. Numbers to denote human beings are only used in prison and detention camps. It is equally wrong to label a patient by their diagnosis, like lump in the breast. As they were furiously scribbling on their writing pads, I added a light touch: Remember also that in the private sector, the name enables you to send your professional fee note to the right person! Thereafter I did not interrupt Miss Waiguru until she came to the family history of Mrs Mulli. What is the signicance of knowing family history? I asked. Some diseases are hereditary and I was inquiring if there was a history of breast cancer in her family, replied the student who was gaining condence. Reminds me of a student I overheard while he was examining a patient, I inserted another humorous note to keep my students interested. He was allotted a patient with multiple injuries caused by a matatu accident and I heard him ask his
Mrs Mbalu told me she saw no need to consult with her husband because it was not his life that was on the line.
patient: Was your father or mother ever knocked down by a matatu? After the laughter subsided and at the end of history taking and examination, we retired to the side-room, to spare Mrs Mulli unpleasant surgical details about her disease she did not need to know. After a good discussion, Miss Waiguru concluded that her patient had cancer of the breast. That gave me an alibi to talk on my favourite subject. I gave the students some idea of the incidence of this disease worldwide in general and in Kenya in particular. When I started working as a surgeon here, breast cancer was rare amongst our people, I said. Though the expatriate communities suered with the same frequency as in their countries of origin, its incidence was supposedly less common among indigenous women. Looking out of the window from the fth oor of the Tower Block where my ward was located, I added: Regrettably now, breast cancer is the commonest cancer in women in Kenya. It is attributed to changes in lifestyle, such as better nutrition, early menarche, late menopause, delayed rst pregnancy, lack of breast feeding, fewer children, high hormone pills, and use of hormone replacement therapy. At the end of my tutorial, as usual I asked Any questions? Miss Waigurus hand went up. If breast cancer is such a common condition, why dont we remove womens breasts after they reach menopause and have completed their family? The question sounded radical then and aroused a lively discussion, to which I listened intently. How many women will allow a surgeon to remove their breasts because there was a theoretical danger of cancer? A male student asked. Many, if there was a proven genetic factor and their chance of suering from breast cancer was higher than an average woman, a lady student retorted. I wonder what their husbands would say, another protest from a young man. Ah, there is the rub, Miss Waiguru was back in the fray. If, however, both parties were properly counselled, there would be greater compliance. Mind you with breast reconstruction coming into vogue, the temporary loss would be more acceptable, I intervened. That way the women can regain their femininity. Looking at the boys with daggers in her eyes, one lady student remarked: That way, men could have their cake and eat it! At the time I had no answer myself and let the discussion nd its own depth and tenor. Fast forward 24 years. Having acquired the dubious distinction of being the greatest killer of women in almost every country, research on breast cancer is relentless. Newer methods of early diagnosis and treatment of this dreaded disease attract considerable research. My third year batch of students was not static either. After qualifying, some went for post-graduate qualications and specialist training to provide much needed high prole personnel for the countrys public and private hospitals. Cindy Waiguru developed an interest in genetics and we kept in touch. I have this patient, Mrs Mbalu, who is very worried about her breasts, she came to see me last year and told me. She is 45 and has no complaints related to them but she lost her mother, maternal aunt and sister to breast cancer over the last 15 years. I am sure she has BRCA genes. Cindy was referring to breast cancer genes on which a lot of research has been done recently. I would like you to see her and adviseshe implored. Mrs Mbalu was a university lecturer and very articulate. She had clear cut ideas about her breasts and made her case in the most logical manner. Have you any complaints regarding your breasts? I asked, like a lump, pain or nipple discharge? I enumerated the three common symptoms. No, replied Mrs Mbalu. So whats your problem? In view of three deaths among my blood relatives, I think I am carrying a bomb which might go o any time and I want you to defuse it, she replied. You mean remove both your normal breasts? I asked. They are not normal. They are riddled with potential cancer, she argued. I thought you doctors always believe that prevention is better than cure and this would be preventive. It is true that we cant choose our parents but surely we can do something about what we inherit from them. Have you talked to your husband about it? I asked. It is not his breasts we are removing, replied Mrs Mbalu. Nor is it his life on the line. But I am sure he will see sense if he realises that the choice for me is between preserving my breasts or my life. Okay, I said. There is a lot of discussion in the surgical literature about prophylactic mastectomy. Let me think about it and we meet again soon. As soon as Mrs Mbalu left, I rang Cindy. I need more than family history to remove a pair of breasts from a 43year-old woman, I said. I know, she replied. I am sending my patient to the hospital in New York where I trained in genetics, she said. This could take up to a month, but I am sure that if she has carried the bomb for 43 years, she can keep it for a month longer. At the end of the month Cindy rang me. Mrs Mbalu is back with a report which conrms that she, indeed, carries BRCA2 which puts her at a very high risk, she said. My teacher there has gone one stage further and has added that statistically Mrs Mbalu has 85% risk of developing breast cancer but bilateral mastectomy can reduce it to between 2 and 5 per cent. The way forward was clearer. Being an unusual scenario, I consulted a couple of my peers but the driving engine was my erstwhile student, Cindy. That little dident girl, who presented a case of breast cancer along with her 17 costudents, was now an authority on the subject. It is a year now since I carried out a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy on Mrs Mbalu. She is soon undergoing an operation to reconstruct her breasts from her own tissues. May be because, as a student said all those years ago, her husband can have the cake and eat it! Looking at Cindy, however, I am always reminded of William Wordsworths famous line -- The Child is father of the Man.
SURGEONS DIARY
Early diagnosis
IN ITS 34TH YEAR
Patients name
yusuf k. dawood
THAT LITTLE DIFFIDENT GIRL, WHO PRESENTED A CASE OF BREAST CANCER ALONG WITH HER 17 CO-STUDENTS, WAS NOW AN AUTHORITY ON THE SUBJECT.
Sitawa Namwalie is known by the name Betty Wamalwa Muragori. When not writing poetry, she is a consultant on management, women and environmental issues. She has a masters degree in environmental science.
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AUTHORS BIO
books&culture
NEWS IN BRIEF
Zimbambwe author in Booker Prize longlist An African writers book has made it into this years Man Booker Prize longlist. First-time author NoViolet Bulawayos We Need New Names, a coming-of-age tale that portrays life in Zimbabwe and that of African immigrants in US, is among other books by 12 other writers and from six dierent countries. This is surely the most diverse longlist in Man Booker history: wonderfully various in terms of geography, form, length and subject, said Macfarlane, chair of this years judges of the awards. The Man Booker Prize is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. Americanah Clinches the Heartland Prize for Fiction
Would you chop o my tongue for being dierent?

Poem titled Language of Tribe delves into the racial conict within us that we always want to suppress
BY TOM ODHIAMBO
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o, our good old journos, the so-called Fourth Estate, went to drink tea at State House? Well, there is nothing wrong with nding out how the State House mahamri taste. After all, if there is one good habit those sneaky islanders from Europe left us after many years of oppression, suppression and denial of good things, it was tea. In many cultures in Kenya today, tea is an obligatory sign of kinship, intimacy and conviviality. But that chai business has led to copious amounts of commentary on whether the tea-drinking was the right or wrong thing to do, at this time in the history of Kenya, by our supposed watchdogs. But whats driving this debate? Well, there are those who say that dining with the state may clip the tongues of these men and women who are expected to speak truth to power. This reminded me of a small book that is hard to pick on the shelves of bookshelves that every Kenyan who really minds about the rude question of tribe, a question that now insinuates itself in nearly every public conversation, should read. The book is a little bit self indulgent but it really makes the
Tell the truth
Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies novel Americanah has won the 2013 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for ction. The book is a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face dicult choices and challenges in the countries they have come to call home. Elizabeth Taylor, the literary editor of the Chicago Tribune newspaper, the awards creator, said: We loved Americanah. Its a powerful, resonant novel and we would be delighted to celebrate it and try to share it with a wider audience. Copy of JK Rowling rst novel sells for Sh390,000 A rst edition of British author J K Rowlings The Cuckoos Calling signed as the writers pseudonym Robert Galbraith sold for Sh390,000 on AbeBooks, an online marketplace for books. Rowling, however, still insists that her exposure by a senior lawyer in a legal rm was not part of a clever marketing campaign to boost sales.
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point, which I seek to paraphrase here: would you really cut o my tongue for being dierent. The book is called Cut O My Tongue (2009) by Sitawa Namwalie and others. Before you get a chance to read the book, let me whet your appetite with excerpts from the one poem that I found so apt: Language of Tribe; I am well versed in the language of tribe/Having acquired the script long ago/From family, friends, school/From my whole existence as a Kenyan, really/And I speak it with uent authority/ There may be times when I look different/Special, even, as if tribe/Were beyond my understanding/After all, I can cite my Luhya-Kikuyu marriage/ My children speak only English/ my Friends are Kikuyu, Kamba, Luo, Luhya, Kisii/KCs, even a Somali or two/But I am like eve-
ryone else. How many Kenyans wont nd themselves and their little, sneaky and dangerous prejudices in these lines? How many Kenyans dont do the mathematics of tribe as outlined in the lines below? Tribe makes me act secretly/I hide myself in full public view/I read the newspapers/Watch behind the news, scan the streets/ Count the members of the church council/On and on/I tally the number of times my tribe emerges/When the appearance is favourable, I smile. This is pretty familiar territory, isnt it? It is the nagging jigger in everyones big toe! It is what makes Kenya make two steps forward and three long backward strides. Yet we refuse to speak about
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it concretely and publicly; we refuse to speak about it in starooms, at the market, in Parliament, wherever and whenever. We pretend that it doesnt exist. We seem so intent on cutting off the tongue that shall pronounce out tribalism and instead speak of it in the passive tense, as if it is a crisis in a neighbours home, as if it is a bad dream. Of course, as many of the poems and other ruminations in Cut O My Tongue many Kenyans wake up every morning to a mortifying day but cant speak of their desperation, a desperation born of ethnic, racial, economic, spiritual, regional or political dierence. Who shall speak for them? Will they also have tea with the editors? The writer teaches literature at the University of Nairobi.
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Four students from Moi Girls School, Nairobi, wowed the audience with dazzling performances in the competitive Zilizopendwa dances from outside Kenya. In fact, one would have been forgiven for thinking that Hilda Juma, Winnie Wanjohi, Lynn Muli and Leah Togom are part of a professional dance troupe. They helped their school to victory in this category during the Nairobi Metropolitan Regional Music Festival at Scott Christian University in Machakos recently. Their choice of song, which was composed by Pamela Nkutha, directed by Edward Omulup and assisted Abby Chokera, had all the qualities of a good piece of music. Strathmore School scooped the second prize in the category. State House Girls also performed the golden oldie Excuse Me by ZamPeter Ndirangu, will be showcased during the Kenya Schools and Colleges National Music Festival at Lions Primary school in Nakuru County on August 5. Other winners in the English choral verse were Moi Girls Nairobi, Precious Blood, State House Girls, Masii Boys, Matungulu Girls, Forest View Academy, Starehe Girls and Ngara Girls. In the Kamba folk dances, schools from Makueni and Machakos counties dominated the list of winners with Kivani, Katoloni and Mukuyuni secondary schools, and Mumbui Boys taking top positions. In the African traditional cultural group from the Luo and Luhya communities, Apostolic Carmel Girls were top followed by Aquinas High while Uhuru High was third. In the Kisii and Kuria folk dances, Pumwani Boys carried the day followed by Lavington Secondary and Ngara Girls.
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bian song bird Anna Mwale. The costumes and set for the dance was tting for the theme, which was to celebrate good tidings. Students from Ngara Girls and Pumwani Boys did not disappoint, either. But in the equally competitive Zilizonpendwa Gospel category, Strathmore emerged top followed by Moi Girls Nairobi while Our Lady of Mercy
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Why we shine in athletics

I take training sessions seriously by waking up early and following instructions from my coach - Mercy Akiru
BY JOSEPH KANYI lthough in smaller strides, Mercy Akiru is following in the footsteps of former world marathoner Catherine Ndereba. She is an upcoming athlete who is winning awards for her school. She takes her training seriously at the Ruringu Stadium in Nyeri County. This is the same stadium that made Ndereba. It is here Ndereba would go for practice when she completed high school and after realising she was talented
in distance races. Just like Mercy, Ndereba started o by taking part in inter schools athletics competitions. Mercy, a 13-year-old pupil at Riamukurwe Primary School, is a middle distance runner. She trains with a group of 54 other rising stars from various schools under an umbrella body called Homerun, which is coordinated and guided by coach Titus Ndegwa. I take training sessions seriously by waking up early and following instructions from the coach. I usually dont have time to
waste since during my own free time at school, I am race with my friends, she disclosed. Her coach Ndegwa had words of praise for achievements and progress adding that most of her team members are very disciplined and active in class work. Talents are like gifts and the earlier they are discovered the better since they make the child focused both academically and socially, said coach Ndegwa. Nothing really can paint the teams dedication in sports than the time they put in practice PAGE 3 >>
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couple of weeks ago we announced an on-job training competition whereby applicants were required to participate by writing an essay. We are proud to announce that the response was overwhelming and the quality of essays commendable. This is particularly so because we realise even with increased use of social media, mobile phones (Short Text Messaging) and emails where young people are likely to abbreviate words or write in Sheng to peers, this did not creep into the essays. So keep it up. Our judges will tell you they had a hard time picking the winners. Since we had to pick only four out of hundreds of entries, we encourage those who were not lucky this time to try again when we announce the competition in the near future. We realise that the competition has generated a lot of interest among young people who want to pursue journalism as a career later in life and so we will have many more of these especially during the school holidays. Now that you have our feedback, I hope that you will keep reading and writing to improve your skills. Congratulations to our winners. Turn to Page 4 to see if you are the lucky one. Read on. LIZ
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LEARN TO FORGIVE
Have you ever wondered why teachers never use chalks to write on the blackboards? Anything written on the blackboard should be erased to give room for more to be written. Every teacher insists the blackboard must be erased before a new lesson begins. The erasing of the blackboard can be compared to the act of forgiveness. This is a practice shunned by many yet very important in our daily lives. Remember to erase (read forgive) your friends mistakes and be ready to start all over again. Erasing also means you forget the past and move on. Zahra Salim
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ELISIE WAMBUI You are now nine years old. May you live to full ll your destiny, favour be your portion always. Best wishes from mum Lilian, cousins, uncles, aunties and friends and all your classmates at Prime Junior School. TREVOR MUNENE NJUE Happy birthday as you turn six. May the almighty God be with you always and bless you as you grow to be a great man. Best wishes from mum Meldy, dad Zachary, grandparents, cousins, uncles, aunties, Teacher Catherine and all your classmates at Glorious Vision School in Kasarani. MITCHEL ARRIANNA OTIENO Mitchel, you truly are a blessing in our lives. We live each and every day feeling blessed and in happiness because of you. Happy second birthday. Best wishes from mum Nelly, dad George, grannies, aunties, cousins and friends. PRECIOUS WAKINI MAINA Happy birthday Precious as you turn three. You are a wonderful gift to us. We wish you Gods favour as you grow up to be a big girl. With lots of love from dad, mum, brother Austin, uncles, aunties and grandparents. TYLER OSALLO Happy fourth birthday. May you live to be God-fearing and to blow many more candles. Best wishes from dad Charles, mum Tabitha, sister Tasha, grandparents, uncles, aunties and cousins. LAUREEN NYONGESA Happy birthday wishes from dad Ben, mum Lyn, brother Bravin, uncles, aunts and friends. May you grow to be a God-fearing and obedient girl and live to see your great-great grandchildren. MAXWELL KARITI MAINA As you celebrate your birthday, may the almighty God bless you and be with you always. You have been a blessing to our lives and may you grow to blow 1001 candles. May all your dreams come true. Best wishes from mum Ellenah, dad Charles Kariti, sister Sophie Mweru, cousins and aunties. SIMEON PETER MACHUKA May you grow to be a God-fearing, hardworking and obedient boy. Birthday wishes from dad Raphael Machuka and mum Vanice Bosibori Raphael.
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in the quiet Riamukurwe village where they are usually spotted at dawn beating the morning dew heading to Ruringu stadium, four kilometres away, for speed work training sessions.
For them, sports and education go hand in hand and already, a good number of them have received certicates for their shining performance in various athletic activities in the region. For instance, 15year-old Daniel Ekadeli is another rising star in the team and promising athlete having been a champion in the Nairobi Standard Chartered race in the 5 Kilometre Family Run category last year. He oored his teammate Francis Kimondo who stole the victory in the same race in the years 2010 and 2011. And Esther Muthoni is the reigning javelin champion in the county and fth best nationally after the recent national track and eld at Moi International Sports Centre last month. When she started
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practising throwing the javelin, many found it amusing but that did not deter her from pursuing her passion. I believed in myself and I was determined to make it to the nationals. I am happy that I did, she said. She emerged top in the build-up events in the county and at the national level she recorded an impressive throw of 38.85 metres to be ranked fth. Surprisingly, the current national javelin record is 46.1 metres. The smile on their coachs face speaks optimism and a bright future for the young team as he disclosed, we hope to make this country proud one day. Our secret is self-discipline and dedication in all that we do. I normally emphasise the importance of both academic excellence and in other co-curricular activities, he said. One way he manages to instill discipline is by delegating his coaching duties to some of the older members in his team. When I am late, Muthoni takes up the responsibilities of keeping the team busy by conducting warm up drills and
body build-up activities, he disclosed.
According to coach Ndegwa, the young stars must strictly follow their training programme which includes waking up early in the morning and doing morning run around the village. Young Kimondo, who is now a 1500 metres runner and takes part in 6-kilometre cross country, said that his role model is Asbel Kiprop, who is the reigning world champion. Last year, the Central region department of sports gave each of the children a pair of sports uniform after they participated in Central Province under 17 championships at Kagumo High school. However, coach Ndegwa said that the teams major challenge is nances to facilitate the athletes to take part in competitions in other parts of the country. Participating in many local events will not only make the upcoming runners better but will also give them exposure.
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PHOTOS | JOSEPH KANYI ABOVE; Upcoming athletes from Homerun club in a speedwork session at Ruringu stadium in Nyeri recently. The young athletes are gearing up for the cross country season. COVER and LEFT; Riamukurwe Primary Schools Mercy Akiru of Hoperun club displays a certicate and a trophy won by her teammates in various competitions a fortnight ago.
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Children and law What rights do child marriages violate?

BY PATRICIA MUNDIA [email protected] he Childrens Act denes early marriage as one that involves children under the age of 18 years or living with a child as husband and wife (cohabitation). Early marriage also includes any arrangements made for such marriage or cohabitation. Such a marriage deprives young girls and boys of their adolescence. It forces them into sexual relations and denies them the freedom to make their own decisions. It makes them become parents at a very early age. Early marriages violate the childs rights to expression, conscience and association. These rights are found in the Constitution. In addition, it violates the right to leisure and recreation, education, healthcare and right to protection against harmful cultural practices. Child marriages can be caused by one or many combined reasons; 1. Poor families sell their children into marriage either to settle debts or to make some money and escape the cycle of poverty. However, what they fail to see is that child marriages foster poverty as it ensures that girls who marry young will not be properly educated or take part in the workforce. 2. In certain cultures, it is presumed that the girls familys honour, will be protected by ensuring that the girl marries as a virgin. The danger of this is that when family honour is imposed, it robs the girl of her dignity and instead the family controls the girl instead of protecting her as it should. 3. Child marriage is a product of cultures that devalue women and girls and discriminate against them. This is seen in the form of domestic violence, marital rape, lack of food, lack of access to information, education, healthcare, and general impediments to mobility. Poor families are tempted to sell their girls not just into marriage, but also into prostitution. Kenya has taken good steps in ensuring that laws are put in place to protect children from early marriages. Apart from the national laws, It has signed and ratied some regional and international laws that are applied in Kenya. The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child provides that child betrothal and marriage should be prohibited and that eective action should be taken to ensure that the minimum age of marriage is 18. The main international law protecting children is the United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child which generally provides against the practice of early marriages. This is through its provision against harmful cultural practices which is interpreted to include early marriage. The writer is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya
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e was born on May 20, 1985. He is a Kenyanborn British professional cyclist. Born in Kenya and brought up in South Africa, he has ridden under a British license from 2008 and on the basis of his passport and fathers and grandparents country of birth. In 2007, he turned professional at the age of 22 with Team Konica Minolta. He moved to Europe to further his career, joining the British-based team, Barloworld At the 2012 Tour de France. He won stage seven. In the same year he also won the bronze medal in the Olympic Games. Last week he won the 100th edition of the Tour de France. 1. What is the name of the cyclist? 2. What is the name of his team?
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DO YOU LIKE WATCHING MOVIES? WHO IS YOU FAVOURITE ACTOR/ACTRESS?

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ANTHONY MWENDA, 13, KAGAARI PRIMARY SCHOOL, RUNYENJES

I love watching action movies. Kung Fu and Karate are my favourite. My favourite actor is Jack Chan and I love all his movies.
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1. Name: Mohamed Hussein Hassan Age: 17 School: Daraja Mbili High School, Kisii County 2. Name: Reuben Murega Age: 17 School: Kamiti Secondary School, Nairobi County 3. Name: Stacey Doris Sichomo Age: 14 School: St. Claire Girls Secondary School, Elburgon 4. Name: Michelle Moraa Mokaya Class: Year 13 School: Brookhouse School
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Why I will never forget my rst visiting day
BY FAITH N. MUTURIA [email protected] here are many memorable days about life in boarding school, and among those I remember most fondly are the visiting days, particularly my rst visiting day. It was a Saturday, and I knew my parents would be coming to visit as they had assured me in a letter a few weeks earlier. After getting ready and trying to look my best in my green school uniform, I tried to stay calm as the visiting hours approached. When the gate to the school grounds was open, my school mates and I enthusiastically left the dormitories for the school compound where we eagerly awaited our families to show up. By now I had missed my family, and I was eager to see them. Little by little, people started streaming into the school to visit their daughters, granddaughters, nieces, and cousins. It was not long before I spotted my family, all ve of them. I ran and hugged them, before my eyes settled on the huge basket they had brought. My eyes almost popped with delight when I imagined all the goodies in there! We then looked for a spot to sit on the well-trimmed grass in the school compound. Nearby, I saw my friend Gertrudes family, we said hello to each other and made brief introductions to our families. Then it was munching time. My loving mother proceeded to open the large basket she had brought, and before I was done drooling at the chapatis, she had opened a container of beef stew. It was steaming hot as though she had just prepared it. In addition, there was pilau rice. I just took in the scent for a couple of minutes before I dug in. You must have taken all morning to prepare all this food! I said. I was very appreciative of their coming and of her labour of love in preparing the delicious food which I had not tasted in months. I took bite after bite. I couldnt have enough. Before I was done with my rst helping, my mother encouraged me to take a few minutes break. She reminded me she had brought an assortment of fruits as well; bananas, mangoes and oranges. I just kept eating and eating, as we conversed about my new life in a new school, Tatua Girls Boarding School. Between bites of mandazis, I assured them I had settled well, was working hard at my studies, and had made friends. I shouldnt forget to mention that I also enjoyed a helping of mukimo. Looking all around me, the festive atmosphere of dining and conversing was evident in the school compound; girls were enjoying their time with their families and feasting like there was no tomorrow. However, I also saw a few girls still standing by the gate never giving up that they would still be visited. I felt sorry for them. I hoped that their families would show up before the visiting hours were over. I noticed that Tabby, my classmate and friend, was still waiting. I asked my family whether I could invite her to join us, after which Tabby agreed. However, it was not long before her sister arrived, and she gladly joined her after expressing her gratitude. At 6pm the school bell rang. It was the end of visiting hours. I, like so many other pupils who had been visited that day, had stued myself to the brim. Unlike some others who had had this experience before, I did not take control of my feeding. I just kept on eating and I was to face the repercussions later. The next day was Sunday, and I sat with my fellow Standard Six pupils in the rows allocated to us during Mass. Even though the church was large and spacious, that particular day it felt stuy. What I know for sure is that it was not a nice smell, sitting in church that day. For the rst time in my life I started experiencing what I did not even have a name for. I felt this overwhelming need to throw up but what happened instead was to belch! The smell afterwards is what was the problem. The pupils next to me were having the same experience, and what followed was a strange, unpleasant stench like nothing I had smelled before. Everyone seemed distracted and we couldnt wait for the Mass to end. That was a very unpleasant experience and I vowed to discipline myself during the next visiting day. I would eat just what was enough. By the time I was in Standard Seven, visiting day had been switched to Sundays after Mass, and I would not be surprised if the distractions caused by overeating during visits was a contributing factor to the switch. At least now we would have the Sunday Mass without any unpleasant smells.
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How do I get rid of armpit odour?
Dear Liz, I just turned 13 and I have realised I sweat a lot especially under the armpit. It is embarrassing and the odour gets worse when I am nervous. I even dread being asked a question by the teacher because I tend to sweat a lot as I try to gure out the answer. What should I do to stop it? Mark, Kitengela
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Dear Mark, Your case could be associated with the on-set of puberty, just like acne. Hormones to do with puberty are usually the reason perspiration and odour can start becoming noticeable. Still, as you have said, there are other factors that play a role like anxiety and fear which often make some people to break out in a sweat. But it is important to note that everybody sweats. Sweating is part of the bodys natural way to cool itself. It is possible, however, that for some people sweat more than others. If you are constantly nding yourself feeling embarrassed by armpit odour, then you need to do something about it. Here are a few suggestions; 1. Take a shower twice daily while paying extra attention to your armpits. Scrub the area with soap and rinse it o thoroughly. 2. Shave your armpits during your shower. It is important to remember that the foul smell comes about when bacteria combines with sweat. Hairy armpits trap bacteria easier than smooth armpits. 3. Dry o thoroughly after your shower. 4. Once you are dry use an antiperspirant twice a day. Just check the label to see that it is actually an antiperspirant and not just a body spray or deodorant, which doesnt stop the perspiration but instead makes the odour worse. 5. But if you know your hygiene habits are good, and the problem persists, it could be a bigger problem. You may have a rare medical condition that causes excess sweat and odour that needs to be treated. In this case you may need to see a doctor. [email protected]
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Title: The Drum Author: Chinua Achebe Publisher: East African Educational Publishers Ltd Reviewer: OKONGO NYANDUAKI SHEILA ortoise was on a mission to nd food. A severe drought had stretched on for three years and had hit hard the country of the animals. He ignored the palm trees that oered him just a few ripe fruits opting to drag himself under the scorching sun to nd the tree worth his climb. Luckily something better did turn up - a palm tree with thrice four hundred fruits. As he devoured them greedily one fruit fell from his grip to the ground. He chose not to lose even that one. His search for it led him deep down a hole and
into the land of the spirits where, to his disappointment, found that one of the spirit children had already eaten the fruit. He demanded that he either got back his fruit or he would carry the spirit boy to the country of animals. The problem was solved amicably and tortoise accepted an extraordinary drum in return for his misfortune. Back home the power of the drum was revealed. Just a stroke of it and a table loaded with food would appear! Tortoise kept this a secret between him and his wife but after a week a splendid idea befell him. If he fed all the animals, wont they be obliged to make him their king? And so feast after feast tortoise gained popularity and when he was confronted
about the origin of the drum, all he gave were elusive answers. On that special day that tortoise was to be made king, elephant was assigned to beat the drum only for the drum to break when into pieces! Find out what tortoise did in a desperate move to be crowned king and how those events led to the scattering of all animals in every direction of the world as they remain today. Written for children by one of Africas best story tellers, this fable should teach us to be content with what we have. Add this to your library collection as well. The secret to being a great writer is to read as many stories as you can. Enjoy! [email protected]
ORIGIN OF WORDS/ THINGS/ NAMES PHRASES

PAPER
This is the name of the thin material made from pulped wood and plants that we use daily for among other things, writing, drawing, making books and when reinforced, making items such as cardboard boxes. The word paper has its origins in the Greek word papyros which was the name of the reed we know as papyrus (English) that grew along the banks of the Nile river and which the ancient Egyptians used to make paper. They also used papyrus to make furniture, baskets, mats, ropes and boats. Its use continued until about the 11th Century AD. Any comments or contributions? Send to: [email protected]
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After introductions, Blue lived with the penguins for three months. He adapted to the weather and even began to enjoy it. Blue had begun to eat sh to survive, he wasnt used to eating other animals but to his surprise he really enjoyed it. He also met other animals he had also never seen before. He met seals and white bears; it was a fresh change from the mean farm animals. One day, Blue went to wake up the penguins to go shing. Blue, look at your fur! Its changing! one of the penguins said. Blue looked down at his fur, and indeed it had changed! His fur had turned white in colour! The other animals noted this change and praised Blue on his new fur. Blue then told them about his miserable life on the farm. I say you should go back and show o your new fur! one of the bears said. Yeah! the other animals chorused. After persuasion, Blue decided to go back. He asked his new friends to go with him, but they declined as they couldnt live in the hot atmosphere. So, Blue said his goodbyes and thanked them for their hospitality. Three days later, blue arrived at the farm. He hopped over to his brothers who looked at him in disbelief. Blue, is that you? Bob asked. Yes brother, its me, Blue said. All the other animals marvelled at Blues magnicent white fur. Chief came onto the farm and saw Blue, picked him up and took him into the house. Blue became Chiefs new pet and began to get the best treatment. Blue was so happy, and though his brothers had been mean to him before, he forgave them. From then on, Blue became the most popular animal on the farm. - MELISSA MACHUA
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nce upon a time, there lived four brother rabbits; Bob, Barry, Ben and Blue. All the rabbits, apart from Blue, had magnicent brown fur that all the other animals in the farm where they lived envied. Blue, on the other hand, as his name suggested, had blue fur. His brother rabbits ridiculed him regarding his distasteful colour making him develop a low self-esteem. He often kept a distance from from the other rabbits. To make things worse, all the other rabbits had green eyes, but Blues eyes were red. Blue didnt understand why he looked so dierent from his brothers; after all, they had the same parents. The farmer, who the farm animals referred to as Chief, would always feed his brothers more than him, in the hope of fattening them up more making them more valuable to sell. Blue, youre so ugly, no wonder Chief doesnt want to sell you o, no one will want to buy you, Barry said to Blue. Yeah, I guess youre right, Blue said to himself, and went to the other side of the farm and began to dig a hole to hide in. Ridiculed Blue Look at Blue, always hiding from the world, hide Blue hide! one of the sheep remarked. Blue carried on digging the hole, and as soon as it was big enough, he jumped in the hole and labelled it his new home. One day, Chief came to the farm and began his ritual feeding of the animals. As usual, the brown rabbits received a large amount of food, while Blue received only two carrots unlike the ve carrots his brothers enjoyed. When Chief left the farm, all the other animals ridiculed Blue once more. Blue couldnt take it anymore! He found a hole in the fence of the farm and quickly ran out. He began to run as fast as his feet could carry him, and though he didnt know where he was going, he kept running. Blue ran for days and the thought of return-
BLUE, THE HUMBLE RABBIT
WOODPECKERS DONT GET HEADACHES FROM PECKING
ing to his horrible brothers motivated him to run even further. Blue ran so far that he found himself in a place covered with ice and snow. He began to hop around looking for animals to educate him on his new surroundings. He shivered as he did so; he had never been somewhere so cold before. Blue hopped towards this whitelooking structure. He poked his head inside and was surprised to nd three animals inside. However, these were unlike any animals he had ever seen, blue and white in colour with beaks. Hi Blue said adding, Who are you? Hi, were penguins, one of the funny looking animals said adding, And who are you? Im a rabbit, my name is Blue, he replied, and walked into the penguins home. May I stay with you? I have no idea where I am. Yeah of course rabbit, welcome to our home.
woodpeckers tongue is up to four inches long depending on the species. The tongue wraps around the skull. Many woodpeckers have barbed tongues that help them extract bugs from trees and holes. Most woodpeckers have toes facing the front and toes facing the back to help them grip trees and poles vertically. They use those toes with their sti tail feathers to brace on trees as they climb. Woodpeckers eat bugs, sap, fruit, nuts and seeds. The two largest woodpeckers in the world are the imperial woodpecker and the ivorybilled woodpecker, but both may be extinct. Woodpeckers do not have vocal songs, and instead they drum on objects such as hollow trees and logs, poles, chimneys, rain gutters and trash cans. Woodpeckers drum to attract mates, establish territories and to communicate, and both genders are known to drum. Woodpeckers can peck up to 20 times per second, or a total of 8,00012,000 pecks per day. Woodpeckers dont get headaches from pecking. They have reinforced skulls structured to spread the impact force, and their brains are tightly cushioned and protected.

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The rules of Sudoku are quite simple. You are presented with a 6x6 grid of boxes, some empty, some lled with numbers in the range of 1 to 6. That gives you 2 rows, 3 columns and also 2 larger squares of 2x3 boxes. The idea of Sudoku is to completely ll the empty grid squares with numbers in such a way that the following conditions hold true: 1) Every row should contain the numbers 1 to 6 but should not repeat the numbers 1 to 6 at any point within that row. 2) Every column should contain the numbers 1 to 6 but should not repeat the numbers 1 to 6 at any point within that column. 3) Every 2x3 square should contain the numbers 1 to 6 but should not repeat the numbers 1 to 6 at any point within that square.
2. Born of 3. The last part of anything 4. To deposit as an egg 7. Everything or everybody 8. Arguments in favour of 9. Mist 10. Anger 11. Prex denoting three
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SO YOU WANT TO WORK FOR A PR COMPANY?
e is in the public relations industry though his dream is to work with the mainstream media. But he is doing all it takes to get there. Gerald Mwinzi is currently working with an agency that exposes him to the media world. What is your educational background? I have a diploma in mass communication from Multimedia University. I am also set to join St. Pauls University in August to pursue Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications. I have the acceptance letter with me already, and I will be through with the course in two years. What you do to earn a living? I am a media and communications coordinator for a PR Agency called Events by Hazel. What does your job entail? I plan, develop and implement PR strategies for our clients. I also manage in-house communication and all communications budgets both internal and external. Our company does corporate event management too. How did you land this job? I learnt about the vacancy from a friend and decided to apply. After a week I got a call from the company asking me to report for an interview the following Monday. I was nervous as is the case with all interviews, but I gave my best to it for the seven minutes I was interviewed. Three days later, I got yet another call conrming that I was successful and I was required to report to work the following week.
porations Advisory Committee (SCAC) as a volunteer communications expert for three months and this is where I was working before I got my current Job. Given a chance what else would you do with your life? If I were not working with a PR company I would probably be reading news in a radio station somewhere. I interned at Pwani FM (KBC)
immediately I completed my college education. Here, I worked as a volunteer for a year as a reporter and anchor for business news. This, I must say, was such an experience because I enjoyed every bit of it. When I was in high school I used to take old newspapers and read while imitating dierent voices of news anchors. Teachers would slot me in to entertain visiting guests during school functions and this helped me build condence. Are you happy with your job? Yes I am happy with what I do since it involves making serious decisions for companies as far as their yearly PR plans are concerned. There are no two ways about it, you have to do your math and get it right before you present it to your client. Market research is key to achieving successful results of your PR plan. You do not want to propose something that will not bring positive changes. Why? Why I am happy with my job is involves a lot of creativity and fact nding which is a hilarious journey and it also provides an avenue to measure what exactly you are capable of achieving as an individual. What challenges have you faced so far? The biggest challenge is being able to deliver on time, sometimes suppliers of certain services will come late and you are supposed
to nish up the set-up of the venue. This could rub the client the wrong way especially when the guests start trickling in and the set-up is not done, it is embarrassing. What opportunities are there in your job? I have had opportunities to engage top respected artists and comedians in the country to provide services for various events we have held in the past. I have held meetings with various chief executives of big companies that we do business with. This always reminds me of how serious my decisions as far as work is concerned should be. I have had an opportunity to travel and y to dierent locations within the country for work, and this has been quite an experience for me to discover how beautiful our country is in terms of geography and the people. What advice would you give to the youth who would like to be what you are? Work hard towards your dream, at times the road will be rough but you have to keep on pressing on. Its not always about how much money you earn, if you get a chance to volunteer and it is in line with what your dream is, take it because that experience will come in handy in the development of your career. What level of education do they need to get to this level? If you have attained a diploma then make a point to acquire a degree and move to the highest level you can. I have friends who started o from certicate level and they proceeded with higher learning and are now working with reputable companies. Let the sky be your limit. What keeps you going? The joy I get when we have a successful event and the client is impressed with our work.
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Where were you before this? I was working with Unilever as a Display designer for their products. However, this was not what I wanted to do. I have always wanted to work with the media or just in the communications industry. I have a passion for passing information and interacting with the masses as it gives me unexplainable satisfaction. I quit my Job at Unilever sometime last year and Joined The State Cor-
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BY FRANKLINE AKHUBULA [email protected] efore he realised golf could be an interesting sport, Tahir Mohamed, 15, was doing fairly well as a footballer player whom many could not imagine would switch to golng and become one of the best players in the country. It turned out that soon he was doing better in golf than in football and his parents urged him on. So how did he start o? After turning eight, young Tahir accompanied his uncle, a golfer, in one of the golf pitches in Mombasa. He was impressed with how the golfers played that day. He found teeing o more interesting than dribbling the ball. That day turned out to be the turning point and he immediately made up his mind to try golng. His uncle was his biggest inspiration. So when he went home that evening, he asked his parents to support him to join golf and become a good player. However, his parents were somehow reluctant because they thought he was already coming up well in football. But then they did not want to disappoint him so they promised to do everything to assist him excel in his new preferred sport just like they had supported him when he was pursuing football. I am so happy today that I have never disappointed them. In fact, they believe I should have started playing it longer when I did. I wanted to prove to them that I could even do better in any sport and more so in golf which is today my favourite sport ever, says Tahir. This weekend, Tahir will be taking part in the national junior golf
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stop playing golf, says the Coast Academy student. The handicap 4 player has participated in many tournaments both locally and internationally. His best international performance was in San Diego, USA, two years ago when he took part in the Callaway world junior championships. For me it was a great thing meeting with hundreds of young golfers around the globe and learning from them. I look forward to participating in such tournaments in future because they shape someones destiny in the sport, said Tahir. Besides USA, Tahir was in Durbin, South Africa, early last month where he took part in the South Africa under 17 junior golf tournament. I am grateful to my family members. They have been supportive enough and I wouldnt say there is something they havent done to help me. In fact, if it were not for their support, I would not have become a better golfer, says Tahir. Though golf remains his favourite sport, he has never stopped playing football. Three years ago, he travelled to Sweden where he played football, his once best sport, during the world junior football World Cup. He admires golfer Tiger Woods. I like him because is a persistent player who has performed well over the years. Woods has won many records and I can assure you its not easy winning or breaking many records just like he has always done. His passion towards the sport encourages me a lot to continue practising harder to become a good golfer, adds Tahir.
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ABOVE; Tahir Mohamed tees o recently during a training session.
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tournament in Mombasa where he is tipped to emerge as the best player, if his recent winning trend is anything to by. Nationally, Tahir is ranked number four and has been working hard to become the best young local golfer in the country. Interestingly, it was during
his rst season after joining golf when he won in the under 8 years category. I could not imagine a newcomer beating several experienced young golfers. It even surprised everybody and therefore many people who realised I was a talented golfer urged me not to ever
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FREE WITH YOUR SUNDAY NATION. No. 155 July 28, 2013
WANGOI GITONGA
Miss World Kenya 2013

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Of graduation and the real old schools

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Style star inspiration: Kanye West

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Knives and pitches, pieces and stitches, Cuts and bruises, marks and places, points and pieces, punctured Peoples Haunted houses, Streets and homes Steel and metals, hurtings and cuttings, Pleadings and cries, flies and spreadings, Arms and hands, Splutter, splutter... Blood and thrills Babies and toys Worries and whelps, pats and kisses, Slithers and tethers, pelts and furys, beatings, insults and choices, Mummies and daddies, pisses and hisses, splutter, splutter... Fractures and wounds Boys and girls, Runs and scatters, pains and sorrows, Curds and bowls, secretes and pasts, Fashes and presents, trumps and peasants, Shadows and lights, hopes and myriads, Bones and hounds, guns and ropes, Splutter, splutter... Bellows and Death Knives and pitches, splutter, splutter, punctured peoples
1. Nigerian supermodel Oluchi (centre) with Zuhura (left) and Somoina. 2. Oluchi posing for the cameras. 3. Fashion Stylist Annabel (left) and Laura of Multichoice. 4. Pinky Ghelani (left) and Suzzie Wokabi. 5. Edward Parsene of Different Faces Band 6. Abida Abdi (left) and Martha Ndungu 7.Beatrice Thumi (left) and Lianne Kiruiru
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The iPad Pocket Projector says it all, where it can hook up directly to an iPad for it to instantly display enlarged views of photos, movies, and presentations. It has a physical form factor that is smaller than a smartphone,where it will plug into your iPads 30-pin charging port. In a nutshell, you can transform a small room into a mini movie theater. The iPad Pocket Projector will come with a 35-lumen LED that delivers 6 to 60 diagonal images from 8 to 78 away with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Unfortunately, the projectors resolution maxes out at 640x480 pixels, but thankfully there is a manual focus wheel that helps you fine-tune image clarity, alongside controls for the audio level. The LED itself has been rated for 20,000 hours, and it will play nice with all iPads, the iPhone 4S, 4, 3GS, and third and fourth generation iPod touch.
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Whats your opinion on Bongo ava artiste Mr Nice?
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ERIC OBINO: Managing Editor KATHLEEN BOGAN: Group Design Editor PHILIP MWANIKI: Editor JOAN PERERUAN: Photo Editor ROGER MOGUSU: Chief Graphic Designer DENNIS MAKORI: Designer JOHN MUCHIRI, WAMBUI KIBUE, BONIFACE MWALII : Contributors CHARLES KAMAU, ELVIS OGINA: Photographers CHARLES KAMAU: Cover photo
Meggy Golds - hmm work harder..competition ni high... Danny Wasonga Junior - Spent force. Champagne Papi - Confused David M Solomon - He is a nice guy and should stick to one studio house. In other words he is a unpolished Gold. Kim Wakanae Ynwa shaking my head Patrick Nzomoh- ...he has been so silent or has he left Musiq Industry!?....he should know that the eld is so competitive so he has to work harder than ever before! Kauni K Kelvin uyo msee ashapitwa na wakati,industry iko na wenyewe na yeye amekam kubahatisha na watu washamsahau......he shud venture into another eld kama kuuza surwa kibera Murefu Saul - ako chini Marty-nne Bin Mar-rto - He had his chance n
killed it,music industry has no comeback Mc Rumaz - Mac MUGA.. Georgik Msinji- Jnr - he shld venture in another kind of business. Nellex Gullyside-Tattoos - mr.Nice blew it once,then came back and his funs accepted him back,instead of him been loyal and quit the party animal life style he became worse,no more chance dude uza miraa sasa Festo Kamau - A legend on his deathbed. G-rani Sindala - he should see advise from myke tyson on what to do after your rise n fall.kubadilisha jinsia ndo njia Frdlc Jsft - Blood bure kabisa! Haezi saidika. Steve Tha Boss Muriungi - huyo arudi tu kwa mamake haezi survive kivyake na haezi saidika Winsey Qui - Aliyevuma...his fame is long gone
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Weighing in at 50kg and wearing a killer smile, Wangoi Gitonga strutted her way into the history books when she was crowned Miss World Kenya 2013 in the just concluded Miss World competition. The beautiful, skinny girl from the Coast stole the hearts of the judges and walked away the winner, forever changing her life. She talks to Sylvania Ambani about her ambitions and how she handles criticism.
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Congratulations on your win. Tell us more about Wangoi Gitonga Thank you. Well Wangoi is a very humble girl, God-fearing and down to earth person. Having been brought up in a humble family I have learnt to appreciate every little thing that I have. When I won the competition I just knew that this must be the greatest thing God has ever done to me and I am very grateful for the chance to experience it. What were some of the emotions you went through when they called out your name as the winner? It was one of the best moments of my life; It was a mixture of a lot of things that are unexplainable. I never could have imagined that at one point in my life I would be Miss Kenya especially since I was very green and have never done any modeling in my life. I remember calling my mom and she was crying on the phone. She just couldnt believe it, either. How did you end up in the contest? I had taken my sister for the auditions in Mombasa and I ended up also participating. After nishing, the unfortunate or fortunate thing happened and I was chosen over my sister and the rest as they say is history. Anyway I am glad that I got to represent our family name and brought the grand prize home. How did a tomboy end up in modeling?
I used to be a tomboy to some extent. My favourite outt was jeans and a T-shirt with sneakers, no makeup, and hair pulled back and that was it. My brothers constantly tease me that at least I am going to learn how to sit like a girl. I can say that I am not the same person I used to be as this experience has completely changed my life and has made me more girlie. How about the boot camp? Was there any point when you felt that you wanted to give up. The boot camp was a nice place because I got the chance to meet these other young girls who have these amazing personalities. We got a chance to bond and help each other deal with our weaknesses. There was a time when I felt like just giving up, especially when we had to stay in high heels all day something that I was not used to and learning how to catwalk, I realized that it was not an easy job. Kenyans on Twitter really attacked you on your looks recently. How did you take that? To me thats the beauty of life, knowing that not everybody will accept you. Everyone has their own opinion and they are entitled to one. But once you know your strengths and capabilities as a person, criticism is among the things that make me even more stronger because I know I worked hard and am blessed of the Lord to be where I am. Also the best part of it all is knowing that even when people talk ill of me, it really does not change who I am at the end of the day. And as my mother always tells me care about what other people think and
you will always be their prisoner. One of the things you have pledged to do as Miss World Kenya is to eradicate sexual exploitation of young girls and boys. Care to explain how? Coming from the Coast, sexual exploitation of the young is almost hitting pandemic levels. I have friends who are involved in sex tourism to get some extra cash. This ruins peoples lives making them vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases and other ills. I would try as much as possible to work with organisations and start mentorship programmes to help young individuals change their ways. What are your future plans? Right now, I am focused on the Miss World competitions and I hope to make my country proud. After that I plan to further my studies on food and beverages because I love to cook, so hopefully establish a restaurant. Any words for upcoming models? Commitment is the key to success and putting God rst in everything you do. One thing I realised was that nding favour through God is the only way you will also nd favour through man. Relationship status? Doesnt have a boyfriend and is not looking for one now. Height 5.8. [email protected]

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To err is human but why do we hold some people on a higher moral pedestal than others? Judy Wanja looks at gospel artistes who have fallen by the wayside.
n 2011, the American gospel m u s i c industry was thrown into a spin when two gospel music artistes who had been married for 15 years divorced. Gospel superstars Deitrik and Damita Haddon shocked the world when they went their separate ways and even more drama was to follow when it was revealed that one of them had cheated. The rumour mill had it that Damita led for the divorce after she found out that Deitrik had been cheating on her with another woman and even got her pregnant. That rumour persisted and it looked as if Deitrik had conrmed the rumour with his long silence. He would only insist that he was a very private person, adding that fans shouldnt expect to hear him speak about the divorce unless God had him share the experience. Well, it seems God nally spoke to him because a year later he released another statement on his Facebook page stating that it was time to come clean. He said that it was Damita who triggered the divorce, and that she was having a sexual aair with gospel artiste Isaac Carree, who is also married. Haddon said that he did not have anything personal against Isaac and that he forgave him and only asked him to come clean and to apologise to his fans. Carree, without conrming or denying the allegations termed Deitriks accusations as
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hurtful . It has been brought to my attention that Deitrick Haddon recently made some very hurtful statements about me. I, as well as my wife, are both shocked and confused by Deitricks actions, Carree said. It saddens me that he would seek to engage in mudslinging with me, especially because he and I have spoken openly and honestly about this, even long before his allegations. Tye Tribbett, yet another highly respected top gospel artist in the US, was caught cheating on his wife who also revenged by cheating on him. What many did not know was that Tribbetts aair was with a woman he says he and his wife had counselled. He said this led to them taking a break from their marriage and he even contemplated suicide. I thought it was something that would never happen. I saw indelity with my mom and dad, who was a pastor, which made them split. I told myself that I would never do that. So when it happened in my marriage, it was like whoa! God broke down my self-righteousness, my pride. Tribett said lust is what ultimately led him to cheat on his spouse before his wife retaliated. Joyce Meyers gave the best explanation of what my situation was about. She said lust has no conscience. It doesnt care if youre married, doesnt care about your responsibility, doesnt care if youre a pastor. It wants what it wants when it wants. It doesnt have to be because of lack for lust to take hold. When a gospel artiste is caught veering o the straight and narrow, the public is usually shocked and dismayed as these individuals are placed on a higher morality pedestal than other stars. In Kenya, many gospel stars have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar and while the public does forgive them, they never forget and questions always linger. Willy Paul is gospel musics bad boy following allegations that he has had an aair with a minor and been caught having sex in public. The allegations have not been conrmed or denied, but they have not yet damaged his reputation. Singer Neema is probably tired of talking about her pregnancy which happened almost six years ago. In a recent interview with this magazine, she said In the seven years since this controversy of my life I have given countless interviews on the issue. Ive never been secretive
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Neema
and gospel music just wasnt doing it for him. Mavuno Churchs Pastor Benson Xavier looks at the issue dierently. About Willy Paul, the challenge here is that these are only allegations and my suggestion is that he clears things with his home church because that is where he is a member. Whether he is a celeb or not, the people in his home church would know him better and are best placed to support him through these dicult times, says Pastor Benson, popularly known as Pastor BX . When a Christian falls it is called a scandal. I dont think that should be the case. It seems as if we are shocked by, uncomfortable with, and sometimes deny the humanity of saints. We cannot expect Christians to be perfect. When you consider Biblical characters you nd many who fell and yet God was not surprised. Therefore, Christianity should be viewed as the faith of those who fall and get back again. Fletcher Scottish politician, Andrew Fletcher once said, The role of the gospel music industry and musicians is to wield the power they now have to build the nation and extend Gods domain. They should add to great talent solid character which comes from consistent church attendance, humble service especially within a local church, accountability and mentorship.
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Tony of MOG
about it but now, in respect, for my future and for the cross that took it all away, I dont wish to revisit it. Singer Tony of MOG was caught pants down when he was accused of impregnating a girl who decided to expose him through the radio, causing him endless grief. He opted to have the matter die down but it does come up every once in a while. Born again rapper DNA couldnt handle the pressure of staying on the straight and narrow and decided not to lock himself in the gospel music box and went ahead to release the hit song Maswali ya Polisi. At least he was frank and honest enough with himself and his fans to have everything out in the open and not hide the fact that he wanted to prot from his career
Willy Paul
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ver the graduation period, there out emerges a crop of characters who seem to sprout out of the woodwork and ourish in this short season. Usually, its an eerie time, welling up with the realisation of dreams of anyone who was ever admitted, or ever harbored a dream of joining university. Sufce to say, some crash, but the air is rent by the joyous account of those who endured the travail. Some hapless graduates are caught in the spirits of celebration ending up missing out the rehearsal. You may spot them on national TV clamoring to locate their designated seats. Others are so hard hit, they miss out on half the day when a village has hired a Paradiso bus to celebrate their child. With network problems that characterize the day, it becomes an arduous task to locate each other. Continuing students have the cake and eat it. Well, almost. The inux of former comrades, armed with slightly pued wallets means
Of graduation and the real old schools

the bill is on the house. They are ostensibly happy to see you wear the gown and its only right to give the love right back. In favored drinks. In the melee, is case of happygo lucky souls. They come in the form of a guy whos happier than the graduates and features on almost every scene. On close inspection, hes neither a student, nor is he graduating. He may have a storyline to the tune that he began as his rst year here, was expelled, but likes to touch base with former friends. None, however, have the jolly spirit of your run o the mill old school student. They joined campus when the route between the library and the lecture halls was a dusty tributary. He may show you a yellow card, a remnant of the manila library card ensemble at a time when you just swipe to borrow a book. Where two or three of them are gathered, recently admitted students listen to their war stories mouth agape at the legend of eras past. Naturally, as in any society, they carry an air of respect. Often, they joke that they are close to writing their Masters thesis. Its a niche where you get used to appearing on top of every class list, thus making chances of skiving slimmer. Over group work presentation, some campus girl may wonder how you were in school in 2005, a year they were most likely a mono. The secret is carrying it with grace, even if a guard confuses you for a freshman, aggressively asking for your student ID. Indeed, as they say, it comes with age. You have since learnt to handle your liquor, are no longer excited about new hang outs and new trends do not sweep you. For whatever reason that may have held you back over the years, you have focused, refocused. As another class wears their mortarboard, you bend ngers as a Maasai elder counting cattle, vowing that the next one, they give you the power to read.
ne of East Africas biggest names of yore, Lucas Mkenda is a living and walking contradiction. He goes by the name of Mr Nice but that is not an adjective you get to hear from the people who have worked with him recently. Lets start with Grandpa Records who had signed the star who once ruled the East African music charts a couple of years ago. Grandpa records described Mr Nice as an uncooperative, lazy and dishonest singer. The Tanzanian media is also full of stories of the stars many bar brawls and partying. You will need to go back, way back, to the time when the Kidalipo singer was a darling of many. His much publicised contract with Grandpa didnt even last three months after it emerged that he had a running contract with a Tanzanian production house. Two months later, Mkenda is still in Kenya and on Thursday inked another deal; A one-year recording and promotion contract with little-known Candy n Candy Records. Asked about whether they knew about the contract, Candy n Candy
The curious case of Mr Nice

replied in the armative but that did not stop them from signing Mr Nice. The record labels Chief Executive Joe Kariuki said he was condent about the singer. He had mentioned the Tanzanian contract and he told me its no longer valid, said Joe at a press conference to unveil the star. On the issue of the Tanzanian contract, which Buzz has seen a copy, the contract reads that incase one party intends to terminate the contract, they are supposed to pay the other party a total sum of TSh50 million (about Sh3.3 million) Other than the expiry of the contract, the only other reasons that could lead to its termination are causes beyond human control like death and disease, among others. If the two parties are not satised with their union and intend to part ways, they are compelled by the contract to sit down to discuss and agree on the way forward. If this discussion does not bear any fruit, then the two parties are allowed to look for a solution in a court of law. I had an option of terminating it (the contract) if there was no activity within the rst six months from the day of the contract signing. I had every reason to move, said Mr Nice. Bus two Tanzanian managers accuse the singer of eeing into Kenya without their knowledge, therefore going against the agreement and the law. Mr Nice has not paid us the TSh50 million, neither has he sat down with us to agree on the way forward, said our source. Grandpa Records, home to hits like Kamua Leo, insist that the contract was one of the reasons they parted ways, among other issues they did not want to dwell on. On his part, Mr Nice accuses Grandpa Records of not paying him his dues. Grandpa Records were not paying me as agreed and thats why I decided to quit, he said. However, head of Grandpa Records, Regah, claims that Mr Nice was not cooperative but insists that they paid him his dues. We terminated the contract and stopped working with him, not the other way round. We even had a press conference to that eect. We have records to show how we were paying him, even way before the contract was signed, says Regah, adding that before coming to Kenya, Grandpa Records used to send Mr Nice money for his upkeep as they were working on a recording and promotion deal. We can prove that since we already have receipts, said Regah. Does he still think he can make a comeback or will the new stars make it hard for him? Many observers believe he relocated to Kenya because his popularity in Tanzania had dwindled, thanks to new acts like Ommy Dimpoz, Diamond and others, a fact that he denies. I can never be Diamond or Profesa Jay. I am Mr Nice and my fans know me because of my music. Im not here to compete with anyone. he said. [email protected] edia.com

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multi-platinum selling artiste, producer, songwriter, shoe designer, fashion designer and style star, Kanye West is one of the biggest male fashion loving rappers of todays generation. He started out as a producer and then moved on to his rst love, rapping. Though he is known as an outspoken and controversial celebrity thanks to his no holds barred views, just ask Taylor Swift, Kanyes amboyant fashion sense has also grabbed media attention and set him apart from the gangsta image of his fellow rappers. The rapper, who mostly favors
black and white for his day-to-day and red carpet looks, has been seen in everything from bold colour suits to animal print jackets, leather skirts and colour blocked blazers thrown in for good measure. With suits that are always tailored to a slim t, he pushes male fashion boundaries by wearing prints on prints and the occasional diamond brooch on a solid colour lapel. Kanye shifted his love of fashion from self to the runway in 2005, Now that I have a Grammy under my belt and Late Registration is nished, I am ready to launch my clothing line next spring, he said. The line which was set to debut in 2006 was never released and was eventually cancelled three years later. He went on to design an
amazing womens shoe line for both designer power houses Louis Vuitton in 2009 and later for luxury Italian shoemaker Giuseppe Zanotti before nally debuting his womens fashion line DW Kanye West at Paris Fashion Week in 2011 and again in 2012 which received much better reviews than the rst. A denite style star and shoe designer, I look forward to seeing what more Kanye has to oer. Have a lovely week beautiful people. @MissAngelsmile
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Lenga stress by Moustapha
gopa DJs long-standing artiste Moustapha has a new jam, Lenga Stress. This is an upbeat song that probably is meant to uplift your spirits as the title suggests. Well, the beat works perfectly to begin with, but his weakest part comes at the chorus level. Moustapha has previously done very well in collabos, owing to the fact that he kicked o his career in a duo with Nasty Thomas. In this song, it would have been better for him to let someone else do the chorus as he concentrates with the rap. This way, he would still fully own and dominate the song even when the chorus is done by someone else. He needs to consider doing more collabos in future.
Mama Africa - Ms. Sunshine

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espite the clich title of the song, Ms Sunshines Mama Africa is anything but ordinary. From the rhythmic heaving of the saxophone to the jingle of the xylophone, the songs instrumentation is spontaneous yet composed. Ms Sunshines style is actually more poetically enchanting than it is vocally marvelous which actually makes her even more unique. Mama Africa is the product of a combination of distinctly African sounds and instrumentation skillfully fused with Western sections and musical style. And with her empowering message calling on African women to rise against male domination, it carries a time suited message for the modern woman in a backward society. The only shortcoming with this song is that it iswell, too short. Just when youre getting into the mood of it, it terminates abruptly leaving you thirsting for more. But then isnt that what they say about all good things?
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1. Alice Kamande performing at the MCSK Royalty Awards at Safari Park Hotel last week. 2. Collo and Octopizzo. 3. Marion Shako with Edward Kwach. 4. Ringtone and Gloria Muliro. 5. Gospel artistes Tony (left) of MOG and DJ Mo (Center). 6 Jaguar with Kwach 8. R Kay with Reffigah (right) and DNA 7. Easy FMs Edward Kwach withh the girls. 9. Avril and veteran Kikuyu artistes DK and Mr Johnnie Walker 10. Size 8 and Jalango
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Is Suarez worth it?

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rsene Wenger is nally ready to put his miserly ways behind him and go for a big name player. Arsenal made a 40 million plus one pound oer for Luis Suarez which Liverpool rejected, but which they are obligated to inform the player about. With Ferguson out and Mourinho and Pelligrini in the Premier League not to mention the lurking Liverpool and Tottenham, Wenger knows this is a season that could drastically shake up the top end of the Premier League. It is wonderful that Wenger decided to splash the cash but is Suarez worth it? This is a player who was banned for 10 games for biting Chelseas Branislav Ivanovic at the end of last season and still has six games left to serve. He also served an eight match ban for racially
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abusing Patrice Evra the season before. Add to that the self-confessed penchant for diving and one has to wonder if this is a transfer worth making. Make no mistake Luis Suarez the footballer is an incredible talent. He is quick, clever, imaginative and deadly but are the disciplinary issues too steep of a price to pay? If he signs for Arsenal he will not play in their rst six premier league games, that means he will play in late September. It is easy to see why Wenger wants him, Suarez is the perfect player to replace Van Persie and Henry. He has the intelligence and technique to t into Arsenals style of play, he is not the kind of striker that just waits for service he can create and nish and that is what Giroud cannot do at least not on a consistent basis. The combination of Wilshere, Cazorla and Suarez is potentially an explosive one and with Chamberlain and Walcott out wide, Wenger
is possibly assembling a team capable of going for the title in a serious way. Liverpool though are being uncooperative and insisting Suarez will only leave Aned for 50 million plus and if Wenger is willing to pay that much then he surely means business. Brendan Rodgers played the emotional card on Wednesday saying that Suarez owed Liverpool fans for sticking with him through two controversial seasons. Lets see if Wenger will up the ante or Liverpool will accept the price oered for Suarez. Meanwhile in La Liga, Gerard Martino an Argentinian who once coached Messi as a boy is the new coach at Barcelona taking over from Tito Villanova who had to resign for medical reasons. Martino is said to be a believer in attacking football and many including Messi and Puyol have already voiced their support for Martino. Martino has landed the most prestigious and perhaps the most
dicult job in football as Barcelona are used to winning and last season, despite winning La Liga, was not exactly all joy at the Nou Camp since the Champions League and Copa Del Rey got away from them. More than just trophies, Barcas invincibility took a massive hit last season and Martino must restore that. Speaking of Barcelona, Manchester Uniteds pursuit of Cesc Fabregas does not appear to be making progress and David Moyes is looking like he may start the league without making a major signing. The talk of Gareth Bale is still just rumor and after a second defeat in three games as Man United manager, the doubters and haters are gathering fast. Jose Mourinho has already started his mind games, this week he suggested the pressure is on Man City to win the title after the spending they have done in the transfer market. At least he did not pick on David Moyes, well not yet.

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