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CONTROVERSY | New deal means budget for Parliament to go up, even as government faces revenue crisis due to ination
MPs grab more cash in new salary scandal

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WEEKEND
It is true we received a letter from the salaries commission allowing a grant of Sh5 million per member to buy cars
House Clerk Justin Bundi
Each lawmaker awarded Sh5 million car grant after team setting pay for public ocers caves in to pressure and also raises limit for mileage allowance as stage is set for reviewing monthly pay from Sh535,000 to Sh850,000 Page 4
ACID TEST | Ngilu, Balala prepare to face o with vetting committee
FROM VILLAGE LETTER WRITER TO NOVELIST

A chat with Nuruddin Farah, the nest writer from the Horn of Africa, on talent, life in exile and surving two attacks on his life LITERATURE, P. 21
Protests over Uhuru, Ruto nominees for Cabinet posts

BY JULIUS SIGEI
jsigei@ke.nationmedia.com resident Uhuru Kenyattas unveiling of 16 Cabinet Secretary nominees yesterday attracted criticism from politicians, church leaders and the civil society. The leaders accused the President and his deputy, Mr William Ruto. of allocating the most powerful posts to nominees from their ethnic communities. Anglican Church of Kenya Mombasa Diocese Bishop Julius Kalu said the Coast region had been shortchanged in the Cabinet appointments and proposed that one of the remaining two slots be given to a person from CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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Mrs Charity Ngilu: Nominated to head crucial Lands ministry. Critics say she should not have been appointed due to questions over her time at Health and Water ministries, but supporters cite development record
Mr Najib Balala: Pundits expected him to be omitted but he was named Mining minister. Seen as having been rewarded for standing with Jubilee duo despite Cords strong support in his Mombasa base.
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POLL CHAOS | Victims lawyer opposes DPs bid to be allowed to use video link
SATURDAY NATION April 27, 2013
Move trial to November, Ruto asks Hague judges

Deputy President says this will give his defence team more time to conduct investigations
BY DAVE OPIYO
dopiyo@ke.nationmedia.com eputy President William Ruto wants the start of his trial at The Hague postponed. Mr Ruto, whose case at the International Criminal Court was set to commence on May 28, has requested the Trial Chamber V judges to set a new date not earlier than November 2013. In a new application led through lawyer Karim Khan, the Deputy President made the request to enable his defence team adequate time to conduct investigations necessary to properly prepare for his trial. Said Mr Khan in the application dated April 25: The Defence of Mr William Samoei Ruto respectfully requests the Trial Chamber vacate the scheduled May 28, 2013 commencement date of trial. Mr Khan argued that the request arose from the failure by Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to provide timely and eective disclosure of witnesses. He accused Ms Bensouda of failing to disclose the identity of one of her witnesses until April 17. Ms Bensouda, added Mr Khan, further delayed until the first week of April, the disclosure of audio records of interviews of four of her witnesses amongst others. The OTPs continued dilatory disclosure to the Defence as well as its general approach to the prosecution of this case has rendered the May 28 date absolutely unviable if the fair trial rights of Mr Ruto are to be guaranteed, said Mr Khan. Mr Khan attempted to justify the rationale behind their request arguing that the chamber had on March 8 this year postponed the original trial commencement date of April 10 to May 28 so that the defence could continue its investigations. The lawyer said to date, Ms Bensouda had failed to disclose the identity of witness P-0534 to the defence despite the fact that the chamber had ordered that this be done by March 13. Accordingly, the Defence remains unable to review the witnesss un-redacted statements and then plan and plaints against the government must be made on notice for them to have ample time to respond. However, on Wednesday, the Trial Chamber asked the government to make its application and gave the parties to the two cases 14 days to respond to the submissions once the ling was done. Given the desirability of fully understanding the status of cooperation between organs of the Court and the Government of Kenya, the Chamber considers it appropriate to grant it leave to le observations on this issue and, further, to accept the submissions in the application, said the judges. Common legal representative of the victims Wilfred Nderitu said the use of video link was restricted to the pretrial stage of proceedings. In a submission to the court, Mr Nderitu said while the use of video link was available for a witness or suspect at the pre-trial phase, the rules of procedure did not contain any provisions for an accused person at the trial stage to waive his rights to be present and substitute this right with the use of video link. In the submission obtained by the Saturday Nation yesterday, Mr Nderitu said: There is no legal justication for the defence request for the use of video link.
Cabinet nominees prepare for vetting

BY NATION CORRESPONDENT
Nominated Cabinet secretaries have undergone a rigorous briefing ahead of parliamentary vetting next week. Among the requirements the nominees were expected to provide the parliamentary vetting committee next week with are published writings, publishers and dates of books, articles, reports, letters to the editor, editorial pieces or other published materials they have authored or edited. The 16 nominated by President Uhuru Kenyatta were briefed by technocrats from the Oce of the President led by Head of Public Service Francis Kimemia. During the day-long meeting, the nominees were taken through the Public Appointments Act on how they needed to conduct themselves and what was expected of them once they were vetted and approved by Parliament. The Act provides for a questionnaire which applies to appointments where parliamentary approval is required. The questionnaire shall be used by the relevant parliamentary committee to vet a nominee appearing before it. The Act states: The submission of false information in the questionnaire is an oence and may result in prosecution. While any form of canvassing by a nominee shall lead to disqualication. The 16 nominees were further advised on the education, employment record, honours and awards, professional association, memberships and published writings requirements. Article 15 of the Act states that a nominee should list, in reverse chronological order, each university, college, or any other institution of higher education attended and indicate, in respect of each, the dates of attendance, academic award obtained, whether a degree was awarded, and the dates on which each such degree was awarded. Further: The employment record should also list in reverse chronological order all government agencies, business or professional corporations, companies or other enterprises with which you have been aliated as an ocer, director, partner, proprietor, employee or consultant. On the honours and awards, Article 16, asks nominees to list any scholarships, fellowships, honorary degrees, academic or professional honours, honorary society memberships, military awards and any other special recognition for outstanding service or achievement. The nominees will also be required to give four copies of any reports, memoranda or policy statements they prepared or contributed to in the preparation of any bar association, committee, conference or organisation of which they were a member. REQUIREMENTS
Mr Ruto
conduct investigation into the witness. Ms Bensouda, in another submission to the court dated April 25, admitted that she had not disclosed the identity of the witness. Meanwhile, the Trial Chamber judges at The Hague have given the government 12 days to justify its cooperation with investigations into the 2007/08 post-election violence. The decision of the International Criminal Court came as lawyers for post-election violence victims opposed a request by Deputy President Ruto to be tried via video link. Attorney-General Githu Muigai had written to the court complaining that Ms Bensouda had repeatedly made claims that Kenya had not been cooperating with her oce. In a detailed submission to the Trial Chamber V dated April 8, the AG wanted the court to order that such com-
Special recognition
Use of video link
Parliamentary approval
There is no legal justication for the Defence request for the use of video link
Wilfred Nderitu, victims lawyer
What they need for House nod

Education history Employment record Awards and Honours Professional Association Membership Published academic work Policy Papers
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A Cabinet on the weighing scales

Its been a hectic week for President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto, weighing every option in nominating pioneer Cabinet Secretaries under the new Constitution. Going by the outcome, theirs was no mean call of duty. Sunday Nation puts the nominees on a weighing scale to see what kind of team they will make if cleared by Parliament. We also bring you the political intrigues surrounding the vetting process.
How the British plotted to kill Mzee Kenyatta
The salaries debacle

The push and pull between elected leaders and constitutional commissions is generating more heat than light. Read the latest development on the undying issue of MPs salaries that is likely to preoccupy government and put more pressure on public coers in the coming days.
British colonialists attempted to kill Mzee Jomo Kenyatta in detention at the height of the Mau Mau insurgency. They were determined to stop the detainee, who was 71 at the time, from clinching the presidency and crafted various means to try and end his life. A soldier who served in the colonial Kenya Police Reserves oers his account of the eort to kill Kenyatta before independence and recounts his experience hunting down the famous Mau Mau leader, General Mathenge.
Safaricom sues city blogger Alai for libel

Mobile phone service provider Safaricom, yesterday obtained a court order barring a blogger from posting online articles perceived to injure the companys reputation. Safaricom has sued controversial Nairobi blogger Robert Alai for libel and now wants a court to order him to pull down two oensive articles he is alleged to have posted on a website. The company, through its lawyers, got a temporary injunction restraining Mr Alai from further publishing on the Internet the perceived libellous articles. The contested articles which the company wants removed, according to the claim, appear on a website www.tecmtaa.com and are titled Safaricom Now Retiring and Muzzling Call Centre Sta Impaired by Cheap Handsets and Another Chilling Letter From a Safaricom Call Centre Sta. The hearing was set for May 6. Mr Alai has other pending court cases lodged after he posted libellous articles on the Internet. He is out on a bond of Sh200,000 in a case led by the Head of Public Service Francis Kimemia. Former Government spokesman Alfred Mutua also sued Mr Alai over a message he posted on the Internet linking him to a murder.
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WINNERS CONCERT | Uhuru pledges government commitment to developing creative arts
Student steals show at State House fete

Boy received a standing ovation for his narrative that enthralled the audience, which included the President and First Lady
BY DANIEL NYASSY
dnyassy@ke.nationmedia.com ylvester Ouma yesterday received a rare honour for his performance during a drama festival winners concert at State House, Mombasa. The Highway Secondary School student received a standing ovation for his narrative that enthralled the audience, which included President Uhuru Kenyatta and First Lady Margaret Kenyatta. The concert followed the nine-day Kenya Schools and Colleges National Drama Festival at Mombasas Aga Khan High School, Mbaraki Primary School, Chandaria Hall and Star of the Sea Primary School. The elated President invited Ouma to the dais and shook his hand after his captivating narrative entitled Otonglo Time, which advises the youth that jobs are not only available in urban centres. Karima Girls High School dance Thayu , which calls for reasonable ways to resolving conicts, also stole the show. It was produced by Catherine Irungu. Kakamega High School winning dance Mafuta was the rst on stage and revolved around the discovery of oil in Kenya. Other primary schools which performed included Gachororo, Makutano, Nakuru Lions, Vuga. Kisii University and Bungoma High School also performed. President Kenyatta underlined his determination to unite all. One of the immediate priorities of my government is to unite all Kenyans so that we can open a new chapter for our country in which we will all celebrate our diversity, enjoy our cultures and live out our every potential as we move forward as one nation, he said.
President Uhuru Kenyatta congratulates Sylvester Ouma of Highway Secondary School after presenting his captivating narrative Otonglo Time at State House, Mombasa, yesterday.
ANTONY NJAGI | NATION
Pupils from Vuga Primary School in Kwale County perform their winning dance.
GIDEON MAUNDU | NATION
One of the immediate priorities of my government is to unite all Kenyans

President Uhuru Kenyatta
Gachoromo School pupils perform their choral verse Chapati.
Pupils from Sony Sugar Primary School perform their winning Kiswahili choral verse Chaguo Letu .
Pupils from Makutano AIC Primary School perform a solo verse titled Bamba 20 during the winners concert. All the performances were at Mombasa State House
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PARLIAMENT | They had threatened to disband salaries commission in pay protest
MPs given Sh5m each to buy luxury cars

Protesting lawmakers also get higher mileage rates as grant to cost taxpayer Sh2 billion
BY ISAAC ONGIRI
iongiri@ke.nationmedia.com he salaries commission has caved in to MPs demands for huge salaries and benets. Each of the 416 Senators and Members of Parliament will now receive a Sh5 million grant to buy new luxury cars. They will also benet from higher mileage rates, where those driving petrol engine vehicles with capacities of between 2,000cc and 3,000cc would claim Sh109.80 per kilometre, while those with capacities of between 3,001cc and 4,800cc would rake in Sh197.80 for a similar distance. The Saturday Nation established that the grant will cost the taxpayer a whopping Sh2.08 billion. In a letter to National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi on April 18, Salaries and Remunerations Commission chairperson Sarah Serem reversed an earlier decision converting the MPs car purchase grant into a loan. According to that decision, MPs would have been allowed access to up to Sh7 million car loan refundable within ve years. This was criticized by parliamentarians as unfair and punitive. Following the latest development, Senators and MPs would each access the non-refundable cash to buy cars as soon as Parliament is ready to pay out. Yesterday, National Assembly Clerk Justin Bundi conrmed that Parliament received the letter from the SRC clearing the air over the car cash. It is true we received a letter from the SRC allowing a grant of Sh5 million per member to buy cars, but we have not implemented that yet because negotiations on other aspects of the package are still ongoing, Mr Bundi said. Further talks to raise MPs salaries from a monthly taxable pay of
WHAT SALARIES & REMUNERATIONS COMMISSION (SCR) PROPOSED
416
Number of MPs and Senators
MEDICAL COVER (Covering spouse and four children below 25 years)
Car loan for each MP and Senator
Sh5m
Total amount to be spent on car loans
Sh2.8bn
Sh535,00 Salary for Members
Sh850,000
Amount claimed by MPs
of Parliament as proposed by SRC
OTHERS
Sh10million Sh300,000 Sh150,000 Sh75,000

In-Patient Out-Patient Maternity Dental and Optical
Sh10,000
SITTING ALLOWANCES
House Committee chairmen (Claims must not exceed Sh160,000)

Sh532,000 to over Sh800,000 are also ongoing. Last week, Igembe Central MP Mithika Linturi threatened to move a motion in Parliament seeking to send home Mrs Serems commission over the salaries row. Said Mr Bundi: There are so many contentious issues that must be resolved rst before we can start facilitating the members. Lawmakers driving diesel engine vehicles rated between 2,000cc and 3,000cc would claim Sh84 per kilo-
Sh5,000
MPs/Senators Sh5,000 (Claims must not exceed Sh 80,000)
Sh20million
Mortgage Sh20 million at 3 percent interest per year
metre, while those driving cars with capacities of between 3,000cc and 4,800cc would claim Sh112.50. Several MPs had objected to an earlier proposal limiting mileage claims to a maximum of 1,800cc engine capacity cars. In the 10th Parliament, the rates were xed at Sh55 per kilometre. Since 2002, the Parliamentary Service Commission has been giving newly-elected MPs a Sh3.3 million grant to buy cars, whose duty was paid for by the State. Yesterday, Mrs Serem could not be
reached for comment as her phone went unanswered. She also failed to respond to our text messages. It is very unfair that the SRC had proposed that claims would be limited to cars of less 1,800cc, which most MPs do not use when they visit their constituencies, said Suba MP John Mbadi. While MPs have also complained about lack of oce space, some senators are also unhappy with how they have been treated. Igamba Ngombe MP Onesmus Muthomi said some MPs were now operating from their cars due to lack of oces. We are nding it very dicult to operate because we were not lucky to get oces. The oces at Continental Building were allocated to MPs serving their second term and beyond. The remaining oces were allocated by balloting, now about 160 of us are operating from the streets, Mr Muthomi said. He said the situation is worse for MPs from rural areas who were not residents of Nairobi as they have to operate from their hotel rooms. Meru Senator Kiraitu Murungi said the facilitation accorded to senators was inadequate. We have been allocated single-room oces with no sta and assistants. Treating senators like ordinary MPs is unfair, Mr Murungi stated. But responding to the matter, Mr Bundi said the Senate and the National Assembly were working round the clock to ensure that all MPs are facilitated to discharge their responsibilities accordingly. He said that more oce space would be ready for close to 100 MPs who missed out in the previous allocations by Tuesday and that all the 67 senators would be relocated to the Kenyatta International Conference Centre. Additional space would be created at Harambee Plaza and Jogoo House.
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GOVERNANCE | Questions raised over credibility and tribal composition of nominees
Jubilee leaders on the spot for locking youth out of Cabinet

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the area. The Cabinet Secretary nominee for Mining, Mr Najib balala, is from the Coast. But Bishop Kalu said Mr Balala did not represent the interests of the predominant Mijikenda community. There are so many qualied and experienced sons of the Coast from the Mijikenda community. One of them should be given the remaining two positions. I hope Mrs Charity Ngilu and Mr Balala are the last of the politicians appointed to Cabinet said the bishop. Kituo Cha Sheria executive director Gertrude Angote said the President let Kenyans down by nominating the two politicians to the Cabinet. The two are not suitable for the appointments as they have previously demonstrated political affiliations. Kenyans did not envisage they would be part of the new Cabinet as these positions require people with relevant expertise, said Ms Angote. The Gender and Equality Commission said the appointments had excluded the youth and people with disability. The commissions chair, Mrs Winnie Lichuma, said they would seek audience with the President next week to discuss the matter. Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto broke with tradition in picking a team of mainly technocrats and the style of naming. But the two were still seen to keep to the beaten path in appointing their trusted allies to the highprole ministries. The lucrative ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, which will be in charge of air, sea, road and rail transport as well as public works, has gone to Mr Michael Kamau, the Roads permanent secretary in the Mwai Kibaki government.
President praised for naming women to powerful posts

BY NATION REPORTER
Women leaders have praised President Uhuru Kenyatta for nominating women to powerful Cabinet positions. If Prof Judy Wakhungu, Ms Anne Waiguru, Mrs Charity Ngilu, Ms Phylis Kandie, Ms Raychelle Omamo and Ms Amina Mohamed are approved by the National Assembly, it will be the rst time so many women are represented in Cabinet. The 2010 Constitution dictates that gender representation must be a requirement in appointments to public offices and elective positions. In the 18-member Cabinet, Ms Mohammed has been nominated to head the Foreign Aairs docket, Ms Waiguru (Devolution and Planning), Ms Kandie (East African Affairs, Commerce and Tourism), Ms Omamo (Defence), Prof Wakhungu (Environment, Water and Natural Resources) and Mrs Ngilu Lands, Housing and Urban Development.
Ms Elachi (above) said the President had sent a message that he had condence in the leadership of women. We thank the President for having condence in women and we can assure Kenyans that they will deliver because they are qualied for the jobs, said Senator Elachi.
Right direction
The womens media association welcomed the nominations as a step in the right direction. It is an indication that the government has faith and condence in womens ability to contribute to the development of this country. If their appointments are approved, Amwik has confidence that the women will perform their duties effectively, the association said in a statement. The association asked MPs to approve the six, saying they were women of high professional accomplishment with proven records of achievement. The women need the support and condence of all Kenyans to excel in leadership.
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The percentage of GDP that will be consumed by the Education ministry by 2018
MPs from Turkana County after a Press conference at Parliament Buildings in Nairobi yesterday. They complained that their county had been left out of the Cabinet nominees.
the docket has one of the highest numbers of parastatals. With the discovery of oil in Turkana, Mr Chirchir will be one of the most inuential Cabinet secretaries. Agriculture, which Mr Ruto previously held, and which will now have the added Livestock and Fisheries departments, has gone to Mr Felix Kiptarus Koskei from the Deputy Presidents Nandi county backyard. It is one of the biggest ministries and it will be in charge of more than 50 parastatals. The strategic Ministry of Tourism, Commerce and the East African Community, has gone to Ms Phyllis Kandie from Baringo. In the last administration the three departments were all full-pledged ministries. Tourism alone has been the second highest foreign exchange earner in the country. Kajiado Central MP Joseph Nkaissery and his Kilgoris counterpart Gideon Konchellah yesterday continued with their threats to shoot down the list when the names come up in Parliament if a Maasai was not given a slot. We gave Jubilee nine out of the 11 parliamentary seats in Narok and Kajiado. Almost all the other elective positions were also taken by either URP or TNA. Why are we being punished? asked Mr Konchellah. Mr Korei Lemein of Narok South said the Maasai might reconsider their support for Jubilee. However, Meru Senator Kiraitu Murungi and Chepalungu MP Paul Savimbi Bii came to the defence of the President Kenyatta and Mr Ruto, saying those complaining should wait until the principal secretaries had been appointed to see if their communities will not be included. They should look at the bigger picture. We in URP, for instance,
WILLIAM OERI | NATION
There are so many qualied and experienced sons of the Mijikenda community. One of them should be given the remaining two positions
Bishop Julius Kalu
be one of the most inuential secretaries responsible for billions of shillings disbursed to the counties annually. Mr James Wainaina Macharia, another nominee from central Kenya, has been given the Health docket. According to the Vision 2030 and Millennium Development Goals, it should be one of the most funded dockets. Mr Macharia will oversee the building of a referral hospital in each of the 47 counties. The Education, Science and Technology ministry, which is set to consume 32 per cent of the GDP by 2018, went to Prof Jacob Kaimenyi, another nominee from Mt Kenya region. And on Mr Rutos side, Mr Henry Rotich, from Elgeyo Marakwet, bagged the National Treasury docket. Mr Rotich will be the safe keeper of the countrys purse with a say on what goes to the other ministries and the 47 counties. And the former chairman of the elections board at URP, Mr Davis Chirchir, was handed the lucrative Energy and Petroleum portfolio. Previously held by Meru Senator Kiraitu Murungi,
lobbied to have Ekwee Ethuro from Turkana get the Senate Speakers slot while Garissa Township MP Aden Duale got the powerful Majority Leaders position, Mr Bii said. The nominee for the Ministry of Interior and Cordination of National Government, as well as that of Labour, Social Security and Services have not been named. And the Saturday Nation has learnt that Mr Ruto yesterday morning met Narok senator Stephen ole Ntutu and a number of MPs who reportedly assured them that one of the remaining slots would go to the Maasai community.
Crucial dockets
Yesterday, university lecturer Wanjiku Kabira, Senate Majority Whip Beatrice Elachi and the Association of Media Women in Kenya praised the nomination of the six women to the Cabinet. It is a very good decision to put women in very crucial and strong positions. It is a reection of seriousness in appointing women to positions they are qualified for, Prof Kabira said.
Power-sharing deal
Mr Kamau will also be in charge of the multi-billionshilling Lamu Port and Lamu Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET). It is also instructive that in the power-sharing deal seen by the Saturday Nation, President Kenyattas TNA wing of the coalition had earlier been given Transport while Mr Rutos URP had been promised the Roads and Public Works portfolio. Ms Ann Waiguru, a close ally of the President, was given the powerful Devolution and Planning docket. In the past administrations, the Local Government docket, the equivalent of new Devolution ministry, had been one of the most sought-after. At the inception of the grand coalition government, the ministry was held by former Sabatia MP Musalia Mudavadi, who was the second in command in former Prime Minister Raila Odingas side of government. With the 47 devolved governments now in place, Ms Waiguru will
Nominate disabled too, Uhuru urged

The Gender and Equality Commission wants President Uhuru Kenyatta to include the youth and people with disabilities in the Cabinet and other government positions. The commission says it will seek audience with the President next week to discuss the issue and propose the structures of accommodating the interests of special interest groups. The commission met with various groups yesterday including youth and the disabled where it was resolved that the matter be pursued with the Head of State. Commission chairperson Winfred Lichuma said they were concerned with lack of special interest groups falling under any particular ministry. that we will see more good things coming to women, she said. But she raised concern that the same was not the case with disabled people, noting that it would go against the spirit of equality as espoused in the Constitution. At the same time, the commission says it will be moving to the Supreme Court to challenge a High Court decision that allowed the electoral commission to publish names of nominees to County Assemblies. It had accused the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission of failing to ensure the lists of party nominees reected gender and ethnic parity for County Assembly seats. The chairperson said the commission would seek the interpretation of Article 90 of the Constitution on party lists seats.
We want to open it for discussion because this is a government in its infant stages and still organising itself; we might need a very strong machinery for purposes of coordination, Ms Lichuma (above) said. She stated that the President had shown he had a vision on matters of gender through his 16 Cabinet nominees. It is encouraging that the women have been nominated to hold very key Cabinet responsibilities. It is a sign
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RULING | Appellate court rejects plea by four
Five convicted of Kingongo killings set free

High Court judge had condemned the accused to death for murder of inmates at Nyeri prison
BY PAUL JUMA
pjuma@ke.nationmedia.com ive former prison warders convicted and jailed for the murder of six Kingongo Prison inmates have been released. James Mugo Karanja, John Kariuki Njuguna, James Sise Boit, Noor Mohammed Kumo and Joshua Onyango Nyakundi earned their freedom yesterday after the success of their appeal against the convictions. The Court of Appeal held that they had merely responded to the alarm on the fateful night when the inmates were murdered at the Nyeribased prison, hence they were not at the scene of crime. However, the DECISION
HEALTH | World Malaria Day marked
Anti-terror kit perfect, says military boss

BY NATION REPORTER
Security organs have allayed fears that the countrys security could have been compromised with the purchase of fake detectors, just two days after the businessman Jim McCormick who sold similar detectors to Kenya and other countries around the world was found guilty of fraud. Kenya Defence Forces spokesman Cyrus Oguna yesterday said the detectors they were using had proved to be eective, especially in Somalia. We know the implications of not doing things right and always put the gadgets we have to test, said Col Oguna. He added that the security of any country was not reliant on a single equipment. McCormick, 57, was found guilty of selling fake gadgets and faces up to eight years in jail. He had claimed that the handheld devices could detect explosives at long range, deep underground, through lead-lined rooms and multiple buildings. However, their antennae, which purported to detect explosives, and in other cases narcotics, were not connected to anything. They also had no power source, and one of the devices was a golfball nder. Police have said that some of the gadgets, which they use in detecting explosives and narcotic drugs, are reliable.
Why judges freed ex-prison warders

The claim that the inmates were escaping contradicted prison records presented in court that showed they had actually been discharged The inmates were released into their deaths by three of the accused When a member of the disciplined forces responds to an alarm as required by regulation it doesnt mean that the person has taken part in a crime perpetrated before or after the alarm
court rejected appeals by co-accused Jacob Muthee Mathiu, Joseph Lenana Rukwaro, Ceasar Mwangi Njoka and Samuel Kamau Ngugi, who were found to have been on duty on that night. The prison warders were accused of brutally killing the six inmates on the night of September 3 and 4, 2000. They were arraigned in court to answer to six counts of murder. The killings took place during an alleged prison-break attempt by the inmates, a theory the High Court rejected. An assessor who had helped the court in the murder trial returned a verdict of not guilty, but Mr Justice Nicholas Ombija convicted all the accused. The six inmates died of extensive multiple injuries inicted on them by a mob which consisted of the nine accused persons, the judge said, as he condemned them to death. The judge concluded that the prison officers, warders, members of the warders families and their visitors bludgeoned the inmates to death. Dissatisfied by the verdict, the prison warders moved to the Court of Appeal. Appellate judges Onyango Otieno, Wanjiru Karanja and David Maraga yesterday held that the inmates were released into their deaths by Mathiu, who was with Rukwaro and Njoka. They found that the claim that the inmates were escaping contradicted prison records presented in court that showed they had actually been discharged. If the victims had escaped then we do not understand on what basis they were being entered (in the record) as having been discharged, the judges observed. An inmate who survived the killings had also testied that they had just been released before they were attacked while still within the prison premises.
Pupils of Diakonia Compassionate Ministry School in Kisumu recite a poem to mark World Malaria Day on Thursday. The event was presided over by Kisumu Deputy Governor Ruth Odinga.
JACOB OWITI | NATION
Go for stop posts, Speaker tells women MPs

National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi yesterday challenged women legislators to take advantage of the one-third gender rule to take part in national and county governance. Addressing an induction meeting for women MPs at the Mombasa Continental Resort, Mr Muturi told the leaders that through the Constitution their advocacy for representation had been answered. The issues the women MPs had struggled to highlight in the past, would now be addressed as matter of law and policy, he said. He noted that since independence women had been sidelined in the legislative and political process but that changed in August 2010 when the Constitution was promulgated. Under the new laws, all forms of discrimination including violence against women or any customary law that perpetuated the same, had been catered for, the Speaker said. Mr Muturi added that the increased women representation at the policy and judicial level would ensure that the gains made were followed through and fully implemented.
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FINANCE | Deputy Minority Leader says it is impossible to present estimates by Tuesday
MP pushes for new Budget deadline

Nominated Cabinet secretary for the Treasury cannot be vetted by the House to be in oce by April 30 to present estimates to the Budget Committee
BY JOHN NGIRACHU
jngirachu@ke.nationmedia.com arliament and the Executive will have to agree to bend the laws guiding preparation of the Budget because it is impossible now to meet the deadline, the deputy Minority Leader in the National Assembly has said. Gem MP Jakoyo Midiwo (ODM) said given the fact that the elections were held last month, the Cabinet nominated this week and the vetting yet to begin, it was impossible for the Budget estimates to be presented to the National Assembly by Tuesday. The leadership of the House and the Executive need to engage and nd a way outto bend some rules, said Mr Midiwo. As a leader in the House for the Minority party, I will be cooperative because the end result is better than the process. He said it was impossible to have the Budget Policy Statement and the estimates submitted to Parliament by April 30, as required by the Constitution and the Public Finance Management Act. The MP noted, it would
Court rejects ex-wildlife boss dismissal case

Sacked Kenya Wildlife chief executive Evans Mukolwe suered a huge blow when the High Court threw out his reinstatement suit. Mr Mukolwe had lodged a petition over his sacking in which he also sought Sh135 million compensation for wrongful termination. But the court declared it had no jurisdiction to reverse the decision and also rejected his request to compel KWS to pay him. Mr Mukolwe was appointed KWS boss on October 3, 2003 through a headhunt in which he was plucked from the World Meteorological Organisation headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. On November 12, 2004, he was suspended and on January 20, 2006 arrested in an anti-corruption purge. Although he was convicted, this was set aside after he appealed and he has since maintained that since he was acquitted he should be reinstated. He based his suit on technicalities that the Appeal Court relied on in setting his conviction aside. However, KWS had rebutted his case on the grounds that the oce had not been vacant in his absence and had been duly lled by a gazetted ocer over the years the matter was in court.
The leadership of the House and the Executive need to engage and nd a way out...to bend some rules. As leader in the House for the Minority party, I will be cooperative.
Deputy Minority leader Jakoyo Midiwo
be impractical to expect that National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, if approved by Parliament, could be in oce by Tuesday and present the necessary documents to the House. Before vetting the nominated Cabinet secretaries, Parliament is expected to give the public a minimum of four and a maximum of seven days to submit oral and written information on their views about the nominees. The Committee on Appointments will then consider those and other reports and then compile its own, which shall be submitted to the National Assembly in a report for debate and possible approval. If Parliament approves the nominees, the President will appoint them and they will be sworn into oce. The problem here is that the Constitution and the Public Finance Management Act require that the Budget estimates be submitted to the House, through the Budget Committee latest April 30. This Budget Committee, which is yet to be formed, would then hold public hearings and adjust the gures before an Appropria-
tion Bill is prepared for debate and approval by the National Assembly. Kenya also has a commitment to other East African Community countries to present her annual Budget on the same date so that any eects on the customs union can be implemented at the same time in all the ve States. Meanwhile, the Senate has approved the names of members to 10 committees to oversee its operations. Fifteen members who will jointly work with their National Assembly counterparts form the committees on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity, and ve Senators to the committee on Parliamentary Broadcasting and Library were also approved. Senators Kipchumba Murkomen (Elgeyo MarakwetURP) and Elizabeth Ongoro (ODM nominated) were picked by the House to preside over any sitting of the Senate in the absence of the deputy Speaker. With only 67 senators, most, members found themselves in more than one committee, which Majority Chief Whip Beatrice Elachi said would set the stage for House business.
Western Kenya governors plot growth agenda

Four western Kenya governors yesterday discussed their development agenda for the region. In a meeting chaired by Vihiga Governor Moses Akaranga, the county chiefs said they were ready to work as a team to deliver on their pledges to improve the livelihoods of residents.
Kisumu seeks Sh5bn to plug budget hole

Kisumu County expects the central government to fund a huge part of its projected Sh6 billion budget as it seeks to strengthen its revenue streams. The county treasury anticipates the national government will chip in Sh5 billion since its current revenue estimates suggest that it can only generate about Sh978 million. Chief finance officer Cephas Odhiambo said the county would take over and streamline revenue sources previously managed by the local authorities. Mr Odhiambo was speaking at a Kisumu hotel during a public forum aimed at seeking views from the public regarding the budget. Some of the sources of revenue are property rates, single business permits, market fees, street and bus parking fees as well as trade licensing. Governor Jack Ranguma (right) said they would rely on the central government since they were still grappling with transition. Mr Ranguma, a former Kenya Revenue Authority commissioner, said the next budget would be Sh15 billion. We have a chance to create infrastructure that will enable us to generate the revenue we need, he said and conceded that rate defaulters were the greatest impediment to revenue collection. The governor said he would set up a revenue evaluation team to ensure all loopholes were sealed. Kisumu county commissioner Lorna Odero said the towns strategic location in the Great Lakes region could be exploited to generate revenue and create jobs. Traders urged the county government to create awareness among residents on the need to pay taxes. Residents need to understand that paying taxes is their responsibility and not a punishment for doing business, said Mr Odhiambo Kitoto, of the local chamber of commerce and industry.
We want to come up with a strategy to address poverty and poor infrastructure in the region
Vihiga Governor Moses Akaranga
We want to come up with a strategy to address poverty and poor infrastructure in the region, said Mr Akaranga. Busia Governor Sospeter Ojamoong appeared briefly at the Kakamega Town Hall meeting before he left to attend to other matters. Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya and his Bungoma counterpart Ken Lusaka said upgrading of the Kakamega Provincial Hospital to a referral facility and addressing issues touching on sugarcane production and poor infrastructure were key.
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TRAGIC ACCIDENT | More lives lost in road carnage
BRIEFLY
KIRINYAGA
Man ned Sh1.4m for drug tracking

A man was yesterday ned Sh1.4 million by a Kerugoya court for tracking in drugs. Mr Dedan Kimathi was handed the heavy ne after the court found him guilty of tracking 491 stones of bhang worth Sh491,000. Senior principal magistrate Teresiah Ngugi ordered the accused to serve three years in prison if he fails to pay up. Mr Kimathi had been charged that on August 14, 2010 at Gitwe village in Kirinyaga County jointly with others who were not in court, he was found tracking the drugs in a vehicle.
Five students on school trip killed in crash

29 Form Four boys and four teachers were headed to Lake Baringo on educational tour
BY SIMON SIELE
ssiele@ke.nationmedia.com ive high school students were killed and scores injured in a road accident on the Nakuru-Marigat highway yesterday. The Form Four students of Nambale Boys High in Busia County were headed to Lake Baringo for a education tour when their bus rammed a lorry the driver was trying to overtake at Kinamoi in Koibatek District. Four students died on the spot while the fth succumbed to injuries moments after he was admitted to Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital in Nakuru. The roof of the bus was ripped o on impact and seats soaked in blood. The students personal eects were strewn all over the scene. The bus had 29 geography students and four teachers. Police said preliminary investigations indicated that the 10am accident happened as the bus was attempting to overtake. We do not want to speculate but preliminary investigations indicate this accident was largely caused by human error, said Rift Valley trac ocer Mary Omari. The driver of the lorry, Mr Daniel Onyonyi, said he heard a loud bang from the rear and,
MERU
Families left homeless as oods wreak havoc

Dozens of families in Tigania East in Meru County have been displaced and their animals swept by oods. More than 20 families in Lailuba area were yesterday counting losses after rains destroyed their houses and crops. Area chief John Mamira said some of the displaced were staying with neighbours. On Thursday, residents blocked the Muriri-Isiolo road to protest what they termed a shoddy work by the contractor, saying poor drainage had led to ooding in the area.
The Nambale Boys High School bus after the accident with a lorry at Kinamoi in Koibatek District yesterday. Five students died in the accident.
on checking his side mirror, saw the bus veering off the road as he struggled to control his vehicle. He, however, failed and the lorry overturned 50 metres from where the bus had landed in a ditch. A witness, Mr Geofrey Chelal, said he took two teachers and two students who were critically injured to Mogotio sub-district hospital before a Kenya Red Cross team arrived and took charge. At the Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital, doctors had a hectic time treating the students who had injuries ranging from facial cuts to fractured limbs. The hospitals nursing ofcer, Mr John Ocholla, said 11 patients were admitted while six were treated and discharged. A student, Felix Ngiema, said their driver was trying to overtake the lorry. He was driving at a normal speed but was confused by the lorry, said Felix at the hospital.
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Human error
Preliminary investigations indicate this accident was largely caused by human error
Mary Omari, trac ocer
NYANDARUA
Woman to be jailed for neglecting children

A womans three year probation sentence was turned into a custodial one after a probation ocer complained to the court that she has failed to change her character. Mary Munyi told the court that Mary Wanjiku Karori, 23 had been handed a non-custodial sentence by a Nyahururu court for neglecting her children she left with the many men she associated with. Ms Munyi said Ms Karori was still leaving her children under the care of men with questionable character.
Border town residents live in fear after spate of raids

Tension blamed on the cattle rustling menace remained high on the border of Kenya and Tanzania yesterday. Most shops remained closed as police ocers patrolled villages in Kuria East constituency, Migori County. Following recent raids, the Migori County government has expressed concern over rising insecurity in the area. Governor Okoth Obado (left) and his deputy Mr Mahanga Mwita said they would no longer sit back and watch killings and cattle rustling in the region. We are telling the entire district security team to stop the crime or get prepared to leave. Our duty as leaders will be to protect the lives and property of people at all costs, said Mr Obado. The residents expressed fear that locals schools might not re-open next month unless security was restored in the region. The situation here is very volatile and we may not release our children to go to school because even some teachers have ed from their homes, said a father of ve, Mr James Marwa. This week, ve people were killed near the border in a foiled cattle rustling incident. The victims, believed to be raiders, were killed as the residents said they were tired of having sleepless nights over the violence. The suspects were shot dead during a shoot-out with police before residents stoned their lifeless bodies at Itambe-Igena centre, according to the area police boss Gladys Ogonda.
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DISPLACED | Floods wreak havoc as families move into makeshift camps
BRIEFLY
NAKURU
Inspector accused of forging Nema report

A man said to have inspected a new multi-million boarding secondary schools buildings and gave it a clean bill of health was yesterday charged with forgery. Mr Benard Mwangi denied the allegations and was released on a Sh25,000 bail. The court heard that Mr Mwambi forged a National Environmental Management Authority assessment report intending to defraud two businessmen The case was xed for hearing on June 12.
A mother and her baby at a temporary camp set up at Nyora Primary School in Nyatike, Migori County yesterday. They were among the 1,200 people displaced from their homes by ood waters after River Kuja burst its banks this week.
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MERU
Woman, 42, trampled to death by elephant

A woman was on Thursday trampled to death by an elephant at Lower Imenti Forest in Meru County. Ms Mary Rajabu, 42, had gone to collect rewood deep in the forest with a friend when the tragedy struck. KWS Meru station deputy warden Jimnah Pertet said they were investigating the incident. He said KWS had put in place measures to curb animal attacks.
INSECURITY | Residents living in fear as 40 are killed by raiders in the past month
MPs demand action over banditry

Gangsters have taken over most parts of the county, say Turkana leaders
BY ISAAC ONGIRI
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ight MPs yesterday raised the red ag over increasing insecurity in Turkana County. The legislators, led by Turkana County Women Representative Joyce Emanikor, demanded immediate government intervention. They said residents lived in fear since gangsters had taken over most parts of the county. Ms Emanikor said close to 40 people had been killed in the county in the past month by raiders some from across the borders and appealed to the government to deploy adequate security personnel to deal with the menace. Yesterday (Thursday), an
Yesterday, an NGO vehicle carrying sta and other passengers was ambushed at Kasarani Plains
Turkana Women Rep Joyce Emanikor
NGO vehicle carrying sta and other passengers was ambushed at Kasarani Plains in Lomelo, Turkana South District, its occupants ushed out and some have gone missing, said Ms Emanikor. The MPs told journalists at Parliament Buildings that some of the raiders are said to have come from as far as Ethiopia and South Sudan. They claimed that international boundary beacons at the border of Kenya and Ethiopia had been uprooted. In the Thursday incident, the vehicle was set ablaze by the attackers. Five of the travellers are missing. Three of those who were in the torched car managed to escape and walked to Lomelo trading centre, about 35 kilometres away. Five other people
who were in the vehicle cannot be traced, Ms Emanikor said. Turkana West MP Daniel Nanok appealed to President Kenyatta to deploy more Kenya Police Reservists to the area to help boost security. His Turkana South counterpart James Lower complained that the security in his constituency had worsened, adding that up to 20 people had been killed in the area over the past few weeks. Mr Protus Akuja of Loima West claimed local security personnel were sending more ocers to guard the oil elds. Isiolo North MP Joseph Lomwa, John Lodepe (Turkana Central), Christopher Nakuleu (Turkana North), Nicholas Nikor (Turkana East) and Nicholas Ngikor (Turkana East) were at the press brieng.
NYERI
Man sent to prison for stealing gas cylinders

A man was yesterday sentenced to ve years in prison for stealing 10 gas cylinders. Mohamed Ali broke into Ms Tereza Wamaithas shop in Ruringu area, Nyeri, and stole the cylinders worth Sh156,000 on April 13, a Nyeri court heard. Ms Wamaitha said she discovered that the cylinders were missing when she opened her shop on April 14. She then proceeded to report the matter to the Nyeri Police Station.
BUNGOMA
Governor picks core reform team

Kirinyaga Governor Joseph Ndathi yesterday unveiled his executive committee that will assist in the running of the county government. Mr Ndathi announced the cteam immediately after they were approved by the County Assembly in a heated debate moved by Majority leader John Waruri. Mr Waruri who is the County Representative for Kanyekiini Ward had presented the names for debate and approval when some of his colleagues rejected them saying they had been ambushed. We do not know the criteria used to select the nine nominees to the executive committee, Mutithi Ward County Representative Njamumo Romano said. Those opposed to the list of The Governor said he selected the best from an interview, to help steer the county to great economic development. Mr Ndathi also noted that he took into consideration regional and gender balance when making the appointments. There are four constituencies in the county namely; Mwea, Gichugu, Ndia and Kirinyaga Central. Each of the regions produced two members except Ndia which produced three members of the committee. Ndia got the lions share because it has few elective posts in the devolved government compared to the other three regions. Among the nine appointees, three are women who are equally qualied.
County plans Sh9bn budget for projects

The Nakuru County government plans to raise more than Sh9 billion in the 2013/2014 nancial year. Speaking during a budget brieng in Naivasha, Governor Kinuthia Mbugua said more than Sh7 billion will come from the National government while Sh1.4 billion will be raised through an annual revenue enhancement plan. He said the county would be expected to spend more than Sh8 billion, with a surplus of more than Sh550 million after factoring provision of Sh900 million for the county assembly, Sh1.8 billion for local hospitals, plus an additional of Sh270 million for water projects. The surplus Sh550 million will form the core of the citizens project identication process as a constitutional requirement, said Mr Mbugua on Thursday. He said the law requires core poverty projects allocated at least 30 per cent of the total revenue, but was applauded after saying the county would set aside 40 per cent of revenue for the same. The personnel expenditure must not exceed 50 per cent of the total expenditure. Our personnel ration to total expenditure is 17 per cent, said the governor. Mr Kinuthia, however, said the county was owed more than Sh3 billion by property rate defaulters, whom he put on notice.
Womans hand severed in attack by gangsters

A womans hand was chopped o in an attack by gangsters that saw a total of 49 people injured. The gangsters are said to have descended on three villages in Bungoma district and attacked locals using crude weapons. Two children, 17 women and 20 men were injured in the raid. Victims were rushed to hospital they were treated and most discharged. Residents now want security beefed up and police transferred.
Constituency balance
MERU
Mr Joseph Ndathi
vowed to shoot down the motion. It was at that point when county Speaker Ann Wangechi called for order and asked the representatives to vote. The motion passed. Those in support were 13 against seven. While presenting the list, Mr Ndathi expressed gratitude that his committee had been approved.
Villagers lynch man for stealing and selling cow

A suspected cattle rustler was yesterday lynched by a mob at Karama area in Tigania East constituency in Meru County. The man had allegedly stolen a cow from a homestead and sold it before villagers tracked him down and killed him. Area police boss Charles Kosgey described the man as a wanted criminal who had been involved in robberies, including carjackings.
POWER CRISIS
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COUNTING COSTS | Uhuru has pledged to open up energy sector to new sources of investment
Businesses hit hard by blackouts

Traders says they are spending millions of shillings on generators due to the frequent outages
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BY JOSHUA MASINDE
No end in sight to crisis despite power rms pledges

BY JOHN NJIRU
jnjiru@ke.nationmedia.com Walking in the streets of Nairobi these days is no longer ear-friendly. Generators are increasingly spewing smoke as proprietors of premises turn to the machines following persistent power blackouts. Kenya, one of the most admired regional economies, is facing many blackouts and intermittent power surges that are hurting businesses and households who have grown dependent on electricity for their daily activities. Last week, Kenya Power managing director Joseph Njuguna explained to journalists the unfortunate blackouts that have plagued the nation since the onset of long rains. I want to apologise to Kenyans because we have subjected them to very long outages, he said. The rain this time round, combined with the wind, was more hostile than we had envisaged. Mr Njuguna said the company was making eorts to address the power outages. Although the State-owned power distributor has staff available for weather-triggered emergencies, Mr Njuguna said this years rains outwit the experts until we were forced to
ocal manufacturers are paying heavily for alternative energy in the face of persistent power failures. They are spending millions of shillings on generators, according to a Saturday Nation survey. The Kenya Association of Manufacturers says the situation is so bad it is adding billions of shillings in costs and the damage caused by power surges. The lobby could not, however, approximate how much the industry is losing, but chief executive ocer Betty Maina said on phone: Nobody likes to use generators because they are unstable and costly. Keroche Breweries is spending Sh2.4 million a month on generators.
According to chief executive Tabitha Karanja, their generators run for about six hours daily. The Naivasha-based rm uses two generators and both consume about 750 litres of diesel daily. The generators also need frequent repairs as they often break down due to heavy use. The brewers head of engineering, Mr Cleopatra Shanjirwa, said they serviced the generators every two months at a cost of Sh460,000. When electricity supply is normal, the generators are only serviced every six months. According to the Dean, School of Mechanical Engineering at Jomo Kenyatta University, Prof Bernard Ikua, outdated or weak power transmission systems are at the heart of the problem
Increased cost
Kenya Power technicians repair transmission lines in Eldoret town in January. Business that depend on electricity and do not have an alternative source of power have been aected by the current power blackouts.
which are aected by even a little rain or a windstorm. This causes not only power failures, but also power surges, Prof Ikua said. In February, Kenya Power proposed to the Energy Regulatory Commission that it should increase power taris by more than half to nd money to nance power supply. The manufacturing sector, which consumes about 60 per cent of the countrys energy, protested. The increases will hurt the industry and consumers will bear the brunt, Ms Maina said. The last time electricity energy taris were reviewed was in 2008. The countrys energy demand is rising rapidly with very little new power generation. There are only 1,533 megawatts installed capacity, up from 828 megawatts in 2003. A country like Argentina with almost the same population as Kenya has of 24,000 megawatts. In his recent address to Parliament, President Uhuru
FILE | NATION
Sh2.4m
Amount Keroche Breweries says it spends a month on power generators
Kenyatta said one of his priorities would be to open up the energy industry to new sources of investment. Mr Kenyatta also said other alternatives of energy such as solar, wind and geothermal plants would be explored. Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) will be required to spend at least Sh170 billion annually over the next 17 years to meet the countrys power demand by 2030. The demand for power is projected to hit 17,000 megawatts by 2030, when the country is expected to have transformed into a middle-income economy. KenGen would be required to spend not less than Sh3.23 trillion over the next 17 years.
280,000
Calls to made Kenya Power over blackouts this year
90,000
The number of calls made to Kenya Power due to outages last year
contract other rms for assistance. Some 280,000 calls were made by desperate Kenyans seeking help from the company after blackouts during the rst two weeks of this month alone. This is much higher than the 90, 000 calls received during the same period last year. Mr Njuguna gave cases where the rains caused havoc including an incident where a combination of ash oods, rain and wind uprooted 14 blue gum trees in Karen on to the overhead poles, aecting the entire regions of Langata, Ngong Road, Kiserian, Dagoretti and Lavington. Parklands, Westlands, Baba Dogo, Kariobangi, Runda, Spring Valley, Athi River, Buruburu, Ruai and South C were also affected by the power failures. Kenya Powers chief manager in charge of distribution Benson Muriithi says areas with underground cables were aected by the ongoing constructions from low density to high density residential regions. Ongata Rongai, Kajiado and Ngong areas suered high transformer vandalism and flooding cases during the period, while residents of Nyali, Kisii and lakeside areas experienced darkness because equipment were damaged by lightning strikes. The country is still experiencing doses of blackouts despite rains and winds losing their destructive sting.
Traders go for alternatives to solve problem

BY GRIFFINS OMWENGA
gomwenga@ke.nationmedia.com Frequent power blackouts are spurring the search for alternatives to grid supplied electricity. Soda maker Coca-Cola and a solar energy rm recently launched a gadget for lighting and charging phones. Known as Bright Box, the gadget is aimed at kiosks and small businesses. The Bright Box can power up to four light bulbs and charge several phones. Nairobi Bottlers managing director Patrick Pech said they will supply around 2,000 of the gadgets to kiosks in the city. This comes after a six-month pilot tests among 100 kiosks in and around Nairobi. Results showed business owners cut their energy expenses by 90 per cent and increased their earnings by 15 per cent, an equivalent of Sh2,736. In the bigger league, giant mobile phone services provider Safaricom will buy batteries from General Electric to run their installations. The company signed a Sh98 million deal with General Electric, to supply Durathon batteries that will provide back-up power to cell towers during blackouts, in densely populated areas. Safaricom will install 48 batteries in 25 sites in Nairobis Central Business District (CBD). Thibaud Rerolle, Safaricoms chief technology ocer, said the batteries will reduce the cost of running diesel generators. Meanwhile, in Nairobis Kibera slum, a group of young Kenyans have set up a workshop to make small solar cell panels which can generate enough electricity to power a radio or charge mobile phones. Each solar cell costs Sh500. According to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), an estimated 100,000 Kenyan homes have solar panels, most of them being the 12-14 watts type. Although Kenya has a signicant potential to produce up to 7,000 megawatts of geothermal electric power, there is a heavy reliance on hydro-electric power (HEP) generation, which can only produce 1,500 megawatts.
1,500
The megawatts currently produced by the HydroElectric generators
The current high power taris are having a negative impact on the manufacturing sector
However, Kenya Power says it will spend Sh20 billion every year for the next ve years to reduce blackouts that have peaked this year. Chief executive Officer Joseph Njoroge said they planned to build underground cables, use concrete poles instead of timber and increase
transmission stations. We intend to spend at least Sh20 billion every year for the next ve years to make our distribution system less vulnerable to weather, wind and vandalism, said Mr Njoroge. It is high time the government addressed issues of energy, infrastructure and bureaucracy to ease the cost of doing business in Kenya, said Betty Maina, chief executive of the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM). The current high power taris are already having a negative impact on the countrys manufacturing sector, Ms Maina said. This is in turn hurting our competitiveness in the international market, as locally produced products are priced higher than those produced by competing countries. Mr Jonathan Chifalu, communications manager at the Kenya Export Processing Zones, said companies in the area incurred an estimated loss of Sh20 million in April 2012 due to power outages. The companies were forced to use stand-by generators and these are very expensive to run, said Mr Chifalu.
12 | Opinion
Its not enough to pick the best for public jobs

resident Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto named a signicant proportion of the Cabinet this week. Coming nearly three weeks after their inauguration, the process took inordinately long although they argued they needed more time to consult and pick the best. The nominees will now be vetted by Parliament before formal appointment. After naming the Cabinet Secretaries, the next task is selecting principal secretaries who will be the administrative heads of ministries. Already, the Public Service Commission (PSC) has published a shortlist of 155 individuals to be interviewed for the positions starting on Monday. Unlike in the past when permanent secretaries were unilaterally named by the President, under the Constitution, they have rst to be interviewed by PSC. The list of successful candidates is then sent to the President to pick nominees for parliamentary approval. In all this, the driving motive is merit, equity, performance and service. A competitive and open appointment process gives the public a chance to interrogate the candidates and those who qualify take up the jobs with the condence that they are up to the task and are not beholden to any individual other than the taxpayer. This is good for performance. Thus far, there have been complaints that the appointment of Cabinet Secretaries failed to achieve equity in terms of region, age and physical disability. Clearly, that was not possible given the limited slots. But this can be corrected when selecting principal secretaries. A deliberate eort should be made to give preference to qualied Kenyans from areas and segments of society not represented in the Cabinet. Further, although the Constitution provides for a Cabinet of technocrats, it does not clearly demarcate their role with that of principal secretaries. This must be claried to avoid duplication of tasks or turf-wars that may paralyse government business.
POINT BLANK | George Kegoro
Theres no merit in claims that only doctors can manage health ministry
What is happening before us is all new to the country, and the proposed Cabinet probably deserves the benet of doubt
he news of the week was the nomination of 16 Cabinet Secretaries. The choices have drawn mixed reactions. On the one hand, the President and his advisers have done a good job of searching far and wide for a set of fresh and wellqualied Kenyans. These include the falsely-maligned James Macharia, proposed for appointment as Health Secretary. The supposed problem with Macharia is that, not being a medical doctor, he is unqualied to run the health docket. If this reasoning is to be extended to all the candidates, they may all need to be disqualied. It is simply not correct that Cabinet Secretaries have to be subject matter experts in the area of the ministry they will run, since they are surrounded by technical advisers. What the government needs is a set of sensible people to run its departments. A good education, in any area, tends to make a person sensible. freshness of new faces is salutary. It ensures that the country sees the back of a large number of politicians who lost at the polls and gives opportunity for innovation in the management of public aairs. Possibly, some of those picked have connections in high places, over and above the qualications that have been presented as the reasons for their nomination. Still, the new faces symbolise meritocracy, and give hope that a well-qualied person can be plucked from the obscurity of private career life and given the responsibility to run the government. There has been criticism of the fact that, contrary to the very public promise by Deputy President William Ruto that he and the President will be the only politicians in Cabinet, they have nominated two politicians, Mrs Charity Ngilu and Mr Najib Balala. In a presidential system, such as we have chosen, it is the prerogative of the President to settle on who serves in the Cabinet. The public may have preferred to see the backs of these two but, there is no principle that prevents their appointment to Cabinet if they meet legislative approval. There should, however, be concern about various balances in the Cabinet. Although regional balancing has been highlighted and will probably be taken up at the political level, it is disappointing that the President seems to have settled on the minimum number of women necessary to pass the constitutional quota of one-third. Given how poorly women candidates fared in the elections none was elected as a senator or governor it would have been desirable for the President to use the Cabinet appointments to increase the number of women in public life to address the gender imbalances brought about by the polls. Given the pressure for regional balancing, it is predictable that the President will, at some point in the future, increase the size of the Cabinet to nearer the maximum number allowed by the Constitution. It is to be hoped that gender balance will also be considered if such adjustments ever materialise. The challenge to the parliamentary approval that is expected to follow is that it is more dicult for the public to take part because the nominees are relatively unknown. What is happening before us is all new to the country, and the proposed Cabinet probably deserves the benet of the doubt. gkegoro@icj-kenya.org
he Africa Cup Sevens tournament goes down this weekend at the Mombasa Sports Club. The event will prove another crucial test for the countrys organisational ability, what with 10 nations taking part and International Rugby Board general manager-Africa Jean-luc Barthes in attendance. Barthes, who is in the country to review the Kenya Rugby Unions performance, has commended it for ongoing reforms. But this is not enough. The Africa Cup Sevens is the largest sporting event to be held in Mombasa since the 2007 World Cross Country Championship. However, the gains made from athletics seem to have gone down the drain with no major follow up as the coastal region lacks facilities to host major events. Its encouraging that the Jubilee government promised to build ve modern stadia and we expect Mombasa to be the rst target. The towns low altitude is suitable for competitions and training. This would attract sports stars to train there and boost revenues from tourism.
Build modern rugby stadia
Dr Fred Matiangi, the proposed Secretary for Information and Communication, did an outstanding job when he served as Chief of Party in a USAid-funded programme. If he takes the same competence to government, the department will be in safe hands. Ms Raychelle Omamo, the proposed Secretary for Defence, is a former chair of the Law Society of Kenya, under whose watch the society stood up to judicial resistance against the reforms instituted by the Narc government. For this she was made Jurist of the Year for 2002. Although majority of the proposed secretaries are unknown to the public, the
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POLITICALLY CORRECT | Kwamchetsi Makokha
LEGISLATORS PAY | Godwin Murunga
Kenyans ability to unite against MPs they just elected is astonishing

his week, the idiocy of voting has clearly been brought down to bear. Many are struggling to understand the waste that electioneering has become; how we easily get wastefully herded by our against their candidate until we vote. Then, they dump us into the drain like toilet paper. The argument used to mobilise us to vote is that bad leaders are elected by good people who dont vote. This is indeed compelling because apathy or low voter turnout is good news for sneaky people seeking inuential oces. But what if the voter turnout is 86 per cent, yet barely weeks after results, we are chorusing our displeasure at the very people we voted? Some of us have an excuse. Unlike many Kenyans, my choice of president, senator, women representative and MP lost. Though I did not nd a good candidate for governor, I settled for the better option in the eld. He won. After that, celebrations took the better part of March, accompanied by concerted admonitions from IEBC and victors instructing us to move on. Now, my peace has rudely been interrupted by the rare unity of previous foes and the media, all complaining about the same leaders that we mobilised around. Lest you forget, we have more than four years to the General Election. My bet is that this round of complaints will ebb away and disappear completely when we get herded again for the next polls. It is a time-tested habit for voters to forget and oce seekers know it. Our desire to unite for something is weaker than our ability to unite in complaining against someone.
My bet is that this round of complaints will ebb away and disappear completely when we get herded again for the next polls
A section of the National Assembly.
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Quite frankly, there is an element of stupidity here. Doesnt repeating something over and over again while expecting a dierent outcome sound strange? For long, we have been galvanised into voting, expecting a dierent crop of leaders. But each time, we have clowned the worst from previous occupants of these otherwise honoured and important oces. Consequently, it is now a predictable part of our national engagement to elect members of the National Assembly who, almost to a person, immediately reveal their unquenchable appetite to raid our national coers and, by extension, our pockets. What is absurd is our penchant to unite only in complaining. In the just-concluded election, we tore into each other on behalf of these candidates. So merciless were the abuses and so tribally inclined and
conceited were the jabs that no one could detect any prospects of unity in complaining against these very candidates. It turns out that some people were driven by pursuit of personal interests while others were simply motivated by ignorant and aimless expressions of passion. How long will it take us to recognise that such drivel simply undermines our ability to unite for something more consequential and progressive? Not only should this question remain top on our radar but we must strive to convincingly answer it. Why are we always unable to unite rst against bad leadership? Why cant we unite to shape an agenda that will hem elected leaders in, an agenda that will ensure they have no wiggle room for habits that, elsewhere, are candidly described as daylight looting? Why is it impossible to get our leaders to pursue our interests rather than their personal interests? And, why is our memory so short and our gullibility and foolishness so easy to ignite? My view is that our ability to tear into each other before the vote and unite in complaining after the poll is our greatest undoing. Our leaders know this and, behind closed doors, laugh themselves hoarse at our idiocy. They also know that on the critical question of recalling any one of them, they can rely on us to fragment into spurious disagreements. It is a theory elected leaders have tested and conrmed many times. Godwin Murunga is the deputy director of the African Leadership Centre, Nairobi. gmurunga@gmail.com
List of Cabinet incomplete until President names his soul-mate

very administration has a person whom everybody loves. It is usually someone who gets to do the pleasant stu of government like hugging babies, posing for pictures with the elderly and inspiring children to a great future. It helps if the individual can understand and quickly translate the Presidents mutterings which will most often be expressed in mother tongue with dispatch. Sixteen names since President Kenyatta began the joyful process of naming his Cabinet, it is still not clear who this political soul-mate is. It isnt uniquely Kenyan. President George W. Bush had Donald Rumsfeld and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair had Peter Mandelson. From the list submitted for parliamentary approval, no one seems to carry the scythe of a benevolent political Svengali. The keeper of secrets, whisperer into the Presidents ear and the most loved member of the inner circle watches over departments that are the silent listener to every conversation and unseen witness to all deals. It is this beloved of the nation who corrects propaganda about assassinations by banking them in the suicide column, denying fugitives from justice the label of exiles, and run-away parents the martyrdom of the disappeared. No one takes power expecting to be accused of disappearances and extra-judicial executions, but one is advised to be true to the scouts motto to be prepared always. After running background checks on all nominees, the NSIS and the police appear not to have a designated political or policy leader. They fall under the innocuous Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government. One can assume that interior and coordination of national government will be responsible for spying on county governments and reporting directly to the President. Here is a sector that grudgingly accepted one of its own to lead it as Inspector-General at the onset of root-and-branch reforms taking a back seat as the country transits into a new power dispensation. Should the President need to wage political battles for supremacy with county governments, it is to this beloved that he should turn. The Interior and National Coordination docket is one of two ministries for which the President has not proposed a name, the other being Labour, Social Security and Services. National security has been separated from Defence, which the able Raychelle Omamo has been nominated to lead. The Kenya Defence Forces will no doubt enjoy saluting the defence secretary and taking instructions from her, but it is the national security people who will be Uhurus eyes and ears. It is an assignment KDF might not dislike a portion of, which explains its increased presence in the public sphere. Pictures from President Kenyatta IIs functions have included the national ag, his standard, and another one for KDF. The KDF standard featured few times during Mwai Kibakis public addresses, but it was never in your face. There is no law against it, but globally, commanders-in-chief usually add gold or yellow trimmings to three edges of the countrys ag. This must be a sign that the President is running the security services rather than the other way round. Running a government requires one to do many things that are borderline legal. A good lawyer is an asset. This makes the AG a critical player. Though the new structure suggests that the AGs oce will run all departments previously managed from the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Aairs, there is loud silence over whether Prof Githu Muigai will continue to hold that oce. kwamchetsi@formandcontent.co.ke
DIFFERENT STROKES | Gabriel Dolan
Court should embrace honest criticism R

aila Odinga and President Kenyatta emerged from a funeral last weekend holding hands and announced that the work of uniting Kenyans had begun. Mr Odinga had earlier stated that he accepted the Supreme Court ruling. The six Supreme Court judges didnt take time to read their 113-page judgment and I suspect very few Kenyans have bothered to study it. The mood is for moving on even without a roadmap or destination. Reminds one of the French philosopher Voltaire when he said, I dont know where I am going but Im on my way. Should anyone still raise questions about the judgment, they will be condemned as begrudgers or worse. That is because some believe the petition was a political battle between Mr Odinga and Mr Kenyatta. However, if you con-
Not another poll asco A braver and more measured judgment would have called for a complete independent audit of IEBC performance.
sider that the matter was not just about the two but about Kenya, then you will devote a little more time to rigorously debate the matters that surfaced in the petition. In that respect, I am not so much concerned with the outcome of the process and have no desire to dispute the former, but a strong one to dissect the latter. Thankfully, that debate has begun with Wachira Mainas very comprehensive analysis of the
judgment in the latest issue of The EastAfrican. Many other commentators are adding to the conversation. My greatest concern is that the Supreme Court gave a gentle slap on the wrist to the IEBC in the form of investigations with a view to prosecution of the $100 million failure of the BVR kits and the accompanying technology. A braver and more measured judgment would have called for a complete independent audit of every aspect of the IEBCs performance. My column of March 9 called the IEBC performance a asco, and having read the judgment, I see no reason to alter that conclusion. The unexplained inconsistencies in the multiple voters registers that led to reductions in numbers in Cord areas and increases in Jubilee strongholds need serious investigation as do the shoddy tallying system. Put
many reservations about their performance together and any serious observer will conclude that the IEBC as it is currently organised should not be entrusted with the responsibility of conducting another election. Regretfully, the court let the IEBC o very lightly. Perhaps the real dread was that a complete audit of IEBC may have exposed an incompetent outt incapable of passing any credibility test. This is not sour grapes reasoning. The Supreme Court must also be open to critique of its judgment. It is composed of experienced and competent judges and as such, we expect them to welcome a rigorous debate that will be inclusive and constructive. Yes, let us all move on but only honest assessment of our failures and successes will point us to a proper destination. Escapism will lead us nowhere. gdolan54@gmail.com
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THINK AGAIN | Maina Kiai
We must be afraid, very afraid that the door is now open for vote thieves
hen delegates at the Constitutional Conference in Bomas began using delaying tactics to earn extra allowances, a friend of mine remarked that they had reached the end of their intelligence. This phrase has stuck with me as I tried to make sense of the Supreme Courts judgment even after re-reading it. Wachira Maina and George Kegoro have given useful and detailed analyses of the judgment. By making IEBC almost inviolable, the judges followed the status quo path of US Justice Norman Dugdale who tried to oust the Bill of Rights in the 1980s, asserting that it could not be implemented until subsidiary legislation was made. But lets consider the possible implications that could ow from this decision. This is not about Uhuru Kenyatta or Raila Odinga. It is about the process and integrity of our electoral and judicial systems. Like after the 1992 and 1997 awed elections, the results cant be changed but the decisions and actions of IEBC and Supreme Court will surely have signicant impact. By granting IEBC powers to declare, as Wachira
MARK MY WORD | Philip Ochieng
Obviously, the greatest beneciary is the incumbent and status quo. Those wielding power can inuence and manipulate election ocials
Voters queue to cast their ballots at Kajiado Township Primary School on March 4.
Maina puts it, the voters registerwill be what the IEBC says it is at whatever stage of the election, the Court has essentially given carte blanche to rigging by the electoral body. With the register as a moving target, and with IEBC allowed to use the law and order bogeyman to kick out agents and observers from the National Tallying Centre, the door has been opened for permanently contentious elections. Second, by its ousting of Article 159 (2) (d) on supremacy of substance over procedure, the Court has made it impossible to challenge the truthfulness and credibility of respondents in petitions, once they reply to the petitions. In fact, the Court declared that IEBCs assertions were not challenged but only after it refused to allow responses to IEBC! This will have serious consequences to the practice of law, especially to presidential election petitions for the IEBC can lie, fudge and omit necessary information. Obviously, the greatest beneciary of this is the incumbent and status quo. Those wielding state power can inuence and manipulate election ofcials. The third possible implication is that those declared losers will never bother to go to court given this reasoning. We were here in 2007. What will happen next time? Fourth, because the judgment was pro-status quo, retrogressive and procedural, it is likely judges and magistrates will follow suit. Indeed, we have already seen Judge Mutava deliver a ruling that attempts to close down the Golden-
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berg scandal without any accountability whatsoever. Fifth, by taking judicial notice that technology fails, and that many parts of Kenya do not have electricity, the Court has elevated the discredited manual systems that brought mayhem in 2007. There was no notice taken of the damage done by manual systems that led to the atrocities. By so doing, the Court implies it is okay to spend Sh20 billion on electronic systems without accounting for solar energy, or generators, for the IEBC knew some places had no electricity when they procured the systems! The judges mainly focused on oral submissions which were less than 10 per cent of the evidence presented. It is also not clear whether there was any fact checking on the submissions and authorities used as Wachira Maina argues on the decisions from Philippines. Nonetheless, they have made a mockery of the role of constitutionalism, which is to ensure that those without power, the underdogs, have mechanisms to check and control those in power and authority. mkiai2000@yahoo.com
Pent-up anger is no reason to abuse language

readily understood the Garissa spokesmans mood when he fumed as captured by TV cameras the other day that his people were being slaughtered in day broadlight. That was what dismayed me. For even pent-up anger does not license us to abuse language. What on earth is day broadlight? The answer, apparently, is that some lights of the 24-hour day are broader than others. Of the three broadest ones, moonlight and starlight are clearly less broad than sunlight the protracted 12-hour enlightenment of our sky between sunrise and sunset. Thus, when anything occurs at any time between those two daily milestones of time, we may say, quite literally, that it has happened in broad daylight. In that way of putting it, the adjective broad describes the noun daylight. Contrariwise, the Garissa leader used the noun day to describe another substantive, the noun broadlight. Never heard of it! But if I said anything, I was wrong. For the phrase in broad daylight is usually used negatively against actions which ought not to happen in such light, namely, in public. The auxiliary verb ought connotes actions implying moral or legal obligations and sense of responsibility. But, in nature, some things just dont happen. In its diurnal course William Wordsworths poetic name for that celestial daily caravan the sun never makes any stopover (not even to refuel) except for Joshua in the fertile minds of Judahs Baruch, Hilkiah, Jeremiah, Shapan and King Josiahs other hired manufacturers of the so-called Deuteronomistic History. In ethical settings, too, you just never do certain things. You steal only at the risk of social opprobrium and punishment. If people steal, nevertheless, the point is that a good thief takes studious cover-up measures before he strikes. A good heist takes place under cover of mystique or darkness. But all rules presuppose exceptions. That is why we would marvel at the shamelessness of the swashbuckler who invites television cameramen to cover him as he perpetrates the goriest murder in the middle of Nairobis Kenyatta Avenue. Only when a culprit appears unconcerned to cover his spoor do we say he has committed a broad daylight robbery. We say so even if the robbery occurs at midnight. Thus the objective diurnal brilliance of my birth is irrelevant though it is true that I am called Ochieng because I was born around midday (from chieng, the sun O being the prex for masculine names). The Luo word odiechieng refers to noon, the mid-point of the 12 diurnal hours. The prex odie comes from the preposition diere (central), probably etymologically akin to the Latin diurnus whence the adjective diurnal (describing events of the 12-hour sun-day). Diurnus entered French as journee (day) to beget the names of such daytime activities as journey, journeymanship and journalism. Activities which occur during the other 12 hours are called nocturnal from the Latin noun nox (night). So you dont expect the nocturnal owl to commit any of its predatory crimes in broad daylight. philipcochieng39@yahoo.com
FAIR PLAY | Raphael Obonyo
Where are the youth in Cabinet list? T

he youth in this country have suffered two tragedies if the list of the 16 of the 18 Cabinet Secretaries unveiled this week is anything to go by. The President and his deputy have refused to create a ministry to articulate youth agenda, vaguely saying that the concerns of this critical constituent will be mainstreamed in the other ministries. The two leaders have also refused to appoint a youth among the Cabinet Secretaries that have so far been named, which is a serious let-down. No doubt, youth ideas, creativity, vision and energies are vital for the transformation and development of our country, which the pair outlined in their manifesto. During the election campaigns, the Jubilee Coalition also emphasised the need to prioritise and meaningfully engage young people in public service. Where are they? It is no doubt that the remaining two appointments, which were left out without clear explanation, will hardly go to the youth. Entry of Najib Balala and Charity Ngilu to the Cabinet a few hours after declaration that no position would go to a politician clearly testies that the appointments, just like in the past, were not insulated from personal consideration. It is lamentable that the youth have been left out, despite the overwhelming support they gave the duo. Young people were excited that a government that had campaigned on the platform of generational change, calling itself digital, would integrate them in decision-making. To assert its commitment to address youth problems, the Jubilee manifesto eloquently stated that youth leadership, participation and empowerment in the areas of governance and development would be taken seriously when the new government is in place. Truth be told, there are many capable young people who have impressive qualications to serve at the level of Cabinet Secretaries. Given that young people aged 18-34 years comprise about 30 per cent of the population in the country, the government should ensure they are eectively engaged in decision-making at all levels and that more youths are given critical roles in shaping policy and management of public aairs. The problems facing the youth are numerous and inter-related. They include unemployment, poor education, health
and drug abuse. Additionally, a majority of the youth in Kenya live in poverty, exposing them to crime. About 80 per cent of the 2.3 million jobless Kenyans are young people between 15-34 years. Let us not forget that it does not go wrong, if it starts wrong. The mistake prior administrations made was to ignore the youth and their potential. Similarly, the Jubilee government seems to be starting on a wrong footing as far as representation of youth is concerned. The youth are no longer spectators, they are players. Young people must be involved in the running of government. They must be part of the Public Service. We call on the President and Deputy President to appoint qualied and committed youths in the remaining Cabinet Secretary positions. Equally important, the government should reserve a percentage of all appointments including the positions of principal secretaries and head of departments for qualied youths with the capacity and passion to serve our country. Mr Obonyo is external adviser, United Nations Habitats Youth Advisory Board raphojuma@hotmail.com
QUOTED
I can tell you that there will be two politicians in the government, the President and I.
Deputy President William Ruto on Wednesday
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To the editor
Butere play should not have featured in fete
There was a heated debate for the last two weeks about the banning of Butere Girls play Shackles of Doom. I also vehemently opposed the ban, until I attended this years drama festivals. I think the play deserved the ban for lack of creativity. Schools presented plays on ICC, tribalism, reconciliation and elections. Shackles of Doom should have made use of symbolism and let the audience unravel the mystery. The play tells of the injustices in very plain language, making it shallow and unattractive. Couldnt the play have used ctitious names for its characters and country that would not be so closely related to Kenyan names? They should use suspense, symbolism and humour. MERCY ETAGO ELAHUYA, Baringo
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TALKING POINT
THE CUTTING EDGE

BY THE WATCHMAN
MUTUAS SPIRIT. Of all the new governors, Dr Alfred Mutua, of Machakos County, has really hit the ground running, says a thoroughly impressed Johnson Ireri. He adds: The former Government spokesman is blazing the trail for county leaders on the path to prosperity. He was the rst to host an investors conference and oer free land. He has also unveiled his cabinet line-up and is holding budget preparation forums around the county. Go Dr Mutua, go! His contact is johnsonireri86@gmail.com. INCOMPLETE BYPASS. Can the Kenya Urban Roads Authority let Nairobi residents know when the construction of the Kilimani bypass to Westlands will ever be completed? urges Sadik M. Makii. The contractor, Sadik adds, was not able to meet last years deadline of September 15, and this was extended to March 15, this year. Even this quietly lapsed, with no mention of any new date, he notes. His contact is sm akii@absolutesecurity.co.ke. UHURUS NAME. Just because he is called Uhuru, some people mistakenly think that President Kenyatta was born when the country attained independence in 1963, remarks David Macharia, adding that his correct date of birth is October 26, 1961. He was given the name as his father, founding President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, had been released from detention two months earlier. There were clear signs then that the country was going to gain uhuru soon, and Kanus clarion call then was, Kenyatta na uhuru, hence the signicance of the name given to the leaders son. His contact is davidmacharia25@yahoo.com. DIGITAL ERA. What Michael Mwania expects from the new government that has styled itself as digital is to introduce smart driving licences tted with chips to enable drivers to pay for renewals electronically. This will reduce the queues in KRA oces and also help save our trees. From now on, the people should tweet the President and the Deputy President instead of placing congratulatory messages in print and electronic media. I cant wait to see President Kenyatta reading his speech from an iPad. His contact is mwaniam@gmail.com. IN BAD TASTE. On last Sundays Churchill Show on NTV, Lee Barasa says it was sheer agony trying to get the joke in JB Masandukus theatrics. Listening to the comedian do his stu, Lee felt that it was perhaps meant for an audience at a sewerage and sanitation workshop. And he wont forgive the producer of the show for airing such an item on a show that was being received in peoples living rooms at dinner time. It was discourteous, to say the least, he declares. His contact is leebarasa@yahoo.com.
Have a decent day, wont you!
The choice is between laptops and more teachers for schools

here has been plenty of debate on the promise by the Jubilee government to provide solar-powered laptops for public primary school entrants next year. But, hype aside, the new administration has not told us how the introduction of these gadgets will positively impact on our education system. The glaring disparity in the teacher-to-pupil ratio in public schools is already worrying. Worse still, when pupils report to Class One next year, laptop in tow, they may not nd anyone to teach them how to use the gadgets because the government will not have employed ICT teachers. In rural government schools, teachers have bloated classes of up to 80 pupils, which might roll back the gains of free primary education. Currently, over 70,000 trained teachers are unemployed while the teacher decit in public schools stands at 100,000. Besides, Kenyan teachers form the bulk of the brain drain in East Africa with Tanzania taking the lions share of these teachers followed by Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan. These teachers often work in extremely deplorable conditions, mostly without
Governor should sort out trac mess in city

The Mombasa County government should move with speed to unblock the towns drainage system. When it rains, some roads become impassable. Starting from Likonis Majengo Mapya, the rough road turns into ponds and lakes. Along the Moi Avenue, part of the road near the giant old trees has a deep swamp. In parts of Kingorani and Bondeni, roads turn into rivers. Along the Old Mombasa-Malindi road, motorists suer huge potholes. The authorities should move fast to unblock the waterways and open up the blocked drainage system. Such blockages hinder the free movement of trac on the roads. They make the suburban experience a nightmare. The governor should work towards eradicating the heavy trac jams when it rains. JUSTIN N. NKARANGA, Mombasa
Pupils use a laptop in Kakamega. The Jubilee government has to choose between employing more teachers or giving pupils laptops. The two cost the same.
work permits. Working as illegal immigrants leaves them limited leverage to demand for better pay. Yet they brave these conditions because they cannot secure employment back home. Granted, the government has in recent times committed almost 40 per cent of its national budget to education, but this by no means belies the fact that almost half a million pupils remain out of school due to various reasons that include hunger, parental negligence, destitution and insecurity. Assuming that 800,000 pupils will join Class One next year, and at a price of Sh18,000 per solar-powered laptop, the project will cost the taxpayer Sh14.4 billion. That amount is enough to pay 66,667 teachers, each earning Sh18,000 per month, for a whole year. Dont forget that this will be a yearly project. That means that if we committed that amount every year to stang alone, under-staing in public schools would become a thing of the past. Yes, the laptops project is a great idea. It is also feasible. Yet, its implementation must go in tandem with other well-thought-out policy and stang procedures. For, if these salient issues are neglected, the whole project could turn into another white elephant that gobbles up public money with very limited gains. MUGO WA NJERI, Loitokitok
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Citizens and media have to put pressure on MPs

By demanding a salary increment, our MPs do not seem to understand the complex nature of public nance. They should know that their lack of moral depth corrupts absolutely because the spirit is dead. Dead to the pain they are causing to taxpayers. Dead to the future we are striving to build. Dead to the fact that they, too, can adjust their lifestyles to suit their income in the same way Kenyans earning a dollar a day do. So who will stop them? The media? Citizens should picket Parliament and burn some more cons. EMMA WANJIRU GICHUHI, via e-mail
To enjoy fruits of devolution, Ministry should check the we must protect Constitution quality of repair on this road
In the recent General Election, each of the presidential aspirants was keen to assure Kenyans that he/she had big plans for devolution. This was also echoed in their manifestos. Elections are now over and we have President Kenyatta. However, what has not been sorted out is the devolution issue. In the recent governors meeting, they raised the issue of interference from county commissioners. Devolution is the best present Kenyans have earned from the new Constitution and we should ght for it now or we will never enjoy it. KIJILWA GEORGE, Kakamega Kangundo Road has recently been recarpeted. I am a frequent user of this road, which is one of the oldest tarmacked roads in Kenya, having been tarmacked in 1960s. However, potholes have started appearing while the contractor is still on site. The road edge is not straight in both sides and the nishing leaves a lot to be desired. Who will save Kangundo residents from this mess? Kangundo Road should be expanded and connected to Machakos through Kakuyuni and Kathiani and also through Syanthi to Kenol. JOHN MASAKU, Kangundo
ON THIS DATE IN 1981

COMPILED BY AUGUSTINE NYAGAH
YESTERDAYS QUESTION
DEBATE QUESTION
Are doctors right to oppose non-medic as Health secretary?

CAROL SAMWEL: No. The health sector has been run before by health professionals before but things were not any better. LINCOLN M. KINYUA: Yes. Being a non-medic, cartels in the medical sector could take advantage of his lack of medical knowledge to eece the government. DAN TUMBO: Yes. There is nothing wrong with airing their views in line with their profession. JASON ASSELSTINE: No. I am yet to meet a doctor who could balance the books or understand a spreadsheet. Best just let the doctors do doctors work.
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Health minister Arthur Magugu (left) with the incoming president of the Pan-African Association of Neurological Sciences, Prof R. Ruberti and director of medical services, Dr W. Koinange, after the ocial opening of the Pan-African Neurological Sciences conference in Nairobi.
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POWER OF PROFIT | Businessmen/women and artists have succeeded where the law and governments failed
How Kiswahili stopped being the language of soldiers and prostitutes

If you enjoyed the old Tanzanian joke of Kiswahili being born in Zanzibar, growing up in Tanganyika, dying in Kenya and being buried in Uganda with its ghost eeing to Congo, you may soon have to revise it
BY JOACHIM BUWEMBO
satnation@ke.nationmedia.com or several decades until a few years ago, if you met a smart woman who spoke Kiswahili in Kampala, chances were that she was a lady of the night. They reputedly picked and mastered the language in Mombasa where they plied their trade. Well, that was then. A smart girl who speaks Kiswahili in Kampala today is most likely a Kenyan or Tanzanian student. But surprise, surprise! she could as well be a Ugandan businesswoman who has never stepped out of the country. Such is the power of the prot motive (what Adam Smith called the bakers greed that guarantees us our dinner) that it has achieved what legislation and coercion could not do making Ugandans voluntarily learn Kiswahili. The regional evolution of trade has had a lot to do with the silent lingual revolution taking place in Kampala. A walk through the citys bustling wholesale business hub called Kikuubo can be quite revealing. Here, Kiswahili is used by all traders, and competes with Luganda for supremacy. Actually, in Kikuubo, Kiswahilli is more than a strong added advantage, it is a necessity. Kikuubo means alley in Luganda and that is what it started as during the days of economic hardship when the military government crushed the economy by expelling the Asian business class from the country in the 1970s. It was the improvising Ugandan traders who started congregating in the alley adjacent to the main bus station and Nakivubo Stadium to buy and sell goods. With return to normalcy and the subsequent modernisation of the economy, the supermarket lifestyle finally came to Kampala and has matured in the past decade or so. Now almost all consumers get their groceries from the supermarket. And the supermarket in turn gets its supplies direct from dierent manufacturers. So the Kikuubo wholesale market was bound to die. It didnt. Instead it transformed and evolved into a very important regional trading centre. The alley has in recent years grown to cover several streets. The growth has not only been in terms of area covered, but the shops therein have alsobeen qualitatively styled up. (And thanks to the increase in electricity supply since last year after the commissioning of Bujagali Dam, the din of diesel generators that used to engulf Kikuubo is no more.) The growing stability, improved infrastructure and revival of the East African trading bloc are helping Uganda to re-position from lamenting over its landlockedness to capitalising on its landlinkedness, making Kikuubo Eastern Africas Dubai of sorts. So traders in the original Kikuubo Lane and those operating in the adjacent William Street, the nearby Kisekka, Nakivubo and Shauri Yako markets buy merchandise from different EAC states and supply to markets in the region. Cereals from Uganda attract buyers from the region to Nakivubo while hardware and manufactured domestic goods from Kenya are collected from Kikuubo by Rwandan, Congolese, South Sudanese and of course Ugandan dealers. And the language that brings them all together is Kiswahili. So the thousands of Ugandans operating in Kikuubo have no option but to learn the language they previously despised. If you enjoyed the old Tanzanian joke of Kiswahilli being born in Zanzibar, growing up in Tanganyika, dying in Kenya and being buried in Uganda with its ghost eeing to Congo, you may soon have to revise it for Kiswahili is slowly but surely getting reborn in Uganda. Kampala could, in a decade, come be the resurrection site of Kiswahili. In the past, Kiswahili in Uganda used to be a preserve of the armed forces. This is probably due to the fact that the Ugandan Army was born from the Kings African Ries which was an East African colonial force, whose service language was Kiswahili. To date, it is the language of the army and some senior ocers speak the language so well that even neighbours get impressed. Many Tanzanians who hear the immediate former army spokesman, Colonel Felix Kulaigye on the BBC Kiswahilli Service wonder how a Ugandan can speak Kiswahili so well. But there are many who speak it like him, and since these are well-educated ocers, the stigma that ordinary Ugandans used to direct at people who speak the language has waned. In the past, an armed person spoke Kiswahili to harass you. So
And so the private sector is again winning where the State has been trying for nearly a century without success
Joachim Buwebo
every Ugandan knew the terrible command like Fungua mlango, kaa chini, piga magoti and ominously, piga risasi . That was where the national/public Kiswahili vocabulary stopped. For many years since the 1986 regime change, the only new addition to our Kiswahilli vocabulary was chicken dropping (maavi ya kuku) contributed by popular soldier-minister Maj-Gen Kahinda Otaire while describing an Asian business rival when their deals went sour. But today, many people in Kampala nd the sympathy expression pole sana more cool than sorry. Hearing any two people speaking Kiswahili in Kampala these days does not make any head turn, for the regional interaction has grown tremendously in recent years. A recent survey at the borders indicated that at least 2,000 people cross at Busia alone every day, a 1,000 moving in either direction. That is on a low day, otherwise it is 1,500 and more in each direction on some days like when schools are closing or opening. And these numbers are only for the documented travellers who carry passports and other formal travel documents. And again, that is Busia alone, and many more cross at Malaba and Entebbe Airport, not to mention the small border posts. Three quarters of the people crossing at Busia are Kenyans. On the Tanzania border, Mutukula is also extremely busy and the recent construction of roads in Tanzania has made it even busier. The invisible export of Ugandas education industry has also done a lot to promote the use of Kiswahili. A joke in Kampala goes that KIU (the acronym for Kampala International University) stands
for Kenyans In Uganda. The university has a big number of Kenyan students. There is also a huge number of Tanzanian kids studying at lower levels down to primary school, brought by parents who want them to have a strong English language foundation. In Tanzania, the English Medium schools are private and quite expensive, compared to Uganda where every school teaches in English. Besides the East African students, the Kampala elite circles have a growingly signicant portion of Kenyans. Every other hotel manager and marketing manager in town is from Kenya. Thus the presence of a Kiswahili speaking elite has also contributed to changing the bias against the language that was otherwise a preserve of functionally illiterate soldiers. But the people who have played the greatest part in popularising Kiswahili beyond just being a business medium are musicians. Several popular modern Ugandan artistes have had a stint in Kenya. And even those who were not based in Nairobi need to market their music to Kenya and Tanzania. So they either mix Luganda with Kiswahili or make entire compositions in the language. Jose Chameleon is a case in point, and at any given time over the past 10 years he has had a Kiswahili hitsong in the Kampala market. It is not always Kiswahili that nds Ugandans in Kampala. Many have also pursued the language where it comes from in Kenya and Tanzania. In the past, Ugandans worked in Kenyan schools and hospitals. Today, many are teaching in Tanzania. The children of these returning Ugandans often speak Kiswahili as a first language, and are not conscious about it. And except for a conservative few, the older Ugandans who stay in Kenya and Tanzania for a long while have also learnt to love the language. But it is the traders who are doing much more than expatriates in spreading Kiswahili. Every trader in around here has to learn Kiswahili if they are to survive in business, Betty Namusoke, who sells plastic products in Kikuubo told me recently. Traders from neighbouring countries are big players here and that is the only language they speak. Ocials at the Ministry of East African Community Aairs in Kampala say that a few years ago awareness of regional busi-
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The average number of documented travellers crossing the Kenya/Uganda border at Busia daily
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The year President Yoweri Museveni took power. The president and most senior soldiers are uent in Kiswahili
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TO COMMENT ON THIS AND OTHER STORIES GO TO nationmedia.com ness opportunities in Uganda was quite low compared to Kenya and to an extent Rwanda, but a number of interventions including awareness campaigns are redressing the situation. These have alerted Ugandan traders to the extent that some now buy maize from as far as Kibaigwa market in central Tanzania for sale to Sudanese buyers who collect it from Kikuubo. Inevitably, they have to master Kiswahili to carry out their transactions. And it is not just those lifting sacks of produce that must speak the language in the trading world. As more people join the regional trade, the formal business sector is also following them for a piece of the action. All the major commercial banks in Uganda, for instance, have opened branches in Kikuubo in recent years, for that is where most money in the country is. So Kiswahili there is becoming as much a corporate language as English. And so the private sector is again winning where the state has been trying for nearly a century without success. From the colonial government, through the military government that decreed that Kiswahili becomes the national language, to the present government that used to plead with the people to learn it, none had managed to make Ugandans like Kiswahili, let alone try to learn it. But the desire by musicians and the business community to prot from the opportunities of regional trade has achieved what even the brutal military government could not enforce. buwembo@gmail.com
Soldier attacked as crime soars in city

BY NATION REPORTER
A soldier is among the latest victims of rising crime in Nairobi. Senior Sergeant Peter Karanja Mwaura was shot and injured at the gate of his house by gangsters on Thursday night. Mr Mwaura was confronted by two men as his wife opened the gate at Kanungu in Gachie. The attackers shot him in both legs and left on foot without taking anything. No arrests have been made and police are yet to establish the motive of the attack. Mr Mwauras wife, Esther, said she opened the gate for her husband but as he was about to enter the compound two men emerged and shot him. Nairobi deputy PPO Moses Ombati said the attackers left without uttering a word. Mr Ombati also said police were looking for three gangsters, one of them a woman. The criminals are targeting taxi drivers. Just two days after a taxi driver was hired by three men in Westlands who later killed him, another taxi driver who operates in the area, is ghting for his life in hospital after he was attacked by gangsters posing as customers. Mr Thadeus Okoth, a taxi driver with Pewin Cabs, was hired by a woman and a man who wanted him to take them to Guru Nanak Hospital. Near the hospital, the two were joined by another man armed with a sharp object. They stabbed the driver in the head, threw him out of the car and took control of the vehicle. The vehicle has not been recovered. Last Tuesday, Mr Richard Otieno Odhil was found dead in his car on Kandara Road in Kileleshwa, about 150 metres from the local police station. He had a deep stab wound on the neck. Mr Odhil had been hired by customers who wanted to be taken to Loreto Msongari on Monday night. On Wednesday night, ve motorists were carjacked and three vehicles stolen. Two of them were carjacked in Ngara and robbed of cash before the attackers drove them to the residence of a Mr Amos Ogutu in Thome estate. They robbed Mr Ogutu of Sh134,000 and household goods worth Sh250,000 before driving away with their rst two victims pick-up. They also stole Mr Ogutus BMW. The gunmen abandoned Mr Lalji Mavji Rova and Mr Ramesh Kerai at Mr Ogutus home. At 9.30pm, another group armed with AK-47 ries raided an M-Pesa shop on Kangundo road and robbed the owner of Sh10,000 before shooting customer Amos Kagwe in the left leg. In Langata, a man was confronted at a parking yard by two armed men who forced him into his car and took control of it. They drove up to Kileleshwa where they dumped him next to Queens Apartments and drove away.
Raid M-Pesa shop
Posed as customers
Kikuubo free trade zone in central Kampala, Uganda, has become a hub for regional trade and Kiswahili is the medium of trade. Below left: Ms Betty Namusoke, a plastics dealer who says mastery of the language is key to dealing with customers from the EAC bloc.
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Woman joins director in forgery case

A woman was yesterday charged with forgery and attempted theft. Ms Margaret Machio faces trial alongside Mr Gregory Smaragdis, a Greek, who failed to appear in court after his release on bond. The two face 12 counts of forgery, presenting falsified documents and attempted theft of more than Sh5 million from a rm. A warrant of arrest against Mr Smaragdis of Bactlabs East Africa was lifted yesterday after a lawyer said he was not eluding justice but being treated at the Nairobi West Hospital. Police were also ordered to investigate the authenticity of the medical documents. The prosecution has accused Mr Smaragdis, a director of Bactlab Limited, of forging several local purchase orders and invoices and presenting them to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital between November 2, 2011, and March 19, 2012, for payment. Ms Machio, who denied the charges and was released on a bond of Sh200,000, is alleged to have been an accomplice. The two are expected to appear in court on April 30.
State foiled bid to register MRC

An attempt to register the outlawed Mombasa Republic Council as a society to conduct civic education at the Coast, was foiled by a government oce in 2011, a court heard yesterday. However, the Office of the President withheld registration documents the Registrar of Societies forwarded for vetting, Mombasa senior principal magistrate Richard Odenyo was told. A manager in charge of records at the registrars ofce, Mr Timothy Kamau, told the trial court that the documents were forwarded to the OP after he received and veried them. They included MRCs constitution, Sh2,000 cheque as registration fee and notication of registered oce needed to list the group as a society. The following were proposed as oce bearers; Omar Khamis Mwamnwadzi (chairman), Randu Nzai Ruwa (secretary), Abdallah Ali Sheikh (treasurer), Omar Yasin Bakari (coordinator) and Salim Issa Goga (organising-secretary), said Mr Kamau. He said the office received a letter dated October 15, last year, from the Coast Provincial Investigations ocer, Mr Ambrose Munyasia, seeking to verify whether MRC was a registered society. Six top leaders of the banned group have denied being members of an unlawful society. A legal ocer at the ofce of Registrar of Political Parties, Ms Geraldide Ferraroh, said on October 15, last year, Mr Munyasia wrote to ask whether MRC was registered as a political party. We replied, saying there was no political party by the name Mombasa Republican Council, she added. The case will be heard on July 26.
EMBU COUNTY GOVERNMENT
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

COMPETITION FOR DESIGNING THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT FLAG, COAT OF ARMS AND PUBLIC SEAL
The County Government Act 2012 Section four (4) on County Symbols requires that: 1. a) b) c) Every County shall enact legislation prescribing the following County symbols: The County Flag; The County Court of Arms and Logo, and; The County Public Seal.
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2. The County Executive shall develop the symbols of the County through a consultative process for approval by the County Assembly by legislation. 3. The County legislation enacted under subsection (1) shall provide for use of the County symbols in the same manner as provided for in the National Flag, Emblems and Names Act (Cap 99). 4. A County symbol shall not be the same as, or be a likeness or similarity to a National symbol. In accordance with Section 4 of the said Act, offers are hereby invited from the members of general public and or institutions for the designing of the County Flag, the County Coat of Arms, and the County Public Seal. It should be noted that the designs shall reflect the history, social-cultural and economic aspirations of Embu County, should be unique; and capture the diversity of the County. The competition shall be in the following categories with a token for the winner and runners up as indicated below: 1. County Flag - Winner - Kshs. 30,000 - Runner up - Kshs. 15,000 2. County Court of Arms and Logo - Winner - Kshs. 30,000 - Runner up - Kshs. 15,000 3. County Public Seal - Winner - Kshs. 30,000 - Runner up - Kshs. 15,000 Further, please note that by submitting the designs you agree to transfer copyright of the designs to Embu County Government. The submission of the proposed designs in full colour measuring 28 x 20 cm and in good resolution, must reach the undersigned by 1st May, 2013 through the following address:The Interim County Secretary Embu County P.O Box 36 60100 EMBU or be delivered by hand to office No. 30, Embu Town Hall (Former Municipal Council of Embu) It should be noted that the selection panel shall exercise discretion and its decision on the winner for each category and its decision shall be deemed final. DAVID N. KANJI INTERIM COUNTY SECRETARY EMBU COUNTY
Warrant of arrest lifted
We sent a reply to say there is no political party by the name MRC,

Geraldide Ferraroh, legal ocer at registrar of political parties
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ECONOMICS FOR EVERYONE | Tom Bundervoet
Will rising temperatures derail Africas rise?

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frica is on the move. After two decades of decline, fortunes reversed by the end of the 1990s, resulting in a decade of strong economic growth and sizeable improvements in sanitation, education and health. Real incomes per capita in subSaharan Africa grew by more than 30 per cent over the last 10 years, and six countries from the continent made it on the list of the 10 fastestgrowing economies in the world. Big men, although still around in some parts of the continent, have become less common; elections have become more frequent; and many civil wars have nally ended. All this has produced a narrative of Africa Rising and a widespread optimism that Africa is nally on the right track. Indeed, the 21st century may well turn out to be Africas century. Or not. Ted Miguels keynote address at the annual conference of the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) in Oxford, highlighted a potentially important concern. Applying a common statistical framework to a large number of studies on the link between temperatures and human violence, Miguel and his co-authors nd a remarkably consistent and strong correlation between exceptionally high temperatures and manifestations of violence. Drawing on detailed data from a variety of countries and studies, they show that exceptionally high temperatures are correlated with signicant increases in witch killings (Tanzania), rapes (US), murders (US), aggressive behaviour of baseball players (US) and more frequent and more aggressive horn-honking. Applying the model to civil wars, Miguel and his team nd that a one standard deviation increase in temperatures is correlated with an 11 per cent increase in civil war onsets. Average temperatures in sub-Saharan Africa are forecasted to rise by two degrees Celsius by 2050. This represents an increase of three standard deviations. Applying the ndings, this could increase civil war onsets by 33 per cent. The link between high temperatures and war onsets is likely to run through the impact on economic conditions, as research shows that a one degree increase in temperatures is correlated with a 1.5 percentage point decrease in GDP growth. So there would be a double negative eect: Temperature shocks would drive down economic indicators, which in turn would increase-in the well-known Collier-Hoeer framework-the likelihood of conict that would in turn have devastating impacts on the economy and the people. Fortunately, there are a number of caveats. Miguel and co-authors examine the impact of temperature shocks, extreme deviations from the average, on violence. An increase in temperature of two degrees Celsius over a 50-year period (0.05 degrees per year) is probably not a shock . This caveat would, however, cancel out if higher average temperatures were to be correlated with more frequent and steeper temperature swings. Also, given the time-period, we would expect African countries to adapt and put policies into place to mitigate the impact of rising temperatures (although some African governments will do so better and faster than others). What do you think will be the impact of global warming on Africas future? Dr Bundervoet is a poverty economist with the World Bank
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When scientists predict temperatures in Africa will have risen by two degrees Celsius
LOOKING AHEAD | Nic Cheeseman
How to make electoral technology work

The failure of these systems was not due to anything unique to Kenya with so little preparation they would have failed anywhere in the world
t has been hard to nd anyone in Kenya with a good word to say about the new technology introduced to act as check on electoral manipulation in the wake of theMarch 4 elections. Cord leaders included the failure of the new measures as one of the main planks of their petition against the ofcial results. International and domestic election observers noted their disappointment that none of the new systems functioned as intended. Journalists questioned whether the system had been tampered with: was this conspiracy or cock-up? Donors have wondered how such fragile equipment could cost so much money. Even Twitter got in on the act; following yet another delay in the counting process, one sharp-witted commentator wondered whether it was actually the IEBCs clock that had been hacked. These criticisms are understandable. The elections could have run much more smoothly than they did which would have gone a long way to persuading losing candidates to accept the results. But the notion that Kenya is somehow not ready for electoral technology is wide o the mark because it rests on a misunderstanding about what went wrong in the election and underestimates what Kenya is capable of. By suggesting that election technology still has much to oer Kenya I do not mean to gloss over how badly the new mechanisms for voter verication and the transmission of results actually worked. The biometric verication of voters by checking their ngerprints using an electronic scanner failed as soon as it had begun. In a small number of polling stations the equipment never appeared. In many more polling streams the kits did not work either because they lost power, or because the scanner could not be made to function. According to ELOG, the domestic election group, the kits failed in a majority of polling stations at some point during the day. As a result IEBC ocials did as they had been instructed: they reverted to the same manual system used in 2007. This does not mean that rigging necessarily occurred manual systems can work perfectly well and deliver free and fair results but it does mean that one of the important checks that was supposed to stop multiple voting and ballot box stung was wholly ineective. The transmission of provisional results via mobile phone fared
IEBC clerks prepare their kits during the biometric voter registration at St Teresas Girls Secondary School in Nairobi in November last year.
little better. The idea was that the results from each of the 33,000 polling streams would be texted in and automatically broadcast live at Bomas, on the Internet, and on TV. By comparing these results with the ocial aggregate gures for each constituency it would have been possible to check for errors, or manipulation, in the counting and tabulation process. But once the rst urry of results had come in the system slowly ground to a halt. Not only did results for the majority of polling streams fail to appear, but the results that were transmitted raised serious problems. Instead of the gap between the two candidates uctuating over time as results from different leaders strongholds came in as the results did in 2007 the text results seemed to give Kenyatta a constant lead over Odinga. Even more mysterious was the case of the rejected votes. On the basis of the mobile phone transmissions it appeared that these would play a major role in the election. Not only did the rejected vote tally outperform Musalia Mudavadi, but once the chair of the IEBC had declared that rejected votes would be included in the calculation of the 50%+1 threshold required for a rst round victory it seemed that the incredibly high number of rejected votes might deny Uhuru Kenyatta a rst round victory. In the end, of course, when the manual count started to come in it turned out that the actual number of rejected votes was much smaller. The IEBC explained this discrepancy away by saying that there had been a glitch in the technology that had multiplied all rejected votes by eight but this raised more questions than it answered, and further undermined
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the credibility of the text transmission system. So what is the case for giving electoral technology another chance? Well for one thing, not all of the technology failed. It is important to remember that the use of biometric registration to create electoral register was actually a success. Civil society groups and Cord have understandably complained about the use of multiple registers and the possibility that some people who did not register actually voted, but no one can deny that the voter register in 2013 represented a vast improvement on previous years. Most signicantly, over a million ghost voters were excluded, which meant that it was not possible to dramatically inate the votes for a candidate by adding ballot papers in the name of the dead who could not make it to the polls. More work needs to be done to generate a unied and transparent electoral register, but this was an important step in the right direction. The second important thing to keep in mind is why the technology failed. The systems put in place in 2013 did not fail because they were implemented in Africa, or because Kenya is not sufciently technologically savvy to make them work. They failed because they were not introduced with sucient time to test them and to build in contingencies. Neither the kits to scan voters ngerprints nor the handsets used to text in results were distributed in time to allow for rigorous testing. This was not all the IEBCs fault. In the fall-out from the election, many people have forgotten that following the failure of the rst procurement process, the IEBC announced it was abandoning its plans to introduce
new technology. One reason that the commission took this decision was that they realised that the electoral timeline risked becoming impossibly tight. On this point they were right, and it was the intense time pressure, combined with the failure of a number of key players to pick up the pace, which meant that the election went ahead with technology that had not been rigorously trialed. But this does not mean that new technology cannot be made to work. The failure of these systems was not due to anything unique to Kenya with so little preparation they would have failed anywhere in the world. And there are good reasons for thinking that Kenya is actually fairly well placed to make new electoral technology work. Mobile phone penetration is incredibly high, while Safaricom remains a world leader in terms of innovation. Kenyans are more likely to use their phones for services such as mobile money transfers than their American or German counterparts. If individuals in Nairobi can use the mobile network to send money home to Coast, Eastern, Nyanza, North Eastern and so on, there is no reason that a returning ocer cannot text in results of an election. Of course, the lack of electricity in some areas presents a logistical challenge, as does the need to distribute kits to remote areas. But the IEBC largely managed this during voter registration. This is not to say that it is easy to introduce new technology. Making voter registration and results transmission processes stronger and more reliable will be costly and will require both political will and commitment of the IEBC. Even then, it is risky to rely too heavily on BVR kits and mobile phones; technology is no panacea and individual systems can always fail. For this reason, it is a good idea to invest in a series of checks and balances including domestic monitors and party agents. Used in this way, new methods of identifying voters and counting ballots can increase the condence of political leaders and the public in the electoral process as they did before the systems started to fail last time round. So, although it is important not to fetishize the digital world, the best way to improve the quality of elections in Kenya is not to abandon technology, but to make it work. Dr Cheeseman teaches African Politics at Oxford University and is the co-editor ofwww.democracyinafrica.org
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FACE-TO-FACE | Renowned Somali writer Nuruddin Farah was in Nairobi last week where he gave a literary talk
Ive written since I was eight
Nuruddin Farahs career took o to a dramatic start when he became the village letter writer while still in Standard Four. One of the letters pushed a jilted husband to divorce his wife
BY JULIUS SIGEI
jsigei@ke.nationmedia.com
e sauntered into the packed auditorium and, like Mugabo Mugenge in Richard Ntirus poem Introduction, the crowd buzzed on with their little chatter, waiting upon the author who has been referred to as the Salman Rushdie of Africa. Sporting a casual beige jacket, and a cream shirt, with sport shoes to match, the lightly built Nuruddin Farah jogged to the podium, his balding head gleaming back at the audience that had come to listen to the literary great. This was a man who, at the age of nine, had caused a couple to divorce and in Standard Six was kicked out of school for rewriting a novel by Ernest Hemmingway. Such are the troubled beginnings of the exiled Somalian writer winner
of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for literature and the Lettre Ulysses Award and several times nominee for Nobel Prize in Literature. Nuruddin Farah was in Nairobi last week to speak at an event dubbed Conversations with Nuruddin Farah, which was organised by Rift Valley Technical Institute in conjunction with Kwani? and the Nairobi Forum at the National Museums of Kenya. My (writing) career started while in Class Four when I began writing letters for people at a fee, says Farah, who is known for powerful description of scenes where thoughts walk, weeds somersault and tropics murmur. At some point my business was doing so well that at age nine, a certain man with an estranged wife approached me to write a letter on his behalf asking her to return or he
would go get her, beat her up, break all the bones in her body and drag her to Baidoa. Seeing as the threats were horrifying for the young Farah, who in his ction has distinguished himself for his empathetic portrayal of strong women in male dominated societies, he decided to rewrite the letter to reduce the horror. I wrote that if she did not return in a months time, then she should consider herself divorced. After the month elapsed and the woman did not return, the livid man decided to go and nd out what was amiss. On arrival, he found her living with another man. Devastated, he went to court, but the Kadhi ruled that they were divorced on the strength of the letter he had written, said Farah. Distraught, the man went back to CONTINUED ON PAGE 22
Somalia is a mystery country and people invent stories about it in an attempt to understand it. The latest invention is that there are pirates in Somalia. There is no money in Somalia and there are no pirates there
Author Nuruddin Farah
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The number of novels by writer Nuruddin Farah, translated into 20 languages
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The number of years Farah Nuruddin has been exiled from Somalia
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LITERARY TALK | Renowned Somali writer has three new novels and two plays in the pipeline
Persecution, exile did not break Farahs will to write

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21 Baidoa and told Farahs father: See now what this boy has done to me. My father promised to nd him another wife and warned me never to write anybody a letter, he said, peering mischievously at Binyavanga Wainaina, the founding editor of Kwani Trust, who was hosting the scholar. With his business having been forced to close down, as he put it, Farah had no choice but to engage in oral poetry at weddings, the profession of his mother. But even this could not satisfy his restless hand and he found himself amending the poems and reciting only the words he liked. For this, he was banned, again. There is no truth in speech as it is in writing. There is only truth in ction, and the only truth is in ction, intoned the author with a rebellious streak. With all his avenues of creativity closed, he embarked on rewriting Hemmingways novel, which he claimed had distortions. He was then in Standard Six. My teacher, who was American, said: how can this boy to whom English is his fourth language, correct a great author?. Farah, who speaks English, Arabic, Italian, Amharic, and of course Somali, claims the typewriter chose for him the language of his writing. Amharic was out of question. With its more than 300 letters of the alphabet, there was no typewriter to accommodate all that. And if there was, my small hands could not manage it. As for Somali, there was no orthography in the language before 1972. But even as he sojourned in more than 10 countries including India, South Africa, The Gambia, Sudan, Nigeria, Uganda, and the US, after his exile 37 years ago following the publication of Naked Needle, he has set all his 11 novels (translated into 20 languages) in Somalia and ghts for it at every opportunity. Somalia is a mystery country and people invent stories about it in an attempt to understand it. The latest invention is that there are pirates in Somalia. There is no money in Somalia and there are no pirates there, he asserted. This is the subject he grapples with in his 2011 novel Crossbones, which casts doubt on reports of boom towns rich on piracy. Nobody wants to talk about illegal shing or the destruction of the environment the marine life idea in our hearts, that of mistrust among our people. But he appears uncomfortable with the ongoing intervention to return normalcy in the horn of Africa nation. Somalia has been taken over by foreign elements. You could bring 20 million Amisom (Africa Union Mission in Somalia) soldiers, but Samalia will be built by the Somalis themselves. He said Somalia was more cosmopolitan in the 11th century than it is now. This is what I would challenge my fellow Somalis to do: to talk not about Siad Barre but about the regime. It is not the man, it is the system that creates the man the two are symbiotic. He says it is this cure, directed at personalities and not systems, that has destroyed many of the great nationalists in Africa. They became authoritarian, just like the colonialists against whom they fought, he told an interview last year. He took a swipe at Somalis in the diaspora, who he said were writing in the blogs to push partisan political interests. Some used to send lots and lots of money to the warring groups and to them I would say leave Somalia alone, said Farah whose latest teaching post was lecturing philosphy at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. Two attempts have been made on his life rst in Rome then in Nigeria. He was also held incommunicado by a warlord in 1996 when he returned to Somalia for the rst time in 22 years. He has in the past come under re from bloggers who termed him a heretic for claiming that the hijab was not originally Somali, and neither was the Islamic religion. The irony of this must have weighed down on Farah, who as a child had been dedicated to religion and the Koran and would recite it from cover to cover at an early age. Farah, whose overriding theme of his works is individual freedom in the face of arbitrary power, fuses traditionalism and modernism. Prof Simon Gikandi says Farahs artistic sources are an eclectic mixture of Somali traditions, Italian culture and Anglo-Irish modernism. His peers also praise his tenacity and determination to write even in the face of obstacles. Prof Bukenya said the author had lived up to Hemmingways demand of the writer to be tough, survive
Farah
Study the structure of the Somali family and you will nd mini-dictators imposing their will without regard to the sensitivities and sensibilities of the weaker members of the family
Nuruddin Farah when he gave a literary talk at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi on April 17. The Somali writer has been living in exile for 37 years.
and coral reefs. Entire communities in Puntland have children born with deformities, he told The Guardian in a recent interview. Billed by the New York Times as a novel of pirates, zealots and the Somalia crisis, Crossbones rolled o the press against the backdrop of the rise of Al-Shabaab, the military wing of the Union of Islamic Courts, which has claimed allegiance to Al-Qaeda. The militant leaders are hypocrites who leave their own sons and daughters in school, and recruit other peoples, he says. Then he weighed in on the harassment of Somalis in Nairobis Eastleigh and the mistreatment of those in North Eastern Kenya. The massacres have not been acknowledged, and Kenya has beneted a great deal from the conict in Somalia. Kenya moved into Somalia in October 2011 in pursuit of Al-Shabaab militants. He traces the current Somali crisis to 1963 when it challenged the legacy of the colonial map of Africa. He said the conict in Somalia was not a clan one, but one of power and
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economics assertions he makes in Links, his 2004 novel, which he wrote to correct the misunderstandings, misconceptions and missing the point in the lm Black Hawk Down, a portrayal of the US intervention in Somalia in 1993, which projected the conict as clan warfare. Anyone who claims to represent a clan is a dastardly liar. You can represent people who elected you. I cant represent my own brother. He said the clan as a form of organisation cannot be used to run a state. I consider myself an egalitarian and a democrat and will not countenance this nonsense of saying my clan has not been given a ministerial position. He said he had no qualms about two brothers from the same father and mother being appointed to government. Farahs stories then are clashes, not of clans, but between pastoralist nomads and urbanites; between the oppressor and the subjugated. What died is not the state of Somalia but the idea of cosmopolitanism. What no one can reconstruct is the
PEER REVIEW
Farah excels in giving voice to tragedy in remote places of the world

(He) takes us deep into territory he has charted and mapped and made uniquely his own ... He excels in giving voice to tragedy in remote places of the world that speak directly and familiarly to our own hearts. Chinua Achebe
While many of us, his contemporaries, have been publishing only desultorily or fallen silent altogether, Farah has kept steadily writing and publishing since the early 1970s Prof Austin Bukenya
The unfortunate thing is that the framers of our syllabus have never found him fascinating enough to oer his books as set texts. I suspect they have not done it because they have not read Nuruddin. Prof Egara Kabaji
and write despite the persecution, exile and the anguish of seeing his motherland degenerate almost beyond repair. Nuruddin Farah fascinates us with the elegant ease with which he uses the English language. Farahs facility and felicity with English expression his fourth language is indeed a challenge to those of us who claim it as our second or even near-rst language, says Prof Bukenya, the author of The Peoples Bachelor, A hole in the Sky, and Oral Literature: a Senior Course. Farahs readability and simplicity without being simplistic is a trait he shares with the recently departed father of modern African literature, Chinua Achebe, complete with the patriarchs slow, soft and measured voice. But that, apparently, is as far as their similarities go. When I rst read Things Fall Apart, I did not understand it. I was wondering: what is this man saying in this story? he said while responding to questions from the audience. He explained that the dierence between his style and that of Achebe is that while the latter wrote from the community before narrowing down to the individual, he (Farah) moves from the individual to the community. Prof Egara Kabaji of Maisnde Muliro University describes Farah as the conscience of Somalia and one of the nest users of the English language Africa has produced. In his novels everything speaks to you animals, birds, the environment. Born in 1945 in Baidoa, in Italian Somaliland, Farah went to school in Ogaden (ceded by the British to Ethiopia) and Mogadishu. The son of a colonial government interpreter and an oral poet, his eorts to write in Somali, after it gained a written script in 1972, were curtailed by censorship with all his novels being banned. He now lives in Cape Town, where his wife, an Anglo-Nigerian, teaches. One sees the parallel in the tone of Henrik Ibsen in Farahs works with From a Crooked Rib (1970) projecting an uncanny resemblance to A Dolls House. This should not be surprising as Farah had read Ibsens plays as a student of philosophy and literature in Bangalore, India, where he married his rst wife. Some of his other works include two trilogies, Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship (1980) and Blood in the Sun (1986) a pessimistic a work that predicts terrible days which he says he wrote while his second marriage was foundering. So at 67, does he plan to hang up his boots? No. He has three novels and two plays all planned for. One already done is set to be published locally by Kwani? Trust this August.
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Readers corner
Literary Discourse
Not every song can be a poem

BY VIVERE NANDIEMO
Mugambi Monanis article, Yes, poetry is alive and we actually recite it every day (Saturday Nation, 13 April, 2013) raises pertinent issues that cannot be left unchallenged. The writer claims that poetry is very active now more than ever. The import of his argument is that those who have been lamenting about poetic apathy in schools are misinformed. While I agree with Monani on certain issues on poetry, I nd his ideas decient on the current realities of literature in Kenya. As a teacher of literature, I was moved to pen an article, No, poetry is not such a hard nut to crack (Saturday Nation, March 23, 2013), which has received a cold shoulder from Monani. I was not arming the fact that poetry is hard, rather I sought to debunk this notion. It is my conviction that poetry has taken a back seat in our school curriculum. Scores of teachers have given this genre a wide berth, as have our universities and colleges. Apart from musicians, why are we not producing poets any more? The situation is dire, whichever way you look at it. The fact I am seeking to drive home is that very little is being done to encourage the vibrancy of poetry in our schools and colleges. What teachers concentrate on is the analysis of set texts as they prepare their students to pass examinations, leaving out poetry. While admitting this fact, we are not saying poetry is dead, rather it is just not active! Monani posits that The Bible and the Quran are some of the most widely read and cited pieces of religious poetry. Our church hymns are full of great compositions of verse. We all sing them with gusto on all occasions political rallies, weddings and funerals. However, the Bible and Quran are never studied in literature classes. Our students need to be taught how to appreciate poetry and know how to decode the poetic beauty that lies in Bob Marley and Ken wa Marias lyrics. However, not every song passes the threshold of poetry. Take, for instance, the modern urban music. Scores of the artists are driven by prospects of monetary gains. These artists are oblivious of the poetic devices that enhance musicality. I agree with Monani that poetry requires the full engagement of the creative faculties of the mind as one wallows through the murky waters of the poets world so as to decipher the thematic, semantic and aesthetic treasures hidden therein. How then can this be achieved if poetry is not actively taught in our schools? Can we only be contented with what our musicians and religious books have to oer? Vivere Nandiemo is a teacher of literature at Ikerege Secondary School in Kuria, Migori county
Literature, like chess, is a game meant for the intellectual class

Those who set examinations need to know this important fact
BY JANE LOISE WAMBUI
Why the reading culture is dead

BY COSMAS MARUKO
The culture of reading in Kenya is waning, perhaps dead. But what led to this? In the 1970s and 1980s, copies of Elechi Amadis The Concubine, Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart, Ayi Kwei Amahs The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born and Francis Imbugas Betrayal in The City were common in primary and secondary schools. One copy would serve all pupils as they would borrow it for a day or two. That has since changed. Today, these books are too expensive for a majority of Kenyans. Technology is to blame for the death of readership. Our sources of entertainment used to be very few we were restricted to reading books or attending night parties once a year in December. Books had an edge. Very few people owned TVs and radios. Today, everyone has a TV and radio. Computers and mobile phones are easily available. All these have replaced the book as a source of entertainment. Most Kenyans spend time watching TV, surng the web or playing computer games. Music is no longer a luxury, everyone can listen to a radio. Alcohol is also a factor. Evenings are spent in social joints, drinking and discussing sports and politics. It is easier to get a full line up of Manchester United than to know the author of An Enemy of the People. Even reading newspapers has become a challenge. By and large, the reading culture has been killed by a multiplicity of factors.
here was a time I thought that literature, like a cup of tea, could be enjoyed by all. With time and interaction with publishers, scholars, examiners and curriculum developers, I can came to the conclusion that literature, like chess, is a game of intellect. It is not meant for people of average abilities. It belongs to a higher intellectual class. Take the case of my university days. As an introduction, the literature lecturer informed the class of over 150 students that he had to size us down to 60 because literature was not for everybody. Everybody here meant academic dwarfs. Some heeded the dons advice while others trudged on. It was, however, made clear to us that literature was tough by the number of Cs and Ds on our transcripts. The department really made us feel that literature has its owners. But we thought literature was interesting and devoured the mountains of course books with relish. My heart, however, goes out to secondary school students. They may not be interested in pursuing literature as a course at university, but English is a compulsory subject. So, what is wrong with their set books being simple? For example, in the short story genre, why is it not possible to use an anthology with at least half of the stories being Kenyan? The students would identify with the setting and even the characters. In the current set book, When the Sun Goes Down and Other Stories from Africa and Beyond, only two out of the 16 stories are by Kenyan authors. While Brecht Bertolts The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a classic, an Afri-
A literature class at Jamhuri High School in Nairobi. Literature is not meant for people of average abilities. It belongs to a higher intellectual class
can play could have been chosen as the compulsory text while the former was used as the optional text. It does not help matters that the play is a play within a play and it is set at a dierent time in history. Are the curriculum developers worried that the students would perform too well if they studied a play they could relate to? Probably those with average and below average ability could get more Bs and Cs than the usual Ds and Es they get and they would even enjoy learning literature. Another intriguing issue is whether those who set examinations, especially poetry and essay questions in English Papers II and III, are secondary school teachers. Have they ever taught in district and provincial (now county) schools? Some of the poems are wholly or largely symbolic and students interpret them in ways that really bae the ones who mark exams.
The essay questions are riddled with vocabulary that some students encounter for rst time in that exam. Do the questions have to be that complicated? I am really in praise of those who set English Paper 1. They set it in such a way that the questions on functional writing can be done by most students in the country. I was amused by Evan Mwangis argument that students should write and act their own plays. I agree. Ideally, that is the way it should be. But, is he serious? It is general knowledge that plays and other items are sold to schools by non-teachers. Even the directors are sometimes hired from out there. There is no room for literary amateurs. A play written by students, especially from district and county schools, will be dismissed at the zonal level with remarks like the title is obvious, the language is basic, theme is simplistic and production mediocre. If Prof Mwangi has attended the national drama festivals lately, he would have heard the bombastic titles of the plays, seen the dazzling technology in the productions, marvelled at the stilted English and wondered what the story really was amidst cryptic symbols. Most day schools cannot aord such drama. I will not ask the curriculum developers for English to give us alternatives A and B like in mathematics, because no one wants to be labelled weak. However, set books that favour the majority should be chosen. Simple poems should be published and used in exams. Poems from East Africa was never a book for beginners. Vocabulary in essays should also be reduced to bare minimum. It should not be a crime to understand and pass literature. It is really meant for all.
EVADING A QUESTION
There has been a big debate on whether poetry is alive or not. Literature has always been used by our forefathers to communicate. The likes of William Shakespeare and Wole Sonyinka used poetry to communicate. I concur with Mogambi Monani (Saturday Nation, April 13,2013) that some musicians use poetry in their songs, but does this young generation know that those lyrics are poetry? I recently wanted to know if students understood poetry, so I approached some and asked them about the format of writing a poem and the categories of poems that we study. To my surprise, they hesitated and promised to give an answer later. What does that depict? Ratemo Brown, JKUA
A little patience nurtures talent

In modern Kenya, the only books that make it big in the retail market are school textbooks and set-books. A reading culture, ironically, is not the reason for the successful sale of reading materials. To complete the curriculum, a child will have to read some recommended books by the Education ministry, whether the child likes it or not. In the case of local talent in writing creative works, our publishers have not given such talent a second look. Surprisingly, some works can t in the international league of literature quality. To make good money from budding writers, Kenyan publishers should be patient with them. If they do, almost every child will be craving for some local literary works that will not only improve their grammar, but also inspire them to become writers. TEDDY KIMATHI, Nairobi
To ensure continuity, motivate students to embrace creativity

This years Kenya schools and Colleges Drama Festival in Mombasa will denitely go down in the annals of history for teh new ideas staged and the much talked about play, Shackles of Doom. But beside this, one of the key areas that needed to be addressed is why some schools and students do not take part in such events. These are mostly schools in the rural, marginalised areas. When you analyse the history of the festivals, you will realise that most of the schools that top these events are usually familiar names. Newcomers nd it hard to get to the top. I believe students from rural areas are equally talented. Maybe teachers are to blame. It is hard for a teacher in a marginalised area to come up with a creative idea when the government has stopped paying him hardship allowance. Listening to plays, narratives and choral verses staged in Mombasa, it was worth noting that pertinent issues like drug abuse, nepotism, child abuse and racial discrimination were highlighted. Some way should be found to benet authors of such work after performance at the national contest. The Education ministry must ensure that all schools, irrespective of classication, take part in such creative competitions. This will involve training teachers in drama and dance performances scripting, directing and production of students work. Student items that do well at national competitions must be made useful and not forgotten after the festivals. I hope this years events will mark a paradigm shift. DENNIS SINYO, via e-mail
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LITERARY DISCOURSE | The many reasons students should study these classic texts in schools and colleges
Shakespeare is dead but his works ripen every year

Studying The Bard and other classics will broaden the readers minds and help them identify their place in society
BY ABUNGU TAWO AND TOM OLANG
satnation@ke.nationmedia.com ecent literary discourses in the local weekend newspapers have dwelt on the delicate issue of whether Witi Ihimaeras The Whale Rider courts gay content or not. In our view, it does not matter whether the book is explicitly or subtly gay-themed. The stark reality is that todays youth boasts little acquaintance with books, especially literary texts. Chances are high that they will simply skim through the pages to pass their Form Four examinations and dump it somewhere. They will not even notice that there are queer characters in the text, if any. Many teachers and lecturers know that the current generation of learners is difficult to teach. They are techno-savvy
and also have an excessively short concentration span. A major problem facing any English and literature teacher today is how to make todays teenager enjoy reading, interpreting and analysing classics, especially Shakespeare. Given the complexity of language that Shakespeare used over 400 years ago and the myriad literary devices that The Bard employed, any teacher, even the most competent one, may nd this insurmountable. Even the mysterious folks who select set books at the Kenya Institute of Education will be hard pressed to judge the suitability of Shakespeare to Kenyan students. The last timea Shakespeare classic, Romeo and Juliet, was selected for literature was nearly two decades ago. We need to understand why Kenyan students ought to be taught Shakespeare. Many peo-
ple argue that it is unnecessary to burden children with Shakespearean plays due to the complexity of language and irrelevant themes dating back 400 years. I beg to dier. First , interactions with Shakespeare expose students to exemplary use of language. Most of the phrases we use today, even by those who have never read a Shakespeare text, have their origins in Shakespeare. Think of A rose by any other name Meanwhile, almost every contemporary issue that bedevils society today, such as conicts, morality, temptation, murder, betrayal and their resolutions have been covered by Shakespeare. His themes are timeless and transcend geographical boundaries. The young fellows can be exposed to abridged versions which they can readily comprehend. It is estimated that the Elizabethan literature had an old vocabulary of about 25,000 words while an average speaker of English language may need only 600 words today. Our thesis is that exploring Shakespeare will expose students to high-level and critical thinking skills of interpretation, evaluation and analysis. That Shakespeares characters represent the best diversity in human psychology, depth and character-
Timeless themes
Almost every contemporary issue that bedevils society today, such as conicts, morality, temptation, murder, betrayal and their resolutions has been covered by Shakespeare
istics is not in doubt. Although it is true that these plays were written many years ago, human character has not changed, hence teaching Shakespeare gives us an opportunity to understand human nature eectively. Many teachers and students confess that they find Shakespeares plays and sonnets dull and difficult to follow. Consequently, such teachers regard teaching Shakespeare as a punishment, while the students see it as torture. For teachers to deliver their lessons eectively, there are simple yet eective techniques used over the years that we wish to share with students and teachers of Literature. As a subtle introduction, one can begin by asking students to read the King James Version of the Bible, which is written in a similar dialect. This may stimulate the students and help them understand Shakespeare, and also give them a sneak preview of the biblical allusions in the Shakespeares works. Again, stories of similar nature may be used in class to excite and prompt the students before reading the actual texts. For learners to nd extensive reading meaningful, teachers must strive to bring the texts to life. This may be done through role play, dramatising short scenes in
the texts, or enacting the entire play as a school play. Even as this is done, teachers must avoid asking the students to read the text on their own. It is crucial to read the text with the students and oer modern language interpretation. Alao, integrate the literary approach into the dramatic approach to appeal more to students. You could either use some dissection to create interest in these texts or break students into groups to discuss the different scenes. To engage learners further, you could ask them to research on a number of issues on the Elizabethan literary period as a way of encouraging them to enjoy Shakespearean literature. Finally, studying Shakespeare and other classics will broaden the readers minds and help them identify their place in society. As Sam Blumfelds gem for education has it: The true purpose of education is to help an individual to see his or her place in the cosmic scheme of things. Denying students a chance to read and study Shakespeare is to deny them a chance to t into the world. KIE, are you reading this? The writers are teachers of English/Literature at Premier Academy, Nairobi. abungu@premier-sri.ac.ke. olang@ premier-sri.ac.ke
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The scene
Entertainment, night life and society Government holds ceremony and plans to build mausoleum in memory of greatest rumba musician
BY CHARLES OMONDI
satnation@ke.nationmedia.com o you loved Franco, the legendary DR Congo musician, and have been agonising over his legacy? Or maybe you were too young to have had enough of him while he was a live? Are you a new convert to Francos music and were apprehensive about the survival of his great works? Worry no more. The DR Congo government is undertaking every possible measure to ensure that Franco music and spirit lives on for ever. The ceremony in honour of the great artiste, whose ocial name was Dieudonne Luambo Luanzo Makiadi, takes place in Kinshasa, the DR Congo capital, today. This will be the culmination of a two-year programme initiated by the Joseph Kabila-led government to honour and celebrate the life of the countrys most powerful ambassador. President Kabila will preside over the grand event to be held at African Union Square in Kinshasa. The square was so named to commemorate the 1967 hosting of the Organisation of the African Unity (OAU) summit by Congo, then known as Zaire. Francos relatives, specically his widow Pauline Mboyo, son Yves Luambo Emongo, his cousin Yvon Emongo and sister Marie Jean Nyanji, will be received ocially by the head of state at the function. Christened Franco le Grand Maitre Immortel (Franco, the Grand Master immortalised), the programme entails everything to ensure Francos music and spirit live on in DR Congo and the rest of the world. In honouring and immortalising Franco, we want to send a message to the rest of the world that we, the people of Congo, can inuence the rest in a positive way, through our music and football and not the gun, said Mr Placide Makashi, the director of Grand Maitre Franco Immortel. A cultural super power in its own right, DR Congo musicians, a good number with links to Franco, continue to be a force to reckon with the world over. They include Papa Wemba, Ko Olomide, JB Mpiana, Mbilia Bel and Kanda Bongoman. Mr Makashi recalled with nostalgia how in 1974, his country became the rst independent sub-Saharan African state to qualify for the Fifa World Cup. Though the overall performance was not impressive and included 9-0 walloping by Yugoslavia, the Congolese had left no doubt Africas intent to
SYSTEM RAVE GOSPEL CONCERT Gospels System Unit presents the System Rave next Friday at Nairobi Cinema. Those to perform include Daddy Owen (pictured), Size 8, Jimmy Gait, Gloria Muliro, DK Kwenye Beat and HopeKid.
MUSIC REVIEW | President Kabila takes personal charge of event to honour musical great
WEEKS PICK
TODAY THE TEN CITIES CONCERT The Ten Cities Concert and Warehouse Party is set for today at the Marshalls Service Workshop, opposite Kenindia House in Nairobi. Groups to perform include Camp Mulla, Just a Band, Batida, Octa Push, and Oren Gerlitz, among others. The show starts at 8pm. The concert features about 50 DJs, producers and musicians from various cities in Africa and Europe. MR MOMBASA SHOW Beyonce Promotions will stage the Mr Mombasa body building competition featuring Miss Bikini show today at Club Funfan in Mtwapa. To thrill disco fans will be DJ Skills, DJ Ken and Mc Lenium. There will be special oers for best dressed couples. The show from 6pm till dawn. HOT ROD PARTY The melodious Hot Rod band performs this evening and every Saturday at Coco Jambo in Karen, Nairobi. Party to your favourite renditions and the bands new hits. Entry is free. SKATE ICE FESTIVAL Word Up Entertainment will present a two-day skate-ice festival today and tomorrow at The Panari Hotel in Nairobi. The show to be held between 2pm and 7pm and will be hosted by Ricardo Benon. To thrill revellers will be live bands, poetry, spoken word and disco music.
Congo raises Franco from the dead
Legendary Franco Luambo Luanzo Makiadi of TPOK Jazz during a past performance. Below: A recent memorial mass for the late Franco at Cathedral Notre Dame in Kinshasa.
claim its place among the worlds footballing nations. Just last year, a DR Congo club, TP Mazembe, became the rst African side to ever reach the nal of the World Club Champions League football tournament in Qatar. A Congolese, Ndaya Mutumbula, remains the all-time leading goal scorer of the Africa Cup of Nations. Franco died in Belgium on October 1989, aged 51, after a successful music career spanning over three decades. His long music journey saw him traverse the width and breadth of the globe, touching the hearts of many with his various compositions. Francos TP OK Jazz band members included (all now deceased) Madilu Bialu System , Pepe Ndombe Opetum and Ntesa Dalienst. The surviving members include Simaro Lutumba Masiya, Josky Kiambukutu and Blaise Mayanda (Wuta Mayi). A book on Francos life was unveiled in Kinshasa on April 19 at a function presided over by DRC Prime Minister dAugustin Matata Ponyo. It was the second edition of the book titled Franco le Grand Maitre, authored by Raoul Yema Die Lala and rst published just a year ago. The second edition came so soon following a request by Mr Matata to write the books foreword. The biography was launched at Mr Matatas special garden overlooking the mighty River Congo, in a symbolic gesture to demonstrate the oneness of the two states DR Congo and the Republic of Congo straddling either side of the water mass. To give it an intellectual touch, the Congo Republic music scholar Mfumu Saint Eudes delivered the keynote speech. Mr Lukunku Sampu, the last DRC journalist to interview Franco while he lay on his sick bed in Brussels, Belgium, did a presentation at the launch, relating to the memorable encounter over two decades ago.
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Mr Sampu, then a star television presenter, is currently serving at the DRC embassy in Lisbon, Portugal. Franco le Grand Maitre is so far available only in French, but will soon be translated into English and other languages. Another aspect of the immortalisation is the building of a Franco mausoleum at Ave de la Liberation, a street next to parliament in central Kinshasa. His remains are currently lying at Gombe Cemetery, which, according to Mr Makashi, is neither easily accessible nor betting the stature of the legendary musician. Franco was a big ambassador for DRC and at this time of a national crisis, we want to rekindle his memories in a very special way, Mr Makashi said in an interview at the Grand Maitre Franco Immortel secretariat in Kinshasa. A competition is currently being run in the entire DRC for the best designed Franco tomb. Music specialists have also been enlisted to dissect Francos best 20 songs so that they can be reproduced by others, the Mozart style. Further, the National Arts School in Kinshasa will incorporate Francos music in its curriculum. Another aspect of the Franco immortalisation is a competition among the students of arts to come up with the best caricature on the musicians life. A photo exhibition was held January 5, 2013 on the most exclusive photos of Franco. An annual Golden Guitar award for the best young guitarist has also been launched.
KIKOY CULTURE 2013 The Carnivore Restaurant in Nairobi will today host the Kikoy Culture featuring Mat Zo. The dress code will be your best kikoy. Others to perform include Drazen, DJ K, Tom Parker, and Factory DJs among others. The show starts from 9pm to 6am. SKYLUX SPORTS LAUNCH The new Skylux Sports Pub and Grill at Mtwapa is set for an ocial launch today with live performances from budding artiste Audrey. On the decks will be DJ Mista T, David Pyper and MC Gates Mgenge. There will be a speial oer on drinks and dinner dance. JAZZY SUNDAYS Jazz enthusiasts in Nairobi can listen to Nairobis most sought after jazz band H.R. Jazz Band live in concert at the brand new Frankies Sports Bar and Grill at the Greenhouse Mall every Sunday along Ngong Rd. Entry is free. APRIL 30 INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY Audio Visual Concepts in conjunction with Tree House in Nairobi will on Tuesday, (Labour Day eve) host the International Jazz Day Live Concert. Those expected to perform include Chris Bittok, Jacob Asiyo and Kavutha Mwanzia Asiyo, and Ricky na Maraki, among others. The show will be hosted by June Gachui and Jack Ojiambo of Capital FM. MAY 4 CORPORATE SINGLES DAY OUT Lunar Bridal Consultants will stage the Corporate Singles Day Out next Saturday at Mt Longonot National Park, Naivasha. It will be a day of hiking and picnic which seeks to bring together singles from corporate Nairobi for a day lled with fun and networking. angaira@ke.nationmedia.com
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AVRIL FOR DAR SHOW Singer Avril has a date with her Tanzanian fans on Tuesday (Labour Day eve) at the Elements Club in Dar es Salaam, where she will also be launching her new collabo with Bongo Flavas Ommy Dimpoz. The show starts from 8pm.
JAGUAR FOR GERMAN SHOW Popular singer Jaguar of Kigeugeu will next Saturday highlight a special show in Stuttgart, Germany organised by Kenyans there. He will perform alongside DJs Osman and Joel.
THEATRE REVIEW | Professional companies prepare plenty of plays for the next two months in city
A season of plenty for fans

Friends Ensemble lead the pack with comedy at Alliance Francaise
BY MARGARETTA WA GACHERU
satnation@ke.nationmedia.com
hile the Kenya Schools Drama Festival has confirmed the country has lots of talent, it is the professional theatre troupes to which many young thespians will look as they consider careers in the performing arts. Fortunately, compared to a decade or two ago, there are many more professional companies to choose from. They include The Theatre Company and the Arts Canvas, Friends Ensemble and Festival of Creative Arts, Hearts of Art and Wholesome Entertainment as well as Heartstrings Kenya and Phoenix Players. This weekend, its Friends Ensemble who will be entertaining local theatre lovers at Nairobis most popular theatre venue Alliance Francaise. Directed by Friends founder, Ellis Otieno, Home is Where your Clothes Are is a
high-speed, light-hearted farce that has a stellar cast including Samson Psenjen (the busiest actor in town), Maggie Karanja, Joe Kinyua and Shiviske Shivisi, among others. The other comedy that resumes next Tuesday at the Professional Centre, brought back by popular demand, is The Theatre Companys Kiswahili version of William Shakespeares marvelous Merry Wives of Windsor or Wanawake wa Heri wa Winsa. Hilariously adapted, indigenised and transported from UK to Kiambu, Falsta (played with wonderful physical comedy by Mrisho Mpoto of Tanzania) is a sugar daddy who woos two married women who discover his doubledealing and plot their revenge. What ensues is merry mayhem. Again, TTC has assembled an outstanding cast including Veronica Waceke, Mourad Sadat, Sylvia Namussassi and Andrew Muthuru, among others. The show, which runs through Sunday, May 5 at the Professional
Centre, received rave reviews in London when they performed at the Globe Shakespeare Festival in April 2012. It has also had successful tours in India and around East Africa. Next weekend, Hearts of Art will premier another original thoughtprovoking play by Walter Sitati entitled Shrinking Hearts. Sitati consistently addresses serious, yet rarely discussed social issues in his plays. This time, Shrinking Hearts is all about ambitious Kenyans who make huge sacrices to get ahead and achieve their dreams, but the sacrices they make to get to the top often cause collateral damage , mainly to families, both spouses and ospring. Sitati has been writing successful scripts since his student days at Kenyatta University, but he also scripted and staged awardwinning shows that have made it to the Kenya Schools Drama Festivals. Indeed, a few of his former students are members of Hearts of Art.
A past scene from the play Wanawake wa Heri wa Winsa (The Merry Wives of Windsor) which resumes at Prefessional Centre in Nairobi from next Tuesday.
PHOTO | VIRGINIA RODRIGUES
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SIMPLE CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1. A public building furnished with seats where plays, lms etc. are presented 7. Form of football played with an oval ball in which carrying and handling of the ball is permitted 9. In the past 11. Sea-weeds 12. A dog or dog-like 13. To test the strength or endurance of 14. A large edible sea food sh 16. Fodder stored in a silo 17. A beautiful woman 19. To touch or pat lightly 20. A bright equatorial constellation 21. Strong-winged sea birds allied to the albatrosses DOWN 1. Expanse or area of land 2. A hard heavy black coloured wood of a tropical tree 3. Fleeting, temporary 4. To govern 5. The oval solid laid by a fowl, etc. ACROSS 2. Corrode 8. Dhow 9. Idea 10. Unclear 11. Amps 13. Lee 14. Fed 17. Sure 18. Situate 20. Anon 21. Alga 22. Teeters DOWN 1. Ideal 2. Coupe 3. Owns 4. Rile 5. Ode 6. Dealer 7. Ear 12. Merino 14. Fuels 15. Delay 16. Punt 17. Star 18. Sat 19.Toe
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6. An incidental product 8. An ethnic group living in eastern Uganda 10. An elastic band by which a stocking is held up on the leg 14. To sponge o others or live by begging
15. Amounts due to others 16. The fruit of the blackthorn 17. Marsh 18. One of the eshy edges of the mouth
COMPLEX CROSSWORD
ACROSS 9 Dislike lead in play leaving stage (5) 10 House is setting for the whole small Northern horror lm (9) 11 Brown as before or in oven (7) 12 A doctor said go in slow movements (7) 13 Springbok? A pig? In part a girae-like creature (5) 14 The Yorkshire philosophers outt (9) 16 Poor thing wont boogie for now (2,2,5,2,4) 19 Unwelcome issue needs one to check inquisitive goats (5,4) 21 Estate suers when rule is used to oust husband (5) 23 Ken Livingstone supporters perhaps with stories about newt (7) 25 Hot sauce and beans occasionally wrapped in pancake (7) 27 Russian movies cut abroad (9) 28 Greek character is back with good degree (5) DOWN 1 Tender extract from Tess of the dUrbervilles (4) 2 Ann Widdecombe nally is turning brown (6) 3 Im modelling Lycra yellow tops in striking fashion (10) 4 Longing for drought (6) 5 Everyone together the
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YESTERDAYS SOLUTION
ACROSS 1 Syntax 4 Stymie 8 Drying Up 10 Malady 11 Mews 12 Accounting 13 Inarticulate 16 Eleventh Hour 20 Martinique 21 Race 22 Superb 23 Evens Out 24 Nested 25 Enzyme DOWN 1 Sergeant 2 Nails 3 Afghani 5 Tempura 6 Milk Teeth 7 Ending 9 Picturesque 14 Roentgens 15 Juncture 17 Ennoble 18 Therein 19 Saturn 21 Rusty
Each number in our Codeword grid represents a dierent letter of the alphabet. For example, today 15 represents W so ll in W every time the gure 15 appears. You have two letters in the control grid to start you o. Enter them in the appropriate squares in the main grid, then use your knowledge of words to work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you get the letters, ll in other squares with the same number in the main grid and control grid. Check o the list of alphabetical letters as you identify them.
whole time (3,5) 6 Sounds like a healthy cigarette, but not for me, thanks (2,2) 7 A disease so debilitating they named it twice? (4-4) 8 Considering that such manias can get treated (8,2) 13 Exposed where French heavyweights may be initially? (3,2,1,4) 15 Model busy and is in French nery (6,4)
17 Far from the most extensive celebration of French cheese? (8) 18 Computings miserable claims Independent leader by all accounts (2,2,4) 20 Earth, English earth, on which one may take root? (6) 22 Accept new contract or step down (6) 24 One old-fashioned hero (4) 26 Well enough a year after broken heart (4)
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AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19) Youve had so much to deal with recently that you may not have had much of a chance to think about recent oers much less consider whether they are of any long term value to you. This is no time for dithering, however; so act quickly or the opportunities could simply vanish into this air. PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) Someone seems to be trying to tell you something but you appear to be too preoccupied to listen. No matter how warm your feelings towards a business partner or loved one, it is a mistake to take everything at face value just now. The stars are blowing hot and cold and it is up to you to recognize the signals. ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) A certain persons promises seems to have a hollow ring and you badly need something more concrete as a basic for your hopes and plans. The planetary setup today suggests that you can expect more cooperation, but you must still decide whether to listen with your head or your heart. TAURUS (APR 21- MAY 20) There is much to be said for setting your sights high, but there is no point in taking on more than is realistic. The stars may be throwing temptations in your path, but you still have the ability to say no. They introduce a note of diplomacy into all of your relationships, but remember that it is when you are at a loss for words that you tend to say too much. GEMINI (MAY 21-JAN 21) Dont underestimate the inuence of parents employers or authority gures today or you could lose out on a valuable source of support in the future. The stars are liable to feel unrealistically condent about a situation which depends as much upon the input of other people as your own. CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) Cash seems brighter, but you still need a rmer grasp of what is going on behind the scenes. More people are demanding a cut of the action and it is your responsibility to ensure that things are moving in the right direction. The planetary setup indicates that you will be well placed to weigh up the prospects of a project or a relationship. LEO (JUL 23- AUG 22) You could be over optimistic and even slapdash where work and projects are concerned. Slow down to a snails pace because then you will see that many things and perhaps people too need a closer look and on closer inspection you will be glad that you didnt overlook them. VIRGO (AUG 23-SEPT 23) Timing is everything and you could not pick a better moment to approach those in positions to improve your status or nances. The starry setup today is denitely promising. Family members will be at their most demanding a little later on so it might be a good idea to steer clear of them right now. LIBRA (SEPT 24-OCT 23) For the time being dont begin anything new and that includes relationships. Instead, retrace your steps because when you do you will nd matters or projects that need your undivided attention and once you have sorted them out you will end ,this day feeling satised with yourself. SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22) This is no time to be too independent. Like it or not, you need the advice, support and cooperation of other people and you will be delighted to discover they easily are persuaded into giving you the assistance you need. Friends are likely to phone you today with juicy gossip. SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23- DEC 21) It is likely you are enthusiastic and keen to make a break from the past then again when are you not you are able to accept a tempting oer that has been daggling under your nose. Although this may involve an unusual amount of travelling or putting down roots else where.. CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20) As much of a relief as it will be to have certain nancial matters out in the open, dont expect these to be settled quickly or calmly, standing your ground over issues may result in even more conict but having things fully and honestly resolved will be worth all the drama.
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Break Time
Fun and games for the young
SIMPLE SUDOKU
Fill in all the blank squares in the grids below with the correct numbers following the instructions given.
Fill in the blank squares in the grid with the numbers 1,2,3,4, so that every number appears only once in every row, every column and in each of the 2x2 squares.
Fill in the blank squares in the grid with the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6 so that every number appears only once in every row, every column and in each of the 2x3 squares. SOLUTIONS on facing page
PUZZLE
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BOOKS
Title: The Money Trees and Other Stories Author: Valerie Cuthbert Publisher: Kenya Literature Bureau
NZAMBANI
It was a cold night in Kitui and the children, who were on holiday, were gathered around the blazing re. They were having supper and warming themselves by the re. Their grandmother, Syombua, was busy telling them stories of long ago. Please tell us about Nzambani, Grandmother, one of the older children pleaded. The old woman sipped her hot, sweet tea and thought about it for a while. That is a very strange place, she said thoughtfully. As you all know, Nzambani, which means the place of the cock, is on a very high hill about 30 kilometers from here on the road to Mutomo and there are many varied myths about it. Have you ever been there, Grandmother? a small boy interrupted. The old woman looked across the re at him, then replied, Yes, many years ago when I was quite young Syombua was quiet for a moment as she stared at the flickering flames of the fire and tried to remember the story about
Nzambani rock. What does Nzambani look like, Grandmother? the same boy asked again. She did not answer at once and the children were anxiously quiet, waiting for her to speak. Nzambani is a very big rock resting on the top of a great hill which is about two kilometers around the bottom and towers up, over one hundred metres above the ground. It is a very impres sive sight. Waw! Thats a huge rock! the children gasped, open-mouthed with amazement as they tried to imagine a hill of such immensity. Then Syombua went on. When you look up at Nzambani, the rock at the top has the shape of a kneeling girl. At one time there were two small stones protruding from the side that looked like a womans breasts. But one day, it rained so heavily in Kitui that one of the stones fell o and rolled down. It can now be seen lying at the foot of the hill.
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
QUIZ
1. Which country has the highest number of UN peacekeepers? 2. What do you call the hard shiny covering on teeth? 3. What kind of eclipse is seen when the earth passes between the moon and the sun? 4. Which is the longest river in South Africa? 5. What family of animals does a snail belong to? 6. Which is the currency of Saudi Arabia? 7. Who was the second Kenyan vice president after independence? 8. Which is the official language of Ecuador? 9. Which country leads in diamond production in Africa? 10. Which is the capital city of Belgium?
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1. Democratic Republic of Congo 2.Enamel 3. Lunar eclipse 4. River Orange 5. Molluscs 6. Saudi Riyal 7. Joseph Murumbi 8. Spanish 9. Botswana 10. Brussels
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DEADLY CLASHES | Rescue workers struggling to care for survivors
38 KILLED AS BLAZE ENGULFS RUSSIA PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL Victims, most of them patients, were asleep when the building caught re.
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Sudan giving Kony shelter, says lobby

WASHINGTON, Friday
Sudan appears to be providing shelter to Joseph Kony, one of the worlds most wanted warlords, according to a report released today by the Washington-based Resolve group. Kony is the leader of the Lords Resistance Army, which is infamous for mutilating its victims and abducting children for use as ghters and sex slaves. It has waged an insurgency against the Ugandan government for over 25 years. A self-proclaimed prophet who claims his rebels are ghting to establish a government based on the Biblical Ten Commandments, Kony and other LRA leaders face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court. According to todays report, eyewitnesses testify that elements from Sudans military actively provided Kony and other LRA leaders with periodic safe haven in Sudanese-controlled territory from 2009 until at least February 2013. The report, called Hidden in Plain Sight, also included satellite images of a recently-abandoned LRA camp, where Kony was last sighted in late 2012, in Sudanese-controlled territory along the disputed border with South Sudan. Defectors and other sources told researchers that even while Kony was in the Sudanese-controlled territories, he continued to direct LRA attacks against civilians in neighbouring countries. As long as Kony is able to nd a safe haven in Sudan, he can avoid pursuit by Ugandan forces by simply crossing the border whenever they get close, said Michael Poenberger, Executive Director of The Resolve LRA Crisis Initiative and one of the reports primary authors. (AFP)
Last sighted
Residents walk past burnt houses in the remote northeast town of Baga on April 21, after two days of clashes between ocers of the Joint Task Force and members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram on April 19.
PHOTO | AFP
25 killed in fresh Nigeria clashes as other victims go into hiding

Incident in Yobe comes after deadliest insurgency when 187 people were killed last week in Borno state
MAIDUGURI, Friday
n attack on Thursday in restive northern Nigeria where suspected Islamists stormed a police station and stole nearly $60,000 from a bank killed 20 insurgents and five officers, the local police chief said. Five policemen and 20 gunmen have been conrmed dead when some Boko Haram terrorist attacked police formations in Gashua town, the Yobe state police commissioner, Sanusi Rufai, told journalists today. Nigerias military had previously given a toll of seven dead in Thursdays clash. Boko Haram, a group that says it is ghting to create an Islamic state in the north, has carried out scores of attacks in Nigerias northeast. The latest violence in Yobe came after what was likely the deadliest-ever episode in the in-
surgency when 187 people were killed last week in brutal clashes in neighbouring Borno state. Aside from the raids on the police in Yobe, a common Boko Haram target, Rufai said the gunmen also carted away nine million naira ($57,000) and two vehicles. The Boko Haram conict is estimated to have cost more than 3,000 lives, including killings by the security forces. At the same time, many survivors of brutal clashes between soldiers and Islamist gunmen last week in a remote Nigerian town are still in hiding, an emergency ocial said today. The violence took place in the town of Baga last. Rescue workers are struggling to care for the victims of Baga, trying to encourage them to return home, which was ravaged by re. In Baga, an area with little mobile phone coverage near Lake Chad, the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) has set up 10 camps for those displaced and is trying to distribute relief materials after erce ghting last Friday that killed 187 people. But the work has been complicated in a community
GOALS
What the group seeks to achieve

The group has said it wants to create an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, where most people are Muslim. The southern half of the country, Africas most populous and top oil producer, is mainly Christian.
To return home
60,000
Amount, in dollars, stolen from bank during raid
traumatised by the carnage, Nema spokesman Manzo Ezekiel said. The people were initially sceptical, he said. They werent sceptical because of Nema but at first they ran away because Nema came with soldiers, Ezekiel added. Many people are still
Five policemen and 20 gunmen have been conrmed dead when some Boko Haram terrorist attacked police formations in Gashua town
Yobe state police commissioner Sanusi Rufai
in hiding. Soldiers have been accused of firing indiscriminately on civilians while setting res to scores of homes and a market after gun battles with Islamists broke out. Thousands of people were reported to have ed to the bush outside of Baga while trying to escape the bloodshed. The military has ercely denied any wrongdoing and has claimed that only 37 people were killed. They said the sweeping res, estimated to have destroyed nearly half the town, were caused by insurgent grenade and gunre. Part of our work there is to build confidence, the Nema spokesman said. We need to show people that what we have now in Baga is assistance, not any more attacks. The Red Cross has also deployed sta to the shing town, but said it is still assessing the scale of the devastation. The regional governor Kashim Shettima has called the events in Baga barbaric. Northeast Nigeria has been the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency, which is estimated to have cost more than 3,000 lives, including killings by the security forces. (AFP)
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JUBA
South Sudan pardons six militia leaders

South Sudans President Salva Kiir has pardoned six militia leaders and their forces. Kiir said any crimes they committed against South Sudan had been forgiven, according to a presidential decree broadcast on state radio yesterday. The militia leaders include Gordon Kong, David Yau Yau, Oyuok Ogot, Bapiny Monytuil Wicjang, Johnson Uliny and Munto Abdalla Munto. (Machel Amos, Nation Correspondent)
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VIOLENCE | Six killed in Pakistan bomb attacks ahead of historic polls
Soldiers jailed for coup bid in Guinea-Bissau

BISSAU, Friday
A group of soldiers accused of an attack on an elite commando barracks which the Guinea Bissau government described as an attempted coup were jailed for up ve years, a judicial source said today. The 12 defendants were convicted of crimes against the security of the state and attacking a military unit on October 21 last year after a dawn raid which left seven people dead, including six of the attackers. Three were jailed for ve years by the Bissau regional court while two others were handed terms of three years and a further seven got sentences of six months to a year, the source said. Another ve accused were acquitted because of lack of evidence by the court, presided over by an army ocer assisted by military and civilian judges. The men had originally been assigned to a court martial but were tried in a mixed court because of a lack of legal experts in the armed forces to deal with the case. We are going to appeal to a higher military court because the court was unable to prove the involvement of our clients in an operation to destabilise the government of Guinea-Bissau, defence lawyer Gabriel Lopes Pereira said. (AFP)
Lack of evidence
Supporters of Pakistani secular party Muttahida Qaumi Movement carry the cons of party supporters who were killed in an overnight bomb explosion in Karachi yesterday. Bomb attacks targeting election oces in Pakistan killed six people and injured nine others, ocials said, in the latest violence ahead of historic polls next month.
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POLLS | Presidents party dismisses demands, saying rivals are afraid of contest
Tsvangirai seeks help on reforms

Zimbabwe PM wants regional leaders to push Mugabe in eecting outstanding changes ahead of elections
BY KITSEPILE NYATHI
NATION Correspondent HARARE, Friday imbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says he would approach regional leaders to help press President Robert Mugabe over the implementation of outstanding reforms before elections are held. Mr Tsvangirai, who has been in a power-sharing government with President Mugabe since 2009, told journalists in Harare on Thursday that elections his rival wants by June 29 cannot be held without the reforms. There shall be no elections until reforms are implemented in terms of Sadc (Southern African Development Community) and AU (African Union) principles, he said. We are not going to have an election whose result will be contested.
We want elections as soon as possible but I am saying lets implement what we agreed on; until those reforms are implemented then we go for elections. Zimbabweans voted in favour of a new constitution in March and it will be debated in parliament when the House resumes sitting on May 7. The new constitution would be used to organise the elections
that would end the four-year-old inclusive government. The major stumbling block to the implementation of the agreed reforms remains a palpable decit of political will to implement agreed issues, without which we are likely to reproduce electoral contestations and a disputed outcome, Mr Tsvangirai said. But President Mugabes Zanu PF immediately dismissed the
We want elections as soon as possible but I am saying lets implement what we agreed on
Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai
Election date in July which President Mugabe is pushing for
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Prime Ministers demands, saying his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party was afraid of elections. It is clear that the MDC is afraid of losing elections, said Zanu PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo. The MDC has no clear policies to sell to the electorate and are now clutching on straws ... a drowning man can even cling to a serpent. The only outstanding issues that have remained to us is that of sanctions and the pirate radio stations that continue to beam hate messages. He (Mr Tsvangirai) should be going to his masters to call for the removal of sanctions that have caused so much suering to our people. MDC wants to see media reforms completed and the reconstitution of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission secretariat.
Botswana to keep unions o politics

BY MTOKOZISI DUBE
NATION Correspondent Gaborone, Friday The Botswana Government is set to meet trade union leaders on the eve of Labour Day to warn them to stay out of politics. The Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions has been aggressively campaigning for the defeat of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party ahead of next years general elections. This follows two Court of Appeal decisions that conrmed the dismissal of scores of public sector employees who participated in a 2011 strike. The unions openly campaigned for the opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change in a by-election recently. They said that they would continue to campaign for the opposition in next years elections if their grievances are not taken seriously. The unions insist workers interests cannot be separated from politics. On the other hand, the government argues that by being involved in partisan politics, trade unionists are in breach of the Public Service Act, which prohibits civil servants from doing so.
Mandela recovering well, says daughter

JOHANNESBURG, Friday
Nelson Mandela is feeling good and recovering well following his release from hospital early this month where he was treated for pneumonia, his daughter said today. He is good for a 94-year-old, Makaziwe Mandela said. He is recovering well. The ailing anti-apartheid hero was released from hospital on April 6 after a 10-day stay. He has since been convalescing at his Johannesburg home. Asked if the family was happy with her fathers current condition, Mandelas oldest surviving child replied yes . South Africas rst black president was rushed to hospital before midnight on March 27, suering from a recurrence of a lung infection. As part of the treatment, doctors drained a build-up of uid, known as a pleural eusion or water on the lungs, that had developed. His admission to hospital sparked widespread concern about the increasingly frail health of a man who is seen as the father of modern South Africa. It was the third time in ve months that the Nobel Peace Prize winner had been admitted to hospital. In March, he was admitted for a day for a scheduled check-up and in December he was admitted for 18 days for a lung infection and for gallstones surgery. That stint was his longest since he walked free from 27 years in jail in 1990. While Mandelas health is a topic of national conversation, many South Africans have come to accept the ageing icons mortality. Nearly 20 years after he came to power he remains the unifying symbol in a country still riven by racial tensions and deep inequality. (AFP)
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Admitted to hospital
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DEMOS | Workers angry over death of colleagues
KIRINYAGA COUNTY OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

P.O.Box 254 KERUGOYA kirinyagacounty2013@gmail.com
PUBLIC ANNOUCEMENT
SELECTION PANEL FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF CHAIRPERSON, SECRETARY AND MEMBER OF KIRINYAGA COUNTY PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD
Reference is made to the advertisement made in the Daily Nation on 7th April 2013 in relation to recruitment of Chairperson, Secretary and Member County Public Service Board. The following candidates have been shortlisted for the vacant position of the Chairperson of Kirinyaga County Public Service Board. S/No NAME 1. 2. 3. ELIUD NGARI MURIITHI JOHN KABUI MWAI WILSON KINYUA ID. NO. GENDER DATE OF INTERVIEW TIME
Villagers chase Bangladeshi soldiers and police ocers yesterday following protests at the site where an eight-storey building collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, resulting in the death of more than 300 people.
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Accident prompts new accusations from activists that Western clothing companies place prot before safety
SAVAR, Friday
angladeshi police battled today to control huge crowds of garment workers angrily protesting the death of more than 300 colleagues in a collapsed building as rescue eorts stretched into a third day. Police fired tear-gas and rubber bullets at the workers who sew clothes for Western brands for as little as $37 a month as they blockaded roads and attacked factories and buses in textile-making districts around Dhaka. The situation is very volatile. Hundreds of thousands of workers have joined the protests, M. Asaduzzaman, an ocer in the police control room in manufacturing hub Gazipur, said. The violence came as the death toll topped 300 at the scene of the accident in Savar town on the capitals outskirts where the eight-storey Rana Plaza building imploded on Wednesday morning, trapping thousands of workers. The accident has prompted new accusations from activists that Western clothing companies place prot before safety by sourcing their products from Bangladesh, despite its shocking track record of deadly disasters. British low-cost fashion line Primark and Spanish giant Mango have acknowledged having their products made in the collapsed block, while a host of brands including WalMart and Frances Carrefour are investigating. Last November a blaze at a factory making products for Wal-Mart and other Western labels left 111 people dead, with survivors describing how re exits were kept locked by site managers. The US State Department said on Thursday that the building collapse underscored that theres a need for the government, owners, buyers and labour to nd ways of improving working conditions in Bangladesh. National re service chief Ahmed Ali said that the rescuers were now racing against time to nd remaining survivors, as army spokesman Shahinul Islam said the death toll had reached 304. More than 2,300 people have been rescued alive since Wednesday, Islam added. The overnight rescue of 45 people provided some hope to the thousands of anguished relatives who remain huddled at the disaster site, but an intense stench of decomposition suggested many more bodies remain trapped in the rubble. With many of the countrys 4,500 factories already shut due to protests and fears of damage, manufacturers declared Saturday as a holiday and trade unions called a strike for Sunday to demand better working conditions. Enough is enough. Its time the government acted. They should save garment workers, not factory owners! Mosherafu Mishu, a leader of the Garment Workers Unity Forum, told a rally in Dhaka. Widespread anger has been fuelled by revelations that factory bosses forced workers to return to the building on Wednesday despite cracks appearing in the building the day before. (AFP)
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The situation is very volatile. Hundreds of thousands of workers have joined the protests
M. Asaduzzaman, police ocer
Interview will be held at Kerugoya Catholic Hall in Kerugoya Town . Each candidate is requested to bring along all original academic and professional certificates, national Identity card or passport and relevant testimonials. In addition candidates should bring letters of clearance from: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) The Kenya Revenue Authority The Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) Certificate of good conduct from Criminal Investigation Department
Ukraine marks Chernobyl disaster

KIEV, Friday
Ukrainians today lit candles and laid owers to remember the victims of the worlds worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl 27 years ago, as engineers pressed on with efforts to construct a new shelter to permanently secure the stricken reactor. On April 26, 1986, an explosion during testing sent radioactive fallout into the atmosphere that spread across Europe, particularly contaminating Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Dozens of people laid owers and set lit candles in front of portraits at the monument to the Chernobyl victims in the small town of Slavutych, some 50 kilometres from the accident site, where many of the power stations personnel used to live. At the same time in the capital Kiev, officials and relatives of the victims also held a pre-dawn remembrance ceremony in front of a memorial. The memory of the tragedy calls for unity and consolidation of the efforts of the government and society to solve the problems in implementing projects to create an environmentally safe system at Chernobyl, said President Viktor Yanukovych in a state-
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CONFLICT | Opposition calls for increased foreign pressure on government
Act over Syria chemical arms, UN told

British PM says growing evidence of use of the weapons by Assad extremely serious
DAMASCUS, Friday
yrias opposition today urged the UN Security Council to take immediate action after the United States said for the rst time the regime probably used chemical weapons. The call came as British Prime Minister David Cameron said that growing evidence of the use of chemical weapons by President Bashar al-Assad was extremely serious and called for increased foreign pressure on the Syrian regime. It is time for the UN Security Council to act on Syria, an ofcial from the main opposition National Coalition said on condition of anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the media. The UN Security Council has been stalled over Syria for more than two years, with members Russia and China backing Assad and vetoing several draft resolutions that would have imposed sanctions on the regime. This is a massive issue, and the Security Councils paralysis over Syria is no excuse, the Coalition ocial said. The UN needs to immediately investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Should it nd the regime used such weapons, it must act immediately, at least by imposing a no-y zone, he added. If the Security Council cannot break its paralysis, proof of the use of chemical weapons by the regime would open the way for others, such as Nato, to act. The National Coalition has
21st century king to take Dutch throne

THE HAGUE, Friday
The Netherlands Willem-Alexander becomes Europes youngest monarch on Tuesday when Queen Beatrix abdicates and his country hails the avowedly 21st century king with a massive orange-hued party. Willem-Alexander, 46, on Saturday, will be the rst Dutch king since 1890 and the rst of a new wave of European monarchs, whose ageing blue blood average age 71 is increasingly watered down. Amsterdams population is set to double with at least 800,000 visitors ooding the citys streets and canals as Beatrix, 75, ends her 33-year reign by signing the act of abdication at the royal palace. While Beatrix was known for her formal court, Willem-Alexander has already said that he and his glamourous Argentine-born queen consort Maxima, 41, will not be protocol fetishists. Parliament last year stripped his mother of her last remaining role in forming governments, and the new king has said he would accept a purely ceremonial role should parliament so decide. The Dutch monarchs current political role is restricted to signing laws and meeting regularly with the prime minister. The king will be sworn in rather than crowned at the deconsecrated Nieuwe Kerk, a stones throw from the palace, before a joint session of the houses of parliament. Sixteen MPs have refused to take an oath in front of the king, saying they have already pledged allegiance to the constitution. (AFP)
Imposed sanctions
Ceremonial role
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The rubble of the minaret of Aleppos ancient Umayyad mosque in the Unesco-listed Old City in Syria after it was blown up this week.
US intelligence services had been investigating reports that Assads forces had used chemical arms a move President Barack Obama has said would cross a red line . A senior White House ocial said all options are on the table should use of the weapons be conrmed, but a US defence ocial stressed that a military intervention was not imminent and signalled spy agencies had differing opinions. Our intelligence community does assess with varying degrees of condence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in
JALAL AL-HALABI | AFP
Number of people killed in Syria conict, according to the United Nations

accused the regime of using chemical weapons in the northern province of Aleppo, in Homs in the centre of Syria and in rebel-held areas near Damascus. On Thursday, the United States said for the rst time that Syria had likely used chemical weapons against rebel forces, but emphasised spy agencies were still not 100 per cent sure of the assessment.
Syria, US National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said. A US defence ocial said the phrase varying degrees of condence is a term commonly used by the intelligence community to indicate disagreement among various agencies. Cameron said today that the international response would likely be political rather than military. Britains Foreign Oce conrmed it also had limited but persuasive evidence of the use of chemical agents in the conict which the UN says has left more than 70,000 dead since March 2011. (AFP)
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TRAGEDY | Two female members of sta among those killed
BRIEFLY
BEIJING
38 die in Russia hospital inferno

Victims, most of them psychiatric patients, were asleep as the building was engulfed by re
MOSCOW, Friday
hirty-eight people, mostly psychiatric patients, were killed today in a re that ravaged a hospital in the Moscow region, with the victims engulfed by ames as they slept behind barred windows. The deadly night blaze raised new questions about security standards at Russias medical institutions, in particular psychiatric hospitals, after a string of res in the last years. The re broke out on the roof and spread rapidly throughout the hospital wing in the small town of Ramensky, around 40 kilometres outside Moscow, the health ministry said. Ocials said the residents of the hospital wing were burnt to death or suocated while they slept as the re spread rapidly through the wooden building, although three escaped in the early stages of the inferno. According to preliminary information, 38 people died, three survived one sta medic and two patients, the health ministry said in a statement. The emergency situations ministry listed those believed to have died as two female members of sta and 36 patients. The ministry said the rst report of the re was at 2am and the blaze was localised two hours later. However, it took the re services over an hour to BACKGROUND
Well not give up on island, vows China

China yesterday hit out at the Philippines attempt to seek an international verdict on a territorial dispute over islands in the South China Sea, repeating that it would never give up its claims. Manila is seeking a United Nations ruling on the validity of Chinese claims to the resource-rich sea, with a possible unfavourable verdict for China seen as a test of its willingness to yield over territorial disputes. (AFP)
Blaze at old peoples home left 63 dead

The re was the latest tragedy to hit a medical institution in Russia, which still suers from outdated Soviet-era infrastructure and lax security procedures. In 2009, 23 people died in a blaze in the wooden building of a home for the elderly in Komi republic in northern Russia while in 2007, 63 died in a re at an old peoples home in the southern Krasnodar region. In 2006, a re in a Moscow drug rehabilitation clinic killed 45 women.
reach the site, instead of the standard 20 minutes. The cause of the re is still under investigation. Thirty-six bodies have been recovered. Of these, only seven were poisoned by carbon monoxide, the rest have burns, the spokeswoman for regional investigators, Irina Gumyonnaya, told the RIA Novosti news agency. Acting regional governor Andrei Vorobyov told Rossiya 24 television that the investigation must decide whether the (window) bars were the reason or not for why so few were able to ee to safety. The patients slept soundly as they had taken medication in the evening, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported, citing a spokesman for the rescue
KANDAHAR
The burned psychiatric hospital in the small town of Ramensky, about 40km outside Moscow. Right: Fire engines at the site of the blaze.
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Afghan bus, tanker crash claims 30 lives

A passenger bus collided with a fuel tanker in Afghanistan before dawn today, killing at least 30 people, many of them heading for the poppy harvest, ocials said. The accident occurred in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province as passengers on the packed bus were travelling to join neishtar . The Neishtar season lasts 15 to 20 days each April. (AFP)
LONDON
11 British Islamists jailed for bomb plot

operation. The smoke alarms at the hospital did activate and woke up a nurse who managed to save two patients, the rescue operation spokesman said. When the nurse came out into the corridor, the re was burning and the ames were spreading quickly. She managed to bring out only two patients: a woman and a young man, the spokesman said. According to the list released by the emergency situations ministry, the ages of the victims varied widely with several patients in their 70s but others only in their 20s. The youngest victim appeared to be a female patient named Lyubov, born in 1993. The institutions chief doctor, who was not named by Russian media, described the patients as a very tough group of people psychiatric patients with chronic illnesses and frequent attacks who suered from alcohol and drug addiction. (AFP) Eleven British Muslims were jailed yesterday for planning what a court heard was an Al-Qaedabacked plot to carry out a string of bombings that they hoped would rival 9/11 and the 2005 London attacks. The conspiracy involved at least six of the plotters travelling to Pakistan for terror training, with the eventual aim of setting o eight rucksack bombs in crowded areas and possibly other timed devices. (AFP)
KENYA SOCIETY FOR DEAF CHILDREN

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 48th General Assembly of the KENYA SOCIETY FOR DEAF CHILDREN will be held on Friday, the 17th day of May, 2013 at 10.00 am at 680 Hotel, Mkutano hall, Nairobi, for the following purposes: 1. To receive a report on the activities of the society. 2. To receive and adopt the accounts for the year ended 30th June 2012. 3. To appoint Auditors 4. To transact any other business of an ordinary general assembly. By order of the Board Makarius Kathenya SECRETARY 26th April, 2013
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EMPLOYMENT | Government to partner with the private sector to create jobs for the youth
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Steps set to achieve double-digit growth

Strengthening and modernising of the agricultural sector. Creating a conducive business environment. Fostering partnership with the private sector to create jobs for the youth. Providing aordable loans for youth and women. Ensure equitable distribution of resources in the country through the devolved government. Investing heavily in the ICT sector. Improving provision of water for irrigation, animal and human use. Strengthening of the small and micro-enterprise businesses. Deepening relationships with neighbouring countries to expand trade.
Malawi recalls KQ to service key routes

BY NATION REPORTER
The Malawian government has recalled Kenya Airways to serve the Lilongwe-Lusaka route as its national carrier remains grounded due to nancial woes. In a statement yesterday, the government of Malawi wrote to Kenya Airways reinstituting rights to y passengers between Lilongwe and Lusaka. KQ was also given the go-ahead to start serving Malawis second largest city, Blantyre. I am pleased to convey Government approval for your operations into Chileka Airport, Blantyre, and the exercise of fth Freedom Trafc Rights on the Lilongwe-Lusaka sector as per your led schedules eective June 3, 2013, read part of the letter to KQ. The move comes barely six months after the national carrier was banned from ying to Malawi following a disagreement with Malawis national carrier Air Malawi. Air Malawi had alleged that KQ was cannibalising the South African market by oering rock bottom prices on the Lilongwe-Lusaka route. Since then, Air Malawis nancial woes have deepened and the company has been forced into liquidation. Currently Malawi has no national carrier (on Lilongwe-Lusaka route) so Kenya Airways will be the sole operator in the meantime, read part of the statement.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and Rotary District 9200 Governor, Ms Reeta Manek (right) greet Rotarians and other guests at the Leisure Lodge Beach Resort after opening the Rotary International District 9200 88th annual conference in Kwale County on Thursday.
Rock bottom prices
Uhurus nine-point plan to realise robust growth

Modern farming tools, good business climate and access to aordable loans set to drive the Presidents dream
BY MATHIAS RINGA
mringa@ke.nationmedia.com resident Uhuru Kenyatta has unveiled a nine-point plan that the government will implement to revive and grow the economy to double digit. Speaking at the 88th Rotary District Conference at Leisure Lodge and Golf Resort at Diani in Kwale County on Thursday, Mr Kenyatta singled out the need to strengthen and modernise agriculture to create wealth and jobs especially in the rural areas. This, he noted would also help in achieving food security in the country. In order for our economy to grow to double digit, my government will implement several measures which include modernising our agricultural sector and provision of water for domestic, industrial use and irrigation, he said. The government will also work to strengthen small and micro-enterprise sector that employs the majority of Kenyans especially the youth. Youth and women will also be granted aordable loans for starting or expanding their businesses. My government will create a conducive environment for doing business as well as foster partnership with private sector to create jobs for our youth, Mr Kenyatta added. Among those who attended the conference included Uganda VicePresident Edward Ssekandi, Kwale County Governor Salim Mvurya and Rotary District 9200 Governor Geeta Manek. The Head of State said he was impressed by the commitment of Rotarians for identifying the needs of various communities and working to develop sustainable projects to meet such needs. He commented the local rotary clubs for having initiated projects to increase literacy, combat hunger, promote health-care and provide
water to communities among other initiatives. I will partner with Rotarians in tackling inequalities that fuel ethnic division, reduction of unemployment, investing in education and health sectors and advancing equality between men and women, he said. My government will create a society that is at peace with itself: a society where every citizen has access to food and shelter and children guaranteed access to quality education, he added. Uganda Vice-President Edward Ssekandi on his part thanked the Rotarians for supplementing the governments efforts in providing education, health-care among other development projects. Rotary District Governor Geeta Manek said the district which comprises of Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Eritrea as of last year received 1,150 grants amounting to $46 million (Sh3.8 billion) for development projects. The projects, she added, include the improvement of literacy and education, access to clean water and water management, combating hunger and poverty.
Currently Malawi has no national carrier (on Lilongwe-Lusaka route) so Kenya Airways will be the sole operator in the meantime
Malawi Government statement
Giant shareholder in Co-op Bank says it wont sell shares

The largest shareholder in Co-operative Bank yesterday allayed fears in the market that the lenders shares would be diluted on exercising its right to sell after a ve-year moratorium during which it could not trade. Co-op Holdings Co-operative Society, a special purpose vehicle holding 65 per cent of the shares for the co-operative societies said it will not sell the shares in the foreseeable future adding it was satised with the performance of the bank as a strategic investor. Considering the strategic nature of governance structure, and with excellent performance of the bank, now the third largest in terms of assets, with an asset base of Sh200 billion, a growing network of over 120 branches and over 3.3 million customers and the solid protability growth with prot before tax of almost Sh10 billion in 2012, board of directors of Co-op Holdings has resolved not to dilute its strategic shareholding in the bank in foreseeable future, a press statement signed by the chairman, Mr Stanley Muchiri said. He noted that the opening of that window to sell did not mean individual co-operative societies and sacco investors in Co-op Holdings would trade their shares at the Nairobi Securities Exchange. The society has 3,800 shareholders that comprise of societies and saccos. The societies can only trade their shares with each other over-thecounter. Under the Capital Markets Authority listing approvals, Co-op Holdings Co-operative Society shares in the bank were locked in for ve years, which under the foregoing would allow the society to exercise its discretion in trading of any of its shares in the bank.
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Authority to repair Ongata Rongai road

Kenya National Highways Authority will repair the road between Bomas of Kenya and Magadi at a cost of Sh170 million. The news come as a great relief to residents of Ongata Rongai and Kiserian areas who have been enduring endless trafc gridlock due to poor state of the road.
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AGM | Shareholders approve payment of Sh10 per share in dividend and issue of a bonus share for every ve currently held
NMG to invest Sh1.7bn in new printing press

Investors bag dividend of Sh10 per share as Kiboro and Gitahi forecast more growth this year
BY JOSHUA MASINDE
jmasinde@ke.nationmedia.com ation Media Group plans to invest in a new state-of-theart printing press to increase eciency in the production of its newspapers. Addressing shareholders during the Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre yesterday, group chairman Wilfred Kiboro said the company will spend about Sh1.7 billion from
Last 12 Mths High Low Security Yesterday
Were gradually seeing a return to normalcy on the business front

Nation Media Group CEO Linus Gitahi
its retained earnings to nance the investment. The group currently holds about Sh5 billion in retained earnings. One of the reasons we retain earnings is for use particularly when we have major capital expenses. We will, for instance, turn to this to fund the new (printing) press at $20 million, Mr Kiboro said. The new printing press will replace the current printer, which is about 17 years old. Shareholders approved the payment of Sh10 per share in dividend and a bonus share for every ve currently held. Mr Kiboro was also reappointed to serve as the group chairman. In the last nancial year ending December 2012, the leading media house in East and Central Africa reported a 24.7 per cent increase in
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Nation Media Group shareholders follow proceedings during the companys Annual General Meeting at the KICC yesterday. The group reported a 24.7 per cent jump in pre-tax prot to Sh3.5 billion.
pre-tax prot to Sh3.5 billion on the back of increased turnover, market share gains and lower costs. The performance was lifted by signicant growth in contribution from regional subsidiaries and interest income from cash reserves. In the past year, the company launched QTV in Kenya, KFM radio in Rwanda, acquired Dembe FM in
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Uganda, and rolled out NationHela, an international money transfer service mainly targeting the diaspora. More than 8,000 cards are now actively in use in the market, just about six months after its launch. The company also launched a new sport paper, Sporton!, in January. On the outlook of the business this year, group chief executive Linus Gi-
tahi forecast growth in revenue and market share following the peaceful General Election. We are gradually seeing a return to normalcy on the business front. We are therefore cautiously optimistic on the outlook for the year 2013, Mr Gitahi said. The company is also planning to launch a newspaper targeting readers in Nairobi County.
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18.50 10.70 67.00 34.50 164.00 86.00 36.50 19.50 26.50 13.00 44.00 20.25 24.25 16.00 58.00 25.00 320.00 160.00 18.00 10.15
Banking
$ 83.75 83.95 83.50 84.00 83.65 83.85 84.25 84.35 83.60 83.90 83.75 83.95 83.70 83.90 83.55 83.75 83.83 84.03 83.80 84.00 83.70 84.20
129.32 129.64 129.00 129.94 128.09 128.42 128.94 129.11 128.16 128.29 127.60 127.80 129.14 129.59 129.11 129.42 127.90 128.25 128.45 128.80 129.40 129.90
C$ 81.87 82.07 81.83 82.48 81.72 81.92 82.93 83.07 81.75 81.88 81.50 81.70 81.28 82.36 81.93 82.13 81.59 81.82 81.55 81.80 82.00 82.50
SF 88.47 88.96 88.47 89.19 88.37 88.66 90.50 90.64 88.49 88.64 90.50 90.70 88.59 88.95 88.58 88.79 89.61 89.86 90.00 90.25 88.40 88.90
IR 1.54 1.54 1.56 1.57 1.54 1.54 1.54 1.54 1.54 1.54 1.54 1.54 1.54 1.57 1.54 1.55 1.54 1.54 1.55 1.60 1.54 1.55
JY 84.48 84.76 84.82 85.50 84.19 84.40 84.52 84.63 84.29 84.41 85.45 85.70 84.80 85.12 85.00 85.00 84.82 85.07 84.35 84.55 84.20 84.70
ZR 9.22 9.25 9.18 9.26 9.03 9.35 9.43 9.45 9.18 9.24 9.10 9.30 9.08 9.25 9.18 9.28 9.05 9.08 9.15 9.20 9.10 9.60
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17.45 59.00 150.00 32.00 25.00 41.50 21.75 52.50 281.00 16.45
17.35 61.00 150.00 32.50 24.25 41.50 22.00 52.50 277.00 16.50
737,200 53,700 4,000 331,900 514,200 545,100 1,600 186,200 16,900 528,500
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15.00 9.05 18.25 16.35 10.25
515,700 2,235,700 110,000 11,000 -
9.60 3.80 7.00 3.05 280.00 150.00 18.50 7.15 14.05 6.30 67.00 18.00
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8.45 5.25 260.00 16.30 11.55 62.00
8.50 5.30 263.00 17.15 11.95 62.00
160,400 284,300 22,600 71,000 61,100 5,500
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Centum Investment Co Ord 0.50 City Trust Ord 5.00 Olympia Capital Holdings Ord 5.00 Trans-Century Ord 0.50
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20.25 448.00 5.05 36.00
220,000 6,100 512,600
Mean 83.7944 129.2858 109.2357 9.2038 31.0344 19.2973 7.5543 18.8081 22.8136 82.2183 88.8825 84.8131 12.7022 14.2879 14.6330 1.5445 10.7935 67.6963 22.3437 13.5884 86.3795
Buy 83.6944 129.1290 109.0997 9.1824 30.9317 19.2146 7.4975 18.6663 22.7858 82.1118 88.7656 84.6961 12.6841 14.2692 14.6122 1.5429 10.7802 67.6100 22.3149 13.5716 86.2639
Sell 83.8944 129.4426 109.3717 9.2252 31.1371 19.3800 7.6110 18.9499 22.8415 82.3248 88.9994 84.9301 12.7203 14.3065 14.6538 1.5460 10.8067 67.7825 22.3724 13.6053 86.4952
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RETURNS | 10-year bond was issued with a yield of 6.875pc
Authority approves Dreamliner battery x, ights set to resume

WASHINGTON, Friday
The US Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday issued formal approval of Boeings 787 battery x that will clear the way for the troubled aircraft to y again after a three-month grounding. The move was quickly followed by regulators in Japan who said they would also allow the resumption of ights by the grounded aircraft following the FAA order, which they said would come into eect on Friday. Japan Airlines (JAL) and domestic rival All Nippon Airways (ANA) account for half the Dreamliners in service, and have said it could take several months to complete the battery x at centre of the crisis and get the planes in the air. The FAA and other regulators grounded the 50-strong worldwide Dreamliner eet in mid-January after two failures of the innovative lithium-ion batteries on the jetliner. The FAAs new airworthiness directive (AD) for the nextgeneration plane requires the installation of modied battery packs and their respective chargers, as well as battery enclosures and ducts. Once the aircraft are in compliance with the AD, they can return to service, an FAA spokesman said in an email. The directive caps a dicult three months for Boeing and its 787 customers, which have had to cancel thousands of ights and rearrange schedules after the grounding. The FAA action technically affects just the six 787s of United Airlines, the sole US airline owning the aircraft. But we expect foreign civil aviation authorities will order the same action, the FAA spokesman said. Shortly after, an ocial at Japans transport ministry said: As the FAA is to approve the resumption as of Friday morning US time, we will take the same step. (AFP)
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The Dreamliner eet that has been grounded in the past three months over battery failure
Kigali Conference Centre under construction in Rwanda. The Sh33 billion realised through a bond issue will enable the country complete construction of the conference centre as well as nance a hydro-power project that will see it reduce imports of electricity.
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LAUNCH | Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone hits the stores
Rwanda raises Sh33bn in debut bond issue

Attracted by robust growth, investors from around the globe bid more than Sh251.7 billion
KIGALI, Friday
with Citigroup. Rwandas nance ministry said the order books closed at at over $3.5 billion with 250 investors participating. The issue will enable Rwanda to repay government loans, complete a conference centre in the capital and nance a hydro-electric power project that will enable it to reduce its imports. Turning to global nancial markets will allow Rwanda, whose population is largely rural and who last year posted per capita income of just $664, to diversify its sources of funding and to narrow the funding gap for its infrastructure investments, Mark Bohlund an economist who follows sub-Saharan Africa for IHS Global Insight said. Rwanda, whose infrastructure, economy and social fabric were destroyed less than two decades ago by the genocide of 1994, posted eight per cent economic growth last year, despite cuts in international aid, and could post 7.5 per cent growth this year, according to a forecast by the International Monetary Fund. Over the past five years, growth has averaged 8.2 per cent, according to government gures. The geographical breakdown of investors was 40 per cent from the US, 33 per cent from Britain, eight per cent from Switzerland, six per cent from Asia, ve per cent from Belgium and Luxemburg and four per cent from Germany. The majority of them 83 per cent are fund managers and 10 per cent are banks. It wasnt as oversubscribed as Zambia in September last year, but still shows a healthy appetite for sub-Saharan African sovereign debt, Bohlund of IHS Global Insight said. Fitch and Standard and Poors (S&P) both gave a B rating with outlook stable to the new sovereign debt.
wanda, faced with a cut in international aid for the past several months, on Thursday became the rst country in East Africa to turn to international markets to raise funds by launching a $400 million (33.5 billion) 10-year bond. Investors, attracted by the countrys buoyant economic growth, bid more than $3 billion (Sh251.7 billion), which was issued with a yield of 6.875 per cent, market sources said. It was preceded by an extensive roadshow in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Munich, Frankfurt, Boston, where it was very well received, said Nick Darrant, emerging market manager at BNP Paribas, which handled the issue along SIGNIFICANCE
Samsung employees display the new Galaxy S4 smartphones during an event at their head oce in Seoul on Thursday. The new smartphone goes on sale this week globally as the South Korean giant seeks to cement its lead over US rival Apple. The rm announced a 41.6 per cent year-on-year surge in net prot to a record $6.4 billion (Sh536 billion) in the rst quarter of this year.
KIM JAE-HWAN | AFP
S. Korea, Indonesian candidates out of top WTO job nal round

SEOUL, Friday
South Korea and Indonesia confirmed Friday their candidates to head the World Trade Organisation had failed to make it to the nal round, saying the mood had been for a Latin American nominee. Former South Korean trade minister Bark Tae-Ho unfortunately failed to make it to the third round , the foreign ministry said in a statement. Indonesias former trade minister Mari Pangestu had also failed to get through as there was more support for the candidates from Mexico and Brazil, said Indonesian presidential aide Firmanzah, who goes by one name. The South Korean statement cited unconfirmed reports that Brazils WTO ambassador Roberto Azevedo and Mexicos Herminio Blanco, a
Not suciently diversied
Bond acts as a test for the region

The bond is of vital importance to Rwandas economy but could also serve as a test for the EA region. Kenya has said it intends to launch a $1 billion (Sh83.8 billion) bond this year and Tanzania has expressed similar intentions without quoting numbers. The good reception for Thursdays issue should therefore indicate strong demand for other sub-Saharan African sovereigns issuing debt, both Angola, Ghana and Nigeria (which have issued debt before) and debutants like Kenya and Tanzania, Bohlund of IHS Global Insight said.
Rwandas rating is supported by solid economic policies and a track record of structural reforms, macroeconomic stability and low government debt (23.3 per cent of GDP in 2012), Fitch said in a statement. S&P for its part focused on Rwandas success in poverty reduction. But both agencies warned of structural weaknesses, citing low per capita GDP, an economy not suciently diversied and a narrow and volatile export base. S&P also cited lingering political risks, including the recent resurgence in regional tensions as a concern but Rwanda is on record denying such accusations. (AFP)
Mexicos Herminio Blanco (left) and Brazils Roberto Azevedo are set to ght it out head-to-head for WTO director-general post.
former senior trade negotiator, would ght it out in a nal head-to-head. The foreign ministry said Barks candidacy had received considerable support, but was hampered by a desire for checks and balances given that a number of South Koreans currently hold key global posts, including UN chief.
FABRICE COFFRINI | AFP
There was also an atmosphere in favour of the Latin American region that has never produced a WTO Secretary General, the statement said. Firmanzah, an aide on economic aairs, added that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wants to express his appreciation and respect for the WTO process. (AFP)
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CPA 1,11,111 Clearing & forwarding HRMgt Front Office Computerised Secretarial Travel Tourism Tour guiding Adm Air Hostess Air Cargo services Mass. Com Journalism Video, Radio production Mechanical Engineering Chemical Engineering Electrical Engineering Telecomunication Electronic engineering Secondary 1-4 Languages, English Kiswahili, French, German, Japanese. Successful trainees work in UN bodies NGOs & Governmt International Firms. 1. Nairobi: call /Apply/Visit Principal Development Hse. 8th Flr, Moi Ave. or Philadelphia Hse, 3rd Flr, Tom Mboya str. 020 2216702/2253745/2219155 or 0724406799/ 0721318501/ Box 8111-00200 Nrb. or apply via Email rakti2004@yahoo.com / www.ruralaidkenya.org 2. Machakos A/ River 0721318501/ 0721421615/ Box 10-00204 A/ River 3. Mombasa, Furaha House, Basement, Nkuruma Rd. 020-23544380/724022555 / Box 88989 Msa. Accmd. / Corres. Studies/Short courses/Certs./ Diplomas/ Higher Diploma EXAM BODIES: KNEC, KASNEB,ABE (UK), ICM (UK), CIPS, IATA etc Comm. Devt Social Worker Gender studies Project Planning Mgt Conflict Disaster mgt Relief Refugees mgt Sales Marketing Counseling psychology Early childhood Dev. DTE- Secondary Edu P1 Course (primary) Stores mgt Logistic Mgt Comm. Health HIV/AID mgt Nursing Aid VCT Hotel & catering Environmental health Comm. Health mgt Nutrition & Dietics Purchasing Supplies Business Admni ICT/IT Finance Banking Accounts
VOLVO Excavator U.K 0722519155 Vw pollo 05 AT sil 750k 0722515239 WE Sell your car in 2wks 0714970635 www.jonizwheelz.com
B120 Motor Vehicles Wanted

CARS wtd 50-150 p/m 0722953488 CARS wtd 50-150 p/m 0724947551 VICTOR safaris 10 premios, 5 rav4s,
1 yr open contract 0722379197
MENS mani/pedi w/lands 0203748866 MONA manicure pedi 0722397511 OPEN 8am8pm 4pdicure 0712488120 SLIM & trim body 0722397467
WE advance you cash & trade in as we

sell your car 0713266196
B546 Machinery for Sale

COMMERCIAL
Briquettes
RESIDENTIAL & BUSINESS PROPERTIES

B740 Land, Plots for Sale
1/2 acre Nazarene 0736-688816 100x100
plots Isinya ready titles 3kms off pipeline rd. 350,000 Tel: 0725210219, 0736293386 Olonana
A230 Health
020-2245564 (www.vimax.com)sizecaps 020-2245564offer on Vimax pills @ 2000 0700050544mens power & size 1500/= 0722138090 mens size,power delay 0723408602@ Msa hardrock @200 0723408602 @Msa Hip booster 0723408602 Cavanossa size, caps @3k 0723408602 Maxman pills @1500/= 0723408602 Original vimax 60 pills 0723408602 Rockhard instant @200 0723408602 Tiger Power 2K 0723408602 Vigrx big-size @1500 0724401749delay, size, hardrock150/= 0724401749
Magicslim flat tummy, hipboost, weight gain & breast firm
making machine produce 800Kgs /Hour + Electric Grinder & Seive Contact: 0722906155
Charcoal
0705328357 new s/market rq 20 att

0726042702 PUMA sports shop rq
att
B085 For Sale, Private

ADVANCE selling ur car 0722833300
AFFORDABLE
and reliable vehicle tracking, nbi west 0722379954
FOR SALE OR WANTED

A822 Computers
FORSALE Ultimate Android Tabs
available 7 and 9 kshs 15K . For more info tel. 0726894926
130 Form 4 leavers needed for sales
promos and Distbn jobs an expanding co. ksh 7000wkly free trainig,no exp. call 0712857055 0718355523
AXOR 2540 X 2 6X2 2006 0737007637 B15 KBB AUTO 370K 0711994043 DYNA Lorry 1.5M KBR 0721530693 FAWTIPPER J5-280 0714910676 FH 215 Water Bowser 0717566203 HILUX d-cab '07 @1.7M 0722516322 HONDA Fit (salvage) KBT0722594570 HYUNDAI KAD mnl cln0723289484 MAN 26.440 X 3 6X2 2007 0737007637 MAZDADemio BQ 360k 0735170598 MBENZ C220 exp. leaving Qsale
silver 05 1.9m ono 0721767394 alloy 780k silver 0735642766
1086 acres beach plot in Miritini

Mombasa 490K per acre 0714970635
150 Form 4 lvrs & above needed for
sales promos and dstbn jobs in a new orgnzin kshs7000 wkly free training 0711585261, 0708615542
2.5 acres beach plot kili 18m each 1

acre kikambala 2.5m 7br massionate tudor 60m 0721282644
Laptop*repair,we buy dead! 0721486136 MAC*repairs we buy dead! 0721-486136 WEBDESIGN 4k smart 0728303129
WEBHOSTING + Free Websites
www.sasahost.co.ke 0713 478555
4 instant avable job call 0900620621 5 Bank cleaners & msnger 0702983828 7 NGO Driver &t/boy 0702983870 10 supermarket att & clnr 0702668080
ACADEMY in Nyad county requires
very compitent PI teachers in math eng s/s & lower classes cont 0737887987or 0712794747
2.5Acres NCBD opp Serena Hotel

along Nyerere road 0714970635
5&2 acres Nyandarua Kasuku for sale,

you want sell or buy 0788638545
50x100 plots Isinya town 7kms off DAGORETI
ochiengoduor@gmail.com
A871 Miscellaneous
CRYPTIC SUDOKU AT 160/P.M
SWORDOKUGMAIL.COM
pipeline rd. ready titles 150,000 Tel: 0725210219, 0736293386 Riruta Ngong 1/4acre 0733276980 Rd
AIRPORT JOBS 0721773801 A new Co. Rq 10 turnboys 0702951441 A new hotel req waiters 0705329245
AN NGO req form 4s n above. 65k
p.m sms-0717168745
MIT Lancer saloon 06 spoiler fog MITSH Lorry 13T 0733926145 MITS RVR KAU 380K 0723144239,
0733874217 0726568060
JOSKA: 12,6 Acres 3KM Ex Kdo Rd JOSKA 1/8acre Ksh. 320,000 Tel.
0724940100, 0726599829 ready titles
NAIROBI
DETOX Centre W/Lands 0729524441 MENS vigrx & maxman 0725218027 PRO-EXTENDER machine (USA)
for size, 100% guarantee 0722-506355 Visit: www.soltechenterprises.net
Brides 020-318145, 0722-715422, 0733-715422.
2.2M/acre. 10,5 acres 1M/acre call 0722501395/0722722382-owner
A878 Mobile Phones

MEMORY card/simexes 0722276768
JOSKA 9ac @850K pa. 0719756740 JUJA farm 50x100 bypass 130 B/OF
0720938283, 0705147102 PATTMOS
A public school in Laikipia needs

Bio/Agric & Kiswa/Buss teachers apply email karanja_johnson@rocketmail.com
MITSUBISHI diesel 1200 4 sale Tel: N /March KBK Silver, TV Clean 385K
New Shape 0724222888
REFLEX Centre Call: 0731252262 WE are specialists in love matters,

manpower, diabetis chronic diseases luck rings and other problems. Call: Doc Ibrahim 0701943580
WHERE TO STAY
A557 Apartments Available
3BR Furnished apartments available at
Kileleshwa from 0772-267272 May 1st 2013
JUJA Kali 40x90 400K 0715427768 Kakamega Bukura 2.5ac 0722606618 KAMULU 3 acres 8.5m 0718-121210 KAREN 1acre 36M Donholm 1/8ac
13M 0722302738
CUTEST Chics wanted 0722798431 ECDE graduate teacher wanted in

Kitengela call 0723927405
FREE ICT Training 0721504963 HOTEL Mgnt tutors ICM graduates

only 0723560860
NIS Advan KBU 680k 0722352215 NISSAN Liberty 04 BQ very clean

7seater 570k ono 0720-285110
HOTEL waiters & cooks 0701831110 IT sales rep & Technician wanted
0720681630
SCHOLARSHIPS UK & USA Sept

2013 Tel. 020-2245479, TOEFL SAT
NISSAN Matatu KAV 0733-390860

NISS
B12 KAC 0720966541 CLEAN 145K
A279 Notices
KIRARAPON 1/4ac 0722518457

KITENGELA 100,10,3ac 0722416118
PUBLIC NOTICE
The owners of plot number 511 Loc 12/Sub - Loc 1 situated within Kangema Town Council wishes to change its use from agricultural to commercial subject to approval by the Town Council of Kangema. Any individuals or institutions with objections/comments should forward them within 14 days of this notice to: The Town Clerk Town Council of Kangema P. 0. Box 138, Kangema
A571 Hotels
GLORY fully furnished
apartments 2b/roomed, s/dining 3,000/- per day 0726-427267, 0723-176777 Seldom Hotel-Muranga rd: For Bed & Breakfast 1500/=. Conferences,
JOBS IN SWEDEN 0720277898 CHEV KAKAMEGA/BUSIA/

BUNGOMA/KISII KISUMU: Drivers, Clerks, M-Pesa Attnts, I.C.T Manager. 0701108210 / 0738472876.
Physical Planning Act Cap 286 Change of user
STORAGE & W/HOUSING AGRICULTURE & HOME

B650 Building Repairs
KOBE Cabro 60mm 779/= 0706557755
NISS B14 KAR 185k q/s 0722697266

NZE KBL 2003 AUTO 520K. PAY 30K
PER MONTH. TEL 0721727540
MOMBASA rd machakos turn- off

junction 50x100ft 14 acre 0773470519 owner no agent clean t/d 0721420536 (Owner
RABI-HOTEL, Ngara, Limuru rd &
PARKLANDS 0.5acre 0733-390860 Prado 05 petrol 2.65m 0720290396 PREMIOold model 450K 0720293554 PROBOX KBU 06 720K 0726260162 SCD BU 05 silver 780k 0721954323 Subaru 04 n-turbo 1.2m 0720290396 SUBARU leon s/w 170k 0735170598 SUZ Escu 4door AP 420k 0722705485 T/ Carina TI 02 KBH 500k 0735334428 T/Fielder 06/05 AT blk 0722539418 T/Fielder BP 04 v/clean 730k 0722-366645
NAIVASHA (Karai) 1/4& 1/8ac plots NAIVASHA Kayole 50x100 prime

plots water & stima 0722696110
MPESA&Shop att (8)post 7019616657 QATAR: Our client requires Electri

cian, AC Technician, Plumbers, Pipe Filters, Fire fighting & Chilled water. Drop CV @Madoma Hse, Westlands, 3rd flr Rm302 near Graffins College or call us 0708293755, 0720606020, 0727306489, 0723930917 in Nakuru sms/call 0734480808
meetings. Ample secured parking and Satelite TV 0721 557367, 0724566574
NGONG 1/4ac 7.5m ono 0714970635 NGONG 3acre 24m ono 0714970635 NGONG plot for sale Contact owner
at 0722606252
FOOD & BEVERAGE

A635 Groceries
PISHORI rice sh 125kg 0705709038
A286 Personal
FRESHLY graduated ECD teacher to
run a kindergarten 0722883347
QualifiedHigh sch Teachers required RECEPTIONIST/Sec 0771601808 SUPERMKT att(8)post rq 0701961665 WE req Equity cleaners 0726042702
MOTORS
MOTOR VEHICLES
Nyahruru ATC 1/8a 130k 0733171711

NYERI Gaki 2ac tarmac 0733507457 ONGATA Rongai Mericho 1.5km
from main rd 1/4&1/8ac 0736919339
A656 Wines & Spirits

WINES and Spirits shop Umoja.
Established. Tel 0733326688
COMMERCIAL
ONGATA Rongai prime plot for sale

Contact owner at 0722606252

O/RONGAI,
titled 1/2 ac Acacia/Africa Nazarene 1.4M- owner 0722791097
Classieds/Transition 41
S.C Mugoya 207 ksh. 15M 0727871066 SOUTH-C 3b/r executive apartment
master ensuite 12.5m 0720-964648
HOTELS
D531 Hotels
A. Glory Nyali holiday resort 1,500/- pp
+ b/fast 020-2107105, 0721-895935, 0720298208, 0735-202728 GRAND Ocean view hotel & Apartments (next to serena) rooms 1250/-pp luxurious fully furnished a/c apart 3000/- Wi-Fi s/pool, conference disco 0719582131, 0715853598 www.kendashotels.co.ke
E324 Building
FOR Value-Added Slates, Mazeras,
Call 0722941437, 0721940690
Death and Funeral Announcement

Its too soon that we announce the death of Joel Ngetich Kipkurere formerly of County Council of Baringo who passed on at Rift Valley Provincial Hospital Nakuru . Son of Mr and Mrs David Kipkwe Kipkurere and Sote Kipkurere of Ngarie Village, Kapnarok Sublocation, Mochongoi Location in Baringo County. Husband of Josephine Kasyoka Kamuti of Nakuru. Father of Faith Jebet and Favour Jerop both of Craddock Bambi School Nakuru. Brother of late Paul Kurere.(Formerly of Ministry of Internal Security Kabartonjo), Joseph Komen (GSU H/Q Nairobi), Boniface (MKU University), Francis, Emily,Jebet and Stella. Cousin of Peter Kurere (Kenya Police Ind. Area Nbr), Daniel (Egerton University), Damaries, Symon, Ann. Kiprotich, Laina (Ministry of Education, Koibatek), Moses , Kandagor, Elijah among others. Friends and Relatives are meeting daily at his Kiamunyi Nakuru residence starting from 5.00 p.m. A fund raising for burial arrangement was held at Bontana Hotel on Thursday,25th April 2013.For more information kindly contact 0722-246292. The cortege leaves Provincial Hospital Mortuary Nakuru on Saturday, 27th April 2013 for burial at his Fathers Farm Ngarie Village Mochongoi 23/07/1973-21/4/2013 Division in Baringo County at 10.am on the same day. I have fought a good ght , I have nished the race and I have kept the faith ,2 Timothy 4:7. In God hands you rest ,In our hearts you live forever.
PEPONI rd 1acr com 0722732244 RIDGEWAYS 1/2ac r/soil0733233995

RONGAI Next Challenge Sch 1/4ac
2.3M 0732480091
THIKA 3br Bungalow.100120Title

6.9M. Tel: 0714183001
B789 Properties to Let

1,2,3br Museum Hill 6-22k 0718023488 1,2br Westlands 12-25K 0720040895 1&2b/r Parklands 10-25k 0720988902 1234br Ngongroad 7-30k 0720540626 1234br Parklands 10-40k 0720540626 1234br Westlands 15-50k 0720540626 1B/R B/Sitter Zima Tel: 0726085921
1BR FLT SouthC 20k 0722389129own
D557 Apartments available E740 Land Plots for Sale

50X100, 1.5M, Ramzan, 0721562260. MACHINECUT-STONES 55/=
delivered anywhere 0715-046690 in mombasa
RUAI town 100X100 1.8 near bypass
0725264950, 0750434140, 0736139434
RUIRU 40x60 600k v/prime 250k r/title

450k 0720938283,0705147102 Pattmos
RUIRU By-pass Quick S. Station, 1/8th

w/title, Ideal 4 Flats 3.5M 0714370476
RUNDA 1/2acre 23m ono 0714970635 RUNDA 1/4c prime 0722518457 SABAKI Syokimau (2)1/4ac, 1.5km
from Msa Rd 7.2M 0715-418199 SEGERA 11 acs ksh 300k 0722543944
E768 Premises, Offices to let

RESIDENTIAL/OFFICE SPACE
TO LET AT MTWAPA (Hunter's Plaza Above Equity Bank) 0724901918
Joel Ngetich Kipkurere
1BS H/GUM 4K 0725472002 owner 3br+sq Airportview 48,000 0720540626 3br+SQ Parklands 32K 0702933180 3br Statehse Rd 38,000/= 0716786222 ADAMS 1br 8k 0721250796 owner ATHIRV/Mlolongo 2br13k0735949009
B/BURU 1BR 6K 0710678440 0wner
SELL your plot in 3wks 0714970635 SIGONA 1/8 950K Uthiru 1/4 3.7m, 6m
8.5m (Inside Centre) 0711691975
E782 Properties for Sale

DIANI 3br 1/4ac -19M -0733233995 PRESTIGE Apartments Mtwapa fully MALINDI & North Coast beach
hotel q/sale from 950m 0733233995
In Loving Memory
Its exactly 16 years since you left us to join the Lord in his glory, dearly departed but ever in our thoughts and hearts. Sadly missed by your loving daughters linda and angela, mother, sisters and brothers. We celebrate the memories of your lifetime. May God continue to shine his perpetual light upon you.
SPRINGValley rd 1/2ac 0719112415 THIKA 50x100 ft near Castle. Prime

Ksh 2.9m ono Tel. 0716-356968
furnished 2 & 1b/room self catering s/pool AC DSTV WIFI restaurant 3000/= p/day 0722351275www.letsgoprestige.com
MALINDI 2br ensuite bungalow on

2ac s/pool secure -60M -0733233995
THIKA Gatundu Landless 1/2ac 3.2M

0722772648/0733538120
BUNGALOW Private opp. Uchumi

Hyper Ngong Rd good for NGO office 350k p/m negotiable 0716905488
E317 Appliances
NYALI Greenwood Drive property 2

houses on 4acres (1.2ac beach). Call 020-7120044, 7122040
THIKA Highway plots at Juja few
remaining ready title deed 40x80 750,000 Ksh contacts 0728-807735, 0715-041471
BURU PH-I 3br 25K 0702-317845 EASTLEIGH

Umoja 1 bedroom Hses, tiled floors, DSTV, hot shower, and Tel: 0722477200, 0720924792,
THK Ngoingwa 50x80 0720226821
B768 Premises, Offices to Let
0727897999, 0202361152
FEDHA newly constructed apartment

income 503,000/- owner 0722517037
FOUR NEWLY BUILT GODOWNS SHOPS/ OFFICES TO LET 180 to 300sqft THE STABLES, Karen from KShs 30,000 per month Call 0737 400000 or 0737 400052 CHEAP furn offices 0728692695 MEETING Rms hotelmariposa.co.ke
T. room Nbi 0734638367
AVAILABLE EACH 5500SQ FT NO WALLS BUILT IN BETWEEN I.E 4X5500=22000SQ FT CAN BE USED AS ONE GODOWN AS 22000SQ FT RENT 24/=+V.A.T PLUS SERVICE CHARGE 4/-+V.A.T PER SQ FT. BOREHOLE AND ELECTRIC FENCED LOCATION KIKUYU NEXT TO MAGANA FLOWERS,MATCH MASTERS(K) LTD AND OTHER FACTORIES CONTACT RAJU 0728604192 BTWN 8AM-4PM WEEKDAYS
OWNR
It is with deep regret we announce the death of Mr.Raichand Bhagwanji Bhimji Shah (RB) of R.B Shah (k) Ltd on 24th April 2013 in Kitale. He was son of Late Bhagwanji Bhimji Shah and late Gangaben and late Kasturben Shah. Son-in-law of late Khetshi Devshi Sumaria and late Amratben Khetshi Sumaria of Mombasa. Husband of Manjulaben Raichand Shah. He was the father of Amit Shah(kitale) and kunj(tiku) Shah (Australia). Father-in-law of Sandhya Amit Shah and Shruti Kunj shah. Grandfather of Sahil and Kinna. He was brother of Kamlesh (Ajays h/w), Late Pankaj, Pradip (Kitale two thousand ltd) and Ajay (Ajays h/w). Brother of Kanchan Khimji (Stanmore, UK), Hansa Nalin (Kisumu), Manju Chotalal (nchely, UK), Aruna Jayantilal (Kenton, UK), Jyoti Ashvin (hatchend UK). He was brother -in-law of Rashmita Kamlesh (UK), Jyotsna Pradip (Kitale), and Bina Ajay (UK). He was Mota Bapa of Keval &Roshni (UK), Mital &Ekta (Kenya) and Harshni (UK). Cortege will leave at 2:00 pm on Saturday 27th April 2013 from R.B Shahs residence (line member) Cremation will take place at Hindu Smashan Bhumi Kitale at 2: 30 pm. Om Shanti Shanti Shanti!
Pamela Akinyi Ougo
Witima Secondary School Celebrating of a Life Well Lived

Raichand Bhagwanji Bhimji Shah
Born: April 1937
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce the passing on of Rev. Gerald Maina Kibethi which occurred on 21/04/2013 at Consolata Mission Hospital, MathariNyeri. Until his demise, he was a Senior Teacher at Witima Secondary School and also the Vicar of ACK Kiruga and Gatugi Parishes. Beloved husband to Lillian Wamaitha (Mama Jack) of Othaya market. Son of the late Simon Kibethi and Loise Nyambura. Loving father of Jackson Gateru of Break Through Consulting Nairobi, Loise Nyambura of Kamoko Health Centre-Othaya, Agnes Wanjiru of Consolata Mission Hospital,Mathari-Nyeri and Anastasia Waitima of Technical University of Mombasa. Brother of Rosemary Waitima, Margaret Wangechi, Evanson Mwangi, Nancy Muthoni and Purity Wanjiru. Son-in-law of the late Jackson Gateru and Agnes Wanjiru of Gathundia-Kiruga village,Othaya. Brotherin-law of Loise Wangari Ngunjiri, Ephantus Kingori of Nestle Foods-Nairobi, James Wanjohi of Honey Care International Nairobi among others. Uncle to many nephews and nieces. Friends and relatives are meeting daily at his home and Accra Hotel-executive lounge-3rd oor-Nairobi from 6.00p.m for prayers and funeral arrangements. The cortege leaves Mathari Mission Hospital Mortuary-Nyeri on 30th April at 9.00 a.m followed by funeral service at ACK Gititu from 11.00a.m and burial at his home next to Kairia Primary School-Kiruga Village-Othaya, Nyeri County.
GREENSPAN 3BR 22K 0717906617
KAMUTHI
OFFICES 7k Tomboya St. 0722770064 PREMISE to let 0723237685 SHOP&Office Baricho rd 0737512658 TENA 3B/rm M/ensuit 0701978620
(K /West): 4brm exc m/ste Shs. 32000 ono near w/bypass, perimeter stonewall. Tel. 0726 001266, 0721898155, 0720761395. Call/SMS +14168548401 (owner)
Dad, it is exactly 10 years since you went to be with the Lord.
In Loving Memory
KILI 4BR +SQ Msnt 0705263749

OWNR
LANGATA Ngei-1 3br bungalow +

sq 52k 0722760143 or 0724311069 LAVINGTON 5br t/hse 0720278255
The pain of losing you is still fresh in our hearts.We remember fondly your kindness and jovial nature.Though you are gone physically but your memory is still with us. We miss you so much Daddy but we know you are at peace in Gods hands. Sadly missed by your loving wife Herman Akiduha Gladys Elega, your children Caroline Elega Elega (Wondaga Primay School), Kennedy Elega (Mombasa), Mildred Elega (Airtel), George Aradi (Stanbic bank), Robert Imbai (Dubai), your relatives and friends. We loved you but God loved you most. Rest in peace till we meet again.
Rev. Gerald Maina Kibethi
B782 Properties for Sale

BURU PHS2 3BR CORNER HSE+EXT
0721278646
LYNWOOD apts 3bdr along Msa Rd

0725077026
CITYPARK Estate flat on sale income

500k p.m 69m ono 0714-970635 (income 400k) 38M 0733233995
NGARA 3br exec apt 0722-707160

*NYAYO
0722215780 Emba 27k owner
EMBAKASI Pipeline Flat 44bedsitter GACHIE Plot 100x125 0722785913,

0733740413
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce the sudden death of our brother Eric Oirere Torori which occurred on 14th April 2013 through a tragic road accident on Thika Road. Husband of Mariam Oirere. Father of Natasha Oirere. Cherished son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Torori Mosioma. Brother of Judy Mosioma Alvin Mosioma Emily Otwoma Rodgers Mosioma and Hellen Mosioma. We the family express thanks to all those who have shown concern and offered us comfort. Family and friends are meeting at Alvin Mosiomas residence at Riara Meadows on Riara Road as from 5p.m. every day.
NYAYO Emba 3br apt 0722813866 NYAYO Embakasi PH V 3bedroom

0722712491/0720924322
KAHAWA
0711326419
SUKARI
BR
OLYMPIC 2br Tel. 0721337882 ONE Bedroom self contained

extension To let Stantack estate Ngong Road Tel 0725011869
near rd frm 4.5m 0789770087
KAYOLE 4 storey 9.8m 0733710529 KIAMBU Rd apartments for sale 3br

7M 0725163260
KIAMUMBI 50X100 7.5M 0725695598 Komarock phase-2 2br 0722170079 LOUNGE with restaurant established
patrons assured returns 2.2m going concern serious buyers 0720744136
O/RONGAI 3 & 4 bedrms classic
RUAKA 2br DSTV CCTV Intercomm

Master ensuite inside parking hot-shower @30k 0724474249
RUIRU 2brm 12k b/s 6k 0723234829 SOUTH C 2B/r 21K 0722864723 Southc mt.view kabete 4-1br0725-817817 U/HILL 3br m/nette 60K 0726373705 UHURU Gardens 4br mais+ 1br
separate unit 55k 0717601562 80k Tel 0722-228273
Its a year since you departed from us. You made great impact our lives and you are missed and cherished.Your never grow old, and are sweet to remember. In Gods hand , you will rest and in our hearts live forever. Though gone, your legacy of humility, intergrity, courtesy, selessness, dignity and character still lives on and forever you shall remain an example to those you left behind. You are greatly missed by your, Purity and children, Dorcas, Collins, Maureen, Cosmas, and Faith. mother brothers and sisters
1st Anniversary
There will be a fundraising on Tuesday 30th April at All saints Cathedral at 5.00p.m. Well-wishers can send their contributions via M-Pesa to 0722571614. The cortege will leave Chiromo Funeral Parlour on Thursday 2nd May at 7.am to proceed to his home at Bomatara Sub-location in Kisii. Burial will take place on Friday 3rd May at his home.
Eric Oirere Torori (Pasta)
In Gods hands you rest and in our hearts you live forever.
It is with humble acceptance that we announce the death of Michael Daniel Mwendwa which occurred on 18/04/2013 following a road accident. Michael Daniel Mwendwa was a student at St. Bartholomew A.C.K High School Voi.
MSA Rd near Gen/motors 5brm town

Hse in secure gated community. Kshs 14M ono Owner 0725645250 workshop on waterside S/P 39M 0722411084www.rudy.maeder.com
MTWAPA own villa 2 cottages & big
NYAYO Est Embakasi phase 2 call

owner Tel 0733724210
WESTLANDS 3br apt near Sarit
We also wish to sincerely express gratitude to relatives, friends and colleagues who helped us during that trying moment.
Josephat Kimitei Koech
Son of Mr Fredrick Musyoka and Franscisca Mwendwa. Sister of Patience Mwikali of AON Kenya Insurance Brokers Ltd and Gloria Syombua of Jomo Kenyatta University Mombasa. Nephew of David, Mbindyo Mbuki, Katindi, Kavutha, Victoria, Rebecca, Priscah, Nthenya and Kanini. Cousin of Winfred, Centrina, Agnestina, Charleston, Syengo, Musyoka, Mueni, Syombua among others. Grandson of Musyoka Malombe, Syombua, Mwikali and Patrick Malombe The cortege will leave Pandya Memorial Hospital on 26/04/2013 for burial on 27/04/2013 at Kisekini village, Maliku Location Kitui.
O/RONGAI 3br Sh 6M 0721551419 RONGAI Acacia Estate 4br bungalow

on 1/8 acre 9.8m ono 0714970635
COAST (Telephone
Coast Numbers Only)
Verse 1 peter 3:14 But even if you suffer for doing what is right , how happy you are! Do not be afraid of anyone and do not worry!
Michael Daniel Mwendwa

Alias M.D or T. 17/01/1999-18/04/2013
Gone too soon. Rest In Peace Mr.T.
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1st Anniversary/In Loving Memory
It has been a year since you suddenly departed from us. You are sadly missed by Dad Jacktone Ranguma of Kisumu-Kenya, Mom Anne Amondi, brother Binnie and sister Diddy all of Dallas Texas U.S.A.We still hold tears back and you will be forever missed. There will be a private ceremony at his grandparents home at Kano Kobura on Saturday 27th 2013.
It is with deep regrets that the Chrispus Ngari Family announces the passing into glory of our beloved Mother and Matriach,Sister in Christ Agnes Wangui Ngari who passed away on 23rd April, 2013 after a long illness bravely borne. She hails from Ndaka-ini village, Marua Sub-location, Nyeri Municipality. Wife of the late Chrispus Ngari Gichohi. Loving and caring mother of Rosalind Wambui Wambugu,Catherine Nyawira & Michael Maina, Gichohi and Ann Wangui, Kirugumi, Mwangi, Patricia Muthoni & Benjamin Nganga, Nancy Wanjiru, the late Mercy Waruguru, Winrose Nyambura & Stanley Ngocho Kimere and Alice Mukami & George Maina Wahome. Blessed with many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Celebration of a Life Well lived
It is with great sorrow and humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce the sudden death of Raymond Maingi Kiuna formerly Director of Continental Flighters Ltd. Mombasa Branch Which occurred on 24th April 2013 at Pandia Hospital Mombasa. Husband of Eve Wambui. Father of Nathan Kiuna Maingi, He is the beloved son of Mr & Mrs Joseph Kiuna Kihurunjo, Brother of Carol Kiuna, Eva Kiuna, and Blessings Kiuna. He is cousin, Nephew and Uncle of many. Friends and relatives are meeting daily at his fathers home in Gachie (power) Kiambu County. The cortege leaves Umash Funeral Home on 30th April 2013 at 9.00am. Funeral services and burial will take place at his fathers home in Gachie village Kihara. Raymond we love you dearly but God loves you more. May God rest your soul in eternal peace.
Victor .O. Ranguma
Rest in peace your legacy lives on
Agnes Wangui Friends and relatives are meeting at her home Ndaka-ini village, Marua Sublocation and at Mr. & Ngari Mrs.Stanley Kimeres Home Landless Thika daily from 4pm for prayers and funeral arrangements. (Nyina Wa Gichohi)
The cortege leaves Kenyatta University Mortuary 1936-23/4/2013 (K.U) on Thursday 2nd May,2013 at 7.00 a.m. Funeral Service will be held at Marua P.C.E.A Church at 11.00 am. Burial will follow therafter at her home Ndaka-ini Village, Marua Sublocation,Nyeri Municipality. Mami, you have fought a good ght, nished the race and kept the faith
Raymond Maingi Kiuna
We regret to announce the death of Samwel Osore Inyangala a.ka. Dj Sammy B. Father of Natasha and Russell.
Son of the late William Inyangala and Mary Achungo, Borther of Robert, Morris, Priscilla, Elizabeth, Moi, Eshuchi among others. Brotherin-law of George Kinuthia (Kanjine Ent Ltd). Friends and Relatives are meeting at Antonios Grill Restaurant opp. Holy Family Basilica from 26th April 2013 at 5.00 p.m. for Funeral Arrangements. There will be a fundraising on 1st May 2013 at 4.00 p.m. same venue to off-set the bill at Nazareth Hospital. May the Lord rest his soul in peace
Samwel Osore Inyangala

(Dj Sammy B)
We regret to announce the sudden death of Flora Kalondu Kilonzo while receiving treatment at Coptic Hospital on Monday 22nd April 2013. Wife of Stephen Kilonzo Kimutu, Makueni County Director, NEMA. Mother of Brigid, Jeremiah and Jason. Daughter of Christopher Nthama and Serah Nthama of Kabaa, Mbiuni, Machakos County. Daughter-in-law of the late Paul Kimutu Mutiso and Ruth Nthambi Kimutu of Kanzalu, Matungulu.
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce the promotion to Glory of Magdaline Wangui Wangondu formerly of Forest View Academy, Nairobi which occurred at Kenyatta National Hospital (private wing) on 24 April, 2013 after a long battle with cancer. Beloved wife of Naftali Wangondu of C1D Headquarters Nairobi., loving mother of Mercy Nyangendo of Nairobi university (Kabete Campus) and Willy Kingori Wangondu of Nyeri High School. Daughter of Joseph Munene Gathigi and the late Lucy Kirigo Munene of Kigawandi Daughter in law of the late Willie Kingori and late Ruth Nyangendo. Sister of Mr. and Mrs. Maina, Mr and Mrs. Peter Kingori, Emilio Mwangi, Angelo Wagura and Elizabeth Wambui. Sister in law of Eunice and Paul Kabai of Superview Investments, Jane Njeri, Mr and Mrs David Kagua, Mr and Mrs Samuel Ndanya, Mr and Mrs Isaac Musila Mutiso, Mr and Mrs John Kahiga, Mr and Mrs. Jeremy Njue, Mr and Mrs.mugambi kingorl and William Kimani. Loving aunt and cousin to many. Friends and relatives are. meeting dally at their residence in Karen Police station, at their home Giakanja Nyeri, starting from 5.00p.m and Garden Square starting Monday through Wednesday from 5p.m for funeral arrangements. The cortege leaves Kenyatta National Hospital Funeral Home (Private Wing) on the 2nd May, at 7.30a.m Thursday for burial at their home in Giakanja Nyeri. The funeral service will be at P.C.E.A. Wamagana Church at 10.30 am and burial thereafter at their Giakanja Home Nyeri County. 2nd Tim.4:7 I have fought the good ght, I have nihed the the race, I have kept the faith. May the name of the Lord be praised
We are humbled with acceptance of Gods will to announce the passing on of sister in Christ Beatrice Wanjiru Mburu which occurred on Monday the 22nd April 2013 while undergoing treatment. Wife of Misheck Mburu Muchiri (Nanyuki). Daughter of the late Muiruri Michoro and Esther Nyokabi of Kiunyu Location, Gatanga. Mother of Edward Muchiri (homebest electronics Timau), Peter Muiruri (ICIPE), Catherine Waithera (WorldVision) and Esther Nyokabi (KU). Daughter-in-law of the late Elijah Muchiri and the late Jerusha Waithera. Sister of Wairimu, Njeri, Wanjiku, Nduta,Wambui, Nganga and Njoroge.
Promotion to Glory
Magdaline Wangui Wangondu

1968 - 2013
Family and friends are meeting at her residence in Nanyuki(Makutano) & St Andrews Church Nairobi for prayers.
Beatrice Wanjiru Mburu
The cortege leaves Nanyuki General Hospital on Tue 30thApril, 2013 and burial will be held same day at the family farm in Nanyuki (Makutano). But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. Psalms 3:5
Sister of Praxedis Muli, the late Phidelima Mutinda, Sebastian Nthama, the late John Nthama, Theresia Nthenya, Elizabeth Njeri, Stephen Musyoka and Gerald Nzimbi. Sister-in-law of Benson Ngui, James Kimutu and Josphat Munyao. Aunt of Fidelis, Purity, Ndanu,Maxwell, Mbaika, Mwende, Njoki, Brown, Solo, Faith, Joseph and Sheryl among others. Friends and relatives are scheduled to meet on Monday & Tuesday, 29-30th April 2013 as from 5.30pm at Garden Square Restaurant Nairobi for funeral arrangements. The cortege will leave Chiromo mortuary at 7am on Friday 3rd May 2013 for funeral service and burial at their family home in Nguluni village, Tala along Kangundo Road. Flora, in Gods hands you rest; in our hearts you remain forever.
Celebration of a Life well lived

Flora K. Kilonzo
In Loving Memory/1st Anniversary
Mary Mbaire Munge

May 1930 - April 2013 Mary Wanjiku Kiarie (wa-gakuhi)
Its now one year since you left us but seems like yesterday. We value and appreciate every bit of contribution you made to us and the community at large. Your love for us and passion for the work of God greatly inspires us. You made us embrace other people in our family by accomondating orphans and the less fortunate at your cost in Ebenezer Childrens Home. The gap you left can never be lled by anyone else except God. We acknowledge and thank all Ebenezer wellwishers and sponsors. We welcome other interested people of good heart to help us continue with mums vision. Fondly missed by your children Virgie, Peter, Henry, Moses and Dennis Kiarie. Daughters/son in-law, grandchildren, ebenezer family, relatives, friends and well wishers. Contact:0703227208/0722351674. Rest in eternal peace. James 1:27 It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce the passing on of our beloved Mary Mbaire Munge of Muchatha (Banana Hill) on 23rd April 2013. Loving wife of the late John Munge Gaithuma (Kenya). Mother of Charles Munge and Alice, Elizabeth and Jackson Maina, Anne and George Waireri, Jane and Renny Maina, Serah and late Eng. Charchi Githinji, P. I. Munge and Hilda, Grace and Ceasar Wanjao, George Munge and Ann. Daughter of the late Icharia Njire and Hannah Kabui. Daughter-in-law of the late Luka Gaithuma and Elizabeth Muthoni. Sister of Hon. John K. Icharia, Peter Icharia, the late Andrew Ngethe, Morris Icharia, Alex Icharia, Mbugua Icharia and Chris Icharia. Step-sister of Lucy Thuo and David Kamau Icharia among others. Sister- in-law of Miringu Gaithuma and Priscilla Munge among others. Family and friends are meeting daily at her Muchatha Residence from 3.00pm for prayers. The cortge leaves Lee Funeral Home on Tuesday, 30th April 2013 at 8.00am for funeral service at Mary Immaculate Catholic Church, Muchatha at 10.00am and thereafter burial at her Muchatha Residence. You have fought the good ght, nished the race and kept the faith 2 Timothy 4:7
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NADAL DEFIES RAIN TO STORM BARCELONA OPEN QUARTERS Rafael Nadal led the way with a 7-6 (7/2), 6-2 defeat of Frenchman Benoit Paire yesterday, as the Barcelona Open completed rain-delayed matches from the previous 24 hours and prepared to start the quarter-nals. Nadal, the seven-time champion seeded second, dropped his opening service game against the unpredictable Paire.
CAR 7S RUGBY | World Cup-bound Zimbabwe will use tournament to prepare for IRB World Series
Tough call for Kenyas Select squad
Super Kings beat Sunrisers in Chennai

BY CLAY MUGANDA
claymuganda@gmail.com India captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who has etched his name in cricket annals as a specialist hitter in death overs, again led Chennai Super Kings to a ve-wicket victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Twenty20 Pepsi Indian Premier League in Chennai on Thursday. Dhoni, who is also the skipper of Chennai Super Kings, reached 2000 IPL runs as he scored an unbeaten 37-ball 67, which included seven boundaries and four sixes, to help the two-time champions of IPL chase down 160 and win with two balls to spare. Even after registering their sixth win in eight outings, Dhoni and his coach, Stephen Fleming, are still demanding more from their bowlers who they feel should dish out more yorkers to provide real trouble for the oppositions batsmen. We conceded so many runs in the last few overs. I think the bowlers did not do a very good job at the death, Dhoni said. We need to start learning how to bowl. Well only make it harder for ourselves if we dont.
he Chairman Select side must stretch themselves to the limit when they take on highly rated Zimbabwe in the opening match of the Confederation of African Rugby (CAR) Africa Sevens Cup at the Mombasa Sports Club this morning. It will be interesting to see how the third-string Kenyan lads tackle the World Cup-bound Zimbabwe, who are the tournament top seeds and have brought a formidable side. They will use the tournament as part of their preparation for the IRB World Series qualifying nale for core team status in London next month, and the Sevens RWC in Russia in June. The Cheetahs, as the Zimbabwean team is popularly known, are fresh from winning the IRB World Series pre-qualifying tournament in Hong Kong and will come out guns blazing to ght for the title. The Chairmans Select team, which is a blend of youth and experience, features Dennis Muhanji, Chris Asego and Mike Agevi, who have IRB Sevens experience. Also in the team are Kevin Keegan and Charles Omondi, who have been part of the 2012/2013 Kenya Sevens.
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Kenya sevens team player Fabian Olando (right) and Eden Agero during training on March 19 at the RFUEA grounds. Olando will turn out for Kenya Shujaa in the CAR Africa Sevens Cup in Mombasa.
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Shujaa will meet Tunisia in a tricky opening match. Morocco look capable with their European based players and it will be interesting to see how they tackle their rst game against Cote dIvoire. Chairmans Select team manager, Michael Mwanja said they were focused and ready for the task ahead. Mwanja predictable bruising battle with his side meeting compatriots Shujaa in the nal. The participating teams have been divided into three groups. Group A comprises Zimbabwe, Cote dIvoire, Morocco, and Chairmans Select. Pool C has Tunisia, Namibia and Kenya Shujaa, while pool C has Nigeria,
Madagascar, Senegal and Uganda. The Shujaa squad named by head Coach Mike Friday for the tournament is captained by KCB loose forward, Philip Wamae, a regular squad member for Kenya Sevens.
Squads: Select: Ian Minjire, Mike Agevi, Philip Kwame, Charles Omondi, Dominic Mose, Richard Sindindi, Chris Asego, Lameck Dunde, Dennis Muhanji, Vincent Mose, Leonard Mugaisi, Innocent Simiyu (Head Coach), Michael Mwanja (TM) and MacDonald Wandere (Physio). Shujaa: Philip Wamae
Todays schedule: 10.00 am-Zimbabwe v Kenya C; 10.19 am-Cote dIvoire v Morroco; 10.39 am-Tunisa v Kenya B; 10.57 am-Namibia v Zambia; 11.16 amNigeria v Uganda; 11.35 amMadagascar v Senegal.
(Captain), Eden Agero (Vice Captain), Davis Chenge, Humphrey Kayange, Patrice Agunda, Daniel Sikuta, Robert Aringo, Felix Ayange, Fabian Olando, Billy Odhiambo, Oscar Ayodi, Samuel Oliech.
Kenyan golfers fail to impress in Zone Six championship

BY LARRY NGALA
lngala@ke.nationmedia.com The usual nal-round singles reworks characteristic of Kenya was missing as local pros nished joint fourth with Malawi in the 2013 Africa Zone Six Championship at the Windhoek Golf and Country Club course yesterday. This is the worst performance for Kenya, who won the tournament in 2010 at Gaborone Golf Club, Botswana. Starting the final round in the same position, the Kenyan side won only three matches and a half for a total of 11 points, a 12-point margin from South Africa. It would have been even worse for the Kenyan team had Abraham Abdullai not halved with South Africas Tertius van den Berg at the 18th hole to earn at least half a point. He had fought neck-and-neck with the South African, who remained down until the 16th when he suddenly went up. But Abdullai levelled with a birdie to remain all square to the last hole. Before that, Tony Omuli (left) , William Odera and Justus Madoya had won their respective matches. Omuli beat Botswanas Mpho Orapeleng 6-5 and Odera won 2-1 against Swazilands Sebelo Maseko as Madoya posted a 6-5 victory against Mozambiques Jaime Inguana. Kenyas rst point to go was that of John Mburu who lost 31 to Malawis Gabriel Kambale while John Karichu lost by a hole at the 18th when Zambias Mwalikwa Sondashi chipped in a birdie at the 18th.
The coach, while pleased with the victory, said that there are areas that the Chennai Super Kings could work on. The Cameron White-skippered Sunrisers won the toss and got elected to bat but lost wickets early, with Quentin de Kock going for four after facing only three balls, and Hanuma Vihari falling after scoring only two runs to leave them reeling at 13 for two in two overs. The captain then came in with the hope of stabilising the innings, but he was caught behind by Dhoni o Mohit Sharma after facing only three balls and adding two runs. His replacement, Amit Mishra looked promising and scored a 21-ball 15 which included two boundaries before he went back to the hutch after getting caught by Dwayne Bravo o Ravichandran Ashwin when the scores stood at 61. The visitors opener, Shikhar Dhawan who hit 10 boundaries to end up with an unbeaten 63 o 45, retired hurt after 13.3 overs but came back in the 18th over and together with Ashish Reddy (36 not out), added 43 runs in 16 balls to steer the visitors to 159 for six.
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Lowly HSC for Kenyas most capped Olympian
UNRIVALLED DISTINCTION | He played for Kenya in four consecutive Olympics Games, three of
Avtar Singh: Masterful player

The former international is rated one of the best in the game and once held world record for most caps
BY ROY GACHUHI
gachuhiroy@gmail.com o sit down and talk about hockey with Avtar Singh is to leaf through the pages of a national encyclopaedia. One sitting is not enough owing to the size of the tome. It is a long journey stretching from the 1940s to the present. It is a journey of discovery, the story of a country, and in walking it, there are some unexpected lucky surprises such as lunching on a delightful, mildly spicy vegetarian meal with him and Ripudaman Kaur, his wife of 45 years, in their kitchen. She is his archivist and has diligently led every newspaper cutting where Avtar has been mentioned since he rst played for Kenya in 1957. She is an inseparable part of his story. Avtars last international match was against Argentina during the 1972 Olympic Games but until 1985, he had the satisfaction of appearing in the Guinness Book of Records as the worlds most capped hockey player with 167 appearances for the Kenya national team. Archival newspaper material covering his 15-year international career turns out an embarrassment of praise. The problem is that it is all based on hard facts. He represented Kenya in four Olympic Games 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972. In all but the rst one, he was the captain. He was head coach for the 1984 Olympic team. Avtar was also national coach in 1988 and was looking forward to a sixth consecutive Olympic appearance with Kenya when house politics knocked him out. But he still went to Seoul at the invitation of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) as a technical delegate. Hockey honchos at the world body, themselves only too familiar with the kind of cloak and dagger shenanigans that take place in national sports associations, went over the heads of the Kenya Hockey Union and directly called him, motivated by their knowledge of his record. These were the same people who, in 2000, would award him the FIH Diploma of Merit for outstanding services rendered to hockey for the previous 40 years. FIH President Juan Angel Calzado personally presented him this award in Belgium. To this day, he remains a member of FIHs development and coaching committee and is a FIH certied coach. It doesnt always work out that services rendered translate into national recognition but in any sitting arrangements for Kenyas most distinguished Olympians, Avtars place must meritoriously be at the high table. If you are talking about world hockey powers of the 1960s and 70s, says Avtar, you are talking about Kenya. We used to beat countries like India and Pakistan even when they were the reigning world cham-
BY ROY GACHUHI
Kenya has eight State Commendations. In order of importance, they are: the Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya, the Uhodari Medal (UM), the Order of the Burning Spear, the Order of the Grand Warrior of Kenya (OGW), the Distinguished Conduct Order (DCO), the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM), the Silver Star of Kenya (SS) and the Head of State Commendation (HSC). The Order of the Golden Heart and the Order of the Burning Spear are divided into three categories. The Order of the Burning Spear is similarly divided into three categories. State Commendations are awarded by the President, himself the only citizen, save his retired colleagues, who holds the highest award, the CGH. The ofcial citation states that the President makes these awards in recognition of outstanding or distinguished services rendered to the nation in various capacities and responsibilities. The Awards are made by the President upon the advice of a National Honours and Awards Committee in the Oce of the President. Many Kenyans, including recipients of the awards themselves, have beaten the selection process to pulp. Far from jumping for joy, veteran journalist Philip Ochieng wrote a scathing piece that mocked his OGW awarded in 2004. The bone of contention has always been that government mandarins have in the past, especially during the single party rule, used the awards to massage the egos of their undeserving cronies, godfathers and relatives. Canvassing, and even buying and selling them, has been consistently alleged. People who believe they merit the awards have loathed to share them with awardees of public notoriety. There is also no recall mechanism that can protect the integrity of the awards by stripping them from people who were initially deserving but have subsequently brought public opprobrium upon them by their disgraceful conduct. There have been persistent calls for a reform of the process to make it more nationally acceptable. As things stand, there are perhaps hundreds of Kenyans who ax the exalted honoric initials to their names but it is impossible to trace their contributions, if any, to Kenyas development. I asked Avtar Singh (above) whether his lifetime of services to Kenya hockey has earned him a state commendation. It indeed has; he is Avtar Singh Sohal, HSC. As you have seen from the list above, Head of State Commendation ranks lowest in the pecking order.
Distinguished Olympians
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Top: Kenyas 1973 World hockey championship squad. Above: Kenyas star player Avtar Singh (left) in action in 1966.
Take Avtar Singh - he has the skill and tenacity to walk into any international sie in the world
Aziz Currimbhoy, hockey writer
pions. Thats unimaginable today, isnt it? Is Kenyan hockey dead? Yes it is, he says. Avtar loves to remember the 1971 World Cup in Spain, where Kenya nished fourth out of 10 countries. We stayed in the same hotel with European champions West Germany, as they were called then. Twice, they showed contempt for us and twice they paid dearly for that. In the pool match, we crushed them 3-0, and I scored one of the goals. They thought they just had a bad day and eyed us with benevolent contempt as they took copious quantities of wine the night before the game. I begged our coaches Hardev Singh and Alu Mendonca, and our team doctor, Inderjit Khosla, to let our players take just half a glass of wine each after dinner so as to ease up a bit. The team ocials obliged. Then I took the team for a stroll on the beach at night. Man, I pumped them up. We are going to defeat those guys! We are going to defeat
them! I kept telling my team mates. Their morale soared. We beat Germany 2-1 in the play-o. This took us to the semi-nals against Spain. Wire reports of that feat glowed with praise for Kenya and its captain. The Standard reported: Kenya are through to the semi-nals of the World Cup hockey tournament. The man who put them there was the captain and full-back, Avtar Singh, when he hammered home two superb penalty corners to give the African side a narrow 2-1 win over West Germany. Germanys goal was scored by their centre-forward, a prolic marksman named Michael Peter. His destiny seemed intricately tied with Avtars; it is he who nally surpassed the Kenyans world record of most goals scored for his national team in the 1980s. As it turned out, Kenya lost 1-0 to Spain. This was through a goal scored
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them as captain between 1964 and 1972. He was the head coach at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games
who called the tune in world hockey

Discipline, mentorship...and yes, a loving wife, brings success
Test matches between Kenya, India and Pakistan were a regular feature of 1960s and 70s hockey. In 1964, Pakistan toured Kenya for a ve-match series. As usual, the Kenya team had camped for two months or so for intensive preparation. On the evening after the last Test, the Kenya players went for a well deserved night out at the Goan Institute in Pangani. There was a live band. The players let their hair down. They treated themselves to a well-deserved drink of beer and wine and danced until daylight. Avtar knocked at his fathers door at around 6.30am. Old Pyara Singh, who had stayed awake all night because he could hear the loud music coming from the nearby GI, opened the door for his son with this question: Avtar, is this the time you are coming home? The question bespoke a heart that was shattering into pieces. It hit the young man hard. Despite his exhaustion, Avtar picked his kit and headed for Sikh Union for his usual morning training. He trained for the mandatory two hours. His father was placated. My father was my rst mentor, Avtar says. He was extremely particular about training. This is as true today as it was then: if you cannot train hard, forget it; you are going nowhere. Those budding sportsmen who think they can go clubbing all night long regularly and still do high performance sport are deluding themselves. Their sports life will be short. A coach at Sikh Union named Surjit Singh had spotted the young talent. Sikh Union had three teams, the rookies, the maturing ones and the main team. Surjit vaulted Avtar from the rookies to the main team where in short order he caught the attention of Mann Singh, the national coach. That is how the career of this imminent statesman of world hockey took wing. Those two gentlemen, Avtar says, they mean everything to me. Since I quit playing, I have tried very hard to do for our kids what they did for me. And I dont ask for any payment. The other highly inuential person in his life has been his wife, Ripudaman Kaur. The Kenya team was on a tour of India in 1967 when his mother, Parmeshari Kaur, called her brother, Gurbachan Singh Bansal from London to tell him: Could you urgently get that young man a wife. He is only playing hockey and doesnt seem to think about anything else. Gurbachan got hard to work. Avtar was drenched in sweat in the turfs of Delhi while his uncle intricately connected marital wires. When the Kenya team landed in Chandigarh, Avtar looked into Ripudamans eyes and thought: yes, shes the one. Let in on what had been going on while he was busy playing, he gazed into the eyes of his new life partner. He thought: she comes from a good family. There is a soldier and a doctor in it and her sister is the All-India badminton champion. Today, he says with a chuckle: It was all arranged, but it ended very well. Weve been together for 46 years and will stay this way until God calls.
in the last second of the last minute of extra time. There wasnt enough time to restart the game. By every account, the goal was suspicious and the umpiring even more so. But that is the nature of the game. In the third place play-o, Kenya again lost 2-1 to India, again in extra time, to wind up fourth. They returned home as heroes as Pakistan, then the reigning Olympic champions, won the inaugural World Cup. Kenya were waiting for them at home for a series of Test matches. In the rst, the world and Olympic champions won 1-0, laboured though it was. In the second, Kenya turned the tables by the same score. An Alu Mendonca goal did it. Kenya Beat World Champions blazed the following days banner headlines. No excuses for defeat, says Pakistan Manager. Kenya played better hockey, said Col AIS Dara, manager of the visitors. They deserved their victory. In one dispatch, the reporter said Pakistan threw into attack everything they had to even the scores but Kenyas defence, in which Avtar Singh played the game of his life, broke up the Pakistani moves. Defeating the super powers had become something of a Kenyan pastime since the early 60s. Avtar remembers the seven, eight or nine nil scores that India used to rack up in the 1940s when he was a little boy. That is when India had rst started touring Kenya. The margins progressively narrowed in the 1950s until, after independence, predicting the outcome became a coin toss. For years, he especially cherished the fourth Test match between India and Kenya in the 1964 series. Kenya beat India 3-0 in Jabalpure on April 27, 1964. Six months later, the same
Indian team won the gold medal in Tokyo during the Olympic Games. Kenya nished sixth in that Olympics. A dispatch from that tour led in Nagpur for the Daily Nation is the most tting obituary for Kenya hockey as it is today. It is a bitter-sweet mustread. It said: Kenyas hockey tourists have played only ve games in India I write this a few hours before the fourth Test here tonight yet a number of their players have already proved they are titans of the game. The high standard of skill of men like skipper Avtar Singh, centre-half Surgeet Singh, goalkeeper Saude George, centre-forward Egbert Fernandes and left winger Alu Mendonca has been a big shock and a stern lesson to everyone connected with the game in India. These men, more than any others, have proved that India and Pakistan do not hold a monopoly of the worlds most talented players. Take Avtar Singh he has the skill and tenacity to walk into any international side in the world. Aziz Currimbhoy, hockey writer for The Current and one of the toughest critics, says this of Avtar: He has all the makings of a great player, but he will have to learn to control his temper. Currimbhoys views are echoed by every Indian hockey writer. Avtars stick skill, speed and ability as a tactical planner, have been an eye opener for everyone. It goes on and on, exalting the glories of one player after the other; it would bring tears to the eyes of many Kenyan patriots. This then is the epitaph of the era of when we were kings of the world in hockey. It is the era of Jack Simonian, the unusually talented goalkeeper and motor sports-
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Kenyas victory over feared India in the fourth Test of their 1964 series in Jabalpure
High standards
1971
The year Kenya battled to reach the semi-nals of the World Cup, led by the indomitable Avtar Singh
man, Anthony Vas, Kirpal Singh, Silu Fernandes, Surjeet Parnesar, Edgar Fernandes, Leo Fernandes, Hilary Fernandes, Egbert Fernandes, Reynold DSouza, Alu Mendonca, Jagjit Singh, Santok Madharu.the list goes on. And then in this long journey, you reach the point when, after the 1972 Olympics, the fateful slide into oblivion began. How? At independence, says Avtar. Most Kenyan Asians were British subjects. The new government gave them ve years to make up their minds whether they wanted to remain so or become Kenyan citizens. There was no option of dual citizenship. At the expiry of that period, many left for the UK, Canada, New Zealand and other countries. There was a large number of young men, among the new emigrants who would have been our successors. They ended up playing for the new countries of their allegiance and did a rst-class job of it. Tragically, we had not seriously begun introducing African players to the game. There was a massive slump as we tried to play catch up. African players eventually came in but by then we were beset with problems from every direction changing rules, turf, technology, poor administration, no money, everything. We have
never recovered. Today, Avtar Singh coaches children for free, mainly at Friends School, Kamusinga, valiantly trying to do his little bit in keeping with the example that his father Pyara Singh and coaches Surjit Singh and Mann Singh set for him more than 50 years ago, even as the slight stoop on his back and hesitant walk say to you that he is 75 years old. (Roy Gachuhi, a former Nation Media Group sports reporter, writes for The Content House)
AVTAR SINGH FACTFILE
Position: Left Back Club: Sikh Union (Kenya captain: 1962-1972) 1938: born, Nairobi. 1957: First International for Kenya, versus South Africa 1960: Rome Olympics, player 1964: Tokyo Olympics, captain 1968: Mexico City Olympics, captain 1972: Munich Olympics, captain 1984: Los Angeles Olympics, head coach 1971: Barcelona World Cup, captain 1973: Amsterdam World Cup, assistant coach 1978 to date Member, FIH Development and Coaching Committee 1979-1985: Guiness Book of Records, worlds most capped hockey player with 167 internationals for Kenya. 2000: FIH Diploma of Merit for services rendered to the world for 40 years.
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wrapped up the title already. Some Arsenal fans are upset with Wengers decision to mark Uniteds title triumph with a guard of honour before the match, returning the respect shown by Alex Fergusons men when they did the same soon after George Grahams Gunners team were crowned champions in 1991. Those supporters, irritated by the presence of former Gunners captain Robin van Persie in the United line-up, plan to turn their backs on the pitch during the guard of honour. But Wenger is keen not to rile United unnecessarily and he said: We will respect the players that have played for us a long time as we always have done and treat them well before and after the game. (AFP)
Todays xtures: (Kick-o 5pm unless stated): Everton v Fulham, City v West Ham (2.45pm), Newcastle v Liverpool (7.30pm), Souton v West Brom, Stoke v Norwich, Wigan v Spurs. Tomorrow: Arsenal v Man Utd (6pm), Chelsea v Swansea (5pm), Reading v QPR (3.30pm).
Atletico thirst for derby victory

Atletico Madrid captain Gabi believes his side have a great opportunity to end their hoodoo against neighbours Real Madrid when they host the Spanish champions this weekend. Atletico have not won a Madrid derby since 1999, but have rarely had a better opportunity as Real are expected to rest plenty of rst-team regulars with Tuesdays Champions League semi-nal second-leg against Borussia Dortmund in mind.
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rsene Wenger insists he has no problem asking his Arsenal players to form a guard of honour for Manchester United tomorrow, but the Gunners boss is determined to send the newly-crowned champions home empty handed as the race for the top four heats up. With United ending Manchester Citys reign as champions on Monday, the focus this weekend turns to the tense battle to qualify for the Champions League. City are well set in second place, so the pressure is on third-placed Arsenal, who take on United at the Emirates Stadium, fourth placed Chelsea, who face Swansea at home tomorrow, and fth placed Tottenham, who travel to Wigan today. Arsenal are one point ahead of Chelsea and two in front of Tottenham and their hopes of cementing that position may have been aided by United having
Top: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger gestures during his teams English Premier League match and Everton at The Emirates on April 16. Left: Man Uniteds Robin van Persie (centre) celebrates his goal against Aston Villa on Monday with Rafael Da Silva (right) and Michael Carrick.
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Chelsea interim manager Rafael Benitez has challenged his side to channel the will to win they showed in roaring back to snatch a 2-1 win at FC Basel in the rst leg of their Europa League semi-nal. Chelsea needed a 94th-minute free-kick from David Luiz to prevail at St Jakob-Park on Thursday, having seen Victor Moses 12th-minute opener cancelled out by a controversial Fabian Schar penalty three minutes from time. Benitez said he had been surprised by referee Pavel Kralovecs decision to award a penalty for a challenge on Valentin Stocker by Cesar Azpilicueta.
Sudan to host Cecafa club tourney

BY DAVID KWALIMWA
dkwalimwai@ke.nationmedia.com The 2013 edition of the annual Council for East and Central Africa Associations (Cecafa) club championships has been relocated to Sudan. The competition, also called the Kagame Cup, in appreciation of the $60,000 (about Sh5.1 million) injected by Rwandan President, Paul Kagame every year in the past decade, had been planned for Addis Ababa, but the organizers have shifted the venue upon conrmation of sponsorship in Sudan. This years tournament is set to run from June 18 to July. We gured out that a sizeable number of players who will feature in this competition will be part of their respective national teams during the 2014 World Cup qualiers and put that into estimation, a credible source within Cecafa who wished not to be named told Saturday Nation. The remaining concern is that APR could be engaged in a local competition during these dates. Everything else is almost set. Some Cecafa ocials, led by secretary-general Nicholas Musonye, are currently in Sudan to conclude nal arrangements ahead of the announcement. Hosts Sudan has identied two locations, including the Kadugli Hilal Stadium located in South Kordofan State, for the matches. Sudans top clubs El Merriekh and Al Hilal will be among the top teams at the event. Rwanda will send military side APR, While Tanzania will send defending champions Yanga and Azam. Kenyas Tusker, captained by Joseph Shikokoti (above), will be hoping for a better outing this time round, following their elimination at the group stages without scoring a goal last year. Burundi, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Uganda will also send teams.
Amrouche summons squad for training ahead of June qualier

BY ODINDO AYIEKO
Harambee Stars players are expected to report to camp this morning to begin preparing for their 2014 World Cup qualier against Nigeria set for June 5 at Kasarani Stadium. Coach Adel Amrouche (right) last week named a provisional squad of 25 local-based players, who are expected to report at Kasarani today. The players include Jerim Onyango, Rama Salim, David Owino and Musa Mohammed all from Gor Mahia, Joseph Shikokoti, David Ochieng, Ismael Dunga and Peter Opiyo of Tusker, and Ulinzi Stars defender, Mulinge Ndeto. The only players who will be exempted from the three-day camp that runs until Monday are those from Gor Mahia, Ulinzi and Tusker as the three clubs will be involved in league matches this weekend. The tactician has said he wants to try the new players to see how they well they can gel with the more seasoned ones. New players in the squad are Sony Sugars Ben Baraza, Daniel Murage from Chemelil Sugar and Thika United duo of Kennedy Otieno and David Kingatua. After breaking camp on Monday, the team will resume training on May 7 to 9 then break again and resume from 14-16. The team will hold nal training sessions between May 21 to 23, break again and resume from May 27 to June 4. Amrouches biggest headache will be to get a replacement for captain Dennis Oliech who is suspended after receiving his second yellow card in Calabar, Nigeria, where Stars drew 1-1 with the hosts. Paul Kiongera, who, according to Amrouche, would have been an excellent replacement, is nursing an injury that will not heal in time for the match. Kiongera would have been the perfect replacement. He is quick and good in nishing. I have to nd another player, said the coach. Kenya is bot-
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We assumed players who will feature in this competition will be in their respective national teams in the World Cup qualiers
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tom of their group with two points from three games, but still stand a chance of qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil should they collect maximum points against Nigeria in Nairobi, away in Malawi and against Namibia in Nairobi. Nigeria and Malawi share the top spot with ve points, Namibia has three. Kenya will also participate as a guest team in the Council of Southern Africa Football Association Senior Challenge Cup in July in Zambia.
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Three matches on the cards this weekend as teams seek to close in on leagues top spot
BY ISAAC SWILA
Kenyas Chairmans Select team takes on fancied Zimbabwe in the opening match. P.43
iswila@ke.nationmedia.com nly three league matches are on the cards this weekend, with champions Tusker, Gor Mahia and Ulinzi Stars having the unenviable task of defending the ratings they have enjoyed so far. Tusker take on Western Stima at Nakurus Afraha Stadium today while bottom-placed Homeboyz play hosts to Gor Mahia at the Mumias Complex tomorrow. Ulinzi Stars, 2009 and 2010 champions will also be looking to take an upper hand against the misring Karuturi Sports at Afraha. This weekends xtures provide relatively easy opportunities for Tusker and Gor to close in on the top teams. The brewers and KOgalo have played just five games each owing to continental assignments earlier on in the season while the other teams have
WEEKEND FIXTURES Today: Tusker v Western Stima (Afraha, 3pm) Tomorrow: Homeboyz v Gor Mahia (Mumias, 3pm) Ulinzi Stars v Karuturi Sport (Afraha, 3pm)
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played at least nine matches. KPL CEO Jack Oguda said that the weekend had been set aside for the FKF Cup kick-o, which explains why most teams will not be in action. We had set the weekend for the FKF Cup, but since it will not be taking place, we are giving the other teams (Gor and Tusker) a chance to catch up as they have played fewer matches, he said. Tusker, particularly, head into
the match with renewed vigour. After a slow start to their title defence, the brewers seem to have found their rhythm as was evident in the manner in which they demolished Mathare United on Wednesday night in a Top Eight knockout match. On the other hand, Gors Green Army will be seeking a convincing win when they travel
to western Kenya. KOgalo take on Homeboyz in Mumias in an encounter that may just mark a turning point for them in the league. A win for KOgalo could haul them to position ve on 13 points should Ulinzi Stars lose at home to Karuturi. Last weekend, they dropped two points after drawing with Sony Sugar at the City Stadium.
Gors David Owino (right) vies for the ball with Sonys Michael Izungu during their KPL match at City Stadium last week. Gor play Homeboyz tommorow in Mumias.
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I dntd wth th wmn n th tml fatur b Knutha Mburu, Jll f All Trad (Saturda, 2th Arl) a I am al ugglng th An trm am rl. I artularl ugglng at ngratulat thr I huband wh hav td wth thm and nuragd thm rathr than rrtng t ld hauvnt nnund t dral thr wv arr and rt fr Rlatnh nd t b nurturd. rnal mrvmnt. W nd mn lk Whthr u ar marrd, aratd, that. Kud Saturda Magazn! r dvrd dnt b a trangr t ur Valr Muau, Narb. hldrn. B thr, tak ar f thm and *** buld a rlatnh wth thm. Wh t that Suan Kaguha ha t t Cathrn Karana, va mal. hr tud t rv hr huband and ruh *** hm t rv hm dnnr? What d h Mn ar ud t gvng th u d? Wh ant h rv hmlf? d that t nvr wrkd ut wth th bab nt m t b dng anthng l aart mama t utf abandnng thr hldrn, frm wrkng fr a watr man. Wmn and lavng th ntr rnblt f wll nvr dvl thr full tntal f th rang th hld t th bab mama. Sm hav t d vrthng at hm. Snr r tuatn ma b dult but hw man latr, t wll buld rntmnt. Th mt that bab dadd ut thr an hntl a th huband an d rv hmlf that th trd thr bt t b thr fr th Suan an rt aftr a trful da. hld? Ann Wanru, va mal. Wangu Nrg, va mal. *** *** B ratal, Dr Our I alut Dr Our fr talkng abut fakng Fathr b d, nt b dd rgam n th alth Mattr lat Saturda, Im glad that Jakn Bk had th gut t but th truth that mn, all th tak n abnt bab dadd n Mantalk f u agd vr 35, ar vr nrvatv. lat Saturda. It a t that mn g takng Thng lk lngr mght nt b ur knd rnblt fr thr hldrn n th f thng, lt aln a wman gng dwn qualt f rlatnh th hav wth thr n u that lk a ur n ur manhd! wv r grlfrnd. Yur drn wth wvr, all nt lt. ur wf; vn f th lad t aratn Wmn an wrk n hangng a man r dvr d nt hav t tranlat n rtn tward what wrk n bd b ngltng ur hldrn. aratng th lttl h dng and thn
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mmunatng that th wuld n mr f that. Mn ar nt mad f tn and wth tm m wll nall agr t tr ut th thng a wman want, wth tm. Al, wmn huld fu n nng bau a man uld b dng h bt, but f u ar thnkng abut whr t gt mn fr hama ntrbutn han ar that u wll nt n lvmakng. Smn Mugamb, va mal. *** I arat Dr Our artl that amd at hlng marrd ul ahv a bttr lf. wvr, I balkd at h uggtn that artnr huld a thank u t ah thr aftr . That mak fl lk a bun tranatn. It alrght t arat ur artnr, but thr a bttr wa t d t. Fr ntan, n an a: n, u atf m r Yu mak m th hat wman n arth. Rta Nak, va mal. ***
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A muh a w arat and wlm ntrutv fdbak, w fl that th mha n ur hadln wth a ht f a zza takng half f th ag f ur artl n th arnvr whh a mat alt rtaurant wa grl mladng. W rgrt that th qualt f Mran zza and th tandard f ur rv wr r and tak th rtunt t r ur nr alg and t aur u that th rrtv maur hav bn takn t addr th hrtmng. W ar dtrmnd t nt nl mantan but mrv n ur wll-arnd rutatn. Grn M Mum, MD Carnvr, va
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Th rr wa t lan ur hand
unfrtunatl, mt f u tnd t d th wrng thng. W ml wll m hand wah n ur ngr undr a runnng ta fr a fw nd and thn magn w ar lan whn nthng uld b furthr frm th truth. If u want t rdu ur han f athng and ang a ld, hr th rrt wa t wah ur hand: rall gd lan. DO mak ur u har a lttl quak f lanln whn u wah ur hand undr th ta t rmv th lathr. W ur hand wth a lan twl, and f bl, u a lan tu t n tlt dr.
If ung gl hand wah:

DO mak ur th gl alhl bad. DO mak ur u gt a gd dll f th gl, nugh t vr bth hand lu th ara ut abv ur wrt and halfwa t ur lbw. DO rub thrughl, makng ur t ntrla ur ngr a wll, untl th gl dr.
If ung hand wah r a and watr

DO wt ur hand a lttl, thn al hand wah r a. Rub ur hand wth th mtnd hand wah untl a lathr frm bfr u d ur hand bak undr th runnng ta. Yu huld d th fr n l than 2 nd. DO ntrla ur ngr and rub btwn thm whl frmng th lathr a abv. Th wll nur that th wb ara btwn ur dgt al lan. DO lan u t th ara n btwn ur wrt and lbw, almt lk a dtr rubbng fr urgr, n rdr t gt a
ld and u an un u n agan and man f u ar hng t avd athng t. If u hav ung hldrn, u wll want t avd ndng da n htal havng thm a dtr t ur ru ld. Whl t almt
nvtabl that u wll gt a ld at m nt n th ar, u an ut ur han f that hanng t almt nn b dng n mall thng: wahng ur hand. A wth mt thng, thr a rght and wrng wa t wah hand and
If ung wt w:
DO mak ur th w hav ant-batral rrt. DO u n w r hand ntad f n fr bth hand. DO w ah ngr ndvduall a wll a th ara abv u wrt wth ah w.
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hn Jhn Dnvr rnd h flk ng, Whr av All th Flowrs Gon? h uld nt hav knwn what wuld han n Narb Cunt. Aart frm buganvlla, whr th lurful bt ar atuall lav, I d nt wr grwng anmr. Of ur th nt f a gardn n that radl bmng tnt. An a mr than tw mtr quar bund t ath th bad f a dvlr and wll b burd undr nrt bfr u an a grn gra. Add th watr tuatn and ann trng t mantan
Whr ar all th wr?

a wr gardn thr vr rh r vr darng (r bth.) I al ut that wth th urban raz fr h and hr manur, gardnng d nt rat a a ladng hbb n th t.
Mad t laat
wvr, w d mrt wr nt ur unt. Mt f th ar dtnd fr a rt f tandard wr arrangmnt that aar n man . Indd, f I blvd n th rnarnatn f wr I mght ut that t th am arrangmnt that I knw frm th t.
Nwada, vr fw wr g nt larg arrangmnt dtnd fr lvl lad. Nw th a grat t bau a gft f wr ftn trk a wman wth dvatatng t. Indd, m mn thnk that wl and wr wr nvntd t laat angr wmn. wvr, mn an nvr undrtand th attratn that thrv btwn dng ral trbut and wmn. Th hth that t uld b th bautful ha r th rtt lur r th armat rfum that ar lang t th t .
With the urban craze for his and hers manicures, gardening does not rate as a leading hobby in the city
I thnk that mt wmn ar a ndrnt t th vrtu f wr a mt mn. Paradall, th valu f wr l n thr uln. Whn a man nd thuand f hllng n a gft that ha n ntnung nm valu and rk h hm ng hm vtng a rt and arrng wr, th takn b h lad frnd a a gnal a rt f hug rd arrw ntng tward mmtmnt. Whn I wa ungr thr ud t b urt a whr (uuall) a ung wman wuld u a ung man fr brah f rm. I wndr f th law f rdnt lt a buqut f drd wr a atabl vdn. Gvn all th wr trauma, t nt urrng that I n lngr gntlmn warng wr n thr
buttnhl. Qut aart frm th t f hnt, dd u knw that thr a languag f wr? Flrgrah wa nvntd durng th tm f Qun Vtra whn m Englh l wr t rrd t ak ut and rld n wr arrangmnt t r thmlv. Fr th wh ar thnkng that th ma b a hand wa f ndng dd mag, t unfrtunat that mt wr gnf varu nuan f lv and lv aar. Indd, t m that r-lng ha nt rgrd far bnd a lvlrn tn lukng tal a wr whl urttul rtng h lv m, h lv m nt. Onl a fw blm uh a margld (a), wt a (thank), and unwr (lft thught) hav rgrd bnd rmant bn. It lar that I wll nt b abl t r Flak b ung a wr arrangmnt an tm n.
Flwr ar fd
wvr, nw that I hav d th fat that man l ar mung wr bau th hav mnmum utlt, I wll ntradt mlf b admttng that wr ar fd. I bt u d nt thnk abut ur mal f brl r aulwr a a ral fat, but t . Othr wr that ar af t at r drnk a a ta nlud hranthmum, da, rang blm, hbu, unwr, and hnukl. Oka, thr bland tat tnd t b urrng n th lght f thr lurfuln. wvr th ut rmnd m f m mthr warnng nt t u mlf u lk umkn u. A frnd brught m a akt f drd hranthmum t u fr ta, lamng that t ha a almng t. Wll, f mthng that tatl t huld rtanl hav m thr bnt. S, lv thm r lav thm, war thm r at thm, I vt that w lant mr wr n th t.
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ur rvnu grw, that I mantan gd rlatnh btwn ur rganatn and th l w wrk wth. I lv m b bau t gv m a han t b nnvatv and m u wth nw wa f dng thng bttr. I gt t ntrat wth man l frm varu walk f lf and th ha gvn m a lt f ur. It amazng. I fl a lt f rd vr tm I ltn t a VIP rad a h that I atd t draft, mr whn th hav mad fw hang.
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I tak rd n nunng th markt

Pamla Matl-Mutham a bun dvlmnt utv at Ernt & Yung I gt u b 6.3am, tak a fw mnut t ra, tak a bath, and nall had dwntar fr brakfat rard b m hu hl n wkda. I tak vr n wknd. I lv l t m wrkla and gt t wrk at arund 7.3am. I lk thrugh th nwar t whthr thr ar an rtunt fr m rganatn, rad thrugh m mal, and thn th rt f th da atvt fall nt la. I am hargd wth gttng nw lnt n bard. Th nvlv tartng marktng tratg a wll a rdnatng atn that nun th markt. I hav t mak ur that
Challng at wrk
I gt t mt l wh hld varu tn n t and th hallng m t tak m arr t th nt lvl. Whn I fa hallng at wrk, I all m mthr h m rl mdl and h rmnd m whr I am frm and hw man l wuld lv t b n m tn. That drv m t gt bak t bun wth zal. Runnng a faml and wrk whl attndng la a mar hallng, but mhw I manag. I am urrntl
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urung m MBA marng n tratg managmnt at Datar Unvrt. Fr thr da n th wk, I attnd la frm 5.3m t 8.3m bfr I had hm. I lv qut nar th amu I uuall mak t t wath th 9m nw bfr I tak a bath and all t a da. I am marrd, but ntrar t mmn mntn, marrag d nt kll n al lf. I tll gt tm t nd wth m faml and frnd. W hang ut n wknd, g n rad tr, attnd al funtn, and ht art at hm. Whnvr I gt m fr tm n th vnng, I rad. I ut mltd radng Fascinatin Womanhood b ln Andln. Th bk r tml wdm and ratal adv. Th lat thng n m mnd bfr I g t bd uuall th ralatn that I atuall mad t thrugh anthr da and I ut thank Gd fr th gft f lf.
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w t l wght n 28 da!
Th rt n dng u ur mtablm. Dr al Pmr, dt tranr t th llwd tar, hw u hw t gt lan and ta lan.
Abut Dr al Pmr
Dr al Pmr th authr f Th Fat Mtablm Dt bk. Sh ha bn ratng fr 17 ar, and bat a lnt lt f wh-wh n llwd rl, nludng Jnnfr Lz, R Wthrn and Rbrt Dwn Jr. r Fat Mtablm dt nvlv tranng ur bd t burn fat mr ntl wthut narl rlng n lt f r and trt dtng. It tak 28 da t tran ur bd t d that, and fw twak t ur lftl t-dt n rdr t mantan ur z. T d u ur mtablm fllw th hart blw and wath th wght dr !
Th fat mtablm dt
gn th rgramm wth tw da f rlang ur tm wth gd arbhdrat vgtabl. Th a mdrat-rtn, lw-fat ha. Add n n f vgru, ardvaular r.
Pha 1: Carb and ard (2 da)
w t at
I rall want th bd t fall n lv wth fd durng th ha, t fl gd and a and fun t b n Pha 1. Th fd ar dgnd t b a n ur bd. Yur dthng all th thng that hall tr u, th mtablm ruhr uh a what, dar and an that au rrtatn r nammatn n th gatrntntnal trat and an lw ur bwl and rat nuln rtan. Fr tw da, u wll b atng
thr arb-rh, mdratrtn, lw-fat mal and tw frut nak ah da. Yu ar gng t wak u n th mrnng and hav brakfat wthn 3 mnut. Yu wll hav a gran and a frut, uh a rrdg and brr, r hndw mln and a l f lt brad. Yu uld hav ht, brwnr ral wth rgan, frzn ah, r an at, frut mth. Thr hur latr ull hav a nak that nt f frut. Yu mght h mang, nal, tangrn, watrmln r trawbrr. Thr hur latr, lunh, nt f a gran, a rtn, a vgtabl and a frut, all frm ur Pha 1 fd lt ( rght). Yu ma h hkn and brl, r turk, wht ban and kal u, r turk wth lttu and tmat n what-fr brad, alng wth ah, kumquat, hndw mln, antalu, blubrr.
grlld nal r a bakd al. Fr ur aftrnn nak, u gt t hav mr frut - mab a tangrn r an al, r a ar. Fr dnnr, ull hav a gran, a vgtabl, and a rtn. Mab llt tak wth brl and brwn r ata, r turk hll, r hkn and wld r. In th ha, f u ar a arb-lvr, u wll atf ur ravng wth frut, ata (what-fr) and brwn r. Th hgh-arb mdrat-rtn, lw-fat fd nurh th adrnal and th hlgal tr. Pha 1 wll alm dwn ur adrnal gland, rdung th rla f tr hrmn that ar kng u fat. Yur bld ugar tabl and ur bd uddnl fl lk t ut f th dangr zn.
Pha 2: Prtn, vgtabl and wght (2 da)
r th nt tw da, at lan rtn and vgtabl and n n f wght r rtan r
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Pha 2 fd uh ur mtablm t la dwn mul and avng fat. Th ar ladd wth lan rtn that th bd nvrt t amn ad that an b al nvrtd nt mul. Th rtn md wth th targtd vgtabl mak t vrtuall mbl t tr an f th numd fd a fat, and bau u hav ut m f Pha 1, whr th adrnal hav bn thd and th rtl lvl dud nt ubmn, ur bd rmd t rla fat ll frm th h, abdmn and thgh. Th a lw-glam ha aftr all th umm frut and gran frm Pha 1, u ar gng n th t drtn. Yu wll at thr hgh-rtn, lw-arb, lw-fat mal and tw rtn nak ah da. Yu wll hav brakfat wthn 3 mnut f wakng. Yu
wll hav a lan rtn and a vgg, uh a an gg-wht mltt (th lk ntan fat) wth nah, r turk wrad n lttu lav. Tw r thr hur latr, ull hav a rtn nak. Yu an add grn vgg t t f u lk. Yu mght h rat bf wth uumbr l r a fw f rgan hkn. Lunh nt f anthr rtn and vgtabl. Yu mght h grlld hkn and alad wth lttu and lt f vgg, r tuna alad-tud rd r. Fr ur aftrnn nak, u huld hav mr rtn uh a tuna r gg wht. Fr dnnr, ull hav anthr rtn and mr vgtabl. Mab ull n grlld halbut wth brl, hkn brat wth aaragu, r rk rat wth tamd nah. If u arnt ud t atng lw-arb, Pha 2 ma m Sartan, but rmmbr, t nl fr tw da. Th ha abut nvrtng trd fat t ful t b tranfrmd nt mul. It ntn that w d t fr nl tw da. Yull gt t n rk tndrln and halbut and tuna, tak and hkn, and all th grn vgg u lv, lk brl, nah, aaragu, lr, fnnl and kal. Th rtn dnt hav t b mall, u an hav bwl f brl, a mund f aaragu, a grat bg tful f nah. G t twn n th vgtabl bau th unlk th magal r f turnng rtn nt mul.
Pha 1 fd lt
Vgtabl and alad grn (frh, tnnd, r frzn) Swt r, urgtt, bamb ht, grn hll, arrt, abbag, wd, btrt, nah, uumbr, rd and llw nn, turn, rkt, muhrm, tmat, brl rt, wt tat, rng nn, aubrgn, ban (grn, runnr, frnh), rut, a (ugar na, mang tut), kal, lk, md grn umkn, lr, nludng t, lttu (an t brg), arn. Frut (frh r frzn) Mang, ar, al, watrmln, nal, trawbrr, ah, art, rang, g, hrr, rabrr, kw, lm, tangrn, blakbrr, g, mgranat, grafrut,
bagl, bukwhat. Vgtabl rtn Oat, lntl, blak-d a, hka, ban (blak, brad, buttr, hart, kdn, nt, wht, frh brad).
Pha 2 fd lt
Vgtabl and alad grn (frh, tnnd, r frzn) Laf grn, nn, brl, garl, abbag, kal, all knd f lttu (rng grn, rkt, w hard, watrr), wt r, ban (grn, runnr, frnh), rhubarb, nah, ndv, hallt, grn hll, alan, fnnl, md grn, lk, aaragu, lr, muhrm, rng nn, uumbr. Frut Lmn, lm and rhubarb. Anmal rtn Lan bf, lan rk, tuna, hkn and turk brat, lw-fat h uh a d llt, undr and halbut, vnn, rgan mkd almn, gg (wht nl), ardn (akd n watr), rnd bf, lan ut f lamb.
Anmal rtn Lan bf .g. rat bf r tak, turk, gg (wht nl), tuna (akd n watr), llk llt, rnd bf, rk llt r ln, ardn (akd n watr), l llt, rgan auag, haddk llt, hkn (knl brat). Gran and tarh Brwn r, brwn r ata, at, r mlk, wld r, taa, rutd gran
alth fat Nn. Snak Al, rang, frzn mang, frzn nal. Er On da f vgru ard uh a runnng, r tranr, r an ubat arb r la.
Gran/halth fat Nn th ha. Snak Turk, tnnd tuna n watr, mkd almn wth uumbr, hard-bld gg wht. Er D at lat n da f trngth tranng (wght lftng) durng Pha 2. Fu n lftng hav wght wth lw rttn. Lftng wght durng Pha 2 wll rul nra ur mtabl wr, g fr t.
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Pha 3: alth fat and ga (3 da)
r th lat thr da f ur wk, u huld mbn th fd frm Pha 1 and 2 and add halth fat
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Aftr fur da f atng lw fat, ur gng t brng th fat bak. Yur bd rftl rmd fr t nw - ur dgtv nzm ar rng, ur mul ar umd u, ur bd rhl fd wth nutrnt-dn fd, and nw, ut whn u wll rall nd t, hart-halth fat m dng n, trggrng ur bd fat-fr-ful mhanm. Yu bgn burnng th fat ur atng, a wll a all th fat u unlkd n Pha 2. Yur gng t tart ng m hang. Th th ha that attn th bll and rn ut ur llult. Eat thr mal a da nludng all f th fd u hav atn durng Pha 1 and 2, lu halth l uh a lv l, am r grad. Yu an hav tw halth fat nak uh a nut, avad r hummu. Yull hav brakfat wthn 3 mnut f wakng and t huld nlud a halth fat, a rtn, a frut, a gran and a vgtabl. An aml mght b an mltt (u th whl gg) wth nah, tmat and muhrm n rutd-gran tat, r a bwl f rrdg wth raw almnd ah and almnd mlk lu m uumbr l r lr wth lm u and alt. Fr a nak, u mght hav 1/4 u
hummu wth vgtabl, and lunh uld b an avad and turk lttu wra, r a bg grn alad wth hkn brat, and lt f Pha 3 vgtabl drd n lv l. Fr dnnr, tr rawn tr-fr. Drnk a lt f watr, and k ur bwl mvng. Yu wll hardl nt th hlgal ntnt f Pha 3 (all f u mantan unt watr ntak) bau u wll b t bu nng th dlu halth-fat fd.
Frut Blakbrr, ranbrr, blubrr, grafrut, rabrr, lmn and lm, lum, nut (mlk, ram and watr), hrr, ah, rhubarb, rkl ar. Anmal rtn Salmn, rawn, lbtr, alamar, hkn (dark r wht mat, bnl, knl), turk, tr, rgan auag, ardn, (akd n lv l), a ba llt, trut, rnd bf, rab, tuna (akd n watr r l), lvr, rk h, bf llt r tak, lan mn, lamb. Vgtabl rtn Pul uh a blak ban, hka, kdn ban and lntl, unwtnd almnd mlk, hart ban, annlln ban. Gran Barl, quna, at, wld r. alth fat Olv, avad, lv l, nut, am and almnd buttr, hummu, nut/d buttr and at, nut, d, manna. Snak Raw nut and d, avad, hummu and uumbr, ram guaaml. Er D at lat n da f tr-rdung atvt, uh a ga r a maag, t nra bld w t th fatt ara f th bd and rdu rtl.
Sd mtablm:
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Yu mut at v tm a da. That thr mal and tw nak vr da. Th rual t rar th mtablm. Yu mut at vr thr t fur hur, t whn lng. If u ta u lat r g fr mr than thr r fur hur wthut atng, u mut add an addtnal ha- nak. Fr aml, f u nh atng dnnr at 7m and dnt g t bd untl mdnght, u mut hav a thrd ha- nak thr t fur hur aftr u nh dnnr. Yu mut at wthn 3 mnut f wakng. Evr da. If u ar dahng ut th dr, hav ur mrnng nak rt and ur brakfat whn u gt t wrk. But u mut at mthng wthn th rt 3 mnut ur bd dnt hav t run n mt. Al, dnt r bfr u at. Yu mght thnk ur burnng mr fat th wa, but t n f th wrt thng u an d t ur mtablm. Yu mut ta n th lan fr th full 28 da Th lan lat 28 da fr a ran: t fllw th natural radan rhthm f th bd. Yu mut tk t th fd allwd n ur ha Yu mut fllw th ha n rdr Evr da u mut drnk n ud un f watr fr vr 2lb f ur bd wght. On uv mt that rqurd amunt, u an hav danatd hrbal ta, r lmnad wth frh lmn and lm wtnd wth a natural wtnr uh a ltl (but nt wth ugar, hn, mal ru r agav ntar). Ta and lmnad d nt unt tward ur rqurd watr quantt. Sta awa frm rd fd. An ntht hmal rdut u ut nt ur bd hav t b rd thrugh th lvr. Th mnl tm and nrg that uld b ud t rar ur mtablm. Er ardng t ur ha N what. What rat nammatn, blatng, watr rtntn and fatgu. N dar. Ch and all thr dal rdut hav a ugar-fat-rtn rat that wrak hav whn rarng ur mtablm. Lw-fat ttag h and Grk ghurt an hav a la n ur lf, but nt fr th nt 28 da. N a. Sa trgn n natur, manng t ntan lant trgn that ar l t th trgn ur wn bd manufatur, and I knw n thr ubtan mr rftl utd t nra bll fat. N rnd ugar. Th a vr nntratd ur f quk nrg, and whn ur bd tak n t muh, t ha t wrk trml hard ut t mantan a tabl, nrmal bld ugar lvl. T gt rd f th ugar, th bd qukl huttl t awa t th fat ll, whr t ant ram u th bld ugar. Whn u at rnd ugar, u ar baall manlnng th tu rght nt ur fat ll. N an. Can tr ur adrnal gland. Th ar vr mrtant n rgulatng bld ugar, kng ur rtl (tr hrmn) lvl tad and rgulatng th ght-r-ght hrmn. Th adrnal gland al rdu aldtn, whh rgulat alt and watr balan and ha a mall t n fat mtablm. T hl dal wth an wthdrawal, tr addng nnamn t ur mth. Gnk blba an hl wth wthdrawal hadah. N alhl N drd frut r frut u. Th ugar nntratn t hgh and th br t a t brak dwn. N artal wtnr. Th ar lk n fr ur bd and ur mtablm. If u mut u a wtnr, u a natural n uh ltl ntad. AYLIE POMROY
Pha 3 fd lt
Vgtabl and alad grn Arthk, aubrgn, aaragu, nah, ban, awd, aulwr, wt tat, laf grn, uumbr, lk, muhrm, ndv, hr, ak h, arrt, hart f alm, rng nn, abbag, kra, fnnl, lv, avad, rhubarb, Brul rut, kal, btrt, urgtt, tmat, nn, wt r, radh.
w t ta lm aftr th dt
B al Pmr
f u tll hav wght t l aftr fur wk, I rmmnd ratng th 28 da-l. Man f m lnt fllw u wth tw r thr l f th dt, untl th gt t whr th want t b. wvr, whthr u d th dt fr 28 da r anthr fur, r ght l, at m nt ull nd t t th wght l and ttl n at a ha, halth wght. Thn vnt uh a wddng, brthda, dnnr at a fan rtaurant han. Yu want t n urlf and rla, but u nd urlf gttng trd bau u ar wrrd that u ma blw t. If th han,rmmbr that fd ur frnd nw. Th ur f ng ur mtablm wa u an n th al vnt n lf, ndulg a lttl and nt hav t a m atatrh r. r ar a fw f m lttl rt that an hl mnm th damag whn u knw ur gng t lurg. w t drnk alhl and nt gt fat Yu rbabl alrad knw
that ur lvr ha t wrk hard t r alhl. On drnk a wk rbabl wnt hurt anthng. On drnk a da uhng ur lvr a lttl bt t hard. Wrk ut what ur wllng t ar but ut rmmbr that alhl d nt hl ur mtablm n an wa. Otmum lvr funtn k t fat mtablm. S whn u d drnk alhl, hr ar m thng t ndr: Organ, ulht-fr m t hav th lat ngatv t n lvr funtn. If u ar a wn nnur, lr m rgan tn. If u rall want a ktal, g fr lar, addtv- and fd lurngfr rt. Th ar lanr, wth fwr hmal and fak ngrdnt fr th lvr t r. Avd anthng u ud t gt drunk n at unvrt, r th nnlurd nrg drnk that m an wth alhl. Alwa drnk 8 z (225ml) f watr fr vr alhl drnk, n addtn t ur rqut half-ur-bdwght ud un. Alhl vr dhdratng and th wll hl ur bd t mnat.
Dnt drnk alhl aln. Alwa balan alhl wth a farl hav rtn, rfrabl an anmal rtn uh a hkn, turk bf, rawn r h (h n th nah d nt unt). D nt hav alhl n th mrnng. w t g ut fr a al dnnr T mnm th damag, at mall amunt f rtn (1g t 15g) vr ul f hur thrugh th da. Yu huld bgn frm 3 mnut aftr wakng untl u arrv at th vnt. Eat a thugh u ar n Pha 2: lw-glam, lt f vgtabl, but all rtn, whh th mt al abrbd. av rtn-rh mal, and btwn mal at l f hkn brat r turk, 355g f lftvr tak r rk ln r h. Th wll k ur bld ugar tabl and ur mul wll hav ful t tr an tra ugar (uh a th wn r th margarta u lan t drnk) a glgn ntad f fat. Th wll al ut th brak n ut-f-ntrl art atng bau ull hw u hungr nugh t at but nt famhd. Fnall, atng
rtn vr tw hur all da wthut fal wll tk ur fatburnng hrmn nt gar. Sndl, u huld mak ur u gt td abut th vnt. Th vr mrtant. Whn u gt thr, n t. Th nvn ur bd that vrthng gng wll. Wth tr hrmn ut f th tur, ur bd ha n ran t tkl fat. w t at ak and nt gan wght Eat natural ugar all da. av frut at brakfat and wth lunh (whl frut, nt u). Th wa, ur bd gt mfrtabl ttld n t an lvatd but tabl bld ugar lvl. Fr brakfat and lunh, at a thugh u ar n Pha 1 f th lan. Swth all ur nak t rtn nl. Th wll tabl ur mtablm and rar t t handl an rubbh u ut n latr. Eat Pha 2 nak. Frut wth mal, lw-fat l f mat r h fr nak. At dnnr, u huld hav gd fat. Th wll lw th rat f ugar dlvr. S ull at dnnr a thugh t Pha 3 agan. Aftr all th, t mrtant t mak ur u n urlf.
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Wa t k ur rlatnh frh and alv

Fallng n lv th a art f a rlatnh. Wth tm, th ntal thrll and trng flng almt alwa bgn t wan. It tak rt t k brdm at ba n a lngtrm rlatnh. Cntant rmndr Aftr th hnmn ha f th rlatnh, famlart t n and u bgn t th hrtmng n ur gnant thr. Fram a tur f th tw f u ha and mlng and k t n an ara that u frqunt. Whn u ar gng thrugh a rugh ath, th wll at a a rmndr f ur hat mmnt tgthr and wll ful th nd t ght t tak th rlatnh bak t that la. Cmarn It nrmal fr n t want t mar thr ntmat lf wth th f thr frnd. Sadl, ur lf annt b th am a that f th thr rn, thu marn mght mak u datd wth ur h, whh lad t brdm. Arat what u hav all th tm, nt frgttng that ur frnd ma b aggratng r lng abut thr lv a t lk gd n ur . ldng bak Whn w attan mtnal ntma wth mn, w naturall want t ur ut ur hart t thm. T k ur gnant thr ntrtd n ur lf, u ma nd t hav thm ak m thng. D nt k rt; rathr, lt hm knw that u ar wllng t talk and nurag hm t hw ntrt and b uru and dlgnt a t ath u wth what gng n n ur lf.
Lunh wth Shla

Lz tr t undrtand Jan an wth lttl u
Im itching to get straight to the heart of the matter
n m wa hm, I annt hl but ndr J rblm. What a dlmma! Sh ha mad t lar that h rall lv hr man Jhann, but h rall annt ta n a rlatnh wthut hal fullmnt. I knw J. I an almt gu that h gurng ut hw t brak u wth Jhann, and that what kllng hr makng th dn t h hal atfatn vr lv. Mt l wuld a that a rlatnh an urvv wthut . I am ur J wuld dagr vr trngl. On th thr hand, Fatma ha wrn t nd a wa arund J rblm and w all hav ur h nnd n that. I hav knwn Fatma t wrk m mag n th at and I hav n dubt that h wll mv havn and arth t rt th n ut. M rvr ntrrutd b th rngng f m ll hn and I hav a quk lk arund t tablh that thr ar n lmn narb bfr kng t u. Th numbr unfamlar, but I rgn th v th mmnt h ak. Lz? Shla, Jan an, und tntatv whn I anwr. I th a gd tm t all u? Bnd th tntatvn, I n wrr n hr tn f v. I wndr f t mthng t d wth wrk, n whh a I wll hav t
dr vrthng and g t th and dal wth t. Ugh. W an ak, I a. I vrthng alrght? Um n, h a, thn h fall lnt. I d nt knw what t mak f that. It dntl und lk mthng u. I t mthng t d wth th amagn w dud trda? N, t ut h gh. I n that h ut abut t nd n m, but thn whn h ak, I knw that h ha hangd hr mnd. I wa wndrng f u wuld lk t hav lunh tmrrw, h a. Um, ur, I a. But vrthng alrght? Y t ! h a brghtl. W mak arrangmnt t mt at a n utdr rtaurant n Wtland wh alt avur r and I had n hm t anthr bttl f wn, ttl n m baln, wath th unt, and rt m mr n th vnt f th da.
Sal lubratn
Th nt da, th tw f u turn u n ur undr and larg hat and aftr th nt, I am thng t gt traght t th hart f th mattr. S wh ar w mtng? I ak Shla. Sh lk rtt n a llw haltr dr that ut hr lght kn tn rftl. r mak-u mabl. And nt a ngl trand f hr nv Brazlan human har mr-wav ut f la. I mn at th tabl arund u turnng t tal glan and I knw t nt m th ar
lkng at. Yu knw whn I ad I thnk wd mak gd frnd? I thught Id nd ut tda. Sh ml at m, but mthng rng fal abut hr tatmnt. I dd that I wll gv hr tm t ttl dwn and gt mfrtabl wth m bfr rddng hr fr th dtal. And , vr lunh and drt, w talk abut gnral thng whr w grw u, whr w wnt t hl, what hurh w attndd a tnagr that rt f thng. I fl lk I am n lr t gttng t knw th ral Shla; t a f h all hll and n ubtan. B th tm w ar abut t nh drt I am bgnnng t tr f th banalt f t all whn a vr gd da m t m mnd. Wuld u lk t har a gla f wn wth m? I ak Shla. I fl h nd m lubratn t gt hr t n u. Yu knw, I uuall dnt drnk bfr 5m h wav hr hand t a n. I lk at m wath. It 5:15, I nt ut. and u knw, tmrrw Mnda, I hav t b u frh and arl S d I, I a. And I am ur mlr, t ak, w uld halk th u a a wrk mtng. I th htatn n hr fa, I add, Oh, m n. It ut n gla. Sh tart t rumbl, thn gv n. Oh, alrght, h a. Ordr t. I gnal a watr and rdr. Vr n, I thnk t mlf, I hall gt Shla t tll m vrthng I want t knw.
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Phal nntn
Sl at th am tm Wth th hutl f lf tda, ul ftn nd thmlv runnng drnt hdul. Sh ma rgularl brng wrk hm r h ma want t wath ball gam lat nt th nght. Gng ut f th wa t mak ur that u g t bd at th am tm a ur gnant thr gv u mr tm t uddl bfr u turn n and a n a u wak u th nt mrnng. Th g a lng wa n kng nt nl th hal nntn but th mtnal n a wll. St gal tgthr On u hav mad th dn t ntr a ru rlatnh, ntnuall t gal, vn mall n, a a ul. Th gal at a an aknwldgmnt f ur wllngn t b tgthr n th futur. Mr mrtantl, u wll bth hav mthng n th futur t b td abut. Mv n Larn t frgv and lt g f ur gnant thr at mdd. angng n t vr hurt dwngrad a rlatnh wth tm. Yu n t ng and aratng all th tv thng n ur rlatnh. Sa Sndng vr wakng mmnt wth ur gnant thr ma m lk th dal wa f kng a rlatnh alv but n th ntrar, t ma n fat brd brdm. Gvng ah thr a t ultvat thr frndh and uru ndvdual hbb nt nl allw u t grw but al mak th tm u nd tgthr mr valuabl. wvr, nur that th a d nt turn nt dtan whh wll hav u ladng ntrl drnt lv. JOAN TATIA
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WIT WAYUA MULI
gh th mama mbga
Suan Kmanz talk abut quttng mlmnt t mak t ar fr l t bu frut and vgtabl frm th mfrt f thr dk.
rh & Mr Kna an nln mama mboa. W dlvr frh frut and vgtabl rght t ur utmr drt. W d nt hav a brk and mrtar bun; ur url nln. Our lnt h fr thr frut and vgtabl rqurmnt thrugh ur wbt www.frhandmr..k r nd u an mal wth thr rdr. I am a fd. I lv rmntng wth fd and urng t and I hav alwa lvd kng and bn trml uru abut urng qualt ngrdnt and alt fd. M an fr fd m frm m mthr, Elzabth, wh a fantat k. Sh ntrdud m t grat fd and t lrng n th kthn. Whn I wa ungr and rmntng wth nw tl f kng, h wa m gratt urtr, bung ngrdnt and rang th utm f m rt. M kr tranng, f I an all t that, m frm bk uh a th Knya Cookry Book, whh wa mld b th PCEA St Andrw Wmn Guld. It wa m rt kr bk and I tll hav t. M frmal duatn a Bahlr f Cmmr dubl mar dgr n bun admntratn, auntng, and nan frm Datar Unvrt. Th da fr Frh & Mr am abut aftr I nt n Saturda hng wth a frnd wh had rntl rlatd frm Grman.
At th nd f ur hng dtn, althugh h had managd t ur all th fd tm h ndd, h flt that t wa tm numng and ad h wuld dntl a t hav rdu dlvrd t hr drt. I wa mld full-tm and fang mlar hallng whn t am t handlng huhld hng, I wnt hm and thugh abut hr ral. S, Frh & Mr Kna wa brn. At th tm I wa wrkng a th gnral managr at a rk managmnt rm. Althugh I nd m wrk mmnl and had bn n th tn fr l t a ar, I ndd th hallng f dng mthng that wa trul mn.
Grwng bun
Frh & Mr Kna wa ratnal frm Nvmbr 211. I wa tll mld at th tm, but wth th knd f ntrt I wa rvng frm m lnt, I rald that I ndd t fu n n thng. I lft mlmnt n Januar 212 (t run t) and I hav nt lkd bak n. W urrntl run a mall ratn wth thr ml and w ar abl t rv all ur utmr. Sn ntn n Nvmbr 211, ur bun ha grwn frm th rgnal n utmr t lghtl vr 2. Frh & Mr Kna a hm-bad bun; w hav nvrtd a t and fr trag f rhabl tm. Ultmatl a w grw and a w add nw rdut t ur rng, w wll rqur mr a. wvr, w wll run a an nln bun (unl) thng hang and w hav t rv ur tand. Bau t hm-bad, I am qut bl and avalabl whn t m t handlng faml and hm u. At th am tm, bau f th, I m t b at wrk mr ftn than nt. M ntal hallng wa balanng runnng th bun and m mlmnt. Aftr I wnt full-tm nt Frh & Mr, th hallng bam
HOW SHE DID IT

av avng t td u vr. B rard fr th wrt. B anat abut what ur dng. B tnau. B atnt. Dnt t ur bun t tak mmdatl. It tak bun abut thr ar, n avrag, t tak . urng qualt gd t mt m lnt rqurmnt. T brdg th ga w nw hav a grwng and ul arrangmnt wth rtan farmr wh grw rdu fr u. Whn n mlmnt u ar guarantd a alar at th nd f vr mnth m what ma. Whn Frh & Mr wa tll grwng I md that, all a I wa atng nt m avng. But m rvu mlmnt taught m and gav m wndrful rn n undrtandng l rvntn wthn bun and fr that I am trnall gratful. In th at n-and-a-half ar, I hav larnt that a bun mdl d nt hav t b ml; t ml nd t wrk wll. I hav larnt that I hav mr atn than I vr magnd. Th bt art abut runnng Frh & Mr that I an rdt hw m rt n marktng tranlat nt rturn bun. I n th tv fdbak that I ntantl gt frm m lnt, th rat bun and wrd f muth rfrral. W trv t mak ur that thr rn and ntratn wth u alwa mt and d tatn. Nw I am rnng th f wrkng hard fr mlf and nng 1 r nt th frut f m labur. It a wndrful flng. In hndght, I wuld nt hang a thng abut (th wa I tartd) Frh & Mr Kna, t rha that I wuld tak th la nt lfmlmnt arlr than I dd.
POTOS I CARLES KAMAU
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WIT JACKSON BIKO
RESEARCHCENTRE
WIT KINUTIA MBURU
Pt hl t mnd rk rlatnh
d u knw that havng a t arund uld atuall mrv ur marrag? Wll, f ur rlatnh ha ht th rk, thn t tm t ndr brngng n th t lutn. Th ardng t tud ndutd b tw Amran unvrt. Th rt tud fund that ul wh wn a at r a dg tnd t hav lr rlatnh, ar mr atd n marrag, and rnd bttr t tr than ul wh d nt. Th tud fllwd 1 ul, 5 wh wnd a at r a dg and 5 wh dd nt wn an t. Maur f hart rat and bld rur takn durng a tuatn knwn t b a ur f nt btwn u hwd that tl bld rur radng f ul wth t wr lwr at baln, wnt u l n rn t tr and rturnd t baln qukr than n ul wthut t. Th tud tablhd that ttng an anmal r vn ut wathng h n an aquarum rultd n lwr bld rur amng ul. Thr wa a gnant drn n bld rur rn t tr and rvr tm btwn t wnr and nn-t wnr. In m ul wthut t, bld rur rmand hgh 1 mnut aftr th nt ndd, a th tud.
Th gn ar n th k
Mn wh d th thng wll nd thmlv rnrd nt rlatnh th had n da td.

u ntrdu hr a Jak, m wman u ar datng. M bab u ar datng. If u ar nt ur whr that hadd, d nt vn a, Th Jak, th n I hav bn tllng u abut. Yu mght ut b gvng th wrng mrn that u talk abut hr all th tm and that u ar raz abut hr and annt wat t hang ur tatu udat n Fabk. S, b vagu: Tm, th Jak. Jak, Tm. Or, Laura, mt th lvl Jak. Lvl Jak, mt Laura. It wll nfu hr a bt. Prft.
latnh ar bad n aumtn, gr ara, and radng f gn. Lk, I aumd u wuld tll m that u wr n al at m nt. Wh? I man m bng n al ddnt hav anthng t d wth u. Oh, t ddnt? S what wr u n fr? Crult agant anmal. What, a dg? Y, m . Suh ar th thng that l nvr talk abut. Mn ftn gt t wrng, , but t th wmn wh truggl t rad gn that wuld hl thm ut a tag n a rlatnh. Th want t gv t ha and frm vn whn t a bt t n t dn t. But at what nt d w a, OK, nw w ar datng? alf th tm u uld ut b havng a gd mmnt and nt thnkng abut what t man, u gt uzzld whn u wak u t dal wth u and w and makng lan tgthr and u wndr hw th hll u tartd harng ur tthbruh. Blw tu that wmn a a gn that th ar th al n. If u hav gn dwn th ath, d nt vn at urrd t nd ut that u ar datng. Th aml al t th wh hav bn gng n a fw dat but hav nt t dlard that th ar an tm.
avdng that tr fr mnth. Sh akd m what I thught. I ad, That ha runnng an rgan trad bun n h bamnt, dnt b n. Gvng a wman ur hu k man that h an m and g a h la; that nw h n th nd. Thr n bggr tatmnt f mmtmnt.
Enhand al ntratn
Ardng t th rarh whh wa ndutd n Amra, 61 r nt f huhld wth t hwd a ntnt ln f gd rlatnh btwn rmant artnr. Th ndng wr rntd durng th annual mtng f th Amran Phmat St. Ardng t Karn Alln, th lad rarhr, thr wa mthng n th rlatnh btwn th ul and t that nhand al ntratn. Th tud maurd rlatnh ln, martal adutmnt, ntrrnal urt, and t attahmnt. In anthr tud ublhd n Psych-Cntral magazn, rarhr and lnal hlgt Suzann B. Phl f Lng Iland Unvrt fund that ul wh wn t mrvd thr rlatnh b fung n hw th ntratd wth thm. Ardng t Dr Phl, althugh ul wll vhmntl dagr and dr n numru t, th wll uuall bth ftn n mannr and tn t agr that th hu t grat. In hr tud, h argu that l ftn drb t a undmandng and gvng unndtnal lv whn th ralt that t rqur a lt f tm and attntn, al fd, and ar. Th thrw u n rug, n th hu, and tal fd frm untr-t. Yt w at thr aw bau w lv thm muh. Th am al t th wh wn t.
Mtng mm
Wh wuld u want t d that n th nd mnth? Of all th l un, aunt, nhw, landlrd u had t ntrdu hr t ur mthr? Thn n u ral that u gu ar atuall ut frm drnt lth and u want t ull ut. But b th tm u hav mad a tatmnt b that ntrdutn and nw h thnk that u ar th ru t. Whh u ar nt; w all knw that. Yu ar ut tabl, lk a u, and u ar nt rad t tak t t th nt lvl. S hw ar u gng t nvn hr that u gu ar nt datng whn h all ur mthr t a h? w wll u handl th nundrum, Entn? Mm huld nl mt th that hav bn arvd and ttd. Pla av th r wman th rtatng dr f lg.
Faml funtn
S h a that hr adrabl n gttng batd, that thr a mall gathrng ut faml, and n r tw faml frnd and that h wuld lv f u amand hr. If t nt ru, a u ar gng t mt a fw dtr wh hav th mral arthrt drug fr ur alng grandmthr and annt mak t. If u g, u wll b aradd; h wll hang n ur lv and w barbqu au frm th rnr f ur l. Thn u wll b all datng. Sgh.
Organ ur lf
If u allw hr t rgan ur lf, u ar datng. Fr ntan, f h tak th numbr f ur lanng lad Mama Sauda and tart gvng hr ntrutn n whn t lan ur hu and hw u lk ur h arrangd n th lt, u ar all datng. Yu d nt blv m? Ak Mama Sauda.
Jak mt
Aarntl m wmn wat t har hw u ntrdu thm t ur mat r ur fmal frnd t dd f u ar datng r nt. A lt hng n that wrd u wll u. S f u hav bn havng a fw drnk and ur tngu lght and
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A wman frnd whnd hw aftr thr mnth th gu h wa ng had nt gvn hr h hu k. kt
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I watng fr th grl a gambl?

Maur and radr unl a man wh grlfrnd lft hm t g t llg and wh wndr whthr h huld mv n.
EXPERT ADVICE
Maur Mathka, a rlatnh unllr anwr: Yur n-and- rlatnh hw that u d nt hav a tabl bnd and t lkl that ur grlfrnd unha wth th. B ang that u ar afrad f ur rnblt h rbabl mant that h want mr frm u a hr man h want mmtmnt. Sh ma b thnkng that ur rlatnh ha rahd a dad nd and that uld b th ran h atd th r t furthr hr tud whh, a u hav tatd, ha bn hr dram. Evrn drv a han t an duatn. Sh want t b mwrd and nt narl dnd n u t k wrk fr hr r ma ut hr ntr lf. Th man qutn : Ar u rard t b thr fr hr, t urt hr h, urt hr thrugh llg, and rv t hr that u wll tand b hr alwa? Th fat that u ar akng whthr t ta r lav tll m that u tll hav flng fr hr, thrw u wuld hav mvd n. Dt hr urrnt dnntn frm u, bfr u mak an mar dn abut ur rlatnh, I rmmnd that u nd hr and har hr d f th tr. On u har hr ut, u an bth mutuall dd th wa frward.
NEXT WEEKS DILEMMA:

I hav bn marrd fr 17 ar. M wf hatd n m tw, th mt rnt bng v mnth ag whn h ld that h wa attndng an ght-da mnar n Tanzana. I gt uu and un nvtgatng, I fund ut that h had gn wth a marrd man wh wa ldr than hr fathr. W aratd but I kt th hamful rt frm ur thr hldrn. I am dturbd bau I d nt knw what m wf aw n that ld man. Cmard t m h ha nthng muh. What dd h n hm and what uld b th rblm? Pla adv m.
ma wat a lt f ur tm watng fr hr and u hav n guarant that h wll m bak. If h wa ru abut u, h wuld hav dud th wth u bfr makng hr dn. Dan Tumb. Aum that u ar th n wh had nt hr t bu that furntur r ll th tm and bu thr. Yur grlfrnd nt th nl wman n arth, t urlf fr and gt urlf anthr wman. Onang Outha-udun
: I datd m grlfrnd fr a ar, thn w brk u. W wr aart fr a ar and runtd lat Stmbr whn h mvd n wth m. I gt hr a b and h ud hr mn t furnh m hu, whh nl had th bar nt. In Dmbr h attndd a faml gt-tgthr, but h nvr am bak t m and ntad tld m that hr aunt had rd t a hr llg tutn and that h had ddd t uru hr dram ur. W drd abut th and h aud m f bng afrad f rnblt. In Januar h am wth a frnd t k u hr lth. Whn h tld m that h had adntall drd hr hn n watr, I gav hr mn. I hav trd t all hr vral tm but hr ln rmanntl wthd t allbarrng md. I akd hr un and frnd abut hr whrabut but th al d nt hr muh. M rblm that whnvr I am at hm I fl hr rn bau m hu full f all th tu h bught. Shuld I frgt abut hr and mv n r huld I wat fr hr n th h that h wll m bak t m aftr h graduat? Pla hl m nd lart abut th u.
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Thr ar a lt f unanwrd qutn n ur lttr. What mad u brak u th rt tm? Wr u n mmunatn durng th rd and whr wa h tang? Cmng bak wa a wa f ang gdb n a n wa ung th gtur f furnhng ur hu. It m thr wa lak f rr mmunatn btwn u, whh th ba fr an rlatnh. Th lar frm th auatn h lvl agant u. It lar that h ha alrad ut t wth u, watng fr hr wll b dng u mr harm than gd. Arat what h dd fr u a mthng gd that n hand n ur lf and mv n. Dan M. M That wman wrng abut u. Yu ar a rnbl man and gttng hr a b rf nugh. It wuld b wrng fr u t b tmt a t wat fr mn wh d nt vn dram r thnk abut ur tn. Th rn u gt frm hr un and frnd and th fat that h d nt vn all u
larl ml that h d nt want anthng t d wth u. Sh ha mvd n, d nt wat ur tm watng fr hr. Gt n wth ur lf and frgt abut hr. Am Otn Ouma Frgt abut hr and mv n. If u wat fr hr u wll m t rgrt that dn. Yu an ll r gv awa th thng that h bught a that wll hl u frgt hr. Arthur Omu Tw wa url lad nwhr! Yu
It vdnt that h avdng u.Yu wuld hav t b nav t wat fr hr. If h gng t vr m bak t u, t wll b bau f th furnhng h bught fr ur hu. Sh ha alrad fund a man wh nt afrad f rnblt and all that talk abut llg ut an u. Mv n wth ur lf but knw that n hr lf ht a rk and th h tart nkng, h wll m bak bangng n ur dr, dmandng hr furntur. Murungu P. Mukr.
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w d I knw f h Mr Rght?
Aunt. Thank fr ur gd wrk. I am a wman agd 27 and hav bn datng a man fr tw ar nw. M man u that I am nt ur f h th rght man fr m. Smtm I fl that h d nt lv m and at thr tm I fl that h d. Aunt, I fl that I am rad fr marrag but wuld lk t knw hw t tll whthr h m Mr Rght. What gn and bhavur huld I lk ut fr that m hart an ttl n hm? I lv hm but m far that I mght nd u ttlng dwn wth th wrng rn and gttng hurt.
hank fr ur qutn and mlmnt. Yu und nfud and tuk n th rlatnh and ar wndrng whthr t mv n wth t r lt g. Yur flng uld b bau f nurt n ur wn mnd r at ngatv rn. wvr, th n thng u m t lak hr brt, whh ftn rv t k u grundd a u k t knw whthr u ar n th rght rlatnh r nt.
Th an b larl n whn u a that u ar nt ur whthr ur bfrnd lv u r nt and al th fat that u ar farful. Yu nd t knw that th uld rd th trut u ar buldng n ur rlatnh, makng t dult fr u t artan th nrt f ur bfrnd lv. In rgard t ur qutn a t whthr th th rght man fr u, t mrtant t ra
m f th u. Th rt n huld b ur bfrnd mmtmnt t th rlatnh. D h du h futur and wth u n t? Sndng tm wth u al anthr gn that h uld b mmttd.
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Whn l allw thmlv t b tgthr, th lvl f mmunatn nhand, thrfr th tnd t knw
ah thr n a mr ubtantal wa. Rmmbr that th huld b dn rgularl a t n f th k at f an uful rlatnh. wvr, f u ral that th rlatnh nt rtng an f th haratrt, u huld rndr tang n t. It bttr t brak a rlatnh than a marrag. Whng u wll n ur arh fr lng-latng lv.
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arm ant ar a vr trk tl f trur t ull a th tnd t antuat bd art that man wmn wuld rathr hd. wvr, mt bd t an al ull t f u knw hw. Fabr: Ch f fabr vr mrtant. Th wth lmmr gur hav thr h f whhvr fabr th want, whthr lnn r ttn. Fullgurd wmn huld h lk r r a th fabr ar a lt lghtr, dra bttr, and ar nt bulk. T: War harm ant wth ml, wll-ttng t r akt. Crd akt wrk fabulul wth harm ant n th antuat ur wat. Rmmbr, t all abut balanng th harm ant that u d nt lk luh r largr than u rall ar. Sh: l ar a mut wth harm ant. Gladatr tl hl wrk bt hr. l wll lngat ur fram and lg and balan ut th bagg harm. wvr, f u ar tall and wth a lmmr fram, u an math harm wth at h r tra andal. Clur: Blak wuld b th bt lur h bau t lmmng and wll gv th llun f a rdud bllw. wvr, u an g fr bld lur f u hav a lmmr fram. Full-gurd wmn wh want t war lur harm ant huld g fr d, ld lur rathr than lud n. Jwllr: K ur wllr a ml a bl. Crth dr: Mak ur that th dr rth wra r t wll and that th fld fall natl rathr than n a bulk, l mannr. Man havr fabr uh a ttn uuall d nt w wll f th rth nt wll ut.
Shw ur darng rk tar d b takng a tradtnal fabr ktng and rvng t u wth a twt.
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1t nk h, Sh5,9; wht and blak lat dll h, Sh9; url lng wth dtahabl bw dtal, Sh2,9, all frm Kah.
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Grn and blu ktng butr harm umut, Sh4,, Nlarg anrlla; lm grn hadwra, Sh1,5, Clthng Garag; rd nk, Sh2,8, Kah; bra u, Sh1,9, Truwrth. Blu at, Sh1,8, Mr Pr. Rd hrt Sh3,5, Clthng Garag; ktng kant, Sh3,5; ktng buttr rag, Sh8, bth frm Afr fanat. Badd andal, Sh1,8, Mr Pr. Ktng r akt, Sh2,5; ktng ant, Sh3,5, bth frm Nlarg anrlla. Cram hn blu, ShXXXX, Mr Pr; atnt hl, Sh4,9, Angl. Vl ktng umut, Sh6,, Nlarg anrlla; grn blt, Sh1,5, Clthng Garag. Earrng, Sh2,9; llw wdg, Sh6,5, bth Kah. Bra u, Sh1,9, Truwrth.
Chng ur battl
Ert wgh n n whh battl ar wrth ghtng wth ur hldrn.
h mak u warm and fuzz nd and ar knwn t b bundl f . wvr, hldrn ar human bng and n human bng rft. I t, thrfr, vr admbl nt t rat whn ur hld d r a mthng that nt qut rght? Whr huld u draw th ln btwn kng arund and bng drtful? andlng tuatn uh a th bl dwn t valu, a Talu Chg, a mthr f tw grl agd 12 and ar. Sh lan, Anthng that mrm r thratn th valu that ar mrtant t ur faml, fr aml, a Chrtan fundatn, rt fr thr, and hnt, ar battl that ar wrth ghtng. A furthr wa t a th gnan f ur hld bhavur, ardng t Jnnfr Karna, a rlatnh ah and authr f Marria Built to Last, t ak, I th an at f dbdn and
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Whthr u ar a bna d uhvr r a lf-dlard man mumm, hr ar m thnqu u an tr t gt ur hldrn t bhav mt f th tm: Antat rblm bfr th ur: Whn u knw ur hld gng t hav a hallngng aftrnn, mak ur h gt nugh t at and ha a gd na. Gv h: T had battl bfr th tart, r ur hld h h an fl a f h n ntrl f th tuatn (D u want t tak a na r tr gng tt?) Gv ur hld a tm-ut: Yu mght gv a warnng r unt dwn bfrhand th ar rard fr th nqun f thr atn. Tm-ut gnrall d nt wrk rblln? If t , u an rrmand th hld, f nt, lt t g. M Karna warn that I u mak a battl r n vr an f dagrmnt, ur hld wll nd u rntng u. It mrtant t thnk abut th utm f th ght and whthr th rult wrth t, h a. It al mrtant t b lf-awar. Parnt huld b arful t brng ut th bt n thr hldrn whl mantanng thr hld unqun, kng n mnd that thr n n bt rnalt. Fr ntan, t nt rual that ur hld bm a fahnta ut bau u ar. M Karna a, A arnt gal t brng u hldrn wh ar lf-rlant, lf-ntrlld, rtful, and w and wh hav th kll th nd t ud n lf. Iu uh a drng tl huld nt unt. untl a hld 18 mnth r . Fnd nw wa t a N: Yu ar rbabl trd f ang n r dnt d that and ur hld , n dubt, trd f harng t. S ntad f ang N TV, wh nt a Lt wath TV aftr dnnr? Dtrat ur hld: Tr ntng ut mthng ntrtng gng n utd ur wndw t dtrat hr frm th lll h annt t thnkng abut. U tv dln: Rathr than unhng fr ngatv bhavur, tr rang gd bhavur. Crat tkr hart and rward tm t rat nntv fr gd bhavur. Fnall, th da t b rm and ntnt ur hldrn undrtand th nqun f thr atn. Sourc: http://www.parntsconnct.com
Tthl tddlr
: My baby is agd on yar and on month, but h has not got any tth yt. Is this normal or is this a problm? Vtra Gthg, 3, mthr-f-n, adv: A nw mthr w mtm wrr whn ur hldrn ar bhnd n rahng rtan mltn. It vr a t mar hldrn, but ut rmmbr that th all dvl at thr wn ndvdual a. Sm bab ar brn wth tth and thr hav thr m n at vr n r vn tw ar f ag. Mt bab ar n btwn, ng tth wthn th rt fw mnth f lf. Sn u annt fr th tth t m ut, t bt nt t wrr lng a ur bab thrw halth. Bab mltn hav a rang wthn whh th ar mmnl rahd and ur n tll wthn th rang. Aftr a fw ar u wll nt vn nt th drn. Stll, f u ar vr wrrd abut h tth, u an k a mr rfnal nn frm a dntt. COMPILED BY TRICIA WANJALA
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Cmrm wrk
Stll, thr mut b aramtr vn n uh mattr n hldrn n f arratn tak tm t dvl. It nt unranabl nt t want t b th arnt wh hld war ama t hl vr da. M Chg ha fund mrm t wrk whn t nt lar what th rght r wrng thng t d. Sh a, M 12-ar-ld lk all thng nn, rnt, and anmal attrn. I lk ubtl lur. S, whn w h, h an gt a t r bttm n th rnt and lur f hr h a lng a h blnd t wth ld lur. And a hldrn grw, th natur f th battl ud t vlv. Fr aml, durng th tn ar, hldrn bgn t b awar f wh th ar and ar larnng t mak thr wn dn, a M Karna. At th tm, t mrtant t b ntv t thr nd fr ndvdualt whl gudng thr maturatn. Durng th dlat tn ar, valdatn wll hl t nrm ur hld wrth. Valdatn d nt man agrng r arvng, wrt hld and adlnt hlgt, Dr Karn all, n hr P f Mnd blg n th Phlg Tda wbt. Sh lan, Valdatn a wa f mmunatng that th rlatnh mrtant and ld vn whn u dagr. W valdat n anthr b aknwldgng and atng ah thr nn and flng a undrtandabl a wll a uttng th fu n lvng th u at hand and nt ah thr haratr. Dr Cathrn Gahutha, a marrag and faml thrat at Maranatha Cllg f Prfnal Stud, adv arnt t ut thr rrt nt thr bakt:
th thng that ar trul nn-ngtabl, th that allw m mrm, and thng that ar nt wrth ghtng abut. Thnk abut th u u lah abut wth ur hld. In whh bakt d th blng? Th rt bakt huld b th mallt and th lat th largt, a Dr Gahutha. Dd t b tadfat abut ur rrt. Sh add, A arnt, w huld b ntnt. Chldrn ndvn a a gn f wakn and wll nt tak u rul f w d nt tand b ur nvtn. Sgn that dln ha rd th ln nt authrtaranm nlud rblln, truan, lw rfrman, lf-nglt, lw lf-wrth, ltud, and vn hba. On th thr hand, rmv arntng lad t lak f rtrant and drt tward thr. Th ha mddlgrund authrtatv arntng. An authrtatv arnt lar n tatn and nqun but allw fr blt and llabratv rblmlvng wth h r hr hld, a M Karna. Th th mt tv frm f arntng. In rdr t b uful, arnt ught t k n mnd thr mtv a wll a thr hldrn and m u wth vabl tn t lv th rblm that au ght. Evr ght huld b a tratg t hl ur hld dal wth h r hr u, a Dr Gahutha. Gd arntng abut allwng ur hldrn t dvl thr wn valu and ndndn that th an ratvl lv thr wn lv.
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Ehbtnt nd ur hl
Pl dng rvat thng n ubl nd ur urt, nt ndmnatn, t t th trrbl habt. B Dr Jahm Our
gru f mn atd m th thr da. Th wr unha wth what th drbd a ubl mbhavur b wmn. W knw u blng t a wmn chama, ad n. Tll thm that w ar nt vr ha wth th wa th dr. Y, ntrtd anthr. Tll thm t k thr nakdn t thr bdrm r l w wll ham thm! Y, thr ar fan fahn that wmn war. Sm ar gd fr warm wathr, thr fr ld. A numbr f wmn ma war mn r aghtt t r vn tumbo ut, and t ttall n wth m a lng a th fl mfrtabl. It mak thm lk h and grat. I, thrfr, thught th mn wr bng unranabl and tld thm . Gu, u al ag ur trur and anall lav ur hrt unbuttnd, I rmndd thm. I hav nt hard an wman mlan. Wh t alwa an u whn t a wman? I wa gttng ut. Rntl n ntral Kna, a wman wa trd at a bu tag bau l lamd that hr dr wa hrt. I wndrd wh ranabl l wuld hartll nvad thr rva. Yu d nt undrtand, land n f th mn. Thr a wman wh a arund hr and whn u lk at hr, h thr lft hr dr and hw hr undrwar r unbuttn hr blu and hr brat. Th all frwnd n dgut. Th thr da I warnd hr t bhav and t m urr, h wnt an tra ml, lwrd hr undrwar and hwd m hr nakd buttk, hutd anthr. I rmd mlf nvr t rk talkng t hr agan. land that nn f thm knw th wman and nthr had th vr rd an ual ntrt n hr, hr wrd bhavur urrd and dgutd thm. Sh alwa walkd awa fat aftr hr rfrman.
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Brthda tm hr! Siji will

Mnda, 6m: Bab k hwng m th tn blak t n th bak f hr hand. I an hardl t but I rtnd t lk knl and blw at t ang Oh, rr bab, a m traumatd daughtr g, Dkta dunga! Dta na! W. Tuda, 9:45am: Ahhh! Bab tw nt Tuda whh rft, rall, bau t fall arund ada. I ant dd whthr t thrw hr a full-n bah th mng Saturda r ut d a mall mthng fr th nt--tndd faml. But what Im dntl gng t d gt hr n f th fartal atl and rn ak I tatd at a n brthda rntl. Lt m gt th bakr ntat! Wdnda, 8:2m: S nw that bab ha dvrd that tandng n t-t gt hr t la h ha nvr bn bfr, I fund hr wth m rfum bttl n hand, hhhhng hrlf. Thn h ut t bak, rahd fr th d-tk and dd th am. Thn bt f all, h nd u th ar f Valn and mard lt f t all vr hr l and fa. I ttall agrd wth hr whn h ad h wa mart. Whh mama wuldnt? Thurda, 7:2m: W hav mad grat rgr n th tt-tranng dartmnt. Wll, h ha nt t at n t but S an nw tll m whn h ha dn uu. Th ntrtng thng that h aual abut t that u mght m hr mmnt. It th mll that gv hr awa. Frda, 4:4m: Grandma want hr granddaughtr t vt nt wk and I rall uld d wth th brak. Thng , I am nt ur grann wll b abl t dal wth bab whn h wak u n th mddl f th nght akng (vr ludl) fr hr nn. Plu I gav awa m brat um whn m ul rdud and S had n ntrt n bttld bratmlk, rfrrng t tak hr traght frm th ur. S hw d I tll Grann that I dubt h wll manag a ramng, hungr, l Trrbl Tw wh kk and wat at mlk n u n th mddl f th nght? I thnk Ill lt hr nd ut fr hrlf...
wr dung; th undd lk a a f hbtnm. Ehbtnm a muln t hw n gntal t an unutng trangr. It a knwn hatr rblm. Th hbtnt ha n ntntn f havng wth th trangr, but ma fanta and vn maturbat a art f th at. In m a, th ndvdual awar f th dgut that th aru n thr vtm and ma vn aggrat t t au mr ut. Ehbtnm ur n bth mn and wmn. It au ar nt wll undrtd. On thr that t uld b th rult f a dfuntnal faml whr hld abu mmn. In th a, t ma b unnu rbllu bhavur a th hld grw. Othr l blv that t uld b du t t muh f th hrmn alld tttrn. Th hrmn fund n bth mal and fmal and rnbl fr tmulatng ual dr, but whn rnt n v amunt, t thught t au thr rblm, amng thm hbtnm. Othr bl au ar nur t th bran, fr aml aftr an adnt. Thr ar art f th bran that ntrl bhavur and f atd, uld au uh a rblm. Al bl th tuatn whr a mal hld grw u flng that h mthr ha rtd hm bau h d nt hav gntal lk hr. It a hlgal grwth drdr and an manft latr n lf a hbtnm. Unfrtunatl, th ubl nt awar f th mdal ndtn. Thrfr, vtm ar mtratd and ma b batn r vn trd n ubl. It a tuatn whr a lln au mmunt rag and th atnt unhd ntad f bng tratd.
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Tratmnt avalabl
Tratmnt fr hbtnm nlud a mbnatn f hthra (an ntn frm f unllng) a wll a u f drug. Th rt t t mak th k rn ral that thr bhavur abnrmal. Smtm th dn thrugh unllng r gru thra.
On an ndvdual ha nght nt h r hr rblm, mr rnald ntnv unllng dn. Th rn hld t rla fanta that aman th hbtnt bhavur wth mr atabl n. Drug ar ud t trat th ant, drn, and thr mntal dtr that aman hbtnm. Bau tttrn an au th rblm, mdn t rdu th hrmn hav al bn ud t trat t. Dtr, u ar rght that mn al fa th rblm, ad n f m ltnr. I aw a man ng h gntal n th bu th thr da. Th all agrd that mn, all, bhav n th wa, and vn rub thr rvat art n unutng wmn n th bu and thr rwdd la. W agrd that w wuld lk arund fr uh l and adv thm t a dtr, nt tr r bat thm u, a ha frquntl hand.
Phatr rblm
Nw, that wa dntl nt nrmal. In fat, t had nthng t d wth th ummr war rblm I thught w
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Tll-fr wavng
ar tlng thnqu vlv ntantl. Th latt wa t wav b ung th nt thnqu. Th mthd, whh ha bn n u fr nl thr mnth n Kna, ganng ulart amng th kng vratlt n thr har tlng tn. Nt wavng m-rmannt, latng tw t thr mnth. Th nt wav ha tw art a bttm a and a t lur. Th bt thng abut t that th har alrad attahd t th a. Th man that thr mnmal wng nvlvd.
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I ur wav bmng l lng bfr u ar du t rmv t? U a harn t attah th wft bak t ur latd trak. Tuk t d nt th har and vr t wll. A mall dark n th mt drt. U harn t hld tnn, har band, and har fall n la. K a numbr f thm hand n ur bag/ kt fr quk tlng.
Nw thnlg allw u t hld ur har u wthut hwng trak r an thr tll-tal gn f wavng. B Irn Nrg
Stlng tn
Aftr hamng and d rtn tratng f ur har, th bttm attahd arund th rmtr f th had and rwn, aftr whh th lur attahd. Th nt rv a a grd t hld th lghtt attahmnt t th har. Th thnqu dal fr all har t vn th thnnt and hrtt, whh ar dult t wav ung th tradtnal mthd. Th tlng tn ar numru, allwng t t b ut a hrt and a lw a ur wn har uld bl allw. A al huggng tl that mv wth u a natural a u an gt wth th nw nt wavng thnqu.
w an I k m wav hn wthut gvng t that wghd-dwn gra lk? Agn, Narb.

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lp! I hav had natural hair for 16 months now and th journy has bn ovrwhlming. Much as I lov my natural hair, I am tmptd to go back to a rlar. What should I do? Frt f all, rmmbr that t ur har and thr ar n rul r al trh fr th
wh h t rman natural th lngt. If u dd t gt a rlar that a rnal dn and thr n ran t fl gult abut t. wvr f u fl that th mght b ut a ang ha du t frutratn, u ma wh t rthnk uh a rmannt dn. Jut a mthr mtm tr f thr tddlr, natural
har nthuat mtm nd a brak frm thr har. I wuld uggt that u gv t a rt b gttng a rttv tl lk brad, rnrw, a wg, r vn a wav fr a whl. Th wll gv u a brak frm dal tlng whl t gv ur har a rt frm v manulatn and th lmnt. Altrnatvl, mak an antmnt wth a har tlt
wh gnunl vrd n arng fr natural har and lt thm amr u. Latl, gt th urt u nd frm fllw natural wh hav fad mlar hallng. Lk u nln frum uh a Tra Natural and Kurl Khana n Fabk t gt rmmndatn fr rdut, t, and tlt. TRICIA WANJALA
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St adntal lak
Clnal nutrtnt Sna Parmar Mukhr n ng mbarrang bladdr lak
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Tghtn th mul arund ur lv r and hld fr a unt f v. If u nd that u ar hldng ur brath, ullng n ur tmah, r quzng ur lg tgthr, thn u ar rbabl nt dng t rght. Yu want t buld u t v t f 1 ntratn vr da. ld ah ntratn fr a lw unt f 1 and rt fr v t 1 nd n btwn. On u ar ha wth th rutn, nh ah wrkut wth rad ntratn. Th nvlv ung th am mul but u ar nl hldng fr an ntant.
n un a tm whn I ud t adult dar at th urmarkt, I ud t thnk f ld wmn. Aftr all, I thught f nntnn a a rblm that atd ld l, a rblm that wuld nvr vn lghtl tuh m lf. Turn ut havng bab hang that. Bfr I a mr n that, lt m rt lan th drnt t f urnar nntnn. Th rt alld tr nntnn. Th whn lakag ur thr whn u rt urlf r whn u laugh, ugh, r nz. Th nd urg nntnn, whh man that u nd t g t th l a lt and hav t gt thr rtt qukl whn th urg trk. Th t f nntnn al knwn a an vratv bladdr. Th thrd t a mtur f th tw.
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S what d bab hav t d wth an f th? Wll, whl nntnn ndd mr mmn n wmn wh hav had hldrn, t nt narl fr th ran u wuld t. Yu , mt l thnk that th u that ar ar du t trthng and tarng f th lv r and thr tu a th bab a thrugh th brth anal. wvr, rnt rarh uggt that t mr mlatd. Whl t tru that wmn wh hav had a C-tn ar l lkl t dvl tr nntnn than th wh hav gvn brth naturall, th ar tll mr than n-and-a-half tm mr lkl t ur frm a lak bladdr than a wman wh ha nvr had a bab. It m that rgnan, nt ut th gvng brth bt, aar t d th damag. A fr urg nntnn, n fatr that tnd t mak t wr th tndn fr wmn (and, fr that mattr, mn t) t hav a ut n a mtng thr bladdr bfr lavng th hu vn whn th d nt nd t (mthng w rgularl nurag n ur hldrn). Whl th n tlf unlkl t au urg nntnn, t an mak thng wr b rdung bladdr aat. wvr, th d nd t b dn rrl t b tv ( dbar). Yu an al tran ur bladdr b watng v t 1 mnut lngr aftr u fl th urg t g t th bathrm a t tr t trth th bladdr wall, thrb nrang aat. Th gd fr urg nntnn. Mdatn an al hl t mrv bladdr ntrl f th maur d nt wrk. Ardng t a rrt n Th Journal of Uroloy, wght l an al hl. In n tud, wmn wh lt n avrag 35 und rdud thr nntnn d b 6 r nt, mard t ut 15 r nt amng wmn wh dd nt l wght. www.nutritionbysona.com
Plv r r
Whatvr th au f ur nntnn, thr lnt u an d bfr u turn t mdatn and urgr (whh ma nt vn wrk). Plv r r ma m vrratd, but th ar ml fantat fr mld tr nntnn.
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Prtt ur kn frm nftn
B Vvan Mua
: I g vn t 11 klmtr tw a wk and k fr n hur n r tw a wk. I al lft wght and d Ta B. I hav bn nftd wth fung btwn m thgh tw. Shuld I t ggng t avd a thrd rurrn? I war br undr m trakut. In th at, I ud t war tght. What huld I d? Km Frt f all, ngratulatn fr th gd wrk u ar dng. It tak ddatn t tk t an r rutn. I d nt wh u huld gv u mthng that gd fr ur halth and ha mr advantag than th dadvantag
rfrabl b mad f ttn. In addtn, d nt ta n ur wrkut lth lng aftr ur wrkut a mtur nurag fungal grwth. Clan u a n a u an aftr ur wrkut and dard ur wt lth.
Dth th tght
Aftr hwrng, dr urlf rrl. It ma hl u t al fungal ram t ur nnr thgh. Yu an war thr tght r a trak ut durng ur wrkut, but nt bth. In th ld wathr u ma b tmtd t war ur trakut vr ur tght but a n a u tart watng u wll hav v mtur agant ur kn whh wll nurag fung t brd. Yu ma lar ur
lth f u wll b abl t tak thm a ur wrkut rgr and u gt warm. I am ur that th adv wll hl t lv ur rblm. K n mnd that rvntng fungal nftn all abut makng ur u d nt nurag a nduv nvrnmnt fr fung t grw. D nt gv u ggng; I wuld hat t a gd wrkut g t wat, and am ur t tk u at lat a ar t gt t th lvl f tn u ar urrntl at. Rmmbr, r nt fr quttr. This answr was providd by Japhth Amimo, a crtid prsonal trainr and th propritor of Pro Wllnss Solutions, a tnss and wllnss consultancy.
f a fungal nftn. Yu nd t tart warng brf
whl wrkng ut and nt br. All ur undrlthng huld
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Th art f nfrntatn
r a lng a thr hav bn l, thr ha bn nt. But t m rn ha fald t b th bt tahr ng a managng dagrmnt tvl rman an luv art. I blv that Knan d nt knw hw t mmunat arratl, a Lambrt Ogara, a unllng hlgt. Knan ar tartng t mbra nt, but mt f u thnk that aggrn th nl wa t handl thng. Knan alwa a, Yu hav t b aggrv t gt what u want, h a. Th trubl wth aggrn that t tnd t ntmdat th thr art, thrfr nt nablng a rlutn that agrabl t vrn nvlvd. Ogara a, Aggrn ha t d wth mng u wth bld nn and hallngng th thr art untl u wn. Takng th da what mattr. B bng aggrv, u nd u rftng th art f nt rlvng nt. Intad, u bm an rt at gttng nt argumnt.
w d u g abut gttng ur wn wthut uttng thr? Vvan Mua amn

nfrntatn, artularl whn th ur ratdl. But at what t t th rlatnh? L Wambu, wh ha bn n th rvng nd f a fw aggrv nfrntatn wth n f hr grlfrnd, mtm fl lk ndng thng. I tr t rbu hr, Wambu a, but mtm I thnk, Wh d I hav uh a frnd? Wambu, wh blng t th am chama a hr frnd, ha n rlatnh n th gru dntgrat du t hr frnd htl mannr. On f u rntl drd ut f th gru aftr an altratn wth m frnd, h a. wvr, a far a Munga nrnd, m rlatnh ar dabl. On I hav almd dwn, I alg f I am th n wh wrng. But t al dnd n wh th thr rn . If w ar l, thn I wll a rr, but f nt, thn th thr rn nt wrth m tm. Prha Wambu ha mantand rart wth hr r frnd th lng bau h n th thr trm f mmunatn tl. Mt tm I avd nfrntatn, whh dnt lv th rblm and I nd u flng aggrvd. Lkng bak, f I had ut handld mattr drtl, w wuld all hav gt vr thm fatr, h a. Ardng t Ogara, nt amng frnd huld b a t rlv. Yu ar budd, aftr all. Yu undrtand and lk ah thr. adv, Agr n a mtng, what th mtng abut, and what th rul f ngagmnt ar. On th thr hand, nt n th wrkla, all wth ur urr, trk. Yu hav t h whn t rlv a nt and whn nt t, a Ogara. Stud ur llagu and th rrat ultur n ur wrkla n rdr t h mthd that wrk. Emal ma m OK t u but thratnng t ur llagu. Intrmdar ma lk lk a wardl wa ut, but a wll hn mdatr mght rlv ur nt and hl av ur b. Managng nt n th hm dnd n th rlatnh. Fr aml, u nd t mmunat at ur hld lvl f undrtandng. Wth tnagr, Ogara adv that u allw lnt f tm-ut. Th ar nt th untv tm-ut n whh ur hld t n a rnr fr a fw mnut. Th tm-ut ar t b takn t alm arng tmr. It nt unmmn t nd that n artnr n a martal rlatnh aggrv and th thr av. Th dnam t th tag fr nvr-ndng nfrntatn. Pav artnr tnd t bak dwn durng argumnt. In dng, th nvr gt lur r fl hard and ma turn t av aggrv bhavur uh a dltng thr
Agrabl dagrmnt
Aggrn wrk
Wll, ardng t Eva Munga, aggrn wrk. Sh ull ut all th t durng a nfrntatn, nludng llng. Sh a, I nvr lt anthng a. In mt a, whn I am lnt, I am lkng fr a wak t t attak. Whn l ar angr, lang wth thr mtn qut a. All u nd a unh ln. Smtm I rrt t hutng; th mt mrtant thng t b hard. I hav a d, lud v, , ah, t a. Mt flk bak dwn durng hatd
u urgnt wrk mal t gt vn. Th ul that nd tlf n th rdamnt wll uuall rqur th hl f a thrat, rtual ladr, r thr trutd rn. At th nt, artnr ar uuall unabl t arat u; th ght abut wh ang hl f turn nt wh n artnr allw rlatv t nult th thr. Whatvr th rlatnh, thr ar ba rul that mak fr an agrabl dagrmnt. Th rt t wrk tgthr tward a mutuall atabl rlutn. Th nvlv ltnng. A frnd whm I nd qut dlmat al han t b a gd ltnr. I dubt that th ur ndn. I ltn knl t thr bau m anal f th tuatn uld b wrng, a m frnd. I al nd that ratng aftr muh thught rdu a bttr rult than an mmdat rratnal ratn. Tak ur tm wth an mtnal nvratn. Allw ah thr t walk awa whn nar a lng a u rturn. Ogara a, Yu annt rlv a nt whn angr, but rmmbr that u ar takng a brak n rdr t m bak and rlv t amabl. If u lt a rblm mmr, t wll gt n th wa f a gd rlatnh. But, , mtm th bt tn nt t tr t rlv a nt. I trul dlk bak-and-frth hang that lav th tuatn wr than t wa bfr, a m frnd th dlmat. Un ralng that m nt wll nvr b rlvd, n rn ha t tak th hgh rad. That rn wll uuall b m.
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EATING&OUTING
EATINGIN
Chf Iaa Nzm grlld hkn ll

Marnad:
1 ltr rn l 1 gramm arawa d 2 gramm gngr 2 gramm hll wdr 5 gramm grn hll 5 gramm blak r 1 ml lght au 1 gramm nnamn wdr 2 lmn 1 bnl hkn
Trat at th Ar lub
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f u lk a gd mal and hav a thng fr lan, Ar Club th la t dn. It a quant lttl rtaurant ntld n th mddl f a bunh f avatn man nd Wln Arrt; u knw, that d n n vr g bau th thnk t all abut dl albratn and hangar. It d nt vn rall fl lk Narb; u annt har th tra and u fl aratd frm th wrld. Th lub a bt f a walk f u ar n ft, but u an wrk th alr u ar bund t hav numd.
Plaant l f htr
Ar Club a laant l f htr. It a hmag t vral avatn nr n Kna, nludng Flrn Krr Wln, whm Wln arrt namd aftr. Th arkng mnmal and th ntr rtaurant at abut 7. Th ntr la mad f wd, frm th dr t th r and th blu uhnd at, whh gv t an lgant ldg-lk fl. Th und f th lan nl add t t harm and ambn. Nwmr wll nd th grnr and gnral alm f th la thng. Th rv quk and nntu, but u a ur fd and drnk bll aratl a nl mmbr ar allwd t ntr th bar
T mak au:
at l and glaz nn and garl untl lght brwn. Blnd gngr and frh tmat, add tmat at and mmr fr 1 mnut. San t tat.
T k hkn:
Blnd th marnad ngrdnt and ur vr th hkn . Marnat fr abut ght hur fr rft rult. at a at rn an, add m am l and al th hkn fr thr mnut. Ovn rat hkn fr at lat 1 mnut at 17 dgr, hkng rgularl that th marnat atng d nt burn. Drzzl wth hn and ll au. Srv n a bd f arl manna, wth tarh f ur h uh a Caun dutd bual tat wdg.
r u th l ara. Th mnu alld Th Flght Plan and tr t k t th thm f th Ar Club, wth tm havng nam lk Cna 26 (lw ratd hkn and avad alad), Barrft (am grlld mnut tak andwh), Yllw Wng (bf burgr, ban, and rt tat), th Sur Cub, whh th hldrn mnu. Sakng f hldrn, ur tt an la n th gardn ara, whh ha a t f wng and a ld rght undr ur n. Th da I wnt, th rvd th tandard au lat, whh a lab f urvd wd wth lat fr th au that rall qut ratv. I had dlu frhl quzd rang u and th lngun ata blgn (Avatr). It wa vr mat and h, vrthng u t ata blgn t b.
Jul unhalth
I al had a han t tr th hkn aar alad burgr (Ar Kna), whh ha trak ban, avad, lttu, tmat, and kl. It wa ul unhalth and lghtl nful, but I wa walkng bak, I ndulgd. Th fd gd wthut bng t vrbarng and ml wthut bng untng; a gd balan. Th t rang frm abut Sh8 t Sh1,4 n avrag fr a mal (unl u ar harng a tak, n whh a t mr lk Sh2,) and Sh2 t Sh3 fr a drnk. Th n frm 6am vr da, and hav a arat dltabl brakfat mnu. On a al f zr t hr, Ar Club gt a dnt fur ut f v.
MEETTHECHEF
: What nrd u t bgn ur ulnar urn? Whn I wa n Frm Tw I vtd m unl wh wa th utv hf at Dan Sa Ldg. I aw hm bng rvd lk a kng, and I ddd t fllw h ftt. Aftr that I nt m hl hlda dng n-hu tranng at htl. Whn I nhd Frm Fur, I gt a ntrat a atant u hf and I al attndd Mmbaa Plthn. I wrkd at Flrda Nghtlub, Karn Cuntr Club, thn w nd Mrndat tranng ntr n Navaha.
Iaa Nzm, utv hf, Tuana Gardn rtaurant, Karn.
Thr ar ag w nd Tuana Gardn. Wh ur frmt arr mntr? Chf Eugn Stvn Gathru. Fr fur ar h tk m undr h wng. nvr u hrtut, and h trand m urbl n bak- managmnt. What ar m f ur arr hghlght? I wuld hav t a kng fr dgntar uh a ur Dut Prdnt, frmr Prdnt M, and ur urrnt Prdnt.
Th hghlght whn I rv a gut and h r h marvl at hw Iv latd th dh that mmnt whn th lnt au t ak thmlv whthr th huld at r tak a tur f th dh. It mak m da. What d u d t rla? I Ggl r and tud thm. Othr l ma b ttng n thr hand but I am bu rarhng t k mlf n t f m gam. That lan wh at nl ag 29 I am alrad an utv hf.
Yur t v ngrdnt M, dr rd wn, dr wht wn, frhl grund blak r, frh hrb. Q: Adv fr arng hf? D nt b afrad t rmnt. B nnvatv and adat lal ngrdnt t ntrnatnal r. gn vtall mrtant. Mak ur all ur rvng rdur ar brvd that whatvr ntr ur kthn alwa lan. Sant ur frdg wkl and b thrughl nvrant wth AACP. TRICIA WANJALA
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U rnr fa and tnal t brak awa frm th nrm and brng m rgnalt t ur lvng rm. B Tra Wanala
fa a vtal f furntur ud fr lungng, rlang, ntrtanng, and vn lng n m a. Sn a larg amunt f ur tm n th hm nt n th fa, t wrth takng m tm t arfull ndr th tn bfr makng a urha. Th trnd nwada t mv awa frm arha dgn uh a aggratd wngd armhar tward mr mdrn, tramlnd a-avr lk th famu rnr fa t. Th ar al avalabl n that an b aratd knwn a tnal. Th multl allw u th blt t uh thm tgthr a n unt r t brak thm u t rat multl lvng rm lk. Th ar a grat bu, thank t thr blt and tml dgn qualt.
Cutmd dgn
Varu tkt n Kna rvd uh fa. Th mag turd ar frm Aanah Furntur and Intrr. Othr man that rvd mlar rdut nlud BCnt, Umat Intrr, and Jabal Furntur. Cman lk Aanah rvd a utmatn rv whr th maur ur lvng a and wrk wth th lnt t rat a bk dgn. Ordr ar nrmall rad wthn 12 t 18 da. If u h t hav ur tnal r rnr fa mad, h arund fr uhltr fabr r la wth ur dgn man and wrk wth thr ltn. T lan and mantan ur tnal r rnr fa t, Ewah Ltd, wh al n lanng furntur, rmmnd rdut uh a 11 uhltr lanr and GNLD Cart Gl. Th dgn tam at Aanah adv lnt t a attntn t fabr ltn n ln wth th nd f thr faml. Fr utmr wth ung hldrn, ud ar nt rmmndd du t tntal lqud tan and th dtrratng t f frquntl wahng r rubbng. Fr
A drnt tl f atng
utmr wth at, th rmmnd fabr that annt b al ulld aart b har law. Pr fr a tal v- r -atr rnr fa ma tart at Sh12, wth largr ght- t1-tnal atr gng frm Sh16, t uward f Sh5,, dndng n ur hn rtalr. Fr mr nfrmatn, hk ut www.ayanah.com, Umat Cratn n fabk and www.housmark.co.k, and www.mystrawbrrystor.co.k.
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Cndr th ant w wa
I arn Sh25,. I hav a monthly contribution of Sh2,4 and a sacco dduction of Sh1,. This month I had many pnss and I am now brok. I rnovatd my kitchn for Sh5, and bought a mbuzi for Sh4,. I do not pay rnt but transport costs m Sh6,. I nd up shopping any tim I hav mony. I want to gt a laptop in a months tim; it will cost m Sh4,, and I hav savd Sh1,. I want to mov from hom immdiatly. I am going nuts. Plas hlp. Lt u nt dwll n th n u hav alrad nurrd. What dn dn. Yu m t b gng nut bau f th rnl f nd vru want. Yur nd m adquatl vrd b ur nm. Aftr th man n (tranrt, ddutn) that u hav utlnd, u tll hav Sh15,6. Evn f u ar ndng mn n fd, u wuld tll hav m mn lft vr t av. Th want u hav ar th lat and mvng ut f hm. It ma b tmtng but d nt tak dbt t fund th want. And t trng t d thm at th am tm. Dd whh n tak rrt and ut ntnu avng fr t. D n at a tm, fr aml bu th lat, thn av tward mvng. Whhvr m rt u t u. Rmmbr, mvng ut wll m wth an addtnal mnthl n that u hav t atr fr, that man l mn lft vr. B hnt wth urlf. If t gng t b t muh f a burdn, tn th mvng ut untl u ar arnng mr nm. D nt arr mn wth u t avd ndng t and whatvr u dd t av, ut t awa aratl mmdatl u gt ad. Email your qustions or commnts to Wack at wack@cntonomy.com
W uld larn a lt frm th ant abut hw t rat grat tr f walth frm th rumb f ur alar. B Wak Nduat Omanga
nt an tah u a lt abut mn. Dt nt havng ladr th amlh farl ml tak uh a fd trag, garbag lltn, nt raratn, urt, and vn gng t war. Ant ma b mall, but th buld hug anthll and nt. Th wrk trll, gng ratdl t and fr wthut dtratn. What d th hav t d wth mn, and avng n artular? Lt u tak t n ln at a tm. Embra dlad gratatn. Yu wll nvr an ant arrng a rumb tng b th radd t tak a bt f th rumb r tr t at t all. Th hav a ur fr that rumb and th ar gng t arr t untl th gt t thr dtnatn. In thr wrd, ant hav mbrad th nt f dlad gratatn. Th knw what th rumb fr and th ar nt gng t tart numng t mdwa. Man f u hav bm lav f ntant gratatn. Our lv ar a m and w ar n hrrbl dbt bau f ur nablt t wat and ahv th bggr tur. W hav nvnd urlv that w mut hav that tm tda. St rkll atng nt ur rumb f u want t t bm mr than ut a rumb. If u annt ut awa Sh5, tda t wll nvr bm Sh1 mlln, and u wll nt rat walth. Bau th wrk wth th rnl f dlad gratatn, ant al nvr g hungr n wntr. In th ummr th tk u n fd that an arr thm thrugh th ld an. D u hav nugh mn fr a ld an? w lng wuld u urvv n ur urrnt lftl f u lt ur nm tda?
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Nt uttng mn ad fr a ran da ml rkl bhavur. Start whr u ar. Whn an ant nd a rumb t k t u and tart th urn. It d nt wat arund hng a bggr rumb wll fall a tabl. Yu huld al wrk wth what u hav ntad f rratnatng bau f what u d nt hav. I annt unt th numbr f l I mt wh ar watng fr th magal Sh1, r Sh5, r Sh1 mlln t tart. Yu wll nt gt anwhr b watng. Th t f uttng th mall amunt awa rgularl add u. Yu ar th CEO f ur mn. Dt nt havng a gnral, ant d thr wrk dlgntl. Th d nt laz arund r tak na n t f th anthll. Walth ratn aum u ar gng t b rnbl nugh t b th CEO. Yu ma hav ndtnd urlf t b rlant n mn l gvng u ntrutn at wrk, but u wll nt gt awa wth t whn trng t rat ur wn walth. Yur mlr nt gng t rat walth fr u. A I hav ad man tm bfr n th lumn, vn that nn fund nt gng t fund ur rtrmnt. T rat walth u hav tak rnblt fr ur dn, th tmng f ur atn, and th rult. It nt th rnblt f ur mlr, lnt, u, and hldrn t ahv ur gal fr u. Man l lk t mak tatmnt uh a, Th tkbrkr lt m mn. That wrng; u ar trng t a ur CEO rnblt t mn l.
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Yu ar th n wh dd nt tak tm t undrtand what u wr bung nt, t ur fault. Whn u tak rnblt, t mwr u bau u thn knw what t rrt nt tm. D nt wat fr mn r mthng (n trm f a rumtan uh a b l) t fr u t tart dalng wth ur mn. Wrkng fr urvval nl k u urvvng. An ant arr a lad thr tm t z and buld anthll muh bggr than tlf. If ur whl lf nt fung n gttng b, all u wll d gt b. T t ut urvvng, mthng ha t hang n ur atn (nt anbd l). Pl wh hav amlhd grat thng nvr knw hw th wr gng t han, th ut had a vn and wrkd tward that, n da at a tm. Sttng a gal u knw u an ahv bnath ur tntal a a human bng. Y, u wll nt knw hw t gng t han but lk th rumb, tart wth th mall t u an tak tda. It uld ut b that Sh5, avng r t uld vn b rarh n a bun da u hav. K th vn n mnd and tart wth atn that algn t that vn vn f u hav n da hw t wll add u t what u want. A u ta fud, ur mnd wll n u t nw da and u wll thng u wuld nt vn hav ntd had u nt tartd wth th mall t. Go to th ant, considr hr ways and b wis. Without any chif, ocr or rulr sh prpars hr food in th summr and gathrs hr sustnanc in th harvst. Prvrb 6:6-8
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A lttl mmunt n th Mara rf that anmal and human an t. B Ru Mangat

w mal Tmm ar aught n mbat, hrn lkd, wvllng arund n rl, mtm wth uh frt that all w ar hnd lg thrwn nt th ar amd th dut. It a battl fr th trngt. Th a trrtral ght, rmark Grg Ok Ow, ur drvr-gud frm Ol Sk mngwa Mara. It mdda, ht a hll and w ar th nl ar n th 2-quar-klmtr Nabh Cnrvan that brdr th Maa Mara Natnal Rrv. Uuall, Thmn gazll whl awa thr tm nbblng afull n th hrub and gra f th Mara lan, th a rar ght 2 mnut f ur drama n a ght t th kll, and whn all nrg ar nt, th lr tak nt th lan. Dt th hat, thr lnt f lan gam arund. Th Lat-fad vultur rd th ht thrmal wthut a wng bat. It rar t vultur utd rttd ara. Thr dln mtl du t hmal-lad agr-td that ha rultd n a 9 r nt dln n numbr n Afra and Aa. Th Lat-fad vultur atrllng t trrtr n f th bg n that ar th rt t arrv at a ara t n t aftr whh th mallr vultur arrv. A fw klmtr awa, t th Wht-bakd vultur arng n a bg blu k.
A af la fr wldlf
On Marh 28, 21, th landwnr gnd a 15-ar la t rat th Mara Nabh Cnrvan. It th nd largt nrvan n th rgn. Nabh man mng tgthr n th Maaa Maa languag. Th nrvan rvd th rtunt t nrv th land and wldlf whl al ratng walth fr th 5 lal Maaa landwnr. Cntat Ol Sk mngwa Mara n ntralrrvatn@hmngwalltn.m; www.hmngwalltn.m +254 733 632 917 r +254 722 24 251 Safarlnk dal t Ol Sk mngwa Mara. Cntat marktng @afarlnk.m
Ind a tnt at th Ol Sk mngwa Mara ntnu Mrgnn. Th wll hfull avrt an dangr t bth at and attl b alrtng th Maaa atral f th fln mvmnt. On a mmn ght n afar, Afra ln ulatn ha dwndld t 3, tda frm 1, ln n 196 and n Kna, th ln ulatn ha drd frm 15, t 2,5 n a dad. Th ratn f nrvan arund th n Maa Mara Natnal Rrv rvng uful, but t d nt ln th thrat t wldlf n th anmal t utd. Th numbr f lhant nd th nrvan ha grwn bau th fl af, a Marl Rmdan, wh d dal ar atrl n th nrvan and th largr Mara tm n h brght llw twatr arraft. ambtn t vr ark n Kna rvdd wth an arraft fr atrllng th grat wldrn.
Enhantng gam drv

I am nng th ltud wth ut Ow t narrat th land. Th gallr f tr ln th Olrambu lugga, h ntnu. Th Aaa grrad n wht-wr gnal th nmng ran. Th hadd lugga full f zbra and bual wth a ln gra atd undr th had f th aaa wth t lng lg fldd undr t an unuual ght. And whn Ow ark th ar b th had f anthr handm tr, h nt t lg danglng frm th hgh branh f th tr, wth th hrn and th lan wht bakbn f an mala vbl bvul th hart mal f th rdnt lard. B th tm I arrv at Ol Sk mngwa Mara, I am rtt famhd t. Ol Sk th dmnant lant hr, ntnu m gud. It th Maaa nam fr th andar tr.
Brakfat r dnnr rvd n th buh allw fr gam vwng a u dn It al mdnal. Th vnng gam drv rv t b nhantng that aftr th bg vur mal and th blgatr ta n th wkdl nrmul au tnt that I thnk wuld hav ttd th tl f mngwa, th Amran nvlt and hrt tr wrtr awardd th Nbl Prz fr Ltratur n 1954. wrt man hrt tr nrd b h Afran travl n 1933 and 1954. An lhant bull b th rvr war a llar that ttd wth a atllt h. mvmnt ar mntrd t afguard th hrd aag t mnm nt wth th human nghbur. Ggant h awn n th dam and thn th grand nal: Th Nabh rd f ln. Th th nl rd ut f th ght that u th Nabh nrvan, that ta n t all th tm, lan ln rarhr and blgt Nl Mrgnn, wh tartd th Mara Nabh Ln Prt (www.mnl.rg) n Jun 211. Ln ar th nl al at that lv n faml rd. Th r rd ha ght fmal adult, thr mal adult, v ub f drnt ag, and tw ub-adult. Th tw ungtr ambl tward th ar, uru, and la arund t whl th fmal wath.
Dwndlng ulatn
M am t hav n fmal frm ah rd llard t trak thr mvmnt,
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