Security

tightened for
Mathare vote
today, P.7
The creation by the Senate of coun-
ty development boards (CDBs) has
split the National Assembly, with many
MPs describing it as an attempt to
whittle down governors powers.
The Senate, which is supposed to
play an oversight role over governance
matters in the counties, has effective-
ly become a player with the passing
of the County Government (Amend-
ment) Act 2014 that created the CDBs.
There is suspicion that the CDBs
present a clear conflict of interest as
senators, who will chair the boards,
and MPs who will be members, would
also have to sit in judgement over cas-
es related to the same through their
respective parliamentary committees.
It also takes away the executive
authority granted to governors by the
Constitution to oversee spending on
development projects. The county
chiefs have already gone to court chal-
lenge the laws constitutionality, but
MPs, mainly from Jubilee, have backed
it.
The Senate is already in a rush to
have the the 47 CDBs constituted by
September 18.
Yesterday, ODMs Suna East MP
Mohamed Junet said the amendment
passed by Senate was unconstitutional
and meant to undermine devolution.
Junet said the county bosses should
be given time to do their work freely,
and those who underperform would
Railas bid to secure
one million signatures
CORD and ODM leader Raila
Odinga is sitting atop a storm sparked
off by the Oppositions referendum
plan that begins this week with the
start of a campaign to collect one mil-
lion signatures from voters.
That bid, announced at CORDs
Saba Saba rally in June, was initially
dismissed by the ruling Jubilee co-
alitions hawks, but CORD could be
the unlikely beneficiary of a furore
sparked by governors pushing for
their own referendum, and Jubilee,
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By ROSELYNE OBALA and OSINDE OBARE
By JACOB NGETICH and GILBERT
KIMUTAI
Counties work
on joint plan
to manage
shared natural
resources, P.19
Extensive County News coverage
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export lions
to Rwanda
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Governors push interests CORD because
some of the issues they are ghting for
are similar.
After dismissing CORDs bid, Jubilee is now
threatening to launch its own referendum
to counter the Oppositions.
CORD leaders led by Raila have said they
support the governors in their battle to
be allocated more funds.
But county chiefs are not keen to be
associated with CORDs referendum bid
and insist theirs is independent.
Move by Senate to deny four governors
cash to run their counties has united the
county chiefs across coalition lines.
Raila Odinga
Page 2 / NATIONAL NEWS Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Okoa Kenya Committee of Experts address the Press after a meeting with the
IEBC to discuss the referendum recently. The Opposition and governors have
separately announced plans to hold a referendum with CORD already in the
process of collecting signatures. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]
Most governors have backed the
referendum bid seeking to amend
the Constitution to raise the mini-
mum allocation to the counties to 45
per cent of national revenue, up from
the current 15 per cent, secure a role
in overseeing security in the counties
and strengthen the Senate.
CORDs dream would be a joint
referendum bid with governors, but
the county chiefs are not keen saying
theirs is not political and want noth-
ing to do with the Opposition.
We are happy that the gover-
nors have seen reason in what CORD
is pushing for. Devolution is key in
the development of this country,
Wetangula said.
Whichever way, we shall swim in
the waters and if governors are willing
they are welcome to join us. It does
not matter the approach we take.
Our intention is to fight for the rights
of Kenyans, said National Assem-
bly Deputy Minority Leader Jakoyo
Midiwo. Some of the governors is-
sues resonate with ours. We will both
engage our experts and it will be up
to the IEBC to merge the questions
and come up with the final referen-
dum question, said Kakamega Sen-
ator Boni Khalwale who, ironically,
is among those behind the Senates
latest efforts to undercut the coun-
ty chiefs.
Last Thursday, the Senate passed a
motion to deny four counties Mu-
ranga, Kiambu, Bomet and Kisumu
funds to run public services and
development projects and pay staff.
The governors have chosen to
formulate a draft Bill and distanced
themselves from CORD to avoid some
of the divisive issues fronted by the
Opposition, including disbanding the
IEBC. Council of Governors chairman
Isaac Ruto said their bid should not be
CORD seeks public approval for referendum
which wants to muddy the waters
with its own bid.
The governors push is of interest
to CORD because some of the issues
they are fighting for, like raising na-
tional revenue allocation to counties,
resonate with the Opposition.
The one million signatures is on-
ly the minimum threshold set by the
Constitution to make a referendum
bid valid. CORD co-principals Raila,
Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula
and former Vice President Kalonzo
Musyoka have vowed to marshal five
million signatures for the cause.
In March, Jubilee was certain an
earlier bid by the governors for a ref-
erendum was dead and buried. How-
ever, a plot hatched by the Senate and
MPs last week, with the backing of the
Presidency, to take away control of
county development funds from gov-
ernors, has united the county chiefs
across party lines and reawakened the
clamour to amend the Constitution.
Collecting the signatures is the
first hurdle in CORDs push and was
announced yesterday by Wetangula.
We will start collecting the re-
quired one million signatures from
Kenyans this week and we are de-
termined to succeed in our plans,
Wetangula said, noting that CORD is
already giving forms across the coun-
try.
The Constitution provides that
a Bill seeking an amendment of the
Constitution must be proposed by
popular initiative signed by at least
one million registered voters.
After the Independent Electoral
and Boundaries Commission (IEBC)
verifies the signatures to ensure they
belong to registered voters, it submits
the draft Bill to county assemblies
who must debate and pass it within
three months.
The draft Bill must be approved by
at least 24 county assemblies before it
can be introduced to Parliament.
If Parliament passes the Bill it goes
to the President for assent. However,
should either Parliament or the Pres-
ident reject it, the proposed amend-
ment will still be submitted to voters
in a referendum. The safety nets were
drafted into the supreme law to en-
sure a popular referendum bid is not
killed by either the President or Par-
liament.
Yesterday, Jubilee legislators
upped their attacks on governors
who are members of the ruling coa-
lition for supporting the referendum,
and asked them to quit. (See separate
story)
linked to CORDs campaign.
The 47 governors are going it
alone. We are not joining CORD or
re-energising their push. Ours is
purely issue based not politics, Ru-
to stressed.
The Bomet Governor told off Jubi-
lee leaders warning the ruling coali-
tion governors from taking part in the
exercise.
We are not going to be intimi-
dated nor accept to play party pol-
itics with such an important issue.
This was a unanimous decision by
governors and we are not interested
in competing for positions in Jubilee.
As leaders we have the right to make
informed decisions. We are proceed-
ing with the referendum push and are
prepared for the consequences, Ru-
to said.
Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kip-
chumba Murkomen accused Ruto of
joining forces with the Opposition.
We are wondering, where will
Ruto and Raila end up with the quest
for the referendum since history has
proven the plebiscites in 2005 and
CORD could beneft from gov-
ernors push for referendum as
some of the issues the county
bosses are fghting for, like rais-
ing national revenue allocation to
counties, resonate with the Op-
position
Midiwo noted that while gov-
ernors have chosen to pursue
a draft Bill, CORD has settled
for a referendum question, but
the goal of both initiatives is to
amend the law
Khalwale said the governors
decision shows they also agree
that something should be done
JOINT ISSUES
2010 were born by political parties?
posed Murkomen.
Governors Ken Lusaka (Bungoma),
Ahmed Abdullahi Mohammed (Wajir),
Cleophas Lagat (Nandi), Peter Munya
(Meru) and Ali Roba (Mandera) said
county chiefs are going it alone in the
referendum.
Our referendum agenda has noth-
ing to do with that of CORD. In fact, we
began the push for a public vote long
before the Opposition, said Roba, re-
ferring to the clamour that fizzled out
last year partly because it became
politicised after Raila introduced a re-
view to parliamentary system of gov-
ernment.
As the council of governors, we
have formed a steering committee
which will lead our course in sort-
ing out key issues that have held back
devolution. The national govern-
ment has tabled 23 Bills which are an-
ti-devolution and we cannot seat back
and watch, said Lagat.
Midiwo said: We called for na-
tional dialogue taking into account
that 20 per cent of the Constitution
needs to be changed. Governors have
also identified the same. Our clamour
for change will seal the loopholes that
exist, and which create room for ex-
ploitation in law.
Our strategy speaks on behalf of
Kenyans on what is bad in the Consti-
tution. We will settle for nothing but a
referendum, Midiwo declared.
Midiwo noted that while gover-
nors have chosen to pursue a draft
Bill, CORD has settled for a referen-
dum question, but the goal of both ini-
tiatives is to amend the law.
CORDs clamour for a referendum
has largely been attributed to seeking
political mileage. However, the lat-
est entry by governors, confirms that
there are cross-cutting issues of gover-
nance that should be addressed, said
Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma
We are impressed with the gover-
nors. Their decision shows that they
are also in agreement that something
should be done, said Khalwale.
But Kimilili MP Suleiman Murun-
ga, who was elected on Wetangulas
Ford Kenya party, has broken ranks
with CORD to oppose the referendum.
Dissent is a democratic right of ev-
erybody and those of us who do not
support the referendum issue should
not be punished. If you ask me I will
say nobody has a ready answer for all
the problems facing the country. All of
us, especially the elected leaders need
to come together and seek solutions to
problems afflicting Kenyans, Murun-
ga said.
Continued from P1
A number of North Rift leaders
have announced their full support
for any referendum that will push for
additional county funding, saying it is
the sure way to effect significant de-
velopment.
Led by Nandi Governor Cleophas
Lagat and his Uasin Gishu counter-
part Jackson Mandago, the leaders
stated that the national government
has frustrated devolution since its in-
ception and key issues need to be ad-
dressed through alternative means if
the standard procedures are flouted.
As the Council of Governors, we
have formed a steering committee
that will lead our push to sort out key
issues that have held back devolution.
North Rift governors, speakers rally behind calls for referendum
The national government has tabled
23 bills that are anti-devolution and
we cannot sit back and watch, they
said.
Mr Mandago said the referendum
would come to pass because people
want money devolved.
Mr Lagat said the national govern-
ment had flouted all the agreements
made when it met governors before
the budget was released, adding that
this was why they were looking for al-
ternative ways to empower the coun-
ties.
We agreed that we wouldnt quar-
rel over funds with the Executive but
they gave us Sh226 billion instead of
Sh242 billion that we had settled on,
he said.
Lagat wondered why health sector
funds had been reduced from Sh3.6
billion to 1.98 billion, yet prices of
drugs and equipment were steadily
rising.
He accused the national govern-
ment of holding onto some devolved
roles, thus retaining funds that were
needed in the counties.
Health is a fully devolved func-
tion yet the national government
continues to allocate itself money for
matters beyond policy formulation,
like funds for distribution of deworm-
ing drugs, he explained.
The governor also mentioned ag-
riculture as another devolved sector
that the national government contin-
ues to allocate funds yet it is required
only to help in policy formulation and
give funds for implementation.
Lagat revealed that the selected
technical team for the referendum
push would develop a Bill that will be
taken to county assemblies seeking 24
approvals before it is passed to Parlia-
ment and the Senate who will decide
whether to pass or snub it.
National Speakers Forum Sec-
retary General and Elgeyo Marak-
wet County Assembly Speaker Albert
Kochei said Kenya was a devolved
government system and every citizen
should be listened to because there
are many critical issues being raised
that need urgent addressing.
The Council of Governors made
a stand and formed a secretarial team
to pursue their goal while the assem-
bly leadership met three weeks ago,
and we are in agreement that there
is a lot that the national government
needs to respond to, he said.
The Speaker said county govern-
ments need to be fully equipped to
serve Kenyans since everyone belongs
to a county and it is from these units
that significant development can be
achieved.
Nandi Hills MP Alfred Keter said he
would champion any referendum, ei-
ther CORDs Okoa Kenya or the gov-
ernors if they advocate for additional
funds to the counties.
The leaders unanimously asked
senators to stick to their mandate in-
stead of waging war against gover-
nors.
BY MICHAEL OLLINGA
Page 3 NATIONAL NEWS / Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Senate Majority Leader Kithure Kindiki (left), Elgeyo Marwaket Senator Kipchum-
ba Murkomen and Majority Whip Beatrice Elachi during a fundraiser at PCEA
Church in Rongai, Kajiado County. The leaders warned Jubilee governors against
supporting the referendum. [PHOTO: WILLIS AWANDU/STANDARD]
y B GEOFFREY MOSOKU
The Jubilee Coalition has warned
its governors who are pushing for a
referendum that they are busy digging
their own political graves because the
push is not popular in the coalitions
strongholds.
Jubilee senators told the county
chiefs that they risked losing the coa-
litions support in the next polls since
it is not in the interest of the ruling
party to conduct a referendum.
Yesterday, senators led by Majori-
ty Leader Kindiki Kithure and Elgeyo
Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Mur-
komen claimed that governors were
using the referendum as blackmail to
prevent Senate from holding them to
account.
The senators said the action by
governors to form a referendum com-
mittee was tantamount to denounc-
ing the parties that sponsored them
and as a result, they should brace for
consequences in 2017.
They insisted that although the
county bosses have announced an in-
dependent referendum from the one
being planned by CORD, in the end
it will come out clearly that former
Prime Minister Raila Odinga is the
godfather of the plebiscite and gov-
ernors were only a supporting cast in
his political strategy aimed at staging
a comeback.
The position of Jubilee is clear
that we do not support the referen-
dum. We cant force those governors
from Jubilee pushing for a referen-
dum to be on our side but they should
know that in 2017, they will not get
our support, Prof Kindiki said.
The senators said history had
shown that a referendum is a political
process whose aim is either to consol-
idate political gains such as enacting a
Well isolate you, senators tell Jubilee
governors in referendum push
County bosses told to
brace for consequences
at the ballot come 2017
for rallying behind
Railas selsh mission
new Constitution or to mobilise for a
certain cause like the Orange Demo-
cratic Movement, which was created
from the 2005 referendum, and the
United Republican Party, which was
born out of the 2010 referendum.
We know that this referendum
wants to revive CORD from the muse-
ums and Isaac Ruto wants to help Rai-
la in this agenda, Mr Murkomen said.
The senators were speaking at
PCEA Nkoroi Church in Rongai af-
ter a Sunday service-cum-fundraiser
to aid the completion of the church
building. They were joined by Major-
ity Whip Beatrice Elachi, Kajiados Pe-
ter Mositet, nominated senators Zip-
porah Kitony and Liza Chelule, area
MP Joseph Manje and Football Kenya
Federation President Sam Nyamweya.
SENATORS GRILLING
Murkomen hit out at the coun-
ty chiefs who he said were running
to call for a referendum in a bid to
evade oversight from the Senate. He
cited one governor who he said failed
to answer an audit query in his coun-
ty and ran straight from the senators
grilling to convene a Press conference
to support the referendum and call for
scrapping of the Senate.
You cannot use the referendum
to blackmail us so you can escape ac-
countability. Devolution was meant
to transform the lives of Kenyans and
Pesa Mashinani (money at the grass-
roots) should not turn out to be Pesa
Mashimoni (money down the drain),
he said.
Ms Elachi warned that the real
agenda behind the referendum was
to derail Jubilee from implementing
its manifesto while claiming that Raila
was seeking to secure power through
the plebiscite.
We will not accept people who do
not concede defeat to come up with
programmes such as referendum to
polarise the country further, she said.
Both Ms Kittony and Ms Chelu-
le argued that the referendum was
ill-timed since majority of Kenyans
were yet to acquaint themselves fully
with the contents of the new Consti-
tution before beginning to agitate for
its amendment.
President Uhuru Kenyatta
has asked politicians agitating
for a referendum to switch
their focus to help Kenya use
its resources in a more use-
ful way
He said the push for a refe-
rendum boils down to a call
to waste public money on an
unnecessary venture
The President said imple-
mentation of issues like de-
volution that some politicians
want amended in the Constitu-
tion started after Jubilee came
to power
UHURUS TAKE ON
PLANNED PLEBISCITE
Coalition for Reforms and De-
mocracy (CORD) leader Raila Odin-
ga yesterday claimed that the Jubilee
administration has a scheme to dish
out land whose leases have expired to
Jubilee loyalists.
Raila claimed the Jubilee govern-
ment is not interested in land reforms
at the Coast because some of its lead-
ers are beneficiaries of land injustices.
Lands Cabinet Secretary Chari-
ty Ngilu has taken up the job of cleri-
cal officers in the land registries in the
wider scheme to allocate land whose
leases have expired to influential peo-
ple in Jubilee. She has no role in the
registries at all, Raila said.
Raila told Ms Ngilu to keep off the
work reserved for the National Land
Commission, which was crafted in the
Constitution to stop frequent interfer-
ence in land matters by the Executive.
Raila was speaking in Likoni con-
stituency when he addressed victims
of a gun attack in Soweto village that
left three people dead and five oth-
ers injured last month. He said the
process of collecting signatures from
Kenyans to back a referendum will be-
gin next week.
This comes even as Ngilu kicked
off land adjudication in Lamu and Ta-
na River counties.
Ngilu successfully initiated the
process in Lamu County, where she
deployed 75 land surveyors but ran
into a storm of protest in Tana River
where local leaders rejected 72 sur-
veyors she gone with and said land
adjudication could spark animosity.
When she arrived in Lamu, Ngi-
lu was received by Governor Issa Ti-
mamy who said chiefs and officials
have frustrated land adjudication in
the past.
Ngilu said her ministry expects to
issue title deeds to 70,000 land own-
ers after the survey and adjudication
in October.
But Tana River leaders said adjudi-
cation and issuing of title deeds was
not a priority.
Raila claims
State wants to
allocate land
to loyalists
y B WILLIS OKETCH
Page 4 / NATIONAL NEWS Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
A lion preys on a zebra. Conserva-
tionists argue that Kenya does not
have enough lions of its own as the
population has reduced over the last
10 years. [PHOTO:FILE]
Uproar over plot to export
lions to Rwanda park
And sources cited by eTurbo News,
an authoritative online information
bulletin on tourism, aviation and trav-
el, indicate that next month, Rwandas
Akagera Park will be receiving eight li-
ons from Kenya.
The report dated August 5 states
that logistics are already in place at
the African Parks-managed Akagera
National Park in Rwanda to receive
the lions from Kenya.
Yesterday evening, Kenya Wildlife
Service (KWS) Deputy Communica-
tion Spokesman Jinaro Mburu denied
knowledge of the planned export of li-
ons to Rwanda and referred this writ-
er to Ministry of Water, Environment
and Natural Resources.
We are not aware. If anything, it
could be on a government-to-govern-
ment basis and KWS falls under the
ministry. So the ministry is best suited
A plan by Kenyan authorities to
export lions to Rwanda has sparked a
fierce storm with Kenyas wildlife con-
servation groups opposed to it.
The alleged export is to take place
next month according to authorita-
tive sources.
Any export of Kenyan wildlife re-
quires presidential approval and the
concurrence of several ministries.
Conservationists in Kenya op-
posed to the plan say Rwanda had not
addressed issues resulting in the de-
cline of its own lion population.

Akagera Park
In a bid to become a high-end
wildlife tourist destination, the land-
locked central African nation is said
to have struck a deal with Kenyan au-
thorities to import eight lions to in-
crease the numbers in Akagera Na-
tional Park.
Paul Kurgat, a tourism stakeholder
and practitioner, wondered why Ken-
ya would sanction the export of lions
to Rwanda when there are so few in its
own wildlife sanctuaries.
When you go out on a game
drive, say in the expansive Tsavo Na-
tional Park, it can take an entire day
to spot just one lion, Mr Kurgat told
The Standard in a telephone interview
yesterday.
Kigali has struck a
deal to import, by
next month, eight big
cats to increase the
numbers in its park
A Dutch airliner has suspended
its charter flights to Mombasas Moi
International Airport over insecuri-
ty fears.
In its latest edition, eTurbo News
which covers tourism and aviation
news, indicates that the airline owned
by TUI Holland/Arkefly has suspend-
ed indefinitely its flights on the route
over security concerns for tourists vis-
iting Kenya.
It is like going forward two steps
and then sliding back three, a source
who did not wish be identified com-
mented.
Arkelfy flies to Mombasa on Tues-
days, bringing in tourists to the Ken-
yan coast.
The Coast branch Chief Executive
Officer of Kenya Association of Hotel-
keepers and Caterers (KAHC) Sam Ik-
waye read malice in the action by TUI
Holland/Arkefly.
It is unfortunate but we still are
thankful to our true partners and
friends who have stood by us like
Condor Germany, Meridiana, Euro-
fly, Rwandair, Ethiopian and Turkish
Airlines, Ikwaye said.
He said Kenya Airways, the nation-
al carrier, had not stopped flying in-
to destinations in parts of West Afri-
ca that have suffered from outbreak
of the deadly Ebola virus.
We have shown solidarity as a
country and stood by our Western Af-
rican brothers and sisters as our na-
tional carrier continues to provide the
all necessary air link to that part of the
world, said Ikwaye.
He said the Government had ad-
dressed some of the critical concerns
raised by international partners on
security and it was only fair that they
reciprocate by allowing flights into
Mombasa.
Two weeks ago, Italian charter
plane resumed flights to Mombasa,
leading to an influx of guests to hotels
dotted around Watamu and Malindi,
which are havens for Italian tourists.
There was optimism of a quick
turnaround in the fledgling fortunes
of the tourism industry and everyone
was hopeful that this could be the sig-
nal for others to take a fresh look at
Destination Kenya, Ikwaye said.
Dutch airliner
cancels ights
to Mombasa
The youth have been urged to take
advantage of the more than Sh22 bil-
lion worth of loans the Government
has set aside for youth, women and
the disabled.
Devolution and Planning minis-
try Senior Administrator Hassan Noor
Hassan urged the youth to shun drug
abuse and instead engage in gainful
activities using funds offered by the
Government.
The current regime has made re-
markable strides in promoting em-
powerment of the youth who must
take the initiative to exploit the op-
portunities instead of lamenting,
said Mr Noor in a statement yester-
day.
He cited the Sh6 billion Uwezo
Fund, the National Youth Enterprise
Fund, Women Enterprise Fund and
the 30 per cent Government Procure-
ment Opportunity as some of the bold
and deliberate initiatives to empower
the youth, who have been marginal-
ised by past administrations.
Noor said the ministry was imple-
menting the new procurement policy
in which contracts worth Sh1.57 bil-
lion are already allocated to the tar-
geted group. He said plans are un-
derway to make the new guidelines
mandatory.
He was speaking yesterday at the
Mathari National Teaching and Re-
ferral Hospital in Nairobi to mark this
years United Nations International
Youth Week, where at least 300 vol-
unteers turned up to clean the facility.
Noor, representing Principal Sec-
retary John Konchella, applauded the
events of the day, saying they were in
line with the days theme, Youth and
Mental Health.
Noor said the clean-up was meant
to promote the involvement of youth
in community work and reduce the
stigma associated with patients suf-
fering from mental ailments.
He said cases of mental sickness
due to various causes including drug
addiction are on the rise, adding that
statistics indicated that at least one in
every four Kenyans has a mental con-
dition.
International Youth Day will be
marked officially tomorrow.
Also present at the event were Di-
rector of Youth Affairs Timothy Gakuo,
Youth Ambassador to the UN Wambui
Kahara and senior staff at the Math-
ari Hospital among officials from the
United Nations Environment Pro-
gramme.
to comment, Mr Jinaro said.
A spokesman from the ministry,
Murei Muya, had earlier told The
Standard to get in touch with KWS
to shed light on the matter.
And a KWS insider who spoke
on condition of anonymity said a
decision to approve the export has
not been made.
A technical evaluation report
from KWS will be used to deter-
mine the approval process, the
source said.
Youths urged to utilise Sh22 billion State loans
BY PHILIP MWAKIO
BY LONAH KIBET
BY PHILIP MWAKIO
KENYA LOSES AVERAGE
OF 100 LIONS ANNUALLY
Sources indicate that Kenya
loses an average of 100 lions
annually due to growing hu-
man settlements, increased
farming, climate change and
disease
There were 2,749 lions in
Kenya in 2002; their popula-
tion dropped to 2,280 by 2004
and to roughly 2,000 today,
according to fgures attributed
to the Kenya Wildlife Service
The Senate select committee in-
vestigating the proposed removal
from office of Machako Deputy Gov-
ernor (DG) Bernard Kiala will begin its
public hearing today.
The 11-member committee elect-
ed Mutahi Kagwe (Nyeri) to chair the
process and nominated Senator Ag-
nes Zani as his deputy.
The committee has set two days
to study the charges against Mr Kia-
la and has also invited him to appear
before the team today.
Senator Sammy Leshore (Sambu-
ru), who is a member of the commit-
tee, told The Standard that they will
kick off the hearing by seeking to sub-
stantiate the charges levelled against
the DG.
We are still studying the alle-
gations. We officially begin work on
Monday for three days before we re-
treat to write the report to be tabled
before the House on August 18 for de-
bate, he said.
Kiala faces charges of gross viola-
tion of the Constitution and gross vi-
olation of the four Acts of Parliament;
the County Government Act, Public
Ethics Act, National Cohesion and In-
tegration Act, and the Leadership and
Integrity Act.
The probe committee comprises
Kagwe, Zani, Sammy Leshore (Sam-
buru), Lenny Kivuti (Embu), Abu
Chiaba (Lamu), Anyang Nyongo
(Kisumu), Kennedy Mongare Okon-
go (Nyamira), Hassan Omar (Mom-
basa), Martha Wangari and Daisy Ka-
nainza (nominated).
Devolution committee chairman
Kipchumba Murkomen has expressed
reservations with the creation of the
select committee.
Team to probe
Kiala begins
hearing today
BY ROSELYNE OBALA
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The Kenyan music industry yes-
terday woke to the sad news of the
deaths of two stalwart musicologists
- Risper Oduor and Wycliffe Anyasi -
leaving the hitherto lively music fes-
tival in Mombasa in a rather sombre
mood.
The two were killed in a road ac-
cident involving a Booker Academy
school bus in Nandi.
Mr Anyasi was known for his at-
tention to detail and promotion of
justice and more open adjudication
approaches at the festival.
As a ministry, we send our deep
and heartfelt condolences to family,
friends and colleagues of Mr Anya-
si and all those who were victims of
the crash, said the Director of Quali-
ty and Standards Mohammed Mwiny-
ipembe in Mombasa yesterday.
Benson Abwao, the executive sec-
retary of the Kenya Music Festival
who was also Anyasis classmate in
both high school and later Kenyatta
University paid glowing tribute to the
musician.
I will miss his sense of humour
and critical mind, he said.
Last year, Anyasi unsuccessfully
contested the Emuhaya parliamen-
tary seat.
Risper Oduor, who served as a
member of the festivals National Ex-
ecutive Committee, was an accom-
plished choral musician with im-
mense training experience both in
schools and with professional groups
including the Muungano Choir, which
she headed until her death.
She is credited for putting back to-
gether the internationally acclaimed
group after the death of its founder,
former Voi MP Boniface Mganga.
We will miss her charming ways
and infectious smile, said Ronald
Kala Ikutu, a former festival execu-
tive secretary.
Festival chairman Peter Wanjohi
remembered Mrs Oduor for her ded-
ication to the growth of Kenyas mu-
sic industry.
Indian culture on
display during
music festival
Arhdhra George of
Melvin Jones Lions
Academy Nakuru
successfully defended
her title
Kenya-India relations got a major
boost at the music festival in Momba-
sa as boys and girls performed Indian
cultural dances.
Arhdhra George from Melvin Jones
Lions Academy Nakuru was splendid
as she successfully defended her un-
broken record since 2012 with a so-
lo dance performed during marriage
ceremonies.
The dance is also performed
during a bumper harvest season be-
cause it symbolises peace, unity and
prosperity, George Scaria, the deputy
director at Melvin Jones School, said.
There are seven different forms
of Indian classical dances including
Kathak, Bharat and Natyam, which
were presented by Aga Khan Academy
Mombasa, Our Lady Queen of Peace
South B, Nyali School and MM Shah
Primary School.
Each dance had its own costume
distinct in meaning and aesthetics
and each colour represented the rich
and diverse Indian culture.
Garba, a traditional Gujarati festi-
val dance, was performed by Our La-
strumentation exposition coupled
with great control and a well blend-
ed choral rendition that was full of
entertainment.
And Pumwani has mastered
dancing that is both simple and
complex in equal measure.
We are happy to have had a
great experience on stage in the
manner of expression that we have
achieved, said Mr Muyale after re-
ceiving the winners trophy present-
ed by Director of Quality Assurance
and Standards Mohammed Mwiny-
ipembe.
Starehe Boys and Girls centres
united in Aquinata to take third po-
sition.
Migori TTC proved the best
group in the Luo-Luhya dance cate-
gory that saw Kaimosi TTC and Mu-
ranga TTC tie in position two in the
Teachers Colleges edition of the fes-
tival.
dy Queen of Peace Primary School.
Choreographed by Sr Jissin, it was as
captivating as it was synchronised
for maximum entertainment and
emerged the best in the Group Dance
class.
According to Bharti Patha, the di-
rector of Shivam Performing Arts
School in Mombasa, the huge number
of Kenyans performing Indian dances
was a sign of a great sense of diversity
and love for different cultures.
It brings me great joy to see Ken-
yans perform traditional Indian danc-
es with so much credibility, she said.
Other winners in the category
were Diya Gohil, Norin Patni and Ib-
dita Itota, Aditi Dube from Aga Khan
Academy.
Meanwhile, Booker Academy from
Mumias put on a brave face despite
the loss of teachers and a bus driver in
a road accident involving their school
bus on Friday to emerge second be-
hind winners Pumwani Boys High
School in the accompanied Zilizo-
pendwa class.
We were singing it for the teacher
and all those who were involved in the
accident, said James Mwanje who,
together with Denue Senelwa, led a
powerful duet of the song Fatimata.
Arranged by Joram Mwangi, the
song depicts a beautiful woman, Fati-
mata, who is ever elusive.
Joseph Muyales boys from Pum-
wani High School proved that they
are the indomitable lions in this cate-
gory when they came tops with their
song Misengue.
The group displayed a good in-
Music fraternity mourns the
deaths of two festival ofcials
BY GEORGE ORIDO
BY GEORGE ORIDO
Students from Friends College
Kamusinga perform a Luo traditional
dance as the Kenya Schools and Col-
leges Music Festival entered its fth
day at the Aga Khan High School. IN-
SET: Pupils from Nontutu Primary
school in Samburu County perform a
Samburu sacred song. [PHOTOS: GIDEON
MAUNDU/STANDARD]
Page 6 / NATIONAL NEWS Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Chairman of Governors Isaac Ruto addresses the Press on the row between
senators and governors in his Nairobi ofce. [PHOTO:J ENIPHER WACHIE/STANDARD]
remain with the governor as per the
mandate they were given by the peo-
ple, said Nassir.
Tigania West MP David Kariithi
said Governors should not feel threat-
ened by the coming into force of the
boards.
The idea is to bring all players
on board. It will make possible bet-
ter management of county affairs and
development agenda. Having MPs,
MCAs, Governors, Senators and even
the County Commissioners work to-
gether is a very good scenario. Gov-
ernors should thank MPs for that leg-
islation because it makes their work
easier, said Kariithi.
The boards will help to plan how
to use all resources, including CDF.
There is nothing wrong with senators
chairing the board, he added.
At the weekend, Bomet Governor
Isaac Ruto clashed with two senators
from South Rift over the creation of
the boards. Ruto dismissed them as
unconstitutional while Kericho Sen-
ator Charles Keter and his Bomet
counterpart Wilfred Lesan insisted
MPs oppose county development boards
would be judged by voters in the 2017
General Election.
The governor is like the President
in the county, and if in the national
government the President only con-
sults with his Cabinet on develop-
ment matters, why should we then
subject the county bosses to commit-
tees when they were given a mandate
to govern by the people? Junet asked.
He said it was illegal to have the
Senators sit in the boards and still
oversee the same counties.
If the senators chair the boards,
when there is a problem in the coun-
ty then they are part of the mess. How
then will they turn around and pre-
tend to oversight the same governors.
That is unconstitutional and unten-
able, said Junet.
Sigor MP Philip Rotino said mak-
ing senators chairpersons of the
boards was downgrading governors.
The chairmanship of the boards
should not be sole responsibilities
of Senators. I will convince MPs to
amend the law so that the position is
contested through an election, Rot-
ino added.
The new law gives Senators auto-
matic mandates as chairpersons of
the boards with the governors as sec-
retaries.
Pokot South legislator David Pkos-
ing also concurred that the chairmen
of the boards should be elected by
members. Pkosing vowed to push
through amendments in Parliament.
Mvita MP Abdulswamad Nassir ex-
plained that the executive powers still
remained with the governors despite
the creation of the boards.
Nassir, however, said that the Act
should have provided that the seat of
the chairman be rotational amongst
the leaders in the county.
They should have designed that
the chairmanship rotates from the
senators to the MPs and other lead-
ers in the county, but now we have
until six months to do such amend-
ments, but the executive powers must
they were there to stay whether gov-
ernors like or not.
Keter said from next month sen-
ators would call the first CDB meet-
ings in their counties and insisted that
governors must attend.
ODMs Suna East MP Mohamed
Junet said the amendment passed
by the Senate was unconstitutional
and meant to undermine devolution
Sigor MP Philip Rotino said mak-
ing senators chairpersons of the
boards was downgrading governors
David Pkosing (Pokot South) also
concurred that the chairmen of the
boards should be elected by mem-
bers. He vowed to push through
amendments in Parliament
IN THEIR WORDS...
Continued from P1 But Ruto vowed not to attend any
meeting chaired by the Senator in his
county.
Chairing development meetings
is the work of governors and there is
no time I will attend those meetings
you will be calling as senators to dis-
cuss development, said Ruto.
But Prof Lesan countered: The
law is clear on the formation of the
boards and we are only interested in
ensuring checks and balances in dis-
tribution of the resources in counties
to benefit all. We are not about to dic-
tate or usurp the powers of the coun-
ty chiefs as has been claimed. It is
through such conventions that we as
elected leaders can get together and
tackle the challenges affecting our
people. There is absolutely no prob-
lem in us chairing these board meet-
ings because we want to ensure all
people are served equally.
Keter claimed that the boards were
the best way to handle public resourc-
es at the counties.
We are not after you. What we on-
ly want is transparency and after all
the meeting is just held once, add-
ed Keter
Yesterday, the National Speakers
Forum Secretary General and Elgeyo
Marakwet County Assembly speaker
Albert Kochei said CDBs would create
conflict between national and county
governments.
Kochei said the amendment to
the Act sponsored by Nandi Sena-
tor Stephen Sang is anti-devolution,
and would interfere with the consti-
tutional functioning of county gov-
ernments.
The senators should clearly state
their position because their actions
show that they are working for the na-
tional government and not protecting
the counties as stated in their man-
date, said Kochei.
The Speaker observed that the
senators were not involved in the for-
mation of the five-years County Inte-
grated Development Plans (CIDP) but
now want to chair committees to im-
plement the projects.
President Uhuru Kenyatta with former US President George W Bush in Dallas,
Texas, where they held talks. [PHOTO: SIMON KILONZI/STANDARD]
President Uhuru Kenyattas first
trip to the United States as Head of
State saw him meet three American
presidents as he sought to dispel the
perception of cold relations between
his administration and the West.
President Kenyatta, who attended
the US-African Leaders Summit last
week, met President Barack Obama
at the White House and at the US De-
partment of State headquarters at
Harry S Truman Building.
On Friday, he met former President
George W Bush. The private meeting
between Uhuru and Mr Bush took
place at the George W Bush Presiden-
tial Centre in Dallas, Texas.
Last Monday, Uhuru met former
President Bill Clinton at the May-
flower Renaissance Hotel in Washing-
ton DC.
The two leaders had a private chat
for more than 20 minutes after Mr
Clinton walked over to President Ken-
yattas table at a dinner hosted in hon-
Uhuru tells Texas business community to invest
in Kenya for best returns in the world
y B PSCU our of former US Ambassador to the
United Nations Andrew Young.
After the meeting with Mr Bush,
President Kenyatta was taken on a
tour of the George W Bush Presiden-
tial Library by its director, Alan C
Lowe. The President then went into a
luncheon within the centre hosted in
his honour by a group of Texas busi-
ness people in collaboration with the
East Africa Chamber of Commerce.
The luncheon was attended by
business executives mainly from Tex-
as and New York.
Addressing guests at the luncheon,
Uhuru said he had held fruitful dis-
cussions with Bush, who during his
tenure in office dedicated massive US
aid to combat HIV and Aids in Africa.
It was a great moment to meet
with him. He is a man who has done
so much in the fight against HIV and
Aids, he said.
The President also said Kenya is
an investment destination that nev-
er disappoints.
We have one of the best estab-
lished financial sectors in Africa sec-
ond only to South Africa and coupled
with one of the best educated work
force you will ever find on the conti-
nent, he said.
The President said investments in
Kenya have one of the best returns in
the world and urged the business ex-
ecutives to invest in infrastructure,
ICT and energy.
The business executives included
the Chief Executive Officer of Money-
gram, Pamela H Patsley, with whom
President Kenyatta held a separate
meeting after the luncheon.
When it comes to business, Tex-
as businessmen are recognised as
the engine of the American economy.
I urge you to bring more business to
Kenya, he said.
He told the Americans that his
mission to the US was to build on the
bonds of friendship that have exist-
ed with Kenya even before indepen-
dence.
The United States supported our
struggle for independence and ma-
ny of our independence leaders were
meetings with other business execu-
tives in Washington were successful,
with many commitments by US firms
to invest in Kenya.
General Electric is keen to partner
with us in the health sector to increase
access to quality health care for Ken-
yans, he said.
He said US corporations were in-
terested in Kenyas energy sector.
The diversification of power gen-
eration is also an area where we want
American companies to play a role,
he said.
The President said his Govern-
ments policy was to put more effort
in increasing the production of green
energy.
Kenya is internationally recognised
as a leader in green energy.
Page 7 NATIONAL NEWS / Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Security in Mathare slums has
been mounted as voters go to the
polls today to elect their MP in a hot-
ly contested by-election.
Nine candidates are fighting it out
to represent the Mathare constituen-
cy for the next three and a half years
in the National Assembly. Of the nine
in the race, five are sponsored by po-
litical parties and the other four are
independent.
Nairobi area police boss Benson
Kibue said that at least 200 police of-
ficers have been deployed across var-
ious polling stations. He noted that
other officers will be patrolling the ar-
ea and another contingent has been
deployed at the main tallying centre
in St Teresas Girls Primaryn School.
The Independent Electoral and
Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has
hired and trained 230 presiding and
deputy presiding officers as well as
460 polling clerks for the election.
Mathare Constituency Returning
Officer Joseph Masindet is confident
Of the nine candidates
battling it out in the
mini-polls, ve are
sponsored by political
parties and the other
four are independent
about achieving a credible election.
We have promised the candidates
that this election will be free and fair.
Campaigns have so far been conduct-
ed peacefully and we expect a smooth
process to the end, said Mr Masin-
det.
The final preparations, staff de-
ployment and distribution of elec-
tion material to polling stations were
done yesterday.
Masindet said the polling stations
would be opened at 6am and closed at
5pm. He noted that those still queu-
ing at 5 pm would be allowed to vote
but those outside the gate would be
barred.
We are appealing to the voters to
turn out and vote for their preferred
candidate. Everything is in place and
we hope to complete the exercise by
11pm, said Masindet.
Electronic Voter Identification De-
vices will be used in each polling sta-
tion while transmission of provision-
al results will be done electronically
from each polling stream.
The returning officer also met
other IEBC officials and held discus-
sions with domestic and internation-
al observers accredited to monitor the
mini-polls.
INTENSE BATTLE
Briefing of other stakeholders in-
cluding political party agents was
held over the past week.
According to Masindet, Mathare
constituency has a total of 88,053 reg-
istered voters spread across six county
assembly wards and 115 polling sta-
tions.
TNAs George Wanjohi, ODM can-
didate Steve Kariuki, Maendeleo
Democratic aspirant Fwamba NC
Fwamba, National Labour Partys Bil-
Security beefed up as Mathare voters elect MP
Steven Kariuki
y B RAWLINGS OTIENO
George Wanjohi Fwamba NC Fwamba William Omondi
lian Okoth and Sammy Mudanya of
the Progressive Party of Kenya will
square it out in the intense battle.
Other contestants include four
independent candidates, William
Omondi, Barrack Obadi, Mariam
Macharia, and Nixon Kavai.
Another independent candidate,
Gor Semelango was knocked out of
the race on a technicality of the rules
and regulations of the Judiciary stat-
ing that one appellate judge cannot
give conservatory orders.
Gor had filed an appeal of the deci-
sion by the High Court to bar him from
contesting but because the Judiciary
has been on recess, Gor could access
only one judge.
Speaking to The Standard by
phone, he said once the judges re-
turn, his case would be determined
although the mini-poll would have
been conducted.
I have been knocked out of the
race because of some technicalities
that were not of my making. We hope
the case will still go on and a deter-
mination reached, said Semelango.
The Standard has also learnt that
the candidates will have a separate
tallying centre within the constituen-
cy to parallel IEBCs. Candidates say
the move is aimed at checking any at-
tempt to manipulate results in favour
of any one candidate.
ODMs Political Affairs Officer
Maseme Machuka told The Stan-
dard that the last General Election in
Mathare was marred by irregularities
and they did not expect a repeat.
We have two party agents at each
polling station and expect to tally our
own votes at our centre to ensure that
there is fairness and the exercise is
credible, said Mr Machuka.
Muthoni Macharia
Page 8 / NATIONAL NEWS Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Deputy President William Ruto accompanied by Samburu West MP Lati Leletit arrive at Maralal stadium where he
addressed a public rally on Saturday. PHOTO: DPPS
Government building 60
technical institutes
Deputy President
William Ruto says
each institute will be
built at a cost Sh100
million
The Government will build
technical training institutes in ev-
ery constituency in the next five
years.
The first phase of 60 technical
training institutes was launched
in Samburu County over the
weekend by Deputy President
William Ruto with each institute
to cost Sh100 million.
Sh60 million will go towards
construction while Sh40 million
will be used to equip them upon
completion.
The Deputy President said the
Government has already adver-
tised for the tendering of the first
60 technical institutions, adding
that another tendering for the sec-
ond phase of 100 institutions will
be in the next financial year.
The Government is seeking to
solve the shortage of skilled per-
sonnel in technical fields such as ar-
tisans, technologists, technicians and
other technical expertise. We want to
make sure everyone is given an equal
opportunity to get advanced educa-
tion without being condemned for
failing in certain subjects or certain
areas because not everyone is gift-
ed to pass an examination, said Mr
Ruto.
The Deputy President said skills
development helps enhance produc-
tivity, stimulate economic competi-
tiveness and alleviate poverty.
We want to build colleges of tech-
nology where essential skills such as
plumbing, masonry, welding, electri-
cal work, among others are trained.
This way, we will build a strong army
of skilled people required to grow the
economy and help transform lives,
he said.
Laying foundation stones for Sir-
ata and Archers Post technical train-
ing institutes respectively, Ruto said
the Jubilee administration will estab-
lish middle level and technical col-
leges to train youth on technical skills
needed in fostering economic growth
through innovation.
He said the institutions will help
develop youth expertise and skills
necessary for the envisioned double
digit economic growth.
The Deputy President said the
Government was committed to max-
imum exploitation of science and
technological innovations for the re-
alisation of sustainable and equitable
development in the country.
He said the Jubilee manifesto and
Vision 2030 recognise the critical role
played by science and technology in
achieving development.
Police are puzzling over how a se-
nior Al-Shabaab commander, Hassan
Hanafi Haji, who was arrested in Nai-
robi, was found with a Kenyan iden-
tity card.
An ID that he was allegedly found
with showed he is Yusuf Hassan and
was born in Mandera County, officials
handling the case revealed.
We do not know if it is genuine
and that is what we are still investigat-
ing. The picture on the ID almost re-
sembles him as much as it is showing
some scars, said a senior official who
did not want to be quoted.
Another official said he may have
obtained the document to help him
move around because of the ongoing
crackdown on illegal immigrants in
Eastleigh.
Inspector General of Police David
Kimaiyo declined to comment on the
matter.
Hanafi arrived in Nairobi on un-
disclosed dates to seek treatment for
injuries he sustained in Somalia when
he was arrested. He was arrested in
Eastleigh last week and is being held
by the Anti-Terror Police Unit.
Somalias Information minister
Mustafa Duhulow said Hanafi, who is
also a journalist, will be extradited to
his country to face charges there.
As a result of surveillance by the
Somalia security apparatus, the Ken-
yan security forces captured Hassan
Hanafi Haji, wanted for the killing of
a number of Somalia journalists and
other citizens, Mr Duhulow said in a
statement.
It is also alleged that he was deep-
ly involved in Al-Shabaabs propagan-
da machine, Duhulow added, claim-
ing Hanafi was a senior member of the
Islamist group.
Counter-terrorism detectives had
marked Hanafi as a high value sus-
pect after his arrest. Sources said they
were investigating if his accomplices
are here. He was trying to seek med-
ical attention in one of the clinics in
Eastleigh when he was nabbed.
Hanafi has been accused of kill-
ing colleagues and working for the
Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab. The ter-
ror group continues to launch attacks
in Mogadishu including recent com-
mando raids on the presidential pal-
ace and Parliament in a bid to topple
the internationally-backed Govern-
ment.
The group operates its own radio
station and regularly releases propa-
ganda videos, and was previously ac-
tive on Twitter before their accounts
were shut down. It is believed Hana-
fi was a propagandist for the station.
Somalia has asked Kenya to hand
Hanafi over to face trial, Duhulow said.
Police nd ID on
suspect linked
to terror
Security ofcers mistakenly shoot colleague dead in Mathare
A police officer was shot dead by
colleagues who mistook him for an
armed criminal in Mathare slums,
Nairobi, over the weekend.
The officer attached to Traffic
Headquarters in Nairobi was shot at
close range by fellow officers in a bar
after a false alarm on Saturday night,
police said.
The victim, Constable Obadiah
Chirchir, was in the bar with a col-
league and other patrons when police
who had been informed of a gang in
the bar with guns stormed in.
Witnesses said the officers opened
fire, killing Chirchir as other revellers
ran for safety.
Chirchir, who was working with
the Alcoblow breathalyser team, was
armed at the time of the shooting.
His seniors said his mistake was to
go to the bar in civilian clothes while
armed.
There was an alarm went to po-
lice claiming there were gunmen in
the bar, which prompted the unfor-
tunate shooting, said Nairobi police
boss Benson Kibue.
Meanwhile, a suspected thug was
on Saturday night shot dead and three
guns and 80 bullets recovered from
him in Westlands, Nairobi. However,
his two accomplices escaped on foot.
Police say an employee of UN of-
fices in Nairobi was shot and wound-
ed in the shooting.
Elsewhere, two women aged 65
and 45 were arrested and two guns,
233 rolls of bhang, two cameras and
other valuables believed to have been
stolen recovered in Shauri Moyo.
BY DPPS
BY CYRUS OMBATI
BY CYRUS OMBATI
GOVERNMENT PROMISES MID LEVEL COLLEGES
The Government will build technical training institutes in every con-
stituency in the next fve years at a cost of Sh100 million each
Sh60 million will go towards construction while Sh40 million will be
used to equip them upon completion
Deputy President William Ruto said the Government recognises sci-
ence and technology as the crucial driver to achieving sustainable de-
velopment, economic growth and enhancing global competitiveness,
noting that the adoption and use of knowledge will be critical in pro-
moting development in the country
The half-naked body of a woman
was at the weekend found dumped in a
maize plantation in Dallas, Embu town.
Area police boss Mzuri Nyange said
the deceased, identied as Catherine
Wawira, had been seen the previous
night taking her 11-year-old daughter
to her grandmothers house. A knife
was also found near the body. Mr
Nyange said the body bore no signs of
physical injury.
The Government should
implement the Truth, Justice and
Reconciliation Commission report so
that irregularly allocated land can
be repossessed, Gem MP Jakoyo
Midiwo has said. Mr Midiwo (above)
said the Government should stop
threatening Siaya Senator James
Orengo, adding that people are killed
every election year because of land.
Chaos erupted in Kaptembwo
slums in Nakuru County after two
ODM groups clashed at a political rally
organised by some ODM members to
denounce the area MP for allegedly
being a Jubilee mole. The two groups,
one supporting area MP Samuel Arama
and the other calling for his ouster,
threw stones at each other, forcing
police to re teargas.
Some 43 political parties have
supported calls for a referendum,
saying it would safeguard the
countrys democratic gains. The
parties unanimously agreed to form
a committee to work with experts
to craft suitable questions. The
Independent Party leader Kalembe
Ndile urged the Government to give
Kenyans their constitutional rights by
ensuring fairness and equity.
Police in Mukurwe-ini, Nyeri County,
have urged the public to help identify
the body of a 65-year-old man who
drowned in River Tana at Gatiki village
near the Mathira border. Mukurwe-ini
police boss Hassan Pole said police
pulled the body from the river on
Saturday after it was spotted by area
residents. The body may have stayed
in the water for four to ve days but
we suspect the deceased may have
drowned upstream, said Pole.
Woman found dead in
maize plantation
State fumbling with land
issues, says Jakoyo
ODM loyalists clash over
alleged Jubilee mole
43 political parties join
referendum push
Police urge wananchi to
help identify body
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Page 9 NATIONAL NEWS / Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
A man is on the run after he shot
dead a bouncer and injured two oth-
ers over a Sh200 bill in Nairobis Kasa-
rani area.
The man is said to have shot the
bouncer at close range and injured
one in the leg and the other in the
thigh at a bar christened Monaco, fol-
lowing a bitter argument. Police said
the man escaped and is yet to be lo-
cated.
Kasarani OCPD Augustine Nthum-
bi said yesterday they were yet to
identify the man and establish if he is
a licenced gun holder.
UNPAID BILL
The patrons and bouncers say he
is a regular there but they do not know
his real name. We are looking for him
to charge him with murder, said Mr
Nthumbi.
Witnesses said the assailant was
leaving the bar at about 2am on Sat-
urday when he was blocked by the
bouncers over an unpaid bill of Sh200.
In the confusion, he sneaked out
and dashed to his car that was parked
a few metres away and came back
armed with a pistol. The man is said
to have fired at the three bouncers.
Police say he then rushed back to
his car and drove off as other revellers
scampered for safety.
Bouncer killed
in bar brawl
over Sh200
Police warn pedestrians on suicide
Anyone caught
crossing at unmarked
points will be charged
with attempting to kill
themselves
Police will charge pedestrians
found crossing roads at non-desig-
nated areas with attempted suicide.
Previously, such suspects were
charged with obstructing motorists.
Traffic Commandant Charlton
Muriithi met top commanders in
the city to discuss the issue and they
agreed on the more serious charge of
attempted suicide against offenders.
Mr Muriithi said such an action
will be interpreted as one wanting to
take his or her life because other than
footbridges, there are marked areas
meant for crossing the road.
It is almost attempted suicide
because when you have a designat-
ed crossing point and you choose to
cross elsewhere, and you are hit by
a vehicle... if you survive, we should
charge you with attempted suicide,
he warned.
The police boss said statistics have
indicated that pedestrians knocked
down by vehicles were in most cases
using undesignated crossing points.
The meeting came in the wake of
increased campaigns for pedestrians
to use designated crossing points.
National Transport and Safe-
ty Authority Director General
Francis Meja says statistics of
people killed in road crashes
indicate that 46 per cent are
pedestrians
In Nairobi alone, 479 pedes-
trians have been killed in the
last six months. A total of 763
pedestrians have been killed
this year alone
This is a reduction from 855
last year over the same peri-
od, while 333 passengers have
died in road crashes
National Transport and Safety Au-
thority Director General Francis Me-
ja says the statistics of people killed in
road crashes indicate that 46 per cent
are pedestrians.
Officials say the conditions of foot-
bridges are being improved, adding
that plans to man them round the
clock are underway.
The meeting also discussed cor-
ruption in the Kenya Police Service
Traffic Department.
Last week, Ethics and Anti-Cor-
ruption Commission officers ar-
rested four officers at Mariakani
and Mlolongo weighbridges for tak-
ing bribes. They were among 16
people arrested in the operation.
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THE GRIM PICTURE OF
NUMBER OF DEATHS
Riverside brewery
Mathare slums residents make changaa along Nairobi River in broad daylight
and no one dares interrupt their business. They are very suspicious of strange
people visiting, more so when you try to take a photograph. [ PHOTO: JENIPHER WA-
CHIE/STANDARD]
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Why poll petition against
Narok East MP failed
Lawyer said all courts
lacked jurisdiction
to hear case led out
of time and suit was
therefore null and void
BENCH WATCH
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROBI
PETITION NO. 5 OF 2014
BETWEEN
HON LEMANKEN ARAMAT...............................APPELLANT
AND
HARUN MEITAMEI LEMPAKA, ISAAC RUTO (Returning of-
cer) and IEBC.............. RESPONDENTS
BENCH: HON JUSTICES WILLY MUTUNGA, KALPANA RAWAL,
PHILIP TUNOI, MOHAMMED IBRAHIM, J B OJWANG, SMOKIN
WANJALA AND NJOKI NDUNGU
JUDGEMENT: 06.08.2014
Police might have killed Masjid Musa suspect, judge rules
A judge in Mombasa has
ruled that a man who has been
missing since his arrest in the
Musa Mosque on February 2
was most likely killed by po-
licemen who detained him af-
ter storming the controversial
mosque.
Justice Edward Mureit-
hi has said that after killing
the suspect, police in Momba-
sa invented cover stories and
myths to explain the fact that
he could not be traced in their
custody after arresting him in
public.
The judge has now ordered
a judicial investigation to de-
termine the perpetrators of the
suspected murder.
Hemed must be presumed
dead..., declared Mureithi on
Friday afternoon, referring to
Hemed Salim Hemed who has
been missing since his arrest
six months ago.
The judge added that there
were reasonable grounds for
the belief that the subject must
have been killed by the police
and the fact covered up by the-
ories of escape that could not
be positively proved.
Key top officials including
Mombasa County Police Com-
mander Robert Kitur, who led
the raid, testified before the
judge after Hemeds family
sued the State, seeking to have
the police produce him.
Hemeds family and rights
activist Okoiti Omtatah filed
for habeas corpus (order re-
quiring a person under arrest
to be brought before a judge
or into court) in early Febru-
ary after police failed to charge
him in court over the February
2 events. Hemeds family later
failed to trace him at any police
station, hospital or morgue.
Justice Mureithi argued
that the order must be held
in abeyance until it is estab-
lished that the police have
custody or regained custody
of Hemed, indicating that al-
though evidence suggests the
suspect was killed, it was not
reasonable to hold onto hope
that police could still produce
him alive.
HOW AND WHY
The petitioners sued the
Attorney General and Inspec-
tor General of Police, seek-
ing various reliefs including
Hemeds immediate produc-
tion in court.
The judge ordered the in-
quest into Hemeds disap-
pearance or murder to be led
by a magistrate and in a prece-
dent ruling, said police them-
selves suspected of involve-
ment in the disappearance and
probable death of the subject,
should not lead the probe to
determine who killed the sus-
pect or how and why.
He instead asked the CID
in conjunction with the Kenya
National Human Rights Com-
mission to launch a probe and
prepare a report for the Chief
Magistrate to launch an in-
quest. Hemed has been miss-
ing since February and police
had advanced a myth that he
escaped from a prisoner-laden
truck as he and other suspects
were being taken to Makupa
Police Station in Mombasa.
Justice Mureithi ruled that
there was no dispute about
Hemeds arrest in the mosque,
adding that video evidence
showed his arrest by gun
wielding policemen who ac-
cused of him of having killed
a police officer during the raid
on the mosque.
The judge argued it was
possible as claimed by Hemeds
family that the officer was ac-
tually killed by his colleagues
and the matter covered up.
He added that a police theo-
ry that Hemed escaped during
transportation to police cells
was illogical and impractical
when tested and that police
had not adequately explained
their claim that they un-cuffed
a man they considered a high
value suspect, thus enabling
the alleged escape.
Lemanken Aramat was among
nine candidates who contested the
new Narok East parliamentary seat in
the March 4, 2013, General Election.
The constituency was carved out of
the wider Narok North.
The youthful Aramat won the seat
with 5,616 votes while his closest
challenger, seasoned politician Ha-
run Lempaka, got 5,174 votes.
Lempaka filed a petition at the
High Court in Nakuru on April 10,
2013, seeking to have all the parlia-
mentary votes from the 69 constitu-
encies scrutinised and recounted. His
argument was that though the elec-
tion had been smooth, the wrong can-
didate was declared the winner.
On September 5, 2013, Nakuru
High Court judge Mathew Emuku-
le dismissed the petition. Lempaka
filed an appeal in the Court of Appeal.
On March 28, 2014, three Court of
Appeal judges set aside the decision
of the High Court and ordered a re-
count of all the parliamentary votes.
The exercise was to be conducted at
the Nakuru High Court.
The MP filed a petition in the Su-
preme Court. He obtained orders
stopping the recount pending the de-
termination of the petition by all sev-
en judges.
His lawyer, Tom Ojienda, filed 11
grounds for the petition. However,
during the hearing, the lawyer raised
a major issue - that the petition in the
High Court in 2013 had been filed out
of the time allowed by the Constitu-
tion hence it was null and void.
Article 87(2) of the Constitution
provides that petitions concerning
an election, other than a presiden-
tial election, shall be filed within 28
days after declaration of the election
results by the Independent Electoral
and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
Section 76(1)(a) of the Elections
Act, however, states that a petition
to question the validity of an elec-
tion shall be filed within 28 days after
the date of publication of the results
of the election in the Kenya Gazette.
This is the section Lempaka relied
on in filing his petition. The Narok
East parliamentary election results
were declared on March 4, 2013.
However, that section was de-
clared unconstitutional in a petition
involving Mombasa Governor Hassan
Ali Joho & Another.
The ruling was then applied at the
Supreme Court by Othaya MP Mary
Wambui to overturn an earlier nulli-
fication of her election by the Court of
Appeal. The petition challenging her
election had also been filed out of the
time set by the Constitution.
Going by those decisions, the
Narok East petition was filed 36 days
after declaration of results was time
barred.
On this point, Ojienda argued that
the High Court, therefore, had no ju-
risdiction to hear it. And if the peti-
tion was a nullity from the beginning,
the Court of Appeal could not enter-
tain an appeal arising from such a pe-
tition.
The position was supported by
IEBC who argued that the petition at
the High Court was a nullity having
been filed out of time.
However, Lempakas lawyer Kibe
Mungai submitted that if the High
Court and the Court of Appeal could
not hear such a petition, then even
the Supreme Court lacked the juris-
diction to hear it.
Mungai argued that the question
of the nullity of the petition could on-
ly be determined by the High Court,
which had the constitutional man-
date to deal with the matter.
He said the MP had not raised the
issue of nullity when he first filed the
petition at the High Court hence he
could not raise it during the proceed-
ings.
Does the Supreme Court have
jurisdiction to entertain this matter?
was the key question the Supreme
Court judges had to deal with.
All the seven judges, led by Chief
Justice Willy Mutunga, agreed that the
petition filed in the High Court was
out of time hence null and void from
the beginning.
The High Court lacked jurisdiction
to entertain it. Likewise, the Court of
Appeal had no jurisdiction to hear an
appeal arising from a nullity.
The judges, however, reasoned
that though the other lower courts
had no legal authority to hear the ap-
peal, the Supreme Court had a broad-
er mandate to entertain the case.
It is a responsibility vested in the
Supreme Court to interpret the Con-
stitution with finality. This remit en-
tails that this court determines ap-
propriately those situations in which
it ought to resolve questions coming
up before it, in particular, where these
have a direct bearing on the interpre-
tation and application of the Con-
stitution. Besides, as the Supreme
Court carries the overall responsibili-
ty for providing guidance on matters
of law for the States judicial branch,
it follows that its jurisdiction is an en-
larged one, enabling it in all situations
in which it has been duly moved, to
settle the law for the guidance of oth-
er courts. they summed it up.
The judges ruled that the Supreme
Court was the guardian of the Consti-
tution, and the final arbiter on consti-
tutional dispute situations.
Upon an extensive consideration
of the factor of timelines in the pro-
cessing of electoral disputes, un-
der the Constitution and the statute
law, this court has come to the con-
clusion that the jurisdiction of the
Election Court is linked to timelines.
Consequently, the trial court lacked
jurisdiction to entertain the elector-
al question remitted by the Court of
Appeal, once its six-month mandate
had lapsed. Indeed, even at the very
beginning, the High Court had lacked
jurisdiction to entertain the case, as
the petition had been filed belatedly
by as much as eight days.
They went on: Just as the High
Court lacked jurisdiction to entertain
the original petition on the grounds
of breached timelines, so the Court of
Appeal had no jurisdiction to enter-
tain the matter.
However, they said the Supreme
Court was more broadly empowered
for general oversight of the interpreta-
tion and application of the Constitu-
tion, and of the matters of law of gen-
eral public importance.
Justice Mohammed Ibrahim took
a dissenting opinion on whether the
Supreme Court should have dealt
with the issue of merit in the case if
the petition was a nullity from the be-
ginning.
I agree with the majority finding
that the petition at the High Court in
this matter was filed outside the con-
stitutional timelines of 28 days after
the declaration of results. Hence, all
the proceedings at the High Court and
the Court of Appeal that sprung from
a petition that was a nullity are also
null and void. Hence this court does
not have jurisdiction to entertain this
appeal, the judge said in his dissent-
ing judgement.
He added, This Court should have
downed its tools and not delved in-
to any other question on their merits.
With much respect and deference, I
would disagree with my brothers and
sisters in the majority when they did
not rest the matter at this point and
went ahead to entertain consider-
ation of other issues on merit.
The Supreme Court annulled the
judgement of the Court of Appeal
made on March 28, 2014, and rein-
stated the gazettement of Lemanken
as the Narok East MP.

The writer is a court reporter with
the Standard Group. Email. iwa-
home@standardmedia.co.ke
Under the Constitution and
the statute law, this court has
come to the conclusion that
the jurisdiction of the Election
Court is linked to timelines.
Supreme Court judges
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Narok East MP Lemanken Aramat celebrates with his supporters at the Su-
preme Court shortly after the court upheld his election victory. [PHOTO: FILE]
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The National Police Service
Commission (NPSC) should
not be involved in investigat-
ing the controversial police re-
cruitment, the Kenya National
Commission on Human Rights
(KNCHR) has said.
It places the commission
as a judge, jury and execu-
tioner in its own case. Such a
shallow audit cannot redeem
an irredeemably flawed re-
cruitment exercise, KNCHR
said in a joint statement with
the Police Reforms Working
Group-Kenya (PRWG-K).
It further stated that the
process was riddled with cor-
ruption and discrimination,
adding that the recruitment
was undertaken in non-ga-
zette centres and unwarranted
extension of recruitment time.
Such malpractices must be
thoroughly addressed through
an independent probe to guar-
antee non-repetition, KNCHR
said.
KNCHR and PRWG-K are
also demanding the imme-
diate nullification of the re-
cruitment drive. They want
the commission to develop re-
cruitment regulations to guide
a fresh, transparent recruit-
ment drive.
They added that they sup-
port legal action taken by the
Independent Police Oversight
Authority (IPOA), and threat-
ened to be enjoined in the
matter if their concerns were
not addressed by today.
IPOA filed a case in court
citing irregularities and
non-compliance with the Con-
stitution, thus leading to the
great hue and cry from the
public and aggrieved partic-
ipants, chairman Macharia
Njeru said.
The statement was signed
by KNCHR and PRWG-K mem-
bers including Independent
Medico-Legal Unit, Kenya Hu-
man Rights Commission, In-
ternational Centre for Jurists
Kenya, International Centre
for Transitional Justice, Rights
Promotion and Protection
Centre, Legal Resources Foun-
dation, Federation of Women
Lawyers in Kenya, Kenyans for
Peace with Truth and Justice,
Coalition on Violence Against
Women, Centre for Minority
Rights, National Coalition for
Human Rights Defenders and
Usalama Reforms Forum.
The audit report is expect-
ed to be forwarded to the Com-
mission by mid next this week.
The commission said the
team probing the recruitment
had handed its findings to the
Joint Committee comprising
the Ethics and Anti-Corruption
Commission, the National In-
telligence Service, the Ministry
of Interior and Co-ordination,
the Directorate of Criminal In-
vestigations and the National
Police Service Commission on
August 4.
Rights body
wants police
recruitment
cancelled
KNCHR says National Police Service
Commission should not be involved in
the investigations
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Kitui Central police boss Muchangi Kioi instructs youth during
the police recruitment drive at the Kitui High School grounds,
in Kitui County, last week. [PHOTO: PAUL MUTUA/STANDARD]
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Political goodwill can end
referendum push
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State must act to tame frequency of road accidents
WHAT OTHER MEDIA SAY...
Even though the President has pointed out that the coun-
try does not need a referendum at this point in time, we can-
not lose sight of the fact that the Governments stand on vi-
tal national issues is the sole reason why the country finds
itself at a crossroads.
The roles of Government and the Opposition are meant
to be complementary to each other, but lately there has been
a lot of mistrust and animosity between the two.
There are issues the Jubilee administration has done well
to address, but it is also apparent that from the time it took
over Government business, the country has experienced
myriads problems. From insecurity, hunger and the rising
cost of living to rampant unemployment and skewed public
appointments, the Jubilee administration has had its fair
share of bad luck.
Calls for national dialogue to deliberate over issues im-
pacting negatively on citizens were trashed by the Govern-
ment that used its five-year mandate as defence to kill the
clamour. It clearly did not see the need for dialogue with the
Opposition, which was perceived to be working to overthrow
the Government through unconstitutional means.
The Opposition denied this and stated the ouster of the
Government was not on its agenda, having accepted the Su-
preme Courts ruling in March, which upheld Uhuru Ken-
yattas election as President.
Beyond the Opposition, governors too, feel short-
changed. They have stated their displeasure with the pas-
sage of the County Development Board Bill into law. This Bill
relegates them to second position in the county develop-
ment board rankings.
They want the Government to increases county revenue
allocations to 45 per cent of the national budget. The stand-
off between the Government, senators and governors has
given birth to calls for another referendum.
The State has reacted by threatening governors affiliated
to Jubilee with dire consequences if they persist with calls
for a referendum. But threats will not solve anything. The
most sensible thing is for the Government to acknowledge
that we have issues that must be solved, view the Opposi-
tion as partners in developing the country and call for dia-
logue.
If both parties would sober up, the need for a referendum
can be overridden for the good of the country.
Kenyan roads have become notoriously
dangerous. The World Health Organisation
(WHO) says in its 2013 Global Status Report on
Road Safety that the annual official figure for
road traffic deaths in Kenya stands at 3,000 but
adds that the figure could be as high as 8,500.
Many of the accidents that kill or maim
thousands are not recorded for lack of ade-
quate reporting mechanisms. Last Saturday,
three people died at the notorious Sachang-
wan area after a lorry rammed into a school
bus belonging to St Patricks Secondary School
Iten, causing multiple other accidents. The
dead were reported to have been in a public
service vehicle that veered off the road after be-
ing hit by another vehicle.
Too many accidents have occurred at this
place over years and it would seem there is no
end in sight to this deadly menace. If we look
back, it wouldnt be difficult to recall moments
when whole villages were thrown into mourn-
ing because of tragedies that took place at
Sachangwan.
Yet, much has been said that is often forgot-
ten by those in authority as soon as wreckage
is removed from the scene of accident.
When an aeroplane is involved in accident,
the practice world over is for investigations to
be done to unravel the cause. Despite road ac-
cidents carrying similar consequences, things
usually revert to normal until the next accident
happens to open way for the next circle of lam-
entations.
How many more people must die at this ill
fated area before we do something to lessen
the frequency of accidents?
It does not bear thinking what would have
happened had the school bus ferrying students
to the Mombasa music festivals rolled too. The
death toll would have been higher but still, any
death is one too many. Invariably, most offend-
ers in accidents that occur at Sachangwan are
trucks. The anomaly has been attributed to
mechanical problems owing to poor mainte-
nance and drivers suffering judgmental lapses
due to fatigue.
Suggestions have been made on what the
government should do to control some of these
accidents. Some of the proposed measures in-
clude construction of special lanes for trucks.
Others advocate for specific movement times
for trucks. Erection of speed bumps at black
spots is also one way of reducing accidents.
The importance of clear and visible roads
signs cannot be over emphasised. Unfortu-
nately, recent speed bumps erected along the
Sachangwan stretch appear not to have been
marked. Eye witnesses to the latest mishap
claim the lorry driver was not aware of the new
bumps.
That, however, is not an excuse for drivers
who over speed for they must be alert to the
unexpected at all times while behind the
wheel.The government can no longer afford to
sit back and warn drivers against over speed-
ing while providing statics of accidents. The
time for action is now.
Traffic policemen are reminded that they
should be more vigilant in ensuring defective
vehicles and those that flout traffic rules are
kept off the road to ensure safety for road us-
ers. It will be necessary to confirm that these
trucks and indeed all public service vehicles
are fitted with workable speed governors as the
current scenario still leaves room for mistakes.
Effort must be made to keep our roads safe
and one of the imperatives is to keep heavy
trucks away from busy roads used by private
and public service vehicles or enforce the law
that specifies their times of travel.
As another politician recently remarked,
quelle surprise. It was always expected, even
by the more nave observers of the political
scene, that it was only a matter of time
before Boris Johnson announced his re-entry
into national politics. Few, however, would
have expected him to be quite so choice in his
timing. Coming as it does immediately after
the resignation of Baroness Warsi, and while
David Cameron is abroad on holiday, it has
something of the political thriller about it,
like a storyline from a Michael Dobbs novel.
Either that, or the touch of a world in which
dictators are occasionally toppled while away
at some international junket or other. More
widely, it will have done his reputation no
good, nor the Tories chances of hanging on
to the mayoralty next time around.
In the rst good news in a long time, a
72-hour cease-re appeared to be holding on
Wednesday as Israelis and Palestinians tallied
what was lost, and gained, during the latest war
over the desperate Gaza Strip. It was easiest to
count the losses. More than 1,800 Palestinians,
a majority of them noncombatants, and 67
Israelis have been killed. United Nations
of cials said 408 Palestinian children were
killed and 2,502 injured. The physical damage
in Gaza is estimated at $6 billion. There are
important but less tangible costs: the way
ordinary Israelis have had to live in fear of
rocket attacks; increasingly bitter strains
on Israels relations with the United States;
international criticism of Israel and the
outrage of anti-Semitic protests and violence
in Europe.
Ebola was not supposed to have a
prominent place on the agenda for this
weeks Africa summit. But it keeps infecting
the discussion. Forty African heads of state
are in Washington this week, snarling traf c
as the Obama administration highlights
what it describes as one of the worlds most
dynamic and fastest-growing regions. But
its dif cult to keep the focus on foreign direct
investment and electric transmission when
there is a HEMORRHAGIC FEVER spreading
OUT OF CONTROL! Its a challenge to have a
sober debate about civil society and wildlife
traf cking when medical experts say that
the outbreak in four African countries is
KILLING 70 PERCENT of victims with INTERNAL
BLEEDING and other GRUESOME SYMPTOMS!
Part-time leader of London Making the Gaza Cease-Fire Last An Ebola-infected Africa summit
Page 15 OPINION / Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Palaver
There are those in government
xated with the gure 500,000.
In its manifesto, Jubilee promised
500,000 jobs would be created
annually. Next we were told
500,000 acres of land were
allocated irregularly to a few in-
dividuals. Before that could sink
in, a former Immigration minister
was accused of having issued
500,000 illegal documents to
terrorists, mercenaries and drug
addicts! That translates to 290
illegal immigration documents
every single day in ve years, it
is preposterous. So where is the
next 500,000?
Where do you nd the real
stars in the realm of sporting in
Kenya? Everybody will agree it
is in athletics, no question about
that. They are a force to reckon
with. So, how come perennial
losers and heart-breakers that
are the national soccer team are
called stars? Why not just have
a change of name and call our
heroes and heroines of athletics
the Harambee Stars?
This devolution monster, added
to the land question could tear
this country apart. Governors
meant business when they
decided to push a lethargic
government to increase funding
to counties. And because the
Government does not listen to
logic, it denitely will listen to a
referendum. They have formed
a 15 member committee to push
for the pesa mashinani initiati-
ve. Threats from the Government
have not cowed them and CORD,
with its own referendum, is an
added boost. Surely, steering
a country to greater heights of
development is a lonely job!

The Government promised
parents and students that come
2015, it would pay
examination fees
for Class Eight
and Form Four can-
didates, and all said
hallelujah! Now,
Education Cabinet
Secretary, Prof Joseph Kaimenyi,
has shifted goal posts saying this
is applicable to public schools
only. Are those in private schools
not Kenyans, sitting the same
national exams? Why discrimina-
te against them?
Many Kenyans love their liquor
(more like local
brews), so much so
that they are
ready to die or
go blind indulging
their passion. A
few deaths from
here and there dont bother them
much. If ones day hasnt come, it
hasnt come, they argue. A caring
government would encourage
companies like EABL to produce
more of the cheaper, but safe
Senator Keg. What does ours do
instead? It watches impulsively
as EABL phases out Keg. Isnt this
inaction?
So far the referendum debate
has been very healthy. The dia-
logue that has been taking place
and the fact that people are free to
air their views without suppres-
sion is a form of direct democracy.
The opponents of this initia-
tive argue that we have just con-
cluded a General Election there-
fore we cannot subject the country
to a another election.
Others argue that the idea has
been hijacked by people from the
Cord coalition. Yet others argue
the county governments should
first utilise the funds given before
they request for more.
In my view there are some as-
sertions that are not truthful. First
of all, a referendum is not a Gen-
eral Election. We are not electing
any individual or group of people,
but instead we are subjecting a
section of the Constitution to a
test to fix an anomaly.
In countries like Switzerland, a
referendum is conducted on al-
most any major national issue in-
cluding whether mosques can
have minarets.
Secondly, this referendum is
not necessarily a plebiscite on the
current leadership. We are not
saying we keep or vote out the Ju-
bilee-led Government.
The initiative by the Council of
Governors to push for a referen-
dum is to correct where the coun-
cil of wise men otherwise known
as the Committee of Experts who
drafted the Constitution might
have missed.
In this, we take cognisance of
the fact that they are human. Defi-
nitely, when one looks at the po-
sition of the Senate and that taken
by the National Assembly, it is
very clear under the current cir-
cumstances that the Senate as
constituted is a toothless bull dog.
The Senate was created to pro-
tect the interest of the counties.
However, a hostile National As-
sembly that is answerable to no
one is now shooting down any at-
tempt to empower the counties.
In the case of Isiolo County, the
allocated Sh2.4 billion by the
Commission for Revenue Alloca-
tion is barely enough to pay for
the salaries of the defunct county
council staff, new county staff,
and the wages of the staff trans-
ferred from the National Govern-
ment to the county government.
The wage bill alone of the staff
transferred from the National
Government stands at almost Sh1
billion.
This does not include other re-
current expenditure items. That
means development funds get se-
verely constrained.
In my view, this referendum
should be about correcting the
anomalies such as the weak Sen-
Kenyans should not take at-
tacks on the Young African Lead-
ers Initiative (YALI), US President
Barack Obamas youth mentor-
ship programme launched in De-
cember 2013, seriously
Some have questioned the
process and value of the pro-
gramme, publicly querying the
selection procedure and the rele-
vance of the its curriculum.
The intentions behind these
comments seem suspect, espe-
cially because, contrary to the ac-
cusations, the YALI programme is
transparent about its selection
criteria.
According to the programme,
the youth across the continent
were invited to submit applica-
tions.
In Kenya about 5000 youth ap-
plied and 46 were selected
through an open and transparent
process that involved review of
applications, interviews and
background checks.
In this first round of YALI, 500
young people from across the
continent, including 46 from Ken-
ya, have undergone six weeks of
training in some of the best uni-
versities in the United States.
These youth are trained in one
of three key areas namely busi-
ness and entrepreneurship, pub-
lic management and civic leader-
ship.
What is critical is that YALI fel-
lows are then expected to bring
US youth programme timely, worthy
It is only
people who
fear youth
empower-
ment who
should feel
threatened
by such
initiatives
designed
to build
young
African
leaders.
it all back home, and apply their
skills and knowledge to tackle the
pressing challenges that affect
their communities and countries.
Such skills and knowledge are
required not only here in Kenya,
but continent-wide. Today, 65 per
cent of Africas population, or
roughly 650 million people are
below the age of 35 years.
The youth account for 60 per
cent of Africas jobless people, ac-
cording to a study that was con-
ducted by the World Bank last
year.
young population
Youth unemployment and
poor leadership continue to
threaten development in many
African countries and unless Afri-
ca has a young population with
the skills to help them, the Africa
rising narrative will remain
nothing more than a dream.
It is only people who fear
youth empowerment who should
feel threatened by such initiatives
designed to build young African
leaders
For those of us in the youth
empowerment field, the pro-
gramme is an exciting develop-
ment, and provides a template for
others to follow.
It recognises how crucial men-
torship is in any successful mod-
el of youth development. A men-
tor can guide the person being
mentored to develop profession-
al skills, networks and experience
that they need to grow.
Secondly, the YALI programme
is built on the foundational belief
that young people do not only
have to be passive recipients of
help. In fact, they can be part of
the search for solution to their
own problems, and indeed those
affecting their communities.
While the initiative is a com-
prehensive youth development
programme, Kenya and other Af-
rican countries must create their
own programmes to support and
complement Obamas mentor-
ship programme.
African governments have es-
tablished countless youth em-
powerment programmes. But
they dont seem to be making
headway in addressing the chal-
lenges facing young people.
accountable leaders
We need to create our own
leadership programmes that can
give rise to a new generation of
bold, visionary and accountable
leaders. We can deny it as much
as we want but the truth is that
there is scarcity of good leaders in
Africa.
Beyond including leadership
in school curriculum, Africa
should set up centers and strate-
gic initiatives to equip young peo-
ple with knowledge on good gov-
ernance.
Governments must allocate
enough funding and staff to
match the expectations and the
demand for youth empower-
ment.
According to Stockholm Inter-
national Peace Research Institute,
Defense spending in Africa in-
creased by 8.6 per cent in 2013,
while recording negligible in-
crease in allocation for youth de-
velopment.
African leaders must match
their words with concrete action.
They must invest resources in
youth service and empowerment
programmes to address youth
unemployment.
Governments should also de-
velop the technology, oversight
systems, technical experience
and the training that will give
their youth the tools to partici-
pate fully in the modern global
economy.
The action that the Obama ad-
ministration took, despite the for-
mer Presidents attempt to pour
cold water, is a step in the right
direction. African governments
should take inspiration from it
and build around it.
Te wage
bill alone
of the staf
transferred
from the
National
Gover-
nment
stands at
almost Sh1
billion.
This is the right time for a referendum
RAPHAEL OBONYO}
ABBAS GULLEID}
ate, and allocating more funds for
development to the counties.
Right now, MPs are able to
manipulate anybody in the coun-
try to increase their salaries at
will, but they have really never
questioned why the National
Government is keeping Sh103 bil-
lion for street lighting, slum up-
grading and all that, functions
that have been transferred.
Governors (from all persua-
sions) are right in demanding to
correct the mistakes in the Con-
stitution.
General Election
Even though the opponents of
the Constitution argue that we are
just fresh from a General Election,
I am afraid we might be forced to
rethink this stand in a few years,
and then that will be a plebiscite
on the sitting Government.
Right now the thinking of the
governors from across the politi-
cal divide is the same on this is-
sue. The proponents of this refer-
endum are aiming at changing
three clauses of the Constitution.
The first one is on the role of
the Senate. As per Chapter 96 of
the Constitution, the Senate is re-
quired to represent the interest of
the counties in Parliament.
The senate is also expected to
debate and approve bills on coun-
ty revenue allocations. Judging
from recent events, the Senate has
not been able to do any of the
above.
The Revenue Allocation Bill
granting the counties Sh210 bil-
lion was passed into law by the
National Assembly despite pro-
tests from the Senate.
Seemingly afraid of antagonis-
ing the National Assembly, the
President assented to the Bill. In
other words, the Senate cannot
make laws for the counties or take
care of the interests of the coun-
ties.
The second clause that gover-
nors want changed is one that re-
inforces the separation of powers
between the Executive and the
Legislator.
The law as it is now gives room
for ambiguity. The National As-
sembly that is supposed to play
an oversight role, yet also plays an
Executive role through the Con-
stituency Development Fund
cannot sufficiently serve the in-
terests of county governments.
The Supreme Court was un-
able to change this fact and I be-
lieve a referendum will cure the
anomaly.
Mr Guleid is the governor Isiolo
County
Mr Obonyo is Africa Represen-
tative to the World Banks
Global Coordination Board.
TOUGH CHOICE
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Where there is no competition,
there is no democracy: Last week
the IEBC declared the winner of the
Gatundu South Parliamentary race
as Moses Kuria, in an exercise without
contestants. One can not be be said to
be a winner where a race didnt apply.
He didnt clinch the lead as there was
no other vying for the seat hence the
new Gatundu South MP was favoured
to the seat and hence taking Kenya
back to the dark days, when leaders
were declared unopposed because
they were politically connected to the
throne. Where theres no competition,
democracy is under threat and
political spectrum is unhealthy
and and suspicious. Justin Nkaranga,
Mombasa
Stop empty talk, address
insecurity appropriately: Police
report indicate that 35 people
were killed in Nairobi in one week
(Sunday Nation August 10, 2014).
This raises a question as to whether
anyone is safe in this country. There
has been a common song lately,
enough security for all Kenyans. If
the report is anything to go by, then
security means something else to
some people. The Deputy President
has been singing the same tune. If
the Government does not provide
security to its people, the masses may
resort to crude ways of protecting
themselves. Samuel Kegwaro, Malaba
Bellevue interchange will
worsen traf c snarlup: Rapid
growth of Mulolongo, Kitengela/
Isinya and Machakos towns has led
to increased daily commuter traf c,
which has contributed to perennial
traf c jams between Nyayo Stadium
and City Kabanas. The planned
interchange at Bellevue will spew
additional traf c at a faster rate
than the capacity of the three lanes
currently servicing the highway. The
Kenya Highway Authority should
consider extending the southern
bypass along the National Park from
Ole Sereni to Syokimau or create
additional lanes from Bellevue
by reclaiming the grabbed road
reserve as proposed during Kibaki
administration. Joe Musyoki, Kitengela
Lets rename black spots: It
is evident there is power in words
especially names. As we approach
December, I wish to call upon
religious leaders to pray at the
presumed black spots in our country.
Then we stop calling them black spots
but watch out points. And I urge all
Kenyans to keep vigil while on the
roads and not to drink and drive!
Kelvin Keya, Nairobi.
Ebola has exposed Africas
disaster unpreparedness
The World Health Organisation
(WHO) has now declared the kill-
er Ebola epidemic ravaging parts of
West Africa an international health
emergency and appealed for global
aid to help the afflicted countries.
This, after the epidemic con-
tinued to spread, affecting more
countries, the latest being Nigeria.
Humanitarian agencies respond-
ing to it admitted they were over-
stretched and had little resources
to respond to the disaster. The latest
reported cases bring the total num-
ber to 1,711 across the four coun-
tries, with 932 deaths, the worst Eb-
ola outbreak in history.
One outstanding face of the ef-
forts to save lives in this has been
the profound Western response to
it, as though it were the hardest hit.
Just to mention, the US CDC has
sent its 60 best scientists to West
Africa, the World Bank has pledged
USD 150 million, and the British
Parliament spared time to debate
the crisis. With her better science
and technology, the west has always
been there to bring us up in our low-
est moments of need.
Urbanisation, travel and person-
al connections that come with eco-
nomic development and weaker
and/or adhered-to policies appear
to have helped the virus spread.
At the same time, a more formida-
ble health-care infrastructure that
could go a long way in stopping Eb-
ola before it reaches outbreak sta-
tus has not kept pace and in some
countries were just too weak.
More health workers have been
in demand, and in some cases, the
few available have been demoti-
vated to serve the people. Right
through the disaster, Nigerian doc-
tors have been on strike over poor
pay and Liberian nurses have been
on strike over lack of basic protec-
tion while handling the Ebola pa-
tients; cultural beliefs related to hy-
giene and sanitation habits have
exposed weaker health education
systems and admissions of failure
by West African governments have
confirmed our fears of vulnerabili-
ty in times of disaster.
The African Union has ubiqui-
tously remained silent and disin-
terested in mobilising African re-
sources to complement the efforts
by others. This is the time for the
Africa Union to develop a response
plan unique to the African factors
contributing to the spread of the
disease. It would be better if indig-
enous organisations were largely in-
volved in using the USD 60 million
contributed by the African Develop-
ment Bank towards containing the
scourge.
The epidemic has also point-
ed to our weak disaster response
plans. This Ebola has caught every-
one by surprise because most Ebo-
la outbreaks occur in Central Africa,
where it originated.
A 2012 World Risk Report notes
that 13 out of the 15 most vulner-
able countries globally are African,
solely because of their low coping
and adaptive ability in the event
of disasters. Though early warning
systems in the continent are lacking
and need improvement, there is al-
so a need to fill the void between the
dissemination of this information
and the ability to act on it. Only 25
African countries have established
national policies and strategies for
risk reduction and worse, only 13
have set aside funds from their na-
tional budget towards this cause.
These said, Africa must learn
and collectively document quick
lessons from this, so that the next
epidemic disaster does not happen
on our land again. Most important-
ly, let us invest in more and diverse
health human resources through
effective training and motivating
them for better and stronger disease
control and emergency surveillance
and response systems.

Has Music Festival produced thespians?
Music and poetry occupy a cen-
tral place in societies; this idea was
explored by William Blake and Per-
cy Bysshe Shelley. According to Blake
Poetry fetters the human race. Na-
tions are destroyed or flourish in
the same proportion as their poetry,
painting and music.
Poetry and music go beyond
mere entertainment, from them, we
learn about human behaviour, poli-
tics, family values, education, humil-
ity, cohesion, animals and religion.
Are we doing enough to safeguard an
artists position in the society?
As students and pupils enter-
tain guests at this years annual mu-
sic festival in Mombasa, questions
must be asked concerning tangible
benefits students derive from such
events.
First held in 1927, the Kenya Mu-
sic festival ought to be celebrating
fruits of this landmark fete on the
calendar of the Ministry of educa-
tion.
Mr Masibo Kituyi, who has been
the face of this event if articles in
the media are anything to go by,
says music as a non-academic pro-
gramme is concerned with awaken-
ing curiosity, development of proper
interests, attitudes and values.
He further states that econom-
ic and social objective of education
can be realised as opportunities in
the world of music become avail-
able to them. Yet we know very well
that none of our celebrated thespi-
ans, poets, singers honed their skills
at such events.
To me the event has been re-
duced to an annual ritual full of glitz,
pomp and glamour meant to enter-
tain guests and senior education of-
ficials, a form of holiday, nothing
more. After performing at the music
fete, what next for the pupils?
The ministry must devel-
op ways of nurturing talents
at our other institutions be-
sides the National Music Festival.

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YOUR SAY
Current war of words between
Land Cabinet Secretary
Charity Ngilu and National
Land Commission chair, Dr
Muhammad Swazuri is shameful
and uncalled for.
The row that threatens to stall
land processes is occasioned by
Ms Ngilus decision to gazette a
lease form and designated the
Chief Registrar a signatory, a
move Dr Swazuri has termed
illegal.
Coming barely eight weeks
after the commission sought the
Supreme Courts interpretation
of who should be in charge of
leases amid revelations that
at one million land les were
missing, the matter should be
sorted out soonest possible.
Land matters should be
handled with due care while
involving all players, consulting
widely to avert unbecoming
repercussions.
Already, the Law Society of
Kenya has said they unable to
process land documents for
their clients under the status
quo.
Current standof is indeed
bad news for land rows, is a
dominant source of conict in
Coastal area, especially Kwale
County; Likoni, Bombolulu, Tana
River County, the Rift Valley
and Mount Elgon Area. It is
also emerging as a ashpoint
in localities with valued
resources such as minerals; oil
in Turkana and Merti and valued
commercial hubs such as Lamu.
Exam fees waiver
a welcome move
Spare wananchi the
supremacy wars
State should enforce
holiday tuition ban
Governments waiver on exam-
ination registration fees for Stan-
dard Eight and Form Four candi-
dates is a step in the right direction.
It will save the nation the sad news
of bright needy children who walk
out of schools without documents.
We have had cases of parents who
are unable to raise exam fees for
their children forcing them to end
their educational career prematurely.
But with the current tag of war between
head teachers and the Government
over the subsidised education, one is
left wondering whether this is anoth-
er dramatic scene between the two.
The decision to segregate against
public schools is a good measure as
those who can afford to pay hundreds
of thousands to private academies can
comfortably raise exam fees. The di-
rective is therefore not discriminatory.
The Government has set aside Sh4 bil-
lion for next years examination reg-
istration.
But the generosity may be prone
to abuse unless well checked. In the
past, some head teachers collected
money from parents and failed to reg-
ister tthe candidates.
Since President Uhuru Kenyat-
ta ratified the controversial Coun-
ty Government Act (2014), the battle
for supremacy in the counties seems
to have taken a different trajectory.
Governors have protested against
senators chairing the County Devel-
opment boards terming this an effort
by the Government to kill devolution.
They have taken the matter to court
for constitutional interpretation.
This is not the first time the two are at
loggerheads over the counties leader-
ship and public financial management.
It is in public interest that the parties
adopt a realistic viewpoint, knowing
when two bulls fight it is the grass
that suffers. Ordinary Kenyans would
loathe to become political footballs in
this battle of supremacy and power.
The Ministry of Education has
banned holiday tution but some
schools are carrying it out. A nation-
al school in Siaya County had their
Form Fours remain behind while a
county school in Vihiga County has
its Form Threes and Fours report-
ing on Sunday, August 10, yet they
only closed school on Wednesday.
The Government should take action
against the papetrators of holiday tu-
ition because the extra remedials are
a burden to students who have little
rest while at school and are denied the
chance to bond with their folks and
peers and a break of monotony from
school work.
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{Chrispory Juma, Public Health Ex-
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{Onwonga Y Nairobi, via email}
{Collins Musanga, via email}
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Cindy: Kenyan
men love the
thing
Controversial Ugandan singer has
branded Kenyan men as sexy. During
her performance in Nairobi over the
weekend, the singer posed before the
crowd and dared: You people like see-
ing a bit too much. Kenyan men like the
thing. You are full of hot blood, she
joked after which she exposed her sexy
side, dancing suggestively to the cheer-
ing crowd.
What I am not sure is whether any
of you can handle me, she insisted.
Kiss 100 expecting
major changes
Kingi: I want to help artistes
Jaguar buys a house
in South Africa
Word on the streets is that
popular urban radio Kiss 100 could
be headed for a major change in
two weeks time.
A source told MondayBlues that
some of the celebrated presenters
like Shaf e and Kalekye will be
moved from their current
programmes in the new rebranding
shift.
Kili county governor Amason
Kingi has said he wants to see young
Kenyan artistes make money from
their artistic skills.
Speaking to MondayBlues, the
politician said even though he did
not have a favourite singer, he loves
to sample local talent, which he
wants to help grow.
I cannot say that I have a favourite
artiste or song but I just like our
artistes. They put a lot of efort in
what they do, even with limited
resources and support from the
Government. I think they deserve to
be helped, he said.
Part of my political commitment is
to see young people make a living
out of their music and other creative
careers. This is top in my develop-
ment agenda, he added.
Philanthropic entertainer Jaguar
is in South Africa investing in a new
home said to cost him Sh100 million.
The Kipepeo singer ew to
Johannesburg last week to seal the
deal in which is a popular music
producer is said to be partnering
with him in establishing a studio
there.
Im in South Africa on a business
trip. I am trying to put my money in
the right place, Jaguar told
MondayBlues on phone.
I cannot disclose details on why I
am here. However, all I can say is
that I am banking big money on
what I am doing, he disclosed.
This is not the rst investment move
the singer is making as he has a
chain of rental houses in Nairobi. He
also acquired a Sh8 million property
in Machakos recently besides owning
a residential house in Athi River.
STEVENS MUENDO} MONDAYBLUES
The of cial showbiz and gossip column Get It here hot and rst.
All correspondence may be sent to mblues@standardmedia.co.ke
A Central Kenya politician could have had questions to an-
swer his wife after a socialite he had been entertaining in a
Westlands club left his lips and white shirt stained with lip-
stick.
The politician was having fun with his friends when the
girl joined them. They had a few drinks and started getting
cozy after which they girl offered the respected guy some kiss-
es.
But it was only at the time of leaving the club when he dis-
covered that his lips and his shirt had been stained with red
lipstick.
Looking rather disappointed, he rushed to the washrooms
to clean the stains from the shirt but even that could not help
matters.
Politician gets
lipstick stain
GOSSIP OF THE WEEK
Celebrated singer Akon is expected in the
country on President Uhuru Kenyattas invite
following their private meeting in the United
States last week, MondayBlues has estab-
lished.
The singer received an open personal invite
from the president during their meeting and
he could be here before the end of the year.
Akon, whose last concert in Nairobi two years
ago was a major op, wants to make his
comeback pledge a reality and his meeting
with the president could mean bigger things
to come after he promised the president that
he would like to visit Kenya soon.
What Akon told Uhuru
W
ith only three weeks to go before
this years continental reality TV
show, Big Brother Africa (BBA)
kicks off, it is now clear that Vera
Sidika wont be among the con-
testants, contrary to the hopes of many.
The popular Nairobi it-girl broke the news to her
fans via her social networks yesterday, saying she
would not make it to the drama filled house as: I
have other commitments.
And as that was happening, MondayBlues estab-
lished that Kenyan actress Ella Ciku who is popular
for her role in the Dstvs Mali show could be the Ken-
yan representative. According to inside sources, the
social happy-go girl got a nod from Endemol last
week in South Africa and her bookings have already
been reserved ahead of the September 7th BBA kick
off date.
Details of the same were leaked from her Face-
book and Instagram pages yesterday.
Ciku is a popular blogger who also has a big fan
base following her on her Ellainspired page. She al-
so runs a YouTube channel whose 2013 The Chips
Funga story post created controversy. She is also a
model who appeared on an M-Shwari advert recent-
ly.
Meanwhile, MondayBlues has also established
that Idris Sultan, a university student based in Aru-
sha has been picked to represent Tanzania in the re-
ality TV show.
The charming creative arts student is a celebrat-
ed photographer.
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Moi University students follow proceedings during training in how to deal
with res and other disasters at the institution. [PHOTO: IRVIN JALANGO/STAN-
DARD]
University students now want the
Government to scrap high fees and
address rising insecurity in campuses.
Under their national body, the
Kenya University Students Organisa-
tion (Kuso), the students from all uni-
versities have put their vice chancel-
lors on notice over the issues.
They noted that the high fees were
locking out hundreds of bright stu-
dents while those already in campus
were living in fear due to rising inse-
curity.
This emerged when over 100 stu-
dent leaders from all the universities
started a two-day retreat at Panorama
University students meet over high fees, insecurity
Hotel in Naivasha.
Addressing the Press, the organi-
sations president, Babu Owino, said
fees for regular students should be
scrapped as it had become a burden
for many.
He added that the Higher Educa-
tion Loans Board should increase its
allocation to the students and should
be used solely for upkeep rather than
tuition.
We want a task force formed to
address the fees since it is the right
of Kenyans to get quality education,
he said.
According to Kuso patron Steve
Mbogo, it was evident that the Gov-
ernment was unable to address ris-
ing cases of insecurity, unemploy-
ment and corruption.
Mr Mbogo challenged the Govern-
ment to urgently address challenges
facing the country and students in the
universities.
We are tired of having a govern-
ment and opposition yapping every
day instead of addressing issues like
insecurity and high university fees,
he said.
Kuso Secretary General Charles Ju-
ma put the VCs of Kisii and Kenyatta
universities on notice for intimidating
their students.
Mr Juma accused the former of
Varied reactions have greeted
the re-organisation of the Bench
announced by Chief Justice Willy
Mutunga at the weekend.
While some in the legal frater-
nity welcomed the move term-
ing it a step in the right direction,
members of the Rift Valley Law
Society of Kenya said the reshuf-
fle would adversely affect service
delivery in some stations.
Prof Tom Ojienda, the LSK rep-
resentative to the Judicial Service
Commission welcomed the re-
shuffle, saying it has recognised
the role of senior judges who have
all been posted to head various
stations. The issue of seniority
has long been ignored in the Judi-
ciary but now the CJ has imple-
mented one of the key policies to
recognise the role played by senior
judges in the dispensation of jus-
tice, Ojienda told The Standard in
Nakuru yesterday.
The senior counsel said sta-
tions like Machakos and Embu
that had crisis now have judges
to handle land cases. He said the
posting of a judge to Naivasha was
long overdue and would help de-
congest Nakuru and serve Narok
County, which has a huge number
of pending land cases.
But the societys Nakuru
branch chairman David Mongeri
criticised the removal of almost
all judges from Nakuru, fearing
it would stall the hearing of cas-
es that had partly been heard by
the reshuffled judges. Much as
the re-organisation was done in
good faith, the CJ failed to consid-
er views raised by LSK members
concerning Justice Abigail Mshi-
la, said Mongeri.
Lawyers had protested to the
CJ about Justice Mshila and were
expecting her to be among those
who would be affected by the re-
shuffle. But according to Mutun-
gas list, she remains in Nakuru.
Mongeri said the CJ has also
failed to consider the lawyers re-
quest for additional judges to han-
dle pending land cases at the En-
vironment and Land Court.
He said the society had re-
quested for an additional judge
in Kericho County and Naivasha
town to handle land matters be-
cause the current court based in
Nakuru was serving eight coun-
ties. LSK members from the re-
gion will hold a meeting tomor-
row to chart the way forward,
said the lawyer. He said lawyers
expected the re-organisation to
be done in phases to enable judg-
es clear backlog of cases they were
handling.
Lawyers react
to reshufe
of judges by
Mutunga
es but according to these findings,
that has not been the case. None of
the sampled institutions were found
to have commissioned any annual fire
safety audit as required by law.
In an interview with The Standard
yesterday, Makachia said they com-
pleted the study last year and hoped
their recommendations would help
seal the identified loopholes.
Although the author requested
that the investigated institutions not
be identified due to legal reasons, the
details are available in the original ar-
ticle published in the online journal
and in the universitys eLibrary.
Our work involved talking to
about 480 of the universities popula-
tion and physically checking available
facilities and their operational condi-
tions, said Makachia.
The study also revealed that cas-
es of direct electricity connection of
bare wires to live sockets were numer-
ous. Also recorded were signs of over-
heating or scorching of plugs and, in
some instances, taped joints on ex-
tension leads.
Records of inspection of porta-
ble electrical equipment after every
six months as the law requires were
lacking in majority of the sites, writes
Makachia.
But even more chilling are revela-
tions that in more than 40 per cent of
the institutions, flammable materials
such as petrol and chemicals are not
stored in purpose-built areas as re-
quired by law.
Thousands in danger as study
exposes deadly re traps in varsities
Only 23 per cent of
students and staf
know the correct
telephone number to
dial in the event of a
re
The lives of thousands of students
and workers in many local universi-
ties are in danger as the most basic
fire safety requirements are flouted, a
recent survey has revealed.
A report published by the Jomo
Kenyatta University of Agriculture
and Technology (JKUAT) says fire
safety standards in most institutions
are appallingly low while regulato-
ry authorities do nothing to enforce
the law.
This academic report does not
aim to scare people but recommends
what needs to be done to safeguard
institutions with some of the highest
human traffic flows in the country,
says author Gilbert Luhombo Maka-
chia.
Published in the current issue of
the universitys Journal of Agricul-
ture, Science and Technology and su-
pervised by Prof Erastus Gatebe, the
study says none of the sampled insti-
tutions had adequate water for fire-
fighting as required by law.
In a representative sample of sev-
en public and 20 private universities
in Nairobi, Kiambu, Nakuru and Ka-
kamega, Mr Makachia says the in-
stitutions meet only the barest min-
imum of fire safety standards required
by insurance and licensing authori-
ties.
The survey, which was also over-
seen by Pius Makhonge of the Di-
rectorate of Occupational Safety and
Health Services in the Ministry of La-
bour, says it is a legal requirement that
sites have at least 10,000 litres of water
for fighting fires. However, the study
says none of the sites had provision
for fire emergency water in place.
The directorate also came un-
der scathing criticism for abdicating
its responsibilities and failing to de-
mand that universities meet required
fire safety standards.
The directorate is mandated to
enforce fire safety laws in workplac-
Willy Mutunga
Flammable paints, for example,
were in most cases not stored safely
thus increasing the risk of fire break-
outs and intensity on the premises.
Justifying why it is necessary
to jealously safeguard universities
against fires, Makachia said these in-
stitutions hold a rich collection of
priceless research data and materials.
The study revealed blatant disre-
gard for workplace safety by the uni-
versities and safety directorate while
it also emerged that people are also
ignorant of their own safety require-
ments.
For instance, only 23 per cent
knew the correct telephone number
to dial in the event of a fire emergen-
cy, he said.
About 80 per cent of respondents
spoke of no fire drills taking place in
the universities; even some who had
been with the institutions for decades.
The study says none of the sur-
veyed institutions had a written fire
safety policy.
failing to reinstate student leaders
even after Parliament endorsed them,
adding that students had the right to
freedom of association.
This retreat will address rising
insecurity and school fees in the uni-
versities and we expect to chart a way
forward, he said.
Elizabeth Gathii from Jomo Ken-
yatta University of Agriculture and
Technology noted that cases of rob-
bery and rape were on the rise on all
campuses.
We are tired of the rising cases of
insecurity not only in our towns but
also in the universities as our VCs sit
back and watch, she said.
Fire safety standards in local
universities are appallingly low
while regulatory authorities do
nothing to enforce the law
While it is mandatory that such
institutions have an independent
fre safety audit at least once a
year, there are no records that
this has ever been done
A report published by the Jomo
Kenyatta University of Agricul-
ture and Technology recom-
mends fre safety audits in all
universities and corrective mea-
sures taken immediately to avoid
disaster
COURTING DANGER
BY GATONYE GATHURA
BY STEPHEN MKAWALE
BY ANTONY GITONGA
Kajiado Governor David Nkedianye (left) and his Makueni counterpart Kivutha Kibwana address the Press in Sultan Ha-
mud . [PHOTO: PETERSON GITHAIGA/STANDARD]
Makueni, Kajiado in
development pact
Joint project aimed
at enhancing good
neighbourliness
between counties
Two governors have established an
inter-counties working relationship to
address challenges faced by their re-
spective regions.
Governor David Nkidianye of Kaji-
ado County and his Makueni counter-
part Kivutha Kibwana agreed to join
efforts in addressing a wide range of
issues including drought and envi-
ronment protection to enhance good
neighbourliness.
In a meeting attended by both
leaders in Sultan Hamud, on the bor-
der of both counties, the leaders also
resolved to harmonise sand harvest-
ing along the rivers that run through
their counties to ensure that they ben-
efit from the lucrative business.
We have also agreed that Maasai
herders can graze freely in Makueni
County when there is drought, said
Prof Kibwana.
COMMON APPROACH
He added: Brokers have been
taking advantage of the herders by
charging them a fee to graze on pri-
vate and communal land when there
is drought in Kajiado County. The
herders will now be able to graze their
animals for free, said Kibwana.
Mr Nkidianye said they also agreed
to adopt a common approach in seek-
ing compensation for residents who
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MAKUENI / KAJIADO COUNTIES
NAIROBI COUNTY
Monday, March 24, 2014
C
oun
cil locks out public
tran
sport from
city C
B
D
Residents received
the move warmly
as matatu operators
protested, but now
council says all is well
By KEPHER OTIENO
The Municipal Council of Kisumu
in conjunction with the trafc police
department has successfully locked
public transport out of the towns
centre.
Thanks to the combined forces,
no 14-seater matatu and boda boda
operates in the central business
district now.
And residents have praised the
effort, arguing sanity has been
restored in the CBD and trafc ow
was now smooth.
No matatus or boda bodas are
allowed to pick or drop passengers
at the CBD. The ban also applies to
tricycles and it has been in effect for
the past one week, though amid
protests.
Distances shortened
The authorities have also blocked
Oginga Odinga Avenue up to
Standard Chartered Bank junction to
ease trafc ow.
Passengers are now being
dropped at Jomo Kenyatta Highway
and trek to town.
The move follows successful
negotiations between the authority
and matatu operators whose
distances have now been cut short.
We are happy because the plans
have reduced our distance by
one-and-a-half kilometres, said a
matatu operator George Onyango.
According to the town authorities
the plan aims to decongest the city
and will remain in force until 2013.
Thereafter the council will
develop fresh plans to accommodate
the increased number of private cars
in town, a source from the council
said.
Already, the number of private
cars streaming in the town has
peaked and the trafc department
anticipates the gure will rise.
The councils enforcement ofcer
in charge of the trafc order Adrian
Ouma said they would not back
down on the move.
WIN-win situation
Eng Ouma said matatu owners
appreciated the directive because
they still charge the same bus fare
despite the distance being short-
ened.
It is a win-win situation, the
matatu operators have all the
reasons to smile same as the
council, he said, as he asked them
to co-operate.
Kisumu Mayor Sam Okello
thanked the residents for allowing
them to bring sanity within the CBD.
There have been complaints of
matatu disorder within the CBD,
which have been disrupting smooth
operations of businesses.
With the new measures in force
people can now go about their
business easily without disruptions
by blaring sounds.
Nyanza PPO Njue Njagi promised
to support the council to restore
sanity and warned that those who
resist change would be arrested and
charged.
Eng Ouma said matatu owners
appreciated the directive because
they still charge the same bus fare
despite the distance being short-
ened.
It is a win-win situation, the
matatu operators have all the
reasons to smile same as the
Trafc Police ofcer redirects a matatu driver at Kisumu Bus Park entry, yes-
terday. Kisumu Municipal Council has re-routed trafc from the central busi-
ness district to de-congest the town. [PHOTO: TITUS MUNALA/STANDARD]
WHAT WAS AT STAKE
When the Council announced
the plan to re-route public
transport from the CBD, it was
received with mixed reactions
Residents welcomed it, say-
ing it would help in planning
the town and reduce matatu
noise
At frst, the public transport
operators complied for hours
before they re-grouped to
protest the directive
However, yesterday the
council said operators and
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TANZANIA: Two suspects
ashed out of hotel, killed
Two suspected notorious
criminals who have been
terrorising tourists in Masai Mara
have been lynched by a mob
in Musoma, Tanzania. Nelson
Segeria and his accomplice were
ambushed inside a guesthouse in
the town and attacked by an irate
mob, which had identied them
as known gangsters. According
to Mara Triangle Chief Executive
Ofcer Brian Heath, two other
members of the gang escaped, but
security ofcers recovered one
AK-47 rie with 427 bullets.
Two suspected notorious
criminals who have been
terrorising tourists in Masai Mara
have been lynched by a mob
in Musoma, Tanzania. Nelson
Segeria and his accomplice were
ambushed inside a guesthouse in
the town and attacked by an irate
CORNERED: Two suspects
ashed out of hotel, killed
Two suspected notorious
criminals who have been
terrorising tourists in Masai Mara
have been lynched by a mob
in Musoma, Tanzania. Nelson
Segeria and his accomplice were
ambushed inside a guesthouse in
the town and attacked by an irate
mob, which had identied them
as known gangsters. According
to Mara Triangle Chief Executive
Ofcer Brian Heath, two other
members of the gang escaped, but
security ofcers recovered one
AK-47 rie with 427 bullets.
Two suspected notorious
criminals who have been
terrorising tourists in Masai Mara
have been lynched by a mob
in Musoma, Tanzania. Nelson
Segeria and his accomplice were
Kisumu County
Kisumu County
Kisumu County
The places
where babies
choose their
own names,
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y B PETERSON GITHAIGA
Mt Elgon MP John Serut has
termed the call for a national
referendum by CORD a complete
waste of time and money and
vowed to mobilise his colleagues
to rally their supporters not to
participate in the process.
Speaking to The Standard in
Kapsokwony, the legislator said
CORDs push for referendum is ill-
conceived and untimely.
Majority of Bungoma MPs are not
for the idea. We have agreed that
all of us will urge our constituents
not to participate in the exercise,
said Serut, who was elected as an
independent candidate but is now
allied to Jubilee.
He accused CORD leadership
of being insincere, noting that
Raila Odinga, the coalitions
leader vehemently supported
the Constitution, which he is now
seeking to change.
What has changed that Raila is
spearheading the change of our
Constitution? We will not allow
this country to be taken to another
electioneering mode because of one
individual, said the lawmaker.
Political leaders in Ukambani
have praised journalist Bob Odalo
who passed away last week as a
man who did his work well. Led
by former Vice President Kalonzo
Musyoka the leaders have sent
messages of condolences to his
family. Others who sent messages
of condolences include senators
Johnston Muthama and Mutula
Kilonzo Junior, DP leader Joseph
Munyao, governors Alfred Mutua
and Kivutha Kibwana, MPs Regina
Ndambuki, Kisoi Munyao, Patrick
Makau,Victor Munyaka, Francis
Mwangangi, Itwiku Mbai, Daniel
Maanzo and Stephen Mule. Mr Odalo
will be buried at his fathers home
in Raneni village, Migori County next
Saturday, said his sister Florence
Achieng.
Referendum is a waste of
time, money, says Serut
Ukambani leaders mourn
Journalist Bob Odalo
MACHAKOS COUNTY
BUNGOMA COUNTY
ernment and Kenya National Highway
Authority also entered into a partner-
ship to regulate sand harvesting in the
county.
ELICITED PROTESTS
In the pact that brings on board the
Kenya Rural Roads Authority and oth-
er stakeholders, all lorries will be re-
quired to carry a standard sand weight
of 17 tonnes and pay a monthly fee of
Sh60,000 per lorry to the county gov-
ernment.
Sand buyers have previously been
allowed to ferry up to 40 tonnes in one
trip, which has elicited protests from
the locals.
We want neighbouring counties
to come with similar sand harvesting
regulations for the benefit of the envi-
ronment, said Nkidianye.
Makueni neighbours Kajiado
County to the south. Both counties
experience rain shortfalls from time
to time.
will be displaced by the proposed
Standard Gauge Railway that is ex-
pected to pass through the two coun-
ties.
We want our people to benefit
from this railway project that passes
through our counties and that is why
we have to join hands, said Nkidi-
anye.
He said they would also reach out
to other neighbours such as Macha-
kos and Taita Taveta counties.
Recently, the Kajiado County gov-
Kirinyaga Governor Joseph Ndathi wants the
High Court to block the use of the Artur broth-
ers report from being used as evidence in a case
against three former senior government officials.
The governor claims the evidence at the trial of former
Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Thuita Mwan-
gi, former ambassador to Libya Anthony Muchiri
and former Charge de Affairs Allan Mburu was ma-
nipulated to conceal the true intention of the Artur
brothers in Kenya so as to protect their sponsors.
He wants the court to first issue temporary or-
ders barring the use of the document in the tri-
al of the three over the Tokyo embassy case.
The governor also wants all people stopped
from publishing or tendering the re-
port as evidence before any court or tribu-
nal until the matter is heard and determined.
Through lawyer Ndegwa Njiru, he told the court that
the report is being used by the public in a malicious
manner to scandalize his name. He says that his rights
to dignity are likely to be infringed, might be com-
pelled to unjustifiably write statements in relation
to alleged involvement in the Artur brothers saga.
The untrue, misleading, scandalous and frivolous
information touching on my name continues to vi-
olate my rights, Ndathi says. Justice Weldon Korir
certified the application as urgent and will be heard
on Wednesday. The Attorney General, the National
Assembly and the Clerk of National Assembly are
listed as respondents.
Governor wants Artur brothers report struck out in case
y B FRED MAKANA
Page 20 / COUNTY NEWS Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
TNA Secretary General Onyango Oloo addresses the media during the launch of the partys recruitment drive in Bungo-
ma yesterday. He suggested that referendum committee, once formed, should include the question on capping age for
presidential candidates to 65 years. [PHOTO: ROBERT WANYONYI/STANDARD]


Muranga Invest-
ment Cooperative
ofcial registers a
member who
turned up at
Muranga Teachers
Training College.
[PHOTO: BONIFACE
GIKANDI/ STANDARD]
Budalangi MP Ababu Namwamba
NAKURU COUNTY
KAJIADO COUNTY
KISUMU COUNTY
SIAYA COUNTY
NAKURU COUNTY
KIAMBU COUNTY
BUNGOMA COUNTY
MURANGA COUNTY
Senior police ofcer
dies in road accident
Man goes to school
after being conned
MCAs allege misuse
of Sh52m road funds
Police pursue man over
cousins death
Union leader rubbishes
abuse of ofce claims
Former Juja MP decries
illicit brew menace
y B ANTONY GITONGA
y B BRIGID CHEMWENO
y B DENNIS ONYANGO
y B ISAIAH GWENGI
y B BOAZ KIPNGENOH
y B KAMAU MAICHUHIE
A senior police officer died in a
grisly road accident along the Naiva-
sha-Mai Mahiu road after a motorcy-
cle he was riding crashed into a lorry.
Naivasha deputy OCPD Agnes
Amojong confirmed the incident say-
ing the Gilgil based officer was riding
to Naivasha from Mai Mahiu when
the accident occurred.
She said according to eye wit-
nesses, the officer was overtaking a
lorry near Longonot town when he
rammed the oncoming trailer.
The officer was alone when he
hit the oncoming trailer and died on
the spot. The trailers driver and con-
ductor were however not hurt, she
said.
The Saturday night incident
caused a major traffic snarl-up on
the highway.
An illiterate man who lost money to a
trickster in Loitokitok, Kajiado County,
has decided to go to school to learn how
to read and write.
John Lekatoo Kurao, 45, a watchman
at a primary school in the region, lost
Sh21,800 three years ago to a conman
who promised to introduce him to a
sponsor who would pay school fees for
his two children.
After discovering that the man was
a fraud, Mr Kurao enrolled for adult
education classes to learn how to read
and write.
Now he can do some calculations and
read newspapers as well as names in
his mobile phone address book.
BUNGOMA COUNTY
KAKAMEGA COUNTY
Governor roots for
medical insurance
Uncertainty after
deled minor dies
y B DANIEL PSIRMOI
y B LAWRENCE ALURU
Residents of Bungoma County have
been asked to take advantage of the
existing medical cover options in the
market and take insurance policies for
their health.
Bungoma Deputy Governor Hillary
Chongwony said the cost of living is
currently high and taking medical
insurance cover was the only way
members of the public can access
adequate medical attention when they
fall ill. Chongwony made the remarks
on Saturday during the burial of
Thomas Ngeywo Lawendi, a former civic
leader and freedom ghter in Kaboywo
village, Mt Elgon. Mt Elgon MP John
Serut and Trans-Nzoia Senator Henry
ole Ndiema were also present.
A 40-year-old suspect from Vihiga
county has gone into hiding after
allegedly deling a minor who later
died.
According to the minors mother,
Sella Amboki, the incident happened in
May this year at Ebuhaya village while
she was away.
I came back home at around 1.30pm
and found my little girl missing. I
searched and found her coming from
Simon Eminyis house. She was not
walking properly and had uid coming
out of her private parts, she said.
Luanda OCPD Benson Kilonzo said
police had launched investigations into
the matter, but the girls death could
cause the case to collapse.
Members of Garissa County Assembly
have alleged corruption in the Sh52 million
road construction project in the area.
The assemblys Public Accounts and
Investment Committee claimed the
construction work was shoddy and that the
amount had been inated.
Addressing the press during the
Accountability Kenya forum in Kisumu
on Friday, the MCAs accused the Roads
and Public Works CEC Ahmed Adhan of
intimidation and failure to account for funds
allocated for the project.
The committee also accused Adhan
of awarding the tender to unqualied
contractor.
The contractor has poor workmanship
and lacks proper machinery for re-carpeting
the 2km Kismayo Road, claimed Mr
Abdirashid.
But Mr Adhan had dismissed the
corruption claims in the committees
report as untrue, explaining that the road
construction costs had been prepared by
the Kenya National Highways Authority.
Parliamentary Public Accounts
Committee Chairman Ababu Namwamba
(pictured) said they would send a team to
the county to probe the matter.
The Budalangi MP said it was
unacceptable for county governments
to push for increased funding from the
national government yet county ofcials
were not ready to account for the money.
We cannot compromise on accountability
of public resources, he said.
EMBU COUNTY
We can work with
JSC, elders say
y B JOSEPH MUCHIRI
The Embu Nyangi Ndiiriri council of
elders has urged the Judicial Service
Commission (JSC) to review the laws
that spell out the composition of court
users committees.
Led by their chairman Andrew Ireri,
the elders said many of the court
users committees in the country are
composed of judicial ofcials and civil
servants who are not in touch with the
issues afecting locals.
Elders should be included in these
committees to help in solving disputes,
because they understand the issues
that afect people at the grassroots,
especially those touching on land,
Ireri said at an elders meeting in
Nembure.
Police in Rarieda Sub-county are
looking for a 51-year-old man linked
to the death of his relative in Nyagoko
sub-location.
The suspect is said to have been
involved in a scuffle with his 64-year-
old cousin identified as Peter Oyolo
Giro during a drinking spree.
Speaking to The Standard, a
neighbour who witnessed the inci-
dent said the suspect escorted the
deceased home at around midnight
after the fight before he succumbed
to suspected head injuries later that
night.
Rarieda police boss Johanna Che-
bii said the deceaseds wife discov-
ered her husband had died after she
tried to wake him up the following
morning and he did not respond.
When we went to the suspects
house, he was not at home but we
found some of his clothes soaked in
blood, said Chebii.
Union of Kenya Civil Servants
Secretary General Tom Odege has
rubbished claims by a section of
branch leaders in Nakuru that he is
misusing his office and rendering the
union toothless.
Led by Nakuru union branch
Treasurer David Iswaro, the officials
have accused Odege of various irreg-
ularities and have called for his res-
ignation, saying he should pave way
for fresh elections to be conducted.
Odege, however, said the officials
are unhappy because a court nulli-
fied their election and they are now
trying to intimidate him so that he
does not implement the order that
could cause them to lose their seats.
These leaders have their own
problems, which I cannot interfere
with and all their claims are false,
he said.
A former lawmaker has decried
the amount of illicit brew being con-
sumed in Gatundu districts, calling it
a crisis that needs urgent attention.
Former Juja MP Stephen Ndi-
chu said the illicit brew menace in
the area was worrying and criticised
the authorities for allegedly turning
a blind eye on illicit liquor brewers,
sellers and even consumers.
It is very sad that the provincial
administration has totally failed to
curb brewing, sale and consumption
of illicit liquor in this area. They must
up their game and stop the senseless
loss of lives due to illicit brew con-
sumption, Ndichu said.
He was speaking at Kimunyu
village, Gatundu South during his
nephews burial, who allegedly died
after consuming illicit brew.
Bungoma Deputy Governor Hillary
Chongwony [PHOTO: DANIEL PSIRMOI]
The Embu Nyangi Ndiiriri council of
elders chairman Andrew Ireri.
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Youth pray during a conference at Kakamega Jesus Praise Centre yesterday. Churches want to engage students from
colleges and secondary schools during August holidays so that they can not go into drug abuse and other immoral activ-
ities. [PHOTO: BENJAMIN SAKWA/ STANDARD]
KIAMBU COUNTY KAKAMEGA COUNTY EMBU COUNTY
KAKAMEGA COUNTY
Mwathane: Follow the
law in Lamu land issue
Luanda constituency
manager sacked
Mt Kenya East MPs
oppose referendum
y B ERIC LUNGAI y B JOSEPH MUCHIRI
The Government has been urged
to ensure that the Lamu land prob-
lem is resolved within the countrys
constitutional and legal framework
in order to find a lasting solution.
Land Development & Governance
Institute (LDGI) chairman Ibrahim
Mwathane said the countrys land
problem is complex and calls for so-
briety and fidelity to the rule of law in
seeking a solution.
Mr Mwathane faulted leaders for
politicising such a sensitive and se-
rious issue affecting millions of Ken-
yans.
He called on the leaders to join
hands and work towards effecting
the urgently needed land reforms in
the country.
Luanda MP Chris Omulele has
sacked and replaced his constituen-
cy manager.
He claimed the manager failed to
live up to expectations.
I have stopped him from dis-
pensing duties because he was not
able to give my constituents what
was expected of him, said Omulele.
The MP spoke at Wemilabi Pri-
mary School after presenting a
Sh400,000 cheque to construct a
classroom.
He said he would not tolerate of-
ficers sleeping on the job at the ex-
pense of delivering the desired re-
sults to residents.
Omulele said his office is drafting
a plan ofor 240 classrooms across the
constituency.
The Embu County Assembly
Speaker and four MPs from the Mt
Kenya East region allied to the Jubi-
lee coalition have opposed calls for a
referendum, saying it is unnecessary.
The MPs, Muthomi Njuki (Chu-
ka-Igamba Ngombe), Kathuri
Murungi (Imenti South) Gideon Mwi-
ti (Imenti Central), Mithika Linturi
(Igembe South) and Embu Speaker
Kariuki Mate said the clamour for a
referendum was not genuine.
They accused CORD and the
Council of Governors of pushing for
a referendum to suit their own selfish
interests at the expense of Kenyans.
Speaking at Kanyuambora ACK
Church in Embu County during a
fundraiser to complete construction
of the church yesterday, the leaders
said governors missed the mark by
planning to use Sh22 million each to
campaign for a referendum instead
of using the money on development.
Mr Linturi reminded Kenyans
that they voted for a new Constitu-
tion so that they could have resourc-
es brought closer to them. He added
that implementation of devolution
has just begun and they should give
it a chance.
Mate said governors should first
work with the money they were al-
located and after they have imple-
mented projects, then they can ask
for more to complete them.
He said the Embu County Assem-
bly fully supports senators plan to
have 60 per cent of money allocat-
ed to counties used on development.
The leaders also castigated the
governors for opposing the coun-
ty development boards that are an-
chored in the County Government
Amendment Bill 2014.
Mr Mwiti wondered why gov-
ernors would shun team efforts to
decide how public money should
be spent and said the development
boards would help safeguard public
money.
Does a senator sitting on a coun-
ty development board stop a gover-
nor from implementing water and
roads projects for the people? We
need to pray for governors to realise
that there is a time for everything,
he said.
TRANS NZOIA COUNTY
MIGORI COUNTY TAITA TAVETA COUNTY
Governors urged to
support Senate
Ambulances
distribute drugs
Well change the
law, vows Mvurya
y B DANIEL PSIRMOI
y B NICK OLUOCH
y B KAMAU MAICHUHIE
y B TOBIAS CHANJI
Governors across the country should
not feel belittled by the decision to
have members of the Senate chair
county development boards, because
the move is aimed at delivering better
services to the public, Trans-Nzoia
Senator Henry ole Ndiema has said.
Speaking in Kaboywo village,
Bungoma County, during a funeral at
the weekend, Mr Ndiema said there
should be no enmity between senators
and governors.
He asked governors to support them
as they lead the county development
boards, saying the current supremacy
battles were unnecessary because their
mandates were clearly stipulated in the
Constitution.
We are not after the governors
jobs but as custodians of the counties,
sitting on these boards will help us
discharge our mandate better, he said.
Migori residents now have better
access to healthcare as the county
government agged of ambulances full
of emergency drugs to the sub-county
hospitals.
County government ofcials also
distributed 700,000 mosquito nets
whose cost was met by the Global Fund.
The nets will be distributed to over
230,000 households in the county.
Governor Okoth Obado said his
government had sent drugs to Nyatike,
Awendo, Suna West, Uriri and Rongo
sub-county hospitals. The medical
facilities were acquired for Sh360
million.
I want to assure residents that the
county government will do all it can to
end the drugs shortage, he said.
Council of Governors vice chairman
Salim Mvurya yesterday accused
the Jubilee administration of not
supporting devolution and said all
governors were determined to reverse
the trend through amendments to the
supreme law.
Speaking during a dinner attended
by professionals at Amani Tiwi Beach
Resort in Kwale, preparation for an
international investment conference
at the end of this month, Mr Mvurya
blamed the National Assembly for
passing bills against devolution.
The mood of the National Assembly
and Senate is wanting as there has
been a spirited efort to pass laws that
do not respect devolution, he noted.
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Interior PS intervenes in
County Assembly row
The row at Isiolo County Assem-
bly has caught the attention of the In-
terior Ministry and leaders from the
county met PS Mutea Iringo and In-
spector General David Kimaiyo in
Nairobi.
Those who attended the meeting
at Harambee House on Thursday af-
ternoon were senator Mohammed
Kuti, deputy governor Mohammed
Guleid, women representative Ti-
yyah Galgalo, MPs Joseph Samal (Isi-
olo North) and Abdullahi Banticha
(Isiolo South).
Others were county Assembly
Speaker Mohammed Tubi, depu-
ty Speaker David Lemantile (MCA,
Oldonyiro), Majority leader Adan Ali
(Kinna) and Minority leader Moses
Githinji (Bula-Pesa).
The County Security Committee
was represented by County Commis-
sioner Wanyama Musiambo while
Governor Godana Doyo was absent
since he was part of President Uhuru
Kenyattas delegation at the US-Afri-
ca Summit.
The meeting was called by Iringo
following Ms Galgalos statement in
Parliament last Tuesday that the As-
semblys operations have been par-
alysed for the past two months and
security has been jeopardised as a re-
sult.
Intelligence sources had also re-
ported to Nairobi that tension was
high at Isiolo Central following the
impasse at the assembly that was
sparked off by a bid to impeach the
speaker.
On June 12, 15 out of 20 MCAs said
they had impeached Tubi, who then
moved to the High Court in Meru four
days later. Justice John Makau grant-
ed Tubi an injunction and said the
status quo should be maintained un-
til the on-going case is heard and de-
termined.
In Parliament, Galgalo said op-
erations and services at the assem-
bly have been paralysed, security has
been jeopardised and claimed the
executive arm of the County govern-
ment was behind the row.
The County Assembly of Isio-
lo has not been working for over two
months now due to interference from
the executive wing of the County gov-
ernment, which is using police to en-
sure the stand-off stays in place, she
claimed.
The IG, however, reportedly told
those opposed to the speaker to re-
spect the court order and wait until
the case was heard and determined.
Last week, fresh controversy hit
the assembly as MCAs opposed to
Tubi and Majority leader Ali came up
with their own line-up.
The 15 out of 20 MCAs had locked
out Tubi, Ali (URP), and acting clerk
Adan Bonaya from the compound for
two days.
ISIOLO COUNTY
y B BY ALI ABDI
There has been tension at the
County Assembly following a bid
to impeach the Speaker
The High Court granted a stay
on the matter but disgruntled
MCAs came up with their own
line-up and took drastic measu-
res including locking him out of
the Assemblys premises
County women rep said in Par-
liament that the impasse has
causes operations to be paraly-
sed for the last two months and
is jeopardising security
WHAT HAPPENED
A time to play
Children enjoy themselves at the Embu Stadium during the Embu County
School Holiday Bash held on Friday. Hundreds of school goers, currently at
home for their August holiday, attended the three-day festivities. [PHOTO: KIBATA
KIHU/STANDARD]
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE COMMISSION
SUPPLY, DELIVERY, INSTALLATION, TESTING AND COMMISSIONING
OF SENATE ASSEMBLY AUDIO VISUAL BROADCAST SYSTEM
TENDER NO. PSC/024/2013-2014
TENDER CLOSING DATE EXTENSION AND ADDENDUM
Further to the notices that appeared in the local dailies on
Wednesday, 2
nd
July 2014 and Friday, 18
th
July 2014 this is to
advise that there is an addendum and the closing date has been
extended to Tuesday, 26
th
August 2014 at 11.00am
Bidders who bought the tender document are advised to collect
an addendum to the tender documents at the Procurement
Ofce, 10
th
Floor, Protection House, at the junction of Parliament
Road and Haile Selassie Avenue in Nairobi, during normal
working hours.

Other terms and conditions remain the same.
THE CLERK OF THE SENATE/SECRETARY
PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE COMMISSION
REBUBLIC OF KENYA
COUNTY GOVERNMENT OF LAMU
TENDER NOTICE
Tenders are invited from interested eligible bidders for the construction of the Proposed Lamu County Headquarters.
Bidders may examine and obtain detailed tender documents during normal working hours, from the Supply Chain
Management Ofce, Treasury Building, upon payment of a non-refundable fee of Ksh.1000.00 per document, or download
the document for free through website www.lamu.go.ke.
Complete bids must be accompanied by a tender security equivalent to 2% of the tender sum from a reputable Bank
or Insurance Company approved by Public Procurement Oversight Authority or bankers cheque payable to the County
Secretary, Lamu County Government. The tender security must remain valid for 150 days from the date of tender
opening.
Interested bidders should submit the following information:-
(i) Registration with the National Construction Authority in Category NCA 4 and above. The bidders should also
furnish the names of specialist contractors whom they intend to engage as Domestic Sub-Contractors and who are
duly registered with the National Construction Authority in Category NCA 5 and above and other relevant statutory
bodies. Proof of registration must be provided.
(ii) Letter of commitment from the proposed Domestic Sub-Contractors acknowledging that they have been duly
consulted, priced the Bill of Quantities and are willing to execute the sub-contract as domestic sub-contractors.
(iii) Certied copy of Certicate of Incorporation.
(iv) Certied copy of Valid Tax Compliance Certicate.
(v) Certied copy of VAT Certicate
(vi) Certied audited accounts of the company for the last three years.
(vii) Proof of having undertaken at least 1no building construction project valued at over Kshs.100,000,000.00 in the
last ve (5) years.
(viii) Proof of access to credit facilities/nancial capacity to successfully undertake the project.
Prices quoted should include all taxes and must be expressed in Kenya Shillings and shall remain valid for a period of 120
days from the date of tender opening.
Completed tender documents enclosed in plain sealed envelopes and clearly marked with the respective Tender Number
and Tender Name should be addressed and sent to:-
County Secretary
Lamu County Government
P.O Box 74-80500, Lamu
And be deposited in the tender box at the Lamu County Government Headquarters on or before 10.00 a.m. on 1
st
September
2014.
Tenders will be opened immediately thereafter in the presence of tenderers or their representatives who choose to
attend.
The Lamu County Government reserves the right to accept or reject any tender either wholly or in parts and does not bide
itself to accept the lowest or give reasons for rejection.
HEAD, SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
LAMU COUNTY GOVERNMENT
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Tourism Potenti al i n
NANDI COUNTY
Wildlife Tourism
This type of tourism product can be developed in the following
areas;
Kingwal Swamp
This extensive swamp is crossed by the main Eldoret Kapsabet
highway between Kosirai and Chepteret. It is said to have the largest
population in the world (about 140) of the endangered Sitatunga
a semi-aquatic antelope with webbed feet that allow it to walk on
soft mud.
Unfortunately, the likelihood of seeing Sitatunga, even with
the assistance of local guides, is small (approaching zero in the
middle of the day) as they are extremely shy creatures; indeed
their very survival depends on their secretiveness and distrust of
human beings. They spend most of the day in the water, much of
it completely submerged with only their muzzles above water, and
come out at night to feed on grass and soft reeds.
The swamp can be developed into a unique site for sitatunga
viewing, a rare opportunity in Kenya, satisfying the interests of
both international and domestic tourists.
N
andi county tourism culture
and development minister
is determined to turn the
tourism sector fortunes around.
The CEC James Kipchoge Kijo
has identied sites that have never
been tapped. He hopes to maximize
on their potential. His vision is to lift
the countys tourism sector to greater
heights and bring back the tourism
boom.
The ministry has formulated plans
for the sector and laid long term goals
for the exploration and growth of
tourism in Nandi County.
Mr. Kijo plans to commercialize the
Nandi culture by starting groups to
focus on traditional weddings, dances,
comedy and foods. These efforts, says
Mr. Kijo, will boost the county, attract
tourists and create job opportunities
for the youth.
Others are Keben Springs, Nandi
Rock, Kiplolok waters, Tabolwa rock,
Chepkiit waterfalls and Nandi North
forest.
The CECS main agenda this
nancial year is to push for more funds
to be allocated to allow development
of the identied sites in the tourism
sector as a rst priority.
T
ourism Development
is one of the
prominent agenda of
my administration.
The tourism objective of this
administration is to make Nandi
County one of the leading tourism
destinations in Kenya. When the
present government came on board,
it realized that the tourism sector was
on the lowest ebb.
To reect the importance
attached to the tourism sector by
my county administration, a new
department of Tourism, Culture
and Cooperative development was
created immediately in accordance
with the practice in tourism-friendly
Counties. As a county government,
we are coordinating tourism
activities bringing together various
industry players and stakeholders.
We are encouraging public-private
partnership to develop tourism
sites and infrastructure aimed
at establishing Nandi Tourism
Circuit that stretches from Chepkiit
waterfalls on the east to Nandi rock
on the west. There is a designated
strategy to rapidly develop all our 66
tourist sites that have been carefully
identied and when ready, Nandi
County will have turned a new
leaf with regards to tourism. These
peculiar and unique sites, coupled
with a massive media campaign to
promote the same puts our County
on a higher pedestal for growth and
development.
My County Government believes
that if the tourist sites are developed,
they are capable of generating huge
chunk of revenue for the County
annually, creating employment
opportunities and alleviating poverty
at the grassroots and of course create
a socially stable, business friendly
environment that will attract both
indigenes and foreigners to seek
wealth creating opportunities in
Nandi County
When fully developed, the tourism
sector will also enable other related
industries and infrastructure to
bloom.
Message from the Governor
Message from the CEC Tourism, Culture and Cooperative Development
When fully
developed, the
tourism sector
will also enable
other related
industries and
infrastructure to
bloom.
Nandi County in a Tourism Transformation and Development Strategy
Hon. Cleophas Lagat
Governor, Nandi County
Mr. James Kipchoge Kijo
CEC Tourism, Culture and Cooperative Development
Existing Tourism Potential in Nandi County
Nandi County has huge tourism
potential that, when fully and sustainably
developed will stimulate employment
creation, promote conservation of the
natural environment, preserve the culture
of the local community, and generally
boost the economy of the county.
The county has various tourist
attraction sites ranging from the famous
Kingwal swamp which is the habitat of the
rare species of antelopes called sitatunga,
Nandi rock which is in the border of Nandi
county and Kisumu county, Ngabunat
caves,Keben springs, Kiplolok waters,
Chepkiit water falls, Tabolwa rock, Koitalel
Somoei mausoleum and Bonjoge national
reserve.
Preamble
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Tourism Potenti al i n
NANDI COUNTY
Bonjoge National Reserve
Bonjoge National Reserve is little known yet a unique attraction of its own in Nandi
County and the surrounding counties. The reserve is the home of different plant and
animal species. Even though, in large part, the millions of stones, rocks and boulders
that litter the landscape greatly outnumber the trees, it is still ne country for walking
and camping. Bird life is still abundant, particularly in the remaining patches of
forest and open-glade grassland. Animals include Olive Baboons, Vervet , Colobus,
Red-tailed and De-brazzas monkeys, Bush Duiker, Bush Pig, Aardvark, Genet Cat and
jackal.The reserve can be developed into a major attraction for both domestic and
international tourists.
Cultural Tourism
Nandi County has a rich indigenous culture which has not previously been
exploited for tourism purposes. When fully developed, cultural tourism product will
position the Nandi County has a unique destination for the highly expanding cultural
tourism market.
This type of tourism product can be developed in the following areas.
Koitalel Samoei Museum
Bonjoge National Reserve
Saamiitui
This is the place where the Great Nandi
Royal Leader Kipnyolei Araap Turugat father
to Koitatel Araap Samoei lived. He used to
chant his prayers at the nearby rock. His
leadership tools were hidden in this rock since
1885 till 2006 when they were discoverd.Since
his dimise, the Nandi`s centre of authority and
power began to disintergrate.
The museum that houses the remains of Koitalel Arap Samoei has great historical
signicance not only to the Nandi people but also to Kenyans in general. The museum
creates a great re-connection to the struggle for independence. The museum contains
the material culture for the Nandi people, which acts as an important attraction to
cultural tourists. The museum can be developed into a reknown centre of attraction in
Nandi County and the western tourism circuit in general
Cheruiyot Ecosystems Museum
This museum houses a wide collection of cultural artefacts
on Nandi culture. The museum is located on a scenic hill
where tourists can have an exciting view of the entire Nandi
county and other neighbouring counties. The museum can
be develop into an
attraction of its own
since it offers the
tourists a variety
of experiences in a
single visit.
Performing Arts
We shall utilize music and cultural festival as the principal channel
for talent development with a view to greater promotion of intangible
culture.
Owing to the diverse cultural tradition, our community has its own
dress styles that are consistent with our physical environment and
lifestyle.
Historical Sites
Sheu Morobi
This sheer and overhanging cliff perhaps
300m high on the Nandi escarpment boasts
of rich history of the Nandi people besides
offering an exciting scenery to both nature
and culture lovers. Neighbouring sheu morobi
is another unique attraction site-Daraja ya
Mungu. The sites can be developed into a
popular cultural tourist sites with the potential
to attract both domestic and international.
Sheu Morobi means we go forever.
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Tourism Potenti al i n
NANDI COUNTY
Eco- tourism
Nandi County has great potential for eco-tourism development
that, when fully exploited, can make Nandi a County of choice for
eco-tourists and other emerging niche tourism markets. Besides
revenue generation, development of eco-tourism in Nandi county
will contribe to sustainable utilization of forests, opening up of
tea farms for public access and overall diversication of tourism
product in the county.
Eco-tourism can be developed in the following areas;
Sports tourism
Nandi County is famous
for its distinguished
talented athletees who
have dominated marathon
games on several occasions
the world over. Sports can
be diversied into more
than just participating in
the marathons to win and
get nancial rewards into
a unique tourism product,
a means of diversifying the
economy of the county,
as a way of preserving the
history of athletics and
athletees, and a unique way
of branding the county.
North Nandi Forest
South Nandi Forest
Kobujoi Cultural Centre
Tinderet Forest
The above forests have all the scarce beauty that will undoubtedly
appeal to eco-tourists. The forests are source of reknown permanent
rivers in Kenya, have diverse ora and fauna, and landscape within
the forests is nothing but marvellous.
Agro-tourism
Nandi County boasts of huge agro-tourism potential that can be tapped to make the county a preferred choice
for agro-tourists. Agro-tourism can be developed in the large Nandi Tea plantations and other agricultural related
activities.
Most of the tea estates date from the colonial era and were carved out of the vast indigenous forests. Many of the
estates have, within their borders, special, even unique, sites that are accessible to the public.
Nature based tourism
Nandi County has some of the most unique landforms in Kenya that can be developed into magnicient tourist sites
in the county and in Kenya as a whole. Nature based tourism can be developed in the following areas;
Kiplolok springs in Kilibwoni
Tindinyo falls
Chepkiit water falls
These falls on the Kipkaren River are impressive in
the rainy season.
Bird-lovers will not be disappointed; the cliffs,
hanging rocks and indigenous trees are home and
hunting-grounds for a variety of species, including
Augur Buzzard, Grey Heron, Red-billed Hornbill, Red-
cheeked Cordon-bleu and Cliff Chat.
Be careful when clambering on the rocks. Chepkiit
means view from afar and is a warning about how
treacherous the rock surfaces can be.
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Tourism Potenti al i n
NANDI COUNTY
Tinderet hills
Attractions in these hills include;Tapendoi sheu
Koitab oii(Demonic Rock)
Kipchabo falls
Chebuson(the windy rock)
Kamaget caves
Bugoon cave
These hills are a perfect place for hiking and baloon
ying.
Other picnic sites include;
Keben salt lick- for adventure
Sirwa caves- for adventure
Tindinyo falls- for adventure
Kapsigak picnic site
Keben salt lick
The lick is actually a spring of alkaline
soda water which emanates from rocky
ground and then descends as small
waterfalls over rocks. It is surrounded by
unique vegetation and indigenous forest
and close by there are caves that can be
explored. It is located near Lessos and
can be reached via the Eldoret Kesses
Lessos route or the Kapsabet Nabkoi
highway.
The Nandi Rock
This, is the most prominent rock formation along the whole length of the Nandi (Nyando) Escarpment, is a
30 minute walk from the KWS post at Kaptumek. It is of great cultural signicance to both the Nandi and Luo
and is a marker of the escarpment boundary between the nandi and the luo.
A number of caves, large and small, can be visited. They are home to a variety of animals, including bats,
lizards and hyrax, and make a convenient refuge for humans caught by the rain.
The very top of the rock can be reached via a short (30m) chimney, but should be tackled only by the
experienced climber with proper equipment.
MENJEYWO
CAVES
It is a beautiful,
amazing physical
feature and a complex
ecosystem found in
North Nandi in place
know as kakiptui.
Tourism activities
in this place include
cave tourism,canopy
walking and nature
trailing.
Kaptumek Nandi Escarpment and Conservancy
Kapsigak picnic site
The conservancy can provide
good places for camping.
Nandi escarpment as viewpoints.
One can view neighbouring counties like Kisumu and
Vihiga from this view points.
Lake Victorias outline can be clearly seen from these
view points.
Page 27 CENTRAL NEWS / Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Kiambu County govern-
ment has allayed fears of an
imminent cash crunch over
the Senates decision to deny
the county its revenue alloca-
tion from the National Gov-
ernment after governor Wil-
liam Kabogo snubbed Senate
summons.
Deputy governor Gerald
Githinji has said the move will
in no way affect service deliv-
ery since Kiambu government
has enough money.
He called for calm among
residents as the county gov-
ernment looks for ways to re-
solve the standoff with senate.
He said the county team
can account for all the money
it received from the National
Kiambu allays
fears of possible
cash crunch
Government, adding they are
ready to answer to all queries
raised by the Auditor General.
The deputy governor who
spoke in Thika on Sunday
blamed political games for
woes facing the county.
NO MONEY LOST

We have always been
ready to appear before the
Senate to explain everything.
We have nothing to hide and
given the opportunity we will
show the world that no money
under our watch has been lost.
There has been anxiety
among the residents after Sen-
ate announced last week that
four counties whose governors
snubbed summons will not re-
ceive their allocation.
The four governors are; the
Council of Governors chair-
man, Isaac Ruto (Bomet),
Mwangi Wa Iria (Muranga),
Jack Ranguma (Kisumu) and
William Kabogo (Kiambu).
The Senate, through a mo-
tion filled by Kakamega Sena-
tor Bonnie Khalwale, last week
directed the National Treasury
and the Controller of Budget
not to authorise disbursement
of funds to the four counties.
When moving the Motion,
Khalwale said Ruto, Ranguma
and Wa Iria have all snubbed
four summonses each, while
Kabogo has declined to hon-
our nine.
Kithure Kindiki, the Senate
Majority Leader, said the gov-
ernors have to appear before
the Senate and answer to que-
ries raised.
y B KAMAU MAICHUHIE
KIAMBU COUNTY
Enjoying the ride
Ruiru MP Esther Gathogo on a motorbike out-
side Kiambu Deputy County Commissioners of-
ce yesterday. She shows of gifts she received
from the Ruiru Bodaboda Association. The MP
called on the Government to shelve the new
laws targeting boda boda operators, saying the
move will kill thriving businesses. [PHOTO: KAMAU
MAICHUHIE/STANDARD]
1. The UNICEF Kenya WASH programme 2008-2014 was designed to contribute to the achievement of the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for Kenya in Water and Sanitation. The total funding for the
programme is US$70.7 million, with 58% contributed by the Government of the Netherlands and the balance
from UNICEF, Government of Kenya and communities. The programme design is based on the UNICEF water,
sanitation and hygiene global strategy for 2006-2015, the priorities defined by the Netherlands Parliament in
the area of water and sanitation for health and national development policies of the host country.
2. UNCEF has been supporting Government of Kenya through Ministry of Health in scaling up community
sanitation adopting Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) as the core strategy. The support includes
strengthening capacity of Government as well as support on implementation of CLTS in villages to attain
Open Defecation Free Status.
3. UNICEF is now planning to conduct a study to ascertain the impact of Open Defecation Free Status in the
communities and Sustainance of the Open Defecation Free Practices. This open Expression of Interest is to
invite all institutions/corporate entities/consultancy firms with background/capacity to conduct this study to
express their interest for shortlisting, based on which a closed Request for Proposals (RFP) will be issued to
pre-qualified organisations.
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Core business relevant to the assignment
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details of individual delivering to be communicated by email at least 1 working day earlier) to
reach by 12.00 noon 15 August, 2014 ,
6. To the address:
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P.O. Box 44145-00100, Nairobi
Email: nairobi@unicef.org
Hand Delivery: Room 107, Block D
Expression of Interest (EoI)
For Consultancy to Conduct a Study on
THE IMPACT OF OPEN DEFECATION FREE (ODF) ENVIRONMENT ON COMMUNITY & THE
SUSTAINANCE OF ODF PRACTICES IN RURAL AREAS OF KENYA
UNITED NATIONS CHILDRENS FUND (UNICEF)
TENDER NOTICE
The Geothermal Development Company Ltd (GDC) invites sealed tenders from eligible candidates
for supply of the following items whose specications are detailed in the tender document:
TENDER NO. TENDER DESCRIPTION
GDC/DO/OT/006/2014-2015 Supply of Steel Casing for use in Geothermal Wells
Interested eligible rms may obtain further information, and obtain the tender documents at the
ofce of the Manager, Supply Chain between 9.00am to 4.00pm during working days.
A complete set of the tender document may be obtained by interested rms upon payment of
a non-refundable fee of Kshs.1000 each payable to our accounts ofce in cash or by bankers
cheque. The document can also be viewed and downloaded from the website www.gdc.co.ke
free of charge or at no cost. Bidders who download the tender document from the website
MUST forward their particulars immediately for records and any further tender clarications
and addenda.
Tenders must be accompanied by an original bid security of 2% of the tender price in the form
specied in the tender document.
The completed tenders in plain sealed envelopes clearly marked with Tender No. and Tender
reference name; shall be addressed to:
The Managing Director & CEO,
Geothermal Development Company
P.O Box 100746-00101
NAIROBI, KENYA
and deposited in the tender box at the GDC Riverside Ofce 2
nd
Floor located along Riverside
Drive, on or before 28
th
August 2014 at 2:00pm (1400Hrs).
Tenders will be opened immediately thereafter in the presence of the tenderers or their
representatives who choose to attend at GDC Riverside Board Room.
Late tenders will not be accepted.
MANAGER, SUPPLY CHAIN
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Women living with Obstetric Fistu-
la in Embu County are set to benefit
from reconstructive surgeries during
a one-week free surgical repair camp.
Fifty women from the county will
be operated on, at Embu Level 5 Hos-
pital, by two doctors from the Kenyat-
ta National Hospital (KNH) in an ini-
tiative that is funded by Flying Doctors
Society of Africa (FDSA) and Freedom
from Fistula Foundation (FFF).
According to FDSA chairmann, Dr
Eunice Kiereini, the move follows a
successful surgical camp held at the
KNH that ended two weeks ago, in
what is to be a series of surgical camps
to be rolled out across the counties.
One of our key goals, apart from
performing reconstructive surgery, is
to train local surgeons on fistula sur-
gery, Dr Kiereini said.
Obstetric fistula is a hole in the
birth canal that is caused by pro-
longed and obstructed labour and
which, if left untreated, causes con-
stant and uncontrollable leakage of
urine and brings shame, social seg-
regation and health problems to the
woman.
Data shows that the occurrence
of obstetric fistula in Kenya stands at
three to four women in every 1,000 de-
liveries.
A report released in 2011 by Cam-
Anxiety and fear has gripped Ngo-
mongo village in Kirinyaga Central
Sub-county after a teacher bought a
coffin and transported it to his home
yet none of his kin had died.
The teacher was reported to have
walked to a nearby funeral home in
Kutus town and bought the coffin for
Sh25,000.
He then hired a hearse from the
same home which delivered the coffin
to his house within the densely pop-
ulated village.
Shocked residents quickly gath-
ered outside his house as the coffin
was removed from the vehicle and
taken inside the house.
When we saw the hearse drop-
ping the coffin outside the house, we
were shocked beyond words. As far as
we are concerned, no one in his fam-
ily has died. This is a rare spectacle,
said Nancy Koori, a resident.
ESTRANGED WIFE
The residents said they feared ei-
ther the man wanted to commit sui-
cide or kill his two children or his es-
tranged wife and bury them secretly.
Police visited the home and arrest-
ed the man but later released him on a
Sh5000 cash bail after interrogations.
Area OCPD Eliud Monari said they
have since launched investigations
into the bizzare occurrence.
The man has previously been
linked to drug trafficking and sale of
illicit liquor.
We have released him on police
bail until this Thursday, but we are
keenly monitoring him since have al-
so established that he recently sent
away his wife and there could be more
Villagers panic
after teacher
ferries cofn to
his house
than meets the eye, he said.
Yesterday, the residents said they
were fearing for the worst as the coffin
was still in in the mans house.
Former Butere MP also elicited
criticism from his clan when he dug
a grave and bought a coffin in prepa-
ration for his death.
And upon his death, not only was
the firebrand politician buried in the
the same coffin but also in the grave.
Embu Level 5 to host free stula camp
KIRINYAGA COUNTY
MURANGA COUNTY
y B KAMAU MUNENE
Three men, who allegedly stole
Sh20,000 from an Embu business-
woman, have until Thursday to re-
turn the money or face dire conse-
quences.
The businesswoman said she
had offered the three men a lift be-
fore they stole the money, which she
claimed was in her handbag.
I came across the three men
walking towards Nembure and be-
cause I was also headed there, I of-
Trader: Return the Sh20,000
you stole by Thursday else...
EMBU COUNTY
y B JOSEPH MUCHIRI
y B LONAH KIBET
EMBU COUNTY
Former Butere MP Martin Shi-
kuku also elicited criticism from
his clan when he dug a grave
and bought a cofn in preparati-
on for his death
Most communities including
Shikukus Luhya believe that
when you dig a grave and make
a cofn for yourself, evil spirits
may haunt you alongside your
family members
STUNT NOT UNHEARD OF
fered them a lift. Once in the car, they
ransacked my handbag without me
noticing and took a purse that had
Sh20,000 and my ID card, she said.
She made the threat during a
public meeting at Nembure chiefs
grounds convened by Embu Nyan-
gi Ndiiriri Council of Elders meeting
on Friday.
The woman, who did not disclose
her name, said the men will have
themselves to blame if they do not re-
turn the money by the said day.
Embu Nyangi Ndiiriri Council of
Elders Chairman Andrew Ireri con-
demned the theft and asked those
who stole the money to return it.
Muranga MP Sabina Chege addresses the media after a fund raiser at Kinyona Catholic Church, which was attended by
seven Members of Parliament and Muranga Deputy Governor Mr Gakure Monyo. [PHOTO: BONIFACE GIKANDI/STANDARD]
Governors have been called up-
on to focus more on implementing
development programmes in their
counties rather than supporting calls
for a national referendum.
Seven lawmakers called upon the
executives to drop their calls for a ref-
erendum, saying this exercise will af-
fect service delivery to the 40 million
Kenyans.
The lawmakers, led by Muranga
women representative Sabina Chege
and Thika Town MP Alice Nganga
said reasons given by a section of gov-
ernors for the referendum were flimsy
and would not be supported by Ken-
yans.
Speaking at Kinyona Catholic
Church in Kigumo constituency, the
leaders castigated governors affiliat-
ed to the Jubilee coalition for having
joined the Opposition to clamour for
a national referendum.
Ms Chege and Kikuyu MP Kimani
Ichungwa said some governors were
being used by CORD to demand for a
referendum without establishing rea-
sons behind the crusade.
Chege said the decision taken by
CORDs leadership to call for a refer-
endum was an avenue intended to
frustrate President Uhuru Kenyattas
leadership.
CORD leader Raila Odinga is not
interested in making a constitution-
al amendment, he is simply looking
for a way to assume leadership upon
failing in the last general election,
Chege said.
She, however, urged governors to
appear before the Senate when and if
they are summoned, saying this was
in order since they were expected to
give an account of how they have uti-
lised funds allocated to their counties.
Meru County women representa-
tive Florence Kajuju said governors
must be accountable and should read-
ily divulge information to the Senate,
which is constitutionally mandated to
play an oversight role in utilisation of
public resources in all the 47 counties.
Deputy governor Gakure Monyo
defended his boss Mwangi wa Iria on
claims that he has failed to appear be-
fore a Senate committee.
The Senate has failed to indi-
cate why it is summoning the gov-
ernor who has remained committed
to implementation of development
programmes and is not interested in
playing sideshow politics, he said.
Others were women reps Mary Se-
neta (Kajiado), Soipan Tuya (Narok)
and Ruiru MP Esther Gathogo.
Governors urged to embrace service
delivery and shun referendum bid
y B BONIFACE GIKANDI
paign to End Fistula found that there
are about 1,000 to 3,000 new cases of
fistula every year in Kenya, yet only
7.5 per cent have access to medical
care for the condition.
The situation has further been
worsened by the low access to skilled
delivery care that is available in
the country. This is, however, set to
change thanks to the new Govern-
ment policy on implementation of
free ante-natal and maternity ser-
vices.
During the KNH surgical camp
more than 1,000 women turned up
for screening, with 110 successfully
receiving corrective surgery.
A similar exercise will be held later
this year at the Kisii level 5 Hospital.
Page 29 Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
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Page 30 / COAST NEWS Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
National Assembly Majori-
ty Leader Aden Duale and Tana Riv-
er County Deputy Governor Siyat
Jire nearly came to blows on Saturday
evening after Duale accused CORD
leaders of corruption and nepotism.
The exchange began when Garsen
MP Ibrahim Sane of URP alleged ram-
pant corruption in the award of ten-
ders in the county, with Duale sup-
porting his claims.
We will not allow CORD to op-
press local residents. We know that
CORD is corrupt and their leaders
have been implicated in various scan-
dals, said Daule amid applause and
disapproval from the crowd.
This prompted Jire to spring from
his chair to defend the administration
of Tana River Governor Hussein Dado
of CORD, who was not present.
This man should not imagine he
can come here to insult people. This is
not a Jubilee zone. We are in a CORD
zone, said Jire, who had tried to go
for the microphone from Duale, but
was restrained by some MPs present.
The spat took place during a funds-
drive in aid of women groups in Ho-
la attended by CORD and Jubilee leg-
islators.
Duale jumped into a helicopter
and left after the standoff threatened
to degenerate into violence.
Tsavo Conservation Area, home to
one of the largest single elephant pop-
ulations on earth, will host the Third
Annual World Elephant Day tomor-
row in Voi town, Taita-Taveta County.
This is according to a statement
from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS)
Corporate Communications depart-
ment, which also said the day is cele-
brated worldwide to raise awareness
on the plight of Asian and African el-
ephants.
The KWS acting director general,
William Kiprono, is expected to be the
chief guest.
These celebrations come at a time
when the Government is still grap-
pling with increased cases of poach-
ing among other wildlife related
crimes in the countrys National Parks
and outside protected areas like com-
munity ranches and conservancies.
The day presents a platform for
creating awareness on the plight of
elephants emanating from poaching,
habitat loss and human wildlife con-
flict. Kenyas elephant has suffered
from the same challenges as other ele-
phant populations in the world, said
the statement.
The conservation body said local
and international partners have been
working together to minimise threats
posed to Kenyas elephant popula-
tion and there are also deliberate ef-
forts being made to improve enforce-
ment policies in the prevention of
poaching.
KWS plans to mark this years El-
ephant Day by educating local com-
Third annual
World Elephant
Day will be
hosted at Tsavo
munities on the need to protect el-
ephants, the animals role in the
county and national economies as
well as penalties associated with tro-
phy poaching of elephants or illegal
possession of ivory. This aims to dis-
courage Kenyans from being used by
ivory dealers to undertake poaching
or transport poached ivory, read the
statement.
The organisation will also use the
day to highlight the role elephants
play in maintaining ecosystems.
The loss of elephants affects
many species that depend on ele-
phant-maintained ecosystems, caus-
es major habitat chaos, and weakens
the structure and diversity of nature
itself. Therefore, without elephants
there will be major habitat chang-
es, with negative effects on the many
species that depend on the lost habi-
tat, said the statement.
Duale, CORD leader clash
over graft allegations
TAITA TAVETA COUNTY
y B RENSON MNYAMWEZI
All MCAs from CORD affiliated
parties in Kwale boycotted a meeting
called on Friday by embattled Kwale
County MP Zainab Chidzuga, deep-
ening her isolation due to her alleged
close ties with Jubilee.
Only 12 MCAs affiliated to TNA
party attended the meeting held at
her home in Kwale. More than 30
CORD affiliated legislators snubbed
her. Chidzuga has been accused of
sabotaging CORD in Kwale. It was
unclear what the meeting discussed
although Chidzuga had indicated in
her invitation that she wanted to dis-
cuss development projects. Sources,
however, said she asked CORD to al-
low Jubilee conduct land reform at
the coast.
The ward representatives who
snubbed the meeting told The Stan-
dard that they read malice in Chid-
zugas invitation and suspected
she was trying to rehabilitate her-
self in CORD in the guise of con-
vening a development meeting.
Theres no need of going there be-
cause we do not know if she is still
with us or not, said Tiwi ward rep-
County leaders snub Chidzugas Kwale
home development meeting
KWALE COUNTY
y B TOBIAS CHANJI
y B HASSAN BARISA
TANA RIVER COUNTY
According to Kenya Wildlife
Service (KWS), the day is used to
raise awareness on the plight of
Asian and African elephants
KWS will mark the day by
educating locals on why they
need to protect elephants, what
the presence of these animals
mean to county and national
economies and also the role they
play in maintaining ecosystems
Residents will be also be given
an understanding of penalties as-
sociated with poaching or illegal
possession of ivory
WHY CELEBRATE THE DAY
The way forward is...
resentative Omar Mwakwambirizwa
yesterday.
I have called this meeting purely to
discuss matters development despite
our political affiliations. From next
week I will be moving in each ward
to see how we can develop, Chidzu-
ga said at a press conference shortly
after the meeting in her Kwale home.
She said she will be organis-
ing funds drives in each of the 20
wards to raise money for bursaries
so children from destitute families
can attend school uninterrupted.
We were elected to do development
and this is what I am doing. I am not
Chairman of Bamburi Wananchi Sacco, Alex Muova (right), talks to Sacco members after their meeting held yesterday
at Mtopanga in Mombasa. The group is ghting to recover 84 acres of land they bought in 1982, which has since been in-
vaded. [PHOTO: OMONDI ONYANGO/STANDARD]
working with TNA but the govern-
ment of the day, she said even as
she blasted those who had given her
14 days ultimatum to apologise to
Kwale people for leading other lead-
ers in the county to visit State House.
Flanked by the 12 MCAs, Chid-
zuga said nothing will cow her
and she would even make oth-
er trips to the Presidents residence.
The sympathetic MCAs argued
that party affiliations ended last
year after the general election.
We elected her not as CORD but as
a development conscious woman. We
know those making noise are people
sponsored by Mombasa mafia to frus-
trate her, said Mwavumbo Ward Rep-
resentative Antony Lukuni of TNA.
TNA Nominated MCA Fatuma
Chidumo said there should be
no boundaries for elected lead-
ers as there are more leaders who
went to State House and no one has
told them to explain or apologise.
She (Chidzuga) is the only one
who has come out to tell us what
happened while others have kept
mum, noted Chidzumo, who is al-
so the Countys TNA coordinator.
Also on the State House trip were Gov-
ernor Salim Mvurya, Senator Boy Ju-
ma Boy and MPs Hassan Mwanyoha
(Matuga), Khatib Mwashetani (Lun-
galunga), Suleiman Dori (Msambwe-
ni) and Gonzi Rai (Kinango).
Page 31 RIFT VALLEY NEWS / Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Elgeyo Marakwet County leaders
have dismissed CORDs call for a na-
tional referendum.
Led by area Senator Kipchumba
Murkomen, the leaders claimed the
Opposition was using the push for
a referendum to gain political rele-
vance after losing last years General
Election.
CORD is using the referendum
quest to popularise its waning sup-
port and derail the Jubilee adminis-
tration, claimed Murkomen.
The senator accused Council of
Governors Chairman Isaac Ruto of be-
traying Jubilee by joining forces with
the Opposition in the push for the ref-
erendum.
SERVICE DELIVERY
We are wondering where Ruto
and Raila will end up with the quest
for the referendum, he said.
Murkomen alleged the calls for ref-
erendum would derail development
and hurt devolution.
Our county governments are still
young and if we start politicking now
we would jeopardise service delivery,
he noted.
Speaking in Marakwet at the week-
end, Murkomen said Jubilee would
oppose any attempts to hold a refer-
endum because the timing was wrong.
CONSTITUTION ROLL-OUT
He was accompanied by area Gov-
ernor Alex Tolgos, Marakwet East Mp
David Kangogo, his Marakwet West
counterpart William Kisang and for-
mer MP Linah Kilimo.
Kangogo said there was no urgency
to hold a referendum as implementa-
tion of the Constitution was going ac-
cording to plan.
We in Elgeyo Marakwet have re-
solved to reject any attempts to amend
the Constitution, he said.
Speaking to The Standard sepa-
rately, Elgeyo Marakwet county URP
chairman John Kangogo said they
would ask the residents to reject the
proposed referendum.
What the residents want now is
service delivery, not politics, he said.
Elgeyo/Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen (right), Keiyo South MCA Te-
cla Jerotich and an elder consult during a funds-drive at Kanalel ACK Church in
Keiyo South yesterday. [PHOTO: PETER OCHEING/STANDARD]
A Kajiado County Government bulldozer demolishes some of the houses built
on road reserves in Kitengela over the weekend. Several structures including
churches, shops and petrol stations were attened during the exercise. [PHOTO:
PETERSON GITHAIGA/STANDARD]
The Kajiado County Gov-
ernment has started the sec-
ond phase of demolitions that
would see all structures on road re-
serves in Kitengela town destroyed.
This comes after the expiry of a six-
month notice that saw officials from
the area government and build-
ing owners hold several meetings.
The pilot exercise is to be replicat-
ed in all major towns within Kajia-
do County such as Ongata Rongai,
Kiserian, Loitokitok, Namanga, Kaji-
ado town, Sultan Hamud and Isinya.
On Saturday, the county govern-
ment bulldozers descended on
the structures indiscriminate-
ly to the chagrin of owners who de-
layed in demolishing their houses.
Many encroachers resisted the ex-
ercise claiming they were being dis-
County begins demolitions on reserves
criminated against, but that didnt
deter area Executive Officer in charge
of roads Dickson Ntikoisa, who
has been supervising the exercise.
Structures including hotels, church-
es, shops and houses that were
spared in the first phase were
brought down at the weekend.
During the exercise, feeder roads
were opened and structures with-
in 30 metres from the Nairo-
bi- Namanga road were cleared.
A contingent of armed police officers
were deployed to make sure the dem-
olition continued without a hitch.
Among the affected buildings was
Kanisa La Roho Wa Yesu whose pe-
rimeter wall was demolished to
pave way for a feeder road that will
pass though the church compound.
Maji Moto, a Japanese preach-
er who is in-charge of the church
told The Standard that his origi-
nal map did not show there was a
road passing through his church.
This is not right. Does the county gov-
ernment have two maps showing dif-
ferent locations? wondered Mr Moto.
Mr Ntikoisa said no structures on road
reserves or public land shall be spared.
He said Kitengela town is the most
affected and shall serve as an ex-
ample for the pilot programme.
We are doing this in order to clear the
crowded settlements on road reserves
that have in the past impeded rescue
efforts in times of disaster, he said.
He noted that the exercise was
aimed at easing mobility in the
town and it is expected to contin-
ue until all houses and structures
built on public land are demolished.
We decided to take our time in or-
der to involve structure owners in this
exercise. We will do it very well with-
out discrimination, said Ntikoisa.
Kajiado Senator Peter Mositet laud-
ed the exercise, saying the move
shall help to decongest and re-
plan the towns in the county.
That will pave way for development,
said Mositet.
Murkomen and local MPs oppose referendum push
KAJIADO COUNTY
y B PETERSON GITHAIGA
y B FRED KIBOR
ELGEYO MARAKWET COUNTY
A man, Evans Magut, has died from
stab wounds inicted after he was
caught in the act with another mans
girlfriend.
According to Eldoret East OCPD
Nelson Taliti, the man, only known as
Kipruto, is said to have been suspicious
of his live-in girlfriends delity and
decided to lay a trap for her.
The suspect claimed to have always
felt that the woman was cheating on
him and therefore lied that he was
going on safari and did not know when
he would be back, Taliti said.
The OCPD said immediately he left,
the women called Magut, who came to
the house. An irate Kipruto caught the
two red-handed and in his anger knifed
the woman on her cheek and Magut in
the stomach.
Taliti said Magut was rushed to Moi
Teaching and Referral Hospital but died
due to excessive internal bleeding.
He said Kipruto was eventually
arrested at Kapsoya and the knife he
used recovered.
One dead, another injured
in love triangle saga
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Elgeyo Marakwet Coun-
ty Assembly has tabled a Bill,
which if passed, would com-
pel the executive to share 60
per cent of the development
money equitably across the 20
wards in the county.
The Elgeyo Marakwet
County Equitable Develop-
ment Bill, 2014, drafted by
Kaptarakwa Ward Represen-
tative Thomas Kigen aims at
ensuring that all wards bene-
fit from development projects
initiated by the county govern-
ment besides promoting ac-
countability.
The Bill, which has gone
through the first reading in the
assembly, also seeks to ensure
there is continuous public par-
ticipation in project identifica-
tion, prioritisation and imple-
mentation.
Kigen accused the county
government of skewed shar-
ing of development funds in
the last financial year, some-
thing he said the proposed law
would help cure.
Due to the lopsided de-
velopment across the wards,
there is an urgent need to have
a legal framework that would
guide the sharing of develop-
ment money equitably, said
the outspoken Kaptarakwa
Member of County Assembly.
Proposed law
seeks equity in
development
He said the Bill would help
ensure that political expedien-
cy does not take precedence in
sharing of county resources.
This Bill would stem the
culture of political expediency
and ensure there is equal de-
velopment in the county re-
gardless of how the residents
voted in the elections, he said.
UPHOLDS EQUITY
The MCA said out of Sh109
million development money
allocated to the health sector
in the last financial year, two
sub-counties got Sh107 million
while the other two shared the
remainder.
How do you explain such
disparity? posed Kigen, add-
ing that the Constitution of
Kenya upholds equity and de-
velopment as a right.
The Bill, which largely bor-
rows from the formulae used
by the Commission on Reve-
nue Allocation, has since been
forwarded to the assemblys Fi-
nance Committee.
According to the Bill, 40
per cent of the money will be
shared according to the pop-
ulation sizes of each ward, 25
per cent according to poverty
index in the respective wards,
with another 25 per cent going
to flagship projects.
Eight per cent of the money
will be shared equally accord-
ing to land area.
The Bill requires all officials
in charge of county projects to
submit quarterly reports to the
assembly on the absorption of
the funds.
Interestingly, the the Bill
proposes that the governor
chairs a compliance commit-
tee to be formed after it be-
comes law.
Kalenjin Welfare Associa-
tion has lauded President Uhu-
ru Kenyatta for assenting into
law the County Government
Amendment Bill that calls for
formation of the County De-
velopment Boards (CDB), say-
ing this will help enhance ac-
countability.
Speaking to The Standard
Simon Ngeny, the associa-
tions chairperson, said hav-
ing senators chair the CDBs
will help the legislators be-
come well-versed with coun-
ty issues, which will see them
address priority areas as they
draft laws in the Senate.
Ngeny also observed that
the boards presence will step
up accountability on funds
usage in the devolved gover-
nance structure.
Fifteen months down the
line and we have witnessed du-
plication of development proj-
ects and some aspects of un-
accountability. We believe that
this will change once the CDBs
are operational because they
are going to bring all coun-
ty leaders together, effectively
get rid of such mishaps for the
benefit of locals, he said.
According to Ngeny, hav-
ing the boards in place is going
to be beneficial for the elector-
ate and will lead to swift de-
velopment because it is when
leaders sit together that they
can agree on priorities and al-
locate specific responsibilities
to particular individuals as per
the constitutional dictates.
It is our belief that if the
CDB does exactly what it has
been created to do, devel-
opment will be a structured
strategy and it will pick up ef-
fortless unlike the current sce-
nario where county budgets
have allocated huge monies to
non-viable projects, he said.
The chairperson chal-
lenged national leaders, who
have been criticising the Pres-
ident for assenting the Bill in-
to law, to look at the benefits it
brings to the electorate.
Ngeny said return of un-
used funds to the National
Treasury at the end of finan-
cial year will now be a thing
of the past since the CDB pro-
vides a brainstorming platform
where ideas can be shared to
make good use of the available
funds.
The chairpersons senti-
ments come just after Amani
Coalition leader Moses Muda-
vadi criticised the President for
signing the Bill, saying estab-
lishing such laws will kill devo-
lution.
Kalenjin Welfare Association lauds
signing of County Amendment Bill
ELGEYO MARAKWET
UASIN GISHU COUNTY
y B FRED KIBOR
y B MICHAEL OLLINGA
The Bill, which has gone through the frst reading in the
assembly, also seeks to ensure there is continuous public
participation in project identifcation prioritisation and im-
plementation
The Bill mover, Kaptarakwa Ward Representative Thomas
Kigen, said the proposed would help ensure that political
expediency does not take precedence in sharing of county
resources
It also provides for creation of a compliance committee
WHAT BILL PROPOSES
Fruits of irrigation
Narok Governor Samuel Tunai and Agriculture CS Felix Koskei inspect a tomato farm under irriga-
tion in Naroosura in Narok County at the weekend. The CS said the Government has set aside Sh9.7
billion for irrigation across the country this year. [PHOTO: CHARLES NGENO/STANDARD]
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3. Tender No. KLF/03/2014-2016 Supply and Delivery of Building Materials and Hardware.
4. Tender No. KLF/04/2014-2016 Supply and Delivery of Office Stationery and Computer Consumables.
5. Tender No. KLF/05/2014-2016 Supply and Delivery of Firewood and Charcoal.
6. Tender No. KLF/06/2014-2016 Provision of Security Guarding Services.
7. Tender No. KLF/07/2014-2016 Provision of Transport Hire Services.
CATEGORY B: PREQUALIFICATIONS
8. Tender No. KLF/08/2014-2016 Pre-qualification for Supply and Delivery of Tyres, Tubes and Batteries.
9. Tender No KLF/09/2014-2016 Pre-qualification for supply of Petroleum, Lubricants and Unrefined Oil.
10. Tender No. KLF/10/2014-2016 Prequalification for Supply and Delivery of Spare parts for Motor Vehicle, Motorcycles,
Plant & Equipment.
11. Tender No. KLF/11/2014-2016 Prequalification for Supply, Installation and Maintenance of Computers, Computer
Accessories and other Office Equipment
12. Tender No. KLF/12/2014-2016 Prequalification of Contractors for Building Works, Refurbishment and Maintenance of
Government Buildings.
13. Tender No. KLF/13/2014-2016 Prequalification for Repair and Servicing of Motor Vehicles, Motorcycles, Plant and
Equipment.
14. Tender No. KLF/14/2014-2016 Prequalification for Supply and Delivery of Laboratory Stores, Veterinary Drugs and
Farm Inputs.
15. Tender No. KLF/15/2014-2016 Prequalification for Supply and Delivery of Office Furniture.
16. Tender No. KLF/16/2014-2016 Prequalification for Supply and Delivery of Tree Seedlings.
17. Tender No. KLF/17/2014-2016 Prequalification for Provision of Cleaning Services
INTERESTED TENDERERS SHOULD:
a) Attach certificate of business registration or company incorporation
b) Attach latest and VALID Tax Compliance certificate and PIN
c) For Tender No. KLF/12/2014-2016 tenderers MUST be registered by the National Construction Authority (attach
certificate)
d) For Tenders KF/6/2014-2016, KLF/10/2014-2016 and KLF/13/2014-2016 tenderers should attach certificate of Good
Conduct and/or Police license to deal in motor vehicle components and accessories.
e) Complete and attach any other documents as indicated in the tender documents.
Tender documents with detailed specifications and tendering conditions may be obtained from the respective Sub-County
Supply Chain Management Offices during official working hours upon payment of non refundable fee of Kshs.1,000.00 per set
for category A tenders, payable to the respective Sub-county cash offices; and free of charge for category B,
Prices quoted MUST BE NET i.e. inclusive of applicable taxes and delivery costs and should remain valid for 90 days from the
closing/opening date.
Youth, women & persons with disabilities who are registered with either National Treasury or respective County
Treasuries are encouraged to apply pursuant to article 31(1) & 32 of legal notice no.114 of June, 2013 (Preferences
and Reservations).
Completed tender document in plain sealed envelopes clearly marked tender No.. (As per the Sub County) should
be addressed and returned to respective sub county as follows:-
DEPUTY COUNTY COMMISSIONER DEPUTY COUNTY COMMISSIONER DEPUTY COUNTY COMMISSIONER
P.O. BOX 29 KILIFI P.O. BOX 122 MAZERAS (RABAI) P.O. BOX MADINA (MAGARINI)
DEPUTY COUNTY COMMISSIONER DEPUTY COUNTY COMMISSIONER DEPUTY COUNTY COMMISSIONER
P.O. BOX 801, KILIFI (GANZE) P.O. BOX 1 KALOLENI P.O. BOX 1 MALINDI
And be deposited in the tender boxes at the respective Sub-County Headquarter offices, on or before 25
th
Aug, 2014 at 10.00
am. The tenders will be opened immediately thereafter and tenderers or their representatives who wish to witness may attend.
Heads, Supply Chain Management Services,
National Government,
KILIFI COUNTY
Page 33 Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
READVERTISEMENT NOTICE
TENDER: DRILLING EQUIPMENT FOR WATER WORKS
The County Government of West Pokot invites sealed tenders from eligible and interested suppliers for supply,
delivery, testing and commissioning of cum rotary water well drilling rig as summarized below:-
S/NO Tender no. Description BID BOND
1. Tender no. WPC/T/018/2014-2015 Supply, delivery, testing and commissioning of cum
rotary water well drilling rig
150,000.00
Bid bond as specied above should be strictly in the form of bank Guarantee or Bankers cheque or from an insurance
company approved by PPOA, valid for One Hundred and Fifty (150) days.
A complete set of documents may be inspected and/or obtained from Supply Chain Management department, at the
Ofce of the Governor-Ground Floor upon payment of a non-refundable fee of Kenya shillings, one thousand only
(Ksh.1000) paid in cash or through a bankers cheque payable to West Pokot County Secretary.
Prices quoted should be net all taxes and delivery, testing and commissioning of the equipment (where applicable),
must be in Kenya Shillings and they should remain valid for one hundred and fty days (150) from the closing date of
the tender.
INVITATION TO TENDER
S/NO Tender no. Description
1. Tender no. WPC/T/019/2014-2015 Provision Of Comprehensive Motor Vehicle Insurance Cover
The County Government of West Pokot invites sealed tenders from eligible and interested registered insurance companies
for provision of Comprehensive insurance cover for Motor Vehicle, Motor cycles and Earth moving Equipment.
A complete set of documents may be inspected and/or obtained from Supply Chain Management department, at the
Ofce of the Governor-Ground Floor upon payment of a non-refundable fee of Kenya shillings, one thousand only
(Ksh.1000) paid in cash or through a bankers cheque payable to West Pokot County Secretary.
Completed tender document(s) clearly marked tender nofor supply of.should be addressed to:
The County Secretary
County Government of West Pokot
P.O. Box 222-30600.
Kapenguria.
Or deposited in the tender box at the entrance of the Governors ofce, so as to be received not later than, Monday, 25
th
August 2014 at 11.00am.
The tenders will be opened the same day at 11.00am in the Governors Board room, Bidders or their representatives who
wish to witness the opening are invited to attend.
The County Government reserves the right to reject or accept any tender without giving reasons for such rejection or
acceptance. The County Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender.
Head of Supply Chain Management Services
The County Government of West Pokot.
For The County Secretary
TENDER NOTICE
TENDER DESCRIPTION LEASE OF A COMMERCIAL WAREHOUSE
TENDER REFERENCE NO. NCLR-WHRS/001/14-15
The National Council for Law Reporting (Kenya Law) is a semi-autonomous State Corporation in the
Judiciary established under the National Council for Law Reporting Act No. 11 of 1994.
Kenya Laws mandate is to monitor and report on the development of jurisprudence through the publication
of the Kenya Law Reports and to revise and update the Laws of Kenya. Kenya Law is the premier institution
in providing access to Kenyas public legal information.
Kenya Law now invites tenders from interested and eligible candidates willing to enter into a contract for
the lease of a commercial warehouse. Currently, Kenya Law has a warehouse along Mombasa Road and
therefore for ease of coordination of its logistics and distribution operations, the potential warehouse must
be within a radius of three (3) kilometers from the K.P.A Inland Container Depot, in Nairobi off Mombasa
Road.
A complete set of tender documents with detailed information may be obtained by interested eligible
candidates from Kenya Laws offces situated at ACK Garden Annex, 5
th
Floor, 1
st
Ngong Avenue, off Ngong
Road during normal working hours upon payment of a non - refundable tender fee of Kshs. 1,000. Tenders
must be accompanied by a Tender security of KES 200,000 in the form of a guarantee from a reputable
bank or insurance company approved by the Public Procurement Oversight Authority. The tender security
shall be valid for 120 days from the date of tender opening.
Prices quoted should be net inclusive of all taxes and costs, must be in Kenya Shillings and shall remain
valid for 120 days from the closing date of the tender.
Completed tender documents enclosed in plain sealed envelopes and clearly marked with the tender
number & name should be addressed and sent to:
National Council for Law Reporting,
Att: Procurement Unit,
ACK Garden Annex, 5
th
Floor, 1
st
Ngong Avenue, off Ngong Road
P.O BOX 10443-00100,
Nairobi, Kenya.
Tel No: (+254) (020) 271 27 67/ 271 92 31
Email: procurement@kenyalaw.org
OR be deposited in the tender box at the reception area of the National Council for Law Reporting so as to
be received on or before 18
th
August 2014 at 9.00 a.m.
Tenders will be opened immediately thereafter in the presence of the candidates representatives who
choose to attend at Kenya Laws boardroom located on the 5
th
foor of ACK Garden Annex.
A.g. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR LAW REPORTING
COUNTY ASSEMBLY OF MOMBASA
PRE- QUALIFICATION NOTICE FOR TENDER NUMBER
MCA/SCM/02/2014-2016
The County Assembly of Mombasa Invites application for pre-qualication
from interested, eligible and competent bidders for the Supply, Delivery
and provision of the under listed goods and services for the nancial year
2014-2016.
S/No A (GOODS) DESCRIPTION CATEGORY ELIGIBILITY
1 PROVISION OF FUEL AND LUBRICANTS
FOR ASSEMBLY CARS AND
GENERATOR.
MCA/T/G/A22 OPEN
B (SERVICES )
2 PROVISION OF
ACCOMODATION,CATERING AND
CONFERENCE FACILITIES.( HOTELS)
MCA/T/S/B15 OPEN
3 PROVISION OF LEGAL SERVICES MCA/T/S/B16 OPEN
Interested eligible bidders must attach copies of:
a) Fully lled and signed Condential Business Questionnaire and Forms
of tender
b) Provide nancial standing (audited account and bank statements) for
the last three years.
c) Provide valid tax compliance certicate.
d) Provide PIN and V.A.T certicates.
e) Business registration Certicate/ Certicate of Incorporation
f) Name at least three clients supplied with similar items/services.
g) Practicing Certicate ( Legal service)
Interested eligible candidates may obtain further information and
prequalication documents at the Procurement Ofce, County Assembly
of building Ground Floor (Room No.16) between 9:00 am and 12:30 pm
and 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm during working days.
Duly completed tender documents in plain sealed envelopes clearly
marked with relevant category number and description should be
addressed to:
The Clerk
County Assembly of Mombasa
P.O. Box 90440-80100
Mombasa
and/or be deposited in the tender box situated at the entrance of the
Clerks Ofce, County Assembly Building, Room No. 114 on or before 28
th

August, 2014 at 10.00 am.
Submitted bids will be opened immediately thereafter in at 10.30am on
28
th
, August 2014 at County Assembly Board Room in the presence of
the candidates or their representatives who may wish to attend.
Late bids will be returned unopened.
Atego Chrispine
Senior Supply Chain Ofcer
For: COUNTY ASSEMBLY CLERK
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
Page 34 / RIFT VALLEY NEWS Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Kenya University students organisation (Kuso) Secretary General Charles Juma (left) with Kusa
Patron Steve Mbogo address the Press at the Panorama Hotel in Naivasha. [PHOTO: ANTONY GITONGA/
STANDARD] The National Assembly
Committee on Land has asked
the Government to lift a cave-
at imposed on land title deeds
for people living around Mau
Forest.
The committee that visit-
ed Enakishomi, Nkaroni and
Olposimoru said the caveat
has denied the locals the free-
dom to develop their farms.
MPs Moses Sakuda (Kajia-
do West), Benard Bett (Bomet
East), Raymond Moi (Rongai),
Esther Murugi (Nyeri town),
Hellen Chepkwony (Kericho
county), Joseph Magwanga
(Kasibul Kabondo) and Eusi-
la Ngeny (Uasin Gishu Coun-
ty) held a forum with some
of the affected residents who
claimed to have been impov-
erished because they cannot
invest in their farms.
Sakuda, who is the chair-
man of the committee, said de-
velopment has been hindered
because the land is said to be
in the contentious Mau Forest.
He urged Lands Cabinet Sec-
House team wants
caveat on Mau forest
land titles lifted
retary Charity Ngilu to investi-
gate the land transactions and
execute orders on the matter.
Though we know how im-
portant it is for the Govern-
ment to conserve the Mau For-
est, it is wrong to trample on
the rights of these people. Their
right to own property should
be protected as enshrined in
the Constitution, said Sakuda.
Bett said it is wrong for the
Government to impose cave-
at on titles that were lawfully
acquired and added that the
state should recognise the ti-
tle deeds so that the locals can
continue with development.
We cannot say we want to
improve the lives of these peo-
ple while we have policies that
do not favour such an ende-
vour. These people should be
allowed to use their titles as
collaterals, said Bett.
Earlier, another group
from the Kalenjin communi-
ty accused the Government
of forcibly evicting them yet
they had been allocated the
land and titles issued to them.
Led by former nominated
councilor Samuel Barbaret, the
group said the members were
never compensated after be-
ing evicted from Olposimoru
in Mau Narok in 2005.
Barbaret said the Govern-
ment cited the place as a catch-
ment area yet they bought the
land in due process before 1986.
DCs and chiefs were involved
in land sales and the agree-
ments were done in their of-
fices. We did not grab neither
did we buy in secret, we were
with the chiefs, said Barbaret.
He said their houses were
burnt by Administration Police
officers and under the com-
mand of the then Rift Valley
PC.All the people from Kalen-
jin community who bought the
land from our Maasai neigh-
bours had sale agreements
which were signed by chiefs,
he said.
The former coun-
cillor said that even af-
ter eviction no develop-
ment was done on the land.
In the year 2000 President
Daniel Arap Moi appoint-
ed a conservation commit-
tee which suggested that the
community be given back their
land but the recommendations
have never been implemented.
The Kenya Wildlife Ser-
vice (KWS) is establish-
ing county wildlife conser-
vation committees to speed
up compensation for victims
of human-wildlife conflicts.
Senior Assistant Director Mi-
chael Kipkeu said the com-
mittees, which will be com-
posed of stakeholders in the
tourism sector, representatives
of communities neighbour-
ing national parks, game re-
serves and other wildlife sanc-
tuaries, county governments,
the provincial administration
among other players, will as-
sist in identifying victims el-
igible for compensation.
KWS is going to assist coun-
ties that host wildlife in form-
ing the committees in line with
the new wildlife management
and conservation laws that
among other things spell out
rules that will lead to compen-
sation of the victims. The com-
mittees will do the recommen-
dation for the Government to
compensate them, he said.
The teams, he said, will en-
The national university stu-
dents body has said the Gov-
ernment should scrap their
fees and address rising inse-
curity in campuses.
Officials of the Kenya Uni-
versity Students Organisa-
tion (KUSO) have said all Vice
Chancellors should solve the
twin issues.
They say the high university
fees are locking out hundreds
of bright students while those
in campus are living in fear due
to insecurity.
Speaking at a two day re-
treat at Panorama Hotel, Na-
ivasha where more than 100
student leaders are in atten-
dance, KUSOs President Babu
Owino said fees for regular stu-
dents should be scrapped and
the Higher Education Loans
Board, HELB, should increase
its allocation to students which
will go towards the students
upkeep not for fees.
We want a task force
formed to address the rising
university fees since it is the
right of every Kenyan to have
access to quality education,
he said.
The organisations patron
Steve Mbogo challenged the
Government and the Opposi-
tion to stop yapping and ad-
dress key issues affecting the
country and university stu-
dents.
Secretary General Charles
Juma put VCs, who intimidate
student leaders, on notice say-
ing students have a right to
freedom of association.
KWS to establish county wildlife
conservation committees
University students: Scrap our fees
NAROK COUNTY
NAKURU COUNTY
NAROK COUNTY
y B CHARLES NGENO
y B KIPCHUMBA KEMEI
y B ANTONY GITONGA
sure that the scheme was not
abused as the laws stipulate
the amount of money vic-
tims should be paid for loss
of lives, injuries, destruction
of property among others.
Speaking in Narok when he
handed over two classrooms
the organisation built for
Enoorbalbali Primary School,
Kipkeu, who represented act-
ing Director General William
Kiprono, asked communities
neighbouring parks, game re-
serves and other wildlife sanc-
tuaries to guard against poach-
ing for tusks and game meat.
We will fulfill all our social re-
sponsibilities but we expect
communities to work with us
in conserving wildlife. That
will also assist them reap ben-
efits from the multi-billion
tourism industry, he said.
Governor Samuel Tunai
thanked KWS for the initia-
tive and said the county gov-
ernment will donate Sh4.5
million for the construction
of the school dining hall and
dormitories for boys and girls.
Due to the fact that the school
is in a wildlife corridor, the
county government will turn it
to a boarding facility to ensure
pupils access education unhin-
dered, he said and pledged
that the county will work with
KWS to eliminate poaching in
the region.
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Page 35 RIFT VALLEY NEWS / Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
More than 30 families in Gilgil were forced to
spend the night in the cold at the weekend after
their houses were burnt.
The residents of Tamu Tamu Estate in Gil-
gil town were left counting losses running in-
to thousand of shillings following the late night
tragedy where they were unable to salvage any-
thing despite their frantic efforts.
They criticised the National Youth Service
and army barracks officers for failing to re-
spond to their pleas noting that the fire could
have been contained.
Local leader, Mohammed Omar, said the fire
started from one of the rooms before spreading
fast to nearby houses.
There were heavy winds which caused the
fire to spread very fast. We were forced to watch
at a distance since we did not have water or any-
thing else to contain the inferno, he said.
Area Red Cross coordinator Felistus Kioko
confirmed the incident saying they assisted the
affected families.
We have supplied them with non-food items
like blankets and utensils as they restart their
lives following the incident, she said.
Families stranded as re razes homes
y B ANTONY GITONGA
Traders in Trans Mara have ac-
cused the Kenya National Chamber
of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI)
officials of allegedly mismanaging the
organisation.
They said those elected to office
last year were not running the organ-
isation professionally and were insen-
sitive to the obstacles business own-
ers are facing.
Led by Trans Mara West Sub Coun-
ty Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Chairper-
son Hellen Katim, the traders claimed
the chambers vice chairman Charles
Kangethe had registered less than 40
trade societies yet more than 1,000
entities were eligible for registration
so as to access cheap loans.
We are dissatisfied with the man-
ner in which the chamber is being
run. It is also slow in registering trade
societies in the area. That has stood
in the way of us accessing loans to ex-
pand our business, she said.
Ms Katim, who was speaking when
the traders met with the Narok Coun-
ty branch Chairman William Supeyo
and the Trans Mara West Sub Coun-
ty Commissioner Eric Mulevu in Kil-
goris town, said traders should be al-
lowed to hold fresh elections to weed
out nonperforming officials and to
Traders row
over expected
county cash
make the outfit vibrant.
The business community in
Trans Mara is informed. We are not
going to allow a few individuals to
use our names and our sufferings for
their own selfish gains. We ask them
to stop underrating our intelligence,
said Katim.
She accused Kangethe of alleged-
ly failing to call meetings and sidelin-
ing a big number of traders such as
cattle traders and Boda boda opera-
tors yet they were bonafide members
of KNCCI.
But Kangethe, who was present
in the meeting, defended himself and
asked the business community in the
area to give him and all office bear-
ers time to serve it and to complete
their term.
We should be allowed to serve
unhindered. The wrangles facing the
chamber have come about because
there are people who want us out for
them to benefit from the expected
Sh100 million Narok County Govern-
ment is planning to give the organisa-
tion to effectively discharge its man-
date, he said.
Supeyo asked more traders to join
the chamber because it was legally
mandated to champion their rights
and also promote their enterprises.
Traders in Trans Mara should set
aside their differences and join the
chamber, he said.
NAROK COUNTY
NAKURU COUNTY
y B KIPCHUMBA KEMEI
The business
community in
Trans Mara is
informed. We
are not going
to allow a few
individuals
to use our
names and
our suferings
for their own
selsh gains.
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Page 36 / WESTERN/NYANZA NEWS Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Tragedy befell Miendo village in Webuye West
constituency on Saturday when a traditional cir-
cumciser fell and died a few metres from the
scene of the operation.
Confirming the incident, area Chief Peter
Namutala said Wycliffe Chenge, 72, died after cir-
cumcising a boy with the knife he had used to
carry out the operation still clutched in his hand.
Bungoma County Traditional Circumcisers
(Bakhebi) Chairman Joseph Sinino said the de-
ceased, a resident of Matisi village in Webuye
West constituency, had argued with one of his
colleague on who should circumcise the boy.
Sinino said it is against Bukusu customs for
two circumcisers to disagree on such a matter
and whenever that happens, tragedy usually be-
falls one of them.
Sinino termed the incident as unfortunate
and called on all circumcisers to respect each
other during the circumcision period.
We should go about the exercise in an organ-
ised way so that we are also respected country-
wide, said Sinino.
The body was taken to Webuye Sub-County
Hospital.
The Bukusu are among several other Luhya
sub-tribes that still practice traditional male cir-
cumcision.
PUBLIC EVENT
In ceremonies that are spaced about two
years apart, young boys of a particular age (usu-
ally about 15 years), on getting the go-ahead
from their parents, invite relatives and friends
to their initiation.
The initiation is a public event and going
through the operation without showing any sign
of pain is thought to be an indicator of bravery.
Once circumcised, an initiate becomes a
member of an age-group.
A group of boys line up to be circumcised at Kanduyi
Stadium in Bungoma town at the weekend. [PHOTO: TITUS
OTEBA/STANDARD]
Bungoma County Government is
set to legalise traditional brew (busaa)
consumption.
A Bill that seeks to make the tra-
ditional drink legal has already been
tabled in the County Assembly.
Governor Kenneth Lusaka said once
the Bill is passed it will allow residents
to take their favourite drink in a hy-
gienic environment.
Speaking at Kanduyi Stadium
during the official launch of the tra-
ditional circumcision over the week-
end, Lusaka said the countys Ministry
of Culture, Gender and Youths had ta-
bled the Motion in the assembly and
it would soon be law.
The local brew is legally consumed
in Uganda and most Kenyans cross over
to the neighbouring country to drink.
Bungoma County Assembly Speaker
John Makali said the Motion that will
legalise taking of traditional drinks
had passed the first stage and now
it was at the committee stage, but
added that the ministry officials and
committee members need to travel to
Uganda to acquaint themselves with
the provisions that were used to legal-
ise busaa there.
In the Motion tabled in the house,
the mover did not specifically pin-
point busaa but instead generalised
all traditional drinks. The assembly
therefore authorised the committee
concerned to interrogate the whole
Motion and come up with concrete
areas that will allow busaa to be legal-
ly consumed to avoid loopholes that
can cause problems in future, Makali
Busaa is about
to become legal
in Bungoma,
Lusaka says
told The Standard on the telephone.
He said in Uganda, there are juris-
dictions under which the local brew
was made legal and the county should
also follow suit to avoid loopholes.
The governor said if the Motion
is passed it will reduce corruption
among police officers who demand
for a bribe from busaa brewers be-
fore they are allowed to carry on with
the trade.
Many people have resorted to
cheap and illegal liquor because we
have failed to have a Bill in place
that will legalise the drink and give
a chance to drunkards to take their
drink at a stipulated time and place
without fear of being apprehended by
police officers, Lusaka said.
He said Bungoma aims to be a
model county to be emulated by oth-
ers and it will also preserve its culture
like traditional circumcision to help
attract tourists and thereby help the
region get foreign exchange.
Lusaka said plans were under-
way for the county government to
set aside money that will help subsi-
dise traditional circumcision so that
all parents can get to have their sons
circumcised traditionally. This way
their culture will also be preserved.
Culture, Gender and Youths County
Executive Committee Member Ste-
phen Kokonya said the county was
documenting circumcision rite of
passage so that it can showcase it to
the world and attract more tourists to
the county.
The month of August is a busy pe-
riod in Bungoma when the predom-
inant Bukusu sub-tribe of the Luhya
community engages in traditional cir-
cumcision of their boys.
Bukusu circumcisor dies after performing operation
BUNGOMA COUNTY
y B TITUS OTEBA
Scientists and donors are rooting
for value addition for cassava to im-
prove food security as well as enhance
livelihoods of farmers.
Alfred Dixon, Project Leader for
the International Institute of Tropical
Agricultures project on Sustainable
Weed Management Technologies for
Cassava Systems described cassava as
a poverty fighter.
Improving the utilisation of cas-
sava as well as scaling up processing
technologies in value addition is criti-
cal in helping Africa address the issue
of poverty and hunger on the conti-
nent, he said in a press release to the
newsrooms.
The proposal comes as Interna-
tional Fund for Agricultural Develop-
ment (Ifad) is stepping up efforts to
have cassava flour included in bread
and other confectioneries.
In March, the Government in
partnership with Ifad, the Europe-
an Union and Equity Bank launched
a US$30 million (Sh2.6 billion) Cere-
al Enhancement Programme to sup-
port smallholder farmers in the coun-
try to increase crop productivity and
profitability.
The programme will support
smallholder farmers through adop-
tion of value-added agricultural prac-
tices and improved seed varieties.
Shock and grief engulfed Nyamira
Countys Nyaisa village after villagers
found the body of a 24-year-old man
dumped inside a six feet pit.
The body of Elvanus Mose, who is
a brother to Manga ward MCA James
Maroro, was found at 9am.
I had just woken up and I heard
people screaming. At the scene, I
was shocked to learn that it was my
youngest brother who was inside the
pit. Legs were visible and the neck ap-
peared strained. Police are yet to es-
tablished what caused his death, said
Maroro.
Police officers from Manga Po-
lice Division took the body to Nyam-
ira Nursing Home Hospital Mortuary.
Area police boss James Musyimi
said they are yet to establish the ex-
act cause of the mans death.
An autopsy will be conducted to
enable us know what happened. The
body had no visible injuries that could
make us suspect he was killed. We are
conducting investigations to get to
the bottom of this mysterious death,
said Mr Musyimi adding: We suspect
he fell into the pit latrine while walk-
ing home.
Push on
for cassava
upgrade
Shock as
MCAs kin is
found dead
KISUMU COUNTY
NYAMIRA COUNTY
y B HEZRON OCHIEL
y B NAFTAL MAKORI
y B TITUS OTEBA
BUNGOMA COUNTY
Babysitting MP
Luanda MP Chris Omulele baby-sits Acleen Ondeche during a meeting at Wemi-
labi Primary School at the weekend. The MP, who gave the school Sh400,000
cheque for construction of new classrooms, said they will put up 240 class-
rooms across the constituency using CDF money. [PHOTO: ERIC LUNGAI/STANDARD]
Page 37 WESTERN/NYANZA NEWS / Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Quick action by police offi-
cers in Bungoma town averted
an ugly scene after irate resi-
dents attempted to burn down
a clinic following the death of a
Standard Eight pupil suspect-
ed to have procured abortion
at the facility.
Angry wananchi surround-
ed the facility immediately
word went round that a pupil
from Lubunda Primary School
had succumbed to complica-
tions after the doctor allegedly
attempted to procure an abor-
tion.
They were in the process of
dousing the facility with pet-
rol when anti-riot police offi-
cers arrived and rescued the
Drama at clinic
as girl dies from
awry abortion
terrified medical practitioner
who residents accused of be-
ing behind frequent cases of
abortions in the area.
Police took the girls body
to Bungoma County Hospital
mortuary as the doctor was al-
so arrested and locked up at
the Bungoma Police Station.
We have arrested the doc-
tor and now we will take him
to court. Wananchi should be
patient, said Bungoma Coun-
ty Police Commandant Charles
Munyoli.
A contingent of anti-riot
police arrived just as the crowd
was breaking the last door
leading to the room in which
the doctor had taken refuge
with the mother of the girl and
restored an uneasy calm.
Witnesses said the girl ar-
rived at the facility with her
mother and proceeded inside
only for the woman to emerge
about two hours later scream-
ing that her daughter had died.
We rushed inside imme-
diately and found the lifeless
body of the girl on an operation
table as the doctor watched
helplessly. From a close obser-
vation, the girl had bled pro-
fusely leading to her death,
said a bicycle taxi operator.
More drama erupted af-
ter the girls father arrived
and started chasing his wife
around, accusing her of caus-
ing the death of his daughter.
They left home in se-
crecy without informing me
where they were headed and
I thought they were visiting a
relative because thats what
they do each weekend. Little
did I know that that was the last
time I will be seeing my favou-
rite child! mourned the man.
BUNGOMA COUNTY
SIAYA COUNTY
BUSIA COUNTY
y B ROBERT WANYONYI
Two beaches in Rarieda,
Siaya County, have been given
a 21-day ultimatum by the area
public health office to improve
hygiene or risk closure.
According to the area Pub-
lic Health Officer Samson Oli-
lo, who toured Osindo and Ka-
mariga beaches, the two areas
lack adequate sanitation facil-
ities such as latrines.
It has come to our notice
that most of our beaches lack
adequate sanitation facilities
and if not improved, then we
will be forced to close them
down, said Olilo.
He further expressed fear of
possible outbreak of diarrhoe-
al diseases since the residents
dry their fish where they def-
ecate.
NO LICENCES
Rarieda Sub-county Med-
ical Officer of Health Flor-
ence Diemo observed that
the fish handlers at the two
beaches were operating with-
out valid food handling cer-
tificates thereby putting the
public at risk of contracting
diseases.
Area Deputy County Com-
missioner Joseph Onyango,
who accompanied the two
officers, directed the public
health department to conduct
a crackdown on landlords with
rental houses who have not
bothered to construct latrines
for their tenants.
There is no single pit la-
trine at Kamariga Beach, which
has a population of 1,100 resi-
dents while Osindo Beach with
a population of 3,000 has only
two pit latrines, he said.
The revealations come in
the wake of figures released
recently by UN body indicat-
ing that only 29 per cent of vil-
lages in Siaya County no longer
use the bush as a toilet.
Residents of Nambale constituency of Busia
County have been urged to invest in higher ed-
ucation following the recent plans by Jaramogi
Oginga Odinga University to establish a campus
in the region.
Area MP John Bunyasi also called on other
leaders to make higher education a priority in
their regions.
We are a constituency that began benefiting
from education more than 100 years ago with
the primary schools we got and we had stu-
dents that far back. But we stagnated complete-
ly at high school level. It has been my passion
and focus that we must provide opportunities
for higher education in Nambale, Bunyasi said.
Addressing journalists in Nambale town at-
the weekend, the legislator reiterated that they
are planning as a community and Nambale
CDF to purchase the facility situated at Precious
Hope Academy in Nambale town and provide
some resources for its renovation.
Two beaches face closure due to poor
sanitation, risk of diarrhoeal diseases
MP tells locals to invest in education
y B ISAIAH GWENGI
y B JANE CHEROTICH
A tree
for pos-
terity
National Assembly
Speaker Justin Mu-
turi plants a tree at
Eluche Secondary
School in Mumias
during a harambee
at the institution.
Muturi absolved
himself from blame
over the passage of
the County Devel-
opment Board Bill
to be chaired by
senators. He also
said the National
Assembly will not
frustrate devolu-
tion. [PHOTO: CHRISP-
EN SECHERE/STAN-
DARD]
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, YOUTH, SPORTS, CULTURE
AND SOCIAL SERVICES.
APLICATION FOR ALCOHOLIC DRINKS LICENSE 2014
PUBLIC NOTICE
The County Government of Kajiado has enacted the Alcoholic Drinks Control Policy No. 1 of 2014.
All the business owners dealing in Alcoholic Drinks are hereby notied to;
Apply for the above licenses for new businesses or 1.
Apply for the renewal for existing businesses. 2.
The application form for the licenses for the year 2014/2015 can be obtained from our website
www.kajiadocountygovernment.com as well as at our Headquarters and Sub County ofces respectively
with effect from 11
th
AUG.2014 as follows ;
S/NO SUB-COUNTY STATION CONTACT PHONE NO.
1 North Ngong 0720696846
2 West Kiserian 0721312438
3 East Isinya 0724661742
4 South Loitoktok 0723548474
5 Central Kajiado 0722802092
The application will be issued upon payment of none refundable fee of Ksh. 1000 for each application.
The deadline for application will be 25
th
AUG. 2014
Payment should be made to the following Account held in EQUITY bank of Kenya.
Account Name: Kajiado County Alcoholic Drinks Control Fund
Bank Name: Equity bank of Kenya
Branch: Kajiado
Account No. : 0860262699474
COUNTY SECRETARY
KAJIADO COUNTY
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Page 39 COFFEE BREAK / Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard

B G J A 22
F H C D 18
J E G H 19
15 24 13 30
B E G J 23

Solution

No. ###


2 1 6 9 4 5 3 8 7


5 4 9 8 7 3 6 2 1


8 3 7 2 1 6 4 5 9


4 9 8 3 2 1 7 6 5


1 7 3 6 5 8 9 4 2


6 5 2 7 9 4 1 3 8


3 6 1 5 8 7 2 9 4


9 8 4 1 6 2 5 7 3


7 2 5 4 3 9 8 1 6



SATURDAYS SOLUTION

STANDOKU Imejin ### COFFEE BREAK


9 4 1 3


5
8
1 6


1 2 4 7


4 5 2 7 8


2 6
9
5


1 3 2


5 8 1


4 7 6 3


9 2 3 1 8



puzzling
Using all the letters
of the alphabet,
ll in the grid. To
help you, there are
three cryptic cross-
word-style clues:
Top line: Small ch-
ange promises to
be disloyal. (9)
Middle line: A cup
of foaming ale for
the chip. (7)
Bottom line: Loud,
inspiring ring?
(5,4)
To start you of,
here is one of the
letters.
All rows, columns and 3 by 3 grids
(dened by bold lines ) have the
numbers 1 to 9 appearing only once.
Some of the numbers have been en-
tered. Complete the whole table by
inserting the correct numbers.
Capricorn (Dec 22 - Jan 20)
Posi ti ve sel f-esteem i s a necessi ty now.
You seem i nterested i n emoti onal com-
muni cati on between busi ness fri ends
and l ove partners. You must know how
you come across to others.
Aquarius (Jan 21 - Feb 19)
Your i nsti ncti ve ori entati on at thi s
ti me i s toward getti ng down to basi cs.
You wi l l qui ckl y el i mi nate the nones-
senti al s and real i se many accompl i sh-
ments i n the workpl ace.
Pisces (Feb 20 - Mar 20)
Your company may be i nvol ved i n l ec-
tures or conventi ons. Connecti ons wi th
peopl e on a grand scal efor exampl e,
at a di stance or en massepl ay a bi g-
ger part i n your l i fe now. Educati on,
l aw travel or rel i gi on may al so pl ay a
part i n thi s adventure.
Taurus (April 21 - May 20)
Sex, power and money are compel l i ng
aphrodi si acs now. Secrets, taboos and
mysteri es appeal to a deep i nsti ncti ve
yearni ng. Peopl e sense an i nterest i n
thei r wel fare when they meet you.
Aries (Mar 21 - May 20)
Your i nsti ncts move toward getti ng as
much accompl i shed today. Thi s coul d
mean progress i n the workpl ace and i n
accompl i shi ng your personal goal s. Al l
these shoul d go rather smoothl y.
Gemini (May 21 - June 21)
There seems to be an unspoken l i mi t
on the ti me to accompl i sh a parti cu-
l ar task, but i f you took your ti me, you
woul d be abl e to rel ax a bi t more and
have fewer probl ems at noon break.
Courtesy: dailyhoroscopes.com
YESTERDAYS SOLUTIONS
Horoscopes
Sudoku
Codeword Puzzle
(July 23 - Aug 22)
If you are not taking the lead,
you will be adding to the po-
sitive progress of a group ga-
thering this day. You know
just what people want and can
size up a situation quickly.
DIFFICULT
The letters have a distinct
value between 1 to 9. The to-
tals vertically and horizontally
have been given. Solve all the
values.
NO 5293
NO 5292
A B C D E F G H J
3 9 4 1 7 5 6 2 8
YESTERDAYS SOLUTIONS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
L C K
E
N H R
V I Q
D J F Y T W M X G O
A
Z
S
P
B
U
Cancer (June 22 - July 22)
Organising les and completing unnished
business are musts this morning. The mor-
ning is also a great time to be with others
and work on a team project. You have a lot
of ideas that are important for group dis-
cussions today.
Virgo (Aug 23 - Sept 23)
It is good that people value your ideas and
talents. You may do encourage others to do
their own work and not depend on you so
much. You will be clever at nding just the
right words for this occasion.
Libra (Sept 24 - Oct 23)
Emotional considerations may block or
oppose how you proceed with a project or
plan just now. Listen carefully to what hig-
her-ups are saying. You could have trouble
with authorities, due to a tendency to push
your own ambitions.
Scorpio (Oct 24 - Nov 22)
You shine when it comes to practical mat-
ters, involving work and career. You have
an easy way with superiors and can always
get the most out of any skill or ability you
have. There are family income and family
security issues on your mind today.
Sagittarius (Nov 23 - Dec 21)
You will nd yourself taking charge, orga-
nising and perhaps managing an important
business transaction today. This puts you in
a boss type of position and you love being
the boss. You can be a real moving force in
the lives of others just now.
Leo
E
Page 40 / COFFEE BREAK Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
puzzling
Across
3 Expl osi on (5)
8 Conspi racy (5)
10 Ferti l e spot (5)
11 Groove (3)
12 Jeans fabri c (5)
13 Permi ts, tol erates (7)
15 Post off (5)
18 Managed (3)
19 Former currency (6)
21 Afternoon show (7)
22 Sul l y (4)
23 Publ i c pool (4)
24 Shortage (7)
26 Insi ght (6)
29 Smal l fel i ne mam-
mal (3)
31 Tree sap (5)
32 Cauti ous (7)
34 Seni or member (5)
35 To free (3)
36 Moroccan capi tal (5)
37 Detests (5)
38 Chai rs (5)
Down
1 Farm bui l di ngs (5)
2 Unstudi ed (7)
4 Fi bs (4)
5 Pri vate eveni ng par-
ty (6)
6 Domesti cates (5)
7 Fi nger or toe (5)
9 Unopened fl ower (3)
12 Inhabi tant (7)
14 Rodent (3)
16 Deserve (5)
17 Sharpl y hooked cl aw
(5)
19 Aquati c bi rd (7)
20 Academy Award (5)
21 Take away (5)
23 Word for word (7)
24 Indi cate, desi gnate (6)
25 Vehi cl e (3)
27 Tree type (5)
28 Legendary ki ng (5)
30 Naked fi gures (5)
32 US coi n (4)
33 In good heal th (3)
ACROSS: 1, Cramp 6, Punch 9, Earlier 10, Spent 11, Latin 12, Peril 13, Strolls 15, Hen
17, Tear 18, Valise 19, Raven 20, Opined 22, Sere 24, Pad 25, Cruiser 26, Rails 27,
Wafer 28, Ambit 29, Presume 30, Pansy 31, Pries
DOWN: 2, Repute 3, Mentor 4, Pat 5, Flies 6, Pelican 7, Ural 8, Chimes 12, Plead 13,
Stoop 14, Rapid 15, Hives 16, Never 18, Veers 19, Remarry 21, Panama 22, Simmer
23, Revise 25, Clash 26, Reps 28, Amp
SATURDAYS EASY SOLUTIONS
Easy Puzzle
ACROSS
3 Choose possibly to take Lee
to court (5)
8 Its rough being right in a
mess! (5)
10 Tough master embraced by a
female (2-3)
11 Bit of a grimace from a Scot
(3)
12 Was Gertrude a mug? (5)
13 Clip one unfairly in a game
(7)
15 Full of pith, yet not vegeta-
ble (5)
18 Continental street of sad-
ness (3)
19 Goes into business to create
upsets (4,2)
21 Barely runs on narrow lines
(7)
22 Goddess who lives again? (4)
23 French name for a bit of a
renegade (4)
24 The fear possibly associated
with a white one? (7)
26 Try to get free perhaps?
(3,3)
29 Strain a gut? (3)
31 Possibly early bird at the
egg farm (5)
32 Canadas ratable system (7)
34 Worried about the future?
(5)
35 It doesnt agree with the
number on a tin opener (3)
36 Something a womans burnt?
(5)
37 A canoe could be lost in it (5)
38 A long piece can still be
comic (5)
DOWN
1 Urchin who hasnt finished
playing (5)
2 Costers companions? (7)
4 Galateas keeping us wait-
ing (4)
5 Rings you can get from most
chemists (6)
6 Doctrine you can read up (5)
7 Language usable for a letter
to an aunt (5)
9 Managed to participate in
athletics? (3)
12 Possibly restless peelers? (7)
14 Charlie has half an hour
with the dog (3)
16 Eastern floral centre (5)
17 Where some Belgians are in
the money, presumably (5)
19 Quickly get out in the al-
ley! (7)
20 Latest thing in ties (5)
21 One corner in heaven thats
just like velvet (5)
23 In historical times, wonder-
fully green outskirts of the
City (7)
24 Woody ways into a well-de-
fended place (6)
25 Centre of revolution (3)
27 Impertinent, say, about
saints (5)
28 Good times for cash pay-
ments around Tuesday (5)
30 Its essentially oily and flow-
ery (5)
32 A fantastic wine? (4)
33 A bit fishy, but heroes use
it (3)
ACROSS: 1, Props 6, Hoots 9, Le-XIC-on 10, Scrip 11, Lying 12, Caly-X 13, Festoon 15, Sec 17, It-CH 18, W-A-
V-ell 19, Aster 20, Enlist 22, Legs (eleven) 24, Dad(s army) 25, Al-pines 26, Heavy 27, R-Ive-T. 28,
E-tude 29, Risible 30, Medoc 31, K-nife.
DOWN: 2, Rock-E.T. 3, Plinth 4, Sep 5, W-igan 6, Holy war 7, Ony-x 8, Tin-seL 12, Coast 13, Fine-D 14, S-C-old
15, Seven 16, Class 18, We-L-ly 19, A-s-cetic 21, Nat-Ive 22, Listen 23, Geldof 25, Avail 26, Her-O 28, Elk
SATURDAYS CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS
Cryptic Puzzle
WEIRD NEWS
Motherhood: All love begins and
ends there.
Robert Browning.
A wi dow l ef t her dead
husbands body decomposi ng
i n t hei r home for ni ne mont hs
because she says he wanted
to be eaten by t he bi rds.
I l a Sol omon, 54, i s faci ng
possi bl e charges af ter t he
body of Geral d Gavan, 88,
was di scovered i n t hei r home
i n May.
She recent l y took a news
crew i nto her home and
poi nted out t he spot where
t he Wol d War I I veteran di ed.
She tol d newsnet 5: I j ust
t hi nk somebody who di d so
much for t he Uni ted St ates
shoul d have t he deat h he
wanted, t hat s al l . He j ust
wanted to be eaten by t he
bi rds. She l ef t a si de door
open i n t he hope t hat bi rds
woul d come i nto t he house
and eat hi s corpse.
The cause of deat h remai ns a
myster y.
A wi l l purpor tedl y to be Mr
Gavans says he wanted a
t radi ti onal ri t ual i n whi ch he
woul d be l ef t to be eaten by
bi rds i n I ndi a.
Mirror Online
Widow kept husbands corpse for 9 months
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Page 41 TV GUIDE / Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
FOX CINEPLEX SARIT CENT RE, WESTLANDS
SCREEN I HERCULES IN 3D (TBA) At 11.00am,
4.00pm, STEP UP ALL IN 3D (PG) At 2.00pm,
ITS ENTERTAINMENT (TBA) At 6.00pm,
8.50pm
SCREEN II GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY IN 3D
(PG) At 11.00am, 4.00pm, 8.50pm, HERCULES
IN3D (TBA) At 2.00pm, 6.30pm,
PLANET MEDIA CINEMAS KISUMU
SCREEN I MALEFICENT (PG) At 1.40pm,
6.20pm
X-MEN - DAY OF FUTURE PAST (16) At 3.40,
8.30pm
SCREEN II GUARDIANS OF THE GLAXY
(TBA) At 3.50pm, 8.40pm DAWN OF THE
PLANET OF THE APES (TBA) At 1.30pm,
STEP UP ALL IN (PG) 11.20am, 1.40pm.
NYALI CINEMAX MOMBASA
SCREEN I STEP UP ALL IN 3D At 4.00pm,
HERCULUSIN 2D At 4.00pm, STEP UP ALL IN 2D
At 6.45pm, HERCULES IN 3D At 6.45pm, BAD
NEIGHBOURS At 9.00pm, GUARDIANS OF THE
GALAXY IN 2D At 9.15pm.
Cinema Guide
tv guide
N
o
w

S
h
o
w
i
n
g
07:00 Myth Busters
07:50 Dirty Jobs
08:45 Ultimate Survival
09:40 Border Security
10:05 Auction Hunters
10:30 Auction Kings
10:55 How Do They Do It?
11:25 How Its Made
11:50 Dynamo
12:45 The Big Brain Theory
01:40 MythBusters
02:35 Border Security
I t i s a stor y of a young mans quest to
surf Nor thern Cal i forni as most danger-
ous wave, and a l ocal l egend who takes
hi m under hi s wi ng. What begi ns as a
mentorshi p turns i nto a uni que l i fel ong
bond, as the two un di scover there i s
nothi ng more powerful than pushi ng
your l i mi ts and chasi ng a nearl y i mpos-
si bl e dream.
SATURDAYS TRIVIA: Universal
Soldier 4
TV Quiz
03:05 Auction Hunters
03:30 Auction Kings
04:00 Dirty Jobs
04:55 Ultimate Survival
05:50 MythBusters
05:45 How Do They Do It?
07:10 How Its Made
07:40 Sons of Guns
08:35 Auction Hunters
09:00 Storage Hunters
09:30 Sons of Guns
DStv Highlights
Todays Schedule
5:00 Pambazuka
Music
6:00 Power Breakfast
9:00 Afrosinema
11:30 Naswa
12:00 Gabriela
13:00 Live at 1
14:00 Afrosinema
16:00 Citizen Alasiri
16:10 Mseto East
Africa
17:00 Pavitra Rishta
18:00 Forever Yours
19:00 Citizen
Nipashe
19:35 Inspekta
Mwala
20 :05 Wild at
Heart
21:00 Monday
Special
22:00 Africa
Leadership
Dialogue
22:30 Afro-sinema
0.00 Citizen Late
Night News
1.00 Afro-sinema
4:30 BBC
4:55 Morning Prayer
5:00 Aerobics
5:30 Damka
8:00 Good Morning Kenya
9:00 Parliament Live
11:00 Daytime Movie
11:00 KBCc Lunch Time
News
1:30 Moving The Masses
1:30 Grapevine
2:30 Parliament Live
4:30 Spider Riders
5:00 Club 1
6:00 Spiders
7:00 Darubini Live
7:30 Road To Success
8:05 The Platform Live
9:00 Channel 1 News
9:45 National Cohesion
Live
10:30 Bold & Beautiful
11:30 You Are The One
12:00 Club 1
12:45 BBC
5:00 Password RPT
6:00 AM Live
9:00 Irrational Heart
10.00 Maid In
Manhattan
11:15 The Young & The
Restless
12:00 Rhythm City
12:30 Scandal
1:00 NTV at 1
1:30 Backstage
2:00 One True Love
3.00 Password
4:00 NTV at 4
4:15 Password
Reloaded
5:00 The Beat
6:00 Destiny River
7:00 NTV Jioni
7:30 Tujuane
8:30 Mali
9:00 NTV Tonight
10:05 Press Pass
11:00 Movie:
Monnlight And
Valentino
01:00 CNN_
5.00 Command Your
Morning
6:00 Morning Express
9.00 Tendereza
10:00 Her Mothers Daughter
11.00 National Geographic
12.00 The Entrepreneur
12.30 Gavana
1.00 News Desk
1.30 Drive It
2:00 Afri-Screen
4.00 Mbiu Ya KTN
4.10 Kim Possible
4.30 Hulk and the agent of
Smash
5.00 Baseline
6.00 Los Rey
7:00 KTN LEO
7:30 Mshamba
8.00 Steve Harvey
9.00 KTN Prime
10.05 Case Files
10.30 Prank My Mom
11.00 The Diary
CNN
Pick Of The Day 7.30PM
6.00 K24 Alfajiri
9.00 It Seems So
Beautiful Rpt
10.00 Naijasinema Rpt
12.00 Al jazeera News
12.30 Almasi Rpt
13.00 K24 Newscut
13.30 Gumbaru School
Rpt
14.00 Kelele FM
|Rpt
15.00 Broken Vow
16.00 Mchipuko wa
Alasiri
16.10 Team Raha
17.30 Beat Box
18.30 K24 Mashinani
19.00 K24 Saa Moja
19. 35 Almasi
20.05 Gumbaru School
20.30 Kelele FM
21.00 K24 Evening
Edition
22.00 Naijasinema
1.30 Al Jazeera
Nairobi 102.7 I Nyeri 105.7
Meru 105.1 I Kericho 90.5
Kisumu 105.3 I Mombasa 105.1
Nakuru 104.5 I Eldoret 91.1
Kitui: 93.8 I Kisii: 91.3
4:00AM Safari na Antony Ndiema
6:00AM Maisha Asubuhi na Alex and Jalas
10:00AM Staarabika na Ann Njogu
1:00PM Konnect na Mwende and Clemo
4:00PM Maisha Jioni na Tina and Zuleka
7:00PM Rhumba Attencion na Mwashumbe
10:00PM Maji Makuu na Ali Hassan and Babu
12:00AM Hakuna Kulala
In this weeks episode: Mshamba is in love with Celle, but marry her until he gets a de-
cent job, which he believes he can only get in Nairobi. Lady luck strikes at Mshamba when
Momanyi, a friend of his uncle, Bishop gets into problems making his partner quit. Momanyi
requests Mshamba to travel to Nairobi. Mshamba is a typical ruralite whose simple trip to
Nairobi ends up chaotic.
Felix Koskei (right), Agriculture Cabinet Secretary with Hannah Muriithi, Chair-
person of the Interim Management Committee during the launch of AFFA. {PHOTO:
DAVID NJAAGA}
ing all along.
The legislation has provided a
sound platform for the directors to
restore change in the agriculture sec-
tor. However, tussle over the suprem-
acy of the sector is likely to be wit-
nessed between different factions in
the ministry.
Based on the provisions of the
AFFA Act 2013, supremacy wars are
likely to emerge and derail the de-
sired reforms in the agriculture sec-
tor. Regulating the sector will require
a lot of commitment both by the min-
istry and the authority, said Dr Omiti.
Farmers organisations also agreed
conflict could occur due to duplica-
Full operationalisation of Agri-
culture, Fisheries and Food Author-
ity (AFFA) could prompt supremacy
wars in the multi-billion shillings ag-
riculture sector.
The tussle is likely to be witnessed
between senior officers with the Min-
istry of Agriculture, Livestock and
Fisheries and the new directors of
the authority as they fight over huge
resources inherited from the merged
units. But the Government is optimis-
tic that the sector reforms will succeed
and thus guarantee high productivi-
ty and farmers income by improving
the investment climate and efficiency
of agribusiness.
Through facilitative regulation,
development and promotion ser-
vices, this is anticipated to increase
exports earnings from agricultur-
al crops thereby increasing foreign
exchange earnings of the country,
according to Agriculture, Livestock
and Fisheries Cabinet Secretary Fe-
lix Koskei.
Further, wrangles could also be
occasioned by senior agriculture of-
ficials questioning decisions the au-
thority directors will be executing. A
similar supremacy war is already be-
ing witnessed between the Nation-
al Land Commission and Ministry
of Lands over control of land in the
country.
Koskei operationalised the AF-
FA Act on January 17, 2014 through a
Kenya Gazette notice one year after it
was enacted. The regulatory institu-
tions will be replaced by new direc-
The tussle is likely
to emerge between
ministry and AFFA
ofcials over resources
from merged units
torates, which will be manned by di-
rectors to be recruited competitively.
Some of the regulatory bodies to
be converted into directorates include
Tea Board of Kenya, Horticultural
Crops Development Authority, Cof-
fee Board of Kenya and Kenya Sugar
Board. Others are Coconut Develop-
ment Authority, Pyrethrum Board of
Kenya, Cotton Development Author-
ity and Sisal Board of Kenya.
Kenya Institute for Public Policy
Research and Analysis (Kippra) Exec-
utive Director John Omiti stated that
functions of the authority, if well im-
plemented, could reduce the clout
Agriculture ministry has been enjoy-
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tion of roles between the ministry and
AFFA.
CIC Insurance Group is betting on savings
and credit co-operative societies (Saccos) to in-
crease insurance penetration, widen its market
share and empower more people economically
through its customer-centric services.
CIC Insurance Group CEO Nelson Kuria says
the co-operative movement comprising of over
14,000 registered Saccos and a membership
of over eight million offers the industry bet-
ter opportunity to enhance financial inclusion
through insurance services.
Mr Kuria, who addressed a forum of CEOs
from various Saccos across the country in Naiva-
sha town, said the co-operatives sector is faced
with the risk of losing out, if they do not em-
brace change through strategic alliances and
partnership.
Co-operatives can play active role in devel-
opment by investing in every sector of the econ-
omy to boost wealth creation, food security and
employment generation and hence contribute
to poverty alleviation.
Insurance is appropriately designed to meet
the needs of co-operatives and can contribute to
the development of the sector, he stated, urging
co-operative leaders to sensitise their members
on insurance issues.
Kuria also called on CEOs from various
co-operative societies to work on networking
and take part in activities that will make them
more visible in the society as this will open up
lobbying opportunities for them.
He regretted that despite the critical role
played by insurance in cushioning people from
risks, many Kenyans still view it as a forced pur-
chase, which they only take when it is a precon-
dition for access to certain services.
Unlike other financial services which offer
no meaningful returns on savings, insurance
saves people from poverty brought as a result of
everyday risks. It is a tool of equipping and se-
curing people, he said. The co-operatives sector
has mobilised a combined savings of $2.5 billion
and employs over 300,000 people besides pro-
viding opportunities for self-employment.
CIC appreciates that all these people require
a secure and comfortable retirement. Through
its Jipange Pension Plan, CIC Insurance Group
will safeguard their future, noted Kuria.
Co-operatives are organised into service and
producer entities and cut across various sec-
tors, more prominently in agriculture, market-
ing, banking, credit, diary, fishing and transport.
Kuria said CIC is pursuing co-operative mod-
el of insurance, which is more successful in giv-
ing services to low-income population, adding,
Our unique concern for ordinary Kenyans has
given us exceptional appeal to many people.
CIC targets Saccos to increase insurance penetration
Major battle over resources loom as
new agricultural authority takes of
y B NICHOLAS WAITATHU
Based on
provisions of the
AFFA Act 2013,
supremacy wars
are likely to emerge
and derail the
desired reforms
in the agriculture
sector.
Kase Lawal, the Chairman
of Camac Energy, a
US-based oil and gas
exploration company with
ofces and oil blocks in
Kenya, has encouraged
other American companies
to invest in the country.
Speaking during the
Corporate Council on
Africas dinner hosted for
President Uhuru Kenyatta
on the sidelines of the
just concluded US-Africa
Summit, Lawal praised
the conducive business
environment prevailing
in the country. As an
American company actively
doing business in Kenya,
I urge other American
businesses to invest in
Kenya, Lawal said. Camac
Energy is listed on New
York and Johannesburg
stock exchanges and
is eyeing the Nairobi
Securities Exchange.
Kenyan advertising rm
Scangroup reported a 151
per cent rise in pretax prot
for the rst half of the year
helped by a jump in interest
income. Scangroup, which
also operates in Nigeria,
Tanzania and Uganda, said
prot for the six months rose
to Sh253.85 million ($2.89
million) and revenues rose
by just over a quarter. Prots
were buoyed by a one-of
payment from Cavendish
Square Holding, a subsidiary
of British rm WPP, which
raised its stake in Scangroup
last year to 50.1 per cent
from 36.616 per cent. Net
interest income jumped to
Sh111.7 million from Sh20
million, helped by interest
earned on a Sh1.83 billion
payment from Cavendish
Square Holding. The
advertising rms earnings
per share rose to Sh0.42
from Sh0.02. By close of
trade on Friday, Scangroups
shares were up 2.13 per
cent at Sh48.00, but on low
volumes.
QuickStop
Camac invites US rms
to invest in Kenya
Scangroup pretax
prot jumps 151pc
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Workers attend to a pyrethrum farm. Kenya plans to regain its position as the
worlds biggest exporter of the crop. [PHOTO:FILE/STANDARD]
tory inputs, including seedlings, ac-
cording to the authority.
Pyrethrum is estimated to be cur-
rently contributing about Sh200 mil-
lion to export earnings, compared
with about Sh10 billion in the 1990s,
Busolo said.
The plant was introduced in Ken-
ya in 1928. The country currently
Kenya woos
investors to regain
pyrethrum top spot
Kenya plans to regain its position
as the worlds biggest exporter of pyre-
thrum, a flower used to make insecti-
cide, by allowing private producers to
grow the crop, the Pyrethrum Regula-
tory Authority said over the weekend.
The authority is targeting output
of as much as 15,000 metric tonnes
of liquid pyrethrum, compared with
1,000 tonnes produced last year, ac-
cording to Managing Director Alfred
Busolo.
Legislators enacted a law govern-
ing the industry last year, spurring in-
terest from domestic and foreign in-
vestors, he said, without identifying
them.
Kenya grows the finest pyrethrum
flowers on earth, which are in high de-
mand throughout the world, Busolo
added on phone recently.
With the Pyrethrum 2013 Act in
force, the country will once again be-
come the worlds top exporter, he ex-
plained.
Kenya ranked as the worlds
third-biggest producer of dried pyre-
thrum last year, compared with 2009
when it was the worlds largest grower,
according to data from the Food and
Agriculture Organisation, which lists
Tanzania and Papua New Guinea as
the top two.
Exports are shipped to countries
including Australia, China, India, the
Joshua Oigara, the chairman of
Kenyas banking association and chief
executive officer of the nations big-
gest lender, wants capital reserve re-
quirements for lenders boosted more
than eightfold to prompt consolida-
tion.
Kenya, a nation of 39 million peo-
ple with a $37 billion economy, has 43
commercial banks as well as a mort-
gage finance company, nine microfi-
nance banks and eight representative
branches of foreign banks, according
to the Nairobi-based Central Bank of
Kenya.
The Banking Association of South
Africa, which represents lenders in a
country of more than 50 million with
an economy more than nine times
larger than Kenya, has 31 members,
including branches of foreign banks.
In Kenya, 70 per cent of the bank-
ing business is done by eight compa-
nies and the fragmentation of the in-
dustry is hindering the scale needed
by banks to offer more complex ser-
vices, Oigara disclosed last week.
Oigara, who is also the Chief Ex-
ecutive Officer of Kenya Commercial
Bank, made the remarks in an inter-
view at the just concluded US-Africa
Leaders Summit in Washington.
The capital reserve requirement
for Kenyan banks is currently Sh1 bil-
lion ($11.4 million). $100 million is
the minimum in my view, Oigara ex-
plained in the interview.
Other African countries like Nige-
ria and Ghana raised cash reserve re-
quirements for banks this year.
The Kenyan banking industrys to-
tal net assets grew 16 per cent to Sh2.7
trillion last year, driven by an increase
in loans, according to a report on the
Central Banks website. Pretax prof-
it for the industry rose 17 per cent to
Sh126 billion, according to the report.
Bloomberg
Pyrethrum Regulatory
Authority intends to
allow private producers
to grow the crop
US and European nations, Busolo
further explained.
Kenyas share of the global pyre-
thrum market is currently about 2
per cent, compared with about 70 per
cent in 1998, according to the state-
run Pyrethrum Board of Kenya, the
forerunner to the authority, which
held a monopoly for licensing, mar-
keting, growing and registering play-
ers in the industry.
The country produced a record
crop of 17,710 tonnes in 1992, trigger-
ing a collapse in prices that left some
farmers in financial ruin, Busolo said.
Matters worsened as a result of gov-
ernance issues and stringent and out-
dated regulations including delayed
or non-payment to farmers, he said.
To support the industry, the Ken-
yan government has since 2006 in-
jected Sh1.45 billion ($17 million) to
pay salary arrears and purchase fac-
The Kenya
grows the nest
pyrethrum owers
on earth, which
are in high demand
throughout the
world.
Alfred Busolo, Pyrethrum
Regulatory Authority MD.
Kenyan banking shares and
those of East African Brewer-
ies Ltd (EABL) fell on Thursday,
ending five days of gains on the
bourse. Shares in EABL, the regions
biggest brewer, fell 1.3 per cent to
Sh309 on profit-taking before the
release of its full-year results, trad-
ers said.
KCB Bank Group, the largest
bank in Kenya by assets, fell 0.52 per
cent to Sh55.00, largely because the
value of the stock was diluted when
additional shares were listed un-
der the companys Employee Share
Ownership Programme.
KCB traded very actively during
todays session, said Kuria Kamau,
a research analyst at Kestrel Capital.
There were new shares that were
being credited. Those are the ESOP
shares coming into the market and
as a result there is some dilution.
On the foreign exchange market,
the shilling closed at Sh87.85/95 to
the dollar, unchanged for Wednes-
days close. Central Bank has been
injecting local currency into the
market to ease tight liquidity lead-
ing to rising interbank lending rates.
Traders have said the cash crunch
in the money market was caused by
delays in the government disbursing
funds to departments and local au-
thorities. The Central Bank was in-
jecting too little to bring down the
rates, some traders said.
Equity market
in mixed
performance
KCB boss seeks eightfold jump
in banks reserve requirements
has two pyrethrum-processing facto-
ries constructed in 1959 and 1962, re-
spectively. Annual installed capacity is
30,000 tonnes.
Agriculture accounts for more than
a fifth of economic output in Kenya,
which is the worlds largest exporter of
black tea and also produces coffee.
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President Kenyatta presents new Hino bus keys to State House Girls Principal Mrs Joan Muoti as Toyota Kenya Chairman
Amb Dennis Awori (left), Sachio Yotsukura, managing director at Toyota Kenya (right) and Takeshi Ito, general Manag-
er at Toyota Tsusho East Africa - Hino Division (back) look on. The bus was donated by Hino.
Rakesh Rao (right), Crown Paints Chief Executive receives a certicate of spon-
sorship from Tom Onguru, the Head of OPI Marketing, for sponsoring the Ken-
ya Institute of Management-OPI High Tea & Networking Forum at their Laving-
ton Curve showroom, Nairobi.
Eva Muraya, a training consultant makes a point during
the Institute of Certied Public Accountants of Kenya in-
augural C-Suite Seminar held last week in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania. The seminar attended by 40 participants from
Kenya and Dar targeted top executives in East Africa, with
a view of progressing the regions integration agenda.
Travellers Beach Hotel General Manager Freddie Kiuru
(right) receives ITS Red Star Award from Dertouristic Con-
tracting Manager from Germany Ms Rita Kaulfmann (left)
after the hotel was rated as one of the best popular and
customer satisfaction hotel. The function was witnessed
by the hotels senior managers.
I n t e r n a t i o n a l
School of Advertis-
ing Director Susan
Makau (left), and
Monty Dhariwal
(right), chairman,
Advertising Prac-
titioners Associa-
tion sign partner-
ship documents.
The new deal will
see graduate seek-
ing to join adver-
tising and market-
ing jobs get
training besides
ofering practical
courses to working
pr of es s i onal s .
Looking on is Len-
ny Nganga, Vice
Chairman APA
(second right) and
Laura Omumbo,
APA Training Com-
mittee member.
Gotv Kenya General Manager Felix Kyengo (second left), and Kenya Communication Sports Or-
ganisation (Kecoso) Chairman Mutua Muthusi, exchange notes after signing Gotv and Super
Sports Sh3.8 million tittle sponsorship for the 2014 Kecoso competition being held at the Kip-
choge Keino Stadium, Eldoret as other staf look on. The event kicked of over the weekend.
AutoXpress staf tests tyres at the new facility. The rm that supplies tyres, wheels, batteries, sus-
pension parts has opened a Sh150m facility at the Savanna Business Park, along Mombasa Road that
will house its X-tread, Marangoni Retread plant, eet solutions division and a training school.
Kenya Cardiac
Association
Chairperson Loice
Mutai (right),
explains how the
newly introduced
Sonosite machine
is used to examine
heart functions
during the Kenya
Cardiac Society
annual conference
held at a Mombasa
hotel. Looking on
are some of the
cardiologists who
attended the
event.
The Kenya Forest
Service (KFS) team
building leader
Inspector Henry
Mugendi (right),
presents the winning
certicate and trophy
to Senior Deputy
Director (Field
Operations) Emilio
Mugo as Service
commandant Col (Rtd)
John Kimani looks on.
KFS rangers emerged
second in the bush
race category in an
event held recently.
THROUGH THE CORPORATE LENSE
Volunteers carry bodies in a centre run by Medecins Sans Frontieres for Ebola patients in Kailahun. MSF co-ordinator
for Liberia, Lindis Hurum, said their capacity was stretched beyond anything that they have ever done before in regards
to Ebola response. [PHOTO: REUTERS]
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The charity Medecins sans Fron-
tieres (MSF) has told the BBC that Li-
berias medical services have been
completely overwhelmed by the Eb-
ola outbreak.
The MSF co-ordinator in Liberia
said official figures were under-rep-
resenting the reality, and that the
health system was falling apart.
Nearly 1,000 people have died
and 1,800 have become infected in
West Africa.
Meanwhile, neighbouring Guinea
has denied earlier reports that it had
sealed its borders.
On Saturday Liberian police
broke up a protest against the gov-
ernments response.
SCALE UP TREATMENT
The Ebola outbreak - the worst
ever - is centred on Liberia, Sierra Le-
one and Guinea, but has spread to
other countries in recent months.
The World Health Organisation
said on Friday the virus was a global
health emergency.
The MSF co-ordinator for Liberia,
Lindis Hurum, told the BBC: Our ca-
pacity is stretched beyond anything
that we ever done before in regards
to Ebola response.
She said five of the biggest hospi-
MSF ofcial says some
hospitals closed and
others abandoned by
staf creating a crisis
Ebola: Liberia health
system falling apart
tals in the capital Monrovia had
closed for more than a week.
Some of them have now started
to re-open but there are other hospi-
tals in other counties that are just
abandoned by the staff. We are defi-
nitely seeing the whole health care
system that is falling apart, she said.
Meanwhile, a patient being treat-
ed in a Toronto-area hospital in a
suspected Ebola case has tested neg-
ative for the virus, Ontarios health
ministry said yesterday. The patient
had recently travelled to Canada
from Nigeria.
At the same time, all three US fa-
cilities established to quickly make
vaccines and therapeutics in the
event of a major public health threat
said they are standing by to support
any US government effort to scale up
a treatment for Ebola.
The facilities, called Centres for
Innovation in Advanced Develop-
ment and Manufacturing (ADM),
were set up by the US Department of
Health and Human Services in part-
nership with private industry, to re-
spond to pandemics or chemical, bi-
ological, radiological, or nuclear
threats. They have the expertise to
quickly switch production lines to
manufacture, for example, a small-
pox vaccine if that scourge were to
re-emerge, or an anthrax vaccine,
and other life-saving compounds
against both natural outbreaks and
bioterrorism.
They know our number and they
can call us 24 hours a day, said Brett
Giroir, chief executive of Texas A&M
Health Science Centre, site of one of
the facilities. We are prepared.
BBC and Reuters
War-ravaged Somalia is hurtling
towards a second famine in three
years that could be prevented if do-
nors increased funding, Philippe La-
zzarini, UN humanitarian co-ordi-
nator for Somalia said.
Lazzarini said rapidly rising mal-
nutrition and food shortages across
the country resemble the warning
signs which preceded the 2011 fam-
ine in which about 260,000 people
died.
Only years after this famine
where basically we said never again,
a crisis is unfolding in front of us, he
told Reuters.
It would just be morally difficult
to justify and to accept that a new
crisis of this scope could unfold, he
said.
Donors have pledged billions of
dollars to rebuild Somalia after more
than two decades of strife, but little
progress has been made, hindered
by continued fighting despite the
presence of a 22,000-strong African
Union peacekeeping force.
With high-profile conflicts raging
across the globe such as the wars in
South Sudan, Syria and Ukraine, aid
budgets have been stretched. The
UN has raised only about a third of
the $933 million required for Somalia
in 2014.
TOTALLY PREVENTABLE
International donors promised
1.8 billion euros ($2.5 billion) in re-
construction aid for Somalia at a
Brussels conference last September
but Lazzarini wants those donors to
go the extra mile and also help with
the new humanitarian crisis.
If we want to cement a peace
agenda and if we want to avoid a new
catastrophe just (three) years after
the last one, which is totally prevent-
able, we need to act now, he said.
The UN has sought to improve its
early warning mechanisms after it
was blamed for the scale of the fam-
ine in Somalia in 2011 because it
failed to spot the warning signs.
The UN last month warned of
alarming rates of malnutrition in
the Somali capital Mogadishu where
aid agencies cannot meet the needs
of 350,000 people due to insufficient
funds, drought and conflict.
Security in Mogadishu deteriorat-
ed this year after a series of bomb
and gun attacks by Islamist Al
Shabaab militants who were pushed
out of the capital in 2011 but remain
in control of swatches of the coun-
tryside. In rural areas, Lazzarini said
lack of access has hindered the work
of aid agencies.
Reuters
Nigerians in southwestern Osun
state peacefully re-elected an oppo-
sition governor, raising hopes that
next years national elections might
also pass peacefully, after several
past ones were marred by violence.
In the second election held with-
out incident since June, Rauf Areg-
besola, from the opposition All Pro-
gressives Congress (APC), won with
74 per cent of the vote yesterday.
The candidate of All Progressive
party, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, is
hereby declared the winner and he is
returned elected, the electoral com-
missions chief returning officer
Bamitale Omole said.
His supporters sang and danced
in the streets of the state capital
Osogbo to celebrate the result. There
were no reports of fraud or intimida-
tion. Candidates from 18 parties
took part in the poll.
More than 800 people were killed
and 65,000 displaced in three days of
violence following presidential elec-
tion in 2011, according to Human
Rights Watch.
Rioting erupted mainly in the
mostly Muslim north after Jonathan,
a Christian from the south, won the
vote.
Many northerners felt that his
running last time tore up an unwrit-
ten agreement to rotate power be-
tween the largely Christian south
and mostly Muslim north.
Reuters
UN: Donors must act to avoid Somalia famine Nigeria opposition retains seat
in peaceful governorship poll
An Australian couple has denied
that they abandoned their son
born with Down syndrome to a Thai
surrogate. David and Wendy Farnell
said in an interview yesterday the
boys surrogate mother, Pattaramon
Chanbua, insisted she be allowed to
keep the boy and that she threatened
to also keep his twin sister. Pattaramon
has accused the Farnells of leaving
her with the infant boy. David Farnell
told Australias 60 Minutes they
had to return to Australia fearing that
Pattaramon would insist on keeping
the sister, too.
Fighting raged in the eastern
Ukrainian city of Donetsk despite
a request from the pro-Russian
rebels for a cease-re to prevent a
humanitarian catastrophe. Ukrainian
ofcials demanded that the insurgents
surrender instead. One person was
killed and 10 injured in shelling that
started early yesterday morning,
Donetsk city council spokesman Maxim
Rovinsky told The Associated Press.
In a press conference in Kiev, Andriy
Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraines
National Security and Defense Council
said the Ukrainian side had not seen
the rebels show real willingness to
co-operate.
Taiwan named Woody Tyzz-Jiun
Duh as economics minister, after his
predecessor resigned in the aftermath
of a gas explosion that killed 30
people and injured more than 300.
Chang Chia-juch, who took his post
in February 2013, submitted his
resignation on Thursday after a series
of gas blasts ripped through several
city blocks in Kaohsiung, Taiwans
second-largest city, on July 31. The
Executive Yuan, or cabinet, yesterday
said in a statement that Premier Chang
Yi-huah accepted Changs decision
to go despite eforts to persuade
him to stay at his post. The two are
not related. The cabinet then named
Changs deputy as the new economics
minister.
Agencies
Couple: We did not leave
surrogate-born baby
Ukraine demands rebels
in Donetsk surrender
New Taiwanese minister
named after Chang quits
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Iranian security and rescue personnel
work the site of a passenger plane crash
near the capital Tehran, Iran, yesterday.
[PHOTO: AP]
A regional passenger plane as-
sembled in Iran crashed while taking
off from the capital, killing 39 and in-
juring another nine onboard, ac-
cording to a senior transportation
official and state media.
The IrAn-140 operated by domes-
tic carrier Sepahan Air crashed in a
residential area near Tehrans Meh-
rabad airport. State TV said the
planes tail struck the cables of an
electricity tower before it hit the
ground and burst into flames. The
official IRNA news agency said the
plane suffered an engine failure be-
fore it went down yesterday.
Deputy Minister of Transporta-
tion Ahmad Majidi provided the ca-
sualty figures in an appearance on
state TV. The channel earlier had re-
ported that all 48 people onboard
had died.
The crash happened shortly after
the plane took off at 9.20am local
time (0450 GMT), bound for the
town of Tabas in eastern Iran.
NO SMOKE
Witness Hassan Molla said he
heard a roaring sound as the plane
came in low overhead, one wing tilt-
ing. There was no smoke or any-
thing. It was absolutely sound and in
good condition before the crash and
what appeared to be multiple explo-
sions, he said.
Members of the Revolutionary
Guard worked to secure the crash
site and security and rescue person-
nel combed the wreckage as onlook-
ers gathered shortly after the plane
went down. The planes mangled but
largely intact tail section was torn
from the fuselage and came to rest
on a nearby road.
State TV said the bodies of some
State TV says crafts tail
struck the cables of an
electricity tower before
it hit the ground
Iranian plane crashes
after takeof, killing 39
of the victims were so badly burned
that they could not be identified. They
will be handed over to relatives after
DNA tests are carried out to determine
their identities, it said.
The IrAn-140 is a twin-engine tur-
boprop plane based on Ukrainian
technology that is assembled under
license in Iran. It is a version of the An-
tonov An-140 regional plane and can
carry up to 52 passengers.
A similar plane crashed during a
training flight in the city of Isfahan in
February 2009, killing five onboard,
according to a report by state-run
Press TV at the time.
AP
Islamic State militants have killed at least
500 members of Iraqs Yazidi minority in north-
ern Iraq, burying some of their victims alive
and kidnapping hundreds of women, a Bagh-
dad government minister said.
The insurgents advance through northern
Iraq has forced tens of thousands to flee,
threatened the capital of the Kurdish autono-
mous region and provoked the first US air
strikes in the area since Washington withdrew
troops from Iraq in 2011.
Iraqs human rights minister Mohammed
Shia al-Sudani told Reuters that he had evi-
dence that the Sunni militants had thrown the
Yazidi dead into mass graves, adding that
some of those buried alive were women and
children. About 300 women had been forced
into slavery, he said.
President Barack Obama (pictured) said on
Saturday that US air strikes had destroyed
arms that the Islamic State, which has cap-
tured swaths of northern Iraq since June, could
have used against the Iraqi Kurds, but he
warned that there was no quick fix for the cri-
sis that threatens to tear Iraq apart.
US military aircraft have also dropped relief
supplies to tens of thousands of Yazidis who
have collected on the desert top of Mount Sin-
jar seeking shelter from the insurgents, who
had ordered them to convert to Islam by yes-
terday or die.
Sudani said news of killings had come from
people who had escaped from nearby Sinjar,
the ancient home of the Yazidis.
MASS GRAVES
We have striking evidence obtained from
Yazidis fleeing Sinjar and some who escaped
death, and also crime scene images that show
indisputably that the gangs of the Islamic
States have executed at least 500 Yazidis after
seizing Sinjar, Sudani said. Some of the vic-
tims, including women and children were bur-
ied alive in scattered mass graves in and
around Sinjar.
Speaking before US warplanes struck mili-
tant targets for the second straight day, Obama
said it would take more than bombs to restore
stability, and criticised Prime Minister Nuri
al-Malikis Shiite-led government for failing to
empower Iraqs Sunnis.
France joined the calls for Iraqs feuding
leaders to form an inclusive government capa-
ble of countering the militants. Iraq is in need
of a broad unity government, and all Iraqis
should feel that they are represented in this
government, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius
said told a news conference with his Iraqi
counterpart in Baghdad in comments trans-
lated into Arabic on state television.
Malikis critics say his sectarian agenda
prompted heavily-armed Sunni tribes to join
the insurgency. But Maliki, serving in a care-
taker capacity since an inconclusive election
in April, has defied calls by Sunnis, Kurds, fel-
low Shiites, regional power broker Iran and
Iraqs top cleric to step aside for a less divisive
leader.
Reuters
Turks voted yesterday in their first
direct presidential election, a water-
shed event in the countrys 91-year his-
tory that could cement Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogans position as
Turkeys all-powerful leader.
Erdogan, who has dominated Turk-
ish politics for more than a decade, is
the strong front-runner to replace in-
cumbent Abdullah Gul for a five-year
term.
Now in his third term as prime min-
ister at the head of the Islamic-rooted
Justice and Development Party, or AKP,
Erdogan has been a polarising figure.
He is fervently supported by many as a
man of the people. Yet critics view him
as an increasingly autocratic leader.
After a bitter and divisive pre-elec-
tion campaign, Erdogan sounded more
conciliatory in his final campaign
speech Saturday, promising to leave
the old Turkey behind. This country
of 77 million is our country, there is no
discrimination, he said. We own this
country all together.
Some 53 million people are eligible
to vote; an absolute majority is needed
to win. Otherwise, the top two candi-
dates go to a runoff on August 24. Er-
dogan, whose party won local elec-
tions in March with about 43 per cent
of the vote, is widely expected to be
elected, although it is unclear if he can
avoid a runoff.
Party rules barred Erdogan from
serving another term as prime minis-
ter. Turkish presidents used to be elect-
ed by parliament but Erdogans gov-
ernment pushed through a
constitutional amendment in 2007,
changing the procedure to a popular
vote.
Erdogans main challenger is Ek-
meleddin Ihsanoglu, a 70-year-old ac-
ademic and former head of the Organ-
isation of Islamic Co-operation backed
by several opposition parties, includ-
ing the two main ones: a pro-secular
party and a nationalist one.
The third presidential candidate is
Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas,
41, a rising star on the minority Kurd-
ish political scene.
AP
Islamic State kills at least 500 from Iraqs Yazidi minority
Turkey holds
rst direct
presidential poll
Chinas Foreign Minister Wang Yi
called on Japan to make practical
eforts to overcome existing political
obstacles between the two sides
during an informal meeting with his
Japanese counterpart during an ASEAN
summit in Myanmar. According to a
statement on the website of Chinas
Ministry of Foreign Afairs (www.
fmprc.gov.cn) yesterday, Wang met
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio
Kishida on the sidelines of the ASEAN
Regional Forum. Tensions between
the two countries have risen in recent
months, with each side accusing the
other of ying military aircraft too
close to its own jets.
Losing the ght against same-
sex marriage at home, leading US
Evangelical Christians are joining in
the culture wars in Latin America as
cheerleaders for opponents of gay
legal partnerships, abortion and
pornography. One of the Americans
is veteran legal crusader Mat Staver
who was both a disciple of late Moral
Majority co-founder Jerry Falwell. The
other is Samuel Rodriguez, a dynamic
Latino preacher with strong ties with
Republican and Democratic lawmakers
in Washington DC who describes his
religion as mixing Martin Luther King
Jnr. with televangelist Billy Graham
and then putting a little salsa on top.
A suicide car bomber attacked
a NATO convoy moving through
Afghanistans capital, killing at least
four civilians and wounding more than
35 in an assault claimed by the Taliban,
authorities said. The blast struck two
Mine Resistant Ambush Protected
armoured vehicles, in western Kabul,
damaging a civilian car and leaving
debris scattered across a highway
lined by shops. NATO troops and
Afghan soldiers cordoned of the scene
after the blast. NATO said the blast
wounded none of its troops, though it
was investigating the attack.
Agencies
China and Japan talk on
easing political tensions
US Evangelicals join Latin
American culture wars
4 Afghan civilians killed
in Kabul suicide bombing
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TEHRAN, SUNDAY
BAGHDAD, SUNDAY
ISTANBUL, SUNDAY
Iran has sufered a series
of airplane crashes, blamed
on its aging aircraft and
poor maintenance
Many of the Boeing air-
craft in state-run Iran Airs
feet were bought before
the countrys 1979 Islamic
Revolution, which disrupted
ties with the US and Europe
The country has come to
rely on Russian aircraft,
many of them Soviet-era
planes that are harder to
get parts for since the Sovi-
et Unions fall
The last major airliner
crash in Iran happened in
January 2011 killing at least
77 people
IRANS AIRCRAFT
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Protestors gather in front of the White House in Washington on Saturday to demonstrate against Israels military ofen-
sive in the Gaza Strip. Israel said its operation would continue in Gaza until restoration of quiet, over a protracted peri-
od of time, is achieved. [PHOTO: AP]
Israel said it would not return to
Egyptian-mediated ceasefire talks as
long as Palestinian militants in Gaza
kept up cross-border rocket and
mortar fire.
The head of the Palestinian dele-
gation in Cairo said earlier it would
pull out unless Israeli negotiators,
who flew home from the Egyptian
capital on Friday hours before a
three-day ceasefire expired, came
back to the talks.
Israeli air strikes and shelling
killed three Palestinians in Gaza yes-
terday, including a boy of 14 and a
woman, medics said, in a third day
of renewed fighting that has jeop-
ardised international efforts to end a
more than month-old conflict.
Since the last truce expired, Pal-
estinian rocket and mortar salvoes
have focused on Israeli kibbutzim, or
collective farms, just across the for-
tified border in what appeared to be
a strategy of sapping Israels morale
without triggering another ground
invasion of the tiny Gaza Strip.
POLITICAL LEGITIMACY
The violence has become less in-
tense than at the wars outset, down
from more than 100 rocket bursts a
day including at major cities like Tel
Aviv, which have not come under at-
tack since Israel withdrew ground
forces from Gaza on Tuesday.
Hamas, Gazas dominant Islamist
movement, and Israel were remained
far apart on terms for any enduring
halt to hostilities, with their rejection
of each others political legitimacy
compounding the obstacles.
Israel will not negotiate under
fire, Prime Minister Benjamin Net-
anyahu said in public remarks at the
With Israel out of
truce negotiations,
Palestinians threaten
to pull out
Netanyahu: Israel shunning Gaza
talks, will not negotiate under re
weekly meeting of his cabinet in Tel
Aviv.
At no stage did we declare (Isra-
els military offensive) was over, he
said. The operation will continue
until its objective - the restoration of
quiet over a protracted period - is
achieved. I said at the beginning and
throughout the operation - it will
take time, and stamina is required.
On Saturday, the head of the Pal-
estinian delegation, Azzam Ahmed
said: We will leave Cairo tomorrow
if it is confirmed to us they (Israelis)
will not return unconditionally.
Israeli tanks and infantry left the
enclave on Tuesday after the army
said it had completed its main mis-
sion of destroying more than 30 tun-
nels dug by guerrillas for cross-bor-
der attacks.
In renewed fighting since the end
of a three-day truce on Friday, Israel
has killed 14 Palestinians in air
strikes. Militants have fired more
than 100 projectiles, mostly short-
range rockets and mortar bombs, at
Israel.
Though Israels Iron Dome rocket
interceptor does not work at such
short ranges, there have been few ca-
sualties, largely because as many as
80 per cent of the border farming
communities 5,000 residents fled
before last weeks ceasefire.
Some said yesterday they would
not return to their communities,
which have long been symbols of Is-
raels pioneering spirit - an abandon-
ment likely to pile pressure on Net-
anyahu.
Yossi Wagner, a member of the
skeletal security team at Kibbutz Na-
hal Oz, doubted Netanyahus prom-
ises to restore quiet.
I heard the prime ministers var-
ious speeches, but we see the reality
of the situation here, Wagner told
Israels Army Radio. We have decid-
ed that at this stage we are not rec-
ommending that members return to
the kibbutz.
The firm that makes Iron Dome,
state-owned Rafael Armament De-
velopment Authority Ltd, is working
on a version called Iron Beam that
would use lasers to shoot down
short-range mortars.
Rafael CEO Yedidia Yaari told Is-
raeli television that he expected
more government funding for Iron
Beams development and it was very
close to completion. A defence in-
dustry source predicted deployment
of the system in a year to 18 months.
Reuters
Eighteen people who took part in vi-
olence that killed almost 100 people near
Chinas border with Pakistan last month
have handed themselves in to authori-
ties, Chinese state media said.
Authorities said a terrorist gang at-
tacked a police station and government
buildings in Shache county near Kashgar
on July 28, killing 37 people before police
shot dead 59 of the attackers.
Xinjiang has experienced rising un-
rest in recent months blamed on mili-
tants from the regions native Muslim
Turkic Uighur ethnic group who are
seeking to overthrow Chinese rule. Of the
37 civilians killed, 35 were Han Chinese
and two were Uighur, according to the
official Xinhua News Agency.
It has not released any details about
the attackers.
The Xinjiang Daily, the regions offi-
cial newspaper, reported yesterday that
18 people had since surrendered be-
cause of a publicity campaign urging lo-
cal people to provide tip-offs about who
was involved in the violence. It said that
most of the 18 were ordinary people,
some of whom had been instigated or
coerced into taking part in the violence
without knowing the reasons for it, and
that because they had surrendered
would be dealt with leniently.
But a spokesman for a Munich-based
Uighur rights advocacy group said the 18
had surrendered out of fear for their
lives. Armed forces encircled a corn field
where the 18 Uighur farmers, the young-
est of whom was 15, had retreated and
were shooting in the air, said Dilxat Rax-
it of the World Uyghur Congress.
KILLED UIGHURS
He said authorities took their family
members and other relatives to the field
and gave them loudspeakers to persuade
them to give up, telling them the gov-
ernment can ensure their safety after
they surrender.
Neither account could be inde-
pendently verified.
The Shache incident appeared to be
the most serious single instance of
bloodshed in Xinjiang since riots broke
out in 2009 that left nearly 200 people
dead.
The World Uyghur Congress has dis-
puted the official version, saying police
killed Uighurs who had been protesting
the authorities heavy-handed security
crackdown during the Muslim holy
month of Ramadhan.
Last week, the regional government
announced it had arrested 215 people in
relation to the attack.
People who answered the phones at
the Shache county government and po-
lice offices said they had no information.
In July, authorities in the Xinjiang
capital of Urumqi banned bus passen-
gers from carrying items like cigarette
lighters and water bottles in a bid to pre-
vent attacks. The city of Karamay also
said it has banned people with head
scarves, veils and long beards from
boarding buses.
AP
China says 18 surrender after Xinjiang violence
Syrias state-run news agency
is reporting that President Bashar
Assad has re-appointed premier Wael
al-Halqi to form a new government.
SANA said Assad issued a decree
yesterday tasking al-Halqi to form the
new Cabinet. Al-Halqi automatically
became a caretaker premier following
June presidential elections in which
Assad claimed a new seven-year
term in ofce. The vote was conned
to government-controlled areas and
dismissed by the opposition and its
Western allies as a sham. The premier
condently declared victory and
praised his supporters.
A tropical storm was moving out
into the Sea of Japan after lashing the
country with rain and winds, leaving
one person dead, more than 50 injured
and prompting evacuation alerts
for about 1.2 million residents near
swollen rivers. Tropical Storm Halong
disrupted land and air trafc as Japan
began its annual Obon Buddhist
holiday week. The storm-hit Japan
was also shaken yesterday afternoon
by a magnitude-6.1 earthquake that
struck of the northeastern coast near
Aomori. There was no danger of a
tsunami.
Pakistani police registered a murder
case against an anti-government cleric
after three policemen were killed in
clashes with his supporters ahead
of a demonstration. The cleric, Tahir
ul-Qadri, called for protests yesterday,
saying he wanted to bring down the
government by the end of the month
because it is corrupt. Another protest,
led by opposition politician Imran
Khan, is due in the capital on Thursday.
The protests have unnerved the
civilian government. In Pakistan, police
must register a case against someone
before charging him with a crime.
Agencies
Syria prime minister
back in power amid war
1 killed, dozens hurt as
storm drenches Japan
Police register murder
case against cleric
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F1: Schumacher les
theft suspect hanged
CRICKET: England beat
India in fourth test
GOLF: McIlroy in the
lead at PGA event
A man arrested on suspicion
of leaking Michael Schumachers
medical les has been found
hanged in his cell, Swiss police
say. The man, who has not been
named, was a manager at Swiss
air rescue rm Rega. Michael
Schumachers medical records
were allegedly stolen and ofered
for sale to several newspapers.
The ex-F1 champion sufered a
head injury in a skiing accident
in France last December and was
own by Rega to a Swiss hospital
in June. Prosecutors had been
investigating a possible breach of
privacy at Rega. The suspect was
arrested on Tuesday but denied
any wrongdoing. -BBC
England ripped through Indias
fragile batting lineup for the
second time in three days to win
the fourth test by an innings and
54 runs on Saturday, earning a
2-1 lead in the ve-match series.
Staring at a 215-run decit from
the rst innings, the Indians
mustered just 161 in less than
four hours as part-time ofspinner
Moeen Ali sparked a collapse
from 53-2 to 66-6 to nish with
gures of 4-39. Chris Jordan
clinched victory by claiming the
nal two wickets in two balls. -AP
Rory McIlroy celebrated his
nal birdie with a smile and a
slight pump of his rst, knowing
that 8-foot putt gave him the
outright lead Saturday in the
PGA Championship. Its a great
position to be in, he said. Hes just
not used to it being so crowded
at the top. McIlroy has won all
three of his majors with the lead
going into the nal round by
eight shots at the 2011 US Open,
three shots at the 2012 PGA
Championship, six shots last
month at the British Open. Now
comes another major test for Boy
Wonder a Sunday shootout.
More rain in the morning at
Valhalla allowed for a deluge of
birdies in the lowest scoring round
in PGA Championship history. -AP
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BYE MONTREAL
Venus beat Serena in an all-Wil-
liams semifinal in the Rogers Cup.
Venus topped Serena 6-7 (2), 6-2,
6-3 on Saturday in the hard-court
event for her first victory over her sis-
ter since 2009 in Dubai.
I think for both of us, whats so
unique about the situation is that were
both very good players, Venus said. I
think typically you may have some sib-
lings, one is quite good, one is not as
good so you kind of know what the re-
sult is. I think we both know when we
walk out there, its not like youre guar-
anteed a win. I think thats what makes
it challenging for both of us.
The 32-year-old Serena, ranked
No. 1 in the world for the 200th career
week, leads the series 14-11 and had
won the last five matches. The 34-year-
old Venus, ranked 26th, ended her sis-
ters 14-match Rogers Cup winning
streak that dated to wins at the 2011
and 2013 tournaments in Toronto. Ser-
ena skipped the 2012 event in Montre-
al.
I dont think I played a great game
today, Serena said. Lets just face it,
I served well in the first set, but that
was that. So, I definitely need to go
back and analyse it, figure out how to
be more consistent.
In the second semifinal, third-seed-
ed Agnieszka Radwanska beat Ekateri-
na Makarova 7-6 (1), 7-6 (3).
I definitely dont want to have a let-
down and get out there and not play
at least half as well, Venus said about
the final. I dont want to put any pres-
sure on myself, but I want to go out
there and perform just as well. It would
mean a lot to me because Ive been
dreaming of winning a tournament at
this level since I got back on tour. You
try and you try. There are disappoint-
ments. One day you get a little closer.
So this is my little closer right now.
Radwanska has won her last two
matches against Venus.
Well, shes definitely on fire, Rad-
wanska said. I was actually playing a
few times after her, so I was watching a
little bit of her matches. Definitely shes
playing amazing tennis this week. She
beat a lot of good players on the way to
the final, especially Serena. Its not go-
ing to be the easy one.
Venus won the last of her 45 titles
in Dubai in February. She uses medica-
tion and rest to control Sjogrens Syn-
drome, an auto-immune disease she
was diagnosed with in 2011.
UNFORCED ERRORS
Unseeded Venus started the match
strong on her serve and took a 3-1 lead,
but Serena rallied to tie it at 3 and went
on to take the set in a tiebreaker. Ve-
nus dominated the second set, break-
ing Serenas serve twice and taking ad-
vantage of unforced errors.
Serena made two errors and
dropped serve to fall behind 4-2 in the
third set. Venus, who dropped serve
only once in the match, served for the
win at 5-3. Venus hit a rocket serve on
her third match point that Serena re-
turned into the net. Serena had 19 aces
and nine double faults, and Venus had
six aces and two doubles faults.
Serena was coming off a victory last
week in Stanford, California, in her first
tournament since withdrawing from a
doubles match at Wimbledon because
of equilibrium problems.
Serena, who has 17 Grand Slam ti-
tles, has struggled in the majors this
year. She was beaten in the fourth
round at the Australian Open, second
round at the French Open and third
round at Wimbledon.
I havent even been able to get to
the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam this
year, Serena said. At this point, Im re-
ally just looking forward to next year,
to be honest.
She was quick to point out that
didnt mean shes giving up on the US
Open, where she is the two-time de-
fending champion.
Im just saying Ive had a really dis-
appointing year, for me, especially in
the Grand Slams, she said. So Im not
going to put any pressure on myself.
I almost feel like the pressure is
lifted because I havent performed the
way Ive wanted to. In a way, I dont
feel a tonne of pressure going into
the Open. I almost feel like its lifted.
I look forward to next year because I
dont have any points to defend at any
of the slams. -AP
Serena Williams of the United States walks of the court after losing
6-7, 6-2, 6-3 to her sister Venus during semi nal play at the Rogers
Cup tennis tournament on Saturday, August 9, 2014 in Montreal. [PHO-
TO:AP]
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Leonardo Varese and
Gurmit Thethy have never
won the Safari Rally. But
Varese is optimistic he can
win during 63rd KCB Safa-
ri Rally to keep his Two
Wheel Drive (2WD) cham-
pionship title hopes alive.
The two times 2WD
champion has vowed nev-
er to let the title elude him
this time round.
The Safari Rally will be
held on the weekend of
September 12 and 14 as
the seventh round of the
FIA African Rally Champi-
onship and the sixth of the
KCB Kenya National Rally
Championships 2014. .
Im happy to have won for
the third time this year. It
was a full attack mode on
day 2 in Nanyuki. This win
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Thethy, Varese target 2WD
honours in 62nd KCB Safari Rally
Gurmit Thethy and Depinder Kalsi cruising in a VW Golf
MK3 during KCB Nanyuki Rally. [PHOTO:FILE/STANDARD]
will take us a bit closer to the
championship, though we
have a hard job ahead in last
three rounds in Kisumu, Safa-
ri and the Guru Nanak. said
Varese who leads with
71points followed by Gurmit
Thethy (58 points), Mombasas
Nadeem Kana (56 points) and
champion Dennis Mwenda.
Thethy said: We had misfir-
ing problems in the recent
Nanyuki Rally, we tried to get
to the root of the problem but
didnt manage to resolve it. Im
still happy we managed a po-
dium position. Had it not been
for the misfiring engine, we
may just have won the event
as lack of power kept us slower
than the pace we are used to.
Mwenda, who won the power
stage at Batian View said: We
lost it by 48 seconds after los-
ing a five-minute lead due to a
puncture in Loldaiga stage. We
now target a good run in Safa-
r i .
Varese raced into a 13-point
lead over Thethy at the top of
the 2WD championship
standings after his victory at
the Nanyuki Rally.
Eldama Ravine winner Thethy
dropped points after losing
valuable time when his VW
MK3 developed mechanical
p r o b l e m s
But Thethy, who is already
motivated about driving on
long endurance type of Safari
stages told FeverPitch: Safari
will be a difficult weekend for
us all, I have started to get the
confidence back for the driv-
i n g .
Varese said: The target was to
try and maintain the gap and
now I have an advantage of 13
points hopping into the gruel-
ing Safari.
Dont ll
positions, Sholei
warns FKF
Suspended Football Kenya Feder-
ation (FKF) vice chairman Sam
Sholei says it would be unconstitu-
tional to fill up his position while he
has a pending appeal.
Sholei said calls by branches for a
Special General Meeting (SGM) to fill
up his position and that of Hussein
Terry and Dan Shikanda are un-
founded.
It will be against the Kenyan law
if FKF constitution is not respected
and a meeting is called to replace
suspended officials. We were illegally
suspended.
Moreover,we have an appeal
case at the National Olympic Com-
mittee of Kenya with a copy to the
Cabinet Secretary for Sports, FKF
and the arbitration body that was
constituted recently which I have
been made aware that it is awaiting
swearing in, said Sholei in a state-
ment.
DEFEND OURSELVES
He asked branch officials calling
for their replacements to consider
the repercussions if the appeal goes
through.
We were never given a chance to
defend ourselves by the FKF disci-
plinary committee, the punishments
served were borrowed from kanga-
roo courts where the accused are
never respected.
We never went to court as al-
leged. The last document availed at
the AGM as copies of our court or-
ders were forged and we proved that
in the last years AGM. The signatures
appearing on the order document do
not belong to us.
Sholei asked the government to
move in with speed and swear in the
Arbitration committee so that their
appeals can be determined.
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RECORDS SHATTERED
Kibarus, Mitei rule at
Kecoso Half Marathon
Mercy Kibarus, who re-
cently won the Family Bank
Half Marathon and 2013
Brussels IAAF 12km silver
medalist Amos Kiplimo
Mitei are the winners of the
Kenya Communication
Sports Organisation (Keco-
so) games women and
mens half marathon.
But after winning the It-
en 10km Safaricom Road
Race last week, Kibarus had
to fight hard to victory. Eu-
nice Jebichii stopped the
clock in 72:77.00 to win in
the womens category
ahead of Emily Chemutai
(73:05.00).
Kibarus broke way on
the last loop to win the race
in 72:77.00, breaking the
long Kecoso record which
stood at 82:00. I had to
break away to give myself a
chance to win by a big mar-
gin. I was using this race to
gauge my form, Kibarus
told FeverPitch.
The weather favoured
me a lot, I ran in the same
style as I had planned after
preparing for this race for
about a week, she added.
The two champions
each took home Sh250,000
winners prize in the event
that attracted athletes from
neighbouring counties like
Baringo, Nandi, Pokot and
Trans Nzoia, yesterday.
Jebichii, who won in
73:05, said: I had been
practicing to ensure that I
win any race ahead of me.
Emily Chemutai closed
the podium finish at 73:35
followed by Mercy Too
(73:45), Beatrice Ruto
(73:59), Peris Chepchirchir
(74:22), Naomi Maiyo
(75:02), Marion Limo
(75:18), Sarah Chepchirchir
(75:34) and Pamela Jemeli
(75:42) in that order.
In the mens category,
Amos Kiplimo Mitei, who
has been suffering a tendon
injury since February, beat
413 competitors to win the
race.
Mitei had to fight hard
to win the race to cut the
tape in 62:38 in the hotly
contested race that had the
likes of Kirui Chesang and
Solomon Kirwa. Chesang
(72:56) finished second
ahead of Kirwa (72:59).
Others were Boaz Kipro-
no (73:17), Gideon Kipketer
(73:35), Mike Kigen (73:80);
daniel Kiprotich (73:86);
Daniel Kemboi (73:89);
Barnabas Kosgey (73:90)
and Kerich Kimweli (73:93)
in that order.
Kecoso officials accom-
panied by coach David Let-
ting and Central Rift Athlet-
ics Kenya chairman
Abraham Mutai said the
event has improved, owing
to high standards of com-
petition witnessed yester-
day.
Other officials in atten-
dance included Uasin Gi-
shu County Governor Jack-
son Mandago, former
marathoner Moses Tanui,
Kecoso chairman Mutua
Muthusi and Communica-
tions Authority chairman
Samuel Pogishio.

-pochieng@standardmedia.
co.ke
y B PETER OCHIENG
Mercy Kibarus (left) outpaces Eunice Chebichi during Kecoso Half Marathon in Eldoret yesterday.
Kibarus won the race after clocking 1:12.77. [PHOTO:PETER OCHIENG/STANDARD]
Football Kenya Federation Na-
tional Executive Member for Western
Elly Mukolwe has come under severe
criticism following his remarks that
former footballers had nothing to be
proud of as legends.
Legendary Kenyan footballers
Mahmoud Abbas and Joe Kadenge
said former footballers deserved re-
spect from Mukolwe among other
Kenyans.
Where did Mukolwe get the guts
to attack former footballers? We have
done a lot to this country during our
hey-days and Mukolwe need to pub-
licly apologise to us, said Abbas.
Kenyas celebrated goalkeeper
said Mukolwe should not attack for-
mer players because he is in leader-
ship of FKF.
Mukolwe was quoted in the me-
dia having told former footballers to
keep off football matters as they had
nothing to offer, saying Kenyan foot-
ball will not be built on history.
-enzioka@standardmedia.co.ke-
Kadenge,
Abbas, criticise
Mukolwe
y B ERNEST NDUNDA
KNRC 2014 STANDINGS
KNRC DIVISION 2
1. Alasdair Keith 275
2. Mahesh Halai 190
3. Tejveer Rai 140
KNRC DIVISION 3
1. Karan Patel 180
2. Ronak Shah 160
3. Steven Mwangi 150
KNRC "2WD" CLASS
1. Leonardo Varese 71
2. Gurmit Thethy "GT" 58
3. Nadeem Kana 56
3. Dennis Mwenda 56
KNRC "CLASSIC" CLASS.
1. Jonathan Somen 20
2. Aslam Khan 16
3. Iain Freestone 13
KNRC "SPV" CLASS
DRIVERS
1. Nikhil Sachania 80
2. Charan Chouhan 0
3. Joost Zuurbier 0
KNRC OVERALL
1. Jaspreet Chatthe 210
Baldev Chager 200
3. Carl Tundo 176
Page 52 / FEVER PITCH Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Kenya hosts a two-day
high profile international
youth basketball camp today
and at Brookhouse School,
Nairobi.
The camp, which is part of
the prestigious Giants of Afri-
ca Basketball Project, will be
conducted by a horde of Na-
tional Basketball Association
(NBA) coaches led by former
NBA player and current To-
ronto Raptors General Man-
ager Masai Ujiri.
The camp, whose mis-
sion is to use basketball as
a tool to educate and enrich
the lives of the youth of Af-
rica, has attracted 50 boys
from Kenya, Democratic Re-
public of Congo, South Su-
dan, South Africa, Ethiopia,
Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda
and Burundi.
The camp, started ten
years ago in Nigeria by Uji-
ri, hopes to spread basket-
ball in East Africa by giving
the youth an opportunity to
learn the basics of the game
besides offering them life
skills.
We provide quality facil-
ities, professional coaching
while promoting the growth
of the game of basketball in
Africa. We offer skills that will
give the youth a chance to
use the game to better their
lives,Ujiri told FeverPitch.
Ujiri added: Its amazing
how we underrate how sports
bring people together in the
world, and how much impact
it has on our daily lives. Our
dream is to build a solid base
for the youth, so there is al-
ways hope and progress in
the future.
Abel Nson, a volunteer in-
ternational scout for Toronto
Raptors explains: We devel-
op programmes that improve
our coaches and help our
youth have a greater knowl-
edge and foundation for
the game. We influence the
building of improved sports
facilities and enable better
and smarter sports adminis-
tration.
Ujiri is a former General
Manager of Denver Nuggets.
He has won the NBA General
Manager of the year. He is a
pioneer in African basketball
development and this camp
will be the first of several oth-
ers in the East African region.
NBA Africa President,
Amadou Fall will attend the
camp. Others who are ex-
pected to offer their skills to
the camping youths include
Godwin Owinje (Radar-
hoops), Jama Mahlalela, Pat-
rick Engelbrecht Michael
Akuboh (all of Toronto Rap-
tors) and Patrick Mutombo
(Denver Nuggets).
-eoyugi@standardmedia.
co.ke
y B ERICK OCHIENG
High prole basketball camp begins in Nairobi today
Anika Shah beat posted
41 stableford points to win
during the Standard County
Golf Classic tournament at
the 71 par Eldoret Golf Club
on Saturday.
Speaking after receiv-
ing the award from Standard
Groups head of Commercial
Irene Kimani, an elated Shah,
who was accompanied by her
family, said she eased to the
top position due to the good
weather.
I had a special team
during the event and the
weather was favourable, be-
sides, I had practiced a lot for
the tournament, she Shah.
Shah, playing off handi-
cap 33, beat runner up hand-
icap 17 Rhoda Chemaiyek,
who also posted 41 points, on
countback. K Kiptoo, playing
off handicap 23, finished
third on 40 points.
Fred Kibor, playing off
handicap 25, collected 39
points to finish fourth over-
all, beating handicap 14 La-
dy Captain Catherine Gat-
ua to a fourth place on 38
points. Gatua beat handi-
cap 22 C Muge, handicap 17
Dr Kiran Shah and Beatrice
Kemboi, all on 38 points on
countback.
Kimani, thanked Eldoret
residents for their support
and promised to be back to
the club for the same event
next year.
I am very happy with you
the people of Eldoret. I have
seen your commitment since
we came here last year. We
promised to come again and
thats what we have done to-
day, said Kimani.
In the Mens category,
Kiptoo (40 points) emerged
top, a point ahead of runner
up Kibor.
Aman Gujral, who was
crowned the youngest win-
ner last year at the same ven-
ue, emerged the best junior
in the 15 handicap category
with 23 points.
The Eldoret Club chair-
person Hellen Yego told Fe-
verPitch that the event was
successful due to the condu-
cive weather.
The winners excelled be-
cause the rains did not come,
ironically the rest of the town
experienced heavy rains
which spared the golf field,
she said.
In the womens category,
Chemayak topped with 41
points followed by Gatua on
39 points and Kemboi on 38
points.
First nine winner was Na-
dja Rygged while Nilam Shah
emerged the second nine
winner on 22 points.
Jack Tuwei was the mens
longest drive winner while
Lucy Njuguna emerged the
winner in the ladies cate-
gory.
The event, graced by Stan-
dard Group Public Editor
John Bundotich, Uasin Gi-
shu Governor Jackson Man-
dago, his Nandi counterpart
Cleophas Lagat, Nandi Hills
MP Alfred Keter and Elgeyo
Marakwet Speaker Albert
Kochei, saw the junior golf-
ers recognised for their im-
pressive play.

SHAH CRUISES
NBA coach Gary Payton (left) instructs the youth during a bas-
ketball training camp at the Nyayo National Stadium Basketball
Gymnasium in 2011.[PHOTO:ERICK OCHIENG/STANDARD]
...as Standard County
Golf Classic ends in
Eldoret Club
y B SILAH KOSKEI AND PETET OCHIENG

FOOTBALL: Super Matuga
extend unbeaten run
FOOTBALL: Glimt stop Ation
Boys in Ngano Cup opener
Super Matuga stretched their
unbeaten run in the fourth tier of the
Football Kenya Federation South Coast
Provincial league when they thrashed
hapless Super Rangers 7-2 in a zone
B league match played at Makande
ground on Saturday. Mdeke Abdala
scored brace. Other scorers were
Kafan Hamisi, Kunenwa Omar, Gunyu
Rashid, Ismail Mwashetani and Zackaria
Mwakisuwa. Super Rangers scored
through Aggrey Oketch and Hassan
Mohammed. With the win, Super
Matuga are still perched at the top of
the 11- team table with 29 points.
-Sumba Bwire
Bodo Glimt grabbed three crucial
points as the Mombasa Taifa Ngano
Super Cup started at the Mombasa
Sports Club. The winners beat Action
Boys 2-0 to top group A which also
has Istiqama Academy and Kisauni
Youth. Mohammed Ali put Glimt
ahead in the 33rd minute to take a
1-0 advantage lead at half time. On
resumption, Mustafa Jamal added the
other in the 58th minute to silence
Action Boys fans. The tournament
enter into fth day today with a match
between Nyota and Catalans in a group
B in the tournament sponsored by
Mombasa Maize Millers.
-Ernest Ndunda
FastTrack
FOOTBALL: AFC defend KPL
over award of walkover
AFC Leopards have defended a
decision by Kenyan Premier League
(KPL) to award them a walk-over
against Sony Sugar on Wednesday.
The clubs Secretary General George
Aladwa said the decision was in order
as their opponents failed to turn
up for the match. Aladwa also took
issue with Football Kenya Federation
(FKF) executive member Tom Alila for
defending Sony. KPL were right in
awarding us the points. Our opponents
did not turn up for the match in
contravention of the rules. Alila is
wrong in defending Sony. He is a
member of the executive committee
that ruled Sonys home ground unt to
host high risk matches, said Aladwa.
-Gilbert Wandera
Standard Group Commercial Director Irene Kimani (left) presents the overall award to Anika
Patel during the Standard Group County Golf Classic tournament at Eldoret Golf Club on
Saturday. BELOW: Junior category winner Aman Gujral tees of during the Standard Group
County classic competition at The Eldoret Golf Club. [PHOTOS:SILAH KOSKEI AND PETER OCHIENG/
STANDARD]
Page 53 FEVER PITCH / Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Esther Chumo of Eldoret
Golf Club lifted the 2014 Nyali
Bowl at the par 71 Nyali Golf
and Country Club course in
Mombasa after emerging the
overall winner on the fourth
day of the regional Coast
Ladies Open Championship on
Friday.
The handicap 10 golfer
posted a round total score of
168 gross in the 36 holes event
to emerge the scratch winner
after registering 82 gross and 86
gross in both rounds.
Its a great day and victory
for me. I have been playing this
event at the Coast for many
years but at last I have made it
this time, said Chumo.
Tanzanian lady golfers who
have dominated the champi
since2009 and their Ugandan
counterparts skipped the event
due to lack of sponsorship.
Golfparks Margaret Njoki,
playing off handicap 9, was the
runner up on a round score of
170 gross, having scored 87-83
gross in both rounds to beat
third placed handicap 11 Es-
ther Karuga of Nakuru by three
strokes.
Bronze winner was handi-
cap 21 J.Waweru of Vet Lab who
had 193 gross and the runners
up was handicap 21 S Gathigia
of Limuru with 197 gross.
Nyalis handicap 20 Mary
Naneu was the handicap win-
ner on 141 gross, while club
mate fatma Mohamed playing
off handicap 20 was the run-
ners up on a score of 143 gross.
Aggarwal from Eldoret,
playing off handicap 13, was
the best scratch winner of on
89 gross and the same as Nak-
urus handicap 26 J Wangari on
68 gross.
Nyalis team of Fatma Mo-
hamed and Joyce Lanxe were
the winners of the lowest net
score team on 293.
During the third day on
Thursday, Nakurus handicap
11 Esther Karugu posted seven
over par 88 gross to lift the 2014
Mombasa Cup at the champi-
onships sponsored by the Ken-
ya ports Authority.
On the second day on
Wednesday at the same venue
Muthaiga Lady golfers S Njoki
and S Wanjiru jointly posted 17
scratch points to emerge the
scratch winners of the inter-
club event of the ladies four-
somes sponsored by the Na-
tional Bank of Kenya .
y B MAARUFU MOHAMED
SHEER DOMINANCE
Kenya Comercial Bank (KCB) beat
Homeboyz 19-5 in the finals to
emerge the Dala Sevens winners in
Kisumus Kisumu Maboleo Show-
ground yesterday.
Five minutes into the game, KCB
had indicated their intentions of
winning the match, scoring a try
through Phillip Wariaye. The try was
converted by Ken Moseti. Two min-
utes later, the bankers scored anoth-
er try through Moseti, who also con-
verted, for a 14-0 lead at the breather.
In the second half, Homeboyz
made a try through Michael Wanjala.
The team was disciplined, the pitch
condition was very okay and the Da-
la Sevens series was very competi-
tive, said KCB coach Curtis Olago.
Homeboyz manager Oscar Man-
go said We are happy that we
reached finals, last year, we never
managed to reach here and we are
happy for being the runners up.
Earlier, KCB had defeated Impala
10-0 in the semi-final as Homeboyz
after Homeboyz hit Nakuru RFC 17-
7. Cheered on by their fans, two tries
a piece by Fabian Orlando and Daw-
in Mutinde were good enough to see
the bankers past Impala.
In the duel between Homeboyz
and Nakuru RFC, Austin Lugano
made two tries for Homeboyz as his
team mates Michael Wanjala and
Geoffrey Ominde converted before
Allan Ondigo added another try.
Strathmore defeated Western
Bulls 19-10 in the Plate final. Brian
Shikidi, Frank Wanyama and Cyrus
Kaya made tries as Humphrey Ow-
uor converted to make things 19-0.
Cyprian Kuto and Samuel Mutarit
made the two tries for the losers.
Western Bulls defeated Kenya
Harlequin 15-7 in the first semi-final
of the Plate category to set a final du-
el with Strathmore Leos. Brian Bango
gave Bulls two tries before Mike Li-
gono added the third try. Arthur
Ochieng gave Quins their only try
that was converted by Lyle Asiugwa.
In the second semifinal duel,
Strathmore beat Nondies 14-7 in ex-
tra time after a 7-7 tie in regulation
time. Charles Omondi of Strathmore
scored his sides first try that was
converted by Hump Owuor before
Brian Bekherm scored a try that was
converted by Peter Lugano.
Catholic University defeated
Kisumu 19-1 to emerge winners of
the Bowl category to dampen the
spirits of the home fans. Teddy Liech
and George Odongo made tries for
the home team as Kelvin Mzee,
James Kilonzo and Brian Odongo
made tries for the winners.
In the Bowl semis, Kisumu beat
Mwamba 15-5 as Catholic University
walloped Egerton University 19-7.
Kabras emerged the Shield winners
after whipping Blak Blad 15-7 in the
final that was attended by Kenya
Rugby chairman Mwangi Muthee,
Kisumu RFC chairman Fidel Odinga,
Nyando MP Fred Outa, Funyula MP
Paul Otuoma, National Sevens coach
Paul Treu, Eddy Omondi Secretary
KRU and Kisumu County Executive
Officer in Charge of Sports Jeniffer
Kerre.
Muthee, who praised the Dala
Sevens organisation, thanked Safar-
icom for staging a great event at the
Lakeside City. Fidel Odinga thanked
the fans that turned out for the
event.
-porwa@standardmedia.co.ke
KCB put up splendid display to add
Dala Sevens cup to their cabinet
Kenya Rugby Union chairman Mwangi Muthee (left) and Kisumu County Deputy Govenor Ruth Odinga join KCB players in celebrating their Dala Rugby Sevens
victory at the Kisumu Showground, yesterday. [PHOTO:PHILLIP ORWA/STANDARD]
BY PHILIP ORWA
Chumo lifts Nyali bowl
at Coast Ladies Golf Open
Esther Chumo of Nakuru makes a swing at Nyali golf
course during the Coast Ladies Open on Friday.
[PHOTO:MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD]
The Kenya Inter Counties Sports
and Cultural Association (Kicosca)
games commence at Afraha Stadi-
um, Nakuru on Sunday.
The annual one-week sports ex-
travaganza ends on August 24 to
pave way for the selection of differ-
ent teams that will take part in the
East African Games in Kampala,
Uganda, in October.
The regional games has attracted
six countries including the hosts
Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda,
Burundi and South Sudan.
In Kenya, 21 counties have con-
firmed participation in the event.
They are hosts Nakuru, defending
champions Nairobi, Mombasa, Me-
ru, Kilifi, Taita Taveta, Narok, Kiam-
bu, Uasin Gishu, Kakamega, Vihiga,
Bungoma, Kisumu, Samburu and
Trans Nzoia, Others are Nyamira, Ki-
rinyaga, Isiolo, Homa Bay, Machakos
and Kitui.
Other counties still expected to
beat the deadline are Kajiado, Laikip-
ia, Nyandarua, Busia, Marsabit and
Tharaka Nithi. No county from North
Eastern Kenya is enlisted for the
games.
Kicosca chairman Fredrick Rem-
bere said counties have up to Friday
to register for the event before the
fixtures are drawn.
We just have five more days be-
fore we close the registration to allow
us draw fixtures for the whole tour-
nament, Rembere said.
Counties will be expected to pay
Sh150,000 registration fee and
Sh15,000 for respective governors
official statement in the Kicosca cat-
alogue.
The funds will be used to cater for
the games administrative expenses,
referees and officials expenses and
hiring of venues for different disci-
plines, among other miscellaneous
logistics according to the official.
We are not ready to lock out any
member but they must also beat our
deadline, said Rembere.
Teams are expected to start arriv-
ing in Nakuru on Thursday to have a
feel of the different venues to host
the 14 disciplines in the tournament.
The disciplines include football,
basketball, netball, handball, volley-
ball, cultural dances, athletics, ajua,
choir, tug of war, darts, table tennis,
squash and badminton. Last year,
the games were held in Nairobi.
-bahenda@standardmedia.co.ke
KICOSCA
games begin
in Nakuru on
Sunday
BYUBEN AHENDA
Nakuru County Governor Kinuthia
Mbugua (centre) holds Kenya
Inter-Counties Sports and Cultural
Association torch on July 17, 2014.
[PHOTO: KIPSANG JOSEPH]
Page 54 / FEVER PITCH Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Media Combined won the inaugural
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Media
5-aside football tournament that was
held last week at the Kenya Harlequins
ground in Nairobi.
They lifted the trophy after edging
Media Select 2-0 on post-match penal-
ties while Kenya Sports Journalists (KSJ)
won the third place playoff after beating
Bloggers FC 1-0.
Ten teams took part in the event
which was overseen by Kenyan Premier
League players Wycliffe Kasaya(AFC),
Paul Kiongera(KCB) and Brian Osum-
ba(Tusker). The event was used to offi-
cially launch a national childrens 5-aside
football tournament to be played on
September 13 at the same venue.
The childrens tournament dubbed KFC
Football Beat is opened to school kids,
both boys and girls, aged between 10 and
14.
KFC brand manager Jemimah Baariu
pointed out what the tournament entail.
KFC Football Beat is an action packed
programme that brings children into
store to play a game of X-Box Kinetic and
culminates in the brand hosting a five-a-
side soccer tournament for them, said
Baariu.
The tournament will involve 16
teams of six players each who will be ful-
ly kitted by KFC and assigned a coach
each. For the next three weeks, children
within the mentioned age bracket can
visit any KFC outlet in and around the
city, purchase any item on the menu, fill
in entry forms to stand a chance of qual-
ifying to participate in the tournament
by testing out their skills on an X-Box Ki-
netic football gaming console within the
outlets.
Like Baaru stated, KFC is on a mis-
sion to create a fun-filled football pro-
gramme designed for kids to make new
friends, be entertained and bring the
Media Combined win inaugural KFC tourney
y B ERICK OCHIENG
Media combined team celebrating after winning
the tournamnet. [PHOTO: COURTESY]
brand and the community together.
As a youth centric brand, we are pleased to be
creating events where kids can have fun and make
new friends while getting involved in fun activities.
Football Beat will bring communities together and
have youngsters playing the worlds most famous
sport while enjoying the worlds most famous chick-
en meals, concluded Baariu.
y B FEVERPITCH TEAM
A resurgent Chemelil Sugar FC
squandered several valuable opportu-
nities to be held to a barren draw by pre-
mier league leaders Tusker during the
encounter.
During the first-half most of the ball
possession was centralized in the mid-
field with occasional attempts by both
Tusker and Chemelil Sugar strikers
stealing chances to make attempts.
Cheered on by scores partisan home
fans Chemelil Sugar made the first fero-
cious goal attempt on Tusker custodian
Samuel Odhiambo in the third minute
following a well coordinated trio effort
by Gerson Likonoh, Meshack Karani
and Hamisi Mwinyi.
In the 7th minute another feeble
shot by Tuskers Brian Osumba was
nabbed by the millers custodian On-
yango.
Chemelil Sugar players counter-at-
tacked and piled more pressure on
Tusker with striker Karani missing a
10th minute scoring chance having
made a box-area foray.
A foul on Chemelil Sugar midfielder
Smith Ouko in the 13th minute earned
hosts a free-kick well taken by Likonoh
but timely cleared by Tuskers Llyod Wa-
home with millers Daniel Murage ready
to flick in a header.
The thrilling encounter continued
with more centralized ball possession
as the first 45 minutes came to an end.
Second half witnessed the same tempo
with Chemelil Sugars Karani squander-
ing a 50th opportunity after being put
through by Murage.
A solo effort by Karani was also
saved in the dying minutes with Tusker
custodian Odhiambo being the player
of the match while Chemelil Sugar play-
ers dazzled the crowd with spectacular
CHEMELIL HOLD TUSKER,
SOFAPAKA DROP POINTS
Bad weekend
for top teams
as league race
enters nal
stretch
ball control and display.
Elsewhere, Sofapaka were held to a bar-
ren draw by Bandari in Mombasa County
stadium.
The match saw both teams waste nu-
merous scoring opportunities. Bandari
could have snatched the lead in the 17th
minute but Shaban Kengas feeble shot was
firmly held by custodian David Okello.
Sofapaka s opportunity came in the
32nd minute through Enock Agwanda but
he failed to beat Wilson Obungu as well.
In Thika, SoNy Sugar picked a point from
Thika United in a 1-1 tie at the Thika Munic-
ipal Stadium. Both goals were scored from
the penalty spot. First, Dennis Odhiambo
opened the scores in the 24th minute before
Sylvester Wanyama equalised in the 38th
minute.
Thika United showed more urgency
when the match kicked off and Michael Ol-
unga was denied in the tenth minute after
he failed to tap home a clear effort.
Thika proceeded with their dominance
making SoNy to react staging an encounter
which saw the Zico side equalize from a
penalty in the 38th minute courtesy of
Wanyama.
In Nakuru, Top Fry Nakuru All Stars the
chance to share the spoils after outplaying
Mathare United but lost by a solitary goal in
a tough Kenyan Premier League match at
Afraha Stadium in Nakuru last evening.
Mathare coach Stanley Okumbi com-
mended the losers for a good display but
was happy to have collected maximum
points. What matters in a match are the
end results and the victory has increased
our chances up the ladder, said Okumbi.
-Reports by Bosco Magare, Ben Ahenda,
Gilbert Wandera and Ernest Ndunda
Chemelil Sugars
Meshack Karani (
Right) shields the
ball from Tuskerss
Martin Kiiza during
their KPL match in
Chemelil yeatrday.
[PHOTO: BOSCO MAGARE/
STANDARD]
Page 55 FEVER PITCH / Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Arsenal, who went nine years
without a trophy before winning the
FA Cup in May, collected their sec-
ond piece of silverware in three
months when they crushed champi-
ons Manchester City 3-0 in the Com-
munity Shield at Wembley yesterday.
Santi Cazorla and Aaron Ramey,
who both scored in the FA Cup tri-
umph that ended Arsenals nine-
year trophy drought in May, also
netted against City with well-taken
first-half strikes.
A makeshift City was a shadow of
the team that won the Premier
League for the second time in three
years in May. And Olivier Giroud
added to Citys discomfort by scor-
ing with a dipping strike on the hour
in the traditional curtain-raiser to
the English season between the Pre-
mier League and FA Cup champi-
ons. We have a great team ethic, we
are all together and hopefully we can
take that into the season, Arsenal
midfielder Jack Wilshere said.
Arsenal opens its Premier League
campaign against Crystal Palace on
Saturday, looking to win the title for
the first time in 11 years.
Winning the Shield might set the
tone for the opening weeks of the
season, but is likely to be forgotten
by quickly. For David Moyes, it
counted for nothing that his brief
and unsuccessful Manchester Unit-
ed reign began by lifting the trophy
here a year ago.
Given how Citys makeshift team
performed in the first half, with just
four of the players who started the
title-clinching Premier League fina-
le in May, this game clearly ranked
low on the priority list.
Perhaps most surprisingly, En-
gland goalkeeper Joe Hart was on
the bench as new signing Willy Ca-
ballero was preferred in goal. But
Hart, who was dropped during last
season and fought to regain his City
place, saw the recruit from Malaga
concede three times.
At the first match at Wembley
since Englands pre-World Cup
friendly against Peru in May, the
shortage of Englishmen at top clubs
was exposed again. With Hart
dropped, Citys starting lineup
lacked a single Englishman while Ar-
senal had a core of three, including
new signing Calum Chambers who
was assured in defense.
Arsenals trio of German World
Cup winners Mesut Ozil, Per Mer-
tesacker and Lukas Podolski are
still on their post-Brazil break.

-Reuters
y B CHRIS MUSUMBA IN KIGALI
Dominant Arsenal thrash City
in one-sided Shield victory
GOR READY FOR ATLETICO
Gor Mahia face a resilient Atlet-
ico of Burundi today in what might
determine who finishes third and
qualify for the quarterfinals of the
Cecafa Kagame Club Cup competi-
tion here in Kigali.
Both teams lost the opening
match in similar styles. Gor were
beaten by Kampala County Council
Authority (KCCA) with the Ugan-
dans scoring in closing minutes of
play for a 2-1 victory. Likewise, At-
leticos elasticity was overstretched
in the final minutes of play against
hosts APR on Sunday to lose 1-0.
The players were tired and fa-
tigued. Coming from cold Nairobi,
they found the heat of Kigali too
much to bear in the last minutes of
the game. They lost concentration
and we were hit badly.
It is a mistake we have learnt and
we will be having a different team
against Atletico because we still
want to qualify for the quarterfi-
nal, said Bobby Williamson.
TO SECURE PASSAGE
Two wins out of their last three
matches will be enough to secure
passage to the last eight, but Wil-
liamson is not training his eyes be-
yond todays match. He said the
team is in transition, following the
departure of several key men
during the transfer window.
Gor Mahia is in transformation.
We have no wingers and we are
struggling because we have not re-
placed Shaban Kenga, who left for
Bandari and we did not carry along
Patrick Oboya. This is not the same
team that won the Kenyan Premier
KOgalo hopeful
as they go into
their second
match of
Kagame Cup
tournamnet
LOYALTY: Fans divided
support
THE TEST: Failing cooper test
DIFFERENCE: No wigs in
Kigali
Football fans in Kigali and largely
Rwanda, are sharply divided into two.
Just like in the Kenyan premier league,
where Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards
enjoy big support. In Kigali, APR
and Rayon Sport are the dominant
clubs. Many a time during the Cecafa
Kagame Cup, Rwandans would support
a team from out of the country be it
playing against APR, formed out of the
military (Rwanda Patriotic Defence
Force), or Rayon, which is based away
from the capital. Many like Rayon
because it is a team for everyone, APR
is for the soldiers and they like it that
way, said a fan. However, the players
of APR are not necessarily soldiers
with the Rwanda army with some
being foreigners including their coach.
Djibouti referee Ali Farah was the
only causality to fail the mandatory
cooper test, which was held here in
Kigali for the ofciators. He has since
been kicked out of the competition.
Kenya has three Fifa referees here
Tony Kidiya (assistant referee), Tom
Oguoyo and Juma Ochieng (Centre
Referees). The tournament, which
started on Friday is being sponsored
by Rwanda President Paul Kagame,
who is also patron of Cecafa to a tune
of US$60,000 in cash prize annually
since 2002. A further $15,000 has also
been channeled into the organisation
of the event. Gor Mahia, Kenyas
representatives have been booked at
The Palace Hotel, next to Amahoro
Stadium.
You will rarely see a woman with a
wig or any articial hair here in Kigali.
Young and old, women done natural
trimmed hair unlike in Kenya where
diferent variety of hair styles are.
Even the a few who have them here
are not proud of them and many are
foreigners. it is our way of living.
Many women here like their hair
trimmed or long, but it is all natural.
It does not cost much to make and
everyone can have her own style.
Women will carry trays on their
heads with fruits selling along the
streets just like some rural areas in
western Kenya. Even the Kinyarwanda
language is not very diferent from
Luhya. -By Chris Musumba
tled down, it was the Police that got
the motivation to go forward relay-
ing on long high balls, which The
Sudan defence easily dealt with.
However, in the 17th minute,
Kipson Atuheire diving header was
too strong for El- Mereikh goal-
keeper Omar Salim Magoola to net
the only goal of the match. Atuheire
pounced on the cross by Peter
Kagabo to secure his side crucial
winner.
My team played well and El
Mereikh is a strong side. They were
able to contain us throughout the
match, save for that one incident,
which means they can beat anyone
here, said Andre Mbungo Casa,
the coach of Police.
Police, however, will have to
work on their blunt striking force if
they are to grind out good results
from this competition.
of todays clash.
Meanwhile, APR fans and play-
ers got a huge relief as their team
secured a crucial 1-0 win over Atlet-
ico to put their title campaign on
course. Bernabe Mubumbyi header
in the 90th minute was enough to
secure the Rwandan side maximum
points.
Atletico goalkeeper Kandolo
Akimana had stood tall between
the posts palming out all strikes.
But a blip by the Burundian de-
fence enabled Albert Ngabos free-
kick cross from the right wing to
hover the heads of the back-pedal-
ling Atletico player before
Mubumbyi touch directed it past
the goalkeeper to leave the over
30,000 fans up dancing.
Earlier, Allan Wanga was waste-
ful in front of goal as Police of
Rwanda arrested his side El Mereikh
of Sudan. Both teams held back in
the opening session but as they set-
League (KPL) last year.
We have about four players who
have stayed with the team, but the
rest are yet to jell and that is why
you see the erratic results in such
high intensity tournaments like the
Cecafa Kagame Cup. However, I ex-
pect them to hold steady and retain
the KPL, said Williamson.
GOOD GOALKEEPER
The coach has thrown his sup-
port to captain and goalkeeper Jer-
im Onyango, despite him making
glaring errors in the goalpost that
almost gifted KCCA two goals.
He is a good goalkeeper. His
blunder luckily did not cost us, but
I have warned him to time his run
out of the post. He redeemed him-
self after the two incidents and
thwarted clear opportunities the
Ugandans have. I will stick with
him, he said.
Gor have no injury concerns ahead
Gor mahia players walk of the pitch during a past prelegue match in Nairobi. [PHOTO: FILE]
Fasttrack
Manchester Citys David Silva (centre) is
tackled by Arsenals Mikel Arteta and
Mathieu Debuchy (right) during their En-
glish Community Shield match at Wemb-
ley in London, yesterday. [REUTERS]
London
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almost strangles
co-wife to death
using underwear,
P.16
Forever young
Their age is a top secret they jealously guard, some even go to
their graves with it, P.8-9
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Pala:
Changaa
distillery
legalised?
Lets drink
to that
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ODDS AND ENDS
Folks take son to court
to force him to get job
Chinese parents had to
haul their son to court to
force him get a job. The
young man, it is reported,
found working very boring
that he refused to work
and moved back to his
parents house.
................................Page 3
POLITICALLY
INCORRECT
Obama summons Af-
rican presidents
Peter Wanyonyi argues
that by U.S. President
Barack Obama asking Af-
rican presidents to meet
him, not in Africa but in
America, he was trying to
show them how powerful
he is.
...............................Page 6
FEMINIST
Real men urgently
needed
Anne Muiruri has a prob-
lem with men. She says
they seem to have lost
masculinity, and urges
them to convene a nation-
al conference to discuss
where rain began beating
them.
.............................Page 10
OFF THE WALL
Busia women vow
never to date men in
the county
Kennedy Okwach reports
that women in Busia Coun-
ty have declared cold war
on their men, and vowed
never to date them follow-
ing the recent free wives
saga in Nambale Town.
.............................Page 11
KAHAWA TUNGU
Angry Woman almost
strangles co-wife
Hamza Babu narrates
about a tif between co-
wives that almost resulted
in one strangling the other
to death using underwear.
.............................Page 12
In 1 Minute...
myturn
Men In Black demand Orange-avoured Nusu Mkate page 14
AFANDE, SHOOT FIRST...
We were impressed by the quick response by
police ofcers at Mariakani Weighbridge who
used their Kiganjo reexes, crouched low like ti-
gers and let go a salvo of real dragonre bullets
at fellows who wanted to check out whether
they were battle-ready! Very neatly and pro-
fessionally done. Even the one on Thika Road
who refused to accept to be TKOd by an errant
lorry driver deserves belated commendation
for giving as good as he got from the eeing
villain. Not like the two trafc ofcers caught
along Limuru Road during the Kibaki years
who decided to execute a Rudisha and a Mercy
Cherono into the nearby anthills before being
hauled into a Landcruiser howling expletives!
They gave the word Afande a very bad repu-
tation. Shoot rst, ask questions later, eeh?!
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SO ITS RUDE TO ASK A LADY HER
AGE? TELL THAT TO THE BIRDS
OUTBURST: Solidarity forever, solidarity forever... page 15
T
he consequences of being honest in a corrupt culture are dire.
Women know this too well, thus they play safe. In a society that
puts a lot of emphasis on youthfulness, coupled with men who
prefer younger women for mates, women are constantly at
pains to look the part.
In their desperate attempts to look young and fresh, They should be ac-
cused of false advertising such as; donning fake eye lashes, eye brows, and
hair; hiding wrinkles using thick layers of make-up; trawling mens minds
through the gutter by applying a coat of pink or red lipstick; undergoing
medical procedures and stocking silicons in their mammary glands (to
make them look firm and perky) and in posteriors (to look well rounded and
plumpish); looking taller by perching atop impossibly high heels, and im-
proving complexion by lightening their skin to become yello-yello!
Men have also accused women of using other underhand tactics like re-
fusing to reveal or lying about their real age to, appear more attractive and
worm their way into mens fickle hearts.
In fact, some take it personally when you ask about their age. So much
so that they consider it impolite, rude and crude! Crazy Monday tried ask-
ing some of our fairer folk in the office how old they were. Apart from a few
who deigned to answer with a straight face, majority responses ranged from,
Why do you want to know my age?, Eh! and you expect me to tell you?,
Just guess, Hehehe! you are funny! I wont tell you, My age? Malesi get
lost!, You dont ask a woman her age.
Yet others thrust the cyptic: Im old enough!
Back in the day, as a small boy, I once enquired about my grandmothers
age before a bunch of female relatives. Immediately, people began getting
uncomfortable by squirming, others quickly changed the topic, with some
expressing their displeasure by wondering why I was being impolite and
rude to the old woman.
I just didnt get it. Being the good boy I was, I revisited that question but
with some respect and decorum. I just timed when all were quiet, and calmly
began: Excuse me, please how old are you granny?
But to my shock, discomfiture and terror, I was almost subjected to mob
justice, and lynched by those milling around! Hey, what is wrong with you!
You dont ask grown ups, especially women how old they are, an aunt yelled
at me. She accused me of naughtiness, and even almost pinched my nose. So
harsh was the rebuke and scorn that I stepped out to cry.
I grew up knowing its bad manners to ask women their age, imagine! In
fact, to this day, I dont know how old my granny is, even though she has all
my life appeared as ageless and ancient as the oak tree down by the river.
(At this point, let me respectfully pause for women who lie about their
actual age to giggle, but am sure some tech-savvy geek will soon get us an
app that will unmask the layer of lies. Hehehehe!)
Again, this matter reminds me of a female friend, who appears in a local
TV drama. Early this year, when discussing with her why women keep their
actual age a secret, she told me she is 25 years old, and plans to remain con-
sistent over the next four or so years.
If you agonise about why women hide or lie about their real age, flip over
to page 8-9 for the answers. Enjoy.
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A
nto Wickham, a
48-year-old, has
spent $50,000
(Sh4.3m) on a 10-
foot casket shaped
like a bottle of Jack Daniels whis-
key, Evoke.ie reported.
After witnessing the death of
eight Army pals during the Iraq
war, he began to plan his own
funeral he decided he wants it
to be a celebration, rather than a
mourning.
Wickham says he doesnt want a
normal funeral, it has to be a cele-
bration of life because he had been
to too many funerals of colleagues where they were very sad
occasions. So the father-of-six decided to go for something
completely different.
Interestingly, Wickhams favourite drink happens to be Jack
Daniels, so he was toying around with the idea of using it as a
theme for his own funeral. And when he was at home on leave,
he saw a TV program about Crazy Coffins, a company that spe-
cialises in unique, outrageous caskets. I asked would it be pos-
sible to make it and the answer was yes.
The coffin was finally ready after several months of work, and
Wickham flew in from Afghanistan just to take his first glimpse
of it. It is absolutely fantastic, he exclaimed. They have done
a fantastic job. It is just amazing, he added.
Anto says he also has other ideas to make his burial more
exciting: I plan to approach Guinness to see if they would agree
to take me to my service in one of their delivery vans for the
complete effect. And for the music, he opted for Sid Vicious My
Way, because I am doing everything my way.
R
ioting by public uni-
versity students is
about to get techno-
logically sophisticat-
ed.
Inspired by Israels iron dome, a
group of university students calling
themselves Students Tear-gas In-
terceptor (STI), are working on their
own version of a missile interceptor
which is designed to ward off any
tear-gas canister thrown at them by
the anti-riot police.
Currently the only tear-gas inter-
ceptor we have involves stretching
out your hand and catching a can-
ister before it lands on the ground...
its quite risky and has a history of a
high failure rate. So this is a major up-
grade from our present rudimentary
system, disclosed Seth Mawe, one of
the founder members of STI.
While no name for the invention
has been settled on the students are
tentatively calling their contraption
eye-ndom. It rhymes with iron
dome and then the last bit suggests
contraceptives... thats because we
see this as protection for our eyes!
Seth explained.
The students expect that with no
gas stinging their eyes during riots,
they will be able to engage the anti-ri-
ot police on a more even level.
The balance of power is now
more evenly distributed! remarked
Hu Ligan, another member of STI.
STONING MOTORISTS
While the eye-ndom idea may
seem novel its genesis is not. For ages
everyone has been urging us to find
less primitive ways of airing our griev-
ances other than stoning motorists
and looting shops, observed Seth.
Now we have realised that the
answer lies not in embracing dia-
logue, but getting technologically ad-
vanced... now who can claim that we
are behaving primitively when we are
using advanced technologies like the
eye-ndom?!
With little or no sources of income
except their parents and the Higher
Education and Drinking Loans Board,
members of STI are looking to the
least likely source of funding - motor-
ists.
Some say we have an antagonis-
tic relationship with motorists, since
we are sometimes fond of breaking
a car window here and denting a lit-
tle there. But that is the nature of all
relationships they are all marked by
differences, noted Seth.
And honestly when you are look-
ing to raise money you first approach
those you know... and in our case its
the motorists who ply the routes near
our campus, he added.
CREATING JOBS
One way of raising the money
will be holding a car washing event
which the STI members say will beat
any rugby event with regards to the
amount of skin exposed once the fe-
male students come on board.
It will also give us a chance to
show the motorists that when it
comes to motor vehicles we are good
at other things, besides creating jobs
for panel beaters and windscreen
shops, emphasised Seth.
Though the eye-ndom is primari-
ly intended for the students they are
also looking at ways of commercial-
ising it. We are willing to license the
technology to other groups that have
a high propensity of rioting... as a way
of giving back to our communities!
revealed Hu.
Other, not so obvious, benefits of
the eye-ndom include saving on wa-
ter since public university students
will not need to use water to stop the
stinging in their eyes during riots.
This is our own small way of mak-
ing a contribution to the conservation
of the environment, quipped Hu.
We may be enemies with the anti-ri-
ot police, but no one can deny that we
are environmentally friendly!
Y B MARK MUTAHI
odds&ends/Funny, strange news from around the world
Ladies ock eatery over
chef serving food topless
W
hile good food
might sell itself,
theres noth-
ing like some
good ol ripped
charm to boost sales. The owner of
a Chinese fast-food stall is using
this fact to his advantage.
In a brilliant marketing move,
he recently employed a muscular
male model to flip and sell burgers
to his customers, reports Eastday.
com. The humble stall has now
become a hit with the ladies, sales
are through the roof and hes mak-
ing a killing!
Wang Meng, who owns a small food stall at a night market in
Shenyang city, said that he decided to employ a man known as
John because of his impressive physique. John doesnt speak
much Chinese, but Meng seems to have made up for that by
having John flip hamburgers topless.
After all, theres no language like body-language. Meng said
he specifically chose hamburgers because he didnt really want
to challenge his new chefs culinary skills (or lack thereof ).
I would say that 90 per cent of our visitors now buying up
the fast food are women, Meng told local reporters.
I dont even know how much of them have to eat it, but they
certainly spend plenty of time at the counter deciding what it is
they want to order.
My competitors accuse me of unfair competition and one
told me I should get him to keep his shirt on as it was distasteful,
but I told them that I felt sorry for poor John, working next to a
grill all day long, and explained that he needs to keep cool some-
how so I allowed him to work topless, Meng revealed.
Man wants to be buried
in giant whiskey bottle
Chinese parents haul son
to court, force him get job
A
n elderly Chinese couple were recently forced
to go to court to teach their freeloading son
a lesson. Xu Qing, the 29-year-old son, never
went to work because he found it too boring,
reports U.Ks Daily Express. He chose a life of
comfort at his parents home instead, where all his needs
were being met. But the situation got out of hand when he
brought his girlfriend to live with him, and expected the
same service for her as well.
It all started when Qing, an only child, left university; he
simply refused to go to work like other people his age. His
mother, Xu Hsing, cooked and cleaned for him out of love.
Qing was the typical spoilt son he ate, slept and surfed the
Internet all day long. His father Ku managed to find him a job,
but he quit after only three months because it was too dull.
Soon, Qing managed to meet a jobless woman online, and
the pair hit it off. She moved in with the family after dating
Qing for only a month. The parents were horrified, and much
to their chagrin, discovered that they were expected to cook
and clean for the girlfriend as well! This was the last straw
they put down an ultimatum asking Qing to get a job or move
out.
Neither Qing nor his girlfriend cared, so the hapless parents
decided to appeal to the court for help. The judge ruled in fa-
vour of the parents, saying they were not obligated to provide
for their adult son. Shockingly, even the court ruling had no
effect on the young couple its been over 60 days since they
were asked to leave and they still havent budged.
So the parents were then forced to go to court again they
are now applying for an eviction notice to have bailiffs remove
the spoiled brat and his girlfriend from the property. Could this
be a direct consequence of Chinas obsession with the one-
child policy?
Compiled by Tony Malesi
wackyleaks/WITH MARK MUTAHI
Campus students
invent tear-gas
interceptor
Page 4 / CRAZY MONDAY Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Kudos to Julius
Yego, other athletes
who did us proud
I
think nothing illustrates
how far we come as nation
as the first legal changaa
distillery in Nakuru county.
And more to be legalised.
Legal and changaa, were not words
that could be lined up in the same
sentence.
The term changaa was always
followed by illicit brews or what was
known locally as pombe haramu. The
poor mans crack cocaine.
The moralists must be groveling
like mad. What have we come to le-
galising changaa? These are certainly
signs of the end times. I hold a some-
what more optimistic view.
Changaa has withstood suppres-
sion and held steady as the alcoholic
beverage of choice for rural and lower
class Kenyans despite systemic on-
slaught.
RELUCTANT JAMAICA
It is mind blogging to see changaa
join the table as a legitimate intoxi-
cant, licensed and approved by the
government. This is quite similar to
Jamaicas current reluctant march to-
wards legalising marijuana in a bid to
boost tourism and export.
Therefore, changaa holds poten-
tial for brand Kenya. The local gin
could just earn its stripes as an as-
T
eam Kenyas Common-
wealth medal tally at
the games in Glasgow
was impressive. It feels
good to be a champi-
on even as Usain Bolt let out of the
bag what most people of African de-
scent were thinking.
Commonwealth games draws at-
tention to colonial undertones that
are hard to suppress. Once upon a
time, the sprawling British Empire
subjugated large swathes of nations
of black and brown people to pledge
allegiance to a queen in living on a
damp island.
Global sport events often heighten
my sense of nationalism. We might
play lousy football,l but the fighting
spirit is still alive in other disciplines.
Of the numerous victories pro-
duced by Kenyan athletes on the
world stage, Julius Yegos gold in the
javelin is somewhat special.
Kenyans are traditional track
champs, and field events were never
up for consideration.
UNDERDOG TRIUMPH
Yego shattered a big psychological
barrier and his success marks a major
a turning point in Kenyan attitudes
towards field events. Something akin
to when Naftali Temu won the Kenyas
first gold in Mexico 1968; Wangila Na-
punyis pioneer boxing gold in Seoul
88; Kenyas cricket teams legendary
upset against the West indies in 1996
World Cup; Kenya 7s rugby underdog
Changaa distillery legalised? Lets drink to that
triumph against France at World Cup
in Mal del Plata in 2001 or Jason Dun-
fords first swimming gold at Com-
monwealth in Delhi 2010.
Since 2008, Yego has been dom-
inant in javelin, and is now a world
champion moving from obscurity to
national hero in a mere 5 years.
ABSOLUTE DOMINANCE
People live for times like this,
when sports produces the sort of he-
roics that becomes stuff of legend.
The ability to just keeping winning is
what separates good athletes from the
greats, and Yego is steadily working
his way into the ranks of the greats.
Kenya has not had a truly domi-
nant athlete since Paul Tergat took the
world cross country arena by storm. It
is a pity though, that we are still not
packing stadiums to watch athletics.
Yet Kenyas absolute dominance in
middle and long distance running is
only comparable to Brazil (pre-Ger-
man massacre) in football and the
legendary West Indies cricket team
under the stewardship of Clive Lloyd
and Sir Viv Richards.
For 15 straight years, the Windies
remained unbeaten in test cricket. No
other sports side has ever being on
top of their game for that long.
Cricket unified the West Indies,
when they raised fire in Babylon, and
entrenched a sense of nationalism
and unity in the separate islands of
different people divided by politics
and colonial allegiances.
sured revenue earner and possibly
shore up pride in drinking Kenyan
brands.
The criminalisation of local brew
is one of those colonial hang ups that
ought to be shed. Ugandans have
Waragi and Tanzanians have Konyagi
so Kenya is very Johnny come lately.
Prohibition of local brews only
served as cover for the authorities to
harass hard working Kenyans, notably
women and kill an entrepreneur spirit
that this country desperately needs.
QUICK PTOFIT
The lower classes have always
thesecrazykenyans/OYUNGA PALA FINDS THE HUMAN IN THE KENYAN
The Kenyan womens athletics
team is the new rising force, and is
leading from the front. Kenyas wom-
en produced 13 of all 18 medals on of-
fer from 800m and marathon, picking
all six gold.
Sometimes, we forget how fortu-
nate we are to witness these victories.
So I lift my hat to Yego and the long
list of sports pioneers who made us
beam with pride on the world stage,
and earned us the respect of other na-
tions, as champions.
Now if only we could translate this
winning spirit to scientific innova-
tion, social advancement and general
prosperity for the masses.
been punished by the system, harshly
regulated and denied their right to get
high at cost. The demand for afford-
able liquor created a space for greedy
merchants with no scruples in the hot
pursuit of quick profit.
The consequences have been di-
sastrous for the consumers. The alco-
holic industry needs to cater for all in-
come levels. People deserve the right
to a legit drink at a price that their
pockets can bear.
MIDDLE CLASS
As it were, changaa has already
moved up from the ranks of cheap
liquor. The price of ingredients shot
up like everything else in the coun-
try, and a good bottle does not come
cheap.
Out West in that place called shags,
changaa has become a treat that only
the village middle class, also known as
the pensioners can afford.
Added manufacturing overheads
will push the price beyond the reach
of the supposed target market. In-
deed! Changaa is entering a new
phase of appreciation and its future is
brimming with possibilities.
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A small group of dotted islands
became the champions of the world
and it was highly symbolic for black
Caribbean heritage. By and large our
athletes have made major contribu-
tions to our national psyche.
WORLD STAGE
Despite the often not so stellar
managerial issues and glaring lack of
training facilities, the athletes always
bring back gold. Generation after
generation, Kenyan athletics contin-
ue to produce results.
In global sport, you dont mess
with the Kenyans, and our champs
have allowed us to enter into the are-
na with the arrogant swag of winners.
/ Page 5 CRAZY MONDAY Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Get back to basics on womens needs
Half of the underage girls who
get defiled by pests calling them-
selves businessmen in rural mar-
kets succumb to the beady-eyed
mens charms because the rascals
give them panties worth Sh20.
That aside, I am shocked that
something more fundamental
has not been discussed in both
chambers of Parliament. Accord-
ing to my sources, there is a cer-
tain brand of alcohol that causes
B
arring coloni-
sation, prisons
would probably
be non-existent
on the African continent to-
day. We would still be sort-
ing out criminals in our time
tested ways, which we still do
anyway in spite of our pre-
tentions for obeying the law.
We are not the most pa-
tient of people, something I
would associate with baking
under the hot African sun for
days on end.
That whole circus of ar-
resting a hooligan who stole
your hard-earned goat, haul-
ing him before a magistrate
and allowing a lawyer to
cheat you in broad daylight is
simply not African.
Our justice system was
based on the Rapid Results
Initiative; the doctrine of an
eye for an eye. If you killed
someone, we killed you.
If you stole someones
cow, we killed you. If you
stole someones wife, he
killed you. If you stole some-
ones husband, she beat and
bit sense into you. Chap chap
like that.
VANISHING PRIVATES
We didnt have the pa-
tience to invest in police and
fancy judicial systems be-
cause we couldnt afford it.
I also suspect sages had fig-
ured out how inefficient the
whole thing is. It is totally in-
sane to imprison and feed a
chicken thief for seven years
using taxpayers money.
Besides, detectives are
hopeless. They will know
without a shred of doubt
that X stole from Y. Instead
of grabbing the bugger by the
seat of his pants and hauling
him to jail, they waste time
questioning him.
Even when some twit is
caught red-handed skinning
a dog, detectives insist on
launching investigations and
gathering evidence.
Africans of yore didnt
have time for that sort of
nonsense. If you crept into
your neighbours granary and
stole his groundnuts, the vic-
tim simply gathered the vil-
lage gossips and whispered
to them that the thief had 24
hours to surrender of face the
consequences.
And if the idiot didnt sur-
render, there would be seri-
ous consequences like his
privates vanishing. So when
I hear cops describe them-
selves as the long arm of the
law, I shake with laughter.
Long arm? They have
never figured out who killed
Robert Ouko 22 years on! If
that assignment is handed to
a team of witchdoctors today,
the guilty people will fall like
flies in one week flat.
I became aware of Africas
judicial system when I was
four years old. A middle-aged
man who was supposed to be
a relative had come visiting
and I realised that his hands
were badly scarred.
With the curiosity of kids,
I leaned over and asked what
happened to his hands.
WARM HANDS
Everyone in the room
froze. Instead of getting an-
swers, my mum gave my ear a
violent tweak and ordered me
to get lost.
Later, I discovered that in
his youth, my distant relative
was a renowned egg thief.
When his exploits became
unbearable, like the scoun-
drels who routinely steal
money from the National
Social Security Fund (NSSF),
his exasperated father would
have tied his hands, shoved
them into a reed basket used
for holding chicken, stuffed
dry grass into the mix and set
his hands on fire.
The scars would be per-
manent and they served a
bigger purpose. Henceforth,
when the lout was spotted
anywhere, everyone would be
on high alert because his scars
branded him for what he was
a common thief.
walkwithme...
And much as some of our leaders bash the Obama
administration, an invitation for some serious ugali or tea
at that posh address is never turned down. That was the
case when our very own UK found himself at a place where
he was not daily being reminded about nusu shamba, nusu
makate, nusu appointment, nusu tender etc; M7 did not
have to endure frightening recurring nightmare of a same
sex union ofce being opened at a Banyankole market
centre and Zuma could marvel at how Cousin Barry could
accommodate his entire brood into such a tiny swimming
pool! All in a days work as they worked toothpicks from
excellent cuisine.
But that is not all, because they even get to bring back some
dollars with them and regale supporters of how they lectured Barry
and left him high and dry in his D.C. Oval Ofce (which serious leader
in the world can agree to work out of an oval ofce anyway? This
Barry should visit his homeland to take a sele of what a real state
ofce should look like). Wonder of wonders, he even had former
presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton working the 400-plus
crowd and probably exchanging business cards! Very rare in Africa,
where many former presidents are either dead or must lie low like
the proverbial envelopes, and others spend time shuttling between
hospitals and courtrooms, just to keep them from becoming
nostalgic about the ofces they vacated. Of course, a certain Bush
could not be trusted not mumble another gafe, so he stayed away.
And moreover, all the Bushes vote republican anyway.
The timeless and ageless award-winning crooner
Lionel Richie that all the guests present probably danced
to in the 1980s was on hand to provide the after-dinner
entertainment starting with Tonight, we are going to
have a party, and of course, All Night Long. But did
these carefully chosen guests also notice that earlier, after
greeting Obama and rst lady Michelle Obama in the White
House, they were conveyed by chartered trolley cars to the
South Lawn? Did they notice that no trafc was stopped
disrupted by ashing strobe lights and brusque BMW
outriders? Were there any mild strokes sufered by some of
these African presidents bodyguards shocked to see their
employers bumping along on golf trolleys? I would love to
read their memoirs on this three-day outing.
Someone in Kenya should advise Somalia President Hassan
Sheikh Mohamud never to forewarn his adversaries. Yes, we have
lots of experience here where you run into a battery of lawyers and
lawsuits when you warn that you will soon deal with certain people
who have grabbed land in Lamu. And when you urge corruption
networks to queue at the confessional because you plan to unleash
investigators amongst them, the chicken coop is often empty by
the time you get there. Therefore, President Mohamud should stop
putting KDF at higher risk by declaring a new military ofensive is
planned by African Union and Somali forces in the next few days to
crush Al Shabaab militants. Hear him: Operation Indian Ocean is
going to start within the next few days.... just so they can walk into
an Al Shabaab ambush! Think man. Think.
And, nally...
When Ukrainians wore orange scarves and ran their
recalcitrant government out of State House Kiev, Kenyan
opposition quickly copied this very successful Orange
Revolution and registered their own Orange Democratic
Movement and the rest is history. And while Kenyans were
shaking sts at each other over their draft constitution,
some clauses so annoyed the women that there were calls
for a Sex Strike. Yes, we men were denied conjugal rights
until our Bomas reps came to their senses and inserted
something about two-thirds of either gender proviso. I cant
honestly tell you whether there was a cause-and-efect
here, but here this: Ukraine is having some Mpango Wa
Jirani problems with a certain judoka from the Kremlin. He
is intent on doing a Lamu-style land grab. Ukrainian women
have answered by crossing their legs tightly in a sex-strike
campaign, called Dont Give It to a Russian. This is their
contribution to the larger boycott of Russia-made goods.
Wow! Seems like Russian soldiers inside Ukraine will have
to have some troop transports ferry Muscovite lasses for
their men at the front!

women serious headache.
When a woman hammers
three of them, and there is no
man babysitting with them, they
will go to any home with anything
in trousers.
PANTY REMOVER GIN
Beats me why women leaders
have not held demos calling for
its ban on constitutional grounds.
We honestly cant have a drink
christened panty remover in
these husband-snatching times.
And what is it about pubs and
toilet paper? Most ladies as the
womens washrooms are called,
never have toilet tissue. So the
girls have to suffer the indignity
of begging a barman for TP each
time they need to go for a leak.
Are these pub owners suggest-
ing that women steal toilet tissue
or that they are wasteful?
Oh, and dont get me started
about those Naivasha women
who are dying from cold because
their husbands spend nights
chasing wild animals from farms.
Y B TED MALANDA
I
f you ask me, I think there
are too many people pur-
porting to be speaking for
women and they are not
doing a decent job.
We have far too many politi-
cians, NGOs, professional groups,
lobbyists and foreign embassies
fighting to get a word in about
women empowerment.
Even the normally tightfisted
government is throwing wads of
notes at our sisters. But because
the cooks are so many, no one is
bothering about salt.
Take sanitary pads for in-
stance. Everyone is running
around giving schoolgirls free
sanitary towels. But it hasnt oc-
curred to us that if you are too
poor to afford pads, you most
likely cant afford innerwear?
How these benefactors expect
our daughters to use free sanitary
pads when they have no panties is
beyond me.
If you think I am joking, then
you dont read newspapers.
Ted Malanda draws on the wisdom of his royal Wanga
ancestors to try and understand a world gone mad
lifesacircus
Yours Truly
Africans never arrested chicken
thieves, they bewitched them
Page 6 / CRAZY MONDAY Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
C
ousin Barry is at it
again. A week ago,
President Obama
summoned African
presidents to the
White House. The official story is
that Obama wants to follow up on
his visit to Africa last year, with a
renewal and reinforcement of eco-
nomic and diplomatic ties with Af-
rica.
Apparently, Obama and America
are spooked that China is gobbling up
all of our resources trade between
China and Africa is now at $200 bil-
lion, with the Americans at half that
and the US wants to wet its beak, get
a foot in sideways.
Most Kenyans will tell you this is
nonsense. A big man like Obama, the
most powerful man in the universe,
doesnt summon 50 elders all the way
from Africa to go drink some beer
over a few dollars here and a few dol-
lars there.
SUMMON ANYONE
America, after all, spends more in
one month in Iraq and Afghanistan
than the entire China-Africa trade
value. No, this was not a discussion.
Obama did not ask or request the
African leaders to go to Washington
he ordered them to. As the boss of
the entire earth, he can summon any-
one and the person has to answer. In
fact, Obama is so powerful that there
is only one real comparison on earth:
a primary school headmaster back
when headmasters were headmas-
ters.
The old-school headmaster was
not just a teacher, and he was far more
than just a school administrator. He
was literally a deity in the village.
Back then, development had not
yet arrived in the villages, so the gov-
ernment invariably sent development
A couple decades ago,
a Kenyan delegation
accompanied the-then
president to Auckland, New
Zealand a pleasant little
town that is the commercial
capital of the Kiwis. When the
Kenyan delegation got there,
they quickly degenerated
into an astonishingly bad-
mannered lot. Stories are told
of how one or other Kenyan
minister tried to get carnal
knowledge of Kiwi damsels
by force. Perhaps it is no
surprise that many Western
countries have banned MCAs
and our so-called County
Delegations from visiting
to learn about development.
With the sort of behaviour that
Kenyan government ofcials
are known for, who would want
them around?
teacher would be summoned to see
the headmaster.
Village wags claim that some
headmasters would even whip their
hapless teachers, on top of demand-
ing all manner of favours, most usual-
ly only reserved for a husband!
Obamas summoning of Africas
motley collection of election thieves,
murderers, corrupt tinpots and sim-
ilar so-called leaders must thus be
seen in this light. African citizens will
be hoping that, after the photo-ops
and the smiles for the cameras,
Obama cracked the whip and let our
misrulers know that America doesnt
like how they run Africa, and that
America is minded to step in and set
things right.
When the most powerful man in
the world says that, you sit up, listen,
and amend your ways!
Lost chance to force erratic
African leaders mend ways
With authority of headmasters of yore,
Obama summoned African presidents
p
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n
e
T
he Ethiopians are a
tough lot. They dont
mess about when it
comes to things like se-
curity, as any visitor to
Addis Ababa will tell you.
There is an over-security pres-
ence, there are policemen and
military fellas in uniform at every
street corner, and the mantra un-
der which they operate seems
to be: behave yourself and all
will be fine, but fanya fujo
uone.
And so no one was sur-
prised when the Ethiopians
took a particularly muscu-
lar approach to enforcing a
peace agreement and cease-
fire between the warring parties of
South Sudan.
The Ethiopians invited both Presi-
dent Salva Kiir and his nemesis, Dr Riek
Machar, to Addis Ababa. Once the two
gentlemen arrived, they were each pre-
sented with a typed agreement to sign.
Addis villagers claim that President
Kiir took one long look at the agree-
ment and refused to sign it. Whereupon
Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam
Desalegn, looked Kiir straight in the
eye and told him, If you dont sign this
agreement, I will have you arrested right
now. Youll never leave Addis Ababa!.
Spooked, Kiir hurriedly appended
his signature to the document and the
fighting began dying down. That is what
Obama should have done. He should,
for example, have had all 50 African
presidents arrested and locked up.
With the exception of our own pres-
ident who got into office the other day
and, of course, the outstanding Paul
Kagame. Obama could then have visited
each president in turn in their cells, with
long confessions for them to sign rang-
ing from stealing elections to murdering
opponents, and on to stashing their pri-
vate accounts abroad with stolen tax-
payer funds.
With the confessions in hand,
Obama would then have given the poor
countries of Africa a fresh start, with
their odious dictators locked away: fresh
elections, recovered funds, the works.
What a shame this didnt happen.
Maybe Mr Desalegn should become
the next US President!
politicallyincorrect/ PETER WANYONYIS SKEWED LOOK AT THE POLITICAL SCENE
down through the Chief, and from
him to the local headmasters.
Headmasters would summon par-
ents and give them a proper dress-
ing-down not just about the parents
kids, but also about such issues as the
health of cows and chickens in their
homesteads, the times when they
went to bed, and how they cooked
and fed children in their houses.
But if the headmaster was an over-
lord to the parents, he was a complete
terror to the poor teachers that re-
ported to him.
NEGATIVE REPORT
In those days and perhaps even
now a headmaster could make or
break a teachers career.
One negative report about a teach-
ers work would result in the teacher
being disciplined and, even worse,
being suspended from teaching, sala-
ry deducted or even withheld.
The story goes that some randy
old headmasters demanded not just a
share of the teachers salary, but con-
jugal privileges as well if the teacher
was female in those days, headmas-
ters were invariably male, fat, balding,
and ugly.
Any teacher who so much as came
late to school would usually be in-
formed by the Headmasters secre-
tary that the boss wanted a word. The
secretary would leave it open-ended,
never telling the teacher at what time
she was expected to show up at the
boss office.
ELECTION THIEVES
At the most inopportune moment
such as just before leaving school
to go home in the evening the poor
/ Page 7 CRAZY MONDAY Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Busia women declare cold war on
bachelors, vow never to date them
Y B KENNEDY OKWACH
T
here was ruckus at
a village in Kirin-
yaga County early
last week when a
small scale poul-
try farmer stormed his neigh-
bours kitchen to repossess eggs
he claimed the latter had stolen
from him.
The farmer reportedly found
the neighbour, a bachelor, prepar-
ing pancakes using the allegedly
stolen eggs, which he had come to
re-claim.
The farmer had noted that
some of his chickens hardly laid
eggs at his home. And upon in-
vestigating, he discovered they
had been laying at the neigbours
house. Unfortunately, the neig-
bour never had the courtesy to
take the eggs to the farmer.
He, instead, ate them.
HAPPY BACHELOR
On this particular day, the
farmer decided to ambush his
neigbour to claim what he thought
rightfully belonged to him. When
he arrived, much to his shock,
he found the bachelor preparing
pancakes using eggs, which the
farmer strongly believed belonged
to him.
During the early morning in-
cident, the neighbour, nervous of
the surprise visit, pretentiously
welcomed the farmer for a bite
of his mouthwatering pancakes,
boasting about how cooking is
one of his talents.
CHORTLING HEARTILY
Mundu u mucori atia. Yaani
uceraga o riria ndiraruga kanya-
ma! (Man you are really a schem-
er. So you only visit when I am
cooking something good!)Said
the host, chortling heartily.
But to his amazement, the
farmer was not interested with
the antics; he maintained a stone-
faced look, and demanded that he
return what you stole from my
chicken.
My friend, I am not interested
with how much food you have, I
also have enough food at home.
What brought me here is my eggs
you stole from my hen, said the
farmer in a no-nonsense tone.
But the neigbour, instead of
owning up that indeed he had sto-
len the eggs, seeing as he had been
unable to explain the source of the
eggs, he insisted on protesting his
innocence, swearing how he is not
Farmer raids neigbours kitchen,
conscates cakes from egg poacher
Y B MURIMI MWANGI
H
ell hath no fury like
a woman scorned.
The recent free-
wives hoax in Busia
County has come
back to haunt local bachelors who
thronged Nambale Market to be
given free wives from Ukambani
by an NGO.
Angry women in the County
have expressed displeasure with
their mens interest and enthusiasm
for Kamba women, claiming that
they, too, make good wives and are
equally hot to boot.
The women are up in arms, and
have declared cold war on men
in the county, wondering why they
(men) have never scrambled for them
like they did in Nambale town.
FREE WIVES
The women feel aggrieved by their
male counterparts whom they accuse
of being disrespectful by thronging
the town to receive free women.
How many single, beautiful, and
learned women are in Busia? Why
have men in this county refused to
marry us, and when they heard Kam-
ba women are coming, they rushed to
Nambale and nearly caused a stam-
pede there? As if we dont exist! It was
disrespectful. In fact, they should be
ashamed of themselves. We will not
forgive them for that, boldly de-
clared Claire Asega, a single lady.
a crook and has never eaten any
stolen food.
Nii ni unjuii wega. Ndi-
tunyanaga na ndiriaga indo
cia wiici! Ici ndiui ni ndeto
iruku woka nacio (You know
me very well. I dont steal and I
dont eat stolen stuff. I honestly
dont know what you are talking
about,) protested the neigbour,
feigning innocence.
Seconds later, the farmer
spotted many egg shells adjacent
to the fireplace and dropped the
bombshell.
Thiku ici uthiite na mbere atia
uraria nginya matumbi kiroko
(These days you are really doing
well. You eat eggs for breakfast!),
the farmer mocked his neigbour,
seeing as he doesnt own a single
chicken.
SPECIAL MARK
I want my eggs back. I cannot
continue feeding my chickens
only for thieves like you to fatten
on my eggs! barked the farmer.
Interestingly, the neighbour
dismissed him, asking him if his
chickens eggs had a special mark
to indicate they had originated
from his chicken.
But to his surprise, the farm-
er forcefully tried to grab the pan
from his neigbour before he was
shoved away. A scuffle ensued,
with the farmer snatching away
the pan from the bachelors hand
full of frying pancakes. The neig-
bour struggled with the farmer
and in the process the pancakes
flew all over the place.
It took the intervention of yet
another neigbour, attracted by the
noises, to solve the matter amica-
bly.
The women slammed Busia men
and vowed not to date any of them.
And to spite them, some have threat-
ened to cross over to neighbouring
country, Uganda to get husbands.
UKAMBANI HOAX
Busia men likes free things! From
today henceforth, we will assume they
all got married following last weeks
event in Nambale, we have decided to
go international. And if they thought
they are cockerels, they are in for a
rude shock. After all, Ugandan men
are hot than them, scoffed Beatrice
Auma, as she huffed and puffed.
Men in this part of the country
are finding it hard to seduce women
as there advances are rebuked with
sneers and contempt it deserves.
Things are not good here. A
friend told men he tried to seduce
some woman a couple of days after
the free-wives hoax, and he was ar-
rogantly told off and asked to wait for
wa Mutua[women from Machakos
County], giggled a man who intro-
duced himself as Russel Khasindu.
Busia women need to know that
not all men went to mark-time in
Nambale for free wives and good-
ies, which included a sack of maize,
Sh10,000 and utensils, bemoans
Khasindu, a bachelor in Busia, as he
appeals to them to be understanding.
Just because they are desperate
to quit bachelorhood doesnt mean
they grab anything thrown their way.
Where do they expect us to get hus-
band if they make a beeline for free
foreign women, yet we are here, and
ready for marriage? I will never ac-
cept a man form Busia County, over
my dead body! They are such losers,
hissed violet Mudanda.
TRUTH COMMISSION
Some married men were not
spared either. Busia men including
married ones are disrespectful. Some
married men were also there. We dont
know what had taken them there.
May be they went to get second wives.
Who knows! revealed a woman only
identified as Anita.
One business man who sells live-
stock, and coincidentally had left his
home early to the market on that day
tickles this writer when he confirms
these claims.
That evening when I came back,
my wife kept asking me questions
about that incident even after I denied
being aware of such, she insisted I had
gone there(Nambale) to look for a free
wife, said Moses Opondo, a local.
The animosity between men and
women in this County is so high that
we perhaps need a Truth Justice and
Reconciliation Commission to cool
tempers, joked Josphat Sigomere, a
local resident.
Bizarre , weird but true tales /ofthewall
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thisstrangeworld thisstrangeworld
Women are known to
hide or, if they must
reveal, lie about their real
age, GRADY CHACHA
nds out why
S
tories
h a v e
b e e n
t o l d
of fe-
male Kenyan ce-
lebrities who, de-
spite being public
figures, no body
knows their actu-
al age. The fewwho
tell, lie through
their teeth and they
do it without even
bating an eyelid.
Take, for in-
stance, the case of a
well known female
Radio presenter cum
musician who cele-
brated her 26th birthday
for almost four years con-
secutively at the beginning
of this millenium! She is re-
moured to be in her 40s but
she still creates the impres-
sion that she is in her 20s!
Even today, by any standards,
she looks young enough to hold
true to her claims. Her ageless looks
serve well to obscure the truth. How-
ever, the big question is, even if wom-
en revealed their real age, would men
believe them?
Jacky Wanjiku says when she cel-
ebrated her 24th birthday, her Face-
book friends asked her how old she
was and when she disclosed, one of
her male friends laughed and com-
mented: Siamini, hio lazima nion-
geze tatu (I dont believe that. I must
add three more years on that figure).
When asked why women nev-
er reveal, and lie about their age
baby faced Nelly Shilaku says: Not
all women hide or lie about their
age. However, men tend to be very
judgmental and we dont like be-
ing judged. Wed rather keep them
(men) guessing. You see...for instance
myself...I amin my 40s but when I tell
people my age, they seem not to be-
lieve me.
VERY SECRETIVE
Some women are very secretive
about their age so much so that tales
abound of men who dont know ex-
actly howold their girlfriends or even
wives are.
Journalists get to
interview many
people. I, for instance, have inter-
viewed hundreds of men and women
since I joined the trade. And from
experience, I can absolutely deduce
with zero margin of error that
women have a problem divulging
their age (real or otherwise) or even
talking about it.
Here is an excerpt from a conver-
sation I had with a lady and a gentle-
man froma local university as I inter-
viewed them last week over a gadget
they had invented.
Chris, how old are you? I asked.
Twenty two, and in third year at the
university, he answered without
fidgeting or acting queasy.
And you Joan? Mmmm! Lets
skip that part. I am a girl, she an-
swered. She is a girl. Whatever that
means. As much as I found her re-
sponse unwarranted, it didnt come
as a shock. She isnt the first female
interviewee who clung to her age like
a tick on a cow.
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
Age, for many women, is the con-
versational equivalent of touching
the third rail. You can talk about her
greatness; her stature in society as
the CEO of a blue chip company; her
beauty; her life story, but never the
number of years she has been a citi-
zen of the planet Earth.
Sitting opposite me last year, Alice
Kamande, a high-ranking officer of
a reputable company in Nairobi, re-
torted back when I broached into the
topic of age. Immediately, she stone-
walled and protested against my line
of questioning.
What has that got to do with my
success in life? she roared, visibly in-
undated with angst; and in no mood
to mention numbers. You are sup-
posed to ask me who I am and what
I do but not howold I am. That is pri-
vate information.
For precaution, I mollified her
with an assurance that I wont ask
questions related to her age. Plus, I
was afraid that her age was one of
those classified information CID of-
ficers use as caveat whenever jour-
nalists ask questions pertaining na-
tional security.
Women have always shown an ob-
trusive affinity around how old they
are. And it has nothing to do with
that cruel joke we were told decades
ago that girls dont like anything to do
with numbers including arithmetic.
According to Catherine Mbau, a
psychologist at Arise counseling cen-
tre in Nairobi, women want their
age remaining mysterious as
it gives the illusion that
they are young. The
society loves young
women, she says.
There is a gen-
eral notion that
Revealed: Why women hide or lie about their age
younger is more beautiful and also
innocent. Looking at demographics,
men naturally go for young women.
It is difficult to site a man in his 40s
or fifties looping around a woman in
her forties. They woo those whose as-
sets are not succumbing to gravity...
because they are young.
SIXTEEN TILL I DIE
That explains the current obses-
sion with perky chests and taught
derrieres. Who invented the phrase
sixteen till I die? We dont know for
sure but a good guess would definite-
ly unmask a feminine figure.
My friend Brenda Atieno, a suc-
cessful sales manager at a Nairobi
based company, warned me not long
ago that I should never dare tell any-
body her age especially men who
swoon around her with lecherous in-
tent. Why? I enquired.
I dont want people guessing at
me weirdly as I pass the streets. I also
want to be identified for who I am
not the thirty something unmarried
woman, she says. On that, I realise
that Catherine may have peaked well
into the female psych.
BIOLOGICAL CLOCK TICKS LOUD
She says: A woman who is over
thirty, and yet to be married is con-
sidered to be hiding something about
themselves. Many will look at them
with skepticism. The feeling is that
either she has hypersexual tenden-
cies or she is barren; there has to be
something deeply wrong with her to
be going through life without a hus-
band.
Forty is the new thirty, claims
Maurine Akinyi. We women, want
to stay young and look young and be
perceived as so. If a woman is 40, and
you ask her how old she is, she may
likely lie to you by a factor of 5. In
many cases, a woman looks younger
than they truly are. That is how we
want to stay, without the truth com-
ing out.
But another lady, Nina Luvonga,
reveals that among women, there is a
cohort that looks at age as a vignette
which preempts the reality of meno-
pause. In other words the biological
clock ticks loud, she says, and the re-
minder of a youthfulness waning be-
low wrinkled skin takes away the zest
of life.
FOREVER YOUNG
In her explanation, Catherine says
that women can be weary of natures
abrupt interruption of the one thing
that is recognised worldwide as the
true symbol of womanhood: the abil-
ity to bring forth new life. In some
instances, Nina points out, young
women, especially those who are still
in school, would love to appear older
than they really are to gain respect
and to be treated maturely.
But as they gulp down the years,
they revert and present with the de-
meanor of a young woman. The time
around adolescence is quite tempes-
tuous. We want to be viewed as ma-
ture and ready for independence. But
when we do really get old, we wish the
years would slow down because we
want to look beautiful, young, and at-
tractive forever, she offers.
Forever young is not just a beauti-
ful song to serenade the ears of the ag-
ing: it is an aspiration. Visit a gymand
you will discover this and even more.
While keeping fit is good for her, Ag-
nes Wanja, a gym enthusiast, works
the treadmill like her life depends on
it. Her vital signs, BMI, size and shape
would come across as ideal but she is
not about to relent on her workouts.
She admits that beneath the ve-
neer of fitness, her true aimis to shed
age and remain young. Fromthe look
of things, she may have succeeded in
shading 15 or so years. Except for
those who are close to her, she
has managed to deceive ev-
erybody else into thinking
she has just began her
thirties.
Her premise
is that the hard
work she dis-
plays at the
gym pays
off as it
k e e p s
y o u n g
m e n
p i n i n g
over her.
To maintain
a similar look,
Wanjas peers invest
heavily in cosmetics to
airbrush contours off the
forehead. Thankfully, I
dont have to seek Botox. I
will remain young as long
as I can attend the gym. But
never expect me to tell you
my age... just look at me and
guess, Agnes says whimsi-
cally.
Lying about ones age is
not exclusively a preserve of
women. Some men, too, lie
and keep their real age a secret,
especially Kenyan footballers
and politicians. However,
it gets me wondering:
for how long will
such people keep
the cat in the
bag?
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Parents ought to
respect childrens
marriage choices
Real men urgently needed
O
n the 31st of July
2014 the Dep-
uty Prime Min-
ister of Russia,
Dmitry Rogozin,
posted a picture on his Twitter
account of President Vladimir
Putin petting a leopard next to
that of U.S. President Barrack
Obama holding a small fluffy
white poodle, with the caption
We have different values and
allies.
The post, which was meant
to be an insult, teasing and ques-
tioning the U.S. Presidents mas-
culinity, was re-tweeted more
than 600 times in two hours.
It was an obvious insult against
Obamas masculinity.
Masculinity is a trait that the
Russian president seems to know
a thing or two about.
Lets, for a minute, forget the
politics behind the jab (the photo
came just days after the U.S. and
EU imposed more sanctions on
Russia in an attempt to stop the
countrys support of pro-Russian
separatists actively fighting the
Ukrainian government), and real-
ly look at the issue here.
ATTRACTIVELY COCKY
Although I do not agree with
Russias politics, I am afraid I
will have to offend sensibilities
and side with the prime minister
Dimitry Rogozin, that something
is quite not right with the men of
today.
All this puppy hugging men
are giving me a headache! Sadly
todays modern woman is finding
when ordinarily they would not
have considered taking such a
unceremonious action.
Of course, no self respecting
young man would want to live
with a partner before going to
her parents to seek their bless-
ing. But tell me, what other op-
tion other than eloping does a
young man have when he gets
rejected by his prospective in-
laws?
UNNECESSARY DRAMA
Thing is, once a woman has
truly fallen in love with a man,
it wouldnt matter that the man
doesnt own a house or even a
single cent in his bank.
In other words if you are a
parent and your daughter tells
you she loves this or that man,
much as he might not be the
ideal man you would want your
daughter to marry, step aside
and let them be. Keep in mind
that your daughter is not a goat
to be sold at a goat auction.
Anything less would lead
to unnecessary drama with
your daughter and her partner.
Simply put, parents must re-
spect their daughters and sons
choices.
herself with men who look and
talk like men but act exactly like
women.
What happened to men who
looked and acted like men? Men
who did manly stuff? I remember
the men of the days of our fathers,
when masculinity emphasised on
values such as discipline, power,
control, stoicism, and indepen-
dence.
Those were great days. When
you could not opt out of your re-
sponsibilities and duties as a man.
Men who were frank, forthright,
male, attractively cocky, rock-sol-
id in a crisis, and brimming with
testosterone.
Unfortunately for us wom-
en, those days are far gone. What
we have now is something very
peculiar. These days there is all
these hogwash about men defin-
ing their own personal ideals of
feminist/WITH ANNE MUIRURI
chauvinist/WITH NIKKO TANUI
DR CUPID
In love with two girls
I had been dating a woman for three
years, but last year we broke up and
she was responsible for it. However,
since April this year, she has been
making moves that show me she may be
interested in me. again. Yet I have been
seeing another woman for six months
now, and we have a good relationship.
Now that I still feel the rst woman,
should I bury the hatchet and go back
to the rst lady or just let go of her
and continue with the current one?
Kongoshe Ngore, Ndhiwa.
Leave the past in the past, after all she
is the one who broke up with you.

Husband is unreasonable
I have been married for four years
now. And have a child with my husband.
I have a male friend I have been close
with since childhood and we have always
talked a lot. We have been best friends
for over eight years, we tried dating when
we were younger, but it did not work
out. My husband, however, gets upset
whenever he nds us talking and says
that I am emotionally cheating. I dont
understand why he gets upset yet I knew
my friend even before I met my husband.
Is my hubby justied to feel this way?
Jackie, Nairobi
Take yourself out of the situation, then
put your husband and another woman in
it. It looks pretty dirty and inappropriate,
doesnt it? Behave like a married woman!

Jealousy is killing me, help
My girlfriend of almost ve years and
I broke up in June. We needed the time
to resolve some issues, and now we have
decided to try dating again. During our
breakup I dated another lady, and we
even slept together. But I am so jealous
of the men tmy girlend dated when we
broke up. Since we got back together last
month, she says she loves me but my
feelings for her are slowly dying of, but I
still feel jealous. Noah, Nairobi
Get over yourself, if you cannot let go
of the past you will ruin a future with this
lady who you claim to love very much.
Focus.
Recycled wedding gift
Last year our close friends got married
in February and we got them a very
expensive dining set. However, this year
after our honeymoon two weeks ago,
my husband and I were going through
our presents and our friends gave us the
exact dinning set that we had given them.
I am really annoyed, how do we handle
this, please advise? Rose, Nairobi
Get of you high horse, it happens,
sometimes we give people presents that
they do not like, just be happy that you
got yours back.

Send Doctor Love your
relationship problems on:
fabulousfeminista@gmail.com
masculinity. Thus, they now have
options, they can opt out of the
wretched trap of masculinity in
favour of more gentle, more social-
ly inclusive habits, that can easily
be termed as girly.
Although, Ill admit that the
metrosexual male enthusiastically
embracing his feminine side, was
vaguely entertaining in 2007, it is
now boringly normal, and awk-
ward for most women.
All this sleek, mirror loving, so-
phisticated men who know how
to wear floral prints, do manicures
and pedicures over the weekend,
and who invest in tweezers, mois-
turiser, and exfoliating cream, can
be very draining.
SHRED OF SHAME
Also I have had it with men
who are comfortable driving their
womans car without a shred of
male shame; men who are happy
to sleep over in their girlfriends
house; men who cannot fix a light
bulb or even hold a hammer, and
would not know what being a
handyman was if it hit them square
in the face; men who are not pro-
tectors or providers, but want to be
protected and provided for.
I will say it, if no one else will:
Things are elephant; things have
gone out of hand! There is now ev-
ery reason to believe that humanity
is on a downward spiral; someone
needs to hold a national confer-
ence on the death of masculinity
and figure out how to get it back or
something because it is pure tor-
ture dating a man who is woman
at heart!
B
ack in the good old
days, any parent
who had a daugh-
ter could bet that
sooner or later
young men would come to him
or her to ask for their daughters
hand in marriage.
But things have since changed.
Chances of a young man going
over to the home of his prospec-
tive wife to ask her parents per-
mission to marry their daughter
have dramatically dropped.
There is a general perception
that parents dont seem to care
about choices their sons and
daughters make; they insist on
having a hand in it.
Instead, many parents across
the country are finding them-
selves stuck with their daughters
literally for life. In other words, in-
stead of parents welcoming home
prospective sons-in-law, they are
welcoming grand children from
their unwed daughters.
At the moment, young men
want to drink milk but none of
willing to buy the cow. And this
is necessitated by parents reluc-
tance to let their daughters have a
free hand in picking spouses.
RACIAL RED LINE
Case in point is the parents of
the young Asian lady who went
livid after she crossed the sup-
posed racial red line by going af-
ter a Bukusu boyfriend.
The unamused parents al-
legedly stormed their prospec-
tive son-in-laws humble home-
stead, demanding their daughter
to leave with them, as if she had
been kidnapped.
Such are the parents who
lead young couples to elope even
/ Page 11 CRAZY MONDAY Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
Irony of digital government run the analogue way
D
uring the campaigns
last year, the word
digital went viral,
as those Twitter
tweets would say.
It became a choice between digital
and wazee (read analogue).
Those were the days of laptops for
all and biometric based electoral sys-
tems. That was before the digital elec-
tion gadgets honked and we resorted
to doing things manually.
Anyway, this was not about elec-
tions, or who lost or won, it is about a
very analogue frustration in the era of
a digital government. Last year yours
truly lost a driving license and a very
digital tablet we are talking tablet
computers here, not Panadol.
DIGITAL GADGET
Unfortunately, the digital gad-
get vanished from the digital realm
not even very sophisticated track-
ing could find the darn thing.
Luckily though, the driving license
could be replaced courtesy of the
good chaps at Times Tower.
However, eight months later I had
not gotten the good old document
that shows I have been to a driving
school. You never miss that license
F
or the first time
since I joined Meta
Meta, Aeneas has
failed to attend the
closing day princi-
pals lunch.
Indeed the last three weeks,
have seen him quite unsettled.
We were pleasantly surprised that
he managed to hand in the mock
exam marks within the deadline.
Rumours started by Schola
that he had hired someone to
mark the scripts failed to acquire
wings. As a tradition, Okonkwo
treats the Meta Meta staff to a
special lunch on closing day. This
time, Jezebel and her fellow cooks
did not hide much of the food, as
they usually do.
We were spoilt for choice for
fleshy chicken parts, unlike the
past when much of the servings
just consisted of chicken necks,
legs, wings and bare backs.
COMMUTER ALLOWANCE
Cates election as the new stu-
dent president is beginning to
bear fruits. Aeneas claims that the
TSC and Kuppet have hatched a
scheme to defraud him.
He has been walking around
with a newspaper cutting of a
notice by the TSC that it is going
to collect agency fees for Kuppet
over the belatedly awarded com-
muter allowance.
The entire Meta Meta staff was
shocked to discover that Aeneas
was neither a member of Knut
nor Kuppet. In fact, about half of
the Meta Meta teachers are not
members of any union.
Okonkwo, Magarita and
Thunder lead the pack. Whenev-
er there is a strike call, Aeneas is
always the first to stay away from
classes. He even gets updates for
us from union branch offices. The
man, like a skilled hunter, smells
a strike even before Sossion
makes up his mind to call for one.
COURT PROCEDURES
He then starts designing post-
ers before the strike is officially
announced.
Just before the last strike, I
heard him teasing Donatta over
her inability to run due to her
generous posterior. You must
start exercising, he advised her.
The TSC and Kuppet are go-
ing to hear from my lawyers, he
shouted, the day the notice ap-
peared. He then exchanged his
afternoon lesson with Thunder
and stormed out.
The following day, a crestfall-
en Aeneas came back pronounc-
ing a curse on all lawyers.
How can I pay ten thousand
shillings just to open a file? he
wondered. I shall sue and de-
fend myself like Omtata does,
he declared. This resolve has seen
him mysteriously acquire a heap
of law books and newspaper cut-
tings on labour-related cases.
Some newfound friends at JJ
Bar have also been giving him
advice on court procedures. On
many nights, Aeneas has been
No one will deduct agency fee from
my payslip, come Hell or high water
ateachersdiary/WITH MWALIMU SOCRATES
bulletin/WITH FERDINAND MWONGELA
leaving the pub well past Mututho
Time. In the process, he has accu-
mulated a tidy heap of bills.
PENSIONABLE TERMS
Dont worry, he once told JJ,
the sole proprietor of JJs, when he
got concerned about the bills, I
am employed on permanent and
pensionable terms. I will win this
case, and be awarded damages
and compensation for loss of rep-
utation, he once stammered, as
he staggered out into the night.
He also plans to lead a demon-
stration of all teachers who are
targeted by the TSC notice. I will
organise a twenty thousand teach-
ers march on TSC and Kuppet
headquarters, he kept mumbling,
as he busied himself with posters
for the march.
No one has the right to raid
my payslip, besides; the commut-
er allowance is simply an adjust-
ment of my allowances to match
those of other civil servants.
Teachers should have been
awarded arrears backdated to the
date other civil servants started
getting the allowance, he fumed
as he addressed an imaginary
Bench of Supreme Court judges.
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as much as the moment a traffic cop
says leta hiyo license.
TRAFFIC COP
I had no intention of being caught
without one, rumour has it that the
feared traffic cop, Bensouda, likes
working on the route I use from home
to work. So every few months I would
faithfully queue at Times Tower to
have my interim license renewed.
It is not until you have spent an
afternoon in a queue at Times Tower
that you begin to learn of the word pa-
tience. Those Biblical chaps who were
such fans of patience must have had
an inkling.
The chaps over there are yet to
hear of customer friendly options, like
machine generated slips that tell you
when you are due to be served.
After hours of shifting from one leg
to the other, you begin feeling the ef-
fects of your bent heels and the small
hole in the heel of your socks feels like
it wants out.
After months of anxious waiting,
I got the little red booklet I refuse
to call it any other name proudly
stamped duplicate to remind me of
my carelessness. The duplicate was
stamped with what must be a massive
rubber thingy, like those my head-
master used to stamp school books in
high school.
The red booklet that allows you
to drive and do all that appertains to
driving on Kenyan roads like over-
taking blindly and darting in and out
of traffic like a lizards tongue is
also not very far removed from my
high school identity card.
DECENT LOOKING LICENSES
Even my high School identity card
had the same texture.
I am sure it would cost an arm and
a leg to produce some decent looking
licenses that can fit into a wallet, and
we do not have that money to waste
on stupid things like driving licenses.
As it is any time I have to carry my
driving license I have to carry a back-
pack or wear a coat, fitting it into shirt
pocket is near impossible.
Not to mention the risk of running
into some foreign friend and trying to
explain how the red canvas peeping
from your shirt pocket is an official
government document.
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wemen/WITH TONY MASIKONDE
R
ecently, a pal of
mine, a successful
Public Relations
officer in her mid-
30s, confided in me
about an ongoing problem she
faces in her dating life: She feels
that shes simply too tall for most
men, standing at almost six feet.
Despite her drop dead gor-
geous beauty, men are scared of
her. After we had this chit chat, I
promised her, while as I may not
get her a tall man worth her beau-
ty and success, I could get her lots
of interesting tales to cope with
her solitude up there.
So as soon I managed to shake
my clan, I quickly left the house
under the guise of going for a car
wash. As soon as I was out of the
gate, I called Frao. You guy, where
are you? Where do you expect
me to me on a Saturday night?
Frao shot back.
HASTY RETREAT
With that kind of response,
I figured he must have been on
his fifth double shot of Jameson.
Come slowly or else, I wont buy
tonight, I threatened.
Am already tipsy, have I been
drinking on your account? Nkt,
he yelled. I quickly beat a hasty
retreat, and just told him to or-
der something to bite. As soon as
I got there, I discovered why Frao
was that arrogant; there was a new
girl at the table, and knowing Frao,
I knew he likes springing to the
front of the queue.
WIDE BERTH
So sensing that there may be
completion for the lass attention,
Frao was talking with all the brava-
do so that he looked like the only
real tough guy on the table.
As soon as my drinks were
served, as the gods would have it,
I was served by a tall waitress and
from there on I knew I would not
struggle to explain myself to the
boys.
Frao, would you date a chick
taller than you? I asked. Never,
no way, He thundered. Even if
she looks like Angelina Jolie and
Beyonc rolled into one? I in-
sisted. Does she have their mon-
ey combined? he shouted back.
Since when did you become a
pimp? I challenged him.
Ok, Tony what is your point?
he asked. My point is, I got a tall
gorgeous professional woman,
drives a BMW 320 and lives in Kili-
mani, and she is a lonely heart,
just Imagine!
Nincompoops like you give her
wide berth since they do not want
to be seen with a taller woman in
public. Just listen, and listen good
Tony, he started.
I cannot crane my neck to fix
a bulb at home, and still crane my
neck to get a peck off my woman.
No way! he protested. But hon-
estly, there is nothing wrong
with that, I thought all that
matters is chemistry and
love? I argued. Do you
want me to be the guy who
leaves behind my wom-
ans shadow not because
of anything but because
she is tall and I look like am
a Chihuahua being walked at
hotel lobbies? he asked.
INFERIORITY PROBLEMS
Just say you got inferiority
problems, but do not say taller
woman are undatable, Mark,
whom is usually quiet when sober,
interjected.
If the woman is too tall, she
always gets noticed by men. A tall-
er woman, especially if she scores
highly on the looks department, is
a liability to a man.
Why is this so? I asked. As
they say a man who marries a
beautiful woman and a farmer
who grows his crops by the road-
side have similar problems.
She will always get noticed by
other men easily, as she stands out
from the crowd, Mark argued.
To him, most short men look-
ing to prove something, the sight
of a tall beautiful woman presents
the perfect and spectacular prey!
Tall order? Why men fear
dating taller women
Campusrover/WITH BILL ODUNGA
T
here are certain
things that scratch
my soul. Things
like campus ladies
who cannot spell,
and therefore end up sending
a message on Facebook that
reads: Aki bill...qwaqwaqwa!!
chenye we hu2mia, c xemi k2!! 9t
poz lakni.
Then there are dudes who
wear jeans that grab their skins so
much, and make them look like
they are suffering from anorexia.
And then there are dudes who
lack game completely to a point
they cannot even negotiate for sex
with a prostitute.
So, they have to pin down a fe-
male colleague, and have carnal
knowledge of her by force.
DEBAUCHERY
This past week, in the dark-
ness of UoN Main campus halls, a
bunch of horny men decided that
walking down to Koinange Street
was too much of a hassle to satiate
their debauchery.
The June-July-August cold
season also had other plans of its
own, with regards to heightening
the need for warm skin against
the lean hard, hungry bodies of
the boys. So they stayed up late to
wait for anyone to devour.
Their sick prayers were unfor-
Shame of intellectuals who rape rather than woo women
her, mouth gagged to the mens
hostel, and had rounds devouring
her in the hostel section.
HEINOUS ACT
I will not even take a swing at
this heinous act. I think it is cow-
ardly, and wayward. I mean come
on, what age are we in, 1706? Back
tunately answered. A bevy of la-
dies coming from a rave in Westy
dropped from a cab, and as soon
as the taxi peeled away, the bunch
of dudes pounced.
The girls managed to escape,
save for one poor soul who could
not escape the grip of her assail-
ants. They supposedly dragged
her name smoke? It is prejudicial
to her. Especially when it was
done without her consent.
Now there is the issue of in-
security in campus. It has always
been there.
And external visitors attacking
students in the university cam-
puses is completely expected,
and of course frowned upon. But
nothing hurts more than the be-
trayal of being raped by the same
people who call you comrade.
GET SERIOUS
Also worth noting is the se-
riousness with which the Sonu
Chair, Babu Owino, is taking the
matter. When approached for
comment, Babu had this to say:
I would like to express my ac-
rimony, irascibility, annoyance,
disapprobation, antagonism, ex-
asperation, chagrin, conniption,
distemper, enmity, indignation
and infuriation about the same.
The act...has caused feelings
of bewilderment, tepidity, dis-
traction, befuddlement, perplex-
ity, stupefaction, and trepidation
amongst all comrades.
Clearly, if, and God forbid,
tribalism, HIV/Aids and Ebola
wont kill some of us, then ujaluo
ndio itatuua. Babu, what was
that? Dude, get serious!
in the day when waylaying was
cheered? Even then, it still was
not right.
I would have named the vic-
tim, but it is not fair to announce
her identity to the whole world to
know. And by the way, what do
editors in those TV stations that
covered the story and mentioned
/ Page 13 Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
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ugandanafairs /GRACE NAKATO
Lowly, forgotten
clerk decides to
punish selsh MPs
T
hose of you who
are in the habit
of stealing from
where you work,
know too well that
there is always that not-so-im-
portant staffer who is aware
of your thieving, and without
them your mission wouldnt be
successful.
Again, you, as a visitor, know
the receptionist, oops I meant
front office manager, and the se-
curity managers (some call them
watchmen), in some instances,
greatly determine whether you
get to see the big boss.
I recently found out that there
are people in Ugandan parlia-
ment who are more powerful
than MPs. They are called Com-
mittee clerks. These clerks are
hired to provide impartial proce-
dural and Secretariat support ser-
vices to Members of Parliament
during plenary proceedings and
in Committees.
However, they are like the ma-
fia, powerful and hard to get rid
of. Its not an easy job to get. Some
have gotten the committee clerk
jobs through bribes and connec-
tions to influential MPs.
Further, they are usually the
ones who write the activity re-
ports that MPs are supposed to
submit within two weeks of re-
turning from a trip to showcase
findings, and table recommenda-
tions.
This means that they can sub-
mit a bad report and the Com-
mittee will only learn about it
when it is tabled.
There is a particular clerk that
MPs are crying foul about.
HUSH HUSH!
The clerk is notorious for ab-
sconding with money, and when
MPs complain he punishes them
severely. MPs now fear him, and
only talk about him in hushed
tones.
The clerks are the custodians
of the committees finances; in
case of a trip, they are the ones
who make all travel arrangements
and pay all bills. The MPs are only
given their per diem of approx-
imately Sh48,000 per day spent
abroad, which is not bad as a trav-
el delegation spends at least three
days out of the country.
This particular clerk was prob-
ably miffed at attending all the
site visits, and writing reports
as the MPs went shopping and
sight-seeing and decided to pay
himself a bonus.
On the final day he woke up
early, quaffed breakfast and left
the hotel, saying the MPs would
be settling their own bills.
The Honourables munched
a leisurely, hefty breakfast, and
when they were ready to leave, got
a rude shock when they were each
slapped with their hotel bills.
RANTING AND RAVING
They had to pay up or get de-
tained; there was a flurry of quick
fundraising from friends and rela-
tives as most had spent every dol-
lar on shopping.
They found the clerk at the air-
port seated and smiling like a cat
that had swallowed a fat rat. Some
of course got back to Uganda and
ranted and raved, and tried to get
him booted out in vain. In the trip
that followed, the clerk collected
the passports as usual, but when
the MPs got to the airport, he was
nowhere to be seen.
Apparently the trip had been
postponed to a later date, but he
failed to update them as they were
out of office. Perhaps he forgot
that they are also reachable via
their iPads and mobiles. I am very
sure no one will be complaining
about his antics any time soon.
The CORD die-hard
supporter clad in orange
party colour suit had
carried his packed lunch
to a past CORD rally. He
manouevered his way
to the front, insisting
he must eat while
standing near Baba
RAO. It was not to be
as Fan Number One was
stopped and whisked
away unceremoniously
by no-nonsense men in
black. [PHOTO: STANDARD/
BEVERLYNE MUSILI]
/ Page 15 CRAZY MONDAY Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
The tallest basketball boy in
the world, and soon player, is
in the making. Standing at sev-
en-foot, four inches, Robert Bo-
broczky is scaling heights in the
game, with top clubs in US, Spain
and Italy seeking to sign him up.
The Romanian teen practices
with a professional team in Italy.
US National Basketball Associa-
tion (NBA) is already paying at-
tention, reports Metro Sports.
According to the paper, the
boy is growing 10cm annually,
which is four inches a year. That
means the boy could hit nine-feet
tall by the time he is drafted into
the NBA when he turns 18.
It looks like they put a hu-
man head on a giraffe and told
it to dribble a basket ball, noted
an online sports commentator.
Bobroczky practices with Azzura
Rome in Italy.
The boy, who is even taller
than the current tallest active
player Hasheem Thabeet (Tan-
zanian) who is seven feet, two
inches, is said to have gotten his
height from his father Zigmond,
who stands at seven-feet, one
inch and also played professional
basketball.
Now, that is raw talent right
there and the big boys in basket-
ball know how to squeeze every-
thing out of it, just as Barcelona
did to Lionel Messi.
Worlds tallest
basketball player
I
t is a month since
the conclusion of the
World Cup and about
a week to the start of
the English Premier
League (EPL) that went on re-
cess in May. This is good news
to Kenyan English Premier
League fans who have been
starved of good football for
months.
Forget Harambee Stars, they
are a bunch of losers, who
have no shame of failing to
score against one of the small-
est team on the continent, even
with home ground advantage.
QUALITY FOOTBAL
For the Love of the Game
strongly believes Harambee
Stars is cursed, and we must
reach a witchdoctor or those
miracle pastors to undo the
spell, or else our football will
never take off.
After Lesotho, who else
would beat Stars? Somalia?
Swaziland? Madagascar? or
South Sudan? It is interesting
that Harambee Stars are beat-
en by minnows despite the fact
that the team currently has the
highest number of players ply-
ing their trade in top clubs.
Enough of Stars! Man, as
many other lovers of quality
football, I cannot wait for the
start of the EPL, where soccer
lives.
Let the game begin this
Saturday, we have been too
idle for long. And I believe I
am speaking for many EPL
fans. Without EPL, what does
one do with his Saturdays and
Sundays?
PAINFUL WAIT
Without EPL, why should
one get into a bar and have
beer? Okay, let me rephrase
that, what is beer without
quality football from Robin
van Persie, Mario Balotteli, Di-
dier Drogba, Samuel Etoo and
Juan Mata, for that matter?
It is tasteless. Our good old
fathers were not fools when
they noted that beer goes
down the throat smoothly as
one cheers his football team.
Let Yegos win open sports of cials eyes
Thank God EPL is back to save
soccer fans from boredom
T
he You Tube athlete, aka
Julius Yego, set the Inter-
net abuzz after winning a
gold medal in the Javelin
competition at the recent-
ly concluded Commonwealth Games.
It was sweet victory for the self-made
track athlete, who almost pulled out of
the competition at the last minute due to
a knee injury.
At a throw of 83.87m, Yego did the
unimaginable for Kenya, which is best
known for track events only. Among those
who congratulated Yego after his win
were sports officials, all who ran to Twitter
to say this and that about him.
Well, the congratulations were in or-
der, but they amount to seeking to reap
where one has not planted. If they have
forgotten, those officials are among the
people who had frustrated Yego efforts to
excel in the games.
At one time he was excluded from
Kenyas team to participate in an African
championship and only his vehement
protestations saw him included.
But that is in the past, the thing is the
officials now have a reason to invest in the
sport and others like short-put and walk-
ing race that have been neglected.
You see, javelin, unlike athletics, has
not received support from the govern-
ment, which has made Yego rely on the
Internet and private facilities for training.
We hope his win has opened their eyes
and ears.
sportingsnapshots
So, with the start of the EPL,
our weekends will never be the
same again. In fact, I now have
reason to renew my pay TV
subscription, which I stopped
in May, with the end of the last
season.
It has been a painful wait,
even with the one-month
World Cup bonanza, and we
have paid the consequences.
Bars and other entertainment
spots have made losses due to
lack of customers.
DOMESTIC STRIFE
Men have been forced to
arrive home early thus in-
creasing chances of quarreling
with their wives. Our public
discourses for the past three
months have centred on poli-
tics instead of football.
Girls have become preg-
nant in villages because some
hot-blooded young men were
idle since there was no quality
soccer to watch and talk about.
Man, let the game begin.
And this time round, we have a
dozen of reasons to watch and
support EPL, as we have added
another of our own in the tour-
nament in the name of Divock
Origi, who will be starring for
Liverpool.
And dont forget Victor
Wanyama will be there for
Southampton FC. Let the
game begin and long live EPL.
OUTBURST: Solidarity forever, solidarity forever.... CUTIES: The future is too bright for Sony Sugar FC fans. SIT UP: Guess who got too much Sitting Allowance.
fortheloveofthegame/WITH ANIL BAKARI
Page 16 / CRAZY MONDAY Monday, August 11, 2014 / The Standard
kahawatungu
A
woman almost lost
her life after the
co-wife ambushed
and attacked her
with kicks and
slaps, and almost strangled her
to death using a panty were it
not the timely intervention of a
witchdoctor.
Well, it is rumoured that wives
are crafty creatures who scheme
their husbands murder most of
their free time. However, the most
endangered people who should
be on the look out are co-wives.
That is, if an incident that recently
happened in my neighbourhood
is anything to go by.
According to a man only
known as Mustafa, his first wife is
a crazy woman who will do any-
thing to protect her territory.
She is the most irritating woman
you can ever meet. A total misfor-
tune if you ask me. She will wake
up one day and find me gone. Just
like that, he lamented, as he vis-
ited my cafe recently.
Older, wizened patrons, shook
their heads in total disagreement.
Listen young man, one of them
began. A total man never runs
away from a woman, however
bad or stubborn she may be. You
would rather use any means nec-
essary to smoke her out, he said.
ROUSE HER JEALOUSY
Impregnate her to tone her
down! Alternatively, get a second
wife, advised one old man. And
make sure she is younger and
prettier to rouse Number Ones
jealousy, and your problem will
be solved. You will be treated like a
king, as both will try to outdo each
other to attract your attention,
calmly explained the geezer.
Mustafa took the advice and
married a second wife to the cha-
grin of his first wife. Why are you
bringing a strange woman to our
house, yet I give you everything.
Underwear comes
in handy to rein in
wicked co-wife
Hamza Babu serves and sips juicy gossip
in the breezy Coastal town of Mombasa
What does she have that I dont,
she demanded to know.
However, it was his right and
there was nothing much his first
wife could do. Make sure she
does not cross my line or I will
commit a murder! his angry first
wife warned. And with that, the
battle red lines had been drawn.
As it always is with co-wives,
after a short time they began
antagonising each other, with
the Number Two provoking her
co-wife every so often. She once
soiled her seniors bedsheets on
the clothes line, spread rumour
that she (first wife) had only one
nipple, and even sensationally
claimed she is a witch.
Push came to shove, and
the first wife decided enough is
enough. She could not sit pret-
ty as she was being scandlised.
She expressed her displeasure by
stealing the second wifes soiled
pants, which she took to a witch-
doctor to turn her into a barren,
frigid mass of flesh, and their hus-
band less attracted to her.
WET TREE TRUNK
By the time I am done with
this husband snatcher, she will
have the appeal of a palm tree on
a rainy day (impossible to climb),
hissed the first wife to tickled
neigbours who promptly passed
the muchene to the second wife.
Drama unfolded, however,
when the second wife got wind
of the plot to make her unable to
bear children. She tracked and
pursued the first wife on her way
to the witchdoctor.
She stormed the witchdoctors
hut as she yelled: Woman, you
want to bewitch my uterus? Over
my dead body!
Like a raging bull in a China
shop, she attacked the first wife
only for tables to turn on her.
The first wife gave her a thorough
beating. In the process, she wres-
tled her to the ground and began
strangling her using one of the
undergarments she had brought
to the witchdoctor.
It took the intervention of the
witchdoctor to separate them.
When word reached their hus-
band, he sent the second wife
packing that very evening.
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