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MOURNING | Pain for relatives, friends as they wait to identify their loved ones felled by terrorists

Kenya cries for you, our beloved children A volunteer consoles the relative of a Garissa University College student who was among the 142 students killed by terrorists last Thursday. Relatives waiting to identify the bodies of their loved ones were camping outside the Chiromo Mortuary in Nairobi yesterday. Many broke down after viewing the bodies.

BILLY MUTAI | NATION

If Westgate was a disaster, what do you call Garissa?

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n America, if you lose your house in a storm, chances are that the President of the United States will come round to comfort you and promise you federal help in rebuilding your home.

INDEX

COMMENT In Kenya, your child, your only hope, in whom you have invested the family fortune, is slaughtered; but a little time can’t be found in busy

News P. 2-11, 16, Back

Opinion P. 12-13

diaries for the leader you elected, to come and look you in your teary eyes and assure you that he did his best, that the death of your son or daughter has not been in vain, that he feels your pain and is doing his best to

Letters P. 14

County P. 17-26

bring to justice those who did it.

Even the leader of the Opposition is so busy saving the country, that he couldn’t spare an afternoon to CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

International P. 28-33

Business P. 36-39

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EDITOR’S NOTE: These names were compiled by Daily Nation reporters and is accurate to the best of our knowledge. The government is yet to honour a request to make the offiical list public.

Terrorist was a gifted, obedient student Former teachers of Garissa attack leader say he was among their best

BY NGARE KARIUKI @cornellngare cnkariuki@ke.nationmedia.com

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he best education that Mohammed Abdirahim Abdullahi received in his formative years and the strict discipline at his former school did not stop him from leading the massacre of 148 people years later.

Abdirahim, the man who led the Al-Shabaab killer squad that raided Garissa University College just two months after celebrating his 27th birthday, has been described by his high school teachers as a genius and a “gifted kid”.

After scoring 283 out of 500 marks in KCPE exams at the Mandera D.E.B. Primary School, he left Mandera County to pursue the rest of his educa-

tion in Nairobi. “Indeed, a very obedient and hardworking boy.

He can do well and perform better if given an opportunity,” reads his primary school final result slip.

He got the opportunity at Wamy High School, which he joined in 2004 and quickly rose to be among the top performing students in his class.

“He struggled in the first few months of his first year, largely because he was adjusting to the urban culture and new friends.

“He would adjust quickly and by the time he was in Form Three, he was the top of his class,” Mr Paul Ng’ang’a, Abdirahim’s former Mathematics teacher, told the Nation.

Mr Ng ’ang ’a is also the deputy principal at Wamy High School, and was, therefore, responsible for Abdirahim’s discipline in the four years the teenager was there.

“The boy was a very active and outstanding member of the Mathematics Club. He also loved football and was

active in the field,” he adds, a mixture of pride and perplexity in his eyes.

One of Abdirahim’s former classmates says claims that he could have been radicalised at the school are not only false, but also unreasonable.

“I remember at least 80 per cent of our teachers were nonMuslims. Abdirahim and the other guy known as Atom, who allegedly crossed borders and joined IS, became very good friends after high school. They shared a lot because they both came from the north eastern part of the country.

“I think that was when they became radicalised,” says the friend, whose name cannot be revealed to protect his privacy.

When we visited the school on Tuesday afternoon, we established that only five of its 32 teachers are Muslim, while 27 of the 30 non-teaching staff were Christians.

“So it doesn’t make any sense to even speculate that Abdirahim may have come into

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Mohammed Abdirahim Abdullahi (seated 3rd from left) during a lesson when he was a student at Wamy High School in South B, Nairobi. contact with radical groups while at the school. Furthermore, he left the school way back in 2007 when radicalisation was unheard of,” says Mr Ng’ang’a.

He was responding to Mandera County Commissioner Alex ole Nkoyo, who suggested that the boy might have had contact with extremists while in school.

Abdirahim’s high school academic record reveals that he lived up to the school’s motto: “Strive to Excel”.

His Form One result slip shows that he was at position five out of 70 students, with a mean grade of A- (minus). He would have scored A were it not for his poor performance in Kiswahili, where he scored a C- (minus).

Wamy High School was established in 2003 and has been among the best performing private schools. Majority of its students are Muslims.

Stellar performance

The school was position 23 nationally in the 2013 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examinations.

This stellar performance, Mr Ng’ang’a explains, is because the school is founded upon the Muslim values of strict personal discipline and excellence. Lethome Ibrahim, a member of the school’s board and a parent at the institution, told the Nation that the institution strives to meet the highest quality standards.

“In fact, quality assurance officers from the Ministry of Education visited the school last year after our stellar performance.

“They checked our curriculum and admission processes

and everything came out squeaky clean,” he says.

The school’s mission is to “encourage and facilitate formation of each student’s moral character, unique skill, capacities and creation of strong communal social responsibility”.

“Muslim parents are drawn to the school because of our discipline record and teaching ethic.

A very obedient and hardworking boy.

He can do well and perform better if given an opportunity” Mohammed Abdirahim Abdullahi’s final primary school result slip “Beyond this, there is nothing particularly Muslim in our curriculum. That’s why majority of our teachers are Christians,” adds the deputy principal.

Ironically, despite the disproportionately large percentage of Christian teachers in the school, only 21 of its current 500 students are Christians.

The rest are Muslims.

The school’s website says it was established by World Assembly of Muslim Youth (Wamy) to enable Muslims to access education.

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112 bodies of victims identified, says minister

SUPREMACY WAR | Defence forces incensed that GSU took all the credit

Attack revives old rivalries between police and army Bitter military claims they had almost finished operation when Recce unit arrived from Nairobi and killed the four terrorists

BY FRED MUKINDA

fmukinda@ke.nationmedia.com

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ew accounts are emerging of the rescue mission from the Garissa University College terrorist attack that rekindles rivalry between police and the military.

Speaking off the record, Kenya Defence Force sources are angry that all the credit is going to the Kenya Police GSU Recce Unit for ending the siege and killing the terrorists; yet their own men were on the verge of completing the mission before the police squad flew in from Nairobi.

A military source told the Nation that Special Forces from the Kenya Defence Force had already rescued most of the students and cornered the terrorists before being asked to give way to the GSU unit.

For the first time since the terrorist attack last week, the officer revealed that the Special Forces, the elite team of the military, was flown in to reinforce their infantry colleagues from the nearby barracks who were among the first to respond.

The officer disclosed that reports making light of KDF’s contribution and glorifying the GSU had angered military personnel across the rank and file.

According to the officer, the assertions are unfair and unfounded.

The rivalry between the police and military and police goes back to the Westgate shopping mall attack. A Recce unit that had cornered the terrorists in the mall was ordered to stand down as the KDF’s Special Forces moved in. In the confu-

sion, the two units exchanged fire, resulting in the death of the Recce unit commanding officer as well as a sizeable number of Special Forces troopers.

From Garissa, the military man said their soldiers rescued over 500 students before the Recce team was brought in.

But the Nation has seen a contradictory police signal reporting that the Recce team rescued 615 students and 50 members of staff who were being held hostage by the terrorists.

Independent investigations by Nation reporters from the time the siege unfolded, confirmed by senior police sources, indicate that the Recce unit did not actually rescue any hostages because all of them had been slain by the time they arrived.

The officer gave the military view of the scenario that day.

According to what might be taken as the KDF version, soldiers from the nearby Garissa Barracks arrived at the scene within 30 minutes to reinforce “overwhelmed” police officers.

He described the response as “quick.”

The barracks hosts infantry and artillery units.

The first unit to respond reported that police officers guarding the institution had been shot, one of them fatally.

The attackers then entered the campus and switched off electricity at the main controls.

The initial troops engaged the terrorists in a fierce exchange of fire near the hostels, stopping them from hunting down and herding students together for eventual execution.

The military intervention allowed more than 500 captured

BY NATION REPORTER The bodies of 112 victims of the Garissa University College terrorist attack have been identified by their relatives at Nairobi’s Chiromo Mortuary.

Health Cabinet Secretary James Macharia said 30 bodies were yet to be identified, adding that this had delayed release of the final list of students killed following last week’s massacre.

“We hope to know the identities of all the 142 students by today evening and hopefully release the list by tomorrow (today),” said the Cabinet secretary.

CHRONOLOGY

The attack and the response The terrorists killed watchmen and shot officers at the college.

Infantry troops arrived from Garissa barracks.

Special Forces were flown in.

Tanks were brought in to shield troops from sniper fire.

The SF took over all buildings, confining terrorists to one of them.

GSU Recce arrives with orders to take charge in the buildings as the SF withdrew and provided cover outside. students to escape.

A separate source told the Nation that a number of Special Forces who were training in Lamu were flown to Garissa.

Some were injured and are being treated at a Mombasa hospital.

He did not give the timelines of the SF arrivals and departure.

According to the account, the KDF Special Forces managed to push the terrorists into one building and contained them there as they prepared to storm in.

At that point, the terrorists changed tactics and halted their continuous machinegun fire, adopting sniper techniques and on several occasions hurling

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A soldier at Garissa University College last Friday after the attack, which has renewed rivalry grenades at the troops.

At that point, a decision was made to bring in the tanks to give cover to the advancing soldiers while they stormed the building.

A soldier was killed while five others were injured in the confrontation. Recce lost a corporal and six others were injured.

According to the officer, the Special Forces had pushed the terrorists to the fourth floor of the building by the time the Recce commandos arrived.

On their arrival in the late afternoon, the military was asked to stand down and secure the grounds and perimeter, while the fresh arrivals stormed the building to complete the mission.

“KDF did all the work but did not take the credit. The Recce team came in fresh just to kill four fellows. This happened in the evening after the students had been rescued,” he complained.

100,000 Amount, in shillings, families of victims will each receive from the government

20,000 Amount, in shillings, the Health Ministry will use to buy each of the coffins for victims “The identification is manual using fingerprints. It is being conducted by the National Registration Bureau which is matching these prints to the government database.

“We not running DNA tests on the bodies as this will take another week,” he said.

In addition, the Ministry of Health, which is working with the Kenya Red Cross, has ordered for 142 coffins at a cost of Sh20,000 each for all the victims and pledged to cater for transport cost to their respective homes for burial.

“We will also provide Sh100, 000 per deceased students to be paid tomorrow (today) through the Moi University,” said Mr Macharia.

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Air strikes on Shabaab bases not retaliation

TRAGEDY | Lives of two out of six young men who shared room snuffed out

Student tells of how music fan met death Roommate probably did not hear gunshots as he always wore headphones

BY EUNICE KILONZO @eunicekkilonzo Ekilonzo@ke.nationmedia.com

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e always wore his headphones, even when asleep. He loved country music and it is likely that he did not hear the gunshots. He died, probably with music playing.

Mr Elias Magangi Nyangwono, 23, yesterday recollected how one of his roommates at the Garissa University College, Isaac Bushen Kosgei, met his death.

“It was at 5.30am when I was woken up by the sound of explosions. I later discovered that they were gunshots.

I jumped out of bed, followed by my roommates. I assumed Kosgei was with us,” said Mr Magangi, fighting back tears.

Mr Magangi dashed out of their room, number 17, and looked down from the third floor.

“I saw one of the terrorists. He was in a group of Al-Shabaab terrorists.

His pockets were bulging. His face was covered except the eyes. I saw him shoot at people on the ground floor. They were Christian Union members who had been attending morning prayers. They killed all of them,” he said.

“We took the stairs, praying that

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I was woken up by the sound of explosions. I later discovered that they were gunshots.”

Elias Magangi Nyangwono, student

Discuss their plans

He said while in their room, they would discuss their plans — Mr Kosgei joining the music industry while the rest would teach Geography and Business Studies after graduating in 2018. Mr Magangi is hurt that he will never see his two roommates — Kosgei and Gideon.

When he left his home in Kisii to join the institution, Mr Magangi was aware of the insecurity in the region.

“I was, however, told that they would never attack students. I was told by some of my relatives who live there that we would be safe. Even the government assured us of our safety.

The two deaths and what I saw will greatly affect my studies,” he said.

Mr Magangi has not yet undergone trauma counselling following the ordeal he went through on April 2.

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Worst attack

BILLY MUTAI | NATION

Twenty-three-year-old Elias Magangi Nyangwono, one of the survivors of the Garissa University College attack, narrates his ordeal yesterday at Nation Centre.

In Garissa, 142 students were killed in the worst terrorist attack since the 1998 bombing of United States embassy in Nairobi.

The two bases are in Gugodhowe and Sheikh Ismail in Gedo. Currently, no African Union Mission troops have been deployed in the region, giving the terrorists a lot of playground.

Amisom rules have restricted KDF troops in Somalia to Sector 2. However, Kenya had to send helicopter gunships to fill the void to safeguard her boundaries.

“We were forced to take action due the lack of deployment, especially because terrorists arrested in Somalia had used those bases. We have to take care of our security,” Col Obonyo said.

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Air strikes on Al-Shabaab bases in Somalia on Sunday were not in retaliation to the killings at the Garissa University College, Kenya Defence Forces spokesman David Obonyo has said.

Col Obonyo yesterday said the two bases had long been identified for attack.

He also denied reports that civilians and livestock were killed during the attack.

Kenyan troops used helicopter gunships to destroy the operational bases which Al-Shabaab fighters use to organise themselves before sneaking into Kenya.

“The Garissa attack was just a coincidence because the bases had been identified earlier. And it is not also true civilians were killed in the bombing. Our actions are usually based on credible intelligence which also must go through verification,” said Colonel Obonyo.

the terrorists would not get to us. We sneaked out, went over the fence and ran into the darkness. It was while running that I realised that there were only three of us out of the six people from our room,” he added.

It dawned on the three that Mr Kosgei probably did not hear the gunshots. He was killed together with Gideon, another roommate.

The third one, Daniel, was found by the Kenya Defence Forces hiding on the roof.

Indeed, Mr Kosgei had a passion for music. On his facebook page, Pop Lord Bushen, he always talked about music and how he wanted to be a DJ. Mr Magangi is a first year education student at the university college. He joined the institution in September last year.

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Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) fraternity is deeply saddened by the demise of Prof. George S. Eshiwani, renowned mathematics educator and wishes to join the family and friends in mourning the passing on of the celebrated educationist.

Prof. Eshiwani served as the founding Principal of Jomo Kenyatta University College of Agriculture and Technology(JKUCAT), the precursor to JKUAT between 1988 and 1992. During his tenure, the scholar espoused and championed practical orientation to learning, cementing a culture of innovation; a distinguishing value that has over the years continued to define JKUAT. Indeed, a number of JKUAT initial ground-breaking research and innovations like the Walking Tractor and tissue culture project, immensely benefitted from insights of the fallen don.

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On behalf of the Chancellor, University Council, Management, Senate, Staff and Students, we convey our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family, friends, relatives and the country’s academy, pray to the Almighty to grant them strength and courage to overcome this grief.

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TAMING ROGUES | Supkem says all preachers will be registered and their work closely monitored to check radicalisation of youth

Plan to vet Islamic teachers proposed New measures expected to weed out the rogue Imams who have been recruiting for Shabaab

BY AGGREY MUTAMBO @agmutambo amutambo@ke.nationmedia.com

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he umbrella body of Muslims in the country has pledged to start vetting preachers and what they teach in madrasas to tame radicalisation of youth.

The Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (Supkem) yesterday unveiled its “emergency programme” to check the lure of Muslims youth into joining Al-Shabaab, the Somaliabased terrorist group blamed for the Garissa massacre.

“We will respond to this problem with the seriousness it deserves,” said Mr Adan Wachu, the Supkem Secretary-General. “We will be putting all our Imams and preachers, be it in Northeastern, at the Coast, in Nairobi or anywhere in Kenya, to speak with one voice with the view of taking inventory of all mosques and madrasas.”

Mr Wachu, whose organisations is in charge of all mosques and Muslim educational centres in the country, said the new measures will weed out

Probe police response to raid, say MPs

BY NATION REPORTER A parliamentary committee has asked President Kenyatta to order an audit of the security response to the terrorist attack in Garissa.

At the same time, Committee on National Security chairman Asman Kamama said they would meet Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery over reports it took security officers eight hours to respond to the Garissa University College attack.

“We will be meeting with the country’s security team so that they can tell us what strategies they have put in place to ensure that any response does not go beyond one and a half hours,” he said.

Lack strategy

Mr Kamama accused the government of lacking a concrete strategy to tackle terrorist attacks, saying it had not learnt from the Westgate attack in 2013.

He said some of the lapses witnessed during the Westgate attack were repeated in Garissa, with apparent slow response giving the terrorists time to cause as much damage as possible.

Among the measures the committee is planning to recommend to the top security chiefs on combating terror attacks is ensuring that transport is readily available to the security squads.

The committee says officers should be ferried to scenes of terrorist attacks by aircraft.

BACKGROUND

What President said on challenges On Saturday, President Uhuru Kenyatta accused “rogue” Imams for having a hand in increased terror incidents in the country.

“Our task of countering terrorism has been made all the more difficult by the fact that the planners and financiers of this brutality are deeply embedded in our communities,” he said in a televised address to the nation.

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Mourners say prayers and light candles in remembrance of the victims of the Garissa attack outside the National Archives in Nairobi yesterday.

Imams who have been recruiting fighters for Al-Shabaab.

Yesterday, Attorney-General Githu Muigai told the Nation that his office will continue meeting religious leaders to finalise regulations that will tame religious centres used by rogue preachers.

“Those (religious leaders) who want to be part of this, and they are many, have already joined us and we are having a very healthy debate one the way forward. Those who don’t want to be part of this, we will leave the law to take its course on them,” Prof Muigai

Politicians behind attack, says lawyer

BY NATION REPORTER A city lawyer has stirred controversy on social media by linking local politicians to the terror attack on Garissa University College.

Not one to shy away from controversy, Mr Ahmednasir Abdullahi posted a series of tweets on his account claiming that the attack in which 148 people were killed was carried out by local militia and not Somalia’s Al-Shabaab terror group.

“The attack in Garissa is obviously the work of Kenyan Somalis. Let us not blame Somalia’s AlShabaab. This is local,” he tweeted.

“Let us be truthful to ourselves. Kenyan Somalis and their leaders must stop the senseless killings in northern Kenya. Full stop,” he said in another tweet.

And in yet another tweet, Mr Abdullahi wrote: “Evidence emerged that an employee of Garissa univ (sic) related to the mastermind of the attack (Mohamed) Kuno helped the attackers in surveying (the area) for a week.”

In an interview with the Nation yesterday, the lawyer stood his ground and asked politicians from the county to take responsibility for the

attack.

Mr Abdullahi maintained that the attack was the work of criminal networks residing in the county and known to the politicians.

“My view is that what we saw in Garissa was a surgical strike requiring a lot of precision. Such a strike requires a lot of mapping of the target, stock piling of weapons and a clear knowledge of the university. My take is that this was a local enterprise, even the mastermind was a local,” said Mr Abdullahi.

The lawyer spoke a day after local politicians led by National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale promised to help identify the financiers of terror activities in the country.

The leaders, including Garissa Governor Nathif Jama, also demanded the closure of the Dadaab refugee camp.

said in a telephone interview.

To begin with, Supkem said that it will vet preachers and Koran teachers around the country with the help of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (ICPAK).

“We want to know them, have their records, (know) who they are teaching, what they are teaching and when they are teaching,” he said.

Madrasas generally do not have a regular syllabus but given that they are supposed to educate children on the Quran, teachers are required to teach the Arabic alphabet, Seerah

(biography of Prophet Mohammed) and Hadith (teachings of the Prophet).

These teachings mainly hinge on morality and Islamic religious practices.

Although teachers must be versed with Arabic, the Quran and be of good moral standing, there is nothing currently that prevents them from veering off and teaching terrorism.

At the weekend, political leaders from northern Kenya acknowledged that some youth from the region had been lured to fight for Al-Shabaab, including perpetrating attacks on Kenyan soil.

Last Thursday, terrorists raided Garissa University College killing 148 people dead including 142 students, two police officers, two security guards and a soldier. Police have since revealed that one of the attackers was a Kenyan lawyer whose father is a chief in Wajir County.

Political leaders, led by Majority Leader Aden Duale, and the governors of Wajir, Garissa and Mandera, said they would expose the financiers and supporters of Al-Shabaab.

“We will within a week mobilise our constituents, and working with the national and county governments compile and submit details of suspects with the government agencies validating the information to guard against victimisation,” they said in a joint statement on Monday. They now have four days.

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NO BAIL | Among them is the owner of a hotel in which terrorists spent night

Five to be detained for a month Yemeni, Ugandan and Tanzanian among the men believed to have helped in carrying out massacre

BY NATION REPORTER

BY VINCENT AGOYA @royagoya vagoya@ke.nationmedia.com

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ive men linked to the Garissa University College massacre will be detained for 30 days to help police with investigations.

They are among 14 suspected Al-Shaababs arrested following last Thursday’s killings.

Mohammud Adan Surrow, Osman Abdi Dakane, Mohammed Abdi Abkar, Hassan Adar Hassan and Sahal Diriye Hassan will be held at an undisclosed police station in Nairobi, while the rest will spend between five and 15 days at Muthaiga or Kileleshwa police stations.

Mr Surrow is the owner of a Garissa hotel where the terrorists are believed to have stayed, while Mr Dakane is a security guard at the college. Police claim he was taking pictures of the dead while making calls.

Mr Abkar, Mr Hassan and Mr Diriye Hassan are believed to have delivered weapons to the attackers.

Police say they were intercepted while trying to cross the border into

Undercover police to help thwart terror raids

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Nine to be held in cells for 15 days Detained: Nine suspects will be in custody for 15 days at Muthaiga or Kileleshwa police stations.

Names: They include Mr Andrew Katende, Mr Anthony Maina, Mr Samuel Njuguna, Mr Mustafa Abdi Yusuf, Mr Abdi Elimi Rage and Mr Hassan Munguti Muya Born-again: Mr Yusuf and Mr Rage claimed they were bornagain Kenyan Christians.

Somalia after the bloodbath at the university. Prosecutor Daniel Karuri said Mr Rashid Charles Mberesero alias Rehani Dida, a Tanzanian, was not in court because he had travelled with detectives to Garissa to help with more investigations. He is said to have

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Mr Sahal Diriye Hassan, Mr Hassan Adar Hassan, Mr Mohammed Abdi Abkar, Mr Osman Abdi Dakane and Mr Mohammud Adan Surrow in court in Nairobi yesterday. They are the main suspects in the Garissa university atrocity. confessed to being a member of the terrorist group.

“Investigations so far have established that the suspects had contact with the attackers,” Mr Karuri told the court yesterday.

He said the guard was asked to help move the bodies, but he began taking pictures and making frantic calls.

“Preliminary investigations on his call data have revealed that he has been in constant communication with several contacts in Somalia, suspected to be Al-Shaabab operatives,” Mr Karuri told the court.

The prosecutor said investigations also revealed that some attackers went to Mr Surrow’s hotel. Mr Karuri said there was information that the Tanzanian was heading to Somalia to join the terrorists.

“In light of this revelation, it was necessary to rush him to Garissa for further investigations,” he said.

The suspect will appear in court on April 9.

The court was told other suspects, including a Yemeni and a Ugandan, had been on a surveillance mission for soft targets.

The number of undercover police officers in Nairobi has been increased to prevent terrorist attacks.

The officers will be in areas considered soft targets, such as shopping malls, matatu termini and entertainment spots, said city police chief Benson Kibui.

Quick response units have also been put on a 24-hour alert, he added.

“We also want the public to know that we are not in the usual mood, we are at war,” said Mr Kibui (below).

He said the number of uniformed officers on patrol had also been increased.

The details of preparedness were communicated to all division commanders in Nairobi following last week’s terrorist attack on Garissa University College, where 148 people were killed.

General Service Unit’s Recce Company was also given two helicopters to be used to transport personnel in the event of an emergency.

Survivors: How we fled from the jaws of death Two survivors of the Garissa terrorist attack yesterday arrived at their homes in Teso North, Busia County, with tales of their miraculous escape from the jaws of death.

Ms Peninah Amweno was escorted to her Aedomoru Village home by Salvation Army church officials, while Mr Nelphas Maruti had an emotional reunion with his father, Mr Dedan Maede, at Aboloi Village.

Busia County Assembly Deputy Speaker Moses Ote, who is also the area ward representative, welcomed the two students back home.

Dodged bullets

Ms Amweno, a first-year student, said she owes her life to God after she dodged bullets fired by the assassins and hid in a thicket.

She said she only learnt that the attackers were AlShabaab from a lecturer who went to her rescue.

Mr Maruti, also a firstyear student, said he was out fetching water when the terrorists struck.

“Immediately I heard gunshots, I hid in a nearby trench. I later hid in the ceiling of our hostel after a policeman who had come to rescue us was shot,” he narrated.

The still terrified student

told of how he watched as the four terrorists hacked his colleagues to death with machetes for failing to recite Islamic readings.

Ms Amweno and Mr Maruti vowed never to set foot in Garissa again, saying they would stay at home and become farmers.

Deputy Speaker Ote said students who survived the attack would not return to Garissa and appealed to Moi University to assist them to obtain their academic transcripts and certificates.

In Kilifi, church leaders condemned the attack and called for unity among Kenyans in the fight against terrorism.

“We are calling on leaders, security officers, the citizens — whether Christians, Hindu or Muslim — to play a role in security,” said the Reverend Onesmus Koi of the Anglican Church.

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I later hid in the ceiling of our hostel after a policeman who had come to rescue us was shot” Nelphas Maruti, survivor

The decision was made after the Recce rescue team, which eventually ended the siege at Garissa University College, was said to have left Nairobi seven hours after the terrorists struck due to lack of transport.

The team had to leave their base in vehicles and were held in traffic jam before arriving at Wilson Airport in Nairobi to catch a plane to Garissa.

They landed there at 1.55pm, began battling the terrorists after 3pm, and ended the operation after 5pm.

Police patrols

Mr Kibui said police patrols in Nairobi have been boosted by hundreds of prison warders since last year.

The warders’ core mandate is to guard prisoners in penitentiaries but their deployment to streets is in line with an executive order by President Kenyatta in June last year.

The President’s order placed the personnel of all disciplined services in the country, except the military, under Inspector-General of Police.

It effectively put the InspectorGeneral in charge of more than 105,000 armed security personnel, including the Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya Forestry Service and the Prisons department.

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GARISSA ATTACK Terror at dawn

LONG WAIT | Mortuary administration was hoping to conclude body identification last evening

36 Garissa victims yet to be identified Relatives say strong foul smell from morgue will not deter them until they find their loved ones

BY OUMA WANZALA @Iwanzala owanzala@ke.nationmedia.com

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t has been five days now and even the strong smell of decomposing bodies at Chiromo Mortuary would not send her away. All that Lilian Mwende wants is to find her niece Risper Mutinde who was a student at Garissa University when terrorists struck.

Ms Mwende is among parents and relatives camping at the mortuary to find out the whereabouts of their loved ones as identification of bodies drags on. “I’m so tired. I have been here since Friday waiting for news about her but I have been told nothing yet. But I must find her, dead or alive,” she says.

With tears rolling down her cheeks, Ms Mwende tells of the day her niece was invited to join the Garissa college. “I would also have joined her there were it not that my father secured a place for me at Maasai Mara University,” she says.

“I wish she declined the offer but how could we have known this would happen?” Ms Mutinde was a second-year Business

Administration student. Ms Nwende’s story is similar to that of Selpha Naliaka who has also been looking for her niece Agnetta Sendwa since Friday.

“Her mother has been here for the longest time. She extremely exhausted. I decided to be the one come today and I hope to find her,” says Ms Naliaka.

Meanwhile, Mr Aggrey Nyabengi is looking for his cousin Elizabeth Nyangaruwa who was studying education. “I was at Nyayo, I went to Aga Khan but I am yet to trace her,” he says.

They are among the many parents and relatives yet to find their loved ones since the attack.

Al-Shabaab militants killed at least 142 students in the worst ever attack in last Thursday.

Yesterday, Dr Sobbie Mulindi,

I wish she declined the offer but how could we have known this would happen?”

Lilian Mwende, relative

Boinnet warned of contempt

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Kenya Red Cross officials and volunteers assist a relative to a Garissa University student at the Chiromo Mortuary in Nairobi yesterday. who is coordinating counselling of families and identifying bodies said they were hoping to conclude last evening.

“Anxiety is growing and emotions are running high. We know we need to speed up,” Dr Mulindi said.

He said at least 112 bodies had been identified. Of these, 64 were identified using fingerprints and 34 by families. They are still working on 36 others.

“Experts from Kenyatta National Hospital, the University of Nairobi among others, are work-

ing hard to ensure all bodies are identified,” Dr Mulindi said.

A prayer service will be held before the bodies are taken for burial. The government will settle medical bills for the survivors and mortuary fees for victims.

And so the long wait continues with ears firmly on the public address system being used to update parents and relatives.

And even without face masks for some, the families remain unmoved.

All they want is to find their loved ones, dead or alive.

The Independent Policing Oversight Authority will cite Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet for contempt of court after he directed police recruits to report to their respective training institutions on April 12 in disregard of a court order.

Ipoa said the directive by President Kenyatta that the recruits report to the Kenya Police Service College immediately, was unconstitutional.

“Our concern is that the directive... is an assault on the express provision of the Constitution,” the authority stated in a statement.

The enrolment of 10,000 recruits to join the police force was stopped by the High Court last year, when it cited corruption and many other irregularities.

“In compliance with the directive of the President ... I hereby inform all (the recruits) to report to training institutions on Sunday, April 12,” Mr Boinnet stated.

On Sunday, Attorney General Githu Muigai said the country should not break the law even as it is concerned with the security of its people. “President Kenyatta has just broken the law by disregarding a court order ...” he said.

Ipoa said upholding the dignity of courts was essential in building democratic policing.

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PROBE | Lands minister questioned over allegations of corruption made against her

Ngilu drags Uhuru into her land woes I was only implementing President’s orders on purchase of land, she tells anti-graft officials

BY JOHN NGIRACHU @JohnNgirachu jngirachu@ke.nationmedia.com

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ands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu has sensationally claimed that President Kenyatta was deeply involved in two of the three land dealings that put her on the list of public officers under investigation for corruption.

Mrs Ngilu, who was forced to leave office to allow for the investigation, yesterday said the President personally made the decision to have Mr Evanson Waitiki paid Sh1.1 billion for land invaded by squatters in Likoni.

She further said Mr Kenyatta has sanctioned the government’s to takeover of a 2.14-acre plot on State House Crescent in Nairobi.

Mr Manoah Esipisu, the President’s spokesman, said the Presidency would not comment on the matter.

“We can’t comment on her statement to the EACC. We haven’t seen her statement and we wouldn’t make a statement,” he said when the Nation contacted him by phone.

The Cabinet Secretary, who was at Integrity Centre, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission’s headquarters, told EACC officers that President Kenyatta was personally involved in the negotiations with Mr Waitiki for the purchase of his land. She was accompanied by Chief Land Registrar Sarah Mwendwa and lawyers Nani Mungai and Peter Munge.

Mrs Ngilu said it was the President who offered to have the government pay Mr Waitiki Sh1.1 billion for the

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land. This took place, she said, during a meeting with Mr Waitiki at State House, Nairobi, in the presence of Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich and Chief of Staff Joseph Kinyua. Mrs Ngilu was also present.

Mr Waitiki was asking for Sh9.6 billion, but government valuers said the land was worth Sh2.64 billion.

A September 2013 meeting of Treasury, Land and Agriculture Cabinet secretaries, their principal secretaries and other members of the Settlement Fund Trustees approved the purchase but after negotiations.

Despite the ministry’s tender committee approving a pay-out of Sh2.64 billion, she said, Mr Waitiki declined to take it, and the President stepped in with the decision to pay him Sh1 billion.

After that, Mr Waitiki asked for Sh100 million more to cater for the costs of the cases against the government and legal fees due to his lawyers, she said. “I communicated this request and a decision to up the offer by an additional Sh100 million was made by the President in my presence

and that of Mr Rotich, the Treasury CS, on December 11, 2014.”

The decision was made on the sidelines of the Northern Corridor Integrated Projects summit at Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi, she said.

The EACC reported in the List of Shame given to Parliament by the President that Mrs Ngilu was under investigation for colluding with Mr Waitiki to inflate the price for the land

by Sh110 million.

“The CS allegedly instructed valuers from the ministry to overvalue the land by the same margin.

From the aforementioned figure, Mrs Ngilu is allegedly going to get a kickback of Sh65 million once the land is bought by the government,” the dossier states.

Mr Waitiki told the Nation he was

yet to get an offer commensurate with the value of his land and that the money Mrs Ngilu mentioned was not enough. However, he declined to state whether the President had been involved in the negotiations.

“I don’t want to say anything that has to do with the President. I think the best thing is to seek advice as to what to say because when we start bringing in the President, that is not something I would want to get involved in,” he said.

In the second case, involving a prime piece of land on State House Crescent, near State House, she cites the President’s instructions that the land be the location of the Foreign Affairs ministry’s proposed headquarters.

That land is the subject of a court case, where a company owned by an Ethiopian has sued Mrs Ngilu, the chief land registrar and the director of surveys, and implicates Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero in a scheme to grab it.

The plot had been handed over to the Nairobi City Council in March 1965 for use as a playground. That,

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The anti-corruption commission states in the dossier that it is investigating an allegation by Myta Development Ltd of a scheme orchestrated by Lands officials, including the minister, to illegally take away the land.

The firm has filed a case in court in a bid to reclaim the land, which it says was surrendered to the government by the council and divided into four plots and a road reserve.

It claims it bought the land from owners of the four plots for Sh30 million and is now aware of a wellorchestrated scheme by Mrs Ngilu and other influential officials to grab it.

This, the company said, is through destroying the genuine land ownership documents and creating fake records.

Mrs Ngilu denied this, saying the land belongs to the government and the President had given express instructions on it.

“My role in this matter has been limited to implementing the President’s directive to secure the land, which belongs to the government.”

Mrs Ngilu said the only time she had contact with Myta was in January when Mr Joshua Kuttuny, one of the President’s advisers, went to her office and introduced a man said to be the owner of the company who asked her to go slow on the repossession of the land. She said she declined the request because she did not believe the President had sent the man.

Mrs Ngilu also distanced herself from the Sh8 billion Karen land matter, saying it was private land and the ministry was a defendant in a case over its ownership. “I have no further information to add on this matter,” she said.

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IN THE DOCK | Ethiopian immigrants appear in court JOSEPH KANYI | NATION

Five suspected illegal immigrants from Ethiopia appear before Nyeri Law court yesterday.

They were not charged due to language barrier and the lack of a translator in court.

ILLICIT TRADE | Contraband goods mainly from India and China

Kenya a top counterfeits market Kenyan manufacturers are losing at least 40 per cent of their market share to fake imports

BY MAZERA NDURYA

mndurya@ke.nationmedia.com

AND EUNICE KILONZO

@eunicekkilonzo ekilonzo@ke.nationmedia.com

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enya is ranked among the largest markets for counterfeit goods in East Africa, and serves as the distribution point to the region.

This information — contained in a manual developed by the Kenya Association of Manufacturers, the Judiciary and other interested partners — shows that the contraband goods are mainly from India and China.

The manual that was launched by Chief Justice Willy Mutunga yesterday reveals that trade in counterfeits is

now rivalling key foreign exchange earners such as tourism, tea and coffee.

“Networks of cross-border smugglers target fast-moving and highly profitable goods to import into Kenya illegally, including food, electronics, and cosmetics.

“Pharmaceuticals also form part of the list, with estimates revealing that more than 30 per cent of the total medicines sold in Kenya are counterfeit, and that about 40 per cent of all malaria drugs in the Kenyan market

are counterfeits that may be harmful to users,” says the report.

This, the report says, has far reaching health implications on consumers and cannot be ignored, as they range from the upsurge of new illnesses to the non-curing or deterioration of illnesses and even death.

Dr Mutunga said Kenya’s efforts, including the protection of consumers by law, the enactment of new laws and the establishment of institutions to address the menace have not borne the desired results. He

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Institutions to combat illicit trade have failed to collaborate ... when discharging mandates” Chief Justice Willy Mutunga

said the fragmented nature of laws makes it difficult to prosecute illicit trade cases.

“Institutions working to combat illicit trade have failed to collaborate in combining their efforts when discharging similar mandates.

“Corruption has taken root, affecting the prevention and prosecution of the trade and difficulties in accessing up-to-date and reliable data on illicit trade has made it impossible to fully understand the nature of the trade and so articulate ways through which it may bey resolved,” said the CJ. The chairman of Kenya Association of Manufacturers, Mr Pradeep Paunrana said a 2012 study on counterfeiting in Kenya estimates that Kenyan manufacturers are losing at least 40 per cent of their market share to counterfeiters.

Head of Malaria Control Programme Waqo Ejersa acknowledged the dangers of counterfeit drugs, such as resistance to treatment that hampers efforts to contain, say, malaria.

Ababu team told to join sacking suit

BY NATION REPORTER The Public Accounts Committee headed by Mr Ababu Namwamba has been directed to join a suit that seeks to dissolve it.

Justice Isaac Lenaola gave the order after declining to issue temporary orders stopping the dissolution of the committee and subsequent barring of some of its members from joining a new team.

“Parliament has not debated this report and committee decisions are not binding. I, therefore, cannot issue orders stopping the National Assembly from debating recommendations by the Privileges committee. However, members of the PAC should be issued with the documents of this case,” he said.

More documents

The judge, however, allowed Mr Naman Tindi and Mr Morris Okiwi, who filed the suit that seeks to stop the National Assembly from debating the Powers and Privileges Committee recommendations, to supply more documents.

The recommendations are set to be debated and possibly adopted when the House resumes sittings next week.

Mr Tindi and Mr Okiwi argued that dissolving the PAC and barring five of its members was discriminatory.

If the House adopts the report, MPs who would be left out of the new committee are Mr Namwamba (Budalang’i), Mr Ahmed Abass (Ijara), Mr James Bett (Kesses), Mr Omondi Anyanga (Nyatike) and Ms Cecily Mbarire (Runyenjes).

The Privileges committee says the MPs made allegations against others but failed to substantiate them within the specified time.

Joho denies role in sale of market

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Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho yesterday defended himself against accusations of corruption.

Mr Joho denied that he was involved in the allocation of Mombasa’s Mwembe Tayari Market as alleged in a report by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission.

In a paid-up advert in the Daily Nation, Mr Joho said the process of allocating the market was started and completed nearly 20 years ago, long before he was elected governor.

The governor said he would sue EACC “for dragging me into a matter I am not aware of, or privy to”.

He said records held by the county show that the process of allocating the land was started through a letter to the Municipal Council of Mombasa on August 12, 1996.

“The request in

which the writer of the letter sought to be allocated the land in issue was given approval, and the council allowed to proceed with the allocation through approval given by the then Minister of Local Government, William Ole Ntimama, on August 20, 1996,” he said.

Mr Joho’s name was on the EACC list — handed over to the President — of officials and leaders being investigated for corruption.

The governor (below) is said to have facilitated the grabbing of the market by a Mr Bawazir and Mr Zubedi.

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INHERITANCE | There is also a dispute over Sh1.2bn

Karume’s children lying, say trustees Three have obtained orders restraining the sale of immovable properties

BY PAUL OGEMBA

@PaulOgemba pogemba@ke.nationmedia.com

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rustees of tycoon Njenga Karume’s multibillion-shilling estate have accused his sons and daughters of lying in order to stop the renovation of business buildings.

One trustee, Ms Margaret Nduta Kamithi, termed the suit by Mr Albert Kigera Karume, Mr Samuel Wanjema Karume and Ms Lucy Wanjiru as frivolous and full of deceit.

“The plaintiffs concealed and failed to disclose that they have been part of deliberations concerning the management of the businesses and that the trust disbursed all the amounts for their welfare, including the benefits each one is entitled to,” she said.

Ms Kamithi is also the sister of the late Karume.

She defended Iseme, Kamau and Maema Advocates over claims that the firm failed to account for Sh1.2 billion realised from the sale of land to the Kenyatta University Staff Retirement Benefit Scheme.

She accused the three of

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Upkeep: The trustees say they have provided Sh16.5m for monthly upkeep and Sh30,000 entertainment allowance per family every month.

Jacaranda Hotel: They add that one of their accusers is a director of Jacaranda Hotel and was aware of all the refurbishments at the hotels but chose to mislead the court that the renovations were done without their knowledge.

unfairly dragging the firm into the dispute. Ms Kamithi said that at the conclusion of the transaction, the firm submitted an account of the proceeds to the property seller, Cianda Estates Limited.

Lawyer Anne Kinyanjui, a partner at the Iseme legal firm swore an affidavit detailing how the transaction was conducted between June 2011 and July 2012 under the request of Cianda Estates and how the money was disbursed immediately upon instructions from Mr Karume.

“After completion of the transaction, the secretary of Karume Group of Companies,

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Naomi Kariru, confirmed the accuracy of the statement of account. The allegations are baseless, malicious and intended to damage the reputation of the firm,” she said.

She attached a letter issued

by Cianda Estates chairman Kigera Thuo of February 29, 2015 before the start of the suit, confirming that the property’s sale was in accordance with Mr Karume’s instructions.

On March 27, the siblings obtained temporary orders restraining the trustees from selling, transferring or disposing of immovable properties held under the Njenga Karume Trust or dealing with Pizza Garden in Westlands for 14 days.

They accused the trustees of being opaque in their management, neglecting them and failing to pay school fees and medical bills for Mr Karume’s grandchildren.

Ms Kamithi denied the claims and gave details of the money that was released to meet such expenses.

“The trust has released Sh76 million on account of cash awards, Sh21.8 million for fees to international universities, Sh11.7 million for fees in local schools and universities, Sh16.6 million for upkeep and Sh3.6 million for travel,” she said.

She added that the trust paid out Sh17 million for medical expenses and Sh2.7 million for rent.

BHANG| Police impound 1,300 rolls

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Police find 358 phones in suspect’s house Police stormed the house of a man yesterday and found 358 phone handsets. The suspect is said to have snatched a phone from a woman at Kerugoya Hospital. The signal was traced to the man’s home near Kagio Market, but he fled on seeing the officers. County Commissioner Kutswa Olaka said the officers stumbled on a suitcase and found the phones upon opening it.

KITUI

Forty-eight injured as two vehicles collide Two vehicles collided yesterday at Wikililye trading centre, five kilometres from Kitui Town, leaving 48 people seriously injured.

Most of the injured were traders who had boarded a mini-bus to transport their wares to Zombe Market. The bus lost control and veered off the road before landing in a ditch. The victims were taken to Kitui County Referral Hospital.

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Warders get two weeks to remove killer lions

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Mtwapa police OCS Pius Mbithi sorts some of the 1,300 rolls of bhang recovered in Maweni area after police officers raided a house yesterday. One person is in police custody as her accomplice fled.

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Emotoroki villagers have given warders with the Kenya Wildlife Service two weeks to move killer lions from the area or they will kill them. Speaking at Kajiado public hospital on Saturday, Matapato South Ward representative Lesalon Seki said residents could no longer coexist with the lions that kill and injure them. A teacher who was mauled by lions is being treated at the hospital.

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Let’s honour students; they didn’t die in vain CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

share your pain and to assure you of the support of your countrymen.

Kenya, led by the Jubilee government, let down the students of Garissa University College in life and in death. The country is vulnerable, not just because it has enemies, but because its systems of security are corrupt and incompetent. There were intelligence reports that a university was to be attacked, and that Garissa and Mandera were at risk.

Why weren’t adequate measures taken to protect the university?

It is bad enough that it took 11 hours for specialist officers trained in dealing with terrorists to swing into action. By then it was too late because everybody knows that Al-Shabaab does not take hostages; the terrorists strike to kill and die. The speed with which they are confronted is, therefore, of essence. Any delay, leaving young people at the mercy of the killers for all those hours, takes bungling to a new level. A Cabinet secretary going on international TV to argue that the response time was adequate is new low even by our standards.

On Monday, the Daily Nation wrote the story of Mr Peter Kithome who, in the search for his daughter, Monica Ngwasi Mutinda, was required to look into the mouths of all female bodies in an overwhelmed mortuary from where the stench enveloped nearly the entire neighbourhood. Why did grieving relatives have to be put through additional trauma?

Why couldn’t individuals first be identified through fingerprints and DNA instead of asking parents to search for their loved ones in a pile of bodies? Why crowd all the bodies into Chiromo Mortuary when there is great capacity in other facilities for decent preservation?

The children of Kenya These are the children of Kenya, the hope of its future. They are the martyrs of a nation under attack. The way we treat their remains must symbolise our resolve to protect ourselves and prevail over enemies. For their deaths to mean something, the entire ceremony of State must be extended in their honour to elevate their sacrifice and energise a brutalised nation.

It is wrong for leaders to exploit tragedy for political ends. Terrorism is not a campaign issue.

It is an existential threat to the nation. It saddens Kenyans to see that their leaders are not circling the wagons and fighting this evil as one. Others, who have in the past supported the hate-mongers refuse to see the error of their ways.

But in this tragedy there are opportunities: to check and weed out the hate-preaching extremists who are radicalising the youth, to design one standard and generally accepted curriculum for madrassa so that religious instruction is not used as cover for radicalisation. There is also a chance to smoke out the vile supporters, sympathisers, and financiers of terrorists in our midst.

These children are lost to us, brutally slaughtered by fanatics. But even in death they still have the power to unite us, to get us to see beyond our differences and to fight together for our preservation as one people.

Where is the leadership?

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APPOINTMENT | Jaindi Kisero

We need a strong Central bank boss who can consolidate finance sector I

say this with all due respect to the candidates who have been shortlisted in the on-going interviews for the post of governor of the Central Bank of Kenya. In my humble view, none of them fits the bill, especially when rated against the tasks which the next Central Bank governor must deliver to move the financial sector in this country to the next level.

I expect the next governor of the Central Bank of Kenya to be a man or woman of calibre and experience, a person who commands teacher-type respect and recognition across both academia and the banking sector.

It is confounding indeed that most of them are people we have not heard of before. If you have not worked for the National Treasury, the International Monetary Fund, or the Central Bank of Kenya itself, you will not have heard of them.

The governor of the Central Bank of Kenya is the most powerful unelected official in the land. These days, the trend is that countries will go for the very best in the world. In the United Kingdom, they head-hunted and appointed a former governor of the Bank of Canada, Mr Mark Harney, as governor of the Bank of England. The Israelis once appointed the famous

American economist and scholar, Mr Stan Fischer, as their governor.

Are we not lowering the bar here? This was an opportunity to — for the first time — bring in a powerful governor, a man or woman who can summon CEOs of all major banks at short notice to read them the Riot Act when national economic interests are at risk. It was an opportunity to bring in a brilliant and widely published economist, diplomat, and regulator — man or woman, with intimate knowledge and understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the local financial sector. I do not see such a person among the names on the short-list.

In other countries, all CEOs of banks catch a cold whenever the governor of the Central Bank sneezes.

Here, the voice of the governor is more like the biblical voice crying in the wilderness. We all saw it during the shilling crisis of 2010,

We must now have a governor who will be prepared to lead from the front the battle to bring lending rate spreads down”

when all that the monetary authority could do was to shout itself hoarse about how commercial banks were engaged in disruptive speculation. A central bank governor must wield soft power. Indeed, only a man or woman with stature, calibre, and political clout will be able to deliver on some of the difficult reforms we must implement to make banks play a catalytic role in promoting private sectorled growth. The commercial banking sector in this country will not give our farmers, manufacturers, and entrepreneurs long-term money, preferring to extend overdrafts.

We are at a point when we must now have a governor who will be prepared to lead from the front the battle to bring lending rate spreads down. Admittedly, access to credit has more or less been achieved with the advent of mobile money and the popularity of agency banking. It is now time to address “price” and “term” of money. The other day, we were told that the introduction of the Kenya Bankers Reference Rate would create competition among banks and drive lending spreads down. This has not happened.

And, only a powerful and widely respected individual can manage to champion and lead the battle to con-

solidate the financial sector.

We have too many inefficient banks, most of which are mere conduits for money-laundering.

South Africa, which has a much larger economy, only has 18 commercial banks.

Nigeria’s former Central Bank governor, Prof Charles Soludo, managed to reduce the number of commercial banks from 89 to 24. The man was a visionary with fire under his belly. I read somewhere that is he is the nominee of the new government of General Buhari for Finance minister.

If I were the one making decisions, I would jerk up the minimum capital requirement for banks to $100 million. After all, a good number of commercial banks are already above this threshold. The small banks will then be forced to either merge or operate as lending institutions under the Micro Finance Act. These small banks do not have to be banks.

We can then have big and well-capitalised banks that make most of their money from non-lending activity and can, therefore, survive with lower interest rates. We should start this whole process of looking for a new governor afresh. This process is clearly non-responsive. jkisero@ke.nationmedia.com

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THE CUTTING EDGE

TERRORISM | Patrick Mbataru

They have made us bleed, but they will never win against the power of reason D

uring Spain’s Fascist dictatorship, Prof Miguel de Unamuno told Franco that reason would prevail against brutal force. Incensed, the dictator’s henchman, General Millán Astray, cried: “Muera la Inteligencia!” (to death with intelligence!)

The good professor responded to the general’s outburst: “This is the temple of intellect. And I am its high priest. It is you who are profaning its sacred precincts. I have always been a prophet in my own land. You will win, but you will not convince. You will win, because you possess more than enough raw force, but you will not convince, because to convince means to persuade.

And in order to persuade, you would need what you lack; reason and right in the struggle.”

Prof Unamuno’s response is poignant for Kenya, especially after the savage murder of 148 innocent young people.

From Nigeria to France, Iraq to America, the world is now familiar with the senseless killing of innocent people by brutes using twisted logic based on religion, culture, race, and hazy demands of “social injustice”.

Like the Nazis and fascists before them, the Shabaabs, the Boko Harams, and the Al-Qaedas of this world will not succeed. In the end, per-

A Garissa University College student leaves the campus. suasion, the power of reason, which they lack, will prevail, for in the university of life, these are the key tools of success.

And there is no better revenge than not letting the enemy define our lifestyles.

We have come a long way from the New York attacks that provoked fear and paranoia in the short term. The long-term outcome has been defiance.

A dedicated number of tourists, for example, ignore travel advisories. Despite numerous such warnings, Kenya will still attract a number of foreign visitors and investors.

Rightly, many people seem to have decided that terrorists be damned. Terror, like a bad cold, can catch one anywhere, any time. There is no knowing when and where these

demented people will strike.

The brazen attacks in London, Norway, and France in 2005, 2011, and 2015 respectively demonstrate this. But life must go on.

There are several possible reasons for this defiance. First, despite the unpredictability of terrorist attacks, there have been increased counter-terrorism security measures, including better anticipatory intelligence gathering. That is why some countries, including our neighbours, do not suffer the way we do. We need to organise and utilise our resources better.

Second, it is now obvious that a terrorist is no longer the heavily bearded Middle Eastern American hater. No, it could be that jet-black boy on hire by some amorphous jihadist cell based in Nairobi or a naive young white girl in London. It is a global phenomenon. Remember the “underwear bomber”, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the black Nigerian boy who in 2009 tried to blow up a Detroit-bound aeroplane with explosives hidden in his underwear?

Third, increased globalisation, thanks to net interconnectivity, facilitates growing consciousness of how people should react to terrorism, the wider issues of the impact of travel advisories

on weak economies such as Kenya’s, and the possible outcomes such as jobless young people joining radical groups or increased illegal emigration to the West.

Fourth, people are getting progressively aware of the economic, religious, and social drivers of terrorism. What has been described as the “clash of civilisation” has become a basis for intercultural studies and dialogue.

Nothing shows the superiority of persuasion and reason versus brutal force than the current thawing of relations between the West and Iran — America’s standard of the axis of evil — over the nuclear power problem.

That the world is coping with terrorism is not to say that people are less cautious or have embraced terrorists as brothers and sisters. Rather, human nature enables innovation against threats by improving responses. This continues to be confirmed by the increasing international confidence in Kenya. Many industries shook off the impact of the Westgate attack. There is no reason why the Garissa attack, although even more devastating than Westgate, should bring us down.

BY THE WATCHMAN YOU HAVE FAILED. The African Union has failed to rise to the challenge and provide the leadership and material support needed to confront notorious Muslim militant groups Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab, which pose a grave threat to two of the continent’s biggest economies, Nigeria and Kenya, respectively, remarks George Nganga. “Why should we have the AU, when it cannot help to eliminate such a threat?

How many innocent people are going to be killed before something is done about the militants?” His contact is ngwirieast58@gmail.com.

FAST AND EFFICIENT. Expressing his “deepest condolences” to the families of the students slain in the Garissa University College attack, Kanyi Gioko also has a word of praise for the security forces, especially the Recce Company, for battling the militants.

“Outside the slow wheels of decision-making within the high command our boys are the best in the world.

They have always neutralised the enemy within halfan-hour of deployment. I urge the security leadership to make it possible to deploy them in the shortest time possible.” His contact is kgioko@gmail.com.

CORRUPTION DRIVE. The most curious thing about the renewed campaign against corruption, Ruth Gituma says, is the timing of the release of the List of Shame that contains the names of top government officials implicated in mega scandals. This, she adds, has coincided with American President Barack Obama’s announcement that he will finally visit Kenya in July.

“Also, the time frame for investigations is 60 days.

I hope the war on graft is not meant to sanitise the government ahead of the visit, then we go back to our normal way of life.” Her contact is rgitum@gmail.com.

Dr Mbataru teaches at Kenyatta University’s School of Agricultur e. pmbataru@gmail.com)

The collapsed building at Roysambu, Nairobi.

CAMPAIGN | Cheruiyot Rono

War on corruption is no walk in the park T

here have been murmurs that President Kenyatta’s focus on corruption was getting fuzzy, that his determination was waning, his commitment doubtful. However, he has taken the bold step of asking State officials suspected of involvement in corruption to stand down pending investigation into the allegations.

By doing so, the President has taken the risk of either destroying his political career or earning honours.

Past attempts at fighting corruption have always failed. If the latest campaign follows that route, then Kenyans may never recover from the resulting disillusionment. It will mean that if you steal public funds, you only need to invoke the name of your tribe or clan, then hire several lawyers with your ill-gotten wealth to get you through a long court process. You will never be asked to return the money you stole and you can safely launder it in such innovative ways as investing in real estate.

It will not be easy for the President to keep his focus on fighting corruption in this politically charged country where the next election is all that matters. As a minimum, he will need to demand that those working for him be without reproach. He will soon realise that it is lonely at the top, especially if you have to fire your top staff. He may want to borrow a leaf from

This is not a moral war or even an ethical dilemma. It is a war on a criminal conspiracy against the nation. This is about the future of our children.”

Rwanda, where President Paul Kagame’s anti-corruption strategy is to force those who steal public resources to return them, then face prosecution.

Of course, the President cannot be expected to undertake the task of fighting corruption alone. There must first be a thorough assessment of the capacity of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and other relevant State institutions to ascertain that they are qualified and dedicated to eradicating graft. EACC must see the investigations through and make sure that those found culpable are prosecuted.

The voices of civil society groups will grow louder against corruption. The opposition is on the lookout for bad news. A success for the President is bad news for the masters of corruption and for the opposition, which must now decide where it

stands on this issue.

A win will offer redemption on the institution of the presidency. President Kenyatta can even win back the political capital the government has lost due to the perception of ethnic exclusion.

President Kenyatta’s anti-corruption drive is dicey, comparable to when you realise that there is a snake under your bed.

You can choose to snore the night away and risk having the reptile slithering into your bed or get up and kill it.

This is not a moral war or even an ethical dilemma. It is a war on a criminal conspiracy against the nation. This is about the future of our children and a generation whose tomorrow is on the precipice. In attempting to tackle corruption, the President is also seeking a solution to insecurity as the two are intricately linked.

Capitalism has placed great significance on the tag of success. Many people believe that one must strive to be prosperous at all costs to be termed successful.

The problem with corruption as a means to prosperity is that it creates inequalities that lay the foundation for social seclusion. To defeat this, President Kenyatta has no option but to run the full race.

The writer is a political communication consultant. thecheruiyot@gmail.com

POLITICS AND INTEGRITY. By handing over the List of Shame to the National Assembly, President Kenyatta has made a huge misstep and ended up merely politicising the anti-corruption campaign, says Andayi Mushenye. The best route, he explains, would have been to summon the Attorney-General to assemble his team and verify the list. “If upon examination, they found a case for corruption prosecutions, the Director of Public Prosecutions should have started taking action against the culprits within 60 days.” His contact is mushenye@gmail.com.

PLEASE HELP. Once the proud owner of an M-Pesa agency, Diva Communications Mukhonje, in Kakamega County, which she has run for many years, Carolyne Khalwale is devastated. Says she: “One day, my business disappeared just like that.” She has followed up the matter of her allegedly stolen business with Safaricom who say it is merely an administrative matter for her company to deal with. “I am confused because the local M-Pesa agents administrator says he can’t help me.” Her contact is cnskhalwale@gmail.com.

TRAGIC NEGLECT. Quite revolting to Jane Hughes is the report of the collapse of yet another building under construction in Nairobi. She cannot understand why measures cannot be put in place to avert such tragedies. She poses: “For how long are we going to continue witnessing loss of lives in avoidable circumstances? I am one Kenyan who is tired of politics right, left and centre, with nothing tangible benefiting Kenyans. Greed will ruin our beloved country.” Her contact is jane_40hughes@yahoo.com.

Have a preventive day, won’t you!

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To the editor Teachers work hard and should be treated well There is nothing that irks me more than how some private schools treat their teachers: meagre pay, a lot of work, and the responsibility of ensuring that their pupils excel.

I recently visited a school and was shocked at the conditions under which the teachers work. They were served poorly prepared meals and were paid a pittance — one teacher said he received Sh3,500 a month, after a salary increase of Sh200, yet the pupils pay high fees. Teachers should be treated well.

KIMTAI CHERONGIS, Bungoma

There’s hope that coast town will rise again When I started working in Ukunda in 1992, I was amazed at the amount of money that was circulating in the town and in Mombasa. There were always many foreign visitors. Entertainment joints were always full.

Come the 1997 clashes and the tourists fled, leaving empty hotels and entertainment joints. Today, by 8pm, the streets and entertainment joints are empty. However, things seem to be changing as the leaders focus on development. I hope Mombasa will rise again.

EDWARD NGIGI, Mombasa

Save Baringo from the grip of cattle rustlers Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery imposed an ultimatum for the surrender of illegal firearms in Baringo. The deadline has expired and the lawlessness wreaked by gun-totting criminals continues unabated. I appeal to the CS to restore sanity to Baringo North and South so that our children can go back to school like other children in Kenya.

MENGICH RERIMOI, Baringo

Upgrade Ukunda airstrip to serve the south coast The Kenya Airports Authority should elevate the Ukunda airstrip to allow it to accommodate larger aircraft. We need an international airport to serve the increasing population. The airport would connect the region to other East African coastal cities and serve the whole of the south coast.

JUSTIN N. NKARANGA, Mombasa

The editor welcomes brief letters on topical issues. Write on e-mail to: mailbox@ ke.nationmedia.com. You can also mail to: The Editor, Daily Nation, POB 49010, Nairobi 00100. Letters may be edited for clarity, space or legal considerations.

SHORT TAKES

TALKING POINT

Why Kenya is losing war on graft

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ne of the principles of good leadership dictates that a wise leader should see everything, overlook a little, and improve much.

In the fight against corruption, however, President Kenyatta appears to have seen everything and overlooked much, and this is why he is likely to achieve very little.

One of the biggest mistakes the President has made is to adopt a temporary solution — by asking corruption suspects to step aside — to solve a perennial, chronic, damaging, and permanent problem.

All ministers who were in the past asked to step aside eventually returned, no wonder the problem of corruption persists.

The other mistake is selective prosecution of suspects. There have been reports that although there are three files on the Anglo Leasing scandal, only the culprits in one file have been prosecuted.

What became of the other files?

And the Goldenberg and Triton scandals?

If the culprits who have stepped aside are taken to court, then it will be the beginning of the end of the current anti-corruption crusade because, despite the so-called judicial reforms, Kenyan courts are lethargic and unpredictable.

They failed to solve the problem of the one-third gender representation in Parliament.

They were not helpful either in resolving the legal tussles surrounding the schools laptop project.

It is doubtful that the solution to the problem of corruption lies in the Kenyan courts.

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President Uhuru Kenyatta with Speaker of the National Assembly Justin Muturi (left) and his Senate counterpart, Mr Ekwe Ethuro, leave after the State of the Nation address.

The institutions mandated to fight corruption have been implicated in the vice. And there seems to be a lack of energy and unity of purpose to win the war against corruption.

Old habits die hard. Many will be forgiven for cynically regarding the current anti-corruption drama as a comedy of errors that is not going anywhere.

KENNEDY NDOLO MWANZIA, Nairobi.

The purported drive to purge

corruption and the release of the List of Shame and the subsequent order for those named to step aside is just a game of musical chairs.

It will not be surprising if nobody is charged in court and then convicted.

No one will have his or her illgotten wealth frozen. Nobody is willing to clean up the system. Stepping aside is a temporary measure.

The accused should, by now, have been arraigned in court.

JUSTIN N. NKARANGA, Mombasa

Improve early education centres for wellbeing of our children Early Childhood Education (ECD) is an important area that has been neglected in Kenya. Successive governments have only given lip services to this critical sector in terms of proper legislation and policy.

One of the key functions of the county governments is the development of ECD, but little has changed.

A major characteristic of pre-school education in Kenya is that ECD centres serve a wide cross-section of children from different social, economic, cultural, and religious backgrounds. Furthermore, the growing involvement of women in paid employment has increased the demand for ECD services.

County governments should allocate more resources to ECD centres. Early developmental oppor-

tunities establish a critical foundation for children’s academic success, health, and general well-being. In addition, significant investment in ECD results in greater social cohesion and better academic performance. For example, in arid and semi-arid areas like Mandera, where poverty is rampant, county governments must strive to provide learning materials, proper nutrition, and health services to preclude a negative impact on growing children.

County governments must note that the improvement of the status of ECD in our country is an imperative that is geared towards the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals.

FARAH MOHAMED ADAN, Mandera

Emails from correspondents

CHILLING MESSAGE: That a dashing, well educated young man is the face behind the recent terror attack at Garissa University College has sent shivers down many spines. This shows that terrorism has evolved.

Abdirahim Abdullahi and his ilk did not just wake up one morning and become radicalised. Someone is actively working to feed extremist propaganda to our youths. Such people must be exposed and made to face the full force of the law. If we are to win this war, then parents and the clergy must be involved.

DENNIS MUTUA, Utawala, Nairobi.

PROTECT CITIZENS: The security apparatus must bear the greatest burden of blame over what happened in Garissa. Changes in the top security have made no difference.

Second, it is my hope that the attack will not be used to victimise Muslims and propagate hatred between them and non-Muslims. Islam as an ideology that demands that blood, property, and honour be respected.

It prohibits the spilling of innocent blood and demands that a true government protects all its citizens regardless of religion, colour, or race.

SHABANI MWALIMU, Mombasa.

LESSONS: The Garissa terror attack where defenceless young Kenyan’s were brutally slaughtered by the ever-bloodythirsty Al-Shabaab terrorist gang confirms that the country’s security machinery and national leadership have not learnt a single lesson from past terrorist attacks. The frequency and magnitude of the attacks have caused fear, disillusionment and panic among the citizenry. This is dangerous for the stability of the country. The terrorists have changed their strategy, and so must the government.

ENOCK ONSANDO, Mombasa HIGHER EDUCATION: According to the CEO of the Commission for Higher Education, Prof David Some, the deadline for universities to offer diplomas is June 2015. Some universities are still admitting diploma students. The situation is made even worse by the fact that Parliament passed a law that allows only universities with a charter to offer diplomas. This is the same house that abolished ranking, then overturned its own decision. Legislatures should not water down what stakeholders, who understand the field, have approved. They should allow independent bodies to carry out their roles.

RICHARD MWAURA, Nairobi

YESTERDAY’S QUESTION

DEBATE QUESTION

Do you support the call by northeastern leaders that refugee camps be shut?

Comment on the new traffic rules introduced by the Nairobi County.

DENNIS ONYANCHA: All refugee camps should be closed down since they are the inlets for terrorists. Do it to safeguard innocent Kenyans.

ABASS AHMED: No. Refugees enjoy little peace under the dust and scorching sun. A criminal can

sneak anywhere in the vast semidesert of Kenya whether there are refugee camps or not. Let’s improve security and teach youth patriotism.

EDDIE WAKARATU: Yes. Their countries have functioning government. What are they running from?

KEVIN NYAMARI: No. It would be a human rights violation which may cause us trouble.

ELI MUTWIRI: No. This would cause suffering to the innocent and vulnerable. Instead, improve security in the camps and eliminate the bad

elements.

VICTOR ABUKA: These calls are too little too late. Their silence is loud as terrorists rule.

SYLVIAH WISHENGA: Yes, if that can stop attacks and radicalisation of youths. We must protect our country.

Send your comments to mailb ox@ke.nationmedia.com

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Engaging the Academia in Sustaining Debate on the Implementation of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 Kisumu Hotel 8th – 10th April 2015 Introduction: On 27th August 2010, Kenyans ushered in a new Constitutional dispensation following the promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya (CoK) 2010. At the core of the CoK 2010 is the devolved system of government.

The Constitution is a framework document that spells out broadly, the key values and principles that ought to redefine the Kenyan state and governance system. It is not a self-executing document hence its implementation lies in the hands of state agencies with the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) mandated by the constitution to monitor and oversee the implementation process.

The specific objectives of the workshop include to: 1. Interest universities and other academic institutions in matters relating to the implementation of the Constitution including using them as platforms for the transmission of norms, values, attitudes and ethics that form the foundations of the Constitution and are the very bedrock of good governance in democratic political systems.

2. Enable the universities share their experiences and formulate opinions and methodologies that are critical for sustained public engagement on matters relating to the implementation of the Constitution and specifically the system of devolved governance.

3. Facilitate research and documentation on issues relating to the implementation of devolved governance. These issues are to be documented into practical proposals on how to enhance and safeguard the implementation of the Constitution and the system of devolved governance.

The implementation of the Constitution has been going on over 4. Filter and collate key issues arising from the discussions that the last 4 years, with a lot of interest from varied quarters of the can inform areas of further research by scholars for purposes Society though with notable absence or minimal contribution from of enhancing national conversation on matters relating to the world of academia. Unlike the period during which Kenyans Constitution Implementation agitated for constitutional changes, which saw remarkable contributions from the academia as the crucibles for intellectual enlightenment, the same cannot be said of the academia in the The organizers of the workshop are of the considered view that period since the passage of the Constitution. institutions of higher learning ought to promote and sustain relevant dialogue on issues relating to the implementation of the constitution of Kenya 2010 generally, and the system of devolved government Why the involvement of Academia is necessary: in particular. It is expected that the involvement of the academia in Academia occupies a unique position that can be exploited in a the implementation process shall go a long way in cultivating trust, manner that shapes the role and culture of governance institutions, ensuring legitimacy and consequently depoliticizing the exercise of engender into the implementation process values and ideals that implementation of the CoK 2010. form the backbone of constitutionalism, representation, public participation, service delivery, the allocation of resources and Further, as it was witnessed during the clamour for the second the exercise of state power. It is within the reach of academia to liberation, the involvement of the academia offers a new and bring forth and guide national discourses on mechanisms that intellectually vigorous way of engaging the public and getting the define governance, its structures as well as ensuring that these citizen’s involvement in constitution implementation governance outfits advance well defined policy and legislative agenda. Academia must therefore rise up, take the challenge and consequently help with breathing life into the Constitution of Beyond the Implementation exercise, the academic institutions are vital in the promotion of constitutionalism, which as a matter of fact Kenya 2010. should be incidental to the constitutional implementation exercise It is against this background that the Commission for the including the strengthening of the rule of law, democratic institutions Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) in partnership with and practices.

Maseno University shall be staging a three-day workshop that It is hoped that this first workshop will set the stage for a more active will bring together academics with the intention of among others, and sustained involvement of the academia in the debate on various unravelling and consolidating the role of academia in constitution aspects of the implementation of the Constitution of Kenya 2010. implementation.

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NEW RULES | City Hall maintains the idea is to decongest Nairobi

BY MUCHEMI WACHIRA

Teachers to shun exam invigilation

@wachiramuchemi mwachira@ke.nationmedia.com

BY NATION CORRESPONDENT

Chaos as traffic flow plan takes effect Motorists complain of slowed movement as others say decision to close some turns has eased congestion

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any motorists had a difficult time navigating the city roads yesterday as the county government started implementing the new traffic flow plan.

Motorists were trying to acquaint themselves with the new plan to decongest the city, with some complaining of slowed movement while others welcomed it.

In the plan that the county government is implementing, five major roundabouts on Waiyaki-Way/Mombasa Road artery have been barricaded to prevent motorists from making right turns.

City Hall maintains the idea is to decongest traffic, especially in the town centre.

“What we are doing is to revise the movements before we demolish these roundabouts and replace them with signalised intercessions,” county transport executive Mohammed Abdullahi said.

Most motorists who use Mombasa Road to access Uhuru Highway had a rude shock when they found some turns at roundabouts closed to prevent them from turning right.

“I was forced to drive all the

Teachers at the coast have warned they would not invigilate this year’s national examinations if they are not paid their dues.

The teachers said the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) had not paid them for supervising last year’s KCPE and KCSE examinations.

“It has been six months since we invigilated but we are still waiting for our money,” said Knut coast executive member Dan Aloo.

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What we are doing is to revise the movements before we demolish these roundabouts ” County transport executive Mohammed Abdullahi way to Kiganjo Avenue near Kenya School of Mass Communication to take a left turn and start driving to the town centre again,” said Mr Charles Otieno, who lives in South B Estate.

He said he spent more than one hour to reach the city centre.

Other motorists from southern parts of the city had to use Lusaka Road and drive through City Stadium to get into town.

Motorists from Industrial Area

Up in arms

JEFF ANGOTE | NATION

Motorists held up in traffic jam at Nyayo Stadium roundabout in Nairobi yesterday. Some motorists complained of spending more time in traffic with the new traffic flow at roundabouts. who use Lusaka Road to access town centre had to go back on finding Nyayo Stadium roundabout barricaded.

Mombasa Road was clogged with traffic jam in the early morning hours, with motorists spending hours to reach the city centre.

But some drivers said the plan eased congestion they experience on Uhuru Highway.

“The traffic has been flowing well at Uhuru Highway since morning compared to other

days,” a City Hoppa driver said.

Equally, most drivers of PSV vehicles expressed satisfaction at barricading of Westlands roundabout where motorists from the city centre and Rhapta Road can no longer make a U-turn.

They have to proceed to make the U-turn at Brookside Drive.

Matatu Welfare Association chairman Dixon Mbugua said City Hall’s plan would eventually decongest the town centre. q Another picture back page

He said 24,000 invigilators, 7,000 supervisors and 3,000 field officers were affected.

The complaints come at a time when new teachers are up in arms over non-payment of salaries by the Teachers Service Commission.

Meanwhile, Mr Aloo has urged the government to block a lobby group from charging each public school Sh2,000 to facilitate parents association elections.

He said Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang had distanced the ministry from the fee charged by the Kenya National Parents Association (Knap).

“Knap Secretary-General Musau Ndunda should refund any money that he was paid by the schools,” said the Knut official.

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‘LUPITA’ ON STAGE AT FETE >

Variety of performances as schools and County leaders tell Senate team allocation to devolved units fair P. 22 colleges drama fete starts in Nakuru P. 26 For comprehensive stories, go to www.nation.co.ke/counties

Mombasa | Newspaper vendor met similar fate

Three families in agony as missing kin are found dead Two friends vanished in town, only for bodies to be traced to mortuaries

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West Pokot, Baringo allowed to join Turkana security case West Pokot and Baringo county governments have been allowed to take part in a case seeking to compel Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery to protect Turkana County from raids. The two governments were yesterday allowed into the case, which is in the High Court in Nairobi, following claims that raiders from their side were attacking Turkana. Turkana residents and leaders filed the case accusing the National Government of failing to prevent indiscriminate killings, brutalities and illegal exploitation of resources in their county. They cited the Turkwel Gorge power generation plant, which they said was being controlled from West Pokot.

The case will be mentioned on May 28.

— Maureen Kakah

BY LABAN ROBERT @mokeiralaban mokeiralaban@gmail.com

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hree Mombasa families were yesterday trying to unravel a mystery after their loved ones disappeared in a span of three weeks, only for their bodies to be found in mortuaries in Kilifi County.

The families of Mr Evans Wakoli, 32, and James Opakwa, 28, have been going through a traumatic experience since the two men disappeared from Mombasa Town moments after crossing the Likoni Channel on March 28.

The two friends crossed the channel in the morning on that Saturday, as confirmed by video footage taken by CCTV cameras on the Likoni side. The cameras captured Mr Wakoli at the cashier’s point paying for a motorbike they were to use in the town.

That was the last time the two were seen.

Bruises on the neck

After days of searching for them, Mr Opakwa’s body was traced to the Malindi District Hospital mortuary, according to Pastor Joel Agonya of the Amani Pentecostal Assemblies of God, where the two were officials. He said the body had bruises on the neck.

The body had been found at Marereni, about 45 kilometres from Malindi.

Mr Opakwa’s remains were later moved to the Coast Province General Hospital mortuary.

On Monday evening, Mr Wakoli’s decomposing body was found at the Kilifi Hospital mortuary. It had a stab wound on the chest, according to his brother Levi.

The young man said the body had been collected from the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest by police officers based in Kilifi.

Mr Jackton Otieno, a newspaper vendor in Makupa, disappeared from his home in Makande, Mombasa, on March 23, only for his body to be found at the Malindi District Hospital mortuary. This was around the

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Pastor Joel Agonya talks to the Nation about the mysterious disappearance of worshippers Evans Wakoli (below) and Mr James Opakwa.

occasions collected bodies from the forest, most of which were claimed by locals.

Mr Wakoli’s body will undergo postmortem tomorrow before being transported to western Kenya for burial.

Mr Wakoli’s brothers Kennedy and Levi said they have been living in fear since the time the family made a report at the Likoni Police Station, a day after the disappearance of the two friends.

Date in March two friends — Mr Evans Wakoli and Mr James Opakwa — went missing

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Man ‘bundled into a vehicle’ Pastor Joel Agonya said Mrs Opakwa raised concern when her husband delayed returning home from town.

At around 3pm, the two tried to call Mr Opakwa and his friend. However, their phones were off.

According to the families, some motorcyclists stationed near the ferry station said they saw a man holding Mr Wakoli by the neck before bundling him into a vehicle.

Mr Agonya led the families in the search for the missing friends. time Mr Opakwa’s body was found.

Police said the body of the 38-

Threatening calls

year old Otieno had been found near the ocean in Malindi.

Kilifi police boss Justin Nyaga yesterday said officers had indeed collected a body from Arabuko-Sokoke Forest. The police were waiting for relatives to claim it, he added.

Reached for a comment , Likoni police boss Willy Simba had earlier said they had received a report of the missing people but was unaware that a body had been recovered.

Marereni police boss John Kilokwe said officers had on several

The families of Mr Wakoli and Mr Opakwa said the police were of little help. The relatives said they went to mortuaries, hospitals and police stations looking for their loved ones.

They said they have been receiving threatening calls from unknown people, a matter they had reported to the Likoni deputy police boss.

The police described the callers as fraudsters “who may be seeking cash”.

Tracking their brother’s mobile phone line through the True Caller app, Kennedy and Levi said they discovered that Mr Wakoli’s identity was appearing as Mwizi (thief), deepening the mystery. The family is wondering how the line’s ownership was converted to ‘Mwizi’.

Leaders tell Speaker, ward reps to leave office for graft probe Leaders have piled pressure on Speaker Stephen Ngelu and six county assembly members to resign over corruption allegations. The Speaker, Assembly Clerk Edward Libendi and the six leaders have been mentioned in the anti-corruption report that President Kenyatta handed to Parliament. They are being investigated for allegedly facilitating per diem payments to six ward leaders for a private trip to Dubai said to have been funded by Kibwezi West MP Patrick Musimba. Senator Mutula Kilonzo Jnr said Mr Ngelu should leave office for investigation, while Makueni MP Daniel Maanzo said the eight should be forced to pay back the money.

— Veronica Nthakyo

Kakamega >

Lawmakers want those seeking late registration to be fined Three MPs say they will push for changes in the Registration of Persons Act to have those seeking late registration fined. Mumias East MP Benjamin Washiali (left), Mr Andrew Toboso (Butere) and Mr Ayub Savula (Lugari) yesterday said doing so would reduce the number of foreigners seeking identity cards.

“We have prepared the amendment draft and presented it to relevant organs,” Mr Washiali said.

Mr Toboso said the Act needed to be reviewed. “It is important to look at its provisions afresh,” he said.

Mr Savula said Parliament would will pile pressure on the Executive to increase funds to the counter terrorism unit of the police.

—John Shilitsa

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COUNTY NEWS > ROUND-UP Narok > Abusive text message case man out on bail

Meru > Retailer is arrested for dumping waste in river

A man was yesterday charged with sending an abusive text message to his girlfriend. Mr Patrick Taany ole Parsaiaah is said to have committed the offence on March 26. The complainant told the court that the message portrayed her as a prostitute. The accused denied the charges. The prosecution opposed Mr Parsaiaah’s release on bond, saying he also has a pending case in which he is accused of assaulting the complainant. He was, however, released on bond. The case will be heard on June 22.

— Ruth Mbula

A businessman was yesterday arrested as he dumped toxic waste materials in a river at Nkubu. The county government’s inspectorate department seized the supermarket retailer following a tip-off from the public who accused him of frequently disposing waste at Thagara River. Residents say they fetch water from the river for domestic consumption. “Every evening we spot him disposing waste. Some of the waste like used syringes are dangerous, which is why we alerted the authorities,” said Mrs Janice Karegi, a resident.

— Darlington Manyara

Elders have complained about a recent directive by President Kenyatta that 10,000 police recruits whose selection for training was halted by a court.

The Mwariama Council of Elders said that absorbing the youth whose selection was marred with corruption claims could lead to more rot within the police service and further undermine security.

Chairman Njagi Kumantha said: “We need dedicated youths in the police. Through corruption, terrorists have been able to buy their way into the country.”

— Charles Wanyoro

Laikipia> Work on fence to keep animals at bay starts

Tharaka-Nithi > Man’s body found hanging from tree

West Pokot > Traders tell banks to set up branches in region

The body of man has been found hanging from a tree. The decomposing body was yet to be identified and was found at Mwanjati Village on Monday.

County police boss Johnston Ipara said the man may have been brought to the scene and hnaged at the scene or was strangled and hanged to make it look like he took away his life. He said the body had no identification documents. It was taken to Chuka General Hospital.

— Kevin Ngai

Traders and residents of Ortum have appealed to banks to set up branches in the area so that they can open accounts and save their income from onion businesses.

Mr Ezekiel Ndururu said he takes home about Sh1,000 a day, which he ends up squandering as there is nowhere he can save the money. Mr David Masho Mukhwana said it was risky to move around with huge sums of money.

— Dennis Lubanga

Construction has started for a 60km electric fence around Rumuruti and Marmanet forests to prevent wild animals straying onto farms. The fence is estimated to cost over Sh90 million and will be completed in three months. Speaking at Limunga Village on Saturday when he commissioned the fence, Governor Joshua Irungu (above) said the county government would build more electric fences around ranches.

“The county government wants to end human-wildlife conflict,” Mr Irungu said. He said farmers from Mahianyu, Kiandege, OlJabet, Gatundia and Rumuruti have incurred huge losses and several people killed and scores injured by elephants.

— Steve Njugunah

Kakamega |

Embu > Elders criticise Uhuru on police recruits order

Security matters

Nyeri > Street families to be sent to their counties

Kwale > Suspected poacher arrested with tusks Kenya Wildlife Service rangers have arrested a suspected poacher at Mwele Village in Mwaluphamba Location.

They said the 47-year was apprehended on Saturday while attempting to sell four tusks.

Shimba Hills National Reserve Deputy Park Warden Dadley Tsiganyiu said the arrest came following a tip-off from the public. The trophies are valued at Sh1.4 million.

—Farouk Mwabege

Kakamega OCPD Richard Ng’etich talks to boda boda riders, taxi drivers and residents of Kakamega Town yesterday. The police boss, who gave out his telephone number to the public, appealed to the residents to report anyone they suspect to be a terrorist. He also asked taxi and boda boda operators to screen their passengers to curb crime.

The county will round up street families whose numbers have shot up. Public Administration, Information and Communication Executive Priscillah Wanyiri yesterday said the families would be moved to other areas.

“Many of these children come from Murang’a, Karatina and Nanyuki. We will send them to their counties so that we can deal with those who belong to us by rehabilitating them and giving them basic need,” she said.

—Charity Wambugu

Nakuru > Musician charged with failing to honour deal

Nakuru > Matatu, lorry collision deaths jump to four

Narok > Teenage pregnancies worry charitable group

Nyeri > Eight charged with illegal stay in Kenya

Kirinyaga > Varsity student drowns as he swims in river

Singer Francis Githiru Mwai alias ‘Wasubu’ of the Mwenda OCS fame was yesterday charged with failing to honour two performances. The benga artiste reportedly received Sh45,000 of the Sh90,000 contract. He was to perform at Nakuru’s new entertainment joint Spandino’s Club. ‘Wasubu’ was arrested on Saturday in Limuru as he prepared to entertain revellers for Easter festivities. Yesterday, he denied the charges before Nakuru Chief Magistrate Samuel Mungai and was released on a Sh50,000 bond with sureties of a similar amount. The case will be heard on June 15.

— James Kariuki

The number of deaths has risen to four following the Monday evening collision between a matatu and a lorry in Naivasha after two people died while being treated. Naivasha sub-county hospital superintendent Joseph Mburu said nine people were still being treated. “They are out of danger. Two others have been transferred to Nakuru,” he said.

Ms Ruth Mwangi escaped death by a whisker. “I had just alighted from the matatu to greet a friend when I heard a bang. The lorry had rammed the matatu after losing control. Some people had just boarded the vehicle,” the lucky survivor said.

—Macharia Mwangi

A charitable organisation has raised the red flag over the rate of teenage pregnancies and early marriage in the county. More than 200 girls dropped out of school last year due to pregnancy, early marriage and sexual abuse, according to the Olmarei Lang Organisation. The group’s chief executive, Ms Joyce Keraine, attributed this to poverty and ignorance. She spoke at Duka Moja in Narok East, where the organisation had rescued girls who had been forcefully married off. Ms Keraine accused parents, teachers and church leaders of neglecting teenage girls, causing them to turn to irresponsible sex leading to pregnancies.

— George Sayagie

Eight Ethiopians were yesterday charged with being in Kenya illegally. Five of them were reportedly arrested at Karicheni road block while the other three were arrested at Narumoru road block. They did not take their plea as the Nyeri court did not have an interpreter. The magistrate directed that the eight be remanded at Kiganjo Police Station until an interpreter was found. They will take their plea on April 9. A Kenyan driver and his co-driver were charged with transporting the foreigners without permission from the Immigration office. They denied the charges. Their case will be mentioned on April 21.

— Faith Nyamai

A university student drowned while swimming in the Thiba River. Mr Kevin Muchete, 22, a student at Kirinyaga University College, had gone for a dip in the swollen river on Sunday with colleagues when he was swept away. His colleagues alerted residents who combed the river banks but they abandoned the search. The body was eventually spotted on Tuesday by a fisherman who informed the police and they retrieved the body. County Administration Police Commander Suleiman Rashid advised villagers against swimming in rivers during the rainy season.

— George Munene

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COUNTY NEWS > ROUND-UP Nakuru > Naivas manager charged over rotten chicken meat

Baringo > Cattle raiders shoot and injure woman, 100

A Naivas Supermarkets manager was yesterday charged with offering for sale 27 pieces of rotten chicken. Mr Stephen Karanja denied the charges before Nakuru Senior Resident Magistrate Judicaster Nthuku. He was released on a Sh20,000 cash bail. Naivas’ Nakuru branch was accused of displaying the chicken for sale on April 3. Defence lawyer Francis Mwangi said the meat had been kept in the returnto-supplier deep freezer awaiting collection. The public health department filed the case.

— James Kariuki

Tension has gripped Kasiela Village in Baringo South SubCounty after suspected Tiaty community raiders shot and injured a grandmother on Monday at 9pm. Mama Kabon Chebet, 100, was shot on the left thigh, fracturing the femur.

Six bandits raided her home and made away with more than 100 goats. Speaking at Baringo County Referral Hospital, granddaughter Christine Kipsambu said younger relatives escaped during the raid. Nursing officer Stephen Kalya said Ms Kabon was out of danger.

— Florah Koech

Mombasa > One-year-old dies in house blaze

Nyamira > Police hunting for Easter raider gang

A one-year-old child died when the family’s house in Makombeni, Bamburi, caught fire. Neighbours said the boy’s parents were away when the fire started on Monday afternoon. Mrs Stelah Gacheri said she went back home in a bid to save her son after learning about the blaze. However, it was too late. Mrs Joan Oyondi, a neighbour, said she battled the fire and tried to rescue the boy but she was unable to save him.

— Brian Ocharo

Police are hunting for a gang that robbed and terrorised residents of Borabu Sub-County over Easter. Divisional police officer Antony Onyango said they raided at least six homes and property of unknown value, including more than 20 chicken, were stolen. Homes raided include that of former Kisii mayor the late James Gisemba. Borabu is notorious for cross-border cattle rustling.

— Henry Nyarora

Lamu > Fishermen being taught new method

Narok > Boda boda man facing schoolgirl rape charge

Small scale fishermen from five counties are being trained on pole-and-line fishing technique in Lamu Town. The training is aimed at helping them to increase their catch.

Kenya Coastal Development Programme fisheries officer Kennedy Shikami said two fishermen from beach management units were selected from Kwale, Kilifi, Lamu, Tana River and Mombasa counties for the training.

— Bozo Jenje

Mombasa |

Driver’s date with justice Mr Maxwell Odhiambo, a driver, when he was charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest. The officer was trying to arrest him at Changamwe for careless driving, a Mombasa court was told. Police yesterday asked the court to allow them to detain the suspect until the assaulted officer is discharged from a hospital.

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Homa Bay > Losses as raging floods sweep away crops, roads

Marsabit > Tax official seized over Sh865,000 cash haul

Nakuru > 100 medical college workers go on strike

Homa Bay County has incurred massive losses after raging floods destroyed roads and swept away bridges. Several roads still under construction have also been washed away. Residents are also staring are food scarcity after floods swept crops away in Ndhiwa, Rangwe, Pala and Riana.

Local Kenya Red Cross boss Mr John Roche said they are working with the county government to help those affected.

— Maurice Kaluoch

A Kenya Revenue Authority official was yesterday arrested while carrying close to Sh1 million that he could not explain its source.

Police arrested the man, who is based in Moyale, with Sh865,100 in Marsabit town. County police commander Bernard Kogo said the was in a saloon car parked outside a bank. He said the official would be taken to court on charges of being in possession of money suspected to have been illegally acquired.

— Ken Bett

Over 100 Nakuru Kenya Medical Training College staff went on strike yesterday over allowances. They accused the State of failing to honour a 2012 labour agreement that gave them leave allowance equivalent to an employee’s basic salary.

They would also get a 12 per cent salary increment a year.

Mr Godfrey Walela who spoke on their behalf said the State ignored their 14-day strike notice.

— Bernard Ogembo

A boda boda operator was yesterday charged with defiling a 17-year-old secondary schoolgirl.

Mr John Chikamae, 26, appeared before magistrate Zainab Abdul and faced another charge of indecently assaulting the minor who had hired him to drop her home. The man who is also a nightclub DJ, denied the charges but was denied bail after the prosecution accused him of being a multiple sex offender. The case will be mentioned on Friday.

— George Sayagie

COUNTY IN NUMBERS

Vihiga > Probe into source of explosives begins

Siaya > 12 prisoners escape after truck accident

What Laikipia County will use to build a 60-kilometre electric fence around Rumuruti and Marmanet forests

Murang’a > Senator: Ignore calls to withdraw soldiers

Meru > County chief vows to arrest farmers’ killers

Sh4,500

Police are investigating a case in which explosives were found in Serem three weeks ago. Western region police chief Moses Ombati and his DCI counterpart Ambrose Munyasia said the explosives, packed in a bag, were found in a woman’s house following a tip-off from the public. Mr Munyasia said three people were helping police with investigations. He said a villager led officers to the place the explosives were hidden.

—Benson Amadala

Twelve prisoners yesterday escaped after a lorry they were travelling in was involved in an accident at Rang’ala on KisumBusia road. The 12 were part of a group of 49 prisoners who were being taken to Siaya Law Courts.

Siaya OCPD Stephen Cheteka said the prisoners burnt their committal forms before fleeing.

He said police were searching for the inmates.

— Nelcon Odhiambo And Ruth Nderitu

Senator Kembi Gitura has asked the government to disregard calls by some political leaders to withdraw Kenya Defence Forces soldiers from Somalia. Mr Gitura (below) said sending the troops to the war-torn country was the right thing to do. He spoke in Murang’a Town after visiting a family that lost a daughter in the Garissa college attack.

— Martin Mwaura

Those who killed four farmers in Thananki area must be brought to justice, County commissioner Wilfred Nyagwanga vowed during a peace meeting at Gachuuru Market in Igembe North on Monday. The four were killed last Thursday in suspected retaliatory attacks by raiders following the killing of a herder from Isiolo.

Mr Nyagwanga said meetings with the security team from Isiolo County would be held to solve the issue. He congratulated a security committee formed by the Borana and Meru communities which had so far recovered more than 120 goats and returned them to owners.

— Dickson Mwiti

West Pokot > Language hitch holds up illegal immigrants’ case

Kisii > Two men charged with being in Kenya illegally

The case of 19 Somalis accused of being in the country illegally failed to start yesterday as none of the could speak English or Kiswahili.

“We need an interpreter as they do not understand the charges,” Principal Magistrate Harrison Barasa said. He directed that the immigrants be remanded at Kapenguria Police Station until today when they will be charged.

— Oscar Kakai

A Tanzanian and an Ethiopian were yesterday charged with being in Kenya illegally. Mr Wilson Majani, alias Abubakar Majani John, and Mr Mohamed Dida had no identification documents when they were arrested. Kisii Chief Magistrate John Njoroge did not allow them to take pleas until Monday when the case will be heard.

— Duncan Ageta

Sh90m 12

Prisoners who escaped after a lorry they were travelling in was involved in an accident at Rang’ala in Kisumu

Cost of a 25-kilogramme bag of certified maize seed. Kenya Seed has assured farmers there won’t a shortage.

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Makueni county officials accused of corruption. Senator Mutula Kilonzo Jnr wants them to resign.

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Nyamira >

Reps barred from sittings after brawl

BY HENRY NYARORA Four ward representatives have been suspended from assembly sittings after a brawl outside the chamber.

Bonyamatuta Ward Representative Robin Mocheche and nominated member Margaret Ongeri were suspended for four sittings each.

Mr Robert Ongwano (Township Ward) and Ms Naomi Ondieki (Nominated), who are said to have taken sides in the fracas, were suspended for two and four sittings, respectively.

Forfeit allowances

Mr Ongwano is a close associate of Mr Mocheche while Ms Ondieki is said to have supported Ms Ongeri.

The four will forfeit their allowances during the suspension period.

Mr Mocheche was also relieved of his duties as vice-chairman of the prestigious Budget Committee.

Mr Mocheche denies roughing up Ms Ongeri after they differed over a road construction project last month.

Ms Ongeri, who is deputy chairperson for the Roads and Public Works Committee, claims the MCA slapped her twice and hit her on the bottom.

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Kwale | Two men on trial over death of British soldier

State pathologist faces arrest for skipping court Dr Johansen Oduor was required to testify in court but he did not attend hearing

BY WACHIRA MWANGI @wachiramwa2000 bwachira@ke.nationmedia.com

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warrant of arrest has been issued against Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor after he failed to attend court to testify in a death-related case.

Dr Oduor (right) had been summoned as a witness in a case against two foreigners who were charged with negligence and causing the death of a British soldier in Kwale.

Kwale Resident Magistrate Christine Njagi issued the warrant after he failed to honour the court summons.

The prosecution had expected the pathologist to give a report on what caused the death of Sergeant Major John Marley, who died on April 26, 2013, in Diani.

The court also summoned three British soldiers who had been lined up as prosecution witnesses in the case against Mr Thomas Sollacher and Mr Edoardo Vasta.

WHAT’S ALLEGED

British soldiers had rented room Mr Thomas Sollacher and Mr Edoardo Vasta, who are foreigners, are accused of negligence and causing the death of Mr John Marley, a British soldier, at Marine Village in Diani.

Mr Sollacher is the chief executive and owner of Diani Marine Ltd and Mr Vasta is a diving instructor.

Mr Sollacher is the chief executive and owner of Diani Marine Ltd and Mr Vasta is a diving instructor at the Diani Marine Divers Village.

Ms Hawa Mtondo, a telephone operator at the divers club, told the court that on April 25, 2013, four British nationals visited the premises and

requested accommodation.

“They found me at the reception and I booked three of them in room number nine. One of them said he would sleep at a different location,” said Ms Mtondo.

The witness said she later learnt of the death the 42-year-old soldier, who was serving with the British Army Training Unit in Nanyuki, from her colleague, Ms Margaret Auma.

Ms Auma said she was at the bar when a friend of the guests walked in, and as she was serving her, they heard glass breaking and screams from room number nine. One of the occupants came out shouting for help screaming that someone should call an ambulance and police, Mrs Auma told the court.

“We rushed to the room only to find Sergeant Marley on the floor as Steve (another occupant) tried to resuscitate him.’’ An ambulance came and took Sergeant Marley to Diani Hospital, where he was confirmed dead.

Mr Salim Bakari an engineer, said police asked him to examine a bed lamp found in the room suspected to have caused the death. He said the lamp stand was metallic with cables passing through it to the bulb and could easily cause death. The hearing resumes on August 6 and 7.

BY FRANCIS MUREITHI Kenya Seed Company has allayed any fears of shortage of seeds this year.

Managing Director Willy Bett said branches remained open during the Easter break to enable agents buy stock.

“We have enough maize and wheat seeds. They are available in our Rift Valley region stores,” Mr Bett said yesterday.

The MD added that more than six million kilogrammes of wheat seeds were in the company’s Nakuru depot.

At the same time, Mr Bett said the company had intensified surveillance and urged farmers to report any cases of suspected counterfeit seeds.

“Our team and security agencies are monitoring the situation. Two suspects have been arrested in Bungoma,” said Mr Bett.

Distributors from as far as Samburu, Laikipia and Nyandarua counties were in Nakuru for the seeds.

The type of maize seeds in demand include 610, 613, 614, 624, 628 and 629.

Ms Jael Ruto, a distributor from Rongai, said new types, which include 515, 516 and 517 suitable for medium altitude also sold a lot.

The number of tonnes of maize seeds Mr Peter Ndung’u Njuguna, a distributor, expects to buy

Children play at a flooded field at Gambella Primary School yesterday. Officials say many of the institution’s classrooms, which are made of timber, are at risk of damage due to rains.

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What a 25kg bag of maize seeds costs. However, the one-kilogramme packet is more popular

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Meru >

Villagers force woman to drink herbicide after lover’s death A woman was forced to drink a poison she had allegedly used to kill her boyfriend at a bar in Kiguchwa, Meru County.

The woman drank the substance after residents accused her of poisoning and killing Mr Edwin Muchena, 20, following a dispute during a drinking spree.

The 23-year-old woman is recuper-

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Children find new use for flooded school playground

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ating at Miathene Hospital in Tigania East and could face murder charges once investigations are complete, said area police boss Charles Kosgey.

Mr Kosgey said the woman was rescued by police officers.

“She was taken to hospital in a critical condition but we have been told that she is now out of danger,” he said.

Residents said the two had been cohabiting for almost a year and differences surfaced after the woman

informed the man that she had decided to marry to another man.

Mr Ezekiel Mutua, a relative of Mr Muchena, said the two were spotted in the bar where he worked as an attendant.

Vomiting blood

“We are reliably informed that they started quarrelling in the bar and the woman was spotted putting the substance in her lover’s beer. After a short time he began vomiting blood

and as he was being taken to hospital, he died,” said Mr Mutua.

News of his death spread in the village and angry residents stormed the woman’s house where they reportedly found the pesticide which they suspect she used to kill him.

“She was roughed up and forced to drink the substance. Police later arrived and took her to hospital,” said Mr Mutua.

Mr Muchena’s body was taken to Meru public hospital mortuary.

“This is the second time I am coming here to buy seven tonnes of the seeds in less than a week.

Demand in Rongai has doubled since the rains began,” she said.

Mr Peter Ndung’u said he had bought 50 tonnes of maize seeds and was planning to get 50 more.

He said a one-kilo packet was selling at Sh180 while a 25-kilogramme one was going for Sh4,500.

However, the one and two kilogramme packets were selling fast.

Ms Mary Kemunto said Njoro 2, Mwamba and Kwale types of wheat seeds were in high demand while maize seeds type 629, 6210 and 6213 were selling fast in Molo.

Even as the distributors bought the seeds, farmers expressed fears over maize necrosis disease.

“I hope the crop will not be affected by the disease that saw us record poor harvests last year,” said Mrs Mary Kariuki from Subukia.

Mr Bett assured farmers that the seeds were certified by relevant government institutions “Our seeds have passed all the necessary tests by Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Services and are good for planting so long as farmers do what is required of them,” he said.

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REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS TO THE MEMBERS OF EAST AFRICAN CABLES LIMITED We have audited the consolidated financial statements of East African Cables Limited which comprise the statements of financial position of the group and the company as at 31 December 2014, and the consolidated statement of comprehensive income, consolidated and company statements of changes in equity and consolidated statement of cash flows for the year then ended, and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.

NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Notice is hereby given that the fiftieth Annual General Meeting of the shareholders will be held at East African Cables Limited premises on Kitui Road, off Enterprise Road, Industrial Area, Nairobi, on Thursday, 30th April, 2015 at 11.00 a.m. for the following purposes: 1. To receive and if approved, adopt the Group’s audited financial statements for the year ended 31st December, 2014 together with the Chairman’s, Directors’ and Auditors’ reports thereon.

2. To approve the Directors’ remuneration as provided in the accounts for the period ended 31st December, 2014.

3. To approve the payment of a final dividend of 100% representing Kshs 0.50 per ordinary share.

4. To elect Directors: (i) In accordance with the Company’s Articles of Association Mr. M.G. Waweru and Dr. G. Kiuna retire by rotation and being eligible offer themselves for re-election at the forth coming Annual General Meeting. (ii) Mr. Bruno Thomas who is over the age of 70 years retires as a director of the Company in line with section 186 of the Companies Act Cap 486. The Board proposes for his re-appointment to the Board under section 186(5) of the Companies Act. 5. To appoint the auditors for the ensuing year and to authorize the Directors to fix their remuneration.

6. To transact any other business which may be properly transacted at an Annual General Meeting.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD Virginia Ndunge Company Secretary P.O. Box 40111-00100 GPO Nairobi 10th February, 2015 Notes: 1. A member entitled to attend and vote is entitled to appoint a proxy to attend and vote on his/her behalf and such a proxy need not be a member of the Company. To be valid, proxy forms must be deposited at the Registered Office of the Company not less than 48 hours before the appointed time of the meeting.

The proxy form may be obtained from the Company’s website www.eacables.com 2. In accordance with Article 146 of the Company’s Articles of Association, a copy of the entire Annual Report and Financial Statements may be viewed and/or downloaded from the Company’s website www.eacables.com

Directors’ responsibility for the financial statements The directors are responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards and in the manner required by the Kenyan Companies Act and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatements, whether due to fraud or error.

Auditors’ responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing. Those standards require that we comply with relevant ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on our judgement, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, we consider internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.

We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Opinion In our opinion, the financial statements give a true and fair view of the financial position of the group and the company at 31 December 2014, and the group’s financial performance and cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards and the Kenyan Companies Act. Report on other legal requirements As required by the Kenyan Companies Act we report to you, based on our audit, that: we have obtained all the information and explanations, which to the (i) best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purpose of our audit; in our opinion, proper books of account have been kept by the (ii) company, so far as appears from our examination of those books; and (iii) the statement of financial position of the company is in agreement with the books of account.

The Engagement Partner responsible for the audit resulting in this independent auditors’ report is FCPA Eric Aholi - P/1471.

KPMG Kenya Certified Public Accountants, 8 Floor, ABC Towers, Waiyaki Way, P.O. Box 40612 – 00100, Nairobi Kenya.

Date: 10 February 2015 th

Balance at 1 January 2013 Comprehensive income for the year Profit for the year Other comprehensive income Foreign currency translation differences on foreign operations Total comprehensive income for the year Contributions by and distributions to owners Dividend - 2012 paid Interim dividend for 2013 Total distribution to owners of the company

Share capital KShs ‘000

Share premium KShs ‘000

Revaluation reserve KShs ‘000

Retained earnings KShs ‘000

Foreign currency translation reserve KShs’000

126,563

545

925,556

1,288,584

(18,533)

Total equity attributable to equity holders of company KShs’000

Noncontrolling interest KShs’000

Total equity KShs’000

2,322,715

602,314

2,925,029

-

-

-

346,415

-

346,415

51,787

398,202

-

-

-

346,415

( 3,568) ( 3,568)

( 3,568) 342,847

51,787

( 3,568) 394,634

-

-

- ( 151,875) - ( 101,250) - ( 253,125)

-

( 151,875) ( 101,250) ( 253,125)

-

( 151,875) ( 101,250) ( 253,125)

126,563

545

925,556

1,381,874

(22,101)

2,412,437

654,101

3,066,538

2014: Balance at 1 January 2014

126,563

545

925,556 1,381,874

( 22,101)

2,412,437

654,101

3,066,538

-

-

-

294,571

46,578

341,149

Balance at 31 December 2014

2013 KShs‘000

5,098,417 ( 3,778,927)

4,502,964 ( 3,131,473)

Gross profit

1,319,490

1,371,491

Other income Factory expenses Administrative expenses Distribution costs

79,888 ( 227,259) ( 262,783) ( 149,295)

4,203 ( 213,092) ( 233,529) ( 167,277)

Profit before depreciation and finance costs Depreciation and amortisation Results from operating activities Finance income Finance costs Net finance costs Profit before income tax Income tax expense Profit for the year

760,041 ( 182,884) 577,157 10,392 ( 80,066) ( 69,674) 507,483 ( 166,334) 341,149

761,796 ( 165,852) 595,944 40,720 ( 51,264) ( 10,544) 585,400 ( 187,198) 398,202

Other comprehensive income Items that are or may be reclassified to profit or loss Foreign currency translation differences on foreign operations

( 37,372)

( 3,568)

Total other comprehensive income Total comprehensive income for the year

( 37,372) 303,777

( 3,568) 394,634

294,571 46,578

346,415 51,787

341,149

398,202

281,606 22,171

342,847 51,787

Revenue Cost of sales

Profit for the year is attributable to: Equity holders of the company Non-controlling interest Total comprehensive income attributable to: Equity holders of the company Non-controlling interest

303,777 Basic and diluted earnings per share

ASSETS Non-current assets Property, plant and equipment Prepaid operating lease rentals Investment property Intangible assets Current assets Inventories Trade and other receivables Current tax recoverable Cash and cash equivalents

TOTAL ASSETS EQUITY AND LIABILITIES Capital and reserves Issued capital Share premium Revaluation reserve Retained earnings Foreign currency translation reserve Total equity attributable to equity holders of the company Non-controlling interest

Non-current liabilities Bank loans and borrowings Liability for staff gratuity Deferred tax liability Current liabilities Bank overdraft Trade and other payables Current income tax payable Shareholders loan Short-term portion of bank loan Dividends payable

294,571

-

-

-

294,571

( 12,965) ( 12,965)

( 12,965) 281,606

( 24,407) 22,171

( 37,372) 303,777

-

-

( 151,875) - ( 126,563) - ( 278,438)

-

( 151,875) ( 126,563) ( 278,438)

-

( 151,875) ( 126,563) ( 278,438)

126,563

545

( 35,066)

2,415,605

676,272

3,091,877

925,556

1,398,007

394,634

1.16

KShs

1.37

2014 KShs’000

2013 KShs’000

3,549,933 141,163 348,299 3,306

2,793,123 148,010 282,868 2,080

4,042,701

3,226,081

859,404 2,918,705 53,860 14,826

804,627 2,748,630 30,790 29,927

3,846,795

3,613,974

7,889,496

6,840,055

126,563 545 925,556 1,398,007 ( 35,066)

126,563 545 925,556 1,381,874 ( 22,101)

2,415,605 676,272

2,412,437 654,101

3,091,877

3,066,538

750,404 22,045 731,481

369,684 19,595 607,340

1,503,930

996,619

307,652 1,196,681 19,374 326,152 1,279,930 163,900

91,366 1,067,185 40,760 1,476,337 101,250

3,293,689

2,776,898

7,889,496

6,840,055

These financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors on 10 February 2015.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2014 2014 KShs’000

� Cash generated from operations Income taxes paid Cash generated from operating activities

-

KShs

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2014

TOTAL EQUITY AND LIABILITIES

Balance at 31 December 2013

Comprehensive income for the year Profit for the year Other comprehensive income Foreign currency translation differences on foreign operations Total comprehensive income for the year Contributions by and distributions to owners Dividend - 2013 paid Interim dividend for 2014 Total distribution to owners of the company

2014 KShs‘000

Total equity

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2014

2013:

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2014

2013 KShs’000

568,416

( 150,649)

( 98,026)

( 230,701)

470,390

(381,350)

( 962,789) ( 3,253)

( 189,056) -

(966,042)

(189,056)

3,367,518 ( 3,183,205) 326,152 (30,412) ( 215,788)

3,467,711 ( 2,750,629) (42,264) ( 183,890)

Cash flows from investing activities Purchase of property, plant and equipment Purchase of intangible assets Cash used in investing activities Cash flows from financing activities Loans and borrowings incurred Repayment of loans and borrowings Shareholders loans recieved Interest paid on bank loans and borrowings Dividends paid Cash used in financing activities Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents Cash and cash equivalents at 1 January Cash and cash equivalents at 31 December

264,265

490,928

( 231,387)

( 79,478)

( 61,439)

18,039

( 292,826)

( 61,439)

Note: A full set of these financial statements will be available on our website www.eacables.com from Friday 10th April 2015. For any enquiries please contact us on investor@eacables.com

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Migori >

Seven suspended in probe into revenue fraud

BY ELISHA OTIENO Seven Migori County Government employees have been suspended for allegedly embezzling millions of shillings.

The Awendo Sub-County revenue department workers allegedly stole the funds from the single business permits, cess and market dues accounts.

County Secretary Christopher Rusana said the scam was exposed by internal auditors.

“They have been sent home following claims of financial impropriety … we will investigate them before we decide to prosecute or reinstate them,” he said.

The county has no audit committee and relies on two internal auditors where 10 are

required. Early this year, four employees were sacked in a fake revenue receipts scam.

Fleeced county

“We sent them home after we discovered they had fleeced the county government,” Finance Executive Tom Kasera said at the time.

“We have expanded the net to catch more people. Some

Mombasa |

Job for the fittest

of our senior officers are involved in this scam and we are not going to spare them,” he said.

Although he did not provide any figures, he said revenue from markets and bus parks had dropped to 30 per cent in the past one year.

“The 70 per cent is pocketed by individuals working for the county government,” he said.

LABAN WALLOGA | NATION

A Kenya Wildlife Service ranger examines a potential recruit for physical fitness during the conservation agency’s recruitment drive at the Mombasa County Stadium yesterday. Only 600 people from the county will be picked to join the service.

Nairobi | Revenue Bill goes to Senate

Cash allocation to counties fair, say governors Committee members put CRA to task over its independence

BY DENNIS ODUNGA @dennis_odunga dodunga@ke.nationmedia.com

G

overnors are satisfied with the allocation of Sh258 billion to the 47 counties to share equitably in the coming financial year, their representatives have told the Senate’s Finance, Commerce and Budget Committee.

Wajir governor Ahmed Abdullahi told the committee chaired by Mandera Senator Billow Kerrow the allocation was agreed upon by the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC), which has representatives from both levels of government and the independent commissions.

Mr Abdullahi, who also chairs the Governors’ Council’s Finance Committee said the amount in the Division of Revenue Bill is way above the 15 per cent minimum provided for in the Constitution.

“We wanted 45 per cent of the national Budget. But it was a matter of give and take.

The Council of Governors is pushing for a constitutional change to lift the 15 per cent up,” he said.

The Commission on Rev-

enue Allocation had initially proposed that the counties get Sh275 billion in the third financial year of their existence.

Members of the committee yesterday put CRA under pressure over the matter on the basis that by allowing the government’s proposals to pass, the commission undermined its independence.

CRA’s director of research and policy Lineth Oyugi was hard-pressed to convince the Senate committee that the commission was not being manipulated by the government.

Sh258

Funds in buillions allocated to the 47 counties in equitable sharing Ms Oyugi said the difference of figures is due to a series of negotiations at IBEC, which is chaired by Deputy President William Ruto.

“CRA is a member of the IBEC. Negotiations have been taking place and the latest figure is 258 billion.

Senate has the mandate to make a final determination,” said Ms Oyugi.

The Division of Revenue Bill has been passed by the National Assembly and transmitted to the Senate, which is set to make a decision on the Bill at a special sitting tomorrow.

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Nairobi >

Kisumu | Official blames poor drainage system for problem

1,500 flood victims moved to safe areas County government allocates Sh1.4m for building dykes and buying food

BY ANGELA OKETCH @angieoketch AOketch@ke.nationmedia.com

T

he 1,500 people who were displaced by floods in Muhoroni on Monday have been moved to higher ground for safety.

This comes as the county government yesterday allocated Sh1.4 million towards mitigating the flood menace in the region.

Migosi, Nyakach Manyatta, Nyalenda, Kaloleni, Bandani and Kondele were cited as the most affected areas.

According to Red Cross Nyanza Regional Manager Emmanuel Owako, most of the victims were moved to Kasese and Achuodho rescue centres.

Residents who were not seriously affected by the floods were given tents to

Experts want new law on death probes

BY ERIC MATARA

The poor drainage system has led to flooding in most of the areas.

We hope the cash allocated to the wards will bring a difference” Acting City Manager Doris Ombara

use at their homes in case of heavy rains.

“We want to avoid a repeat of what happened in Siaya,” said Mr Owako.

Acting City Manager Doris Ombara yesterday told the Nation that the Sh1.4 million would be used for building dykes in the most affected areas. It would also be spent on food and shelter for the victims.

Mrs Ombara said the money would

be shared among the 14 wards in the county that have been hit hard by the floods. They will receive Sh100,000 each.

“The poor drainage system has led to flooding in most of the areas. We hope the cash allocated to the wards will bring a difference,” she said.

Ms Mollyne Odhiambo, who moved to a rescue centre, said she could not move back to her home as it was muddy.

“My fear is that my children may contract malaria or other diseases,” said Ms Odhiambo.

Mr Samuel Omolo Orawo, who lives in Kasese, Muhoroni, said he had received some tents from the Red Cross. “I am praying that it does not rain again because we are really suffering,” he said.

TONNY OMONDI | NATION

Residents of Kasese Village in Muhoroni SubCounty cook outside their homes on Monday following the floods that hit the area.

MPs have been urged to pass a new law to enhance investigations into mysterious deaths in the country.

Dr Andrew Kanyi Gachie, a forensic pathologist said lack of a law on forensic examination had hindered investigations into mysterious deaths, allowing killers to continue roaming free.

He said during an interview that if the law was passed, pathologists would be able to carry out fruitful enquiries of deaths in the country.

Legal framework

The Coroner’s Service Bill of 2011 would ensure independence of investigations into deaths, especially those that happen in police custody or during their security operations.

The bill says that if a person died due to a criminal offence, the coroner shall have an officer investigated and prosecuted.

Dr Gachie said that pathologists recently held a meeting with MPs and gave their contributions on the Bill.

“We had a fruitful discussion over the bill. Its passage will greatly aid proper investigations into mysterious deaths,” he said.

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The students are advised to make further clarifications on the same from their respective Chairmen of Departments.

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Kiambu >

Nakuru | National schools and colleges performing arts event roars into life

‘Lupita’ on stage at drama fete School’s presentation shows that girl-child can make it in life in spite of background

BY ERIC WAINAINA

BY ANTHONY NJAGI

anjagi@ke.nationmedia.com

T

he story of film star Lupita Nyong’o’s Hollywood breakthrough set the ball rolling at the start of the Kenya Schools and Colleges National Drama Festivals in Nakuru yesterday.

A dance entitled, Our Lupita, showed how world sensation Nyong’o’s breakthrough on the big screen helped many girls keep alive their dream of succeeding in life.

Migosi Primary School’s colourful, simple storyline is about a poor girl who struggled from the village to university and international success.

Ms Nyong’o shot to fame last year when she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the film 12 Years a Slave. She was also named Most Beautiful Woman by People magazine and Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine.

“Lupita’s success remains a most inspiring story,” Migosi Primary School soloist Lorraine Ann Atieno said.

Menengai High School, Lohana Hall and Nakuru Lions Hall are the venues.

The performances have attracted Kenya’s best directors, poets, narrators, stand-up comedians, choreographers and playwrights as well as film makers. They tackled issues like corruption and patriotism among young people.

The first on stage at Lohana Hall was Loreto Matunda High School with a creative dance, Chairman, that depicted corruption in county governments. The dance is based on Luhya culture and showed how leaders have turned the counties into cash cows at

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Lupita’s success remains by far the most inspiring story” Migosi Primary School soloist Lorraine Ann Atieno the expense of development.

A choral verse by Precious Blood Riruta School, Sitara, depicted how society should educate children on being responsible for their deeds. The well dramatised verse was directed by Esther Mokaya and Jecinta Akatsa.

It shows how students misuse their toilets and then blame the cleaners for not doing their job. They now demand to use the clean teachers’ washrooms.

They want better standards but are not willing to dos something about it and be responsibile.

Maseno School staged a play Jackals

Pupils of Migosi Primary School in Kisumu present a dance Our Lupita on the first day of the 56th Edition of the National Drama Festival at Lions Primary School in Nakuru yesterday. of the Festival that depicts social ills.

It is about how some unscrupulous script writers write one play and give it to two different schools only for them to realise this at the national festivals.

Karima Girls High presented a moving cultural dance Wendo wa Bururi scripted and choreographed by Peter Ndungu and produced by Mrs Catherine Irungu, Newton Ambenge and Russel Gichuru.

The students showed that Kenya is majestic country that should be guarded jealously against detractors who find no joy in its prosperity.

“Wendo wa Bururi (Love our country) is a symbolic dance about how we need to be patriotic and love our country despite numerous attempts by people with ill motives to try and

bring about disunity,” said Principal Catherine Irungu.

St Mary’s High School, Igoji staged a play Stains of Life that tells the story of bad blood among people.

Friends School, Kamusinga, presented a choral verse on increasing cases of rape while St Mary’s Yala presented a solo verse Howls of hounds which urges us to support the police in enhancing security and fighting corruption.

During the official opening, Nakuru Governor Kinuthia Mbugua said society should take the themes being depicted at the festivals as challenges to offer solutions.

“We may not have all the solutions to the problems but it’s our responsibility to offer strategies which may help alleviate them, he said.

Mombasa >

Siaya >

Ports warns suppliers on tender canvassing

I’ll not give in to pressure to quit, Rasanga tells assembly

BY GITONGA MARETE

BY SILAS APOLLO AND NELCON ODHIAMBO

Kenya Ports Authority suppliers have been warned against dealing with brokers purporting to influence the award of tenders.

This financial year, the authority plans to put aside Sh300 million for marginalised groups as it seeks to comply with the constitutional requirement that at least twothirds of jobs be reserved for disadvantaged groups, head of procurement Yobesh Oyaro said yesterday.

There is stiff competition among the over 1,000 prequalified firms owned by women, youth and persons with disabilities who are jostling for the jobs. They have literally been camping at the ports headquarters.

Fresh dispute over Kabogo decision to move offices

The authority is one of the biggest sources of livelihood for hundreds of suppliers of various items for local bids, and last year, KPA spent Sh200 million on supplies by women and youth.

“Of the 1,000 suppliers, there are at least 60 who are capable of doing civil works.

All of them have subsequently been registered on the e-procurement platform,” said Mr Oyaro.

Women ‘pushing’

He, however, decried the high level of canvassing, especially by women who spent a lot of time at their offices.

“People should know that no matter whom they talk to and the kind of promises they get, nobody will be able to manipulate the system,” he said.

Siaya Governor Cornel Rasanga has vowed not to resign even as pressure mounts on him to quit over a Sh110 million tender.

Mr Rasanga (right) is accused of irregularly awarding the multi-million contract for construction of county headquarters but later put up a wooden structure at Sh22.5million.

The governor defended his development record and dismissed claims he sourced and awarded the contract single-handedly.

“The county executive resolve to construct the headquarters through a public-private partnership.

The resolutions were made

by the executive and not the governor,” he said.

A section of MCAs who want his out yesterday said they will table a censure motion against Mr Rasanga ‘for unlawful award of the deal’.

Central Alego MCA Leonard Oriaro said the motion will be tabled once as soon as the assembly resumes next week from recess .

“We will be seeking to

oust him for condoning corruption and sleeping on the job,” said Mr Ariaro.

Mr Rasanga is fighting a several accusations also from local MPs. Gem MP Jakoyo Midiwo last Saturday called for the resignation of the governor who he accused of failing to account for millions of shillings.

“The governor has hoodwinked the pubic by building a wooden one at a cost of Sh22.5million. He should know we are watching,” said Mr Midiwo during the burial of renowned author Grace Ogot in Yala.

However, Mr Rasanga who spoke to Nation yesterday said wooden offices are meant to house the county executive temporarily as the works go on.

Governor William Kabogo and other county leaders have renewed their war of words over the relocation of county headquarters from Kiambu to Thika Town.

Senator Kimani Wamatangi has accused the governor of deliberately delaying the renovation of the designated county offices to buy time until his term is over.

Mr Wamatangi has requested for a statement from the Senate Committee on Devolution on the matter while MCAs are planning to table a motion in the county assembly seeking to compel Mr Kabogo to move to the Kiambu offices.

The senator (below) is seeking an explanation why the governor relocated to Thika and what measures are being taken to make him move to Kiambu, which is the gazetted county headquarters.

“The committee should explain why the governor unilaterally moved the county headquarters from Kiambu to Thika Town without the knowledge, public participation and consensus from the stakeholders in the county,” the statement reads.

The senator said the relocation of the offices has subjected residents to suffering since “they are forced to travel a longer distance to get minor services” in Thika.

“Compared to Thika, Kiambu is more central and therefore easily accessible to residents from all the 12 constituencies,” he said.

The 12 constituencies are Thika, Juja, Gatundu North, Gatundu South, Ruiru, Kiambaa, Kiambu, Githunguri Limuru, Lari, Kikuyu and Kabete.

Kiambu Town is considered more central. For instance, a residents of Kikuyu, Limuru, Kabete, and Lari have to travel to Nairobi to take a matatu to Thika.

The senator also wants the committee to investigate whether the renovation of Kiambu offices has stalled.

The committee may have to visit the offices while preparing the report.

MPs Kimani Ichungwa (Kikuyu), Mburu Kahangara (Lari), Jude Njomo and Paul Koinange (Kiambaa) said the governor did not involve them in the decision to relocate the offices, accusing him of disrespecting the will of the people.

In 2013, Mr Kabogo refused to occupy offices, which previously hosted the defunct Kiambu Municipal Council, citing poor conditions.

He asked for six months to have them renovated.

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WORLD Three terror suspects arrested close to Kampala

BY NATION CORRESPONDENT in KAMPALA

Three people suspected to be terrorists have been arrested by police in Kyengera, Wakiso district, Central Uganda.

The trio was picked from a house in Kyengera, nine kilometres southwest of Kampala, in a police operation led

by Commissioner in charge of Organised Crime Francis Olungu.

The Inspector General of Police Gen Kale Kayihura who arrived at

the scene was expected to address a press conference on the arrests.

Security officers surrounded the rental units in a fence just near Gapco fuel station in Kyengera, where the trio was arrested as police comb for more evidence.

Scene of crime officers were already at work and it is alleged that the suspects had explosive materials in the house.

The arrest comes just days after Police said they arrested a man of Somali origin but based in Kenya

suspected to be an agent of the alShabaab militants.

The arrest was conducted at the weekend after students at Ark Hostel in Wandegeya, informed police of a suspicious man taking pictures of the hostel.

Security has been on high alert following attacks on a Kenyan university leaving 148, mostly students dead.

Mr Fred Enanga, the police spokesman, told Daily Monitor the suspect was being interrogated for his “suspicious actions.”

“He was found with pictures of the hostel and several pictures of warfare, including one in which he held a human head,” Mr Enanga said on Monday.

Police last Friday issued fresh terror alerts following an attack on Garissa University College in Kenya on April 2, which the al-Shaabab claimed responsibility.

Police warned that the attackers were now planning to harm Uganda whose soldiers have been fighting alShabaab in Somalia since 2007.

NEW GROUPING | Ex-vice president is to lead the splinter party to be known as Zanu People First

Mugabe’s former deputy main force behind creation of party Dreams of a split will come to grief, says minister

BY KITSEPILE NYATHI NATION Correspondent HARARE, Tuesday

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ired Zimbabwe vicepresident Joice Mujuru has been linked to a new political party following her expulsion from the ruling Zanu-PF last week.

Ms Mujuru, who was President Robert Mugabe’s deputy until last December was fired for allegedly plotting to assassinate the 91 year-old leader.

Zanu PF last week said it had been aware of the former vice president’s plot since 2008 and accused her of working with her husband, the late General Solomon Mujuru to usurp power.

According to reports today, Ms Mujuru would lead the splinter party to be known as Zanu People First and claims to be the original Zanu party.

President Mugabe’s party uses the Patriotic Front postfix.

Former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa, who was also expelled from the government and the ruling party, said they were mobilising all disgruntled former Zanu PF members to form a new party.

He said President Mugabe’s government had failed Zimbabweans and Ms Mujuru was the

There is no doubt that the person that will take Zimbabwe from the current political and economic mess is (Ms) Mujuru. The government has failed and the Look East policy only makes a few people rich’’ Didymus Mutasa, ex-presidential Affairs minister

Arab League and Igad to monitor Sudan polls KHARTOUM, Tuesday The Arab League and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in Eastern Africa (Igad) have announced participation in monitoring Sudan’s general election scheduled for April 13.

Mr Salah Halima, Arab League envoy to Sudan said in a press conference in Khartoum yesterday that their decision to monitor the elections was based on theoretical and practical assessment of the current situation in the country.

He noted that the new electoral law was issued after it had gained support and blessings of all political forces, adding that the League delegation met with several bodies including the Sudanese presidency, political parties participating in the elections and those boycotting it, civil society organizations and presidential candidates.

The Arab League diplomat disclosed that their observation team, composed of 33 monitors, will arrive in Khartoum on Tuesday, pointing that the AL has monitored 59 electoral processes in several Arab and African countries.

Meanwhile, the Igad envoy to Khartoum, Mr Mahmoud Abdallah said their team includes 30 monitors who will observe elections in eight polling centers including Khartoum, Omdurman, Khartoum North, Madani, Kosti, Shendi, Gedaref, El-Obied and Dongola. (Sudan Tribune)

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Former Zimbabwe’s vice-president Joice Mujuru and former Zanu-PF party secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa gesturing during closing of the Zanu-PF national annual conference in Chinhoyi in this December 15, 2013 photo. only one who can rescue the country, which has been suffering from an economic collapse since 2000.

“There is no doubt that the person that will take Zimbabwe from the current political and economic mess is (Ms) Mujuru,” Mr Mutasa told the Daily News.

“The government has failed and the Look East policy only makes a few people rich.”

The Zanu PF government has been promoting more economic ties with Asian countries after the West imposed sanctions on President Mugabe’s regime for alleged electoral theft and human rights violations.

The formation of a new party

comes at a time when Zimbabwe’s opposition has been weakened by internal fights.

However, Information minister Jonathan Moyo rubbished reports of a split in Zanu PF saying it was not possible.”

“Media dreams of a split will come to grief not least because the nefarious pursuits of expelled malcontents in the wilderness cannot be rationally described as a split,” he said.

Ms Mujuru, whose husband died in a mysterious fire in 2011, became Zimbabwe’s first female vice-president in 2004.

She was believed to be leading a powerful faction in the ruling party that was jostling with another one led by her successor

Emmerson Mnangagwa to succeed President Mugabe.

Last month, Mr Mutasa and the party’s former spokesperson Rugare Gumbo filed High Court papers challenging their expulsion in a mass purge that also claimed the scalp of Ms Mujuru.

Mr Mutasa and Mr Gumbo said they were seeking to challenge the “unlawfulness of certain appointments and decisions that were made and of certain constitutional amendments that were made during the party’s congress”.

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Freed Dutch hostage arrives in Mali city

A Dutch hostage freed after being held by Al-Qaeda’s north African arm in Mali for more than three years arrived in the capital Bamako on Tuesday, shouting “freedom!” as he exited his plane. Train driver Sjaak Rijke, abducted while on holiday in Timbuktu in November 2011, was set free in a raid on AlQaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

by French special forces on Monday. He shouted “freedom!” as he emerged in jeans, a shirt and a cap. (AFP)

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PEACE PLEDGE | ‘Our sincere wish is to live in peace with ourselves and with our neighbours’

Somali president urges moderate clerics to wage war on extremism Attack on varsity campus in Garissa denounced

BY ABDULKADIR KHALIF NATION Correspondent MOGADISHU, Tuesday

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omalia’s president has urged moderate religious clerics to battle extremism.

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made the comments as he met at Villa Somalia, the state house in Mogadishu, with noted clergymen.

According to a statement released by Mr Daud Aweys, the presidential spokesman, discussions centred on the erroneous manner in which Islam is employed to inflict harm on innocent people.

All sides stated: “We all condemn the barbaric attack on Garissa University College (in Kenya) in which 148 innocent lives perished.”

President Mohamud who was accompanied by his prime minister, Mr Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, told the clerics that all efforts must be made to enlighten the Somali public on the authentic use of Islam.

“It is important that the religious understanding of our people is unadulterated, protecting it

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We all condemn the barbaric attack on Garissa University College (in Kenya) in which 148 innocent lives perished’’ Meeting statement

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Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud addressing a press conference at Villa Somalia, the complex in central Mogadishu that houses the Federal Government of Somalia. from harmful effects,” remarked the president.

He added, “Those who waged the assault on the university in Garissa employed Islam to forge hate and confrontation.”

“Our sincere wish is to live in peace with ourselves and with our neighbours.”

The clergymen promised to strengthen the spiritual understanding of the public by focusing on public awareness and recon-

ciliation. Those attending the meeting included Dr Bashir Ahmed Salad and Sheikh Nur Barood Gurhan, respectively the chairman and deputy chairman of the Hay’adda Ulimaa, the umbrella grouping of religious personalities in Somalia.

The meeting took place three days after the Al-Qaeda linked AlShabaab claimed the attack and the massacre of mainly students in Garissa, Kenya.

Ebola-hit Sierra Leone arrests 13 at unsafe burial: police FREETOWN, Tuesday Police in Ebola-hit Sierre Leone raided a funeral today and arrested 13 people suspected of organising an unsafe burial, risking spreading the disease, officers said.

Police superintendent Da Samah said “heavily-armed” police arrived just in time to stop a 50-year-old man being interred on the outskirts of Freetown after they were tipped off about the ceremony.

“We stopped the burial and we have put out an alert for an ambulance which eyewitnesses said brought the corpse to the cemetery,” he told AFP. “We arrested those present because there was no burial permit nor any documents relating to the burial.”

Health authorities in Freetown have recorded 3,832 of more than 10,000 Ebola deaths in the outbreak, which began in southern Guinea in December 2013 before spreading to Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Ebola, one of the deadliest viruses known to man, is spread only through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person showing symptoms such as fever or vomiting or the recently deceased. (AFP)

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WILDLIFE CLUBS OF KENYA COLLEGE

FREEDOM | Issue has caused a national debate

CENTRE FOR TOURISM TRAINING AND RESEARCH - CTTR

MAY 2015 INTAKE KENYA’S PREMIER COLLEGE IN HOSPITALITY AND WILDLIFE Applications are invited for the following courses at WCK- CENTRE FOR TOURISM TRAINING & RESEARCH (CTTR) at Lang’ata, Nairobi 1.

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Diploma in Sustainable Tourism and Wildlife Management - (DSTWM) Diploma in Hotel and Restaurant Management (DHRM) - (MOI UNIVERSITY) Diploma in Travel and Tour Guiding-(DTTG) - (MOI UNIVERSITY) Diploma in Tourism and Wildlife Management - (DTWM) Laundry and Housekeeping - (KNEC) Tourism and Hospitality Management - (KNEC) Entry Requirements: A minimum of C- (Minus) in KCSE and/or a Distinction or Credit from the Certificate course from CTTR for a Diploma in a relevant field from a recognised institution for the diploma courses.

Students who get a Distinction or Credit will get a credit transfer in recognized in Moi University and other recognized universities.

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Certificate Course in Tour Guiding and Administration (CTTR) - O level pass KCE Division II or KCSE C- (Minus) a good pass in English Language.

Craft Certificate in Tour Guiding and Travel Operations (KNEC) - A minimum of D+ (Plus) in KCSE. Certificate Course in Hotel and Restaurant Services. Must have a minimum of D+ (Plus) or equivalent in KCSE Bridging course for Diploma in Hotel & Restaurant Management and Certificate Course in Tour Guiding and Administration (CTTR) for applicants who DO NOT qualify for direct entry to the DHRM & DTWM. Must have a minimum of D+ (Plus) or equivalent in KCSE. Short Courses: Professional Techniques in Tour Guiding (KPSGA); Basic Cake Making Decoration and Pastry Making; Basic Cookery.

Foreign Languages: French, German and Spanish.

ALL Applications must be submitted by 6th MAY 2015 to: THE PRINCIPAL Centre for Tourism Training & Research (CTTR) Wildlife Clubs of Kenya (WCK) P.O. Box 20184, 00200 NAIROBI. Tel 0208067644; Mobile: 0726 214423 : 0724 656667 Email: cttr@wildlifeclubsofkenya.org Website: www.wildlifeclubsofkenya.org • Application forms are available at a non-refundable fee of Kshs. 1000 at WCK headquarters (off Langata Road near Bomas of Kenya).

• Applicants from upcountry should send a Bankers’ Cheque of Kshs. 1000 in favour of Wildlife Clubs of Kenya for application forms to be posted to them and clearly indicate the course they are applying for.

• ALL applications must be received at least one week before the start date of the course applied for.

• The application fee does not guarantee admission to CTTR. • DISTANCE LEARNING CLASSES AVAILABLE.

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Residents look at the damaged Horse Memorial in the southern South African city of Port Elizabeth yesterday. Soldier was pulled down, but the horse was undamaged.

Statue damaged in SA anti-colonial protest Years of democracy has yielded little for blacks after end of apartheid rule JOHANNESBURG, Tuesday

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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RECRUITMENT OF SNE DIPLOMA FULL TIME IN-SERVICE COURSE AT THE KENYA INSTITUTE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION (KISE) FOR THE YEAR 2015.

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All serving TSC teachers wishing to be considered for admission to KISE for the two year full time SNE Diploma in-service course are informed that application forms are now available and can either be down loaded from the Ministry of Education Website www.education.go.ke. Or from the nearest CDE’s /DEO’s offices. Duly completed application forms must be submitted personally by the applicant through the CDE’s /DEO’s by 6th June, 2015.

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Below 50 years of age at the time of registration. ii. Serving TSC teachers for at least five years. iii. Holders of PI certificate or P1 by promotion through Teacher Proficiency courses. iv. Be a Kenyan citizen Each applicant will be required to present in person during the registration the following documents: i.

Duly filled application forms in own handwriting (except for Visually impaired applicants) ii. Original and certified copies of academic certificate(s) iii. Original and certified copy of the letter of appointment by the TSC iv. Original and certified copy of professional teacher training certificate v. Original and certified copy of National Identity Card (both sides) or Passport. vi. Coloured passport size photograph taken within the last three months. vii. Original and certified copies of other relevant testimonials.

Admission letters for the successful candidates will be dispatched to the school where the applicant is currently deployed by the TSC. The registration exercise is conducted free of charge.

MARGARET O. OKEMO (Mrs) FOR: PRINCIPAL SECRETARY

nother colonial-era statue has been vandalised in South Africa amid growing protests against historic symbols honouring the white colonial era.

The memorial recognising the role of animals in the Anglo-Boer war more than a century ago was attacked on Monday in the southeastern city of Port Elizabeth.

Police said the bronze statue of a kneeling soldier offering a bucket of water to a horse was knocked down by supporters of the radical leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party. The soldier was pulled down, but the horse was undamaged.

South Africans are currently debating the status of colonial-era monuments after student activists at the University of Cape Town

succeeded in having a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes boarded up.

Police at Humawood station in Port Elizabeth said a man was today brought in for questioning but later released after the horse statue attack.

“We were acting on information brought by an eyewitness,” said station commander Brigadier Ronald Koll.

The Anglo-Boer war was fought between the British and two regions of Dutch settlers between 1889-1902, ending in victory for the British.

The new vandalism comes after a statue of an Afrikaner hero and former president of colonial South Africa, Paul Kruger, was desecrated at the weekend in the capital Pretoria.

Imposing statue

The imposing statue which has stood in the heart of the capital for over six decades was splattered with green pain. EFF supporters, whose party won six per cent of the vote in the 2014 general election, initially claimed responsibility, but later denied

involvement.

EFF leader Julius Malema last month called on his party supporters to tear down colonial-era statues.

The issue has caused a national debate: “I wouldn’t go up to the Nelson Mandela statue and spoil it with paint,” said Jaco Cronje, a businessman standing in front of the paint-splattered statue of the country’s fifth president Kruger in Pretoria.

The protests have gained traction in a country where over 20 years of democracy has yielded little for blacks, who today earn significantly less than whites and are more likely to be unemployed.

Constance Tjale, a 48-yearold waitress at Cafe Riche, a restaurant that looks out on the Kruger statue, showed AFP photos on her mobile phone of people wearing the red shirts of the Economic Freedom Fighters, splashing the statue with neon green paint on Sunday.

Pretoria’s mayor has also voiced support for the protesters calling for the statue to be moved from Church Square. (AFP)

Boko Haram talks to await Buhari swearing in YAOUNDE, Tuesday The summit of West and Central African leaders on the war against Boko Haram that was planned to take place in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, has been postponed until the swearing in of Nigeria’s President-elect Muhammadu Buhari.

The information was revealed on Monday by a source from Equatorial Guinea presidency which said the con-

ference initially scheduled to take place on April 8, may wait till Buhari’s swearing in later in May. The information was equally confirmed over the weekend by a source from the UN Regional Office in Central Africa based in Libreville, Gabon, which also hosts the headquarters of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS).

ECCAS which is comprised of Angola, Burundi, Cameroon,

the Republic of Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sao Tome and Principe and Chad, met in Yaounde on February 16 for an extraordinary summit of its Peace and Security Council.

The summit approved immediate disbursement of 100 million US dollars to Cameroon and Chad, the two member states currently involved in the fight against Boko Haram. (Xinhua)

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UKULIMA CO-OPERATIVE SAVINGS AND CREDIT SOCIETY LIMITED P.O.BOX. 44071- 00100, NAIROBI TEL: 2785000, 0720179991

TENDER NOTICE

KENYA TEA DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (MS) LTD Tel: +254 020 3227000 – 2 \ 2221441\2\3\4, Fax: +254 020 211240 E-mail: info@ktdateas.com\ Site: www.ktdateas.com

INVITATION TO TENDER Ukulima Sacco Society Ltd invites proposals for the following Consultancy services – feasibility Study on Micro Credit business to determine the need, feasibility, costs and benefits of engaging in micro credit business.

TENDER NO. UCSCS/1 /2015

ITEM DESCRIPTION PROVISION OF CONSULTANCY SERVICES OF CARRYING OUT MICRO CREDIT FEASIBILITY STUDY RE- ADVERTISEMENT

TENDER NO.

ITEM DESCRIPTION

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UCSCS/2 /2015

SALE OF UKULIMA SACCO SOCIETY LIMITED IN ELDORET – RURAL

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UCSCS/3 /2015

HOUSING ESTATE – HURUMA SALE OF MOTORVEHICLE – TOYOTA NZE, 2006 – KAW 482B

Tender documents detailing the requirements of the above tender may be obtained from the Society Procurement office located on the 4th floor of Ukulima Cooperative House upon payment of non- refundable fee of Kenya shillings one thousand shillings only (kshs 1000/-) . Payments shall be made in cash or bankers cheques at the Society’s FOSA located on the Ground floor of Ukulima Cooperative House

‘Global Leader in Processing of Quality Teas’

TENDER FOR DISPOSAL OF LAND- (RE-ADVERTISEMENT) TENDER DESCRIPTION

TENDER FOR DISPOSAL OF 200 ACRES OF LAND AT LAMURIA LOCATION IN LAIKIPA COUNTY BY NDIMA TEA FACTORY

TENDER REFERENCE TENDER FEE Non Refundable) MODE OF PAYMENT

KTDA/033/2015 Kshs 3,000 Cash or Bankers Cheque payable to KTDA Management Services Ltd, to be Deposited into the Agency’s Bank Account at any Family Bank branch- Account Number: 065000006090 Branch: KTDA Plaza – Corporate

Kenya Tea Development Agency (MS) Ltd on behalf of Ndima Tea Factory invites interested bidders for purchase of Agricultural land located in Kihoto area of Lamuria Location of Laikipia Central sub-county - Laikipia County.

Size and Location The area comprises 200 acres or thereabouts of three adjacent land parcels. They lie about 30Kms due south of Nanyuki Town 35Kms due north of Nyeri Town and about 11Kms from Narumoru Town off Nyeri Nanyuki Road. The land is a Kilometer or so past Kihoto Dispensary.

Interested eligible bidders may obtain Tender documents with details from the procurement office located at the 1st floor of KTDA Farmers Building, Moi Avenue Nairobi during working hours.

Prospective bidders may also download the tender documents from Ukulima sacco Society Ltd website : www. Ukulimasacco.coop

KTDA (MS) Ltd makes no representation regarding the title for or any other matters relating to the land including the environmental condition of the land to be sold. Responsibility for ascertaining these matters rests with the potential purchaser. The sale of the said land is subject to a reserve price.

Completed tender documents in a plain sealed envelope clearly marked “TENDER NO. UCSCS/01/2015” or TENDER NO. UCSCS/2 /2015 or TENDER NO. UCSCS/3 /2015 should be deposited in the Society’s Tender Box located at 2nd Floor on or before 21st April 2015 not later than 12.00 noon and should be addressed to:-

Sealed Bids clearly marked "Tender for Disposal of Land by Ndima Tea Factory" and the tender reference number should be addressed to;

THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER UKULIMA SACCO SOCIETY LTD P.O. BOX 44071 – 00100, NAIROBI Tenders will be opened immediately thereafter and bidders of their representatives are welcome to witness the opening in the Ukulima Sacco Boardroom situated at 2nd Floor

The Managing Director Kenya Tea Development Agency (MS) Ltd KTDA Farmers, Moi Avenue P O Box 30213-00100 Nairobi The bid documents should be deposited in the tender box at the reception on the ground floor, KTDA Farmers building, Moi Avenue, so as to be received not later than 9.30 AM on 28th April 2015 The successful purchaser will be required to pay the amount tendered plus cumulated taxes, if any, and the relevant land transfer fees.

Prospective purchasers are encouraged to view the land before bidding.

The Agency reserves the right to accept or reject any or all applications without the obligation to assign any reason for the decision BROWN M. KANAMPIU GROUP HEAD OF PROCUREMENT

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CRISIS | ‘War in Aden is on every street, in every corner’

Red Cross says situation in Yemen ‘catastrophic’ UN children agency says at least 74 minors killed since the conflict started ADEN, Tuesday

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he Red Cross warned today of a “catastrophic” situation in Yemen’s main southern city Aden, as loyalist forces battled rebels in the streets backed by shelling

by Saudi-led warships.

The Iran-backed Huthi Shiite rebels and their allies made a new push on a port in the central Mualla district of the city but were forced back by militia loyal to fugitive President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, witnesses said.

Naval forces of the Saudi-led coalition, which has carried out nearly two weeks of air strikes in support of Hadi’s beleaguered government , shelled rebel positions across the city, they added.

540 Death toll in the conflict

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A Pakistan woman relative embraces an evacuee from Yemen as they disembark from a Pakistan Navy ship on their arrival at Karachi port yesterday.

Spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen, Marie Claire Feghali, said that the humanitarian situation in all of Yemen is “very difficult...(with) naval, air and ground routes cut off.”

She described the situation in Aden as “catastrophic to say the least.” “The war in Aden is on every street, in every corner... Many are unable to escape,” she said.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said the situation was “worsening by the day,” with wounded people unable to

get to hospital because of the fighting. At least 10 people were killed in fighting in Aden overnight, medical and security sources said. That was on top of at least 53 people killed over the previous 24 hours.

Nationwide, more than 540 people have been killed and 1,700 wounded in fighting in Yemen since March 19, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.

The UN’s children agency UNICEF said at least 74 children had been confirmed killed. (AFP)

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

BARINGO COUNTY GOVERNMENT P.O BOX 53-30400, KABARNET: Email: kamnarok@baringo.go.ke

PUBLIC NOTICE

LAKE KAMNAROK NATIONAL RESERVE TASKFORCE Keturwo public meeting held on 19 th may, 2014 convened by H. E. The Governor Baringo County, led to the formation of the above Task force as per Article 186(1) of the constitution 2010 and Article 30 (2) of the county Government Act 2012. The members of the Task Force were gazetted on 24th December 2014 as per Gazette Notice No 9198.

In view of the above, the Task force invites former County Council of Baringo officers, Land and KWS officers and professionals in diaspora from the Seven affected Sub-locations to present their views and or written memorandum concerning the Lake Kamnarok National reserve. Any other interested organized groups are welcomed to present their views.

CONSULTATION PROGRAMME VENUE: KENYA SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT KABARNET DATE Thursday

TIME 9:00 AM - 1.00 PM

09.04.2015

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

TARGET GROUP Invited Former County Council of Baringo officers, land officers and KWS officers Professionals in diaspora from Barwessa ward and other interested organizations,

Presentation of written views are preferred than verbal.

Written views and memos can be forwarded to the Task force via the address and email above.

Prof. Chebutuk Rotich Chairman - Lake Kamnarok National Reserve Taskforce

Blair joins campaign with EU quit warning LONDON, Tuesday Former prime minister Tony Blair plunged into Britain’s general election fray today, sounding a warning about the dangers of the country leaving the EU. In a rare intervention in domestic politics, Blair claimed Prime Minister David Cameron’s planned referendum on European Union membership threatens the British economy.

Mr Blair headed the centre-left Labour Party from 1994 to 2007, leading them to three general election victories.

In June 2007, he stepped down as prime minister and resigned from British politics. He will not run in the May 7 election and is backing Labour leader Ed Miliband.

But Miliband has distanced himself from the Blair era, and many in the Labour party see the former prime minister as a liability due to unpopularity over Britain’s role in the invasion of Iraq.

Mr Blair’s statement came as centre-right Conservative leader Cameron pledged to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with the EU and then hold an in-or-out referendum on the outcome by the end of 2017.

American 115 claims world oldest person crown WASHINGTON, Tuesday

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Leaving Europe would leave Britain diminished in the world’’ Mr Tony Blair The possibility of leaving the EU would create job insecurity and leave a “pall of unpredictability hanging over the British economy”, Blair said in his former Sedgefield constituency in northeast England.

“Leaving Europe would leave Britain diminished in the world, do significant damage to our economy and, less obviously but just as important to our future, would go against the very qualities and ambitions that mark us out still as a great global nation. (AFP)

The honour of being the world’s oldest person has passed to a 115-year-old American following the death of a 116-year-old compatriot who held the title for just five days.

Jeralean Talley, who lives in the Detroit suburb of Inkster, Michigan, was born in the southern US state of Georgia on May 23, 1899 — making her exactly 115 years and 320 days old as of Tuesday.

She was declared the world’s oldest person by the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks those it calls “supercentenarians” — senior citizens who live past the age of 110.

She is also one of only three people still alive today with documented proof that they were born in the 1800s. The others reside in New York state and in Italy.

“I feel good,” Talley told Time magazine in a telephone call Monday. “I don’t feel sick.

I’m still trying to do the right thing is all.” Older people may exist, but the Gerontology Research Group says it needs to see firm evidence, like a birth certificate, for someone to make its list. (AFP)

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READY TO GO | He summons supporters and reporters to a speech

VISIT | Iran-Turkish meet

Rand Paul joins W. House race He follows Texan Ted Cruz who launched his candidacy with appeal to religious right

2010

The year Rand Paul was elected to the US Senate

LOUISVILLE, Tuesday

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XI am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government” PHOTO\AFP

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani (left) walks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during an official welcoming ceremony following the latter’s arrival at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran yesterday, for a one-day visit.

Mr Rand Paul

onservative US Senator Rand Paul announced today that he is running for his party’s nomination for the 2016 presidential race, making him the second major Republican to join the contest.

“I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government,” Mr Paul said on his campaign website.

Mr Paul, a conservative libertarian who was elected to the Senate in 2010 with strong support from the Tea Party movement, was expected to make a more formal announcement later in the day.

He summoned supporters and reporters to a speech at 1600 GMT in Louisville, Kentucky, where he has served as senator since January 2011.

PHOTO | AFP

Senator Rand Paul, R-KY, speaks during a discussion on reforming the criminal justice system at Bowie State University in Bowie, Maryland.

Paul follows Texan Ted Cruz, who launched his candidacy two weeks ago with an appeal to the religious right, among others.

Jeb Bush, brother of former president George W. Bush, leads in opinion polls for the primary elections, although he has yet to officially announce his candidacy.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton has a team and campaign machine in place, suggesting she will announce in the coming weeks.

In recent days, Paul’s team has left little doubt as to his presidential ambitions. A video released recently and hinting at a campaign slogan said: “One leader will stand up

to defeat the Washington machine and unleash the American dream.”

It was by defying the Republican “establishment” that Mr Paul, now 52, launched his political career in 2009. This was at the start of the anti-tax and small-government movement that would come to exercise a powerful influence within the Republican Party and come to be known as the Tea Party.

And it is by billing himself as a different kind of Republican leader that Paul will look both to rally ultra-conservatives during the primaries and then broaden the base of his party among young people, independents and minorities.

It will be a true high wire act. (AFP)

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY

NATIONAL COMPETITIVE TENDER TENDER NAME; SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF MOTOR VEHICLES; TENDER NO: MOICT/ONT/02/2014 – 2015

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The Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology invites sealed bids from eligible Tenderers for supply and delivery of various motor vehicles.

Interested eligible tenderers may obtain further information from and inspect the tender documents at Senior Assistant Director, Supply Chain Management Services office on 8th floor, Telposta Towers on Koinange Street, during normal working hours. Same can be accessed from our website www.information.go.ke.

A complete set of tender document may be obtained by interested tenderers upon payment of non- refundable fees of Kshs.2, 000 (Two thousand Shillings only) or Bank Cheque payable to Principal Secretary, Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology.

Completed tender documents are to be enclosed in; Plain sealed envelopes marked appropriately, Tender No: MOICT/ONT/02/2014 – 2015 and be deposited in the Tender Box at 8th Floor, Telposta Towers or be addressed to: The Principal Secretary Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology P.O Box 30025 – 00100 NAIROBI www.information.go.ke so as to be received on or before Wednesday 22nd April, 2015 at 11.00 am. (East African Time)

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Tenderers shall be required to furnish a Tender/Bid security as indicated in the invitation to Tender.

1.6

Prices quoted should be net inclusive of all taxes and delivery must be in Kenya Shillings and shall remain valid for 90 days from the date of Tender closing.

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Tenders will be opened immediately thereafter in the Presence of the Tenderers or their representatives who choose to attend in 9th floor boardroom, Telposta Towers. Late bids will not be accepted.

Head of Supply Chain Management Services For: Principal Secretary

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SEPYANA OIL EAST AFRICA LTD Samееr Africa Complеx P.O Box 41503, 00100, Nairobi Tеl. No. +254 736006516, +254 708 771053 www.sеpyana.com, salеs@sеpyana.com

Fіrm lubrісatеѕ mоtоrіng ѕсеnе wіth іntrоduсtіоn оf qualіtу lосallу-рrоduсеd оіlѕ Motorists given a wider choice

metric tonnes of lubricants and will manufacture bigger quantities neхt уear as it continues to claim a sizeable market share.

According to Mr. Poosti, the firm’s strategу is to claim a two to five per cent share of the oils market in Kenуa and Africa. “We are serious about using onlу qualitу base oil, additives, the training of our eхperts and ensuring our products undergo all the technical processes.

This уear, SepYana is seeking approval of its products from major truck and passenger car manufacturers. Besides, it is pursuing international certification for its oils manufacturing processes.

Bу EVANS ONGWAE eongwae@ke.nationmedia.com

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epYana Oil East Africa Ltd. has introduced a range of qualitу lubricants thus giving motorists a wider choice. Soon, these products blended in Kenуa will be available in most of Africa as the firm seeks to satisfу identified demand across the continent.

M. Reza Poosti, the firm’s Managing Director, reveals that the brand’s qualitу has alreadу won over customers as well as convinced motor makers like Volvo to endorse it.

Earlу last month, truck manufacturer Volvo gave approval for SepYana’s Radiх CT500 lubricant for use in the motor maker’s diesel engine vehicles.

“This, Mr. Poosti avers, is an achievement for Kenуa as a locallу manufactured product has been certified bу a European and respected international vehicle manufacturer as meeting high qualitу standards.

The firm owns and operates a Lube Oil Blending Plant (LOBP) in Nairobi, within the Sameer Africa Compleх with a total output capacitу of 20 million litres per уear. The LOBP serves to manufacture lubricants for the companу’s local and eхport market as well as offering hospitalitу blending services- third part blending. The LOBP and state-of-the-art laboratorу therein are an eхample of our commitment to world standards. Ηe saуs 90 to 95 per cent of lubricants are based on base oil with five to 10 per cent comprising the additives that are blended.

Mr. Poosti saуs with the backing of the firm’s Middle East principals who boast more than 30 уears’ eхperience in this business, the skу is the limit.

SepYana manufactures 30 products under seven categories and distributes them locallу as well as eхporting some to Zambia and Burundi. In the short term, it is targeting Tanzania, Ghana and Tunisia where the groundwork for eхporting to these countries is nearing completion.

Locallу, its products are available in the major towns of Kisumu, Thika, Nairobi and Kisii through distributors and there are plans to grow the network.

Reza Poosti Managing Director SepYana uses virgin base oil as opposed to recуcled base oil to attain the desired qualitу. Ηe said: “Our products are manufactured using the mineral and sуnthetic virgin base oils of different groups and high qualitу certified additive packages to meet all international standards. With a focus on African markets, SepYana Oil East Africa Ltd. is set to competitivelу position itself to provide high qualitу products and provide unlevelled support and services to its customers.

“With our well-equipped blending facilitу, we also deliver to other lubricant dealers’ hospitalitу blending services - third partу blending services.”

This уear, the firm plans to produce 10,000

Qualіtу: A dеlіbеratе еffоrt tо еnѕurе SерYana сlіеntѕ gеt valuе fоr mоnеу Bу EVANS ONGWAE eongwae@ke.nationmedia.com

countrу of origin before arrival into the countrу Once the raw material arrives at the companу, the laboratorу personnel Qualitу is not accidental at SepYana receives it for the analуsis after Oil East Africa. It is the outcome of a deliberate effort to ensure the verification bу procurement. Samples firm’s products consistentlу conform of these materials are then taken and stored in the laboratorу for a to set specifications locallу and given period and some of it used for internationallу so that theу give value blending of laboratorу scale samples to customers. before production commences. The Qualitу Assurance Officer Macharia Moses saуs this begins with the objective is to check and confirm raw materials. The procurement that the blending is in accordance to the formulation ratios. Once department onlу receives raw Moses Macharia this is ascertained, the production materials of the desired qualitу and QC/QA Officer department takes the confirmed this is ascertained through tests. After this, the received raw materials are formulation and re-produces it on allocated specific lot numbers and received in the a larger scale. The laboratorу is on its waу to ISO 17025 certification as it seeks to opens its doors for store.

An internal analуsis on the raw materials at other qualitative and quantitative analуsis with its the factorу is done even though pre-shipment modern instrumentation. certification is done bу a certified firm at the

In the factorу blend, process controls are monitored bу the Qualitу Assurance Manager, to ascertain, weight, sequence of addition, time for blending and formulation among other parameters are in accordance to production specifications.

After blending, a sample of the blended product is collected in triplicate an hour after blending and again after another hour and analуsis done before the product is released to the filling line. Sampling is done at the filling line to ensure that it has all the specifications intended for that particular product and that no cross contamination occurs as the product flows from the large capacitу tanks.

Once the products have been packed, the QC then collects random samples to confirm that all parameters have been met. Qualitу Assurance Staff do visual checks on the products to mention but a few, batch number verification, leakage checks, strapping, tapping and weight verification. The products once fullу confirmed are stamped bу the QAM and received in the ware house now readу for the market.

SEPYANA MANUFACTURES 30 PRODUCTS UNDER SEVEN CATEGORIES AND DISTRIBUTES TΗEM LOCALLY AS WELL AS EΧPORTING SOME TO ZAMBIA AND BURUNDI.

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SEPYANA OIL EAST AFRICA LTD Samееr Africa Complеx P.O Box 41503, 00100, Nairobi Tеl. No. +254 736006516, +254 708 771053 www.sеpyana.com, salеs@sеpyana.com

What рutѕ SерYana рrоduсtѕ waу ahеad оf thе соmреtіtіоn Bу EVANS ONGWAE eongwae@ke.nationmedia.com

used are high qualitу package additives that match international standards. epYana Oil EA Ltd. manufactures Production in-charge John Otanga all its lubricants at the lubricant saуs what sets the firm’s oils apart oil-blending unit. It uses high is superior formulation.

SepYana has a quite a huge qualitу raw materials, a modern blending capacitу of up to 20 blending sуstem and a well-trained million litres annuallу. This allows work force to achieve the highest the firm to process customer orders in a timelу and qualitative standards in its products for customer manner. Its storage capacitу can satisfaction. hold up to two million litres at a go. This ensures continuitу and John Otanga It blends lubricants at its availabilitу of enough materials.

Production Manager Sameer Park facilitу in Nairobi SepYana’s production conforms but imports, repackages sells to the internationallу accepted various tуpes of grease. and set out procedures. The firm’s equipment The firm’s main raw materials are base oils is well maintained bу a well thought-out and and oil blending additives. The confidence implemented preventive maintenance schedule and guarantee of SepYana’s products lies to ensure reproducibilitу and qualitу. Its filling in the qualitу of raw material. SepYana line is highlу automated with a total capacitу of products are made out of virgin base 15,000 litres per hour. oils supplied bу the best in the Euroasia According to Mr. Otanga, “the production and Middle East markets. The additives department is objectivelу focused to fulfill our customers’ needs in the right time and qualitу.”

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SерYana lubrісantѕ rесеіvеd wіth ореn armѕ Bу EVANS ONGWAE eongwae@ke.nationmedia.com

marketing team undertakes that have contributed to product acceptabilitу in the market.

Since entering into the retail market after SepYana has put up a few billboards in an successfullу introducing SepYana brand to endeavor to build customer confidence on the manufacturing sector, lubricant users the qualitу of the brand. This is besides other who mainlу comprise of mechanics and below-the-line advertisements through its motorist owners have received SepYana distributors. lubricants verу well. Theу have confirmed SepYana has so far recruited siх major that the qualitу is to their liking and we can distributors -two in Nairobi and Kisumu proudlу saу that now the brand has its loуal each, and one each in Thika and Kitengela. customers.

The firm is now targeting to have other So saуs Ms. Elizabeth Muigai, the firm’s distributors in the larger Mount Kenуa, Elizabeth Muigai Ηead of Sales and Marketing who confirms North Rift and Coast bу end of June 2015. that the petrol and diesel engine oils as well Ηead of Sales & Marketing Ms. Muigai saуs the firm “will also work with as those for motorcуcles have impressed independent petrol stations to ensure its customers and “the numbers continue to grow daу bу products are widelу available.” daу as awareness of our products sips into the market.”

The firm’s oil products are also available at Yana Tуre And to increase this awareness of SepYana’s high Centre Sameer Business Park and Yana Tуre Centre performance lubricants lubricants, greases, brake fluid Galleria mall as we also seek to partner with them to and coolants, her department is undertaking various provide service baуs too. Negotiations are ongoing with marketing strategies geared towards attaining a sizeable other private tуre centre owners in manу other locations market share for the companу. to have SepYana oil products sold in their facilities.

SepYana has conducted lubricant’s technical training for According to Ms. Muigai, there are plans to offer free car free to mechanics in Nairobi, Thika and Kisumu on the oil checks and advisorу services at designated locations features and benefits of its brand as well as imparting that will be widelу advertised for all lubricant users to them with knowledge on how to distinguish a good take advantage. “We will also provide service cards for lubricant. This is set to roll over to all the fortу seven motorists to use at all SepYana service baуs at discounted counties in the countrу. rates,” she added.

“Lubricants being a technical product, we simplifу our The companу has embarked on an efficient customer trainings to equip the mechanics with the crucial basics service provision in line with companу’s vision and and facts that would help them to distinguish qualitу mission of being the best in the region. In this regard, lubricants. We will go on until the end of the уear after customer queries and concerns are dealt with at a verу which we shall review and analуze the impact of this high level to deliver satisfaction. Our technical team is on training,” Ms. Muigai eхplained. “Since March, we are stand bу for anу customer support and technical advice training 200 mechanics everу month and the number on product use and application. is likelу to go up as the уear progresses. The companу We are confident that our brand has entered into the also gives the mechanics branded overalls and other market to deliver high performance lubricants and as promotional materials as part of brand awareness our slogan goes “More Power. More Life…” the brand will creation.” deliver nothing less than that.

The training is in addition to garage storms that the

Benefits of using SepYana offerings SepYana’s offering includes automotive lubricants, industrial lubricants and specialtу products like brake fluids and coolants.

1. ZoomEΧ –Petrol Engine oils benefits • Eхcellent detergencу and dispersancу.

• Fuel economу due to eхcellent lubrication.

• Good anti-wear and anti-oхidant properties • Multi-grade engine oil having eхcellent stabilitу 2. RadiΧ – Diesel Engine oils benefits • Longer Engine Life • Cleaning up dirt and sludge.

• Reducing the burn off.

• Eхcellent antioхidant, antirust properties • Improvement of oil consumption 3. AgriΧ- Tractor Engine oil benefits • Multifunctional Use: Single lubricant to satisfу the majoritу of agricultural applications around the farm.

• Engine Protection: this incorporates additives to control piston deposits, maintain high level of engine cleanliness and reduces wear so providing reliable performance.

• Thermal Stabilitу: Resistant to oil degradation and the formation of sludge at high operating temperatures.

• Gear Protection: Effective load carrуing capabilitу in transmission, gears and bearings giving long life and reliable performance.

• Wet Brake and power takeoff control: Eхcellent friction characteristics to minimize noise and maхimize efficiencу.

4. SparkΧ – Motorcуcle oil benefits • Speciallу formulated to avoid spark plug fouling.

• Thermal and oхidation stabilitу.

• Perfectlу adapted to unleaded fuel.

• Protection against pre-ignition problems 5. LithEΧ – Greases benefits • Long service life through eхcellent oхidation stabilitу • Good rust protection with AntiRust and Corrosion Additives • Performance additives to enhance the life & performance of the grease.

6. ΗуdrEΧ – Ηуdraulic oils benefits • The special anti-wear additive reduces wear and hence

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increases equipment life.

The rust and oхidation inhibitor additives provide best performance and reduce downtime.

The product is compatible with most pumps of modern hуdraulic sуstems. Ηigh oхidation stabilitу resist oil thickening providing eхtended oil service life.

The product is thermallу stable in modern hуdraulic sуstem working in eхtreme condition of load and temperature

7. GearEΧ – Gear Oils benefits • Provide eхcellent wear protection for wide range of gear tуpes • Provide eхcellent load carrуing and anti-friction characteristics • Formulated in wide range of viscositу to carter for various industrial applications • The high thermal stabilitу EP sуstem maintains clean gear and bearing surface 8. ComprEΧ – Compressor oils benefits • A longer interval between cleaning of valves, heat eхchangers parts and piping ensures lower maintenance cost.

• Less carbon and deposits formations reduce fire and eхplosion hazards.

• Single oil lubricates cуlinder and crankcase.

9. CoolEΧ – Coolant benefits • Low rate of depletion of the organic inhibitor ensures long term corrosion protection under all conditions • Eхcellent inhibitor sуstem protects wet liner from cavitation erosion, and provides eхceptional protection to aluminum surfaces under heat transfer conditions • Prolonged water pump life due to fewer dissolved solids due to its eхcellent corrosion protection 10.

UBF – Brake fluid benefits • Advanced inhibitor sуstem protects materials such as aluminum, brass, copper, zinc and tin from corrosion bу forming a protective laуer on the surface • Minimizes leakage due to its eхcellent seal swell and lubricitу characteristics • Outstanding thermal stabilitу minimizes fluid degradation and formation of harmful deposits thus maхimizing fluid life.

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BUSINESS SH64BN SAGA | Management says revelation does not affect local entity

Britam boss linked to Mauritius bank scandal on Ponzi scheme

BY RAMENYA GIBENDI @ramenyagib rgibendi@ke.nationmedia.com

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Sought to allay

Britam has, however, sought to allay fears of related party exposure in the scandal that touches on the county’s largest diversified financial services firm and which could be a source of concern to its 25,000 shareholders and investors.

The Nairobi Securities Exchange-listed firm said that while the two entities share directorship, Britam operations cannot be affected by the action by the Bank of Mauritius.

“There is common directorship between Britam and Bramer Bank Corporation. However, Britam is managed through an independent board of directors and management,” Britam company secretary Nancy Kariuki said in a statement issued in Nairobi yesterday.

Mr Rawat has been a director at Britam since late 2013 alongside his nephew, Mr Moussa Rawat.

The Bank of Mauritius, which regulates

BY NATION CORRESPONDENT The government has invited the public to contribute to the draft regulations on the development of conservation, access and benefit sharing of genetic resources. They have been given up to Friday to make suggestions before the proposed regulations are adopted.

Through an advertisement in the Nation yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture says the public should provide an input that will enrich the proposed draft rules on development of conservation, access and benefit sharing of genetic resources for food and agriculture regulations.

“Pursuant to the establishment of the Genetic Resources Research Institute (GeRRI) in Section 31 and the second schedule of the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Act 2013, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries has developed draft regulations. The ministry is desirous of engaging with stakeholders with the view of getting their comments and inputs to enrich the draft regulations,” the advert said.

Investment company says despite its director holding similar position in lender, management is totally different in Kenya

ritam has come out to dissociate itself from a multibillion scandal facing a Mauritius bank, in which the investment firm’s director and top shareholder, Mr Dawood Rawat, holds a similar position.

The Bank of Mauritius last week cancelled the licence of Bramer Banking Corporation Limited (BBCL), which is part of Mr Rawat’s Seaton Investment business over suspicion that the lender was running a high-scale Ponzi scheme.

The action is said to have resulted from a $693 million (Sh63.7 billion) scam, whose discovery led to a serious liquidity crisis for the lender.

State seeks views on genetic wealth rules

the country’s banking industry, said Mr Rawat was planning to transfer about Sh3.5 billion from Kenya to the troubled Bramer Bank Corporation on April 4, according to press reports in the island nation.

“Bramer Bank Corporation is not a shareholder of Britam Kenya,” said Mrs Kariuki, who sought to assure investors and customers that there was no party exposure

There is common directorship between Britam and Bramer Bank Corporation. However, Britam is managed through an independent board of directors and management”

to Britam in relation to the troubles facing Bramer Bank Corporation.

Mr Rawat was the single largest shareholder of Britam as of last year, with a 20.3 per cent stake in the diversified financial services group, followed by Mr Peter Munga, at 16.99 per cent, and Mr Jimnah Mbaru, at 10.28 per cent Other top five shareholders include Ms Jane Michuki, Equity Bank chief executive James Mwangi and Britam boss Benson Wairegi, who collectively have 19.81 per cent.

Mr Rawat, whose stake in Britam Kenya is estimated at Sh10 billion, has been a non-executive director of the troubled Mauritius bank since April 2008.

Reuters news agency quoted the Mauritius Prime Minister, as saying that The Bank of Mauritius had since appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as receivers for Bramer Bank Corporation.

Benefit sharing

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Britam Group shareholders at a past annual general meeting. The investment firm has denied any links with a scandal-hit Mauritius bank despite shared directorship.

Britam statement

The draft regulations include the structure, functions and operations of the Genetic Resources Research Institute, conservation and use, access and benefits sharing of the wealth. They also seek to domesticate international treaties and conventions and align them with the Constitution.

Genetic resources are defined as any material of plant, animal, microbial, or other origin containing functional units of heredity.

They may take the form of seed collections stored in banks, living collections in botanical gardens or field gene banks, animal breeding lines maintained in breeding programmes or gene stores.

Germplasm collections can range from collections of wild species to elite domesticated breeding lines that have undergone extensive human selection and breeding.

State-owned fibre optic cable not viable, says auditor-general

BY NATION CORRESPONDENT The Auditor–General has questioned the economic viability of a government-owned terrestrial fibre cable.

An audit revealed that by last year, more than Sh12.5 billion had been used to finance the National Optic Fibre Backbone Infrastructure (NOFBI) project. Over Sh2 billion was paid as advance fees to contractors, management fee, commitment cost,

operations and maintenance to Telkom Kenya.

“NOFBI project is not generating sufficient revenue to maintain its own operating costs; taxpayers are also being subjected to repaying the concessional loans received from China to finance the project, totalling over $110 million ($37 million for Phase I and $72.5 million) for Phase II, plus additional loan management fees,” Auditor-General Edward Ouko said in a statement to Parliament.

Despite the billions spent on the project, the cost of the Internet in Kenya remained higher than the UN target for developing countries.

County government offices are still using modems.

NOFBI Phase I was implemented between 2007 and 2009, covering 5,000 kilometres along major roads in central, western, coast and northeastern regions for use by the counties. The second phase is ongoing and entails adding 2,100 kilometres to

improve network reliability, provide wider bandwidth and expand e-government services.

Mr Ouko accused the ICT ministry of having failed to create awareness about the existence of the cable, which led to insufficient use of its extra capacity. No income was generated in the long-run, subjecting taxpayers to heavy financial burdens, he states.

The ministry, however, said in a statement that through the Universal Service Fund, it would facilitate

the expansion of the broadband reach to the counties and marginalised areas.

It said it would review its current contract with Telkom Kenya, with a view to making it more robust or terminate it and seek new cable managers.

The ministry also plans to increase uptake of the fibre by attracting transit traffic from neighbouring countries through the Northern Corridor arrangement.

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PERFORMANCE | Statistics paint gloomy picture of sector

LEATHER | Rabbit the softer option

Number of tourists flying in falls by half Both JKIA and Moi airports record low entries during the month of January, mainly blamed on travel advisories

BY YVONNE KAWIRA @YvonneKawira ymurori@ke.nationmedia.com

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he number of tourists arriving through the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi fell by almost half in January.

Data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics shows 40,846 arrivals, down from the 75,906 recorded in January 2014. This translates to a 46 per cent drop. JKIA accounts for the bulk of tourist arrivals and is used as an indicator of the general health of the industry.

Arrivals through Moi International Airport in Mombasa were worse, at 49 per cent over the same period to 10,107, compared to the 19,853 recorded in January last year.

The sector is grappling with challenges that continue to take a toll on its performance despite efforts by its marketing arm - Kenya Tourism Board - to reassure source markets.

Tourism Cabinet Secretary Phyllis Kandie has acknowledged that the coastal destination is especially passing through trying times.

“We are very much aware that Mombasa is suffering… it has been

BY NATION CORRESPONDENT

very difficult even for international institutions based locally to go to Mombasa,” Ms Kandie said at a press recent briefing.

The sector’s stakeholders have over the time blamed negative publicity from source markets on reports of insecurity in Kenya causing panic and cancellations among would-be visitors.

The UK Government recently issued a fresh travel advisory against major parts of the coastal region as well as other parts of the country citing terrorism threats. The move has since been faulted by both the government and the private sector.

The situation worsened last week when the country’s image was once more severely dented after terrorists launched an attack on Garissa University College, which claimed nearly 150 lives.

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The first batch of the Sh11 billion corporate bond issued by East African Breweries Limited (EABL) have been a huge attraction for investors with an eye on higher yields.

The three-year commercial paper, through which the beer maker raised Sh5 billion, drew bids amounting to Sh9 billion, representing an oversubscription of 80.88 per cent.

EABL Group Managing Director Charles Ireland said in an e-mail response that the money raised would be put to capital expenditure and also used for “general commercial purposes”.

“The commercial paper was a short-term debt instrument, which enabled EABL to access cheaper credit compared to traditional bank debt. We reviewed our funding needs and concluded that a medium-term note programme was more in line with our requirements,” Mr Ireland said.

Analysts have attributed the oversubscription of the EABL’s commercial paper to the higher return than the government’s three-year bonds. EABL’s bond has an interest rate of 12.25 per cent per year.

Investors will be allocated only 55.285 per cent of the bid amount of Sh9.05 billion.

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ENERGY | Good news for consumers as they reap benefit

Cooking gas prices hit five-month low A 13-kilogramme cylinder is now selling at Sh2,800, down from Sh3,111

BY IMMACULATE KARAMBU @ikarambu ikarambu@ke.nationmedia.com

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he price of cooking gas has dropped to a five-month low. In February, a 13-kilogramme cylinder retailed at Sh2,846, down from Sh3,111 last September, which was also the highest price in the last two years, according to data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.

The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has attributed this to a sharp decline in global oil prices last year as well as an oversupply.

“Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) prices are purely market-driven at the moment and apart from the declined crude oil prices, other factors such as stiff competition among

market players could be at work,” the ERC said in a statement issued in Nairobi yesterday.

The price of cooking gas is currently unregulated as is the case with other petroleum products, leaving it to the market forces of demand and supply.

7,500 Quantity in metric tonnes of cooking gas consumed in December last year, according to statistics bureau Last year, the regulator had hinted at the possibility of putting it under its belt, but the plan appears to have been shelved as the ERC is currently concerned with putting in place a legal framework that will increase the consumption of the product.

“There is an ongoing debate on how to make LPG more accessible because it has a huge potential locally,”

ERC director-general Joseph Ng’ang’a said.

Regulation of cooking gas prices has been hindered by government failure to adopt a centralised system for procuring the product, more than a year after rules meant to guide the process were drafted.

High prices resulting from individual settings by dealers and the initial cost of acquiring LPG equipment have been blamed for the low uptake.

ELECTRONICS | Memory chips boost Samsung earnings

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A pedestrian walks past a billboard for Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge at a Samsung Electronics shop in Seoul yesterday. The company made better-than-expected profits for the first quarter, with rising demand for memory chips helping offset slumping smartphone sales.

Ranks low in consumption

According to the KNBS, the consumption of cooking gas increased between last November and December from 7,000 to 7,500 tonnes.

Kenya ranks low in Africa in the consumption of cooking gas at two kilogrammes per capita compared to the continent’s average of three kilogrammes.

Data from the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum shows that LPG currently accounts for just 11 per cent of the country’s energy mix with, an annual consumption of 80,000 tonnes.

Green power a boost to farming, says FAO

BY NATION CORRESPONDENT Kenya is among countries with a big chance to develop farming to achieve food security following a renewed focus on geothermal energy. A new report says the power can be used to process harvests to ensure a long shelf life.

Released yesterday by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United

Nations, it says green power provides “unique opportunities for cost-efficient, sustainable food production and processing”.

Drying can prolong the life of nutritious foods such as fish and vegetables and make it available year-round, the report adds. It lists Kenya among countries that have much to gain from harnessing steam energy for agriculture. “It’s an energy source that’s renew-

able, clean and low-cost once you’ve made the initial investment to harness it. By using a clean energy source, you’re not only addressing cost, but also the environmental impacts of food production and processing,” FAO senior agribusiness economist Carlos da Silva said.

The report says Kenya is among countries that have much to gain from harnessing steam energy for agriculture.

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

COUNTY GOVERNMENT OF KIAMBU

COUNTY ASSEMBLY OF BUNGOMA PUBLIC HEARINGS IN THE MATTER OF CONSIDERATION BY THE COUNTY ASSEMBLY OF BUNGOMA-THE ELIGIBILITY OF MS TERESA NAKHUNGU BARASA TO HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE

ADDENDUM to Open National Tenders appearing in the daily newspapers Monday 30th March 2015.

This is to inform all firms interested in submitting tenders as advertised in the Daily Nation issue of 30th March 2015 that the closing date deadline has been extended to 17th April 2015 at 12:00 Noon.

A. 1.

2.

Article 196 (1) (b) of the Constitution of Kenya (2010) mandates the County Assembly to facilitate public participation and involvement in the legislative and other business of the Assembly and its committees.

A petition challenging the eligibility of Ms Teresa Nakhungu Barasa to hold Public office has been presented to the County Assembly of Bungoma pursuant to sections 88 and 89 of the County Governments Act. The County Assembly in its resolution on 1st April 2015 pursuant to Interim County Assembly Standing Order no 154(1) formed a Select Committee to look into the allegations contained in the petition.

It is notified for the general Public that the Select Committee will hold Public hearings between 15th April and 17th April 2015 from 9.00am at K.I.E hall Bungoma town to look into the allegations.

Members of the public are invited to submit written memoranda on the matter to: The Clerk to County Assembly, P.O Box 1886-50200 BUNGOMA. OR Copies of the memoranda can also be delivered to County Assembly of Bungoma or email to bungomacountyassembly@gmail.com to be received on or before Monday April 13th 2015 at 5.00 p.m.

J.K.O MOSONGO CLERK TO COUNTY ASSEMBLY OF BUNGOMA

TENDER NO: KCG/HEALTHSERVICES/24/2014-2015-Proposed Construction of Community Life Centers

The bid security shall be equivalent to 2% of the bid sum as quoted in the price schedule.

The bids are to be deposited in the tender boxes located outside room 15B on the ground floor of the temporary headquarters of County Government of Kiambu, Thika Sub-County or to reach the County Secretary Kiambu County Government P.O. Box 2344 00900 Kiambu on or before the deadline of the submission date as captured in this addendum.

B.

TENDER NO: KCG/HEALTHSERVICES/32/2014-2015 Provision of Hospital Catering

The validity of the tender document is 120 days.

C.

1.

2.

TENDER NO: KCG/HEALTHSERVICES/29/2014-2015-The Supply, Implementation And Commissioning Of An Integrated Health Management And Information System, With Procurement And Human Resource Modules

The bid security shall be equivalent to 2% of the bid sum as quoted in the price schedule.

The bids are to be deposited in the tender boxes located outside room 15B on the ground floor of the temporary headquarters of County Government of Kiambu, Thika Sub-County or to reach the County Secretary Kiambu County Government P.O. Box 2344 00900 Kiambu on or before the deadline of the submission date as captured in this addendum.

D.

TENDER NO: KCG/HEALTHSERVICES/30/2014-2015 The Supply, Implementation And Commissioning Of A Hospital Management And Information System For Level 2 And Level 3 Hospitals

The tender number of this tender isTENDER NO: KCG/HEALTHSERVICES/30/2014-2015 E.

OTHER TENDERS

The following tenders’ submission date has been extended to Friday 17th April 2015 at 12.00 Noon TENDER NO: KCG/HEALTHSERVICES/25/2014-2015 TENDER NO: KCG/HEALTHSERVICES/26/2014-2015 TENDER NO: KCG/HEALTHSERVICES/27/2014-2015 TENDER NO: KCG/HEALTHSERVICES/28/2014-2015 TENDER NO: KCG/HEALTHSERVICES/31/2014-2015 TENDER NO: KCG/HEALTHSERVICES/33/2014-2015 TENDER NO: KCG/HEALTHSERVICES/34/2014-2015 TENDER NO: KCG/HEALTHSERVICES/35/2014-2015 ALL OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE TENDERS REMAIN THE SAME. The terms and conditions for TENDER NO: KCG/HEALTHSERVICES/36/2014-2015 remains unchanged.

FREDRICK M. KITEMA COUNTY SECRETARY

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Manufacturing & Allied

NAIROBI SECURITIES EXCHANGE Last 12 Mths High Low

Security

Prices Yesterday

Agricultural

100.00 26.00 346.00 110.00 180.00 120.00 1,185.00 620.00 18.505 11.50 319.00 240.00

Eaagads Ord 1.25 Kakuzi Ord.5.00 Kapchorua Tea Co Ord 5.00 The Limuru Tea Co. Ord 20.00 Rea Vipingo Plantations Ord 5.00 Sasini Ltd Ord 1.00 Williamson Tea Kenya 5.00

14.15 280.00

31.00 8.00 5.40

Car & General (K) Ord 5.00 Marshalls (E.A.) Ord 5.00 Sameer Africa Ord 5.00

Banking

18.45 15.30 155.00 104.00 280.00 216.00 63.00 31.00 55.00 33.25 147.00 120.00 64.50 42.25 34.00 22.25 85.00 55.00 357.00 290.00 25.00 17.10

Barclays Bank Ord 0.50 CFC Stanbic of Kenya Holdings Ord.5.00 Diamond Trust Bank Ord 4.00 Equity Bank Ord 0.50 Housing Finance Co Ord 5.00 I &M Holdings Ltd Ord 1.00 KCB Ord 1.00 NBK Ord 5.00 NIC Bank Ord 5.00 StandardChartered Ord 5.00 Co-op Bank of Kenya Ord 1.00

Commercial & Services

8.50 13.50 30.75 325.00 247.00 47.50 49.50 15.60

4.15 7.60 7.90 225.00 40.00 26.25 32.00 8.00

Express Ord 5.00 Hutchings Biemer Ord 5.00 Kenya Airways Ord 5.00 Longhorn Kenya Ord 1.00 Nation Media Group Ord. 2.50 ScanGroup Ord. 1.00 Standard Group Ord 5.00 TPS EA (Serena) Ord 1.00 Uchumi Supermarket Ord 5.00

Construction & Allied

95.00 214.00 165.00 17.00 110.00

76.00 135.00 83.00 13.50 51.00

ARM Cement Ord 1.00 BamburiCement Ord 5.00 Crown Paints Kenya Ord 5.00 E.A.Cables Ord 0.50 E.A.Portland Cement Ord 5.00

Energy & Petroleum

13.15 10.50 18.50 7.50 32.00 23.00

8.70 7.90 12.85 5.30 22.00 13.00

KenGen Ord 2.50 KenolKobil Ltd Ord 0.05 KP&LC Ord 2.50 KP&LC 4% Pref.20.00 KP&LC 7% Pref.20.00 Total Kenya Ord 5.00 Umeme Ltd Ord 0.50

Shares

33.75 280.00 130.00 1,124.00 27.50 14..35 280.00

200 20,000

12.00 5.75

49.50 12.00 5.65

4,400 6,100

16.45 126.00 234.00 49.50 37.25 127.00 61.00 23.50 57.50 336.00 21.00

16.55 126.00 239.00 51.00 37.50 127.00 60.50 24.00 55.50 338.00 21.00

636,400 9,000 3,300 1,145,800 92,100 5,200 3,168,200 13,500 15,800 1,700 324,700

5.60

5.60 20.25 7.95 8.65 235.00 46.00 35.75 33.75 10.50

7,500 78,100 46,000 7,300 12,900 1,700 6,100 31,400

78.50 159.00 15.50 59.00

10.90 9.05 17.40 26.00 19.00

80.00 159.00 119.00 15.95 59.00

10.85 9.00 17.45 5.30 5.50 24.25 19.00

2,300

2,200 80,600 1,400

111,700 1,857,000 36,400 4.800 1,400

British American Investments Co.0.10 CIC Insurance Group Ord.1.00 Jubilee Holdings Ord 5.00 Kenya Re Corporation Ord 2.50 Liberty Kenya Holdings Ord 1.00 Pan Africa Insurance Ord 5.00

Investment

84.50 10.85 30.00

35.00 2.50 17.00

Centum Investment Co Ord 0.50 Olympia Capital Holdings Ord 5.00 Trans-Century LtdOrd 0.50

Investment Services

28.00

15.00

Nairobi Securities Exchange. Ord 4.00

26.00 9.50 570.00 18.60 25.00 128.00

26.00 9.80 570.00 18.80 25.25 125.00

60.50 5.65 18.10

59.50 5.80 18.55

19.65

19.90

921,800

213.600 200 14,400 3,900 200

2,900

370,000 4,700

115,400

Safaricom Ltd Ord. 0.05

UNIT TRUSTS

11.10 133.00 800.00 21.00 321.00 3.90 112.00 2.30 43.75

1,175,200 2,500

16.60

25,345,600

15.90

5,800 31,800 16,200 5,700

Growth & Enterprise Market Segment (GEMS)

13.75 11.00 Atlas Development & Support Services 8.00 Flame Tree Group Holdings Ord. 0.825 14.00 3.00 Home Afrika Ltd Ord. 1.00 5.80 Kurwitu Ventures Ltd Ord. 100.00 1,500 1,500

11.40 9.45 3.40

11.40 9.25 3.25 1,500.00

1,400 33,100 341,500

NSE ALL SHARE INDEX (NASI)-01st Jan 2008=100 Down 2.24 points to close at 171.15 NSE 20-SHARE INDEX- (1966=100) Down 17.10 points to close at 5179.76

BANK RATES ABC Barclays

Equity NBK KCB CBA CFC Stanbic

Insurance 40.00 16.40 7.50 12.40 599.00 301.00 21.00 16.00 26.00 15.10 142.00 101.00

11.75

Co-op

7.75 8.55 240.00 46.75 33.25 34.00 10.50

A.Baumann & Co. Ord 5.00 B.O.C Kenya Ord 5.00 British American Tobacco Kenya Ord 10.00 799.00 Carbacid Investments Ord 5.00 20.75 East African Breweries Ord 2.00 324.00 Eveready EA Ord 1.00 3.90 Kenya Orchards Ord 5.00 Mumias Sugar Co. Ord 2.00 2.20 Unga Group Ord 5.00 43.50

Telecommunication & Technology

17.50

Automobiles & Accessories

62.00 13.60 9.40

Previous

165.00 123.00 1050.00 521.00 37.00 19.60 355.00 250.00 2.65 5.35 192.00 4.40 3.85 1.35 56.50 22.00

GulfAfrican FCB Prime

Euro 99.13 99.44 99.51 99.91 101.30 101.56 99.97 100.22 101.52 101.69 100.38 100.78 100.50 101.00 101.36 101.60 101.35 101.47 106.00 106.50 99.15 99.65

buy sell buy sell buy sell buy sell buy sell buy sell buy sell buy sell buy sell buy sell buy sell

CBK RATES 1 US Dollar 1 Sterling Pound 1 Euro 1 South African Rand Ksh/Ush Ksh/Tsh 1 Ksh/Rwanda Franc Ksh/Burundi Franc 1 UAE Dirham 1 Canadian Dollar 1 Swiss Franc 100 Japanese Yen 1 Swedish Kroner 1 Norwegian Kroner 1 Danish Kroner 1 Indian Rupee 1Hong Kong Dollar 1 Singapore Dollar 1 Saudi Riyal 1 Chinese Yuan 1 Australian Dollar

$ 92.30 92.50 92.35 92.55 92.65 92.85 92.25 92.40 92.45 92.65 92.55 92.75 92.70 93.00 92.65 92.85 92.75 92.85 91.50 91.70 92.20 92.70

£ 136.42 136.81 137.13 137.67 138.00 138.35 136.45 136.77 137.97 138.22 137.67 138.07 137.70 138.30 138.19 138.49 138.09 138.25 138.80 139.40 136.65 137.15

Mean 92.7750 138.3517 101.3344 7.8723 32.2825 19.9947 7.4266 16.8150 25.2586 74.3866 96.8576 77.5970 10.8282 11.6782 13.5579 1.4890 11.9677 68.5091 24.7327 14.9838 71.4275

University Way, Anniversary Towers, 18th Floor P.O Box 69489 00400 Nairobi Tel: 0711052000

C$ 72.39 73.25 74.32 74.52 72.92 73.10 74.05 74.24 73.92 74.32 73.50 74.00 74.35 74.52 74.40 74.49 75.70 76.20 72.60 73.00

SF 94.81 95.12 95.18 95.57 96.84 97.07 95.55 95.80 97.09 97.35 96.08 96.48 94.30 96.30 96.85 97.07 96.85 97.00 105.00 105.60 95.00 95.50

IR 1.47 1.48 1.48 1.48 1.47 1.49 1.47 1.48 1.49 1.49 1.48 1.48 1.47 1.49 1.48 1.49 1.48 1.49 1.30 1.60 1.47 1.48

JY 76.92 77.15 77..15 77.45 77.47 77.66 76.93 77.10 77.70 77.88 76.93 77.33 77.00 77.60 77.51 77.68 77.57 77.67 77.70 78.40 77.00 77.50

Buy 92.6889 138.2172 101.2261 7.8623 32.1448 19.9222 7.3766 16.6916 25.2345 74.3057 96.7424 77.5120 10.8163 11.6615 13.5435 1.4875 11.9566 68.4404 24.7085 14.9662 71.3334

ZR 7.60 7.64 7.63 7.66 7.69 7.97 7.59 7.63 7.83 7.86 7.72 7.92 7.80 7.90 7.86 7.95 7.85 7.87 7.70 8.30 7.65 7.85

Selll 92.8611 138.4861 101.4428 7.8823 32.4203 20.0671 7.4766 16.9384 25.2828 74.4676 96.9728 77.6820 10.8402 11.6949 13.3763 1.4905 11.9788 68.5777 24.7570 15.0013 71.5216

Email: procurement@helb.co.ke Website: www.helb.co.ke

HIGHER EDUCATION LOANS BOARD (HELB)

TENDER NOTICE ADDENDUM No.2: Supply, Installation and Commissioning of CCTV Camera System.

Tender No. RBA/TENDER/CCTV/613/202/15 The Retirement Benefits Authority (RBA), established pursuant to the provisions of the Retirement Benefits Act (1997), is a customer focused organization that prides itself in its service delivery. To improve its office premises security, the Retirement Benefits Authority intends to commission a reputable firm to; Bidders are requested to take note of the clarifications in the Addendum No. 2.

The tender opening date has been moved to 20th April, 2015 at 10.00 am from 7th April, 2015. Addendum No. 2 may be downloaded from the IFMIS SUPPLIER PORTAL and the RBA website www.rba.go.ke for free. Completed tender documents are to be enclosed in plain sealed envelopes marked with tender reference number and name. The documents should be deposited in the Tender Box at The Retirement Benefits Authority, Rahimtulla Towers, 14th Floor, Upper Hill Road, Nairobi or be addressed and posted to the Chief Executive Officer, Retirement Benefits Authority Rahimtulla Towers, 13th Floor, P. O. Box. 57733 00200, NAIROBI so as to be received on or before 20TH April, 2015 at 10.00 a.m. Registered Youth, Women and Persons with Disabilities are encouraged to participate.

INVITATION TO TENDER PROVISION OF GENERAL INSURANCE COVERS

Money Market Funds African Alliance Kenya Shilling Fund Old Mutual Money Market Fund British-American Money Market Fund Stanlib Money Market Fund CBA Market Fund CIC Money Market Fund Zimele Money Market Fund Amana Shilling Fund ICEA Money Market Fund Madison Asset Money Market Fund GenCap Hela Fund UAP Money Market Fund Pan Africa Pesa Fund

Daily Yield Effective Annual Rate Kenya Shilling 6.89% 7.11% Kenya Shilling 7.41% 7.67% Kenya Shilling 10.87% 11.48% Kenya Shilling 9.73% 10.17% 8.77% 9.11% Kenya Shilling Kenya Shilling 11.25% 11.92% Kenya Shilling 9.0% 9.31% Kenya Shilling 10.69% 11.23% Kenya Shilling 10.86% 11.47% Kenya Shilling 9.90% 10.36% Kenya Shilling 11.63% 12.15% Kenya Shilling 10.72% 11.32% Kenya Shilling 10.46% 11.03%

Fixed Income Funds/Equity Funds/Balanced Funds African Alliance Fixed Income Fund CIC Fixed Income Fund Standard Investment Income Fund UAP Enhanced Income Fund African Alliance Kenya Equity Fund ICEA Equity Fund British-American Equity Fund CBA Equity Fund CIC Equity Fund Old Mutual Equity Fund Stanlib Equity Fund Madison Asset Equity Fund GenCap Hisa Fund African Alliance Managed Fund British-American Managed Retirement Fund ICEA Growth Fund Amana Growth Fund British-American Balanced Fund CIC Balanced Fund Old Mutual Balanced Fund/Toboa Madison Asset Balanced Fund Pan Africa Chama Fund Amana Balanced Fund Zimele Balanced Fund Stanlib Balanced Fund GenCap Eneza Fund GenCap Iman Fund Stanlib Bond Fund B1 Stanlib Bond Fund A Old Mutual East Africa Fund British American Bond Plus Fund GenCap Hazina Fund ICEA Bond Fund Old Mutual Bond Fund UAP High Yield Bond Fund Pan Africa Pata Fund

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Buy 11.35 9.17 94.91 11.20 209.56 156.48 215.86 172.27 14.50 419.36 191.52 52.60 141.18 22.80 140.94 145.09 127.29 196.48 14.33 164.45 65.86 10.73 126.73 6.33 131.67 134.13 119.53 100.46 99.78 161.90 137.57 114.07 98.05 100.09 10.78 10.27

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Sell 10.98 9.40 95.85 11.76 196.80 166.38 222.72 172.27 15.27 449.33 191.52 55.84 136.23 21.47 142.14 156.63 127.29 202.23 15.01 175.12 69.49 11.06 126.73 6.52 131.67 129.44 113.56 100.46 99.78 171.34 140.37 110.08 96.32 102.47 10.78 10.59

82.33 0.3777 177 7.15 0.708 1512 1.212 0.38494 3.6412 3.7508 159.95 1.663 3.6728

MWIGIKI FARM COMPANY LIMITED

NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING

TENDER NO. HELB/T/14/2014-2015

The Higher Education Loans Board invites sealed tenders from interested, eligible and registered Insurance Brokers for the Provision of the General Insurance Covers for financial year 2015/2016 and 2016/2017.

For the detailed advertisement and respective tender document outlining the description of the services required, instructions on the submission of the tender and the tender closing date please visit our website www.helb.co.ke - Procurement/tenders or visit the Procurement offices on 18th floor, Anniversary Towers during normal office hours.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 9th Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of the Company will be held at Mwigiki Farm Timau, on Thursday 30th April 2015 at 9.30a.m. to conduct the following business:1. To receive, consider and if thought fit to approve the accounts for the year ended 30th June 2014 together with the Directors and Auditor’s reports thereon.

2. To consider and approve the Directors’ remuneration.

3. To appoint Auditors of the company, according with section 159 (2) of the Companies Act (Cap 486) and authorize the directors to fix their remuneration.

4. Election of directors of the company.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD

JOHN KENNEDY OMANGA COMPANY SECRETARY Dated at Nairobi this 8th day of April 2015.

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Proposed

RAF International University is an upcoming higher educational institution that aims to produce leaders with scientific and academic excellence that are able to contribute to building societies in urban and rural areas with values of compassion, love and mercy.

RAF International University is in search of a distinguished individual with an earned Doctorate degree or equivalent qualification and an exceptional track record in academic and leadership for the position of the Vice Chancellor.

Requirements: For appointment to the position of the Vice Chancellor, applicant must: • Be a Professor or Associate Professor, with an earned Doctorate degree or equivalent qualification from an accredited University; • Have comprehensive knowledge in the organisational, legislative and regulatory structure for administering University Education in Kenya; • Have the ability to advance and implement inter-institutional relationships with relevant institutions for enrichment of quality of academic and research activities in the University; • Have an established track record in research and publications in peer reviewed journals, monographs and books; • Have at least fifteen years first-hand experience in a senior academic or management position in a university with demonstrable leadership, and management capabilities; • Be an accomplished scholar with established track record in formulating and managing academic programs and supervising and mentoring Masters and PhD students; • Be an innovative and visionary leader with the ability to build a self-motivated management team; • Have a demonstrable experience in strategic leadership; • Have a good understanding of the present trends, educational legislation, policies and regulations governing the planning and management of Universities in Kenya.

• Be fluent in Arabic, English and Kiswahili language.

Those who have served in the position of Deputy Vice Chancellor previously will have an added advantage. Successful candidate will be offered a competitive remuneration package.

How to apply: All applications must be sent via Email with an attached detailed CV, three referees and copies of academic and professional certificates. Application deadline is 25th April 2015.

Email: recruitment@rafuniversity.ac.ke Chairman - Board of Trustees.

RAF International University P.O.Box 6663- 00100 Nairobi

CAREER OPPORTUNITY SECURITY OFFICER- INVESTIGATIONS JOB REF: HR-SO-03-2015 Nation Media Group is the largest independent media house in East and Central Africa with operations in Print, Broadcast and Digital media. It attracts and serves unparalleled audiences in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda.

We are seeking to recruit an experienced and a self- motivated individual to the position of Security Officer- Investigations in our Security Services department.

• • • • • • • •

Reporting to the Head of Security, the Security Officer will be responsible for ensuring that security operations and investigations are conducted efficiently and effectively so as to manage and protect company staff, their guests and company assets besides ensuring that company standards, practices, policies, and investigations meet the business requirements as well as those for prosecutions when needed.

Key responsibilities • Investigate all Company related security incidents such as hi-jacking, accidents, theft, fraud, misappropriation and other cases of impropriety and recommend corrective measures for action; • See all investigation processes through from investigations, reporting, disciplinary enquires, appeal hearings, to criminal prosecutions where appropriate; • Liaise with all necessary law enforcement agencies to ensure coordination of all investigation activities to enhance successful prosecution of criminal acts; • Utilise CCTV, access control, and any other surveillance systems in investigations to build strong cases capable of standing both Civil and criminal proceedings; • Carry out regular risk and threat assessments and communicate the findings of the relevant management, paying particular attention to changes in the threat to company personnel and assets, and make timely recommendations to mitigate these; • Liaise with, and maintain ongoing relationships with relevant authorities such as the National Police Service, Directorate of Criminal Investigations, National Intelligence Service, Independent Police Oversight Authority, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and other local authorities and agencies so as to create strong communication channels between them and the Company; • Initiate and co-ordinate an immediate response to security incidents where there is a threat to Company employees and assets so as to ensure minimised loss or injury, and if necessary, to respond personally; • Deliver security related training, to all security staff on investigations, managing standards, written reports, etc; • Monitor and evaluate current investigations, and provide feedback and advice on trends, and threatening activities that have been noted.

Qualifications, Experience & skills • Bachelor’s degree and proven advanced education in security management or related field; • Police/Military or industrial security background; • A minimum of 5 years’ experience as a ‘hands on’ security practitioner, two (2) of which should be in Security Management position; • 2 years’ experience in private sector security; • Demonstrable strong skills and experience in corporate investigations with outstanding verbal and written communications and strong relations with government and private security agencies; • Knowledge of Criminal Justice System from Police procedures to Court procedures; • Exposure to and knowledge of loss prevention, access control systems and procedures, video surveillance, CCTV and related physical security skills; • Demonstrated self-confidence with capability of interacting with all staff cadres and maintaining confidentiality.

If you meet the above criteria, apply online at http://careers.nationmedia.com on or before 9th April, 2015.

Note: We shall only contact the shortlisted applicants.

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CAREER OPPORTUNITY Centre for Health Solutions - Kenya (CHS) is an indigenous Kenyan organization that utilizes local expertise and strategic partnerships to ensure the implementation of evidence informed solutions and interventions to existing and emerging public health concerns.

CHS works in partnership with various stakeholders including the Ministry of Health’s National Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Lung Disease Program (NTLD - Program) towards implementation of TB care and control activities across the country. This is part of a US Government initiative against TB in Kenya that receives funding from USAID. CHS is currently sourcing for a high calibre, self-motivated and dynamic individual for the following position:

DEPUTY CHIEF OF PARTY/SENIOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR: 004/CHS/DCOP/2015 Overall job function Reporting to Chief of Party, the incumbent shall be responsible for providing technical oversight of implementation activities, project management and liaison with National Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Lung Disease Program, Ministry of Health and implementation partners.

Career opportunities at icipe Four positions for four great people: Are you the one we are looking for?

International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) is an intergovernmental organisation funded by aid agencies, UN organisations and private foundations to carry out research and training in sustainable management of arthropods for improving health and agricultural productivity in the tropics. With research and capacity building programmes in various campuses in Kenya and Ethiopia, icipe is known and respected for its endeavour to provide better health for people and livestock, better yields for crops and its immense contribution towards a better environment for sustainability of ecosystems and livelihoods in Africa.

We are looking for self-motivated and committed professionals to join our team of experts in the EU-funded Integrated Biological Control Applied Research Programme (IBCARP) to enhance our capacity in responding to critical health and food needs in the continent, within the highest level of globally accepted scientific standards.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Ref IRS/106/042015): Reporting to the Principal Investigator this position offers specialist support in development/optimisation of repellents as part of an integrated strategy for innovative control of vectors of trypanosomiasis.

Senior Research Assistant - Data Management (Ref NRS/107/042015): Reporting to the Principal Investigator this position offers support in research data management, making sure the data are of high quality, well organised, ready for detailed statistical analyses, documented, preserved and their validity controlled at all times. The incumbent will also set up data management system(s) for all project activities by working closely with other data teams.

Technician (2 posts) (Ref NRS/108/042015): Reporting to the Principal Investigator the technician will assist the scientists in the optimisation of tsetse repellents for upscaling and rollout to infested countries.

For more details on each position and guidelines on how to apply log onto http://www.icipe.org/index.php/jobs.html All positions are tenable in Nairobi at the Duduville campus except where specified otherwise, and are offered on a two-year renewable contract. A competitive compensation package will be offered to the right candidate. Only electronic applications will be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be acknowledged. icipe is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Key responsibilities include but not limited to: 1. Ensuring project’s services and performances are of the highest quality, respond to the specified deliverables and goals of the cooperative agreement, are delivered in a timely manner, and are in full support and compliance with the terms of the cooperative agreement 2. Overseeing the implementation of program activities and provide high quality technical and strategic leadership, managerial oversight, and administration of the project.

3. Serves as the project liaison from CHS to USAID and is accountable for the achievement of results, ensuring quality of services is maintained at the highest standard, and that all project objectives and deliverables are met.

4. Development of project annual workplans and monitoring implementation to ensure achievement of measurable, impactful outcomes 5. Preparation of project quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports of the highest quality in order to showcase the achievements and key lessons from the project 6. Ensuring preparation of quarterly project newsletters for wide distribution to all key stakeholders 7. Assisting in program monitoring and evaluation and use of data to inform program planning and continuous improvement as well as research as needed 8. Supporting the work of the STOP TB secretariat to ensure vibrant partnership 9. Coordination of regional officers and project staff seconded to the NTLD to ensure program objectives and priorities are achieved and reported on 10. Supporting the NTLD program in the implementation of the NTLD Strategic Plan and development of new program strategies 11. Ensuring uptake and implementation of management systems with standard operating procedures to administer all activities funded by the agreement 12. Managing and supporting organizations receiving sub awards from CHS TBARC Qualification and skills required 1. MBCHB 2. Masters Degree in public health or a related field 3. Minimum of 7 years of project management experience in large, health sector development programs that have implemented successful activities 4. Demonstrated expertise in all aspects of TB and TB/HIV 5. A clear track record in provision of technical assistance of similar complexity and magnitude 6. Demonstrated ability of build and maintain relationships with senior-level Governmentof Kenya officials, USAID, NGOs, private sector, cooperating agencies and donor organizations 7. Professional proficiency in English is required.

8. Working knowledge and understanding of USAID program rules and regulations 9. Experience in managing sub awards is an added advantage Interested applicants who meet the minimum criteria indicated are invited to email their applications and detailed CV with contact details of three referees to vacancies@chskenya.org clearly indicating the job title and its reference number as the subject line by 5.00PM on or before Friday April 17, 2015.

Centre for Health Solutions-Kenya is an Equal Opportunity Employer Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.

Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification. www.chskenya.org

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STALTON LIMITED

VACANCIES

TRAINING FOR CITI HOPPA

A leading Sacco with branches over the country has vacancies in the following positions:

DRIVER AND CONDUCTOR TRAINING

We are an organized transport company in the city. We require drivers and conductors to work with integrity, pride in themselves and their service to commuters. Training will be done at a cost and jobs offered competitively after the successful completion of the training course.

Our course entails • Customer service/PR • First Aid/Emergency • Traffic/ NTSA guidelines • Defensive driving Minimum qualifications: 1. DRIVERS i) Age -32 years ii) Valid driving license iii) At least 3 years working experience in PSV iv) KCPE Certificate 2. CONDUCTORS i) Age- 23 years ii) At least C-( Minus) in KCSE Interviews on : Friday 10/04/2015 at 10 am for Conductors at Our Offices in Ngara : Sunday 12/04/2015 at 7 am for Drivers at Uhuru Park

COMPLIANCE OFFICER (1 Position)

PHARMACEUTICAL OPPORTUNITIES Europa Healthcare Ltd. is one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in Kenya representing companies from Europe and India. Our growth and acquisition of new companies in the recent past has created an opportunity for: Area Managers - 3 Ideal candidates will be science graduates with at least 5 years of pharmaceutical marketing experience in reputed companies, possessing good communication skills with adequate territorial knowledge of pharmaceutical industry. Proven track record of successfully leading a team of representatives will be an advantage.

Medical Representatives - 15 Science graduates with up to 1 year experience, effective communication and eagerness to learn fast and with a flair for selling against odds will meet the requirements.

Selected candidate will be rewarded with above average remuneration package including benefits such as incentives, medical cover, accident cover, car policy, etc.

Interested candidates should either e-mail their CV to Operations Manager on operations@europakenya.com or deliver it on the address below by the 23rd April 2015:

CONTACT US ON: CELL: 0726 01 00 00 OR E-Mail: info@citihoppa.co.ke

Europa Healthcare Ltd. View Park Towers, Ground Floor, P O Box: 66541 – 00800, Nairobi

Read widely, it’s food for the brain

Bayer HealthCare (BHC), a division of Bayer East Africa Ltd, is one of the leading pharmaceutical companies worldwide with research and business activities focusing on; Diagnostic Imaging, General Medicine, Specialty Medicine and Women’s Healthcare. To maximise our commitment to sustainable medical health development, provide innovative products, medical solutions and stewardship through product life-cycle management, we seek to recruit qualified and result oriented individual to fill the following position:

Marketing and Sales Operations Manager: (Ref No. 2015/HR/BHC-008)

Reporting to the Manager, Central Administration Organization,, the Marketing and Sales Operations Manager is responsible for ooptimizing Marketing & Sales excellence support in a way that BHC divisions and BU’s can work optimally on their core tasks and benefit from these best in class, valuable analysis and innovative solutions to improve business performance MAJOR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF POSITION • Define training quality standards, prepare, organize, conduct sales/soft skills training and develop newtraining concepts in cooperation with business stakeholders.

• CRM tool management • Regional contact and local driver for Marketing and sales force excellence initiatives • Standard reporting and analysis of secondary and primary research data based on various data sources(External and Internal) • Communicate with BHC Divisions and BU’s to ensure that marketing & sales support functions fulfill business requirements according to short, medium and long term marketing and sales strategies • Comply with Bayer global governance for standard Marketing and Sales processes and implement them at a local level EDUCATION/KNOWLEDGE • Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing • Experience in Marketing and Sales Excellence in a multi-disciplinary company • Finance background • 5 years relevant experience • Experience in project management COMPETENCIES/ SKILLS • Ability to drive results even under tough circumstances • Ability to build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives • Excellent planning and organizational skills to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals HOW TO APPLY If you meet the above requirements, please send your application letter, a detailed CV with three professional referees including daytime contact, copies of certificates and testimonials (quoting the reference number on the application letter) not later than 24th April, 2015 to: The Human Resources Manager E-Mail: hr.ke@bayer.com

Are a job seeker? Does a week pass before you hold some reading material? If the answer to this is “yes”, then you are doing very poorly, and even more so if you hold professional qualifications.

The dynamics of the job market require that you keep yourself updated on current affairs and also on issues directly related to your career. Changes in technology and in work applications, such as accounting techniques or desktop publishing skills, are very frequent these days. You will be left behind if you don’t read constantly.

You may find yourself facing an interview panel with answers that are no longer relevant. The way to avoid this is to read broadly. Keep your eyes glued to the newspaper. If you can’t afford one regularly, befriend the vendor, or your neighbour who always comes home with one. You will at least know various things.

Also, get your hands on the running editions of magazines that focus on your profession or areas of job interests. Go to the internet, too. These practices will keep you updated on the latest trends in the market, so that the next time you face prospective employers, you will be at par with them on the latest jargon in the field.

Don’t give up the search

About 10 years have gone by since you happily graduated from college. Yet the job you aspired to get is still not forthcoming.

You have sent application letters to various institutions and many of them have not even been answered. The few responses you have got are all negative.

If you are considering resigning to fate, don’t. Just hold on. Finding a job can be very frustrating, but don’t let the “regret” letters you receive dampen your spirit. Keep your head up and try even harder.

When you slow down, you will reduce your chances of landing a good job. The converse is true.

Sustain your aggression and you will increase the probability of success. You have everything to lose by stopping the search, and something to gain by going on.

Qualifications • At least 27 years of age • A Bachelor’s degree in law and CPS, Advocates training from the Kenya school of law is an added advantage.

• A minimum of 3 years experience in a similar position • Demonstrated leadership.

INVESTMENT MANAGER (1 Position) Qualifications • BA/BS degree in Finance, Real Estate or related field with strong record of academic achievement.

• CPA (K).

• Age: Minimum of 27 years of age.

• At least 3 years of directly relevant Commercial Real Estate Property Management experience.

INVESTMENT OFFICER (1 Position) Qualifications • At least 24 years of age.

• CPA II. • BA/BS degree in Finance, Real Estate Management or related field.

• Sound financial and asset management skills.

• At least 2 years in similar position.

• Good communication skills.

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR (1 Position) Qualifications and Experience • Minimum 24 years of age.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field from a recognized institution.

• At least five (5) years’ experience in Systems Administration actively engaged in configuration and management of different systems platforms.

• Proven knowledge and understanding of ERP solutions.

• Practical knowledge and experience in working with Virtual environment solutions e.g VMware and Hyper-V. • Proven knowledge and understanding of Operating System fundamentals e.g UNIX, Windows and Experience in Database administration e.g MS SQL 2008 and above.

• MCSE, CCNA and CCNP certifications.

• Experience in working with different data center hardware such as servers, storage and communication equipment.

• Project management experience is an added advantage.

• Experience in working with different web technologies.

• Practical knowledge and experience in network design and management, working with Routers, switches, firewalls, IDS/IPS, WLAN equipment and integrations of IP PABXs with CRM and ERP solutions.

• Practical knowledge and experience in installation and management of email servers.

MARKETING OFFICER (1 Position) Qualifications and Experience: • Degree or diploma in marketing with 2 years experience.

• Must be 24 years and above.

• Must be computer literate.

• 2years’ experience in marketing in a financial institution will be an added advantage.

Skills: • Good analytical skills • Good communication and inter personal skills • Must be a team player and able to work under minimum supervision.

CUSTOMER CARE REPRESENTATIVE (CALL CENTER) 2 Positions Qualifications • Diploma in front office studies or Public Relations.

• Must be at least 24 years old.

Skills: • Computer Literacy.

• Interpersonal skills: Good communication and people skills.

• Strong organizational skills.

• Knowledge of working with CRM (customer relationship management) system.

Experience: • 2 years Past experience in customer care or receptionist work is an added advantage.

ACCOUNTS ASSISTANTS (15 Positions) Minimum qualifications • At least 24 years of age.

• KCSE C+.

• CPA II or Qualifications in business related course.

• Diploma in Banking, Co-operatives an advantage.

• Computer proficiency in computer application, especially in accounting packages and systems.

• Knowledge of operation of various Sacco software systems an added advantage.

• At least one years experience in the same or related position.

AUDIT ASSISTANT (1 Position) Minimum qualifications • At least 24 years of age.

• KCSE C+.

• CPA (K).

• Diploma in business related studies.

• Computer proficiency in computer application, especially in accounting packages and systems.

• Knowledge of operation of various Sacco software systems an added advantage.

• At least 2 years experience in the same or related position.

Applications should be addressed to; DN/A 1793 P. O. Box 49010, 00100 Nairobi Attach CV and testimonials. Deadline will be 20th April 2015.

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KENYA TEA DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (MANAGEMENT SERVICES) LTD

EXCELLENT CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Kenya Tea Development Agency (MS) Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of KTDA Holdings Ltd and a key player in the tea industry providing management services to the smallholder tea sub-sector for efficient production, processing and marketing of quality teas.

To ensure continued success and growth, we are seeking dynamic and highly talented individuals to join our management team in the following exciting and challenging positions.

• Manager – Enterprise Risk Management - One(1) Position • Database Administrator – One (1) Position • Clerk of Works - One(1) Position For a full role profile, please visit our website www.ktdateas.com.

Click on careers link.

How to apply, Please apply online at www.ktdateas.com not later than 22nd April 2015.

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

KTDA MANAGEMENT SERVICES LTD is an equal opportunity employer.

PUBLIC NOTICE

A leading flower farm with branches in different parts of Kenya is seeking qualified and motivated individuals to fill the following positions:

This is to inform the general public that JOHN MBUGUA WARUINGE has been reported missing since 28th March 2015 together with his car No KBZ 510G SUBARU FORESTER (silver grey).

REFRIGERATION TECHNICIAN (Athi River) Minimum 5 years experience in Refrigeration systems and cold room maintenance with qualifications from a recognized Technical Institution.

PACK-HOUSE IN-CHARGE (Nyahururu) Minimum 5 years experience with reputable flowers farms as Pack-house Manager. Able to manage and execute orders as per requirement.

MECHANIC (Athi River) Minimum 5 years experience with a Certificate or Diploma in Motor vehicle mechanics.

Applications to be sent to: P.O Box 540, Athi River, 00204 by 17th April, 2015.

Last seen at his work place Kogo Plaza Eldoret at around 5.30 pm dressed in dark blue jeans with a checked short sleeved shirt.

Any person with information leading to his whereabouts please Contact 0722 JOHN MBUGUA 775 775 or 0721 288 577 or report to the nearest police station.

WARUINGE

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MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, WATER AND NATURAL RESOURCES

9th ANNUAL WATER SECTOR CONFERENCE Datе: 8th and 9th April 2015 – Vеnuе: Safari Park Hotеl, Nairobi

Mіnіѕtrу оf Envіrоnmеnt, Watеr and Natural Rеѕоurсеѕ

Theme: Towards Realisation of the Right to Water under Devolution

Tіmе tо dеlіbеratе оn kеу реrfоrmanсе сhallеngеѕ and іdеntіfу рrіоrіtу arеaѕ Message from the Cabinet secretarу take this opportunitу to welcome all stakeholders to the Annual Water Sector Conference of 2015. The State Department of Water and Regional Development Authorities within mу Ministrу has been holding the Annual Water Sector Conference since 2006.

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This 9th Annual Water conference once again brings together stakeholders from the national and countу governments, sector institutions, line ministries, development partners, private sector and civil societу organizations to jointlу review the sector progress, deliberate on keу performance challenges, emerging issues and identifу sector prioritу areas whose implementation is geared towards achieving Vision 2030 objectives.

We as stakeholders are gathered here to enhance coordination for the realisation of these rights as enshrined in the Constitution of

Fоrum рrоvіdеѕ реrfесt орроrtunіtу tо rеvіеw рrоgrеѕѕ madе іn thе ѕесtоr Message from the Principal Secretarу The 9th Annual Water Sector Conference 2015 comes at a time when manу parts of the countrу are facing water shortages after a long drought. This has not onlу affected humans but also our animals. This conference to me therefore, provides a perfect opportunitу for all stakeholders in the water sector to review progress in the financial уear 2013/2014 and map out the Realisation Dr. Richard Lesiуampe, Phd, MBS of the Right to Water Principal Secretarу Ministrу of and Sanitation under Environment, Water and Natural Devolution.

This Resources realisation and the general improvement of water resources management and water service provision in this countrу depends on everу citizen and not just the National government and the Countу governments.

In this regard, this conference will deliberate on keу performance achievements and challenges, focus on emerging issues and prioritize sector areas interventions. The implementation of these prioritу interventions should help the sector move towards achieving Vision 2030 objectives.

As we eхpect stronger participation bу countу governments, we are also looking forward to see how the sector activities of civil societу organisations underpin those of two levels of government and our development partners. We appreciate the effort and support from all the organisers and thank the review taskforce and all our development partners for making this conference a success.

We hope therefore that this two daу event will motivate all of us to move the sector towards achieving the Vision 2030 objectives and graduallу realise the right to water and sanitation as stipulated in the Constitution of Kenуa (2010). Good governance, good sector policies and strategies and good performance on prioritу areas will be the prerequisite for this realisation.

Prof. Judi Wangala Wakhungu, CBS Cabinet Secretarу Ministrу of Environment, Water and Natural Resources Kenуa 2010. The conference will also assess the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and decide the waу forward on the remaining challenges; the ultimate

goal being to achieve universal access in water supplу and 80 per cent cover of urban population with improved sanitation bу 2030.

The management of water resources remains the responsibilitу of the national government while the provision of water and sanitation services is a devolved function. The two levels of government will work together in addressing the emerging issues and challenges in the water sector to ensure progress both in the urban and the rural areas.

The investments in sanitation will emploу low cost technologies which allow higher coverage at low per capita costs so as to achieve the Vision 2030 objective. There is however, an ever-rising demand caused bу population growth, high rate of urbanisation and industrialisation.

In order to meet this demand, efficient water sector coordination, planning and financing is required to enable the sector to sustain development. Part of the sector coordination framework of the State Department of Water and Regional Development Authorities has been to undertake performance reviews on an annual basis.

This уear’s annual review process is based on set sector targets and benchmarks as outlined in Vision 2030, Ministerial and Sector Strategу documents and comprehensivelу covers the water sector activities and investments done bу the countу governments, Kenуa Water Institute and Civil Societу Organisations.

In order to protect our water resources and catchment areas from pollution, degradation, and encroachment, stringent measures and harsh penalties will applу to all offenders.

It is mу hope that the 9th Annual Water Sector Conference shall provide a platform for comprehensive deliberations on enhancing Water Sector Coordination for gradual realisation of the rights to water under devolution. It is eхpected that all stakeholders, including the government and its partners, shall be motivated bу this conference to focus on improving services according to Vision 2030 objectives and meet the requirement of Constitution of Kenуa (2010) with regard to rights to water and sanitation and consumer protection.

Rеgulatіоn оf thе managеmеnt and uѕе оf watеr rеѕоurсеѕ Water Resources Sub-Sector The Ministrу of Environment, Water and Natural Resources is entrusted with the responsibilitу of managing and regulating the use of national and trans-boundarу water resources, including marine water, within the territorу of Kenуa.

Regulation of the management and use of water resources The Water Resources Management Authoritу (WRMA) has developed the following regulation tools for water resources: Water Resources Management Rules 2007; Code of practice for ground water; Guidelines for storage development; Effluent discharge control guidelines; Guidelines for enhancement of compliance; Threshold for water allocation; Threshold for effluent discharge Water availabilitу According to the National Water Master Plan (NWMP) 2030, the countrу’s water resources availabilitу is as shown in the table below: Kenуa‘s annual renewable water resources in billion m3 Item 2010 Annual renewable water resources(surface and 42,108 ground water) Surface water runoff 20,637 Ground water recharge 21,462

2030

2050

44,302

45,995

24,894 19,419

26,709 19,291

2013/2014 Progress on Water Resources Subsector Development of Water Resources Management instruments The National Water Master Plan (NWMP) 2030 was launched in March 2014 and is being disseminated. Area view of catchment management strategies for Athi and Lake Victoria North catchments was undertaken, including development of 38 sub-catchment management plans.

Water Storage and Flood Control Overview The mandate of the water storage sub-sector is to increase water storage capacitу in Kenуa, and increase accessibilitу, availabilitу and reliabilitу of water supplу. It encourages the multipurpose use of water and reduces the risks of effects of

floods and droughts.

The countrу has about 3,790 small dams and water pans, and 26 large dams, with a total water storage capacitу of 138 million m3— far below the required threshold of 3.4 billion m3 of storage.

To meet the above threshold requires the development of elaborate water storage sуstems. In this regard, the State Department of Water and Regional Authorities initiated a major dam building programme during the period 2008/2009. The objective was to increase the countrу’s water storage capacitу bу 30 million m3 which when realized will increase water storage per capita from 6.3 m3 in 2012/2013 to 11 m3 in 2017 and to 16m3 bу 2030.

2013/14 Progress The Vision 2030 mid-term goal is to increase water storage per capita to at least 11 m3per capita in 2017.Vision 2030 flagship projects include the construction of 24 medium-sized dams with a storage capacitу of 2 billion m3 and two multipurpose dams with a storage capacitу of 2.4 billion m3.

Summarу of activities implemented bу WRMA for the уear 2013/2014 Category Water resources monitoring stations Formation of WRUAs Development of subcatchment management plans Construction of sand and surface dams

Activity New establishment Rehabilitation Upgrading WRUAs formed SCMPs developed Sand/surface dams constructed Stations modernised

Modernisatio of water resources monitoring networks Determination of Stations with reserνe floԝ quantities determined at strategic points reserνe floԝs

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Flood Control • The main role of the Flood Control Unit is to provide vital flood control infrastructures to alleviate water-induced perennial disasters brought about bу geographic and meteorological conditions prevailing in the target areas.

Land Reclamation sub sector

Overview Land and environmental degradation is a big challenge in Kenуa. Degradation is mainlу caused

bу inappropriate human activities and some natural processes (such as effects of climate change and decline in rainfall). Degradation results in poor vegetation cover which leads to high surface runoff and soil erosion. Eroded soils are deposited in water bodies such as dams, pans and other reservoirs reducing their water storage capacitу. Although decline in land productivitу is a national problem, arid and semi-arid lands are more affected.

The mandate of the Land Reclamation sub-sector is to provide policу guidance and strategies for reclamation, rehabilitation and restoration of degraded and wastelands. The objective is to increase water conservation and storage in these areas in order to turn them into vibrant economic development areas.

Progress in 2013/2014 The Ministrу’s performance contract (PC) targets for the period under review and the progress made are shown in the table below.

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Undertaken national land degradation assessment surveу Produced one Land Degradation Assessment Report

2013/2014 Land Reclamation achievements Target

Achievement

Land Reclamation Policу, Strategу and Bill

Draft Policу was completed in Februarу 2013. The draft Bill and Strategу were also completed same уear

Land degradation Assessment was done and degraded arassessment (LADA) at eas and trends identified. This was done national scale in consultation with technical eхperts.

Degradation was found to be widespread in Kenуa and recommendations on waу forward were made.

Capacitу building

Capacitу needs assessment was done in 18 counties which gave baseline information for capacitу building in future.

Capacitу building support for Garissa, Turkana and CETRAD was also done

Pans and dams

In collaboration with Ministrу of Devolution and Planning, 647 water pans and 54 small dams were completed or in process of being completed bу June 2014

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MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, WATER AND NATURAL RESOURCES

9th ANNUAL WATER SECTOR CONFERENCE Datе: 8th and 9th April 2015 – Vеnuе: Safari Park Hotеl, Nairobi

Theme: Towards Realisation of the Right to Water under Devolution

Mіnіѕtrу оf Envіrоnmеnt, Watеr and Natural Rеѕоurсеѕ

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A summarу of targets and achievements for reclaimed lands (in ha) is shown below.

Summarу of targets and achievements for reclaimed lands *The function of Land Reclamation is mainlу carried out bу the countу Governments. The National Government has contributed to the area of land reclaimed vide various activities as outlined on table 4.22 above.

Centre for Training and Integrated Research in ASAL Development (CETRAD) Table 4.25: CETRAD achievements 2013/2014 Targets Enhancing water resource users association (WRUAs) potential through training and regional integration Wetland synthesizing report Training courses

Achievements One WRUA was trained

Rural population with access to safe water About 804,206 people were added to the water coverage in rural areas during the уear under review. This raised the coverage in rural areas from 47.1per cent in the previous уear to 48.8 per cent.

Access to improved onsite sanitation Onsite Sanitation coverage nationallу And 1,746,540 people (urban 795,294 and rural 951,246) were added to improved onsite sanitation coverage during the уear under review. This increased the coverage from 66.7 per cent in the previous уear to 68.6 per cent%

A draft report on six wetlands (Ol Bolossat, Ewaso Narok, Mutara, Pesi, Moyok and Marura) was done Three courses were undertaken: • GIS for mapping and planning • Food security and drought management • Integrated natural resource management

Progress in Water Services Overview Access to adequate, clean and safe water supplу and sanitation (sewerage and onsite services) is a keу input for social stabilitу and economic growth.

Regulation of Water Services Water Services Regulatorу Board regulates water services bу formulating rules and enforcing standards that guide the sector with regard to protection of consumers and access to efficient, affordable and sustainable services. Following devolution of water services, Wasreb is working together with countу governments to ensure that utilities are economicallу viable, transparent and accountable, and practice good governance.

Access to safe water Water projects The new water projects contributed towards reaching about 1.9 million additional people with access to safe water. Some of the notable projects completed are the Kajulu Treatment Works serving Kisumu town and Mumias Project, which are both gravitу sуstems. About Sh 10.9 billion was spent on the completed water projects, a combination of new projects, eхpansions and project rehabilitations.

Overall national population with access to safe water A total of 1.9 million people were added to safe water coverage during the уear under review. This increased national water coverage from 53.3 per cent in previous уear to 55.9 per cent.

Urban population with access to safe water About 1.1 million people were added to the water service in urban areas during the уear under review. This raised the coverage in urban areas from 61.7 per cent in the previous уear to 65.4 per cent.

Urban sewerage coverage With 431,729 people added to sewerage sуstems in urban areas the coverage was raised from 20.6% to 22.1% during the уear under review.

Reaching the Underserved through pro-poor interventions During the уear under review, WSTF continued with its keу mandate of reaching the underserved with safe water and sanitation. Progress made bу the WSTF during the review period is summarized below: 1. 240,955 people were reached with access to safe water in urban low income areas.

2. 11 public toilet blocks were built bу WSPs in urban low income areas, targeting 8,800 people.

3. 2,156 household and plot toilets were built in low income areas of Embu, Nakuru and Oloolaiser water service providers.

4. 27 projects were implemented under the Communitу Project Circle (CPC window for rural areas), which are eхpected to reach 129,658 people 5. Under the WASΗ programme 232 projects were funded to benefit 110,553 people.

Investments made bу WSBs and WSTF in urban and rural areas

Urban onsite sanitation coverage 795,294 people in urban areas were added to improved onsite sanitation coverage during the уear under review. This increased the coverage from 70.6% in the previous уear to 72.2%.

Rural onsite sanitation coverage 951,246 people were added to improved onsite sanitation coverage in rural areas during the уear under review. This increased the coverage in rural areas from 63.8% in the previous уear to 66.0%.

Access to sewerage services National sewerage connectivitу 431,729 new people were connected to sewerage services during the уear under review with all connections being in urban areas. The progress in sewerage development is verу slow nationallу.

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DAILY NATION Wednesday April 8, 2015 REPUBLIC OF KENYA IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NAKURU CIVIL SUIT NO. 60 OF 2014

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JUDY WATURI WAMBUGU.................................................PLAINTIFF -VERSLISCHIEF LAND REGISTRAR .....................................1ST DEFENDANT COMMISSIONER OF LANDS ................................2ND DEFENDANT SETTLEMENT FUND TRUSTEES.. .......................3RD DEFENDANT SIAN ENTERPRISES LIMITED ..............................4TH DEFENDANT DAHIR ABDIKADIR .................................................5TH DEFENDANT TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES ........6TH DEFENDANT

TO: 1. DAHIR ABDIKADIR 2. TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES TAKE NOTICE that the Notice of Motion dated 11th August 2014 in which you have been named as the 5th and 6th Respondents is scheduled for hearing on 21st April 2015 at 9 o’ clock in the High Court of Kenya at Nakuru.

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT in the event that you do not attend or someone in law authorized to attend on your behalf, the aforesaid application may be heard and orders granted your absence notwithstanding.

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DATED at Nairobi this 7th day of April 2015 NGATIA & ASSOCIATES ADVOCATES FOR THE PLAINTIFF / APPLICANT DRAWN & FILED BY: NGATIA & ASSOCIATES ADVOCATES BISHOPS GARDEN TOWERS 2ND FLOOR, BISHOPS ROAD P.O. BOX 56688-00200 NAIROBI

1. CATERESS

Kenya’s leading Corporate Taxi Company with its HQ in Nairobi is looking for partners to lease the following vehicles on a two year renewable contract at very competitive prices.

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HEAD TEACHER - NANYUKI We are a well established private school in Nanyuki • We wish to recruit a dynamic, dedicated Principal with a hands on administrative and teaching experience from a well performing private or public secondary school • Applicants should have an impressive record as Deputy or full Head Teacher position

Requirements: • K.C.S.E Mean grade c and above with C+ in Eng, C. kisw & math.

• Diploma in food beverage and other related courses.

• Computer literate.

• 3 yrs working experience preferably in an educational institution.

• Age 25-35 years

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Requirements: • K.C.S.E mean grade C and above, with C+ in Eng, C. in Kisw & math • Diploma in housekeeping • Computer knowledge is an added advantage • 3 yrs working experience preferably in an educational institution • Age 25-35 years.

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Requirements: • K.C.S.E mean grade C and above with C+ in Eng, kisw & math • Diploma in supply chain and store management.

• Computer in relevant packages • At least 3 years working experience in an educational institution.

• Age 25-35 years.

Interested persons to apply to.

The Secretary BOM P.O BOX 811- 20300, NYAHURURU To reach on or before, 15th April, 2015m

ESHIKHONI AUCTIONEERS Nairobi Office Cargen house 3rd flr Rm 310 P.O BOX 8543 0722718772

Kisumu Office Re-insurance plaza P.O Box 3450 Tel (057) 2022603

Kakamega Office Maziwa Dairy hse Maziwa Road P.O BOX 198 0203550813

Eldoret Office Rehema house 2rd floor Rm 8 P.O BOX 8441 0720214557

Duly instructed by our principals, C I C GENERAL INSURANCE LIMITED, we shall sell by public auction the following ACCIDENT VEHICLES(SALVAGESON FRIDAY 10TH APRIL 2015 AT LEAKEY’S STORAGE LIMITED, LUNGA LUNGA ROAD – NAIROBI STARTING AT 11.00 A.M. 1.

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PUBLIC AUCTION Under instruction received from Environment and Land Court at Eldoret and on behalf of the creditor, we shall sell the under mentioned property by public auction on Wednesday 22nd April 2015, in front of post office Matunda along mail Tisa –Kitale road starting at 11:00 am.

ELDORET ENVIROMENT & LAND CASE NO 322 OF 2013 JAMES KUNG’U MBUTI =VS= TRANS-NATIONAL BANK LTD All that parcel of land Known as KAKAMEGA/ NZOIA 10/69 freehold, registered in the Name of JAMES MBUTI KUNG’U measuring 21.5 Hectares i.e (53.1265 Acres) with Sugar cane plantation and is improved with a commercial building and a residential block with 2 detached servant quarters. The property is situated within Lugari district in Nzoia settlement scheme CONDITION OF SALE 1. All interested purchasers are requested to view the property and verify all details of the property as these are not warranted by the Auctioneer or their principal.

2. A deposit of 25% must be paid in CASH or BANKERS CHEQUE at the fall of the hummer and the balance to be paid within 30 days to the instructing advocate M/S KALYA & COMPANY ADVOCATE. 3. Sale is subject to reserve price

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REG. NO KBV 208G KBT 851V KBJ 795Z KBT 698H KAW 269Q KAY 881D KAS 321N KCB 959Q KBX 969N KBW 982D KBS 829Y KBQ 598H KBP 096H KBN 845B KBN 223Y KBP 899W KBS 487G KAY 296X KBX 228T KBZ 706K KBT 660D KBK 709Z KBN 037P KBS 164K KBY 658Z KBR 629W KAR 601S KBT 889K KBN 690U KBV 503A KBU 104D KCA 093Y KBL 572H KBT 183P KBZ 767Z KAW 337Y KBP 513M KBN 804W KBT 081U KAY 485H KBD 677Y KAZ 775T KBT 819Y KBT 242B KBT 794F ZD 4873

MAKE / MODEL TOYOTA ALLION TOYOTA ALLION TOYOTA AVENSIS TOYOTA AVENSIS TOYOTA PREMIO TOYOTA COROLLA TOYOTA CORONA TOYOTA RACTIS TOYOTA ISIS TOYOTA PASSO TOYOTA WISH TOYOTA WISH TOYOTA PROBOX TOYOTA COROLLA TOYOTA COROLLA TOYOTA IPSUM TOYOTA LANDCRUISER TOYOTA HILUX NISSAN SKYLINE NISSAN NOTE NISSAN WINGROAD NISSAN WINGROAD NISSAN WINGROAD NISSAN X33 PEUGEOT 308 PEUGEOT 307 MITSUBISHI LANCER SUBARU FORESTER SUBARU FORESTER VOLKSWAGEN VOLKSWAGEN MAZDA FAMILIA MAZDA FAMILIA SUZUKI ESCUDO ISUZU D-MAX 54 ISUZU ISUZU CXZ ISUZU NQR 70 MITSUBISHI FK61FK MITSUBISHI FH 215 FAW FAW MAN MAN MAN RANDON TIPPER

B/TYPE SALOON SALOON SALOON SALOON SALOON SALOON SALOON S/WAGON S/WAGON S/WAGON S/WAGON S/WAGON S/WAGON S/WAGON S/WAGON S/WAGON S/WAGON VAN SALOON S/WAGON S/WAGON S/WAGON S/WAGON PICK UP S/WAGON S/WAGON SALOON S/WAGON S/WAGON SALOON SALOON S/WAGON S/WAGON S/WAGON PICK UP BUS LORRY TRUCK TRUCK TRUCK TRUCK TRUCK P/MOVER P/MOVER P/MOVER TRAILER

TO BE VIEWED AT JASSY MOTORS, KISII TOP WORKS GARAGE, MOMBASA LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD D.K. MACHERE GARAGE, KERUGOYA JEET MOTORS, KERICHO LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD BUNGOMA GARAGE, BUNGOMA BUNGOMA GARAGE, BUNGOMA LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD WAMERU AUTOTECH GARAGE, - THIKA BAKERS GARAGE, KISII LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD SUSULE GARAGE, THIKA OMARI MOTORS, KISII LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD EMBU AUTO MODEL, EMBU LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD BOAZ YARD, MARIAKANI, MOMBASA LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD – KITUI RD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD – KITUI RD HIGHWAY GARAGE, MTITO ANDEI ELIJAH GARAGE, KITALE LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD – KITUI RD JASSY MOTORS, KISII LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD – KITUI RD KENOL KOBIL POLICE STATION, JOMVU LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD – KITUI RD LEAKEY’S STORAGE LTD – KITUI RD

CONDITIONS OF SALE Viewing can be done at the places indicated in the advert above between TUESDAY 7THto FRIDAY 10TH APRIL 2015 during normal working hours to verify the details as these are not warranted by the auctioneers or the principals as the (SALVAGES) are offered for sale “ON – AS –IS – WHERE – IS – BASIS”.

Interested bidders are required to pay a refundable deposit of Kshs.100,000.00 for the motor vehicles to obtain a bidding number at our offices in form of a banker’s cheque in the name of C I C GENERAL INSURANCELIMITED. Please note that one bidding number will only enable one to bid for a maximum of FOUR vehicles.

The declared purchaser must deposit 25% of the purchase price for all the vehicles bidded for by close of business auction day and the balance paid within seven (7) days from the auction date, failure to which the money received including the deposit will be forfeited.

Payments MUST be in form of BANKERS CHEQUE in the favour of C I C GENERAL INSURANCE LIMITED. Sale is subject to reasonable reserve prices.

N/B: STRICTLY NO CASH TRANSACTION

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B598 Security & Safety CCTV Installations, Home, Office,

@30k HP Dual @34k Core13 @40k.

Bestell 0720561136, 0714414743

PAYROLL software free www.lixnet.net

Minimum size 4cm x 1 column Beauty/Medical/Health/ Herbal & Acupuncture Sections All Days 2,000/= per centimetre column +VAT Minimum size 4cm x 1 column DNA Voucher Fee 2,500/-

WHERE TO STAY

18-2500 0722608865/ 0734608866

B490 Computer Services

Schools, Farms 0731-997799

SEMI DISPLAY (BOXED CLASSIFIED) All Days 1,750/= per centimetre column +VAT

Salama Hotel CBD Nairobi B&B 1800/- Tel: 0721-367196

KENYA Comfort Conferencing pp

Funds For Stability 0736579862

Quick Loans Bankers Loans Available

Frontier 340, Computers, Kala 1080 Mounting / Lamination, C41, Dryer, Cabinets, Trays, Show Cases, Studio lights etc SALE!! SALE!! SALE!!

Contact 0727-672899, 0722-651978

A571 Hotels

CBO NGO Grant Prop and Donor

0713774150

A871 Miscellaneous

ARROW Furnished Apts 0733760006

B485 Business Services

@FCL Auto Logbook Loans from

A183 Body Fitness WEIGHT Loss 25k 0735359249

PUB 450k Ruiru main town prime loc SUPERMAKT Kasarani 2m 020-2067838

LONELY SINGLES SMS 0722219480

TRACK ua partner 0739819130

Nairobi. 100 metres after Naivas Supermarket. Call: 0720-874309 licenced 0724-572245

LONELY SINGLES SMS 0722219480

Email: solar@telesales.co.ke

Beauty/Medical/Health/ Herbal & Acupuncture Sections All Days 550/= per line per day

PHOTO Lab Equipment For Sale: Fuji

PUB & Restaurant for sale in Kasarani,

Business wealth lost property. Pay after work 0720152177 mama EVA

PHONE Spy Software 0722735768

Many more as below Angle grinder/electric trimmer/electric pick/pneumatic stapler /pneumatic nail gun/furniture stapler/cordless drill/ Die grinder/wood router/electric circular saw/ laser distance meter/lasel level /diamond drill with water source/ Groove cutter/ orbital sander/jig saw/ Reciprocating saw/ electric mitre saw/ Roll polisher/electric blower/electric scales and etc.,

B462 Business for Sale

BIASHARA mapenzi 30mins Debts

power lck promotion 0707479810

SHOPPING GUIDE COMMERCIAL

sms

MONITOR ua spouse 0739819130

63 WATTS KShs.11,500 85 WATTS KShs.14,000 140 WATTS KShs.29,500

HATCHING Services 0722850673

ur partner, wife/husband & restore ur love? Is she/he unfaithful & want him or her to commit to u alone? Want to attract/retain customers & boost ur business etc Call Sowali 0722140527, 0735849923

WEALTH and Luck 0700799512

PETS & LIVESTOCK

B015 Poultry

ARE you in need of help? Want back

A244 Herbal Medicine

ALL CLASSIFICATIONS: VAT Inclusive All Days 450/= per line per day

GSD’s & Boerboel 0722357923

marriage problems, bad omen, misfortunes in business, debts, promotion, financial, court cases, lost property. Call Esther Kilonzo for direct assistance on: 0725-829810

to 8pm 0703-560342, 0727-652823

KYOCERA SPECIAL OFFER !!!

A988 Dogs & Dog Training

ACTIVE Results for Lost lovers,

0706706060

NAIROBI—NAKURU Wholesale & strong ELECTRIC TOOLS

A829 Domestic Appliances

INTERIOR DESIGN

LOST title deed

ASIANS&WHITES

B546 Machinery for Sale

waiters cashier clners t/boys

above. Earn 7,000/= weekly in a busy Sales & Marketing firm. Free training & orientation. For more info Call 0708-192229, 0722-735620

Accountant intern wtd 0738-863191

Mombasa Furaha Plaza, Ground floor, Nkuruma Road, P.O.BOX 80708 Tel: 0732 138 900, 0719 038 900, 020 328 8900.

Kisumu Mega Plaza, 3rd flr, Wing B Tel: (057) 2021699, 2021230 0734 333 385, 0722 200 770, 041 222 5479,Fax 2230264 Eldoret Zion Mall,Wing C, Fax (057) 2020388 Tel: 0719038950/1, 0722 200 773 Nakuru C.K. Patel Building, Kenyatta Avenue Te (051) 2215506, 2215740, 2211688 Nyeri Kona Hauthi House.

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NATION MEDIA GROUP shall not be liable to any person for loss or damage incurred or suffered as a result of his/her accepting of offering to accept an invitation contained in any advertisement published in the Nation.

For further enquiries, Call: 0719 038 8661/3/4/5/6 or email: adcentre@ke.nationmedia.com

Classified 49

DAILY NATION Wednesday April 8, 2015 A boutique in Cbd rqd sales lady below 26yrs cv, photo im72657@gmail.com

APRIL job intake 0713333204 ARE you a Bcom & Property Manager / Valuer / QS? Can you grow a small property management firm to lead Kenyan Market? Can we tie your pay to profit?

E-mail CV to suburbia.ltd@gmail.com

ARE you aggressive leader, teamplayer

and a hardworking with a degree/ diploma in marketing? Send your CV to jobs.building2012@gmail.com Experience required

Carpenters exp. in sofa and joinery 0723925670 sms only

COOKS

required.

Tanager Restaurant, Rehema House

CUTEST Chics wanted 0722798431 GRADUATES Required to recruit

advertisers on marketing TV Channel good terms info@graveria.com

0700128555 rav4, Voxy, saloon new, An upcoming Housing Co-op Society is urgently looking for self-driven and well-motivated persons for the position of marketing executives.

Duties: To facilitate and ensure a continous recruitment of new members to the housing society.

Sensitize the market on the unique products being offred by the SACCO. Requirements: 1. At least a diploma in Sales and Marketing, Business Administration or any other related business course.

2. MUST be computer Iiterate.

3. Applicants with co-operative knowledge will have an added advantage.

Applicants who meet the above criteria can send their detailed C.V and other supporting documents to comocohousing@yahoo.com on or before 15th April, 2015.

WANTED

experienced drivers minimum 7 years experience Nairobi, refs essential call 0720472117

HIGH School teachers wanted Phy/ Math/Chem, Eng/Lit, Hist/CRE/Kis, Bio/Chem F1, F2&F3 intake on going.

Call 0722-895234 or 0726-532831

At an established Private Sec School for over 16yrs. Has vacancies for the following (1) Eng, Kisw, Maths, Chem, Phy, Bio, Geo, Hist, CRE, Agri, B/studies and Computer (2), one post Principal with at least 5yrs exp. and above.

Location of the School, situated 13kms along Voi Mwatate Road Taita Taveta County.

Interviews will be conducted at the Sch. on 23 & 24/04/15 starting 9.30a.m.

Send your application/ cv to Jakamuc@yahoo.com before 20th or call: 0727915732 / 0738857399 for any clarification.

JOBS for 2 waiters, 3 receptionists & 2

WANTED Insurance underwriter/

claims for brokerage Experienced minimum 5 years, refs essential Call 0720472117

WANTED urgently security Manager Mamba Group of 0723081146, 0712-761560

Hostels

Mess Secr. Elimu Hse 0700-018416

SALES JOB ( 0711) 028930 / 028924

SALES people needed with a diploma.

Experience required. Send CVs to jobs.building2012@gmail.com

THOMSONS

FALLS LODGE requires; Sales and Marketing Executive aged 28-35yrs with at least 2 yrs exp. Qualification; Degree or Diploma in Sales and Marketing and a hospitality & tourism background. Ready to operate in Nyahururu and Nairobi. Apply Po Box 38-20300 Nyahururu or Email: secretary@thomsonsfallslodge.co.ke.

Applications and copies of certificates to reach us by 18th April 2015.

TRAILER T/boy shop att messanger driver t/girl cleaner 0704099254

VACANCIES A College urgently requires the following tutors in its Thika & Nairobi campuses: 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Electrical & electronics engineering Fashion design & garment making Human resource Banking & Finance ICT Medical engineering / Science laboratory

WEEKLY paid JOBS. 0729140349

Come personally for an interview at Jodan college of Technology Thika campus opposite safaricom customer care on 10th May 2015 at 9am. Should be ready to start work immediately.

WAITRESSES and cooks wanted.

Good Pay 0739-867612

SITUATIONS WANTED

T/Fortuner '05 gold 2.3m 0724588925

0715900970. CARS wanted for hire

T/NZE BU 06 630k 0737020487

0721144998 Voxy-NZE from 1500/= 0725558907 NEW CARS @ 2K PD ACE CAR HIRE 24H2K 0733208698

CAR Hire 2K 24HRS 0735768989 PHINEKARS car hire 0716616761 VICTOR car hire 0722379197

T/FIELDER BS 480K 0705872949 TOWNACE KBT 2005 450K DEP

B070 Exhaust Pipes and Silencers

TOY Allion KBS 680k 0734279793

SETLAK Galv 552265, 0722527924

TOY Avensis KCC 1M 0735-999989

B085 For Sale, Private

TOY DX 102 KAV 0722809728 TOY Fielder KCB 990k 0734295409

Bedford 4wd truck + hoist 0705006633

TOY G-Touring 430,000/- 0723558125

BMW X5 '07 auto v/c 0725104903

TOY Lexus yr 2004 1.6m 0722969748

DefendeR td300 fr 700k 0724588925

TOY NZE BX 670k 0739834302

Discovery td5 man 1.7m 0724588925

TOY NZE KBE 545K G 0735735430

FH ‘09 covered body 3m 0727464775

TOY NZE KBR 590k slvr 0707420700

H. CRV ‘02 700K auto 0724516455

TOYOTA-AURIS @750k yr2007/

HONDA Fit KBS 440k 0729821771 ISUZU 4.3NKR 1.3M 0720830495

B277 Domestic/Casual Jobs H/girls centre 0721531412, 0720673202

DEC KBT 1500cc auto 0722856272

TOYOTA -AURIS KCC + alloys yr07 @850k yr08 @950k 0722856272

TOYOTA Prado KAM Silver in good condition - 0722-295843

ISUZU bus 33/37/42/51 seater dep

1.6m 0725174175

• •

400K

BK

MERC 124 Coupe clean alloys 111

engine 400K Call owner 0721215251

KBL owner leaving 560k 0720841584

• Shovel

M/FAMILIA Kbp 290k 0723585847

• Roller

N/Caravan KCB ‘08 1.6M 0722212564 N/DIESEL 29seat matatu income 7k p/day 1.35m ono owner 0737326688

N/ TEANA KBV 06 Call 0722594832 N /Vanete manual 09 KCC 950000 dep 400,000 bal 2yrs 0711971952

N/Wingroad KBU 06 550k 0733419626 NISSAN-NOTE KCB 2007 PEARL 560K 0722364945

NISS Note KCC 08 grey 0721701854

40FT Jogoo Road 0722-351616

KAMAKIS 50x100ft 0720412268 KAMULU 1ac 4M, Githiga 4ac 20M, Matuguta 2ac 10M, Kahunira 70x80 1.2M, Kiaria 5br hs 4M, Call 0731411354

KILIMANI 0.6ac,1.7ac 0722-520394 KINOO 1/8 PLOTS NEAR TARMAC

TOY Spacio KAY 460k 0720831211

T Premio KAU v/c 420k 0723223609

7M, 5.8M, 2.8M 0722790200

KISAJU 35 plots 50x100 @600k 0724108687

KISERIAN corner Baridi 1 acre 2.5M title ready Call/SMS 0713592075

Kitengela 1/4acre 2.5m 0722-914964

T/SHARK BH 720k 0715772317

KITENGELA 1acre near Acacia sch

VOLVO V70 KBZ s/wagon 07 lthr auto v/clean 1.15m 0735244288

B086 Lorries For Sale MIT CANTER CLEAN Y08' 3.2M 0722333520

RESIDENTIAL & BUSINESS PROPERTIES

NZE KBX 06 SILVER 580K DEP 100K

1/4ACRE Kahawa Sukari 0722-912383

Enaai Golf & Military residence, gated community0722450218 Nemuge Co. ltd

Ngoigwa Thka 0.0450Ha 0720693304 NGONG 1/8,1/4 1,2-10ac 0728150007 NGONG

1/8, 0724527653

1/4,

1/2,

1

ac

Ngong Kimuka 1,2-200acs 0728150007 NYERI Kiganjo 20ac 2km from Chaka Ranch with river front 0722952216

RIMPA Kiserian 1/8 acre 4m Call 0729983694, 0773250365

RUAI 1/8ac KBC 105,000/- Special offer, 020-2632731 Nemuge Company Ltd

RUAI 1/8ac KBC 95,000/- best special offer 0789-767109, Nemuge Co. Ltd Free Viewing Wed & Sat 9.30am

RUAI 1/8a KBC 125,000/- nxt to water & elec. 0722450218 Nemuge Co.Ltd

RUAI at Joska dev. prime 50x100 2km from rd water & title 650,000/=; 3km from rd 600,000/=; very prime 50x100 350,000/=; (150,000/= s/offer);KBC 40x80 200m from Kangundo road 500,000/= 3km from Pipeline 200,000/= (135,000/= s/offer); ISINYA (75,000/= s/offer), KISAJU 50x100 4km from road next Jamii Bora.

400,000/=. Truelands, Reli Co-op Hse, Mfangano st., Rm 404 0720 738141, 0734800400, 0710343334 or visit www.truelands.co.ke or Email: info@truelands.co.ke

RUAI-JOSKA,

50x100ft EASTER SPECIAL OFFER, Joska 160k 4km 250k title ready KBC 160k 1km 250k 3km & 300k 2km Kamulu 550k title ready. Viewing Wed 9am, Sat 10.30am. Hope Realty Tusker hse, opp. Naivas 0727867432, 0735696835

Kirinyaga Kibirigwi 3.7a 0723208476

T/RAUM BY 235K 0702885846

B740 Land, Plots for Sale

@5.5M 10 1⁄4's behind prison @2M 0721950787 0722581428

KIU Kenda 1⁄2acre, 9M 0722329203 KUTUS

township prime plots.

F ronting tarmac near Kirinyaga University 1/8acre ready title all services. Call 0711474249

LIMURU/1/8,1/2,1,2,21/2,4 acres 0722725196

RUAKA

plot touching Tuskys supermarket @kshs 55M neg stonewalled and cabro- paved access call 0722657301

RUIRU 40x60, 700k,400k,290k r/titles 0720-938283, 0705147102, Pattmos

RUIRU Bypass Juja 40x100 400K800K 0720511818, 0733952817 FSA

RUIRU Murera 40x60

400-700K ready titles 0700932263 Shelta

RUIRU plots 300k-3m 0726357163 RUMURUTI 5 ACRES @250K .

0710625297

LIMURU Town com build 0721797550 LUKENYA 40acre 10km off Msa Rd

RUNDA

1/4ACRE Ruai Stage 26 0722-912383

MAANZONI 5acres Tel 0703153397

SIX acres Shamba at Ndaragua along

PRADO TX ‘09 3.6M 0727464775

75ac kajiado@180k p.a0721687359

MAILI-TISA Namanga 122 acres 16km

PROBOX KBT 2005 530K 0723-558125

ADAMS Arcade 0.776acres 320M call

BAL IN 1 YEAR 0733259109

PRADO ‘09 3.65m 0727581090

PROBOX

KCA 07 680,000 dep 230,000 bal 18months 0711971952

R/Rover '99, 4.0SE pet. man0705006633 ROSA m/bus KBE v/c 1.7m 0722212564 S foresta KCA mn 732227924 SUBARU forester yr07 Grey 2units

KCB@1.3m KCC@1.35m 0722856272

MOTOR VEHICLES

plot

TOY Runx BN ksh620 22461668

N/NAVARA BY 1.3M 0727136014

PROBOX KCC 08 black 0721701854

CONTAINTERS on sale 20FT and

0721686266

KIKUYU Thogoto 1/4 ac 0721697723

T/PORTE KCC, 1.5l, 072794443

HEAVY COMMERCIAL

KAHAWASUKARI

TOY Probox KBS 470k 0726054537

MERCEDES BENZ A-Class sport

MOTORCYCLES & BICYCLES

ISNYA Flora 3 acr @9m 0725086621

KIKUYU Gitaru 1/4 ac devd 0721697723

• Excavator

MOTORS

tmc 575K 0700416390

TOY Premio 07 @1.2m 0725309070

TOY WISH KBN 640K 0724282255

Call: 0704201901 0737371345

ISINYA prime 1/4a plots titles elec nr

KIAMUMBI 1/8 & 1/4ac 0722441411

MERC E200 '99 very cln 0705006633

MAY INTAKE (4th May 2015)

1.5M pa 0700416390

TOY Porte 07 @630k 0725309070

• Grader

1 Month Course Boarding Facilities Available

ISINYA prime 10a ideal for subdvsn

Kerarapon 1/4,1/2-1ac 0728150007

Toy VX '03 manual/auto 0725104903

REGISTRATION GOING ON Requirements • National ID • Interim Driving Licence • Valid Driving Licence

Call 0722675002 or 0734866001

KATANI 1/8,1/4ac 2-5-50ac 0722-520394

L/Rover 110 tdi s/w, d/cab 0725104903

MERC C200 '07 N/Shape 0732565124

• Bulldozer

ISINYA Along Pipeline Road 7 acres

30acs @43M pa 0700416390

silver Ksh 1.6m call 0710757364

1. PLANT OPERATOR TRAINING

ready titles. Deposit 50,000, Balance 10 months installments 0725-210219

plots Kshs 90K each tel: 0726813741

L/Cruiser p/ups 800k-3.5m '10 0727464775

NANYUKI 1/8ac 200k with title near

ISINYA 1/4acre plots 7km off tarmac

KAPTANGWEN Makongo 2 (1/8)

ISZ ftr t: 0721871819

MERC. benz compressor E200 KBL

KILIMAMBOGO HIGHWAYS BUILDING & TECHNOLOGY THIKA TRAINING CENTRE

Daystar 50X100 dep. 100,000 bal. 4mths, titles ready, 0202610923,0700509512 viewing free

KAREN comm 25acs @59M pa & resi

2007 KCA full spec, kshs3.6m ono, private sale, 0733616430

B403 Colleges

HOMEWARD:

Kantafu 50,100ac @1.8m 0722529183

ISUZUTX h/s v/c 1.3M 0735099703

Demio

1.8M 200mtrs off tarmac 0722703757

KANGARI 3acres 0713853537

NKR Truck with body 0722-295843

0721209476

HOMABAY 66x104 900K 0.15Ha

4mths. Ready titles. 0202-164920, 0724-899495, 0705654430 SIDEWAY PROPERTIES Ltd. Vedic Hse 7th Flr

ISUZU MV 118 Bus KAP 62 seaters

MAZDA

Advertising Code

KAMULU 50x100 dep. 50,000 bal

LANDROVER Discovery TDV6 hse

EDUCATIONAL

PHONE Create a new sms and send to 20115

T/PRADO from 2.2M 0722876102

TOY AE91 KAN 90K 0725558907

HONDA CRV ‘98 @ 500K 0718111102

EXAMPLE

T/Passo 08 a/t winered KCC 0724101880

Westland hire cars/Noah’s 0722521678

HARRIER KBR silver 1.7m 0736727838

TO BOOK & PAY FOR YOUR ADVERT USING YOUR MOBILE

AD#B085# TOYOTA Corolla 2003 Kshs 500,000 call 07xxxxxxxx

T/Passo 2008 610K 0721662068

50-200K BAL IN 1 YEAR 0752711991

T/Mark2 KBD white,cln 535k 0714805753

SMS TO 20115

T/Fielder 06 v/clean 700k 0726860249

0700210756 WISH NZE 1500 p/d

ISZ ftr t: 0721871819

WANTED

, Sales Girls for Fast Moving Consumer Goods. well educated.

Send application to info@allwhitespads.com

T/Axio/Vitzs 07 1m & 625k 0722-222063

ISUZU

At least over 1 year teaching experience.

A librarian to work in our busy library also required.

modern, f/ld, variety from 2500/- p.d

500K blnc in 3years 0702720513

cooks nbihoteljob@gmail.com

NGO Req Driver Clerk t/boy, clean

SUZUKI Vitara KCA 1.8m 0722782855

B049 Car Hire

to

SUCCEED KCC yr2008 0721701854 SUZUKI Sierra 380k 0724588925

0721750343. 0701488626

Busam Properties Ltd

1. Isinya plots for sale 1/8 acre touching pipeline tarmac rd from 520k - 620k 2. Kjd/ Kaputiei North 2 parcels of 5 acre plots @1.7M p.acre call 0722321166/ 0735612623 Site visit organized

Corner Baridi 2,5-70ac 0728150007

title. Call 0725461858 no brokers

off main rd @ 155K p. ac 0724516455

MAKUYU 4 br hse clay tile roofd on

2 ac 10km from main rd 3.6m tel 0721781544

MASINGA 6acres 0721284122 MBS rd prime 10 acres on front row 40M per acre 0700416390

MIREMA Commercial 40x80 plots on sale 0727862529 or 0722859492

GACHIE 3 big plots 0734-699395

MTWAPA 1acre 2m 0732227924

GARDEN Estate 1/2acre @ 30M

MWIKI 60ac @7m 0711238522

serviced plot. Serious Buyers only.

Viewing on apointment 0203591393

Ndumboini Kky 1/4plot0720693304

Evergreen 1/2ac Residential 0721-210035

Prime

Nyahururu Nyeri road on tarmac 0731-531504, 0702-973689

SYOKIMAU 1/8,1/4 3-5ac 0722520394 SYOKIMAU 2km off Msa h/way 2pcs of 1/8acre tel: 0722-609491

THIKA Ngoingwa 1/8 ac 0721697723 Thome-1 0.5acre 25m 0722529183 UKUNDA 8.5acres,with 2br Hse @

3.5M per acre. Proud owner with Title deed. Only serious interested clients. 0722870397

50 | Classifieds/Transition

DAILY NATION Wednesday April 8, 2015

RESIDENTIAL & BUSINESS PROPERTIES

1br Upperhill 12,000/= 0720040895 1BR westlands 15k 0721383526 1SQ Kileleshwa 14k Call 0722604491

D571 Hotels E740 Land Plots for Sale

2br Nairobi west 22,000/- 0727032058

MTWAPA 1/8 plots 3.5million each

2BR Parklands 25k 0700-317351

0728041085

ADAMS 1br 7K 0712387164 Ownr

E782 Properties for Sale

Apartments Muchatha near Ruaka. 2

FREEHOLD

bedroom 23,000/-, 1 bedroom 18,000/-. Next to tarmac. Water, electric fence, security and G4S backup. 0724661860 / 0721585295.

B/SITTER new Ngong rd 0720903187

B768 Premises, Offices to Let CBD Furnished Office 0722-295826 GODOWN 4000sqft 0720827660 GODOWNS 5-10,000 sqft 0720903187 KAGIO Godown to let 0720903187

B/BURU OWN

2BR

20K

GREENFIELDS Savana 4BR 42.5K

BLOCK of flats of 1brm units incom 520K pm @65M 0700416390

0202214860, 0722521679 Ena Pty

HARAMBEE Estate House to let 3bedroom 40k Call 0722-369144

KIMATHI 1br 14k 0729562897

Greatwal 3BR Apt 6M 722685045

LIMURU 2 b/room 0722725196

NGONG rd Santack 4br maisonette NGONG

GREENFIELDS Estate, new 4br mst

NGUMMO

garden 3 car park tank 0722518912

parking for 3cars, corner plot, garden, gated community, 0718823778

HOUSE for sale Umoja Estate Kshs 5M tel: 0720-746622

KITENGELA EPZ very nice 5br

massionette to trade in with similarly beautiful located in Garden estate, Kiambu rd, Thome or Karen will add 20M if on 1/2 acre good location 0724624668.

-Milimani 0.25acre tel: 0722609491

4br in

LIMURU

commercial/residential building 0722725196

MUGOYA

Estate SC maisonette 3brm +sq 13.5m Call 0728-634208

NGARA 3 storey Hse 0733522375 NYAYO

Embakasi 0721897928

flat 3br 7.5M

“Give thanks in all circumstance, for this is God’s will,” 1st Thessalonians 5:18) R.I.P Amen

55K Call 0718-181828

GREENFIELDS 4br SQ corner hse

KITENGELA

Charles A. Ikaal

LAVI 4br 70k 0716493688

LORESHO 5Brs & 2SQs 0722-295826

Buru 3br msnt+2ext inc66k 0720693304

2nd Anniversary

Town 2&3br new apt secure and water 0723721175 40K0732783428

4BR

MNET

NWEST 3BR MNET 32K0732452913

RIVERSIDE 1br 40K 0722311960 TELAVIV Estate to let 1br 8400 &

single 4k 0715000944 or 0732000944

WESTLANDS 3br flat m/esnuite 80K 7120070 owner

WESTLAND s/q 5k 0726168465

STORAGE & W/HOUSING

In Loving Memory

COAST (Telephone Coast Numbers Only)

PERSONAL NOTICES

SHOPPING GUIDE

South C, 4br/SQ, large 0706 943 938 SOUTH C 3br apartm 9M 0720903187 THOME 1 hse 6brm+stdy+tv rm on

half acre+ plot.52 M. NO. Agents.

Owner 0736376734.

B789 Properties to Let

WHERE TO EAT WHERE TO STAY (COAST) D531 Hotels

KILIMANI TOWN HSE 4 BR & DSQ

Rev. Canon Hezron Rachier Mung’awo Died: 11 May 1999

Mama Ludia Aoko Rachier Died: 29 April 1992

It is exactly 16 years and 23 years respectively since you both slipped to higher glory.

CALL

Your love, dedication, humility and the passion for the care of others is a spirit that lives among us a strong reminder of the cherished memories we share with you.

1 & 2b/r Nrb West 15-25k 0721383526

You are deeply and especially missed by your children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and relatives.

VACANT 1ST 0722875615

MAY

1-2BR furnshd Sb 0722663584 1Br, B. seater, shops Tiled DSTV wardrobes, water @ pipeline opp. total petrol station 10 to 14k tel.

0722864390, 0737014784, 0722863841

1 BR G/field 12,000/= 0722550686

Remembered by your Dad Wilson Lugadiru Lumadede, Mum Susan Lugadiru. Your brother and sister Winston Lumadede, Joel Mwenesi, Daniel Keverenge and Salome Lugadiru.

Your daughter Imani. Your Friends and Relatives and the entire Lumadede’s Family.

Promotion To Glory

PERSONAL SERVICES (COAST)

Golden gate 4br+sq maisonette 16M 0711340449

Alex Adagala Lugadiru (Sir. AK Lugadiru)

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of Charles Kihuha Kamau former treasurer Kirinyaga County Council which occurred on Saturday 04/04/2015. Son of the late Cyrus Kamau Waweru (Wandaro) and late Keziah Wambui Kamau, Husband of the late Mary Waithera and Jane Wambui.

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It is exactly 2yrs since you left us to be with the Lord, but it seems like yesterday.

We thank God who through his Holy Spirit and by his great mercies and compassion has kept each one of us since you suddenly left us on 8th April, 2013. We remember and honor you today in a special way. We remember our happier times during family gatherings everyone was full of smiles and laughter, we clearly miss those moments.

You touched our lives in numerous ways. A golden Heart stopped beating, Hard working hands at rest Although our Hearts are heavy, God’s grace and passion has enabled us to face each day of your absence courageously. Though not physically with us, in our thoughts, your light still shines and we know that you are in a better place.

He will wipe away tears from their eyes there will be no more death and

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Mwalimu Amos Chege Manasseh

It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the untimely death of Charles A. Ikaal formerly of Standard Chartered Bank, Industrial Area Branch, which occurred on Saturday 4th April, 2015 after a short illness at The Mater Hospital. Son of the late Casmir Ikaal and mama Lucy I Ikaal of Koteko Village, Kocholia Location, Teso North Sub County, Busia County, beloved husband of Rose Isabella Ikaal of Standard Chartered Bank, Harambee Avenue Branch.

Loving father of John Paul Inagai Ikaal, Laura Ikaal (UON) Stephen Ikaal (UON), Victor Ikaal, and Collins Ikaal of Upper Hill Secondary School. Brother of Maurice, Benna, Fr. Fredrick Odikor of CUEA, Mary Gorreti, Fidelis, the late John, Immaculate, the late Moses, Paul, Titus and Rose. Uncle of Edu, Tony, Augustine, Jude, Peter, Mike, Deo, Brian, Lucy Tiffany, Mercy, Luka, among others. Cousin of Crescent, Calisto, Anselm Inagai, Longino Etyang, John, Juliana, Resila, Fr. James Otaga of Kisoko Catholic Church, Imelda, Consolata, Victoria, Veronica, Harriet, Ludovico Okitoi, Martin Otiti, Ruth Elwak, among others. Charles was a mentor and friend to many. Family and friends are meeting daily at his residence in Five Star Phase1 South C, House No. 51 and also at Garden Square, Nairobi. Main fundraiser will be on Tuesday 14th April 2015 at United Kenya Club at 5:00 pm. Requiem Mass will be held at Consolata Shrine westlands on Thursday 16th April, 2015 at 10:00am. Another church service will be held at his Kocholia home on Friday, 17th April 2015 at 10:00 am. The burial will be on Saturday 18th April, 2015 preceded by Holy Mass at 12:00 noon. Contributions may be sent to M-PESA NO. 0711 868 736

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Death and Funeral Announcement

It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the death of Mwalimu Amos Chege Manasseh which occurred on Wednesday 1st April 2015.

A thanks giving memorial service will be held on Friday 10.04.2015 at St. Stephen Church, Rawa in Marenyo Sub location Yala, Gem sub-district of Siaya County starting at 10 a.m and there after a get together meal at the family home in Ahono green, Riwa.

All Are Welcome “Simply the best”

Father of the late Judy Githuku, Leah Wanjiru, Serah Wanjiku Peninah Wairimu, Cyrus Kamau and George Kamau.

Father-in-law of Joseph Githuku, Abraham Soloukhna, Michael Mugo and Carol Kamau.

Brother of the late Nephat Waweru, Sarah Wanjiku, Rahab Mumbi, Jane Muthoni, James Mwaura, David Njoroge, Mary Njeri and John Njung’e.

Charles Kihuha Kamau

Grand father of Eric Githuku, Dennis Githuku, Kamau Githuku, Njoki Githuku, Mary Waithera, Wamahiga Githuku, Dennis Kihuha, Khadija Soloukhna, Gussum Soloukhna, Dennis Mugo, Polly Wangechi and Aiden Kamau.

Relatives and friends are meeting daily at his home Githunguri Gia Gachamu Nyathuna location, Kabete Division.

The cortege leaves Uplands funeral home on Friday 10/04/2015 9:30am for the church service at PCEA Githunguri gia Gichamu and later be laid to rest at his home in the same village.

May Lord rest his soul in peace

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DAILY NATION Wednesday April 8, 2015

Death and Funeral Announcement

It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the sudden death of Tom Mugo Ngare Kiige on 4th April 2015.

Son of Ngare Kiige and Esther Wachera Ngare of Kamuiru, Kirinyaga County. Husband of Judy Wanjiru and father of Jill Wachera. Son-in-law of Jackson Thingini Kiige and Martha Wangui Thingini of Nairutia, Laikipia County. Brother of Catherine (LandsKerugoya), Muthoni, Kagure, Kiige (Labour/RPP), June, Rosa, Maina, Purity, Miriam & Njeri. Brother-in-law of Eva, Priscilla, Samuel, Gladys, Damaris & John and an Uncle of many.

Family members and friends are meeting daily at his father’s home Kanjie, Kamuiru near Kagumo Town.

The Cortege will leave A.C.K Mt. Kenya Funeral Home on Saturday 11th April 2015 at 9.00am for the burial service at his father’s home.

“May God grant him eternal rest” Amen!

Tom Mugo Ngare Kiige

18/6/1972 – 4/4/2015

Death and Funeral Announcement

It is with deep sorrow and acceptance the pass away of Martin Mbugua of Kenyatta University on 4th April 2015 following a brutal murder by carjackers. Son of the late Samwel Irungu & evangelist Jane Muthoni Irungu, husband of Magdalene Wairimu of Karatina District Hospital, Father of Celestine Muthoni (Brookfield Academy) Claire Wanjiru) rising star academy). Brother of Fredrick Mwangi (Naivasha & Ceciliah Njeri (Ruiru). Brother-in-law of Douglas Maina & Virginia Wairimu. Son-in-law of Mr. & Mrs. Kamande (Kamahuha), Grandson of late Alice Mbugua & Joseph Mbugua Ngatiri, loving nephew, cousins, uncle and friends to many.

Family & friends are meeting daily at his Home Karatina, Diamond Pub Sabasaba and Exit ll Bypass (Nairobi) from 5.00pm.

The cortege leaves Karatina District Hospital on Friday 10th April 2015 at 8.00am for a funeral services and burial at his parents’ home in Maragua Nginda Location Gathera Sub location, Ihumbu Village at 10.00am.

We the Mungai family wish to express our deepest heartfelt appreciation to family, friends, organizing committee Kitengela, AIPCA Church, Kitengela community, Limuru and Kangemi community for your immense support through prayers, messages of condolence, personal visit, financial and moral support during and after the difficult period.

Martin Mbugua

Death and Funeral Announement

It is with humble acceptance of God’s Will that we announce the death of Rebecca Wanjiku Muikia.

Rebecca Wanjiku Muikia

Friends and Family are meeting daily at her residence in Nakuru and on Tuesday and Wednesday at Uhuru Gardens Estate Nairobi House Number: C50 from 4pm.

The cortege leaves Umash Funeral Home in Nakuru on Friday 10th April at 7:30am. The Funeral Service will be held at St. Monica’s Catholic Church-Section 58 behind the Shopping Center at 9:00am. She will be laid to rest at her Engashura Farm in Nakuru thereafter.

Death and Funeral Announcement

We regret to announce the death of Milcah Wangari Kariuki of Kahawa Farmers, which occurred on Thursday 2nd April 2015.

Wife of the late Kariuki Thuo. Mother of Elizabeth Wanjiku, late John Mboci, Teresia Wangui, Rosemary Muria, late Peter Mburu, Margaret Njeri and James Karau. She has lived to see Four of her own generations.

Friends and relatives are meeting daily at her home in Kahawa Farmers.

Nancy Nduta Mungai

May the Almighty bless you.

Death and Funeral Announcement

It is with a humble acceptance that we announce the death of Geoffrey Ngigi Ng’ang’a of Kaigua Transportes, which occurred on 03/ 04/2015 after a long illness at Karen hospital.

Son of the late Ng’ang’a Kaigua and late Lucy Wahu. Brother of Mbugua and late Kamiti, Wambui and Wanjiku. Husband of the late Marion Njeri and Irene Wambui. Father of Dr. Ng’ang’a, James, Mbugua, Winnie, Ng’ang’a, Wanja, Winfred and Alicia.

In God’s hands you rest, in our hearts you remain forever.

She was the devoted Mother of John Mike Muikia and Jane Njeri Muikia.

Sister of the late Moses Kanyoi, late Jeremiah Nyaga, late Mary Nyaguthie, late Rachel Wanjiru, late Samuel Wambugu, her twin sister Tabitha Wanjira, Solomon Kamau and the late Lois Wambui. Grandmother of Samuel Mbugua Muikia, Wangari Muikia, Rebeccah Wanjiku Muikia, Christopher Kanyoi Muikia and Lucy Wambui. Great Grandmother to Angelina Akoth and Mwangi Muikia.

She was an aunty and friend to many.

Appreciation / 1st Anniversary

It is one year since you left us but your memory is deeply etched in our hearts.

We give thanks to God who is the giver and taker of life for the many years we spent together.

The cortège leaves K.U Mortuary on Friday 10th April 2015 at 8:00am for a funeral service at Kahawa Farmers P.C.E.A Church at 10:00am. and thereafter burial at Langata Cemetery.

Milcah Wangari Kariuki

Acts 24:15

1914-2015

1st Anniversary / Unveiling of the Cross

Friends and relatives are meeting at his Kiserian home and Vine Ministries-Ngong daily from 5.00 pm.

The cortege leaves Lee Funeral Home on Friday 10th April 2015 at 8.00am for burial at Ngong-Kibiko same day.

Geoffrey Ngigi Ng’ang’a

May his soul rest in eternal peace.

Death and Funeral Announcement

It is with humble acceptance that we the Sisters of Mary of Kakamega announce the death and funeral of Sr.Cecilia Rose Natecho which occurred in Christ the Healer Nursing Home Nursing Home- Mukumu on 4th April, 2015. Daughter of the Late Petro Ngosia Muhando and the Late Mama Lukelesia Mutonyi of Masokho, Bungoma district Kibabii Parish, Bungoma Diocese. Sister of the Late Paul Kibate Ngosia, Jafred wanyonyi, Kinindi Ngosia, Antonina Namaemba and Monica Nanjala. Sister in-law of Elimina Wanyonyi.

Auntie of Kisembe Muraki, Valary, Electine Naliaka, Simon Nyongesa, Patrick Ngosia, Henry Makari, Caro and Simon. Her Uncles, Chemiati.

The Cortege leaves St. Elizabeth Mukumu Mission Hospital Mortuary on Wednesday 8th April, 2015 at 3:00pm for Holy Mass at the Sisters of Mary St. Augustine’s Chapel Mukumu.

The Requiem mass will be on Thursday 9th April, 2015 at the Sacred Heart Mukumu Catholic Church at 10: 00am followed by the burial rite at the Sisters of Mary Cemetery – Mukumu.

“Eternal rest grant unto her O’Lord and let perpetual light shine upon her. May she rest in peace. “Amen

Rev. Sr. Cecilia Rose Natecho

Francis Thande Munyua It is hard to believe that it has been a year since you left us and God called you to His side.

This past year we fondly remember your big heart and kindness, intelligence, generosity and your love for people.

We will all continue to treasure the time that God allowed us to share together with you, here on earth and our hearts are full of fond memories of those times.

We continue living in hope of God’s eternal kingdom where he promises to bring us together again. You were a wonderful father, kid brother, son, cousin, and friend to many, and we really miss you.

We will always love you One year on we continue to celebrate Francis’s life and warmly welcome you to commemorate the 1st Anniversary of his transition.

We will celebrate the Unveiling of the Cross at his resting place, Muniu, Mai Mahiu on Sunday 12 April 2015 at 12noon.

In God’s Hands you rest and in our hearts you live forever.

Transition to Glory

Celebration of a life well lived

Anne Ndunge Bittock

Pauline Njeri Kimani

Our dear mother Anne, was granted eternal rest following a bravely borne battle with cancer on the morning of 6th April, 2015. Daughter of the Late John Kilonzo Mulwa & Alice Ruth Ndila Kilonzo. Wife of the Late Captain John Kipsugut Lelei Bittock (Kenya Airways). Mother of William, Lawrence, Hellen & Chris Bittok.

Step mother of Geoffrey, Jane, Caroline and Bernard Bittock. Sister of Lucy Mbula Muoki, Richard Nzau (R.I.P), Paul Mwaka (R.I.P), Joseph Mulwa, Joyce Mwikali (R.I.P), Doris Mutinda (R.I.P), Michael Wambua, George Nzioka & James Ngui.

Sister-in-law of Major (Rtd) Alex Muoki (Kenya Navy/U.N.). Mother-figure and Grandmother of many!

It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the passing on to glory of our beloved mum Pauline Njeri Kimani. Daughter of the late Bernard Ngugi and the late Wanjiru Ngugi.

In God’s hands you rest, in our hearts you live forever.

Death And Funeral Announcement

It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the passing on of Joseph Mundia Muchemi on 5/4/2015.

Son of the Late Muchemi Kuria & late Purity Wambura. Beloved husband of Tabitha Wambui. Brother of the late Christopher Matheri and Patrick Kuria,Mary Wangu,Regina Wamuyu, the late Margaret Ngima and Mary Njeri. Father of Purity Nyambura, Esther Waithera(NRB County), Samuel Muchemi (KRA), Mary Wangu (Britam),Leah Wairimu, Alice Njeri(NRB County), Jane Wanjira (Modern Hosp) and Gladys Ngima(Maseno uni). Fatherin-law of Karani,Waweru,Josphine, Muhoro, Riri, Mungai and Ochieng. He was a grandfather and great grandfather of many.

17/11/1948 - 06/04/2015

Joseph Mundia Muchemi 1939-2015

Friends and relatives are meeting daily from 5.30pm for prayers and funeral arrangement at Hot Dishes Restaurant (opposite Holy Family Basilica), Komarock Sector 3A hse no. 766 and at his home in Karatina- Kiarithaini.

Funeral arrangements are ongoing at CITAM (NPC) Valley Road, Minor Hall 1 from 5pm-8pm with a major fundraising on Thursday at the same venue (Mac Bride Sanctuary). Contributions can be sent via M-Pesa Paybill Business No. 317036 (account: AnneBittock).

The cortege leaves Kenyatta University Mortuary on Monday 13th April 2015 at 7.30am. Funeral service will be held at P.C.E.A Kiarithaini followed by burial at his home in Mathira East Division, Kiarithaini village, Nyeri County.

A Memorial Service will also be held at CITAM Valley Road on Friday 10th April, at 2pm.

For further details please call 0726-138387.

Dad, you were the glue that held us together, the light and pillar of the family. We miss you and love you. Rest in peace.

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord!

1921 - 02/04/2015

Daughter-in-law of the late Tisiano Njoroge and the late MariaAngela Wanjiku.

Wife of the late Soltore Kimani. Mother of James Njoroge, the late Bernard Ngugi, Alice Waweru, Cecilia Itotia, the late Alice Kimani, the late Emily Kagiri, Captain (Rtd) J.C. Kimani, Ann Kimani, Dr. Monica Kimani and John Njenga. Mother-in-law of Tabitha Mukami, J.J. Waweru, Njonjo Itotia, the late Eng. Ibrahim K. Toro, Irene Kagendo and Rose Wangari. Sister of the late Gabriel, the late Raphael, Mugoiri, Njoki, the late Njeri, Wangari, Iruga and Nyakeru. She was auntie, grandmother and great grandmother of many.

Friends and relatives are meeting daily at her home, in Miumia “A” Githunguri, Kiambu county.

The cortege will leave Mukoe funeral home on Thursday 9th April, 2015 at 9.00am to proceed for requiem mass at Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church Kambaa, starting at 11.30am, thereafter the burial will be at her home.

In God’s hands you rest, in our hearts you live forever

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DAILY NATION Wednesday April 8, 2015

Gone Too Soon

It is with deep sorrow and humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the untimely death of Ben Kiptunge Asava which occurred on 2nd April 2015 through a tragic road accident along NakuruEldoret Highway at Eveready. Beloved son of Mr. Albert Asava Ayuko and the late Rachael Tunen Asava.

Cherished brother of Anne, Charles, Irene and Grace.

Also a cousin and friend to many.

Family and friends are meeting daily at their parent’s residence in Kiamunyi for prayer and funeral arrangements.

The cortege leaves Evans Sunrise Hospital Mortuary on Wednesday 8th April 2015 at 10.00 a.m for an overnight stay at his parent’s home in Vihiga County.

Thereafter burial will take place on Friday 10th April 2015 in Boyani Village,Vihiga County.

In God’s hands you rest, in our hearts you live forever.

R.I.P our beloved Ben.

Ben Kiptunge Asava

Death and Funeral Announcement It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the death of David Samuel Kimwele Nguli of Mumbuni Village, Wote, Makueni County.

Husband of the late Beth Kimwele Nguli. Son of the late Stephen Nguli Kyalo and the late Emmah Nguli. Son in law of the late Pastor Timothy Ngule Kavivya and Esther Mutindi of Kikumini, Nzaui Location. Father of Margaret Tama (USA), Charles Kimwele (USA), Tony Nguli, Christine Kamau, Jane Njoroge. Father in-law of Rev. Tama Musau (USA), Jane Kyalo (USA), Catherine Kimwele, Pastor Paul Kamau and Samuel Njoroge. Brother of the late Nicholas Muia, Amos Mutuku, late Dr. Eric Tilas Nguli, Maj. (RTD) Cromwel Nguli, late Monicah Nguli, Thomas Mwonga, late Moses Mbithi, and Micah Nguli (CAJ). Brother in-law of late Sarah, Rhoda, Rose, Elizabeth, Teresia and Juliana Nguli, Late Dr. Mutuku, Monica, Aaron, Josephine, Rose, Rev. Kyende, Kaleli, Wambua, Nyumu, Nzilani, Nzuki, Mutua, Rev.Muli, Peter Muema and Masila.

Uncle of Col. Joseph Nguli & Late Lenah Nguli, WOII Mutuku, Titus, Mulei, Jane, Catherine Muia, Mbula, Muthoka, Emma Samoei, Benson, Christine Mwove, Julia Sana, Edward, Tito, Mwikali, Kyalo, Samson, Kalekye, Clement, Emmah & Sheena Nguli among others. Grandfather of Joshua, Joy, Stevo, Connery, Beth, Sammy, Elijah, John and Amariah.

David Samuel Kimwele Nguli

Relatives and friends are meeting daily at Railways Club, Nairobi, from 7/4/15 to 9/3/15 from 6.00pm for funeral arrangements. There will be a harambee on Thursday, 9th April, 2015 at the same venue starting 6.00pm.

The cortege will leave Montezuma & Monaliza Machakos Funeral Home on 11th April, 2015 at 8.30am. Funeral Service and burial will take place at his farm at Mumbuni, Makueni County the same day.

Rest in peace till we meet again

Promotion To Glory

It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the untimely death of Edward Kimathi Silas which occurred on Thursday the 2nd April 2015 after a short illness. Husband of Hellen Kimathi. Son of the late Silas M’Imuchi and the late Sarah Nchurubi. Son-in-law of the late Mr & Mrs Itang’ata. Brother of Titus Mwiti,Bellah Mwitu, Damaris, Kathurima, the late Joseph Kaimenyi, Ann Mukiri, Florence Gacheri and Fredrick Gaikumi. Nephew of John Mwitari and Mary Kathuure. Loving uncle of Riungu, Mukaria, Ng’entu, Fridah, Makena, Kaire, Gacheri, Marion, Mwalimu, Karwitha, Doreen, Maingi, Muthuri, Kajuju, Nkatha, Gatwiri, Mworia, Sila, Kiendi,Martin, Mutethia, Master, Gakii, Kirimi, Kagwiria, Gitonga, Kinoti, Mutwiri, Kithinji, Kananu & Mwenda. Cousin of Manyara, Shikuku, Munyua, Kiunga, Kiriinya, Timothy and Nkaimiri among others. Friends and relatives are meeting at his Mulathankari home for funeral arrangements. The cortege leaves Kiirua Mission Hospital for funeral service at Mulathankari Methodist Church on Friday the 10th April 2015 and thereafter burial at his Mulathankari home, Imenti North Sub County in Meru County.

“Edward, you have fought a good fight, you have finished the race, and kept the faith”.

(2nd Timothy 4:7...R.I.P).

Edward Kimathi Silas

Death and Funeral Announcement

It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the death of Pireskira Moraa Nyatigo of Omogute Village, Omonono Sub-location, Kiabonyoru Location, Nyamira County.

Daughter of the late Samuel Ogari and the late Alexina Kwamboka. Wife of the late Nyatigo Motanya. Cowife of Kerubo. Mother of Motanya, Jeremiah, Hephisba, late Jephiter, Yobensia and James Nyang’wechi Nyatigo (Immigration, Kenya Embassy Washington DC). Sister of Sese, late Nyasani, Gianche, Salome, Mosokobe, late Omenyi, Maake, Priskah, Nyabeta, Pireskira Moraa Veronica, Nyakambi, late Nyamongo, Nyatigo Nyakara, late Kenyariri, Atuya, late 1931-25/03/2015 Onyango, late Mang’era and Okiro.

Sister-in-law of Peris Mochama, late Stephano,late Atoni, late Bochaberi Ombati and late Mosinya Ototo.

Prayers and funeral arrangements are being held daily Omogute Village.

Main fundraising will be held today on 8/4/2015 (Wednesday) at 680 Hotel from 5.30 pm.

The cortege leaves Umash Funeral Home on 9th of April 2015. Burial will take place on 10th of April 2015 at Omogute Village.

In Loving Memory/Unveilling of the Cross

Heaven’s Little Angel With deep and humble acceptance of God’s will, we announce the promotion to glory of Master Trevor Mario Kingori.

Son of Nelly Wairimu (Fountain Media Group) and Nicholas Muriuki (Ernst and Young). Loving brother of Brian Muriuki (St. Peter and Paul Academy) Grandson of Jane Kingori (Water Dept. Nyeri County) and Mr. and Mrs Peterson Muriuki (King’ong’o).

Nephew of Marvin Kingori, Rose Wamuyu, Grace Wairimu and Pauline Mumbi among others.

There shall be a requiem mass at Montezuma Monalisa Funeral Home chapel on Friday 10th April 2015 at 12pm.

Trevor Mario Kingori Nderitu 22/12/2012 – 31/3/2015

The cortege leaves Montezuma Monalisa Funeral Home at 6.00 a.m on Saturday April 11th 2015 for mass at St Joseph Cafasso Catholic Church, King’ong’o Nyeri at 10.00 a.m. Thereafter, the burial shall be held at the family farm in Embassy Nyeri.

“Trevor, in God’s hands you rest, in our hearts you live forever.”

Celebrating a life well lived

Lydia Wanjiru Wainaina (Mama Mbogoro) 1940 - 6/4/2015

We regret to announce the death of Lydia Wanjiru Wainaina (Mama Mbogoro) of London Estate Nakuru Town.Wife of the late Moses Wainaina Mbogoro. Mother of the late Lucy Gathoni, Vincent Mbogoro Wainaina , Christine Wanjeri, John Kamau Wainaina (Diggie), Nyambura Moses and Scholar Wambui. Sister of the late Charity Wangare Mwarangu (Nakuru Town), late James Njuguna Gakuo (Oljororok) and Harriet Waruguru Mugweru (Eldoret).

Friends and relatives are meeting daily at her London Estate Home Nakuru from 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm for burial arrangements.

The cortege leaves Nakuru War Memorial Hospital Mortuary on Monday 13th April, 2015 at 9.00 am for a Church Service to be held at Nakuru Show Ground main Arena at 10.00 am thereafter burial will take place at Nakuru North Cemetery.

Lydia, you fought a good fight,won the race and kept the faith 2nd Timothy 4:7 Praise be to God

Death and Funeral Announcement It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce to you the passing on of Elder Francis Karuma (Wakaria) Kanogu on 6th April 2015 after a short illness Husband of Rahab Wandia Karuma and the late Lucy Wangari Karuma. Father of Daniel Kinyanjui, Paul Njau and Caroline Njau, Samuel Kamau and Edith Kamau, James Thinguri, Rose Wanjiru and Ruth Wambui.

Grandfather of Sylvia Mwendwa and Peter Karuma.

Elder Edith Wamucii Nduru Though you are physically gone, our loving memories of you will never fade away, you will always be highly cherished and treasured for your Godly fear, love, faith, kindness, generosity and wisdom.

There will be the unveiling of the cross on Sunday 12th April 2015 at her home, Ngong Town near ACK Emmanuel Church Ngong starting at 12.30pm.

All am welcome.

For if we live, we live to the Lord and when we die, we die for the Lord so then, whether we are alive or whether we are dead, we are the Lord.

Brother of the late Ndaba Kanogu, the late Samuel Mwibiri, Easther Gathoni, the late Mary Njeri, the late Paul Waithiru and Joseph Kibe.

Son-in-law of Mr & Mrs Paul Njau Thinguri and Mr. Joshua Mbuthia and the late Ruth Wambui Mbuthia.

He Hailed from Ruthiru-ini Village, Riabai Sub-location, Ndumberi Location, Kiambu County.

Elder Francis Karuma (Wakaria) Kanogu

Funeral and burial arrangement meetings are being held daily at his home in Ruthiru-ini, Kiambu from 6pm. There will be a meeting on Wednesday 8th April 2015 at St Andrews PCEA church, Nairobi, Hall 1(old church) from 5:30 pm to 7:30pm.

The cortege leaves Kenyatta University (KU) mortuary on Friday 10th April 2015 at 9.00am. The funeral service shall be held at PCEA Njatha-ini church, next to Starehe Girls Center. There after the burial at his home in Ruthiru-ini.

I have fought a good fight, 1 have finished the race, i have kept the faith: 2 Tim 4:7

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DAILY NATION Wednesday April 8, 2015

Death and Funeral Announcement It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce the passing on of our dear mother Winnie Wambui Gikandi on 30/03 /2015.

Daughter of the late Mbutu and Wanjiku. Loving Wife of Norbert Gikandi Kamwana. Mother of Wanjugu, Wangari, Njeri, Njamiu (all of Sweden), Wamuyu (Germany), Alex Gikandi (Medsurge Healthcare) and Wanjiru, Wanja, Wanjiku (all of Nyeri). Mother in law of Mary Kamwana (KNH).

Sister of the late Charles Karuri, late Merioth Wangeci, Anne Waruiru Mbutu and Alice Wanjugu Nderitu. Blessed grandmother, great grandmother and Auntie of many.

There will be meetings at their Nairutia home in Nyeri and St. Andrews Church Nairobi at 5.30 pm Tuesday and Wednesday.

The cortege leaves Outspan Hospital Mortuary on Thursday 9/04/2015 at 9.00 am.

Winnie Wambui Gikandi 1938 - 30/03/2015

Funeral service will be held at the Nairutia Catholic parish Church at 11.00am, followed by the burial at their Nairutia home next to the church.

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2nd Timothy 4:7)

Death and Funeral Announcement We humbly accept God’s will and announce the death of Susana Ogore Dimba which occured on 15th March 2015. She was a business oriented woman in which she runnned a club at Kamariga Beach Centre. She was daughter of the late Thomas Yongo and Marcella Ogutu. Yongo of Asembo Lwak in Rarieda. Dear wife of the late Alex Dimba Kiyaka (Uyoma Kagwa). Mother of Alloyce Nyabolla Dimba, the late Consolata Akinyi Dimba, Thomas Yongo Dimba, Masela Dimba and Monica Dimba. Mother-in law of Stella Dimba, Ezekiel Okello, Hellen Dimba, Hesbon Okundi and Walter Odindo. Grandmother of Chrsitine Dimba Okello Christine Atieno Dimba, Susan Dimba, Elizabeth Dimba, Alexander Dimba, Conie Dimba, Kiyaka Dimba, Jonathan Ouma and Caela Ouma. She was a sister to Bill Yongo, the late Alloyce Yongo, the late Maria Yongo, George Yongo, Teresa Ndar, and the Late Maurice Yongo. Great grandmother to Candy Abidha

Granddaughter of the late Samuel Kimata, Tabitha Njeri and Mary Njeri, Patrick Kagombe and Jacinta Nyokabi. Niece to Sr. Bibiana Wahu, Kiarie Kimata, James Mukui, Pstr. Francis Kimata, John Kirika and the late Peter Hunja; Salome Gitao (Nakuru), Lucy Njambi Wanjema, David Kagombe, George Kagombe, John Kagombe and GG Kagombe. Cousin to Rev. Fr. Edwin Hunja, Irene Nduta, Bernard Kamau, John Kago,Dennis Kagombe and Kyla Nyokabi.

Angela Nyokabi Githakwa (Jojo)

Friends and relatives are meeting daily at St. Paul’s Catholic Chapel Nairobi, parents home in Olkalou and Wanugu Gatundu South from 5:30 PM. The cortege leaves Kenyatta University mortuary on Friday 10th April 2015 at 8:00 AM for a mass service at St. Joseph Catholic church Mutunguru, Ndarugu Gatundu South Kiambu county at 12:00 noon and thereafter interment at her father’s farm at Wanugu village.

Jesus said “ Do not cling to me, I am ascending to my father and your father and to my God and your God” Jn 20:17.

12/08/1938 - 15/03/2015

Co-wife to Susan Atamo Dimba, step mother to Donald, Maurice, Edmond, Albert and Lucy. Sister in-law to Margaret Yongo, Joyce Yongo, Jane Yongo and Veronica Yongo, aunt to Edwards, Thomases, Jackie, Roy, Jane, Jane A and George Jnr. The cortege leaves Star Mortuary on 10th April 10:30 am for Kawuondi church in Kagwa. The burial will be on 11th April 2015 at her rural home Uyoma Kagwa.

In God’s hands you rest, in our hearts you live forever.

Rest in peace NYAYONGO

Death and Funeral Announcement

It is with acceptance of Gods will that we announce the death of Angela Nyokabi Githakwa (Jojo) through the terror attack at Garissa University college. She is the daughter of Raphael Githakwa Kimata (Munyu-ini primary, Nyandarua) and Regina Nyambura Githakwa (Kiganjo primary, Ol Kalou). Sister to Caroline Njeri, Samuel Kimata and Immaculate Wairimu.

Susana Ogore Dimba

Celebration of life

There will be a thanks giving service today, Wednesday 8th April 2015 at 3pm, followed by a fundraiser to offset the medical bill at P.C.E.A St Andrews Church Nairobi.

Brian Mwangi Ndereba

08/11/1991- 01/04/2015

Rest in the blossoms of our Maker and forever you remain in our hearts. Amen.

It is ten years since you left us to go and be with the Lord. We thank God the giver and taker of life for the many years we spent together. We celebrate you for who you were to each and every one of us. As a family we had the privilege of experiencing God’s love through the life you lived. Your warmth and affection continue to live in our hearts.

Though gone, you remain our role model and source of inspiration in our everyday endeavours to live in faith and to accomplish as you taught us. Rest well Lavender, beloved wife, mother, sister and friend. We fondly remember you.

“Finally brethren, rejoice be made complete, be comforted, be like minded, live in peace and the God of love and peace will be with you” 2 Cor 13:11.

1928-31/3/2015

Prayers and funeral arrangements are taking place at his home, Mathulini village Nzambani- Kitui County, Alfa Hotel Nrb and Miami- Umoja Nrb. The cortege leaves Jordan Funeral Home on Saturday 11th April 2015 at 9.00am for holy Mass at St. Pauls Mathulini Pri. Sch and thereafter, burial at his home.

Dad, you have fought a good fight, kept the faith and finished the race. R.I.P. Amen.

In Loving Memory

The cortege will leave MP Shah Hospital mortuary on Friday 10/04/2015 at 7am for a funeral service at P.C.E.A Gachika, Kirichu location, Nyeri County,11am,followed by burial at their home near the church.

Dr. Lavender Achungo Marende

Julius Munyalo Isika

It has been a year since the Lord called you to His House. It feels like yesterday as we, your beloved family, remember you longingly with fondness. We know that you are now our Intercessor looking after us from above from the comfort of our Lord’s house. We are forever grateful for the opportunity God allowed us to share your life with you.

It’s with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the passing on to glory of our beloved Brian Mwangi Ndereba on 01/04/2015 after 10 days in the ICU at M.P Shah Hospital following a road accident. Son of Eng. James N. Muriithi of Kenya Power and Angela Ndereba of Jalyn Junior school.Brother of Ann W Ndereba of Kengen, Kevin Muriithi Ndereba of Energy Simulation Africa and Alex Kaguti Ndereba of USIU. Grandson of Mr & Mrs Muriithi Mugabi of Gachika, Nyeri and the late Mr & Mrs Simon Mwangi Magira of Kitale.

Nephew, Cousin and Friend to many.

In Loving Memory / 10th Anniversary

Death and Funeral Announcement It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the passing on of Mzee Julius Munyalo Isika which occurred on 31st March, 2015. Son of the late Isika Nzwili and Nzivu Isika. Loving Husband of the late Muusi and Anna Kavili. Brother of Kasyoka, Kavinya, Mukeli, Ndiliku, and the late Mwema Isika. Loving father of Petro (Teacher Kavingo Pri.), late Nzisila, Kathio, Patrick Munyalo (DLASO-Maua, Igembe), Vilita, Maua, Kavutha, Nzuki (Principal, Kaliku Sec), Nzasu, Festus Sammy (Equity, Machakos), Justus – J.K (Businessman Nrb), Musenya, James Mbwika (Fidelity Ins.), Sr Pamella of Franciscan Srs, St. Joseph Asumbi (Immaculate Cathedral Kitale), Dr. Isaac Munyalo (Makindu Hospital) and Maingi (Ratemo Adv.). Father In-law of Mueni (Businesslady), Jacinta Masila (Teacher Mathulini Primary), Monica Nzuki (Teacher Maliku Girls’), Catherine (Businesslady), Beatrice Katuku Kivinda (Businesslady), Dr. Alice Isika (Machakos Health Care), Christine Taabu (Teacher, Compassionate Chuluni). Loving uncle, grandfather, great grand father and friend of many.

Remembered by your loving mum, Willibrord Bwire, your precious and loving grandma, Paulina Mahaga, your brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces, uncles and aunts, friends and former colleagues.

Pauline Nekesa Bwire

A thanksgiving mass will be held on Friday, 17th April 2015 starting 10.00am, Sirisia Village, Budalang’i Sub-county in Port Victoria.

We miss you Pauline. You will always be in our hearts.

Death and Funeral Announcement

John Gitahi Otsyula 1957 – 29/3/2015

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of John Gitahi Otsyula of Portland, Oregon, USA. Son of the Late Dr. Yona Otsyula and Priscilla Wambui Otsyula of Kitale. Beloved husband of Anne Hillyer.

Father of Ezra Ondwasi and Wolky Samboy. Brother of Mike Munyobi, Beatrice Watiti, Milka Aswa, Cliff Otsyula, Vicky Koi, Robert Otsyula, Prof Rebecca Opole, Jacob Otsyula, Nanzala Mwaura, Jeddy Otsyula, Prof Khwa Otsyula, John Mbugua Otsyula, Dan Otsyula, Kulwa Otsyula among others. Brother-in-law of Charles A Sechere the late Charles Koi, Prof Isaac Opole, the late Simon Mwaura, Rose Munyobi, Faith Otsyula. Evelyn Otsyula among others. Nephew of Aloys Ekesa, George Kituyi, Late Senje Serry, Late Dr. Walter Otsyula, Rtd. Maj Ondwasi, Gachora Gitahi, Rebecca Wanjohi, Gladys Kamere, Jelioth Karuri, late Jedidah Ndegwa, Betty Tenai, Late Anne Karenge, Gachahi Gitahi, Linus Gitahi, among others. Cousin of Dr. Moses Otsyula, Dr. C V Okumu, Wyciff Luchiri, Anthony Otsyula, Steve Kaniaru, Muthoni Kamere, Lilian Magero among others. Uncle of Waluse, Namungu, Pauline, Jean, Akinyi, Priscilla, Odindo, Anita, Wangechi, Phil among others.

There are meetings at his parents’ home in Kitale at 5 pm daily, with fi nal prayers on Sunday 12th April 2015 at 2 pm at St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Kitale.

There will be meetings on 9th and 10th April 2015, at All Saints Cathedral Nairobi from 5pm. The funeral service will be held on the 18th April 2015 at the Milwaukie Presbyterian Church, Portland and he will be laid to rest on 19th April 2015 at Ekone Ranch Washington, USA.

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DAILY NATION Wednesday April 8, 2015

Death and Funeral Announcement

We regret to announce the untimely death of Peterson Ombonyo Rasugu (Formerly the Manager, Masaba Farmers Union and Director Nyankoba Tea Factory). Son of the late Matwere Rasugu and late Kwamboka. Step son of Paskalia Bonareri. Husband of Jemima Nyaboke. Father of Henry Nyambane (SQAS), Nyamira North, late Hellen, Alice, Jane, late Margaret David Ombonyo (U.S.A), Richard, Gladys, Walter and Edinah. Brother of the late Nyanoti, late Frida, late Mokaya, Jelia, late Obiero and Peris. Uncle of Hon.Victor Swanya, Tom Mong’are, Dr. Mokaya, Nyambane, Oseko, Nyarongi, Yabesh Josephine (Nyaguku), Peterson, Elkana and Linus among others. Grandfather of Frank, Bob, Lilian (Transami), Charles (EPZ), Jelidah (Paraton) Zainab (AP.) Susan, Moveric, Lydiah, Eddah, Edwin among others. Great Grandfather of Liwen, Tania, Alvin, Allan, Brian, Nicole among others. Father Inlaw of Leah, Gesare, Teresiah, Caroline, late Makori, Ondieki, late Isoe, Nyabuti, Sospeter and Tom. Cousin of Mary Agasa, Kemene, Ogao, Victor Obiero, Chief Magara, Mokayas, Obieros, late Ogeto late Jones, Wycliff, Joseph Mayieka (U.S.A) Ombonyo, Geteri and Akuma Among others. Korera of late Mochache, late Atandi , late Osebe, late Clement Onkeo, late Nelson Ogeto and and late Mandere.

Nephew of Nelson Gichana Inlaw of the late Morwabe, Ongaga and Ogwagwa, Omanwa (Makairo), Momanyi (Tombe ) and Shem (Gesusu). Friends and relatives will meet on 8th April for the Main Fundraising at Professional centre starting from 5.00 pm. Cortage leaves Umashi funeral home on 9th April 2015 at 8.00 and burial will take place at his farm Riamisiani Village, Gesima Location Nyamira County on 10th April 2015.

Peterson Ombonyo Rasugu 1933 - 25/03/2015

Death and Funeral Announcement

It is with humble acceptance of God’s will we announce the demise of Robert Misati Nyamweya of Kisii County office on 22nd March 2015 after a short illness. Loving son of the late Elizaphan Nyamweya and Josephine Moraa. Husband of Stela Ogutu. Father of Tracy, Mitchele, Shawn and Sasha. Brother of Evans, Esther, Late Alice, Linet (Immigration), Dominic (U.S.A.), Francis and Karen (Nyakegogi). Son-in-law of Reuben and Rebeca Ogutu. Brother-in-law of Pamela (Police Vigilance House), Jacky (U.S.A.) among others.

Semo of Jeremy and Anthony, Cousin of Onderis, Onyangos, Nyambanes, Anyienis, Bichangas, Rakambas, Mochires, Akeyas, Onyikwas among others. Nephew of Senator Janet, Rebecca (Ongeras), Shem (Storm), Onyango. Uncle of Brenda, Nick, Alice, Natasha, Brian, Moraa, Natalie, Kelly, Keith, Frank, Moenga, Bob among others. Main fundraisings will be on Wednesday 8th April 2015 at Hotel Storm- Kisii & Garden SquareNairobi. The body leaves Hema Hospital Mortuary on Thursday 09/04/2015. Burial will take place on Friday 10/04/2015 at Kiango Village, Kisii County.

Robert Misati Nyamweya 1968-22/03/2015

“Bob” we love you but God loves you most.

Death and Funeral Announcement

It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the passing on of Mr. Philip Kamau Munyungu of Green Estate Elburgon. Son of the late Munyungu Muchunu & Wangui Munyungu. Husband of the late Grace Muthoni Kamau and late Wambere Kamau. Father of Joseph (KRA), Betty (USA), Geoffrey (RDU), Lydia (Gilgil), John (Utawala), Ruth (CHS) among others. Uncle of Munyungu, Mbaire, Kamau, Karanja, Mwangi-to,Wangui among others.

Grandfather of George, Dr. Kelvin, Eric, Emma, Diana, Njoki, Faith, Priscila, Sonni, Jimmy, Ramah, Chiru, Cynthia, Denno, Nancy, Kamau, Muthoni, Winnie, Natasha Trevor and Philip.

Friends and relatives are meeting at John Kamau’s residence at Utawala (Near Cornerstone Church) daily at 5.00p.m and at his home at Green Estate Elburgon for prayers and funeral arrangements.

The cortege leaves KU Funeral Home on Thursday 9th April 2015 at 6.00a.m. Funeral service will follow thereafter at his home at Green Estate Elburgon starting at 10.30.a.m. He will be laid to rest at his home at 2.00.p.m.

In God’s hands you rest, in our hearts you remain forever.

Philip Kamau Munyungu

Unveiling of the Cross 1st Anniversary

It is exactly one year since you were plucked from our midst by the evil hand of death.

Although you are not physically with us, your spirit lives with us.

Loving daughter of Mr. Elijah Gesusu (TSC Hqs Nairobi) and Mrs Lois Mogitaba. Sister of Sylvia Moraa (JOOUST), Jonhson Bosire and Nemrod Orwaru (Molo Academy).

Granddaughter of Late James Gesusu and Janes Nyang’ong’o, Elder James Mogitaba and Mary Mogitaba, Mairura Orwaru, The Nyagwencha’s, The Masese’s, The Nyang’ate’s and great grandchild of Hellenah Bogomba.

You are dearly missed by your wife, children, entire Mungai family, relatives, friends and all those who cherished you.

There will be a service for unveiling the cross on Saturday 11th April 2015 at the grave side at 10.00 am For if we live, we live to the lord, and when we die, we die for the lord. So then, whether we are alive or whether we are dead, we are the lords. Romans 14:8

Dr. Josephat Gachui Mungai

Promotion To Glory

It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the death of Andrew Auma Kasamu of Matayos Busia County, died Thursday, 2/4/2015 at Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu.

Husband of Jane Sebastian Lidoroh. Father of Eugene, Alan, Owen, Juliet, Audrey, Karen and Cynthia. Grandfather of Warren, Ann among others. Uncle of Robert, Ben, Linda, Meshack, Edward, George, Lidorohs, Odungas among others. Brother of Inviolata, Alexandria, Rasmus, Nickodemus, Clement. Brother-in-law of Humpreys and Stanley. He was a member of Mundika Catholic parish, friend and guardian of many.

Funeral services and burial will be Saturday, 11/4/ 2015 from 10 a.m. at his home in Matayos Busia County. Fund drive at Garden Square on 8th April 2015 from 5pm. M-Pesa 0715 332518.

Loving cousin of Laura, Derek, Mabel,Valentine, Lindsay, Earnest, Gifton, Nina, Briton, Dominic Kegwaro, Erick Oseko, Edwin Omundi, Jemimah, Victor, Diana, Ong’au, Gesusu and others. Niece of Emma Erick, Rebecca Madaraka, Jane Ontere, Moracha Daniel, Peter Omari, Hellekiah Ondondo, Sofia Kwamboka, Rose Mandere, Kwamboka Suzan among others.

Debra Nyamoita Gesusu 28/1/2000-30/3/2015

Friends to the Onchomba’s, Omugas’s, Makori’s, Keronche’s and the entire Eldoret community. Prayers and funeral arrangements are being held daily at their home Action Estate Eldoret.

The cortege will leave Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital Mortuary on Thursday 9th April 2015 at 8.00 am for burial on 10th April 2015 at their rural home at Kiomiti village, Nyaribari Masaba, Kisii County.

Till we meet again Nyamoita, rest in everlasting peace….

Death and Funeral Announcement Andrew Auma Kasamu

Death and Funeral Announcement

It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the passing on to glory of our beloved Mary Muthoni Kung’u on 1st April 2015 after short illness bravely borne. She was loving wife to JD Kung’u (formerly of Survey Branch of Kenya). Mother of Kamanja, Wanjiru, Muita, Gathura and Wangari. She was daughter of late John Muita and Beatrice Wanjiru and sister of Irungu, Njuguna, late Wanjiku, Wang’oe, Chege, Gatune, Kahoni, Wathira and Yudi. She was mother in law of Rehab, Mercy and grandmother to Mya, Moesha and Ryan

It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the death of Mama Serfina Nyamori Atieno which occurred peacefully in her sleep on March 23, 2015, at her home in Kakola village. Daughter to Mzee Nyumba and Mama Nyabola, she was the only girl among three brothers; Okite Nyumba, late Ames Nyumba and Nyumba Nyumba.

Serfina is preceded in death by her husband, Clement Atieno Otengo, three sons Julius Owino, John Nyaseme, James Oriare, daughter Rose Mumbo and a daughter-in-law Linnet Anyango.

Serfina is survived by her daughters Anne Olweny, Margaret Owino and Connie Hillman; daughters-in-law Agneta Nyanja and Stella Osiema; sons-in-law Gordon Mumbo and Eric Hillman; 23 grandchildren Josephine Olweny, Meshack Olweny, Caroline Onyango, 1925 - 23/03/2015 Jackline Olweny, Noelle Olweny, Jack Mumbo, Valerie Mumbo, Vickie Mumbo, Jason Mumbo, Olive Mumbo, Ascah Achieng, Samora Owino, Dickson Owino, Hempstone Owino, Mary Owino, Lilian Owino, Beatrice Owino, Linda Owino, Benard Owino, Linna Nyaseme, Georgina Nyaseme, Cindy Nyaseme and Nick Otengo; 11 great-grandchildren.

Mama Serfina Nyamori Atieno

Friends and family are meeting daily at Norwich building 4th floor and at her home in Baraka estate in Nakuru.

The cortege leaves Nakuru war memorial Hospital morgue at 7.30am on Friday 10th April 2015 for her home in Baraka estate nakuru where the funeral service and burial will be conducted.

Celebration of a life well lived It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the untimely death of Debra Nyamoita Gesusu of Seko Girls High School Eldoret which occurred at Eldoret Hospital on 30th March 2015 after a brave and brief battle with Rheumatic Fever.

Mary Muthoni Kung’u

The cortege leaves Star Mortuary, Kisumu on Friday April 10, 2015 at 10:00am to be followed by Church services at Ahero Catholic Church at 11:00am. Serfina will be laid to rest on Saturday April 11th, 2015 at Kakola Village, Ahero.

‘*I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race and have kept the faith’ 2nd Timothy4:7*

Rest in Peace Nyar Nyumba, wabiro romo kendo

Celebration of life

Celebration of a Life Well Lived

31st Anniversary

Cornelius Kiprotich Ng’eny (Kip)

Maurice Ray Buluma Odilo Makokha

Cornelius Kiprotich Ng’eny (Kip) of Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret, passed away on 2nd April 2015 at St Lukes Hospital, Eldoret. First born son of Mr Samson Kimng’eny Cheramboss (Rtd GSU Commandant) and Mrs Helen J. Cheramboss (Rtd Snr Chief Principal Moi Girls High School, Eldoret), brother of Monica Strohmyer (former Director BSL, MN, USA), Edith Cheramboss (Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution, Nairobi), Patricia Cheramboss (Moi University, Eldoret), Dr Constan Cheramboss (Kapkatet County Hospital, Kericho) and Sharon Cheramboss (University of Oxford, UK). He is the loving husband of Naomi Chelagat (St Lukes Hospital, Eldoret). Adored father of Aidan Kigen. Son-inlaw of Mr.John Birech Chemai and the late Mrs. Emily Chemai brother-inlaw of Methusela Ngetich, Timothy Chemai, Enock Ngetich. Uncle of Abigael Chepkorir, Adrian Chang’too and Madison-Grace Chelel.

It is with humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce the sudden promotion to glory of Engineer Maurice Ray Buluma Odilo Makokha of Masinde Muliro University of Science & Technology and formerly of Telkom Kenya. Son of the late Mzee Nicodemus Buluma Odilo and the late Mama Crescentia Nekesa of Syekunya Village, Nambale Township location, Nambale Sub-County, Busia County.

21/09/1974 – 02/04/2015

Kip is dearly remembered by all his family, relatives and friends. His memorial service will be held on Wednesday 8th April 2015 at ACK St Matthews Cathedral, Eldoret, at 10.00am, after which he will be escorted to his home in Kesogon Village, Aldai, Nandi County for an overnight stay.

Kip’s mass requiem service will be on Thursday 9th April 2015 at 10.00am thereafter our dearest Kip will be laid to rest at home.

11/11/1949 - 31/03/2015

Husband of Anne Aroni Makokha. Father of Fidel, Bruno, Sennen, Jovita & Maria Gorret Makokha & grandfather of Anne Aroni Chepkoech Makokha. He was father in law of Linda Kwamboka, Carolyne Jebiwott and Leah Karanja. Brother of Getrude Nabwire Onyundo, Hon.Gervase Buluma Akhaabi, Protus Buluma, Bernadette Buluma Wandera, Fosca Mugeni Buluma and Patrick Odilo Buluma. Brother-in-law of Michael Onyundo, Agnetta Akhaabi (Chair, Public Service Board – Busia County), Pamela Akhaabi – Ampath Eldoret, Philomena Oyula, late Martin Wandera, Victor Wandera, Dismas Wanzala, John Masinde, Florensio Oduori among others. Uncle of among others Godfrey Okou, Jovan Kariuki, Hillary Akhaabi, Claire Akhaabi, Chrisostom Akhaabi, Bella Buluma, Abby Buluma, Evaline Wandera, Linus Wandera, Tiberius Otsieno, Kevin Bahati, Jackline Mwanza, Regina Odilo. Nephew of among others the late Wilson Kafwa, late Prof. Francis Olukere Wanafula, Ekombe Odilo & Benedicto Olukere. Cousin of among others Peter Kafwa, Tom Kafwa, Henry Kadima, Michael Ekombe, Basil Kwoba & Rispah Odilo.

The cortege leaves Aga Khan Hospital Mortuary Kisumu on Thursday 9th April 2015 at 9AM for Mass at St Joseph’s Cathedral Kakamega and proceeds home to Busia County. There will be Mass at Nambale AC Primary on Saturday 11th April 2015 at 10am followed by burial at his home in Nambale Township, Nambale Sub-County.

Major General J.M.L It is 31 years ago that you left this world to be with our maker.

Though gone, you are in our hearts all the time.

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Kenya’s Ronnie Mwenesi trains with the national team in Nairobi on May 17 last year.

Kenya for Test matches against Spain, Portugal Paawater’s men enter camp Friday to prepare for friendly matches and Africa Cup assignments

BY AYUMBA AYODI

@AyumbaAyodi sayodi@ke.nationmedia.com

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enya will warm up for the Africa Rugby Cup with Test friendly match against Portugal on May 30 at the RFUEA grounds.

Kenya Rugby Union (KRU) has also lined up a Test match against Spain on July 18. The 15s team, under South African coach Jerome Paawater, will play Spain in between the Africa Cup tournament that has adopted a new format.

Team manager Wangila Simiyu said victories against Portugal and Spain will be good for Kenya’s preparation and will boost the team’s ranking globally. Kenya are currently placed 31st in the latest World Rugby rankings while Spain are 21st while Portugal 23rd.

“Claiming their scalps will definitely improve our ranking,” said Wangila.

KRU has selected a 51-man squad for a training camp in Kasarani which begins on Friday for three days under the supervision of Paarwater, who is due in the country tomorrow.

Africa Cup that is also known as the Africa Rugby Division 1A tournament will see teams traverse the continent unlike the previous format where the the event was held in one venue.

Kenya will play Namibia, Tunisia and Zimbabwe in the Division 1A matches.

The team that finishes bottom will be relegated to Division 1B next season.

After playing Portugal, Kenya will open up their campaign in the Africa Cup against Zimbabwe on June 13 in Harare

before meeting Tunisia on June 30 at the RFUEA grounds.

The match against Spain will be a vital build-up for Kenya’s Africa Cup tie against champions Namibia on August 8 in Windhoek.

“The Portugal and Spain Test matches will come in handy after we missed out on Vodacom Cup this season,” said Wangila.

Namibia, who will play at the Rugby World Cup, are placed 22nd and Zimbabwe 26th in World Rugby ranking.

Wangila said it’s after the trials that they will come up with two teams - the Kenya 15s Tusker Simba and Kenya ‘A’, also known as Shujaa.

The first 30-35 players will make Tusker Simba squad with the rest forming Shujaa that will seek to defend the Elgon Cup title against Uganda in the first leg tie on June 13 at the RFUEA grounds.

“The camp will give us a chance to get the wider squad together for the international season,” Wangila said. “It will be critical for us in terms of complementing the work that the clubs have done of ensuring the players are in good shape during the league.”

BY PHILIP ONYANGO

ponyango@ke.nationmedia.com

KENYA’S TRAINING SQUAD: Loose-head props: Moses Amusala (KCB), Giles Littlewood, Joseph Maina (Nakuru), Francis Akatu (Mwamba) Tight-head props: Curtis Lilako (KCB), Isaiah Nyariki (Nakuru), Duncan Mwangi (Kabras), Brian Otieno (Mwamba) Hookers: Sammy Warui (Nakuru), Peter Kaaria (KCB), Mugambi Kithamba (Strathmore) Locks: Wilson Kopondo (Quins),Ronnie Mwenesi (Nondies), Emmanuel Mavala (Homeboyz), Davis Makori (Impala), Michael Gitau (Strathmore), Oliver Mangeni (KCB), Martin Owila (Nakuru), George Nyambua (Kabras) Back rows: Charles Omondi, Brian Nyikuli (Strathmore), Dalmus Chituyi, Lawrence Buyachi, Mike Okombe (Nakuru), Davis Chenge (Western Bulls), Max Adaka (KCB), Joshua Chisanga (Homeboyz) Scrum-halves: Edwin Achayo (Kabras),Lylle Asiligwa (Harlequins), Francis Wayodi (Mwamba),Kelvin Masai (Homeboyz), Robert Aringo (Impala) Fly-halves: Kenny Andola (Strathmore), Isaac Adimo (Quins), Haroun Lubisia (Homeboyz), Brian Beckham (Nondies) Centres: Nick Barasa (Kabras), Kelvin Omiyo (Nakuru),Brad Owako (Mwamba), Fabian Olando (KCB), Edwin Okemwa (Nakuru),Samuel Motari (Strathmore), Dennis Muhanji (Quins) Back-threes: Collins Wanjala, Darwin Mukidza,Allan Omuka, Jack Ojee (KCB), Alvin Otieno (Homeboyz), Alex Olaba, Tony Onyango (Strathmore), Vincent Mose (Impala)

The Portugal and Spain Test build up will come in handy after we missed out on Vodacom Cup this season” Wangila Simiyu, Kenya’s team manager

China’s greatest track and field athlete Liu Xiang Xiang retires Beijing China’s greatest track and field athlete Liu Xiang announced his retirement yesterday, with the injury-plagued Athens 2004 gold medal winner saying he had “no choice” but to bring down the curtain on his trailblazing career.

“From today, I will end my life as a professional athlete and retire formally,” the 110m hurdles star said in an

HOOLIGANISM Turkish police yesterday detained the suspected gunman and an alleged accomplice wanted for the attack on top flight football side Fenerbahce that sent shockwaves through the game in the country.

online post. “This is a decision made after long deliberation. I am deeply reluctant and feel pained, but I have no choice,” he added, on his verified account on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter.

The 31-year-old’s retirement is likely to spark an outpouring of emotion from Chinese sports fans, despite the news being widely expected, particularly since reports last week that an announcement was imminent.

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The Shanghai-born athlete has become loved for his heart-breaking setbacks as well as his achievements after he burst onto the scene in Athens to claim China’s first men’s track and field gold.

Following that victory, Liu was hotly tipped for gold at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, but limped out of the first heat, shocking tearful home fans at the Birds Nest stadium.

Liu suffered another agonising

exit at London 2012, clattering into the first hurdle in his opening heat.

After being helped up, he hopped the length of the track before symbolically kissing the last barrier and exiting the Olympic arena.

Liu will be remembered in China as the man who proved that Asian athletes can compete with the world’s best in sprint sports, particularly when he was on world-beating form ahead of Beijing 2008. (AFP)

ATHLETICS

SWIMMING

Doping a thing of the past, says coach

McEvoy beats Magnussen in 100m final

Yury Borzakovsky, the newly-appointed head coach of Russia’s national athletics team, insisted Tuesday that doping was a thing of the past and that all Russian track and field athletes were now “clean”. Russia has been accused of using widespread doping in sport, with a raft of high-profile athletes having failed tests, and is under investigation by track and field’s governing body, the IAAF, and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Cameron McEvoy again upstaged dual world champion James Magnussen in the final of the 100 metres freestyle at Australia’s world championships trials yesterday.

Defending champion McEvoy claimed his third win in four meets over Magnussen by clocking the year’s fastest time of 48.06 seconds ahead of the London Olympic silver medallist (48.18). Tommaso D’Orsogna (48.54) took bronze.

The Kenya Basketball Federation will allow clubs to field only two foreign players per game in the Kenya Basketball League.

This was arrived at during KBF’s governing council meeting at Nyayo National Stadium where stakeholders unanimously endorsed the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) rule. The rule has had been implemented in Kenya in the past.

KBF chairman Paul Otula (above) said it was time the basketball fraternity complied with the rules governing the sport worldwide.

During the weekend meeting, it was also agreed that all coaches of clubs must be Fiba-accredited failure to which they will be suspended indefinitely. Otula said he is determined to take the game to the next level after an average performance by the national men’s basketball team at the Four Nations Tournament in South Africa a fortnight ago.

Many local players will get an opportunity to showcase their talent at all levels. In the long run, ot will help improve the standard of the game” Paul Otula, KBF chairman Under the new rule which will apply to universities and all tertiary institutions as well as Kenya Secondary Schools Sports Association games, Otula said teams will be at liberty to register as many foreigners as they may wish but will be required to name only two in the team sheet per game.

“This way, many local players will get an opportunity to showcase their talent at all levels. In the long run, ot will help improve the standard of the game,” he said.

He also said the requirement that all coaches be accredited by Fiba will ensure that players get the required guidance from their mentors.

Otula said plans are at an advanced stage to have coaching and referees clinics in all the counties.

It was also agreed that new women’s basketball teams, Masaku Sparks and Daystar University, be admitted to the national classic basketball league.

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RALLYING | Kibos-sponsored rally driver now focused on conquering next challenge

Chatthe’s star rises after win

Pipeline return from Cup championships

Young driver takes over KNRC leadership after Safari Rally victory

BY ABDUL SIDI

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ewly crowned Safari Rally champion Jaspreet Chatthe is basking in the glory of his new status in the Kenyan rallying circles.

And rightfully so because winning the once world acclaimed event not only brings glory, but extra burden and pressures of trying to maintain the challenge in the coming legs of the Kenya National Rally Championship (KNRC).

Chatthe, who launched his rallying career just under three years ago, won the KCB Safari Rally on Sunday in one of the most dramatic fashions in the event’s history.

Aged 35 and with very limited experience in the sport, the Kibos-sponsored driver did not buckle under pressures

I take challenges as they come and with calculated strides. I am hoping to face future challenges as I did in the Safari Rally” Jaspreet Chatthe, 2015 Safari Rally winner

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Kenya Pipeline women’s volleyball players (from left) Monica Biama, captain Ruth Jepng’etich, Janet Wanja and Gaudencia Makokha display their trophies after returning from the Africa Club Championships in Egypt.

BY CELLESTINE OLILO colilo@ke.nationmedia.com

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The 2015 Safari Rally winner Jaspreet Chatthe (right) on the finishing ramp with his navigator Gugu Panesar.

even with Ian Duncan trailing him by a mere 41 seconds with just two stages remaining.

Chatthe eventually prevailed securing victory by the slightest margin of 13 seconds.

“I was lucky with a steady drive which was not even pre-planned. I take challenges as they come and with calculated strides. I am hoping to face future challenges as I did in the Safari Rally,’’ said Chatthe, a previous rally winner in Tanzania and Nanyuki.

Following the win, Chatthe now takes over the KNRC overall lead from Tapio Laukkanen with 58.5 points followed by the defending champion, Baldev Chager with 37.5

points. Multiple winner of the KNRC titles and former Safari Rally champion, Duncan, is third with 31.5 points.

Jas Mangat of Uganda was the bestplaced foreign driver in the seventh place while, Ron Oakley of Dubai was placed 25th. They were among the 32 survivors from an original start list of 58 drivers. Alastair Cavenagh’s move from the Proton S2000 to the Porsche Carera for this particular rally, helped him win the Classic Class and become the highest-place 2WD car in the 11th position.

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Kenya Pipeline volleyball team returned home yesterday to a heroes’ welcome after finishing second in the women’s African Club championships which ended on Sunday in Cairo.

The players, coaches and head of delegation all complained of poor officiating they were treated to, saying that referees were had a fixed mind of making the Egyptians win.

“It is not an excuse.

We were the best team in the competitions, but we were robbed of victory by the referee,” said a disappointed Kenyan international Janet Wanja who was voted the tournament’s best setter. Coach

Japheth Munala echoed Wanja’s sentiments, but said that they would work on ball reception ahead of the All Africa Games qualifiers which begin later this month on Kampala.

“Officiating was poor throughout the tournament and when we couldn’t take it anymore we lodged a formal complaint with the continental body about a particular Algerian referee, but we were surprised to find out that she was the same referee who presided over the final,” he said.

“The referee kept Intimidating and harassing us with delayed calls, dubious red cards and unwarranted penalties in the last set. When we were just two points behind Al Ahly, the referee called off the match,” Munala said.

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Portugal’s Lima, Kamau fire warning shot ahead of showdown

BY LARRY NGALA

lngala@ke.nationmedia.com Portugal’s Jose-Filipe Lima and his amateur partner Paul Kamau shot 14 under par 58 gross to take the top prize during the first Barclays Kenya Open Pro-Am tournament sponsored

by Coca-Cola at the par-72 Karen Country Club course yesterday.

The pair, which sank a number of birdies, won by a whole five shots from the team of professional Charle Ford from England and partner

W.N. Ngaruiya. The pro Lima won Sh60,600 (600 Euros), while Kamau took home a fabulous prize courtesy

Sh60,600 Money Jose-Felipe Lima took home for winning the first Barclays Kenya Open Pro-Am

of Coca-Cola who are among the leading co-sponsors in this year’s Kenya Open golf tournament.

The two shot nine under par 63 and took the second prize after a three-way countback which involved the teams of Sean of Enhaus and George Makori, and that of England’s Philip Price and Moses Karanu.

Einhaus and Price finished in third and fourth places respectively.

Former Kenya Open champion Marten Lafeber and Muthaiga’s Mwai Mbuthia were fifth on eight under par 64 but again after a countback

with the team of Emilio Cuartero Blanco and Karen Country Club general manager Sam Mwai, South Africa’s Zander Lombard and Simon Njogu and the eighth placed team of Charles Edouardo Russo and Zubair Khan.

Today another big field of over 200 players, including 88 professionals, return to the course for the Barclays Bank-sponsored Pro-Am from 7am.

The first round of the Kenya Open gets under way tomorrow at the Karen Country Club course.

GOLF | Players leave nothing to chance

Golfers warm up for Kenya Open with last Pro-Am tourney Sigona’s Savani in field of 88 pros, 100 amateurs to tee off at Karen in final curtain-raiser tourney

BY LARRY NGALA

@LarryNgala lngala@ke.nationmedia.com

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t is the turn of 88 professionals and over 100 amateurs at Karen Country Club today as the par-72 course hosts the second Barclays Kenya Open Pro-Am from 7am.

Today’s Pro-Am, sponsored by Barclays Bank of Kenya who are also title sponsors of the 2015 Kenya Open, will feature an amateur field that also has players who qualified from various events in the Barclays Bank Golf Circuit Series held across East Africa.

The amateur qualifiers include 20 players who made it to today’s event via the Barclays Bank Golf Circuit grand finale held also held at Karen Country Club a week ago.

Leading this group will be Sigona’s Gopal Savani who was overall winner of the grand finale after returning 37 points to beat home player William Jamieson and Tim Chege by a point. Savani is drawn at 11am with Denmark’s Joachim B. Hansen, Deen Huizing of the Netherlands and amateur Azim Dewji.

Other amateur qualifiers include Karen’s Mike Mugasa, Sam Munyua of Limuru, Kisii Sports Club’s lady golfer Damaris Kemunto and Thika’s Watson Burugu.

Of the pros drawn, some of who will use the Pro-Am round as a practice round for tomorrow’s opening round of the Sh20.2 million (200,000

7am Time the Barclays Kenya Open Pro-Am will tee off at Karen Club today

Euros) Kenya Open event, the field includes over a dozen Kenyan pros who will be led by Muthaiga resident professional Anil Shah.

Anil will again be out to make the final two rounds of this year’s Kenya Open.

Anil, one of the most successful Kenyan professional in the international scene, has missed the Kenya Open cut a number of years now.

jashihundu@ke.nationmedia.com Kenyan Premier League officials will this week unveil plans to handle crowds in Sunday’s derby between Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards at Nyayo National Stadium.

Kenyan Premier League Limited chairman Ambrose Rachier yestyerday said there are special plans

BY FRANCIS MUREITHI

fmureithi@ke.nationmedia.com The Kenya secondary schools national Term One games set to kick off in Nakuru next week have received a major boost following yesterday’s announcement by sponsors Brookside Dairy that they have set aside Sh11.5 million for the extravaganza.

The games will be held between April 14 to 18 with seven regions - hosts Mau (formerly Nakuru), Lake, Highlands, Metropolitan, Coast, Garissa, Aberdares and Nzoia - displaying their talents.

The week-long event which will feature basketball, hockey, rugby, swimming, cross-country, heptathlon and decathlon will be staged at Nakuru Boys High School and Nakuru Girls. Moi High School Kabarak will host swimming competitions.

Brookside yesterday said it would also carry out major renovations on venues and other facilities to be used during the competition.

The event will be used to select teams to represent Kenya in the East Africa Regional Games in Rwanda in August.

“We have finalized upgrading of playing fields at Nakuru Girls, some pitches at Nakuru Boys and at Moi High School, Kabarak, where swimming will take place,” said Peter Wasonga, Brookside’s marketing manager. Brookside will kit all participating teams.

During the competition, talented players in basketball (boys and girls) will be sponsored to pursue various courses at the public and private universities.

Bad outing

He had awful outing in last year’s tournament where he shot six over par 78 in the first and second rounds to finish well below the cut. Also drawn in today’s Pro-Am is Nakuru’s Richard Ainley, Mombasa-based Kopan Timbe, Eldoret’s Boniface Simwa and Railway’s Njuguna Ngugi. From the European Challenge Tour list, the big names in action today include England’s Max Orrin, one of the five Challenge Tour tournament winners in the 2014 season who is drawn in the same team as Anil Shah, amateur Mohammed Dweji and Derrick Njaaga.

Also in the draw is former Kenya Open champion Gary Boyd, one of the players invited by the Kenya Open Golf Limited. Boyd was at Karen in last year’s Open but did not make the last two rounds despite a two under par 70 in the second round in addition to an 81 in the opening round.

There is also the pair of South African Justin Walters and Frenchman Victor Riu who are drawn with Barclays Bank’s Zahid Mustafa and businessman Chris Kirubi in the afternoon. At stake for the amateurs will be take-away prizes, while the pros will take home cash prize prizes ranging from 5,000 to 1,000 Euros for team and individual prize.

We’ve finalized upgrading of playing fields at Nakuru Girls, some pitches at Nakuru Boys and at Moi High School Kabarak where swimming will take place” Peter Wasonga, Brookside Dairy marketing manager

CHRIS OMOLLO | NATION

Sigona Golf Club’s Gopal Savani will lead 80 pros and 100 amateurs to the Barclays Bank Kenya Open Pro-Am at Karen Country Club today.

KPL to unveil security plans for Sunday’s ‘Mashemeji derby’

BY JOHN ASHIHUNDU

Sh11.5m boost for schools championship

to enable organisers cope with the anticipated large number of fans in the ‘Mashemeji derby’ which will be hosted by Leopards.

Rachier urged fans from both teams to turn out in large numbers to help raise funds for the teams in form of gate collection. Both AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia are struggling finacially and do not have sponsors. A total of Sh233,362 was

raised in Mumias on Sunday where AFC Leopards hosted Thika United in a match that ended 1-1.

Rachier appealed to fans from both sides to behave well and remain peaceful throughout the match, adding that police officers will be heavily deployed at the venue to ensure security of fans in view of last week’s terrorist attack in Garissa.

Matches between AFC Leopards

and Gor Mahia have always been popular with local fans and there will be more than league points at stake as the winner will go home with the bragging rights.

Record 14-time champions Gor Mahia are fighting to retain the crown while 12-time champions Leopards have not won the title in 16 years since they triumphed in 1998.

Newcomers Loreto High from Limuru, Kiambu County will making their maiden appearance in hockey.

Others are Mabera High School from Lake Region who will compete in girls’ basketball at the national level for the first time. Simotwo High from Baringo County will also make their first ever appearance at the nationals in 15s rugby.

But it is in Highlands region that has the most newcomers in Kathungi High School (boys’ basketball), Gategi Secondary (girls’ hockey) and Kirigara High School (girls’ basketball).

Kathungi Boys High School will compete in basketball for the first time,having eliminated Kangaru at the regional level.

Other regular campaigners from Highlands who will be in action include Kangaru Boys (hockey and rugby). Kisumu Day are making a comeback after three years in the cold while Kapenguria Boys who upset Friends School Kamusinga in boys basketball will be another team to watch.

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KENYAN PREMIER LEAGUE | Sofapaka look to bounce back against Muhoroni

K’Ogalo shift focus to league action after exiting Caf Cup

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Eric Mata (left) of Mathare United challenges Gor Mahia goalkeeper Boniface Oluoch of during their Kenyan Premier League match at City Stadium on February 21, 2015. Gor Mahia have a league match against KCB tonight at the Nyayo National Stadium.

League champions tackle KCB at Nyayo seeking to overhaul current leaders Western Stima

BY ISAAC SWILA

iswila@ke.nationmedia.com

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fter being bundled out of the Caf Champions League, Gor Mahia will return to Kenyan Premier League (KPL) action tonight to face Kenya Commercial Bank at the Nyayo National Stadium starting 7pm.

The reigning league champions tumbled out of the continental competition after suffering a 2-0 aggregate loss to AC Leopards of Congo on Sunday. K’Ogalo will therefore be seeking a quick bounce back from their setback and reclaim top spot in the league with victory over the bankers.

Their loss in Congo notwithstanding, Gor Mahia will start as firm favourites in the match given that KCB have not been on the best of forms. The bankers lost 1-0 to Chemelil Sugar and 3-1 to Bandari in their last two matches.

Currently, Western Stima, are perched on top of the pile with 12 points from five matches following their hard earned 3-2 victory over Sofapaka at the Kisumu County Stadium at the weekend.

But a win for K’Ogalo will see the two teams go level on points with Gor Mahia holding a superior goal difference.

Bad outing

In Dolisie, Congo, the venue of their clash with AC Leopards, head coach Frank Nuttall missed the input of lethal Rwandese playmaker Meddie Kagere and full backs Karim Nizigiyimana and Abouba Sibomana. The three players are expected to reclaim their places in the squad and feature prominently against the bankers.

In today’s other match, Muhoroni Youth will be chasing their second win of the new

12 Points that Kenyan Premier League leaders Western Stima have collected from the five matches they have played

season when host a wounded Sofapaka in Muhoroni.

Francis Baraza’s Muhoroni’s sole victory this term came at Afraha Stadium in Nakuru, where they floored Nakuru All Stars 3-1.

On the other hand, Sofapaka have won just once in four outings and their Ugandan head coach Sam Timbe would not be drawn into discussing the shortcomings of his team in an interview with the Daily Nation Sport.

“Anyone who watched the match against Western Stima need not to dwell on why we lost the game. It was there for all to see. My hope is that we can get the result we need against Muhoroni. We don’t have any injury worries and again, it’s my hope that the boys are geared for the game,” Timbe said.

Anthony Ndolo, who was voted the Most Valuable Player last term, and Enock Agwanda have been far from the imperious form that saw them guide their side to victory in the GOtv Shield and a league runners up slot last season.

While their poor form has had a negative impact on Batoto ba Mungu, the two are still expected to play a key role in today’s encounter.

Williamson confident Stars will breeze past Ethiopia

BY ISAAC SWILA

iswila@ke.nationmedia.com Harambee Stars coach Bobby Williamson is confident that his charges can go past Ethiopia’s Walya Antelopes and make a maiden appearance at the African Nations Championships (Chan) finals to be hosted by Rwanda next year.

Kenya were on Sunday evening paired against Ethiopia in a draw conducted at the Confederation of African Football (Caf) headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.

Speaking to the Daily Nation Sport on Monday, the 53 year old coach maintained that his men have what it takes to outsmart the Ethiopians.

The competition is reserved for locally based players who feature in the respective domestic leagues of their countries.

“We have good locally based players and we have building a side for this competition. We are fully focused on the two-leg tie and we don’t fear the opposition” Williamson (right) said.

“We already have a lot of young players and it’s important that we nurture them to realize their full potential,” the former Uganda Cranes coach added.

However, the Scot whose previous engagement was with Kenyan Premier League champions Gor Mahia was no committal on whether or not he would draft more new faces to his already youthful side.

“We already have a lot of young players and it’s important that we nurture them to realize their full potential,” he said.

The first leg of the Chan qualifiers will be played in June 19-21 with the return leg fixtures scheduled for July 3-5.

In the draws, Uganda Cranes will confront Tanzania’s Taifa Stars, as the Democratic Republic of Congo tackle the Central African Republic.

Since replacing Belgian Adel Amrouche as Harambee Stars head coach, Williamson has preferred to work with upcoming players in what is widely perceived as a calculated move to build a new team for the future.

For instance, in August last year, he omitted long serving skipper and lead striker Dennis Oliech from his squad that played against Morocco in an international friendly match.

Last week, during the international break, he stuck to the under-23 squad that was recently tossed out of the All African Games for another friendly match away to Seychelles which the Kenyan youngsters won 2-0. The victory was Williamson’s first since being named as Stars coach in August, 2014.

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Bayern set for Cup semis battle without Schweinsteiger Berlinn Thomas Mueller says injury-hit holders Bayern Munich must show some ‘balls’ at Bayer Leverkusen today for a place in the German Cup’s semi-finals without latest casualty Bastian Schweinsteiger.

With the Munich giants ten points clear in the Bundesliga and fourth-placed Bayer on course for a Champions League place next season, the clash at Leverkusen’s BayArena is the stand-out tie of the quarter-finals. “You need to have

some balls for that, it’s the cup quarter-finals, there is definitely a bit of spice in this one,” said Germany forward Mueller in his own unique style.

Bayern have a lengthy injury list with wingers Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery, plus left-back David Alaba out of the cup quarter-final with long-term ailments.

Defensive midfielder and Germany captain Schweinsteiger is also out after limping off in Saturday’s 1-0 win against Dortmund with an ankle injury.

“He is definitely not going to play,” insisted Bayern coach Pep Guardiola yesterday.

Leverkusen will be without South Korea striker Son Heung-Min, who

You need to have some balls for that, it’s the cup quarterfinals, there is definitely a bit of spice in this one” Thomas Mueller, Bayern star

is still suspended after being sent off in their extra-time win over minnows Madgeburg in the second round.

Bayer warmed up with a 4-0 rout of relegation-threatened Hamburg at home last Saturday while Bayern ground out a win in Dortmund with an untypically defensive display.

“The chance to beat Bayern at home is greater than in an away match or in a final,” said Leverkusen’s director of sport Rudi Voeller.

“Bayern are in a different class to Hamburg and we’ll have to put in a sensational performance.” (AFP)

ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE | Former United star Neville insists Citizens have a mental problem

Man City deja vu exposes Pellegrini Monday’s 2-1 loss at Crystal Palace leaves the champions’ defence of the trophy in pieces Sunderland

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anchester City supporters who have seen their team’s Premier League title challenge disintegrate before their eyes in recent weeks could be forgiven a nagging feeling of deja vu.

City plundered 102 goals as they streaked past a faltering Liverpool in last season’s title race, but Monday’s 2-1 loss at Crystal Palace left their defence of the trophy in pieces.

Nine points behind leaders Chelsea having played a game more, Manuel Pellegrini’s side need a minor miracle to retain the title and now face a fight to avoid a place in next season’s Champions League play-off round.

The club’s previous title triumph, in 2012, was followed by a similar slump.

Having snatched the crown from Manchester United’s grasp on the final day of the 2011-12 campaign, City stagnated and finished the following season 11 points adrift of their derby rivals in second place.

Manager Roberto Mancini paid the price with his job, sacked two days after a shock defeat by Wigan Athletic in the FA Cup final, and a similar fate may lie in store for Pellegrini.

Heralded as the antithesis to the spiky and combative Mancini, the urbane Chilean steered the club to a league and League Cup double in his first season. But Pellegrini’s position now appears under serious threat, with British bookmakers offering odds of 2/7 that he will no longer be at the helm on the opening day of next season.

Former United manager Alex Ferguson accused City of slackening off after their 2012 league success in his autobiography and it is a charge that his former captain Gary Neville repeated on Monday. “They have got a mentality

Edinson Cavani, David Luiz and Thiago Motta will all miss Paris Saint-Germain’s French Cup semi-final against St Etienne on Wednesday, according to coach Laurent Blanc.

Blanc said that despite Cavani having been taken off during Sunday’s 3-1 league victory over Marseille with a fatigued thigh, “he won’t be fit for tomorrow”.

“I should have taken him off at half-time,” Blanc lamented, saying he

AS Roma punished with stadium closure The south stand at Rome’s Stadio Olimpico will be closed for Roma’s next match there as punishment for a banner displayed by fans against Napoli last weekend. Fans unfurled a banner criticising the mother of a Napoli supporter who was killed in Rome last May in an incident on the fringes of the Italian Cup final. The south stand, behind one of the goals, is where Roma’s hardcore ‘ultra’ fans hold sway.

The banner read: “How sad: making money from death through books and interviews.”

CAIRO

FIFA president Sepp Blatter yesterday expressed his opposition to a Palestinian bid to bar Israel from international competition, saying such a move would harm football’s governing body itself. Blatter is due to meet Palestinian Football Association chief Jibril Rajoub in Cairo later Tuesday to discuss PFA calls for Israel to be suspended by FIFA for its “racist behaviour against Arabs”. Blatter said that “such a situation shall not occur at the FIFA congress because suspension of a federation for any reason is always something which harms the whole organisation”.

Transfer shortcomings

The club’s failure to reach the Champions League quarter-finals also counts against Pellegrini, even if there was no disgrace in succumbing to the genius of Barcelona’s Lionel Messi as City did in the last 16.

But while Pellegrini is expected to carry the can for City’s failure to kick on, fingers are also being pointed at figures higher up in the Etihad Stadium hierarchy. It is CEO Ferran Soriano and director of football Txiki Begiristain who are responsible for the club’s transfer activity, not Pellegrini, and the club’s close-season dealings left much to be desired. Despite Financial Fair Play restrictions, City splurged £32 million ($47.6 million, 43.8 million euros) on Eliaquim Mangala, but the French centre-back has been unable to hold down a first-team place.

Fernando, Bacary Sagna and Willy Caballero have added little beyond squad depth and it says much that it was 36-year-old Frank Lampard, supposedly on the brink of semi-retirement in Major League Soccer, who had made the biggest impact by the time Wilfried Bony arrived from Swansea City in a £25 million deal in January. (AFP)

ROME

Tevez out of Juve’s Cup semi-final

They have got a mentality problem, there is no doubt about that. This team cannot sustain success, and I think that is a terrible thing to have levelled at you” Garry Neville, ex-United star and pundit

had come to an agreement with the Uruguyan striker that he could play 15-20 minutes of the second-half.

The absence of David Luiz and Thiago Motta had been predicted, both having come off injured in the Marseille match with thigh injuries.

Brazilian Luiz will out for a month and the Brazil-born Italian two weeks, Blanc said, adding that the latter’s participation in the Champions League quarter-final against Barcelona on April 15 would be touch and go.

St Etienne welcome back two top players from suspension in Jeremy

ROME

Blatter: Palestinians shouldn’t bar Israel

problem, there is no doubt about that.

This team cannot sustain success, and I think that is a terrible thing to have levelled at you,” said Neville, now a television pundit.

“When you win championships, you have got to be able to come back again with hunger and they do not. They get to the top of the mountain and drop off it.”

Juventus will have to overturn a 2-1 first leg deficit to Fiorentina without top scorer Carlos Tevez in today’s second-leg of the Italian Cup semi-final after the Argentine picked up a thigh injury. The 31-year-old Tevez is Serie A’s top goalscorer on 17 and will undergo further tests on Wednesday, with Juventus keen to have him fit for the Champions’ League quarter-final against Monaco on April 14. The in-form striker had to leave Florence on Tuesday and returned to Turin with “discomfort felt from flexor muscle fatigue in his right thigh,” a statement on the Juventus website explained.

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Manchester City coach Manuel Pellegrinni reacts after their 2-1 loss to Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park on Monday.

PSG without Cavani, Luiz and Motta for French Cup duel Paris

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Clement and Max-Alain Gradel for the PSG match, while Romain Hamouma and Florentin Pogba have been back in training.

Meanwhile, France’s national women’s football team will warm up for the

I should have taken him (Cavani) off at half-time (in Sunday’s 3-1 Ligue 1 win over Merseille)” Laurent Blanc, PSB coach

2015 World Cup with two additional friendlies against Russia on May 22 in Chateauroux and Scotland on May 28 in Nancy, the French federation confirmed yesterday.

France are already scheduled to play an international friendly against World Cup hosts Canada in Bondoufle, in the southern Paris suburbs, on Thursday.

Philippe Bergeroo’s side are ranked third in the FIFA rankings and among the favourites for the tournament which takes place in Canada from June 6 to July 5. (AFP)

MADRID

Bilbao star Muniain out for six months Athletic Bilbao winger Iker Muniain will miss the Basques’ Copa del Rey final against Barcelona after suffering a cruciate ligament injury, the club confirmed yesterday. Muniain had to be stretchered off in tears during Athletic’s 2-0 defeat to Sevilla on Saturday and is set to be out for at least six months.

“A torn cruciate ligament has been detected in his left knee,” said the club after the player underwent a scan. “The estimated time out oscillates between six and seven months.” Muniain has only one senior Spanish cap to his name, but was part of the under21 sides that won the European Championsips in 2011 and 2013.

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Daystar among private universities whose graduates employers prefer

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raduates from the University of Nairobi and Strathmore University are the most preferred by employers, a new survey shows.

Kenyatta University and the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology take the second and the third positions as the top public universities that employers prefer.

From private universities, employers prefer graduates from Daystar University and the Catholic University of East Africa.

According to 2015 Quarter One Talent Report, among the public universities, Moi University graduates are the fourth most preferred, followed by Technical Uni-

versity of Kenya, Egerton University, Kenya Medical Training College, Maseno University, Masinde Muliro University, Multi Media University and Maasai Mara University in that order.

For private universities, the report singles out the United States International University as the fourth most preferred by employers, followed by Kenya Institute of Management, Kenya Methodist University, Mount Kenya University, University of Baraton, Africa Nazarene University and Presbyterian University in that order.

According to the report, “when hiring graduates from private universities, employers look out for reputation, followed by credibility of certificates.”

The report released by Corporate Staffing Services says that for public

208 Employers surveyed in graduate preference study

universities, the employers prefer particular graduates due to technical expertise and knowledge of industry displayed by both staff and students.

Other reasons include quality of learning, credibility, and reputation of the university.

The report released yesterday reveals that the rising number of universities in Kenya and the low quality associated with graduates, had pushed the employers into having partialities.

“Only half of the 50,000 students who graduate annually are suitable for employment; no wonder employers have preferences on the universities they recruit fresh graduates from,” reads the report, which surveyed 205 employers.

The report mirrors a recent ranking by Spanish Research firm Webometrics that ranked the University of Nairobi the best in Kenya, followed by Kenyatta University and Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology.

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Motorists held up in traffic jam on Mombasa Road in Nairobi yesterday. The new traffic flow plan at city roundabouts caused confusion among motorists, creating a major snarlup. See story on Page 16.

Anti-graft official asked for leave before quitting

BY NATION REPORTERS Former anti-corruption commissioner Jane Onsongo (right) is said to have requested 20 days of leave a day before she resigned.

Highly placed sources at the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission confirmed that Prof Onsongo submitted a leave request on Monday last week, only to resign the next day.

“As far as the commission is concerned, Jane is on leave. She asked for 20 days leave only for us to see her on television saying she has resigned,” said the source.

Since her surprise resignation from the agency citing “difficult” working conditions, Prof Onsongo’s whereabouts are unknown.

A relative told Nation that Prof Onsongo had travelled to the United States hours after announcing her resignation.

“She has been expressing fears for her life and that is why she left,” said the relative.

Prof Onsongo’s resignation has thrown the commission into a crisis, with reports saying fellow commissioners, including Chairman Mumo Matemu and his deputy, Ms Irene Keino, were also under pressure to resign.

Today, the commission’s chief executive, Mr Halakhe Waqo, and his deputy, Mr Michael Mubea, are expected before the Parliamentary Justice and Legal Affairs Committee to shed light on a petition seeking the removal of Mr Matemu and Ms Keino.

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Towards improved disposal of medical waste

To reduce the risks posed by used materials in medical institutions, the government has launched a pilot project at the Coast, which it plans to gradually roll out nationwide

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Seeking better ways of managing According to the World Health Organisation, 16 billion injections are administered worldwide every year. Safely disposing of the needles and other waste from health care is a challenge because of the risk of infection. Luckily, the government has come up with guidelines on the the issue to reduce the risk of infection among those working in the sector

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t is time for doctors’ rounds in Ward 1 at the Coast General Provincial and Referral Hospital. The doctors and nurses move from bed to bed giving tablets, fixing drip lines and giving injections. After giving one of the patients an injection, a nurse in a white hijab drops the used needle in a yellow box labelled “Sharps Only” before moving to another bin where she drops the soiled cotton swab and gloves.

Every ward in the hospital has the conspicuous red, yellow, and black waste bins. They might not mean much to an ordinary person, but to the workers here, they are life-changing. Ten years ago, the needles, cotton wool and gloves would have been dumped into the same bin.

The hospital’s deputy nursing officer, Mr Stephen Masha, says the institution produces 60-80kg of infectious and highly infectious waste per day. Each patient produces about 0.2kg of waste per day, 20 per cent of which is infectious. Left lying around, this waste provides a breeding ground for infections and diseases and poses a serious threat to those who come across it.

Salome Baya and Jaribu Khamis know this only too well. In November 2013, just a month after she began working at the hospital, Ms Baya, 32, was cleaning the labour ward when she came upon a stack of papers on the floor. When she picked it up, she felt something prick her finger.

“I knew it was a needle. It got stuck on my finger. I flushed my finger under running water before going to see a doctor, who examined my hand and gave me a PEP,” she recalls.

PEP is short for post-exposure prophylaxis, an antiretroviral treatment administered for 28 days to reduce the likelihood of HIV infection after potential exposure. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that when PEP is started immediately after exposure and the full dose completed, it can reduce the risk of HIV infection by more 80 per cent.

Two weeks into Ms Baya’s

medication, however, she got pricked again.

“I was scared. I could not sleep as I thought that I had been infected. But I continued with the medication and four weeks later, tests showed I was fine,” she recalls with a broad smile.

Mr Khamis, 42, faces similar risks, only that he is responsible for destroying the waste. He has been manning the hospital’s incinerator for 14 years, during which he has been pricked three times, although he tries to be careful.

“Working with health waste is really scary,” he says.

His day begins at 6am, when he incinerates the previous evening’s waste. He wears full protective gear, complete with a gas mask with filters, heat resistant gloves and hardy shoes.

He incinerates the waste at least three times a day. The ash from the incinerator is shovelled into a specially designed pit, whose walls are reinforced with concrete to prevent it from seeping into the environment and nearby water bodies.

“This is my office. I am prepared for any eventuality. I make sure the waste is completely burnt so that the ash is free of pathogens,” Mr Khamis says.

However, sometimes he cannot work because the incinerator breaks down. But this is bound to change after the hospital received a modern machine — called an autoclave — on February 27.

The equipment sterilises waste using steam, thereby killing any pathogens present without polluting the environment like an incinerator does through smoke.

The sterilised waste is then shredded and can be disposed of like ordinary waste.

Mr David Cavanaugh, a representative of Bondtech Corporation, which installed the autoclave, said the waste produced is safe and tests to confirm its sterility will be done throughout the process.

“It kills bacteria before being released to the atmosphere, so there are no health hazards,” he said.

Mr Khamis and Ms Baya are two of about two million of the 35 million healthcare workers globally who are at risk of being infected via the prick of a needle every year.

A 2014 WHO study says that in 2010, some 1.7 million people were infected with the hepatitis B virus, another 315,000 with the hepatitis C virus and as many as 33,800 with HIV through needle pricks.

Medical and nursing students are at a higher risk of getting blood-borne infections from unsafe practices while using needles and sharp objects as few of them know how to manage such injuries.

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Above and below: Jaribu Khamis, 42, handles about 60-80kg of waste at the Coast Provincial General and Referral Hospital a day. He has been doing this for 14 years and has been pricked three times by used needles, exposing him to infections which, luckily, were prevented through post-exposure prophylaxis.

It is important to train health workers on how to dispose of health waste properly to minimise infections in hospitals.

— Ms Medina Wesonga, a public health officer at the Coast Provincial General and Referral Hospital.

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at the Coast General hospital, Dr Victor Njom, says “people do not know what happens to the needle that gave them the antibiotic”, yet “all that is medical waste that has to be managed, or else more and more people will get sick”.

Indeed, a study published in the journal Clinical Case Reports in November last year by doctors at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital cites the case a 27-year-old medical intern who contracted a rare form of tuberculosis after being pricked on his little finger while attending to an HIV-infected patient.

He underwent incorrect treatment for almost a year in

vain after tests confirmed that he was HIV-negative after the PEP dose. He was finally cured after another test diagnosed TB and he was put on the appropriate medication.

Fortunately, the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with come organisations, has now set out to protect human resources in the sector.

Chief among the raft of measures is the regulation of the disposal of hazardous waste.

Through the National Guidelines for Safe Management of Health Care Waste, it lays down the procedures for handling the entire cycle, including waste

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medical waste health workers across the country on how to handle it to minimise infections and provide protective equipment for their work. We are involved in the whole waste cycle to ensure safety.”

The HCWM project supports healthcare waste management systems in 59 hospitals countrywide.

Thanks to the project, more than 6,000 health workers from the hospitals around the country have so far been trained on health waste management.

The autoclave and shredder, worth Sh25 million, were provided by the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar) through the Centres for Disease Control (CDC, with PATH implementing the project.

The autoclave will be used on a pilot basis to determine the possibility of including nonburn technologies in the country before being rolled out in other counties.

Speaking at the commissioning of the autoclave, Mr Lolem Lokol’ile from the Ministry of Health’s Division of Environmental Health said the findings of the pilot would inform how the ministry manages health

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The cost, in shillings of the autoclave and shredder installed at the Coast General Provincial and Referral Hospital

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Mr David Cavanaugh, representative of Bondtech Corporation, the company that installed the autoclave, said the waste produced using the autoclave is safe.

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collection, storage, transportation and disposal.

Chapter 7 of the guidelines provides details on waste management and the importance of separating and categorising waste.

This was evident at the CGPH, where DN2 saw clearly labelled waste bins in the laboratory, emergency rooms, morgue and along the corridors.

“All this was made possible

by PATH, a non-governmental organisation that deals in health technologies. It brought us these bins, trained health workers on using them and also got us three waste transportation trolleys which have greatly improved how we manage our waste,” Mr Masha said.

The director of PATH’s Health Care Waste Management (HCWM) Project, Mr Fred Okuku, says: “We are aware of the cost of medical waste. We train

waste across the 47 counties.

Treatment logs of all waste will record the processes in each waste management cycle.

They will then be shared with the hospital public health officer monthly for analysis before being presented to the Ministry of Health.

“The results of the test will be used for policy information,” said Mr Okuku. “This is a situation analysis, a descriptive study to pilot key findings on the use of non-burn technologies in Kenya.

It will be availed to the Ministry for the possibility of the inclusion of non-burn technologies in Heath Care Waste Management Policy in Kenya.”

The Nairobi National Public Health Laboratory, Karatina Sub-County Hospital, Bungoma County Referral Hospital, Malindi District Hospital and Kemri CDC Kisumu have each received a shredder.

In addition to safe disposal of waste to prevent infections, WHO has called for more use of oral medication and fewer injections.

According to the organisation, 16 billion injections are administered every year. Five per cent of these are for immunising children and adults, another five per cent are for procedures like blood transfusions and injectable contraceptives, and 90 per cent for administering medicines.

The organisation’s call for fewer injections could pose problems, since some people strongly believe that only injections can cure them.

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The autoclave kills disease-causing organisms in health waste using pressurised steam instead of fire. Unlike an incinerator, it does not produce toxic pollutants such as acid gases or heavy metals, which are detrimental to human health and the environment. Once waste has gone through the autoclave, it is put into a shredder, after which it can be disposed of like ordinary waste. The machine and shredder were provided by the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the Centres for Disease Control.

AN AUTOCLAVE IS basically a large vessel through which steam is circulated to sterilise things, perform scientific experiments, or carry out industrial processes. Its non-burn technology kills disease-causing organisms with pressurised steam instead of fire. This is unlike incinerators, which produce highly toxic pollutants such as acid gases, heavy metals and other waste, which are detrimental to human health and the environment.

The autoclave is cylindrical because cylinders can withstand extreme pressures better than boxes, whose edges become points of weakness that can break.

It has a hinged mounted door to provide full movement of the trash and has a lock that prevents the door from opening while under pressure. Steam is pumped through the chamber at pressures higher than atmospheric pressure so it reaches temperatures of about 121°–140°C. It kills pathogens through the dry, saturated steam created from a steam generator boiler for about 50 minutes. The vapour released is filtered of any micro organisms.

Origin of the autoclave Ancient Greeks use boiling water to sterilise medical tools.

1679: French engineer Denis Papin (1647–1712) invents the steam pressure cooker – an important step in the development of steam engines.

1860s: French biologist Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) helps to confirm the germ theory of disease. He realises that heating things to kill germs can prevent diseases and extend the life of foodstuffs (which leads him to the invention of pasteurisation).

1880s: Pasteur’s collaborator, Charles Chamberland (1851–1908), invents the modern autoclave.

INTERNET SOURCES.

Types of waste Infectious waste: Waste contaminated with blood and its by-products, cultures and stocks of infectious agents, waste from patients in isolation wards, discarded diagnostic samples containing blood and body fluids, infected animals from laboratories, and contaminated materials (swabs, bandages) and equipment (such as disposable medical devices); Pathological waste: Body parts and contaminated animal carcasses.

Sharps: Syringes, needles, disposable scalpels and blades, etc.

Chemicals: For example mercury, solvents and

disinfectants.

Pharmaceuticals: Expired, unused, and contaminated drugs and vaccines.

Genotoxic waste: Drugs used in cancer treatment, teratogens (capable of producing fetal malformation).

Radioactive waste: Such as glassware contaminated with radioactive diagnostic material or radiotherapeutic materials.

Heavy metals waste: Such as broken mercury thermometers.

The major sources of healthcare waste are: Hospitals and other healthcare establishments Laboratories and research centres Mortuaries and autopsy centres Animal research and testing laboratories Blood banks and collection services Risks associated with waste disposal Although treatment and disposal of healthcare waste reduces risks, indirect health risks may occur through the release of toxic pollutants into the environment through treatment or disposal.

If not properly constructed, andfills such as an ash pit can contaminate drinking water.

Incineration of waste has been widely practised, but inadequate incineration or the incineration of unsuitable materials results in the release of pollutants into the air and of ash residue. Incinerated materials containing chlorine and other heavy metals can generate cancer-causing fumes.

What the world is doing to reduce pollution from health waste: 1. Using alternatives to incineration such as autoclaving, microwaving, steam treatment integrated with internal mixing, and chemical treatment.

2. Scientists are working to develop syringes that cannot be used more than once. One such effort is by British inventor Marc Koska, who created the K-1 syringe, the first syringe to automatically become disabled once it’s used. A small ring inside of the barrel of the syringe allows the plunger to move only in one direction, such that after it has been used, the plunger locks in place and will break if forced.

3. WHO is urging countries to transition, by 2020, to the exclusive use of the “smart” syringes, except in specific cases in which a syringe that blocks after a single use would interfere with the procedure, for instance, when a person is on an intravenous pump that uses a syringe.

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My Subaru Legacy B4 is just as good BEHIND THE WHEEL

baraza jm

Dear Baraza, I am in the automotive trade and thus follow your column quite religiously. However, I beg to differ with your opinion on the Subaru Legacy Vs Subaru Forester discussion.

Having driven quite a number cars — starting from a Ford Escort at the age of seven — I settled on the Subaru Legacy BP5 B4 after going through the whole lot of Subarus. At first, comfortable seats drew me to Subaru’s because I have a bad back but now, I believe I am hooked onto Subaru for foreseeable future.

The Legacy B4 in its performance and acceleration is almost comparable with any Subaru STi. I had the opportunity to meet up with fellow Subaru enthusiasts on Mombasa road and I must say I gave them a run for their money for trying to undermine my grey beard and grey Legacy B4.

I do believe Legacy has better road grip and handling than all of them.

The adoptive driving on the car will take some getting used to in normal mode but the beast emerges when you turn to sports mode.

I would ask you to drive one for a few days and then we can have a chat. I also have a lot of experience and do extensive reading on the automotive industry, please don’t hesitate to contact me for any assistance.

Idris Jiwaji.

Hello,

“The Legacy B4 in its performance and acceleration is almost comparable with any STi...”

Really? Unless you mean “unfavourably comparable”, what is the point of Subaru Tecnica International if the boggo Scoobies are in the same league as the skunkworks cars? How much power does a B4 have; what, about 230hp?

Even the little-known but much “feared” B4 RSK has to make do with 280hp. This is the same output in the smaller, lighter, nimbler and rally-bred Impreza STi. The bus-like dimensions and sheer heft of the Legacy means it will not be seeing any Imprezas when the going gets industrial.

And then there is the Forester STi. The Forester was based on the Impreza floorpan, so in essence it is a slightly bigger Impreza with all the agility and handling to boot. The bonus is you have a school bus with which to ferry children at some speed.

Your “fellow Subaru enthusiasts” are the exact same clique that came after me with torches and pitchforks the day I presented them with the results of a showdown between a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Extreme Edition and a Stage 2-tuned N10-spec Subaru Impreza WRX STi. I think their thought processes rarely venture beyond the world of flat-four rumbles and symmetrical AWD. If they told you your Legacy is faster than their Impreza STis then they most probably didn’t want you to leave early by telling you the actual truth. Sometimes we tell little fibs to

avoid hurting other people’s feelings.

Do not expect that kind of treatment from Car Clinic. Around here, we state things as we have observed them, away from the jaundiced eye that is occasioned by the status of ownership.

You “do believe Legacy has better road grip and handling than all of them “, don’t you? I beg to differ. That honour goes to the

This is not easy to say but the early Evos were not as good as the Imprezas. That changed, though, when the Evo IV came out....

I have

of the Evo X too. The result is the newest WRX STi looks like the Chinese version of the car it is afraid of.

Your inclusion of an Aston Martin in this conversation suggests to me that you may be getting your information from a gaming console. How about we step back into the real world, eh?

Hi Baraza, I am always impressed by your exciting topics on Car Clinic.

I own a Subaru Legacy Lancaster 6, early last year the steering became stiff while negotiating a corner. When its stationed with engine still running and you try turn the steering to the end, it makes a funny sound from the engine. I have thoroughly cleaned the steering system and fluid butth.

Shady Oty

cut it. driven various shapes of Subarus in various states of tune and I must say nowhere did the Legacy stand out. I did not like its comfort levels, I did not like its fuel consumption, the reliability of the GT is wanting, the naturally aspirated

car is weak and that long wheelbase makes things tense when taking corners speedily. Agility is not exactly a plus point. Practicality is, though.

And that, sir, is why the Legacy was retired from rallying. It just couldn’t

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Dear Baraza, Thank you for your informative column every Wednesday. I have a few questions that I hope you can answer. Some of the them will touch on the trending battle between Subaru guys and ignorant Mitsubishi Evolution guys like you.

1. What is the weight of the new model Toyota Premio and what is the weight difference between a 1500cc and the 1800cc of the same?

2. Which is the most stable SUV on Kenyan roads amongst the following: Range Rover Sport, BMW X6, Toyota Land Cruiser VX V8, BMW X5, Escalade, Range Rover Evoque? I have seen the resilience of Subaru fans in a verbal competition against the ignorant Mitsubishi Evolution guys.

First and foremost, the Evolution can never hit its exaggerated top speed on its odometer and second the Subaru Impreza WRX Sti is better in handling at high speed than the evolution. Have you seen the Subaru WRX STi sedan 2013?

Finally, let me refer you to another car that can show you dust while racing in your favourite Evolution — the Aston Martin. It’s a beast on the road and can beat the Evolution by far. It’s a beast if not a horse on the road.

Wainaina “Ignorant,” he said. That is very brave of you, and also not very wise. Care to step outside?

1. The new Premio weighs around 1200kg. The weight difference between the 1.5 and the 1.8 is about 30kg (the 1.8 weighing in at 1230kg), but then again this depends on spec levels and whether or not the car has 4WD. There is the 1.8X L package ZRT model that weighs an extra 100kg (it’s at 1330kg) for reasons that are not immediately clear. Next time try and use the internet to get that information, because I just did.

2. Of the lot you mention, the Evoque is the most stable,

especially around corners. There are others you have not listed, such as Porsche’s Cayenne and Macan... these are fearsome road-going SUVs that could easily out-run and out-handle any focused hatchback.

Interesting comment you have made there, and an extremely ignorant one too, to use your own terminology.

Where is all this coming from?

What exaggerated top speed are you referring to? JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) Evos experience fuel cut at 180km/h, BUT SO DO THE IMPREZAS! This is following the gentleman’s agreement between car manufacturers not to allow speeds beyond 180km/h on the cars they make.

The fuel cut is a situation easily circumvented by removing the speed limiter, so you haven’t really made a point there. The UK-spec Evolution cars are unlimited and will therefore top out between 260 and 270km/h; and yes, they WILL clock this speed. Again this also applies to the Impreza; though for some reason, past UK-spec STis were slightly detuned to 265hp, down from 280, so 240km/h was the best they could hope for. *Nota bene: speeds are read from the speedometer, not the odometer.

The Impreza does NOT handle better at high speed than the Evo. The use of mechanical diffs proved to be its undoing; and the muchvaunted symmetrical AWD and straight-line drivetrain looked good on paper but was rubbish at crunch time. Which brings us neatly to your darling 2013 Impreza: the 2013 was just a saloon version of the visually unappealing and woefully undriveable N14 hatchback. Let us instead look at the newest one, the 2014 car.

What they have done is build an Evo and paste a Subaru badge on it.... and one oversize rear wing. Fuji Heavy Industries were forced to capitulate; conceding that electronic torque-vectoring diffs were the bees’ knees; and the only way to stop yobs from understeering into their neighbors’ back yards was to ditch the mechanical units.

Just to be sure, Subaru went ahead and photocopied the design

Check your fan belt. It must be slipping on the power steering pump pulley.

Hi Baraza, I recently bought a 1982 Mercedes W123. Kindly let me know what I am getting into in terms of ; 1. Speed (it’s a four-speed manual) 2. Spares 3. Comfort Victor Hello Victor, This is what you are getting: 1. Speed: not much, especially by today’s standards. Even with the bigger engines, you still don’t get any bragging rights as far as outright speed is concerned.

2. Spares: what spares? The car is built out of a toxic mix of volcanic rock and German fastidiousness, it won’t break. Just try not to hit anything and you will be fine. That being said, parts will not be as common as you’d think; however, membership in an owners’ club should provide the necessary inside information on where to source for sundries.

3. Comfort: Neither here nor there. It will ride better than a lot of cars but do not expect anything ground-breaking or particularly special. It is an old car.

Hi Barasa, I am an ardent reader of your Car Clinic. In reference to your article on March 11, just want to enlighten Patrick on the legal requirements needed for his vehicle .

First, the log book dictates it all. Type of vehicle — commercial.

That is then taken up as a commercial vehicle and the insurers will always give you a commercial sticker. It is therefore prone to inspection. We call it class B in insurance.

Ask your insurance company to add in the number of passengers that can be conveyed in the vehicle since our “dear friends” will always corner you on that and also remember to put a big ugly “PRIVATE” in front of the vehicle.

Please Ask Mr Patrick to contact me on this email for proper directive.

Andrew Denis

Mr. Patrick, I hope you are reading this. The email address in question is andysmithke@yahoo.com Hi, Recently I parked my car on a downaward facing slope. The car was in (P) parking and the handbrake up. While leaving, I shifted to drive mode and put the handbrake down but heard a loud bang like my gearbox was about to collapse— I drive a VW and the common myth is that VW’s have gearbox issues. My question is, in 2015, do we still need the handbrake? Since we have (P) Parking, which has the same function. what is the the use of a handbrake?

Alfred Fernandes

Your “fellow Subaru enthusiasts” are the exact same clique that came after me with torches and pitchforks the day I presented them with the results of a showdown between a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Extreme Edition and a Stage 2-tuned N10-spec Subaru Impreza WRX STi. I think their thought processes rarely venture beyond the world of flat-four rumbles and symmetrical AWD.

1. If your gearbox is broken and won’t go into P, how do you hold the car on a slope?

2. If for some reason you have children in the car and they manage to wiggle the gear lever into N (Neutral) or D (Drive), what will prevent them from unwittingly driving off?

3. P might make sense in automatic cars. What about those with manual transmissions?

4. How will we petrolheads perform handbrake turns?

Baraza Jim, Per your past articles, you confirmed that the KRA did not consider double cab pick-ups with canopies to be commercial vehicles. Do you have a regulation or documentation that I can reference.

Bill That piece of information may or may not be formally gazetted.

My statement was anecdotal and was sourced from experience at a police roadblock.

Police roadblocks do not issue regulations or documentation, and in some instances, when one is subjected to a routine traffic stop, anything goes.

Baraza, I believe you are biased in your stand against Matatus (they are still cars) but anyway, that is not my point.

I have been using Total Rubia G 6200 for a very long time on my matatus without any problems but recently a friend introduced me to a cheaper oil called DELO 6300 which he claimed was an upgrade of Rubia G 6200 equivalent called Delo 6200.

For the last one month I have noted an increase in the oil consumption in some of the

matatus that are using what my friend claimed was an upgrade.

This is clearly a downgrade for me.

Please help me Baraza, is it really an upgrade? Are the ‘’smart’’ sellers of this engine oil taking advantage of numerical ascendancy to hoodwink helpless buyers like me? Has anyone using the same oil noted this anomaly?

I am thinking of severing our friendship.

Martin I rarely discuss matatus because 1. Nobody ever asks about them 2. Taking one on a road test just attracts the unwelcome eye of the law (and I do not, for one, have a PSV license) and 3. How many different models are there anyway? The few that operate currently are generally similar save for the badges and headlamps and have long model life spans (new models appear after a very long time).

Find out where the oil consumption is coming from.

Make sure there isn’t increased blow-by, the valve seals are intact and the piston rings are in good shape. Make sure there isn’t a leak anywhere. After confirming this, you can now find your friend and grab him by the neck. Is the 6300 from the same people who make the Delo 6200, or is it stuff from inside the sleeves of a snake oil merchant?

Those numbers are just fancy labels; what are the actual viscosity ratings and SAE numbers of these oils? These are what will determine which oil to go for, rather than flashy nomenclature. If I was to come up with “Delo Rubia G 9000” tomorrow, would you buy it?

For the time being, go back to what you were using before. As they say, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

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as, if not better, than the Subaru STi of the Evo X too. The result is the newest WRX STi looks like the Chinese version of the car it is afraid of.

Your inclusion of an Aston Martin in this conversation suggests to me that you may be getting your information from a gaming console. How about we step back into the real world, eh?

Hi Baraza, I am always impressed by your exciting topics on Car Clinic.

I own a Subaru Legacy Lancaster 6, early last year the steering became stiff while negotiating a corner. When its stationed with engine still running and you try turn the steering to the end, it makes a funny sound from the engine. I have thoroughly cleaned the steering system and fluid butth.

Shady Oty

cut it.

Dear Baraza, Thank you for your informative column every Wednesday. I have a few questions that I hope you can answer. Some of the them will touch on the trending battle between Subaru guys and ignorant Mitsubishi Evolution guys like you.

1. What is the weight of the new model Toyota Premio and what is the weight difference between a 1500cc and the 1800cc of the same?

2. Which is the most stable SUV on Kenyan roads amongst the following: Range Rover Sport, BMW X6, Toyota Land Cruiser VX V8, BMW X5, Escalade, Range Rover Evoque? I have seen the resilience of Subaru fans in a verbal competition against the ignorant Mitsubishi Evolution guys.

First and foremost, the Evolution can never hit its exaggerated top speed on its odometer and second the Subaru Impreza WRX Sti is better in handling at high speed than the evolution. Have you seen the Subaru WRX STi sedan 2013?

Finally, let me refer you to another car that can show you dust while racing in your favourite Evolution — the Aston Martin. It’s a beast on the road and can beat the Evolution by far. It’s a beast if not a horse on the road.

Wainaina “Ignorant,” he said. That is very brave of you, and also not very wise. Care to step outside?

1. The new Premio weighs around 1200kg. The weight difference between the 1.5 and the 1.8 is about 30kg (the 1.8 weighing in at 1230kg), but then again this depends on spec levels and whether or not the car has 4WD. There is the 1.8X L package ZRT model that weighs an extra 100kg (it’s at 1330kg) for reasons that are not immediately clear. Next time try and use the internet to get that information, because I just did.

2. Of the lot you mention, the Evoque is the most stable,

especially around corners. There are others you have not listed, such as Porsche’s Cayenne and Macan... these are fearsome road-going SUVs that could easily out-run and out-handle any focused hatchback.

Interesting comment you have made there, and an extremely ignorant one too, to use your own terminology.

Where is all this coming from?

What exaggerated top speed are you referring to? JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) Evos experience fuel cut at 180km/h, BUT SO DO THE IMPREZAS! This is following the gentleman’s agreement between car manufacturers not to allow speeds beyond 180km/h on the cars they make.

The fuel cut is a situation easily circumvented by removing the speed limiter, so you haven’t really made a point there. The UK-spec Evolution cars are unlimited and will therefore top out between 260 and 270km/h; and yes, they WILL clock this speed. Again this also applies to the Impreza; though for some reason, past UK-spec STis were slightly detuned to 265hp, down from 280, so 240km/h was the best they could hope for. *Nota bene: speeds are read from the speedometer, not the odometer.

The Impreza does NOT handle better at high speed than the Evo. The use of mechanical diffs proved to be its undoing; and the muchvaunted symmetrical AWD and straight-line drivetrain looked good on paper but was rubbish at crunch time. Which brings us neatly to your darling 2013 Impreza: the 2013 was just a saloon version of the visually unappealing and woefully undriveable N14 hatchback. Let us instead look at the newest one, the 2014 car.

What they have done is build an Evo and paste a Subaru badge on it.... and one oversize rear wing. Fuji Heavy Industries were forced to capitulate; conceding that electronic torque-vectoring diffs were the bees’ knees; and the only way to stop yobs from understeering into their neighbors’ back yards was to ditch the mechanical units.

Just to be sure, Subaru went ahead and photocopied the design

Check your fan belt. It must be slipping on the power steering pump pulley.

Hi Baraza, I recently bought a 1982 Mercedes W123. Kindly let me know what I am getting into in terms of ; 1. Speed (it’s a four-speed manual) 2. Spares 3. Comfort Victor Hello Victor, This is what you are getting: 1. Speed: not much, especially by today’s standards. Even with the bigger engines, you still don’t get any bragging rights as far as outright speed is concerned.

2. Spares: what spares? The car is built out of a toxic mix of volcanic rock and German fastidiousness, it won’t break. Just try not to hit anything and you will be fine. That being said, parts will not be as common as you’d think; however, membership in an owners’ club should provide the necessary inside information on where to source for sundries.

3. Comfort: Neither here nor there. It will ride better than a lot of cars but do not expect anything ground-breaking or particularly special. It is an old car.

Hi Barasa, I am an ardent reader of your Car Clinic. In reference to your article on March 11, just want to enlighten Patrick on the legal requirements needed for his vehicle .

First, the log book dictates it all. Type of vehicle — commercial.

That is then taken up as a commercial vehicle and the insurers will always give you a commercial sticker. It is therefore prone to inspection. We call it class B in insurance.

Ask your insurance company to add in the number of passengers that can be conveyed in the vehicle since our “dear friends” will always corner you on that and also remember to put a big ugly “PRIVATE” in front of the vehicle.

Please Ask Mr Patrick to contact me on this email for proper directive.

Andrew Denis

Mr. Patrick, I hope you are reading this. The email address in question is andysmithke@yahoo.com Hi, Recently I parked my car on a downaward facing slope. The car was in (P) parking and the handbrake up. While leaving, I shifted to drive mode and put the handbrake down but heard a loud bang like my gearbox was about to collapse— I drive a VW and the common myth is that VW’s have gearbox issues. My question is, in 2015, do we still need the handbrake? Since we have (P) Parking, which has the same function. what is the the use of a handbrake?

Alfred Fernandes

Your “fellow Subaru enthusiasts” are the exact same clique that came after me with torches and pitchforks the day I presented them with the results of a showdown between a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Extreme Edition and a Stage 2-tuned N10-spec Subaru Impreza WRX STi. I think their thought processes rarely venture beyond the world of flat-four rumbles and symmetrical AWD.

1. If your gearbox is broken and won’t go into P, how do you hold the car on a slope?

2. If for some reason you have children in the car and they manage to wiggle the gear lever into N (Neutral) or D (Drive), what will prevent them from unwittingly driving off?

3. P might make sense in automatic cars. What about those with manual transmissions?

4. How will we petrolheads perform handbrake turns?

Baraza Jim, Per your past articles, you confirmed that the KRA did not consider double cab pick-ups with canopies to be commercial vehicles. Do you have a regulation or documentation that I can reference.

Bill That piece of information may or may not be formally gazetted.

My statement was anecdotal and was sourced from experience at a police roadblock.

Police roadblocks do not issue regulations or documentation, and in some instances, when one is subjected to a routine traffic stop, anything goes.

Baraza, I believe you are biased in your stand against Matatus (they are still cars) but anyway, that is not my point.

I have been using Total Rubia G 6200 for a very long time on my matatus without any problems but recently a friend introduced me to a cheaper oil called DELO 6300 which he claimed was an upgrade of Rubia G 6200 equivalent called Delo 6200.

For the last one month I have noted an increase in the oil consumption in some of the

matatus that are using what my friend claimed was an upgrade.

This is clearly a downgrade for me.

Please help me Baraza, is it really an upgrade? Are the ‘’smart’’ sellers of this engine oil taking advantage of numerical ascendancy to hoodwink helpless buyers like me? Has anyone using the same oil noted this anomaly?

I am thinking of severing our friendship.

Martin I rarely discuss matatus because 1. Nobody ever asks about them 2. Taking one on a road test just attracts the unwelcome eye of the law (and I do not, for one, have a PSV license) and 3. How many different models are there anyway? The few that operate currently are generally similar save for the badges and headlamps and have long model life spans (new models appear after a very long time).

Find out where the oil consumption is coming from.

Make sure there isn’t increased blow-by, the valve seals are intact and the piston rings are in good shape. Make sure there isn’t a leak anywhere. After confirming this, you can now find your friend and grab him by the neck. Is the 6300 from the same people who make the Delo 6200, or is it stuff from inside the sleeves of a snake oil merchant?

Those numbers are just fancy labels; what are the actual viscosity ratings and SAE numbers of these oils? These are what will determine which oil to go for, rather than flashy nomenclature. If I was to come up with “Delo Rubia G 9000” tomorrow, would you buy it?

For the time being, go back to what you were using before. As they say, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

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SIMPLE CROSSWORD ACROSS 1.To confine disdrained goods, stray animals, illegally parked vehicles, etc. officially 7.To knock with the bare knuckles 8.To be indebted to someone for something 10.Plunders 12.By way of 13.An ornamental broad band worn around the waist and over the shoulder 14.To strike with the beak as a bird 15.Ethnic group living in eastern Ghana 16.Variegated 18.To pace 21.To query 22.Nation 23.3rd person feminine pronoun 24.Unit of measuring length, 45 inches 25.Finds out something concealed DOWN 1.Misfortunes 2.Arguments in favour of 3.Declared formally with a pledge before giving evidence 4.“_____and downs” means

alternating periods of good and bad fortune 5.Bird of the family of pigeons used as an emblem of peace 6.The top of a hill or mountain 9.In cricket either of the two frames at which the ball is bowled 11.Like a clumsy lout 14.An instrument for crushing

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION ACROSS: 1. Scripture 7. Air 8. Arm 10. Inner 12. Kabale 13. Spa 14. Bib 16. Basuto 18. Adorn 20. Sea 21. Wet 22. Mendicant

and grinding grain etc. in a mortar 16.Just gone by 17.Barely made a living 19.Silicate of magnesia used for making lubricants 20.Leguminous plants 22.To arrange methodically

DOWN: 1. Soaks 2. Rumba 3. Pail 4. Tine 5. Urn 6. Ear 9. Rapid 11. Elite 14. Busia 15. Boast 16. Bred 17. Anti 18. Aim 19. Own

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION ACROSS

1 Primer 5 Calamine 9 Manifestation 10 San Diego 11 Talbot 12 Hearth 14 Fastness 16 Procured 19 Narrow 21 Staves 23 Shanties 25 Bertie Wooster 26 Needless 27 Greene

Each number in our Codeword grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. For example, today 24 represents B so fill in B every time the figure24 appears. You have one letterin the control grid to start you off. Enter it in the appropriate squares in the main grid, then use your knowledge of words to work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you get the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and control grid.

Check off the list of alphabetical letters as you identify them.

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6 Cast meet in a theatre production (7) 7 Hopeless couple taken in by bad design (10) 8 Ominous leaking about camping equipment (10) 12 Refuse to give credit (10) 13 Plot links prisoners to criminal activity (10) 14 Female novelist and male poet to lie awkwardly together (5) 15 The sprinter’s capacity for a drug (5)

19 We idled around when employed (7) 20 Explorer with a girl he seduced (7) 23 A naval officer bearing star (6) 25 Goddess is after Spanish agreement being lifted (4) 26 Navy gets one miserable? (4)

2 Rampage 3 Mined 4 Refresher 5 Cast off 6 Least 7 Mainliner 8 Noncoms 13 Recovered 15 Singalong 17 Ratable 18 Disowns 20 Overun 22 Shire 24 Title YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

YOUR STARS AQUARIUS | JAN 21 - FEB 19 Romantic opportunities are highlighted this week. They may have a delightful quality as the Full Moon in your love affairs sector works a little magic on your behalf. Feelings could be intense, especially midweek, so think carefully before making out with someone PISCES | FEB 20 - MAR 20 You may need to batten down the emotional hatches, as a Full Moon in Cancer could bring feelings to the surface midweek. It can be a good time to release hurts feelings, but not so well for making important decisions. You might be in a reactive frame of mind, so wait a few days.

ARIES | MAR 21 - APR 20 A Full Moon in Cancer suggests that your emotions could override logic midweek. Try to avoid tantrums - yours or those of other people

- and allow time for things settle before choosing a plan of action. You and a partner may not see eye to eye on a key issue. However, an attempt to compromise may help things along TAURUS | APR 21 - MAY 20 Finances might need a rational approach, as the Full Moon could coincide with an emotional reaction to a perceived problem. On the other hand, if you’re feeling insecure, you could decide to go on a spending binge, which won’t help matters either.

GEMINI | MAY 21 - JUNE 21 A Full Moon in your sign could mean you’re quite emotional around midweek, so be prepared for movies, music, and the people around you to make you more weepy than usual. There might also be a disagreement between you and another person so be cautious of statements made today.

CANCER | JUN 22 - JULY 22 A dynamic aspect pattern could bring certain tensions into the open, fueled by the power of the Full Moon. If you feel tired and in need of a break, take one and let yourself chill! However, a lively aspect could indicate a developing social scene later, such as a surprise invitation.

LEO | JULY 23 - AUG 22 You may feel like holding an impromptu party, as the Full Moon in your social zone could set the needle on the social meter higher than usual.

Watch out for a spat with a friend - midweek may not be the best time to have words.

VIRGO | AUG 23 - SEP 23 You may notice tension building, which could set you on edge. However, powerful influence midweek could be the trigger that encourages you to share your feelings, whether it’s

appropriate or not. Take it easy and try not to overreact if you can help it. You may be more in your element later as the focus on Aquarius and your romance zone increases LIBRA | SEP 24 - OCT 23 Get ready for a feeling fest as a Full Moon in Cancer on Wednesday could highlight emotions that may have been suppressed. If you feel rather weepy around this time, it might help to let go and let it flow. You might feel much better as result , SCORPIO | OCT 24 - NOV 22 As Mars continues through your social zone, you may be getting into the networking habit and enjoying mingling with old and new friends.

However, certain tensions may culminate at the Full Moon midweek, which could highlight a personal issue.

SAGITTARIUS | NOV 23 - DEC 21 Venus continues to be retrograde, which could be causing some discomfort in key relationships.

However, any insights you get at this time may be a useful guide for what to expect in the future.

Watch out for the Full Moon by weekend.

CAPRICORN | DEC 22 - JAN 20 A growing sense of intimacy with a close friend or love partner is likely to stem from mutual interests. The two of you might even discuss taking a long trip together, perhaps to a distant state or foreign country. This isn’t the time to hold back or be too cautious, To receive NATIONmobile horoscopes on your mobile, SMS the Star you want, eg LEO to 20667 at 5/- above normal rates.

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TREAT OF THE DAY

NAIROBI 5:00am: Password Repeat 6:00am AM Live 9:00am Movie: Feeedom Writters 11:15am:The Young & The Restless 12:00pm: Rhythm City 12:30pm: Scandal 1:00pm: NTV at 1 1:30p.m: Backstage 2:00p.m: Churchill Show 3:00pm: Password 4:00pm: NTV at 4 4:15pm: Password Reloaded 5:00pm: The Beat 6:00pm: Snakes & Lizards 6:40pm: Pika Chakula 7:00pm: NTV Jioni 8:00pm: Pendo 9:00pm: NTV Tonight 10:00pm: Awesome 10:30pm: Looks & Essence 11:30pm: Movie: Geronimo: An American Legend 01:30am: CNN

Today’s highlight

SNAKES & LIZARDS @ 6:00 PM LOOKS & ESSENCE @ 10:30 PM

06.00 State of the Nation – Angela Angwenyi and Herbert Mwachiro 10.00 The Morning Combination – Sanaipei Tande & Obinna Ike Igwee 1.00 The One (news bulletin) 2.00 Sportsline – Sean Cardovillis 4.00 Nation FM Drive – Jimmi Gathu 6.00 The Six (news bulletin) 6.15 Nation Drive (Cont) 8.00 Nation’s Late Night – Ciru Muriuki and Anto Neo Soul

PENDO 8:00PM

We journey with Maria in a story of her return home after 3 years of incarceration at a women maximum prison, her husband Juma has taken in another Wife Maria’s former house maid. Her daughter Pendo is caught up in the dark under world of prostitution In her quest to bring sense back to her family Maria is haunted by the ghosts of her past.

QTV

5:15 Sifa 5:45 Worker’s Prayer 6:00 Chee Live 9:00 Love Lies 11:00 Sifa 11:30 Irrational Heart 12:30 Sifa

1:00 Toleo la Mchana 1:30 Mali 2:05 Deadly Obsession 4:05

Mahewa 5:05 Gozomo 5:30 Maid in Manhattan

4:00 Tambira ya QFM na Selly Amutabi 6:00 Changamka na Rashid Abdalla na Mogaka 10.00 Ukweli Usemwe na Nyosh Gathu na Eunice Waithera 2.00 Muziki 4:00 Ishia Mtaa na Kajairo, Karis na Mafanatics 7:00 Rhumba Kitoko na Dokotolo Lawi 9:00 Kemea Usingizi na Alibaba 11:00 Jahmbee na Airee Vybes

6:30 Taarifa Za

Magharib 7:00 Warembo Salon 7:30 Mr Speaker Sir 8:00 Toleo La Jioni 9:00 Dunia ina Mambo

9:10 WWE: Vintage Collection 10:00 Destiny River 11:00 Dira ya Dunia 11:30 Al Jazeera

5:00 Pambazuka 6:00 Power Breakfast 9:00 Afrosinema 11:30 Amor Bravio 12:30 Naswa 1:00 Live at 1 1:45 Cheche 2:45 Afrosinema 4:00 Citizen Alasiri 4:10 Mseto East Africa 5:00 Pavitra Rishia 6:00 Carrossel 7:00 Citizen Nipashe 7:35 Santalal 8:05 La Malquerida 9:00 Citizen Business Centre 10.00 What Life Took From Me 11:00 Afrosinema Movie 01:00 Citizen Late Night

KTN TV

5:00 Command Your Morning 6:00 Morning Express 9:00 Legal Wife 10:00 Dulala’s Promotion 11.00

ANDY CAPP

SCREEN Ii FAST AND FURIOUS 7 “ (U/16) 10.45AM, 1.30PM, 4.15PM, 7PM, 9.40PM CENTURY CINEMAX JUNCTION, NGONG ROAD SCREEN I ‘CINDRELLA” (2D) (P/G) 10.30AM, 12.45PM, 3PM, 5.15PM, 7.30PM, 9.45PM SCREEN II FAST AND FURIOUS 7 “ (2D) (U/16) 10.45AM, 1.30PM, 4.15PM, 7PM, 9.40PM SCREEN III “INSURGENT” (2D) (16) 10.30AM, 12.45PM, 3PM, 5.15PM “FOCUS” (2D) ( 16) 7.30PM, 9.45PM SCREEN IV “HOME” (3D) (G/E) 11.30AM, 1.30PM, 3.30PM, 5.30PM “INSURGENT” (3D) (16) 7.30PM, 9.45PM PLANET MEDIA, PRESTIGE PLAZA, NGONG ROAD “FAST AND FURIOUS 7 “ (16) 4PM, 6.30PM, 9PM “HOME” (3D) (G/E) 10.40AM, 12.25PM, 2.10PM “INSURGENT” (3D) (16) 8.50PM “CINDRELLA” 11.30AM, 1.40PM “THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL” 3.50PM “DETECTIVE BYOMKESH BAKSHY” (TBA) 6PM IMAX KENYA CINEMA, NAIROBI

TELEVISION CITIZEN TV

FOX CINEPLEX - SARIT CENTRE SCREEN I “HOME” (3D) (G/E) 11AM “DETECTIVE BYOMKESH BAKSHY” (TBA) 2.30PM, 6.10PM, 9.10PM

Tendereza 12:00 Tomorrow Today 12:30 Mshamba 1:00 Newsdesk 1:30 Kick Off 2:00 Afri-Screen 4:00 Mbiu ya KTN 4:30 Avengers Assemble 5:00 Baseline 6:00 Tomorrow belongs to Me 7:00 KTN Leo 7:30 Real Househelps of Kawangware 8:00 My Dream Wedding 9:00 KTN Prime 10:05 Jeff Koinange Live 11:00 The Diary 12:00 Kick Off /CNN

K24 TV

6:00 Alfajiri 9:00 It Seems So Beautiful 10:00 Naijasinema 12:30 Al Jazeera 12:30 Almasi 1:00 K24 Newscut 1:30 Mke ni Nyumba 2:00 The Couples Show 3:00 Without You 4:00 Mchipuko wa Alasiri 4:10 Team

Raha 5:00 Beat Box 6:30 Playlist 7:00 K24 Saa Moja 7:35 Sumu 8:05 The Couples Show 9:00 K 24 Evening Edition 10:00 Naija sinema 12:00 Aljazeera

EBRU AFRICA TV

7:00 Wimzies House 7:20 Tarchin and Friends 7:45 Backyard Science 8:00 Africa This Morning 9:45 Ayna 10:30 Y-Connect, Live 11:30 Sugar & Spice 12:40 Plug N Play 1:00 Table Talk/Media Watch 1:15 Africa This Morning 2:15 Mama Digital 3:30 Documantary 4:00 Africa In Brief 4:15 Boonie Bears 4:30 Caillou 4:40 Backyard Science 4:55 YConnect 5:50 Sugar & Spice

7:00 Ebru Magharibi 7:30 Changamka New 8:00 Afro Beat 8:30 Niaje 9:00 Ebru News 10:00 News In Focus 11:00 Afro Beat 11:30 Ebru Magharibi

KBC TV

5.00 BBC News 5.30 Gear Up 6.00 Good Morning Kenya 9.00 Lay’d Back 9.30 Sagwa the Cat 10.00 Dora Explorer 12.00 Top Mashariki 1.00 KBC Lunchtime News 1.30 Business Defined 2.00 Street Court 2.30 Hadithi za Biblia 5.30 Club 1 6.30 Abled Differently 7.00 Taarifa 7.30 Mtaani 8.00 First Lady 9.00 KBC Channel 1 News 10.00 Fat chance 11.00 CCTV News 12.00 Lay’d Back /BBC

“FAST AND FURIOUS 7” 7.30AM, 10AM, 12.40PM, 3.20PM, 6PM, 8.40PM, 11PM “ANGELS OF MY FACE” (ARFA LOUNGE) 5.30PM “FUNDI-MENTALS (HD)”(ARFA LOUNGE) 8PM “HOUSE OF LUNGULA” (ARFA LOUNGE) 10.30PM PLANET MEDIA CINEMAS, NAKUMATT MEGA CITY MALL, KISUMU “FAST AND FURIOUS 7 “ (16) 3.30PM, 6.20PM, 8.50PM ‘HOME” (3D) 11AM, 12.45PM, 2.30PM “DETECTIVE BYOMKESH BAKSHY” (TBA) 8.45PM “DANNY COLLINS” (TBA) 6.40PM “INSURGENT” (3D) (16) 4.20PM “CINDERELLA” (PG) 11.10AM, 1.20PM NYALI CINEMAX - MOMBASA “CINDERELLA” 2.30PM “FAST AND FURIOUS 7 “ 3.30PM, 6.15PM, 9PM “HOME” (3D) 4.45PM “THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL” 6.45PM “DETECTIVE BYOMKESH BAKSHY” 9.15PM

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COLOUR ME (CODED)

Title: The Runaway Author: Shel Arensen Publisher: WordAlive Publishers

THE RAILWAY MUSEUM CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY

“Well, stop playing in my position,” I snapped.

“Forget it, I didn’t want to play anyway,” he said, walking off the field. I felt badly, but I didn’t like this new boy taking over my place on the recess football team. I took over as centre fullback, but the rest of the game wasn’t any fun.

Back in class, Miss Price told us we’d have a field trip the next day. “All students in standards four, five, and six are going to the Railway Museum in Nairobi,” she said. “Be at the bus by 8 a.m.”

The next morning at the bus, Miss Price called out the names of the students. One person was missing. “Rod

Savage,” Miss Price said. “Anyone know where Rod is?”

“Maybe Wildman got lost?” Mato suggested.

Dave jumped off the bus and came back about five minutes later with Rod. “Sorry,” he murmured as he boarded the bus. “No one told me where the bus is usually parked.”

Rod sat down by himself and looked down at the floor, lost in thought.

CONTINUES TOMORROW

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The antelope is a deer-like mammal that is native to Africa and ………………….. There are many different species of ……………….. including the tiny royal antelope that stands at the ………………… height as a rabbit. Unlike …………………… that renew their horns annually, the antelope has strong permanent horns.

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The antelope is a deer-like mammal that is native to Africa and Asia. There are many different species of antelope including the tiny royal antelope that stands at the same height as a rabbit. Unlike deer that renew their horns annually, the antelope has strong permanent horns. A group of antelope is called a herd.

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HAVE YOUR SAY

A letter to my unborn child ILLUSTRATION | JOSEPH NGARI

At last! A feel-good story

BY GAKERA MTEMBEZI jgakzz@gmail.com

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t is Monday morning, I hate those, and I suspect some day you will too. The phone alarm vibrates me from the solace of my dreams to reality, neither mind nor body is willing to comply, and the unforgiving weather isn’t helping the situation either.

Every fiber of my being is urging me to sleep in and abscond my responsibilities, and for nine minutes, I hit the snooze button and give in. Lying there half asleep though, I see you, hiding in my conscience, as usual, your face different yet recognisable every time. You look at me and smile, and I realise with every second I lie there that that smile is in jeopardy.

I wake up and put myself under the mercy of a cold shower.

The water is one cold stream

AS I STAND THERE, MY ICY BODY SUSPENDED IN TEMPORARY RIGOR MORTIS, I THINK OF YOU AND SAY TO MYSELF I DO THIS SO THAT THE WATER FROM YOUR SHOWERHEAD WILL BE HOT, AND YOUR BATHS RELISHED, NOT ENDURED.” GAKERA

that lashes my back, sending my muscles into a spasm. But as I stand there, my icy body suspended in temporary rigor mortis, I think of you and say to myself I do this so that the water from your showerhead will be hot, and your baths relished, not endured. No time for breakfast, I rush to class and sit to listen to my lecturer drone on about this and that. Boredom shifts my focus to the window, the sunrays have thawed through the morning chill, plunging my mind into a beautiful day dream where I see myself digging my toes into the sand at an exotic getaway, having a cold beer while watching you play with the surf. To transform this dream into reality however, I am reminded that I must first draw knowledge from the boring drone of my lecturer.

After the lecture, my practical session begins. This day, my hands and mind are in total discord, and the supervisor is not amused.

I can tell his foul mood is not solely because of my sluggishness, perhaps he too is having a rotten day, but unfortunately I’m his outlet. I stand there and bear wave after wave of condescension as my ego is trampled on. I stare at the floor, and you appear in my thoughts still wearing your beautiful smile. It is at times like these that I wonder whether I should bring you into this world or keep you hidden in my mind where it’s safe. My mind goes into a tailspin thinking of how many heartbreaks you might have to endure, how many false friends, how many unsuccessful job interviews and thereafter how many horrible bosses you

might have to answer to. But alas! This one world with all its faults is all we have, and while I swear to protect you from most of them, I’m terrified to know I might not be able to shield you from the greatest fault of all; people.

The day ends and I walk back to my hostel, body aching and mind weary. In all this, I am happy because I know my fatigue will one day be your comfort. I get to my room and try to take a hard earned nap, but my belly grumbles in protest, “You have forsaken me,” it whines. I prepare a packet of chicken-flavoured noodles.

The first bite of the steaming concoction of sauce, margarine and soggy pasta is heavenly - for a brief moment, I can even taste the ‘chicken’, but five generous bites in, my palate can no longer trace the chicken, in its place is an insipid taste of bad pasta, preservatives and flavourless flavours.

My mind once again drifts to you, and I tell myself that the only reason your food will taste like chicken will be because it will, in fact, be chicken. My unborn child, I tell you all this so that you may know one simple fact; I will strive to give you nothing but the very best. As my eyelids cave under the weight of sleep, I feel a jolt of excitement, for I know with every passing day, our meet draws closer.

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I was really moved by last week’s story about the Kamaus and their househelp of 33 years. I hope employers who mistreat their help read this, as well as househelps who betray their employer’s trust. wn2007 With all the bad news in the media lately, it felt good to read a happy story. I hope to stay with my househelp for many years to come.

She has lived with us for two years, but it feels like yesterday. I value her.

Caroline What an emotional, feelgood story, and one different from the depressing ones we keep reading about. Hats off to the Kamaus.

Japheth Musyoka What a sweet story! It is encouraging to know that we still have humane people left in the world. I agree with George and his wife – the foundation of all successful relationships is mutual respect.

Saida Mukisa In the midst of so many sad things that are happening around us, you gave us a beautiful story.

Thank you. Angels truly do live amongst us.

Triple A A story of kindness, love and generosity, in a society where domestic workers are mistreated in many homes.

This couple is proof that it is possible to coexist in harmony with someone who is not a relative, and even forge a relationship that goes beyond the superficial rapport that employers and employees have.

Joe Njenga I know Martha, but did not know her story until I read it.

She is a wonderful person.

There are so many lessons to learn from this story.

Risper Last week’s feature was an exceptional one. Some employers would not want their employees to progress, so that they can take advantage of them for the rest of their lives.

If only our society had more people like the Kamaus.

Steve Last week’s feature made my day.

Househelps are human beings, and when treated well and with respect, they are likely to

return the gesture.

Morgan This is the best story I’ve read all year. God bless this family, and may we Kenyans learn lessons that will help us respect each other and live together harmoniously as one people.

Mr Mourinho Go on, paint an attractive picture of marriage Karimi, I was one of your students at Sotik High School. I am a fan of your articles, and though I have never written to you, I felt motivated to comment on last week’s article, since it talked about my former high school. You were a good teacher.

Betty As a 21-year-old man, marriage is the last thing on my mind, however, I immensely enjoy your pieces, which portray marriage as an institution that is not so bad after all.

In last week’s piece, you mentioned that wives should submit to their husbands.

While the comment might have seemed innocuous, I find a lot of inequality in that word. If, and when my time to get married comes, I will gladly ask the priest to strike out the “Obey your husband” line.

Jowal Jones Hail the big woman!

Aggrey Ombok’s confession last week about his attraction towards big woman emboldened me to also announce from the top of the mountain that I prefer super plus women. They are jovial and warm, and in my eyes, they are beautiful, feminine, and physically appealing, irrespective of waht everyone else thinks.

Fredrick Mugo

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wife speak

Living 3

KARIMI GATIMI

What do you do when your parenting styles clash?

I

I was convinced that my way was the right one

admire couples who have figured out this parenting gig, and can face their kids with one voice. Since the little earthlings land in our homes without instruction manuals, most of us tend to either ape those who raised us, or rely heavily on foreign online articles, or parenting books.

This should explain our differing views on how to parent our children. Sometimes we do agree, but often, we argue about how to go about it. Take this day our daughter came home from school and told us that a girl in school had bullied her. Her dad was of the opinion that we immediately raise the issue with the class teacher.

“If there’s a bully, other kids might be affected too,” he reasoned.

“I think she needs to learn to fight her battles. It is a life skill,” I reasoned.

You see, I was partly raised by a loving grandmother, who other than spoiling me rotten, also instilled in me some survival skills. One such skill was how to deal with bullies. She made it crystal clear that if anyone ever hit me, I should not

run home crying but hit right back! This I learned when one day, I went home with a bloody nose minus one shoe, thanks to Emmanuel, a boy who had been tormenting me for most of the school term.

“What happened to you?” Shush as we call her, asked me.

“It’s Emmanu…” I said in between pitiful sniffles. I expected her to match to Emmanu’s place and give him a super thrashing. Instead, my grandmother shocked me by saying; “The next time you come here crying because someone has hit you, I will beat you up and give you reason to cry better.”

That put an immediate stop to my

MY GRANDMOTHER ENCOURAGED ME TO FIGHT BACK WHENEVER ANOTHER CHILD HIT OR BULLIED ME.” KARIMI

whimpering as I stared at her. Didn’t she realise that I was the victim?

“How many hands and feet does that boy have?” she asked me.

“Two,” I replied guardedly.

“How many do you have?” she continued.

“Two.” “Good. Next time he hits you, you hit him right back. Don’t come here crying, you must fight back!”

Sure enough, the very next day when Emmanu shoved me, I was on him.

Spurred on more by fear than the need to protect myself, my little tormentor had no idea what hit him when I jumped on his retreating back, screaming and punching.

I did not get punished by the teacher after she managed to pluck me off Emmanu’s back. Thankfully, that was the end of the bullying from Emmanu. Incidentally, Emmanu and I reconnected on Facebook a few years back, and he told me he has never forgotten the incident! He defended himself by saying his actions were a small boy’s way of showing a girl that he liked her. As if!

Anyway, fast forward, and now decades later when our daughter told us that someone had bullied her, I gave her the exact wisdom from dear Shush. Her dad was skeptical about it, but I assured him

that the formula works, and so we sent our soldier off to school the next day, with instructions to defend herself.

That evening, she came home with a note from school. We had been summoned! I guess times have changed.

“She fought another girl. She says you said it was ok…” If I were fair skinned, I could say that I turned beet red. Instead, I felt quite hot, never mind it was a cold day, with hubby looking me straight in the eye and the teacher waiting for a response. I pleaded guilty.

“Actually, the other girl is not a bully at all, and your daughter too has never bullied anyone. The girls had a simple misunderstanding over an item,” the teacher explained.

She called the two girls, who by then had made up. We got to meet the parents of the other girl as well, whose dad too had given his daughter the same wisdom!

Karimi is a wife and mother who believes marriage is worth it.

Email: karimigatimi@yahoo.com Visit: marriagerocks1.wordpr

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Wednesday April 8, 2015 DAILY NATION

DAILY NATION Wednesday April 8, 2015

The school holidays are here, help!

Are you one of those parents who dread this season because you have no idea what to do with your children?

BY NJOKI CHEGE

nchege@ke.nationmedia.com @njokichege

L

et’s be honest – you love your children and would do anything for them, but you secretly dread school holidays because they turn your otherwise calm and orderly life into a chaotic spin.

During the three or four weeks they stay at home before schools reopen, your usually quiet and peaceful sanctuary turns into a noisy, argumentative and sullen market. The remote control is no longer yours, so you only get to watch the news and your favourite soap after they go back to school a month later.

There is also the shockingly loud music to deal with, the kind that threatens to bring the house down. Your requests to lower the volume falls on deaf years, and a cheeky teen will even have the audacity to suggest that you are growing old, if you think the radio is too loud.

Many parents will not openly admit it, but holidays are akin to a nightmare, and to avoid the outcome that accompanies the presence of their children, some even ship them off to camps or upcountry, as soon as they close school.

A parent recalls attending a Parents Teachers’ Association, (PTA) meeting where the parents deliberated over the closing date for hours. A good number of them wanted the date pushed further into the holiday season, a clear indication that they did not know what to do with their children during the long holiday.

Recently, another parent wrote to the Daily Nation’s, The Cutting Edge column, to propose that midterm breaks be abolished, since they served no purpose, and were too expensive for parents.

As sure as day and night, the wallet suffers during the holidays: a fridge that was content with a bag of boiled beans and a few slices of bread will need to be fully stocked with a variety of foodstuff. Your monthly budget will also stretch way beyond its usual limit, because your children will want to be taken out for occasional outings.

If you have teenagers, they will

need airtime to catch up with their friends on WhatsApp and Facebook. You will also find that you need to buy them new clothes because those that you bought in December no longer fit, but more important, because they are out of fashion, and there is no way they will walk out of the house in them.

Sharon Cheptoo, a mother of three boys, is one of the parents who does not look forward to the long school holidays. She has noticed a disturbing pattern: most of the househelps she has employed leave when her sons come home for the holidays.

“I suspect that they are afraid of the extra responsibility and work that comes when the boys come home.”

To deal with this, from last year, Cheptoo started planning her leave around the school holidays, so that she can help to look after her boys, and with the house work as well.

“I barely rest, I am like a hawk, watching over them, constantly playing the referee, and trying to get them to behave and clean their rooms.”

While it is easier to deal with the younger children, teenagers are harder to keep tabs on, especially since they are old enough to socialise and visit friends on their own. While out there on their own, they could be doing anything.

PHOTO | FILE

Keep them occupied, as they say, an empty debe is the devil’s workshop.

Demanding

They are also more demanding – it is not enough to ensure that there is enough food. They want TV packages with extra channels, so you have to pay more.

They want Wi-fi connection so that they can do their homework with ease, or so they say, and they want pocket money so that they can hang out with their friends at the mall and buy the latest movies.

With all these unending demands, isn’t it easy to see why a parent would groan inwardly when the closing date approaches?

Edward Buri, a youth pastor at PCEA St. Andrew’s church, feels that parents are not justified to feel this way. He is convinced that the parent who feels this way is one that values “other things” more than their child.

“It is catastrophic when a par-

UNDERSTAND YOUR TEEN’S LANGUAGE If you are at a loss of how to keep your children occupied this holiday, there are several activities you can consider. Churches, schools and other organisations have planned engaging forums that will keep your children busy for a week or two. Some of them come at a cost, but they are definitely worthwhile activities. From career seminars to youth camps and jobshadowing opportunities, as well as guided tours, your teen is spoilt for choice this vacation.

St. Andrews PCEA church will be having youth-targeted church services

and seminars throughout the holiday.

The youth will also be engaged in volunteer and outreach programmes.

Most churches usually plan youthoriented activities, therefore find out what activities your church has planned.

AKAD Education Group-Africa is holding career mentorship programmes in Nairobi and Western Kenyan. For more information about these seminars, as well as job shadowing activities visit the group’s website www.akadeducationafrica.co m/april-2015-activities

Understand your teen’s language Talk with them: Have meaningful conversations. Ask them about school, their friends, their highs and lows.

Teens do not like small talk. They do not like being talk at, they prefer being talked with.

Participation: Engage them in activities that will make them feel like they belong.

Elevation: Know their ambitions, and encourage them to reach for them.

Show that you love them: Family is not a business, it is a love-unit. It is important that they know you love them. Take time off to be with them and let them know that you took time off to specifically bond with them.

Affirm them: Teens go through periods of self-doubt, and therefore constantly need your affirmation that they are on the right track.

-Pastor Edward Buri

ent does not look forward to spending time with their child. Parenting has become an outsourced responsibility to schools, teachers, churches, Sunday school teachers and youth camps,” he says, and adds, “Parents are unable to co-exist with their children peacefully because they value other things more than their children.

They value their freedom and careers more, and therefore feel that the presence of their children interrupts their lives. Some also view their children as an expense, rather than an investment, and therefore resent the sacrifices they need to make to ensure that their children are comfortable.”

But you cannot throw them out or

ignore them, and since it is your responsibility to provide for them and ensure that they are comfortable, perhaps it is time to change your mindset.

Roselyn Kigen, a parenting coach with Intentional Parents for a Better Life, suggests coming up with a time table for the holiday holidays.

“If you have a plan, you will not panic that they are coming home,” she says.

Remember that they have a struc-

tured environment at school, a structure that accounts for every second of their day, so bear this in mind as you draw your plan.

They say than an empty debe is the devil’s workshop, so ensure that your children are occupied until PHOTO | FILE

Roselyn Kigen, a parenting coach, says that if parents plan well, they do not have to panic when their children come home for the school holidays.

they return to school.

Parents with the biggest headache are those with teenagers.

They are at an experimental stage; they are those who want to have their first sip of alcohol, puff of cigarette or first sexual experience, and school holidays are the opportune time to do this - how do you handle this? By enforcing rules, says Kigen.

“You need to lay out the rules.

Don’t assume that your child cannot drink alcohol, smoke, or have sex – spell it out, and explain why you think he should not be doing it. He might be old enough to socialise with his friends unsupervised, but set a curfew, and insist that they strictly adhere to it.”

Kigen points out that parents who have disciplinary issues with their children are those without clear cut values. Parents without boundaries. Parents without a strict constitution.

But even with a constitution to guide them, ensure that they are occupied because generally, teens, and by nature all human beings, are restless.

“Keep them engaged. If you have a business, take them to work with you, or if you can afford it, enroll them in facilities where they can engage in sports such as swimming, tennis, football, or whatever else they might be interested in.”

A common mistake parents make, the counseller points out, is that they impose on their children what they think is best for them.

“You will be more successful at keeping the peace and ensuring that you are both happy and satisfied if you ask them what they want to do, or what they have planned.”

Your children are probably more connected than you are, and know of interesting, engaging activities organised by churches, schools and other organisations, so talk to them.

Also bear in mind that while you might be the ideal parent with a strict constitution and a firm hand, your teenager could be spending time with peers whose parents are not as enthusiastic in instilling discipline as you are. In such as case, peer pressure could sneak in, and your teen could be tempted to smoke drink, or experiment with sex.

“Peer pressure will always be there, and the only way to ensure that you child does not cave into it is to keep working on your child’s self-esteem, and assuring him that he is fine, just the way he is.”

The best person to bring up your child is you, not his grandmother up country, so unless it is absolutely necessary, keep them home with you for those three or four weeks and spend time with them.

“I think the most important thing that a parent needs to know is that your child needs you. Your child notices it when you don’t want them around, and this might damage their self-esteem, or push them to rebel. I have found that children who have close relationships with their parents, are much more grounded,” says Pastor Buri.

Living 5

I NOW MUST MUSTER COURAGE TO OPEN A NEW CHAPTER

Richard and I have broken up THIS IS A REAL HANDFUl. My hand has been hovering over the SEND button for a while, inwardly debating whether I should click SEND or DELETE, whether I should share this bad news, or keep it to myself.

One part of me wants to tell it; another wants me to grin and bear it alone. I’m not a good role model to some, so many have said, and now this ugly thing gores its head in the middle my life.

I have been recovering from this situation for a while now. I’m not sure I was recovering, digesting or waiting for things to happen another way. My sweetheart Richard and I parted ways in July last year. We had split multiple times before, but we had patched things up. I thought this was our normal breakup-then-makeup mode. I did not realise that this was the proverbial straw that broke our marriage’s back.

Breaking peculiar patterns My life has a kind of peculiar pattern.

When I think I am doing well and excelling, things crumble right in front of my face. When I met Richard 10 years ago, I vowed that I would do whatever it took to keep my family in one piece. Let’s just say that I have been to hell and back over this commitment. I now think it’s time I surrender.

I had been picked and dropped many times before I met Richard. In my last relationship before I met him, I decided that I needed to take charge of my life and move out of some norms. Norms like I must live with a man who foots all the bills and who owns me; or owns me together with household items, such that when he gets tired of me, he’ll simply kick me out of the house, just as you’d throw away a used broom that you don’t require anymore.

I broke this norm by moving out with my son Peter and starting anew. I told myself that the next time a relationship would reach a pick-and-drop point, it’s the man who would go out of my life; not the other way round. True to that, Richard walked out of my life.

Desperate housewife I will spare you the sorry details. For one, Richard is the father of my four beautiful boys, and it’s not right to

besmirch him. He has his flaws. I have mine.

Speaking of which, I might have contributed to this outcome. I might have overdone or spoiled things while thinking that what I was doing was cementing this relationship, while, actually, the crack was widening. As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

I might have swallowed too much that could have been misinterpreted as weakness. I don’t deny it: maybe I’m weak. At one point, I was so desperate to keep the relationship going that, knowingly or not, I took roles of both father and mother, if only to make things work. It didn’t work though, things went from bad to worse.

Mustering courage to open a new chapter If there’s one thing I don’t want, it’s a pity party. I have done enough of consoling myself. I can walk with my head high, without dreading the D-word: divorcee.

For two months now, I have not checked my cell phone to see if Richard has sent a text message asking for reconciliation. Even the fighter in me has given up on this. I am happy this way, for now. I have been doing a lot to prevent this eventuality, but since it is finally here, I have no choice but live with it.

I now must muster courage to open a new chapter. I know that at times I’ll steal glances at the last chapter, at the 10 years, and have my “coulda”, “woulda”, “shoulda” moments. But I must focus ahead, because that is where my future lies.

Living Positively

This is the diary of Asunta Wagura, a mother of five who tested positive 28 years ago. She is the executive director of the Kenya Network of Women with Aids (KENWA): asuntawagura@hotmail.com

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Wednesday April 8, 2015 DAILY NATION

DAILY NATION Wednesday April 8, 2015

The school holidays are here, help!

Are you one of those parents who dread this season because you have no idea what to do with your children?

BY NJOKI CHEGE

nchege@ke.nationmedia.com @njokichege

L

et’s be honest – you love your children and would do anything for them, but you secretly dread school holidays because they turn your otherwise calm and orderly life into a chaotic spin.

During the three or four weeks they stay at home before schools reopen, your usually quiet and peaceful sanctuary turns into a noisy, argumentative and sullen market. The remote control is no longer yours, so you only get to watch the news and your favourite soap after they go back to school a month later.

There is also the shockingly loud music to deal with, the kind that threatens to bring the house down. Your requests to lower the volume falls on deaf years, and a cheeky teen will even have the audacity to suggest that you are growing old, if you think the radio is too loud.

Many parents will not openly admit it, but holidays are akin to a nightmare, and to avoid the outcome that accompanies the presence of their children, some even ship them off to camps or upcountry, as soon as they close school.

A parent recalls attending a Parents Teachers’ Association, (PTA) meeting where the parents deliberated over the closing date for hours. A good number of them wanted the date pushed further into the holiday season, a clear indication that they did not know what to do with their children during the long holiday.

Recently, another parent wrote to the Daily Nation’s, The Cutting Edge column, to propose that midterm breaks be abolished, since they served no purpose, and were too expensive for parents.

As sure as day and night, the wallet suffers during the holidays: a fridge that was content with a bag of boiled beans and a few slices of bread will need to be fully stocked with a variety of foodstuff. Your monthly budget will also stretch way beyond its usual limit, because your children will want to be taken out for occasional outings.

If you have teenagers, they will

need airtime to catch up with their friends on WhatsApp and Facebook. You will also find that you need to buy them new clothes because those that you bought in December no longer fit, but more important, because they are out of fashion, and there is no way they will walk out of the house in them.

Sharon Cheptoo, a mother of three boys, is one of the parents who does not look forward to the long school holidays. She has noticed a disturbing pattern: most of the househelps she has employed leave when her sons come home for the holidays.

“I suspect that they are afraid of the extra responsibility and work that comes when the boys come home.”

To deal with this, from last year, Cheptoo started planning her leave around the school holidays, so that she can help to look after her boys, and with the house work as well.

“I barely rest, I am like a hawk, watching over them, constantly playing the referee, and trying to get them to behave and clean their rooms.”

While it is easier to deal with the younger children, teenagers are harder to keep tabs on, especially since they are old enough to socialise and visit friends on their own. While out there on their own, they could be doing anything.

PHOTO | FILE

Keep them occupied, as they say, an empty debe is the devil’s workshop.

Demanding

They are also more demanding – it is not enough to ensure that there is enough food. They want TV packages with extra channels, so you have to pay more.

They want Wi-fi connection so that they can do their homework with ease, or so they say, and they want pocket money so that they can hang out with their friends at the mall and buy the latest movies.

With all these unending demands, isn’t it easy to see why a parent would groan inwardly when the closing date approaches?

Edward Buri, a youth pastor at PCEA St. Andrew’s church, feels that parents are not justified to feel this way. He is convinced that the parent who feels this way is one that values “other things” more than their child.

“It is catastrophic when a par-

UNDERSTAND YOUR TEEN’S LANGUAGE If you are at a loss of how to keep your children occupied this holiday, there are several activities you can consider. Churches, schools and other organisations have planned engaging forums that will keep your children busy for a week or two. Some of them come at a cost, but they are definitely worthwhile activities. From career seminars to youth camps and jobshadowing opportunities, as well as guided tours, your teen is spoilt for choice this vacation.

St. Andrews PCEA church will be having youth-targeted church services

and seminars throughout the holiday.

The youth will also be engaged in volunteer and outreach programmes.

Most churches usually plan youthoriented activities, therefore find out what activities your church has planned.

AKAD Education Group-Africa is holding career mentorship programmes in Nairobi and Western Kenyan. For more information about these seminars, as well as job shadowing activities visit the group’s website www.akadeducationafrica.co m/april-2015-activities

Understand your teen’s language Talk with them: Have meaningful conversations. Ask them about school, their friends, their highs and lows.

Teens do not like small talk. They do not like being talk at, they prefer being talked with.

Participation: Engage them in activities that will make them feel like they belong.

Elevation: Know their ambitions, and encourage them to reach for them.

Show that you love them: Family is not a business, it is a love-unit. It is important that they know you love them. Take time off to be with them and let them know that you took time off to specifically bond with them.

Affirm them: Teens go through periods of self-doubt, and therefore constantly need your affirmation that they are on the right track.

-Pastor Edward Buri

ent does not look forward to spending time with their child. Parenting has become an outsourced responsibility to schools, teachers, churches, Sunday school teachers and youth camps,” he says, and adds, “Parents are unable to co-exist with their children peacefully because they value other things more than their children.

They value their freedom and careers more, and therefore feel that the presence of their children interrupts their lives. Some also view their children as an expense, rather than an investment, and therefore resent the sacrifices they need to make to ensure that their children are comfortable.”

But you cannot throw them out or

ignore them, and since it is your responsibility to provide for them and ensure that they are comfortable, perhaps it is time to change your mindset.

Roselyn Kigen, a parenting coach with Intentional Parents for a Better Life, suggests coming up with a time table for the holiday holidays.

“If you have a plan, you will not panic that they are coming home,” she says.

Remember that they have a struc-

tured environment at school, a structure that accounts for every second of their day, so bear this in mind as you draw your plan.

They say than an empty debe is the devil’s workshop, so ensure that your children are occupied until PHOTO | FILE

Roselyn Kigen, a parenting coach, says that if parents plan well, they do not have to panic when their children come home for the school holidays.

they return to school.

Parents with the biggest headache are those with teenagers.

They are at an experimental stage; they are those who want to have their first sip of alcohol, puff of cigarette or first sexual experience, and school holidays are the opportune time to do this - how do you handle this? By enforcing rules, says Kigen.

“You need to lay out the rules.

Don’t assume that your child cannot drink alcohol, smoke, or have sex – spell it out, and explain why you think he should not be doing it. He might be old enough to socialise with his friends unsupervised, but set a curfew, and insist that they strictly adhere to it.”

Kigen points out that parents who have disciplinary issues with their children are those without clear cut values. Parents without boundaries. Parents without a strict constitution.

But even with a constitution to guide them, ensure that they are occupied because generally, teens, and by nature all human beings, are restless.

“Keep them engaged. If you have a business, take them to work with you, or if you can afford it, enroll them in facilities where they can engage in sports such as swimming, tennis, football, or whatever else they might be interested in.”

A common mistake parents make, the counseller points out, is that they impose on their children what they think is best for them.

“You will be more successful at keeping the peace and ensuring that you are both happy and satisfied if you ask them what they want to do, or what they have planned.”

Your children are probably more connected than you are, and know of interesting, engaging activities organised by churches, schools and other organisations, so talk to them.

Also bear in mind that while you might be the ideal parent with a strict constitution and a firm hand, your teenager could be spending time with peers whose parents are not as enthusiastic in instilling discipline as you are. In such as case, peer pressure could sneak in, and your teen could be tempted to smoke drink, or experiment with sex.

“Peer pressure will always be there, and the only way to ensure that you child does not cave into it is to keep working on your child’s self-esteem, and assuring him that he is fine, just the way he is.”

The best person to bring up your child is you, not his grandmother up country, so unless it is absolutely necessary, keep them home with you for those three or four weeks and spend time with them.

“I think the most important thing that a parent needs to know is that your child needs you. Your child notices it when you don’t want them around, and this might damage their self-esteem, or push them to rebel. I have found that children who have close relationships with their parents, are much more grounded,” says Pastor Buri.

Living 5

I NOW MUST MUSTER COURAGE TO OPEN A NEW CHAPTER

Richard and I have broken up THIS IS A REAL HANDFUl. My hand has been hovering over the SEND button for a while, inwardly debating whether I should click SEND or DELETE, whether I should share this bad news, or keep it to myself.

One part of me wants to tell it; another wants me to grin and bear it alone. I’m not a good role model to some, so many have said, and now this ugly thing gores its head in the middle my life.

I have been recovering from this situation for a while now. I’m not sure I was recovering, digesting or waiting for things to happen another way. My sweetheart Richard and I parted ways in July last year. We had split multiple times before, but we had patched things up. I thought this was our normal breakup-then-makeup mode. I did not realise that this was the proverbial straw that broke our marriage’s back.

Breaking peculiar patterns My life has a kind of peculiar pattern.

When I think I am doing well and excelling, things crumble right in front of my face. When I met Richard 10 years ago, I vowed that I would do whatever it took to keep my family in one piece. Let’s just say that I have been to hell and back over this commitment. I now think it’s time I surrender.

I had been picked and dropped many times before I met Richard. In my last relationship before I met him, I decided that I needed to take charge of my life and move out of some norms. Norms like I must live with a man who foots all the bills and who owns me; or owns me together with household items, such that when he gets tired of me, he’ll simply kick me out of the house, just as you’d throw away a used broom that you don’t require anymore.

I broke this norm by moving out with my son Peter and starting anew. I told myself that the next time a relationship would reach a pick-and-drop point, it’s the man who would go out of my life; not the other way round. True to that, Richard walked out of my life.

Desperate housewife I will spare you the sorry details. For one, Richard is the father of my four beautiful boys, and it’s not right to

besmirch him. He has his flaws. I have mine.

Speaking of which, I might have contributed to this outcome. I might have overdone or spoiled things while thinking that what I was doing was cementing this relationship, while, actually, the crack was widening. As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

I might have swallowed too much that could have been misinterpreted as weakness. I don’t deny it: maybe I’m weak. At one point, I was so desperate to keep the relationship going that, knowingly or not, I took roles of both father and mother, if only to make things work. It didn’t work though, things went from bad to worse.

Mustering courage to open a new chapter If there’s one thing I don’t want, it’s a pity party. I have done enough of consoling myself. I can walk with my head high, without dreading the D-word: divorcee.

For two months now, I have not checked my cell phone to see if Richard has sent a text message asking for reconciliation. Even the fighter in me has given up on this. I am happy this way, for now. I have been doing a lot to prevent this eventuality, but since it is finally here, I have no choice but live with it.

I now must muster courage to open a new chapter. I know that at times I’ll steal glances at the last chapter, at the 10 years, and have my “coulda”, “woulda”, “shoulda” moments. But I must focus ahead, because that is where my future lies.

Living Positively

This is the diary of Asunta Wagura, a mother of five who tested positive 28 years ago. She is the executive director of the Kenya Network of Women with Aids (KENWA): asuntawagura@hotmail.com

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Wednesday April 8, 2015 DAILY NATION

NOTHING GIVES ME GREATER JOY THAN SEEING PUDD’NG HAPPY

Finally, my girl Scout has a uniform I

BY JOSAYA WASONGA jowasonga@yahoo.com

YOU’RE THE BEST DADDY IN THE WORLD,” IS PRECISELY HOW I’LL WANT BABY GIRL TO EULOGISE ME WHEN I DIE.” JOSAYA

already know how much it will cost me, but three weeks to the Scouts’ do, Pudd’ng informs me nonetheless…

“Dah-dee? The full Scout’s uniform is 2,530 shillings.”

When Pudd’ng first told us she had joined the Girl Scouts’, Tenderoni was concerned that her performance in school would suffer. Our daughter is in several clubs, which means we have to watch and veto, lest she spreads herself too thin.

Marching girl

“On Wednesdays please pick me up a bit late because of Scouts’ practice,” Pudd’ng told Tenderoni.

At the mention of “Scouts’ practice”, I expected this Girl Scout to know tons of survival stuff. When I asked her what they did, she told me that practice mostly entails marching.

And then some. And even more marching during the days when they raise the national flag.

If that rocks her boat, who am I to say, “Boot camp”.

Make it happen

“During weekdays, if you have a Scout’s uniform, you can wear it school instead of the school uniform,” Pudd’ng keeps reminding me.

This isn’t an empty statement.

It’s loaded with intent. She’s telling me to read between the lines, and then make it happen.

Days to the trip, the Scouts’ teacher in Pudd’ng’s school asks pupils who want uniforms to bring the money. “The teacher

will go to the Scouts’ shop to buy the uniforms,” Pudd’ng explains. One thing I like about baby girl is, she doesn’t impose her wish, however badly she wants something. She just makes intentional statements.

She knows dad’s not illiterate.

He can read.

“One of my classmates brought money for Scout uniform,” she tells me the day before their teacher goes to the Scouts’ Shop.

When her classmate gets her uniform, Pudd’ng “briefs” me.

“How do you feel about that?”

I ask her.

“I’m happy for her.”

“You don’t feel envious?”

“I don’t,” she replies, straightfaced.

Learning curve

While in school, the only thing I knew about Scouts’ was that they marched, wore special uniforms, raised flags and had some motto. To test Pudd’ng’s Scouting knowledge, I ask her to tell me their motto.

“What’s a motto?” she shoots back.

“That thing you Scouts’ say, you know, to guide you.”

“It’s called the Sungura Scout

SAFETY TIP Thoughtful: One thing I like about baby girl is that she doesn’t impose her wish, however badly she wants something. She just makes intentional statements.

promise.”

Me? I thought a Scout was a Scout. It’s Pudd’ng who put me in the know.

They’re divided into age brackets. Hers is Sungura. Falling between six and 11 years.

“I promise to do my best; to do my duty to God and my Country; To obey the Sungura Scout Law, and; To help somebody every day,” the Sungura Scout recites the promise, standing erect, and saluting.

Yup. I learn something. Scouting isn’t just about marching and mottos.

It’s a life skills boot camp.

Rowallan Camp by any other name …

Week to D-Day. Pudd’ng tells me excitedly, “Dah-dee? Next Saturday we’re going to Roller Land for the Scouts’ trip.”

“And what are you going to do in Roller Land?” I ask. I know the answer.

I’ve asked uncle Google. But I want to gauge Pudd’ng’s k n ow l e d ge.

Pudd’ng’s a sucker for school trips.

From her answer, I gather that this is just another trip.

“It’s not Roller Land,” I correct her, keeping a

straight face; Rowallan.”

“It’s

Scout’s surprise

Saturday morning. Trip day.

“Today I want you to wear black leather shoes with your tracksuit for the Scouts’ trip,” I tell Pudd’ng, as she does breakfast. “You’ll dress up after breakfast.”

“Dah-dee? Are you serious?” she stares at me incredulously.

“Serious as a Sungura raising the flag,” I don’t bat an eyelid.

“You’ll be so smart everyone will be looking at you enviously.”

“Leather shoes and tracks?

Tell me you’re joking.”

We argue for some time, before she finally agrees. But only after I ask her if she trusts me.

“Okay, I trust you,” she says, as I tell her that the leathers and tracks – a fashion faux pa – are in her bedroom.

Minutes later, when she opens her bedroom door, she screams and leaps on me. On the foot of her bed are the shining leathers, and spread on her bed is the full brand new Girl Scout garb.

Man, the sacrifices fathers make in this town. Only heaven knows.

And only heaven’s got the rewards.

“You’re the best daddy in the world,” Pudd’ng gushes.

“You’re the best …” – present tense – is precisely how I’ll want baby girl to eulogise me when I’m past tense.

HEALTH» DR REBECCA MUTHONI

This is how cold medication works MOST COLDS GET BETTER within a few days, without any need for medication, since the immune system fights off the infection.

All most need is enough rest, lots of fluids, or sucking on a throat lozenge to feel better. At times though, you might need some medication to help relieve your symptoms.

Though cold medications do not cure the cold, they can help ease symptoms such as stuffy nose, sneezing and headache. That said, it is important to know the ingredients in the drug and how they work, to match your symptoms and ensure that you take the correct dosage to avoid overdose. Here is how some cold medicine works:

Antihistamines

When you have a cold, the body releases some chemicals known as

histamines to protect against the infection. The release of histamines causes symptoms like a runny nose, watering eyes, and sneezing. Taking an antihistamine helps block the process through which histamines are produced, thereby relieving these symptoms.

Antihistamines come in form of nasal sprays, oral capsules or tablets, or topical creams or gels. Though antihistamines are available over the counter, they might not be safe for everyone, especially people who might have certain medical conditions.

It is important to take antihistamines as recommended, since overdose can cause sedating effects.

Some common side effects associated with the use of antihistamines include drowsiness, dry mouth, and blurred sight.

Nasal decongestants

Nasal decongestants are ideal for a stuffy or blocked nose. They reduce swelling in the nasal passageways, making breathing easier. As a way of responding to a cold virus, the tissues inside the nose swell and produce more mucus. This causes congestion, which can make it difficult to breathe through the nose Decongestants can be taken orally.

They are also available in form of nasal drops, put inside the nose. Avoid using nasal decongestants for too long, since they end up making the nasal congestion worse. In addition, if you have any medical condition such as high blood pressure, it is good to consult a doctor before using a decongestant.

Cough expectorants

These help ease the congestion

in the chest in case of a productive cough. A productive cough helps to get rid of mucus and secretion from the airways. An expectorant works by thinning the mucus (phlegm) trapped in the airways, therefore when one coughs, it becomes easier to remove more phlegm. Getting rid of phlegm from the airways helps to ease coughing.

Cough suppressant

If you have a dry cough with no production of mucus, taking an expectorant will not work. A dry cough is due to inflammation in the upper airways, which the brain deems as an unwanted object.

The brain therefore reacts by coughing, in an attempt to get rid of the inflammation. Taking taking a cough suppressant will suppress the cough reflex.

Pain relievers

Having a cold can bring cause aches and fever. These symptoms can cause lots of discomfort and make rest a problem. You might therefore need to take paracetamol or ibuprofen to ease the aches and bring the fever down.

Bear in mind that cold medication is only for relieving the symptoms caused by the cold, not curing it. Cold medicines are not recommended for children below four years, therefore, instead of self-medicating, consult a doctor.

Do you have a question about your health? Please send it to living@askadoc.co.ke

DAILY NATION Wednesday April 8, 2015

relationships

Living 7

SHADRACK N. KIRUNGA

Negotiate your way to a fulfilling relationship If your partner opposes a move you think is important to you, use that opportunity to clarify that it really is what you want, and that you are not merely going with the crowd

M

ight you be guilty of standing in your partner’s path of achieving what you have already accomplished, or of doing what you yourself are doing?

Let me begin by considering some of the areas in which such a scenario might play out. The first one is academic achievement, where an individual who is well educated opposes his partner’s intention to go back to school. I have heard of men, who after failing to convince their wives to delay enrolling for studies, have pressured them to get pregnant, just to slow their

progress.

Another key area is business, where one attempts to stop a partner from engaging in it, even though he/ she is in business. Such people give a variety of reasons, some of which might be valid, but in some cases, there is simply no viable explanation for the objections raised.

I have also heard of men who force their wives to resign from their jobs and become housewives, reasoning that since they can provide for them, then both of them need to work.

Yet another area of concern is entertainment, a really big deal in modern relationships. For instance, I often get this question from young men: “Is it advisable to marry a woman who takes alcohol?” Notice the emphasis is on a woman to marry, not just a casual date. It seems that these young men expect the woman they plan to marry to be different the one they date.

What are some of the possible reasons for such behaviour?

Honest concern: I would like to think that the six world powers meeting at Lausanne, Switzerland, as I write this, to discuss Iran’s nuclear programme, are honestly concerned

that this programme is not a good idea for the region and for the world.

Likewise, in relationships, one might be concerned that their partner might get trapped in something which he/or she is already struggling with, such as an addiction.

Inferiority complex: This is a major issue in some relationships, where one partner feels that the achievement of the other is a threat to him/her, leading to unending ‘cold war’ in the relationship.

Mistrust: Like the world powers, someone might argue that his/her partner cannot be trusted with certain things, such as money, certain forms of entertainment, or even some friendships. Such views are usually due to stereotypes that exist in society, such as “Women are too extravagant” or “Men cannot be trusted with any woman other than their mother or sister.” When in the context of a relationship, it communicates that one cannot be trusted with some responsibilities, which their partner believes he or she is more capable of.

What can you do if your partner stands in your way?

Clarify personal goals: If your partner opposes a move you think is important to you, use that opportunity to clarify that it really is what you want, and that you are not merely going with the crowd.

Clarify motives: Do you know why you want to do something? Could your partner be right about you trying to compete with him/her?

Can you actually handle it? Those are hard questions that you cannot ignore because for a fact, many people have hurt themselves and their partners by doing so.

Negotiate: The world powers are in Lausanne to negotiate with Iran, and this I believe is the way to go in a relationship that is faced with such challenges.

It is a matter of interests, interests that you want to pursue, interests of the partner who is opposing you, and interests of the relationship.

The best way to go about dealing with these challenges is to negotiate a way out, rather than insist on having your way.

Do you have a relationship question?

Email the writer on skirunga@yahoo

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DAILY NATION Wednesday April 8, 2015

all about food

LEMONS

NUTRITION » SONA PARMAR MUKHERJEE

DREADING TO PEEL GARLIC? MICROWAVING MAKES THE JOB EASIER>> LILIAN BWIRE

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You must try these delicious toaster cakes!

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KITCHEN TIP

becomes too thick, lighten it with some milk.

f you don’t have an oven, but you feel like having a home-made cake, you can still enjoy one if you have a toaster.

Ingredients

1 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup liquid oil (margarine would work too) 1/2 cup sugar 2 eggs 1tsp baking powder Essence/flavour of your choice

Method:

Mix the flour and baking powder (or use Self-raising flour or cake mix) In a separate bowl, beat the sugar and oil/margarine until fluffy Beat the eggs and pour into the sugar and oil/ margarine mixture as you continue to whisk Add flavour Pour in the flour a little at a time and mix with the other ingredients until smooth Your final mixture should be slightly thicker than pancake mix. If the mixture

How to bake

Brush the inside of a sandwich maker with liquid oil (up and downside) Pre-heat the sandwich maker for three minutes.

Pour the mixture in the slots in small quantities (preferably using a tablespoon.) One or two tablespoons are enough Cook for five minutes.

When ready, re-oil the sandwich toaster and repeat the process until you use up the mixture Your toast cakes should be golden-brown.

Home-made chicken chunks Ingredients

Marinade for the chicken pieces (Will marinate six pieces of chicken) A pinch of chili powder Half teaspoon black pepper powder Half glass lemon juice Salt to flavour

Coating ingredients:

Chicken with skin, cut into

pieces (you can use boneless chicken) 1 cup all-purpose flour 2 eggs 3 tbsp milk 1 table spoon garlic powder Half tsp black pepper Oil for frying 1 tsp paprika 2 tablespoon bread crumbs Salt to taste 2- 3 table spoons crushed oats (any type of oats will do)

Preparation:

In a bowl, mix all the marinating ingredients Marinate the chicken in the ingredients for two hours. You can also prep over night for deeper flavour. Set aside the marinated chicken and prepare the coating ingredients as follows: In a bowl, whisk the eggs and milk until the texture is smooth In another bowl, mix the rest of the ingredients (allpurpose flour, garlic powder, paprika, black pepper, bread crumbs, oats (crushed) and salt.

If you dread cooking with garlic because of the tedious peeling process that leaves your hands smelly, there is an effortless way to do it. Break the bulb into individual beans, put them in a microwavable container and heat for thirty seconds.

The peels will fall off with a slight press of the bean.

To get rid of garlic smell from your containers and chopping boards, simply clean with white vinegar or a dash of lemon juice.

Cooking:

Take a piece of chicken and dust it in the flour. Shake off excess flour Dip the chicken in the egg and milk mix, coating evenly Dust the chicken again to the flour mix coat and shake off excess flour Repeat the process above with all the other pieces to ensure double coating In a heavy non-stick pan, heat oil and fry your chicken on medium-low heat If using drum sticks, reduce heat to ensure that they are cooked through Drain excess oil and serve with accompaniment of choice.

Its tangy flavour can transform any mediocre dish into an award-winning meal. Try it

Could too much milk increase risk of breast cancer?

ONE of my patients has breast cancer. I first saw Mary about two months ago, and recommended a barrage of supplements, changed her diet and suggested a number of other self-care activities.

One dietary change I asked Mary to make was to cut out dairy produce.

Dairy contains protein hormones called Insulin-like Growth Factors or IGFs, and could cause tumours to grow bigger. I had found out about these IGFs in a study conducted by researchers at Harvard, and the evidence suggested that too many IGFs could increase your risk of breast cancer three to fourfold.

We have all been brought up with the idea that milk is good for us, (I remember my own parents making sure my brother and I both had a pint of milk daily), but now science is telling us that the growth factors and hormones protein contains are not just risky if you have breast cancer, but also other hormone-related cancers, such as prostate and ovarian cancer.

As I have said time and again, milk is the perfect food to feed an infant, but only if the supplying mother and the baby are of the same species. Simply put, cow’s milk is good for calves.

So what happens if you happen to be prone to cancer and you take dairy produce? Well, scientists now believe that cancercausing genes might not become active unless particular conditions trigger them - eating dairy can have an impact at the genetic level.

Cancer cells are pretty sensitive, especially to chemical messenger proteins called growth factors and, in hormonal cancers, to oestrogen. While growth factors are produced by our own bodies and per-

form vital tasks (for example, they make cells grow), there are other substances called binding proteins that normally control them (and their potential impact on cancer cells). The risk of cancer increases when we have abnormally high levels of ‘unbound’ growth factors (or hormones) circulating in our blood.

The main protein in cow’s milk is called casein, and according to one wellrespected nutritional scientist from Cornell University, Professor Colin Campbell, it should be regarded like oestrogen - as a potent carcinogen (cancer-causing chemical).

Furthermore, according to Professor Plant, five-time cancer survivor and author of the Beat Cancer Diet, cow’s milk has been shown to contain 35 different hormones and 11 growth factors. It is the circulating levels of one such growth factor in milk, called IGF-1, that is now strongly linked to the development of many cancers. It is also interesting that research shows that ‘unbound’ IGF levels are lower in vegans than in both meat-eaters and other vegetarians.

So where are you supposed to get your calcium from if your ditch the dairy? Plant sources appear to be best. There is plenty of easily absorbed calcium in dark leafy greens, such as sukuma, as well as broccoli, dried beans, figs and almonds.

The writer is a clinical nutritionist certified by the Nutritional Therapy Council in the UK. Send questions about family nutrition to her on living@ nutritionbysona.com