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just pack and go home, transition authority told former council of governors chairman Isaac ruto says the agency has deliberately delayed transfer of functions to counties so as to get an extension of its term

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eputy President William Ruto and his coaccused at the International Criminal Court Joshua Sang have been pushed into a new dilemma after judge Chile Eboe-Osuji gave them a double-edged option to decide whether they will submit evidence in their no-case-to-answer motion.

The judge asked the two to confirm whether they would not submit evidence should the motion be dismissed in

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what now puts the accused between a rock and a hard place.

The defence in their submission seeking to terminate the case at the prosecutor’s level had argued that the standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt should be applied.

This is a standard of proof applied at the conclusion of a trial when the defense has already submitted its evidence.

“In light of the written submissions of the defence urging the chamber to assess the evidence at this level of the standard of proof beyond the reasonable doubt, the inquiry is whether the defence are then prepared to elect or stand upon their submissions and call no further evidence in the case notwithstanding that the chamber may not sustain their no case submissions.

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ICC presiding judge Chile Eboe-Osuji (right) and William Ruto who stands accused at the court. Mr Ruto is faced with a new dilemma after the judge told him to carefully weigh the implications of calling witnesses in his case as that decision will impact significantly on his fate.

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That is the reason to ensure that the particular standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt will be the standard that must guide the assessment at this particular stage,” Presiding Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji explained.

Legal experts interpreted Judge Osuji’s direction to mean that the defence teams were being asked to confirm whether in case of a rejection of their motion they will not call their defence with evidence but would instead rely on evidence already on record to establish that the prosecution had failed to prove the guilt of the accused persons.

Senior Trial Attorney Anton Steynberg on behalf of the prosecution on the other hand argued that the standard of proof applicable at the stage was not proof beyond reasonable doubt – but a lower standard of proof.

“All that the chamber is required to determine is whether there is evidence taken at its highest on which a reasonable court could convict not to enquire as to the strength of the evidence presented and not to embark upon issues of credibility and reliability,” he submitted.

Osuji gave the defence teams until Friday within which to clarify the end result of considering the standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt at the application seeking to

FROM RIGHT: Deputy President William Ruto, Igembe South MP Mithika Linturi, Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen and Energy CS Charles Keter at the International Criminal Court in The Hague yesterday.

terminate the case at the prosecutor’s level.

“If the defence have not thought about this they may take their time and think about it and give us their answers when it is their time to make their oral submissions or before close of proceedings on Friday.”

The prosecution was also allowed

to file a supplementary brief on the standard of proof to be applied in the motion of no-case-to-answer.

The two parties were asked to explain ‘whether there is a case to answer on the basis of evidence as it stands and a judgment as to whether the evidence as it stands satisfies the requirement of proof beyond

reasonable doubt’.

Osuji warned on the dangers of demanding for the standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt at the level of no-case-to-answer motion explaining that it is usually considered at the conclusion of a trial of a criminal case.

“That being the case the experienced

defence counsel with the right argument may see little forensic advantage for their case in calling extensive or any evidence at all if indeed they have made a wellfounded submission of no caseto-answer since any evidence they call maybe used against them,” he explained.

“Such a move does not result in an inference of witness. It amounts to the popular expression that goes – putting the prosecution to the status proof of their case. But this is something to be considered with the greatest care for such a move can be just as hazardous to the defence if they fail to call evidence when the circumstances of the case, when correctly appreciated really recommend that the defence should really call evidence.”

The prosecution on Tuesday presented the court with evidence convincing judges not to terminate the case against Ruto and Sang at the prosecutor’s level.

The court heard that Ruto was the leader of a network organised to carry out attacks in the Rift Valley during the 2008 Post Election Violence in Kenya.

Steynberg further told the court that six preparatory meetings took place with three of them held at Ruto’s home in Sugoi.

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Hope for patients as India seeks to build hospital in Nairobi Nairobi Governor Dr Evans Kidero with Suchitra Durai, India High Commissioner to Kenya and the Permanent Representative of India to UNEP & UNHabitat in Nairobi when she paid him a courtesy call at City Hall today.

Ms Suchitra announced that leading diagnostic centre, Medanta Africa plans to build a hospital in Nairobi, a proposal Dr Kidero welcomed, saying: “Every Kenyan has a right to healthcare services; this is most critical in the capital which has a high incidence of diseases due to high population density and other environmental factors that predispose people to infections. We welcome the continued building of centres of excellence which will reduce high cost of treatment and travel

by Kenyans, as this will ensure specialized treatment is readily available without traveling outside the country.”

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Craft joint pact on curriculum, Matiangi tells TSC, Education officers Education Cabinet Secretary Dr. Fred Matiang’i has directed ministry and Teachers Service Commission (TSC) officials to join hands in supervising the implementation of educational policies in public and private schools.

Matiang’i said the officials should work together to enhance management of curriculum so that they avoid confusing the people on their respective mandates. Speaking after a consultative meeting with Education Standards and Quality Assurance Council (ESQAC) officials at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD), Matiang’i said effective management and execution of the educational policies and programmes at school level suffers because both the ministry and TSC officials work in isolation.

“Integration and collaboration of ministry and TSC officials at the school level will ensure effective supervision of Curriculum Implementation and administration of policies and guidelines set for basic education,” said Matiang’i. He said successful education was founded on policy, effective management and execution structure. @hillary_x254

Pack and go home, Governor Ruto tells Transition Authority The Transition Authority has deliberately delayed the devolution of functions to the County governments so as to get an extension of their term, Bomet Governor Issac Ruto (pictured) has claimed.

Ruto, who served as the Council of Governors chairman for the first two years of devolution, said there is no reason why the term of the Authority should be extended and that it just needs to ‘pack and go home’ when its tenure ends in March this year.

“We will demand nothing but full devolution of functions by March this year, that is the Constitution extended even for a day,” Ruto and it must be followed by said. Last week, Devolution Secretary Mwangi everyone,” Ruto said on Citizen Cabinet Kiunjuri announced a proposal TV today morning.

He said time is up for the to extend the term of TA by a year authority and the best they can to enable it clear its workload.

“It is clear that the Constitution do is to ‘pack and go home’. did not envisage the heavy “The Transitional Authority has workload the authority had to performed poorly for the last three years, it is for this reason contend with,” Kiunjuri said. that their term should not be Although he said he would consult with stakeholders,

Shock as woman kills boyfriend in tussle over TV remote control Police are holding a woman who allegedly stabbed her boyfriend to death in a quarrel over a television remote control in Nairobi’s Huruma Estate.

Nairobi Police Chief Japheth Koome told Capital FM News that the man bled to death after the attack in their house on Tuesday evening.

He said the two argued over the remote before it degenerated into a fight.

“The couple were watching TV together when they started bickering on who should have the remote control. Things got out of hand and the woman ended up stabbing her boyfriend,” he said.

He said the man died minutes later on arrival at a local hospital.

“The man died soon after being taken to hospital,” he said.

Indeed, the woman is now in our custody and she is due to be charged with murder,” said Koome.

The incident follows a similar one in Nyayo Estate in Embakasi where a man allegedly killed his girlfriend and left the decomposing body in his house. The woman’s body was found in the house after four days.

Meanwhile, three suspected thugs were last night killed in separate

robbery incidents in Nairobi.

Koome said the gangs were separately attacking and trying to rob pedestrians and business premises when they were killed.

Two of them were shot dead by police while the third was lynched by a mob.

The first incident happened in Majengo slums where police shot dead a suspected thug and recovered a Berreta pistol.

Police indicated that another suspect was killed in Pipeline area and a pistol found on him.

In Zimmerman, a man was lynched in a botched robbery.

In yet another incident Tuesday, a man was shot dead in a shop along Kirinyaga Road in the city in a robbery by a gunmen.

Police say a gang of three raided a glassware shop and ordered customers who were inside and management to lie down and surrender their valuables and cash.

In the process, one of the customers present is said to have argued with the gang prompting a shooting that left him with a gun wound in the head and chest. The gang escaped after grabbing unknown amount of cash and valuables.

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governors have strongly opposed the move and called for the full transfer of functions upon the expiry of the authority’s term in two months-time. “All functions that rightly fall on the county governments must be handed over together with the funds allocated to them,” Council of Governors chairman Peter Munya said last week warning that failure to do so would lead to

a legal battle. Ruto today linked the plan to extend the term of TA to reluctance of the government to fully implement devolution.

“Isn’t this a clear demonstration by the government (National) that it has failed to support devolution within the required time?”, adding that instead of helping counties get better, the Transition Authority has continued to impoverish counties.

According to the Constitution, the term of the Transition Authority ends in March this year upon which they should have ensured that all functions are devolved.

Yesterday, TA chairman Kinuthia Wamwangi said they will transfer all functions to counties by March if they are not granted an extension. There are fears that counties still lack the capacity to carry out all the functions that were to be devolved and a speedy transfer is likely to affect their operations. @sam_x254

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At least 14 killed in blast near Pakistan polio centre At least 14 people have been killed in a blast outside a polio vaccination centre in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta, officials say. Many of the casualties are thought to have been police guarding the clinic.

Armed guards are routine for polio workers in Pakistan, who have been the target of many deadly attacks by Islamist militants in recent years.

Militants oppose polio vaccination, saying it is a Western conspiracy to sterilise Pakistani children. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries where the disease is still endemic. The explosion took place in the morning around the time workers report for duty before heading out on their vaccination rounds, Sarfaraz Bugti, a minister for Balochistan province where the attack took place, told reporters. Correspondents say the number of attacks on polio teams in Pakistan declined last year, compared with 2014 which saw several deadly assaults.

Tributes to legendary Somali composer Tributes are being paid to legendary Somali composer, playwright, actor and poet Ali Sugule Egal, who has died at the age of 80. Mr Egal, who founded the Hargeisa Brothers music band, died at his home in the United Arab Emirates on Monday. He was born in the self-declared republic of Somaliland, whose president tweeted his condolences to the family and the people of Somaliland. A state funeral will be held for him on Thursday in the capital, Hargeisa. Fellow artists have been paying tribute to him on local radio stations across the country.

Ghana defends Guantanamo prisoners Ghana’s president has strongly defended the government’s decision to allow two Yemenis freed from Guantanamo Bay to live in the West African state. Opposition and church groups had condemned the decision, saying the men were a security threat. However, Mr Mahama said a Ghanaian was more likely to die in a road accident than at the hands of the Yemenis. The men said they looked forward to living in Ghana, and had followed the national football team in prison. Khalid al-Dhuby and Mahmoud Omar Bin Atef were held at the US prison in Cuba for more than a decade without being charged.

They are the first Guantanamo detainees that Ghana has accepted, at the request of the US.

Obama sells optimism to a nervous nation in final SOTU

Putting aside a sudden crisis with Iran, President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Americans in his final State of the Union address to reject the politics of tribalism and fear that have rocked the campaign to find his successor and to build a “clear-eyed, bighearted” and “optimistic” nation.

Delivering his annual report to the nation, Obama did not name Republican 2016 candidates. But he took clear, implied shots at them nevertheless, particularly front-runner Donald Trump, as well as Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. America’s destiny, the President said, was imperiled by a political system festering in malice, gridlock and in the grip of the rich and the powerful.

Obama also took on critics who accuse him of weakening American power abroad and Republicans who say he is underplaying the threat from radical Islamist groups such as ISIS. He mocked the contention that fighters on “on the back of pickup trucks and twisted souls plotting in apartments or garages” represented an existential threat to America.

The President acknowledged that a torrent of change, technological advances and economic dislocation has left many Americans fearful of the future and anxious as social structures that have underpinned the life of the nation for decades fray. But he urged them not to fall prey to the periodic temptation that

OPTIMISTIC: President Barack Obama addresses the nation during his State Of The Union speech last night in Washington. He called on Americans to be big hearted and optimistic.

has emerged throughout history to alienate minorities and resist social change. “Each time, there have been those who told us to fear the future; who claimed we could slam the brakes on change, promising to restore past glory if we just got some group or idea that was threatening America under control,” Obama said. “And each time, we overcame those fears.” “We made change work for us, always extending America’s promise outward, to the next

frontier, to more and more people.

And because we did -- because we saw opportunity where others saw only peril -- we emerged stronger and better than before.”

Economic opportunity, security and a sustainable, peaceful planet are possible, he said, if the country could return to “rational, constructive debates.”

“It will only happen if we fix our politics,” he said. In a way, Obama’s seventh and last State of the Union address was a microcosm of his

entire presidency: He invoked a chorus of hope and optimism about America’s destiny and the transformative nature of change but was undercut by the poisoned political divides he has been unable to narrow -- and that have even grown during his presidency.

Then he encountered fierce opposition from Republicans who believe he has transformed the nation by eroding its exceptional qualities and thwarting the Constitution.

Half of South Sudan children ‘not in school’ due to conflict More than half of children in South Sudan are not in school, the highest proportion in any country, UN children’s agency Unicef has said. Government

forces have been battling rebels for the past two years, although a peace deal was signed in August.

Niger is a close second, with 47% unable to attend school, followed

by Sudan (41%) and Afghanistan 40 per cent. Worldwide, some 24 million children of more than 109 million living in nations at war are not in school, Unicef said.

A South Sudanese child lies on the mudguard of a vehicle that had brought relief food to locals. Unicef says upto 51 pe rcent of children in the country are out of school as a result of the war.

Even before the conflict began, 1.4 million children were already missing class in South Sudan, Unicef said. Since the war broke out, more than 800 schools have been demolished and more than 400,000 children had to abandon their classrooms, the agency said.

Despite the peace agreement, violence persists in some areas.

Only one in 10 South Sudanese students who enter school finish primary education amid a shortage of facilities and trained teachers, said Phuong T Nguyen, Unicef ’s chief of education for South Sudan. “There is a very, very low budget from the government to the education sector,” she said. “It is not holding steady and we see a decline.”

Enrolment went up from under 30% after South Sudan became independent in 2011, but the war and a lack of school buildings and qualified teachers have slowed the growth, according to a South Sudanese official, the AP news agency reports.

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Morning newspaper summaries Kenya is a bandit Man wanted for 12 Why ICC judges warned CA targets mobile economy – CJ: Outgoing Chief killings seized in cell: Ruto, Sang on witnesses: phone fraudsters Justice Willy Mutunga has said Kenya One of Kenya’s most wanted fugitives The double-edged nature of the ‘no case to with cap on SIM card is run by mafia-style cartels of political suspected of brutal multiple murders answer’ motion dawned yesterday at the ownership: Ownership of chiefs and corrupt business people. Eighty slipped through police fingers for two International Criminal Court after the per cent of political leaders are not fit to hold office and corruption has never been worse in the “bandit economy,” he said.

In an interview with Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad published yesterday, Mutunga said Kenya harbours mafiastyle criminals like Al Capone’s mob in 1920s America. They “collect millions every day,” he said.

years before he was finally arrested in Makueni. And even then, the authorities did not know they had a dangerous man in their custody until inmates alerted them. Mr John Kilonzo Musyoka, also known as Karunyu, had been on the run since July 4, 2013, when he was suspected of leading a six-man gang that killed 12 people in Mwingi.

presiding judge cautioned Ruto’s lawyers on their approach. At the beginning of a status conference, Presiding Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji told William Ruto and his coaccused Joshua Sang to weigh carefully the implications of calling witnesses in the case, as it could be the thread on which their fate will hang.

mobile phone Sim cards will soon be restricted to not more than 10. The Communication Authority of Kenya (CA0 yesterday said it was working on fresh rules that will limit individual subscribers to owning a maximum of 10 active Sim cards as part of the drive to carb mobile phone crimes.

Court did not convict Kenya looter Somaia Raila party picks Uhuru waives visa fees Wetang’ula – Lawyers: fined Sh5.6 billion by team to tackle Jubilee for children to spur Cord leader Raila Odinga yesterday warned UK court: A Moi-era big time ‘propaganda’: ODM yesterday tourism: President Uhuru that the opposition will not accept anything short of a clearance of Moses Wetang’ula from Supreme Court findings of voter bribery. Raila addressed Cord supporters outside the Milimani courts, Nairobi, as Wetang’ula appeared before an electoral inquiry that will decide his political career for the next five years. He faces the prospect of his name being struck off the voters’ register over election offences.

looter and businessman Ketan Somaia has been fined Sh5.6 billion by a UK court or be jailed for an additional 16 years.

Somaia, who is already serving an eightyear sentence at the Belmarsh Prison for fraud, has six months to pay the two businessmen he defrauded of billions of shillings, Mr Murli Mirchandani and Mr Dilip Shah, the court ruled.

formed a 10-15 member committee dubbed the ‘war council’ to take on Jubilee on matters of national interest.

This was revealed following a three-hour meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee attended by party leader Raila Odinga at Orange House. Sources said the ‘war council’ will be mandated to put the Jubilee administration to task over issues affecting the country.

Kenyatta on Tuesday announced plans to waive visa fees for children under the age of 16 in yet another move aimed at wooing foreign visitors into the country.

Kenya currently charges Sh10,200 ($100) for a multiple entry visa and Sh5,100 for single entry tourist visa. The fees apply to all visitors, including children under 16.

has announced major incentives to revitalise the tourism industry at the Coast. The President, who was flanked

by First Lady Margaret Kenyatta and Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala, said the Government had set aside Sh1.2 billion incentives for charter planes to stimulate demand at the Coast by that category of tourists.

UK telecommunications company Vodafone, which holds a 40 per cent stake in Safaricom, has launched M-Pesa services in Ghana —completing the spread of mobile money in all African countries where the British firm has a presence. Vodafone has in recent years launched the mobile money service in Tanzania, South Africa, Lesotho, DRC, Egypt and Mozambique.

IEBC says it needs Sh30 Teachers reject job Uhuru announces Vodafone launches billion for next year’s appraisal : Teachers will not strategy to boost M-Pesa Ghana in take part in an exercise to evaluate election: The Independent Electoral their performance as proposed by their tourism: President Uhuru Kenyatta Africa expansion bid:

and Boundaries Commission yesterday said it will cost the taxpayer Sh30 billion to conduct the 2017 general election. The commission made the disclosure as it rubbished calls by the opposition for the suspension of the month-long mass voter registration exercise that is set to start on February 15. At a press conference in Naivasha, the IEBC said it had prepared its budget for the next 30 months.

employer, their union said yesterday. The performance appraisal was against the Constitution and the Teachers Service Commission Act, Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary General Wilson Sossion said yesterday. “What is being introduced fundamentally alters the negotiated and agreed terms and conditions of service under which the teachers were first employed,” he said.

Top stories from X News global partners Cologne will make A Call to ‘Fix Our Starving Madaya Iran authorities pick migration trickier still: Politics’ in Obama’s celebrates as food up US Navy crews: The The mass sexual assault on New Year’s of two US Navy vessels were State of the Union: President convoy finally arrives: crews Eve could mark a turning point in the picked up by the Iranian authorities refugee crisis. More than 500 women have now reported being molested or robbed in Cologne that night. Germany’s justice minister says that crimes on such a scale were probably organised. Of the suspects, almost all are of north African or Arab background; most are refugees.

Furthermore, a man shot dead attempting to attack a police station in Paris turned out to be a refugee registered in Germany.

Angela Merkel, the chancellor, and her governing coalition are now talking about cracking down on lawbreaking refugees and deporting them (harder than it sounds). www.theguardian.com

Obama on Tuesday tried to reconcile an optimistic assessment of the nation’s progress with the anxieties he conceded have gripped Americans during his tenure, using his final State of the Union address to try to burnish his record and frame the campaign to succeed him. In a prime-time televised speech that was more a broad statement of vision than a policy prescription, Mr. Obama sought to present an ambitious portrait of the nation after seven years of his leadership, with a resurgent economy and better standing in the world despite continuing challenges of inequality at home and terrorism abroad. www.nytimes.com

Madaya was quiet on Tuesday. Its streets were empty of people or animals, just as they had been for many months. But for the first time since a brutal siege of the town began in July, residents were happy to be inside, where many ate their first full meals since the autumn. “I wanted you to hear my voice. It’s different mostly because our spirits are high now,” said Ebreham Abbas, one of many Madaya residents to have received food in a much-needed aid delivery on Monday.

“They finished unloading the trucks in our area at around 3.30am. Each family got sugar, rice, hummus, green beans, six cans of beans and salt.” www.economist.com

in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, setting up a new source of friction between Washington and Tehran just days before last year’s landmark nuclear agreement is due to be implemented. US officials said they expected the sailors to be released soon but were scrambling for more information about the incident which was revealed just hours before President Barack Obama’s last State of the Union address. The incident comes as the administration was already facing pressure from Congress to impose new sanctions on Iran over two ballistic missile tests conducted last year.

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KQ gets buyer of aircrafts as Fastjet disrupts market Kenya Airways Ltd, the country’s flagship carrier, has entered into sale agreement with Omni Air International for two of its Boeing 777-200 ER aircraft.

The announcement comes just as the flyer’s monopoly is facing tough competition from Fastjet, a low-cost carrier that has shaken up the air transport industry.

Fastjet CEO Ed Winter says the company’s new Kenya service has ended the long-running monopoly held by KQ. The low-cost Africa-focused airline announced this week that planes are now flying from Dar es Salaam and Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to Nairobi.

Flights operate daily, with one-way fares starting from $80 (Sh8,190) and $50 (Sh5,120) respectively, plus tax.

“Today’s flights are an important milestone in Fastjet’s development and

mark a significant achievement for the company. We have been working towards the launch of these routes for some time and are excited to be bringing our proven low-cost model to a new destination,” said Winter.

After Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa, Kenya has become the seventh country market for Fastjet.

It has been speculated that services on both routes will face direct competition, with Kenya Airways already operating 35 weekly flights between the capital cities of both Kenya and Tanzania.

Fastjet General Manager for Est Africa Jimmy Kibati has said competition is good for consumers, arguing that it offers alternatives and brings air fares down.

Meanwhile, KQ says its two aircrafts will be leaving for Omni in the next two

months after the company completes their exit preparation.

The aircraft had been delivered to KQ when they were new in 2004 and 2007.

They operated on the carrier’s scheduled routes, especially on long haul journeys to destinations in Asia and Europe.

Kenya Airways had announced that it would be selling the plane in November 2014 as it sought to rationalise its fleet as part of the flyer’s turnaround strategy.

“I am pleased that we have reached this milestone,” KQ’s Managing Director and CEO said in a recent address.

“It has taken a while to find a good home for our B777-200ER. We are now satisfied with this sale and will make other important announcements on fleet rationalization later this month,” he added.

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Kenya Airways has entered into sale agreement with Omni Air International for two of its Boeing 777-200 ER aircraft to rationalise its fleet as part of the flyer’s turnaround strategy.

BP to sack 4,000 workers amid falling oil prices UK oil firm BP has said it will cut 4,000 jobs globally, 600 of which will be from its North Sea operations.

The announcement comes at a time when profits continue to suffer as a result of a 70 per cent collapse in oil prices leading to a big cutback in investment across the oil industry.

The North Sea job cuts are expected to take place over a two-year period.

Meanwhile, Brazil’s oil giant, Petrobras, announced a massive scale back of its investment plans thanks to the lower commodity price.

Petrobras will reduce investment by $32bn, 25 per cent, over the next four years, its third cut in six months, BBC reports.

The Brazilian giant said it was adapting to a new economic outlook.

Its problems have been aggravated

by a tumble of a third in the value of Brazil’s real, which makes servicing Petrobras’s mammoth dollar debts that much more expensive.

BP said all the job losses would occur in its oil exploration and drilling business.

“We want to simplify structure and reduce costs without compromising safety. Globally, we expect the headcount in upstream to be below 20,000 by the end of the year,” a company spokesman said.

The job losses amount to around 5 per cent of BP’s total global workforce of 80,000. BP currently employs around 3,000 people in the UK. The oil firm said it remained committed to the North Sea and would invest about $4bn there this year.

But in a statement, the oil firm said given the challenges of operating in the North Sea and in toughening market conditions it needed to take specific steps to ensure our business remains competitive and robust.

It added: “An inevitable outcome of this will be an impact on headcount and we expect a reduction of around 600 staff and agency contractor roles by the end of 2017, with the majority of these taking place this year.

BP staff and contractors working in Aberdeen, Sullom Voe in Shetland, and Grangemouth, are expected to be affected.

The company gave no breakdown of how many jobs are expected to go in each area of its North Seas operations.

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Binatone in pact with Jumia to bring range of products to local market British brand Binatone, a leading home appliances brand in Africa, has entered the Kenyan market with a wide range of products for the Kenyan consumer.

Venturing into the fastgrowing Kenyan home appliance market, Binatone has launched its range of products including kitchen appliances, garment care, personal care, home cleaning and a wide variety of its fans.

Although Binatone has sold and distributed its products in Africa for over 40 years, this is the first time that home appliances of this famous lifestyle brand will be sold in Kenya.

The partnership with Jumia, a leading online retailer, will distribute the brand across the country.

Speaking during the launch at a Nairobi Hotel, Sunil Lalvani, CEO Binatone said, “We have a significant presence in West and central African and we look at Kenya as a gateway to establishing ourselves in East Africa as well.”

Building on the collective strengths of quality design, performance and affordability, the company

hopes to tap into the country’s young and robust tech savvy generation.

According to the company, its target age group whose median age of 19 years is either joining the workforce or establishing an independent family life merging with the ballooning middle class that currently accounts for 45 per cent of the total population.

“We are excited to partner with Binatone in their debut in Kenya to provide consumers with high quality and affordable products on a single platform through which they can sample, order and have Binatone’s products delivered to them anywhere in Kenya,” said Parinaz Firozi, Managing Director Jumia Kenya.

Binatone was established in 1958 in London, UK and has been a leader in technology ever since. Its distribution in Africa was first established in 1974 and it’s currently operating in more than 20 countries across the continent with a strong presence in West Africa. enock_x254

Brand Track seeking to recruit marketing accounts managers

Brand Track Ltd, a company that deals in corporate branding and corporate advertising merchandise for the East African market, has announced plans to hire marketing accounts managers as part of its latest recruitment drive.

The firm has called on qualified candidates to apply by January 19, 2016.

Those applying must have (at the very least) a Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field, preferably marketing.

Applicants must also have a minimum of 2 years’ in progressive sales and marketing in the production industry.

The recruiter has added that they must have in-depth working knowledge and experience in marketing, strong interpersonal and negotiation skills and excellent communication skills Successful recruits will be tasked with acquiring and retaining clients, ensuring high quality and timely deliveries are made to clients and preparing as well as presenting quotations to clients among other duties.

Applicants are advised to send their CVs to hr@brandtrack. co.ke on or before the due date.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted, the company has said.

The holder of this position will report directly to the Business Development Manager.

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Removal of VAT, waiver on visa fees, huge boost for tourism President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced a raft of initiatives that will be a turning point to rejuvenate the country’s tourism sector.

Speaking during the official opening of the Sh4.8b English Point Marina in Mombasa, President Kenyatta announced a waiver on visa fee for children under the age of 16 years effective from February 1, 2016 for an unspecified period of time.

Bringing park entry down, the Head of State further directed the National Treasury Cabinet Secretary to initiate the amendment of the Value Added Tax Act and incorporate the changes in the Financial Bill for 2016/17 financial year. ‘’With this measure, the Kenya Wildlife Service will cap the park entry at Sh 6,000 down from Sh 9,000,’’ President Kenyatta said.

To further boost the tourism sector at the South Coast, the President announced the acquisition of 2 ferries that would ease operation bottle necks in traffic between Mombasa Island and the Likoni side of channel. ‘’Even as we work on the bypass, I have instructed the Kenya Ferry Service to step up their management of passenger transport through Likoni Channel,’’ he said.

Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala applauded President Kenyatta’s commitments to the government’s tourism revival strategy, saying the future now looks brighter. ‘’We are developing a programme to make our

tourism affordable and attractive,’’ he said.

Balala asked politicians to tone down political differences that scare tourists away to allow speedy recovery of the sector, saying the ministry has set aside Sh1.2b to boost beach tourism.

English Point Marina in Mombasa is the only

and first of its kind between Cape Town in South Africa and Cairo in Egypt.

Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho, Kenya Commercial Bank Chief Executive Joshua Oigara and English Point Marina Director Alnoor Kanji were present. enock_x254

President Uhuru Kenyatta when he opened the Sh4.8 billion English Point Marina in Mombasa. Present were First Lady Margaret Kenyatta and Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho among other leaders.

Regulators reject Volkswagen recall proposal Industry regulators in the United States have rejected Volkswagen’s recall plan for diesel cars equipped with emissions “cheat” devices, the BBC reports.The California Air Resources Board (CARB) proposals did “not adequately address overall impacts on vehicle performance, emissions and safety”.

The board also said the proposed fix was not fast enough, adding that it would continue its investigation as well as talks with VW to find a suitable solution.

The head of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, said: “Volkswagen made a decision to cheat on emissions tests and then tried to cover it up.” They

continued and compounded the lie and when they were caught they tried to deny it. The result is thousands of tons of nitrogen oxide that have harmed the health of Californians. They need to make it right.”

The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also said the VW plan for vehicles with two litre diesel engines was not acceptable. The rejection comes ahead of a meeting between VW chief executive Matthias Muller and EPA chief Gina McCarthy on Wednesday to discuss the emissions scandal.

Volkswagen said in response: “Today’s announcement addresses the initial recall plans Volkswagen

submitted to CARB in December.

We are committed to working co-operatively with CARB and other regulators, and we plan to continue our discussions when we meet with the EPA.” The issue affects almost 600,000 vehicles in the United States and up to 11 million worldwide.The scandal has severely damaged the German car maker’s reputation and sparked investigations in several countries.In the US alone VW is facing fines that could run into tens of billions of dollars.Sales of VW brand vehicles fell by 4.8 per cent in 2015 to 5.82 million cars - the first decline in 11 years in the wake of the scandal.

Herbert Diess, VW chairman, said

last week he was optimistic the company would find a solution soon.

“We will bring a package together which satisfies our customers first and foremost and then also the regulators,” he said.However, the EPA, which first revealed the existence of the devices, said that VW had not yet produced an acceptable way forward”.

The US Department of Justice is suing Volkswagen on behalf of the EPA with a lawsuit that was filed on 4 January in a federal court in Detroit, Michigan.The Department of Justice said the filing was the first step in “bringing Volkswagen to justice”.

Tea prices dip as industry struggles to stay afloat Tea prices have lost up to five per cent of their value in the first auction of 2016 adding to the list of challenges facing the industry in the recent past.

The quantities offered for trading have also dwindled to7.7 million kilogrammes from 9.1 million kilogrammes traded in the last week of December at the weekly Mombasa auction.

East African Tea Traders Association (EATTA) managing director Edward Mudibo said the price of tea had been declining in the last two months even as the volumes for sale offered declined.

“The week’s average price decreased to Sh278 from Sh294 achieved in auction 51. Some 7,745,063 kg were traded as compared to the

previous auction where 9,153,733 kg were offered for sale,” he said.

The fall in prices comes at a time the industry is fighting for the scrapping of the ad valorem tax which is charged and collected by the Tea Board at one per cent of the export cost, which experts warn may hurt the farmers and consumers.

The green leaf industry is also at a risk of losing close to Sh2.3 billion which it had deposited in Imperial bank prior to its collapse and closure last year.

The volumes are projected to drop further on the onset of a dry season in most of the tea growing zones which EATTA says could drive the average price per kilogramme to Sh265 in

the second half of the financial year.

According to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), the volumes of tea decreased from 338,943 tonnes to 301,330 in quarter three as harsh weather in major tea producing counties saw the production of the green leaf fall.

The volume of green leaf produced by smallscale farmers dipped to 1.03 billion kg over the period from 1.1 billion kg the previous year, according to Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA). The Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority, the farming regulator, said tea output fell to 175.2 million kg between January and June compared with wilson_x254 224.8 million kg in 2014.

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BIZ BRIEFS Chase Bank to splash Sh3m on rising rally ace Tejas Hirani Chase Bank Kenya has announced a sponsorship deal worth Sh3 million with the rising Motor Cross Champ Tejas Hirani.

The sponsorship is the first step in the bank’s commitment to transforming the motor sport in Kenya by supporting upcoming rally enthusiasts.

Handing over the sponsorship cheque to Hirani, Chase Bank Group Head of Brand Magdalene Mulandi said the bank was keen on growing Youth Enterprise “and sponsoring Tejas is our commitment to the same.”

“Tejas is one of the most exciting prospects in motorsport today. At just 17, he has already achieved success domestically and internationally on both dirt and tarmac – but he has his sights firmly set on becoming a world champion. We want to help him achieve what matters most to him,” said Mulandi.

Last March, he won the Formula Gulf 1000.

3GDP awarded first ever pan-African compliance cert 3G Direct Pay Group, the leading PanAfrican premier solution for online and mobile payments, has scored an industry first in Africa with its certification for compliance with the security standards of the Global Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council.

The PCI DSS LEVEL 1 certification is applicable to all their operations in Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Zambia, Uganda and Rwanda. It follows the firm’s receipt certification for the Kenyan market last year.

“The PCI DSS certification is a comprehensive best practices standard for managing any business that comes into contact with credit card and other online payments information,” explained Eran Feinstein, Managing Director, 3G Direct Pay Group in a recent address.

Treasury, CoG form team to fast track e-procurement The National Treasury and Council of Governors (COG) have formed a taskforce expected to smoothen the implementation of e-procurement at the counties.

The team will look into the challenges that the Counties have been facing in implementing the electronic procurement and payment platform and make concrete recommendations to deal with the hurdles they face.

The team is expected to report back to the Treasury and the Council of Governors on the way forward by end of January.

Recommendations by the taskforce will then be implemented in the course of February and give way to a much more efficient use of e-procurement in the 47 counties starting March.

The taskforce is made up of three officials from Treasury and three officials from COG.

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Imperial Bank stakeholders accuse CBK, KDIC Imperial Bank Limited (IBL) shareholders have accused the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) and the Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation (KDIC) of keeping them out of the loop with regard to the lender’s current situation.

Alnashir Popat, Imperial Bank’s Chairman has argued that there has been no formal response from both entities on a solution to bring the bank back to business.

Popat said the shareholders want to work towards re-opening the bank, which is currently under receivership, and are prepared to protect their rights in the courts.

The shareholders claim they have been left in the dark in all matters, saying they were not consulted when the CBK announced a payment plan for the bank’s depositors. Imperial Bank’s depositors were able to access their deposits in December last year though KCB and DTB for those with less than Sh1 million in their accounts. The rest will access their money by March 2016.

The shareholders said the events leading up to placement of the bank under receivership began around September 15 when IBL Managing Director Abdul Janmohammed died of a cardiac arrest and Naeem Shah (Head of Credit) together with James Kaburu (Chief Financial Officer) were appointed acting Managing Director and Deputy Managing Director respectively, the following day.

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Mumias Shuttle to revolutionise hinterland transport in western Mumias Shuttle, a public transport franchise, has set up a shop in Mumias town, Kakamega County to transform transport sector across Western region.

Developed by Edwin Mukabana, a renowned international transport expert and the MD Kenya Bus Service, the franchise will operate between Mumias Town and Kakamega, Kisumu, Kitale, Kericho among other towns in the region.

The first trip by the shuttle services was flagged off by Kakamega Deputy Governor Philip Kutima on behalf of Governor Wycliffe Oparanya.

Oparanya in a statement encouraged local and foreign investors to invest in Kakamega County as it aims to create a conducive environment for investment.

The governor praised Toyota Kenya

and Hino Kenya for taking the initiative to support business owners in public transport sector as well as encouraging local matatu Sacco’s to purchase vehicles from Hino Kenya for them to receive support Mumias Shuttle had received.

The launch of Mumias Shuttle will create employment for the youth in the greater Western region.

At the time of the launch, Mumias Shuttle had already employed 30 youth from the region, all who went through a rigorous interview process to ensure that the passengers using the shuttle services have an excellent transport experience.

By introducing a fleet of 10 buses purchased from Hino Kenya, the commercial arm of Toyota Kenya, the launch of Mumias Shuttle will rescue Western region public

transport users who have suffered for a long time due to the lack of reliable hinterland transport.

“At Mumias Shuttle, we would not be here without the support that we have received from Hino Kenya from whom we have bought our 10 ten buses. Hino have excellent eco drive training where they have trained all our drivers on how to ensure that we are able to achieve the most out of our buses,’’ said Mukabana.

He said Hino Kenya has a fleet solution package that is speciallydesigned to efficiently manage the entire fleet life cycle promoting safety and minimizing operating costs.

The package brings together a prevetted list of suppliers, offering the best in class service at pre-

negotiated rates.

The chassis will be available from Hino Kenya at a special price, quality bodies of any configuration will be negotiated, competitive insurance packages, financing and leasing, advanced tracking system, tire management and lubricants.

Present during the launch was Toyota Kenya Chairman Ambassador Dennis Awori, and Hino Kenya General Manager Wanjohi Kangangi and government officials.

Others included Matatu Owners Association Chairman Mr. Simon Kimutai, Kamal Shah Managing Director United Millers, Mr. Paul Gatundu proprietor Mbukinya bus service, Samuel Kamau proprietor City Shuttle. enock_x254

McDonald’s faces competition complaint in EU Fast foods chain McDonald’s has been accused of abusing its market power by imposing unfair and restrictive contracts on people operating its franchise restaurants in Europe. A formal complaint has been made to the European Commission by a group of Italian consumers’ organizations, reports the BBC. They accuse McDonald’s of forcing franchisees to pay excessive rents and high fees while McDonald’s said it shared risks and rewards with its licencees.In a statement, McDonald’s said: “We are proud of our franchisees and are committed to working closely together so that they have the support they need to operate their restaurants and their businesses.” This approach, with the principle of sharing risk and reward, has been successful for many years and has helped create the best business opportunities for our franchisees and the best overall experience for our customers.”

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and European unions, including the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union in the UK, are supporting the formal antitrust complaint.

The flagging off of Mumias Shuttle fleet of PSVs which will be plying the western Kenya region major towns.

OLX partners with G4S to ease delivery of goods Online Classifieds Company OLX has partnered with secure logistics company G4S to ease delivery of goods from sellers to buyers in a move aimed at boosting safety on the platform. OLX customers will collect their online purchases from G4S centers across the country after the two companies entered into a partnership.

Speaking during the signing ceremony at a Nairobi hotel, OLX

country manager Peter Ndiang’ui said the partnership came at a time when the platform just launched a New App, adding that this all serves to put the user first.

“This partnership will enable us, as OLX enhance the safety of our users and lessen the burden of transport on them even as more traders, micro-businesses and consumers troop to our platform every day to sell both new and used

items”, said OLX country manager Peter Ndiang’ui “This partnership goes a long way to deliver our commitment to provide convenient and secure services to our customers. The seller will be asked to set a security question that is to be answered by the buyer upon collection of the package with necessary identification documents including original ID/Passport”, said G4S Secure Logistics Director,

Geoffrey Mwove.

The delivery service will see sellers on the OLX platform deliver shipment to the nearest G4S collection center for dispatch to the buyer within the Nairobi region.

“This partnership will see our users do delivery at subsidized rates and also bring the goods closer to their doorstep for convenience”, concluded OLX Country Manager, Peter Ndiang’ui.

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The dance on how, when and Through whaT channels are besT To pay arTisTes royalTies is sTill on sTage

WHO SHOULD PAY ARTISTES’

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esterday the Kenya Union of artistes (Mombasa faction) held a demo demanding that all artistes should have their dues in terms of playback and ringtone royalties paid.

The union, through a statement to newsrooms said that they are tired of the cat and mouse games being played by middle men with their monies.

The union is however in support of an initiative by Safaricom and Collective Management Organizations (CMOs).

The debate as to whether artistes should be awarded Skiza tunes royalties through middlemen or directly from Safaricom has raged on for a while now.

Last year Safaricom initiated a deal to have artistes paid double their royalties and the money channeled through Collective Management Organizations (CMOs).

A deal was then struck between Safaricom and MCSK, PRISK and KAMP (referred to as CMOs) that saw artistes paid 15% an increase from 7.5 percent previously offered by Premium Rate Service Providers (PRSPs).

Undeterred most PRSPs are still acting as agents between Safaricom and the artistes by providing a platform to access music through the internet , they are still on the dance floor.

As was expected, a misunderstanding ensued when some artistes rushed to court to have the deal blocked saying that they were willing to have their money paid directly from Safaricom while others held that PRSPs (were) the better option. .

Safaricom was the bigger person when they decided that instead of targeting artistes directly, they were in favour of CMO’s.This has held thus far

but still warring camps harbor different views.

Speaking to X-Access, Benga musician Ohangla Makadem known for his vocal stand on all matters music, still maintains that there is more than meets the eye.

“There are cartels out to exploit artistes.

These include unwanted middlemen.”

Makadem supports CMos but without middle men.

“We are okay with having CMO’s but not PRSP, these people called PRSP’s are not genuine,” The bone of contention for most artistes is that everyone wants a piece of their pie.

The CMOs and Safaricom are currently in discussions on how to strike a new deal without the offensive PRSP, but can it hold?

Top songbird Achieng’ Abura says it could but artistes must wake up. She says, ’Safaricom can pay artistes directly, they have the capacity, they have the platform and infrastructure.’

Achieng’ also wants changes at MCSK and better representation. She takes issue with the current crop of artistes who sit behind the internet and do nothing.

Reached for comment MCSK said they are doing their best in association with PRISK AND KAMP to make artistes earn better, citing the recent launch of NHIF health scheme .PRISK through their communication head DNG, added that dialogue will ensure that the industry thrives.

Through his social media pages, industry player Arthur K, lauded every positive effort but urged artistes to actively participate in their own affairs and get lawyers to help them decipher the small prints.

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Nutritionists rave about the health benefits of berries. They are full of antioxidants that can help your body fight free radicals and protect cells from damage. They also don’t contain as much natural sugar as some other fruits like oranges.

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Ginger is supposed to have anti-ageing benefits and the combination of lemon and ginger is good for the immune system.

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Parsley and kale are great sources of zinc, folate and vitamin K, which is also found in celery.

4. Sun Worshipper 1/2 pineapple, 1/2 mango, 1 lime, 1/2

lemon, 200 mls coconut water Exotic fruit like pineapple and mango can give you a bit of a pick-me-up on cold days. Mango, rich in vitamin A, has been reported to fight cancer, alkalize the body and help digestion.

5. Green mother 1 handful of spinach,1 cucumber,1 apple,2 sticks of celery,1 lime,1 teaspoon of ginger The dark green colour of spinach indicates it’s rich in chlorophyll and carotenoids – for anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties.

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Embrace Storage Containers: If you don’t buy the appropriate storage products, things pile up quickly in a small space. In other words, embrace the fact that you have stuff and like to have certain things around — just find a way to manage it all so you don’t feel overwhelmed by it.

Furniture as Storage: If you’re in the market for a new bed, consider looking at one that has drawers underneath or at least enough height to store some under-thebed bins.

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Every woman desires a slight supple waist but getting this aesthetic requires patience and perseverance. So as a quick fix we turn to on crunches to burn the love handles away without following it up with a full body workout.

Crunches or sit ups might strengthen our core but they will not provide us with the appearance of a flatter stomach. The only way to do this is by lowering overall body fat percentage and this requires a complete workout regimen.

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Although there’s nothing quite like the ache that working out can sometimes create, it is not a rule that pain is a necessary by-product of exercising.

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It cannot be stressed enough that there will be limited progress made if eating habits are not changed. We should not expect to see any major differences in our bodies without altering our diets.

The tried and tested truth stands; that fruits and vegetables are in fact good for you.

of the space. Think vertical. Could you hang shelves above your desk for extra books, papers or pictures? If your desk is too small or you don’t have a home office, maybe some hanging file folders would work in the kitchen?

A Little Bit Each Day: People often say that they don’t have enough time to do any organizing, but everyone can find 10-15 minutes in their day to focus on at least one small space or project.

Get Rid of Things: Chances are you don’t need most of the papers that you’re keeping things.

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ipped Jeans are back in fashion. But the problem with buying already-distressed denim is that you don’t really have any control over the rips yourself.

That said, we’ve highlighted 5 simple steps that outline how to rip jeans yourself.

Choose your jeans The first step, obviously, is picking out which pair of jeans you want to rip.

Do a few trial runs with a pair of jeans you don’t really wear anymore. If you want your jeans to look extra-worn, wash them a few times in hot water and a little bleach.

Gather your supplies to distress and rip To really make jeans look authentically ripped,

distress them a bit before you start cutting the holes. Grab some sandpaper or a paintremoving block, steel wool, and a pumice stone. For the holes, use a pair of supersharp small scissors or a box cutter. Use a piece of cardboard or a small wooden block inside the pant legs so you don’t alter the back of the jeans.

Put your jeans on to mark Use a pen, chalk or a safety pin to denote exactly where you want your rips and/ or distressed areas. You might want to grab a ruler, too. Do this while you’re standing.

Start distressing Lay the jeans flat and start rubbing your

marked areas with your sandpaper, steel wool, and the pumice stone until the denim starts to really thin out.

Start making your holes After your jeans are sufficiently distressed, take your scissors or knife and use the edge (not the tip) to start horizontally scraping the area where you want your rips to be. If you don’t want holes all the way through, scrape enough that you start to see the white horizontal threads beneath the denim’s surface. Then start using a tweezer to fray the threads.

Finally, start cutting the distressed areas with your knife or scissors.

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Yesterday’s answers

YOURSAY Wetang’ula’s bribery claims purely political The case in which Bungoma Senator Moses Wetang’ula has been accused of voter bribery is a typical example of how Kenya laws if not the institutions mandated to interpret the law can be unfair including the Supreme Court.

If you look at money dished out in a weekly basis during campaign periods and nothing is said about it by these relevant institutions, one will be persuaded to believe that the Senate Minority Leader is politically being targeted.

Claims of voter bribery were widespread across the political divide during the 2013 General Election,

therefore if indeed Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) wanted to prove to Kenyans that their antielection offences were genuine and were out to create a level playing field for all candidates including women candidates who have mostly been affected, there would be many other leaders currently in the dock with Wetang’ula.

Even the issuance of land titles by President Uhuru Kenyatta to Coast residents is bribery and misuse of public offices to sway or tilt the 2017 General Election in favour of the ruling Jubilee and if IEBC cannot take

any action against him, it will not auger well for the Opposition if one of their own is punished for similar offence.

If the court wanted to deal with the bribery claims against the Bungoma Senator, they should have barred him from contesting in the by-election that followed as a result of the nullification. IEBC should also summon all the Bishops who allegedly received Sh260,000 from Wetang’ula to confirm that the law cuts both sides otherwise to Cord coalitions the law will remain unfair.

— Enock ndayala

Boundary clashes trend worrying as polls nears The government through the ministry of security and interior coordination should look into the spiraling ethnic clashes along our ethnic territorial boundaries that have become flashpoints of crime.

The latest fighting erupted on the Nandi-Kisumu border has claimed five lives and left a trail of destruction. Similar ethnic clashes have occurred in parts of Narok and Kisii counties.

Internal security Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery should seek measures to

cure the erratic boundary disputes and cattle rustling which have been cited as some of the major causes of the clashes between some communities majorly drawn from the western region of Kenya.

Whatever grievances that locals may have, cannot be justifications to take the law into their own hands.

The senseless killings and destruction of property must be stopped.

The ministry must move from the tale and assumption that local politicians are to

blame and dig deeper to gain a better understanding of the root cause.

Politics must not be left out in this clashes as it’s the tendency for such conflicts to occur more frequently in the run-up to a General Election.

More than the peace caravans usually witnessed as a strategy to quell the violence, more stringent and radical measures should be applied to eliminate the soar vices that generate the chaos.

— Nderitu, Kangemi

Lobbyists must come out against gender violence The Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHCR) and the National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC) together with other human rights lobbies should remain steadfast to rein on the soaring cases of gender-based violence in the country.

In the recent past, acts of gender-based violence have been reported with the most heinous being of the 32-year-old Fatuma Ibrahim from Wajir County after her husband lodged a knife in her cheeks. There was also another case of a Form Three girl who was raped and murdered in Othaya, Nyeri County.

Numerous cases are not being reported due to alleged intimidation from the perpetrators of the crimes and stigma drawn from the victims

themselves, therefore the lobby groups and the authorities must ensure sources or those who want to report such cases are protected.

Out of these threats, many of the cases flop in court due to lack of evidences and witnesses.

As such, the lobbyists ought to come up with clear laws and strategies to aid the victims such as initiating educational programmes of ‘dos and don’ts’ when a victim has been involved in rape, abductions or and other forms of violence. Mere campaigns and street chanting is no longer enough. The church and the larger society should also resonate together to end this spiraling inhumane acts against our women and young girls. — Kamotho, Donholm

National biodiversity strategies key for economy National biodiversity strategies need to be thoroughly adhered to by African countries. Indicators such as global warming should not be ignored and ecosystembased adaptations need to be harnessed to protect the future generations from negative effects of ecosystem integrity.

Urbanisation and industrialisation have been seen to be the major threats to biodiversity as many

countries are investing in energy and infrastructure in a bid to develop their economies and eradicate poverty. These countries are quickly moving to address hurdles like unemployment, growing youth population and insecurity by investing more in technologies and industrialisation. However, for sustainable development to be achieved, a balance needs to be struck to ensure one

area of the economy does not progress at the expense of the other. Africa has enormous potential and is well endowed with abundant living things, agricultural potential, fresh water sources, arable lands among other biodiversity resources. However, it still stands at a crossroad simply because the policies are still stacked in files with no strong commitment for implementation. — ATPS

IEBC should be impartial in Wetang’ula case As the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) retreats to scrutinise the submissions by Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula’s legal team, a few things need to be take into consideration by the electoral body.

First, they have to exhibit high level of independence in their decision to expunge the name of the Cord co-principal Wetang’ula after the court found him guilty of voter bribery.

They must dissociate themselves from any external forces that may want to influence the

outcome of their decision and hence jeopardise the political future of the senator who is now a potential presidential candidate.

However, as they do so, it must be remembered that the senator lost the seat after successful court petition by his close challenger Musikari Kombo, he was cleared to run for subsequent by-election and declared duly elected by the same IEBC that is probing him.

—Mageka, Starehe

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SPORTS BRIEFS Froome extends SKY contract until 2018 Two-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has extended his contract with Team Sky until the end of 2018.

The 30-year-old Kenyan born Briton, who won the Tour in 2013 and 2015, said it was a “very easy decision”.

“I’ve been part of the team since its inception in 2010 and that’s a special feeling,” he told BBC Sport.

“This is beginning to feel like a family. This year the guys mean business. It feels like it will be a good season.” Froome is the only Briton to win the Tour twice. Team Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford added: “It’s fantastic. I’m really pleased.

He’s a fantastic athlete.

“He’s been the backbone of the team and will be the leader going forward for many years. I was trying to avoid discussions being a huge distraction during big events in the final year of his contract.”

Hirani in his last local race in Kajiado this weekend Tejas Hirani will probably take part in his last race in Kenya this year when the new season of National Autocross championship at Champagne Park, Kipeto in Kajiado County Sunday.

Hirani, who will headline the opening race of the season to be hosted at Vintage Classic Cars Club of Kenya, is expected to depart to Sweden for the RX Lites Winter series and FIA RX Lites World Rallycross Championships.

The rising Kenyan, who is also the Brand Kenya Ambassador has since signed up for Olsbergs MSE and will team-up with Oliver Eriksson on the Ice series in the Scandinavian region where he is set to race the seven World Series RXLites including Canada and two other races in the USA GRC Red Bull RX Lites.

This weekend, Hirani will be driving a Team Magic “Rage Buggy” in the 2WD Non Turbo

Class which has attracted Sahir Mughal and Manpreet Sagoo in Polaris Buggy.

The event begins the busy 2016 Kenyan Motor Sports Federation (KMSF) calendar which will feature rallying, Enduro, Karting, Rally Raid and Motocross which takes place the following weekend at Jamhuri Park.

Ryan Bailey, who became the youngest ever autocross champion in 2014, begins his title defence for Bambino Class which is a composition of young budding second generation drivers. Syanna Jessop, daughter of multiple Safari Rally navigator champion and Smith siblings-Sean and Rio have also signed up. The Smiths are sons of 2012 KNRC Division 2 Champion Don Smith while Ryan is son of 1998 motor sportsman of the year Paul Bailey and retired navigator Gillian Bailey.

Two-wheel-Drive Turbo champion Shalien

Mughal who has just returned from Australia this week is in a mad rush alongside his Team Izmir mates trying to get his Attacker 1 Buggy ready.

The class has attracted the likes of Shaz Esmail, Rehan Shah, Imran Hakada, Team Izmir’s Nikhil Kapoor and lady driver Nisha Pandya.

Meanwhile, the 2015 Rally Raid Annual Awards will take place at Dari Restaurant in Karen this Saturday.

All award winners from 2015 will be feted as well as the Overall Raid Personality and also some special prizes will be at stake.

Among those to be feted are car class champion Gray Cullen, bikers Ross Field and Andrew Pleasance among others.

Shazar Anwar who has dominated the quads class since the cross country days will also be rewarded for his exemplary performance in the past season. @elvince_x254

Inter now release Vidic over injuries

Confirmed entries Autocross 1:2WD TURBO Imran Hakada Shalien Mughal (defending champion/Team Izmir) Shaz Esmail isha Pandya Rehan Shah Nikhil Kapoor (Team Izmir)

Inter Milan has agreed to terminate their relationship with defender Nemanja Vidic with five months still left on his current contract.

The former Manchester United captain is now a free agent and could be on the move in the January transfer window according to SKY News.

The Serbian arrived at the San Siro in 2014, but failed to impress during his debut season in Serie A. The Serbian defender numerous injury problems and his relationship with the manager Roberto Mancini, has seen him being pushed to the cold. He has not played for the club this season.

Vidic dropped further down the pecking order with the return of manager Mancini and has spent this season on the sidelines following hernia surgery in August.

4WD TURBO McRae Kimathi (Subaru GC8) 2WD NON TURBO Sahir Sarry Mughal (Team Izmir) anpreet Sagoo (Polaris Buggy/Team Multijob-) Tejas Hirani (Rage Buggy/Team Magic) BAMBINO Syanna Jessop.

Ryan Bailey (defending champion/Team Magic) Rio Smith Sean Smith Sahiba Jutley

Smith hits 149 to help Australia win first ODI Steve Smith made 149 from 135 balls as Australia beat India by five wickets in the first one-day international in Perth.

The captain added 242 for the third wicket with George Bailey, who scored 112, to help the hosts overhaul India’s 309-3 with four balls to spare.

Earlier, India’s Rohit Sharma hit 171 not out to break Viv Richards’ record for the highest score by a visiting batsman in an ODI in Australia.

The second game of the five-match series is on Friday in Brisbane.

Rohit’s 171 off 163 balls, containing 13 fours and seven sixes, surpassed West Indies legend Richards’ unbeaten 153 in Melbourne in 1979.

Smith compiled his best ODI score as he and Bailey shared the fourth-highest Australia stand in ODIs. It was also Australia’s third-highest ODI chase on home soil.

Bailey, who joined Smith at the crease with Australia 21-2 at the Waca, should have been given out first ball when he gloved Barinder Sran down the leg side.

Bambino Champion Ryan Bailey in past action.

Pharaohs edge out Tunisia to claim Rio 2016 Olympic volleyball ticket Egypt men’s volleyball team claimed the Africa sole Olympic ticket after beating Tunisia 3-2 ((25-19, 20-25, 25-18, 19-25, 1614) yesterday in an epic final at Elende Hall in Brazzaville, Congo.

The win means Egypt will appear at the Olympics, to be held in Rio, Brazil for the fourth time in history thanks to their slim 16-14 win in the decisive fifth set.

Egypt last qualified to the summer games in 2008 which followed Los Angeles 1984, Sydney 2000 and Beijing 2008. The loss for Tunisia

means they lost a chance (through continental qualification) to book their seventh slot to the biggest sporting event in the world having previously snatched the in 1972 (Munich), 1984 (Los Angeles), 1988 (Seoul), 1996 (Atlanta), 2004 (Athens), 2012 (London).

Tunisia, however, still have a chance of qualifying to Rio through World qualifiers. They will join Algeria who toppled Cameroon for third position in the next phase of qualifiers.

Algeria needed five sets, including

two comebacks to see-off the West Africans 3-2 (18-25, 26-24, 25-13, 18-25, 15-13) in epic encounter to keep their dreams alive for an Olympic ticket.

The final was a great battle lasting 133 minutes of thrills from both sides. After Egypt led 25-19, Tunisia survived back with the activity of the opposite Hichem Kaabi to win the second set 25-20 and draw 1-1.

Egyptian super star Ahmed Salah came back with his left handed spikes to lead Egypt to win the

third set 25-18, before Tunisia rebounded for the second time to win the fourth set 25-19. The tiebreak continued the exciting action as it went point by point till the draw 14-14 when Egypt settled the tough face off 16-14 to clinch the Olympic ticket.

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Manchester United players celebrate after Rooney second goal, third for the team that appeared like the winner before Newcastle pulled one back to grab a 3-3 draw at the St James Park last night.

Magpies draw pushes United down to sixth Paul Dummett’s late strike rescued a point for Newcastle as Manchester United missed the chance to go level on points with fourth-placed Tottenham.

It was a remarkable end to a game that had seen the away side lead twice following Wayne Rooney’s opener from the spot and Jesse Lingard’s finish put United 2-0 up before Georginio Wijnaldum and Aleksandar Mitrovic’s penalty levelled the scores.

Rooney then hit his second of the night, a goal that looked to have sealed the win for Louis van Gaal’s side, but Dummett salvaged the draw in the last minute.

The point earned is not enough to lift Newcastle out of the bottom three - they remain a point and place behind 17thplaced Swansea, but it represents another notable improvement following three successive 1-0 league defeats.

For United, it will represent two points lost and a step backwards after backto-back Premier League and FA Cup victories had offered improvement on a winless December.

Following criticism of Manchester United’s attacking prowess, in a season that had seen them score just 24 goals in 20 league games prior to Tuesday, Van

Gaal himself admitted on Monday that he has been “very bored” at times watching his side.

He can have no such complaints after this hugely entertaining, see-saw game, which produced some of their best attacking play of the season. Rooney was magnificent.

The England striker gave them the lead from the spot after Mike Dean’s controversial call to award a penalty against Chancel Mbemba after his arm blocked Marouane Fellaini’s back-post header from a corner.

But it was his role in setting up Lingard for the second - holding the ball up before rolling a perfectly timed pass into the winger’s path for a low, angled finish - and his superbly struck 20-yard second, after Memphis Depay’s shot had deflected to him, that really showcased the 30-yearold’s talent, the latter of which drew a rare smile from his manager.

However, United’s attacking display was let down by key misses from Lingard, who blazed over from inside the box at 2-1, and Fellaini, who headed straight at Rob Elliott from point-blank range when his side led 3-2.

Ultimately, though, Van Gaal will be left

bemoaning an area in which his side have largely excelled this season, as a series of defensive lapses cost them victory.

Newcastle have been one of the early movers in this transfer window, signing midfielders Henri Saivet and Jonjo Shelvey both of whom greeted the crowd before kick-off. But on the evidence of this display, at least, the current squad is not lacking in fight.

At 2-0 down they refused to crumble, hitting back soon after Lingard’s goal as Wijnaldum, who had earlier seen a 12yard shot saved by David de Gea, made no mistake from a similar range after latching on to Mitrovic’s downward header.

The supplier turned scorer after the break to make it 2-2, dusting himself off after being grappled to the ground by Chris Smalling in the box to roll in his fourth goal of the season from the penalty spot.

Even when they fell behind again with 11 minutes to go, Newcastle dug deep and were rewarded when the away side failed to properly clear a ball into the box and Dummett’s fierce strike from the edge of the box found the net via Smalling’s chest.

Nairobi SportPesa Super 8 tourney illegal, says FKF The newly-launched the SportPesa Super 8 League is illegal, Football Kenya Federation (FKF) has said.

The three tier league- SportPesa Super 8, Super 8 Division Two and Super 8 tournament League which is the brain child of former FKF presidential aspirant and Extreme Sport chief executive Hussein Mohammed was launched on Tuesday and is expected scheduled to kick-off next month.

FKF, through its outgoing President Sam Nyamweya said in a statement that they have not sanctioned the league which is set to be played in Nairobi County.

“It has come to the attention of the FKF national office and the Nairobi

branch that today Extreme Sports in partnership with betting firm SportsPesa have launched the above referenced league without seeking the mandatory clearance from the body mandated to ran, regulate football activities in the country FKF,” read the statement.

When FKF came to the office in 2011, they gave an order that all football tournament must be sanctioned by the federation. This pronouncement saw the death of many soccer tournaments included the then famous Sakata ball which was sponsored by Safaricom.

One fundamental question raised by FKF is the move by the organisers and the sponsor’s failure to involve FKF-

Nairobi Branch in the process.

“We are currently in the process of electing new football leaders and there is no vacuum in the branch and in the national office, therefore all potential sponsors must engage all current football officials in office,” “The sponsor in this case must have involved the FKF Nairobi Branch who would have worked with the National office to harmonise this year’s calendar of events.”

FKF added that “there can never be any parallel league ran in all tiers and we read mischief in the launching of the above activity.” @elvince_x254

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LEAVING THE SCENE: Foremer Harambee Stars and sofapaka forward John Baraza celebrates one of his many goals during a past league match. Baraza hanged his boots after a 15 years of playing soccer.

Veteran Baraza retires R

eigning Kenya’s Fair Play Player of the year and Sofapaka Captain John Baraza has retired from competitive football.

Baraza, who announced his retirement today morning, paid special tribute to former coach Twahir Muhidin for shaping his goal scoring prowess as he ends an illustrious career spanning to 15 years.

“Yes time has come...right time I guess, to say bye to the game we all love ...THE BEAUTIFUL GAME,” he said in a long post on his Social media account.

“Coach TWAHIR MUHIDDIN stands out because he NEVER gave up to show me how to score goals even when I kept on missing lots of chances. So sincerely speaking, in him I got the ART of scoring. Thanks Coach for your trust, your honesty and your passion for pursuit of excellence in me,”

Baraza, considered one of the most prolific and consistent gaol scorers Kenyan has ever produced in the recent past scored nine goals last season despite his advanced age.

The ever jovial and probably Kenya’s most disciplined player until today also mentioned majority of the coaches he worked with, both club and international level in an emotional post where he also took his fans down memory lane in his footballing career.

“As I walk away from playing the game, I would like to say a big thank you to the people who throughout the way in my long playing career, propelled me into a mentionable figure in the football industry, they helped me SCOOP lots of AWARDS and championship medals.”

Among those who got the special mention are current Ulinzi Stars coach Robert Matano, Salim Ali, Zedeki-

ah ‘Zico’ Otieno, Bobby Williamson, Francis Kimanzi, Sam Timbe, David Ouma and Jacob ‘Ghost’ Mule.

Baraza boast of unmatched career that circled from Nzoia Sugar to Oserian Fastac to IF Sylvia in Sweden back to Yanga in Tanzania, to PDRM Polis of Malaysia, Rayon Sports of Rwanda, Chemelil Sugar FC and finally Sofapaka where he played until last season.

“In international circles, I would like to thank, Ghost Mulee. He gave me the chance to get on the platform and I think I did not disappoint because we won CECAFA back in 2002 and went to AFCON in Tunisia 2004 and over there we managed a win which was commendable.”

“KUDOS to him because he fought for players to get good allowance unlike before and up to now because of the foundation he demanded to be set things have always improved pock-

et-wise, “I would like to say a big thank you to all KENYAN FANS, it’s because of you and your high expectation that made players like me to be on my toes always. It made me be a good performer season in season out. FANS do not get tired let’s keep on supporting the current players.

“I would also like to congratulate the players I competed with in GOLDEN BOOT race in different years.

Mark Sirengo (2002), Emeka Joseph (2009), Ezekiel Odera (2010), Dan Serrenkuma (2012).

Baraza won the Kenyan Premier League with Sofapaka in 2009 and a Shield Cup (2013). He also steered Harambee Stars to the podium after lifting the 2002 CECAFA Senior Challenge in Tanzania and was also part of the Kenyan squad that featured in the 2014 AFCON.

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