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The embassy
is continuously
reviewing
and updating
its security
measures, and
expects to take
additional steps
in coming days,
to include on US
stang.
Robert Godec,
US ambassador
to Kenya
Sh100m
Loses incurred in two days by Coast
hoteliers since the issuing of travel
advisories
>> Ambassador
says mission in
Nairobi will con-
tinue to oer nor-
mal services de-
spite threatsP.4
TERROR| Ambassador says America had received information of potential attacks in Kenya
US embassy cuts sta,
asks for more marines
>> Govenment
increases
surveillance around
Western embassies
over fears of terror
attacks P.4
>> Coast hoteliers
cry foul over the
renewed travel
advisories and
evacuation of
tourists P.6
>> Four suspects
held for questioning
over explosions in
Gikomba that killed
12 people on Friday
P.5
BY JOHN NGIRACHU
@JohnNgirachu
jngirachu@ke.nationmedia.com
A
ttorney-General Githu Muigai
and top officials of the State
Law Office are under siege as
the Law Society of Kenya prepares a
legal onslaught for what it describes
as their unconstitutional, illegal and
unprofessional handling of the Anglo
Leasing-type cases.
LSK chairman Eric Mutua said the as-
sociation of lawyers is of the opinion that
Prof Muigai (above), Solicitor-General
Njee Muturi and Deputy Solicitor-General
Muthoni Kimani were either negligent
or conspired with the Executive to com-
mit the legal blunders that resulted in
Kenya having to pay Sh1.4 billion for
LSK wants
Githu to
step aside
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
BUSINESS
REFINERY SAGA: STATE PREPARES
TO PAY ESSAR AGAINST MPS ADVICE
But government plans to slash payout by 40
per cent as damages for breach of capital
covenant . P. 36
News P. 2-11, Back
Opinion P. 12-13
Letters P. 14
Sunday Review P. 15-34
Business P. 36-39
World P. 40-43
Sport P. 45-51
INDEX
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BY JOHN NGIRACHU
@JohnNgirachu
jngirachu@ke.nationmedia.com
A
ttorney-General Githu
Muigai and top ocials
of the State Law Oce
are under siege as the Law So-
ciety of Kenya prepares a legal
onslaught for what it describes
as their unconstitutional, il-
legal and unprofessional
handling of the Anglo Leas-
ing-type cases.
LSK chairman Eric Mutua
said the association of law-
yers is of the opinion that
Prof Muigai (above), Solici-
tor-General Njee Muturi and
Deputy Solicitor-General
Muthoni Kimani were either
negligent or conspired with the
Executive to commit the legal
blunders that resulted in Kenya
having to pay Sh1.4 billion for
suspicious contracts. The LSK
said it would ask Prof Muigai,
Mr Muturi and Ms Kimani to
show cause why a Certicate of
Dishonour shouldnt be issued
to each of them.
The society is also headed
to court to le a suit to declare
the trio unsuitable to hold of-
ce and surcharge them for all
the costs of the case.
Mr Mutua said they would
further seek to remove the
Attorney-General from the
roll of Senior Counsel, one of
the recognitions of experience
and scholarly excellence in the
legal profession reserved for
the most senior of them.
In the meantime, said Mr
Mutua, Prof Muigai should va-
cate his oce by resigning.
We believe very strongly
that the President was either
misdirected or misadvised by
the Office of the Attorney-
General to order payments in
respect of these Anglo Leasing-
type contracts or he was privy
to certain information which
the public was not privy to,
said Mr Mutua.
The President has been
looped in by being misled that
we lost the cases. We did not
lose the cases in England. We
agreed to pay. We conspired
to pay irregularly, said Mr
Mutua.
He said that contrary to
the assertions by the Attor-
ney-General, Kenya can still
appeal the judgment.
In a rejoinder, Prof Mui-
gai said he was extremely
shocked by the statement
from the LSK, found it highly
unethical, unprofessional, ir-
responsible and actuated by
malice and that, in eect, Mr
Mutua shouldnt point ngers
as he is under investigation.
Prof Muigai said that be-
cause the LSK has already led
a case in the courts seeking to
stop the government from pay-
ing the two rms, commenting
about the issues outside the
courts amounts to contempt.
The oce of the Attorney-
General has full condence in
the judicial process and shall
await the orders of the courts.
At an appropriate time we shall
cite the Council for contempt
of the courts before whom this
matter is pending, he said.
The chairman of the Law
Society is himself presently
under investigation by the
Directorate of Public Prosecu-
tion on the advice of the Kenya
Police for alleged criminal of-
fences relating to the illegal
and unlawful sale of Malili
Ranch, Prof Muigai said.
One would expect him, of
all people, to have respect for
the due process of law. Indeed,
one would expect the council
of the law society whose man-
date is to uphold professional
ethics and etiquette within the
profession to have regard for
the rule of law and to refrain
from being judges in its own
cause.
Despite the fact that the gov-
ernments rst instructions on
the case were issued to former
Attorney-General Amos Wako,
who it said frustrated govern-
ment lawyers, failed to issue
instructions and respond to let-
ters, Mr Mutua said Mr Wako,
now the Senator for Busia, is
not among the people they
want to take responsibility.
In March 2010, Mr Wako
abandoned the defence of
corruption and illegality of
the contracts and agreed
after mediation that the Ken-
yan government pay Universal
LSK takes on Githu,
Solicitor-General over
Anglo Leasing payout
FILE | NATION
Attorney-General Githu Muigai (right) with Solicitor-General Njee
Muturi. The two law men have come under re for their handling of
the Anglo Leasing cases.
NEGLIGENCE | Lawyers club accuses State Law Oce of causing legal blunders on an unacceptable scale
Satspace $7.6 million. Kenya
did not pay and that was when
the case was taken to the courts
in Europe.
It appears like the Attorney-
General followed the advice
from Cabinet and instructed
the foreign lawyers, with ex-
pertise in complex commercial
litigation, but after 2010, that
is when now we take over as
Kenyan lawyers in the oce
of the Attorney-General, said
Mr Mutua.
To a very big extent, the
buck stops with the current
Attorney-General, said Mr
Mutua.
Mr Mutua said that in De-
cember 2013, as the date for the
judgment neared, the State Law
Oce failed to respond to ve
letters from Kenyas lawyers in
London seeking instructions,
which enabled the judge to
strike out Kenyas defence
and make a judgment against
the country.
He said the lawyers from
the rm of Edwin Coe wrote
to the AG saying that Kenya
was handling the case in a
very casual manner.
There is a lot of money
involved, I dont seem to be get-
ting adequate instructions on
the matter and Im concerned
why the AG is handling the
matter in a very casual manner,
read one of the letters.
Mr Muturi then appeared be-
fore the judge in London and
was allowed to act on behalf
of Kenya despite the fact that
he did not have a certicate to
practise in the United Kingdom
and Wales, making his submis-
sions invalid.
We have been hurt as a
professional body because of
misconduct by our colleagues.
Secondly we believe there was a
conspiracy that was hatched in
Kenya and went to London and
it may have involved judicial
ocers, said Mr Mutua.
Judge compromised
The LSK said that from its
analysis of the case, from a
trove of documents it had ob-
tained, the British judge who
handled the case between
Universal Satspace and Kenya,
a Justice Teare, was either in-
competent or compromised in
the matter.
Apart from allowing Mr
Muturi to appear before him
without a licence, Mr Mutua
claimed that the judge ruled
against Kenya based on hear-
say and based on oral evidence
without the documents in
which Kenya was said to have
agreed to pay $7.6 million after
mediation.
The judge appears to have
been casual in dealing with the
Kenyan case by ignoring the
weighty matters of corruption
and bribery which were pleaded
in the defence and counter-
claim, said Mr Mutua.
LSK says it will petition the
British Government to investi-
gate the entire proceedings to
establish whether there was a
conspiracy involving the judge,
and will contact the Law So-
ciety of England and Wales to
follow up the case.
Overall, the LSK Council re-
served its harshest criticism for
Prof Muigai, Mr Muturi and Ms
Kimani, who it basically accuses
of professional negligence, mis-
judgments and blunders on an
unacceptable scale.
Githu Muigai, AG: Was
responsible for instructing
the foreign lawyers han-
dling Kenyas case; failed
to respond to letters from
lawyers seeking instruction
on the matter.
Njee Muturi, Solicitor-
General: Acted on Kenyas
behalf despite not having
a certicate to practise in
the United Kingdom.
Muthoni Kimani, Deputy
Solicitor-General: Ad-
vised the governments
lawyers not to advance
the allegation that the
suspiciois contracts were
procured through bribery
and corruption
ACCUSATIONS
Ocers made
legal blunders
Letters the AG received
from Kenyas lawyers in
London regarding the
Anglo Leasing case
5
The statement by LSK
is highly unethical and
actuated by malice. In
eect, Mutua should
not point ngers as he
is under investigation.
- Githu Muigai
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
2 | National News
BY JAMES NGUNJIRI
@mjngunjiri
ngunjirij@ke.nationmedia.com
W
ildlife lovers are mourning the
death of an elephant nicknamed
Mountain Bull that was killed
by poachers last week.
The enigmatic bull is described by
conservationists at Lewa Wildlife Con-
servancy in Isiolo County as an animal
whose dedication to using the traditional
elephant migratory route in northern Kenya
captured the imagination of many and led
to numerous conservation initiatives.
But to those who had settled along the
elephants migratory route or those neigh-
bouring the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
the 46-year-old elephant was nothing
but big trouble.
During the dry season, the six tonne
beast would often retreat to the cool and
quiet Mount Kenya forest, while in the wet
season he would be active in exploring the
expansive countryside in the north, knock-
ing down any fences he came across and
eating his ll of farmers crops.
Conservationists say Mountain Bull
was often involved in cases of human-
elephant conflict, opening gates and
raiding farms that lie on these elephant
routes. This way, it highlighted the issue
of human-wildlife conict in the country
and enabled them to develop mitigation
strategies.
This led to the legendary elephants
tusks being trimmed in October 2012 at
the neighbouring Borana Conservancy.
With shorter tusks, Mountain Bull found
it more dicult to snap fence wires and
raid farms.
Besides, wildlife conservationists ex-
pected that the trimming of the tusks
would make the animal less attractive to
poachers.
Mountain Bull had been tted with a
GPS-GSM collar by Save the Elephants, a
nonprot organisation, enabling him to be
tracked as he traversed Samburu, Lewa,
Ngare Ndare and Mount Kenya forest
ecosystems.
But early last week, Lewa Wildlife Con-
servancy co-founder Ian Craig noticed that
the elephant had been immobile; its collar
had not emitted any signal from its last
reported position in Mt Kenya Forest.
He raised the alarm and a search team
from Lewa Conservancy and the Mount
Kenya Trust, an organisation dedicated
to helping preserve and protect Mount
Kenya, was launched.
Mountain Bulls carcass was found
deep in the forest at around 4.30 pm on
Thursday. It spotted spear wounds and its
tusks were missing. It is suspected that
the elephant had been poached eight days
before its carcass was found.
According to the Lewa Conservancy, no
other animal had had greater impact on
wildlife conservation in northern Kenya
than Mountain Bull. Many credit the
elephant for being the force behind the
construction of the pioneering elephant
corridor stretching from Mount Kenya
through Lewa and onwards north into
the wide expanse of Samburu, connecting
Lewa Conservancy and the Ngare Ndare
Forest Trust to Mt Kenya.
Lewa chief conservation ocer, Mr
Georey Chege said this has led to the
opening up of the traditional migratory
route of over 2,000 African elephants that
had previously been blocked by human de-
velopment in Mt Kenya.
Mountain Bull has been following
those migratory routes, of which one
comes from Lewa into Mt Kenya and then
back, and used to break through fences
that separate the two landscapes. This
brought together like-minded personali-
ties and conservationists in Kenya with
the intention of establishing a safe cor-
ridor that was to be used by the elephants
in moving between Samburu and Mount
Kenya forest, he said.
The corridor is estimated to be approxi-
mately 10 km long and it has an electric
fence on both sides so that elephants can be
funnelled when they are coming from Lewa
to Mt Kenya Forest, and vice-versa.
Elephants have got very good memory
and they always follow their traditional mi-
gratory routes. Historically, elephants used
to migrate all the way from northern Kenya
through Mount Kenya into Laikipia, then
back through the same route, Mr Chege
observed.
He said that due to signicant human
development, most of the migratory routes
have been blocked by development and
related infrastructure.
The elephant corridor linking Lewa to
Mount Kenya was inaugurated in 2010
and since the rst elephant went through
the underpass in January 2011, Lewa Con-
servancy has recorded more sightings of
elephants and other wildlife making use
of the highway.
And to assist the conservancy and its
neighbouring ranches to better understand
elephant movement between the mountain,
Lewa and Samburu ecosystems, Save the
Elephants provided the technical expertise
to t 20 elephants in the three ecosystems
with GPS-GSM collars.
Equipped with these collars, the animals
are being tracked on a daily basis using a
Google Earth interface.
In addition, Lewa has installed infrared
cameras on the corridor underpass to moni-
tor movement of other elephants that do
not have the GPS-GSM collars.
It is estimated that close to 300 ele-
phants have used the underpass since its
inauguration, reinforcing the importance
of the corridor.
The groundbreaking establishment of
the corridor led to Kenyas most recent
Unesco World Heritage Site inscription
when in June of 2013, Lewa and Ngare
Ndare Forest were extended to be part
of the Mount Kenya World Heritage Site.
Conservationists at Lewa said that the
enigmatic Mountain Bull taught them
much about animal behaviour, migration
routes as well as patterns, and to a large
extent, left many inspired by his bravery
and resilience.
Elephant that symbolised Kenyas wildlife
conservation campaign found killed at 46
POACHING| Animal brought attention and eorts towards human-wildlife conict in the country
Tracking
system
showed the
animal was
immobile,
only for it
to be later
found dead
with spear
wounds
and no
tusks
Elephants have got very good
memory and they always follow
thair traditional migratory routes
...
Lewa Chief Conservation Ocer
Georey Chege
JOSEPH KANYI | NATION
Game wardens from Lewa Conservancy in Laikipia inspect Mountain Bulls carcass after it
was killed by poachers in Mt Kenya Forest and its tusks hewn o.
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
National News 3
BY KENFREY KIBERENGE
@KenKiberenge
kkiberenge@ke.nationmedia.com
AND KEVIN J KELLEY
in New York
T
he magnitude of the terror threat
facing the country was exposed
yesterday after it emerged that
the US ambassador had requested extra
security and will reduce the size of sta
working at the embassy.
Mr Robert Godec, in a statement,
maintained that the embassy would
remain open for normal operations
and there were no plans to close it
down.
But an Associated Press (AP) report
said Mr Godec had sent a letter to the
more than 1,300 embassy sta on Fri-
day telling them that he would reduce
the embassys overall footprint in
Kenya by cutting the number of Ameri-
cans in the Nairobi mission. US-based
AP is one of the worlds biggest and
most respected news agencies.
Yesterday, Mr Godec said his fore-
most interest was to protect American
citizens and to keep them informed,
which is an important responsibility of
every US ambassador and embassy.
The embassy is continuously
reviewing and updating its security
measures, and expects to take addi-
tional steps in coming days, to include
US stang, said the ambassador.
In the Friday letter, he said Ken-
yan police officers were fortifying
security at the embassy pending the
arrival of Marines from Washington
next week.
The United States greatly ap-
preciates the Kenyan Governments
rapid response to requests for addi-
tional security at diplomatic facilities
while it also increases security at
public and other critical venues,
said the ambassador yesterday.
The AP reported that armed Marines
were patrolling the grounds clad in bul-
let-proof vests and helmets and that
the frequency of emergency drills that
tell embassy personnel to duck and
cover are on the rise.
Unfortunately, the US Government
continues to receive information about
potential terrorist threats aimed at both
Kenyans and the international com-
munity, Mr Godec said.
Kenya has experienced 12 explosions
since last years Westgate attack, which
have claimed 30 lives.
The British Government has
evacuated more than 500 tourists
from Kenyas coast after issuing a
travel advisory on Wednesday citing
an increasing terror threat against its
nationals.
The US, France and Australia have
issued similar advisories.
However, the latest attacks have
raised eyebrows as the Al-Shabaab
terrorist group has not been claiming
responsibility as is the norm.
For President Uhuru Kenyatta, this
was a week to forget as insecurity
swelled while he was still grappling with
a public backlash stemming from his
order to Treasury to pay Sh1.4 billion
owed to two companies, which were
part of the infamous Anglo Leasing
scandal.
As the Head of State prepared to
address a press conference at State
House on Friday, twin blasts rocked
Gikomba market in Nairobi, killing
at least 12 people and injuring more
than 70.
Later in the evening, Coast hoteliers
announced that they had lost Sh100
million in two days following the travel
advisories. The Presidents frustration
with the travel advisories was evident
when he said such announcements will
only strengthen the will of terrorists as
opposed to helping us win that war.
Terrorism is not an evil that was
born in Kenya. Terrorism is a world-
wide phenomenon. Many countries are
faced with this particular problem. We
have seen the ongoings in Nigeria, in
India, Pakistan. We have seen terror-
ist attacks in London, New York, in
Boston. Terrorism is not an issue that
is peculiar to Kenyans. This is an evil
that all of us around the world must
be united to ensure that we are able
to ght, President Kenyatta said on
Friday. I continue to urge my fellow
citizens to join us in this battle and
to ensure we root it out from our
midst.
Yesterday, Mr Munyori Buku, the
director of media and external rela-
tions at State House, termed the
advisories and evacuations as eco-
nomic sabotage.
Could somebody be green all the
face with envy over the recent visit by
the Chinese Premier (Mr Li Keqiang)?
Well Kenya, as a sovereign nation, picks
its friends, said Mr Buku.
The Presidents spokesman added
that the Coast evacuations were based
on nothing tangible, noting that some
British tourists had complained that
they did not understand why they were
being asked to go back home.
This is a straightforward and shut
case economic sabotage! he told the
Sunday Nation.
Quoting a source in the Foreign
Oce, The Independent newspaper in
London reported that the UK Govern-
ment did not take the threats lightly,
adding that the evacuation had been
decided at ministerial level.
We are aware of the concerns this
will cause in Kenya, said the source.
But the safety of British nationals is
our priority and this decision was very
carefully thought through.
It is instructive that both America
and the UK have never evacuated
their nationals unless a country was
at war.
In Kenya, the future looks bleak with
tourism stakeholders estimating that
the direct cost on the economy will be
in the region of Sh5 billion.
On Friday, Thomson, one of the
largest UK travel agencies, cancelled
all ights to and from Kenya until
October 31.
Tourism netted Kenya Sh96 billion
in 2012 and Sh93 billion last year, mak-
ing it one of the top income earners
for Kenya.
Tourism Secretary Phyllis Kandie
yesterday appealed to the four coun-
tries to withdraw the travel advisories
saying terrorism is a global challenge
that requires concerted eorts by all
to defeat. We will work tirelessly with
the private sector and our foreign part-
ners to ensure that Kenya remains a
recognised commercial hub in Africa,
she said.
With traditional sources now threat-
ened, Kenya could look East although
China is still a nascent market. The
largest Chinese tourist delegation to
Kenya was a group of 110 holidaymak-
ers last month. In contrast, last year,
there were 149,699 tourist arrivals
from the UK; the US had 115,636;
Italy 79,993 and India and Germany
64,887 and 60,450 respectively.
But despite the high stakes, the gov-
ernment seems to have resigned itself
to fate with many Kenyans questioning
the viability of the security measures
put in place.
However, the government maintains
it is working tirelessly to contain the
situation. The latest eort was the
US to send in more
marines and reduce
embassy sta over
terrorist threats
SECURITY| American move comes soon after British Government evacuated more than 500 tourists from Kenyas coast citing
But ambassador says there are no plans to close mission even as
Washington continuously reviews security situation in Kenya
The United
States greatly
appreciates
the Kenyan
governments
rapid
response to
requests for
additional
security at
diplomatic
facilities
while it also
increases
security at
public and
other critical
venues,
Mr Godec
FILE| NATION
Part of the 110
tourists from
China who visited
the country last
month, rais-
ing hopes for a
sector that has
suered over ter-
rorism threats.
As some Western
nations asked
their citizens
to leave Kenya,
the government
hopes other
countries and
Kenyans will con-
tinue to stand by
Kenya.
Police holding four for questioning over
BY ZADOCK ANGIRA
zangira@ke.nationmedia.com
Anti-terrorism police are interrogating
four suspects over the Friday afternoon twin
blasts at Gikomba market that left at least 12
people dead.
Nairobi County Commander Benson Kibue
said three of the suspects were students from
Comoros Island while one was a Kenyan iden-
tied as Joseph Wanjiru.
The suspects were arrested shortly after
the blast that claimed 12 lives and injured
over 80 people.
Inspector-General of Police David Kimaiyo
has also said security agents have enhanced
security across the country with special focus
on diplomatic missions following the recent
terror attacks.
Elsewhere, three of the four suspects behind
the May 4 blast along Thika Superhighway
have been arrested after two weeks hunt in
a well-coordinated covert operation.
One of the suspects was arrested at the Liboi
border as he was crossing over to Somalia.
According to intelligence reports, the attack-
ers crossed over to Somalia last year where
they trained for about eight months.
They came back into the country on May 2,
just two days before they planted the Impro-
vised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in the Githurai
and Kasarani-bound vehicles.
However, detectives are still looking for the
fourth suspect who is still at large.
The deputy commandant of the Diplomatic
Police Unit (DPU), Mr Ambrose Mwawaka,
yesterday told the Sunday Nation that secu-
rity had been enhanced especially in Gigiri.
The US has also provided additional security
personnel. Armed US marines have also joined
the General Service Unit (GSU) and the DPU
ocers in patrolling the area.
On Friday, the United States Ambassador in
Kenya, Mr Robert Godec, asked for additional
Kenyan and American security personnel.
Police have also warned of the possibility of
secondary attacks and warned members of the
public against milling around such scenes.
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
4 | National News
March 1, 1975: A bomb
blast at East Africa Road
services bus terminus
(OTC) on racecourse
road in Nairobi kills 27
people and injures 35
others.
December 31, 1980: A
bomb explosion at Nor-
folk Hotel in Nairobi just
before the New Year kills
20 people and injures 85
others.
August 7, 1998: A Bomb
explodes at the US Em-
bassy in Nairobi killing
224 people and injuring
many.
November 28, 2002:
A bomb blast blows up
paradise Hotel in Kikam-
bala on the North Coast
killing 15people and
injuring 80 others.
October 15, 2011: Kenya
declares war on Al-
shabaab. Defense Min-
ister Yusuf Haji and his
Internal Security coun-
terpart George Saitoti
say Military would pur-
sue Al Shabaab across
the border.
October 16, 2011,: Two
Britons are arrested near
the Kenya-Somalia bor-
der on suspicion of hav-
ing links with al Shabaab
October 18, 2011: Kenya
and Somalia seal pact to
hit Al Shabaab
0ctober 19, 2011: Dep-
uty police spokesman
Charles Wahongo con-
rms that two Britons
arrested at Kenya-So-
malia border have been
deported.
CHRONOLOGY
Terror attacks in Kenya and the war on Al Shabaab
move by President Kenyatta to dis-
perse executive powers to the County
Commissioners on Thursday.
The opposition has criticised the
move as the return of the infamous
provincial administration.
Inspector-General of Police David
Kimaiyo has also issued a directive that
cars should not have tint on windows.
He said the tints are used by terrorists
to hide inside vehicles.
But yesterday, the Independent
Policing Oversight Authority termed
the directive unlawful. It is completely
erroneous and irregular for the police
to impound private motor vehicles
on the purport that they have tinted
windows, said IPOA chairman Mach-
aria Njeru.
Senior ocials at the Interior min-
istry are also said to be on edge with
the directive which they consider an
unnecessary sideshow.
A legal opinion sent to Interior
Secretary Joseph ole Lenku and his
Principal Secretary Mutea Iringo cites
a 2012 ruling by Justice Isaac Lenaola
that said the rule only aects public
service vehicles. The government has
also contracted Safaricom to install a
Sh14.9 billion security surveillance
system in Nairobi and Mombasa to
boost the war on crime.
Security agencies have been conduct-
ing swoops on illegal immigrants who
have been blamed for the incessant ex-
plosions in Nairobi and Mombasa.
The ongoing operation is expected
to continue into the next nancial year
and Sh3.3 billion has been allocated
for it.
Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero has
also directed the Inspectorate Depart-
ment and other security agencies to
ensure that people and vehicles enter-
ing or leaving public markets and PSVs
are screened.
City Hall has taken security meas-
ures throughout the county and in
particular all public markets to ensure
that they are protected, he said.
Interior ministry spokesman
Mwenda Njoka yesterday said the
measures will work in due course.
We are dealing with mistakes of
more than 10 years. Cumulatively, all
these eorts will work and Kenyans
will feel and be safe, he said.
Mr James Ndungu, the arms control
and policing project manager at Safe
World, argues that Kenyas biggest mis-
take was deploying soldiers in Somalia
without marching that with adequate
investment in internal security.
There is a big systemic challenge
in our immigration and policing in-
stitutions which have not been well
supported to deal with issues of illegal
immigrants coupled with corruption,
he says.
intelligence over possible attacks targeting Western visitors
BY AGGREY MUTAMBO
@agmutambo
amutambo@ke.nationmedia.com
Survivors of the Gikomba twin explosions have re-
counted happenings at the popular market after the
blasts.
The attack, which saw 12 killed and over 75 hospi-
talised, targeted a market known traditionally to sell
second-hand clothes.
I heard the rst blast, but ignored it. I thought, maybe,
it was just a tyre burst. I moved back a few yards before
the second explosion went o, said Mr Timothy Eboya
who had gone to buy bed sheets.
He had visited the market several times, he said,
and not at any moment had he been worried about
his safety.
Moments later, I realised blood was oozing from my
chest. I didnt know I had been hit by an object because
everyone was running. It was chaotic, the 51-year-old
mason from Emuhaya in Vihiga County told reporters
from his bed.
He was spending the second day at the hospital, but
he admitted his family was not aware he was among
those injured in the terror attacks. His phone, he said,
was charging when the blast went o. And when he
tried calling home later, no one picked. He still hopes
they know he is recovering. He spoke as he showed a
bandaged wound near his stomach.
Ms Janet Kahonga went to Gikomba to buy sweaters.
Standing in a stall where second-hand pullovers were
being sold, she said all she heard were two successive
blasts before everyone started running.
I had been there less than ve minutes when I heard
the explosions. We were many people in that stall select-
ing sweaters. But something hit me on my head after the
second blast went o. Moments later, rescuers loaded
her onto an ambulance.
Mr Timothy Kahera, who sells clothes at Gikomba,
said he walked out of his stall to check what was hap-
pening when he heard the rst explosion. Then the
second one went o. I tried to run but, after a few yards,
I realised I was bleeding.
His stall was near an electric transformer, where
clothes were strewn high up the electric cables. He
said he would rethink going back to Gikomba once he
leaves hospital.
Kenyatta National Hospitals emergency wing has
handled several terror victims since October 2011 when
Kenya Defence Forces entered Somalia. The countrys
largest public hospital has treated several head and limb
injuries sustained by survivors of suspected terrorist
attacks believed to have been perpetuated by Somali
militants Al-Shabaab.
The group has not acknowledged responsibility for
the Gikomba blast. Most of the survivors of the Friday
explosion said they were confused because it was the
rst time they were caught up in the commotion of a
terror attack.
Two sisters, Levinah and Jennifer Soita, said they
were going about shopping when an explosion went o.
They ran to save their lives.
We were to get back to town from Gikomba when my
sister saw a blouse that attracted her. She asked me to
have a look at it before we proceed to town. But shortly
after, we heard a loud blast, said Jennifer.
When I heard the rst blast, I was confused, because
I had never experienced this. I ran a short distance and
fell down. I ran because other people were running and
I thought maybe it was a good thing to do, she added
from her hospital bed.
We had gone to do shopping, we were standing beside
the road then the explosion happened, I fell down and
my sister fell down too. I lost consciousness and found
myself in hospital, Levinah said.
For Maureen Waithera, a student, shopping at Gikomba
was not a new thing. She was at the market as she had
done many times before. But as she passed by a petrol
station, the blasts happened.
A car passed by, then all of a sudden, it exploded. A
few minutes later, next to where I was standing, there
was another object that went o, she said.
I dont know whether it was thrown or was buried
in the ground, but I remember seeing dust and objects
being thrown in the air. I was shocked, but tried to run
asking for help. I fell down. I was injured in my leg and
my chest.
They were speaking from Ward 42 of the hospital
meant for emergency cases. But these days, it could
be labelled the ward for terror survivors since nearly
everyone admitted there has injuries from a terrorist
attack. Bandaged legs and limbs, slung arms, and other
injuries are a common feature in the ward. There were
36 survivors from the Gikomba incident in the ward.
The hospital said it admitted 103 patients from the at-
tack, 58 male while the rest were female. By last evening
at 6 pm, 47 had been treated and discharged. Some 12
others had been moved to various hospitals in the city.
The number of people who died on arrival were eight.
Four others had died immediately the explosions went
o, making a total of 12.
The management and the sta have managed to han-
dle the cases very well, and all the patients as we speak
are in stable condition, Ms Lily Koros, the hospitals
chief executive, told journalists in a brieng.
We received the support of the public. We have
received some blood as we are talking now, which is
assisting in the operations. Everything is under control,
she said. We can say that what (blood) we have is able
to handle the cases that have been taken to the theatre
and those in the theatre. Unless there is any other issue
that might emerge, we can say we are not in dire need
at the moment but of course blood is something that
is required not only by the victims but other patients
in hospital.
Survivors recall moments
after explosives detonated
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Mr Thomas Kahera recuperates at Kenyatta National Hos-
pital yesterday.
Police holding four for questioning over
the blast at Gikomba
I want to urge members of the pub-
lic who may have any information in
respect to this incident to come forward
and share the same with the police.
They should also desist from crowding
or milling around scenes of crime for
their own safety, said Mr Kimaiyo.
The US has been joined by other
countries like Britain, France and
Australia who have also warned their
citizens of possible terror attacks in
Nairobi and Mombasa. However, there
are no specic details regarding the
potential attacks.
Even the US Embassy in Nairobi
admitted to its citizens that they did
not have the ne details of the targeted
places.
While there is no specic informa-
tion regarding the stage of any attack,
preparations, targets, or timing towards
US citizens, we would like to remind
US citizens that targets for these at-
tacks could include hotels, nightclubs,
shopping malls, diplomatic missions,
transportation hubs, religious institu-
tions, government oces, or public
transportation, read the notice.
Mr Godec had regretted that the
security situation in Kenya, especially
in Nairobi and Mombasa, continued
to worsen.
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National News 5
STATE OF THE NATION
BY DANIEL NYASSY
@dnyassy
dnyassy@ke.nationmedia.com
P
layers in the tourism industry
have described the evacuation
of tourists from the Coast as
deliberate economic sabotage.
They said Kenya was paying for
making wrong political choices, es-
pecially when it comes to its foreign
relations.
The Kenya Association of Hotel-
keepers and Caterers (KAHC) and
the Mombasa and Coast Tourist
Association (MCTA) leaders said
the evacuation of British, Australian
and French tourists from hotels in
the South Coast raises more queries
than answers.
I have never seen this in all my
30-plus years in the industry. This
happens elsewhere, not in Kenya,
and only when the host country is at
war or severely threatened by war and
insecurity. This is not the case with
Kenya, that is why we believe it is
sabotage, said KAHC Kili County
chairman Philip Chai, who is also the
general manager of Lion in the Sun
Hotel owned by Italian billionaire
Flavio Briatore in Malindi.
Mr Chai termed the evacuations as
the last nail on the tourism con
for Kenya. He added that although
they were totally uncalled-for, they
are a result of choices we made and
we were told that choices have con-
sequences.
The director of MCTA Millicent
Odhiambo said the evacuations
will cause massive job layoffs
and greatly affect the economy.
The British issued an advisory this
week urging their citizens to reduce
all but essential travel to Mombasa
and Lamu, which are major tourist
destinations, as well as sections of
Nairobi. The Americans have also
issued a caution.
Mr Chai said a silent war between
Kenya and the West has been going
on for sometime and the evacuations
are a culmination of the souring rela-
tions.
There has been a deliberate war to
kill the tourism industry because I be-
lieve the West is unhappy with Kenya
diverting her allegiance to China. The
signs have been there for sometime.
First, it was calls for foreigners not
to visit shopping malls, restaurants
and eating places, he said.
Then it went to insurance compa-
nies in Europe warning clients that
they risked losing compensation in
case something happened while they
were on holiday in Kenya. Then they
went ahead to refuse to pay insurance
LABAN WALLOGA | NATION
Tourists at the Moi international
Airport on Friday wait for ights
back home.
Hoteliers cry foul over tourist evacuations
RELATIONS | Some believe Kenya is paying for changing its foreign policy, which has seen the country embrace China
cover for travellers to Kenya.
He termed the move by the West as
a poisonous jab to Kenyas economy
which will have devastating eects.
Mr Chai warned that the Chinese,
like the Europeans, are not up to
any good for the country, but were
seeking wealth to exploit for their
motherland.
Its only a matter of time before we
see them looting the country like their
predecessors or even worse. Surely,
even if they pretend to be building
infrastructure for Kenya, they will
buy equipment from factories in their
country and not locally, he said.
He further warned that Chinese are
not known to be ghters of terrorism
and Kenya should be able to stand on
its own without aid from the West, in
the event that the attacks continue.
When the Westgate attack oc-
curred, we saw Israelis, Americans
and Britons helping us, not the Chi-
nese, he said.
He added that the entire Coast,
from Vanga in the south to Mambrui
in the north, will be hit hard. Among
those to suer, besides hotels are,
vegetable suppliers, landlords and
Kenya Revenue Authority.
Heritage Hotels chief executive
Mohamed Hersi described the evacu-
ations as bad for the industry but
blamed the tourists home countries
for taking hasty action and extending
cancellations to the end of October.
Fortunately, they conducted the
evacuations during the low season. I
feel that the action was exaggerated.
They should not have extended the
cancellations to October, he said.
According to Mr Hersi, the way
forward is for Kenya to engage gov-
ernments of source markets such as
Britain, France, Germany, USA and
Australia on a one-on-one basis in
order to come up with a workable
formula.
Bahari Beach Hotel Operations
Manager Godfrey Juma said Kenyans
should be hopeful as all was not lost.
Mombasa County Commissioner Nel-
son Marwa also assured tourists and
people visiting the region that the area
was a safe destination.
They note Kenya is
not at war or severely
threatened to warrant
removal of tourists

I believe the West is

unhappy with Kenya
shifting allegiance to
China.
Kili County tourist body
chair, Mr Philip Chai
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7
the amount involved. Accord-
ing to Article 228 (5) of the
Constitution, the Oce of the
Controller of Budget has the
nal authority on withdrawals
from public funds.
While economic experts criti-
cised the move as facilitating
expenditure of public money
in violation of the Constitu-
tion, on Friday the President
insisted that payments will
pave the way for the planned
sovereign bond to finance
various transformational ex-
penditure.
President Kenyatta ex-
plained there were fears that
the countrys creditworthiness
may be downgraded if it failed
to honour its international debt
obligations. This was likely to
lead to domestic borrowing by
the government with negative
implications such as higher in-
terest rates and ination.
Unrealistic targets
But Mr Owino diers: The
issue of the sovereign bond is
not a constitutional issue but a
policy instrument on the debt
question. And the argument
that Kenyas debt ranking will
go down does not hold.
On his part, Mr Jason
Lakin, the International
Budget Partnership Team
Kenya coordinator, accused
the Treasury of setting unre-
alistic targets on development
spending. He questioned the
ability of government agencies
to absorb development budg-
ets especially in infrastructure
spending even as it was shifting
its sources of foreign debt to
include free funding through
bonds.
The development budget
has been underspent year-
in-year-out. Kenya has
traditionally borrowed conces-
sional loans from donors, who
insist on tied aid and projects
for the money disbursed.
There is a clear shift because
bond holders do not give any
restrictions, Dr Lakin said on
telephone.
He added: Of the Sh400
billion set aside in the 2012/
13 year, only 50 per cent was
utilised.
He, however, said Kenya
needed a mix of local and
foreign debt to help check
macroeconomic pressures.
There is a lot of interest in
African debt by bond holders,
he said.
President Kenyatta explained
that the Eurobond was part
of the 2013/14 budget to raise
Sh132 billion.
Some of the programmes
we have lined up to benet Ken-
yans have stopped because of
our failure to pay Sh1.4 billion.
As a country, we need to move
forward with our development
programmes and other invest-
ments, said the President.
He said even though he
opposed the payment, Anglo
Leasing was standing in the
way of Kenyans moving for-
ward.
We will seek retribution
after paying up. We must show
the world that we are respect-
ers of law, he told reporters at
State House.
Among the projects that
were likely to be affected
were in the roads and energy
sectors. The Geothermal
Development Company, for
instance, requires Sh10 billion
to unlock counterpart funding
to finance some additional
200MW of power from new
sites planned to be opened up
in parts of the Rift Valley. The
rm has been grappling with
funding shortages. The Jubilee
government has pledged to in-
crease power generation to at
least 5,000MW and bring down
the cost of energy.
Some of the projects
under the 5,000 plus initia-
tive are likely to be delayed.
In addition, we need a lot of
counterpart funding for some
of our projects, said a top ex-
ecutive at the sector who did
not wish to be quoted discuss-
ing the controversial issue.
And at the Kenya National
Highways Authority, the im-
plementing agency for major
road projects, ocials said the
initial allocation of Sh8 billion
had been exhausted and that its
programmes were facing delays
arising from low budgetary al-
locations.
All our projects have suf-
fered a certain amount of
delay. We are indebted to
several contractors who have
slowed down work because our
basket of funding has reduced,
said a senior ocial, who also
requested anonymity.
Road construction
Contractors have either
started slapping penalties to
keep their equipment con-
tinuously at road construction
sites while others have scaled
down operations awaiting
payments.
Some projects like
Kili-Kaloleni which rely on
government funding cannot
begin. Others have scaled down
to below 50 trucks from 200
until they are paid. Projects
that would cost Sh1.2 billion
have shot up to Sh1.3 billion as
contractors demand payment
as idle capacity to keep their
machines at the sites, added
the source.
The developments came as
the Opposition Cord Coalition
and the Law Society of Kenya
opposed the decision to make
the Anglo Leasing payments.
LSK has sought the interven-
tion of the Chief Justice after
it led an application arguing
that any such payment would
be unconstitutional.
The Anglo Leasing scandal
started during the Moi era but
continued into President Mwai
Kibakis administration. It
involved ctitious companies
signing security-related con-
tracts with the government.
CONTROVERSY | President says payment will have positive impact on the countrys economy and improve credit ranking
Experts fault
Uhurus order
to pay Anglo
Leasing rms
BY ZEDDY SAMBU
@zeddysambu
zsambu@ke.nationmedia.com
E
xperts have faulted Pres-
ident Uhuru Kenyattas
defence of the payment
to two companies linked to the
Anglo Leasing scandal, saying
it was not backed by law.
The President on Friday
reiterated that he had no
choice but to authorise the
payment of Sh1.4 billion to
First Mercantile Securities and
Universal Satspace in order to
boost the countrys economy
and protect its reputation after
the two companies won court
cases against Kenya in the UK
and Switzerland. There have
also been fears that local in-
terest rates might rise and the
countrys assets abroad could
be seized by creditors.
But the decision on Thursday
evening came after Parliament
went on a break before approv-
ing the release of the funds.
On May 4, the Sunday Nation
reported that Controller of
Budget Agnes Odhiambo had
blocked the National Treasury
from quietly paying the two
Anglo Leasing companies be-
fore the approval of legislators.
However, President Kenyatta
is said to have met members
of the Budget committee of the
National Assembly before mak-
ing the announcement.
But yesterday, some experts
questioned the decision.
This is an issue of ex-
penditure of public money
which can only be authorised
by the Controller of Budget in
line with the Constitution. And
Parliament has the last word on
expenditure of public money,
said Mr Kwame Owino, CEO
for economic think tank Insti-
tute for Economic Aairs.
Mr Owino argued it was
more about transparency than
Controller of Budget
and Parliament have
last say on public
expenditure, argues
economic expert
Attorney-General Githu
Muigai had told the com-
mittees of Parliament about
the successful ling of the
case against the Kenya
government in July 2006,
and the subsequent appeal
and how the case moved
to mediation, where Kenya
lost again.
The mediation process
brought down a claim of
$14 million to $7.6 million,
he said.
But the claimant had not
been paid 10 months later
and Kenya was taken to a
court in London. The judg-
ment was upheld and Kenya
was ordered to pay.
MUST PAY
How the state
lost cases
FILE | NATION
Cabinet Secretary for the Treasury Henry Rotich (left), with Gachoka MP Mutava Musyimi after the
reading of the 2013/2014 budget. A House team the Rev Musyimi chairs had supported move to pay
the Anglo Leasing money.
STATE OF THE NATION

The issue of the

sovereign bond is
not a constitutional
issue but a policy
instrument on the
debt question
Mr Kwame Owino
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STATE OF THE NATION
BY SUNDAY NATION TEAM
newsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com
P
olitical parties leaders and
Members of Parliament re-
acted angrily to a decision
by President Uhuru Kenyatta to
delegate executive powers to
county commissioners.
Amani Coalition leader Musalia
Mudavadi, in a press statement
to newsrooms yesterday, said
the move was orchestrated by
the President to paralyse, water-
down and kill devolution, and
called on the President to re-as-
sess his decision.
The draconian instruments
that were employed and used to
oppress the people, such as the
provincial administration, were to
be dismantled to usher in a new
regime of access to fairness, said
Mr Mudavadi.
Unfettered executive power of
the national presidency exercised
at the county level by individuals
annihilates devolution and creates
instability.
He added: Loading the human
resource function of reward and
punishment to an individual dis-
torts and invades the prerogatives
of constitutional organs such as
the Public Service Commission
and responsibilities in governance
structures.
Mr Mudavadi termed as un-
constitutional to return to the
bad habit of awarding county
commissioners the role of co-
ordinating security while the
constitution vests this power in
the police service whose structure
runs from the Inspector General
to the eld constable.
If the county commissioner
has the prerogative to hire and
fire, what is the role of the
National Police Service Commis-
sion? posed Mr Mudavadi.
He went on: This duplication
and usurpation of responsibility
de-legitimises the constitutional-
ity of security organs in favour
of administrative at and will
escalate the state of insecurity
currently taking toll on innocent
Kenyans.
The move also attracted con-
demnation from ODM legislators
who accused the President of
causing chaos by creating two
parallel systems of government.
Led by Siaya senator James
Orengo, they claimed that the
President is out to cause chaos
by creating two parallel systems
of government.
What the President is doing
is not only illegal but unconsti-
tutional and must be rejected by
Kenyans. As Orengo, I will not
recognise any county commis-
sioner wherever I meet one,
he said.
MPs Jakoyo Midiwo (Gem), Mil-
lie Odhiambo (Mbita), Ken Obura
(Kisumu Central), Agostino Neto
(Mbita), Silvance Osele (Kabondo
Kasipul), George Oner (Rangwe)
James Rege (Karachuonyo) and
John Mbadi (Suba) supported
Mr Orengo.
The leaders spoke in Homa
Bay County during the burial of
Kibiri ward representative Boaz
Ondiek.
Mr Oburu said the move to
give county commissioners more
powers is a plot by the Jubilee
government to prepare ground
for rigging in the next general
election.
Mr Mbadi called on the Presi-
dent to respect the laws and
Constitution of the country, and
stop issuing decrees. Sovereignty,
he added, rests with the people
of Kenya and devolution is here
to stay.
Mr Midiwo, who is also the mi-
nority deputy chief whip, urged
Kenyans to reject the imposition
of county commissioners, saying
the move by President Kenyatta is
aimed at undoing democracy.
However, former Defence Min-
ister and Garissa County senator
Mohamed Yusuf Haji, speaking to
radio Salaam, defended the Presi-
dent, saying the restructuring of
the provincial administration was
part of the new dispensation.
The President is on the right
track. He is doing his constitu-
tional mandate of sprucing the
role of national government
through the commissioners,
he added.
He dismissed the claims by
ODM that the President was
practising authoritarianism,
and blamed the deterioration of
security on the watering down
of the role of the provincial
administration under the new
Constitution.
Just before the last general
elections, the Grand Coalition
appointed county commissioners
but some of us went to court to
challenge that, and this demor-
alised them, he said.
Reporting by Ouma Wanzala,
Maurice Kaluoch and Mwakera
Mwajefa
DUPLICATION OF ROLES | New county CEOs will take over certain roles of several constitutional bodies
Anger over commissioners executive powers
FILE | NATION
Mombasa County commissioner Nelson Marwa with the County Commander Robert Kitur. County commission-
ers received sweeping executive powers in governance policy changes made by President Kenyatta last week.
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Number of commissioners in the
country, who will be county chief
executives under new structure
Legislators condemn move
by President, say its expressly
targeted at paralysing devolution
What the
president
is doing
is illegal...
and must be
rejected by
Kenyans
Siaya Senator
James Orengo
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ously denied consulting for President
Kenyatta, but on Wednesday he told The
Star newspaper that he now consulted for
the government strictly as a business. In
the same interview he denied being Ms
Waigurus political adviser, even though
he mentioned nothing about his NYS role
that has now been revealed.
Ms Waiguru has also defended the ap-
pointment of Dr Githinji, a civilian, to head
a security outt, saying there was no law
that demanded a uniformed ocer to be at
the helm. Sources told the Sunday Nation
the Devolution ministry has previously
resisted attempts to transfer NYS to the
Interior ministry.
The chairperson of the Public Service
Commission, Mrs Margaret Kobia, sup-
ported the minister adding that the changes
were necessary as a result of the radical
transformation that NYS is undergoing.
Another controversial proposal that has
been put forward by the consultants is to
shorten the training period for recruits so
as to recruit about 20,000 youths a year
as opposed to the current 4,000. This is a
Jubilee agenda of creating youth employ-
ment.
But NYS insiders say that the organisa-
tion has no capacity to take in such a large
number of recruits.
On performance, the Ms Waiguru blamed
Mr Rugut saying NYS was unable to deliver
on its target of constructing 830 pans and
189 small dams this nancial year. They
only managed 80 pans. She explained she
gave the job to water service bodies in areas
they were supposed to be built resulting
in the awarding of 550 contracts that are
being carried out. Ms Waiguru now says
the function of constructing the water pans
and small dams in the next nancial year
would revert to the NYS.
In addition, the authority to incur
expenses was withdrawn after only Sh1
billion had been committed by the Rugut
administration.
But those interviewed say matters took
a turn for the worse after completion of
50 pans when Mr Rugut resisted corrupt
cartels keen on unprocedurally benetting
from the resources.
We were told of a senior ocer who
would make unauthorised visits to the
eld to demand kickbacks. When the mat-
ter reached Mr Rugut, he suspended the
ocer which was not taken kindly. From
then on, authority to undertake some of
the tasks and which initially came from
the director-general was being issued by
some ministry ocials without Mr Ruguts
knowledge.
Yesterday, Kericho Senator Charles
Keter, a close ally of Deputy President
Ruto, questioned the urgency of making
the changes and said the job should have
been competitively lled.
I think the way it was done leaves a lot
of questions unanswered. Why was it done
on a weekend and yet the person had not
committed an oence? You cannot act with
such immediacy unless there is something.
And yet Dr Githinji is a good man and an
excellent individual. The President and the
Deputy should discuss it, said Mr Keter,
adding that the matter was not expected to
cause cracks in the ruling coalition.
Leaders from Mr Rutos Rift Valley back-
yard, where Mr Rugut comes from, have
criticised the treatment of the respected
administrator.
He said there should be no speculation
and added; It should be handled in the
best way for Rugut.
BY PATRICK NZIOKA
@patricknzioka1
pnzioka@ke.nationmedia.com
O
n May 7, two days before the arrival
of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in a
landmark visit to Kenya, Devolution
Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru visited
the National Youth Service headquarters
in Ruaraka, Nairobi. She was received by
director-general Japther Kiplimo Rugut.
A picture was taken of the Cabinet Sec-
retary planting a tree. But a senior NYS
ocial who attended a closed-door meeting
with Ms Waiguru and Principal Secretary
Peter Mangiti said things were less than
cordial as the Cabinet Secretary warned
those who did not measure up to her vision
that they would be transferred.
The most signicant announcement was
that the Chinese Premier would visit NYS
on May 11. But according to the source,
on the appointed day, Mr Rugut received
a text message asking him not to attend
the event. The long-serving administrator
learnt that he had been transferred to the
Sports ministry, just like his predecessor
Japheth Mwania, and replaced by Dr Nel-
son Githinji.
It is an appointment that stirred con-
troversy within the Jubilee Alliance and
triggered debate on social media about
ethnic balance in appointments and
disrespect to senior civil servants such
as Mr Rugut.
But in an interview with the Sunday Na-
tion on Friday, Ms Waiguru denied sacking
Mr Rugut through an SMS, adding that
she followed proper procedures.
We released the director-general and
his deputy as well as other people because
we needed to change the situation, she
said.
On Friday, during a media brieng at
State House, President Uhuru Kenyatta
also denied Mr Rugut was relieved of his
duties through an SMS.
That is not true. What I can conrm
is that yes, indeed, the ocer who was
in charge of NYS was moved to another
State department in a normal reshue in
government. And again, what I can say is
that there will be more changes to come,
he said.
Dr Githinji, a former mid-level manager
at Coca Cola who later had a brief stint as
State House comptroller in the Mwai Kibaki
administration, reported to NYS on the day
the Chinese delegation visited alongside
Deputy President William Ruto. But later in
the week after President Kenyatta posted
photographs on Facebook of Dr Githinjis
swearing-in, State House took down the
post that had sharply divided opinion with
more than 4,500 comments.
Ms Waiguru acknowledged she initiated
the move to remove Mr Rugut within the
laid down procedure, saying he and his
team did not perform as expected.
Mr Rugut rose through the ranks to
become a provincial commissioner in the
last two governments and had only served
at NYS for a year. Multiple interviews with
ocials at NYS said no questions had
previously been raised on Mr Ruguts per-
formance and there were no complaints on
supplies and equipment to recruits.
We expected him to bring his own senior
ocials when he was appointed, but he
opted to work with those he found here.
However, we now believe it is some of those
people that have worked with outsiders to
undermine him, said a senior ocer, who
requested not to be named.
Interviews with those privy to the matter
conrmed a vicious ght at the institution
over the control of billions of shillings from
the government, donors and internally
generated revenue.
In the 2013/2014 nancial year, NYS re-
ceived Sh7 billion from the government out
of which about Sh5 billion was to construct
small dams and water pans across the
country. The institution is also said to be
generating about Sh600 million monthly
mostly from the hiring out of equipment
that include heavy machinery, drilling rigs,
earth movers and vehicles.
But to add to the intrigues, NYS ocials
say political commentator and consultant
Mutahi Ngunyi, famous for his tyranny
of numbers prediction of a Jubilee win
in the last General Election, was hired in
February to spearhead restructuring. It was
not clear how Mr Ngunyis services were
procured since no public advertisements
were made. NYS insiders also questioned
his skills in the area.
Fishy process
Mr Ngunyi came with three other peo-
ple and are sometimes based at the NYS
premises but all we were told was they
were consultants who would be working
to restructure NYS. We were, however, not
told of his terms of reference or how he
was hired, our NYS source said, adding
that the consultants contract was worth
millions of shillings.
Ms Waiguru acknowledged Mr Ngunyi
was indeed consulting for NYS but added
he was only working for a company that
had been given the job. The CS, however,
declined to name the consulting rm nor
the amount they were being paid. She re-
ferred the Sunday Nation to PS Mangiti for
details, but his phone went unanswered.
Ms Waiguru pointed out that the rm
was hired through restricted tendering
because NYS was a security outt just
like other uniformed disciplines and the
consultant was expected to handle sensi-
tive documents.
When asked on Thursday whether Mr
Ngunyi had the requisite know-how in re-
structuring organisations, the CS insisted
he was bringing to the table skills just like
any other consultant.
Mr Ngunyi has in the past strenu-
Waiguru: I did not re Rugut
via SMS, but he had to leave
FILE | NATION
Devolution and
Planning Cabinet
Secretary Anne
Waiguru waters
a tree at the
National Youth
Service head-
quarters on May
as Director Gen-
eral Japther Ru-
gut (centre) and
PS Peter Mangiti
(second right)
look on.
Cabinet secretary says due process
was followed in transferring director
general and explains that changes were
necessary to reform the youth service
CONTROVERSY | NYS ocials present in a previous meeting say minister had threatened those out to derail her vision
He was not
red by
SMS. He
was not the
only one.
We released
the director
general and
his deputy
as well as
other people
because we
needed to
change the
situation
Ms Waiguru
Sh7 billion
Amount of money allocated to the National
Youth Service in the 2013-2014 budget. The
service also receives donor funding besides
the millions it generates internally
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
10 | National News
BY ANDREW TEYIE
ateyie@ke.nationmedia.com
AND NEHEMIAH OKWEMBAH
nokwembah@yahoo.com
A
n Italian national who
has been living in Kenya
illegally was quietly
deported last week following al-
legations that he had links with
the dreaded Maa.
The Sunday Nation has estab-
lished that Giovanni De Caro, 70,
who security agencies associate
with the Milan branch of the
international criminal network,
was deported on Tuesday after
living in Malindi illegally for the
last three months.
This was his second deporta-
tion from Kenya.
Yesterday, Interior and Coordi-
nation Cabinet Secretary Joseph
ole Lenku conrmed that he had
signed the deportation order.
He was deported this week.
It is important that we protect
ourselves, our children and our
country from these kinds of peo-
ple, Mr Lenku said.
Malindi is a favourite of Italian
investors and tourists, earning it
the nickname Little Italy. The
foreigners largely live by their
own rules and impose Italian
culture.
De Caro has been a fugitive in
Kenya following alleged dier-
ences with the Maa in Italy. He
was rst deported from Kenya in
June 2012 after a Malindi court
declared him persona non-grata
(an unwelcome person) for his
alleged involvement in fraud,
forgery and organised crime.
He was also found to have
been residing in Kenya illegally
since his arrival in 1992. After
deportation to Italy, De Caro was
jailed for one-and-a-half years by
Italian authorities for economic
crimes.
Police said that upon comple-
tion of his jail term, De Caro ew
back to Kenya on February 19
this year and landed at the Jomo
Kenyatta International Airport
from Charles De Gaulle Airport
in Paris. He remained at the JKIA
lounge for two days from where he
contacted his Kenyan lawyers.
But security sources say De
Caro supposedly fell ill at the
lounge and sought medical at-
tention.
His lawyer was able to obtain
court orders allowing the subject
entry to Kenya for medical atten-
tion; thus De Caro was allowed
back in, said a source.
However, De Caro is said to
have later travelled to Malindi
in unclear circumstances, and
allegedly continued operating
his hotel business.
De Caro was previously associ-
ated with Malindis Oasis Village,
which has since changed name
and ownership.
According to close associ-
ates who spoke on condition of
anonymity, the Italian had tried
to sneak back to Kenya through
Mombasa International Airport
last November but was re-routed
back to Italy.
Banned from holding oce
According to information
from Italian court documents,
De Caro had been banned from
holding any public oce in Italy
after being found guilty of fraud.
It is said he was among a group
that, in 1990, formed a pyramid
scheme that defrauded thousands
of people of their money and then
escaped to Kenya. The scheme,
known as Network Florentine,
brought together 15 companies
and had at least 3,000 members
but collapsed in 1991, with the
directors making away with
shareholders money.
Sources among Italians in
Malindi said that De Caro was
feared in the coastal town, with
some alleging he may have been
a high-ranking Maa operative
in the region. He is even claimed
to have intimidated other inves-
tors.
He told me recently that he is
back and that I should prepare for
the worst, insisting that he would
kill me, said an Italian investor
in the hospitality industry, who
requested anonymity for fear of
reprisals.
The alleged presence of the
Maa in the Malindi underworld
has long been suspected, but with
little evidence. Foreign fugitives
are also thought to hide among
genuine investors who have
pumped billions of shillings into
Malindis economy.
Living illegally in the country for
20 years, De Caro has also been
previously charged with fraud,
forgery and organised crime
Italian with links
to dreaded Maa
sent back home
NATIONAL SECURITY | Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Lenku signed deportation order
FILE | NATION
Giovanni De Caro (centre) with his lawyer James Mouko during his trial at
the Malindi Law Courts in 2011. The Italian was deported on Tuesday for
alleged links to the dreaded Italian Maa.
BY ISAAC ONGIRI
@ongiri2
iongiri@ke.nationmedia.com
Kenya is set to open a diplo-
matic liaison oce in Hargeisa
city the capital of the breakaway
Somaliland State which, analysts
warn, could trigger tension be-
tween Kenya and Somalia.
The move comes even as the
peaceful former State of the trou-
bled Federal Republic of Somalia
celebrates the 23rd anniversary
since re-establishment of Soma-
liland as an autonomous state.
But yesterday, Foreign Aairs
Permanent Secretary Kibicho Ka-
ranja while conrming that Nairobi
has authorised the opening of a
liaison oce for Somaliland State
in Kenya, said Kenya will also open
a liaison oce in Hargeisa.
It is true that we are opening a
liaison oce in Haregeisha and we
have allowed Somaliland to open
theirs in Nairobi too. But that does
not mean well have a diplomatic
consulate, Dr Kibicho said.
The Federal Government of
Somalia is well briefed on this as
Kenya recognises the existence of
only one government in Somalia,
Dr Kibicho said.
Somalia is said to have protested
the move, given that Somaliland is
preparing to campaign for recogni-
tion at the African Union and the
United Nations.
Somaliland which currently
has a population of about three
million people seceded from
Somalia in 1991. It is located
to the north-western part of the
Somali Republic, and has enjoyed
relative stability.
Kenya to
open liaison
oce in
Somaliland
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National News 11
THIS AND THAT | Murithi Mutiga
W
hen people periodically
complain about the
extraordinary amount of
X-rated nonsense which issues from
the mouths of radio presenters on
Kenyan radio every morning, the
defenders of these stations leap
to their defence with a number of
arguments.
If you dont like it switch
channels, they suggest. That line
is obviously a non-starter because
at least eight out of 10 Nairobians
take their children to school in the
morning by public transport and
have no control over what radio
station blares out of the speakers.
This bedroom talk is popular,
they counter.
That may be true but one hardly
needs to make the point that what
the masses may nd interesting is
not always in the public interest.
Otherwise, TV stations worried
about ratings would simply show
pornography and rake in the
millions.
Those who argue that regulation
may amount to censorship make a
fair point.
People have the choice to listen
to what they please.
But the solution the Media
Council of Kenya should adopt
in dealing with this issue is fairly
simple and has worked in many
countries.
Simply stop the stations from
airing this stuff in the morning
and require them to discuss these
topics after, say, 10 or 11 pm.
There are few places on earth,
even in the most liberal and
nominally free societies, where
one is allowed to broadcast explicit
content at breakfast time.
That breaches the most basic
norms of decency. Ofcom, the
communications regulator in the UK,
for example, has a straightforward
rule: All adult content must only be
aired after 9 pm and, even then, it
should not come immediately after
that time but should be broadcast
progressively later.
If there are parents who will let
their children hear about the day a
promiscuous man was ousted from
the house by the wife and forced
to sleep in the watchmans cubicle,
then that will be their choice.
Such a story, however, should
not be rammed down the throats
of normal, unsuspecting wananchi
in the morning.
The UK regulators rulebook
states that material that might
seriously impair the physical, mental
or moral development of people
under 18 must not be broadcast.
Although the 9 pm rule applies
mainly to television, the regulators
manual demands that radio
broadcasters must have particular
regard to times when children are
particularly likely to be listening.
This phrase particularly refers to
the school run and breakfast time,
but might include other times.
It does no credit to the Media
Council in Kenya that they have
never taken steps to come up with
a position on how operators should
handle this issue despite a tide of
complaints over the years.
Kenyas media are in many ways
unique.
They are the most developed on
the continent outside South Africa
partly because Kenya and Cote
dIvoire are the only countries
which allowed private media some
space in which to operate after
independence.
For that reason, the media are
extremely influential and play a
big role in shaping society.
Although there are many
legitimate criticisms of the
industry and they can do better in
many respects, Kenya is one of the
few places in the world where the
media consistently ranks in polls
as the most trusted institution (a
fact which maybe says more about
the state of other institutions in the
country such as the police and the
political class).
This trust should not be
squandered or manipulated to allow
the media to get away with things
that are obviously wrong.
This is not a moralist argument.
Every person should have the liberty
to enjoy what they please. But
there should be reasonable limits.
Because state regulation is out of
the question as the media logically
play a role that the state does not
nd comfortable of checking on its
actions the Media Council has an
obligation to act.
The FM station DJs may think
that the most interesting thing
they could possibly discuss are the
mischievous exploits of the house-
girl with the man of the house.
So be it, but let them hold their
horses until, say, 11 pm when the
fans of this sort of stu can tune
in.
They must, however, spare the
children on their morning commute
to school.
mmutiga@ke.nationmedia.com
Dirty talk on radio should have
no place on the breakfast menu
Limits:
Every
person
should
have the
liberty
to enjoy
what they
please.
But there
should be
reasonable
limits.
Media should not get
away with things that are
obviously wrong.
C
oncerns on insecurity have persisted over
the last one year despite assurances from
the Jubilee Government that it was taking
robust steps to protect life and property.
The situation has been complicated by frequent
lone wolf terrorist attacks linked to the Somalia-
based Al-Shabaab, eight months after the deadly
Westgate siege in Nairobi that left at least 70
people dead. The latest in the citys popular
Gikomba market on Friday has only added to the
body count and lives shattered by physical and
psychological injury. This is a dangerous way for
one of Africas most promising economies to live.
Kenyas international reputation is also slowly
being eroded and, with it, the attraction as
a magnet for foreign tourists and investors.
This week travel advisories by some Western
governments showed how fragile the situation is
when hundreds of British tourists cut short their
holiday at the Coast and ew back home. While
some may consider this an overreaction, ignoring
the reality that terrorists with dark intentions are
roaming the country ready to attack is equally
unhelpful.
What President Uhuru Kenyatta and his security
chiefs must, therefore, do urgently is take another
look at the situation and come up with more ways
to stop the terrorist attacks. Kenyans must also
remain united to ght the common enemy. While
we appreciate eorts by the security agencies such
as recent swoops and ongoing attempts to boost
the use of technology, there seems to be little
change as the fanatical criminals continue with
their attacks.
Much ink has been spilled in the last one year
over the state of insecurity. There is, therefore,
the danger that the authorities may be numbed to
consider such editorials to be like a broken record
repeating the same thing over and over again.
Nonetheless, the message to President Kenyatta
and his government remains loud and clear: Fix
Kenyas security urgently.
Fix Kenyas security as
a matter of urgency
We cannot continue to rely only on our
military in order to achieve the national
security objectives that weve set Barack
Obama
QUOTED
T
his newspaper has repeatedly warned that
impeachment of governors in the 47 County
Assemblies should be used as the last resort
after all else fails. Unfortunately, some members
of the county assembly (MCAs) have not always
prudently used their constitutional powers to check
the executive. Some MCAs have, indeed, been
accused of blackmailing governors with threats of
impeachment for personal gain.
That is why we welcome a Bill proposed for
the Senate aimed at raising the threshold for
impeachment to save governors from being
unfairly targeted by malicious individuals. Parts
of the proposed law will require investigations
by security agencies and the Ethics and Anti-
Corruption Commission when a governor is
accused of an oence. The electorate is also
expected to be involved before the process of
impeachment is completed.
In short, MCAs must prove they tried other
avenues, including watchdog committees and other
government agencies, before impeachment. While
the county assemblies must be allowed to exercise
their oversight role, the reckless removal and
threats to kick out governors are a danger to the
stability of the new devolved units, which are still
grappling with many challenges.
Governors Bill welcome
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
12 | Opinion
Kenya Police and
security forces are using
abusive and discrimina-
tory tactics in the name
of national security, and
are targeting entire com-
munities. This crackdown
clearly violates the basic
rights of Kenyans, refu-
gees and other Kenyan
nationals, and does
nothing to improve se-
curity US Assistant
Secretary of State, Linda
Thomas-Greeneld.
OPINION MAKERS | What they said
Impeachment is a tool
of governance. It is not a
declaration about his (Mr
Wamboras) personal li-
ability. It is not about his
tribe. It is about account-
ability. It is about facts,
and Senate is mature
enough to deal with his
matter Elgeyo Marak-
wet Senator Kipchumba
Murkomen on why the
Senate impeached Mr
Martin Wambora as
Embu Governor.
I have some informa-
tion which I think would
be useful. I will, however,
not tell them how to go
about their investigations
... I am frustrated. How
can they tell me to go to a
small CID oce to report
such a weighty matter?
Dr Oburu Odinga
after the CID declined
to take his statement on
allegations of a plot to
assassinate Cord leader
Raila Odinga.
An important rea-
son for the signicant
improvement in life
expectancy is that the
number of children
dying before their fth
birthdays has reduced
drastically World
Health Organisation
Director-General Mar-
garet Chan explaining
the rise in life expect-
ancy in low-income
countries, especially
among women.
This is the law and
it must be obeyed by
everyone. It does not
matter whose car it is.
Even foreigners driving
into the country must re-
move tints from their car
windows if they are to
drive on Kenyan roads
Inspector-General of
Police David Kimaiyo
clarifying the ban on
the use of tint on vehicle
windows as applying to
all motorists.
DEVOLUTION | Eric Ngeno
W
ith their last press con-
ference, the Opposition
conrmed my worst fears:
That many of our leaders do not
understand the constitution. They
may claim to have read it even
to read it daily at bedtime but
the understanding they display is
worrying.
The constitution is not the mani-
festo of make-believe desiderata. It
is a real document governing real
situations in a real country. One
of these realities an immutable
reality of our political and legal
order is devolution. Executive
and legislative power has been
devolved to 47 counties, together
with the resources required to make
devolution meaningful to Wanjiku
and Ewoi, Kanze and Wafula, Mueni
and Otieno.
The Jubilee Alliance has done
everything it can with the resources
available to make devolution hap-
pen. It has enabled the county
governments begin executing all
the 14 functions set out in Part
2 of the Fourth Schedule of the
constitution.
Part 1 of that Schedule vests the
national government with 35 func-
tions. The President is the Head
of State and Government, and ex-
ercises the executive authority of
the Republic in accordance with the
principle of service to the people of
Kenya, and for their well-being and
benet. The President directs and
coordinates the functions of minis-
tries and government departments.
Because of this immense respon-
sibility, the constitution mandates
the President under Article 132 (4)
to establish any oce in the public
service in accordance with the rec-
ommendation of the Public Service
Commission. He has a mandate and
is accountable for that mandate. To-
wards this end, the President has
moved to perfect the executive by
making it rational, eective, pro-
fessional and accountable within
constitutional parameters.
Our tragedy as a country is that
we have an Opposition which only,
just over a year ago, was part of
government. Their performance as
components of a governing coalition
was dodgy at best. To be honest, a
number of the problems Kenyans
grapple with today are a direct result
of their leadership.
This is the reality that Cord and
its fan base wishes to deny. Under
the pretext of containing an impe-
rial presidency, they insist that the
presidency and national executive
can only operate in State/Harambee
houses, leaving over 562,000 square
miles of Kenya unattended, except
through the 14 functions of county
governments.
National government means
exactly that: Government serv-
ices throughout the Republic. The
President has moved to coordinate
government vertically and ensure
all parts of Kenya receive govern-
ment services wherever they are,
without having to travel to Nairobi.
Anyone resisting this wishes to deny
Kenyans important government
services. The argument by the Op-
position, therefore, is absurd: Are
they protecting devolution from
executive encroachment or are
they denying wananchi eective
government service? Taken to its
logical extent, the Opposition actu-
ally is using devolution as a mere
excuse to undermine the national
executive. Since the Opposition has
gone to town shouting unconsti-
tutional, one must wonder which
constitution these people read.
What particular breaches have the
Jubilee Alliance committed in this
and other instances? Is it enough
to use a blanket general allegation
as a foundation for political com-
petition?
Like everybody in leadership,
the Opposition is accountable for
its word and deed. Knee-jerk resist-
ance to anything emanating from
government will not stand them
in good stead. Experience bears
this out; didnt they recently test
the patience of Kenyans by calling
a press conference in the wake of
a needful crackdown on suspected
terrorists and their accomplices, to
side with terrorists?
Come to think of it, the pattern
is consistent. Wherever and when-
ever the government has stood with
Kenya and Kenyans, the Opposi-
tions stands with whoever happens
to be undermining or tormenting
them. It matters not whether we
are talking about Nyumba Kumi,
war on terror, KDF deployment
in Somalia, accountability of civil
society, or even devolution.
Yet in all these matters, they
loudly pretend to be progressive,
pro-wananchi and pro-devolution.
While Kenyans wept bitter tears in
the wake of terrorist attacks, the
Opposition only saw political oppor-
tunity. One must be wary of those
who are only inspired by disaster
to gloat and dance at every scene
of tragedy.
The author is the Director of Mes-
saging at the Presidency
Cords knee-jerk resistance to
government policy will not do
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Needed in Kenya:
Right attitude to
curb road deaths
I
n one of his wonderful science
fiction creations, Clifford
Simak describes a distant
future situation where the human
species had long ago migrated to
Outer Space. If individuals and
groups still returned to the parent
planet, it was only to bury their
dead or to dispose of industrial
and domestic euent.
Mother Earth had thus been
reduced to a cemetery planet,
a deadly world of hostile spirits and environmental
pitfalls. Science ction is like that. It imagines the
shape of pings to come and describes certain futures,
in which, seen with todays eyes, mankinds science
and technology will look miraculous, even godly.
Yet it remains ction. That is why it must be nar-
rated in the past tense. The point, however, is that
science ction or distant future is no name for
it. For Dr Frankensteins scientic and technologi-
cal monster of Mary Shelleys science ction has
been with humanity ever since England pioneered the
industrial machine.
Since but two centuries ago, the automated machine
has consigned more human beings to the grave than all
other tool inventions ever since humanity elbowed its
way into the evolutionary landscape 250,000 years ago.
In Kenya, a 20th-century invention called automobile
kills approaching 20 human beings every day.
But only an ignoramus can blame the machine.
Ever since Jacques Ellul introduced the anti-technol-
ogy movement in Europe, Barry Commoner, Lewis
Mumford, Jeremy Rifkin and, in science ction, Simak
have made anti-science and anti-technology the nub
and core and their political platform.
What a waste of intellectual energy! Their own Ben-
jamin Franklin a much better educated mind would
have shown them that humanity can stop technologis-
ing only at the risk of extinction because tool-making
and tool-using is the evolutionary predisposition of
the human brain, hands and vocal organs.
As UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim admonished
member-states, humanitys tragedy, as a gregarious
species, lies only in our permanent failure guided by
the extreme self-interests of individual human beings
in individual nations to strictly subject our preoc-
cupation with tools to the overseer-ship of collective
national and international policy.
How is it that, within a single nation like Kenya,
the car, a nearly extinct 20th-century invention of
other nations, continues year after year to slaughter
us by the score every day ever since independence 50
years ago without goading the state the governance
expression of our gregariousness into any serious
preventive action?
Despite the daily teeth-gnashing nationwide, a
thoroughly corrupt policing system continues to
allow thousands of ramshackle contraptions into our
roads, driven by individuals half-baked in training
schools whose licensing criteria are quite question-
able. It helps nobody to heap the whole blame onto
the matatu. The entire road system is rotten to the
marrow. What makes the matatu system phenomenal
is only that greed for quick money does not lead own-
ers and operators into any kind of sophistication and
renement. But a foreigner driving on our roads must
be bewildered by the utter absence of care and courtesy
even by the private car motorist.
Kenyans voted Jubilee into power hoping that its
youthful leaders would quickly remove the country
from the benign neglect and do-nothing-ism of the
Moi-Kibaki era to devise a human machine capable
of delivering Kenya out of the jaws of painful death
through alleged accidents. When, even at the busiest
crossroads, a barely trained driver forces an un-serv-
iced machine to zoom at a speed that would scare even
Mister Toad, you cannot rightly call it an accident if
the machine rams into another or a pavement or a
power post, killing every passenger in its belly.
The question for the Transport ministry is: Why
have you failed to tap Kenyas brains into creating a
national road system and road attitude by which to
stop the machine from controlling the mind, thus in
Shakespeares poetic phrase rescuing Kenyans from
the heaven that leads men to this hell?
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FIFTH COLUMNIST |
Philip Ochieng
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
Opinion 13
T
he history of devolu-
tion began during the
struggle for self-rule
up to the promulgation of
the Constitution of Kenya in
2010. Everyone remembers
that journey painstakingly
long and treacherous.
It is for that reason that we
need to safeguard devolution,
both to reap its benets and
posthumously honour the
fallen heroes who bequeathed
it to us and future generations.
Regrettably, governors appear
blinded by power, clan and
political patronage, and are
sliding us back to the very
place we are coming from.
Constant wars with the na-
tional government dont augur
well for progress. Governors
are not the divine guardians
or proponents of devolution
they think they are. The recent
wave of impeachments is out
of the realisation that our mini-
presidents are not that clean
and that they make unilateral
decisions not based on need.
Governors from arid and
semi-arid areas young and
well-educated are looked
up to and expected to deliver
badly needed results. The
masses want well-equipped
schools, a regular supply of
food, alleviation of poverty,
and access to clean drinking
water, among other needs.
After decades of marginali-
sation, these are the regions
that were most optimistic
about devolution. A sensible
investment for pastoral com-
munities, for example, would
have been the putting up of
abattoirs, but nothing seems
to be happening.
On the contrary, the county
bosses are focused on cosmetic
absorption of their allocations
at the expense of what needs
to be done. Investments, for
example, could be made in sus-
tainable livestock production
programmes, pasture produc-
tion and irrigation to ensure
food security, and to mitigate
the vagaries of drought.
My appeal to governors is
to be seless and to listen to
the needs of their people. Mass
water harvesting, installation
of better veterinary services,
development of workable
drought contingency plans,
and the mapping of dry and
wet-season grazing areas for
preservation will be the hall-
marks of successful pastoralist
county governments.
Hon Ibrahim Abdi,
MP, Wajir North.
Kenyans dont need devolved
structures if they cant deliver
TALKING POINT
FILE | NATION
Many problems persist among pastoralists owing to poor planning,
corruption and supremacy wars at the counties.
The Cutting Edge
BY THE WATCHMAN
ILLEGALISE LIQUOR: The numerous deadly drinks
sold in plastic bottles that are wrecking the lives
of many young people should be outlawed, urges
Mombasa resident Anne Mwangi. The growing
concern about the number of people who have per-
ished after drinking illicit alcohol, she adds, should
inspire action by the Health Ministry and Nacada
boss, John Mututho. They are taking too many
to their early graves. Cheap is not always cheap,
but very expensive and painful. Her contact is
asmwangi00@yahoo.com.
ROAD ALREADY REHABILITATED: The Kenya
National Highways Authority (KeNHA) says it is
not true that the Uthiru junction to Kinoo shopping
centre road is in a pathetic state, as alleged by local
resident Wahu Kamunyu. Corporate Aairs man-
ager Charles Njogu explains that section of A104
road was rehabilitated under the periodic mainte-
nance programme of the UthiruRironi road in 2012.
Between Kinoo and Gitaru, the contractor patched
up potholes, and the Gitaru-Kamandura section is
under construction.
LEAD BY EXAMPLE: Shouldnt Inspector-General
of Police David Kimaiyo, who has ordered motorists to
remove tints from their car windows lead by example
by taking them o his ocial sleek blue Mercedes lim-
ousine, too? asks Jim Webo, who, only the other day,
saw the car with darkened windows zoom past him on
Harambee Avenue, Nairobi. But more importantly, the
law specically talks about PSVs and the IGP cannot,
surely have also forgotten that a similar directive was
quashed by a court several years ago?
BAN ON TINT ILLEGAL: Nairobi lawyer Alfonso
Wadeyua says IGP Kimaiyos directive has no legal ba-
sis. Trac rules, he adds, only indicate that a person
shall not drive or operate a public service vehicle that
is tted with tinted windows or a tinted windscreen.
Rule 30(2) of the Trac Act, which applies to all vehi-
cles, he explains, relates to reective material such as
a mirror, which is dangerous because of the glare that
could obscure the view of other drivers. It is this mate-
rial that is illegal on private motor vehicles, and not
tints. His contact is awadeyua@owadvocates.com.
THINK THIS THROUGH: The directive by Mr Ki-
maiyo to motorists to remove tints on their cars
is misguided, says James Kisilu. It will be too costly,
he adds, for the owners of cars with factory tinted
windows to replace them. The best way to go
about this, he adds, would be to ban the importa-
tion of cars with tinted windows, unless this is
just a ploy by the government to enrich those who
will be importing the car windows. His contact is
jamkruger@gmail.com.
GO, CHARITY, GO: Lands Cabinet Secretary Char-
ity Ngilus campaign against corruption in her minis-
try should be supported by all, says Simon Ndiritu. A
whole month since he complained about his missing
greencard at the Thika Lands oce, he moans, it
has not yet been traced, hampering any transaction
on the plot (No. 19/1771) that he rightly owns. Who
has bewitched our lands ocers? The lands oces
are rotten through and through and need a thorough
clean-up, he states. His contact is Tel 0722356658
or ndiritundumia@yahoo.com.

Have a transparent day, wont you!
E-mail: watchman@ke.nationmedia.com Mail: The
Watchman PO BOX 49010, GPO 00100, Nairobi.
Fax 2213946
GET SCRIPTURE RIGHT: Though the idea of women
marrying more men as security against increasing
cases of impotence is one Wanjiru Peter wouldnt nec-
essarily embrace, worse, he says, is the attempt to jus-
tify it using an incorrect biblical quotation on women
leaving their homes to join their husbands. Ephesians
5: 31 in the New International Version of the Bible, he
adds, conrms this. It reads: For this reason, a man
will leave his father and mother and be united to his
wife, and the two will become one esh. His contact is
wanjirupeternuthu@gmail.com.
The main feature in last Sun-
days Lifestyle on Professors
Olive Mugenda (Vice-Chancel-
lor, Kenyatta University) and
Margaret Kobia (chair of the
Public Service Commission) is
proof that career and family
are not incompatible.
The lifestyles of the two are
an eye opener that women do
not need any favours to make
it to top leadership positions
in society, and that an enabling
environment, where equity of
opportunity is observed, is all
that it takes.
Womens contribution to so-
ciety cannot be ignored; they
are the bedrock of society. It
is easy to destroy a society
by propagating wrong ideas
to women that it is men. For
instance, todays career woman
despises family responsibilities
on the pretext that it is a bur-
den to career progress, and
that it is a way of equating
oneself to a man, which is a
misguided notion.
Needless to say, our society
is going down the drain, very
fast too, because we thrive
on the wrong ideas. To build
a good society, equity and
equality of opportunity for all
men and women must be the
norm. Emphasis and support
of the family unit as the basis
for society and a good educa-
tion should not be an option.
Education should not only be
viewed as a means of getting
women to have fewer children,
but also as an enabler for hav-
ing skills for good families as a
basis of an educated society.
Many researchers have
concluded that societies
which educate their women
attain better health, educa-
tion and nutrition standards.
It is a pity that some of those
who have died recently from
taking illicit brews are young
women who could have gone
on to prosper in different
capacities. Let more models
such as Mugenda and Kobia
continue inspiring our girls.
Chris Momanyi, via e-mail.
We need more role models for our young women
May 18, 1984
The Africa Champion Clubs
Cup second round, first leg
match between Kenyan cham-
pions Gor Mahia and Zamalek
of Egypt played in Cairo was
abandoned at half-time.
This was after Gor players
attacked the referee, Hassan
Abdulaziz, angered by his de-
cision to award the Egyptians
a penalty, which Gor players
strongly disputed. However,
after intervention by Kenyan of-
cials, the players agreed to the
penalty. Tarek Yehia converted
to give the home team a 1-0 lead
in the 39th minute.
After the penalty, as players
walked to the centre spot, the
Kenyan side was reduced to 10
men when the referee showed
Gor midelder Abbas Khamis
Magongo a red card. The reason
for Magongos sending o was
not immediately apparent.
Several Kenyan players then
attacked the referee who was
kicked to the ground. Police and
ocials from both sides rushed
into the pitch, after which the
match was cancelled.
Thirty Years Ago Compiled by Augustine Nyagah
FILE | NATION
Mr Abbas Khamis Magongo.
To the editor
The editor welcomes brief letters on topical issues. Write on e-mail to:
sundaynation@ke.nationmedia.com. You can also mail to: The Editor,
Sunday Nation, P.O.B 49010, Nairobi 00100. Letters may be edited for
clarity, space or legal considerations.
The proposal to introduce mother
tongue in lower primary schools is a
step in the right direction. All the 42
Kenyan languages are as important as
English and Kiswahili, perhaps more
important because we learn our culture
and ways through them. It is unfortu-
nate that many of us have become so
much alienated as to forget their na-
tive tongues. In Germany, for instance,
Deutsch is the language of instruction,
and any foreign student has to learn
it before pursuing his or her preferred
course. There is a distinction between
tribalism and an individuals love for
his or her identity. Vernacular does
not kill patriotism, and English or
Kiswahili is not proof of it either.
Alfred Mosoti, Baraton.
Local languages our
one enduring legacy
Warrants should be issued for the
arrest of President Salva Kiir and rebel
leader Riek Machar for the senseless
killings of tens of thousands of South
Sudanese, and the displacement of
millions more. Given the history of
Rwanda as we know it, how could
the world just watch as the massacre
went on? The East African community
and the African Union did absolutely
nothing but make empty promises, and
it took the intervention of US Secre-
tary of State John Kerry to get some
results. Is Africa unable of solving
its own wars? This is precisely why
we need the International Criminal
Court to deter such warlords from
annihilating their people in the mad
search for absolute power. We should
hand over the two to the ICC.
Justin Nkaranga, Mombasa.
Lets get one thing
clear: We need ICC
The bid to raise fees in public
universities by the Education Cabi-
net Secretary is bound to deprive
students of the right to education
guaranteed by the Constitution. The
reasoning that it has been long since
the rates were reviewed is naive. Re-
views should come out of necessity,
not habit. If the ministers argument
ies, then the loans students get from
the Higher Education Loans Board
must be revised accordingly. Govern-
ment cannot unilaterally increase fees
without regard for the thousands of
poor, orphaned students, many of who
depend on well-wishers. Besides, con-
gestion takes away any justication to
increase fees.
Maina Kinyua, via e-mail.
Dont take away our
right to education
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
14 | Letters
ONE PROPERTY, TWO
TITLES: OLD MAN PLEADS
FOR JUSTICE.
For about 34 years, Kenneth
Mwangi was a proud owner
of a building in Nairobi,
then one day in 2009, he
was evicted.
P. 18-19
SUNDAY
REVIEW
POLITICS, OPINION, ANALYSES, BUSINESS
BITS & PIECES |
Gakiha Weru
DRUNKEN LOGIC
I wandered into a makeshift pub
in a small market in Nyeri County
and the noisy patrons instantly
fell silent. For a moment, I imag-
ined they found my six-foot frame
intimidating (I nd no harm in
kidding myself once in a while).
When they relaxed, I discovered
that they were surreptitiously
spiking keg beer with one of those
drinks that killed dozens of people
last week. They told me that the
fact they were still alive meant
that the toxic batch did not reach
their village. Some logic.
gweru@ke.nationmedia.com
ROADSIDE DECLARATIONS
When a country is faced with
serious threats of terrorism, it is
easy to overlook illegal decrees
from government functionaries
who nd themselves swimming
in the deep end. Last week, we
had police in a futile attempt to
charge drivers and conductors
with failing to prevent a felony
after their buses were bombed. It
is the job of the police to maintain
security and, if they think touts
can do a better job, they should
recruit them into the force. And
this week, without bothering to
explain the connection between
darkened windows and terror-re-
lated activities, Inspector-General
of Police issued a blanket ban on
vehicle tints. Thankfully, lawyers
tell us that when a policeman
stops to question you on that tint,
politely ask him to move on to
more important matters.
HE JUST WONT QUIT!
Embu Governor Martin Wambora
was impeached by his county as-
sembly a couple of months ago
and the Senate endorsed the ac-
tion. The High Court reinstated
him as governor, the County As-
sembly impeached him once again
and the Senate stamped its ap-
proval, again! Now Mr Wambora
wants three judges to hear his pe-
tition. It is dicult to understand
what he hopes to achieve by cling-
ing onto the seat. Sometimes it
makes sense to quietly melt away
into the night.
DESPERATE TIMES
Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho
is a clever fellow who knows
which buttons to touch when he
needs to whip up emotions. He
is threatening to mobilise his
people to take over the port of
Mombasa because of unclear
grievances. Smart guys like Joho
do not wake up one day with such
amazing ideas unless their politi-
cal lives hang on a thread. When
burning ambition is threatened by
claims of some academic papers
being gushi, a man is likely to go a
little soft in the head.
BY JUSTUS WANGA
@Justuswanga
jwanga@ke.nationmedia.com
R
einstated Nairobi Gover-
nor Evans Kidero is a man
under siege.
He is facing one of the tough-
est times in his political career as
his fate now lies in the hands of
Supreme Court judges. They will
choose either to send him back
to Nairobi voters or dismiss the
judgment by the appellate court,
which nullied his election.
Observers and his supporters
alike acknowledge the timing of
the court case might work to his
disadvantage should the Chief
Justice Willy Mutunga-led court
rule against him.
They say having spent so
much time laying a foundation
within a period that was also
punctuated by several interrup-
tions, Dr Kidero may have an
uphill task convincing voters to
re-elect him.
But the Director of the Insti-
tute for Development Studies at
the University of Nairobi, Prof
Winnie Mitullah, says that Dr
Kideros second year in oce
is the time to separate boys
from men.
His rst year in oce has
been wrought with so many
distractions. He was just getting
down to work and, as such, it
would be unfair to send such a
fellow back to the people to get
their mandate before delivering
on his projects. It will be hard
for them to listen to him, she
says.
His legal team led by Prof Tom
Ojienda, also a member of the Ju-
dicial Service Commission, must
then ght tooth and nail to save
their man the agony of facing
a disgruntled electorate that is
haunted by many issues.
City residents today attribute
literally everything that has gone
wrong to Dr Kidero. Sadly, he
also bears the brunt even in
cases of functions that should
otherwise be rendered by the
national government.
He has failed the most basic
of functions keeping our streets
clean. I would be very reluctant
to vote him in, one resident told
the Sunday Nation.
But Dagoretti North MP
Simba Arati defended Dr Kidero
against accusations of sleeping
on the job.
The Sh9 billion Nairobi was
allocated is a drop in the sea. It
is the same as what it used to
get through the Local Authorities
Transfer Fund (LATF) yet it has
a broader mandate now. You can-
not do much with this given the
bloated workforce and the huge
debts he inherited, he says
My overarching view is that
Nairobi is a very unique county
that it would be unfair to judge
Dr Kidero on the same scale
as his contemporaries like say
Prof Kibwana of Makueni. The
city has deep problems that you
cannot sort out in a day and the
governor must be framed within
this background, Prof Mitullah
argues.
She explains that anybody
managing Nairobi must face
serious challenges, in fact you
can opt out because when you
nally get there, you realise that
it is not a walk in the park.
Senator Mike Sonko, a man
who has perfected the art of pop-
ulist politics, has also not made
Dr Kideros work any easier. If
he is not supporting residents
to oppose tax increases, he is
bashing the governor on one
subject or the other.
At one point, the senator
threatened to mobilise one mil-
lion signatures to force Dr Kidero
out of oce. His concerted ac-
tivities have even led to talks that
he is positioning himself to be
the next governor when elections
are called. The trick would then
be to keep Dr Kidero as diverted
as possible to lose the script and
then capitalise on that during the
next campaigns.
The governors predicament
also has ripple effects on a
number of things. Losing a
seat occasioned by an election
petition sends the city elector-
ate to the ballot. His ministers
are all in a state of panic now.
The entire executive arm of the
government is anxious.
On the ipside, some are keep-
ing true to an African proverb
which says that when the big
CONTINUED ON PAGE 20
FILE | NATION
Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero, ODM acting party leader Anyang
Nyongo (right) and party supporters after the Court of Appeal nullied
his election. Dr Kidero was reinstated temporarily by Supreme Court.
Analysts
note that
should
Supreme
Court
nullify his
election,
the
governor
would have
a hard time
to convince
his party
and voters
to elect
him.
Anxiety sets in as Kidero awaits
judgment by the Supreme Court
COURT CASE | Governors executive team is now in panic hoping court will rule in his favour
Sh9bn
The money allocated to
Nairobi County from na-
tional government.

The city has deep

problems that you
cant sort out in a
day. The governor
must be judged
with that in mind
Prof Mitullah
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
15
ANTHONY OMUYA | NATION
Traders and other Kenyans deed the threat posed by terrorists after last Fridays twin blasts in
Gikomba market that left at least 12 people dead and carried on with their business yesterday. A
primary aim of terrorists is to create fear among people and sabotage the economy.
UNBOWED | Business as usual at Gikomba market
BY ANDREW TEYIE
@Muholo
ateyie@ke.nationmedia.com
AND JOHN NGIRACHU
jngirachu@ke.nationmedia.com

T
wenty-ve lawyers who were
nominated to become judges
by the Judicial Service Com-
mission (JSC) are stuck in no-mans
land after President Uhuru Kenyatta
delayed their appointment, the Sun-
day Nation has established.
Five months have lapsed since JSC
selected the lawyers for the job.
The dilemma facing the judges-elect
is that they can neither practise as
lawyers nor preside over court cases
in their new capacities as they while
away time waiting for the political
class to put their act together.
Yesterday, the chairman of the Law
Society of Kenya, Mr Eric Mutua,
weighed in on the appointments and
called on President Uhuru Kenyatta
to appoint the lawyers. He said that
the judges-elect have been put in an
awkward position by the delay.
The appointment of 25 new judges
has taken too long. Under the Consti-
tution, the President is expected to act
within a reasonable time after their
nomination. We are concerned by the
delay in appointing the judges because
the backlog in courts continues and
decisions in court delay, he said.
He added: Those appointed are
also put in an awkward situation.
You are waiting to be a judge, thus
you cant take up new cases; you are
waiting to be a judge, you dont want
to appear before judges because law-
yers will think that you will get some
favours because you are part of the
Judiciary. That kind of dilemma needs
to be resolved.
Similar sentiments were expressed
by a member of the JSC, who did not
want to be named because he was not
authorised to speak to the media.
These people who were lawyers
and magistrates cannot represent
their clients or work as magistrates
because they are now judges-elect.
This is a big problem for them. Are
they sitting in court as lawyers, magis-
trates or in their new role as judges?
wondered the member.
Apart from throwing the judges-
elect into confusion, the delay has
held back proposed transfer of judges
who have served in their stations for
more than three years.
Last week, JSC eected piecemeal
transfers of judges where they moved
Justice David Majanja to Homa Bay
and brought to Nairobi Justice Ag-
grey Muchelule and Justice Fredrick
Ochieng.
Justice Muchelule was elected to
JSC while Justice Ochieng is the chair-
man of Magistrates Association.
Chief Justice Willy Mutunga has
decided to involve associations in the
management of the Judiciary. That is
why it is important for Justice Ochieng
to be in Nairobi where the CJ can con-
sult with him at short notice, says
the JSC member.
According to the source, the
President was waiting for the case
where JSC had gone to court to stop
his tribunal from investigating them
to end.
We were told the President was
not sure whether JSC was properly
constituted.
FILE | NATION
Chief Justice
Willy Mutunga
(centre) with
other Judicial
Service Commis-
sion members
in August last
year after MPs
adopted a report
to have six of
them removed
from oce over
former registrars
saga.
Delay in naming new
judges raises concern
DILEMMA | Lawyers cant practise or work as judges
You are
waiting to be
a judge thus
you cant
take up new
cases; you are
waiting to be
a judge
Eric Mutua
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
16 | Sunday Review
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
17
BY BENSON WAMBUGU
benwambugu62@gmail.com
He has been described by three appellate
judges as a peculiar, unique and tenaciously
resilient litigant who has been in and out
of court over a single case for the last 30
years.
Mr James Mwakio, 78, has been pursuing
what he believes is his proprietary right over
a prime city property sold by the Kenya Com-
mercial Bank (KCB) to recover an unpaid
loan advanced to him.
But judges have now warned him against
ling any application in any court relating
to the case in which he rst sued the bank
in 1984. If Mr Mwakio dees this, he risks
being referred to the Attorney-General under
Section 2 of the Vexatious Proceedings Act
to be declared a vexatious (troublesome)
litigant.
Court of Appeal Judges Wanjiru Karanja,
Mohammed Warsame and GBM Kariuki
ruled on April 24 that despite Mr Mwakios
case having been heard and determined by
the High Court 30 years ago, he has obsti-
nately refused to accept that the matter was
concluded.
The judges said the appellate court has
constantly advised him that litigation, like a
journey, has an end, and he must cease from
ling a multiplicity of applications.
Before we fold our hands, we must join
the chorus in condemning the applicant for
his continuous abuse of the court process by
ling numerous but frivolous applications,
said the judges.
Some time in the 1980s, Mr Mwakio, a
retired civil servant, allegedly used a four-
acre piece of land in Kasarani as collateral to
obtain a loan from KCB. He fell into arrears
and the bank exercised its statutory power of
sale to dispose of the property and recover
its money. However, Mr Mwakio claimed
the sale was unlawful.
He moved to court in 1984 to block the
bank from selling the property. As a lay-
man, he opted to prosecute his case rather
Litigant who has pursued same case for 30 years now told to spare
ANTHONY OMUYA | NATION
Mr James Mwakio at the Supreme Court on Thursday.
BY MUGUMO MUNENE
@mugumomunene
mmunene@ke.nationmedia.com
F
or about 34 years, Kenneth Mwangi
was the proud owner of a multi-mil-
lion-shilling property on Nairobis
Kirinyaga Road.
And then one Friday morning in 2009,
Mr Mwangi was, without notice, evicted
by auctioneers from the property he had
bought way back in 1974.
They (auctioneers) came in very early
in the morning and took over the premises
before I arrived; there was no notice ... They
didnt share with us any documents, Mr
Mwangi said.
The businessman had maintained an
oce on the premises and rented out the
seven shops and residential space in the
rest of the property. His possessions were
thrown out, leaving him watching helplessly
and seeking justice in every conceivable
oce in the land.
Six years since Mr Mwangis Black
Friday, he is a pale shadow of his former
self. The impeccably dressed but frail
nonagenarian, who once worked for the
Department of Defence as a clerk, says the
pressure brought on by the property ght
has taken a toll on his health.
Mr Mwangi is one of the Kenyans who
hope that the ongoing audit at the Lands
ministry can help give him justice. Alter-
natively, he prays and hopes that Chief
Justice Willy Mutunga and his courts can
deliver speedy justice so that the battle
does not outlive him.
The baseline of my position is that even
the entire process of purporting to sell my
property for alleged unpaid rates is cor-
rupt and false because at that time I was
not in any rate arrears. A decision made
on the basis of a false statement cannot
and should not be allowed to stand, Mr
Mwangi says.
His case where a parallel title deed
was issued to a second party more than
three decades after Mr Mwangi acquired
his underlines the chaos that faces Lands
Secretary Charity Ngilu and the National
Lands Commission as they try to clean up
the mess created by years of mismanage-
ment and fraud at Ardhi House.
Currently, Mrs Ngilu has suspended
all land transactions to allow for an audit
of the ills that have long bedevilled the
Lands headquarters and left the likes of
Mr Mwangi in dire straits.
Mr Mwangi visited Nation Centre this
week, to tell his story in the hope that this
would speed up the wheels of justice.
The businessman is perhaps one of the
thousands of Kenyans who have found
themselves ghting to reclaim property
transferred in mysterious circumstances
through collusion or negligence by unscru-
pulous Lands ocials.
The purported new owners of the
property Nanak Hospital Management
Services hold a title that was issued in
2008 even though Mr Mwangi had owned
the property since 1974.
Both title deeds were issued by the Lands
ministry and neither has been cancelled
despite Mr Mwangis protestations.
It is obvious that the property as at
2008 was not available for allocation to
another party because I already held a
valid title. My title was never and has
never been cancelled or revoked to date,
Mr Mwangi says.
What has frustrated the 75-year-old the
most is the length of time he has spent in
and out of the courts and oces at Lands,
City Council, police, and anti-corruption of-
ces since the auctioneers visit in 2009.
The confusion is such that City Hall
conrms that Mr Mwangi is the rightful
owner of the property and collects land
rates from him. But it was the same City
Hall that allowed a change of ownership
to Nanak ostensibly because Mr Mwangi
had failed to pay property rates.
Indeed the businessman had indeed
paid rates and was ahead of time in a
reconciliation of his account conducted
by City Hall.
According to documents at the Lands
ministry, the property was initially on lease-
hold of 52 years from January 1, 1949 to
January 2001.
On June 10, 1974, Mr Mwangi and two
others purchased the property from the
previous owners. It was purchased through
a nancing arrangement oered by the
Industrial and Commercial Development
Corporation (ICDC).
Mr Mwangi, however, bought out his
partners the following year and remained
the sole proprietor.
Missing le
A meticulous record keeper, Mr Mwangi
applied for a lease extension on March 6,
1987, three years ahead of the time his
lease was set to expire.
Records at the Lands registry show
that the application was numbered but
the le subsequently went missing. But
Mr Mwangi was granted a 50-year lease
extension at the expiry of the one issued
in the colonial days. The records were
updated in July 2005.
But unknown to Mr Mwangi, Nanak
Hospital Services somehow acquired a
One property, two titles: Old mans
Mwangi
claims
he had
overpaid
his land
rates by
the time
he was
evicted
for non
payment
LAND ISSUES | As the ministry of Lands suspended all land transactions for two weeks to clean up the mess in its oces, many
Mess at Lands Ministry
PHOEBE OKALL AND ANTHONY OMUYA| NATION
Mr Kenneth Mwangi with his daughter Faith Nyambura during the interview at Nation Centre
last week. Right: Kikuyu House on Kirinyaga Road, Nairobi, which Mr Mwangi built and now
claims was taken from him fraudulently. Nanak Hospital Management now collectst rent for
the property.

The baseline of my position

is that even the entire
process of purporting to
sell my property for alleged
unpaid rates is corrupt and
false because at that time I
was not in any rate arrears
Mr Mwangi
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May 18, 2014
18 | Sunday Review
than engage the services of a lawyer and
subsequently lost the challenge to salvage
his investment.
The court decision opened the oodgates
for Mr Mwakio to engage the High Court
and Court of Appeal in endless litigation
battles, ling multiple applications.
On April 3, 1984, he led an application in
the Court of Appeal but was referred back
to the lower court where the matter was
heard by the then Justice David Porter and
dismissed in its entirety.
According to the judges, Mr Mwakio mis-
understood the decision and thought the
judges had ruled in his favour. This again
propelled him to the Court of Appeal in 1988
seeking orders for enforcement of the courts
1984 judgment.
However, the appellate explained to him
that the Court of Appeal had only referred
the matter to the High Court and no orders
were made in his favour.
Not one to give up easily, Mr Mwakio,
in his latest application of March 1 last
year, sought leave of the Court of Appeal
to move to the Supreme Court and argue
his matter.
The judges concurred there was no issue
for Mr Mwakio to agitate in the Supreme
Court. Consequently, they dismissed the ap-
plication last month and ordered Mr Mwakio
to pay KCB the cost of the suit.
court of frivolous applications
Ngilu joins row over prime
city plot claimed by Chinese
BY THOMAS KARIUKI
tkariuki@ke.nationmedia.com
AND RICHARD MUNGUTI
rmunguti@ke.nationmedia.com
A group of Chinese investors
is now occupying prime property
in the upmarket Lavington area
that has been the subject of
a long-drawn and unresolved
court battle.
Lands Cabinet Secretary Char-
ity Ngilu has been caught up in
the controversy after she moved
to help the investors launch a
mega project for the construc-
tion of a 47-storey apartment
complex a day after a court
issued orders directing that no
activity should take place pend-
ing the determination of a suit
currently before Lady Justice
Pauline Nyamweya.
The property has been in the
hands of the Vohra family who
are prominent investors in the
hotel industry under the Sarova
Group.
The ceremony was staged a
day after a judge had directed a
status quo over the ownership of
the property which the plainti
claims has been inherited through
generations.
An Environmental and Lands
Division court was moved under a
certicate of urgency to stop the
ocial grabbing of the multi-
million-shilling property, which
lies on Ndemi Road along Ngong
Road within Nairobi County.
While the hoteliers were
steadfastly clinging firmly to
their property, a senior political
gure was trying to reach out to
the lawyer of Samvo Limited to
woo him to abandon the court
battle over the two-and-a-half
acre property for a lifetime
fortune.
The Directorate of Criminal
Investigations has also not been
left out of the saga.
Three suspects who were al-
legedly involved in pulling down
a house built on the land were
prosecuted from a police station
away from that jurisdiction.
The suspects were charged by
Muthaiga police station instead
of Kilimani police station under
which the land lies.
This leaves unanswered ques-
tions as to why Muthaiga acted in
an area it does not watch.
Samvo Limited, who claim to
be the registered proprietor of the
land in question, then obtained an
order on May 9 from Lady Jus-
tice Nyamweya prohibiting Delta
Haulage Services Limited from
developing or interfering in any
way with the disputed parcel.
Delta has claimed ownership
of the land and has been in-
volved in litigation with Samvo
from 2007.
The judge said the order she
gave would remain in force pend-
ing the hearing and determination
of the two suits led in 2007 and
2012.
Documents from the Com-
missioner of Lands filed in
court show that the property,
as at 1998, belonged to Samvo
Limited, a company under the Sa-
rova Group, and in 2013, City Hall
received land rates of Sh102,340
from the hoteliers.
The two suits will be heard on
Tuesday.
On Friday last week, lawyer
Musalia Mwenesi for Samvo
told the court that Delta or their
agents or their assigns, agents
and/or foreign investors should
be restrained from developing
or interfering with the suit land
pending its hearing and deter-
mination.
He also urged Justice Nyamweya
to compel Kilimani police station
to assist in enforcing the order so
as to maintain the status quo of
the premises.
But going by the grand launch
ociated by Mrs Ngilu, the land
is now slotted for a multi-bil-
lion-shilling housing investment
meant for more than a 100 resi-
dential homes.
Mrs Ngilu is on record as ask-
ing police to protect Chinese
investors.
She made the remarks dur-
ing the inauguration ceremony
of the Chinese housing project
Fountain Garden Apartments
by Catham Properties Limited
owned by Mr Guo Dong two
weeks ago.
Mr Mwenesi said that despite
the Lands ministry being aware
of the suit and a pending ruling
touching on the suit property, it
went ahead to authorise devel-
opment.
It will subvert justice if the
foreign investor continues
developing the land whose own-
ership is the subject matter of a
suit pending determination in
court for over seven years, the
lawyer said.
My client is apprehensive that
the development is being done
hurriedly to subvert justice and
in a bid to take advantage of the
current embargo at Ardhi Houses
central registry, Mr Mwenesi
argued.
In June 1999, Commissioner of
Lands Sammy Mwaita, through
an allotment letter, officially
issued a clean sheet to Samvo
Limited and consequently gave
them the title deed for the prop-
erty that July.
Delta Limited also claims
ownership of the land, saying
the ministry of Lands issued
them with the land documents
and a title deed in December
22, 1999.
The Delta Limited suit was,
however, dismissed for lack of
merit and an order of mainte-
nance of the status quo issued
in 2012. They consequently initi-
ated an eviction application and
later alleged that the le for the
property had disappeared.
They alleged that one of Sam-
vos directors, Mr Swarana Devi
Vohra, transferred the property to
them through a correspondence
le at the Ardhi House.
The Lands Ministry, however,
denied the claim, saying that
any document or conveyances
without corresponding records
at the master registry are either
fake or forgeries.
Samvo Company asked the
court to strike out the accusa-
tions by Delta Haulage.
FILE | NATION
Cabinet Sec-
retary Charity
Ngilu (cen-
tre), Mr Li-Jun
Yi and former
Finance Min-
ister Njeru
Githae during
the ground-
breaking cer-
emony for a
multi-billion-
shilling hous-
ing project.
Delta Company said that
although the title documents
were in the hands of Samvo
Limited they must have been
forged.
They accused the ministry
of refusing to register a new
title saying that they have
caused great nancial loss
and prejudice to Delta hence
rendering the operations in
the investment untenable.
But Samvo claims to have
acquired the 2.23 acre parcel
at a cost of Sh18.25 million
in 1998 and a title issued a
year later.
WHATS ALLEGED
Who is the
real owner?
title to the same property through a vest-
ing order registered in the Nairobi Lands
registry on June 17, 1996. The order was
based on a premise that Mr Mwangi was
not paying his rates.
This is despite the fact that the land was
charged to Diamond Trust Bank from which
Mr Mwangi had borrowed Sh450,000 and
used the property as security.
A copy of the order which arose out of
a civil suit led in 1981 is, however, miss-
ing from the records. Mr Mwangi says he
was never aware of any such suit and was
never served.
It would appear from court records
that the property was transferred to
Nanak Hospital Management Services
by the City Council for a consideration
of Sh4.8 million. Mr Mwangi says he has
never been shown the vesting order and
does not know on what basis the transac-
tion was done.
His repeated trips to the Lands ministry
drew a blank. He says no one was willing
to give him information.
He has sought redress in the lower
courts and in the High Court but so far
has found none even though his title has
never been revoked.
On December 13, 2007, the law rm
of P.J. Kakad and Company applied for
a renewal of the lease on behalf of Nanak
Management Services.
In an interesting turn of events, the
same Lands oce that had issued a lease
renewal for Mr Mwangi granted Nanak
another lease and ultimately, a new title
deed in 2008.
Police opened an investigation le into
the matter but it is still pending to date.
In the 1980s and the 1990s, Mr Mwangi
had been having run-ins with City Council
ocials whom he accuses of running extor-
tion rings on property owners.
To stay on the right side of things, he
would keep up his payments of rates to the
City Council and even started exceeding
his payments.
Such was the chaos at the City Council
that some amount that Mr Mwangi paid
in the early 1990s was only reected in
the records in October 2004, more than
a decade later.
A full reconciliation of the account con-
ducted in 2007 showed that Mr Mwangi
had actually overpaid his rates by more
than Sh170,000.
From the rates statement extracted
for the period 1991 to the year 2007, it
can clearly be seen that I have overpaid
the account and the City Council owes
me money, Mr Mwangi says in court
papers.
It would not be the last of his problems
since Mr Mwangi was evicted from the
property on April 24, 2009 and Nanak
Hospital Management Services has been
collecting the rent since. He has told the
courts that he lost property worth more
than Sh1.4 million during the eviction.
While Mr Mwangi says Nanak Hospital
Management Services are trespassers,
Nanak says the opposite and both ag
their title deeds to conrm their stand.
The court journey has been drawn out
and includes a case barring Nanak from
selling the property which has taken Mr
Mwangi to court about 17 times since 2011
but has never taken o.
The ongoing audit in the Lands ministry
and reforms in the Judiciary give him hope
that matters will come out in his favour
when the case comes up in September.
Mess at Lands Ministry
plea for justice
Sh170,000
The amount of money by which Mr Mwangi
had overpaid the city council in rates for his
property. His land was still sold for non-
payment of rates.
Kenyans hope their troubles will end
SUNDAY NATION
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Sunday Review 19
tree falls, the goat eats its leaves. Much
as it would be inaccurate to say that Dr
Kideros fate is already sealed, a number
of individuals are warming up to this.
They are jostling for his seat should the
courts send him packing.
Former Makadara MP Reuben Ndolo
has, for instance, said he would be seek-
ing the ODM ticket to succeed him in
the event of a by-election.
This is happening against a backdrop
of rumours that if the Appeal Court de-
cision is upheld by the highest court in
the land, some ODM party honchos may
deny him the ticket to defend the seat.
To them, the former Mumias Sugar CEO
has been a truant boy who deserves thor-
ough rebuttal.
Critics like Homa Bay Senator Otieno
Kajwang have previously called for his
resignation saying he is trying to create
another centre of power within ODM.
I nd it pedestrian for one to argue
that he is Jubilee. He must work with both
parties. Right now, he needs the support
of his party. He would be orphaned if
party members were to abandon him
now, says Prof Mitullah.
Mr Arati shares the same view.
We know he is the city governor
and we will stand by him, whatever the
outcome of the court case. He has not
been given time to run the city. All his
time has been spent defending himself in
court, he would excel if given time,
Ugunja lawmaker Opiyo Wandayi says
that as a party, they do not care so much
whether it is Dr Kidero or somebody
else who clinches the Nairobi seat. What
matters is that it remains in-house.
We do not want to lose our grip on
Nairobi. Our priority now is to retain
the seat whether the court rules in his
favour or not. The internal dierences
that might have been here must now be
relegated to the periphery, states Mr
Wandayi, who has not had kind words
for the governor before.
His statement gives credence to the
possibility that the orange party may
settle on another candidate.
Whether it is him who shall be given
the ticket is currently immature and re-
ally not an issue, our intention as ODM
is to retain the seat, he adds.
The governors critics accuse him of
opening many war fronts. This, they say,
might leave him overstretched were he
to take on all his adversaries. Matatu
operators are among those who have no
kind words for him because of the new
parking rates he has introduced.
But supporters of Dr Kidero, like
former Mayor George Aladwa, say Nai-
robi is dierent from all counties that
have the advantage of visibility of their
projects.
Nairobi is not as highly visible as
other counties given the levels of de-
velopment here, he says
His biggest hope, however, is the fact
that his main challenger, Mr Ferdinand
Waititu, has integrity questions, with the
court recently barring him from getting
a parastatal job. The appointment as the
chairman of Athi Water Services Board
was rejected on that basis. This may be
used to bar him from contesting.
Prof Mitullah, however, cautions the
governor against celebrating.
We have watered down Chapter Six
of the Constitution. Anybody can go
to court and obtain an order not to be
barred from contesting. Remember the
president and his deputy were able to
successfully vie even with International
Criminal Court charges on their necks.
It is only the public court that may live
to the true spirit of integrity and perhaps
wield this at the ballot, she states.
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Kideros fate in hands of
Supreme Court judges
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Whether it
is him who
shall be given
the ticket
is currently
immature
and really
not an issue,
our intention
as ODM is
to retain the
seat
Ugunja MP Opiyo
Wandayi
FILE | DAILY NATION
Former Embakasi MP Ferdinand Waititu supporters celebrate after Nairobi Governor Evans Kideros elections
was nullies last week.
Put up a public service bus com-
pany to cushion residents from fare
hikes
Eliminate trac jams on Nairobi
roads
Get rid of street families and hawk-
ers o the streets
Ensure Nairobi is a garbage-free
city
Automate revenue collection. The
tender has already been awarded
Create jobs, reduce crime and
make the city business friendly
Lure foreign investors: Dr Kidero
says he intends to bring business
men and women to the city to cre-
ate jobs in dierent sectors
WISH LIST
Governors dream
for Nairobi
MCAs demanded Sh30m to
save my job, says Chepkwony
BY JUSTUS WANGA
@Justuswanga
jwanga@ke.nationmedia.com
Embattled Kericho Governor Paul Chep-
kwony has told the Sunday Nation that the
architects of his impeachment unsuccess-
fully tried to extort Sh30 million from him
before voting to send him home.
Governor Chepkwony said that by refus-
ing to cooperate with members of the
County Assembly, he knew he was consign-
ing himself to the political gallows.
On Saturday, a lady MCA called me at
midnight, with the message that I could
keep my job if I paid certain inuential
MCAs some Sh3.7 million, said Professor
Chepkwony.
I was also to give Sh3 million to nomi-
nated women MCAs to share amongst
themselves, and Sh500,000 to all of the
other MCAs supporting my impeachment.
In total, this was going to add up to Sh30
million, he said.
To emphasise that demand, Prof Chep-
kwony was told how other governors in
the country had allegedly done that and
escaped impeachment.
I was also asked to sabotage one project
and divert the funds to the MCAs which,
I was told, is what governors all over are
doing. They, as well, wanted to be allocated
plots at Chelimo area, he added.
The Kericho governor was impeached
without getting the chance to defend
himself, and despite the intervention of
the Kipsigis council of elders.
The ve grounds of his impeachment,
according to the motion, were gross
violation of the Constitution, abuse of
oce, violation of the County Govern-
ment Act, violation of the Public Finance
Management Act and violation of Public
Procurement and Disposal Act.
Banking on Senate
MR Chepkwony denies the claims.
The only option open to him now is to
convince Senate that the move by MCAs
was based on malice as he claims.
He says that if the Assembly felt that
something was not going right, they, at
the very least, needed to summon him to
hear his side of the story.
I needed to have been investigated
by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Com-
mission or the Directorate of Criminal
Investigations. Even the House Business
Committee never summoned me like is
provided for in the Standing Orders. I was
served the notice on Friday and was ex-
pected to respond by Monday, he says.
The governors problems with the MCAs
began when he moved to court to seek
legal interpretation on the roles of the As-
sembly, which he felt was out to scuttle
his governments operations.
It was a non-adversarial case but my in-
tentions were misunderstood, he says.
The Assembly had just passed the Bur-
saries Bill and decided to make themselves
patrons and chairpersons. The paper that
originated from the governors oce stipu-
lated that being an executive function, the
oce of the governor would administer
the kitty that is worth Sh39 million.
Unseen hand
Before that, a motion stopping the
employment of ward administrators and
ECD teachers had also been passed by
the Assembly, which cited irregularities
in the processes.
Governor Chepkwony has, for most of
his rst year in oce, operated with an
incomplete Cabinet, after the Assembly
repeatedly rejected his appointments. His
cabinet still lacks three ministers.
Somebody does not want me to be the
governor; I, however, do not know who
that person is.
Three months after being sworn in, he
survived an impeachment attempt after
members accused him of declining to ap-
prove a trip to Uganda, where each of the
ward representatives was to get Sh500,000
in allowances.
There are also murmurs that Prof Chep-
kwonys woes are engineered by powerful
people in URP, who are not happy with his
close relationship with Bomet Governor
Isaac Ruto. Mr Ruto has distinguished him-
self as one of the ercest critics of Deputy
President William Ruto, who he accuses
of plotting to derail devolution.
And although he exonerates his Senator,
Charles Keter, some of the 15 MCAs who
staged a walkout during the impeachment
debate believe the Senator could be work-
ing in cahoots with URP bosses to bring
Prof Chepkwony down. Senator Keter is
one of the DPs condantes.
The senator has tried his best to salvage
the situation but I think those fellows had
already made up their minds.
The grounds for my impeachment are
very imsy and I am counting on Senate to
stop this injustice, the governor said.
To explain the ongoing assault on county
executives across the country, the director
of the Institute for Development Studies
at the University of Nairobi, Prof Winnie
Mitullah, observes that governors are quite
predisposed.
When crafting the law, much of the
focus was on keeping the national gov-
ernment from tramping on devolution.
We needed to shield governors a little bit.
There is urgent need to do so, she says.
A total of 32 MCAs voted to send Prof
Chepkwony home in a session presided
over by Speaker Japheth Mutai. The notice
of motion for the removal was moved by
Nominated MCA Albert Kipkoech.
For Kericho County to progress, Prof
Chepkwony must go, so that we can get
a responsible governor. All evidence con-
rms that the governor violated the law,
said Mr Kipkoech.
The MCAs claim that the governor
signed several deals without the prior
approval of the County Assembly,
thereby violating Public Private Partner-
ship laws.

I was asked to sabotage one

project and divert the funds
to a group of MCAs.
Prof Chepkwony
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20 | Review
BY DENNIS ODUNGA
@dennisakwenda
dodunga@ke.nationmedia.com
G
overnors would have to be in-
vestigated and recommended
for prosecution before being im-
peached, a Bill proposes.
The investigations would be carried out
by the Directorate of Criminal Investiga-
tions or the Ethics and Anti-Corruption
Commission .
A Bill set to be tabled in the Senate is also
aimed at raising the threshold for impeach-
ment to ensure the electorate is consulted
before the process is nalised.
Senate Majority Leader Kithure Kindiki,
who is the author of the bill, said it is im-
portant to strengthen the impeachment
process to save governors from being
unfairly targeted by Members of County
Assemblies.
Prof Kindiki said reports that more coun-
ties were in the process of proposing the
removal of their governors to the Senate
were worrying.
The oce of the governor is becom-
ing the most insecure of all the elective
leaders. Impeachment is meant to ensure
accountability, as a last resort, said Prof
Kindiki yesterday during a Press confer-
ence at Parliament Buildings.
He appealed to the Council of Governors
to inform the Senate of cases where their
members are subjected to intimidation
from the MCAs, and warned appealed to
courts to be cautious and stop engaging
with Parliament in due disregard of the
doctrine of separation of powers.
He added that the proposed bill meant
to have either House participate in the
impeachment process for governors, is
unconstitutional and goes against the
spirit of bicameral Parliament.
County Assemblies and the Senate, he
said, are the proper institutions to con-
duct impeachment, and its prudent to
strengthen these institutions instead of
creating another oversight body.
He wondered what the inclusion of the
National Assembly has to do with ad-
dressing concerns that some Members of
County Assemblies could be manipulated
to target governors.
FILE | NATION
From left:
Senator
Kipchumba
Murkomen,
Governor
Isaac Ruto
and Senator
Kithure Kindiki.
Mr Kindiki is
authoring a
game-chang-
ing Bill.
Bill seeks to raise
bar for governors
impeachment
SEPARATION OF POWERS | MPs fault bid to enjoin National Assembly in removal process
National
Assembly
should leave
Senate to
undertake
its duty of
oversighting
county
governments
Senate majority
leader Prof.
Kithure Kindiki
Proposal comes out of the
realisation that governors are
being targeted by MCAs
Prof Kindiki said the National Assembly
has adequate work to represent people at
national level and oversight national govern-
ment institutions.
The majority leader added that whereas
there is logic in empowering citizens to be
involved in the impeachment process, there
is need to guard against temptations to hand
over the MCAs powers to the people.
People can retain the right to have a
parallel process initiated by the people as
principles, he said.
Whether power can be abused or not is a
dierent question that should be addressed
dierently without trying to diminish county
governments, he observed.
The National Assembly should leave
the Senate undertake its cardinal duties of
representing, protecting and over sighting
county governments.
Mr Adan Keynan (Eldas, ODM) is also
planning to introduce a Bill in Parliament
that will include the National Assembly and
voters amongst the institutions that can de-
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BY MWAKERA MWAJEFA
@mwakeramwajefam
mwajefa@ke.nationmdedia.com
M
ombasa Governor Ali
Hassan Johos threat
to take over the Kenya
Ports Authority (KPA) man-
agement has elicited mixed
reactions.
Mr Joho said he would mo-
bilise residents to forcibly take
control of the port if the Senate
fails to devolve management of
the facility.
KPA chairman Danson Munga-
tana termed it impossible for
Mombasa County to take over
the port.
Association of Importers of
Motor Vehicles (AIMV) chairman
Peter Mambembe also dismissed
the move, saying it was ill-advised
and an exercise in futility.
According to Mr Mambembe,
the governor has hidden agenda
and his intentions should be re-
sisted.
Demanding that the port be
devolved to Mombasa county gov-
ernment is baseless. The facility
belongs to the national govern-
ment and all Kenyans must be
beneciaries, he said in a state-
ment to the Sunday Nation.
Mr Mambembe warned that
leaving the port under the man-
agement of the county would be
counter-productive and was likely
to adversely aect importers and
clearing agents.
We are calling on President
Uhuru Kenyatta to protect the
national asset, he said.
However, Haki Africa executive
director Hussein Khalid said the
port and ferry services belonged
to the county.
The Fourth Schedule of the
Constitution provides for the
distribution of functions between
the national and county govern-
ments, he said.
Similarly, Africa Nazarene
Universitys School of Law
chair Morris Mbondenyi said
the county has a right to man-
age the port.
It is not possible to fully dene
the executive mandate without
reference to county governments.
Under the Fourth Schedule, the
county governments are charged
with many functions. However,
some of those purported to have
been devolved to counties are not
clear, he said.
He asked the two governments
to agree on the modalities of the
management of ferries and har-
bours.
However, Senate Transport
Committee chair Abu Chiaba
(Lamu) said the county gov-
ernment was getting it wrong
on management of natural re-
sources.
What we are legislating as the
Senate is modalities on sharing
revenue accrued from resources
within counties between the two
governments, he said.
Mr Chiaba said calculations in-
dicate that the resources should
be shared on a 30:70 per cent
basis for county and national
government.
The senator is concerned
the port debate is taking an
emotional dimension, which
can cause disaection between
residents of Mombasa and KPA
management.
Politics is taking centre-stage
and this is wrong. We should be
careful what we say in public lest
we cause disharmony, he said and
appealed for calm as his commit-
tee deliberates on the issue.
Seafarers Association of Kenya
secretary-general Andrew Mwan-
gura claimed that all over the
world, seaports were managed
by city mayors and in Kenya,
the county government should
take charge of the port.
Just visit any port city and
you will not fail to see dierent
plaques of ships that have called
there displayed at the mayors
parlours, he said, adding that
this indicates that ports are run
by local councils and not the
national government.
Turning to KPAs corporate
social responsibility, Mr Mwan-
gura asked why the authority is
spending millions of shillings to
renovate a golf course instead of
assisting shing communities.
He put the social responsibility
budget at about Sh30 million.
He said that once the port came
under the county government,
seafarers welfare, infrastructure
and reach to residents would im-
prove.
Kenya International Freight
and Warehousing Association na-
tional chairman Boaz Makomere
and a business representative of
Rwandans John Gasangwa told
o those demanding control of
the port, saying it was a regional
asset.
This port does not serve local
or national but regional interests
for all the landlocked countries in
the northern corridor and nobody
can lay claim on it as personal
property, the two said.
Mr Gasangwa advised the
county government leadership
to talk to the KPA through the
national government on how it
can benet from revenue accruing
from the port and other resources
in the region.
Leaders ask
county and
national
government
to agree
on how to
share the
resource
as Senate
debates
modalities
of sharing
revenue
Mixed reaction to Johos port claim
CONSTITUTION | The law provides for the distribution of functions between national and county governments
Governor Hassan Joho KPA chair Danson Mungatana Senator Abu Chiaba
termine the impeachment of a
governor.
But, another group of MPs
from Jubilee and Cord have
faulted Mr Keynans bid, say-
ing the bill would create conict
between the Senate and the Na-
tional Assembly in the running
of county aairs.
The MPs, who included Ni-
cholas Gumbo (Rarieda, ODM),
Vincent Musyoka (Mwala,
Wiper) and Kanini Kega (Kieni,
TNA) accused Mr Keynan of
dragging the National Assem-
bly into county aairs.
They said the Senate should
continue with its role of deter-
mining whether resolutions
from county assemblies meet
the required threshold before
endorsing an impeachment, but
maintained the process must
start with voters.
The legislators claimed that
the MP had run away with their
idea and warned that they
would move with speed and
be the rst ones to push for
an amendment on the County
Government Act, when Parlia-
ment resumes from recess, on
June 3.
We want the law changed to
make it mandatory for voters
to be involved before governors
are impeached. But, unlike
what Keynan and his team
are proposing, we want the
National Assembly to remain
out of the process, said Mr
Musyoka.
MCAs who want to impeach
a governor will be required to
collect signatures from at least
a half of the voters in the af-
fected county.
Bill seeks to
raise bar for
impeachment
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING
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that the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority will hold
a stakeholder meeting on Tuesday, 20
th
May,
2014 from 8.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., at the East
African School of Aviation, off North Airport
Road, Embakasi, Nairobi, to provide participants
with an opportunity to appreciate and deliberate
on the various articles and provisions of the
following:
1. Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful
Acts Relating to International Civil Aviation
(commonly known as the Beijing Convention,
2010).
2. Protocol Supplementary to the Convention
for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of
Aircraft (commonly known as the Beijing
Protocol, 2010).
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DIRECTOR GENERAL
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to transact any business on behalf of the church either at the
national level or the diocese level.
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SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
24 | Sunday Review
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
25
BY MUGUMO MUNENE
@mugumomunene
mmunene@ke.nationmedia.com
More than Sh280 million may have
to be spent in golden handshakes to
chief executive ocers and other sta
members of ve State corporations to
be merged in the coming months.
And corporation executives are now
jostling for the new, more powerful
positions that will be created when
parastatals are merged in what the
Jubilee government says is part of its
eort to contain the national wage bill
and promote eciency.
It has now been proposed that chief
executives of parastatals that market
the country as a tourism destination
be paid a non-taxable Sh25 million
golden handshake.
It is also proposed that staff
members in other cadres who will
be sent home upon the mergers be
paid between Sh5 million and Sh10
million in addition to three months
salary and pay for the unexpired term
of their contract.
The tourism and marketing outts
to be merged are the Kenya Tourism
Board, the Kenya Investment Author-
ity, the Export Promotion Council,
Brand Kenya and the Kenya Year-
book.
It means that the government will
likely pick a new director general for
the merged outt from any of the
respective chief executives Muri-
ithi Ndegwa, Moses Ikiara, Ruth
Mwaniki, Mary Kimonye or Dennis
Chebitwey.
It is estimated that by merging
the ve parastatals the government
will save more than Sh57 million
every year. It is also proposed that
the centralised organisation would
move into one building in order to
ease administration, documents seen
by the Sunday Nation show.
The proposed new oces for the
merged unit is the ultra-modern
Kenya Tourist Fund House on Val-
ley Road, Nairobi.
It is anticipated that the new
entity will lead to better co-ordina-
tion in marketing the country as a
whole by creating synergies and im-
proving eciency, says the merger
document.
The mandate of the merged outt
is to market the country as a leading
tourism, investment and trade hub,
the documents seen by the Sunday
Nation show.
It is proposed that the new agency
be headed by a director-general
under whom there would be three
directorates: marketing, product
development and corporate services
with a total sta establishment of 216,
down from the current 262.
Should the proposals sail through,
it means that approximately 46 em-
ployees in dierent cadres would have
to be oered the golden handshake
if they have not attained retirement
age.
Wide-ranging parastatal mergers
were touched o by a presidential
taskforce chaired by former Mandera
Central MP Abdikadir Mohammed
aimed at curbing waste, including
the scrapping of whole entities and
the merging of others.
Among the parastatals to be
scrapped and their functions trans-
ferred to other entities include the
Privatisation Commission, the
Tourism Research Institute, the
Kenya Pipeline Corporation, the
National Social Security Assistance
Authority and the Kenya Yearbook
Editorial Board.
It will also advise the Cabinet on the
establishment, merger or dissolution
of State corporations and determine
the terms and conditions of service for
their directors and employees.
For many years, parastatals have
been used as dumping grounds for
cronies and relatives of senior govern-
ment ocials. Many of the appointees
had no qualications or expertise in
the elds they were appointed, leading
to inecient delivery of services.
Some parastatal chiefs also abused
their positions to employ relatives
and associates without regard for
meritocracy.
Majority of them rely on the Treas-
ury to pay salaries and manage their
operations, a situation President
Kenyatta asked the commission
to look into when he launched the
team in July.
Parastatal heads to receive Sh25m handshake
FILE | NATION
Brand Kenya Chief Executive Ocer Mary Kimonye is one of the parastatal chiefs
who could be aected by the proposed mergers.
Sh280m
Total amount proposed for the golden
handshake
BY ERICK NGOBILO
engobilo@ke.nationmedia.com
P
resident Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday
handed a Sh500 million shot in the
arm to the troubled Nzoia Sugar
Company and announced that Webuyes
Pan Paper Mills will soon be revived.
Speaking on his rst presidential visit to
Bungoma County, which voted overwhelm-
ingly in support of Cord leader Mr Raila
Odinga and his Amani rival, Mr Musalia
Mudavadi, the President also appealed to
county leaders to work in tandem with
the newly-empowered Provincial Admin-
istration.
Mr Kenyatta, who was in Bungoma for
a victory party for Governor Ken Lusaka,
said leadership wrangles should end to
allow leaders focus on service delivery.
Its only through the actual practice of
working together as leaders that we shall
uplift the lives of Kenyans, he said.
The President said his government is
fully committed to the full implementation
of the Constitution and seeing the success
of devolution, and that functions that fall
under the national government would be
performed by the responsible state bod-
ies while those that were devolved will be
handled by county governments.
There should be consultations and
dialogue between the two levels of gov-
ernment for eective and ecient service
delivery, he said.
Defended move
Mr Kenyatta defended his move to give
more powers to county commissioners,
pointing out that it will ensure enhanced
service delivery at the county level.
We have empowered county commis-
sioners to enable them work well at the
county level. County problems should be
instantly solved by county commissioners
at county level, he said.
The President stated that the national
government will work with county govern-
ments to address the security challenges
that have confronted the country. He in-
structed the county commissioners to work
closely with governors, saying everyone
had a clearly spelt out role to play.
He assured that the Pan Paper Mills
will be working in a few months and that
his government would also construct the
Chwele-Lwakhakha road in addition to
completing the construction of the Kap-
sokwony-Kospiro-Cheptais road.
Mr Kenyatta disclosed that Sh500
million has been disbursed to the cash-
strapped Nzoia Sugar Company to help
pay farmers debts, but he appealed to area
farmers to diversify and take up dairy farm-
ing rather than rely exclusively on income
from cane farming.
Nzoia Sugar Company owes farmers over
Sh400 million yet the sugar they have in
their warehouse is valued at Sh39 million.
Players in the sugar industry have criticised
the ooding of cheap imports into the mar-
ket, warning that they were hurting local
cane farmers and sugar millers.
But yesterday, the President directed
that cheap sugar imports should end to
prevent unscrupulous dealers from ooding
the market with the illegal commodity.
We shall impound and destroy such im-
ported sugar and make people importing
such sugar suer heavily losses.
President Kenyatta ordered the construc-
tion of a tea factory in the county and urged
farmers to diversify their crops and stop
overreliance on sugarcane.
Others present at the Governors victory
party were Kakamega Senator Bonny Kha-
lwale and his Bungoma counterpart Moses
Wetangula, who faulted the President for
his decision to pay Sh1.4bn for the con-
troversial Ango Leasing contracts, and for
empowering county commissioners.
Mr Lusaka said his county government
will continue to work closely with the
national government in order to realise
meaningful development.
Improve security
Mr Wetangula and Mr Khalwale chal-
lenged the president to overhaul the
countrys security structure, which they
termed defective.
Mr Wetangula said that Cord is willing
to work with the national government on
security matters.
He told the President to match his words
regarding his commitment to devolution
with deeds.
He criticised the move to give more
powers to county commissioners, saying
it would create parallel power structures
and confusion.
Mr Wetangula called for increased budg-
etary allocations for the continuous voter
registration exercise.
He observed that Western region, despite
its high population, is under-represented
in senior government appointments.
Mr Khalwale said the President should
have subjected the proposal to give county
commissioners Executive powers to de-
bate both in the National Assembly and
the Senate.
He opposed payment of debts to Anglo
Leasing companies, terming the move as
going against the law.
The assets of those behind Anglo
Leasing scandals who are known to the
government should be seized and auctioned
to pay o the debts, he said.
President gives Nzoia
Sugar new cash lifeline
JARED NYATAYA| NATION
President Uhuru Kenyatta (centre) and Bungoma Governor Kennedy Lusaka are entertained
by pupils on arrival at Kamukuywa yesterday.
REVIVAL | Troubled Pan Paper Mills among the industries to be reopened in a few months
Mr
Kenyatta
brings good
news to
Western
region as
opposition
leaders
criticise his
move to
pay Anglo
Leasing
companies
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
26 | Sunday Review
I. Background of the 2014/15 Budget
1) In line with Article 221 of the Constitution, on 30
th
April 2014, the Budgets for the
three arms of Government were submitted to the National Assembly. The overriding
theme of the 2014/15 is Economic Transformation for Shared Prosperity in
Kenya. To achieve this theme, the budget is anchored on 5 key pillars namely:
Creating conducive business environment for employment; Investing in agricultural
transformation and food security; Scaling up investments in key infrastructure,
energy and water; Investing in quality and accessible healthcare services and
education as well as social safety nets; and further entrenching devolution for better
service delivery and enhanced rural economic development.
2) In order to meet the aforementioned pillars, the following are the expected
outcomes: increased investment opportunities; sustained macroeconomic stability;
sustained and broad based economic growth; unlocked potential for agribusiness
;sustained food sufficiency and poverty reduction; reduced cost of living through
infrastructure development; skilled and productive human capital; protected and
cushioned vulnerable categories in society; and accessible and targeted services for
rural development.
3) The budget for 2013/14 and 2014/15 has shifted from the traditional itemised
approach to the Programme Based Approach in line with the PFM Act, 2012.
Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) have developed programmes
that focus on outputs. These outputs will form the basis for oversight of allocated
resources, performance review of the spending agencies and future allocation of
resources to the entity.
II. Overall Budget for 2014/2015
4) The total budget for 2014/2015 for the National Government as submitted to
the National Assembly amounts to Kshs.1,496,357,638,277. This includes
Kshs.654,079,738,848 for recurrent expenditure and Kshs.476,388,685,948 for
Development Expenditure. The Contingencies fund has been allocated Kshs.
5,000,000,000. Parliamentary Service Commission and Judiciary, respectively,
submitted a budget of Kshs.26,450,000,000 and Kshs.19,155,895,000. On the
other hand, the share of National Revenue to County Government amounts to
Kshs.226,660,000,000.
III. Financing the Budget for 2014/15
5) The total revenue for 2014/2015 is estimated to stand AT Kshs.1,180,997,028,089.
This comprises of Kshs.1,050,675,312,931 in in tax revenue, Kshs.36,207,961,623
in non-tax revenue and Appropriation-in-Aid of Kshs.94,113,753,535. On the
other hand, total grants and loans will amount to Kshs.57,989,025,292 and
Kshs.370,522,439,195, respectively.
IV. Where is the money going?
a) Recurrent Expenditure
6) The budget for 2014/15, as submitted by the National Treasury shows that 35%,
30%, and 17%, respectively, of recurrent expenditure will go to compensation to
employees, current transfers to government agencies, and interest payments.
7) Some of the largest recipients of the recurrent budget include: Teachers Service
Commission Kshs. 165.48 billion; Interest Payments Kshs. 147.44 billion; State
Department for Interior Ksh 78.89 billion; Ministry of Defence Kshs. 73.28 billion;
State Department for Education Kshs. 54.12 billion; State Department for Higher
Education Kshs. 53.78 billion; The National Treasury Kshs. 39.62 billion; Ministry
of Health Kshs. 26.31 billion; and State Department for Infrastructure Kshs. 25.80
billion.
b) Development Expenditure
8) With regard to development expenditure, bulk of the resources will go to acquisition
of non-financial assets (45%) and capital grants to government agencies (41%).
9) Some of the largest recipients of the development budget include: State Department
for Infrastructure Ksh 97.73 billion; Ministry of Energy and Petroleum Ksh 74.92
billion; State Department for Planning Ksh 51.08 billion; State Department for
Transport Ksh 39.80 billion; National Treasury Ksh 33.75 billion; State Department
for Water and Regional Authorities Ksh 26.04 billion; State Department for Education
Ksh 22.38 billion; State Department for Agriculture Ksh 21.41 billion; and Ministry of
Health Ksh 21.05 billion.
V. Public Hearings/ Receipt of Memoranda
10) In line with Article 221(4) of the Constitution, the Estimates for National Government,
Judiciary, and Parliament were committed to the Budget and Appropriations
Committee.
11) Pursuant to the provisions of Article 221 (5) of the Constitution, the Budget
and Appropriations Committee now invites interested members of the public to
submit any representations that they may have on the Estimates of Revenue and
Expenditure for the Financial Year 2014/2015. The representations may be made
orally or by submission of written memoranda in the following manner-
i. Written Memoranda may be forwarded to the Clerk, Kenya National Assembly,
P.O. Box 41842-00100, Nairobi, hand-delivered to the Office of the Clerk, Main
Parliament Buildings, Nairobi or emailed to pbo@parliament.go.ke, to be
received on or before 27
th
May 2014.
ii. Public Hearings shall be held in the following nine venues on the dates indicated
below from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. :-
City/Town Venues Dates
1. Bungoma Town Mabanga Farmers
Training College
Tuesday 20
th
May 2014
2. Mbita Town ICIPE Guest House Tuesday 20
th
May 2014
3. Narok Town Maasai Mara University Tuesday 20
th
May 2014
4. Ol Kalou Town ACK Hall, Ol Kalou Tuesday 20
th
May 2014
5. Kitui Town Multi-Purpose Hall Tuesday 20
th
May 2014
6. Wajir Town Wajir Guest House Tuesday 20
th
May 2014
7. Kwale Town County Headquarters Tuesday 20
th
May 2014
8. Maralal Town County Headquarters Tuesday 20
th
May 2014
9. Nairobi City Kenyatta International
Conference Centre
(KICC)
Thursday 22
nd
May 2014
JUSTIN BUNDI, CBS
CLERK OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
In the Matter of Consideration of the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the Financial Year 2014/2015.
Articles 127(6)(c), 173 (3) and 221(1) of the Constitution.
Acquisition of
Non-Financial
Assets
45%
Capital Grants to
Government
Agencies
41%
Other
Development
14%
Breakdown of the Development Expenditure
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
27
County by County
KAKAMEGA: Vigilantes put
on notice due to crime
Police have ordered the immediate
arrest of members of vigilante groups
operating in the county. The groups
have been accused of taking part in
criminal activities and collecting illegal
levies from residents in the name of
carrying out security patrols. Law
enforcers and local administration
ocials have been asked to crack
down on the groups. Benson
Amadala
NAKURU: Sh22m for solid
waste management
The county government will spend
Sh22m in the next nancial year to im-
prove solid waste management in the
area. Governor Kinuthia Mbugua said
that his government will get into a
Private Public Partnership to promote
good health by making sure Nakuru
town is clean. He disclosed that plans
are under way to acquire a new dump-
site too. Francis Mureithi
NYERI: MCAs told to de-
clare wealth in fortnight
MCAs have been given two weeks to
declare their wealth and make it public
for transparency and accountability
purposes. While making the demand,
the Nyeri county shadow cabinet,
which is made up of residents who in-
tend to hold county government posi-
tions, questioned the way some MCAs
are amassing wealth.
James Ngunjiri
County by County
SIAYA: Government to spray
30 acres with pesticide
The county government will spray
pesticide on more than 30 acres of
maize plantation in Gem infested with
armyworm. Agriculture ocer Dismas
Oyugi said the county government has
availed a chemical known as duduthril
for use. According to Ms Philigona
Ooko, the executive member for
agriculture, livestock and co-operative
development, the government will
send agriculture experts to monitor the
situation. Nelcon Odhiambo
BOMET: County gets
Sh97m from Uwezo Fund
The county has received Sh97 million
from the Uwezo Fund, Woman
Representative Cecilia Ngetich
said. The allocations were based on
the population of each of the ve
constituencies in the region and will be
shared among the respective wards in
each of the constituencies.
Georey Rono
KISUMU: Dutch ambassador
to talk to Maseno students
The Dutch ambassador to Kenya, Mr
Joost Reintjes, will address Maseno
Universitys Communication and Media
and International Relations students on
Wednesday morning. He will lecture on
peace, justice and freedom of speech
as ways of creating awareness on the
Cartoon Movement peace project,
initiative of the Ministry of Foreign
Aairs of the Netherlands.
Anita Chepkoech
LAIKIPIA: Kuppet asks
governor to sack ministers
The Kenya Union of Post Primary
School Teachers has challenged Gov-
ernor Joshua Irungu to make good on
his talk about sacking non-performing
county executives. Local branch Execu-
tive Secretary Wangenye Ndungu has
asked Mr Irungu to dismiss Education
Executive John Bosco Akaale for failing
to address salary issues of early child-
hood development teachers. Francis
Mureithi
GARISSA: Governor
launches Sh500m projects
Governor Nathif Jama Adam (above)
will this week launch development
projects worth Sh500m in Garissa
town. He will tomorrow inaugurate
the installation of Sh154m high-mast
oodlights and street lights to improve
security. Two power generators
purchased at Sh75m and a Sh60m
water pipeline will be set up. The
governors spokesman, Mr Abdikadir
Sugow, said the county boss will also
launch the re-carpeting of Kismayu
Road at a cost of Sh55m and lay a
foundation for the construction of
a maternity wing and mortuary at
Garissa Referral Hospital for Sh25m.
Correspondent
KERICHO : Residents hold
breath over impeachment
Residents will this week nd out how
the move to impeach Governor Paul
Chepkwony plays out after the County
Assembly Speaker on Friday notied
the Senate of the impeachment.
A Senate team will now probe the
claims against the governor, who has
indicated readiness to defend himself
before the team. Timothy Kemei
WAJIR: Two in critical
condition after shooting
Two people were on Saturday night
injured in a gun attack near Soko
Mjinga in Wajir town. Mr David
Gitonga, a civilian, sustained wounds
on his back, while an army ocer was
shot in the head. Both are said to be
in critical condition. Wajir East OCPD
Odhiambo Wamba termed the attack
an act of cowardice by al-Shabaab
sympathisers. Shekhey Ahmed
VIHIGA: County launches
Malezi Bora week
The county will next week engage
in various activities to mark Malezi
Bora week in a move aimed at laying
out a community health strategy and
health leadership. Director of Public
Health Patrick Luttah said the health
department will pursue its plan of
reducing maternal mortality rate by
three quarter. He stated that the health
department is also keen to ensure that
the majority of births in the county are
conducted by skilled personnel.
Derick Luvega
COMFORTING THE LITTLE ONES: Mombasa County nominated Woman Representative Zainab Said Ali presents toys to
one of the many children she visited at the Coast General Hospital. The Member of the National Assembly had gone to
console patients and wish them quick recovery, yesterday. PHOTO: LABAN WALLOGA
BOMET: New college and
oces for Sotik mooted
Residents of Sotik have unanimously
resolved to have a constituent college
of Kabianga university built on a 13.5
acre piece of land next to veterinary
oces in Sotik town. The group also
agreed that Sotik Sub-County oces
be constructed on the 4.8 acres of
land that houses the veterinary oces.
Georey Rono
NYAMIRA: 30 cereal mills to
oer free service to locals
A communal project to mill cereals
for free has been initiated in one
constituency. Mr Daniel Rogena, the
initiatives co-ordinator, said this
undertaking that will see 30 posho
mills commissioned in various sub-
locations in Borabu constituency is
intended to assist poor families who
cannot raise money for milling cereals.
Henry Nyarora
LAIKIPIA: Hundreds of
teachers in limbo over pay
The fate of 800 nursery school
teachers is uncertain after a county
assembly ocial declared that they
were not recognised by law. The
teachers have not been paid since
January when the county government
recruited them.
Muchiri Gitonga
NYERI: Coee farmers to get
Sh355m advance
The county government will advance
Sh355m to farmers who delivered their
coee to a local miller after eorts to
get overseas buyers failed. Governor
Nderitu Gachagua said the money will
cater for school fees as eorts to get
market for the commodity continue.
Stephen Muthini
MERU: Bus park open after
three months construction
Governor Peter Munya has commis-
sioned the Sh16m Riverland Bus Park
project, whose construction started in
February.
According to the county government,
the venture is meant to increase park-
ing space, boost revenue through
parking fees and decongest the town.
Kennedy Kimanthi
BUSIA: Rice farming to get a
boost through mill, stores
The county is set to launch a rice
mill and stores worth a combined
Sh10 million at the Bunyala Irrigation
Scheme. Magombe Multi-purpose Co-
operative chairman Christopher Ngunyi
said the project is aimed at improving
yields, also through use of better
variety. Linet Wafula
KISUMU: Crimes cause
panic in Kanyakwar
Residents of Kanyakwar are living
in fear following a series of crime
incidents. Three university students
were attacked on Friday evening,
barely two days after Maseno
University sta were forced to run
for their lives in an encounter with a
group of thugs. Area police boss Peter
Omanwa said nobody had reported the
occurences.
Everline Okewo
KISII: PSC to hold workshop
on management tomorrow
The county will host a regional
workshop organised by the Public
Service Commission to disseminate
guidelines on the management of
public ocers seconded to county
governments. The meeting, which
targets leaders from Kisii, Nyamira,
Homa Bay and Migori counties will be
held at the Sameta Lodge and will be
opened by Governor James Ongwae
on tomorrow. Elvis Ondieki
HOMA BAY: ODM secretary
in feud with senator
The local ODM branch appears to be
headed into a wrangle after secretary
James Rege endorsed the ouster of
key allies to party leader Raila Odinga.
At the same time, Mr Rege launched
an attack on Senator Otieno Kajwang,
claiming he has been a stumbling
block for the party in the county.
The secretary said Senator Kajwang
accused him of plotting to take over
the partys leadership for the Homa
Bay branch. Maurice Kaluoch
KAKAMEGA: Locals ask for
new roadworks equipment
Residents have called upon Governor
Wyclie Oparanya to acquire
new graders for rehabilitation
and maintenance of roads in the
county. Kisa East Ward Representative
Swaka Limera said two graders
available in the county were not
enough to serve its 60 wards.
John Shilitsa
NYANDARUA: Governor,
Tarda launch tree campaign
Governor Waithaka Mwangi has
challenged local leaders to mobilise
farmers in a tree-planting campaign
to protect water catchments and
boost wealth. While launching the
campaign at Tumaini Primary School,
OlKalou, he urged locals to embrace
the campaign, saying trees were major
source of wealth. He was accompanied
by ocials from Tana and Athi Rivers
Development Authority who donated
100,000 seedlings for the campaign.
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National Highway Roads Authority.
We have realised that there will be duplic-
ity in award of contracts and have resolved
to have a meeting with all these agencies to
address the challenge.
Q: But do you have the technical capac-
ity to handle the roles devolved to you,
including roads?
A: The President said that all required re-
sponsibilities be devolved but they are saying
we have no capacity to execute the devolved
roles. We want the technical people to be
devolved, as well as resources. I am surprised
that equipment for repair of roads lies idle
at the provincial headquarters.
Q: What progress have you made in
health?
A: My idea is that we improve facilities and
use friends from diaspora to help us with
drugs as we build new dispensaries. We have
already acquired ambulance services. Siaya
has some of the highest maternal mortality
levels and HIV prevalence in the country. We
are ghting to reverse them.
Q: Should the entire education sector be
devolved?
A: It is unfortunate that the whole of educa-
tion was not devolved. They only devolved
nursery school education. It is mind-boggling
that I cant help a secondary schools whose
walls are collapsing because that role is not
assigned to me. The whole system does not
report to the governor. Yet three quarters of
my work is occupied by issues related to edu-
cation. The public is more concerned about
education. My government has supplied solar
lamps to schools and set aside Sh80 million
for the provision of nursery school educa-
tion. We are building three nursery school
classrooms in each institutions but we do
not have teachers.
Q: What is your com-
ment on the position by
the Kenya National Union
of Teachers (Knut) that
employment of nursery
school teachers by
county governments
is illegal?
A: You notice that it is
Knut which is talk-
ing, not the
Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
Necessity obeys no law. TSC has not em-
ployed enough teachers. We want to remedy
the situation.
Q: Siaya is the hotbed of Kenyan politics
and an ODM stronghold. How well do you
work with the Uhuru-Ruto government?
A: The Constitution says that there are
47 county governments and the national
government, which must operate independ-
ently but we must cooperate at some level on
areas such as security. However, I think that
security should also be devolved. The police
commissioner sits in Nairobi. We are better
placed to handle security matters because
we are on the ground. The other day, police
wanted to conduct an operation but they
didnt have fuel. I gave them the fuel.
Q: How do you plan to obtain greater value
from Lake Victoria?
A: It is an important natural resource,
which should be dear to us. We must improve
on our lake transport create a link between
Homa Bay, Siaya and Entebbe, Uganda. But
for us to eectively do this, all the counties
sharing Lake Victoria must come together
and chart the best possible way to benet
from the lake. That is what we have done.
Whenever we approach an investor to invest
in the lake, we are asked about the market.
We have decided that the counties sharing
the lake should come together to expand our
market. There are also suggestions that we
should start a common bank to support our
investment projects.
Q: What is your comment on the thinking
that your people have negative energy, and
poor attitude towards enterprise?
A: We must change the mindset of our
people about how things should be done. We
desire to come up with initiatives that will
attract the Siaya diaspora. The response is
positive. Our people are very hard working.
Farmers are busy tilling their lands. They
are interested in development and we are
determined to create an enabling environ-
ment for them.
Q: Talking of investment, you seem to be
uncomfortable with the Dominion Group,
which has been operating here for years.
What is the bone of contention?
Dominion occupies 17,000 acres of land, a
chunk of which they do not use. I have set up
a task force to establish whether Dominion
is still useful to us. It is possible for us to
engage in how the unused land can be best
utilised to benet the local population.
Q: What ve things would you want to
accomplish before your term ends?
A: First, I must remind you that I
have been in oce for only six months
because of the disruption that led to a
by-election.
I will be happy if I come up with
strategies that will ensure our
people have sufficient food,
improved education standards,
access to healthcare, and jobs
for the youth. I also wish to see
very organised and well-plan
ned towns.
I will turn Siaya into a breadbasket: Rasanga
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Leader says he will not rest until his people have access to
good healthcare, quality food, better education, and jobs
By EMEKA-MAYAKA GEKARA
gmayaka@ke.nationmedia.com
G
overnor Cornell Rasanga is witty
and overwhelmingly passionate
about his work.
The Siaya governor was removed from
oce after his election was nullied, but
he went ahead to retain his seat.
And he believes the press did not get it
right on devolution from the start:
The media only focused on the negatives
of devolution and operations of governors.
The reportage on devolution was not inclined
to support it. But I am happy that the attitude
has changed.
Q: How does it feel when a court nullies
your election?
A: Very painful. Our elections are also very
expensive. But the by-election turned out to
be a blessing in disguise. When I got elected
for the rst time, I was not known. My party
had a feeling that Dr Oburu Oginga vies for
governorship with me as his running mate.
I accepted because of the political circum-
stances at that time. In fact, I campaigned
for Mr Oginga.
But things changed and I had to be gover-
nor. Some people had not believed that I will
be governor. The complaint at that time was
that I was not myself. But that mischief was
cured during the by-election. It reinforced
my stature and helped me propel and sell my
agenda. It helped me show that I was not in
anybodys shadow.
Q: So what is your vision for Siaya?
A: To improve the welfare of Siaya people.
My rst agenda is to ensure they have food.
A hungry person does not have an identity.
Food security gives them assurance of who
they are. Other things will follow. I am also
concerned about health, education, and em-
ployment for the youth and women.
Q: How do you plan to put food on the
table?
A: We have a lot of arable land, which is
suitable for mechanised farming. We have
bought 20 tractors for farmers and will re-
pair some from the former local authorities.
Our aim is to hit 45. We have allocated Sh50
million to support small-scale irrigation in
all our wards. We want to be able to harvest
maize three times a year. I am uncomfortable
that most food such as onions and tomatoes
come from Kimilili . We buy milk from Rift
Valley. But mechanisation alone will not
increase production. We must use certied
seeds and quality fertiliser. I also intend to
increase food production using cooperatives
such as Mwalimu Sacco. We can oer them
idle land and ask them to cultivate then it
can be managed by professionals. We should
be able to produce more than 60 bags of
maize from a few acres.
Q: Most farmers remain poor despite en-
gaging in the activity for years. What is
not being done right?
A: Our critical aim is to ll the decit in food
production. As I have just told you, we buy
milk, cassava, millet and maize from outside.
Our challenge is rst to address this decit
and create a surplus for sale. And the way
to go is mechanised agriculture subsidised
by the county government
Q: What opportunities do you have in
tourism?
A: We have the home of US President
Barack Obamas father in Kogelo. We have
not utilised the Obama moment and herit-
age to benet this region. We also have the
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Mausoleum, which
is rich in Kenyas political history. Our lake,
Kanyaboli, attracts rare species of birds and
the sitatunga. We must improve the manage-
ment of the lake. A team has been set up to
prole our tourism sites and assess how best
they can be used to generate revenue for the
county. We also have the homes of Odera
Kango and Arwings Kodhek, which are full
of artifacts. I reckon that Kodhek was the
rst lawyer in Kenya. His bedroom has a lot
of books, which can be transformed into a
library. I am also a son of a great man called
Amoth Amira, who had 27 wives. Research-
ers might be interested to know how he ran
such a big family.
Q: Your county has been allocated Sh4.3b.
How do you intend to use the money?
A: We have a challenge. Out of the amount,
Sh1.9 billion will go to personal emoluments,
particularly payment of county workers such
as the Members of County Assembly, execu-
tives, chief ocers and other sta whose
responsibilities have been devolved. Only
30 per cent will go to development around
Sh700 million.
Q: How do you deal with the burden of
the huge number of sta, which you in-
herited from the former local government
authorities?
A: We will carry out sta rationalisation to
establish who we need. There is a big problem.
Retrenching them will be politically suicidal
yet some of them dont have the skills we
have. That is the dicult situation we nd
ourselves in.
Q: Why have you refused to pay people
employed under the economic stimulus
programme?
A: The Treasury rolled out the Economic
Stimulus Programme and engaged a lot of
sta. Initially, they were being paid by the
national government. We were told to pay
them, but we asked to know how they were
engaged. Some of them were on contract.
We reluctantly paid them with a rider that
their positions will be advertised and they
will be given opportunity to reapply. That is
why they are uncomfortable.
Q: There are multiple agencies handling
roads. How have you dealt with it?
A: The Constitution says there are county
and national trunk roads but there is a lot of
duplicity in management of the resources. We
have roads being done by the Kenya Urban
Roads Authorities, others by Rural Roads Au-
thority, under the Constituency Development
Fund, national government and the Kenya
We have
the home
of US
President
Barack
Obamas
father in
Kogelo. We
have not
utilised the
Obama
moment
to our
benet
Rasanga
FILE | NATION
Siaya Governor
Cornell Ras-
anga believes
education
services
should
be de-
volved.
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BY FRANCIS MUREITHI
@FMureith1
fmureithi@ke.nationmedia.com
K
uresoi South MP Zakayo
Cheruiyot is regarded as
one of the most sober MPs
in the 11th Parliament, given his
non-combative nature.
However, when he openly at-
tacked Deputy President William
Ruto in public and accused him of
undermining politicians from the
South Rift, he joined a growing
list of prominent politicians who
have come out to openly criticise
the Deputy President.
The rst to cast his stone at Mr
Ruto was outspoken Bomet Gov-
ernor Isaac Ruto, who is on record
accusing the DP of being dishon-
est, and a threat to devolution.
When it appeared as if the
attacks to the DP were mainly
coming from the South Rift, Nandi
Hills MP Alfred Keter joined the
band of the DPs attackers.
Mr Keter and the Bomet gover-
nor are known to be the most vocal
critics of the Deputy President in
the vote-rich Rift Valley, and the
increasing barrage of attacks on
the DP is causing concern among
the Kalenjin.
Mr Cheruiyot was once a close
ally of the Deputy President and is
believed to be one of the architects
of the United Republic Party.
Interestingly when Mr Cherui-
yot launched his attack on the
deputy President last week during
a fund-raiser for the African Gos-
pel Church at Tumoi Secondary
School, he was accompanied by
governor Isaac Ruto of Bomet.
The MP accused the Deputy
President of undermining elected
leaders from the South Rift, and
fuelling conict among them.
The statement has sparked up-
roar among the Kipsigis leaders
in Nakuru County who have told
the Kuresoi South MP to apologise
to Deputy President for attacking
him in public.
Modern-day tribalist
Nakuru deputy governor Joseph
Ruto and Solai Ward Representa-
tive, Paul Chebor, among other
politicians, accused Mr Cherui-
yot of being a modern-day
tribalist.
But speaking to the Sunday
Nation, Mr Cheruiyot said he will
never stoop too low as to apolo-
gise, and reiterated that he stood
by his statement that the Deputy
President wants to cause instability
among the Kalenjin.
Apologise for what? For ex-
pressing my opinion? That is not
going to happen, said the former
Permanent Secretary in charge of
internal security during former
President Mois regime.
Mr Cheruiyot, serving his sec-
ond term in parliament, said he
will strongly oppose any divisive
politics in the Rift Valley.
The Deputy President cannot
just go inciting the whole commu-
nity, said Mr Cheruiyot.
But Nakuru deputy governor Mr
Ruto said Mr Cheruiyot was living
in the past and was being used by
the critics of the Deputy President
to cause confusion among the Kip-
sigis community in Nakuru, Bomet
and Kericho Counties.
He speaks as if he is the bet-
ter Kipsigis. I want to remind my
friend Cheruiyot that there is no
better Kipsigis than the other,
said Mr Ruto, adding: If he has
fallen out with the DP, he should
not incite the whole community.
The Deputy President is not giving
the Kipsigis a raw deal, that is just
propaganda, said Mr Ruto.
Mr Ruto said the Deputy Presi-
dent was welcome in the South
Rift, and asked Mr Zakayo to stop
using the Deputy President as his
punching bag.
If Mr Cheruiyot has problems
with the Deputy President, he
should not involve all the members
of the Kipsigis community.
Mr Ruto further added that
instead of attacking the Deputy
President, the MP would better
serve by directing his energies in
strengthening the URP to attract
more supports to the party.
He said it as wrong for the MP
to use the excuse that he had in-
vested a lot in URP, saying not
a single of the millions of voters
who voted for URP, who also have
stakes in the party, can claim sole
ownership of the party.
According to some critics,
the latest attack on the Deputy
President has widened up the gap
between the politicians supporting
the Deputy President and those
opposed to his style of leader-
ship. Accordingly, that may hurt
the unity of the Kalenjin, and even
change the politics of the region,
which has the highest number of
voters in country.
MP joins
several
others
whove
come
out to
speak
against
deputy
president
Cheruiyot criticism
of DP splits region
NO APOLOGIES | Leader says Ruto deliberately misleading community
FILE | NATION
Deputy President William Ruto (left) and Kuresoi MP Zakayo Cheruiyot at
a past function. The MP last week censured Mr Ruto for what he considers
deliberate attempts to confuse and divide the Kalenjin.
Apologise for what? For
expressing my opinion?
That is not going to
happen. The DP cannot go
inciting the community
Kuresoi MP Zakayo Cheruiyot
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31
I
f you want to test the met-
tle of a leader, you present
him with a crisis. Nigerias
President Goodluck Jonathan
has had lots of good fortune in
his career as a politician, but as
one who has been governor and
head of state, he must have seen
many a crisis.
However, none from his well-
thumbed how-to-handle-crises
manuals could have prepared
him for Boko Haram.
The manual must say that if
insurgents threaten to make a
part of Nigeria ungovernable,
declare a state of emergency
and order the military to move
in and take on the insurgents
head on.
But a year since he did that,
Boko Haram not only remain
undefeated, but also continue
to cause havoc in the northern
state of Borno and as far away
as the capital Abuja.
And look, they destroy lives,
blow up buses and bridges, burn
down churches and schools and
raze down towns. In an unprec-
edented move last month, they
abducted nearly 300 schoolgirls,
herded them into lorries and
drove them into captivity in
the thick of night.
That is not all; they have a
leader who says the girls have
been liberated because they
converted to Islam.
Now that is the crux of the
matter. Boko Haram (The
Congregation of the People of
Tradition for Proselytism and
Jihad), among other things,
regards Western education as
akin to sin and seeks to create
an Islamic state in northern Ni-
geria. By attacking churches and
schools, Boko Haram makes
clear its antipathy for the West
and Christianity.
But by taking hostage Chris-
tian girls and converting them
to Islam, video-taping them
and broadcasting them to the
world, Boko Haram changed
the game completely. It seized
the initiative and, then, by gloat-
ing to the world, Boko Haram
leader Abubakar Shekau drove
a dagger into the hearts of par-
ents and a wedge between the
parents and the president.
He was teasing and taunting,
smiling and smirking as he did
so. Then, Shekau offered to
release the girls in exchange
for Boko Haram militants in
government custody. Parents
who have not seen their children
for three long weeks suddenly
saw them on TV in an unknown
place and like they have never
seen them before.
They were reciting the Koran
and they were dressed in full
Muslim dress and had new
names. Parents who are treated
in this way want their govern-
ment to strike a deal with Boko
Haram immediately; they want
their daughters to come back
home at the earliest opportunity.
They do not want their children
harmed. They want a peaceful
settlement here and now.
No wonder then that last
week, there were news reports
to the eect that Abuja had sig-
nalled it was ready to dialogue
with Boko Haram. It is the kind
of position most parents would
want for their children; it is a
position guaranteed to divide
the people of Borno who have
borne the brunt of Boko Har-
ams atrocities.
In the end, President Jonathan
put his foot down: There would
be no dealing with Boko Haram.
There would be no release of
militants in exchange for free-
dom for the girls. Danger still
looms large for the innocent
girls held captive by Boko
Haram for when their location
or locations is/are determined,
then the harder part of rescuing
them unharmed will begin.
President Jonathan has not
had good luck for the last one
year and the bad luck appears
set to continue. Twelve of his
soldiers were killed in a Boko
Haram ambush last week and
then in the confusion that
followed, some of the surviv-
ing soldiers shot at their own
commander. Second, Nigeria
will hold a presidential elec-
tion next February in which
his handling of the abduction
of the girls in particular and the
insurgency in general may work
against him.
But this could change if the
Nigerian military triumphs over
Boko Haram and, even better,
the groups leader is captured
alive or conrmed killed by the
soldiers. President Jonathan has
taken ak for his slow reaction
to the capture of the girls, but
if he secures their release soon,
that could beforgotten.
Yes, the release of the girls or
defeat of Boko Haram presents
the crisis of crises for President
Jonathan. Does he do a deal and,
therefore, bestow some legiti-
macy on the Islamists or does
he go at out to defeat them
and risk Shekau using the school
girls as human shields?
Opanga is a media consultant.
opanga@diplomateastafrica.com
Nigerian leader on the horns of a dilemma
Crisis:
The situa-
tion could
change if
the military
triumphs
over Boko
Haram.
THE WEEK THAT WAS | Kwendo Opanga
Should President do
a deal and end up
bestowing legitimacy
on the Islamists?
Or does Jonathan
(below) go at out
to defeat them and
risk Shekau using
the girls as human
shields?
Training key to success of Safaricom venture
SECURITY | Twalib Mbarak
T
he awarding to Safari-
com a security contract
for technical support is
good news.
The government seems to be
headed in the right direction.
It also shows that government
security organs dont have a
monopoly over security mat-
ters.
A conuence with the pri-
vate sector is the way forward
in boosting security.
We hope the government will
also seek the input of others in
private security matters since
they are way ahead compared
to the police.
The government must
prepare itself to make this
sustainable, otherwise it will be
bogged down by ineciency in
its own ranks, or from specu-
lators who may see this as an
opportunity to rip o the state
in future procurement deals.
You might have come across
the phrase Integrated Security
System.
This means the integration of
human and technical capacity
to enhance security.
In the developed world,
ISS is highly developed and
maintained, hence security is
well enhanced. In developing
countries like Kenya, technical
security is in its infancy because
of nancial constraints, lack of
technical support, high main-
tenance costs and corruption,
where procurement is done
based on which company will
give the biggest kickback.
Technical security has im-
mense benefits, but equally
serious challenges. For in-
stance, CCTV technology and
electronic access management
systems have a high turnover of
obsoleteness within a short
period. The technology needs
complete upgrading, which is
costly.
By embracing technical secu-
rity, the National Police Service
must be at par with the private
sector, hence training is key.
Most police stations do their
daily business manually.
In modern policing and with
use of technical security, police
must change the way they do
business. We should expect all
police vehicles to be congured
with tracking systems and lap
tops.
The challenge will be how
to retain qualied sta in the
police force due to low remu-
neration.
Most police ocers who train
in organised crime are usually
poached by the corporate sector
due to attractive remuneration
in the private sector.
For eective crime manage-
ment, technical security must
be extended to other sectors,
which contribute indirectly to
crime management.
For instance, a new genera-
tion of national identity cards,
Kenya Revenue Authority PIN
certificates, vehicle number
plates, birth and death docu-
ments, insurance, mobile phone
registration, credit cards and
school certicates from all ac-
credited institutions must be
coded and the data integrated
at the national level.
All citizens over 18 years must
have their ngerprints captured
in a biometric system.
This data should be accessed
by the CID (without abuse) so
that in case of a crime, it takes
a very short time for police to
identify and apprehend the
culprits.
Currently, police are over-
whelmed in dealing with
criminal cases due to lack of
technical security back-up. A
citizen should be able to get a
Certicate of Good Conduct at
the press of a button from any
police station or police post.
Apart from crime manage-
ment, it will be important
for the government to extend
technical security support to
other key agencies such as
the National Disaster Centre,
The Kenya Red Cross and all
medical institutions across the
county level.
This will boost the national
response mechanism to issues
of importance, in particular
disasters.
To keep pace with the ISS,
relevant government insti-
tutions must have a global
network and liaison for the
purpose of bench-marking and
upgrading technical capacity on
security matters.
Mr Mbarak is a retired military
ocer and a certied secu-
rity management professional
bartaza16@yahoo.com
Policing:
We expect
all police
vehicles
to be
congured
with
tracking
systems
and
laptops

Police are overwhelmed

in dealing with criminal
cases as they lack back-
up in technical security
Mr Mbarak
O
ur Con-
stitution
s e e ms
to be giving us
problems even
though, hav-
ing eluded us
for over two
decades, it was
only fair that we
celebrate as we did.
Since the last General Election,
we have been witnesses to a lot of
accusations and counter-accusa-
tions between the various levels
and arms of government. Right
now there is some serious noise
regarding the presidents move
to give executive power to the
county commissioners. Signs are
that we shall take quite some time
before the two levels synchronise
operations.
I am persuaded to think that
when we drafted our new Consti-
tution and introduced devolution,
this concept meant dierent things
to dierent people. I have argued
many times in this column that
in devolving power, we may have
been devolving corruption, among
other vices. Some instances since
we started implementing this law
have proved me right. Given the
Kenyan approach to governance,
which dates back many decades,
we have a lot to do and need a
lot of time before we arrive at a
point when we accept that the rule
of law must reign supreme.
While I want to believe that
some of these arguments are
birth pangs as we try to midwife
a proper balance to our constitu-
tional arrangement, I also think
that they are not necessarily good
for us. One has only to look at
some of the challenges we are
facing as a nation to agree that
without concerted eort from all
of us, we might lose the battle.
Take, for instance, the threat of
terrorism. Only a united team of
administrators, security organs,
politicians and judicial ocers
with a common vision can help
overcome this threat to our very
existence.
How about the dangers posed
by social ills such as the distill-
ing and consumption of toxic
liquor? If we have a situation
where governors and county
commissioners are ghting over
power and resources instead of
working together to bring services
to the people, then we have a seri-
ous problem.
The other day, I went for a fu-
neral to a place called Waguthu
in Kiambaa Constituency of Ki-
ambu County. After leaving the
tarmac road and driving left to the
church, I noticed there was some
road work being done using local
labour. But what struck me was
that the labourers about 30 of
them were all women. When I
enquired, I was told that the men
were too drunk to work.
This is a serious matter that
can only be resolved by a com-
mon front from both levels of
government.
Father Wamugunda is Dean of
Students at the University of Nai-
robi. wamugundaw@uonbi.ac.ke
MY THOUGHTS |
Dominic Wamugunda
Unity of the
governments
our only bet
in devolution
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32 | Sunday Review
T
he controversial judgment
of the Supreme Court in
the Mary Wambui case
raises, anew, questions as to the
possible reform of this young
court, which rst became appar-
ent after the presidential election
petitions.
Whereas a court is free to reach
any decision, the chances that
such a decision will be respected
will depend on whether the judg-
ment appears to be the product
of the courts best endevaours in
good faith.
Good faith can only be
demonstrated through a clear jus-
tication of the choices made.
In both the presidential and the
Wambui petitions, however, the
Supreme Court did not explain
enough, leaving itself open to ac-
cusations of acting in bad faith.
In the Wambui case, it is the
diering treatment of time in rela-
tion to the ling by Wambui and
her opponent, James Kingara,
which has exposed the court to
accusations of unfairness.
In the presidential petition, the
court made controversial choices,
among them, subordinating
the Constitution to subsidiary
legislation when determining
the question of all votes cast,
creating a previously unknown
standard of proof, misrepresent-
ing the provisions of the Elections
Act on the meaning of the register
of voters, and ignoring the nd-
ings of the courts own scrutiny on
the tallying at the Kenyatta Inter-
national Conference Centre.
There is a third judgment of
the court, sandwiched by these
two election cases, which is also
of interest.
This is the judgment in the Rai
Plywoods case, a family dispute
over the ownership of a multi-
billion-shilling multinational
corporation involved in the
manufacture of wood products.
The Rai case was already
closed, having been handled in
the High Court and then twice
by the Court of Appeal which had
ruled that although manifest in-
justice was apparent, there was no
legal power to re-open the case, as
urged by one of the parties.
The case re-opened in the
Supreme Court only because
reforms that followed the new
Constitution vested the Supreme
Court with a special jurisdiction
to address historical injustices
caused by past judicial corrup-
tion.
A judge in the Court of Appeal
who sat in the Rai case had main-
tained an improper relationship
with a lawyer representing a party
to the suit.
Following a complaint to the
radical surgery, the judge re-
signed his oce rather than face
the well documented accusations
against him.
When Parliament established
the special jurisdiction, the ag-
grieved party in the Rai case
petitioned the Supreme Court
for a remedy which was, how-
ever, declined.
The decision of the Supreme
Court is troubling for two rea-
sons.
First, one of the judges had
twice disqualied himself from
hearing the case in the Court of
Appeal, of which the judge was
then a member.
The judge was then promoted
to the Supreme Court, where he
now refused to disqualify himself
as he had done twice before, ex-
plaining that he had forgotten the
reasons why he had previously
declined to sit.
Second, when the same judge
had appeared before the Vetting
Board, he gave the impression he
had great sympathy for victims
of past judicial injustices and
said that, if allowed to keep his
job, he would use his position to
extend justice to these litigants.
However, when Rai, one such liti-
gant, subsequently came before
the court, the judge was part of
the majority that dismissed the
case, having insisted on sitting
amid the objections of one of
the parties.
The three judgments consid-
ered here portray the Supreme
Court as unpredictable and the
decisions of the judges as based
on enigmatic considerations.
In the circumstances, it is
increasingly dicult to foretell
how the court will decide any
particular dispute, since judges do
not consider themselves bound
to make basic explanations that
demonstrate a commitment to
justice and openness.
The question then is: Can the
country say it is in a good place
when it has such a capricious
apex court?
Is there enough to suggest the
possible reform of the Supreme
Court?
What form would such reforms
take and how would they be in-
stituted?
Is a radical surgery, of the
kind that happened before, still
a possibility when considering the
reform of the Supreme Court?
One suggestion for considera-
tion is that, in view of its narrow
jurisdiction, which leaves the
court with relatively little busi-
ness, there is no justication for
a Supreme Court made up of
permanent judges.
According to this view, the
court can wholly or signicantly
comprise part-time judges.
The Chief Justice, and perhaps
two others, can be fulltime, and
the rest part-time.
In view of the polarisation in
Kenya, the possibility exists of
making the part-timers outsiders,
or non-nationals.
In several national processes,
notably the Truth Justice and Rec-
onciliation Commission (TJRC)
process, non-nationals played an
integrity-enhancing role, where
locals stumbled under political
pressure.
A model of presidential peti-
tions decided by a bench partly
comprising visiting non-nation-
als can command greater public
condence.
Around the world, some juris-
dictions have the kind of model
suggested here.
For example, the former Court
of Appeal for East Africa was the
apex court for Kenya, Uganda and
Tanzania, until the break-up of
the Community in 1977. Smaller
jurisdictions that cannot aord
the cost of permanent apex
courts have joined up to create
regional apex courts which ex-
ercise jurisdiction over a number
of countries, or rely on visiting
judges.
The Privy Council in the United
Kingdom is an example, and there
are others in the Caribbean.
Concerns of nationalism are the
only argument against such an
arrangement.
However, in Kenyas case,
maintaining political stability
after the recent conflict is a
strong counter-argument.
gkegoro@gmail.com

Three judgments
portray Supreme
Court as
unpredictable.
OPINION | George Kegoro
Good faith:
Chances
that a deci-
sion will be
respected
depends
on whether
judgment
is the
product
of best
endeavour
in good
faith.
Wambui case raises queries over reform of top court
H
ard on the heels of the
recent visit by the Chi-
nese Prime Minister,
Li Keqiang, on Friday, Japans
mission in Nairobi convened a
high prole policy workshop on
Japan-Kenya relations.
Manifestly, Chinas charm
offensive in Africa and raging
supremacy contest with Japan
in Asia are galvanising Tokyo to
expand its economic and diplo-
matic clout in Kenya. The power
rivalry by Asias economic giants
is increasing the ow of resources
and investments in Kenya, break-
ing the threat of Kenyas global
isolation in the post-2013 presi-
dential contest.
As an economic powerhouse
with no military of its own,
Japan is still struggling to dene
its position in the new multi-polar
world order. But Japan is looking
to its new Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe, elected in December 2012,
to soar is global fortunes.
Premier Abe is weaving Ja-
pans foreign policy around two
concepts, now inuencing Japan-
Kenya relations.
One is his active pacism
doctrine; the other is his Abe-
nomics a portmanteau for Abes
economic policies.
Active Pacism
Unmistakably conceived as
a rival ideology to Chinas soft
power, the active pacism doc-
trine seeks to enhance Japans
military power and diplomatic
clout globally to check the
growing inuence of China, par-
ticularly in the East Asian rim. It
has four core elements.
First, Japan is re-interpreting
its post-War Peace Constitution
(Article 9) to lift the restrictions
on its war-making capacity and
to give its Self-Defence Forces
(SDF) the requisite legal force
to wage war.
Japans hard power re-orienta-
tion has been emboldened by
President Barack Obamas recent
visit where America reassured
Tokyo on the US-Japan Security
Treaty, signed after the Second
World War.
Second, Japan is seeking to
strengthen its military capabili-
ties, including the establishment
or expansion of its military
industry and technology, and
coordination and integration
with allies to counter a perceived
Chinese threat.
Third, Japan is elevating
military issues within its foreign
policy, giving priority to security/
military issues over diplomacy.
Finally, Tokyo is espousing the
moral superiority of universal
values such as freedom, human
rights, democracy and the rule of
law, thus positioning Japan as a
modern Western nation.
On that basis, Yachi Shotaro,
the national security adviser to
the Cabinet (secretary-general of
the national security secretariat),
insists that there seems to be
absolutely no chance for China to
facilitate a power shift from the
United States in the global arena.
This is because China does not
seem to embrace universal prin-
ciples and ideals that justify its
role as world leader.
As for now, the brewing power
rivalry between the two Asian
giants spawned by the rise of
China and tensions with Japan
particularlyin the wake of ter-
ritorial dispute over the Pacic
Island of Senkakou (Japan)/
Diaoyu (China) has not yet
started playing out in Africa, al-
though its ripples are beginning
to be felt.
Abes economic outlook
The historic mission of the
Abe administration is to reverse
Japans economic plunge, which
is likely to undermine its inu-
ence in Africa vis--vis China.
At the moment, the statistics
do not portend a bright future,
especially in the multi-polar world
where diplomacy is heavily lean-
ing on economic power.
The Economists survey, The
World in 2050, revealed that
Japans GDP growth per year for
2011 through 2050 is expected to
be only 0.9 per cent on average.
This is way below the projected
3.7 per cent world GDP average
growth for the same period. In
this conguration, only Japan will
continue to follow a long-term
downtrend in its economy.
Despite this grim picture, Japan
is optimistic, especially in regard
to its relations with Africa. De-
spite the entry of China, Africa
remains an important frontier for
Japans trade and investment.
In strengthening its relations
with Africa, Japan, like China,
is largely focusing on economic
cooperation. Here, its image is not
steeped in the colonial past, unlike
in East Asia where Japan was a
colonial power alongside Europe.
Japans diplomats in Nairobi are
hopeful that Japan-Africa rela-
tions are an important juncture to
develop to the next stage.
Like China, Japanese leaders
have embarked on a whirlwind
of diplomatic tours of Africa to
win the hearts and minds of the
worlds new frontier of natural
resources and investments.
During the Fifth Tokyo Inter-
national Conference on Africa
(TCAD- V) in June last year,
Premier Abe promised to set
his foot on the African soil. He
made good his promise in Janu-
ary when he visited Cote dIvoire,
Mozambique and Ethiopia, and
addressed the African Union
in Addis Ababa where, like the
Chinese leaders, Abe stressed
mutual respect with Japan and
Africa thinking together and
working together.
But concerns were raised that,
like Obama who visited Africa in
June 2013, Abe also skipped Nai-
robi at a time when Kenya was
facing the threat of isolation
over the choices its voters made
in 2013. But Tokyos diplomats
in Nairobi were quick to reassure
Kenya that it is still a pivotal na-
tion in Japans African policy. I
wish to welcome Prime Minister
Abe in Kenya in the not too dis-
tant future, wrote Ambassador
Tatsuchi Terada in January.
The rivalry between China and
Japan is eectively breaking the
threat of what was widely seen
as a possible diplomatic isolation
of post-2013 election Kenya, and
moving economic cooperation to
a whole new level. Nairobi, which
holds the largest Japanese com-
munity in Africa and is the
regional headquarters for all the
major Japanese agencies and Ja-
pans largest trading house, is the
destination of a new inow of de-
velopment support and Japanese
rms seeking to invest in energy,
oil exploration, infrastructure and
agribusiness.
During TCAD-V, the Abe ad-
ministration touted Kenya as a
model for Japans cooperation
with Africa, citing the Toyota
Kenya Academy as a model of
cooperation in human resource
development. Japan is casting
its net wider into infrastructure
projects, including the Mombasa
port, Olkaria geothermal plant,
Sodu/Miriu hydro-power plant
and Nairobi Ring Road project,
among others.
But, unlike China, Japan is also
focusing on governance issues. It
has also not openly supported the
African position relating to Ken-
yas trials at the ICC. Japan, like
China and the West, considers
Kenya as a gateway and an im-
portant hub for eastern Africa.
Prof Kagwanja is the Chief
Executive of the Africa Policy
Institute. pkagwanja@gmail.com
OPINION | Peter Kagwanja
Japan-China power rivalry working in favour of Kenya
Diplomacy:
Japanese
lead-
ers have
embarked
on a whirl-
wind of
diplomatic
tours of
Africa to
win the
hearts and
minds of
the worlds
new fron-
tier of
natural
resources.
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
Sunday Review 33
Raiders kill herder, steal animals
BY MUCHEMI WACHIRA
mwachira@ke.nationmedia.com
Police were yesterday de-
ployed to Baragoi, Samburu
County, after raiders killed
a herder they had found at a
dry riverbed then drove away
his animals.
According to locals, the at-
tackers came from East Pokot,
Baringo County, and they ac-
cessed Nachola village, which
is inhabited by members of the
Turkana community, through
Amaiya area in Suguta Valley.
It was around 10AM when
the raiders who were fully
armed found the herder fetch-
ing water for his animals at the
dry Nachola River. He had kept
his gun aside to fetch water
for the animals, a local, who
sought to remain anonymous,
told the Sunday Nation from
Nachola by telephone.
Herders usually dig holes at
the riverbed to get water for
their animals.
The source said that the slain
herder was grazing about 60
heads of cattle plus a herd
of sheep, goats and donkeys
whose number he could not
tell.
Samburu County commis-
sioner Nyakwanga said police
were following up the raiders,
who are believed to be from
the Pokot community.
The incident sparked tension
in Baragoi where police have
been carrying out a security op-
eration to recover illegal guns
at the hands of bandits.
Turkanas have been ghting
with Samburus over grazing
lands of Baragoi, making the
area one of the most insecure
places in the country.
In October 2012, Turkana
bandits killed more than 40
security agents who were
pursuing animals stolen from
Samburus.
Most of these guns are yet
to be recovered the reason
security agents have been car-
rying out an operation since the
beginning of this year, pitch-
ing tents in dierent places in
Baragoi from where they carry
out their activities.
Yesterday, Samburu County
Police Commandant Lanet
Sili, who led officers in the
operation, could not conrm
if they had found the stolen
animals.
It is still early for me to
say if we had (sic) made any
progress but we are still follow-
ing the raiders, he said.
But one of the Turkana home
guards who was helping the po-
lice in the operation disclosed
that they had managed to get
some of the sheep, goats and
donkeys.
We are now trying to re-
cover the cows, he said.

...we are
still following the
raiders.
Samburu County
Police COmmandant
Lanet Sili
Rival teachers unions
vow to work together
UNITED CAUSE | A new beginning
FILE | NATION
Kenya National Union of Teachers Secretary General and Kenya
Union of Post Primary Education Teachers Akello Misori.
Secretaries general
of the two unions
term their decision
irreversible, agree to
bury dierences
BY WYCLIFF KIPSANG
@wsang08
wkipsang@ke.nationmedia.com
A
fter years of engaging in
supremacy battles, two
teachers unions have
agreed to bury the hatchet
and work together to ght for
teachers welfare.
In rare show of unity, Kenya
Nationa Union of Teachers
Secretary General Wilson
Sossion and his Kenya Union
of Post-Primary Education
Teachers counterpart Akello
Misori shared a platform at the
Kabarnet Full Gospel Church
during the Knut Baringo
branch annual general meet-
ing, and announced the historic
move dubbed Baringo Decla-
ration yesterday as secondary
and primary school teachers
cheered wildly.
I didnt know that my
brother (Misori) and I could
unite. The last we sat together
and talked was in the univer-
sity, said Mr Sossion. This is
not about Akelo or Sossion; it
is about teachers welfare. That
is paramount. Nobody can af-
ford to ignore us when we are
united, said Mr Sossion.
Weve taken an irrevers-
able decision. The unity of a
nation begins with teachers. We
should pull down the curtains
between us and speak in one
voice, for teachers from kin-
dergarten to university.
He said that the two unions
would now work together in
all spheres aecting teachers,
including addressing press
conferences jointly.
Mistreatment of teachers
I know those who have been
praying that we continue tus-
sling will not sleep today. The
journey to the Promised Land
has begun. Theres no turning
back. When we speak in one
voice people will definitely
listen, said Mr Sossion.
Mr Misori decried what he
termed the mistreatment of
teachers by the government,
citing lack of descent hous-
ing for the teaching fraternity
which he said amounts to viola-
tion of their rights as enshrined
in the Constitution.
Everything points to the
fact that government is not
willing to listen to the teach-
ers, including increasing their
salaries. It is on this basis
that we have rethought our
positions,said Mr Akelo.
The unionists said that their
decision to merge was informed
by a recent tour to Uganda on
teacher unity where they said
that they found out that they
will have more bargaining
power if they were united.
Mr Akello drew some laugh-
ter when he likened the two
unions to a team heading to the
World Cup in Brazil. With the
likes of Omboko Milemba, Wil-
son Sossion and Mudzo Nzili,
the goalkeeper (government)
will be scared into submission,
said Mr Akelo.
The AGM was attended by
Kuppet and Knut ocials from
Uasin-Gishu, Elgeyo-Marakwet
and Nandi Counties.
BY BENSON WAMBUGU
benwambugu62@gmail.com

Embattled Jomo Kenyatta
University of Science and
Technology Vice-Chancel-
lor Mabel Imbuga (right)
escaped going to prison for
a month after she paid a ne
of Sh500,000 for contempt
of court.
Industrial Court Judge
Monica Mbaru found her
guilty of disobeying court
orders restraining the institu-
tion from lling the position
of Deputy Vice-Chancellor,
Administration, Planning
and Development, which
was being held by Prof Francis
Njeru. Prof Njeru had accused
the university of refusing to
settle his dues as directed by
the court arguing that the in-
stitution paid him Sh971,381
instead of Sh1.4 million.
However, the university
maintained that the former
employee was not entitled to
mileage allowances among
other benefits. Prof Njeru
was dismissed on January 8
but he subsequently applied
for reinstatement on March 28
after the court said his sacking
was unprocedural.
Through lawyer Kamau
Kuria, Mr Njeru, urged the
court to punish the vice-
chancellor.
Mr Kuria accused Ms Im-
buga of playing tricks with
the orders issued by the
court on December 6, 2013
and January 21.
Lady Justice Mbaru ob-
served that advertising for
the new positions amounted
to contempt of court. She said
the council did it with wanton
abandon.
VC escapes jail term after paying
Sh500,000 ne for contempt
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
34 | Sunday Review
New drugs:
With the
development
of new
drugs and
treatments,
the days
when the
Big C was an
automatic
death
sentence are
long past.
Cancer no longer a taboo topic
LETTER FROM LONDON | Gerry Loughran
T
he poster that adorns
most of the Metro
stations in my neigh-
bourhood asks four questions:
Do you have persistent heart-
burn or indigestion? Feel full
earlier than you would expect
when eating? Have you had
excessive or unplanned weight
loss? Or experienced swallow-
ing difficulties or problems
with regurgitating food?
If so, it says, visit your doc-
tor, adding in large letters,
Oesophageal Cancer: Its a
burning issue!
The days when cancer was
spoken of in hushed tones are
long gone. Most adults know
a woman who has had breast
cancer and probably a man
with prostate cancer. That
perfectly healthy people can
speak of their cancers in the
past tense is part of the reason
the taboo has gone. With the
development of new drugs and
treatments, the days when the
Big C was an automatic death
sentence are long past.
Ocial statistics show that
half of all adult cancer patients
in the UK are now likely to
survive 10 or more years.
The gure for breast cancer
women is even better 78
per cent. And 81 per cent of
men with prostate cancer will
survive at least ve years.
Not so with cancer of the
oesophagus the gullet or
food pipe. Only 13 per cent
of suerers survive for ve
years and 10 per cent for
10. The reason? Failure to
diagnose when the cancer is
at an early stage and easiest
to treat.
The problem is there are few
symptoms and most people
will ignore them. The poster
campaign is part of a drive to
alert people that the pesky
indigestion they believe they
are suering from can really
be something worse, much
worse. Have it checked out!
* * * * *
British people are well
known for their love of dogs
but an increase in attacks on
humans, often defenceless
infants, by aggressive breeds
such as pit bulls and Staord-
shire terriers, has led to tough
new legislation.
Eliza-Mae, aged six days,
was pulled from her pram
and mauled to death by the
family pet, and Ava-Jayne, 11
months, was killed by a pit bull
terrier. Last year, an elderly
man died after a neighbours
dog ran free.
There has also been an
increase in attacks on care
dogs, such as guide dogs for
the blind.
New rules have increased
the penalty for allowing a
dog to attack and kill some-
one from two years in prison
to 14. And for allowing a dog
to cause injury has gone up
from two years to ve.
* * * * *
Britain has more billion-
aires per head of population
than any other country 104
and London hosts by far
the greatest number in the
world 72 against the next
best, Moscow, with 48. Many
are foreigners.
The Sunday Times Rich
List puts the Indian-born
brothers Sri and Gopie Hin-
duja top, with a combined
wealth of 11.9 billion. Next
is the Russian shareholder in
Arsenal football club, Alisher
Usmanov, with a personal
wealth of 10.6 billion. Third
comes the Indian steel mag-
nate Lakshmi Mittal (10.2
billion).
Like Usmanov, a number
of the super-rich own or
part-own football clubs, such
as Chelsea, Newcastle United
and Queens Park Rangers.
Culture, nancial services
and life-style have been named
as major attractions, though
several plutocrats say they
would leave if their taxes
were increased.
* * * * *
A husband went to the
police to report his wife was
missing and the following
dialogue ensued:
What is her height? I never
noticed. Slim build? Not re-
ally. Colour of eyes? I cant
remember. Colour of hair?
She changes it. What was she
wearing? Something brown, I
think, or no, maybe blue.
Was she in a car? Yes.
What is the make and col-
our of the car? Black Audi
A8 with a super-charged 3.0
litre V6 engine generating
333 horse power, teamed
with an eight-speed tiptronic
automatic transmission with
manual mode. It has full LED
headlights, which use light-
emitting diodes for all light
functions. Very thin scratch
on the front left door.
Said the policeman: Dont
worry, sir, well find your
car.
* * * * *
A rich miser is on his death-
bed and calls his priest, his
doctor and his lawyer. Heres
30,000 for each of you to
hold until I die, he says.
Then you must put it in my
con, because I want to take
my money with me. At the
funeral, each man puts an
envelope into the con, but
as they leave, the priest con-
fesses, I only put 20,000 in
the envelope. I kept 10 grand
to repair my church roof.
Says the doctor, Since we
are being honest, I only put
10,000 into the con. I kept
20,000 to pay for a new X-
ray machine at my hospital.
The lawyer is aghast. Im
ashamed of you both, he says.
When I put my envelope into
the con, it contained my
cheque for the full 30,000.
Gerryo69@hotmail.com

Disease is no
longer spoken of
in hushed tones
T
he recent spate of
impeachments and
impasses at county
assemblies pitting governors
against members of county
assemblies (MCAs) seem to
be raising hackles in certain
quarters.
There are increasing mur-
murs suggesting that MCAs
are being overzealous in their
task of keeping the county
executive on its toes. There is
even talk of passing legislation
to limit the county assemblies
roles in the impeachment of
governors.
The idea that MCAs wield
the power to re the county
government terrifies many
observers, and there are sug-
gestions that this power will
cause governors to try and
please them with corrupt deals
and money-wasting perks.
I disagree with the doomsay-
ers.
One key reason Kenyans
rejected the old constitution
was that it had systemati-
cally concentrated all power
in the hands of the president,
who could delegate and use
the powers at will. At some
point, a little over 20 years
ago, a former Attorney-Gen-
eral boldly declared to the
National Assembly that no-
body, save the president, is
above the law.
The implication was that
the president could do pretty
much as he pleased, and all
presidents under that consti-
tution did exactly that.
In that constitution, there
was even a clause that indi-
cated clearly that all public
servants served at the pleas-
ure of the president. He had
power over life and death, and
the many detentions without
trial that dot our history are
just a few of the demonstra-
tions of that power.
It is in realisation of these
dangers that Kenyans resolved
to write a new constitution and,
in a process spanning two dec-
ades, we eventually came up
with our current charter.
In the new constitution, we
reduced and dispersed execu-
tive authority, to a large extent.
We created multiple executive
oces protected by the consti-
tution, and introduced rights
that could not be abrogated
at will.
In the realisation that even
the dispersed executive could
go overboard and harm the
very people it was supposed
to serve, we built in a system
of checks and balances that,
if implemented, would be the
envy of all civilised nations
across the globe.
At the national level, we
established a Senate with the
power to send the President
and his Cabinet packing should
they contravene the constitu-
tion or any other written law.
The National Assembly was
vested with day-to-day over-
sight authority to ensure that
the interests of the citizen
are upheld in all government
dealings.
Above all, we established a
Judiciary to arbitrate in cases
of conict between the dier-
ent arms of government, and
between law-abiding citizens
as well.
At the county level, we es-
tablished the oce of governor
to parallel that of the national
president, and county as-
semblies to provide oversight
and, if necessary, to impeach
the governor and his executive
should they behave in a manner
contrary to the best interests
of the citizens.
To guard against frivolous
motions of impeachment,
we gave the Senate the nal
authority to decide the fate of
impeached governors.
As far as oversight of execu-
tive authority is concerned,
especially in the case of
governors, the constitutional
procedures have been scrupu-
lously observed. We should let
the law take its course because
that is how we designed our
system of governance. In-
terfering with the oversight
functions can only send this
country back to the dark old
days of leadership by executive
at, and this would be a sure
recipe for chaos.
Dr Atwoli is a consultant psy-
chiatrist and senior lecturer
at Moi Universitys School of
Medicine. lukoye@gmail.com
BAROMETER | Lukoye Atwoli
Lets not interfere with MCAs oversight role
Checks and
balances:
To guard
against
frivolous
motions
to remove
governors,
we gave
Senate
the nal
authority to
decide fate
of governors.
As far as oversight
is concerned,
constitutional
procedures have been
scrupulously observed.
F
or the major-
ity of adult
Kisumu town
residents, political
conversation seems
to come easily.
Jump onto any
of the many public
service motorcycles
(boda bodas) in
town or walk into
a street corner bar-
bershop (kinyozi) for a haircut, and the next
minute you will most likely be responding
to quickre questions about the hottest po-
litical topic in the country or the escapades
of some prominent politician.
What do you think about this and that?
Who will come out tops in the battle
between so-and-so? Who is sponsoring
so-and-so to ght so-and-so? Why is so-
and-so silent on this and that?
For close to 20 years, these questions
have almost always revolved around Mr
Raila Odinga, the former Prime Minister
whose associated political parties and loy-
alists have dominated the politics of the
region loosely called Luo Nyanza.
From my long experience, it was often
a complete waste of precious time trying
to argue against a popular view unless
you were relatively idle or had the skills
to wriggle your way out of a potentially
ill-tempered situation.
With the local political view largely
blurred by Railamania, independent
opinion did not count for much either.
But my latest sojourn to Kisumu, the
epicentre of Luo Nyanza politics, has
brought me to a brave new world.
Of course, political analysts on boda bodas
or in kinyozis still talk about Mr Odinga.
But they talk about other people, too es-
pecially Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero.
A youthful boda boda rider on the Dunga
route last week drew my attention to two
recent events in the town and the latent
messages the local people sent out regard-
ing the two politicians.
In February, rowdy youth, many of them
working in the Jua Kali sheds downtown,
jeered Mr Odinga out of their neighbour-
hood after he supported the controversial
construction of a Sikh monument there.
My boda boda rider insisted that the scene
was actually uglier than that reported in the
media, with the crowd hurling some fairly
nasty words like personal greed.
Contrast that with the incident-free event
in the same neighbourhood a month later
when Dr Kidero presided at a fundraiser
for the Kisumu Centre Jua Kali Association
and you will get the drift.
Even the Court of Appeals decision
to nullify the Nairobi governors election
last Tuesday evoked mixed feelings in
the town.
As you would expect, Mr Odingas ardent
supporters reacted to the news with glee
and celebrated the perceived downfall of a
man they have increasingly come to see as
a thorn in their party leaders side.
But my aunt, a devout Catholic and an
ocial of a local parish, was praying to God
to bless Dr Kideros big giving heart and
that the governors legal problems do not
stop him from honouring invitation to be
the chief guest at the dioceses fundraiser
next month.
Otieno Otieno is chief sub-editor,
Business Daily. Twitter@otienootieno.
jkotieno@nationmedia.com
Kidero slowly
becoming the
darling of
Kisumu town
OUTSIDE THE BOX |
Otieno Otieno
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
35
BY ZEDDY SAMBU
@zeddysambu
zsambu@ke.nationmedia.com
E
ssar Energy will be paid by
the taxpayer to exit the oil
renery, a top State ocial
has said.
This contradicts an earlier
position taken by the Attorney-
General and a Parliamentary
committee that Treasury should
not make any payments to the
Indian rm.
In its report, the Public Invest-
ments Committee had advised
the government against paying
Essar Energy Overseas Ltd to
exit the Kenya Petroleum Re-
neries.
The AG had indicated that the
exit should be purely on mutual
agreement, with no demands as
put forward by the rm.
But Energy Cabinet Secretary
Davis Chirchir says Treasury and
the AG had agreed on a Deed of
Termination, spelling out the
nancial terms under which the
company should exit.
The deed will see the govern-
ment settle $5 million (Sh429
million) negotiated under an exit
clause known as the Put Option
Price in the 2009 shareholders
agreement.
The option of Essar to still
walk out of the relationship
exists. We have a contractual
obligation to pay as structured
in the legal framework in the
Memorandum of Understanding,
Mr Chirchir said in an interview.
We have to obey the law.
A source privy to the deal said:
There will be consideration for
Essar but the amount has re-
duced substantially.
But the government says
payment will be subject to adjust-
ments that should be mutually
agreed upon with Essar prior
to its exit.
The PIC has faulted Essar for
failing to honour its obligation
to upgrade the renery. Attor-
ney-General Githu Muigai had
questioned the legality of Es-
sars demand for Sh429 million
in exchange for its 50 per cent
stake in the renery, crippling
talks on the exit plan.
Three outstanding issues
remain in contention includ-
ing payment by government
of Sh2.22 billion to the Indian
rm as costs for a power captive
project, the Sh429 million for the
Put Option Price, and manage-
ment fees of about Sh190.2
million. However, the govern-
ment plans to deduct Sh172
million for breach of a capital
covenant agreed on during the
buy-in, a demand which Essar
has objected to. The power plant
was funded by Barclays Bank of
Kenya for Sh1.2 billion.
While the government insists
that the payment of the $5 million
to Essar may happen only once
parties have agreed on how debt
owed to KPRL shall be settled, it
has also accused Essar-appointed
managers of making poor busi-
ness decisions which have seen
debt levels rise 26 times.
Essar is not prepared to
consider any claims for set o,
counter claim or deduction in
relation to associated or ali-
ated entities with KPRL, said
an ocial of the rm during a
Renery saga: State prepares to
pay Essar against advice by MPs
ACCUSATION | Poor business decisions by rms managers caused debt to swell 26 times
FILE | NATION
Chair of the Parliamentary Investments Committee Adan Keynan (left), Attorney-General
Githu Muigai (centre) and committee member Chris Wamalwa. The government will pay Es-
sar Energy Overseas Limited despite a recommendation by the PIC to the contrary.
But government
plans to slash payout
by 40 per cent as
damages for breach
of capital covenant
We have a
contractual
obligation
to pay as
structured
in the legal
framework,
Energy CS
Davis Chirchir
An independent valuation
report seen by the Sunday
Nation shows that KPRLs
assets total Sh38.983 billion.
These assets include the re-
nerys associated pipe work
approximately 403,000
cubic meters.
The total value of storage
is estimated at Sh16.3 billion,
while the land on which the
renery facility sits is about
300 acres cost per acre is
Sh50 million, which translates
to Sh15 billion. The total value
attached to land on houses
belonging to the renery is
estimated at Sh5.82 billion.
CAPITAL ASSETS
Renery worth
Sh39 billion
CONTINUED ON PAGE 37
Parliament
summons
Kosgey over
coee deals
BY STEPHEN MUTHINI
@stevemuthiny
smuthini@ke.nationmedia.com
Agriculture Cabinet Secretary
Felix Kosgey has been summoned
to appear before the National As-
sembly on Wednesday to shed light
on controversial coee marketing
deals between the Nyeri County
government and dealers.
According to Mathira MP Peter
Weru, the secretary is expected to
explain agreements he witnessed
between the county government,
marketers and millers, the nature
and amount of sales made so far,
and payments made to farmers.
We want to hear from him what
the national government is doing to
ensure farmers are not exploited,
said Mr Weru, in reference to claims
that a delegation of Nyeri county
government ocials had travelled
abroad using money from farmers
coee proceeds.
On Monday, Governor Nderitu
Gachagua announced that coee
farmers who delivered their pro-
duce to the Sagana Coee Mills,
as proposed by the county gov-
ernment, will receive an advance
payment of Sh355 million to cater
for school fees as they await the
completion of the marketing of the
rest of their produce.
The advance pay is money
derived from the sale of coffee
made so far both through direct
sales and auction at the Nairobi
Coee Exchange.
The governor said they had sold
over 54 per cent of the crop, and
urged farmers to be patient as the
county government continued
negotiations with buyers abroad,
adding that his desire was to make
the coee industry self-nancing
to save farmers from high interest
rates incurred from bank loans.
At the same time, Mr Gachagua
announced that the county govern-
ment had procured 30,000 bags of
Calcium Ammonium Nitrate at a
cost of Sh40 million.
On the trips the county govern-
ment made to the US to market the
coee, Mr Gachagua said, contrary
to the propaganda being peddled,
the trip succeeded in acquiring
markets for coee. However, he
said he could not discuss the de-
tails of the agreement with farmers
as that was information meant for
the various coee societies which
had delivered produce.
BUSINESS
SUNNY SUNDAY
Projects that enrich a few fat-cats, mostly
public ocials, while purporting to boost the
economy should be questioned Page 31
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MARKET TURNOVER
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Compiled by Joshua Masinde
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
36 |
T
he grand projects are in
full ow, and the media
applaud enthusiastically.
A new railway, laptops for the
children, roads for the counties,
Wi-Fi for the towns.
All of this is described as lar-
gesse, generosity on the part
of enlightened government,
freebies from our favoured
development partners. The
money is owing, and boom
times are coming.
Let me take you back to
an essay written many years
ago by one Frdric Bastiat,
a political economist who laid
some of the early foundations
for the Austrian school of eco-
nomic thought. He penned The
Parable of the Broken Window
which asks us to observe what
is not seen in economic life, not
just what is seen.
Imagine a shopkeepers win-
dow is broken by some careless
shopper. The angry shopkeeper
immediately has to cough up
a few thousand shillings to
replace the window. A glazier
duly arrives to do the work, and
is paid. This is a good thing,
right? The shopkeeper has
his window back; the glazier
goes home with money he did
not have before, which he will
now spend on something else;
the economy is stimulated. So
whats the problem here?
The problem lies in what is
not seen. The window is seen;
the money in the glaziers
pocket is seen. Whats missing
is the expenditure that never
happened. The thousands of
shillings spent on the window
is what the shopkeeper was
about to spend on shoes for
his children. The children will
now not get new shoes and the
shoemaker will lose a sale.
It sounds simple enough, but
Bastiats intention was not to
discuss shopkeepers it was to
attack the prevailing ignorance
in government circles regarding
public spending. More than a
century later, governments still
get carried away when describ-
ing the benets of what they are
about to spend on. Every project
will stimulate the economy in
some way; incomes will be cre-
ated; spending will ow.
The fallacy, of course, is
this, in Bastiats words: Do
millions of francs descend on
a moonbeam into the (public)
coers?
Why do we always rejoice
over the disbursement of funds,
rather than discuss their collec-
tion? The billions and billions of
shillings that are about to ow
through our economy are not
arriving from nowhere: they
are coming from the pockets of
taxpayers. Those taxpayers will
now have less money to spend
on things of their choice.
To clarify: I have no prob-
lem with public projects that
are necessary and that will
generate a collective economic
return. But we must not rush
into every huge spending spree
imagining its all free money.
There is an opportunity cost to
every investment made; there is
something left not done every
time we spend money. Its never
a win-win.
The bigger problem is where
all this money goes. Projects
that enrich a few fat-cats
while purporting to boost the
economy should be questioned.
Spending that adds pomp and
splendour to the lives of public
ocials is especially egregious.
In Kenya today, we have every
other governor trying to become
a mini-president, complete with
all the trappings of royalty,
funded by additional taxes on
every imaginable thing.
This was true in Bastiats
time as well, when the holders
of public office would argue
that their positions came with
a certain esteem and prestige,
and must be seen to be elevated.
In todays Kenya, we seem to
think that spending on cars and
oces and mansions and fur-
nishings and security is a good
thing as it stimulates many an
industry.
Were back at that window,
you see. The taxpayer is being
asked to fork out more and
more, to support the projects
and accoutrements of offi-
cialdom. Remember, please,
what is not seen: the missing
school fees, medicines, or even
entertainment that so many are
asked to forego.
Public money must be spent
only on what is truly neces-
sary, and on what is good for
everyone.
www.sunwords.com
When government spends, taxpayers lose
SUNNY DAY | Sunny Bindra
Lost
chances:
There is
something
left not
done every
time we
spend
money.
Its never
a win-win
situation
FILE | AFP
We must not rush into every huge spending spree imagining it is all free
money. Public money must be spent on what is truly necessary.
A
s the number of gadgets
on which people can
view documents has
grown, so has the variety of
portable printers on the mar-
ket. Together with smartphones
and tablets have come petite
printers that can handle varied
input, including les received
through Bluetooth. There are
small printers for printing docu-
ments and others for producing
paper photographs.
These printers are not re-
stricted to printing on the A4
papers sizes; they can print on
odd-sized paper and support
your printing requirements
on the go. Besides, there is no
need for a special software to
connect the phone to the print-
ing device as long as the two
devices can connect through
Bluetooth.
We still see traditional
document printers designed
to output letter-sized content
from computers, as well as
photo printers that can churn
out 4 by 6-inch prints from
memory cards or USB keys,
and label printers.
Mobile printers are ideal for
business travellers who may
need to revise documents for
sharing with clients on the go.
Because many mobile printers
are self-powered or have alter-
nate power sources, they are
also well-suited for anyone who
works in the eld and needs to
print documents, such as con-
tracts or receipts on demand.
Specialty mobile devices,
such as compact photo print-
ers, allow photographers and
others who work with images
to distribute their work as and
when need arises. It is how
many of the commercial pho-
tographers hop from one event
to another, taking photographs
They take photographs and
print them even before the
function is over.
Cost-eectiveness
While on business travels,
many people rely on hotel facili-
ties to print their documents.
Although many hotels and
cyber cafes oer shared print-
ers for guests to use (usually at
a fee), using your own mobile
printer may be more cost-eec-
tive in the long run if you need
to print on demand.
PC-free printing is another
reason you may want a mobile
printer: some portable printers
allow you to print from devices
other than just laptops. For
example, you can print from
PDAs, smartphones or cameras
through Bluetooth functions, or
directly from compact storage
cards a feature you wont
likely find on shared public
printers.
With mobile printing, re-
ceiving and viewing huge
spreadsheet attachments on
your smartphone has now been
made quite easy. Or the need to
revise a PowerPoint deck just
as your plane lands, which you
then must print before you ar-
rive at a meeting.
Or maybe youre just running
to the airport and need to print
a boarding pass directly from
your phone. All these are a real-
ity, thanks to changing mobile
technology.
Bluetooth is a wireless
technology that establishes
a short-range connection be-
tween two Bluetooth equipped
devices. That is why you need a
mobile printer that can support
Bluetooth wireless technology
if you wish to print from your
devices wirelessly. You display
the image of the document on
your phone and choose the
send to Bluetooth or print
option from the menu. It is
that simple.
Impressive speed and quality
In addition, a small but
quickly growing number of
printers employ Wi-Fi Direct,
a technology that has the
potential to greatly simplify
wireless connectivity. Wi-Fi
Direct-enabled computers
and printers can easily con-
nect with each other without
requiring a wireless access
point. HP has come up with
its own equivalent, which it
calls Wireless Direct.
Print speed and quality
from a mobile printer can be
impressive. Although many
mobile printers print at around
5 pages per minute, some are
much faster.
If youre a travelling sales-
person who cant afford to
wait for pages to print, look
for mobile printers with a 10
pages per minute or faster print
speed ratings.
Sam Wambugu is a monitor-
ing and evaluation specialist.
Samwambugu@gmail.com
The mobile printers selling point is its simplicity
TECHNOLOGY | Sam Wambugu
On the go:
The devices
are self-
powered,
and allow
you to print
from other
devices via
bluetooth
Essar to be
paid
in spite of
opposition
from MPs
FILE | NATION
Energy Cabinet Secretary Davis
Chirchir.
visit to Nairobi last month.
A lawyer speaking on behalf of
the rm said: Claims of other en-
tities belonging to Essar, under
the Technical Operating Services
Agreement and other services, will
be pursued separately.
Essar has defended itself
against claims it ignored a
Cabinet decision of May 2007
to upgrade and modernise the
refinery, saying the upgrade
was not economically viable in
the prevailing rening environ-
ment then, based on a series of
studies conducted by international
consultants.
Essar bought 50 per cent of
KPRL in July 2009 from three
international oil companies
Shell, BP Africa and Chevron
Global Energy and also paid
Sh172 million to the Treasury as
consideration for the waiver of its
pre-emptive right.
Records at the Energy ministry
show that the book value of KPRL
at the time of sale was Sh396 mil-
lion on the basis of the shares
available then (19.8 million) at
Sh20.
But the true value of the facil-
ity is estimated at Sh39 billion in
view of the vast and prime land on
which the renery sits, the tanks,
whose storage capacity is 455,200
cubic meters, its pipeline network,
a power captive plant and the value
of sta houses in various prime
areas in Mombasa.
Its liabilities have, however,
been mounting over time. A
forensic report by Deloitte Con-
sulting conrmed a claim that oil
marketers are seeking compensa-
tion for product losses estimated
at Sh7.1 billion for the 10 years
ending August 2012.
In addition, the total debt before
the incorporation of Essar was
Sh26.7 million. The debt has since
escalated to Sh688.5 million, ac-
cording to the AGs oce.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 36
Sh7.1b
Amount sought by oil marketers
from the renery for product
losses up to August 2012
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
Business 37
BY MUTHOKI MUMO
mumumo@ke.nationemdia.com
N
ext year, it may be possible for
M-Pesa users in Kenya to send
money to other network mobile
subscribers outside the country.
British rm Vodafone, which owns the
intellectual property rights to M-Pesa, last
week said that it was seeking regulatory
approval to launch cross-border money
transfers in 2015.
Partnerships with money transfer rm
Western Union have made it possible for
M-Pesa users in Kenya to receive remit-
tances from abroad on their mobile wallets.
Following a separate deal, M-Pesa users
in Kenya will also be able to receive re-
mittances sent via MoneyGram on their
phones beginning August.
However, sending money abroad using
M-Pesa is currently not possible, and nei-
ther are international M-Pesa to M-Pesa
transactions.
Under the proposal, payments will be
routed through a single international hub
where issues such as currency conversions
will be dealt with before the monies are
delivered.
It will also incorporate other remittance
transfer services and could potentially make
it possible for M-Pesa users to send money
to people using mobile money platforms
outside the Vodafone network.
We are pursuing regulatory approval,
the technology exists we need to make
sure that the protocols work properly and
I would say that in 2015, you will start to
see more M-Pesa to M-Pesa international
transfers, said Vodafone director of Mobile
Money, Michael Joseph.
M-Pesa was rst launched in Kenya in
2007 by Safaricom, a company in which
Vodafone has a 40 per cent stake. With
its success in Kenya, Vodafone has since
expanded the mobile money platform to
other countries.
Currently, M-Pesa is used in at least nine
countries other than Kenya including Tan-
zania, South Africa, India, Lesotho and the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
Early this year, Vodafone forayed into
Europe by launching M-Pesa services in
Romania.
Research carried out by the GSM As-
sociation last year found that a growing
number of operators running mobile money
platforms were eager to tap into the inter-
national remittance business.
Competition
It is a business opportunity that many
network operators are keen to explore, es-
pecially those with a live domestic mobile
money service, read the report.
In East Africa, Tigo, a unit of Millicom
Cellular, has launched cross-border mobile
money transfer.
In February, the company brought to
market a service that made it possible for
Tanzanians and Rwandese to send money
to each other, automatically converting cur-
rencies in the process.
The competitiveness of these cross-bor-
der mobile money services will depend on
their ability to beat the prices oered by
traditional money transfer rms. Accord-
ing to the World Bank, African migrants
sent about $60 billion (Sh5.16 trillion)
back home in 2012. Globally, the remit-
tance market is expected to hit the Sh50
trillion mark this year.
However, transfer costs are proving to be
a major hindrance. The World Bank says
that Africa is the most expensive market to
send remittances to, with average costs of
12.4 per cent the value of a transaction.
We need to make sure customers pay the
lowest possible price, said Mr Joseph.
Currently, Vodafone has concentrated the
rolling-out of its mobile money platform on
markets that are heavy cash users, many of
them in the developing world. On the other
hand, remittance trac to Africa is mostly
from Western Europe and North America
relatively cash-lite economies which do
not necessarily need M-Pesa services.
However, Mr Joseph argues that there
may be a need for an M-Pesa type product
targeted at migrant communities.
In Kenya, M-Pesa is facing a rapidly
changing market and regulatory frame-
work that may aect its competitiveness
in the future, with government calling for
sharing of mobile money agent networks
among operators in the country.
Cross-border M-Pesa
transfer likely in 2015
FILE | NATION
British-owned Vodafone is currently working to enable M-Pesa users send money interna-
tionally beginning next year. The company has a 40 per cent stake in Safaricom and owns
the intellectual rights to the mobile money transfer service.
MONEY MARKET | A growing number of operators are tapping into the international remittances business
We have the
technology. We just
need to ensure the
protocols work as
they should ...
Vodafone Director
of Mobile Money,
Michael Joseph
British rm
Vodafone
in the
process of
obtaining
regulatory
approval
Dairy industry lifts Olenguruone
from ashes of post-election violence
BY FRANCIS MUREITHI
@F Mureith1
fmureithi@ke.nationmedia.com
Olenguruone in Nakuru
County was once the epi-
centre of ethnic clashes in
the 90s and the post-elec-
tion violence of 2007/2008.
But it is slowly gathering
itself from the ashes.
Sitting on the edge of
Mau Forest, Olenguruone
is probably one of the
most fertile regions in the
country, where many a dairy
farmer has thrived.
The dairy industry once
employed hundreds of
youth, supplying milk to
Nakuru and as far as Keri-
cho and Bomet counties,
earning farmers millions
of shillings.
Tribal clashes
However, it all collapsed
like a pack of cards when
hundreds of farmers fled
their farms as homes were
destroyed and livestock sto-
len or killed at the height of
the tribal clashes, whose ef-
fects are still felt to date.
But the sleepy rural town
is slowly making a come-
back, thanks to a thriving
dairy industry.
At Solitarian co-op-
erative society, we started
with 90 members, but when
Brookside Dairies opened
a cooling plant at Olengu-
ruone, our membership rose
to 1,200 members, says Mr
Johana Kogo.
The other successful co-
operative societies include
Kiptenden and Olengu-
ruone, which process about
2,000 litres daily
Mr Kogo says his soci-
ety delivers at least 1,200
litres daily, which trans-
lates to about Sh1 million
a month.
Todate, I have taken a
loan of Sh100,000 from a
local micro-finance firm
using my milk delivery
statement as collateral,
said Mr Henry Amalo.
For Mrs Ann Koskei, a
transporter, the Brookside
cooling plant opened up
opportunities for her in the
transport business as most
of the roads in the area are
impassable during the rain
season. I have two pick-ups
which I use to transport
milk from various centres
to deliver to the cooling
centre, and this has seen
me increase my income,
she says.
Mr Victor Ruto, who owns
an agrovet shop in the area,
says the number of farmers
buying inputs from him has
increased tremendously
since the cooling plant was
set up.
Farmers are no longer
worried about where they
can get money to buy inputs,
equipment and other animal
feeds. They just need their
milk statement to access
goods, he said.
The number of motor-
bikes transporting milk to
the plant has also risen
significantly. Rider Felix
Koskei says that in a day
he transports 200 litres of
milk, making Sh800.
I used to hire transport
to deliver the milk but today
I have my own motorbike,
says Mr Koskei.
Farmer education
Mr John Gethi, the general
manager in charge of milk
procurement and extension
services at Brookside Dairy,
says Olenguruone has the
potential to produce enough
milk to supply more than the
entire Nakuru county.
The rise in production
is due to aggressive farmer
education by the proces-
sor, said Mr Gethi in an
interview.
He said that although
milk prices were uctuat-
ing, farmers contracted by
the processors were assured
of their payments promptly
at the end of the month.
Last year, farmers in
Nakuru earned Sh600 mil-
lion from milk compared to
Sh540 million in 2012.
SULEIMAN MBATIA | NATION
A farmer transports his milk to a cooling plant.
REBRANDING | Going continental
PHOTO | NATION
United States International University Vice Chancellor Professor Freida
Brown (right) with Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry
chair Kiprono Kittony at the Universitys rebranding on Thursday last week.
USIU will now be known as United States International University-Africa.
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
38 | Business
New vehicle
service shop
for county
BY GEORGE SAYAGIE
gsayagie@ke.nationmedia.com
Narok County has its first
one-stop sales and service store
for motor vehicles after Bhogals
Autoworld opened an outlet in the
quickly expanding town.
The venture adds value to Narok,
whose rise was boosted by a World
Bank report titled Doing Business
in Kenya that rated it the best town
to do business in Kenya.
Narok Governor Samuel ole
Tunai said that while the area is
supported by a thriving agriculture
industry and a vibrant tourism
sub-sector, other businesses were
moving there.
He said that Bhogals Autow-
orlds presence will save them
millions of shillings incurred in
ferrying equipment to Nakuru for
repair and maintenance. It will
benet 427 large-scale barley farm-
ers, as well as 200 wheat farmers,
who operate under harsh terrain
in the area.
The company is a franchise
holder dealing in all types of Toyota
vehicles, Yamaha motor cycles and
associated machines, Hino trucks
and Case tractors.
Bhogals expansion strategy
seeks to bring services closer to
its customers across the central
and south Rift Valley regions,
where all its commercial, luxury
and agriculture machinery will be
on display.
We have opened this branch
because we want to bring services
closer to our customers, said the
companys managing director, Mr
Bal Raju.
Speaking at a cocktail party
during the opening, Toyota Kenya
chairman Dennis Otwori said the
programme has seen Toyota East
Africa invest more than Sh200
million in new facilities.
GEORGE SAYAGIE | NATION
The new Bhogals multi-operational
branch in Narok town that is part of
Toyotas expansion strategy.
BY SUNDAY NATION
REPORTER
T
he construction of Nairo-
bis Sh17 billion Southern
bypass is on schedule,
with the opening of the Kibera-
Dagoretti section set for July.
The opening of the key section
is expected to go a long way in
easing the ow of trac in the
citys southern parts.
The update was announced
during a tour of the project by
top Kenyan and Chinese gov-
ernment ocials following last
weeks visit to Kenya by Chinese
Premier Li Keqiang, which saw
the signing of a number of com-
mercial agreements between the
two countries. The project is one
of the key ventures being under-
taken by a Chinese rm.
We are on schedule. I see
us meeting all the key thresh-
olds and delivering this critical
project on time, said Shu Yili,
project leader with the contrac-
tor, China Road and Bridge
Corporation.
Among ocials present dur-
ing the tour were Transport and
Infrastructure Cabinet Secretary
Michael Kamau, Principal Sec-
retary for Infrastructure, John
Mosonik, Transport PS Nduva
Muli and the two visiting presi-
dents of Exim Bank of China,
Li Ruogu and Chen Fenjian of
China Communications Com-
pany. The latter is the parent
company of CRBC.
Exim Bank of China is nanc-
ing 85 per cent of the project,
scheduled to be complete in
2015, while the remaining com-
ponent will be borne by the
Government of Kenya.
Already, the Southern bypass
link is 55.2 per cent complete,
with the Dagoretti-Kikuyu sec-
tion expected to be ready for
trac by December. Substan-
tive work has been done on the
segment leading to Alliance High
School, with some 21 culverts
and three bridges having been
completed, while intensive earth-
work is going on within Kikuyu
Township, Ngong, Dagoretti and
Mombasa Road interchanges.
The key project, which is being
supervised by the Kenya National
Highways Authority, entails the
construction of a 28.6 kilometre
dual carriageway. Other key fea-
tures include 12-kilometre slip
roads, 8.5 kilometres of service
roads, four modern interchanges
and street lighting.
Starting on Mombasa Road
near Ole Sereni Hotel, it joins
the Mombasa-Kisumu road, a
major thoroughfare, at Kikuyu.
It crosses the National Park
westward then goes through
Langata Road, Ngong Road,
Motoine River, Dagoretti Road,
Thogoto Road, over Ondiri River
and the railway line towards
Kikuyu town.
The bypass is meant to reduce
congestion in Nairobis central
business district by providing
an alternative route for motor-
ists going to western Kenya and
other destinations.
PHOTO | COURTESY
The delegation of Kenya and Chinese government ocials during a tour
of the project to assess progress in the construction of the Southern
bypass. The section between Kibera-Dagoretti will be opened in July.
Road is
meant to
reduce
congestion
in Nairobi
town by
providing a
substitute
route to
motorists
travelling
to western
Kenya
Southern bypass on schedule
TRANSPORT | Construction of key project was started in 2012
A key challenge has been
in the acquisition of certain
pieces of land critical to the
smooth implementation of
the project. These include a
part of the Nairobi National
Park, whose excision has
been stayed by a court de-
cision, and a part of forest
land needed for the Ngong
Interchange, with the latter
greatly diminishing the land
available to the contactor
for operations. Curving into
the national park is neces-
sary as there is minimum
safety distance require-
ments for the nearby Wil-
son airstrip by Kenya Civil
Aviation Regulations that
must be adhered to.
CHALLENGES
Acquisition of
land inhibited
Sh17 bn
Total cost of the Southern
bypass project
BY OUMA WANZALA
owanzala@ke.nationmedia.com
National Authority for the Cam-
paign against Alcohol and Drug
Abuse chair John Mututho said yes-
terday that the products of Keroche
Breweries are among the best in the
market.
He said that the leader brewer had
submitted the required documents
and samples and had been given the
green light to sell its products.
They met the requirements earlier
on, only that they came in late when
we had already gone to press with
the earlier list, said Mr Mututho.
He added that Nacada had no inten-
tion of locking them out of the local
market.
Mr Mututho said 60 manufacturers
and importers have been given the
green light.
Keroche Breweries managing direc-
tor Tabitha Karanja conrmed that
her rm had submitted samples of
its products to Nacada and other rel-
evant government bodies, including
the Kenya Bureau of Standards.
Keroche is currently upgrading
its factory in Naivasha at cost of
Sh5 billion to increase production
ten-fold and push its market share
to 20 per cent.
She said this was the latest of the
wars that her company is waging to
make headway in the market despite
the competition.
Some of the eight Keroche products
include Viena Ice, Summit lager, Cres-
cent Gin, Crescent Whisky, Summit
malt and Viena ice spirit.
Mututho gives thumbs up to Keroche products
Keroche MD Tabitha Karanja.
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
Business 39
Paris, Saturday
B
oko Haram gunmen
killed a Chinese worker
and kidnapped 10 others
overnight in Cameroon, piling
more pressure on leaders meet-
ing in Paris on Saturday to thrash
out a tougher strategy against
the Nigerian Islamists.
Militants stormed an en-
campment used by Chinese
road workers late on Friday in
a region of northern Cameroon
just across the border from the
strongholds where they sparked
global outrage by abducting
more than 200 schoolgirls last
month.
The Boko Haram militants
were heavily armed, they came
in ve vehicles, an ocial in
Waza, a town near the site of
the attack, told AFP on condi-
tion of anonymity.
He said the camp where the
Chinese road workers stayed
was usually guarded by soldiers
from Cameroons elite Rapid In-
tervention Battalion, but many
of the troops were in Yaounde
for a military parade ahead of
National Day on May 20.
Cameroonian soldiers re-
taliated and the ghting lasted
until 3:00 am, said a local po-
lice chief, who said the militants
also raided the police armoury
in Waza overnight.
He said one Chinese worker
was killed and 10 others had
been missing since the attack
and were believed kidnapped
by the Boko Haram gunmen.
A source close to the Chinese
embassy in the Cameroonian
capital Yaounde spoke of 10
missing and one wounded but
would not confirm or deny
whether one had been killed.
News of the latest attack
came as west African and Eu-
ropean leaders gathered for a
special meeting in Paris aimed
at ramping up action against
the increasingly regional threat
posed by Boko Haram.
Nigerian President Goodluck
Jonathan was expected to face
pressure to cooperate much
more closely with Cameroon,
Niger, Chad and Benin at the
half-day summit. A long-run-
ning territorial dispute has
soured relations between Nigeria
and Cameroon, hampering any
steps towards joint action against
the militants.
British Foreign Secretary
William Hague told reporters
just before the summit that
regional countries, backed by
Western powers such as Brit-
ain, the United States and the
European Union, would have to
forge a strategy to defeat Boko
Haram more broadly.(AFP)
REACTION
World unites against terrorists
WORLD
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER
WORLDS BIGGEST ANIMAL
Dinosaur is 20 metres long and weighs
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This is one sicken-
ing and terrible
incident but they
continue almost
every day to com-
mit terrorist acts
and atrocities,
British Minister
William Hague
What is of interest
now is to locate
the girls. The girls
are not in Chibok.
We will nd them
wherever they are,
Nigerias President
Goodluck
Jonathan
Boko Haram has
become a major
threat for all of
west Africa and
now for central Af-
rica. Its linked to Al
Qaeda,
French President
Francoise Hollande
French
president
hosts
meeting
to discuss
how to
root out
group
FRANCOIS MORI | AFP
French President Francois Hollande (right) speaks at the start of an African security summit to discuss the threat of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram to the
regional stability, at the Elysee Palace in Paris yesterday.
The Boko Haram
militants were
heavily armed,
they came in ve
vehicles...Cameroon
soldiers retaliated
and the ghting
lasted until 3am
Local police chief
ATTACK | Sta were in Cameroon when militants attacked
Boko Haram kills Chinese worker and
kidnaps 10 as leaders hold crisis talks
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Two held
over murder
of albino in
Tanzania
Gasuma, Saturday
Two witch doctors in Tanzania
have been arrested after a woman
with albinism was hacked to death,
police said yesterday. One of her
legs and several ngers were re-
moved in the attack on Tuesday.
Albinos have suffered wide-
spread persecution in Tanzania,
where witch doctors say magic
potions made with albino body
parts can bring good luck.
Such killings have declined
in recent years, but this latest
attack has prompted a human
rights group to call for all witch
doctors to be banned. At a press
conference, the group, Under The
Same Sun said the current regula-
tion of witch doctors was clearly
not working.
Currently, all witch doctors have
to apply for a certicate from the
ministry of health and welfare to
practise.
Parts removed
The attack occurred in the
village of Gasuma, in Simiyu
province - a remote rural area
in the north-west of the country
where there have been killings of
albinos before.
The womans left leg, two
ngers from her left hand and a
nail from one of the thumbs were
removed. According to the lobby
group, which campaigns against
the discrimination of people liv-
ing with albinism, the last killing
of an albino in Tanzania was in
February 2013. Charles Mkumbo,
police chief of the Simiyu region
in northwestern Tanzania, said
a man and a woman, Gudawa
Yalema and Shiwa Masalu, had
been arrested.
In Tanzania, albinos are killed
and dismembered due to a wide-
spread belief that charms made
from their body parts bring good
fortune and prosperity.
Witch doctors tell their clients
that the skin, hair, blood and
organs of persons with albinism
when combined with their magic
potions guarantee success, wealth
and election victory, the group said
in a statement. (BBC)
Witchdoctors tell their
clients that the skin and
blood of persons with
albinism...guarantee
success and wealth,
Under the Same Sun, an
advocacy group
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
40 | International News
Libyas rogue general vows to soldier on
Benghazi, Saturday
A retired Libyan general who spent
years exiled in the United States said
today that he would press his cam-
paign to free Benghazi of terrorist
groups, a day after clashes there
killed 37 people.
The operation will continue until
Benghazi is purged of terrorists,
Khalifa Haftar told Libya Awalan
television of the countrys second city,
where the uprising against doomed
dictator Moamar Gadha erupted in
February 2011.
A precarious calm reigned in port
city after a deadly day that saw
Haftars forces target Islamist mili-
tiamen with ground and air power.
Local sources said mediation was
underway to try to ensure combat did
not break out again.
Early Friday, Haftar unleashed
his forces on former rebel Islamist
groups, vowing to rid Benghazi of a
terrorist scourge.
The violence, in which the health
ministry reported 37 people killed and
139 wounded, came weeks after the
government in Tripoli acknowledged
for the rst time the existence of ter-
rorist groups in Libya and said it was
mobilising against them.
But the former general would
appear to have acted on his own ini-
tiative. The government condemned
the operation, and armed forces chief
of sta Abdessalam Jadallah al-Salihin
denied any army involvement in the
Benghazi clashes.
The (regular) army has nothing
to do with the clashes. The army did
not give any orders for any sort of
operation in Benghazi, he said in
Tripoli.
But Salihin acknowledged that
some officers and units from the
regular army had joined Haftars
group.
Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani
denounced Haftars forces as out-
laws and told a news conference in
Tripoli that the army was in con-
trol on the ground. He also urged
restraint.
Haftar heads a group calling itself
the National Army, which launched
the large-scale operation to ush ter-
rorists out of Benghazi, spokesman
Mohammed al-Hijazi had said Friday.
This is not a civil war. Its an opera-
tion against terrorist groups, added
Hijazi . (AFP)
Angola begins
census after
40-year lull
Luanda, Saturday
Oil-rich Angola is holding its
rst national census since 1970
- when the country was still a
Portuguese colony.
More than 90,000 ocials have
been deployed across the country,
which is recovering from 27 years
of war. The process is reported
to have started smoothly in the
capital, Luanda. Following fears
that criminals could impersonate
census ocials to gain entry to
peoples homes, residents have
been urged to be wary about
opening their doors.
Angolas National Statistics In-
stitute director Camilo Ceita also
said that no census-taker would
knock on their doors at night to
collect data. Ocials hope that
having accurate information about
the population will help the gov-
ernment improve its planning and
provision of services.
A team of census ocials has
gone to the airport to collect
information from travellers who
are going away for the next two
weeks. (BBC)
MAHMUD TURKIA | AFP
Libyan women cast their ballots at a polling station during municipal elections in
Tripoli yesterday. Benghazi residents did not vote due to the ght for control of
the city between a retired general forces and islamists.
Report urges
peacekeepers
to use force
New York, Saturday
United Nations peacekeepers
should use force more frequently
to protect civilians under attack
but often fail to do so because
they are afraid of court action,
an internal report said.
The evaluation by the UNs
Oce of Internal Oversight Serv-
ices noted a reluctance to deploy
force even when it had been
authorised by the United Nations
Security Council.
A perceived lack of staff or
equipment, and the threat of
being court-martialed or pros-
ecuted before the International
Criminal Court, were among
factors preventing peacekeepers
using force in hot spots including
South Sudan.
Of 507 incidents involving civil-
ians between 2010 and 2013, only
20 percent were reported to have
attracted an immediate mission
response, the report said.
In cases where response
was reported, missions almost
never used force, even as a last
resort.
Responding to the report,
UN peacekeeping chief Herve
Ladsous said there needed to be
more focus on comprehensive
political solutions.(AFP)
ELECTIONS | The last election was interrupted by a military coup
BY CIUGU MWAGIRU
ciugumwagiru@ yahoo.com
F
or Guinea-Bissau, a dirt-poor
African country, the presidential
run-o being held today is cru-
cial in determining the tiny nations
future. It may also oer it a lifeline
following decades of instability.
Just like last months rst round
vote, the international community
will be watching todays elections
closely, particularly given the coun-
trys reputation as a notorious transit
hub for cocaine.
Further, the perennially chaotic
Guinea-Bissau has for decades en-
dured a series of coups, mutinies
and political assassinations.
Among the international observers
during the runo will be a 40-strong
African Union team led by former
Mozambican President Joaquim
Chissano. Todays runoff became
necessary because no candidate
secured the required majority in the
rst round of the polls, which were
held on April 13.
The rst round, which was widely
praised as orderly, free and fair, saw
almost three-quarters of Guinea-Bis-
saus eligible voters cast their ballot.
Remarkably, too, last months elec-
tions were the rst in Guinea-Bissau
since a 2012 military coup disrupted
a presidential poll as it headed to a
second round.
Not surprisingly, last months rst
round of the vote was widely viewed as
a landmark event for the impoverished
country with a turbulent history.
No elected leader has ever served a
full term since the country gained in-
dependence from Portugal in 1974.
Todays runo pits former nance
minister Jose Mario Vaz with Nuno
Gomes Nabiam, an independent
candidate who formerly headed the
countrys civil aviation authority.
The latter, who is reportedly the
favourite of the nations powerful
and politically influential military
establishment, won 25.14 per cent
of the ballots during the rst round.
Frontrunner Vaz garnered 40.99 per
cent of the total votes cast.
In the meantime, seven-and-a-half
million Malawians will next Tuesday
vote in the fourth elections since the
onset of multi-party democracy in
1994. The May 20 polls, which will
be the rst tripartite ones, will involve
voting for a new president, legislature
and the rst formally elected local au-
thority representatives since 2000.
Dubbed the clash of the dynasties,
the imminent contest will see incum-
bent President Joyce Banda facing the
voters for the rst time.
Beleaguered from many quarters
in recent times, the poll will be her
rst electoral test since ascending to
the presidency following the death of
her predecessor, President Bingu wa
Mutharika, on April 5, 2012.
Tuesdays closely contested presi-
dential poll will also see President
Banda - who is standing on her
Peoples Party (PP) ticket pitted
against ten other candidates from
53 registered parties.
No elected leader has
ever served for a full-
term since the countrys
independence in 1974
Bissau gears up for rst run-o
SEYLLOU | AFP
A supporter of Nuno Gomes Nabiam, an independent candidate in the presidential
election, dances yesterday in Bissau. Voters will cast their ballot today.
The percentage of votes that the
winner of the rst round garnered
40pc
Mali PM
visits rebels
despite war
Kidal, Saturday

Malian Prime Minister Moussa
Mara arrived in the rebel-control-
led northern city of Kidal today for
a trip that had been delayed when
the army exchanged gunre with
Tuareg separatists, aides said.
The visit was due to be the sec-
ond leg of his rst tour of the west
African nations restive northern
desert since his appointment in
April, but he stopped briey in
the neighbouring region of Gao
instead upon the news of the
violence.
A MINUSMA helicopter sup-
ported by another (French) unit...
allowed the prime minister of Mali
to arrive in Kidal, an ocial from
the United Nations MINUSMA
peacekeeping force in Kidal told
AFP.
The reght was conrmed by
an ocial from the local gover-
nors oce, who described it as
an act of sabotage of the prime
ministers visit.
A member of Maras entourage
said gunre was still audible in the
town, although less intense.
An ocial from the governors
oce told AFP that no one ap-
peared to have been hurt in the
exchange but added that the
situation was very worrying.
Kidal, 1,500 kilometres north-
east of the capital Bamako, was
the scene of anti-government pro-
tests by several hundred youths
and women on Friday who dem-
onstrated against the visit at the
regional airport.(AFP)
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
International News 41
ANKARA
Mine deaths hit 299
as rescue continues
The death toll in Turkeys
worst ever mining disaster rose
to 299 yesterday as a new re
hampered rescue attempts, the
energy minister said. Taner
Yildiz told reporters that three
miners were still thought to be
underground based on families
testimonies while 485 miners
have either escaped or been res-
cued since Tuesdays mine blast
and re in the western town of
Soma. A re broke out yesterday
in another section, about 250 me-
tre away from where the miners
are trapped. (AFP)
KIEV
Rebels take another
military base in East
Without even ring a shot,
masked rebel gunmen overran
a Ukrainian military headquar-
ters in the main eastern city of
Donetsk on Friday and swiftly
declared they were in control. Af-
ter a couple of hours of what one
local described as negotiations,
uniformed members of a National
Guard special forces unit simply
took o in a few trucks, leaving
the building to the rebels in what
has become common. (AFP)
BRIEFLY
Three succumb
to camel virus
amid WHO alert
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Health authorities in Saudi Arabia have re-
ported three more fatalities from the MERS
respiratory virus, taking the death toll in the
worlds worst-hit country to 163.
The health ministry website also revealed on
Saturday that 520 cases have been recorded in the
country since Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
rst appeared in Saudi Arabia in 2012.
It said three women died on Friday, including
one in Riyadh, 48, and a 67-year-old in the west-
ern city of Taif. A third woman died in Jeddah,
the port city where a spate of cases among sta
at King Fahd Hospital last month sparked public
panic and the dismissal of its director and the
health minister.
Other countries
Other nations including Egypt, Jordan, Leba-
non, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates
and the United States have also recorded cases,
mostly in people who had been to the desert
kingdom.
On Wednesday, the World Health Organisation
said its emergency committee, which includes
global medical and policy experts, had agged
mounting concerns about the potentially fatal
virus. The WHO called on countries to improve
infection prevention and control, collect more
data on MERS and to be vigilant in preventing it
from spreading to vulnerable countries, notably in
Africa. But it has so far stopped short of declaring
an international health emergency, which would
have far-reaching implications such as travel and
trade restrictions on aected countries.(AFP)
SAO PAULO
Protesters torch cars
ahead of World cup
Brazilian police red tear gas
and rubber bullets to break up a
protest on Friday near the airport
in Sao Paulo, the city hosting the
football World Cup opener in less
than a month. Scores of protest-
ers torched at least two vehicles
and launched reworks at police
demanding better living condi-
tions. Sao Paulos Guarulhos
airport has just opened a new
international terminal to handle
World Cup fans.(AFP)
Bangladesh ferry death toll rises to
45 as transport chief warns captain
Gajaria, Saturday
Navy divers have recovered 16
more bodies from the wreckage of
a Bangladesh ferry as the death
toll from the disaster rose to 45
with scores more feared drowned,
ocials said today.
Two salvage vessels managed
to float the sunken ship and
brought it closer to the shore,
allowing the divers to search
inside of the 90-feet (30 metre)
long boat three days after it sank
following a storm.
Weve concluded our search
inside the vessel. Navy divers
have scoured every nook and
cranny after we lifted the vessel
out of water, Bangladesh inland
water transport authority chief
Shamsuddoha Khandaker told
AFP.
Worlds largest
The death toll is now 45.
Weve searched the vessel and
there are fewer chances that
any more bodies could be found
there, government administrator
of the region Saiful Hasan told
AFP. Local police chief Ferdous
Ahmed conrmed the gure.
Hasan said the search for bod-
ies in the Meghna river, one of the
worlds widest, would continue
as they feared that some bodies
could have been washed down-
stream by strong currents.
Hundreds of distraught rela-
tives gathered by the side of the
river for a third day as bodies
were brought and laid out for
identication. Many have rela-
tives still unaccounted for.
The exact number of passen-
gers was not immediately known
as Bangladeshi ferries do not
maintain passenger logbooks.
Authorities have initially said
the ship was carrying up to 350
people when it embarked for a
trip to southern Bangladesh,
but later cut it down to 150-200.
Some 40 people have managed
to swim ashore. Survivors blamed
the ships captain for refusing
to take shelter from a gathering
storm. An investigation has been
launched into whether it had been
carrying too many passengers.
Well take action against the
ships captain and the owner
as we have got evidences that
he deed warnings to continue
the journey despite the storm,
Khandaker said.
Survivors and officials told
AFP the ship capsized after it
was swamped by giant waves.
Ferry accidents are common in
Bangladesh, one of Asias poorest
nations which is criss-crossed by
more than 230 rivers.(AFP)
BEIJING
Seven held in swoop
after Chinese stabbing
Chinese police have arrested
seven people suspected of being
linked to a deadly stabbing spree
and explosion at a railway station
in the restive Muslim-majority
region of Xinjiang, state-run me-
dia said yesterday. On April 30,
the last day of a visit by Chinese
President Xi Jinping to the re-
gion, attackers armed with knives
and explosives carried out an at-
tack. (AFP)
HAVANA
Colombia reaches deal
with rebels on drugs
The Colombian government
and the FARC on Friday con-
cluded Friday a key part of peace
talks designed to end the 50-year
insurgency, hours after the rebels
said they would observe a uni-
lateral truce during May 25 elec-
tions. The FARC said the truce
will run from May 20 through
May 28 and will also include tthe
second-largest guerrilla group,
the ELN. The two parties have
talked for six months. (AFP)
MUNIR UZ ZAMAN | AFP
Bangladeshi relatives mourn the victims of a ferry capsize on the river
Meghna in Munshiganj district, 50 kilometres from capital Dhaka.
Patagonia, Saturday
B
ones of a dinosaur be-
lieved to be the largest
creature ever to walk the
Earth have been unearthed in Ar-
gentina, palaeontologists say.
Based on its huge thigh bones,
it was 40m (130ft) long and 20m
(65ft) tall.
Weighing in at 77 tonnes, it
was as heavy as 14 African ele-
phants, and seven tonnes heavier
than the previous record holder,
Argentinosaurus.
Scientists believe it is a new
species of titanosaur - an enor-
mous herbivore dating from the
Late Cretaceous period.
Previous nds
A local farm worker first
stumbled on the remains in the
desert near La Flecha, about
250km (135 miles) west of
Trelew, Patagonia.
The fossils were then
excavated by a team of palae-
ontologists from the Museum of
Palaeontology Egidio Feruglio,
led by Dr Jose Luis Carballido
and Dr Diego Pol.
They unearthed the partial
skeletons of seven individuals
- about 150 bones in total - all
in remarkable condition.
By measuring the length
and circumference of the larg-
est femur (thigh bone), they
calculated the animal weighed
77 tonnes.
Given the size of these bones,
which surpass any of the pre-
viously known giant animals,
the new dinosaur is the larg-
est animal known that walked
on Earth, the researchers told
BBC News.
Its length, from its head to
the tip of its tail, was 40m.
Standing with its neck up, it
was about 20m high - equal to
a seven-storey building.
This giant herbivore lived in
the forests of Patagonia between
95 and 100 million years ago,
based on the age of the rocks
in which its bones were found.
But despite its magnitude, it
does not yet have a name.
It will be named describing
its magnicence and in honour
to both the region and the farm
owners who alerted us about
the discovery, the researchers
said. Dr Paul Barrett, a dino-
saur expert from London said
the new species is a genuinely
big critter. (AFP)
Worlds biggest animal discovered
PHOTO | BBC
Dr Diego Pol, a palaentologist lies next to a bone of the dinosaur found
in Argentina. The animal weighed 77 tonnes and is the largest discov-
ered by scientists so far.
Recent nd: The most re-
cent pretender to the throne
was Argentinosaurus, a simi-
lar type of sauropod, also
discovered in Patagonia.
70 tonnes: Originally
thought to weigh in at 100
tonnes, it was later revised
down to about 70 tonnes
- just under the 77 tonnes
that this new sauropod is
thought to have weighed.
Methods: The picture is
muddied by the various
complicated methods for es-
timating size and weight.
BACKGROUND
Scientists have
made strides
Dinosaurs 20 metres height is
equivalent to a tall seven storey
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SCIENCE | Farmer stumbled on bones in Argentina and alerted authorities
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
42 | International News
Minister among ve killed in crash
Bangkok, Saturday
A Lao military plane crashed
on Saturday killing ve senior
ocials on board including the
defence minister of the secre-
tive communist country, Thai
authorities said.
The group was believed
to be travelling to an ocial
ceremony in the northeastern
province of Xiangkhouang on
an air force jet manufactured
by Ukraines Antonov.
Lao Defence Minister
Douangchay Phichit was among
ve senior ocials killed in the
crash, the permanent secretary
of the Thai defence ministry,
Nipat Thonglek, told AFP.
He said that he had been
informed of the deaths by a
senior Lao military official
and would attend the defence
ministers funeral on behalf of
Thailand.
Governor
The foreign ministry in
Bangkok said about 20 peo-
ple were on board including
the Vientiane governor and
other prominent gures. The
ocial Lao news agency KPL
conrmed the crash and said
the authorities were trying to
rescue survivors. It said the
accident involved an Antonov
AN-74TK-300 plane operated
by the Lao air force but did
not give any information about
the passengers or any casual-
ties. The authority concern
is now helping to rescue the
survivors, it said in a brief
English-language report.
The cause of accident is
under the investigation.
The news agency showed
pictures of the wreckage of
the plane in the Lao jungle.
Laos has had 30 fatal air
accidents since the 1950s, ac-
cording to the Aviation Safety
Network. In October last year,
another plane crash killed 49
people.(AFP)
How tea trader rose
to become Indias PM
DIVISIVE | US denied him visa and Britain cut all ties
Saturday, New Delhi
I
ndias next prime minister, Naren-
dra Modi, is a divisive politician
- loved and loathed in equal
measure.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
leader, who has been chief minister
of the western state of Gujarat since
2001, is regarded as a dynamic and
ecient politician who has helped to
make his state an economic power-
house. But he also is accused of doing
little to stop the 2002 religious riots
when more than 1,000 people, mostly
Muslims, were killed - allegations he
has consistently denied.
Mr Modi became an international
pariah after the riots - the US denied
him visas and the UK cut o all ties
with him. But a decade later, the
controversial politician has been
reintegrated into the political main-
stream.
Last year, US ambassador to India
Nancy Powell met Mr Modi to discuss
the US-India relationship, regional
security issues, human rights, and
American trade and investment in
India. And in October 2012, the UKs
high commissioner in India met Mr
Modi and invited him to address MPs
in the House of Commons. Tory and
Labour MPs defended their decision
to invite Mr Modi to speak, saying his
voice needed to be heard.
Mr Modi led the BJPs campaign for
the April-May general election from
the front - he says he addressed 440
rallies across India. At his packed
election meetings, supporters wore
his face masks and tea was oered at
more than 1,000 stalls across India
in paper cups with Mr Mods pictures
on them.
A brilliant speaker, he also used
social media eectively, even resort-
ing to 3D holograms to communicate
directly to voters. Some Indians,
however, say they cannot accept Mr
Modi as prime minister because of his
alleged role in the Gujarat riots.
He has escaped censure so far. Mr
Modi may polarise public opinion in
India and abroad, but he has also been
credited for bringing prosperity and
development to Gujarat and enjoys
support from some of Indias top
industrialists.
Mr Modis personal life has also
been under scrutiny, with critics
accusing him of deserting his wife
Jashodaben. He was 17 when the ar-
ranged marriage took place but the
couple barely lived together. In the
run-up to the election, for the rst
time he publicly admitted that he
was married.
Analysts say the reason Mr Modi
remains unscathed is the strong sup-
port he enjoys among senior leaders in
the right-wing Hindu organisation, the
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),
a Hindu group The RSS, founded in
the 1920s with a clear objective to
make India a Hindu nation, func-
tions as an ideological fountainhead
to a host of hardline Hindu groups
- including Mr Modis BJP with which
it has close ties. It has taken him to
the top and will most likely keep him
there.(BBC)
RAVEENDRAN| AFP
Indias PM-elect Narendra Modi was expected in new Delhi
for a victory parade yesterday.
Just like Jubilee leaders,
Modi was shunned by
the West over polls chaos
The reason
Mr Modi
remains
unscathed is
the strong
support
he enjoys
among
senior
leaders in
RSS
An analyst
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We the Maina family marks with
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12th anniversary since your journey to
the heavenly abode.
Your enduring spirit, warmth of heart
and unwavering support for honesty
and integrity continues to be a constant
source of inspiration to us.
We particularly cherish your
exhortation for each one of us to
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we have of you, the family would like to thank all those friends and
neighbours who have stood by us.
Missed and remembered by you husband John Maina children: Waigwe,
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Children.
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late Kabanga.
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T
hree tries, a conversion and
a penalty is all Nakuru RFC
needed to trounce Kenya
Commercial Bank 20-13 and retain
the Kenya Cup title at the RFUEA
grounds yesterday.
The victory that gave the Great Rift
side its second consecutive Kenya Cup
title came only six weeks after they had
bagged the prestigious Enterprise Cup
title at the same venue after beating
the bankers 18-13 in the nal.
Just as they rallied from behind in
the Enterprise Cup, Dominique Habi-
manas side showed class and power in
their forwards as they came from 0-3
down to trample over KCB.
Nakuru, fondly referred to as Wan-
yore, made history last year when they
became the rst side from outside
Nairobi to lift Kenya Cup, edging out
Strathmore University Leos 37-3.
CHRIS OMOLLO | NATION
Nakuru RFC captain Edwin Makori and teammates celebrate with the Kenya Cup
rugby trophy after beating Kenya Commercial Bank 20-13 to retain the title at
the RFUEA grounds yesterday.
Resilient Nakuru
edge out KCB to
retain league title
KENYA CUP RUGBY | Habimanas men stamp authority over battling city opponents in tough decider
Wanyore recover to
oor bankers at RFUEA
and win honours for
second straight year
Prop Isaiah Nyariki, eighthman Mar-
tin Owila and centre Edwin Okemwa
scored a try each as Javan Murayi made
one conversion and a penalty to spur
Nakuru to victory. Nakurus victory
armed their status as the top team
of the moment.
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tential. The bankers last won the title
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wards.
It proved suicidal for them because
we were stronger forward, thats where
we nailed them, said Habimana.
KCB coach Curtis Olago acknowl-
edged that Nakuru were the better side.
KCB shall come back much stronger
next season and avenge the defeats,
said Olago.
The teams took time to settle down
and engaged in an end-to-end battle.
Its Mukidza who gave KCB the lead in
the 21st minute from a penalty. Murayi
hit back in a similar fashion for Nakuru
four minutes later before Brian Sagala
was sin-binned in the last minute.
Nakuru got an advantage of a
scrimmage inside KCBs 22 metre
area. Nyariki then went over from the
pushover, then Murayi missed but
Nakuru led 8-3 at the drinks.
KCB got a penalty upon resumption
but Mukidza shot wide.
What kept us going this
season is our resilience
and determination to win,
Dominique Habimana, Nakuru
RFC coach
Sport
2015 AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS
Harambee Stars start qualiers
journey against Comoros Island
today. P.47
Sport
Pipeline outclass varsity lads to storm Cup semi-nals
BY DAVID KWALIMWA
dkwalimwa@ke.nationmedia.com
Kenya Pipeline outclassed Mt Kenya
University 3-0 (25-12, 25-10, 25-4) to
reach the semi-nals of the annual
Governor Gachugua volleyball tour-
nament in Nyeri yesterday.
Japeth Munalas charges were joined
in the last four by Nairobi Water who
defeated Strathmore University in
three straight sets of 25-12, 25-19
and 25-7.
Cup opponents
The other teams eyeing semi-nal
berths are Finlays, Kenya Defence
Forces, Kenya Commercial Bank
and Nyeri County. In the absence of
bitter rivals Kenya Prisons, Pipeline,
who nished third at the Africa Club
Championships in Tunisia earlier this
year, are favourites to bag the title at
the Ruringu Stadium.
In some of the pool matches, KCB
beat Strathmore 3-0 (25-14, 25-16 and
25-19) in Pool A as Pipeline hit Finlays
in sets of 25-3, 25-9, 25-3 in Pool B.
I am delighted and satised with
the way we have played so far, Mu-
nala said. We want to reclaim the
league title this season and therefore
we need to continue working hard,
he added.
In the mens category, Prisons
Kakamega won their two opening
matches, beating Co-operative Bank
3-2 (27-17, 20-25, 25-21, 13-25 and 15-7).
They would then beat Kingngo Pris-
ons in sets of 25-11, 25-11 and 25-11.
TUSKER PREMIER
LEAGUE RACE
26
Gor Mahias points
tally after 12 matches
in the Kenyan Premier
League, four points
ahead of Chemelil
CYCLING
Britains Bradley
Wiggins retained
the Tour of Cali-
fornia overall lead
on Friday as Co-
lombias Esteban
Chaves won the
sixth stage from
Santa Clarita to
Mountain High.
TENNIS
Nadal beats Murray in Rome
World number one Rafael Nadal dug deep to keep his
chances of defending his Rome Masters title after a
gutsy come-from-behind 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 win over Andy
Murray in the quarter-nals on Friday. Murray had won
only ve of his last 18 matches against Nadal but held
the bragging rights from their last two a walkover
win in the semis of the Miami Masters and victory in the
nal of the Tokyo Open in 2011, both hardcourt events.
NBA
Pacers plot for Heats downfall
Hungry for revenge and inspired by doubters, the
Indiana Pacers will try to dethrone the two-time
defending champion Miami Heat starting today
and win a place in the NBA Finals. The best-of-
seven Eastern Conference nals that open at Indi-
anapolis will be a rematch of last years matchup,
in which the Heat routed Indiana 99-76 in game
seven at Miami on their way to retaining the title.
BY ABDULRAHMAN SHERIFF
asheri@ke.nationmedia.com
Eighteen boxing coaches drawn
from across the country have under-
gone a One Star course conducted
by the Amateur International Boxing
Association (AIBA) in Mombasa.
Former national team boxers James
Wasao, Peter Bulinga, Boniface Odhi-
ambo and Sammy Magima are among
those who attended the course.
The one-week course was con-
ducted by AIBA instructor Bodo
Andreass from Germany.
Kenya needs more One Star
coaches to raise the standards of
boxing to compete internationally,
said Bodo who has also trained the
Nigerian national team.
He said Kenya needs to lay a strong
foundation to improve in boxing, es-
pecially in the rural areas.
Only three Kenyan coaches - Al-
bert Matito, George Onyango and
Patrick Maina - have the Three Star
coaching qualication, the highest in
AIBA ranking.
Coaches attain
qualication
BY LARRY NGALA
lngala@ke.nationmedia.com
Simon Ngige of Thika Sports Club
beat Sigonas John Wangai by one shot
to win the rst leg of the 2014 KCB
Golf Tour at the par-72 Thika Greens
Estate yesterday.
Ngige, two-time winner of the KCB
tour order of merit, shot one under
par 71 for a total of three under par
141 to take home Sh117, 000.
I did not putt well the way I did
in the rst round. I was leaving them
short but all the same this is a good
start for me, said Ngige.
Ngige birdied four times, two in
each nine though he made bogeys at
the sixth, 20th and 16th holes.
On the other hand, Wangai lost a
ball at the 13th hole for a double bogey
seven having birdied the second, fth
at the front nine at the 17th and 18th
at the back nine for level over 72 and
a total of 142.
I was moving well until the 13th
hole where I pushed my tee shot to
the rough, said Wangai.
Anil Shah and David Opati tied on
third place with 143 points after they
each shot one under 71.
It was a bad day for over night
leader Kopan Timbe who shot four
over par 76 after hitting a string of
bogeys including a double at the ninth
to close the front with a poor ve
over 41. However, Timbe made two
birdies at the back nine in addition to
an earlier one at the second.
Ngige wins by a
shot at Thika
Sh117,000
Money Simkn Ngige took home for
winning the rst leg of the 2014 KCB
Tour at Thika Greens yesterday.
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
45 |
BY AYUMBA AYODI
@AyumbaAyodi
sayodi@ke.nationmedia.com
W
orld 5,000m bronze med-
allist Isaiah Kiplangat and
2006 Commonwealth
Games 5,000m champion Augus-
tine Choge won their races as the
Kenya Police Service Athletics
Championships ended yesterday.
Dominant Kiplangat retained
the mens 5,000m title as Choge
won the 1,500m race at Kasarani
Stadium.
The 20-year-old Kiplangat who
represented Western showed power
and class to literally toy around
with his challengers before going
for the kill in the last two laps and
retain his 5,000m title in 13:42.2
minutes.
Kiplangat edged out teammate
Joseph Kitur and Sammy Kitwara
from General Service Unit (GSU) to
second and third places in 13:46.4
and 13:46.5 respectively.
My body is responding well to
training and I hope to stay free from
injuries and make the team for the
Commonwealth Games team, said
Kiplangat, the 2010 World Youth
3,000m champion.
A tough battle for places in
Kenyas 5,000m team is expected,
what with Choge also seeking to
recapture the title he won at the
2006 Melbourne Commonwealth
Games.
Ended dominance
Ugandas Moses Kipsiro ended
Kenyas dominance to win both
the 5,000m and 10,000m titles
at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth
Games. This years Club Games
are due for July 23 to August 3 in
Glasgow, Scotland.
I think the Commonwealth
Games 5,000m title belongs to
me and I will be out to recapture
it, God-willing, in Glasgow, said
Choge, who won the 1,500m race
in 3:35.5 ahead of reigning World
Indoor 3,000m champion Caleb
Mwangangi (3:35.80 and Abednego
Chesebe (3:39.0).
I am just looking for speed in
the metric mile race, said Choge,
the 2003 World Youth 3,000m
and 2004 World Junior 5,000m
champion, who will compete at the
Eugene Classic on May 31 in the
USA alongside Mwangangi. This
was just a warm up before heading
for the USA, said Mwangagi, who is
also targeting a place in the 1,500m
team for the Club Games.
Janet Kisa who represented
Kenya at the 2013 World Cross
and 2014 Africa Cross won wom-
ens 1,500m race in 4:16.0, beating
2010 Youth Commonwealth Games
1,500m champion Stacy Ndiwa (4:
16.1) and Florence Korir (4:24.8) to
second and third respectively.
The 2010 Delhi Commonwealth
games bronze medallist Abraham
Kiplagat won mens 800m in 1:47.8
and declared that he will challenge
for a place in this years Common-
wealth Games team.
I feel great, having recovered
from injury. I will aim at victory if
Im to make the team, said Kipla-
gat, who beat David Mutunga (1:
48.5) and Timothy Sein (1:48.9.
Janet Jelimo won womens 800m
title in 2:07.5, followed by Betty
Njeri (2:08.7) and Sylvia Cherop
(2:08.9).
CHRIS OMOLLO | NATION
Sammy Kimaru (right) passes the baton to teammate Newton Rono in mens 4x100m relay during the Kenya Police Service Ath-
letics Championship at Safaricom Stadium, Kasarani, yesterday.
Red-hot Kiplangat, Choge light up
Police championships at Kasarani
ATHLETICS | Ndoro eortlessly keeps womens 100m and 200m titles as Simiyu, Wekesa win mens events
World 5,000m bronze
medallist and ex-Club
Games 1,500m champ
easily win their races
National champion Millicent Ndoro was in
a class of her won as she retained both the
100m and 200m titles, clocking 11.9secs and
24.3secs respectively as the Kenya Police
Athletics Championships concluded yester-
day at Kasarani.
Bredan Simiyu won mens 200m race in 21.6
while Alvin Wekesa claimed the 100m hon-
ours in 10.3.
Edwin Kirwa also beat all to bag mens
3,000m steeplechase title in 8min,44.0sec,
beating Philipp Yego (8:46.0) and Collins
Ngeno (8:48.8.
Hyvine Kiyeng, who nished sixth at the
2013 World Championships, timed 10:00.2
to win womens 3,00m steeplechase as
Consolata Chemtai and Veronica Ngososei
nished second and third in 10:06.0 and 10:
15.0.
IN THEIR OWN CLASS
Ndoro easilly retains
womens sprints titles
My body is responding
well to training and I hope
to stay free from injuries
and make the team for
Commonwealth Games
World 5,000m bronze
medallist Isaiah Kiplangat
BY AYUMBA AYODI
sayodi@ke.nationmedia.com
The stage is set for the Kenya
Open Tennis Championship that
serve os today simultaneously
with the junior qualifying tourna-
ments in Kiambu, Mombasa and
Kisumu.
Thika Gymkhana Sports Club
will host the Kiambu County
event, while Mvita Sports Club
is the venue for Mombasa com-
petition while Kisumu will hold
its event at Nyanza Lawn Tennis
Association Centre.
The tournament was preceded
by two-day coaching workshops
that ended yesterday in the three
counties.
In Kiambu, the county minister
for sport, Machel Waikenda, has
oered to sponsor coaches from
each ward to attend coaching
workshops.
Waikenda said the county will
meet the cost of accommodation
and pay the facilitators their al-
lowances.
Gymkhana Club, through tennis
captain Bimal Shah, has oered
its facilities to be used free of
charge by the association during
the tournament.
Kenyan international and
former FedCup captain Evelyn
Otula facilitated coaches semi-
nar and in Kiambu and will also
oversee the competition starting
today.
Over 50 coaches attended the
coaches seminar in Thika, with
participants drawn from public
schools from Kirinyaga, Jomo
Kenyatta University of Agriculture
and Technology, Methodist Uni-
versity, Kenyatta University, Imani
School and Braeburn Thika
Peter Wachira Njuki, one of
the longest serving coaches in
the country and ITF Level Two
coach, will facilitate the tourna-
ment in Kisumu while Lawrence
Karanja who has produced the
top players from Mombasa region
over the years and holds ITF Level
Two Coaching Certifcate, will take
charge in Mombasa.
The junior qualifying round
tournament will also be held si-
multaneously in Eldoret at Moi
Girls High School and Kakamega
at the Kakamega Sports Club on
May 25.
Kenya Open
tennis tourney
serves o
50
Coaches who attended training
seminar in Thika ahead of the
Kenya Open tennis championship
Mepani half ton lifts Kanbis over tourists
BY RICHARD MWANGI
rmwangi@ke.nationmedia.com
Dependable batsman, Ramesh Mepani,
knocked half a century to help Kanbis
beat touring Bhavsinhji Cricket Club
of Gujarat by six wickets in a thrilling
Twenty20 friendly match that at Nairobi
Gymkhana, yesterday.
Mepanis unbeaten 59 runs came from
44 deliveries with six boundaries and
two towering sixes. He was Kanbis top
scorer and match winner.
Batting rst after winning the toss, the
tourists set a target of 154 in their allotted
20 overs for the loss of eight wickets.
Dharmendra Jadeja was Bhavsinhjis
highest runs getter with 42. Satyajit
Chudasama (29) and Abhiraj Thala
(14) were the other batsmen who got
meaningful runs for the visitors.
Wicket takers
Kanbis main wicket takers were Har-
ish Varsani (2/22), Narendra Kerai (2/23)
and Gautam Bhudiya (2/33).
In reply, Kanbis reached the target, 156
with the last ball of the last over when
Mepani hit a four that sealed the fate of
the visitors.
At one point Kanbis needed 11 runs to
win from six balls and sharing the crease
were Mepani and Vinod Rabadia, who
put on a fourth wicket stand of 60. The
partnership was broken when Rabadia
(29) was caught on long mid-wicket by
Dharmendra Jadeja o the bowling of
Balkrishna Jadeja (1/33).
At the Simba Union, Nairobi Gym-
khana (163 for 6) beat Cutchi Leva
(120 for 8) by 43 runs.
The visitors will today face Cutchi Leva
at the Gymkhana while Kanbis will play
Gymkhana at Simba Union in the last
games of the matches held in memory
of Kanbis players Alpesh Budhyia and
Harshin Sangani who died in a road ac-
cident a couple of years ago.
The tour is the rst by a foreign team
in more than two years due to security
concerns. The last team to tour the coun-
try was Ireland wich played Kenya in the
ICC Intercontinental Cup on February
2012 in Mombasa.
MARTIN MUKANGU | NATION
Bhavsinhji Club batsman Dharmendra Jadeja (left) plays under the watchful
eyes of Kanbis wicketkeeper Rajesh Varsani at Nairobi Gymkhana yesterday.
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
46 | Sport
BY ISAAC SWILA
iswila@ke.nationmedia.com
AND CELLESTINE OLILO
colilo@ke.nationmedia.com
H
arambee Stars will today
embark on a long route to the
2015 African Cup of Nations
nals when they host the lowly ranked
Comoros at the Nyayo National Sta-
dium in the rst encounter of a two-leg
preliminary phase tie.
The last time Stars made an appear-
ance at the continental showpiece was
way back in 2004 under the tutelage of
former coach-turned-television pundit
Jacob Ghost Mulee.
Since then, the teams successive
attempts to earn a ticket to Africas
premier football competition have
ended in heartbreak.
When Stars last took part in the
competition, the squad was a blend of
MARTIN MUKANGU AND CHRIS OMOLLO | DAILY NATION
Harambee Stars players during a training session at the Nyayo National Stadium ahead of their Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Comoros today at the
same venue. Below: Comoros national team players warm up before their training session on Friday at Ruaraka grounds. Inset: Stars coach Adel Amrouche.
Stars start journey to Morocco
2015 AFCON QUALIFIER | Islanders coach says his men will cope with intimidating atmosphere
Comoros to provide
rst hurdle for Kenyan
teams bid to reach
nal after 10-year wait
They (Harambee Stars)
have very good players
such as Dennis Oliech,
who I have followed for
long in France, but we are
here to ght and give our
best. I have assembled a
very good side capable
of doing well against any
team. We are fully focused
on Sundays (today)
match. Our goal is to keep
a clean sheet in Nairobi
Amir Abdou, Comoros head
coach
youth and expe- rience with
former long- s e r v i n g
skipper Musa Ot i e n o ,
Mike Okoth, Robert Mambo
and custodian Francis Onyiso
f o r m i n g the spine of the
team.
Also in the squad was
a sensational
teenager by
the name
Dennis Ol-
iech who had
just announced
his arrival on the
big stage.
Ten years on, as the
team begins a journey
whose destination is Mo-
rocco their aim is to make
up for past failures.
The current squad
boasts of a number of
big names including team
captain Victor Wanyama,
MacDonald Mariga and
Oliech all of whom bring
a wealth of experience
into the team.
For Oliech and Duncan Ochieng, the
only survivors from the 2004 squad,
the campaign presents an opportunity
to take another bite at the cherry while
the returning Mariga desires to make
his debut at the Nations Cup.
I have been away from the team for
too long, but what is important is
to put our heads together and
make our country proud. I am
glad to be back and I want to
give my best, said Mariga.
National duty
The Inter Milan midelder,
who has been sidelined
with injury for nearly
two years, will be
playing alongside
his younger sibling
Wanyama and Ol-
iech for the first
time since Octo-
ber 2011.
Other foreign-
based players
scattered in vari-
ous leagues abroad
have likewise responded
to the call of national duty by diligently
trooping to camp. Latest arrival Law-
rence Olum believes success at this
stage would provide the team with
the much needed morale boost going
forward into the campaign.
The midelder, who plays for Sport-
ing Kansas City in the Major Soccer
League in the United States of America
said whichever player takes to the eld
today will have only one thing in his
mind - victory.
On paper it looks like we are the
favourites in this match, but we still
have a job to do and make that statistic
count. I want to assure Kenyans that
we will do our part to conjure up a
win, so let them show patriotism by
coming out to support us tomorrow
(today), Olum said yesterday when
the team was hosted to a luncheon at
a city hotel by the football governing
body in the country.
Indeed, Olum, who earlier in the
week risked missing to report to camp,
demonstrated his commitment to the
team by purchasing his own air ticket
following local football authorities fail-
ure to send him tickets on time.
It is always an honour to represent
the country and when I was called up
I had to stand up for my country with
or without receiving the air tickets,
he said.
Former team captain Oliech stressed
the need for a positive start to the cam-
paign for them to build momentum.
We do not know much about our
opponents (Comoros) but what is im-
portant is to have a good start and reach
the group stages. We want to qualify
and for us to have a chance we must
work hard, Oliech said.
Stars coach Adel Amrouche echoed
his players ambition but warned them
against underrating the opposition.
We have said it time and again that
we need to improve. The time has come
to walk the talk because this is about
the country. If we reach next years Af-
rica Cup of Nations, then the whole
country will have achieved something.
That is our goal, Amrouche said.
During the luncheon, the team
received Sh1 million in cash for their
allowances.
Although the islanders are ranked at
a lowly position 184, 78 slots behind
Kenya and have not won a major title,
Harambee Stars will be wary of the
unfancied opposition.
If Kenya manages an aggregate win
over Comoros they will face either Le-
sotho or Liberia in the next round of the
qualiers with the winner advancing to
the group stage where Angola, Gabon
and Burkina Faso lie in wait.
Meanwhile, Comoros coach Amir
Abdou said they will not be cowed by
the big names in the Kenyan team.
They (Harambee Stars) have very
good players such as Dennis Oliech
who I have followed for long in France,
but we are here to ght and give our
best, Abdou said.
I have assembled a very good
side capable of doing well against
any team. We are fully focused on
Sundays (today) match. We want to
do well against a very strong side.
Our goal is to keep a clean sheet in
Nairobi, he added.
Kenyas quest to compete in the
2015 African Cup of Nations nals
will see them navigate through
four preliminary stage matches
against two teams before they
earn passage to the group stage.
Harambee Stars will start their
long torturous journey today in
Nairobi against Comoros who
they will meet again in the return
leg away in Moroni in a fortnights
time. If they manage an aggre-
gate victory over the islanders,
they will then tackle the winner
between Liberia and Lesotho in
another two-leg pre-group stage
tie. The aggregate winners from
this phase will earn passage to
the nal group stage where they
will play Angola, Burkina Faso
and Gabon in a round-robin mini-
league format with the group win-
ners and runners up booking their
tickets to the 2015 Afcon nals in
Morocco.
ROAD TO MOROCCO
No easy walk for
Kenya to Afcon
Kenya vs Comoros Islands
Nyayo National Stadium: 4pm
Tickets: 22,500
VIP: Sh600
Terraces: Sh200
Retail outlets: Nyayo Stadium, City
Stadium and Kenya Cinema (CBD)
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Accra
Ghana Black Stars coach
Kwesi Appiah (left) will call
the shots at the World Cup in
Brazil for the rst time and he
has insisted he will do it his
own way.
The 53-year-old former inter-
national defender made history
when he became the rst local
coach to qualify Ghana for the
World Cup last year.
Since I took over the job, I
have been my own man. If you
let someone influence your
decision, they wont respect
you, said Appiah, who was an
assistant to Serbian Milovan
Rajevac when Ghana reached
the quarternals at the 2010
World Cup.
You do things your own
way when in charge of the
team and if they dont work
out you become responsible
for the consequences.
If they do, you take the
honours.
Appiahs rst test as boss
after being appointed in April
2012 was the 2013 Africa Cup
of Nations in South Africa. The
highly fancied Black Stars were
stopped in the semi-nals by
Burkina Faso.
The coach insists there were
positive aspects to the teams
outing in South Africa.
For me, I have never regret-
ted in any step I have taken. The
main reason (why we did not
win) being many of the play-
ers we took to the Nations Cup
were young and we were build-
ing the team, he reasoned.
Saying that, any coach goes
into a competition to win it and
I dont think we were disgraced
at the competition.
We came out of the competi-
tion with a lot of players who
had played a tournament for the
rst time and could help us in
the future.
Ghana put behind their
ouster from the Nations Cup to
qualify for the 2014 World Cup
with a convincing 7-3 thumping
of Egypt. (AFP)
Accra
G
hana skipper Asamoah Gyan will
play a big role as the Black Stars
aim to improve on a quarter-nal
nish from the last World Cup.
Gyan is one of Africahs most prolic
strikers with 39 goals from 77 interna-
tionals one goal shy of the countrys
all-time record.
The 28-year-old is also a part-time
music star who goes by the nickname
Baby Jet, a boxing promoter as well as
martial arts ghter and classic car collec-
tor. Former Ghana captain CK Akunnor
said Gyan is as much a talisman for the
Black Stars as Didier Drogba for Ivory
Coast. His leadership qualities are there
for all to see and his inuence on the
team is like that of Didier Drogba on the
Ivorian team, said Akunnor.
His form is imperious with the Stars
and will again play a key role if we are to
have a good World Cup campaign.
Ghana defender Samuel Inkoom also
backed Gyan to shine in Brazil.
Asamoah Gyan has always delivered
for the Black Stars and I know he will
do same in Brazil,the Platanias defender
predicted. He was good in Germany, bet-
ter in South Africa and I believe he will
Ghanas Baby Jet tunes his form
LIKE WINE, GETTING BETTER WITH AGE | He was good in German 2006, better in South
Teammates back the
Black Stars skipper and
prolic scorer Gyan to
render his usual service
Goalkeepers: Razak Brimah (CD Guadalaraja/
ESP), Adam Larsen Kwarasey (Strmsgodset/
NOR), Fatau Dauda (Orlando Pirates/RSA),
Stephen Adams (Aduana Stars)
Defenders: Kwabena Adusei (Asante Kotoko),
Samuel Inkoom (Platanias/GRE), Daniel Opare
(Standard Liege/BEL), Harrison Aul (Esperance/
TUN) Jeery Schlupp (Leicester City/ENG), John
Boye (Renne/FRA), Jonathan Mensah (Evian/
FRA), Rashid Sumaila (Mamelodi Sundowns/
RSA), Jerry Akaminko (Eskisehirspor/TUR)
Midelders: Michael Essien (AC Milan/ITA), Sulley
Ali Muntari (AC Milan/ITA), Rabiu Mohammed
(Kuban Krasnodar/RUS), Kwadwo Asamoah
(Juventus/ITA), Emmanuel Agyemang Badu
(Udinese/ITA), Afriyie Acquah (Parma/ITA),
Andre Ayew (Marseille/FRA), Yussif Chibsah
Rahman (Sassuolo/ITA), Mubarak Wakaso (Rubin
Kazan/RUS), Christian Atsu Twasam (Vitesse/
NED), Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough/ENG),
David Titi Accam (Helsingborg/SWE)
Forwards: Asamoah Gyan (Al Ain/UAE), Kevin-
Prince Boateng (AC Milan/ITA), Mahatma
Otto (Sogndal/NOR), Abdul Majeed Waris
(Valenciennes/FRA), Jordan Ayew (Sochaux/FRA
GHANA SQUAD
You do things your
own way when in
charge of the team
and if they dont
work out you become
responsible for the
consequences. If
they do, you take the
honours
Kwesi Appiah, Ghana
coach
Coach Appiah lays down the law for Brazil showpiece
PHOTO | AFP
Ghana captain and forward Asamoah Gyan in action during the 2012 African
Cup of Nations. He will lead the Black Stars to this years World Cup nals.
Ghana are condent they can claw
their way out of a World Cup group
that includes Germany, Portugal and
the United States.
The Black Stars reached the round of
16 in their World Cup debut in 2006
in Germany and reached the last
eight four years ago in South Africa.
Now they want to become the rst
African team to reach the semi-nals
of the tournament. Skipper Asamoah
Gyan, who appeared at both previous
nals, said that Ghana will raise their
game in Brazil.
The thing about Ghana all the time is
that whenever we play against a big
team, we perform, said Gyan.
That is what happened with
us when we were going to
the 2006 and 2010 World
Cups. And that is what hap-
pened with the Egypt (World
Cup play-o) game where eve-
ryone got involved.
TEAM TARGET
African giants
ready for big guns
be fantastic in Brazil, too.
Four years ago, Ghana became only
the third African team to reach the last
eight of the World Cup when they lost
after a penalty shootout to Uruguay.
Gyan missed a late penalty in extra-
time that would have catapulted the
Black Stars to the semi-nals.
We left the last competition with a
bang, although under strange circum-
stances, the player said.
And the fans have still not forgotten
about it, so I believe that they will still
be waiting to see what we can do again
this time. The team have been waiting
a long time since the 2010 World Cup
in which we reached the quarter-nals.
Being so close to becoming the rst
African team to reach the semi-nal
was a great triumph but painful at the
same time and we are really motivated
to come back and achieve an even bet-
ter result.
I believe that we can only get
better this time at the World Cup.
Gyan also missed from 12 yards in
the semi-nal of the 2012 Africa Cup
of Nations against Zambia.
He was heavily criticised by the
fans as a result and quit the national
team but his mother begged him to
reconsider his position and no
longer take penalties. Gyan will be
a familiar face to European fans,
having played for Rennes (France),
Sunderland (England) and Udinese
Road to Brazil 25 Days to G -AL!
W. CUP WATCH
SYDNEY
Socceroo Spiranovic
to stay with Wanderers
Young defender Matthew
Spiranovic has re-signed with
Western Sydney Wanderers for
a further two seasons just weeks
before playing for Australia at the
World Cup in Brazil. Spiranovic,
who turns 26 next month, had
a stand-out debut season with
the Wanderers, culminating in
Socceroos World Cup selection.
Spiranovic played 18 times in this
seasons A-League, including one
goal scored in this years Grand
Final, as well as making ve ap-
pearances in the AFC Champions
League where the Wanderers
have reached the quarter-nals.
TOKYO
Kagawa driven by
painful 2010 snub
Japan playmaker Shinji Kagawa
is desperate to play a starring role
at the World Cup in Brazil after
the heartbreak of being left out
of his countrys squad four years
ago. The 25-year-old saidyester-
day he had been devastated by
his 2010 omission, and prom-
ised to hit the ground running
in Japans opening game against
Ivory Coast on June 14, despite a
frustrating season at Manchester
United. Obviously I didnt get to
play at the World Cup in South
Africa four years ago, Kagawa
told reporters after an open train-
ing session in Tokyo.
WASHINGTON
Klinsmann boosts US
hopes for Cup glory
Jurgen Klinsmann has not hesi-
tated to take unpopular decisions
in his mission to toughen up the
United States team going into the
World Cup nals.
The 49-year-old coach, who as
a player helped Germany capture
the 1990 World Cup and 1996
European Championship, took
over the American side in 2011.
The progress may not be clear
in the results but Klinsmann
has backing for his tactics as he
prepares to take on his former
country in their opening group.
One of the reasons we hired Jur-
gen was to advance the program
forward and weve seen the initial
stages of that happening, said
US Soccer president Sunil Gulati.
SINGAPORE
Ferdinand worried by
Carricks exclusion
Rio Ferdinand has warned Eng-
land may have left themselves
exposed in mideld at the World
Cup by omitting Michael Carrick
from their core squad for Brazil.
The former England captain,
who announced his abrupt depar-
ture from Manchester United this
week, also queried the decision
to drop Chelsea left-back Ashley
Cole.
England coach Roy Hodgson
this week listed Carrick among
his seven stand-by players. His
decision to omit Cole, in favour
of Evertons Leighton Baines
and Southamptons Luke Shaw,
grabbed most attention.
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
48 | Sport
Berlin
M
idfield general Bastian
Schweinsteiger left Bayern
Munichs final Bundesliga
match of the season with a knee
injury giving Germany fans another
scare ahead of the World Cup.
Germany desperately need Sch-
weinsteiger to be t for the Brazil
campaign, but it has been a season
of many absences. And no one is giv-
ing a guarantee that he will be t to
start the Brazil campaign.
The 29-year-old will celebrate a dec-
ade in the Germany team just before
their opening Group G game against
Portugal on June 16 having won his
101st cap in the 1-0 friendly win over
Chile in March.
A defensive mideld shoo-in for
club and country, Schweinsteigers
appearances for Bayern Munich this
season have been restricted by a trio
of injuries.
Hampered pre-season
Back-to-back ankle surgeries
hampered him in pre-season, then in
November and December before he
suered an inamed knee ligament at
a training camp in Qatar in January.
He returned with a vengeance on his
rst full appearance over 90 minutes
in mid-March when he curled home
a free-kick for the winner as Bayer
Leverkusen lost 2-1 in Munich.
He also scored in the 1-1 draw
at home to Arsenal in the last 16
as Bayern reached the Champions
League quarter-nals 3-1 on aggre-
gate, then netted in their 2-0 league
win at Mainz.
Having only played 16 of Bayerns
first 27 league matches, Schwein-
steiger gained valuable match tness
in 2014. But Bayerns defeat by Real
Madrid in the Champions League was
a psychological blow and the knock to
the knee last weekend did not help.
With his class and experience, he
has a big inuence on our game, said
Germany coach Joachim Loew.
When he is able to play 90 min-
utes, with his condence on the ball
and tactical awareness, he is very
valuable for us.
Other players respond when
they see Bastian is playing well.
But you can see that he was
injured for a long time.
Schweinsteiger claimed his
seventh German league title
when Bayern were nally
confirmed Bundesliga
champions with a record
seven games to spare
after their 3-1 win at
Hertha Berlin.
Bayern captain Philipp
Lahm switched from right-
back to partner him in the
defensive mideld partner in Berlin
and Loew could repeat the move in
Brazil. Loew is low on defensive mid-
eld options to partner Schweinsteiger
with Real Madrids Sami Khedira
struggling with a knee injury.
Borussia Dortmunds Ilkay Gun-
dogan has not played since August
with a back injury and a virus, while
Dortmunds Sven Bender is out with
a pelvis injury and also faces a race
against time to be t for Brazil.
Bayerns Toni Kroos, who has had a
stellar season in the attacking mideld
role for the European champions, is an
option to drop back into the Number
Six position or Lahm could be moved
across from right-back.
Having broken into the rst team as
a 19-year-old at Euro 2004, when the
Germans failed to make it past the rst
round, Schweinsteiger played a key
role as Germany nished third at the
2006 World Cup on home soil.
He earned the man-of-the-match
award with two long-range strikes in
the 3-1 play-o win over Portugal and
nearly nished with a hat-trick.
When Michael Ballack was injured
just before the last World Cup, Sch-
weinsteiger lled his mideld role
and when t, is Loews rst choice
in mideld.
He will be at the heart of Germanys
bid to claim a fourth World Cup title
in Brazil, providing he avoids a fourth
injury of the season. (AFP)
to make a noise at World Cup
Germany sweat over
tness of mideld
general Schweinsteiger
as he battles injuries
Africa 2010 and will be fantastic in Brazil, says defender Inkoom of his captain
Berlin
Germany coach Joachim Loew
(pictured) can feel that time is run-
ning out for him to win a major title
after eight years in charge of the
much-feared national side.
The 54-year-old, who hails from the
Schwarzwald and still German accent,
succeeded Jurgen Klinsmann as head
coach after the 2006 World Cup.
He has steered Germany to the
semi-nals of the 2008 European
Championship, the 2010 World Cup
and Euro 2012, but his resume lacks
the major title which would elevate
him to Germanys top division of
coaches.
Loews image is a daily occurence
in Germany where he fronts an
advertising campaign for a lead-
ing cosmetics brand, but the head
coach rarely appears in the media
spotlight.
The German Football Associa-
tion (DFB) has already told him his
job is safe beyond Brazil 2014 and
Loew is expected to see out his cur-
rent contract which expires after
Euro 2016.
But Loew has acknowledged that
the clock is ticking.
Having never played senior inter-
national football, Loew made four
appearances for West Germanys
Under-21s and played Bundesliga
football as a midelder for Eintra-
cht Frankfurt, Karlsruhe and VfB
Stuttgart.
He won the 1997 German Cup
final as VfB Stuttgart coach and
after working in Turkey and Austria,
Loew joined the Germany set up as
assistant coach in 2004.
Loew was responsible for tactics
with Klinsmann as the teams mo-
tivator and the pair delighted the
nation as Germany nished third
at the 2006 World Cup on home
soil. (AFP)
Time surely running out for Germanys Loew
PHOTO | AFP
Belgiums Jelle Vossen (left) vies for the ball with German midelder Bastian
Schweinsteiger during their Euro 2012 qualifying Group A match.
When he is able to play
90 minutes, with his
condence on the ball and
tactical awareness, he is
very valuable for us. Other
players respond when
they see Bastian is playing
well. But you can see that
he was injured for a long
time
Joachim Loew, German coach
1997
Year German coach Joachim Loew
won the German Cup as VfB Stuttgart
coach
Road to Brazil 25 Days to G -AL!
Lisbon
Portugal owe their place at the
World Cup nals to the genius of
their captain Cristiano Ronaldo.
The Real Madrid man dragged
his country through a ercely con-
tested two-legged playo against
Zlatan Ibrahimovics Sweden in
November. Portugal won 4-2 and
the two superstars scored all of
their sides goals.
A devastating array of nishing
in a hat-trick in the second leg in
Stockholm played a big part in
the 29-year-old Ronaldo finally
getting a second Ballon dOr for
the worlds best player in 2013, ve
years after he won the award for
the rst time.
Portugal look to have landed in
a group of death against Germany,
Ghana and the United States in
Group G.
However, with Ronaldo leading
the way, they should be relatively
condent of progress.
Since bursting onto the interna-
tional scene on home soil at the
2004 European Championships,
Ronaldo has reached a nal, two
semi-nals, a quarter-nal and lost
out to eventual winners Spain in the
last 16 of the 2010 World Cup in ve
major tournament appearances.
Moreover, if Portugal nish sec-
ond in the group behind Germany,
there is no greater motivation for
Ronaldo than a potential mouth-
watering quarter-nal clash against
Lionel Messis Argentina.
Legendary Eusebio
This years tournament will also
be a poignant one for the whole of
Portuguese football as it comes just
months after the death of the leg-
endary Eusebio. Ronaldo recently
became his countrys all-time lead-
ing goalscorer with a double against
Cameroon in a friendly in March
to move onto 49 goals from 110
international appearances.
However, he has never shone
at a major tournament quite how
Eusebio did with his nine goals in
the 1966 World Cup as Portugal
nished third. He was one of the
most brilliant players in the world
and he was Portuguese so it was a
sad day for Portugal and the world,
Ronaldo said after The Black Pan-
ther passed away in January.
I was sad especially because he
was my friend. I was with him for
many years in the national team.
He was a special man for me and
for all the Portuguese people.
Unlike at club level, Ronaldo does
not have the intense pressure like
Barcelona rivals Messi or Neymar
will have burdening the heavier ex-
pectations of Argentina and Brazil,
nor even those carried by the Eu-
ropean powerhouses Germany or
Spain. (AFP)
Portugal pin
their hopes
on Ronaldo
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
Sport 49
Atletico Madrid won their rst La
Liga title in 18 years yesterday, after
Barcelona and Real Madrid had
dominated the division for the last
10 years. Here, we look at six games
which proved key to Atleticos run
to the title:
Real Madrid 0 Atletico Madrid 1
- September 28
Just four months after ending their
14-year long wait for a win over
their city rivals in the Copa del Rey
nal, Atletico made it two wins in
a row at the Bernabeu as Diego
Costas solitary goal was enough to
send an early signal of the teams
intent to ght for the title.
Atletico Madrid 2 Real Madrid 2
- March 2
After two shock defeats to Alm-
eria and Osasuna in three games,
Atletico hosted a rampant Real
at the Calderon and were behind
within three minutes as Karim Ben-
zema opened the scoring.
However, in their best performance
in weeks, they roared back to take
the lead through Koke and Gabi
and despite being pegged back by
Cristiano Ronaldos equaliser, keep-
ing Reals lead at the top of the
table down to three points proved
to be crucial.
Real Madrid 3 Barcelona 4, Real
Betis 0 Atletico Madrid 2 - March 23
Three weeks later Atletico were
to take back top spot for good as
they comfortably saw o relegation
bound Real Betis 2-0.
Meanwhile at the Bernabeu, Bar-
celona ended Reals 31-game un-
beaten streak to leave all three title
contenders separated by just one
point with nine games to play.
Athletic Bilbao 1 Atletico Madrid
2 - March 29
Other than their nal game away to
Barcelona, Atleticos trip to the Bil-
bao on paper looked like their most
dicult game remaining by the end
of March.
The Basques had already taken
points o Barca and Real at home
and had Champions League quali-
cation in their sights.
Iker Muniain even gave the hosts
an early lead, but Atletico battled
back to take all three points thanks
to goals from Costa and Koke.
Barcelona 1 Atletico Madrid 1
- May 17
An enthralling title race came down
to the nal weekend as after all
three challengers faltered in the
nal stages, Atletico needed a
point from the Camp Nou to seal
the championship.
Alexis Sanchezs stunning opener
looked to have put Barca on the
road to glory, but Atleticos threat
from set-pieces proved the dif-
ference as Diego Godin powered
home Gabis corner to score the
goal that won the title.
ITS BEEN A TOUGH RACE
Six big games that
made the dierence
Founded: 1903
Home ground: Estadio Vicente
Calderon (capacity 54,960)
Coach: Diego Pablo Simeone
Captain: Gabi
Honours: Spanish La Liga title (10):
1939-40, 1940-41, 1949-50, 1950-51,
1965-66, 1969-70, 1972-73, 1976-77,
1995-96, 2013-14
Copa del Rey (10): 1959-60, 1960-61,
1964-65, 1971-72, 1975-76, 1984-85,
1990-91, 1991-92, 1995-96, 2012-13
Spanish Supercup (1): 1985
Uefa Europa League (2): 2009-10,
2011-12
ATLETICO FACTFILE
Madrid
A
tletico Madrid claimed their 10th
Spanish league crown yesterday
but rst in 18 years after coming
from behind to draw 1-1 away at title rivals
Barcelona.
Alexis Sanchezs stunning strike red
Barca into the lead on 33 minutes, but
Diego Godins header four minutes into
the second-half was enough to give Atletico
the point they needed to become the rst
side other than Barca and Real Madrid to
win La Liga in 10 years.
A point for both sides means that Barca
nish the season ahead of third-placed Real
Madrid thanks to a better head-to-head
record, three points adrift of Atletico.
We have fought all year and the work
we have done is amazing. To last 38 games
against two great teams Real Madrid and
Barcelona is incredibly dicult, Godin told
Canal Plus. The boss told us at half-time
that we were going to score a goal. In the
end football has been fair to us. Barca,
meanwhile, nish a disappointing season
without a major trophy for the rst time
in six years. Congratulations to Atletico.
They are deserving champions, said Barca
captain for the day Andres Iniesta.
We had our chances until the final
game but they have been better and there
is nothing more to say. We are hurt to lose
the league in the nal game.
We depended on ourselves to win and
we havent done, so there is great disap-
pointment because if we had managed to
do it the feeling would be very dierent.
The visitors had started brightly but
were dealt a huge blow after just 15 min-
utes when top scorer Diego Costa pulled up
with the recurrence of a hamstring injury
that will also make him a huge doubt for
the Champions League nal against Real
Madrid next weekend.
Forced o with a hip injury
Arda Turan was then also forced o with a
hip injury as Adrian Lopez and Raul Garcia
entered the fray.
Barca grew into the game as the half
developed and could have been ahead when
Pedro Rodriguez wastefully headed over
Dani Alves precise cross from the right.
When the Catalans did go in front just
after the half hour it was in spectacular
fashion as Lionel Messi cushioned the ball
into Sanchezs path on the right side of the
area, but despite the narrow angle he man-
aged to thrash the ball high past Thibaut
Courtois at the Belgians near post.
Atletico forced a series of corners with-
out carving out a clear-cut chance in their
search for an equaliser before the break,
but the half-time whistle also brought frus-
tration on the part of the Barca players
as both Messi and Sergio Busquets were
booked for dissent. (AFP)
Atletico are Spanish champions
LA LIGA | We had our chances until the nal game but they have been better, says Iniesta
Madrid hold Barcelona
at Nou Camp to claim
their rst title since 1996
PHOTOS | AFP
Atletico Madrids Argentinian coach Diego Simeone is tossed by his teammates as they celebrate their Spanish league
title following their 1-1 draw with Barcelona at the Camp Nou yesterday. Below: Atletico Madrid savour their glory.
We have fought all year and
the work we have done is
amazing. To last 38 games
against two great teams Real
Madrid and Barcelona is
incredibly dicult. The boss
told us at half-time that we
were going to score a goal. In
the end football has been fair
to us
Diego Godin, Atletico player
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
50 | Sport
BRIEFLY
LONDON
Pressure mounts on
EPL boss in sexism
The English Premier League
chief at the centre of a sexism
row came under fresh pressure to
quit his post on Saturday.
Last week Britains Sunday
Mirror newspaper published
leaked private e-mails sent by
Premier League chief executive
Richard Scudamore in which
he made crude references to
a woman colleague and also
included jokes about female
irrationality. Now Scudamore
has been urged to consider his
position by Heather Rabbatts, an
independent board member of
the Football Association and one
of the most prominent women in
English football.
LONDON
Rodgers: Gerrard will
not let slip aect him
Brendan Rodgers says Steven
Gerrard is his own worst critic
but expects his captain to get
over Liverpools Premier League
title disappointment and lead
England into this summers
World Cup with his head held
high. Gerrard endured a dicult
end to the season and was at fault
when his slip gifted Chelsea vic-
tory at Aneld on April 27. Rodg-
ers believes Gerrard will put this
seasons frustration behind him
and be in a fresh state of mind
when he boards the plane to Bra-
zil. Ive no concerns whatsoever
about Steven, Rodgers said.
MANCHESTER
Utd to sign Serbia
keeper Milinkovic
Manchester United will sign
Serbian Under-17 international
goalkeeper Vanja Milinkovic, after
reaching an agreement with his
club FK Vojvodina. Milinkovic, 17,
will return to Vojvodina on loan
next season but will hope to ght
for a rst-team place with David
de Gea in the coming years.
The club revealed the details of
the deal on their ocial website
in a statement which read: Man-
chester United is pleased to an-
nounce it has reached agreement
with FK Vojvodina for the trans-
fer of Serbian Under-17 interna-
tional goalkeeper Vanja Milinko-
vic. Both clubs have agreed that
the player will remain with FK
Vojvodina next season.
LONDON
Hazard targeting
UCL and Prem double
Eden Hazard insists that Chel-
sea can win both the Premier
League title and the Champions
League next season. Hazard, 23,
recently admitted this season had
been a failure after Jose Mourin-
hos side came up short in both
competitions -- nishing third in
the table and losing to Atletico
Madrid in the European semi-
nals. However, the Belgian has
vowed to improve his perform-
ances on the pitch and believes
his teammates can enjoy a double
dose of silverware next year.
Next season, with this team, we
can win the Premier League and
maybe the Champions League as
well, Hazard said.
BY DAVID KWALIMWA
@DavidKwalimwa
dkwalimwa@ke.nationmedia.com
T
hey are popularly known as the
Green Army, the most colourful
football fans in the country.
Welcome to the world of Gor Mahia foot-
ball club supporters. Our main assignment
is to follow our beloved Gor Mahia to all
the corners of the universe to cheer them
through the assignments. We are also here
to do everything it entails to support and
defend our beloved team, Jared Otieno aka
Jaro Soja, one of the clubs most visible
supporters, says.
Each weekend, they traverse the country
in private cars, hired transport vehicles,
motor bikes and bicycles in the name of
cheering their team through the local as-
signments.
Inside the stadium, they chant into un-
rivaled scenes of uniformed cheers, song
and dance to rally behind their team.
The fans played a big role in my deci-
sion to join this club. So far I have not been
disappointed. The whole team wants to
win and win for them, they deserve much
more. Actually, when we lose a game, I am
very disappointed because of how the fans
will ll, Ugandan striker Dan Sserunkuma
explains.
This support has however been accom-
panied with some consequences.
Many at times have the Green Army
been caught on the wrong side of the law. In
the past few seasons to be precise, scenes
of hooliganism, crowd trouble and to an
extent destruction of public property.
But it is not all gloom associated with
these supporters. For inside them exists
a magic touch, a heart of sympathy that
extends to a helping hand, that has many at
times assisted one of their own in need.
Social support
There is a togetherness within the Gor
Mahia supporters fraternity that mostly
comes out when one of us is in need. I
have never seen such generosity exhibited
within a group of persons, especially to-
wards someone not familiar with a majority
of the set up. Tony Owori (Anelka), an
ardent supporter of the team, and mobi-
liser, says.
Some of the social support associated
with the clubs fan base include visits to
children homes within the City where sup-
porters donate in cash and kind towards
the less privileged.
Other standout cases of such initiatives
from the fanbase came to the fore during
the sudden demise of one of their own,
Roy Kohadha, late last year.
Within a nutshell a series of initiatives on
How Green Army rescued Nasio
TOGETHERNESS | Defender broke nose in a league assignment but got no help from the club
Gor Mahia fans rush to
help one of their own
after suering injury
Zurich
Uefa on Friday ned both Manches-
ter City and Paris Saint-Germain 60
million euros (about Sh7.2 billion)
and capped their Champions League
squad to 21 for falling foul of nancial
fair play rules.
Newly-crowned English Premier
League champions, Manchester City
enjoyed a massive spending spree under
billionaire owner Sheikh Mansour bin
Zayed al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi.
And French Ligue 1 champions PSG
have benetted from similar invest-
ment in top-drawer players after their
takeover by Qatar Sports Investments
in late 2012. But both clubs have paid
for that with massive nes, 40 million
euros of which will be repaid should
the clubs full the operational and
nancial measures agreed with the
Uefa CFCB (Club Financial Control
Body).
Uefa said other clubs to have failed
the nancial fairplay rules were Turk-
ish trio Buraspor, Galatasaray and
Trabzonspor, Russian sides Zenit St
Petersburg, Anzhi Makhachkala and
Rubin Kazan, and Levski Soa from
Bulgaria. Both City and PSG battled
Uefa through to the end, the former
arguing there had been a fundamental
disagreement over the interpretation
of the FFP regulations on players
purchased before 2010 but that it had
decided to enter into a compromise
agreement with Uefa.
They agreed, the statement read, to
limit their net spending on new play-
ers to 60 million euros. The clubs
expenditure on new players for the
upcoming summer transfer window,
on top of income from players it might
sell, will be limited to 60m euros. This
will have no material impact on the
clubs planned transfer activity, City
said.
The MCFC Champions League
squad for the 2014-15 competition will
be limited to 21 players. (AFP)
Uefa ne City, PSG Sh7.2bn, cap Champions League squad
PHOTOS | FILE
Gor Mahia fans cheer their team during in a past Tusker Premier League match at the Nyayo National Stadium. Fans raised
funds towards Solomon Nasios (below) medical expenses earlier this week.
The clubs expenditure on
new players for the upcoming
summer transfer window, on
top of income from players it
might sell, will be limited to
60m euros. This will have no
material impact on the clubs
planned transfer activity
Manchester City statement
social media resulted in the contribution
of some Sh248,000 towards the funeral
expenses of the deceased, and as sadaka
to the departeds family. Still, hundreds
of supporters found time to travel for
hundreds of kilometres to Alego in Siaya
County to pay their last respects.
Another opportunity for the Gor Mahia
supporters to show their kind heart came
forth last week when the Daily Nation
highlighted the plighted of the longest serv-
ing player within the rst team, Solomon
Nasio, who broke his nose while on duty
but had no cash to raise funds to undergo
reconstructive surgery.
I was overwhelmed with surprise with
how fans from all walks of life raised Sh
300,000 which was double the amount
required for the operation, in just one day.
Anelka, who was tasked with the challenge
of receiving the cash said.
I am humbled, with no words to explain
my joy. I give thanks to the Daily Nation
and everybody who ensured that I am able
to have this operation, Gor Mahia fans will
always have a special place in my heart
Nasio, who has already booked for the
surgery set for the 21st of this month at
the Kenyatta National Hospital private
wing explained.
And that is not all. Another initiative, a
mobile money paybill number launched a
fortnight back to help the administration
source for money from the fans to meet
daily expenses has thus far raised close to
half a million shillings.
SUNDAY NATION
May 18, 2014
Sport 51
BY NGARE KARIUKI
cnkariuki@ke.nationmedia.com
AND BILLY MUIRURI
bmuiruri@ke.nationmedia.com
A
suspected mass grave
thought to be con-
nected to the recent
land clashes in Athi River and
Kitengela has been found on a
farm in Machakos County.
Herders guiding their live-
stock through the government
land on the border of Macha-
kos and Kajiado counties on
Friday afternoon came across
what they believed to be part
of a human hand and reported
the matter to the nearby
Kitengela police station.
Police immediately combed
the area and found more par-
tially decomposed human
body parts.
Yesterday morning, police
found several skulls and pieces of
cloth scattered in an abandoned
quarry in the 2,000-acre farm.
Kajiado County Commissioner
Kobia wa Kamau, speaking at the
scene yesterday, said the grave
could be an important piece of
the puzzle that is land clashes in
Athi River and Kitengela areas.
This is most likely related
to what happened on March 4
when several people went miss-
ing after a feud over land owned
by Portland Cement. We have
a strong reason to believe that
some of the missing people are
buried here, he said.
The bodies will be exhumed
today as a court order for the ex-
humation could not be obtained
past 6 pm.
Meanwhile, Mr Kamau said
that the spontaneous land
clashes in Athi River and
Kitengela areas in Machakos and
Kajiado counties are not linked to
the proscribed Mungiki sect.
The battle for land in the area
is caused by brokers who had
conned land buyers using fake
titles, said Mr Kamau.
Mr Kamau said preliminary
security investigations in the
county had not been able to con-
nect the clashes to the sect.
There is no thread to link
Mungiki members with the
land tussles as of now. We can
conrm that illegal land sellers
had conned many people who are
now rising up against the alleged
chief brokers, he said.
Mr Kamau spoke moments
after the County Security
Committee grilled the founder
of the sect, Mr Maina Njenga,
and several of his associates for
more than eight hours in Kajiado
town on Friday.
Mr Kamaus team, which in-
cluded police commander Tito
Kilonzi, was trying to establish if
there was a link between Mungiki
adherents and the land wars in
the area.
More than ve people reported
to be former Mungiki members
are said to have died in the last
few months over two pieces of
land in Athi River.
The 10,000 and 5,000 acres of
land belong to the East African
Portland Cement (EAPC) but
have been invaded by people
claiming it belongs to one com-
munity in the area.
The matter, Mr Kamau said,
was spilling over to the county
from Machakos because most
brokers had makeshift land sell-
ing oces in Kitengela town.
We are still investigating
who the faces behind these
land scams are. We are follow-
ing crucial leads, he said.
Herders nd suspected mass grave
CORRESPONDENT | NATION
The quarry on the border of Machakos and Kajiado counties where
decomposing bodies were found yesterday.
VIOLENCE | Deaths thought to be connected to recent land clashes in Athi River and Kitengela
Rotting
human body
parts found
in a quarry
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James Hukil Chege - No idea whatsoever..
Rio-d Real Rapstar - Jaguar n maybe souti
sol...the problem is that most kenyan musi-
cians are nt focused on the international
mrkt.Im working on that and already my
collabo with top American rappers is half
way.
Allan K Zeus - Elani, Sauti Sol, Jay A, Sage.
Hell, Sana too for Mfalme Wa Mapenzi. That
was a good track.
Roy Getanda Nyongo - Sauti Sol with their
controversial track and video NISHIKE!
James Hukil Chege - Am sure no single
artist can grab tht right now,i mean not a
group..true dat.
K.m. Lewis - I choose to digress; BET is a
good thing, but not the measure of success.
Have they considered what artists like Juliani
are doing with their artistry to change lives,
or is it just the weight of what one has on
their necks?
Benson Njumbi - ken wa maria
Boniface Njiiri - Wyre deservt 2
Mc Rumaz - Redsan
Boniface Njiiri - Trio yeah!Elani can go 4 it
Humphrey Mwadime - Elani n Wyre
Eric Ochieng Magz Geovanni - Camp Mulla
set the bar too High.After BET noms last
year they even couldnt do it for themselves
this year..
Murefu Saul - sauti soul
Anny Della - Wyre n Jaguar
Eric Tigerwoods Kubai - P- Unit na Rabbit.
Patrick Nzomoh - Jaguar
Kauni K Kelvin - octopizzo...
Irene Goodie Love - STL
Grace Bass - Victoria Kimani n STL
Only Diamond from TZ has been nominated in this years BET awards. Which Kenyan
musician do you think had a good chance to be nominated?
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B
eyonce, Jay Z and Solange
say they have moved
forward as a united fam-
ily since a video leaked of
Solange attacking Jay Z in a New
York lift.
The Knowles-Carter family re-
leased a statement saying Jay Z and
Solange have apologised to one an-
other.
It adds: They both acknowledge
their role in this private matter that
has played out in the public.
There is still no word over what the
argument was about.
The three-minute video was re-
leased by celebrity gossip site TMZ
on Monday. It was shot inside the
Standard Hotel in New York.
The hotel said it had fired the per-
son who recorded the video.
Reports about Solange being drunk
and displaying erratic behaviour
are false according to the statement,
given to the AP news agency.
It read: As a result of the public
release of the elevator security foot-
age from Monday, May 5th, there
has been a great deal of speculation
about what triggered the unfortunate
incident.
But the most important thing is
that our family has worked through
it. Jay and Solange each assume their
share of responsibility for what has
occurred. They both acknowledge
their role in this private matter that
has played out in the public. They
both have apologised to each other
and we have moved forward as a
united family.
The reports of Solange being
intoxicated or displaying erratic be-
haviour throughout that evening are
simply false. At the end of the day
families have problems and were
no different. We love each other and
above all we are family. Weve put this
behind us and hope everyone else will
do the same.
The hotel in New York says is still
investigating the leak of the security
video that shows the attack.
The footage appears to show
Solange trying to kick and hit Jay Z in
front of Beyonce. A security guard is
then seen restraining her and appears
to attempt to stop the lift.
Its thought the incident happened
after the three had attended the Met
Gala Ball last week in New York and a
party at the hotel afterwards.
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Jay Z, Solange and
Beyonce moving
forward after fight
SPOKENWORD
How could I live for less?
How could my ignorance felt so
great?
The ways He walked, the mes-
sage He passed.
I stood and laughed

Was he love?
I didnt care!
I walked on dust my way to lust,
I found nothing.
He was everything but I crucified
Him for something.
Tangible staff, made my flesh to
move so fast
It greed me and gave him pain

I did it in vain to gain but still he
cried the last drop.
Drop for me to come back home,
Home where I belong,
Belong is where I am in Him,
In him its all finish, its all gone.
Its all gone.
For death didnt carry Him away.
I live to give myself away

Lead me and show me your way.
For your unconditional love
paved a way.
Let not my iniquities take me
astray
Its all finished
By JEMIMAH OSORO
2 May 18, 2014 Sunday Nation
ELANI
ONEONONE
BUZZ: When did you ocially get together as a band?
In 2008. We were very young, but in 2010/2011 we decided
to go for it.
Was it hard to start out in the beginning?
Yes it was because we were not even friends yet. We were
just getting to know each other and it was a bit challenging
handling three dierent personalities, but right now we are
like a family.
How do you describe your sound and style of music?
We call it Urban Afro because we couldnt nd a word that
could fully describe three people from dierent places with
dierent musical inspirations. When we put it together we
ended up with an amalgamation of this huge sound. And as
much as everyones interest is dierent, it is uniquely Afri-
can because we sing in an African setting. Its just a big pot
full of inspiration that we call Urban Afro.
What makes Elani unique and sets it apart from other
bands?
We started from the bottom and now we are here three
dierent human beings raised in three dierent ways lis-
tening to dierent types of music coming together to make
beautiful music. No-one in this world thinks like Brian or
does anything like him and that applies to the ladies as
well. That in itself is what makes us unique. Every musi-
cian in every band is so unique because they didnt come
from the same place. What we brought was a connection
solely built on music. When you hear something from us,
its a collaborative eort and everyone is giving 300 per
cent.
Your latest song Kookoo is being received well, what was
the inspiration behind the song and the video?
Its about being crazy in love; all you can do is think about
this person when you wake up in the morning, anticipating
a simple text. And thats a feeling that many, if not all of
us, have experienced. It is crazy unconditional love. When
we were thinking about a video concept we had to go for
something that we felt would touch everyone from children
to adults. We found every type of relationship imaginable
and we showed what a good thing that is thats why
people are calling it unique because they know that feeling
or they want that feeling. We were able to capture dierent
kinds of people making sure that at the end of the day in
as much as we are so dierent we are looking to be loved
and be happy.
Do you write your own songs?
Yes we do, but we do work with other people. Jana Usiku is
co-written including Mahindi which is co-written by a guy
called Meshack who is just fantastic. But Brian is like the
song writer extraordinaire. But the good thing is its a col-
laborative eort.
In a group this brilliant, do you often clash creatively?
Of course, all the time. The same way and magnitude that
we are able to make the songs is the same way we disagree
when it comes to artistic stu. It can get very interesting
to hang out with us, to an outsider it might seem crazy but
its been such a long time that we understand how every-
one works. Whether we ght or not, as soon as we come to
a decision everything is forgotten and thats the beauty of
being together for so long.
Do you play any instruments?
Everyone plays the keys and the guitar. Wambui is better
at the keyboard and Brian and I (Maureen) are good with
the guitar.
Do you think Sauti Sol and you guys are on the same
level?
Its very dicult to say that because they are a boy group
they have a whole dierent harmonic thing happening
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than when girls are involved. Thats why you cant hear a
Sauti Sol and an Elani song and think they are the same
because there are girls singing. In terms of quality of mu-
sic and vocal ability weve always looked up to them, they
are the most fantastic singers. We learnt a lot about har-
mony from them because then we didnt fully understand
the dynamic of singing in harmony.
But if you were to go head to head, do you think you
could take on them?
Anyone can take on anybody. Thats the good thing about
being a singer. Wambui has something that Maureen
doesnt, the same way Sauti Sol have Bien is the same
way we have Wambui who has a husky smoky voice and
Maureen has a sharp voice that can go high with a smooth
peak. Everyone has something that is unique to them.
Do you have a manager?
No, but we do have a good team behind us. It would be im-
possible for us to do everything.
Did you ever imagine that one day you would be this big?
We always hoped and dreamt about it. But the thing is you
can always get bigger and better and thats something that
we have kept in our minds from the beginning. Theres
never a nishing line, we just keep working hard. The
thing that shocked us most is the reception from people.
For instance, the song Milele made someone want to get
back with her husband. Such comments make everything
worthwhile. Giving hope to another human being is what
keeps us going. Every single second of the arguments, of
not being able to nd a producer that understands our
music is made worth it by that comment.
What personalities do you each have that make Elani
what it is?
We all have strong multiple personalities.
Brian: Maureen is the rm one, she is the decision maker,
she is brainy and a perfectionist.
Maureen: Wambui is timely and organised and likes to
plan. She is also the class clown
Wambui: Brian is protective, a creative thinker and very
calm.
We dont know whether we are funny in public but when
we sit down together its the most fun. We laugh a lot.
Are you guys ever afraid that you might break up or head
into solo careers?
One thing the band has shown us is each of us cant
do this on our own, and we didnt think we would get
here. The fact that for some reason weve stuck together
through all the hardships six years in, going back to
ground zero will be hard. If any of us try to go solo from
Elani it will be starting from the bottom again. Actually
Beyonce might be the only person who has ever done it
successfully. And that said, how long ago did they break
up for her to get where she is?
What is your ultimate goal?
A Grammy would be lovely, 16 Grammys would be even
better, lets just round that number up and say 20. We
want our voice to matter, thats why we sing. With a lot
of power music gives you power because people listen
comes a lot of responsibility. We want to change the
way people think, pass on messages of positivity and re-
sponsibility to the young people who are living their lives
in a manner that is questionable. We believe Elani is Gods
plan because if we werent together there is no way that
we could come up with songs that are perfectly produced
and thought out. The reason that we have perfect products
at the end of the day is all because of Maureen.
You have had hits with Jana Usiku, Milele and Kookoo.
Do you fear that you will not top the last song?
Each song that comes out is scary, and its never even
about topping the last song, its about the fact that you
have created something and you believe in it. The one
thing that you want is for it to be loved; the scary thing is
not getting the message across when you have worked so
hard at it. If anything is true to you and genuine then it
will always speak to someone. We can only hope for bet-
ter than a previous song did. God is the Alpha and Omega
and without Him we are nothing, the thing is to work
smart and hard and everything will fall into place.
As one of the best bands in town, Elani has come a long way to
establish itself as a young, brilliant and vibrant group that not
only makes beautiful music but also wants to change society
one song at a time. JOSEPHINE MOSONGO spoke to them
Maureen
Brian
Wambui
May 18, 2014 Sunday Nation 3
T
heres an old Dr Dre song
called Been There, Done That
and in it the West Coast
artiste raps about how hes
been making money and living
large.
The architect of gangsta rap says:
Got to buy my own island by the year
2G/ Since way back, Ive been collectin
my fee Got a palace in the Hills
overlookin the sea/Its worth eight,
but I only paid ve point threeA mil-
lion dollar style, [expletive] wonder
howYoung black Rockefeller, hella
swiss and mozzarella/Pockets sweller,
gettin money like a bank tellerPrivate
jet, 600 Coupes, then I run Vettes/Im
livin on another level that yall aint
been yet/Spend a mill, no sweat, water
the lawn with Moet.
The song is o his 1997 compila-
tion album The Aftermath. The good
doctor (real name Andre Young)
had been there, done that, and his
achievements backed the production
of the song.
After all, he had been in the game
for 13 years in which he produced al-
bums for and overseen the careers of
many top rappers, including Snoop
Dogg, Eminem, Xzibit, 50 Cent, The
Game, and Kendrick Lamar.
Born Andr Romelle Young in
Compton, California on February
18, 1965, Dr Dre had also released
numerous hit songs and albums
both solo and as part of the groups
World Class Wreckin Cru and N.W.A,
and was running his own record label
Aftermath Entertainment.
Fast-forward to 2014 and the rap
god turned entrepreneur is all the
news from the entertainment to
business pages in the news for all the
right reasons nancially.
In April this year, Forbes maga-
zine ranked Dre, 49, as the second-
wealthiest hip hop artiste, raking
in $550m (Sh47 billion) up from
2013s $350m, he had overtaken Jay
Z ($520m) and was only behind Pu
Daddy ($700m).
And for the past week, the talk
on Dr Dre, who has not released
an album since 2000, has been all
about the company that has brought
him great fortune and fame: Beats
Electronics.
According to the UKs Financial
Times, the rm that Dr Dre co-
founded with entrepreneur, record
and lm producer Jimmy Iovine, 61,
in 2008 is the subject of a $3.2bn
(Sh255 billion) takeover by computer
giant Apple.
According to the New York Times,
Mr Iovine made his name as a record
producer and he is also credited with
helping discover Lady Gaga and
Eminem, whose demo tape he gave
to Dr Dre.
A slight, wiry and hyperac-
tive Brooklyn native in blue-tinted
glasses and a baseball cap, Mr Iovine
talks so much more than Mr Young
that he jokes, Im his Charlie McCa-
rthy, I really am.
After the report of the buyout by
Apple, R&B singer Tyrese recorded a
video declaring in a now-taken-down
Facebook video about Beats and the
Apple buyout, The Forbes list just
changed. It came out like two weeks
ago; they need to update the Forbes
list.
Dr Dre, whom Bloomberg notes
holds a 20 per cent stake in Beats
while Iovine owns 25 per cent of the
company, could only agree, in the
same clip:
Understand that. The rst billion-
aire in hip hop, right here from the
[expletive] West Coast. Believe it.
The buyout means Dr Dre, after
cashing his cheque will cross the bil-
lion-dollar mark, but not according
to Forbes.
Forbes indicates that a sale of $3.2
billion would increase Dr Dres net
worth to $800m(Sh68 billion) after
taxes are imposed, leaving him $200
million short of the billion dollar
mark.
Over its nearly six years of exist-
ence, the Beats by Dre product line
has created devices such as Beats
Studio, a circumaural headphone,
Beats Tour, an in-ear headphone,
Beats Solo & Solo HD, a supra-aural
headphone, Beats Spin, Heartbeats
by Lady Gaga, also an in-ear head-
phone, and Diddy Beats.
Youve probably seen Beats prod-
ucts in numerous music videos.
Well, the items popularity has been
primarily inuenced by its marketing
practices that centre around product
placement and branding deals with
hip hop and pop musicians.
In 2012, a market research com-
pany NPD Group, reported that
Beats had a market share of 64 per
cent in the US for headphones priced
higher than $100.
According to Forbes, Beats, which
has 300 employees, controls two-
thirds of the premium headphone
market and has annual sales in
excess of $1bn and growing. The
magazine says it valued Beats at $2b
when estimating Dr Dres wealth at
$550m. It guesses that selling Beats
at $3.2bn would leave Dr Dre worth
about $800m, taking capital gains
tax and other adjustments into ac-
count.
Beats equipment prioritise bass
performance. Likewise, Dr Dres
productions are characterised with
heavy beats and bass performance
that is his signature.
The Beats website says that the
company was created from the desire
to kick against an age of ear buds
and tiny laptop speakers, allowing
a new generation of unsuspecting
music fans to nally know what bass
sounds like!.
Dr Dre states on the website: Peo-
ple arent hearing all the music. Art-
ists and producers work hard in the
studio perfecting their sound. But
people cant really hear it with nor-
mal headphones. Most headphones
cant handle the bass, the detail, the
dynamics. Bottom line, the music
doesnt move you. With Beats, peo-
ple are going to hear what the artists
hear, and listen to the music the way
they should: the way I do.
A good music experience. Thats
what Dr Dre represents, and hes
making a tonne of money by making
people feel it.
Well, back to that 1997 song, he
raps: If you dont stand for somethin
youll fall for anything
With the success of Beats, who can
disagree with this maxim?
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Dr Dre: Billionaire with an attitude
So where did this Beats
phenomenon come from and
how did it grow to become
a big deal for a famed music
producer and gangsta rapper
from the West Coast, you may
ask.
According to the New York
Times, Beats was a result of a
chance meeting on a California
beach several years ago. Dr
Dre lamented that his lawyer
wanted to peddle Dr Dre-
branded sneakers. Mr Iovine
responded: forget sneakers, sell
speakers and the rest as they
say is history.
Lets take a trip through
Beats evolution.
July 2008: Dr Dre
and Iovine found
Beats Electronics
in. At the time, the
Santa Monica,
Californiabased
company releases its brand
of headphones called Beats
by Dr Dre. The companys
rst product line launches
exclusively in Apple and Best
Buy stores and cost $349.95.
August 2010: Beats Electronics
licenses its brand to third-
party manufacturers under
the Beats Audio name. HP
is the rst to sign up. The IT
corporation begins oering
personal computers equipped
with Beats Audio systems; its
HP Envy line range of laptops
is the rst, featuring a software
equaliser with a preset that HP
marketed as being optimised
for higher quality sound output.
April 19, 2011: Beats
Electronics signs a deal with
Chrysler Group to bring Beats
Audio into automobiles.
August 2011: Taiwanese
smartphone maker HTC buys
a 50.1 per cent share in Beats
Electronics for $300m and at
the same time loans the rm
$225 million.
September 14, 2011: HTC
begins releasing Beats Audio
powered smartphones. Its rst
product in this line is the HTC
Sensation XE, a 1.5GHz dual-
core phone with Beats Audio.
January 12, 2012: Beats begins
manufacturing its products
in-house. This comes after the
company ends an exclusive
deal with Monster Cable
Products, which from 2008
through 2012 served as the
manufacturer for all Beats
products.
July 2, 2012: Beats acquires
MOG, a music streaming
service, in a deal reportedly
worth over $14m.
July 23, 2012: Dr Dre and
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Dr Dre: Billionaire with an attitude
Jimmy Iovine buy back a
portion of HTCs shares for
$150m.
November 2, 2012: Beats
gets into the portable speaker
market, a move that later ops.
December 10, 2012: Beats
partners with Trent Reznor, the
frontman of rock band Nine
Inch Nails, and plans to launch
a music streaming service in
2013.
March 25, 2013: Beats
Electronics raises $60m and
makes plans to spin-o its
music streaming project into
a separate company. Apple is
said to be a potential partner in
the new venture.
September 27, 2013: HTC sells
its remaining 25 per cent stake
in Beats Electronics for $265m
and the Carlyle Group, an asset
management rm, reportedly
invests in the company in a
deal that makes the audio
equipment maker have a worth
of $1bn.
January 21, 2014: Beats
Electronics enters the music
streaming business to
challenge the likes of Spotify,
Pandora, and Apples iTunes
Radio.
April 21, 2014: Rumour
emerges that Beats Electronics
is raising another more than
$60m in funding, signaling that
Beats is probably struggling to
compete with companies like
Spotify.
May 8, 2014: The Financial
Times reports that Apple is in
talks to buy Beats Electronics
for $3.2bn. A video surfaces
on Facebook in which Tyrese
and Dr Dre appear to conrm
the news, albeit in a seemingly
drunken state.
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Mothers Day luncheon
1 2
5
6 7 8
9
3 4
1. Stylist Wambui Kibue during Mothers Day luncheon
organised by the Intercontinental Hotel last week.
2. Marjorie Maimba (left), Rowgna Barassa (centre)
and Zippy Wandia 3. Purity Gatago 4. Charity Gatago
5. Local stylists Wambui Thimba (left) and Wambui
Kibue. 6. Ann Njeri (L) and Ricky Oddesi of wines of
the world 7. Rowgna Barassa 8. Members of Hot sound
band Blavion Mwangi and Catherine Mutisya 9. Blavion
Mwangi(left), Abishai Maxman(centre) and Robert
Amon of Hot sound band
CHARLES KAMAU | NATION
SCREENSHOTS
A
dapted from the 1996
Mexico-set vampire lm,
From Dusk Till Dawn is
a further elaboration of
the movie with a premise that now
angles towards horror and drama.
If you watched the movie then you
pretty much know the ending, but
do not write it o yet.
The series still follows the lines
of the original but some material
and characters have been added to
it. After a bloody Texas bank rob-
bery, the well dressed and crimi-
nally insane Gecko brothers, Seth
(D.J Corona) and Richie (Zane
Holtz), are on the run from Texas
Rangers.
As with all criminal duos, there
is always the brain and brawn, in
this case Richie is the brain that
sprung Seth from prison, however,
with all that intelligence, Richie is
all kinds of crazy that no mental
facility can cure. He is the sort of
crazy person that you do not want
to call crazy. He is also subject to
supernatural visions and ts. If
you are a series fanatic then you
have come to the realisation that
it is always the beautiful ones that
are the craziest.
The pilot episode does a fan-
tastic job of diving right in to the
story as a lady is chased through
the woods by ghostlike warriors
and shoved in a snake pit to a
horric death. With their Men in
Black suits and too much product
in their hair, the Gecko brothers
wind up at Bennys liquor store
out in the middle of nowhere
where they come up against Sher-
i Earl McGrath (Don Johnson)
and his deputy Ranger Freddie
Gonzalez (Jesse Garcia).
Gonzalez is a new character and
seems to be the hero of the show
as he swears to avenge the deaths
of the innocent people the Gecko
brothers have left in their wake.
With each new episode, the show
introduces new characters who
either come into contact with the
certiable Gecko brothers or just
cross paths.
Not to oversell the show but the
producers have done a good job of
pushing the story forward. As they
head towards the Mexican border,
the Geckos seek help from crime
lord Don Carlos (Wilmer Valder-
rama). But with Gonzalez hot on
their heels, they encounter former
Minister Jacob Fuller and his fam-
ily whom they take hostage by
commandeering their van.
With nowhere else to go, Carlos
directs them to a strip club popu-
lated by vampires where they all
must ght until dawn to survive.
Albeit a good show, some scenes
are unnecessarily drawn out but
makes up for it with the occa-
sional snappy dialogue, twisted
humour and great cinematic direc-
tion. Because of the ashbacks
that delve deeper into the back
story you will need to pay close at-
tention. The show is nothing that
we have not seen before but it will
denitely interest you.
From Dusk till Dawn
By JOSEPHINE MOSONGO
May 18, 2014 Sunday Nation 5
TOP 5 BOX OFFICE 1. NEIGHBORS 2. THE
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 3. THE OTHER
WOMAN 4. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL
5. CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER
Dr Dre: Billionaire with an attitude
Jimmy Iovine buy back a
portion of HTCs shares for
$150m.
November 2, 2012: Beats
gets into the portable speaker
market, a move that later ops.
December 10, 2012: Beats
partners with Trent Reznor, the
frontman of rock band Nine
Inch Nails, and plans to launch
a music streaming service in
2013.
March 25, 2013: Beats
Electronics raises $60m and
makes plans to spin-o its
music streaming project into
a separate company. Apple is
said to be a potential partner in
the new venture.
September 27, 2013: HTC sells
its remaining 25 per cent stake
in Beats Electronics for $265m
and the Carlyle Group, an asset
management rm, reportedly
invests in the company in a
deal that makes the audio
equipment maker have a worth
of $1bn.
January 21, 2014: Beats
Electronics enters the music
streaming business to
challenge the likes of Spotify,
Pandora, and Apples iTunes
Radio.
April 21, 2014: Rumour
emerges that Beats Electronics
is raising another more than
$60m in funding, signaling that
Beats is probably struggling to
compete with companies like
Spotify.
May 8, 2014: The Financial
Times reports that Apple is in
talks to buy Beats Electronics
for $3.2bn. A video surfaces
on Facebook in which Tyrese
and Dr Dre appear to conrm
the news, albeit in a seemingly
drunken state.
OURPIX
Mothers Day luncheon
1 2
5
6 7 8
9
3 4
1. Stylist Wambui Kibue during Mothers Day luncheon
organised by the Intercontinental Hotel last week.
2. Marjorie Maimba (left), Rowgna Barassa (centre)
and Zippy Wandia 3. Purity Gatago 4. Charity Gatago
5. Local stylists Wambui Thimba (left) and Wambui
Kibue. 6. Ann Njeri (L) and Ricky Oddesi of wines of
the world 7. Rowgna Barassa 8. Members of Hot sound
band Blavion Mwangi and Catherine Mutisya 9. Blavion
Mwangi(left), Abishai Maxman(centre) and Robert
Amon of Hot sound band
CHARLES KAMAU | NATION
SCREENSHOTS
A
dapted from the 1996
Mexico-set vampire lm,
From Dusk Till Dawn is
a further elaboration of
the movie with a premise that now
angles towards horror and drama.
If you watched the movie then you
pretty much know the ending, but
do not write it o yet.
The series still follows the lines
of the original but some material
and characters have been added to
it. After a bloody Texas bank rob-
bery, the well dressed and crimi-
nally insane Gecko brothers, Seth
(D.J Corona) and Richie (Zane
Holtz), are on the run from Texas
Rangers.
As with all criminal duos, there
is always the brain and brawn, in
this case Richie is the brain that
sprung Seth from prison, however,
with all that intelligence, Richie is
all kinds of crazy that no mental
facility can cure. He is the sort of
crazy person that you do not want
to call crazy. He is also subject to
supernatural visions and ts. If
you are a series fanatic then you
have come to the realisation that
it is always the beautiful ones that
are the craziest.
The pilot episode does a fan-
tastic job of diving right in to the
story as a lady is chased through
the woods by ghostlike warriors
and shoved in a snake pit to a
horric death. With their Men in
Black suits and too much product
in their hair, the Gecko brothers
wind up at Bennys liquor store
out in the middle of nowhere
where they come up against Sher-
i Earl McGrath (Don Johnson)
and his deputy Ranger Freddie
Gonzalez (Jesse Garcia).
Gonzalez is a new character and
seems to be the hero of the show
as he swears to avenge the deaths
of the innocent people the Gecko
brothers have left in their wake.
With each new episode, the show
introduces new characters who
either come into contact with the
certiable Gecko brothers or just
cross paths.
Not to oversell the show but the
producers have done a good job of
pushing the story forward. As they
head towards the Mexican border,
the Geckos seek help from crime
lord Don Carlos (Wilmer Valder-
rama). But with Gonzalez hot on
their heels, they encounter former
Minister Jacob Fuller and his fam-
ily whom they take hostage by
commandeering their van.
With nowhere else to go, Carlos
directs them to a strip club popu-
lated by vampires where they all
must ght until dawn to survive.
Albeit a good show, some scenes
are unnecessarily drawn out but
makes up for it with the occa-
sional snappy dialogue, twisted
humour and great cinematic direc-
tion. Because of the ashbacks
that delve deeper into the back
story you will need to pay close at-
tention. The show is nothing that
we have not seen before but it will
denitely interest you.
From Dusk till Dawn
By JOSEPHINE MOSONGO
May 18, 2014 Sunday Nation 5
GIG GUIDE TUESDAY: THE NATIVES CLUB, THIKA
ROAD, BRINGS YOU THE WEEKLY KARAOKE NITE.
THE HOST WILL BE FORMER BBA CONTESTANT,
MALONZA CHEGE.
STYLE STAR: SOLANGE KNOWLES
with WAMBUI KIBUE
S
olange is a singer, song-
writer and model. Though
most people originally
knew her as Beyoncs
younger sister she has since es-
tablished herself as a fashion icon
and style star! She started singing
when she was ve and recorded
her rst album when she was 16.
She began writing her own songs at
nine years and penned sister Beyon-
cs Get Me Bodied and Upgrade
U for her 2006 BDay album which
went to number one on the Billboard
200 chart. Often gracing best dressed
lists she constantly tries an array of
dierent styles and has never been
one to shy away from a great print.
The result, glamorous fashion forward
looks. She started out in girl-next-
door pretty looks with blond long
layered weaves but has since tran-
sitioned into a retro glamour style
where she combines lots of statement
pieces (bold lips, extra-long box
braids, multiple prints somehow mak-
ing it work and completely owning
it) with nostalgic and modern afro
hairstyles.
Dare to be dierent by infusing her
style into your wardrobe using her so-
Solange statement pieces. She is best
known for her big afro wigs and love
of prints and bright bold colours.
Have fun with fashion in a statement
afro wig. Though natural hair is cur-
rently one of the biggest trends, you
can ease into this voluminous style by
wearing it for a themed party or on
weekends. Select a wig with curls that
frame the face with a little bang for
best results.
Print on print is another big trend
this year. For beginners, start out
with smaller prints in one or two
colours; for instance, two dierent
sizes of polka dot print for your top
and bottom. Once youre comfortable
in these then you can transition into
bolder prints like Aztec or Ankara.
Thanks to the colour blocking, her
love of bold colours is the easiest
to achieve. Select bold colours that
are in season such as radiant orchid,
cobalt blue, aquamarine, watermelon
and canary yellow.
Sassy, eclectic and daring Solange is
denitely a style star that kicks (pun
intended)
Have a lovely week beautiful people.
@MissAngelsmile
FASHIONFIX
6 May 18, 2014 Sunday Nation
TOP 5 K-KREW VIDEOS 1 BAHATI - BARUA 2. DENNO FT
EUNICE NJERI - SAFARI 3. RURI SAMBILI - NYUMBANI 4.
DADDY OWEN - DEFENDER 5. DK KWENYE BEAT - KEREKA
A
s expected Man City were
deservedly crowned cham-
pions for the second time
in three seasons. They
may have spent the least time on
top of the table but their phenome-
nal attacking consistency kept them
in the picture throughout and they
held their nerve to clinch the title.
A season is a long time in football
so lets look back and reect on what
we saw.
The Good
Obviously this is Luis Suarez and
Yaya Toure territory, without ques-
tion the best players in the Premier
League and top ve of the world.
Raheem Sterling, Jordan Hender-
son, Adam Llalana, Sergio Aguero,
Zabaleta, Eden Hazard and Em-
manuel Adebayor are also deserving
of mention in this category.
The only Arsenal player worthy of
greatness though is Aaron Ramsey
who was outstanding whenever he
was t. Lukaku, Coleman, Flanagan
and Barkley for their promise also
earn a place in this elite category.
Brendan Rodgers and Roberto
Martinez are the obvious manager
choices in this category, equally so,
Tony Pulis of Crystal Palace. His
team cost Chelsea and Liverpool
the title on the way to easily secur-
ing Premier League status.
The Bad
I call this the Arsene Wenger
zone. I call it so because he has
consistently inhabited this space
year after year. This year I thought
he would exit given that there was
no Alex Ferguson to beat him and
he nally made a big money signing
by capturing Mesut Ozil from Real
Madrid but alas, this was nothing
but a regular Arsene Wenger who is
content with fourth position season
after season making you wonder un-
der what circumstances will Wenger
and Arsenal irt seriously with
greatness.
A staggering 128 days on top of
the table, thats four months and
some odd days, and then the usual
decline steadily into fourth. Andre
Villas-Boas, when he was around
saw it t to join Wenger in this
category. For a man regarded as
the new Mourinho, Villas-Boas has
greatly disappointed and has prob-
ably exhausted his chances in the
Premier League.
Oliver Giroud and Mesut Ozil
headline the players in this section.
I feel for Giroud because he was
overworked but thats no excuse for
some of the performances he served
up. Mesut Ozil started with great
aplomb, the technique was exquisite
the creativity excellent and then at
some point things went downhill,
the mercurial creator suered a
depressing stretch of form, a funk if
you will, that I do not think he has
completely shaken o. We shall nd
out at the World Cup.
With the exceptions of Adebayor
and Eriksen, the entire Spurs squad
comfortably ts into this section.
Soldado, Dembele, Paulinho, Ca-
poue, Kaboul and LLoris. Fernando
Torres completed yet another season
that makes you want to rip your hair
out and while I would want to omit
David Luiz from the list this year, I
am afraid I cant but I will make an
exception only for his performances
as a defender not a midelder.
The Ugly
This section is reserved for David
Moyes. All that experience, re-
power and knowledge of the Pre-
mier League and the man could not
step up to the big leagues. His entire
tenure at Man United, it seemed,
was made up of one-match winning
streaks. The problem with Moyes
was not that he could not win, rath-
er it was that he could never sustain
the victories.
There was also the endless tinker-
ing with the lineup and formation,
the inability to handle the media and
alleged unpopular training methods.
Sir Alex got it wrong, horribly so
and all his records tumbled in the
aftermath-something for him to add
to his course at Harvard.
Every Manchester United player
on the roster also lands here. None
of them, with the exception of De
Gea, tried hard enough or even
bothered and while Moyes failed
they did so too quite spectacularly.
HARDBALL
SEASON REVIEW: THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY
with PHARIS KIMARU
Liverpools Uru-
guayan striker
Luis Suarez
looks down the
pitch during the
English Premier
League football
match between
Crystal Palace
and Liverpool
at Selhurst Park
in south London
on May 5, 2014.
AFP PHOTO |
ADRIAN DENNIS
MUZIKLAB
P
opular radio presenter
Adelle Onyango has dipped
her feet into the music in-
dustry, kicking o with her
new song Faded. Well, Jaaz Odongo
has done a great job in putting to-
gether that fast, hyper and dance
beat, its important to note that.
This will work very well in the clubs
and its a guarantee that everyone
will get o their feet and put their
dancing shoes on. Well, lets look at
Adelle as a singer. First, she had Vic-
toria Kimani on her mind, then a bit
of STL gangster ow and a little bit
of her as far as the message in the
song is concerned. Lyrically, I be-
lieve Adelle can do better than what
she has done in this song. She didnt
do justice to this great beat, it was
too plain. But lets give her another
chance with her next release.
FADED
BY ADELLE
ONYANGO
H
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T
O
R
M
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S
S
Morio and Juliet
Julianil HIT
W
e all know him for his
witty and intelligent
word play and lyrics,
for a keen fan or listen-
er; watching Julianis metamorphosis
from Fanya tena to Utawala has
been amazing.
This Ukoo Flani Mau Mau alumni
and Kalamashaka student, Juliani
has become a true testament to
you dont have to compromise your
lyrics to reach a larger mass With
an inuence cutting across all ages
and physical boundaries, this is not
to come as a surprise since he came
from the same neighborhood that
gave us Kalamashaka.
In a music environment where ar-
tistes are constantly dumbing down
their craft, Juliani has proven time
and again that he is cut from a dif-
ferent fabric.
To say Juliani is creative is the
understatement of the year, I mean,
this is the King (allow me to call
him that) of local rap as all factors
considered. His creativity and di-
versity is always one-upping him,
taking him ten steps ahead of the
ock.
O his coming third studio album
Exponential Potential set to drop
sometime in June, Juliani released
Morio and Juliet, a clever albeit
sacrilegious twist of William Shake-
spears play Romeo and Juliet.
One would easily mistake the song
for another clich Kenyan love song
but its deeper than that; Juliani does
what he knows best, using his strong
word play and intelligent lyrics to
once again educate the masses.
And by now it is safe to call Juliani
the best street poet East Africa has
to oer. His music knows no bound-
aries, no titles and no limits.
Morio and Juliet might be one me-
ter or two outside of anything hes
done so far. We all know Juliani ex-
panded and ventured to yet another
musical plateau especially after
releasing Utawala but this might
be beyond above many peoples ex-
pectation, even though he doesnt
rhyme as much on this track but just
like the rest it, is just as incredible.
Before you press play, open your
mind then your ears, dont put this
track into one category or genre,
its music, think of it as such, youll
never be disappointed. This is a hit.
May 18, 2014 Sunday Nation 7
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Mr Money
Kenyan Grace Nabwire
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and professional dancer in
the US, speaks about her
connections with World
Boxing Champion Floyd
Mayweather Jnr
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The cowards
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FREEWITH YOUR SUNDAY NATION. May 18, 2014
Everyone in the neighbourhood
knew him. He was the man who hid
under the bed while his wife con-
fronted robbers who had come to
steal from them.
I didnt even live in that neighbour-
hood, yet I knew this mans story. The
rst time I heard it from my cousins,
who were his neighbours, I could
hardly wait to see how this cowardly
man looked like. I was a young girl
then, in primary school, but where I
come from, culture dictates that the
man is the one who guards the home,
and everything in it.
My father was always the last one
to go to bed, and would patrol the
compound armed with a panga, and
check all the windows and doors
before calling it a day. Robbers once
came calling but, Im told (I slept
through the incident) that my brave
father had them running for their
lives after launching a couple of ar-
rows at them he kept a bow and a
couple of mean-looking arrows under
his bed. I, therefore, found it quite
amusing that this particular man
would take refuge under the bed, in-
stead of facing the bad men head-on.
Like a man.
Even more outrageous was that
he left his wife to face the machete-
wielding men on her own. As a result,
he became the ocial laughing stock
around the area, and just like that, all
his past brave deeds were conven-
iently forgotten.
When I went back home after
spending a few days at my cousins
home, I retold the story with relish,
and each time I repeated it, my father
took on the image of a super hero in
my mind.
Cant slaughter chicken
About two weeks ago, Karimi
Gatimi, a columnist in Wednesdays
Daily Nation, wrote about the frustra-
tion she went through when a visiting
relative brought them a live chicken.
Her city-bred husband had never
slaughtered a chicken, and since she,
a delicate woman, could not stand the
sight of blood, they kept the poor bird
in their balcony for a couple of days,
until they got a light bulb moment
and asked the watchman to slaughter
it for them.
But what tickled more was the
story of one of her friends who spot-
ted a small snake curled at a corner
in their home.
Frightened to the bone, she called
out to her husband, who came run-
ning into the room. The man took
one look at the snake and dived for
the nearest seat, then scampered up
the window and hang tightly onto
the rails.
Her knight in shining armour, the
dragon-slaying man she had thought
would gallantly pounce on the reptile
without a second thought, had just
been reduced to a small helpless boy
right before her eyes. She was left
with no option but to swallow her
fear and kill the slithery thing herself,
and then coax her terried husband
down from the window.
Her humorous story got an ava-
lanche of responses, especially from
relieved women who were thankful
to learn that their husbands were
not the only cowardly men in Kenya.
One woman wrote that her husband,
a martial arts expert (he has a black
belt, no less) was once reduced to
jelly at the sight of a rat.
Ladies, your men may portray this
tough, macho look, but underneath
the steel exterior, chances are that
they too would swoon or tremble at
the sight of the minor things that
unsettle delicate you and me.
But there is nothing like the perfect
man, now is there?
cnjunge@ke.nationmedia.com;
@cnjerius. The writer is editor, Living
Magazine, in the Daily Nation
HER KNIGHT
IN SHINING
ARMOUR HAD
JUST BEEN
REDUCED TO
A HELPLESS
BOY RIGHT
BEFORE HER
EYES...
When your
man cannot
kill a chicken
On the surface, he looks like an alpha male. But
under that macho exterior, most of the men in our
lives are little more than frightened, clueless boys
people
MY WEEKEND
caroline
njunge
Some men have
no clue how
to slaughter a
chicken because
they have never
bothered to learn.
PHOTO | MARTIN MU-
WHEN THE INSPECTOR-General (IG) of
Police David Kimaiyo instructed his ocers
to impound vehicles with tinted windows
this week, Kenyans went abuzz pointing
out that there is no law against it. The IG
then claried that his directive only af-
fected public service vehicles since the
Trac Act Cap 403 S54 A 1&2 is clear re-
garding tinted PSV windows & Section 30
on windscreen & windows of [all] motor
vehicles with reective properties
I checked that law and, unfortunately, it
is actually not clear! This is what it says in
the sections that the IG referred to: The
windscreen and windows of every motor
vehicle shall be kept free from the ap-
plication of any material which has, or is
capable of having, reective properties;
A person shall not drive or operate a public
service vehicle that is tted with tinted
windows or tinted windscreen
Tinted means shaded, coloured or
treated in a similar manner so that the
persons or objects inside are not ordinarily
seen clearly from outside.
It sounds clear but from a scientic
point of view it is quite vague; for starters,
even clear glass is reective you can see
your image in it quite easily, cant you?
Secondly, most vehicles come out of the
factory with faintly tinted windows. The
question then is, how faint is permissible
by this law?
What minimum?
To be clearer, the rules should state the
limits of reectance and transmittance of
the glass. That is, what minimum amount
of light must pass through the window
glass, and what maximum is allowed to
reect?
I saw similar rules from a dierent coun-
try and they stated that the glass must
allow at least 35 per cent of light to get
through and must not reect more than
21 per cent. That is something that can
be tested scientically; but it is also not
perfect.
Which light is the law talking about?
Green, yellow, red or blue? So-called white
colourless light comprises all the colours of
the rainbow. And they are not seven! They
are innite in number.
The nature of glass is that it reects and
transmits dierent percentages for dier-
ent colours. It has higher reectance for
longer wavelength (reddish colours) than
for shorter ones (bluish colours).
This is the reason a car gets very hot in-
side when left under sunlight. It is also the
working principle of a greenhouse. Once
sunlight gets inside, it is absorbed by the
items in there; as a result they warm up
and emit infra-red light.
More than 50pc of this infra-red is re-
ected back into the car by the glass it
is therefore trapped and cannot get out.
Consequently, the car continuously accu-
mulates the heat and becomes much hot-
ter than the surrounding.
With these technicalities in mind, a good
lawyer can argue in court that the rules on
tints and reective car windows are not
clear and are, therefore, dicult to obey.
It would be advisable for the Transport
ministry to revise the rules before we get
to that point.
www.MungaiKihanya.com; Twitter:
@MungaiKihanya
Law on reective
and tinted car
windows is opaque
WORLD OF FIGURES MUNGAI KIHANYA
f
SUNDAY SERMON
AT THE LAST SUPPER, Jesus
told his apostles that Satan had
got his wish. We dont know
exactly how Satan interacts with
God or how he operates in our
world. We only know that he
can tempt us. He can even enter
into a soul, as he did with Judas
Iscariot. This is all part of Satan
getting his wish whenever God
allows him to inict harm. In this
case, Jesus said, Satan has got
his wish to sift you all like wheat.
He explained it by telling the
apostles that they would aban-
don him in his moment of trial.
Theres a lesson to learn from
this mysterious pronouncement
of our Lord. Never be surprised
to see yourself or one of your
friends or an entire community
of Christians being put to the
test. But theres an even more
important lesson to be learnt.
Jesus said, Simon, Simon! Sa-
tan has got his wish to sift you all
like wheat; but I have prayed for
you... that your faith may not fail,
and once you have recovered...
Jesus knows that Simon Peter
will turn out to be just as much
a coward as the rest of his dis-
ciples. And yet something un-
expected will happen to Simon
Peter. The apostle will not lose
faith, because Jesus tells him, I
have prayed for you.
Whenever you see one of your
friends give up on God and go
down the road that leads to de-
struction, do not abandon him.
Pray for him. Do for him what
you would want others to do for
you. Dont judge and dont con-
demn, but be rm. If something
is wrong, do not hesitate to point
it out. Dont expect him to get
down on his knees and kiss your
feet. Be patient. He will prob-
ably deny that theres anything
wrong. Even Simon Peter refused
to listen when Jesus talked to
him about his weakness. Speak
to your friend, and then pray. Ask
God to help him recover.
The scene of the Last Sup-
per reminds us of the power of
prayer. Jesus could promise Si-
mon Peter recovery. Not that we
ought to start making promises
to a friend who has wandered
far from God. We simply need to
turn to God and say, Look at this
friend of mine! Help him.
We are all sheep. Christ is the
Good Shepherd. But theres a
sense in which each one of us
can be shepherd for some friend
who has become the lost sheep.

Fr Joe Babendreier
jbabendreier@yahoo.co.uk
Charged to be our brothers keepers
Sunday May 18, 2014 SUNDAY NATION
2 Lifestyle
BY JOHN FOX
johnfox@idc.co.ke
Iwas standing on a secluded river
bank in Samburu, doing what the
English used to call spending a
penny. I was admiring the view
across the river until I looked down
and saw a huge python coiled in the
grass about a metre from my feet.
It was the quickest penny I have ever
spent.
Im remembering this close
encounter because I was persuaded
to go to the snake park last Sunday
morning the well known one, at the
National Museum.
Snakes dont have much of a
personality, do they? Well, even if they
do, they dont show it ... Mind you,
one of my favourite Disney characters
is the sly and sinister Sir Hiss, in the
classic lm version of Robin Hood.
And there is also the smooth-talking
Kaa in Disneys Jungle Book.
But, in real life, snakes dont show
their feelings much until they
strike, or get a crush on you, like a
python. Otherwise, they lie listless,
hiding under a boulder, hanging
from a branch, coiled in the grass; or
staying self-knotted in the corners of
their glass-fronted cases in the snake
parks, their black beads of eyes telling
you nothing.
We, ourselves, took a few snakes
to the museum dead ones. When
we moved into our rst house along
Gitanga Road, we found the garden
untended and overgrown. We also
found a few snakes. Mwangi, the
gardener, killed two of them. Each
time we took them to the museum for
identication a house snake and a
vine snake we were told that they
were harmless. They also told us that
the only venomous snakes in Nairobi
are spitting cobras.
So we told Mwangi not to kill any
more snakes in the garden. Then,
when we came back from a holiday,
we found he had killed another one
a rather squat snake with black and
amber bands. I was rather taken to
it because those were my old school
colours. So I was cross with Mwangi
for killing it ... Until the museum told
us its bite was very poisonous.
I was hoping to see a live version
of that black and amber snake when I
visited the park last Sunday. It wasnt
there. But there were many others
sand boas, Gaboon vipers, Mount
Kenya bush vipers, carpet vipers,
brown house snakes, black mambas,
garter snakes, pu adders, spitting
cobras and, oh yes, rock pythons.
The place has an interesting history
well told on the National Museums
website. It was started back in January
1961 not only to entertain visitors but
also to provide a research facility. It
was set in a botanical garden.
Despite, probably because of, many
peoples aversion to snakes, the park
has always attracted a lot of interest.
But in 2008 it went through a major
face-lift. And a more interactive
programme was initiated with such
things as an octopus exhibition,
touchy-feely sessions with harmless
reptiles and amphibians, and feeding
of crocodiles with live sh. And the
aquaria were greatly improved, with
some art work and more dramatic
lighting, to better show off the
fascinating variety of sh from
the lugubrious catsh to the brightly
coloured creatures that enliven the
coral reefs at the Coast.
It is your world-class tourist
destination! the website boasts. Well,
no, it really isnt. Yes, the park has a
good collection of reptiles and sh.
The inner gardens are nice. There
are a few stunted trees with snakes
in them. There are concreted pools
where crocodiles and alligators lounge
menacingly. There are tortoises and
turtles, eating left-out cabbage leaves.
But the place badly needs a wash
and brush-up. Someone should clean
and polish the glass of the showcases.
And someone should give a lick of
paint, here and there.
There were only ve of us there that
late Sunday morning: the others were
a couple with their little girl and a
lone Japanese tourist with his camera.
I thought there would be more here
on a Sunday, I said to the attendant
on my way out.
But its too early yet, he replied.
They will come many people will
come.
Oh, they must be having a Sunday
lie-in.
No, they are in church. Then they
will come.
Of course, this is Kenya.
And there was another pleasant
interchange as I started my engine
in the museums car park. One of the
security guys tapped on the window. I
wound it down.
Is your car OK? he asked.
Yes, its ne, thank you.
Well, can you give me something
for looking after it?
Isnt that what you are paid to
do?
Yes, but there is also something
called a tip!
John Fox is Managing Director, iDC
Sunday morning at Nairobis
near-world-class snake park
travel
GOING PLACES NAIROBI
The botanical
garden at the
Snake Park.
INSET: A python
on the rocks.
PHOTOS | JOHN FOX
MOTORING GAVIN BENNETT
EVERY USED CAR has
a story. And by the time
it is 100,000 km long
(more than twice round
the world), it is a tale with
deep, and sometimes
dark, secrets.
Whenever you check-
out or test-drive a used
car, you are reading the
book of its life. Who has
owned it, where has it
been, how has it been
used and maintained,
what condition is it now
in? And what is it worth?
The fastest way to get
an answer to all these
questions is to ask the
seller. And thats also
the fastest way to get
swindled. Salesmen are
not famous for their
devotion to non-ction,
and theyll gladly conrm
that the vehicle has only
been used on tarmac,
has been meticulously
cared for by an anally
retentive mechanic, has
always been parked in
the shade, and has been
washed every day in
the tears of angels and
bued to a shine with the
fur of golden retriever
puppies.
A mechanical maestro
will glance at the blurb
and re-engineer the
plot; instead of checking
the story to judge the
car, s/he will check
the car to judge the
story. And that is what
every buyer should try
to do.
You may not have the
mechanical knowledge,
but that does not
mean you are helpless
you have the powers
of observation, and
that of reasoning called
ratiocination. Look it up
and then use it.
If you dont think
youre technically
qualified to judge the
car, dont panic. Judge
the story! Assume from
the outset that you are
hearing and looking at a
work of ction. Recognise
there is a reason for the
aphorism never judge a
book by its cover.
So, after a basic
inspection (outlined in
this column last week)
take the car for a test
drive (good luck nding
a road that is empty
enough). Use whatever
mechanical know-how
and experience you
do have to make a
technical assessment of
the vehicles general and
particular condition.
The basics include easy
start, smooth idle, even
acceleration, smooth
gear change, doesnt
wander or wobble, rides
the bumps comfortably
and quietly, brakes
fiercely without sound
and so on. Thoroughly
test every function.
Even if you cannot
diagnose the exact
cause of a problem, or
instantly judge whether
the remedy is one screw
or a whole engine, you
will probably know
whats normal and whats
not. Be alert to everything
that might be cause for
concern, anything that
does not tally with the
story.
If a car that has done
100,000 km is apparently
without blemish, be
suspicious. Too right is
wrong.
If at any point, in any
way, the car and the
story differ, and the
explanation doesnt
ratiocinate, walk away. If
they do tally, that justies
getting an expert to do
a nal check before you
hand over any pictures of
presidents.
gavin.bennett@africaon
line.com
A cars mileage should
match its condition
There is a time for everything, and a
season for every activity under the heav-
ens Ecclesiastes 3:1
HENRY DAVID THOREAU wrote: Live
in each season as it passes; breathe the air,
drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign
yourself to the inuence of the earth.
While he spoke primarily of natures sea-
sons, and aligning ourselves to it, there is
another truth we can glean from this par-
ticular quote. Our lives have seasons, ebbs
and ows, and, just as we must take our
cue from the seasons of nature, life oers
us clues, fruit and challenges.
Lets start with the season of teenage.
What a wonderful time of self discovery
and exploration. In the best of worlds,
teens get to explore who they are while
parents and care-givers provide safety
nets. Teens, in a rush to push their bounda-
ries, hear from parents, Enjoy your youth,
dont grow up too fast. Pay attention
to this truth. Mistake teens should avoid
include ignoring education, not thinking
about careers, acquiring strangling addic-
tions and becoming sexually active.
The 20s are the season of forging, go-
ing out into the world, conquering. Ask
questions like, will this career sustain me
nancially and emotionally while challeng-
ing me? This is also a time to build solid
friendships with positive people who desire
your wellbeing and for some, choose a life
partner. Mistakes to avoid include nancial
mismanagement, and not being strategic
in your career. Dont spend all you have or
party all you want. Now is a good time to
take on a second degree, or to begin to
make nancial investments particularly if
you dont have a family yet.
In your 30s, you will have chosen a
spouse, decided to have children or not,
and how many. Decisions will include how
to raise children while growing your career.
Mistakes include living beyond your means,
not planning for your future, and sacricing
family for career. Financial management,
adopting healthy habits, spending time
with family and making time to relax are
important.
By your 40s, you are consolidating your
life and the choices you have made. Your
life moves from existence to signicance.
The 40s are great times to take up more
leadership positions, in your organisation,
family or community and think of giving
back. You are entering the platform of
elders, and your opinions are sought after.
On a personal level, you know who you are,
what you can live with and what you can
live without. Signs of aging are more evi-
dent and giving in to a severe mid-life crisis
puts you at risk of destroying everything
you have built.
In your 50s, you have a desire to make
a dierence in peoples lives, to pour your
life out as one of my 50-year-old friends
told me. You have more time, as your chil-
dren dont need you much. There is the
fear that you dont know how much time
you have left. Its a scary thought. I want
to make things right with God, take more
care of myself spiritually, physically and live
healthy. I seek fullment, she says. You
begin to reap what you sowed. Make right
choices; dont give in to loneliness.
Take on every season. Live right. Thrive.
carole@carolemandi.com
THATS LIFE
Gleaning the best out of every season
SUNDAY NATION Sunday May 18, 2014
Lifestyle 3
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generations of
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There is nothing in the world
untouched by fashion. Besides its
monetary worth it generates bil-
lions in consumer-driven cultures
it opens doors, launches careers,
creates opportunities
The signicance of
fashion: why care?
Kenyan actress Lupita
Nyongo arrives at
the Costume Institute
Benet at The
Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York.
PHOTO | AFP
WHY DOES
FASHION
MATTER?
BECAUSE
THE WORLD
IS NOT RUN
BY NAKED
PEOPLE
vanessa
friedman
BY CAROL ODERO
@CarolOdero
oderocarol@gmail.com
so far, the Met Gala 2014 proudly
boasts #WhatJayZSaidToSolange, and
Lupita Nyongo nally making it on sev-
eral Worst Dressed Lists.
It makes it dicult to remember why
the event is so signicant to the fashion
industry. The Metropolitan Museum of
Art has a party once a year. The patron is
the most powerful woman in fashion, ed-
itor in chief of Vogue and artistic director
of Conde Nast, Anna Wintour. She also
happens to be the chair of The Costume
Institute Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The event, besides being a huge fashion
party with lots of famous eye candy on
the red carpet, witnessed the opening of
the Anna Wintour Costume Centre.
The Guardian described it thus. It is
widely judged to be the fashion worlds
most extravagant night out, wielding
huge inuence over trends on the high
street. This years red carpet will be
graced by a host of celebrities, including
Lupita Nyongo, Sarah Jessica Parker,
Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian, and
industry VIPs and some of the wealthi-
est people in the world, each splashing
$25,000 (Sh2.1 million) on a ticket.
It is said to have much more relevance
to the fashion industry than the Oscars.
The Met Gala has been around for dec-
ades and has a theme each year, adding
to the adventurous sense of playfulness.
It is by invite only from Anna herself. It
entrenches fashion and, by extension
them, into art, culture and history.
Why all the fuss?
Why, you ask, should you care? This
years theme was Charles James: Beyond
Fashion. Charles was a suicidal genius
ahead of his time. British, born to a
military dad and socialite mother, he
had ready access to a wealthy clientele.
Christian Dior called him the greatest
talent of my generation. Temperamental
and eccentric, style.com says, He was a
complete failure, economically. He made
only a handful of dresses, and there are
no perfumes associated with his name.
The companys been extinct for years.
People have really only heard of design-
ers whose houses continue to exist.
The New Yorker says, His Taxi dress,
of the early thirties, spiralled seamlessly
around the body and clasped at the hip.
(Later models zipped across the torso
on a rakish diagonal.) The dress got its
name, because James wanted to design a
garment a woman could slip intoor out
ofin the back of a cab.
In comes Anna. Since 1999 she has
fundraised $125 million for The Costume
Institute of the Met Museum which
made it possible for them to renovate
and designate this section to her. Worth
$40 million (Sh3.4 billion), it is a marvel
of technology recreating Charles James
60-year-old dress in 3D to show how it
moved. Here is the part where you care.
Chances are, the general public hasnt
heard of Charles James till this instance.
Imagine Kenya turning 100. The party
is in full swing.
Cultural landmark
Who will remember the wealth of
fashion talent that walked across East
Africa? Who is curating, documenting,
recording and storytelling what fashion
and its practitioners designers, mod-
els have done? Will your grandchildren
remember what your grandmother wore,
not just because this is the cradle of
mankind, but because fashion evolves,
its spirit a landmark through cultural and
historical touch points not to mention an
art form demanding preservation? It is
the least we can do for its intellectual and
creative weight.
While it is great that even non-fash-
ion insiders picked up on the inappro-
priateness of what Lupita wore or
the fact that she can stand a little
negative publicity who carries the
torch from our very own Leonardo
DaVinci of fashion? There is
nothing in life untouched by
fashion.
Yes, there are moments
when even I do wonder,
how do people take to
fashion when there is
so much wrong with
the world? Ultimately,
though, fashion gener-
ates billions in a capi-
talist, consumer-driven
culture. Obviously we
havent
treated
f a s hi on
with greater
seriousness.
And asking for a
museum may just be
me getting ahead of
myself. After all, we
barely consume our
own local fashion.
This is why I am thank-
ful for the Lupita frenzy.
She has given fashion a
legitimacy that was not
there before. We can now see how
it can open doors, launch careers, cre-
ate opportunities, bring endorsements,
build brands, leverage partnerships and
showcase talent. It is powerful beyond
the scales we have used to measure it,
which have been, at best, tepid and, at
worst, glamorous.
It was Vanessa Friedman, dubbed as
the last true fashion journalist, who said:
Why does fashion matter? Because the
world is not run by naked people.
Your guide
to safer skin
bleaching
BEAUTY
ACCORDING to research car-
ried out by skin care companies
in Africa, the most sought after
skin products are skin-lighten-
ing agents.
Women are still bleaching
their skin en masse, despite all
the campaigns about the dan-
gers of that practice.
It is dicult to convince
women to stop changing their
skin colour from dark to light.
Many of those who practise
bleaching believe that they look
better with light skin.
Although we do not advocate
for skin bleaching, it is prudent
to point out that it is less dam-
aging and slightly safer when
carried out strategically.
Cautionary measures
Here are some tips on how to
do safe bleaching, if you must
lighten your skin.
Hydroquinone is a better
poison than mercury, or ster-
oids.
Apply skin lighteners at
night. If used during the day,
they react with the sun rays to
darken the skin in patches.
Do not use skin bleach
daily. Use it on alternate nights.
Wear sunscreen during the
day.
Use skin restoring oils to
minimise the eects by buer-
ing the skin.
Give your skin a break from
lighteners every month for one
week. During this time, apply
skin-restoring oils to strengthen
your skin.
Irene is the national director,
Safe Skincare Initiative; safes
kincareafrica@gmail.com
YOUR SKIN
irene
njoroge-
kristian
Sunday May 18, 2014 SUNDAY NATION
4 Lifestyle
Facebook and Twitter have
become an important part of
our lives. Posting comments,
tweets, status updates, videos
and photos is huge fun but
putting all that information
out there has some downsides
because online friends are
far less close than our real life
friends. That isnt all bad, of
course. Facebook can keep you
in touch with long lost buddies,
connect you with people world
over, and make it easier to ap-
proach someone.
But widely dierent groups of
people, from your closest family
to your boss at work, can access
your whole social network. In a
way that doesnt happen in
real life. And that can create all
sorts of problems. Like youll be
judged by the number of online
friends you have, by the photos
they tag you in, and thought
less attractive and trustworthy
if people dont like the look of
the company you keep.
You probably also behave
dierently online. Less warm.
More self-centred. Caring less
about others feelings.
Click and regret
Youre probably less inhibited
and might well say things on-
line that youd never say in real
life, spoiling your reputation
and wrecking relationships. Its
easy to disclose more personal
information than you intend,
only to regret it later. Sending
someone a sexually explicit
photo of yourself was quite hard
before digital cameras. Now it
takes seconds.
You also feel a false sense
of intimacy. You feel you really
know your Facebook friends,
even when you actually dont.
Online relationships feel more
intense and committed than
they really are.
And your online conversa-
tions can easily upset the peo-
ple closest to you.
Youd probably think twice
before going out drinking with
your mates and leaving your
partner behind on their own.
But somehow ignoring them
while chatting on Facebook
feels okay. It isnt.
Emotions also seem to work
differently online. Your suc-
cesses feel smaller and your
failures bigger. If an online
friends lonely, you tend to feel
lonelier. If theyre angry, youre
more likely to make angry com-
ments yourself.
And its all too easy to get
caught up in other peoples on-
line lives, at the expense of your
own. You feel youre connect-
ing, but youre not really. LOLs
no substitute for real laughter.
Having dinner with friends feels
quite dierent to messaging. No
emoticon can lift a friends spir-
its like holding their hand.
Losing oneself online
Face-to-face politeness also
gets lost online. You can be
mean in ways youd never be in
real life because not seeing your
partners hurt response means
you feel youre not doing any
harm. But you are. Its far easier
to upset someone online than
face to face.
And because even private
online conversations are not
really private, a thoughtless
remark can go right round the
world, and do lasting damage to
your reputation. So if you need
to work something out with
someone, do it in person.
Social medias fun, but its
easy to get hurt. So take care!
nyumbayangu@me.com
Online? Take a reality check and log out
Emotions work dierently on social media
successes feel smaller and failures bigger. And
its easy to get tangled up in peoples lives
chris
hart
MEN AND WOMEN
relationships
SOCIAL
MEDIA IS
FUN, BUT
IT IS VERY
EASY TO
GET HURT.
SO TAKE
CARE.
SUNDAY NATION Sunday May 18, 2014
Lifestyle 5
Her sister died in 2010, three years after
giving birth to a baby girl, Isabella, who
Nabwire is bringing up.
Isabella is a miracle kid because the
doctors had told my sister that she would
not be able to get a baby owing to her con-
dition, says Nabwire.
She explains that she made her foray
into show business after winning a 2004
dance hall reggae dancing competition in
California. Nabwire then moved to Las
Vegas and set up a professional danc-
ing troupe, Nabtry Dancers, providing
back-up dancers for prominent musicians
including the Jacksons, Awilo Longomba
and 50 Cent.
We have done back-up dancing for
many artistes and Im happy about this as
it gives us a chance to showcase African
culture, she says. Las Vegas is the capi-
tal city of live music and entertainment.
Besides managing her group, Nabwire
works for African Beat, an entertainment
magazine, and is also involved in organis-
ing concerts for African musicians.
Recently, her organisation invited Ken-
yan gospel artiste Willy Paul for a series
of live performances and has also lined up
Wyre for an upcoming tour.
We are making great in-roads in USA
as Kenyans, says Nabwire whose mother,
Phanice, teaches at a Nevada school.
People here, of course, know the origin
of President Barack Obama; and Lupita
Nyongo winning an Oscar has also made
Kenyans very proud here. People listen to
us these days.
Nabwire says Mayweather has shown
interest in visiting Kenya, and there are
plans for a tour that may also include pop
star Jermaine Jackson, Michael Jacksons
brother.
Mayweather is not just about ght-
ing. Hes also about helping the needy,
Nabwire says. Hes been feeding the
homeless through the Mayweather Junior
Foundation that helps underprivileged
people in Las Vegas.
She adds that Jermaine believes the ori-
gins of the Jacksons are in Kenya among
the Maasai ethnic group, and he looks
forward to visiting again decades after his
1987 tour. Nabwire is involved in promot-
ing Jermaines Vita mineral water and an
energy drink.
Through Vita water, we plan to build
several water wells in Africa and I have
lined up one in Busia, says Nabwire, who
is also involved in other charity initiatives
for the disabled and underpivileged in
America.
The Kenyan is philosophical about her
interractions with the rich and famous. If
you surround yourself with great people
who support your work, then there is no
such thing as impossible.
Despite the privilege of working closely
with one of the worlds most famous box-
ers, Nabwire and others in The Money
Team are aware of criticism against May-
weathers handling of his sta.
Ramications like the loss of self, and
questioning whether this level of subser-
vience is what you sought in your lifes
work, journalist David Mayo wrote last
September ahead of Mayweathers ght
against Alvarez.
In truth, they (Mayweathers employ-
ees) often nd themselves individually
analysing precisely those issues as they
BY ELIAS MAKORI
@EliasMakori
emakori@ke.nationmedia.com
He has been described as the great-
est pound-for-pound boxer, and lives a
ashy lifestyle true to his worth as one
of the worlds highest paid sportsmen.
And when early this month Floyd May-
weather Jnr chalked up his 46th win in
professional boxing, beating Argentinas
resilient World Boxing Association wel-
terweight champion Marcos Maidana on
points, the American not only boosted his
image of invincibility but also certied his
Money nickname.
The bout at the famous MGM Grand
Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas earned
the 37-year-old Mayweather a cool $32
million (Sh2.7 billion) and he expects to
bank a further $38 million (Sh3.2 billion)
from pay-per-view television revenues, in-
creasing his mind-boggling earnings to a
massive Sh6 billion!
This translates to $14,815 (Sh1.27 mil-
lion) per second from the 12-round ght,
or $888,889 (Sh76.4 million) per minute,
or $2,666,667 (Sh229.3 million) per
round.
That means that from one 36-minute
ght, Mayweather can comfortably run
Taita Taveta and Laikipia counties for one
year with some pocket change to spare!
Money was the highest paid sports-
man last year raking in an estimated
$73 million (Sh6.2bn) from his two wins
against Robert Guerrero and Canelo Alva-
rez. His salary was one-and-a-half times
more than the years second highest
earner, Real Madrids Portugal footballer
Cristiano Ronaldo.
Part of the boxers success story is down
to his sta known as The Money Team
that works closely with Mayweather
Promotions and the boxers other aliate
companies. It is this exclusive team that
a Kenyan woman has been part of, along-
side US celebrities and professionals from
around the world, to make sure the legen-
dary boxer is in tip-top shape inside and
outside the ring.
Grace Nabwire Haukwa, who is a profes-
sional dancer and entertainment consult-
ant involved in the promotion of African
culture in Las Vegas, says she is proud to
be part of the team that ensures the en-
durance of her nice friend Mayweather.
He is hardworking and a very big fan
of Africa, Nabwire told Lifestyle in a tel-
ephone interview from the US.
Born in Naivasha but tracing her roots to
Busia, Nabwires fortuitous meeting with
Mayweather was in 2011 when she visited
the boxers gym alongside Kassim Ouma,
a Ugandan professional boxer, to watch a
sparring session. The American was busy
training ahead of his ght against his
Mexican-born counterpart Victor Ortiz.
So impressed was she with the boxers
determination that she talked with him
after the training and oered to be part
of his team. She has never regretted the
decision and was present to cheer on
Mayweather to victory in the May 3 tough
ght against the Argentinian.
Nabwire continues running her private
businesses, but her current core roles in
The Money Team are ght promotions
and working on Mayweathers charity
projects that include the construction of a
boxing gym in South Africa.
Typical routine
A lot goes on during ght week. For
example, we meet fans on a Monday,
welcome the opponent and his team on a
Tuesday and make sure all goes well at the
ocial press conference on Wednesday,
she says about her typical routine ahead
of a weekend ght.
Nabwire explains that the week con-
tinues with a media work-out session
on Thursday and weighing-in on Friday
before D-Day on Saturday.
In between, Floyd will have to sign au-
tographs for thousands of fans, she says.
Nabwire, who went to Olkarias Mvuke
Primary School in Naivasha, was mostly
raised in Busia and moved to USA in 1994
with her family.
Her father, Dr Charles Haukwa, was an
engineer with KenGen in Olkaria.
My father went to the University of
California at Berkeley for his doctorate
and, at the time, my sister also suered
from sickle cell anaemia and the US was a
good place for her to get treatment. Thats
why we moved, she recalls.
Naivasha-born entrepre-
neur also provides back-up
dancers to 50 Cent, The
Jacksons, Awilo Longomba
and other top artistes in
the United States
Im living my dream in boxer
feature
MAYWEATHER
IS A GREAT
GUY TO WORK
FOR AND
HE HAS A
BIG HEART.
BEFORE
THE FIGHT
AGAINST
MAIDANA, FOR
INSTANCE,
HE DONATED
$50,000 TO
A CANCER
CHARITY
-Nabwire
Mayweather
lands a right
hook on the
nose of Marcos
Maidana of
Argentina
during a recent
ght in Las
Vegas.
PHOTO | AFP
Grace Nabwire Haukwa (left) with Nkule
Dube, daughter of the legendary musician
Lucky Dube . PHOTO | COURTESY
Sunday May 18, 2014 SUNDAY NATION 6 Lifestyle
wield spit buckets, or mop sweat on de-
mand, or smear petroleum jelly into the
champions nostrils, or cook his food, or
place his wagers, or carry his champion-
ship belts into the ring.
The journalist noted that apart from
celebrities, the team includes computer
experts, college graduates, photographers
and businessmen. There are also massive
bodyguards earning $150,000 (Sh12.7
million) a year and boxing insiders who
are sometimes awarded with diamond-
studded platinum watches as bonuses.
They are Mayweathers family members,
like his uncle John Sinclair, the camp mas-
seur. They are his specialised employees,
like James P-Reala Mcnair, the CEO of
Mayweathers Philthy Rich Records. They
are his old friends like assistant trainer
Nate Jones, Mayweathers 1996 US Olym-
pic team-mate, the journalist wrote.
Last September, an article in UKs Daily
Mail noted that the boxers entourage
typically includes at least 20 associates
who spend most of their time waiting for
Mayweather to determine what happens
next.
We dont know what were doing until
we do it, one of his assistants told the
British paper.
Reacting to Mayos comment, May-
weather maintained that he had close af-
liation with his employees who would go
to war for me.
And its just like any other business. Ive
got disgruntled employees, people that are
upset, and when they leave the company
theyve got something negative to say, or
make up lies, he said.
Nabwire agrees with Mayweather and
denies that the boxing superstar would
treat her or the rest of The Money Team
in a condescending manner.
Cancer charity
Mayweather is a great guy to work for
and he has a big heart. Before the ght
against Maidana, for instance, he donated
$50,000 (Sh4.3 million) to a cancer char-
ity, she says.
She explains that the star has people
from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and many
other nationalities working for him be-
cause he wants to reach out to Africa.
Hes gonna retire as the best ever boxer
and Im extremely proud to be part of his
team, she says.
She adds that nobody around May-
weather can ever be sad as he works hard
to make everyone happy.
Nonetheless, Mayweather remains a
colourful gure, making headlines for his
lavish lifestyle, legal challenges and con-
troversial comments.
Nabwire believes she could not have
achieved much in America without the
support of her family. Her elder sister,
Betty, for example, is a registered nurse
but is also involved in show business.
She helped me get into entertainment
through her husband DJ Burt. They bring
artistes to USA and they are currently
working on Wyres tour here, she says.
Besides show business, Nabwire loves
shing, a hobby she took up while living in
Kenyas ood-prone Budalangi.
I love shing and I love the life that I led
in Budalangi as I also used to go to Lake
Victoria a lot. Even here in the US, when
Im bored, I go out shing, says Nabwire,
who also enjoys playing basketball and
bowling.
A teetotaller, Nabwires advice to Kenyan
youths is to dream big and chase their
dreams.
We have great talent in Kenya and in
Africa. Ive been dancing since I was in my
mummys tummy and Im proud of where
this has taken me so far.
feature
In 2012, a Nevada court postponed the
jailing of Floyd Mayweather Jnr for a
few months after his lawyer success-
fully argued that the boxers upcoming
professional ght was commercially
critical to the city of Las Vegas in Ne-
vada.
Judge Melissa Saragosa agreed with
lawyer Richard Wright that the boxing
champions domestic violence convic-
tion and his subsequent jailing would
hurt the economy of Las Vegas. The
judge ruled that the boxers reporting
date could be delayed to allow him
ght on May 5 in a super light mid-
dleweight title bout against Cubas
Miguel Cotto, a ght that Mayweather
won on points at the MGM Grand
Hotel and Casino.
Mayweather had been convicted of
battering his ex-girlfriend and, after
defeating Cotto, the boxer presented
himself to the Clark County Detention
Centre in Las Vegas on June 1 to begin
his 87-day sentence and was released
on August 3.
Should the boxer have been jailed
ahead of the Cotto ght, the Las
Vegas economy would have lost over
$100 million (Sh8.6 billion) in revenue
from the ght.
When Floyd ghts here, its dier-
ent. Theres an electricity you cant
describe. Staging an event like this is
important not only to our hotel but
to the entire city, Richard Sturm, the
president of sports and events at the
MGM Grand, told the BCC early this
month.
We have a lot of great events, and I
mean great events, and theyre all very
important to us. But a Mayweather
ght here is one of a kind. Its the best
we have.
Kenyan Grace Nabwire Haukwa, a
member of Mayweathers The Money
Team, says a Mayweather ght month
sees prices of services quadruple in
Las Vegas.
Las Vegas is not expensive, its the
lifesyle thats expensive, she told
Lifestyle on telephone from Las Vegas
last week.
Hotels here cost on average $45 a
night (Sh3,900) but on a Mayweather
ght month, revenues quadruple
as hotel prices, for instance, go as
high as $300 to $1,000 (Sh25,800-
Sh86,000), she explains.
Nabwire adds: The same as ights. If
a return ticket from another state to
Las Vegas costs $300 (Sh25,800), in
a Mayweather ght month, the tickets
will go up to $1,000 (Sh86,000).
That Mayweather has some interesting
habits has long been known. He has
admitted that he does not y with his
bodyguards in his private Gulfstream
V because he fears their weight might
bring the plane down. Instead, he
charters a separate jet for them. And,
according to a September 2013 arti-
cle in the Daily Mail, he has two sets
of identical luxury vehicles that are
colour-coded to help him remember
whether he is in Las Vegas or Miami.
And that is before one even mentions
his Cadillac golf cart.
The boxer also reportedly wears his
sneakers and underwear only once
before discarding them.
But the Kenyan in Mayweathers team
says the man nicknamed Money is
not all about, well, the money.
He has helped thousands of poor
people and each Christmas and
Thanksgiving, he feeds the poor in the
city. He does not do things for people
to notice and hes a very warm per-
son. By Elias Makori
Mayweathers Money Team
Sh6.2 bn
Amount of money Floyd Mayweather
earned from his two wins against Rob-
ert Guerrero and Canelo Alvarez, last
year
THE BOXER
Moneybags rules Las Vegas
Kenyan light
heavyweight boxer
Douglas Otieno (left),
Mayweather and
Grace.
PHOTO | COURTESY
Unbeaten
world boxing
champion Floyd
Mayweather after
his most recent
ght.
PHOTO | AFP
SUNDAY NATION Sunday May 18, 2014 Lifestyle 7
wield spit buckets, or mop sweat on de-
mand, or smear petroleum jelly into the
champions nostrils, or cook his food, or
place his wagers, or carry his champion-
ship belts into the ring.
The journalist noted that apart from
celebrities, the team includes computer
experts, college graduates, photographers
and businessmen. There are also massive
bodyguards earning $150,000 (Sh12.7
million) a year and boxing insiders who
are sometimes awarded with diamond-
studded platinum watches as bonuses.
They are Mayweathers family members,
like his uncle John Sinclair, the camp mas-
seur. They are his specialised employees,
like James P-Reala Mcnair, the CEO of
Mayweathers Philthy Rich Records. They
are his old friends like assistant trainer
Nate Jones, Mayweathers 1996 US Olym-
pic team-mate, the journalist wrote.
Last September, an article in UKs Daily
Mail noted that the boxers entourage
typically includes at least 20 associates
who spend most of their time waiting for
Mayweather to determine what happens
next.
We dont know what were doing until
we do it, one of his assistants told the
British paper.
Reacting to Mayos comment, May-
weather maintained that he had close af-
liation with his employees who would go
to war for me.
And its just like any other business. Ive
got disgruntled employees, people that are
upset, and when they leave the company
theyve got something negative to say, or
make up lies, he said.
Nabwire agrees with Mayweather and
denies that the boxing superstar would
treat her or the rest of The Money Team
in a condescending manner.
Cancer charity
Mayweather is a great guy to work for
and he has a big heart. Before the ght
against Maidana, for instance, he donated
$50,000 (Sh4.3 million) to a cancer char-
ity, she says.
She explains that the star has people
from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and many
other nationalities working for him be-
cause he wants to reach out to Africa.
Hes gonna retire as the best ever boxer
and Im extremely proud to be part of his
team, she says.
She adds that nobody around May-
weather can ever be sad as he works hard
to make everyone happy.
Nonetheless, Mayweather remains a
colourful gure, making headlines for his
lavish lifestyle, legal challenges and con-
troversial comments.
Nabwire believes she could not have
achieved much in America without the
support of her family. Her elder sister,
Betty, for example, is a registered nurse
but is also involved in show business.
She helped me get into entertainment
through her husband DJ Burt. They bring
artistes to USA and they are currently
working on Wyres tour here, she says.
Besides show business, Nabwire loves
shing, a hobby she took up while living in
Kenyas ood-prone Budalangi.
I love shing and I love the life that I led
in Budalangi as I also used to go to Lake
Victoria a lot. Even here in the US, when
Im bored, I go out shing, says Nabwire,
who also enjoys playing basketball and
bowling.
A teetotaller, Nabwires advice to Kenyan
youths is to dream big and chase their
dreams.
We have great talent in Kenya and in
Africa. Ive been dancing since I was in my
mummys tummy and Im proud of where
this has taken me so far.
feature
In 2012, a Nevada court postponed the
jailing of Floyd Mayweather Jnr for a
few months after his lawyer success-
fully argued that the boxers upcoming
professional ght was commercially
critical to the city of Las Vegas in Ne-
vada.
Judge Melissa Saragosa agreed with
lawyer Richard Wright that the boxing
champions domestic violence convic-
tion and his subsequent jailing would
hurt the economy of Las Vegas. The
judge ruled that the boxers reporting
date could be delayed to allow him
ght on May 5 in a super light mid-
dleweight title bout against Cubas
Miguel Cotto, a ght that Mayweather
won on points at the MGM Grand
Hotel and Casino.
Mayweather had been convicted of
battering his ex-girlfriend and, after
defeating Cotto, the boxer presented
himself to the Clark County Detention
Centre in Las Vegas on June 1 to begin
his 87-day sentence and was released
on August 3.
Should the boxer have been jailed
ahead of the Cotto ght, the Las
Vegas economy would have lost over
$100 million (Sh8.6 billion) in revenue
from the ght.
When Floyd ghts here, its dier-
ent. Theres an electricity you cant
describe. Staging an event like this is
important not only to our hotel but
to the entire city, Richard Sturm, the
president of sports and events at the
MGM Grand, told the BCC early this
month.
We have a lot of great events, and I
mean great events, and theyre all very
important to us. But a Mayweather
ght here is one of a kind. Its the best
we have.
Kenyan Grace Nabwire Haukwa, a
member of Mayweathers The Money
Team, says a Mayweather ght month
sees prices of services quadruple in
Las Vegas.
Las Vegas is not expensive, its the
lifesyle thats expensive, she told
Lifestyle on telephone from Las Vegas
last week.
Hotels here cost on average $45 a
night (Sh3,900) but on a Mayweather
ght month, revenues quadruple
as hotel prices, for instance, go as
high as $300 to $1,000 (Sh25,800-
Sh86,000), she explains.
Nabwire adds: The same as ights. If
a return ticket from another state to
Las Vegas costs $300 (Sh25,800), in
a Mayweather ght month, the tickets
will go up to $1,000 (Sh86,000).
That Mayweather has some interesting
habits has long been known. He has
admitted that he does not y with his
bodyguards in his private Gulfstream
V because he fears their weight might
bring the plane down. Instead, he
charters a separate jet for them. And,
according to a September 2013 arti-
cle in the Daily Mail, he has two sets
of identical luxury vehicles that are
colour-coded to help him remember
whether he is in Las Vegas or Miami.
And that is before one even mentions
his Cadillac golf cart.
The boxer also reportedly wears his
sneakers and underwear only once
before discarding them.
But the Kenyan in Mayweathers team
says the man nicknamed Money is
not all about, well, the money.
He has helped thousands of poor
people and each Christmas and
Thanksgiving, he feeds the poor in the
city. He does not do things for people
to notice and hes a very warm per-
son. By Elias Makori
Mayweathers Money Team
Sh6.2 bn
Amount of money Floyd Mayweather
earned from his two wins against Rob-
ert Guerrero and Canelo Alvarez, last
year
THE BOXER
Moneybags rules Las Vegas
Kenyan light
heavyweight boxer
Douglas Otieno (left),
Mayweather and
Grace.
PHOTO | COURTESY
Unbeaten
world boxing
champion Floyd
Mayweather after
his most recent
ght.
PHOTO | AFP
SUNDAY NATION Sunday May 18, 2014 Lifestyle 7
the coup when I received a phone call
from the Accident and Emergency depart-
ment. I have a 36-year-old man here, hit
by a stray bullet which is lodged in his
thigh, Dr Patel informed me. I opened
his wound in the Casualty Department
and found that in the depth of the wound
there is a large bleeder and quickly applied
a pressure bandage to stop the haemor-
rhage. I am afraid his wound needs to
be explored in the main theatre, under
general anaesthesia, and the bleeding
stopped. Then, as if he read my mind, he
added: His mother has arrived in the hos-
pital, having been informed by his friends
who were with him and she wants me to
call you. She says that you removed her
gall bladder about 20 years ago.
The news about the coup had not
spread yet and I was blissfully ignorant
of the danger I was exposing myself to as
I drove to the hospital that night. There,
I saw Peter with his mother, Margaret
Wambui Karanja. I greeted them, subtly
noting their roles had been reversed. The
last time, a healthy son had accompanied
a very sick mother. This time it was the
son who had been shot and his mother
was sitting by his side.
I wont open your wound here again
because Dr Patel has given me all the
details. I will do so in the theatre and
deal with it while you are asleep, I said to
Peter and both he and his panic-stricken
mother nodded in agreement.
The bullet must have hit an artery, I
said to my anaesthetist after he had put
Peter under. I opened the wound and
was confronted by torrential haemor-
rhage. Here is the bullet, I said. It was
lodged between torn muscles.
And here is the profundus branch
of the femoral artery, which has been
ripped through and is bleeding furiously,
I added. I was just thinking aloud, men-
tioning to my anaesthetist that the deep
branch of the main artery of the lower
limb had been injured by the bullet and
needed to be repaired.
A lull of another 20 years and we were
now in the new millennium when Mr Peter
Karanja rang me. My daughter has been
diagnosed with acute appendicitis, he in-
formed me, and needs surgery urgently,
according to our family doctor.
So saying, he handed the receiver to
Dr Kitur.
Jambo, mwalimu, Dr Kitur greeted
me. Elisha has acute appendicitis and on
asking the father if he had a favourite sur-
geon, he told me that I should admit her
under your care and he would contact you
himself. He tells me that you have oper-
ated on him and his mother in the past.
Elisha was 11 years old, a school girl and
a spit image of her paternal grandmother.
She reminded me of Mrs Karanja, whose
gall bladder I had plucked out about 40
years ago.
I woke up with this pain on my right
side, Elisha told me, pointing to her ab-
domen when I went to see her. I did not
tell my mum and dad because they would
have taken me to Dr Kitur and I would
have missed school ...
For a girl of her age, she was very ar-
ticulate and logical. ... But when I started
throwing up during my geography class,
my teacher rang my mum who took me
to see the doctor. He diagnosed me with
appendicitis, and so here I am.
After asking Elisha various questions
and examining her, I said to her: Your
appendix is as bad as your grand-mums
gall bladder and it needs to come out, and
quickly too.
Mr Karanja readily signed the consent
form and a couple of hours later Elisha
had lost her appendix to me! Thankfully, I
did not see the Karanjas professionally un-
til about the end of last year, over a decade
after I had done the appendicectomy on
Elisha when Dr Ogutu rang to ask me to
carry out a circumcision on the newborn
boy he had delivered.
Dierent coats, same t
You might consider it a very minor
surgery for a surgeon of your calibre, Dr
Ogutu added as I reected on my long
relationship with the Karanjas.
Not at all, I replied. I am delighted
that you called me.
When I went to see the baby, the Sister
in the maternity ward took me to see the
mother. It was Elisha, a mother at 22,
proudly holding her baby. Not much was
said except for me to congratulate her.
As I circumcised the little boy later in
the week, I reected on how much our
country has progressed since Independ-
ence. Amongst other measures, male
and female circumcisions carried out by
medicinemen, resulting in great morbid-
ity, sometimes even mortality, had been
replaced by procedures carried out in
sterile operating theatres by qualified
surgeons. Happily the repugnant practice
was gradually fading away for girls.
Notwithstanding this modernisation,
traditions were still maintained as became
apparent when the celebrations for the
birth and circumcision of the boy were
carried out at the Karanja Farm. I met
all the four generations in one frame
there. The matriarchal Mrs Karanja in
all her geriatric glory who I reckoned to
be around 90 years, was sitting with her
brood around her. Peter Karanja, her rst-
born, was busy welcoming guests; Elisha
and her husband were seating them.
Personally I felt like how her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth must have felt at the
birth of Prince George. I, too, had a great
grandchild professionally speaking if
not in the blood line!
A long surgical practice may not have
huge monetary rewards, or earn one a long-
service gold medal, but it is very gratifying
as I discovered recently when Dr Ogutu
rang me one morning.
Now this might sound like asking the
Pope to carry out a christening, but I won-
der if you can circumcise a baby I delivered
last night. You have operated on three
generations of the Karanja Family and they
insist that you do the operation.
To acquaint my readers with the time
span, I must take them back to a surgery
I carried out on 40-year-old Mrs Karanja
in 1961. Kenya was still a British Colony,
but the drums of Uhuru had been sounded.
The population of the country was seven
million, out of which only 300,000 lived
in Nairobi. There were neither trac jams
nor trac lights in the city, no matatus, no
grilles on the windows and no walls around
the houses. Mzee Jomo Kenyatta had just
been released from detention and the av-
enue subsequently named after him was
then called Lord Delamere Avenue.
It was in that historical milieu that I was
rung one night by Dr Tom Mathews. I have
a lady here who, but for the fact that she is
African, I would have labelled an acute case
of cholecystitis.
Dr Mathews was referring to the racial,
regional and ethnic bias which diseases
also suer from. In those days, though
gall stones, duodenal ulcers and coronaries
were rampant among the expatriate com-
munity, they were uncommon amongst the
indigenous people. So although the clinical
picture of Mrs Karanja was that of classical
inammation of the gall bladder, probably
packed with gall stones, Dr Matthew was
reluctant to put that label on her. I am ad-
mitting her to the hospital with instructions
to call you when she arrives, he added.
Acute cholecystitis the inammation of
the gall bladder is a dire surgical emer-
gency and cannot brook any delay. I rushed
to the hospital to see Mrs Karanja. Seated
by the side of the bed was an anxious lad.
I am Peter, Mrs Karanjas son, he got
up respectfully and introduced himself as
he saw the ward sister and me approach
his mothers bed. I took a brief history from
the ill-looking lady and examined her. There
was no doubt she was a case of acute chole-
cystitis. Dr Mathews is right, I said to the
patient and her son. We need to do an ur-
gent operation to remove that gall bladder.
Does it have to be an operation? Are
there no drugs? Mrs Karanja asked.
Fear on their faces
Dr Mathews is an excellent doctor and
if he could have treated you with drugs, he
would not have called me in, I replied.
Can it wait? Peter inquired. My father
is upcountry and will be here tomorrow.
From my examination, I nd that your
mothers gall bladder is both inamed and
blocked by a stone. There is real danger of
it bursting, in which case, infected bile and
pus will spill inside her tummy and cause
fulminating peritonitis.
I dont know if mother or son understood
the technical terms I used but I could see
the fear on their faces. They had a brief
conversation amongst themselves in their
tribal dialect and agreed to my proposal.
At operation I found what I had sus-
pected, a grossly inamed gall bladder,
lled with stones, blocked by one and al-
most ready to rupture.
The next morning, I rang Dr Mathews.
That was a clever diagnosis, I comple-
mented him. Despite being African, she
was a case of acute cholecystitis. I removed
her gall bladder last night. I am sure this is
the beginning of a clinical pathology hap-
pily getting blurred in our country.
All was well on the surgical front for 20
years until August 1982 on the night of
I DID NOT TELL
MUM AND DAD
BECAUSE THEY
WOULD HAVE
TAKEN ME TO
DR KITUR AND I
WOULD HAVE MISSED
SCHOOL elisha
Bound by four generations of surgery
diary
SURGEONS
DIARY,
IN ITS 34
TH
YEAR
yusuf k.
dawood
I opened the wound and was confronted by torrential
haemorrhage. Here is the bullet, I said. It was lodged
between torn muscles.
Sunday May 18, 2014 SUNDAY NATION 8 Lifestyle
As expected, my rst week as a deputy
headmaster had challenges here and there
or teething problems, as Pius would call
them. I had known that some of my col-
leagues, out of jealousy, would not be too
happy with my promotion but little did I
know that some of them would set out to
sabotage my work. Others, like Madam Ruth
and Lutta, were out to insubordinate me.
But I was not going to take it lying down.
The two were reluctant to discharge any
of the assignments I gave them, with Lutta
going to the extent of inciting other good
teachers like Tito not to follow my lawful in-
structions. Then there is the case of Kwame.
After being informed that he had been de-
moted to a classroom teacher, Kwame im-
mediately asked for a transfer. He was asked
to nd a teacher who was willing to swap
places with him for that to happen.
Sources intimate to my source at Hitlers
would later tell me how Kwame had sworn
not to continue serving at Mwisho wa Lami
with me as the deputy.
I cant report to that boyfriend of Ben-
souda, he allegedly told all and sundry at
the den. When I heard of this, I was very
angry and called Bensouda to tell her what
people were saying about us.
Relax, she said. With your success, peo-
ple will always talk ill of you. Ignore them.
Kwame did not come to school for two
days and when he did, he did nothing. I
wasnt very sure how to deal with that, given
that he was the immediate previous deputy
HM, so I let him be. But Bensouda told me
that it was my responsibility to ensure that
Kwame worked just like other teachers.
Clicked and walked away
Until he gets another school, he is still
a teacher here so you need to treat him like
any other teacher. He is not special, she
said.
The next day, I called him to my oce and
gave him a long lecture, reminding him of
his responsibilities. He just clicked and left
my oce. He went to see Lutta with whom
he spoke for a long time.
Last weekend, I went looking for Kizito.
Kizito is a former college of mine who is cur-
rently a deputy headmaster at a neighbour-
ing school. I wanted to learn from him how
he had fared when he was promoted. We
agreed to meet on Saturday afternoon.
Sawa, tuonane kwa Hitler saa nane, I
told him.
No, lets do it at Cosmos Bar, he said.
I found him already seated at Cosmos,
taking his third Allsops. Congratulations
on your promotion to glory, he said, his
arm stretched out in greeting.
You are welcome, I answered, not very
sure if that was what I was supposed to say.
Since I was broke, I ordered for Keg but was
told it is no longer being sold so I ordered
for Stoney madiaba. Its only after Kizito
chided me that I ordered for an Allsops.
Pet talk
So how are things? Kizito asked.
Dont even talk, I told him. Work is
good but the other teachers seem unwilling
to support me. I think ni wivu.
Dont worry, he said. I also went
through the same but you can handle it.
I asked him to explain how I would do
that.
The mistake you made is that you did not
change your lifestyle, and yet you expect to
be obeyed. Make some changes so that the
teachers see you dierently, then they will
respect you, he said.
What should I change?
You need to change many things. For
example, you wanted us to meet at Hitlers
yet that is where Lutta, Saphire and Tito
frequent. How can they respect you if you
go drinking with them?
You dont want to have Tito on Mon-
day asking you what time you go home.
Make sure that the only place you meet is
at school. Let them see your life become
very dierent from theirs, and you will have
earned their respect, he advised.
We discussed at length the various as-
pects of my life that needed change and
after an hour, I came up with a list of things
that I would be changing. Below are some
of them:
Dress Code: Out with the old, in with the
new. As an indication of my changed status,
I am making a strategic shift from green
Kaunda suits to sky blue Kaunda suits. Ex-
tensive research has showed me that blue is
the colour of authority, presence and power.
I, therefore, measured three high quality,
blue polyester Kaunda suits, the rst of
which has already been delivered. The sec-
ond will be delivered after I have fully paid
for the rst one, which will be sometime in
July, after which the third will follow. The
transition will be slow but by March 2016, I
will only be having blue Kaunda suits.
Transport: As deputy headmaster, I can-
not walk to and from school, nor should I be
meeting with other teachers at the bicycle
repairers xing the bikes inner tube. I sold
my relatively new, size 36 Raleigh bicycle
to Tito, walked to ART last Monday, and
walked away out with a brand new TVS mo-
torcycle on hire purchase. Nyayo still ferries
me around but I am learning quickly and
will be self-reliant in the next two weeks.
Shopping: It would be shameful to be
meeting other teachers at the kiosk trying to
borrow or balance my debts. Going forward,
I will only be shopping at Mama Watoto
Supermarket at the county headquarters
when I go for my salary. Any mid-month
shopping will be done at Kims wholesale at
the Mwisho wa Lami market centre.
Food and beverages: A deputy headmas-
ter must eat a balanced diet. That is why last
Monday, I asked Fiolina, the laugh of my
life, to draw up a food timetable. I reminded
her to ensure that matumbo and omena ap-
peared at least four times a week. There will
be no more strungi and sukuma wiki was to
be done away with unless it is an accompa-
niment to matumbo.
As for drinks, I committed to ensure that
juice and soda are always available in the
house: juice for our domestic consumption
and soda for any visiting VIPs.
Friends: The wise men said that show
me a mans friends and I will show you the
mans values. To show my true values, I
will no longer associate with people who
add no value to me. Goodbye Nyayo, Rasto,
Saphire, Alphayo and your ilk. Welcome to
my world Kizito, Bensouda and Pius.
As advised by Kizito, I will only visit Hit-
lers if investigating a certain matter. Other-
wise, Cosmos, Kasuku and Teachers Tavern
will, going forward, be my watering holes of
choice. I must only interact with polished
people, and intelligent discussions can only
come up in such serene environments.
With these changes, I am sure the teach-
ers in Mwisho wa Lami will start seeing me
in a dierent perspective and once this hap-
pens, I will automatically earn their respect,
and obedience. And together we will take
this school to the next level.
Welcome to my new world.
mwalimuandrew@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/mwisho-walami
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in my bold, new world
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Tarmacadam - The rst
road.
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Old hairdressers never die,
they just braid away.
Old teachers never die,
they just grade away.
Old gardeners never die,
they just spade away.
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Do it now - later it will be
against the law.
People who take care
never get anywhere.

Take a chance, take
charge, take control!
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Todays decisions are
tomorrows realities.
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A bird does not sing
because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a
song.
***
Uncle: For fty years I had
my nose to the grindstone.
Nephew: Gosh, it must
have been a really big one
to start with.
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Toots: What is the bump
on your head?
Winker: Oh thats where a
thought struck me.
***
Sarah: Look whos coming
up the street my husband
and my boyfriend.
Martha: I was about to say
the same thing.
***
Richard: How long is the
Wimp Convention in town?
Khan: Until they wreak
havoc happily ever after.
***
Secretary: I need a new
typewriter.
Boss: Why
Secretary: This one makes
too many mistakes.
Compiled by Deja Vu hon-
jooooolia@hotmail.com
JOKES
SUNDAY NATION Sunday May 18, 2014 Lifestyle 9
European Film Festival in Nairobi
The Kenyan chapter of the
23rd European Film Festival was
ocially opened on Monday at the
Alliance Franaise in Nairobi.
The event included the screening
of the opening lm, Brides (2004),
directed by Greek Pantelis Voulgaris
and produced by American Martin
Scorsese.
Twenty critically acclaimed lms
from 14 European countries will be on
the menu, with all being shown at the
Alliance Franaises auditorium.
The European Film Festival
presents an opportunity for cinema
lovers to experience Europes diverse
cultures.
This 23rd edition will close on June
1.
Documentary for next Ten Cities
The monthly Ten Cities Screening
Series, which shows numerous
feature lms and documentaries
focusing on dierent aspects of club
and sub-culture around the globe, is
ongoing in Nairobi.
As part of it, the Goethe-Institut
will screen SubBerlin, a documentary
that traces the history of Berlins
famous club Tresor from its beginning
in the early 1990s to the closure of its
original location in 2005.
Individuals interested in attending
the free screening may request
invitation by writing to moritz.kasper
@nairobi.goethe.org.
Biopic on Hemingway shot in Cuba
An upcoming lm on American
writer Ernest Hemingways life
has become the rst full-length
Hollywood lm shot in Cuba in 55
years.
Papa, a story of the US writers
friendship with a young journalist in
1950s Havana, won a licence from
the US Treasury exempting it from
the trade embargo that has been in
place since Castro came to power, the
Hollywood Reporter wrote.
Hemingways bibliography
includes The Sun Also Rises (1926)
and Green Hills of Africa (1935).
Compiled by Carlos Mureithi;
@CarlosMureithi
NEWS IN BRIEF
BY TOM ODHIAMBO
Tom.odhiambo.uonbi.ac.ke
Often, journalists and commentators
miss the relationship between religious
fundamentalism and commerce. Sometimes
reports on groups such as Al Qaeda, Al
Shabaab, the Taliban or Boko Haram simply
appear disinterested in the fact that behind
claims to religious exceptionalism that
drives these organisations, are economics
and money.
The Taliban may have terrorised mil-
lions of Afghans into religious and political
submission but they were also interested in
the money that came from the poppy elds.
The Al Shabaab arent just boys. Some of its
members are scheming businessmen inter-
ested in how much they could make on the
Somali coastline and from exports. Now, the
Boko Haram has declared that it will sell
into slavery/marriage the more than 200
girls that it abducted in northern Nigeria.
Today, religious fundamentalism is com-
plex and complicated enough to adopt and
adapt to changes as may be needed. So,
whereas some religious fundamentalists like
Boko Haram may call Western education
and Christianity heathen and, therefore,
undesirable under their spiritual/political
jurisdiction, they wont shy away from us-
ing technology and knowledge developed
by the same Western world. This is the irony
of Boko Haram abducting school girls to
sell into slavery, and then announcing their
terrorist intentions and acts for global con-
sumption, using the Internet.
But it is the relationship between fun-
damentalism or what passes as funda-
mentalism modern slavery and business
that should really bother agencies ghting
terrorism today, as well as the rest of the
society. The young men who are recruited
to be trained as terrorists are nothing but
spiritual/psychological slaves. But more
insidious is that in some cases these or-
ganisations also mutate into global business
networks that make money from smuggling
goods and people across the world, selling
contraband goods, levying taxes in regions
where they are established, running extor-
tion rackets and so on. This is the sense
in which Boko Harams activities should
partly be seen. To appreciate how insidious
modern slavery is, and how and why groups
like Boko Haram and Al Shabaab may nd
enslavement appealing as a way of earning
income and recruiting followers, one needs
to read Benjamin Skinner in A Crime So
Monstrous (2008).
Slavery is a global business; a commercial
empire that earns its perpetrators billions of
dollars yearly. Skinner writes: Beginning in
the 1990s, human tracking metastasised
faster than any other form of slave trade in
history. As many as two million people leave
their homes and entered bondage every year.
Some crossed international borders; many
did not. Human beings surpassed guns as
the second most lucrative commodity for
crime syndicates of all sizes, netting around
$10 billion annually...
These gures may appear exaggerated.
But probably they really are understated
simply because Skinner may not have had
the correct data. Very few organisations re-
ally know the true extent of modern slavery
although the media and human rights or-
ganisations repeatedly report that its wide-
spread. But one can guess; one can begin
with the abduction of the 200 plus girls by
the Boko Haram.
If one uses the Nigerian case as an ex-
ample of forced enslavement yes, there
is voluntary slavery in a country that is
really not at war, what about the gures of
women, children and men abducted and
sold into slavery in countries at war? Think
of how many Congolese, Ugandans, Somalis,
Sudanese are in bondage due to wars in their
countries? Think of the thousands of women
in the Congo today held as sex slaves, the
black Sudanese who have been enslaved
since the Pharaonic times, the hundreds of
Kenyans who go to work in the Middle East
and come back home with horror stories
of torture, rape and starvation. Think of
the children who beg for upkeep; of those
women who ask for shilingi kumi on Uhuru
Highway; of the disabled in wheelchairs beg-
ging for alms...
But the Boko Haram case should scare us
all because religion is being cited to justify
the abduction of these young girls. Because
they are seeking knowledge from non-believ-
ers, in the eyes of Boko Haram, they deserve
to be forced from school and forced into
marriage. Now, compare this case to that
of the young boys who are being recruited
to ght on behalf of, say, Al Shabaab. Are
these youths converted voluntarily or are
they forcibly indoctrinated into becoming
forced believer?
Why we need to be scared
Once they become followers of the preach-
ers and their commanders in the great mod-
ern crusade of jihad, do they get to decide
whether their actions are for the good of the
society or the benet of the few who inu-
ence their minds and actions or even opt
out? No, they dont because slave owners
dont voluntarily let go of their vassals.
We need to be scared of this monster pre-
cisely because, as Skinner warns, slavery is
an industry and once those who run it nd a
market for prostitutes, sweatshop hands,
farm-hands, smugglers, mercenaries, sol-
diers, labourers, house helps etc they will
look for supply.
Skinners A Crime So Monstrous is based
on research that involved travelling around
the world, meeting people who had been
enslaved and had freed themselves or had
been redeemed, as well as talking to those
in bondage. It is a book that policy makers
and anybody whose everyday job is to guard
against the abuse of human rights should
read and keep.
Dr Odhiambo teaches literature at the Uni-
versity of Nairobi.
In and outside of war, rapes
happen, people leave home
to enter into bondage, sex
workers are exploited and
tortured, young soldiers are
made... and terror goes on
books&culture
Religious fanaticism,
modern-day slave
trade and terrorism
...SLAVERY IS AN
INDUSTRY AND
ONCE THERE IS A
MARKET, THOSE WHO
RUN IT WILL LOOK
FOR SUPPLY Dr
Odhiambo
The Cover of
A Crime so
Monstrous.
PHOTO | TOM
ODHIAMBO
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A graduate of Wesleyan
University, Benjamin Skin-
ner has worked as a jour-
nalist covering Latin Amer-
ica, Africa and the Middle
East. A Crime so Monstrous
is his rst book.
Sunday May 11, 2014 SUNDAY NATION
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10 Lifestyle Sunday May 18, 2014 SUNDAY NATION
ATAMJIT SINGH, a well-
versed and distinguished Pun-
jabi Indian theatre personality,
is in town. Theatre lovers have
an opportunity to see and
listen to him in a recital this
afternoon at Oshwal Centres
auditorium in Westlands. The
playwright and director has
been invited by Asian African
Heritage Trust to recite an
original Punjabi play, Mungu
Comrade, in Hindi.
The play is based on the life
and times of Makhan Singh
(below), our very own father
of the trade union movement.
Atamjit infuses the play as
a voice from the audience as
he participates in a discussion
with the characters on stage.
This rare mode of presenta-
tion will certainly provide the
Kenyan audience with a novel
experience.
From my understanding,
Atamjits Mungu Comrade
is not the story of one man;
rather, it is the story of every
man in every age that has
stood for a noble cause. The
play has been performed in
India and Europe, including
Britain, to great acclaim.
In a statement, Makhan
Singhs son, Hindpal Singh
Jabbal, said Mungu Comrade
is inspired by a biography
of Makhan, Unquiet, written
by Zarina Patel, and that the
presentation is part of his fa-
thers centenary celebration.
Chief Justice Willy Mutunga
will be guest of honour at
the show beginning at 3p.m.
today. Interested readers can
reach Manmit Jabbal on 0733
510 581.
Elsewhere, the entertaining
Nairobi University Students
Hindu Association will present
a dance recital at Oshwal Cen-
tres auditorium on May 24 in
aid of the medical department
of Kenyatta National Hospital.
Allaudin Qureshi; allaudin_
qureshi@yahoo.com
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27 Copper leans on head of
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Did You Know?
Renee has excelled
in both sports and
academics.
Free with Sunday Nation
BY MWORIA MUCHINA
pmuchina@ke.nationmedia.com
R
enee Shashikant Kachra,
14, is a perfect example of
an all-rounder pupil. Since
she won her rst award in
a handwriting competition
at the tender age of ve, Reene has
never looked back.
She has won many more trophies,
medals and certicates in sports
like cycling, chess, soccer, netball,
taekwondo, as well as in academics,
essay writing, and drawing competi-
tions, music, oral design and Bharat
Natyam, an Indian classical dance.
The origins of Bharat Natyam dates
back more than 2,000 years. It was
nurtured in the great temples of In-
dia as a sacred ritual, patronised in
the courts of kings and celebrated
through sculptures and paintings, po-
etry and song.
That rst award made me want to
always succeed, says Renee in an in-
terview with Young Nation.
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What You Say?
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Meet the multi-talented Renee
Sunday Nation May 18, 2014
letters
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editor says...
our team
quotes
1)) You are beautiful, but learn
to work, for you cannot eat your
beauty.
- Congolese Proverb
2)) Dine with a stranger but save
your love for your family.
~ Ethiopian proverb
3)) Dont take another mouthful
before you have swallowed what is
in your mouth.
- Malagasy Proverb
4)) He who doesnt clean his
mouth before breakfast
always complains that the
food is sour.
- African Proverb
5)) You cannot tell a hungry child
that you gave him food yesterday.
- Zimbabwean Proverb
young nation
David Ochieng Were: Sexually trans-
mited infections. This is because of
increase in immoral tendencies like ir-
responsible sex and drug abuse.
Hassan Malik Mohamed: Depression
and identity crisis, and inadequate life
skills.
Dann Briann: Obesity, this is due to
unhealthy eating habits.
Vallie Leo: They are many. Theres
obesity because many young people
like junk foods which cause diseases
like cancer, diabetes. There is also drug
abuse which causes addiction and other
side eects.
Evance Ouma: Malaria is so rampant
especially among the infants due
to their vulnerability and failure
to apply safety measures by their
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Which health issue do you think aects most young people and why?
A
s a child, it is somehow
dicult to make an ultimate
decision on what you want
to be when you grow up. That is the
time when you nd out that you
have so much interest in everything.
A child can be good in soccer,
basketball, chess, cycling, music and
acting, all at the same time. How
does one decide what you want to
concentrate on at that age? What
if you concentrate on soccer ad
nd out that you were much better
as a swimmer instead? How can
you make the right decision at that
tender age, especially on what to
concentrate on as a future career? If
you move forward with everything,
will give it your all? Those are some
of the questions that we all get
mixed up in. Career experts, however,
recommends that it is always
important to concentrate on what
makes us happy rst, or what we do
best. In our cover story today, meet
young Renee who is good at quite a
number of things and has achieved
a lot so far. Read our usual juicy and
educative stories too. Have a great
Sunday and week ahead.
MUCHIRI
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Sweden and Nigeria.
Nyarua Brian Preblo Academy Ikinu
P.O.BOX 2040 Kiambu. Age 14, Hobbies:
watching Movies, singing, traveling and
cooking would like, penpals, from Nigeria,
South Africa, Sweden and Nigeria.
Gitau Anne Wanagare Preblo Academy
Ikinu P.O.BOX 2040 Kiambu. Age 13,
Hobbies: watching Movies, singing,
traveling and socialing would like,
penpals, from Nigeria, South Africa,
Sweden and Nigeria.
Jacinta Mwaniki Mutira Girls High School,
P.O.BOX 223 Kerugoya. Age 17 Hobbies:
hiking, traveling, watching movies and
playing tennis. Would like, penpals, from
Rwanda, Sweden, Spain and India.
Abigale Nanjala Bignet Educational Centre,
P.O. BOX 21280 Nairobi. Age: 18 Hobbies:
traveling, dancing, watching football
and swimming. Would like penpals
from South Africa, Korea, Rwanda and
Thailand.
Linet Wanjiku, Dr Kamundia Girls High
School P.O.BOX 573 Nyeri. Age 16,
Hobbies: cooking, reading, and traveling
hiking and watching movies. Would like,
penpals, from Tanzania, USA, Mexico,
Canada, and Tanzania.
Sasha Atieno Bishop Okoth Girls, P. O.
BOX 221 Siaya. Age 15 Hobbies: cooking,
watching wild animals, dancing, reading
and listening to music. Would like Penpals
from Sweden, Canada, USA, Uganda, and
Australia.
Esther Mbulua, St Angelas Girls Secondary
School P.O. BOX 179 Kitui. Age: 16
Hobbies: cooking, singing, swimming and
playing tennis. Would like penpals from
South Korea, India, Sweden and Burundi.
Being organised is the best way
to save time and to work smart.
To achieve maximum output in a
given activity, one needs to plan
well. You need to plan which ac-
tivity you need to give priority
and which comes rst and which
one can wait. A candidate pre-
paring for an exam should start
preparing for the exams several
weeks ahead. This helps the can-
didate to revise without panic and
also give priority to the subjects
he or she knows are hard to him
or her. By so doing you give the
brain enough time to grasp what
you have learnt or revised. Always
be organised and you will never
go wrong.
Wambugu Simon Rukwaro, Nyeri
Learn to be organised
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happy birthday wishes
CHLOE KHAYASI INGUTIA
Nothing compares to the
feeling of pride parents
have when they see their
little daughter grow up so
wonderfully into a kind,
young woman. No matter
how many birthdays come
and go, you will always be
our little princess. Happy
birthday wishes from dad Je Ingutia, mum Lilly
Were, aunties Luizer, Virginia, Noel, Jacky, Julia,
Hendricah and Agnes.
MILAN CHEBET
Happy fth birthday Milan.
You are a special gift to us.
May you continue grow-
ing in body and wisdom,
gaining favour with God
and people. Wishes from
mum Nduku, bro Thierry,
auntie Ndanu, uncles Eric
and Kevin, grandparents Mary and Muema and all
your friends.
CINDY WANJIKU
Happy fourth birthday,
Princess. Know that you are
loved by dad Charles, mum
Alice, brothers Arnold and
Ryan, uncles, aunties and
grandparents. May God ll
your life with good health,
favour and wisdom.
BABU and DANA
As both of you add a year
to your years, we call upon
the favours of God to ow
in your lives. May you be
God-fearing and obedi-
ent children all the time.
We love you dearly. Best
wishes from mum, friends
Eston, Derrick and Lino,
your classmates, aunties and uncles.
REJOICE ROSE OMUCHEYI
Happy birthday, Rejoice, as
you turn four. May you live
to be a God-fearing, caring,
humble and loving daughter.
May the Lord favour you in
all your deeds as you cel-
ebrate your birthday. Best
wishes from dad Readon,
mum Irene, grandparents
and bro Ramsey.
TYMON MUTUA
You are now four years
old. We thank God for the
gift of life. We pray for His
guidance, care and bless-
ings throughout your life.
May you grow to be a
man of honour who fears
God. Happy birthday
wishes from parents Josephine and Isaac, sis Jas-
mine, bro Jayson, friends and relatives.
ELI MURITHI MAITETHIA
Happy second birthday, lit-
tle angel. I wish you Gods
guidance, love, intelligence,
wisdom and humility. You
are a blessing and we love
you so much. May you live
to blow 1001 candles. Best
wishes.
SEAN TOLA KOFA
Sean, you are a bless-
ing to your family. As we
celebrate your seventh
birthday, we pray that you
will grow up into a God-
fearing person and be an
asset to your family and
society. Best wishes from
mom, dad, brother Bran-
don, friends and the entire
family. Happy birthday.
And while still working hard to excel in
whatever she does, Renees parents are at
the moment looking to buy her a new cabi-
net for her awards since the one she has is
already overowing.
Whenever I do something either in
competitions or in class, I always get my
inspiration from the words said by the late
Nelson Mandela that, the greatest glory in
living lies not in never falling but rising
every time you fall, says Renne.
But how has she managed at such
a tender age to achieve all this
and still excel in class work?
Self-motivation, self-disci-
pline, and the ability to
prioritise all the essen-
tial activities so as to
manage and balance
them, says the
Year Eight pupil
at SCLP Samaj
School, Nairobi.
And when the Young
Nation, visited her home
recently, Renne, the rst
born in a family of three
siblings, was busy
playing a cello.
A cello is an
instru-
ment
of the
vio-
lin family, held
upright on the
oor between the
legs of the seated
player. She is in
Grade Four in play-
ing this music instru-
ment. In her music
room, Renne also
works hard to perfect
her saxophone skills as
she prepares to sit for her
Grade 4 Saxophone ABRSM exam. She
hopes to join the Kenya Orchestra by
November.
My dream is to perfect playing the
cello and saxophone since I want to
be among the best performers in the
Kenya Orchestra, she says. Renne,
who likes maths, physics, chemistry
and English has won an international
gold award in the Advance Students
Roll (ASR) for children who have
excelled in the Kumon Maths pro-
gramme. She says her dream career
lies in astronomy.
The love of nature
The talented youngster also loves na-
ture and learned the oral design course,
which has made her appreciate the art and
beauty of owers. In 2007, the Oshwal Edu-
cation and Relief Board rewarded her after
she raised Sh7,200 for planting most trees
during a tree planting initiative.
In 2010, she was awarded by the Karura
Forest Environmental Education Centre for
her participation in environmental conser-
vation.
In drawing, she has won many trophies
and certicates. Last year, she won two
nights at the Ark after her artwork emerged
best in an art competition organised by
Asia Weekly. She has also excelled in crea-
tive writing.
In sports, Renne won her pre-tan black
belt in November last year. She also plays
competitive chess and netball practising
every Friday at SwamiBapa Temple. In 2012,
she led a team of 10 girls named Extreme
Riders to cycle and help raise more than
Sh60,000 during a Rhinothon competition
organised to help in the conservation of
rhinos. She took part in last years Standard
Chartered marathon competing in the 21km
race as well as the Mater Heart Run.
At school, she is the schools captain of
the under-15 team. In chess, where she has
done very
well, Renne has repre-
sented the country in various international
events posting good results. In 2009, she
represented the country in the 1st African
Youth chess championship, in Cape Town,
South Africa, in the under-10 girls category,
before travelling to Antalya, Turkey to rep-
resent Kenya in the World Youth Chess
Championship.
In the following year, she was at it again
sweeping the medal boards during the
World Youth Chess Championship held in
Halkidiki, Greece. In 2011, she carried the
Kenyan ag high during the 3rd edition of
the African Youth Chess Championship in
Lusaka, Zambia.
According to her, her best moment in
chess has been competing with seniors
during last years Samaj Chess tournament.
Its good for children to be active in sports
to help in them growing up healthy and
also to help those who are talented outside
the classroom to curve a niche in sports,
says Renne.
Rennes parents advises fellow parents
that they should be supportive and encour-
age their children in order to help them re-
alise their full potential. And for Renne, with
her right attitude, hard work and determi-
nation, the sky seems to be the limit.
The multi-talented Renee
young nation
PHOTOS/MWORIA MUCHINA
Cover: Renee displays some of her
trophies.
Below: Renee playing the cello.
In-set, right: Renee shows o one
of her drawings.
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JACKLINE MUTUNGA, 13
Foreigners should be screened
as they enter the country
through our borders and also
more police ocers should be
employed and existing ones
trained on how to deal with ter-
rorists.
young nation
ANSWERS ON PAGE 8
He was born on September 16, 1953. He is
the manager of English Premier League
side Manchester City. As a coach, he has
managed teams mostly in Spain, Argen-
tina, Chile and Ecuador. A qualied civil
engineer and a competent footballer,
after retiring as a player, he moved into
coaching in Chile and subsequently Ar-
gentina. He has won national leagues in
three dierent countries.
A defender, he spent his entire playing
career at Universidad Chile, making more
than 450 appearances. He retired in 1986
and took his rst managerial role the fol-
lowing year at Palestino. He has taken
charge of 11 teams in total including Vil-
larreal (2004-09), Real Madrid (2009-10)
and Malaga. He has won league titles in
Chile, Ecuador and Argentina and the In-
tertoto Cup with Villarreal in 2004 before
securing this years Premier League title
with Manchester City last weekend.
1. What is the name of the manager?
2. Which country is he from?
Recently there have been terror attacks in buses and churches
where lives have been lost and property destroyed. Some children
from Kathiani sub-county in Machakos County share their views on
what the government should do to contain the spate of terrorist at-
tacks.
Interviews and pictures by
GASTONE VALUSI
gvalusi@gmail.com
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PETER MULI, 12
The government should nd jobs
for school leavers to prevent
them from staying idle and en-
gaging in destructive activities.
The police should be honest as
they ght crime and also they
should refuse to be bribed as
they carry out investigations.
MAUREEN NZAU, 13
Visitors to our country should
be screened because some
have been known to take part in
criminal activities. The govern-
ment should enforce security
laws and police should intensify
patrols in all areas all the time.
The government should employ
enough police ocers to investi-
gate crime and arrest dangerous
criminals who are either within or
from outside the country. Police
should also use bomb detectors on
people entering public places and
businesses.
RUTH ISOE, 13
The government should intensify
the war on Al Shabaab because
they are causing insecurity in our
country. We should prove that we
have the potential to defend our
country and police ocers who
are corrupt should be sacked.
MUSYOKI MUMANGI, 13
Security should be tightened at
the border between Kenya and
Somalia to prevent entry of Al
Shabaab terrorists and other im-
migrants. But I pray to God that
our police ocers win the war
against terror for the sake of our
beloved country.
what
you say
PATRICIA MUNDIA
pattymundia@gmail.com
W
hen we say that a person has been
arrested by the police, we mean
that the power of the law has been
used to pick and keep someone. Sometimes
children are arrested by the police if they are
suspected of breaking the law.
The law protects arrested children to ensure
that their rights are not violated during the
criminal justice process. If a child is arrested,
he/ she;
Should be taken to court as soon as pos-
sible.
Should not be detained in a police station
for more than 24 hours.
Should be directly informed of the
charges against him/her as soon as possible in
a language they understand.
The parents of the child should also be in-
formed as soon as possible. It is important to
note that;
No police interview can be held without
the presence of the representative of the child.
During the period before the trial, when
being held in custody, children must be kept
separate from adult oenders.
The Court can decide to send the accused
child to a remand home during the time of the
investigation, but the period of stay should not
be more than 3 months. However if the child
has committed an oence punishable by death
then the maximum is six months.
The Court should ensure that there is a law-
yer for an unrepresented child. This is stated in
The Constitution and The Children Act. When
a child is unable to obtain legal assistance on
their own, the assistance such should be pro-
vided by the government;
The child has the right to have his/her case
resolved without delay;
A child should not be forced to give testi-
mony or confess guilt
A child has a right to have a free inter-
preter;
A child has a right to appeal if found guilty
(rst to the High Court and then to the
COURT OF APPEAL);
- Childs privacy should be respected;
- Children with disabilities have a right to
special care and dignied treatment;
- The child has a right and is entitled to
medical assistance.
The orders made by court should be in ac-
cordance with the best interests of the child
and in consideration with the childs welfare,
feelings and needs;
Some eorts have been carried out to sepa-
rate children from adults in police settings but
most police stations still do not separate sus-
pected child oenders from those in need of
care and protection. This increases the stigma-
tisation of children in need who continue to be
treated as potential oenders after their arrest.
Although children should not be kept in po-
lice custody, some are temporarily deprived of
their liberty before trial and, in that case, can
be subjected to violence from adult inmates
when there are not kept separately.
children and law
What should
happen when a is
child arrested?
The writer is an Advocate of the
High Court of Kenya
KILONZO KITAVI, 13
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Answers on page 8
L
ion was once mans dear pet. Man
would generously feed him daily
with some of his milk from his
cows; and their friendship grew by the
day. But one day lion became greedy
and stole mans milk that was stored in
a pot. Mans wife had just preserved the
milk for some guests the couple was ex-
pecting friends of their only daughter,
Palomar.
That fateful day, the jovial guests
started to spill into mans spacious com-
pound early in the morning. It was the
day Palomar was to introduce her boy-
friend whom she was to marry later in
the year. Palomar was the most beautiful
girl in the entire village and everyone
was excited about the ceremony.
After exchanging greetings with the
guests, man accompanied them to a big,
shady neem tree that stood in the mid-
dle of the compound, where he typically
received his important visitors. Mats
were already spread, and he quickly
asked his wife to prepare tea for the
guests.
Nothing for the guests
Mans wife straight away strolled to the
kitchen. When she opened the kitchens
door, she realised the pot where she
had stored the milk was open. Curious,
she got closer. To her disappointment
there wasnt a drop of milk left! She im-
mediately suspected lion their pet to be
behind the crime. Frustrated, she looked
in the cupboard to see if there was
anything else for the guests. There was
nothing to oer the guests.
She then started to call out for patsy,
as that was how they fondly called lion.
But patsy was nowhere to be seen. She
wondered what to do. Their herd of cat-
tle which would have saved the family
from embarrassment had unluckily been
driven to a faraway land to graze.
Shortly, she revealed the sad news to
man, who could not believe the turn of
events. He quickly excused himself to
search for lion. But his bid to locate lion
also turned a futile exercise. He then
unhappily returned to his guests and ex-
plained the situation to them.
Luckily, the guests understood, as they
downplayed the situation. The ceremony
went on well as Palomar accepted her
suitors hand in marriage. However, man
would not nd it in his heart to forgive
lion for the embarrassment he had
caused them.
As darkness began to set it, lion bra-
zenly showed up at mans compound.
Mans wife was the rst to spot him while
he was entering the gate. She immedi-
ately woke up her husband who was in
a nap, Darling, the shameless idiot is
here, she muttered. Man sprung out of
his bed and immediately reached for his
baton and gave lion a hot chase.
Disappeared forever
Lion ran to the bush, where he forever
disappeared and blended with other wild
animals. He miserably turned bloody
in order to survive in the wild, after be-
ing cut o from the daily milk supply
by man. Luckily though, man out of his
compassion, retained lions osprings,
who loyally stay with him up to today as
his cats and enjoy his milk daily.
- HASSAN MALIK MOHAMED
T
he sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal native
to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacic
Ocean. It spends most of its time oating on water while
lying on its back. Although it can walk on land, the sea ot-
ter lives mostly in the ocean. The generic name, Enhydra, is
derived from the Ancient Greek in and water, meaning in
the water, and the Latin word lutris, meaning otter.
The animals feed on sea urchins, crabs, octopuses and
sh. Sometimes they place a rock on their chests, and
smash the shellsh against it until it breaks open so that
they can eat the tasty meal inside. By doing so, they are
some of the few mammals that use tools.
After eating, they wash themselves with water. They
also like grooming their fur with their teeth and paws.
This helps the fur to remain waterproof and protect them
against the cold. They have no insulating fat on their
skins. Sea otters give birth in the water. Mothers take care
of their young while oating on their backs. They hold
infants on their chests to suck them, while teaching them
how to swim and hunt. The animals also sleep while oat-
ing on their backs. Their nostrils and ears are able to close
in the water.
easy sudoku
did you know?
its story time
Answers on page 8
SEA OTTERS SLEEP WHILE
FLOATING ON THEIR BACKS
HOW MAN AND LION BECAME ENEMIES
The rules of Sudoku are quite simple. You are presented with
a 6x6 grid of boxes, some empty, some lled with numbers in
the range of 1 to 6. That gives you 2 rows, 3 columns and also
2 larger squares of 2x3 boxes.
The idea of Sudoku is to completely ll the empty grid
squares with numbers in such a way that the following condi-
tions hold true:
1) Every row should contain the numbers 1 to 6 but should not
repeat the numbers 1 to 6 at any point within that row.
2) Every column should contain the numbers 1 to 6 but should
not repeat the numbers 1 to 6 at any point within that column.
3) Every 2x3 square should contain the numbers 1 to 6 but
should not repeat the numbers 1 to 6 at any point within that
square.
young nation
ACROSS
1. First letter
of the Greek
alphabet
5. To travel on
a ship or boat
6. A large
celestial body
that moves
around the
Sun
7. To wander
about without
any denite
goal
9. A republic
in West Africa, on the
Gulf of Guinea
11. A wormlike larva of
certain insects, as the y
12. A river in East Africa
owing from Lake Victo-
ria through to Egypt
13. To surround or attack
from all sides
DOWN
2. Kinds of bulbous plant
bearing large showy
white or reddish owers
3. A man who is very at-
tractive
4. To nd fault with, re-
proach
5. To be chocked, kill by
squeezing the throat
8. Make amends
10. Sound or the quality
of sound
SOLUTIONS ON PAGE 8
crossword
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SUD0KU
solutions
MYA EXCELS IN SWIMMING, EYES TRAINED ON OLYMPICS
sports time...
SPORTS QUIZ
Answers
1. Manuel
Pellegrini
2. Chile
young nation
ACROSS
1. Alpha 5. Sail 6. Planet 7. Roam 9. Togo
11. Maggot 12. Nile 13. Beset
DOWN
2. Lily 3. Handsome 4. Blame 5. Strangle
8. Atone 10. Tone
CROSSWORD
colour me
BY ELVIS ONDIEKI
eondieki@ke.nationmedia.com
A
t just nine years, Mya Omondi has won 46 med-
als from various swimming competitions she has
participated in. A fth grade pupil at the Braeburn
School, Kisumu, Mya also holds the record of being the
fastest swimmer her age across the 11 Braeburn schools in
East Africa.
She is proud to have set a record in the under-nine cat-
egory of the Inter-Braeburn swimming competition held
in Nairobis Lavington area last year.
The last born girl in a family of two children also holds
the record of the fastest swimmer in the 25-metre under-10
swimming in the Turi upcountry swimming competitions.
She broke the record early this year.
Other competitions in which she has taken part in are
the 2013 edition of the Kenya Swimming Federa-
tion Junior Championships, the Rosslyn
Academy International Gala and the
Nyasa Swimming Gala.
Mya told Young Nation that her
proudest moment in the swim-
ming pool was last year when she
emerged third in the East African
Junior Championships.
It was a special moment for me
because I was competing with other
girls from Uganda and Tanzania. I
had just turned nine and most of my
competitors were a few months older,
she said.
She is determined to become a
better swimmer and one day repre-
sent Kenya in world-class swimming
competitions, just like her role model
Jason Dunford.
Jason Dunford inspires me a lot. I will work hard and
be like him one day. I will be very happy to represent
Kenya in the Olympics, Mya said.
Her passion for swimming started when she was
barely a year old, according to her mother, Janet Nyabilo.
She learnt the art of swimming from her dad and I. We
used to swim very often and she was eager to join us.
After joining Braeburn in 2007, Myas passion for
swimming got a boost thanks to swimming classes of-
fered at the institution. The school swimming coach,
Linet Odhiambo, said Mya has a deep interest in swim-
ming.
She pays lots of attention to what I tell her. She is in
the category of those who do not require much attention
while in the pool.
The coach went on to say that Mya has a better phy-
sique and stamina than most of her age mates. Her
body build makes her very good at buttery swimming.
With consistent training, she will achieve her dream
of being like Jason Dunford, she noted.
Myas mother added that she has strived
hard to ensure her daughters swimming
skills are honed so that she becomes the
best she can be. Swimming is an expensive
sport. I often have to cater for her upkeep
wherever she goes. But I am determined to
spend whatever amount so she can participate
in a sport that I did not get a chance to take
part in when I was in school, she explained.
The young swimmers mother added that
she was proud to see both Mya and her elder
sister soar to greater heights in the swimming
world.
Their determination gives me the urge to
ensure that they encounter as few obstacles as
possible in order to realise their full potential,
said Janet, who is a teacher at Braeburn.
PHOTO/TOM OTIENO
Main picture: Mya Ashanti during
swimming practice in Kisumu.
Inset: Mya shows o her medals.
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