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Issue No. 616
Gov't to be sued over Wagalla
The third Caliph Uthman
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Friday Bulletin
The
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The government should address the rising cases of double registration among
residents of North Eastern region and
provide them with Kenyan registration
documents.
Describing the problems as a time
bomb, Dadaab MP Muhammad Dahiye
stressed on the government to address
the concern as thousands of youth cannot get access to education or employment opportunities and face constant
harassment at the hands of security officials.
Many youths from North Eastern region
are unable to acquire Kenyan Identity
Cards after they were captured in the
United Nations High Commission for
Refugees (UNHCR) database.
The most affected are the 1992 drought
destitute in Dadaab who registered as
refugees with the UNHCR to be enlisted
for food rations and those seeking opportunities to be repatriated overseas.
The legislator revealed that corrupt government registration personnel have taken advantage of their dire situation and
are working with cartels to extort money on the pretext that they will provide
them with Kenyan national Identification
cards.There are some corrupt county
government officials who get millions of
shillings to give desperate people Kenyan national ID, he told a task force established which is probing the problem.
Presenting his views to the task force
formed to address problem of double
registration by Kenyans, the MP said the
government should come up with a lasting solution to the problem while voicing
his fears that Kenyans might end up being stateless as they cannot acquire the
ID cards because they are captured as
refugees.
He urged the government to strike off the
names of genuine Kenyans from the refugee data base so they can be officially
recognized as a Kenyan.
The Dadaab legislator suggested that
genuine Kenyans in the UNHCR data
base should be vetted by elders under
Mvita MP Abdulswamad Sharrif Nassir (Left) and National Assembly majority leader
Aden Duale (Centre) confer with the Chief Justice Wali Muhammad Mutunga. The MPs
were among a delegation of Parliamentarians from North Eastern and Coast regions
who paid a courtesy call to the Chief Justice last week.
EDITORIAL
Gov't must reign in the ever escalating cost of Jamia to run Islamic public
secondary school education
awareness programmes
The cost of secondary school education in the country has reached levels where it is increasingly becoming a farfetched dream for the many
young Kenyans to access education.
The government through the ministry of education, elected leaders and
other education stakeholders who include parents, religious leaders and
trade unions ought to interrogate the
factors that are making the cost of
secondary education so prohibitive
and beyond the reach of many parents.
Due to high costs of secondary education some students have not even
reported to their respective secondary schools because of financial constraints.
Is it tenable for the average Kenyan family and more so in areas
like the Coast and North Eastern
regions where an average family
is composed of six or so children
to afford secondary school fees of
Sh50,000-112, 000 per year as currently charged by county and national schools?
One thing is very clear, a significant
population of Kenyans live below the
poverty mark and few can afford to
educate their children beyond primary school and this is among the
reasons which has contributed to rising cases of joblessness, drug abuse
and other social evils which can be
attributed to idleness.
There are high chances that corruption has become embedded in the
management of secondary school
education and it is the key driver of
the escalating costs of secondary
school education in Kenya.
Corruption is self-perpetuating and it
has the ability to rapidly multiply itself to untamable proportions if it is
left unchecked.
County governments must intervene
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DA'WA
PARENTING SEMINAR
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SUNDAY LECTURE
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Raudhah Muhammad
YOUTH
I remember the first time I heard the song by a local singer titled
Facebook Love. The lyrics were perhaps catchy for teenagers,
but certainly not for a young adult like me.
In fact, I was a bit surprised that such a song could be approved
and admired by so many. There is no real substance, but merely
an empty narrative on how the singer thinks she has fallen in love
with a guy whom she knew only through Facebook.
With so little knowledge about this guy and his background, the
singer went on and on about how thrilling the relationship was,
and how the new love she found has given her so much happiness. The singer openly confessed in the lyrics that her brain tells
her not to do so but the heart says yes. They got worse when
the singer finally sang, Need to close my eyes, and try anything!
While such a song may appear innocent, cute and funny to some
people, there is indeed a real need for society to be more critical
towards whatever that is feeding the mind of the young people
today.
Adults often express their shock when teenagers become wild and
manifest various inappropriate attitudes and behaviors, but they
turn a blind eye to the gradual, cumulative effects of the seemingly mild daily engagements of their children. Perhaps we have
forgotten that any sudden, shocking event is usually an outcome
of various factors, which happen gradually with time.
A new kind of love
Love today has become widely and terribly misunderstood. The
love relationship that is supposed to be associated with purity, tenderness and affection has turned into sexual, titillating desires and
erotic-emotional ties, which in reality has nothing to do with love.
After watching Taylor Swifts Love Story and Rihannas Diamond
video clips, I became baffled and even disgusted that such meaningless and demeaning depictions could actually be confused with
love. And this is the kind of misleading message our teens are
getting each day!
With the advent of social media, love becomes even cheaper and
easier to buy. Girls and boys, and men and women begin to fall
in love so often with people whom they barely know, whose existence they assume, and whose characters they imagine. Images
of cute guys and pretty girls easily deceive them, and they forget
that the pictures look so good only because they are taken from
the best angle (to cover a growing pimple), edited, simulated or do
not belong to the person in the first place!
Many unbelievable stories have been documented, as a consequence of unwise use of social media. A couple breaking up on
their wedding day only because they have never met before, and
the guy finds out for the first time that his wife to-be is not as pretty
as the images he saw in her Facebook pages. A girl gets brokenhearted when she discovers that her virtual boyfriend does not
look like David Beckham, whose picture he uses to reflect himself
in the social media.
A married couple getting divorced only because the husband has
a cyber affair with a beautiful woman whose existence is yet to
be confirmed. All such narratives tell us that even though it is just
Facebook, social media can have powerful and negative impacts
on how humans behave and perceive emotions.
Love is a process
The young today perhaps need to unlearn some of the concepts
they have subconsciously internalized. Love is one of them. Love
is not about getting hyped up and excessively thrilled about someone when you barely know them. That is infatuation. And love has
nothing to do with that roller coaster emotional ride you have when
you are around that special one. That is being hormonal.
In reality, real love is about actions and sacrifice, not dry mouths
and butterflies. Love is a verb, not a feeling.
To achieve love, it requires a process. The more you know and
appreciate a person, the stronger the love is. On the contrary, love
which appears in few seconds or minutes will rarely last for more
than a year, or even a month.
If you suddenly make a firm oath that a guy you just saw few minutes ago is your soul-mate forever, and that it is love at first sight,
it is very likely that you are out of your mind. On another occasion,
if you insist on loving the bad guy hoping that he would eventually
change for you, even when everyone else who cares about you
disagrees, you are again out of your mind.
It is not wrong to treat the social media, songs and movies around
us with a critical mind. In fact, it is wise to do so, for what we watch
and read every day become the ingredients that determine who
we are, what we think and how we behave.
Today, people move fast, work fast and get things done fast. We
love speed, we desire immediate outcome and we eat instant
food. But there is one thing that cannot be instant, lest it value
diminishes and its pleasure is lost. That is love.
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