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GELDOF SHOULD GET TO KNOW KENYA FIRST

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:36:36 +0300

By Andrea Bohnstedt

SCANNING the world news, I saw that Greece is grappling with an exacerbating financial and economic crisis: large and widening budget deficit, rising public debt, rating agency downgrades, budget cuts and now public protests and widespread strikes against the austerity measures...

DUAL CITIZENSHIP LANDMARK RULING

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:29:21 +0300

By Waikwa Wanyoike

There is a widely held belief that the current Kenyan constitution prohibits, without exception deal citizenship for persons over 21 years of age...

Let's Refocus Our National Values, Goals

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:25:13 +0300

BY KANYI GIOKO

When Kenya attained independence four decades ago, there was jubilation and hope by the citizens.

This was not based on the mere fact that the colonial masters were finally handing over power but also because of the massive wealth waiting to be exploited for the benefit of all...

LACK OF ORDER IS OUR WEAK POINT

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:21:28 +0300

By Jerry Okungu

A few years ago Mr Albert Ekirapa was at the helm of what is today known as Nation Media Group. In that era most corporate companies used to be managed by executive chairmen...

Stop Petty Wrangles Over Constitution

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:15:28 +0300

LAST month the country heaved a collective Sigh of relief when at the end of the Naivasha retreat the political leadership emerged to say they had reached a consensus on the draft constitution...

Land Alliance Alarmed By Somali Businesses

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:13:51 +0300

BY DINFIN MULUPI

THE Kenya Land Alliance has raised the red flag over the mushrooming multimillion shilling businesses by Somalis in Mombasa.

The organisation claimed the businessmen are using piracy cash to buy buildings and start businesses...

Joho Yet To Know If He'll Pay Cost Of Poll Petition

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:12:00 +0300

BY DINFIN MULUPI

KISAUNI MP Ali Hassan Joho is yet to know if he will pay the costs of an election petition he filed against former MP Anania Mwaboza.

Court of Appeal judge Philip Waki asked the lawyers in the petition to wait for a later date for the ruling to be made...

Sh300m G4S Theft Suspects Set Free

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:10:25 +0300

BY DINFIN MULUPI

FOUR suspects charged with stealing Sh300 million in the G4S cash-in-transit robbery were yesterday released on a Sh20 million bond. each.

G4S workers Sylvester Mutua and Humphrey Wanjala were ordered to provide sureties for a similar sum by a Mombasa court...

Bungoma Lawyers End Five-Week Court Boycott

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:09:01 +0300

BY SIMBI KUSIMBA

BUNGOMA lawyers have called off their court boycott. Law Society of Kenya branch chairman Amos Makokha said they stopped' the five-week boycott after Chief Justice Evan Gicheru promised to post a second judge...

Court Blocks Miriti's Plan To Subdivide Plot

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:05:20 +0300

BY MURAGE GITHINJI

A former assistant minister for trade has been barred from selling his family's ancestral land.

Former Nithi MP Petkay Miriti and his brothers Eustace Nkonge and Benson Micheni have been blocked by the high court from selling a disputed family plot that has sparked off a row between the brothers, their stepmother and an uncle...

SDA Church Backs Kadhi's Court In Draft Constitution

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:03:43 +0300

BY MURAGE GITHINJI

THE Seventh' Day Adventist Church has backed the Kadhi's court in the draft constitution. Executive director of the East Africa Union, who is its head in Kenya, pastor Paul Muasia, censured the other churches for viewing the Kadhi's courts as a backdoor introduction of Sharia law...

Lack Of Trust Hindering Security, Says Top Cop

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:00:19 +0300

BY WAMBUGU KANYI

LACK of trust between the police and the public is a hurdle in community policing, a senior policewoman said yesterday.

The director of community policing, gender and child protection at police 'headquarters Beatrice Nduta said the public does not trust the police with information...

TLB Impounds 60 Cars Over Fake Stickers

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:56:57 +0300

BY WAMBUGU KANYI

TRANSPORT Licensing Board, is alarmed at the number of fake stickers used by public service vehicles. TLB chairman Wilfred Legei said 60 vehicles have been, impounded in Nyeri and Meru for having fake stickers...

Sh4bn Disease-Free Zones For Livestock To Be Set Up

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:55:26 +0300

BY MATHEWS NDANYI

THE African Development Bank and the government are setting up disease-free zones in livestock producing areas at a cost of Sh4 billion.

Minister for Livestock Mohammed Kuti said the project is underway and the zones will be in place by 2012...

Narok KCSE Flop Blamed On Teachers

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:53:33 +0300

THE poor performance by Narok North District in last year's Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examinations has been blamed on lack of commitment from teachers.

Area deputy quality assurance officer Rose Siloma said some teachers do not take their work seriously...

980 Nurses For CDF Clinics In Rift Valley

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:52:12 +0300

BY MATHEWS NDANYI

NEWLY-hired nurses are to be deployed to hospitals established through CDF cash in all the constituencies in Rift Valley. Already the process of posting the 980 nurses is underway and most of the idle health centres will be revived in the next few months...

IIEC To Set Up Political Disputes Committee

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:49:00 +0300

BY IRENE WAIRIMU

THE Interim Independent Electoral Commission is in the process of creating a political liaisons committee. Chairman Ahmed Issack Hassan said the committee will resolve party disputes...

Farmers Blame Wrong Seeds For Maize Failure

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:47:12 +0300

BY ANGWENYI GICHANA

MAIZE farmers in Trans Mara West have made huge losses. Worst hit are farmers under Keiyan Group Ranch who said their crop has rotten after they planted wrong variety of seed...

Raila And Kibaki Agree To Have Kalonzo Chair HBC

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:42:02 +0300

BY ISAAC ONGIRI

PRIME Minister Raila Odinga has finally agreed to allow Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka assume the position of Leader of Government Business in Parliament...

Kenyan Girl In Kampala Held Over Lover's Killing

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:40:20 +0300

A Kenyan university student in Uganda has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend to death.

Jane Nyiha - a second-year bachelor of public administration student at Kampala International University - is accused of stabbing David Ivita in the throat...

Kamanda Leads With 15,000 Votes In Starehe Vote Recount

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:34:44 +0300

BY JOHN KORIR

FORMER Starehe MP Maina Kamanda yesterday maintained his lead in the vote recount for the constituency. By last evening, Kamanda had 15,000 votes against 7,500 for Housing assistant minister Bishop Margaret Wanjiru...

Ex-KPC Chairman Dantas Absence Delays Sh1.2 Billion Fraud Hearing

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:32:23 +0300

BY STAR REPORTER

FORMER chairman of the Kenya Pipeline Company board Maurice Dantas is yet to be arrested over fraud. Dantas is facing a Sh1.2 billion fraud case.

A magistrate handling the case was yesterday informed that the hearing cannot start in the absence of Dantas...

Trader Denies Selling Sh24m Land In Kajiado

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:27:11 +0300

BY VINCENT AGOYA

A businessman was yesterday charged with selling off a plot she did not own. Petronilah , Nyambura allegedly sold off a plot in Ole Kasasi village in Kajiado at Sh24 million by posing as the owner...

Ex-MP Son's Murder Case To Start Afresh

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:23:32 +0300

BY CAROLE MAINA

A MURDER case in which two men are accused of killing a former MP's son took. a surprising twist yesterday when a judge declared it a mistrial.

Justice Muhamed Warsame directed the case which has been rife with controversy and surprise since it began in January 2009 to restart afresh...

Wajir South Vote Recount Adjourned

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:09:53 +0300

BY JOHN KORIR

VOTE recount for Wajir South was yesterday adjourned to March 22 after 56 ballot boxes were scrutinised.

MP Ali Hassan is in the lead in the vote recount...

Kibaki Exempts Wekesa From Travel Ban

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:07:03 +0300

BY WAMBUGU KANYI

PRESIDENT Kibaki has exempted Forestry and Wildlife Minister Noah Wekesa from the travel ban an all ministers and allowed him to attend the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species meeting which will be held in Doha, Qatar, next week...

US Accuses Police Of Extra-Judicial Killings

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:00:17 +0300

BY FRANCIS MUREITHI

THE United States has accused the Kenya police of being trigger-happy and continuing to torture suspects.

In a report prepared by the US Department of State, President Barrack Obama's administration says the police violated the rights of citizens last year...

Parties Scramble For Numbers As Stalemate Looms Over Draft Law

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:45:55 +0300

BY ISAAC ONGIRI

MATHEMATICAL politics has now caught up with parliament, farcing PNU and ODM into serious lobbying to push their agenda ahead of crucial debate an the draft constitution in the House next week...

EAC Ministry To Face Ethnic Community Audit

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:38:10 +0300

BY NZAU MUSAU

THE ministry of East African Community became the first to offer itself for a staff audit meant to tame tribal- ism in the civil service. During a meeting between the ministry and National Cohesion and Integration Commission yesterday, PS Davis Onalo offered his ministry up for audit by the commission which is mandated by the law to ensure integration in the country...

Government Now To Force Arms Disarmament Process

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:34:21 +0300

BY MAXWELL MASAVA

KENYANS still keeping illegal firearms must brace themselves for hard times after the government amnesty expired on February 20. Internal Security PS Francis Kimemia said the government was now entering the force phase four months after carrying out a voluntary surrender programme on illegal arms...

Mudavadi In Bid To Sue KACC Over Grave Scam

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:32:24 +0300

BY STAR TEAM

DEPUTY prime minister Musalia Mudavadi has given Kenya Anti Corruption Commission acting director John Mutonyi seven days to admit liability or be sued for libel and breach of statutory duty over the Sh290 million cemetery scam...

More Kidney Doctors Needed, Says Nyong'o

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:28:14 +0300

BY BETH MBATIA

MEDICAL Services minister Prof Anyang' Nyong'o has directed the Kenyatta National Hospital to train more physicians to deal with kidney diseases.

Speaking at the World Kidneys Day celebrations on Thursday, Nyong'o said the numbers of dialysis patients is overwhelming...

Kenyan Girl Arrested In London With 1.6m Pounds Fraud Cash

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:25:19 +0300

BY AGENCIES

26-year-old Kenyan woman facing along jail term in the UK for being an accomplice in Sh780 million mortgage fraud.

Ruth Wambui Mungai who married Nigerian Vidor Ayinde- Azeez three years ago, allegedly helped her husband to launder the fraudulently acquired funds...

MINSTERS CLASH OVER KILLINGS

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:18:59 +0300

BY STAR REPORTERS

TWO Cabinet Ministers yesterday clashed in public over the circumstances in which seven taxi drivers were killed in Kawangware on Wednesday night.

While Internal Security minister George Saitoti said the seven were armed thugs shot after ambushing the police, his Health and Sanitation counterpart Beth Mugo insisted he had been "misadvised" and that the seven men were executed by the administration police...

How I Helped Mathenge Escape From Kimathi

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:00:45 +0300

By Peter Thatiah

"One of the grave consequences of joining the Mau Mau was the immediate shooting of my mother. She was shot in the backside, leading to an injury that would make one of her leg shorter for the rest of her life...

Why Koinange Street Is No Longer Flashy

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:59:44 +0300

One enterprising Kenyan woman has started a brothel. The brothel is only three months old but the owner is already smiling to the bank and is said to be thinking of opening more branches in other towns...

Of Loyalty And Betrayal In Mau Mau Camps

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:58:47 +0300

It took a lot of guts for one to join Mau Mau movement and more so a woman; but for Mama Deborah Wambui Nderitu she dined with Dedan Kimathi and was there when Gen Stanley Mathenge disappeared...

In Juba, A Haircut Will Cost You Sh800

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:57:19 +0300

By John Oywa

The challenge facing Kenyans in Southern Sudan is the high cost of living. Experts say Juba is one of the most expensive towns in the world. Although it is the largest and the capital city of the semi-autonomous country, Juba remains a collection of old scattered buildings, mud walled and make shift bamboo structures...

PNU Died A Long Time Ago And ODM Could Be Burying Itself Alive

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:55:24 +0300

Gathenya Njaramba

American scientists have come up with a startling find many people will be reluctant to believe, and more so Kenyans. The scientists opine while astronomers are busy scouring the skies for signs of life in the outer space, more than half of the Earth's life could be beneath...

As We Cheer Some Of The Top Schools, We Must Not Forget Their Dirty Tricks

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:52:56 +0300

Otuma Ongalo

The dust is gradually settling following celebrations over students and schools that performed well in last year's KCSE examination. The boys and girls who excelled were sought by journalists even in slums and villages and hailed as heroes and heroines...

Lip Service Wont Deliver Equal Opportunities

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:51:29 +0300

Njoki Ndung'u

To celebrate the International Women's day on Monday, I joined students of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa for an award ceremony for creative essays on gender-based violence...

Let Us Use Quality Of Students And School Resources To Evaluate KCSE Performance

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:50:14 +0300

Kilemi Mwiria

That 163,286 (49 per cent) of all candidates who sat the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination last year scored a grade of D plus or below is regrettable...

National Cancer Of Corruption And Virus Of Ethnicity Have Spread Everywhere

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:48:29 +0300

Barrack Muluka

Basic Education Minister Sam Ongeri has recently taken time off his woes with Prime Minister Raila Odinga and sundry politicos who claim to be fighting, to release KCSE examination results for last year, and to wonder what ails my good old high school...

Government Must Protect Kenyans In Sudan

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:36:59 +0300

The Government of Southern Sudan is facing two major events that could change its history and influence its destiny. It is going for elections next month - its first since the signing of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement with the North...

Security Agencies Should Probe Reports On Stockpiling Of Arms

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:36:06 +0300

Reports that some people are arming themselves are scary and an indicator that the level of suspicion in cosmopolitan areas are still high two years after the post-election violence that rocked our country...

East Africa Needs $20b For Railways

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:33:01 +0300

By Fumbuka Ng'wanakalala

The East African Community (EAC) needs some $20 billion to upgrade the railway network in its five member countries and boost trade, Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete said on Thursday...

Water Services Firm Struggles To Pay Sh18m Power Debt

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:31:19 +0300

By Robert Nyasato

Gusii Water and Sanitation Company (Gwasco) has invested Sh2.5 million to improve service delivery. However, a portion of the funds will be used to service a huge power debt it owes the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC)...

Ministry Officials Caught Up In Controversial Oil Contract

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:30:09 +0300

By Dann Okoth

Confusion gripped the petroleum industry into the weekend as more questions engulfed the controversial Geo-Chem contract deal.

Perhaps more disturbing is the abrupt about-turn by Industrialisation ministry on a deal it presided over...

Citibank Fights Back On Safaricom IPO Allegations

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:28:19 +0300

By James Anyanzwa

Citibank N.A., the Safaricom IPO lead receiving bank, has absolved itself from blame over the financial woes facing brokerage firms saying the bank does not owe them any money...

Teach A Child How To Manage Money

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:26:54 +0300

By John Muturi

The ability to manage money does not come naturally, it has to be learned. For a child, pocket money is the first chance to learn money management. It allows them a limited amount of responsibility over minor purchases, as well as giving them a sense of independence and a lesson on the value of money...