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T
he mother of Transport
Principal Secretary
Nduva Muli has accused
him of lying as the dispute over
the family’s multi-million-
PS Nduva Muli: Sued by siblings and mother.
shilling property escalated
yesterday.
Mrs Evangeline Celeste Muli
has sided with her daughters,
Ms Jane Nthanze Muli and
Court of Appeal judge Agnes
Murgor in their battle to
stop the PS from interfering
with the property left by her
husband, former Attorney- HOW TO GIVE KENYANS
General Mathew Guy Muli.
VALUE FOR THEIR CASH
At the centre of the high-
profile family dispute is Economist David Ndii on the
Mukengesya Holdings Limited, inflated cost of goods and
services in government. P. 2
CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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April 5, 2014

PUBLIC EXPENDITURE | David Ndii

Here’s how to
projects and consumables.” More
Latin Mass.
Dr Mutua: “We have the
capacity to construct double

give Kenyans
the number of roads, hospitals,
schools and police stations if
we streamline our processes”.
Microeconomics. “Our job is
not to make the cartels happy.

value for cash

When corruption fights, we will
fight back”. Leadership.
The CS cooks numbers, too.
He says that the wage bill is
Sh521 billion or equivalent to
54 per cent of ordinary revenue.
We have a generation of technocrats who, There are two tricks here. The
first is giving the consolidated
after two decades of pushing macro- public wage bill, which includes
economic reforms, have lost touch with that of the counties and all
parastatals as a percentage of
reality. They are in permanent reform mode central government revenue. But
counties also collect revenue, as

A
couple of years ago, I
participated in an annual
parliamentary pre-budget
workshop in which the Treas-
ury presents its proposals to
the money committees. I was
there as a resource person for
Parliament. Strengthening Par-
liament’s budget and economic
policy oversight has been one of
my pursuits for the better part
of two decades, and which, if
I may say so, has not exactly
endeared me to the mandarins
at the Treasury.
This particular workshop took
place against the backdrop of a
severe drought and a global fi-
nancial crisis and the economy
was yet to recover from the
post-election violence. So, as
you might imagine, the mem-
bers were eager to hear what
proposals the government had
to respond to these economic
shocks. The Treasury mandarins
made their usual slick, somewhat
patronising presentations.
Then Deputy Speaker Farah
Maalim was first to respond.
Do you have microeconomists
in the Treasury? he asked. You
could tell they did not see that
one coming and they did not see
In your
where he was going with it. They
did not answer, so he went on
to make his point. He observed
that crops had failed, livestock
was dying, small businesses were
struggling, and all the Treasury
could present to Parliament was
the same old “World Bank and
IMF macroeconomic templates”
that they did every year.
I will leave you to your im-
agination on how the rest of
the session went. But clearly, the
riposte had the desired effect for
when the budget came out, its
highlight was the famous eco-
nomic stimulus package, which
had, among other goodies, the
fish ponds project that I have
written about previously.
I was reminded of this incident
by two contrasting contributions
to the wage bill debate. One was
by Machakos Governor Alfred
Mutua and the other by the
Cabinet Secretary for Finance,
Mr Henry Rotich.
Dr Mutua’s makes a straight-
forward case. The problem with
our public finances, he says, is
not the wage bill, but rather the
inflated cost of goods. The gov-
ernment, he writes, bought water
at Sh100 a bottle, which sells at
Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich. ‘His ministry has technocrats who have lost touch with reality.’
Sh20. It paid Sh400,000 for fur-
niture that would cost Sh50,000.
Dr Mutua is a person who puts
his (well our) money where his
mouth is. According to news-
paper reports, his recreational
park cost Sh20 million. Had
that been a national government
project, we’d be talking Sh400
million, and it would still not be
complete.
Dr Mutua was criticised by the
people he calls “process-oriented
bureaucrats” for buying second
hand cars. His defence is sim-
ple and straightforward. “Why
should I or my officials drive new,
expensive cars whereas the rest
of Kenyans buy reconditioned
vehicles?”
Chasing shadows
So he bought second hand cars
for Sh1.7 million instead of new
ones for Sh6 million. For 20 cars,
he would have saved Sh86 mil-
lion, which, he says, he used to
buy security vehicles and am-
bulances. He is now spending
Sh650 million on a road that the
KeNHA had estimated would
cost Sh1.3 billion.
Tomorrow
Behind the wage bill debate
lies a broader fiscal reform
agenda. High and unsustain-
able spending on public wages
crowds out resources and poses
serious risks to macroeconomic
stability. The reform agenda is
intended to reorient public ex-
penditure towards addressing
our development challenges.
It is part of the government’s
fiscal policy strategy, which fo-
cuses on maintaining a strong
stream of revenue and containing
the growth of total expenditure…
and on, and on, and on…
What am I driving at? We
have, I am afraid, a generation
of technocrats, who after two
decades of implementing mac-
roeconomic reforms, have lost
touch with reality. They are in
permanent reform mode not
because there is a need for it,
but because they do not know
anything else. They are like the
early African catechists who
would lead the congregation in
singing Latin Mass without the
foggiest idea what they were
talking about. It is all very well,
when they are implementing
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an IMF programme because
Washington writes the script.
The problem now is that they
don’t have a script.
My first real encounter with
this was in 2003, when Narc
came to power. For a decade,
the government had been run-
ning a tight monetary policy
regime to mop up the money
printed through Goldenberg
in 1992 and more to finance
the 1997 elections. By around
2000, macroeconomic stability
had been restored, but the gov-
ernment kept the regime in place.
We ended up with low inflation
and a comatose economy.
We proposed to loosen mon-
etary policy. I recall the moment
very clearly — it was at a work-
shop in Leisure Lodge in Kwale.
The then Central Bank Governor
nearly jumped out of his seat.
The IMF representative looked
like he’d seen a ghost. After their
loud protestation and exhortation
about the horrors of inflation, we
posed a simple question. Which
is preferable, a patient in a coma
(very stable), or one who is active
and running a fever? Loosening
monetary policy carried the day.
But it took a change of governor
for it to be implemented.
The situation we are in is not
dissimilar to 2003. We are at a
turning point but we have left
the steering to fellows who don’t
do parastatals. Some parastatals
included in the wage bill are fully
self-financing.
The correct and honest way
of presenting this is to have two
ratios, the central government
wage bill over central govern-
ment revenue, and a consolidated
public wage bill as a percentage
of consolidated revenues, to
compare apples with apples,
so to speak. The first ratio, that
is, central government wage
to domestic revenue is 29 per
cent. I do not have the figure for
consolidated public revenues as
the government does not publish
it, but my guesstimate is that it
should be no more than 25 per
cent. These people must think
we are completely stupid.
You may note that I have used
domestic revenue not ordinary
revenue like the CS. This is the
second trick. Ordinary revenue
means tax revenues. The purpose
of this trick is to exaggerate the
wage revenue ratio.
The presentation made by the
Planning and Devolution CS to
the wage conference referred to
a wage bill revenue ratio of 51
per cent. Excluding the A-in-A
bumps it rises to 54 per cent.
It’s not much, but when you are
fabricating a crisis, every little
helps.
What is all this obfuscation
and data cooking in aid of ?
Insincerity, wrote Orwell in his
essay Politics and the English

A tough first year for

know how to turn the ship. So,
Spark from the sky they keep telling us that we must
keep on a straight course.
that burnt Rwanda
Uhuru and Ruto
According to Dr Mutua’s ex-
Exactly 20 years ago tomorrow, amples, we could save at least
Rwandan President Juvenal a third of our non-wage expen-
Language, “is the great enemy
of clear language. When there
is a gap between one’s real and
one’s declared aims, one turns
instinctively to long words and
exhausted idioms.”

I
ditures by buying goods at the The CS concludes: “It is
t has been a difficult first year in power for the Habyarimana and Burundi’s
correct price. This is not rocket clear from the foregoing that
Jubilee Alliance. Criminal proceedings at the ICC, a Cyprien Ntaryamira died when science. How much money are our debate about the wage bill
new constitution, devolution, and insecurity, have all the plane they were travelling in we talking about? This year, the is, indeed, about a broader fiscal
added to the challenge of reviving Kenya’s economy and from Tanzania was shot down. expenditure on goods and serv- reform agenda covering expendi-
strengthening its institutions. But how have President Uhuru The events that followed the ices is Sh750 billion. One third ture rationalisation, expenditure
Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto performed so far? twin assassinations on April 6, of this is Sh225 billion. efficiency and effectiveness
Has President Kenyatta delivered in the key areas of unity, 1994 horrified the world. In the The wage bill of the central and enhanced revenue effort.
manifesto pledges, security, corruption, civil liberties, and following 100 days, an estimated government is Sh284 billion. Any resources raised through
the economy? We bring you the answers. The most we could save from the implementation of these
one million people were killed.
We revisit one of the worst retrenchment is 20 per cent, reforms will be channelled into
modern-day genocides and look which works out to Sh56 billion. a Transformation Fund.
at how the tiny country is coping Even if we take the government’s The fund will be applied only
lifestyle two decades later. inflated total public wage bill of
Sh521 billion, we would have to
to priority projects chosen
through consultations.” Eng-
retrench half the public service lish translation: We are looking
Kenya’s overweight children to save Sh225 billion. for money for laptops and the
But this is not the Treasury’s standard gauge railway.
Health experts are warning of lifestyle diseases like
top priority. The government, Orwell: “In our time, political
that shrinking playing diabetes and high blood the CS writes, has made fully speech and writing are largely
spaces and diet are making pressure. We bring you operational the integrated fi- the defence of the indefensible.
more and more urban the results of a new study nancial platform to handle the Thus, political language has to
children gain weight. This and what health experts range of its transactions and consist largely of euphemism,
exposes them to the risk recommend must be done. the procure-to-pay module, question-begging and sheer
and the government payment cloudy vagueness.”
gateway also brought it. Latin
Only in the SUNDAY NATION. Don’t miss your copy Mass. Is it these efforts that will
be complemented by “enforce-
Dr Ndii is managing direc-
tor of Africa Economics.
ment of cost benchmarks for all ndii@netsolaafrica.com
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April 5, 2014 National News 3

DISPUTE | Nduva and Court of Appeal judge Agnes Murgor fight for control of their father’s property

Powerful family locked in inheritance row

Battle for CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
the Judiciary to interfere with CHRONOLOGY
shares the company which manages the the court dispute and written to

in firm
family properties in various parts
of the country.
started by
Mrs Muli says in a sworn affida-
vit that her son Nduva has been
former CJ a stumbling block to an amicable
resolution of the dispute, accus-
escalates ing him of lying that her husband
split the company’s shares with
after him on equal terms.
siblings “My son has not been able
to prove that my husband allo-
accuse cated him 50 per cent shares in
Nduva the company. The dispute over
the family estate has been going
Muli of on for nearly 10 years mainly
because of him (Nduva Muli)
lying making unjustified claims to an
inequitable portion of the estate,”
she says.
She maintains that the com-
pany shares must be allocated
equally among her four children
and herself at 20 per cent each.
Mrs Muli says the family had
tried to divide the shares equally
but there was no resolution which
led to her daughter, Nthanze,
suing the PS.
She further accuses Nduva
of peddling falsehoods against
Agnes, and her husband, lawyer
Philip Murgor, saying that his
claims are baseless and only in-
tended to divert attention from
the real dispute.
“I am opposed to Nduva’s
engagement in slanderous false-
hoods to malign the good name
of Agnes and that of her husband
Philip Murgor, while avoiding the
central issue which is to surrender
his claim of 50 per cent shares in
the company.”
The PS had in his replying
affidavit to the suit accused his
sister of using her position in
the Judicial Service Commission
to investigate her conduct.
He swore that he suspected
Agnes had personally dated the
application at the High Court reg-
istry in her own handwriting and
requested the JSC to investigate
the identity of the handwriting
and if established it was hers,
they should take disciplinary
action against her.
The allegations were also de-
nied by Ms Melisa Njoroge from
law firm of Ms Judy Thongori
Advocates, who is acting for the
sisters.
“I am shocked to learn that
Nduva is stating that the hand-
writing on the application is that
of Agnes. We were served at the
counter by the registry clerks and
at no point did we take the ap-
plication to Judge Murgor,” swore
Ms Njoroge.
Former DPP
Mrs Muli has also opposed her
son’s application to have Mr Mur-
gor disqualified from representing
her in the dispute, saying that it
will amount to denying her the
right of legal representation.
“Nduva knows that I cannot
afford the services of an advocate
since he has retained income from
the company for the past 10 years.
His attempt to have my son-in-law
stopped from representing me is
unjustified,” says Mrs Muli.
Nduva had dragged Mr Murgor
into the dispute, accusing him of
being behind the move to publicly
embarrass him and his family.
Nthanze sued the PS over
allegations of mismanaging
and fraudulently obtaining the
shareholding of the company they
inherited from their father and
The late Mathew Guy Muli.
from their father’s multi-mil-
lion-shilling estate.
According to the sisters,
Nduva made false statements
to fraudulently obtain majority
shareholding in the company
and that his wife had meddled
with the management of the
properties, leading to massive
wastage.
The siblings argued that their
father only agreed to incorporate
Nduva as a director in the com-
pany because at the time Nthanze
and Kenneth were out of the
country, while Agnes was busy
FILE | NATION
disinherit him from property he
claims he legally acquired from
his father.
He swore that the allegations
that he acquired shares in the
company fraudulently were
malicious and only intended to
embarrass him and his family.
The PS stated that at the time
of incorporating the company,
his father owned one indivisible
share, while he owned the other.
which translated to 50 per cent
ownership for each.
He said he retained his shares
after his father’s death and the
Daughter who
filed the suit
Jane Nthanze Muli
The 39-year-old is the last born
daughter of late Mathew Guy
Muli. She is the applicant in
the property dispute with her
brother, Ministry of Transport
Principal Secretary Joseph
Nduva Muli. She says that she
has the consent of her sister,
Lady Justice Agnes Murgor and
brother Kenneth Mutinda Muli
to sue their brother. Ms Nthanze
Muli argues that it is unfair
to allow Mr Muli to continue
mismanaging the affairs of the
company to the exclusion of
other beneficiaries and to pur-
port to allocate shares to his wife
when the proceedings he used
to obtain the grant to manage
the estate were defective and
fraudulent. She wants orders to
stop her brother from interfering
with their late father’s company,
Mukengesya Holdings Limited,
or subdividing and disposing of
pieces of land registered in the
company’s name.
Henry Muli
The former Kenyan Ambassador
to Germany is a brother of the
late Guy Muli and the chairman
of the Committee of Elders of
the Muli family. He swore an
affidavit in support of the PS
and wants the application by
his nieces against their brother
to be dismissed. According to
him, the PS had a genuine claim
to the 50 per cent shares in the
company since he was the one
who salvaged it when it was
about to collapse. “I wish to
confirm that my brother’s shares

50
The percentage that the PS says
he owns in Mukengesya, the firm
at the centre of the dispute
sought orders to stop him from
including his wife Elizabeth Muli
as a director in it.
She said that she had the con-
sent of her sister Agnes and her
brother, Mr Kenneth Mutinda
Muli, to sue their brother for
failing to account for the cash
with the Goldenberg Inquiry.
The properties in dispute com-
prise several acres of beach plots
in Malindi and developed real es-
tate in Komarock Estate, Garden
Estate, Kangundo and Tala.
In his response, Nduva accused
his siblings of trying to illegally
rest were distributed to the other
beneficiaries.
In a rejoinder to his reply,
Nthanze wants the court to allow
her to summon her brother for
cross-examination.
The dispute will be heard by Mr
Justice Luka Kimaru on April 8.
in the company were not held
by his son Nduva Muli as he said
Nduva Muli had his own shares.
The truth is that the company
was not owned by my brother
alone but also by my nephew,”
he swore.

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SECURITY | More police officers posted to areas worst hit by terror and sectarian clashes
Give up the gun or
face force of law,
Uhuru tells gangs
President BY SATURDAY NATION TEAM
@dailynation
promises newsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com
tough
P
resident Uhuru Kenyatta
action yesterday gave those
with illegal arms two
against weeks to surrender them or be
lords of punished.
Those who comply with the
crime order will be spared but those
who defy will face unspeci-
following fied consequences, warned the
a week of President.
Speaking in Kiswahili after
mayhem in delivering his official speech
during the pass-out parade for
Mombasa police recruits in Kiganjo, Presi-
and dent Kenyatta said:
“To those with illegal weapons,
Nairobi today we give them two weeks
to surrender and we will pardon
them. After two weeks, anyone
who will not have surrendered
unlicensed weapons would have
invited whatever will happen to
them.”
Earlier, the President had hinted
that security forces would soon
carry out a major operation. “What
is coming soon.... We will ask Ken-
yans to support us by giving us
information on those you think
do not mean well for the security
of this country. We will also ask
you to support us in dealing with
terrorists and gangsters who do
not wish us well,” he said without
elaborating.
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014
His statement appeared to
suggest that the government
has finally decided to deal with
terrorism and cases of armed
robberies that have hit parts of
the country.
Two weeks ago, two unidenti-
fied gunmen stormed a church in
Mombasa, killed six people and
injured several others. A week
later, three explosions in Nairobi’s
Eastleigh suburb killed six people
and wounded dozens.
The two events were followed by
a police crackdown in Eastleigh in
which more than 1,000 suspects yx
were arrested.
And on Tuesday, fiery Muslim Xyxyxyx
XYXYXYXYX | NATION
cleric Sheikh Abubakar Shariff
alias Makaburi was shot dead
outside Shimo la Tewa Prison in
Mombasa.
He had in the past made state-
ments appearing to justify the
This is the time to reclaim
our value of humanity.
This is the time to oppose
radicalisation. It is a war
against terror, nothing September 21 Westgate terror
attack in Nairobi where 67 peo-
either in their homes or outside
their gates.
them of valuables.
This prompted a police swoop
more and nothing less” ple died. Criminal gangs have terrorised on some Nairobi and Mombasa
In the last two weeks alone, city residents by waylaying them estates for wanted criminals.
President Kenyatta
four MPs have been attacked outside their gates and robbing Extra police are to be posted
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014
to Nairobi and Mombasa, the
country’s two major cities bat-
tling a wave of insecurity.
The government has also
allocated vehicles to police
and announced plans to set
up a forensic laboratory to
ensure criminals do not es-
cape the law due to lack of
evidence.
The President did not
specify which method will
be used this time round but
a police strategy paper has
suggested round the clock
patrols, profiling crime
hotspots and more robust
checks in the streets.
President Kenyatta told
security agencies to “act
ruthlessly and within the law”
in dealing with terrorists and
other organised criminals.
“A lot has been said and we
will not talk any more. All we
are requesting is for Kenyans
to back us in whatever were
are going to do.”
My full support
He stated: “Extremists
prefer death and destruc-
tion than discussion and
compromise. They will be
dealt with ruthlessly and
within the law and you will
have my full support”.
He said those hiding be-
hind religion and culture
to spread terror would be
smoked out.
“This is the time to reclaim
our value of humanity. This
is the time to oppose radi-
calisation. It is a war against
terror, nothing more and
nothing less.”
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President Uhuru Keny-
atta inspects a guard
of honour during a
pass-out ceremony of
2,209 police recruits at
Kiganjo Police College
in Nyeri yesterday
The President said that
crime wave had affected de-
velopment and job creation
in the country.
“We want to create jobs
so that all Kenyan are self-
reliant but this is impossible
with insecurity.”
During the ceremony
2,209 recruits joined the
Kenya Police Service, 1,145
(51 per cent) were male, while
1,064 (48.2 per cent) were
female.
Deputy President William
Ruto said police reforms
would enhance efficiency.
“Terrorists, cattle rus-
tlers, poachers and all
manners of criminals will
not take over our country,”
said Mr Ruto.
Inspector General of Police
David Kimaiyo said police
training would be reviewed
to keep abreast of the chang-
ing trends.
Mr Kenyatta said some
refugees had abused the
country’s hospitality by
working with terrorists.
“For more than 20 years
now, our country has been
generous to our neighbours
who have had problems in
their respective countries.
But we cannot put up with
people who continue to abuse
our kindness.”
Kenya has two refugee
camps at Kakuma in Turkana
and Dadaab in Garissa hous-
ing around 600,000 people.
But it is the Dadaab camp,
mainly inhabited by refugees
from Somalia that has been
the most unsafe.
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Youths protest
outside Masjid
Shuhadaa
in Mombasa
after prayers
yesterday. They
were dispersed
by riot police.
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NATION
Relief as Makaburi protests called off
BY NATION TEAM police but I am not aware of a worship that thay would be Officials from the four or-
satnation@ke.nationmedia.com tuk tuk driver who was hurt,” dealt with. “The Constitution ganisations alleged that 20
he said. allows demonstrations but with people have been shot dead by
P
lanned demonstra- Earlier, Mr Marwa and regulations. But when they are police in the last six months
tions in Mombasa by county police commander motivated by ill motives like in the Coast region and called
rights groups following Robert Kitur had warned disrupting businesses and for the immediate suspension
the killing of Muslim cleric residents against taking part burning property, we will not of County Commissioner
Sheikh Abubakar Shariff alias in the protest, saying they had allow them,” he said. Marwa for his recent shoot-
Makaburi were yesterday called not been sanctioned. After this appeal, four civil to-kill order.
off after religious and political Speaking at a security society groups called a press ‘‘Three people, Makaburi
leaders dissuaded the organis- meeting at the Uhuru na conference and cancelled the and two suspects linked to
ers, yesterday. Kazi building, Mr Kitur said: demonstration. the Likoni church attack, have
Supreme Council of Kenya “They applied to hold the Haki Africa, Haki Centre, been killed since his orders,”
Muslims (Supkem) Coast demonstration (Haki Africa Kenya Muslims Women Alli- said Muhuri executive director
chairman Sheikh Muhdhar and Muhuri) but their request ance and Muslim for Human Mwambi Mwasaru.
Khitamy said street protests was declined. Rights (Muhuri) announced They called for a judicial
would have worsened an al- “I am appealing to residents that they had heeded calls commission of inquiry to in-
ready tense situation. not to take part as this dem- from political, religious and vestigate the killings of terror
“We told them to consider the onstration will result in chaos,” community leaders. “We have suspects.
consequences. We didn’t want he said. opted to postpone the proces-
our youths to be victims. We He warned those who in- sion. The groups will meet on Reported by Gitonga
prevailed upon them because tended to block worshippers Monday to set a new date,” they Marete, Winnie Atieno
of the general security situation from reaching their places of said in a statement. and Galgalo Bocha
in the county,” he added.
Sheikh Muhdhar said reli-
gious and civil society groups
will continue to engage the na-
tional and county governments
to improve security.
He commended the govern-
ment for beefing up security in
Mombasa and Nairobi.
The cleric further pointed
out that Supkem had re-
scinded an earlier decision not
to work with the government
on peace and de-radicalising
programmes at the Coast.
“We shall not pull out of dia-
logue because that is the only
way to address the situation.
We will engage both the na-
tional and county governments
in peace building initiatives,”
said the Supkem boss.
But despite efforts by the
political and religious leaders,
youths in Mombasa engaged
police in brief confrontations
around Masjid Musa after the
prayers.
The skirmishes, that did
not last long, started when the
youths threw stones at police
officers patrolling the vicinity
of the mosque.
The officers promptly fired
teargas at them, sending them
scurrying for safety.
Unconfirmed reports say a
tuk tuk driver was injured after
he was stabbed with a knife.
County Commissioner
Nelson Marwa confirmed the
skirmishes but said the situa-
tion was calm.
“There was a confronta-
tion between youths and the
4
Number of civil society groups
that cancelled the planned
street protests
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April 5, 2014

WAR ON TERROR | Muslim leaders close ranks BRIEFLY

ACCIDENT | Passengers stranded

Duale threatens to ditch

GARISSA
Attackers target
Daadab airstrip

Jubilee over crackdown Two explosions rocked Dadaab

airstrip on Thursday night, ripping
off its gate. Though there were no
casualties, the blasts caused ten-
sion and panic among residents.
Speaking to the Nation, Garissa
Majority Leader said amidst chants from the County Commissioner Rashid
charged crowd. Khator said the twin blasts,
in unprecedented “It shall no longer be busi- which occurred around 8.30pm,
outburst against ness as usual. We shall not and
will never allow our people to
might have been a reaction to new
restrictions on movements of for-
Uhuru government be discriminated against, eigners and heightened security in
never,” Mr Duale declared. Garissa County.
BY VINCENT ACHUKA Mandera Senator Billow
@achukavincent Kerrow accused the govern-
newsdesk@ke,nationmedia.com ment of encouraging youth NAKURU
radicalisation by the way it
Man charged with
N
ational Assembly Ma- was fighting terrorism.

jority Leader Aden
Duale yesterday threat-
ened to withdraw support for
the Jubilee government over
what he termed arbitrary ar-
rests of “his people.”
This is the first time Mr
Duale, ranked high up in the
government pecking order,
has made unsavoury remarks
about President Kenyatta’s
government.
“We stand by the interests
of our people. There should
be no doubt about that,” Mr
Duale said yesterday at a rally
in Eastleigh attended by over
20 MPs and Senators from
North Eastern, Coast and
Upper Eastern regions.
He said police were targeting
Muslims. “We were elected by
the Muslim community and we
shall defend their interests,” he
‘‘
“The issue is not the Muslim
clerics. They become radical-
ised through the actions of the
government. Makaburu was
It shall no longer labelled a terrorist and was
be business as under 24-hour surveillance
but when he is killed, the
usual. We shall government says it doesn’t
not and will know who did it,” he said.
The legislators accused
never allow our officers from Pangani police
people to be station, of raping women and
discriminated demanding bribes from sus-
pects for their release.
against, never” Nairobi County Commis-
House Majority sioner Njoroge Ndirangu,
Leader Aden Duale however, said the operation
will continue. “We are not
targeting Eastleigh alone. This
operation started in Karen in
February and will spread to the
whole of Nairobi,” he said.
arson against leader
A man accused of being part of
a gang that torched a local poli-
tician’s house has been charged
with arson. Mr Peter Njoroge
Kamau is accused of setting on
fire the home of Mr John Ma-
kumi, a former candidate for a
county assembly seat, at Legenet
in Rongai sub-county. Yesterday,
he pleaded not guilty and was
released on Sh100,000 bond and
a surety of similar amount. Hear-
SULEIMAN MBATIAH| NATION ing will be on May 29.
Passengers alight from a Coast bus that was involved
in an accident with a lorry and a 14-seater matatu near
State House, Nakuru, yesterday. Police said a lorry BARINGO
transporting sand changed lanes abruptly causing the
bus to hit a matatu as it tried to avoid the lorry.
Bandits kill GSU
officer as two injured
A General Service Unit officer
was shot dead and two others

Police ‘watched’ were injured after they were at-

tacked by suspected rustlers
at Barpello in Tiaty, Baringo

as houses burned
BY NATION REPORTER
Police officers took no
action as armed Kalenjin
youths burned down homes
belonging to Kikuyus in El-
doret Town, a witness told
the International Criminal
Court yesterday.
The witness said the
six officers, who had been
sent to guard displaced
persons in Kimumu es-
tate in Eldoret, told about
200 displaced persons at
a place called Joyland on
the Eldoret-Iten Road that
“everyone was after his or
her safety.”
Prosecution witness
P-0469, who was testify-
ing for the second day,
told the court that more
than 1,000 people, mainly
youths from estates in El-
doret, set houses ablaze
as their owners watched
helplessly.
Witness: We were
surrounded by fire every-
where…they were burning
everything.
Prosecution lawyer:
Could you explain what you
mean by everything? What
were they burning?
Witness: They were
burning houses belonging
to Kikuyus.
Lawyer: Did the police
say anything when this
happened?
Witness: The police
told us that you have
seen how the situation is
deteriorating and each of
us must now be after our
own safety.
Lawyer: Do you know
who those houses be-
longed to?
Witness: They belonged
to Kikuyus.
Lawyer: Why were the
police there?
Witness: They told us
they were there to rescue
us.
The witness said the
IDPs were later taken to
Eldoret police station in
a lorry. The witness is
testifying against Deputy
President William Ruto
and Mr Joshua Sang, who
are accused of perpetrating
the 2007 post-election vio-
lence that resulted in more
than 1,000 deaths.
Mr Ruto’s and Mr Sang’s
lawyers will cross-examine
the witness on Monday.
Police told displaced
persons at Joyland
on the Eldoret-Iten
Road that “everyone
was after his or her
safety” ICC Witnesss
County. They were part of a se-
curity team that was returning to
Marigat after recovering 75 goats
and four cows that had been
stolen at Kapindasum in Baringo
South sub-county on Thursday.
The injured were airlifted to the
Kenyatta National Hospital.
BUNGOMA
Hotline launched at
border to curb crime
The County security team
has introduced a hotline to ad-
dress crime, especially on border
crossing points. County Com-
missioner Maalim Mohamed said
they would also make available
patrol vehicles in all districts.
Mr Maalim said the county had
several entry points which made
it easy for foreigners with ulterior
motives to move into and out of
Kenya.
KAKAMEGA
MCAs passed two
Bills only, says cleric
A bishop has criticised the
Kakamega County Assembly for
passing only two Bills for the last
one year. Bishop Titus Khamala
of Cornerstone Ministries said
lawmakers need to improve their
debating skills or hire profession-
als to train them. The executive
had prepared 10 Bills for debate
but MCA have only passed two,
the Finance Bill and the Appro-
priation Bill, 2013.
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014 7
8 | National News
INSECURITY | Region is prone to banditry attacks
Police recover guns
lost in Baragoi killings
Officers find
herders with the
three G3 rifles
loaded with bullets
BY ANGIRA ZADOCK
zangira@ke.nationmedia.com
@ZadockAngira
P
olice yesterday recov-
ered seven firearms
in Baragoi, Samburu
County, three of them stolen
from officers killed during the
2012 massacre.
This is the first recovery
since the attack happened over
16 months ago. A total of 165
rounds of ammunition were
also recovered.
Officers from New Site Op-
eration Camp were on patrol
when they confronted about
seven armed herders. Three of
them were arrested, however,
the rest escaped after drop-
ping the firearms.
Police spokesperson Zip-
porah Mboroki yesterday
said that the four suspects
who escaped were yet to be
FACTFILE
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Suspects were aged 16, 19
and 21
First recovery since the at-
tack over 16 months
arrested, however, their identi-
ties were known.
The three G3 rifles loaded
with a total of 90 rounds of
ammunition were stolen in No-
vember 2012 from 40 officers,
some of them reservists, who
were killed during an opera-
tion to recover stolen cattle
from armed bandits.
By yesterday evening, police
had not established the owner-
ship of the other three AK47
rifles loaded with a total of 45
rounds of ammunitions and
the Fabrique National assault
rifle, which was loaded with 30
rounds of ammunitions. The
three suspects were young
men aged 21, 19 and 16.
Following the killing of the
officers, several unsuccessful
disarmament operations have
been conducted in the area be-
lieved to be one of the most
risky places in Samburu.
The operations have been
hampered by lack of police
helicopters to support ground
forces.
All the MI-17 helicopters
owned by the police are
grounded but the service has
already advertised for a tender
to overhaul the machines and
purchase of a new helicopter.
The Baragoi region has wit-
nessed a series of insecurity
incidents. There is also an
influx of illicit arms that has
complicated the fight against
cattle rustling.
Last week, around 80 heads
of cattle were stolen within
Tuum area. The County
Security and intelligence
Committee (CSIC) convened a
meeting in Maralal and it was
agreed that an operation be
organised to recover the stolen
cattle. However, the informa-
tion leaked and the suspects
moved all the cattle.
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014
SUMMONED | Top policeman warned Boy ‘sexually
abused’ by
househelp, 43
BY NATION CORRESPONDENT
A 43-year-old domestic worker
sexually abused her employer’s
four-year-old son, a Nakuru court
yesterday heard.
The boy’s mother told a mag-
istrate that she discovered the
problem when her son could not
go to the toilet.
One evening last month, the boy
told his mother that he wanted to
visit the toilet.
It took too long for him to re-
turn and when the mother went
to check, she found him standing
outside the toilet.
Her son told her that he was
afraid of going to the toilet be-
cause he was feeling pain while
relieving himself, she told the
court yesterday.
The woman was testifying in a
case where Ms Emma Ingundumu
was charged with committing an
indecent act against the child in
Nakuru.
She described to court acts that
the nursery school boy had told
her the woman did to him in the
evenings while bathing him.
The woman said she was
SULEIMAN MBATIAH | NATION shocked on discovering that there
Njoro police boss Charles Owino, the former police were wounds on the boy’s genitals
and his backside.
spokesman, in the High Court in Nakuru yesterday where
The boy testified privately. Fur-
he was summoned and warned against interfering with ther hearing will be on May 15.
the management of a disputed farm in the area. The suspect is out on a
Sh200,000 bond.
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014 National News 9

DEVOLUTION | County leaders end retreat with a resolve to be accountable to the public and relevant State agencies

We shall obey all

summons, county
bosses now pledge
The leaders however as opposed to one that may
be used for witch hunt.”
oppose any audit They recently declined to
honour summons by Senate’s
measures meant to Finance committee to answer
witch-hunt them audit questions raised by the
Controller of Budget.
The county bosses argued
BY NJERI RUGENE that they were account-
nrugene@ke.nationmedia.com able county assemblies. They
sought the court’s opinion on
way to ensure how not to play
into the hands of those who
want to fault devolution,” Mr
Nyachae said in his key note
speech.
The governors further asked
the national government to KEVIN ODIT | NATION
give county assembly mem- Baringo Senator Gideon Moi (left) and Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya at the Leisure Lodge
bers grants to buy cars. Resort in Kwale during the devolution conference yesterday.
Two weeks ago, the county
legislators pleaded with Presi-

G
overnors have pledged
to be accountable as
they enter the second
year in office.
At the end of a meeting
to review the performance
of their governments, the
county bosses resolved that
they would present themselves
the matter.
Addressing the conference
on Thursday, Constitution
Implementation Commission
chairman Charles Nyachae ad-
vised the governors to always
appear before the Senate when-
ever they are summoned.
That way, said Mr Nyachae,
dent Kenyatta, at a meeting in
the same venue, to have the
national government give them
Governors to receive Sh217bn as
senators lobby for more funds
money for vehicles the same
way MPs were given.
Formal request
The President supported the BY NATION REPORTER more funding to counties. “Although we are asking
call, stating that leaders should Senate Majority Leader for the allocation suggested

for scrutiny when summoned
for accountability.
“County governments
commit themselves to ac-
countability both to the people
of Kenya and the relevant
oversight institutions as by
law established,” they resolved
after the three-day meeting at
the Leisure Lodge Resort in
Kwale County.
Management structures
However, they added that
they would work with account-
ability institutions “under the
recognition that an effective
audit framework is one that
enables the strengthening
and management structures
the county leaders would avoid
playing into the hands of those
who are out to derail and fault
devolution.
“What will you lose by ap-
pearing before the Senate?
You must always look for a
What will you lose by
appearing before the
Senate?”
CIC chairman Charles
Nyachae to governors
be treated equally.
Later, State House clarified
that the President’s statement
was not a directive.
On Wednesday, Salary and
Remuneration Commission
chairperson Sarah Serem
told the county representatives
that they needed to forward a
formal request for car grant,
adding it would need dialogue
and consultation.
The governors yesterday
resolved that they supported
the President’s initiative to
give car grants to the ward
leaders and acknowledged “the
endorsement by the President
of the same.”
C
ounty chiefs yester-
day denied that the
government had allo-
cated counties Sh226 billion
as senators promised to push
for more funding.
Governors said they had
just been promised Sh217
billion as they pushed for
the cash to be increased to
Sh279 billion as suggested
by the Commission on Rev-
enue Allocation. The county
bosses described as mislead-
ing reports that Treasury has
allocated the 47 counties
Sh226b to share out in the
next financial year.
The governors spoke as
Senators vowed to push for
Kithure Kindiki and senators
Gideon Moi (Baringo, Kanu)
and Agnes Zani (Nominated,
ODM) who attended the gov-
ernors conference in Kwale at
different times gave the assur-
ance that the Senate will work
to ensure that county govern-
ments take root.
Speaking at the end of a
three-day devolution confer-
ence yesterday, chairman
of the council of governors
Isaac Ruto said the figure
given included budgets for
other programmes such as
the Constituency Develop-
ment Fund and the amount
set aside for counties was
Sh217 billion.
by revenue allocation team,
we do not mind getting the
Sh226 because indications
are that the money is there.
Why don’t they give us what
we asked for”? asked Mr Ruto,
the Bomet governor.
Additional cash
The Constitution requires
that counties be allocated at
least 15 per cent of the na-
tional revenue but the Jubilee
government has doubled it in
line with its manifesto.
Last year’s allocation to the
counties was Sh190bn and
Prof Kindiki, the Tharaka
Nithi senator, said it should
be increased to Sh240bn.

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT OF KISUMU

EXTENSION OF TENDER CLOSING DATE FOR ROADWORKS
AND BUILDING CONSTRUCTION WORKS WITHIN THE COUNTY,
PROVISION OF CLEANING SERVICES AND SUPPLY & DELIVERY
OF ACCOUNTABLE DOCUMENTS

The County Government of Kisumu hereby informs eligible Contractors for the
Roadworks and Building Construction Works within the County, Provision of
Cleaning Services and Supply and Delivery of Accountable documents that the
tender closing date of the advert that appeared in the Daily Nation of Saturday,
15th March 2014 and was to close on 5th April 2014 has been extended to
14th April 2014.

A complete set of Tender Documents must be obtained by interested bidders at

the County Government Procurement Office, situated in Kisumu City, Prosperity
House, 2nd Floor, upon payment of a non-refundable fee of Kshs. 1000 in cash
or Bankers Cheque payable to the County Government of Kisumu.

Completed Tender Document enclosed in plain sealed envelopes marked with

Tender name and Reference number, but without the indication of the Tender’s
name and addressed to:

THE INTERIM COUNTY SECRETARY,

COUNTY GOVERNMENT OF KISUMU,
P. O BOX 2738-40100
KISUMU.

Or be deposited in the Tender Box located at the Main Reception, County

Government Headquarters\Prosperity House- 2nd Floor, so as to be received on
or before 14th April 2014.

Tenders will be opened immediately thereafter, in the presence of the candidate

or their respective who choose to attend, at Conference Hall, 1st Floor,
Prosperity Building.

Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.

All other details remain the same

BY:
HUMPHREY NAKITARI.
INTERIM COUNTY SECRETARY
KISUMU COUNTY GOVERNMENT
10 | Special Report SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014

PHILANTHROPY | Through his foundation, award-winning athlete donates sports equipment to Eastleigh Primary FAVOURITE DESTINATION

Ubah Ibrahim, a liaison

officer at the Mo Farah
Foreign sports
Foundation’s Eastleigh personalities
offices in Nairobi, displays
some of the sports equip- love Kenya
ment Olympic and World
In 1995, Toby Tanser trav-
track champion, Mo Farah,
elled to Kenya for the first
donated to various youth
time as an athlete, training in
groups in the area. Right: the Ngong Hills with Paul Ter-
New Eastleigh Primary gat and Sammy Chemoywo.
School headmaster Abu-
baker Tiemeri displays The Swedish-American phi-
lanthropist, runner and author
one of the running jerseys
then visited Zanzibar and fell
donated to youths in the
victim to bandits who left him
area by Farah. for dead, making away with
ELIAS MAKORI | NATION
his training shoes on the white
beaches of the island.

Big-hearted Farah turns

And that’s how the
“Shoe4Africa” Foundation
was born, with Tanser fever-
ishly raising funds to provide
shoes for Africa’s underprivi-

provider to local rivals

Somali-born 10,000m compete in a race - for Farah to
and 5,000m Olympics show up in London.
Conservatively-speaking, Farah’s
champion supports London Marathon appearance fee is
said to be in the region of Sh10 mil-
projects in Kenya as a lion, although such figures are kept
way of giving back to strictly confidential between athlete,
his manager and the race director.
a country that hosted But the more cash it is, the merrier
and helped catapult for Shidiye, hence the Lagdera MP’s
sudden interest in athletics.
him to success Through his race earnings, Farah
is currently involved in several devel-
BY ELIAS MAKORI opment projects in Kenya as a way
@EliasMakori of giving back to a country that has
emakori@ke.nationmedia.com hosted him and helped catapult him
to fame, glory and money.
need for a water well for the pri-
mary school as it is expensive to
ferry water using donkey carts,”
said Abdullahi.
“Farah’s gesture is invaluable to
the people of this area and only when
you see what they go through to get
their daily water supply is when you
will appreciate what Farah is doing
for them. He’s God-sent!”
And just last week, the Mo Farah
Foundation, which was registered
in Kenya last year, also distributed
sports equipment, including profes-
sional sports socks and wristbands,
to the New Eastleigh Primary School
in Nairobi.
leged runners.
That the thugs left him with
a fractured skull and all they
took were his shoes left Tanser
thinking just how precious
running shoes are in this part
of the world.
Through his “Shoe4Africa
Foundation” Tanser is now
on the home stretch in his
Herculean task of building the
North Rift’s biggest children’s
hospital in Eldoret.
Many global sporting stars
have been bitten by the Ken-
yan bug and taken residence
in the country, some investing
handsomely in Kenya. They
include Formuna One giants
Renault’s former team boss
Flavio Briatore, US tennis star
Serena Williams, Manchester

M
ohammed Shidiye
can hardly be
described as
an athletics fan. No, you
wouldn’t find him fever-
ishly discussing Olympic
medallist Thomas Lon-
gosiwa’s split times in
the 5,000 metres during
Through his Mo Farah Founda-
tion, the Somali-born superstar is
digging water wells and supplying
sports equipment to marginalised
communities especially in north
eastern Kenya, his latest philan-
thropic gesture benefitting Shidiye’s
Lagdera Constituency.
Ironically, there was disquiet when
“Mo has assisted the community,
especially the poor and needy who
cannot even afford socks,” said Ubah
Ibrahim, a liaison officer with the Mo
Farah Foundation’s Nairobi office.
Ibrahim told Saturday Nation
that they plan to move into bigger
offices either in the CBD or Nai-
robi’s Westlands area to step up
United’s Dutch striker Robin
van Persie, Chelsea forward
Samuel Eto’o of Cameroon
alongside Kenya-born Dutch-
woman Lornah Kiplagat and
her husband Pieter Langer-
horst.

a national championship
at the Nyayo National
Stadium.
I even doubt he can
come close to guessing
who holds the world record
in the men’s 10,000m, or
even who won the gold
medal in the men’s 1,500m
at the London Olympics.
But next Sunday, the ami-
able Lagdera MP will most
certainly be in front of a televi-
sion screen closely following the
London Marathon, not so much
to see if the lead elite group runs
inside world record pace, but to
follow the exploits of Somali-born
British runner Mohammed “Mo”
Farah.
Olympic and World track cham-
pion Mo Farah is in the final stages
of an intense, four-month training
in the Elgeyo Marakwet County
capital of Iten ahead of his debut
at the London Marathon on April
13. His will be the most the
eagerly-awaited debut in the
marathon as Great Britain
look for their first winner
of the country’s flagship
race in two decades, the
last triumph having come
through Eammon Martin’s
two hours, 10 minutes and
50 seconds’ run in 1993.
London Marathon race
director Hugh Brasher has
splashed out a tidy sum
in “appearance fee” - the
money traditionally offered
to attract elite athletes to
Farah first landed in Kenya from his
detractors, including elite runners,
some Athletics Kenya executives
and top sports ministry officials,
whispering and wondering loudly
“why Farah should be allowed to
train in Kenya and beat us.”
Farah’s latest gesture came two
weeks ago when, through Mo Farah
Foundation Kenya representative
Abdi Ahmed Abdullahi, he donated
about Sh300,000 towards the dig-
ging of a water well at Medina
Primary School in Benane Divi-
sion of Eldere Location in Lagdera
Constituency.
The donation was handed over to
area chief Aden Abdi Beshane by
Shidiye, and most certainly the two
leaders and their constituents will be
on the edge of their seats when Farah
speeds over Tower Bridge, past the
Houses of Parliament and Bucking-
ham Palace, round the final bend
onto the London Marathon’s finish
line at The Mall next Sunday.
“The community identified the
I grew up watching children
suffering and that’s why
I thought I must do
something which I’m doing
through my foundation to
make lives better for the
people, especially children,”
Mo Farah
charity work being done under the
foundation’s “Mo Farah Dig-a-well
Project” banner.
“The Kenyan people have been
very good to me and they always
make me feel welcome here so the
least I could do is to give something
back,” Farah, double gold medallist
in the 5,000 and 10,000 metres at
the London 2012 Olympics - which
he dedicated to his twin daughters
Aisha and Amani, said at Lornah
Kiplagat’s globally acclaimed High
Altitude Training Centre in Iten.
“I grew up watching children
suffering and that’s why I thought
I must do something which I’m
doing through my foundation to
make lives better for the people,
especially children.”
“Mo” has blended in very well
with the locals of his adopted home
and can be seen in the Iten market
buying roasted maize on a break
from training or engaging locals in
athletics banter.
The Iten Club has even added a
item on its menu called “Mo Ome-
lette”, basically chapati wrapped
around a Spanish omelette, Farah’s
favourite.
Local runners have also benefitted
immensely from Farah’s presence in
Kenya as he periodically contracts
some to act as his training partners
on his long runs across the scenic
Elgeyo Marakwet County.
Farah was joined last week on the
final leg of his training in Iten by his
globally-acclaimed personal coach,
Cuba-born American Alberto Sala-
zar, the current IAAF World Coach
2012
Year Mo Farah won gold in
5,000m and 10,000m at the
London Olympics
of the Year. It is Salazar’s second
time in Kenya, the only other time
the American Hall of Famer was
in the country being 30 years ago
when he trained in Nyahururu with
Kenyan legend Peter Koech, the
1988 Olympics steeplechase silver
medallist and the first man to hold
an electronically timed world record
in the steeple (8:05.35).
Together with Salazar and Farah
at my lunch interview was Neil
Black, UK Athletics’ performance
director who has taken a personal
interest in Iten as a training loca-
tion for Britain’s upcoming distance
runners.
“Iten is a great location and that’s
the reason why I keep coming back,”
quips Black who took over the top
British track and field job from the
no-nonsense Dutchman, Charles
van Commenee, who fell on his
own sword, resigning from the top
job after Great Britain won six med-
als, short of his projected eight, a
move unthinkable in Kenya’s athlet-
ics management.
Farah’s charitable operations are
headquartered in London but the
track star’s philanthropic work has
also heavily impacted on his home
nation of Somalia.
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April 5, 2014
EDUCATION | Politician, 76, pursuing a PhD in international relations at the University of Nairobi
Why we put Moi
in power, says GG
Senator speaks on
wave of terrorist
attacks and on Moi
and Kibaki
BY JULIUS SIGEI
jsigei@ke.nationmedia.com
AND JUSTUS WANGA
G
odfrey Gitahi Kariuki is a
man for all seasons. From
a white settler’s ‘kitchen
boy’ to a minister and legislator
in the four post-independence ad-
ministrations, he has seen it all.
When we sought out the Laikipia
senator this week, we found a man
who has defied his age and is a
repository of Kenya’s history. Sit-
ting through the interview with
the self-effacing man, we couldn’t
help feeling we were drinking
from a well of wisdom.
The 1982 attempted coup-era
Internal Security minister thinks
the current managers of Kenya’s
security have lost the plot and
that terrorists have won the moral
war. The celebrated Taekwondo
combatant would not tell us the
books he is reading, saying even
at 76, he cannot be boxed into
a template interview. He told us
why he believes former President
Kibaki is a child of chance and
why he is back to school for his
PhD.
In the 1961 pre-independence
General Election, you were picked
by Kanu to run for the Lodwar seat.
Why did you chicken out?
I did not chicken out. I travelled
for three months but had not cov-
ered the constituency by the time
I dropped out. The constituency
comprised the present Turkana,
Samburu and Isiolo and Mar-
sabit counties. The campaigns
were going on well as I spoke
Turkana and Samburu fluently.
But at some point we were able
to convince a local politician,
Mr Peter Areman, to join Kanu.
Our mission fulfilled, I returned
home. On the campaign trail, I
met Mzee Jomo Kenyatta who
supported me. He had finished
his seven-year jail term, but his
movements were restricted to
Lodwar. He was able to do a few
things given that he knew quite
a number of people there. The
first time I saw him he was so
emaciated. I shed tears.
Yet after he became President you
differed so bitterly that you told
him even if he were to detain you
for 30 years you were still a young
man and that you would complete
your sentence in time to eat bananas
growing on his grave. What had
changed?
These are mistakes that young
people make. To be frank, I re-
gretted a bit that I made such a
serious statement but I passed
the message, that we were not
ready for a dictatorship. It was
very painful to him but the states-
man and the elder in him took me
as a small boy, which I really was.
I was 22, 23 years. He used to call
me a communist and I would say
“Mzee, I don’t know those things.”
Then he would say: “You know I
have been in Europe for 15 years
and I have interacted with the
proponents of both capitalism
and communism. I advise you
to forget these isms and serve
your people.” I found him very
intelligent.
But Jomo has also been accused
of entrenching tribal hegemony and
encouraging land grabbing.
If grabbing of land is by buying,
then we are all grabbers. There
is no day Kenyatta collected
Kikuyus and gave them money
or jobs. He did not form any land-
buying society. He just opened
the gates for the people to look
at the things they wanted and
these people were not selected
from any particular tribe. Land
was available to those who knew it
was an important commodity for
production. Others saw what was
happening but they did not turn
up. I still see many lazy people
even in Parliament… many vocal
MPs who speak buttoning up their
suits as if they know anything yet
they have not invested.
Your critics charge that you op-
posed the Change-the-Constitution
movement, which sought to bar
Vice-President Moi from succeeding
Kenyatta, because you believed he
was only a passing cloud.
Moi was never declared by
anybody a passing cloud, these
are total lies. It is the creation of
politicians trying to have their
case heard. Moi was never seen
in those terms. He took over
power from President Kenyatta as
stipulated by the Constitution. If
that did not happen, Kenya would
have gone military. Those of us
around Kenyatta argued that he
should be given 90 days so he
could prove himself.
But you and Moi would soon dif-
fer so sharply that you were ejected
from his rally in your backyard, put
under house arrest and forced to
watch the proceedings with binocu-
lars from your house.
Moi only wanted to demon-
strate his power, showing people
in my backyard that I was noth-
ing. I have forgiven him. But I
was so much annoyed then. He
humiliated me in my backyard.
I remember one of the officers
telling me that I could use an
alternative route to escape but I
had an instinct they could follow
and kill me. You know politics is
a very bad thing.
What of Kibaki?
Kibaki is not a fighter. He is not
an organiser. He is just a guy who
has enjoyed events. Situations
have favoured him all the way, just
like the death of Kenyatta made
Moi President. Only Uhuru Keny-
atta has really fought very hard
to become president. Talking of
Uhuru, the guy is trying. He does
not owe allegiance to anybody,
and he does not need your money.
But he is swimming in troubled
waters because his predecessors
did not make good bridges for
true nationalism.
What are your thoughts on women
empowerment?
I often laugh when I hear
about agitation for women em-
powerment because they are
empowering themselves. They
have discovered that power is in
knowledge and so when many of
young men are engaging in vices,
they are going to school.
Whenever I stand on Koin-
ange Street in the evening, I
see students pouring out of the
university. For every 100, per-
haps only ten are men. A wind
of change is sweeping across
the world. Soon there will be no
boundary between the East Af-
rican countries. You can’t stop
economic forces.
What are you reading now?
I am reading a number of titles
on international affairs. You know
I am pursuing a PhD in interna-
tional relations at the University
of Nairobi. But it is not an easy
thing because when you submit
your assignments, they have to be
original work. If you fail to get it
right when presenting a problem
those professors will tell you that
you are the problem yourself.
But at 76 what drove you back to
school?
There is no reason really. My
life has been about sports. I have
been doing vigorous sports like
the Korean martial arts starting
Kibaki is not with the Taekwondo. I train for
one hour every day for three to
a fighter. four days a week from 6.00 p.m.
He is not an to 7.30 p.m. And so after scal-
ing down on this, I have found
organiser. myself with a lot of time. I don’t
He is just
drink or smoke and I am still very
a guy who energetic.
has enjoyed So when do you read?
events. I read whenever I fail to catch
sleep. I usually sleep by 11 p.m.
Situations and by 3 a.m. I am awake. This
have is when I read up to 5 a.m. then
favoured I go back to sleep again up to 7
a.m. I have two libraries: one in
him all the the house and another in the of-
way, just like fice. I have got bookshelves in my
bed room, sitting room and living
the death room. I am a student of philoso-
of Kenyatta phy. I find myself reading more
of such works. Unfortunately, I
made Moi do not have time for novels al-
President.” though they are also a rich source
of knowledge and creativity.
G.G Kariuki
Special Report 11
You wrote The Illusion of Power,
but continued fighting for political
power all your life. Why?
It depends on the formation
of power. Hans Morgenthau (the
political science guru who wrote
Politics Among Nations) defines
power in terms of interest. You
can say I have power but I see it
in terms of meeting interests of
the people rather than subduing
them. Having 10 chase cars for
me is decoration of power and
not power in itself; pursuing it
is like chasing a mirage.
Who have you, over time, looked up
to as your role model?
I admired Tom Mboya. He be-
lieved in what he did. He must
have been killed because of
the ideological warfare pitting
capitalism and the communism.
The other guy I looked up to was
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga whom
I found to be a fellow working
for the poor.
But I kept testing and changing
and when Kenyatta came, I made
him the focal point of my study.
They were interesting times.
Obote was pursuing the Com-
mon Man’s Charter, Nyerere
his Ujamaa Philosophy while
Kenyatta had his African Social-
ism-a concept which was difficult
to define.
I decided to read so much on
International security literature.
This is how I ended up taking
International studies.
The country is today restive with
runaway insecurity. What are we not
doing right?
The problem is the politicisa-
tion of the security apparatus.
Insecurity, though, is not a new
phenomenon. When I was the
22
The age at which Laikipia
Senator GG Kariuki (left)
differed with first president
Jomo Kenyatta. BELOW:
Former presidents Kibaki and
Jomo Kenyatta
Internal Security minister in
1982, The Norfolk was attacked
by terrorists. 15 people died
and 85 others were injured. We
need to know where terrorists
get finances. We need to ensure
that we apply the most modern
technology to counter this hoo-
liganism. It is sad our security
managers have adopted a reac-
tionary approach. If I were in
charge, I would have reviewed
the security strategy because
it is the same people who have
been in charge for a while and
they have run out of ideas. The
terrorists have won the moral
war by making us continuously
talk about them and their evil
acts.
Have you had to put your Taek-
wondo skills to use?
I have never gotten into a
brawl even as a child because I
consider fighting foolish. It shows
you don’t use your brains. But
that said I am ready anytime for
self-defence. As I walk in town, I
usually feel very comfortable as
the skills give you a lot of confi-
dence. Even if you try me here,
you will see.
How did you come to be a fluent
speaker of Maa and Turkana?
I interacted with Maasai and
Turkana people for three years
during the state of emergency as
a small boy. This has made me a
star among them and it is a great
political capital in the multi-ethnic
Laikipia. B
ut again, I do not do politics of
blood pressure. If I am defeated I
admit and focus on other things.
I have been elected six times and
thrown out three times.
When requesting for this interview,
you told us you do not like Kenyan
journalists. What do you hold
against us?
I have been deliberately mis-
quoted by the press so many
times that I no longer care. Most
Kenyan journalists are lazy in
terms of the questions they ask.
I do not understand why they
cannot ask critical questions.
They hit below the belt most of
the time. They mostly have fixed
minds on almost any subject of
interview.
What would you urge us to read?
Read the Constitution to know
your country and the Bible to
know your God.
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April 5, 2014

Terse Uhuru warning

on security welcome
P
resident Uhuru Kenyatta’s tough words
yesterday against the criminal elements
making the country unsafe cannot go unsup-
ported. It is the cardinal duty of the government
to guarantee security for all. It follows, therefore,
that all those who want to live in peace and safety
must support any measures to eliminate terrorists,
armed criminal gangs, cattle rustlers, bandits and
other violent malcontents.
The message must go out loud and clear that the
forces of law and order will employ all the means
at their disposal to restore security and bring back
an environment in which Kenyans and visitors can
go about their daily routines without perpetual
fear of terrorist bombings or other disruptions.
No doubt, the new resolve to combat insecurity
is motivated by the recent spate of terrorist at-
tacks. But the lesson here is that the forces of law
and order must ensure that security is a full-time
occupation, and not just one activated occasionally
before going back to slumber.
An important aspect of the President’s state-
ment during a parade by graduating police recruits
was the assurance that the security agents would
act within the law even as they apply the toughest
measures against criminals. Extra-judicial execu- PACIFICATION? | Dan Branch
tions and other illegal measures must not happen.
There was also the assurance that the enhanced

EU budget cuts mean Kenya needs

efforts to restore peace and security is not directed
at any community or religious grouping, but
against criminals who go out to kill and maim.
The President gave a two-week amnesty for the
surrender of all illegal arms, but we hope that the
mopping-up of these weapons to follow will be fol-
lowed to its logical conclusion, not abandoned as
has so often happened in the past.
urgent exit strategy from Somalia
We must all give strong backing to measures
aimed at giving us all an opportunity to live in What happens to the KDF Perhaps most important across the border at very
peace and security.
military mission in Somalia of all, Western politicians and
voters have become accus-
short notice. But that ignores
the much more dangerous
if external funds dry up as a
Solve doctors’ woes result of a long-term shift in
tomed to shrinking defence
budgets. There is neither the
will nor the way to finance any
war that is building at home
and which has the potential
to last much longer than the
European defence priorities?
T
significant increase in military military mission in Somalia.
he assurance by the Ministry of Health that spending so as to be able to Operation Linda Nchi has,
the recent resignations by doctors in public afford renewed, increased ironically, meant an increase
hospitals in the counties are no cause for misleadingly) termed ‘stabi- commitments to European in insecurity in Kenya. As it

L
alarm is hardly convincing. Many of these hos- ast week President
pitals hardly have enough doctors, and with the Obama and NATO sec-
Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and retary general Anders
Dentists Union officials confirming that between Fogh Rasmussen, agreed
200 and 300 have quit, there is cause for worry. measures to increase the
The doctors have reportedly left in protest North American Treaty Or-
against poor pay and delays in paying those sala- ganisation’s military capacity
in Europe.
ries. Many of the public hospitals in the remote
NATO’s military officers
areas have just one or two doctors. And if those and its member states’ politi-
have gone, then it means that the hospitals have cal leaders are again talking of
been left without these key staff. deploying troops to mainland
The ministry would understably wish to down- Europe to prevent Russian
play these departures to avert any panic. However, aggression. An obvious ques-
Health Principal Secretary Fred Sigor is probably tion therefore arises: What
being a bit casual when he claims that the resigna- happens to Kenya’s mission in
tions are just like what happens in other sectors. Somalia if external funds dry
First, this is a highly specialised area. Secondly, up as a result of a long-term
it takes a longer time to train and deploy doctors shift in European defence
and other health workers. Mr Sigor’s advice to the priorities?
This is not an imminent
county governments to simply hire new doctors is
threat; NATO is not going to
easier said than done. In the long run, the minis- go to war over Crimea and
try’s plan to increase money allocated for training there are many other reasons
doctors from Sh70 million to Sh400 million is why all sides in the current
laudable. However, in the short-run, the current dispute will do all they can to
staff’s frustrations should be addressed. avoid any recurrence of the po-
larisation of the Cold War era.
Nevertheless, the words of
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lisation’: the use of military
force against states believed
to pose threats in terms of
terrorism or contravention of
humanitarian norms.
There was much evidence
of a declining Western
enthusiasm for stabilisa-
tion missions even before
the Crimean crisis. Under
Obama, the military planners
who designed the missions
in Iraq and Afghanistan have
lost their influence. Ameri-
can-led attempts to stage a
military intervention in Syria
came to naught. France has
been largely unsuccessful in
its efforts to persuade allies
to provide greater support to
its campaigns in Mali and the
Central African Republic.
Nevertheless, the spokes-
men and women of NATO
and its member states will
doubtless argue that they are
not confronted by a choice be-
tween global stabilisation and
European defence. But the
reality is quite different.
The political pressures
from within NATO member
states to concentrate on Euro-
pean defence are strong. The
perceived threat to security
posed by Russia is more im-
mediate than that attributed
to countries such as Iraq, Af-
ghanistan or Somalia.
defence alongside stabilisation
missions on a scale witnessed
over the past decade.
So what does this mean
for Kenya? Its mission in
Somalia is part of the stabi-
lisation agenda. Although it
has its own motives for its
military intervention in Soma-
lia, Kenya is also acting as a
proxy for Western interests.
EU members, in particular
the UK, consider Somalia to
represent a significant, direct
threat to their own security.
Put simply, they think that
the lack of state authority
in Somalia has created a
vacuum that has allowed for
the growth of a radical Islam-
ist terrorist organisation that
poses a threat to the security
of their citizens.
That argument has led to
significant European funding
for the AMISOM mission,
including picking up the bill
for the allowances paid to
Kenyan troops while they are
in the field.
However, the importance
— and therefore the funding
— attached to Somalia may
soon decline as the era of sta-
bilisation comes to an end.
To a certain extent, the
solution to this potential
problem is simple: Kenyan
troops can be withdrawn
stands, the government can-
not guarantee the security of
its citizens in Eastleigh or in
Westlands, in Nairobi, Mom-
basa or Garissa. Shoot-to-kill
orders and mass arrests are
indicative only of intelligence
and security officers who have
no idea who is behind the re-
cent spate of terrorist attacks.
Such indiscriminate tactics,
history tells us, are under-
taken by almost every state
when faced with such terrorist
threats. But history, not least
that of Britain and its empire,
tells us that indiscriminate
measures of the sort we are
witnessing today in Kenya
only serve to discredit the
state and unify the presumed
enemy.
Kenyan is entering into a
war of attrition that is un-
sustainable, particularly in
the event of changing global
defence priorities. At the end
of the Cold War, governments
across the African continent
were taken by surprise by the
new concerns of their Western
allies. As we again can see
the beginning of a new but
less dramatic shift in external
priorities, those in power
would do well to think about
the possible outcomes.
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April 5, 2014 Opinion 13

THINK AGAIN | Maina Kiai POLITICALLY CORRECT |

Kwamchetsi Makokha’s sideways
The rollback of human rights gains is look at Jubilee ministries
Why Kibaki’s 2003
worrying, but there is hope for victory ministers trail
A
cross the world, it seems
that democracy and human
rights are under siege. There
in London, which started a proc-
ess of efforts to hold the powerful
accountable, and which memora-
Cabinet Secretaries
is even a book called The End of bly stated that there could be no

Human Rights! And at this meeting
of human rights defenders from
across the world in Sweden that I
am attending, the laments are loud
and clear.
From activists in Belarus who
face jail and torture to land rights
The campaigners in Cambodia and
shrinking Guatemala who are summarily
evicted from their land either for
democratic “development” or to extract natu-
ral resources, the stories are eerily
space in similar. From the journalists in
Kenya is a Somalia who are targets of not just
the regime but also Al-Shabaab to
sign that the Roma activists in Sweden who
face persecution from ordinary
our leaders Swedes who see them as “differ-
still believe ent”.
There are the powerfully eloquent
in might women activists from Bahrain who
over right led a campaign to stop the export
of three million canisters of tear
gas from South Korea to Bahrain,
which has a population of 650,000,
working out to three canisters of
tear gas for every child, woman and
man. Tear gas has already led to
the deaths of 70 people in Bahrain.
And there are the LGBTI activ-
ists, attacked by both state and
society simply for being different.
And yet, as they keep asking, they
hurt no one, they interfere with
no one, so why this determination
to haunt them, to jail them, to kill
them?
These are tough times for human
rights. But yet, the resilience of
people in Turkey, Ukraine, Cambo-
dia, Venezuela who brave bullets,
beatings and jail for freedom and
Youths arrested in Mombasa. Democ-
racy is still in danger in Kenya.
space is awe-inspiring.
The Arab Spring, though it fal-
tered, led to the “end of fear” for so
many in the Middle East. And while
it is possible to bring back fear,
that can only be short-term, before
it springs back again as it did in
Ukraine.
The 1990s were the great years
of human rights and democracy.
The fall of the Berlin Wall her-
alded the rise of freedoms and
democratic space across the world.
There was the end of apartheid in
South Africa in 1994, the Vienna
Declaration of Human Rights in
1993 which finally concluded that
all rights were equal, indivisible and
inalienable, ending a cold war battle
between East and West over which
set of rights was more important
than the other.
There was the trial of Pinochet
immunity for heads of state for
committing violations of human
rights.
There was the Rome Statute of
the ICC in 1998, the end of mili-
tary rule in Nigeria in 1999, and
the return of multiparty systems,
if not democracy, across Africa.
On the negative side there was the
genocide in Rwanda and the war
in former Yugoslavia denting the
1990s.
But 9/11 in the US started the roll
back for democracy and human
rights as “securitisation” of society
returned in earnest. All this made
worse by the illegal invasion of Iraq
by the US and UK in 2003 which,
though intended to show strength
and power, revealed weakness and
myopia instead.
And it has been downward
since with traditional democracies
speaking from both sides of their
mouths. It is these inconsistencies
that are increasing the pace of the
shrinking space in Kenya (and glo-
bally) where many of our leaders
believe in might over right, but only
when they are the ones exercising
that might. That is short-sighted,
for inevitably they will lose that
might.
For history is on the side of right
over might. History shows that the
human spirit can be subdued for
a while but it will surely rise for
dignity is about material as well as
intellectual and emotional wellbe-
ing, based on freedom.
mkiai2000@yahoo.com
A
ll week, Cabinet secretar-
ies have been modestly
illuminating their
achievements during their first
year in office.
It has been a spectacular
show of competence from which
we are unlikely to be distracted
by security threats, transport
strikes and arrogant doctors.
From the country’s first
professional, non-political, technocratic Cabinet,
results have spouted like water at a fountain. Com-
pared to the ministers appointed by President
Kibaki in 2003, the Cabinet secretaries are – with-
out exception – paragons of competence, models of
professionalism and champions of efficiency.
Where Mr Kibaki had 24 bumbling ministers
knocking into each other to create a fine mess of
things, the current 18 lean, mean, clean women and
men are all about getting the job done.
Measuring the CSs against the ministers Mr
Kibaki appointed is not unlike comparing bananas
and oranges.
Engineer Michael Kamau has scorched the job
ratings of Mr John Michuki in the transport docket
and that of Mr Raila Odinga in Roads and Infra-
structure. Forget the pretend revival of the railways,
PSV workers wearing uniform and demolishing
buildings on road reserves. The CS is doing big
things only – like permanently keeping matatus on
strike, banning night travel for the poor and con-
structing the standard gauge railway.
Where Mr Kalonzo Musyoka – as Foreign Affairs
minister – focused on useless things like the Sudan
peace process and installing a transitional federal
government in Somalia, CS Amina Mohammed has
restored the country’s voice in the international
community. Kenya coughs at the UN, and the Secu-
rity Council catches the flu; it speaks at the AU, and
imperialists check into the asylum; it shows up at
the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute,
and the ICC goes into a coma.

Statistics and speeches

DIFFERENT STROKES | Gabriel Dolan Two men could not hack what Ms Anne Waiguru
is doing. Without boring us with statistics and

Bishops wrong on anti-tetanus drive

speeches on evidence-based decision making in the
style of Prof Anyang’ Nyong’o, the Planning CS is
giving real money to real women and youth through
the Uwezo Fund. In Devolution, previously Local

‘‘
Government when the burly Karisa Maitha went

T
wo weeks ago I met
a team of Commu-
nity Health Workers
(CHWs) as they launched
their door-to-door Neonatal
Tetanus Campaign. Ours
was one of 60 districts in
16 counties targeted for the
second phase of the exercise.
These women explained how
Kenya was one of 51 coun-
tries globally with high rates
of tetanus infection passed
between mother and infant
at childbirth. In fact Kenya
had 555 cases last year; and
110,000 deaths occur annually
as a result of tetanus infection
in children. By immunising the
mother, the mother passes on
immunity to her infant and so
we are able to radically reduce
infant mortality rates.
Three days later one of
the team came dashing into
my office in a state of panic.
“What are we to do now that
Cardinal Njue has said that
the vaccine will make us all
infertile? Whom do we be-
lieve — the Government or
It is sad that Bishops
put most energy into an
area that they have least
expertise and experience
in — sexuality”
the Church?’ she raged. I was
flabbergasted as this was the
first I had heard of Cardinal
Njue’s concerns. Give me time,
I pleaded.
I quickly discovered that the
cardinal had asked why only
women were vaccinated; why
there was so little collabora-
tion with the churches and
such poor awareness about
the matter in the country.
But the Health Commission
of the Bishops Conference
went further and claimed
that in similar campaigns in
Nicaragua, Mexico and the
Philippines, the vaccine was
laced with a hormone that left
women permanently infertile.
While not directly accusing
the Ministry of Health, they
stated that they were ‘not cer-
tain that the vaccines being
used in Kenya are free of this
hormone’. Suspicion had been
planted. Cabinet Secretary
James Macharia then an-
nounced on March 26 that he
had met the cardinal and that
the issue had been resolved.
But four days later the bishops
bought space in the Sunday
press to repeat their claims
and demands. And there the
matter ended inconclusively.
The bishops have so far
not produced any evidence
that the vaccine was a birth
control method, but two mil-
lion women targeted in the
exercise deserve an explana-
tion. I have met women who
are worried and angry about
the bishops intervention. Oth-
ers responded to the scare by
boycotting the vaccination
and in the process may have
endangered their health. The
bishops have a moral duty to
produce the evidence or apolo-
gise to women and Ministry of
Health.
Medical and scientific ex-
perts say that there is no way
you can sterilise a woman
in this manner, and despite
experiments 20 years ago,
the medical world has so far
not developed a birth control
vaccine. It is sad that bishops
put most energy into an area
that they have least expertise
and experience in — sexual-
ity — and say nothing about
insecurity, corruption, laptops,
access to health services.
Last September Pope Fran-
cis said that the church cannot
always be obsessed with issues
of abortion, sexuality, family
planning: “We have to find a
new balance otherwise the
moral edifice of the church will
collapse like a house of cards,
losing the freshness and fra-
grance of the Gospel.”
Did our bishops read his ‘Joy
of the Gospel’?
gdolan54@gmail.com
round the country frightening councillors, she only
needs to skip one governors’ meeting and the entire
ensemble will be bathed in a cold sweat.
Mrs Phyllis Kandie, who heads Tourism, has not
taken over the KICC from Kanu in the style of Mr
Raphael Tuju. Nor is she is talking a mile a minute
in the fashion of then Trade and Industry minister
Mukhisa Kituyi. She is working quietly.
At Education, Prof Jacob Kaimenyi matches every
degree Prof George Saitoti ever earned. That is why
his signature project to deliver laptops to all stand-
ard one pupils has taken off like a rocket, blowing
smoke at the humble aspirations of delivering free
primary education to eight million children a year.
As Finance minister, Mr David Mwiraria was in
everyone’s hair about the in du plum rule, bloating
the wage bill and reducing interest rates. CS Henry
Rotich has introduced VAT on luxuries like books
and newspapers and persuaded the President and
his deputy to take a 20 per cent pay cut.
Where Chris Murungaru spent the entire first
year as National Security sweating the big stuff, the
CS is as cool as a cucumber. Mr Joseph ole Lenku
does not break a sweat disappearing terrorists,
launching the Nyumba Kumi initiative and is the
epitome of eloquence.
Out of respect for age, a comparison between Mr
Kibaki and his successor would not be appropriate
and might hurt the old man’s feelings.
kwamchetsi@formandcontent.co.ke
14 | Opinion SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014

POINT BLANK | Godwin Murunga MARK MY WORD |

Philip Ochieng
Why budget committee should see Jews, their ways
the Judiciary and security nexus and why they
T are in trouble
he story on judicial ply prohibitive, running The Budget and Ap-
budget tucked on to over 50 kilometres propriations Committee
page 23 of Sunday in remote landscape on must acquaint itself with

with Rome
Nation (April 2 2014) il- earth road. It was impos- the many other police
lustrates how jaundiced sible for the investigating stations that mimic Nti-
our legislators perceive officer to travel in one maru. I would imagine
investment in judicial in- working day to Kisii and that places like Baragoi,
frastructure and services. back to attend to capital which we visited, are
Led by the Rev Mutava offence court matters. worse. Some of these

Musyimi, who chairs
Kenyans the Budgetary and Ap-
will benefit propriations Committee,
legislators cited the high
most cost of the development
if High expenditure in the Judici-
ary budget decrying the
Courts wastage involved. Rev
Musyimi wondered why
are close the Judiciary is not get-
by and ting its own contractors,
quality surveyors, engi-
the police neers and architects if it
has a huge programme of
know that construction.
their work The rationale for
this huge programme
will yield of construction should
justice for not be surprising to
anyone, most of all Rev.
victims Musyimi. It was articu-
lated a while ago in the
Judiciary Transformation
Framework, 2012-2016.
The Judiciary aspires
to have a High Court in
every county, to decen-
tralise further the Court
of Appeal and refurbish
old courts. This cost is
one-off and an important
investment in easing ac-
cess to justice for the
Kenyans, and especially
the Police.
Early this year, I
conducted a study on
FAIR PLAY | Peter Mwaura
Matters were compli-
cated by the fact that
Ntimaru police station
had a police lorry plus
one pick-up vehicle. If
Rev Mutava Musyimi, chair-
man of the Budgetary Ap-
both vehicles are en-
gaged, an officer required
propriations Committee. in court has to find alter-
native personal means
mapping insecurity in to court armed with his
Kenya for the Kenya
Human Rights Com-
evidence and witnesses.
While the prosecution
mission and Shield for process can provide
Justice. The study sites transport refund for wit-
included police stations. nesses, the same facility
We visited 18 police sta-
tions spread across seven
is not extended to inves-
tigating officers or those
counties. The study was supporting prosecution.
complemented by other
reports including one by
Worse, the security of
the evidence in a case is
Usalama Forum titled difficult to guarantee as
‘Communities and their there is no adequate in-
Police Stations’ that frastructure for keeping,
covered 19 other police securing and transferring
stations. evidence to court. Police
One station we cov- offices are in a debilitat-
ered was Ntimaru police ing state.
station in Kuria, Migori Ntimaru is not alone in
County. Here, I was this sorry state of affairs
informed that the clos- as the Ransely Report
est High Court, where confirmed. The result of
capital offences can be this complicated situa-
prosecuted, is in Kisii tion is that many criminal
town. The distance from cases are lost, dropped or
Ntimaru to Migori Town, ignored for lack of access
perhaps less than half the to courts and infrastruc-
distance to Kisii, is sim- ture to sustain the case.
remote places are also
notorious for banditry
and violent murders. Not
only is there a connec-
tion between incessant
crime and lack of judicial
redress, but this situation
almost always morphs
into a political problem
where those who insti-
gate criminal activities,
as we were repeatedly
told in Kuria, embrace
impunity, threaten people
and dominate politics
knowing they will face no
consequences.
Kenyans will benefit
most if the High Courts
are close enough. They
will benefit most if dedi-
cated police know that
their work will yield
justice for victims. The
Budgetary and Appropria-
tions Committee should
of course examine costs
and curb wastage, where
these are confirmed. But
unverified reference to
the wonder of construc-
tion activity at a public
university should not
be substitute for good
budget thinking.
gmurunga@gmail.com
A
ccording to a Standard
headline last Monday,
“County mulls law to rein
in shylocks”. The initial of shy-
lock should be capped because
it is the personal name of a
character in Shakespeare’s play
The Merchants Of Venice.
It was from his ruthless
usury in the play that the name
Shylock came to symbolise
a ruthlessly greedy person — what Shakespeare
called an “Ebrew Jew”.
For many centuries, European Christendom com-
mitted the injustice of identifying Europe’s Khazari
Jews as the ones congenitally given to usurious
practices and excessive love of profit. The Khazari
were a Turko-Caucasian people native to Russia’s
Volga valley.
But once they converted en masse to Judaism
around the seventh century AD, began claiming
Semitic ancestry and, what with their ghetto men-
tality, started to dominate local trade everywhere
— they had played themselves into the hands of
Christendom’s bigotry.
They had given the Roman Church a powerful
reason to manufacture a gargantuan historic lie
against the Jews in general — the lie that was to dog
European Jewry murderously for centuries, culmi-
nating in Adolf Hitler’s “Final Solution” and thus
creating the hecatomb that the Khazari call the
Holocaust, which consumed six million Khazari
Jews between the two world wars alone.
The Khazari had earned profound bitterness
against themselves for their ghetto-based domi-
nation of local trade. It was verily like what the
piece-goods dukawallahs from India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka would do throughout
East Africa, thus, in Uganda, playing themselves
right into the barbaric hands of Idi Amin Dada.
Betrayal

Nakuru opens door to online censorship

Such was what enabled Rome, when Constantine
began flirting with the Afro-Judaean Christology
that had created the Jesus tale, to manufacture a
cock-and-bull story called “betrayal”.

‘‘
Rome created the fixion of Judas Iscariot as the

N
akuru holds the pride of place
after the launch in the town this
week of the first free Wi-Fi in the
country. But it has also opened the door
to official interference with online free-
dom in the name of fighting pornography
and other offensive sites.
Free Internet is part of the Jubilee
manifesto, which promises free Internet
zones in major towns. In today’s world
of information-based economies, free In-
ternet is a basic right, just like water and
electricity.
And a free municipal Wi-Fi is more
economical than having individuals and
private companies pay. It’s also a way of
stimulating economic development.
This digital right could be watered
down by unwarranted filtering in the
name of fighting pornography. The prob-
lem with pornography is that when it’s
not defined, it becomes a catch-all for
whatever the censor does not like.
During the launch of the Wi-Fi in Na-
kuru, Governor Kinuthia Mbugua said:
“I am happy that those who installed the
free connectivity blocked pornography
and other offensive sites and now our
people, students included, can get useful
information.” Those sentiments are likely
to be repeated elsewhere as free Internet
With 47.1 percent of the
population connected, Kenya
has one of the highest Internet
penetrations in Africa
is rolled out in other towns. That will
be regressive. Kenya is currently listed
among the 29 countries in the world that
have freedom of the Internet.
The “Freedom on the NET 2013” report
published by Freedom House on Octo-
ber 3, 2013, shows that Kenya and South
Africa are the only African countries that
have Internet freedom. The report covers
developments in 60 countries that oc-
curred between May 2012 and April 2013.
Government filtering of online content
in Kenya would interfere with the basic
rights of millions. With 47.1 percent of
the population connected, Kenya has one
of the highest Internet penetrations in
Africa, according to the latest statistics
by the Communications Commission of
Kenya published in January 2014. We have
19.1 million Internet users.
Government filtering of online content
would encroach on Article 33 of the Con-
stitution that guarantees every person the
right to freedom of expression, which in-
cludes freedom to seek, receive, or impart
information or ideas. Limitations to that
freedom is only permitted to protect the
rights of others, national security, public
order, public health and morals.
In any case, any law or regulation limit-
ing a basic freedom must meet standards
of clarity and precision so that people
know exactly when they are in the wrong.
Vaguely worded sentiments are, therefore,
unhelpful.
As it is, pornography is not defined
in Kenyan law, though the Kenya Film
Classification Board defines it as the
“depiction of erotic behaviour intended
to cause sexual excitement”. Even that
definition brings huge problems of pro-
portionality and intention.
Some material may be wholly intended
to produce sexual arousal. Others may be
intended to make a broader social point.
Should they all be lumped together as
pornography? Besides, the important
thing is not whether something is porno-
graphic but whether it causes harm, and
under what circumstances.
gigirimwaura@yahoo.com
character through whom to transfer from Rome
itself to the Semitic Jews the responsibility for hav-
ing crucified Jesus.
The secret lies in the name Judas itself. For Judas
is only the Hellenic Greek rendition of the Hebrew
name Yudah, which simply referred to any male
person from Judah and meant nothing more sinister
than a “Jew”.
The feminine version of Yudah is Yudith, which is
what the world’s Christians have borrowed, through
Rome, as Judith. Both Yudah and Yudith translate
simply as “Judaean” or “Jew”.
It was thus, by latching onto the name Judas,
that the Roman authorities transformed Jews into
a person, thus bringing Jewry into a million times
sharper focus, in order to say that Judas was acting
for and in the name of the Jews and thus to be able
to accuse the whole people of deicide, a Latin word
which meant “god-killer” — from dei (a form of
deus, “God”) and caedere (“to kill”).
But one Shakespeare characters describes Shy-
lock as “an Ebrew Jew” only for the same reason that
some Mark Twain characters hurl the word “nig-
ger” at blacks.
In 19th-century America, if some characters of
the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn did not hurl
the word “nigger”, Mark Twain would lose all the
realism that Maxim Gorky once demanded of all
creative writers.
philipochieng39@gmail.com
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014
To the editor
Why are we biting the
fingers that feed us
For ages now, tourism has
been the backbone of the Kenyan
economy. Tourists visit our country
with the salient attraction being our
wildlife, especially the big five. By
2030, however, we could have lost
all our wildlife due to the rampant
poaching in our animal sanctuar-
ies. It is also disturbing that the
people meant to guard the animals
are themselves turning to poaching.
Kenyans are tired of promises of
action by the government and now
want action. Declaring poaching a
national disaster should be a first
step. All this tough talk and numer-
ous legislation will not save our
wildlife from extinction. The gov-
ernment must crack the whip.
DANIEL WATEKA, via e-mail
We should mark the Lent
season by donating blood
I recently read in the Daily Na-
tion that blood supply for patients
is in short supply countrywide.
During this holy Lenten season,
Christians could play a very signifi-
cant role to remedy this situation.
Besides undertaking actions like
alms and other altruistic activities,
why not do something novel and
noble? It could be appropriate if all
healthy Christians donated blood. If
various churches and pastors could
take a lead for this humane action,
it could help very many victims of
accidents and other emergencies in
hospitals. Besides, a message can
then get across to ordinary people
that donating blood is good for the
donor’s own health. Many people
still think this gesture is harmful to
their health.
ANTO PORUTHUR, via e-mail
Repair security lights to
curb insecurity in estate
I live in Huruma Ngei 2B in Nai-
robi’s Eastlands. The insecurity
in this part of the city is alarming.
Residents are mugged right at
their doorsteps. There is a playing
ground behind Mbuthia Bar where
knife-wielding men mug people
from as early as 9pm. The men are
well known to the area’s administra-
tors and representatives. We have
complained but nothing has been.
The security floodlight in the area
was deliberately damaged by these
criminals and to date has not been
repaired.
HERNRY BULIMIA, via -email
LAST WEEK’S QUESTION
Who do you consider best performing Cabinet Secretary?
DAN TUMBO: Transport He is not popular but he has
minister Michael Kamau. He been effective and has not
has taken after John Michuki shied away from the media
for his tough decisions in im-
plementing ministry policies.
despite the many challenges
he has faced.
LINCOLN KINYUA: Joseph ANTONY SIFUNA: Charity
Ole Lenku of Internal Securiry. Ngilu: Despite the cartels and
Letters 15
The editor welcomes brief letters on topical issues.
Write on e-mail to: mailbox@ke.nationmedia.com
You can also mail to: The Editor, Daily Nation,
POB 49010, Nairobi 00100.
TALKING POINT THE CUTTING EDGE
To solve our problems, we will
BY THE WATCHMAN
SECURITY. The runaway insecurity is a matter of
have to amend the Constitution
concern in the streets of Nairobi and Mombasa, in
homes, and also in workplaces, remarks Arphaxad
Makori. The government, he adds, has an obligation
enshrined in the Constitution to ensure the safety
of all Kenyans and their property. Inspector-General
A
few weeks ago, both of Police David Kimaiyo, Intelligence boss Michael
the President and Gichangi and Defence Cabinet Secretary Raychelle
his Deputy took a 20 Omamo, he demands, must earn their pay by securing
percent pay cut. They were the country. His contact is mak.alpha@yahoo.com.
concerned that the govern-
ment wage bill had become POOR SERVICE. Kajiado County govern-
unmanageable a big burden ment’s lands registry should pull up its socks, says
to our struggling economy. Kenneth Miriti, who has for over two months now
The two decided that since been waiting for a bank charge over his plot despite
they were the leaders of the this having been cleared by the local land control
flock, once the head turns, board. He adds: “The Lands officials are scoring
the entire flock would turn. poorly in public service delivery, with breakdowns of
This has not quite worked
FILE | NATION franking equipment or misplaced files. This ineffi-
out.
One could see signs of Though we knew it was not perfect, we still voted for the new ciency has huge implications on economic activity.”
frustration from the two Constitution in 2010. His contact is ken.miriti@yahoo.co.uk.
when they resorted to issu-
ing thinly veiled threats to campaigns, we agreed that them home.
COUNTY SERVICE. Once a beautiful residential
estate in Nairobi’s Eastlands, Buru Buru Phase III, is
parastatal chiefs who failed it was not perfect, but we Why do we have nomi-
to take pay cuts. still voted for it. nated senators, MCAs and wallowing in filth, with garbage strewn all over the
One is paid a salary after The Constitution placed MPs? What do they do? place, moans Davis Munoru. The county government,
doing some work. If our a very heavy burden on the Who do they represent? Do he reports, never collects garbage, just like its pred-
wage bill is higher than the tax payer by creating very we really need 350 MPs? ecessor, the City Council of Nairobi, and all that the
economy can support, then many offices. Citizens are We also meddled in our small private companies do is encourage their clients
it means that there is high heavily represented at the security by reducing the to pile up litter at various collection points. “And the
inefficiency in the govern- expense of essential serv- authority of the Inspector county officials mostly harass petty traders. We de-
ment, or there are more ices. Today, every Kenyan General of Police. mand services as rates have been doubled.” His con-
employees than jobs in the is represented by an assist- In short we have a con- tact is davismunoru@gmail.com.
government. ant chief, a chief, county stitution which has glaring
If this is the cause of the representative, County weakness but nobody is
CITY POTHOLES. Mercy Wambugu wonders why
bloated wage bill, slashing Commissioner, women’s ready to amend it.
the President’s salary is like represenative, MP, Senator, The president and his two key roads in a plush area of Nairobi — Gitanga
cutting trees in the wrong Governor, Deputy President deputy need to lead us in and James Gichuru — have gaping potholes? Sections
forest. Kenyans are very and the President. We also amending th Constitution, of the two roads, she adds, were dug up ostensibly
good at digging our own have many commissions establishing efficiency in for recarpeting several weeks ago and to date, there is
graves and mourning on re- with numerous commis- the government services no sign that the job will completed soon. “Those who
alising that we are about to sioners and staff. and stumping out corrup- cannot do the jobs they have been given should be
be buried in the same grave. The same Constitu- tion. Nobody is interested removed. This is the 21st century for heaven’s sake.
Take for example the tion made some posts in getting a pay cut. In fact,
Please fix the roads.” Her contact is waruguruwambug
Constitution, on which we redundant, like Provincial government workers should
spent a lot of money to cre- Commissioners, but the be paid more. u@googlemail.com.
ate. During the referendum government has not sent DAVID MAINA, Nyeri
A WALKING NATION. The crackdown on matatus
by the National Transport and Safety Authority has
been a blessing in disguise, remarks Njoroge Kiratu,
adding that instead of always boarding vehicles, he
Dispense with the rhetoric With the top divided, morale has been walking to various destinations and actu-
ally likes it. “As a result, I feel better and healthier and
and act on this insecurity in the police force is very low sincerely thank the authorities for causing the mess
enabling me to confirm that I have been doing a dis-
After the terror attack in Likoni which The National Police Service Commission service to my health by never walking, even to nearby
left six people dead, President Kenyatta chairman Johnston Kavuludi declared that destinations.” His contact is nkiratu@gmail.com.
warned terrorists that their days were num- recent transfers made by the Inspector Gen-
bered. Last September, after the Westgate eral of Police David Kimaiyo were null and Have a beneficial day, won’t you!
Mall attack, the President issued a similar void. This controversy has left many police
threat. Two weeks ago, a bomb was found officers wondering who to take directives
in a car at the Mombasa police headquar-
ters. Every day, people are robbed and
from between the two public officials. These
divisions will negatively affect the per-
ON THIS DATE IN 1977
killed in their homes or mugged on the formance of the police service. The sooner COMPILED BY ANNIEL NJOKA
streets. Even the rich neighbourhoods have Kavuludi and Kimaiyo sorted out their dif-
not been spared. Yet all the government ferences, the better, the better it will be for
does is just to issue threats. all Kenyans.
MARYANNE MAINA, Nairobi DAVE MUNGAI, via e-mail
DEBATE QUESTION
Comment on the
corruption at the Lands minis- Sh266 billion for
try, she has issued title deeds
and streamlined records. counties in the
OKUMU MWANAMIKA:
Michael Kamau of Transport.
next financial year CONGRATULATIONS. Nation Printers and Pub-
lishers group chairman Mr A.A.A. Ekirapa (left)
He has managed to restore presents a trophy to the Press Advertising of the Year
sanity onto our roads. Send your comments to mailb
ox@ke.nationmedia.com award winner Mr Stan Hill. Looking on are Mr John
Lula (centre ) and Mr A. Corcoran.
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GLOBAL AFRICA | Michael Meyer
The diplomacy of public perception and politics
Countries
I
n Europe, the buzz is all
Ukraine. Urgent as that crisis
that may be, however, it largely
concerns the past — the collapse
manage of the Soviet empire, the post-Cold
their War expansion of Nato into central
Europe, Russia’s determination to
image reassert influence in its traditional
“near abroad.’’
like a By contrast, this week brought
corporate an opportunity to look toward
the future. At the 2014 European
brand Union-Africa Summit in Brussels,
will fare diplomats united under a banner of
inter-continental partnership. Put
better in aside disagreements over tariffs
and free trade, not to mention
the global nasty flaps over visas and the
market- EU’s efforts to exclude “undesir-
able” heads of state. Glowingly
place than and at length, they spoke of a new
“forward-looking vision” of shared
those who principles and common interests.
do not Working together, the summiteers
declared, there is no limit to what
Europe and a fast-emerging Africa
might achieve.
Typically for such occasions, the
rhetoric was exalted. Atypically, it
was also grounded in reality. We
are familiar with the macro-trends
transforming the continent: how
average GDP grew by 5.2 per cent
annually over the past decade, how
six to eight of the fastest-growing
economies in the world are Afri-
can, depending on who’s counting.
Less known are some important
micro-trends, particularly those
involving what might be called
the new Afro-European nexus.
Since 2007, when EU and
African heads of state embraced
a joint agenda for social and
economic progress, Europe has
emerged as Africa’s biggest de-
velopment partner by far. Over
the past seven years, the EU has
invested more than $200 billion in
Africa’s development, roughly 45
per cent of all official assistance to
the continent. Thanks to EU aid,
five million newborns were vac-
cinated against measles. Millions
more are alive because of improved
maternal health care. An estimated
3.4 million Africans received some
form of vocational training. Aca-
demic exchanges have multiplied,
with nearly 4,000 students and
faculty studying in Europe over
the period.
Growing mobility has a direct
economic impact. Money sent
home by African workers in Europe
totalled $60.4 billion in 2012, up
by a third since 2007. Remittances
are now the single largest source
of external funds in Africa, for the
first time exceeding foreign direct
investment and official develop-
ment assistance. More than a third
comes from Europe. Meanwhile,
trade continues to grow, reach-
ing $339 billion in 2012, higher
by nearly half over the past five
years. Europe remains Africa’s
largest trading and investment
partner, absorbing 40 percent of
its exports and supplying 34 per
cent of its imports. For good or ill,
African investment in EU nations
grew seven-fold to more than $100
billion in the last 10 years.
For all the bright prospects, the
view from Brussels wasn’t entirely
upbeat. Africans often complain
that Europeans (and others) tell
only the bad news about Africa
— a narrative of poverty, war and
disease. Not without reason, a
hard-eyed outsider might reply.
In South Sudan, the Central
African Republic and Darfur, the
story is indeed one of rape, plun-
der and war. Mali remains fragile,
jeopardizing the political stability
of its neighbours. Guinea is in the
grip of an ebola epidemic, while
millions in the Sahel worry about
potential famine.
The acknowledged stars of
the African firmament were also
the subject of behind-the-scenes
concern. Ethiopia, whose construc-
tion-site capital hosts the African
Union and a growing constellation
of pan-African development agen-
cies, is bedevilled by questions
over human rights and media
freedom. So is Rwanda, even as
it celebrates an extraordinary
record of accomplishment at this
20th anniversary of the genocide.
Uganda has been sanctioned for its
policies on homosexuality.
In terms of its global image,
Kenya suffers from needlessly
self-inflicted wounds. It gets im-
mense credit for helping to put
broken Somalia back together.
Recent terror attacks by Islamic
extremists are generally seen
as the price of that courageous
engagement on behalf of the
international community. Yet six
months after Westgate, the tragedy
is remembered chiefly for looting
by government forces. Meanwhile,
the International Criminal Court
proceedings against President
Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy,
William Ruto, have seduced minis-
ters into reactive policies that hurt
more than help. A restrictive new
media law sparked global outcry.
So has a proposal to crack down
on international NGOs.
More recently, Kenyan authori-
ties moved to expel a former BBC
correspondent and human rights
campaigner after declaring her a
“subversive.’’ To western audi-
ences, the very use of the word
suggests a turn toward autocracy
— a disconcerting trend that
outsiders see increasingly across
Africa. If government officials be-
lieve a journalist or social activist
has overstepped their bounds, the
remedy lies with the courts. When
it comes to international opinion,
transparency and the rule of law
trump expedience.
Mary Kimonye, chief executive
of Brand Kenya, works with the
government to promote Kenya’s
global image. As she sees it, a
country’s reputation can be likened
to a corporate brand. Anything that
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014
besmirches a company’s reputation
translates directly into lost sales
and revenue. In extreme cases, it
can imperil a firm’s existence.
As a brand, Kenya is on an envi-
able trajectory. Tourists come for
its landscapes and wildlife. Global
hedge funds and businesses rightly
see it as one of the better places to
invest in a rising Africa. Compa-
nies like Safaricom are pioneers of
the digital age, not only in Africa
but globally. Kenya’s best selling
point is its comparatively robust
democracy and largely hospitable
business climate.
Yet none of this is reason for
complacency. It might be easy to
dismiss the corridor criticisms
from Brussels, but let’s not.
Whether they reflect a so-called
‘’Western bias’’ is beside the point.
Perceptions are real. They come
with tangible costs and benefits.
Countries that manage their image
like a corporate brand will fare bet-
ter in the global marketplace than
those who do not.
This would apply equally to
some European nations —though
of course that was not on the
agenda in Brussels.
Mr Meyer, a former Newsweek
editor and communications direc-
tor to UN secretary-general Ban
Ki-moon, is dean of the graduate
school of media and communica-
tions at Aga Khan University in
Nairobi. michael.meyer@aku.edu
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April 5, 2014
FUNERAL | Nyakach violence victims to be buried today
Kisumu Senator Anyang Nyong’o addressing mourners yesterday at the funeral service for five
people recently killed in Nyakach, at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital
in Kisumu. The victims of the arrow attacks will be buried today in Nyakach.
FALLOUT | Former PM accused of being a dictator
Dalmas vows to ‘kick
ODM out of Nyanza’
Supporters think
former minister has
a point but others
say he is being used
by party enemies
BY ELISHA OTIENO
elisha_otieno@yahoo.com
AND MOSES ODHIAMBO
mogada@ke.nationmedia.com
F
ormer Cabinet minis-
ter Dalmas Otieno has
stepped his campaign to
upstage Raila Odinga who has
dominated Luo Nyanza politics
for more than two decades.
Speaking to Saturday Na-
tion, the Rongo MP said he
had already registered a new
political party to rival Mr Od-
inga’s ODM.
“The party is alive and kick-
ing. We are not turning back
in our campaign to provide
alternative leadership. We will
be making a major announce-
ment in two weeks,” said Mr
Otieno, who was scheduled to
fly to Juba where he represents
President Uhuru Kenyatta in
the Sudan peace talks.
“ODM is gone. It is indeed
unfortunate,” he said before
hanging up.
Mr Otieno has lined up a
series of meetings and fund
raising activities to drum up
support for Kalausi (Dholuo
for a whirlwind), the fore run-
ner of his new party, ahead of
‘‘
We will be
making a major
announcement
in two weeks.
ODM is gone.
It is indeed
unfourtunate”
Dalmas Otieno
the launch.
“Chama to biro, Kalausi
ma ilando wachne to en mana
nying mar batiso makalo (The
party is coming and the whirl-
wind that is being speculated
is just a baptismal name),” Mr
Otieno said.
However, Mr Odinga re-
sponded by saying that Mr
Otieno started becoming hos-
tile to ODM when he declined
to endorse him for a top party
position.
“I advised him to seek the
JACOB OWITI | NATION
support of party delegates
like other candidate,” said the
former Prime Minister.
Mr Otieno’s declaration
was greeted with mixed reac-
tions.
An MP from Migori allied to
Mr Otieno, but who requested
anonymity loudly wondered
how ODM would win the next
elections if “Uhuru and Ruto
were able to beat us when they
were not in power.”
The move is seen a renewal
of the old rivalry between
South and Central Nyanza,
previously spearheaded by
Mbita-born Tom Mboya and
Oginga Odinga respectively.
Homa Bay Senator Otieno
Kajwang called on those un-
comfortable in ODM to leave.
However, political scientist
Prof Olang Sana of Mase-
no University argued that
Kalausi will be out to reduce
Mr Odinga’s control over Luo
MPs in Nyanza but will not
solve problems touching on
management of political par-
ties in the country.
“Kenya needs a national
party. Directing all forces
against Mr Odinga is a deflec-
tion from real problems facing
party politics,” he said.
Mr Otieno was a close ally
of retired President Moi be-
fore joining Mr Odinga where
again, he became one of the
key advisers.
The declaration comes after
months of speculation about
his loyalty to ODM.
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18 | National News
CULTURE | Lecturer collects and preserves anything that tells the story of his community
I spent my millions on artifacts
Passion for culture drove Maths
tutor to start collecting traditional
items. Now he has a museum
BY ANITA CHEPKOECH
achepkoech@ke.nationmedia.com
T
he Battle of Mogori is
etched in the memory of
the Kipsigis.
Many Kipsigis men were killed
in this war that happened around
1900 in the present-day Nyamira
County.
Much about the battle and
how it led to marriages of con-
venience between Kisii men
and Kipsigis women has faded
with time.
However, an artifact at a
museum in Kericho County is
sure to bring back the memo-
ries — a shield believed to have
been brought from the Battle of
Nothing Mogori.
The shield is one of more than
is as soul- 1,000 artifacts collected over six
soothing years by a mathematics lecturer
who runs the museum, Mr Paul
as a firm Tum.
educational Mr Tum has a collection of
foundation historical items at his Kipkurben
Museum of Art and Science that
linking the have cost him close to Sh2 mil-
past and the lion.
They include traditional
present with musical instruments like the
our future one-stringed kimengeng, the
dreams” five-string chepkesem, the six
string chemonget and eight-
Mr Paul Tum, string ketuba.
collector and Mr Tum teaches Mathematics
lecturer at Moi University’s Kericho Cam-
pus. His museum is at Kapkatet
in Bureti district.
He is pursuing a PhD degree
and many would expect him to
leave the field of language and
culture to history and literary
scholars such Taban Lo Liyong
and Chris Wanjala.
But his passion will not let
him. He has devoted Sh20,000
each month for the cause.
In 2008, Mr Tum resorted
AP seized in swoop
on illegal loggers
BY NATION poles were found in the
CORRESPONDENT lorry, belonging to the
Ministry of Interior. It
Two people, one of them is attached to Laikipia
an Administration police- Central deputy county
man, were arrested when commissioner’s office.
forest officers impounded
a government vehicle Night mission
with timber that had
been illegally harvested
Mr Maneno said his
officers were acting on
in Meru. a tip-off from the public.
The vehicle was ferry- The officers had trailed
ing cypress trees from the lorry and arrested
Ontulili Forest in Timau, the suspects at the tim-
Buuri sub-county. ber yard.
Two suspects in custody Their accomplices rest
were part of a seven-man escapeed. “We received
crew in the lorry inter- information that the lorry
cepted as it entered a was spotted entering the
timber yard near Nanyuki forest on Wednesday
Town. night,” Mr Maneno said,
Meru Forest boss Evans adding that illegal logging
Maneno said 53 cypress must be stopped.
to collecting anything about
the culture of his people to sal-
vage a few remaining artifacts
that he knew were at the risk
of disappearing.
“I made it known publicly
that I would buy any artifact
for at least Sh500 a piece. The
response was great as I have
since collected over 1,000 dif-
ferent traditional artifacts,” he
told the Saturday Nation at
the museum.
He not only received items
from the Kalenjin but also
from the Maasai, Kamba and
Luo.
The latest items at the museum
include a kipsilwet, a bowl-like
item used by mothers to clean
their hands and breasts before
feeding their babies.
“I’m willing to share all this
with willing partners,” he said.
The museum has collections
from as far back as 18th century.
They include war weapons and
tools for tillage, harvesting and
serving foods.
Different cultures
It is frequently visited by
school children who come to
learn about different cultures.
The site is open throughout
the week from 9am to 5pm
on weekdays or to 6.30pm on
weekends.
Kenyan children pay Sh10 and
adults Sh20. Foreigners pay be-
tween Sh100 and Sh200.
Visitors aged above 80 years
are free to visit the facility.
The centre has a library
with books written in Kipsigis
language.
Among the books in the
shelves are The Legend Explored
by Kipkoech arap Sambu (2011),
The Social Institution of the
Kipsigis by Dr Ivan Perestiany
(1939) and The Kipsigis by Henry
Ochardsar (1961).
“Nothing is as soul-soothing
as a firm educational foundation
linking the past and the present
with our future dreams,” Mr Tum
said.
“It cannot come in any bet-
TNA to launch Othaya vote hunt
BY NATION REPORTER
The National Alliance
Party says it will launch its
campaigns for the Othaya
parliamentary by-election
next week.
Kajiado West MP Moses
Sakuda said all was set for the
campaigns to enable former
Othaya MP Mary Wambui, the
party’s candidate, recapture
the seat on April 29.
Ms Wambui’s rival, Peter
King’ara, was cleared to con-
test the seat by the Democratic
Party (DP), which was founded
by former President, ex-Oth-
aya MP Mwai Kibaki.
Mr Emilio Mwangi of Kenya
Farmers Party and Safina’s
Joshua Mugo will be in the
contest.
Yesterday, Mr Sakuda said:
“We are going to roll out our
Mr Paul Tum, a lecturer, displays some of the items at his Kipkurben
Museum of Art and Science in Kericho County. The shield is among
more than 1,000 traditional items that he has collected over six years.
ter way than preserving our
cultures.”
The lecturer plans to put up a
cultural centre for the Kericho
County Government to make it
a tourist attraction.
“I have written to the Kericho
County Government about my
desire to help the county estab-
lish a cultural centre,” he said.
The collector, who works
part-time as a cultural educator
and ambassador, believes that
Kericho has a potential, espe-
TNA’s Mary Wambui
campaigns for Othaya next
week.”
Speaking to the Saturday
Nation on phone, he said
TNA MPs would assess the
progress of the party’s recruit-
ment drive that was to begin
this month.
“We want to see if anything
was happening at the grass-
roots. New members were to
ANITA CHEPKOECH | NATION
cially due to its close proximity
to the world renowned Maasai
Mara game reserve.
In his planned cultural cen-
tre, which would be at a more
spacious place, he plans to in-
corporate a bird sanctuary.
His ideas have excited many
of his peers.
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about your town. Send your
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edia.com
DP’s Peter King’ara
be recruited from April,” Mr
Sakuda said.
The MP said the President’s
party would plan for the other
by-elections in Mathare and
Bonchari constituencies.
The seat fell vacant after
the Appeals court nullified Ms
Wambui’s election. Othaya has
47,292 registered voters and
104 polling stations.
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014
BRIEFLY
KISII
Kisii, Central lead in
uptake of youth cash
Youths in the larger Gusii
region and Central Kenya are
the highest beneficiaries of the
National Youth Fund, its chair-
man Gor Semelang’o said. He
commended youths in those
regions and their MPs for sepa-
rating politics from development.
“These leaders have gone to the
extent of sponsoring potential
youth groups seeking to register
for the funds, a move which has
made them stay ahead of others,”
said Mr Semelang’o.
NAKURU
Several injured in
evening bus accident
Several people were injured in
an accident involving three ve-
hicles near Nakuru State House
on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway.
A bus heading to Nakuru Town
lost control, rammed the metal
guards separating the dual car-
riageway and hit a 14-seater
matatu and a lorry. Witnesses
said the bus was attempting
to overtake a lorry when it lost
control in the Thursday evening
accident.
TAITA TAVETA
Health officials close
dirty Taveta market
The Ministry of Health has
ordered the closure of Taveta
market until it meets the required
standards of hygiene. The market
at the border town serves people
from both Kenya and Tanzania.
Taveta Public Health Officer, Mr
Jira Mwayadi, said the market
did not have toilets and those be-
ing used were filled up. He added
that efforts to make the users im-
prove the state of hygiene at the
market had not borne any fruits.
MIGORI
Court stops swearing
in of acting governor
County executives sighed with
relief after the Supreme Court
halted the swearing in of the
speaker as the acting governor.
This gave a lifeline to the 10 ex-
ecutives who risked losing their
jobs like it happened in Siaya af-
ter the ousting of Governor Cor-
nel Rasanga. Following the order,
the Transitional Authority issued
a circular directing that the 10
continue working.
MERU
Nurses grumble
about unpaid dues
A section of nurses in Meru
County have threatened to go
slow in serving patients at pub-
lic hospitals. They claim their
salaries have been delayed and
accuse the county government of
failing to discuss with them dues
dating back to January. A Kenya
Union of Nurses official said the
government had altered salaries
of some of the health workers.
The union would meet to decide
the next step, the official added.
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INTERVIEW| “A big part of Africa has the problem of social exclusion,” says Prof Ogot

How I started telling

the story of Africa
and my people
Celebrated historian Bethwell Ogot discusses culture, education, politics, ethnicity
and life with one of Kenya’s most renowned novelists and politicians, Grace Ogot

culture, language, history and a

BY TOM ODHIAMBO sense of belonging. I edited and
satnation@ke.nationmedia.com published a book by the late his-
torian Atieno-Odhiambo when I

T
o see the sun ‘go to sleep’
over and beyond Lake
Victoria is a testament
to one having survived another
day. To see that sun set over the
years is to count the ancestors’
blessings.
Professor Bethwell Allan Ogot
and his wife, Grace Ogot, make
one of Kenya’s most prominent
intellectual couples. They are now
enjoying their retirement from ac-
tive public life in their home in
Yala town on the shores of Lake
Victoria, a few kilometres from
Kisumu city.
Bethwell and Grace have scored
several firsts from the classroom
to the workplace and to public and
community service. Bethwell re-
was 80 years old. The book was
published in Switzerland, but he
decided to launch it in Rang’ala
instead of America and invited
several teachers of history; not
so many from the universities
but just schools.
After the launch I was asked to
say something about the book.
Then a Somali teacher of his-
tory asked me one reason why he
should buy the book since he felt
he couldn’t even recommend it to
his children.
I asked him why? He claimed
that the only time there is refer-
ence to the Somali community in
the book is of them as Shiftas. He
then asked me if that’s the image
I wanted him to pass on to his

tired as the Chancellor of Moi
University last year.
After politics, Grace bowed out
of public life. The two spend much
of their time together reading and
occasionally doing a jig. But their
names resound publicly in Kenya
and the rest of the world.
Grace’s writing, from Land
Without Thunder to The Promised
Land and her autobiography Days
of my Life, continue to intrigue
students of literature.
Bethwell is an unmatched
Kenyan historian who still reads
voraciously, from as early as 6am.
He is preparing to give a public
lecture on Raila Odinga’s book,
Flame of Freedom, at Maseno
University this month.
To interview Bethwell, as I
did in March, is to witness the
enduring love of a couple that
still shines bright 64 years after
they first met at Makerere Uni-
versity:
Kenya is 50 years old, yet we still
talk of nation-making. Why?
The first point to note is that
nations are created through vari-
ous vital processes and elements:
children.
He claimed they aren’t part
of Kenya at all and that in the
books historians write, they don’t
exist but are mere Shiftas or ter-
rorists. So he said he can’t buy
the book.
In the whole of Africa, the
biggest problem is the issue of
exclusion; those in power want
to exclude others.
So this means exclusion based on
tribe?
Yes. That’s basic.
If you look at the questions
raised every election time for
Oginga and Raila: Claims that
Oginga isn’t circumcised and so
a Luo can’t lead. Yet a majority
of the men in the world aren’t
circumcised.
I lived and taught in Uganda
and know that apart from the
Bagisu and a few other tribes,
the rest aren’t circumcised. So
it’s not an issue in Uganda.
Yet in Kenya, this is an issue
and an excuse to exclude a whole
group permanently from power.
I have kept reminding them that
one of the oldest Independent
1953
The year Prof Bethwell Ogot
started teaching at Kapsabet
Boys High School. He
moved to Nyeri during the
emergency the same year
I started teaching
in Kapsabet Boys in
1953, but was moved
to Nyeri during the
emergency. The likes
of Dedan Kimathi
would invade my
house at Kagumo
looking for food”
Prof Bethwell Ogot
Churches in Kenya is the Nomiya
Luo Mission, founded by Owalo
in Asembo, and with one of the
conditions being that you must
be circumcised since he was
largely influenced by Muslims
at the Coast. These are Luos but
people don’t see that and claim
Luos don’t circumcise.
As a historian, I have been
reminding people that it’s the
Kalenjin who introduced circum-
cision in Kenya. Bantus were never
circumcising and it wasn’t part
of their culture until recently, yet
when they borrowed it from the
Kalenjin, it became a big factor
of exclusion.
FILE | NATION
Prof Bethwell Ogot
A big part of Africa has the
problem of social exclusion.
If that’s the problem now, let’s
go back to the 1960s or earlier. You
were young scholars, had experi-
enced the world, and were back
home. Why was it difficult to con-
struct an egalitarian society?
My experience is that during
the first two years of Kenya’s
independence that was possible.
I was lucky since I started teach-
ing outside Nyanza, in Kapsabet
Boys in 1953, but was moved to
Nyeri during the emergency in
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20 | Weekend
IN THEIR OWN WORDS | Kenyan authors speak
Writing is a sure path to
poverty, but I still do it
Even though I have written
many books on the freedom
struggle, I am not a real author
BY WANYIRI KIHORO
satnation@ke.nationmedia.com
I
am not a career writer and would
not wish to become one. Believe
it or not, I sometimes think that
serious writers are distant and many
times secluded.
“It is not easy to write,” my teacher of
English once told me at Alliance High
School a long time ago. He continued:
“If it were, everybody would immortalise
himself in the written word.”
The written word transcends millen-
nia and survives the authors long after
they are gone.
My first published work, Never Say
Die, was born of Nyayo House torture
chambers and the prisons around the
country. Having gone through three
years of horrendous torture, the book
was a catharsis, a means of survival,
revival and a return to life and sanity.
There was a certain convergence of
times that enabled the writing to hap-
pen in an intense three (post-release)
month’s period from July 1989. Deten-
tion in Kenya was like being locked up
in an inner jail. After release, you would
suffer another round of imprisonment,
isolation and loneliness in the outer jail.
This was because people would keep
you at arm’s length, alone, or only talk
to you after dark, fearful of suffering
the same fate that befell you.
Having gone through the length and
examination of the manuscript, it was
time for it to be published by the East
African Educational Publishers of Kijabe
Street and reaching the public arena
in late October 1998. The then Leader
of the Opposition, Mr Mwai Kibaki,
launched it at Parliament amid fanfare
and congratulatory messages.
I profusely thanked the EAEP for
publishing a book seen as anti-Nyayo
at the time.
Not that the publishers, led by Henry
Chakava, were ever short of courage.
They had more than played their part
during the earlier days of direct and
indirect censorship. In the 1970s and
80s, EAEP had published Ngugi wa
Thiong’o’s works including Caitani
Mutharaba-ini (The Devil on the Cross),
which had rubbed the government of
the day the wrong way.
When Ngugi came to London in June
1982 to launch it, he became a wanted
man in Kenya together with many of
his lecturer companions. This marked
the beginning of his long exile from
Kenya.
My association with Ngugi in London
for four years from mid 1982 inspired
me to write, as I later suffered the same
fate he had suffered in the 1970s. I had
spent long nights with him and my late
wife Wanjiru, charting the long history
of resistance in our country.
In 2002, at the height of the debate on
the new constitution, I had put together
the book A Vision of the Future from the
1998
Past: Essential Public Documents in the
Making of the New Kenya Constitution. I
also put together Parliament in A nation
The year Wanyiri in Motion, both published by Abantu
Kihoro published for Development of Mbaazi Avenue,
his first book Lavington.
that dwelt on his To write and be published twice in
detention with- one year is a feat in terms of time and
out trial
concentration.
Most of the work on the documents
had, however, been done before. In Lon-
don in 1985, I read and photocopied
whatever I could find on the making
of Kenya’s independence Constitution
in Lancaster in 1962.
Mvule Publishers published The Price
of Freedom in 2005. The book took the
longest to write — 15 years — having
done the first chapter in July 1989, at
the same time as Never Say Die.
When I wrote Never Say Die, it was not
what I had initially meant to write as I
had wanted to look at the institution of
detention in Kenya. I had meant to put
myself within the context of those who
had been detained. It is only that my
experience ran too long, and I remem-
bered too many details, which I could
not discard, and which became a book
in its own right.
The Price of Freedom commences
with the story of the arrest near Kabete,
the detention and death of Waiyaki wa
Hinga in 1892. It ends with my release
from detention about 97 years later
in June 1989. The book traces the
detention and background of many
since then. The stories are backed by
official records.
The Kapenguria Six is a children’s
book about what happened to the
With fewer
Kenyans
willing to
write, we
have become
impoverished
in thought.
Many
narratives
are being
lost forever
as older
Kenyans
die without
putting
down their
experiences.”
Wanyiri Kihoro
father of Uhuru and the other five at
Kapenguria in 1953 during our struggle
for freedom.
The 2007 Politics and Parliamentar-
ians in Kenya 1944-2007 remains a
popular book especially with the older
readers. It tells the story of Kenya’s leg-
islature since 1944. It was published by
the Centre for Multi-party Democracy
in June 2007.
It has not been easy to write in Kenya
because society does not open doors for
writers. Writing is a sure path to poverty
in Kenya, yet many become millionaires
abroad on the published word.
I grew up in Nyeri in 1960s, where we
were encouraged to read James Hadley
Chase novels in order to become good
speakers and writers of the English
language.
With fewer Kenyans willing to write,
we have over time become impov-
erished in thought. Many narratives
and anthologies are being lost forever
as older Kenyans die without putting
down their experiences.
One clear thing, however, is that
without a minimum degree of finan-
cial and physical stability on the part
of writers, it is impossible to achieve
any authorship.
As told to Hugholin Kimaro
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014
MY FAVOURITE BOOK
How the power
in Carson’s book
got me to start
thinking big
BY BARACK ODUOR
satnation@ke.nationmedia.com
Many people have confessed to have been inspired
by books and perhaps changed the course of their lives.
Maybe it is one of the ways God uses human beings to
inspire their fellows.
My life changed the day I picked up legendary neuro-
surgeon Ben Carson’s book, Think Big. Unlike authors
who write fiction that triggers adrenaline from the first
to the last page, like Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code,
Carson’s unearths the power that lies behind every
unleashed potential.
He begins by illustrating his humble beginning equipped
with myriad challenges including single parenthood. Car-
son brings out his disinterest in academics and lack of
commitment in his endeavours.
With no inspiration or mentors at this budding level,
he felt “useless” before his peers.
Ben Carson’s early life reminds me of my own, where
a dreamless, hopeless and directionless life characterised
my early years considering my dismal performance in
any task that required mental input.
Outdoor activities gave me more joy than anything
else, but something kept feeding my brain with perhaps
more curiosity and admiration whenever I watched tel-
evision those days.
I didn’t know how one became a newscaster or reporter
because at the back of my mind, I had developed a special
liking for journalism.
Burning fire
Except, unlike Carson’s case, where his mother played
a pivotal role in his choice of career, that there was no
one to ignite the same burning fire in me.
Sonya Carson, Ben Carson mother’s parental and
influential role ignited the passion that would see her
son climb to the zenith of medical profession at US’
most prestigious medical facility, The Johns Hopkins
Medical Institutions.
From Mr Jaeck’s lesson on rocks, where Carson
surprised his mates by answering his teacher correctly:
“That’s Obsidian,” his answer made him believe he could
do even better than that.
He came across several other mentors, inspirers, and
influencers at the university, hospital and workplace who
equally added substance to his career life.
Some challenged him while others appreciated his
ability of easily grasping learned knowledge, others
made him think beyond his province professionally, yet
he managed to always learn to do it right, and not just
right, always right.
Carson acknowledged God’s limitless power and un-
daunted strength in any mankind endeavours, that was
why it was God first to him.
In his insightful thoughts, he begins with Eleanor
Roosevelt’s assertion: “No one can make us feel inferior
without our permission.”
Ultimate goal
Humble beginning, single parenthood upbringing, peer
pressure and difficult economic times, all these the gifted
neuro-surgeon overcome by focusing his attention on
achieving his ultimate goal.
Carson’s experience with his patients sets a sympathetic
mood and admiration on how he pours his heart out to
them, the events leading to separation of the Binder
Siamese twins was a debut entry into fame and respect
for giftedness.
In fact it is through this close to miracle operation that
saw him author his other novel, Gifted Hands.
Think Big gave me a challenge to reflect on my life and
to unleash my full potential for excellence, although, I
had always wanted to be a journalist.
Today, I am a teacher and a writer; I know I have not
exploited my full potential because I am aiming at being
amongst respected literary critics in this country.
The writer is a teacher and freelance writer in Homa
Bay County
Tell us about the book that changed your life in not
more than 800 words. Send your story to satnation@
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Cheese, insurance and seedlings: What
MAKING CHEESE
Where can I get some rennet, within
or outside Nairobi? I want to make
some cheese.
Renee Oyuo
Thank you for your interest in our
magazine. With regards to cheese
making, you can get rennet from
Promaco Ltd in Nairobi and other
bio-goods supply companies in
Kenya.
Prof J. Matofari is a senior lecturer in
the Department of Dairy Agriculture
and Food Technology at Egerton
University.
Email: seedsofgold@egerton.ac.ke
GROWING MAIZE
FOR FODDER
Thank you for the commendable job
Seeds of Gold. I am from a tea and
coffee growing zone in Kirinyaga
County. I have a parcel of land under
nappier, but I want to grow fodder
maize or sorghum. Which fertiliser
do I use for planting the maize bear-
ing in mind that nappier is a heavy
drainer of potassium? Which are
the best early maturing maize and
sorghum varieties that I can plant
for fodder?
Peter Muriithi
Greetings, NPK fertiliser will supply
nitrogen phosphorus and potas-
sium that has been drained by
the nappier. About the maize or
sorghum varieties, pearl millet can
also be a good source of fodder. If
you want maize for grain, Caddan,
Macia and Sila varieties are suited
for your agro-ecotype region.
Prof Paul Kimurto is a senior lecturer
in the Department of Crops Horti-
culture and Soils, Egerton University
Email: seedsofgold@egerton.ac.ke
RABBIT MARKET
I am rabbit farmer in Eldoret and I
wanted to get market for my stock.
Where can I sell rabbits commer-
cially?
Haji Shakim, Eldoret
Supermarkets in Eldoret buy di-
rectly from rabbit farmers. Contact
Rabbit Republic for more details.
Market for rabbits is very high and
one can fetch over Shl,000.
Prof Paul Kimurto is a senior lecturer
in the Department of Crops Horti-
culture and Soils, Egerton University
Email: seedsofgold@egerton.ac.ke
MILK DISPENSER
Kindly tell me where I can purchase
a milk ATM machine.
Fred Obimbo
You can get milk dispenser/ATM
machine from Kenya Farmers As-
sociation or Kenya Cooperative
Creameries outlets. If they don’t
have, they can easily connect you
with other suppliers.
Prof J. Matofari is a senior lecturer
in the Department of Dairy Agricul-
ture and Food Technology, Egerton
University.
Email: seedsofgold@egerton.ac.ke
FUNDING
Thank you a lot for the informa-
tive
magazine. I
am into poultry
farming but I lack
funds. Kindly, do you
have contacts of anyone with fi-
nancial help apart from Agricultural
Finance Corporation or banks since I
have no security?
John Gachie, Nakuru
We appreciate your question and
interest in our magazine. Recently,
a lot of microfinance institutions
have emerged ready to fund farm-
ers and other entrepreneurs. All
you require is a business plan to
access these funds. I recommend
you talk to SMEI 0726437028, a
microfinance specifically for farm-
ers, and you will be sure to get the
information you are looking for.
Mr Martin Njoroge is a research as-
April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION
feedback
TRAINING, LAND AND
INSURANCE
I have four questions. First, those
who have interest in agribusiness
and have no education in agri-
culture, where can we get short
practical courses with or without
certification?
Second, what is the right insur-
ance for horticulture? Any recom-
mendations?
Third, many youths don’t have
access to land, and some land may
not have water, so the best option
is to lease, are there agents or
companies you can recommend to
go to for land leasing?
Lastly, market remains a huge
challenge to farmers. Farmers earn
more when brokers are out of the
supply chain. Are there groups of
farmers who market horticultural
products local or international?
Janice Wambui Kamwaro, Ruiru
On your first question, Egerton
University can organise targeted
courses, which cover basic pro-
duction in agriculture, value
addition and marketing at some
fee. This would be a three to five
day course. We would encourage
you to talk to as many people as
possible to get a good quorum
to reduce the cost of the training.
Certification will be given.
Second: Since horticulture is of can contact large-scale farms
high value with good economic around Nakuru for land leasing but
returns, any form of insurance from may not guarantee costs and or
any company is good. Sometimes leasing rates.
horticulture is produced under Fourth: It is true brokers exploit
controlled environment such as farmers after harvesting because
green houses where risks are low, at this time, most of them have
therefore, insurance is not recom- used their money in farming.
mended. Many farmers normally Farmers can form groups or coop-
insure livestock and drought-prone eratives to market their products
crops such as wheat and maize. at better prices. We are aware
Third: It is true that land is of farmers’ groups that sell pas-
scarce, but potential areas for sion fruits and tomatoes locally.
leasing are in the Rift Valley, International markets are a bit
Narok, Nakuru, Uasin Gishu and challenging because of export
Trans Nzoia. However, most of regulations. Companies like Njoro
these lands don’t have good infra- Canning normally buy directly
structure, including irrigation, and from farmers for export.
may require more investment to Prof Paul Kimurto is a senior lec-
put up infrastructure for optimal
productivity. It would be prudent
turer in the Department of Crops
Horticulture and Soils, Egerton
to negotiate more time to recover University
investment. Egerton University Email: seedsofgold@egerton.ac.ke
sistant in the Division of Research Yes, watermelons can grow any-
and Extension, Egerton University where as long as the conditions
Email: seedsofgold@egerton.ac.ke are right. Organic fertiliser will do
well for the melons. The plants will
need adequate sunlight. If you’re
WATERMELON planting the non-disease resistant
IN SIAYA varieties, never plant them in shady
areas since it can lead to disastrous
effects. Aside from the land, you
I would like information on the will also need to have a steady sup-
following. Is it possible to plant wa- ply of water. Chlorinated water is
termelon in Siaya County (Ugenya) not advisable and it’s best to use
and Kisumu County (Kibos)? Is the a well. These are just some of the
soil and climate in these areas best things you need to address if you
suited for the crop? Any relevant want to grow healthy fruits.
information would be highly ap- Prof Ogendo is a senior lecturer in
preciated? the Department of Crops Horticul-
Nick Oloo ture and Soils, Egerton University
Email: seedsofgold@egerton.ac.ke
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feedback
you need to know
DEBATE ON GMOS
CONTROVERSY
Greetings good people,
Seeds of Gold is an excellent
magazine; an idea whose time
has come. I enjoy reading it, but
I wish you refrain from Geneti-
cally Modified Organisms (GMO)
controversy.
The pro-GMO article by Mary
Muchunguh in the March 22 issue,
for instance, stated that “…lack of
knowledge and insight has made
Africans wary of GMOs” as con-
troversy rages in Europe, where
opinion is that:
i) Organic is healthier.
ii) GMOs risks to health and en-
vironment outweigh benefits.
iii) Only the multinational bio-
tech companies will benefit, domi-
nating the world food supply and
squeezing out traditional farmers.
The article also talks of “…GMOs
being well-suited for the harsh
African environment…” when we
know that winter in say Wisconsin
is unbearable for crops, livestock
and humans.
Please note that GMO is a
controversial topic that is full of
contradictions, thus, it is easier to
mislead readers.
Best regards,
Kariuki Kiragu
EDITOR: We greatly appreciate
your feedback. At Seeds of Gold,
we work with a team of experts
from Egerton University and
other institutions, who help us
discuss various topics.
AVOCADO EXPORTER
Hello, I am an avid reader of Seeds
of Gold. It’s such an informative
and educative magazine of our
time. Kindly provide me with
contacts of Mr Maina Karuiru,
the avacado exporter. He had
indicated that he has an order
of 5,000 Hass export avocado
variety from farmers but he can’t
meet it. I would like to partner
with him since I have over 3,500
seedlings of the same ready for
planting. Kindly link me with him.
Kenneth Ngoseywe
EDITOR: You can reach Mr Maina
Karuiru on 0733780963
Furnish me with the addresses of
the following: Dominic Wanjihia of
Biogas International Karen, farmer
MaryAnne Wairimu of Gad Eden
GreenHouse and Nurseries. Kenya
Livestock Producers Association.
Fam Mwachui, Mombasa County
Thanks for your informative
magazine. It crowns my Satur-
days. I was fascinated by Dominic
Wanjihia’s innovation on bio gas. I
have five cows, 15 sheep and 100
chickens. The dung from sheep
and chicken droppings is collected
by neighbours as manure. Please
send his contact.
Kibugi Kiamunyi
Thank you for Seeds of Gold. I
have just completed construction
of my zero grazing units at my
home in Chemese/Chemelil ward
in Nandi County. I have 12 dairy
cows. I wish to install a biogas
plant, conventional type or oth-
erwise to benefit from cow dung.
Please connect me to Mr Dominic
Wanjihia or any other person who
can help me.
Moses.
I have learned a lot from Seeds
of Gold. Thank you for the good
work. I want you to connect me
with Mr Dominic Wanjihia.
Mwalimu Kinga
Nyeri
Please send me Mr Dominic Wan-
jihia’s contact as I am interested in
gas brooders.
Regards, Paul Njuguna
Thanks for your well-researched
articles, particularly that on biogas
production. I wish to have such a
unit in Naivasha. Could you pos-
sibly send me the contact of Mr
Dominic Wanjihia?
Patrick Waicoya
Hallo, Kindly assist me with
the contact of Dominic Wanji-
hia and AquSan Group. I’m inter-
ested in installing a unit at home.
Regards, Steve Auma
Hello, send me the contact of Mr
Dominic Wanjihia, the biogas in-
novator?
Thanks, Godfrey Oduor
EDITOR: His contact is:
Dominic Wanjihia
0772 700530
Email: info@biogas.co.ke
SEEDLINGS
BUSINESS
Dear Seeds of Gold, I’m impressed
with the kind of information you
give to farmers in your weekly
pullout. I’m particularly interested
in growing seedlings for sale. How
I can get some training and how
can I acquire the hygro-mix, which
MaryAnne Wairimu is using to
germinate seeds in Kiserian.
Ayub Were,
Nairobi.
EDITOR: Please reach MaryAnne
Wairimu on 0725208611
URBAN DAIRY
FARMERS
Kindly provide me with details
of the urban dairy farmers that
featured in your magazine as I am
trying something similar but with
goats. I would like their advice
on where they get their feed. I
would also appreciate if you could
include the contacts of the bril-
liant staff of Egerton University in
your next edition so that we may
be able to contact them directly
instead flooding you with emails.
EDITOR: Please contact Evelyn
Situma for the story on urban
farming, 0732718209
WATERMELON
FARMING
I am an avid reader of Seed of
Gold. I got interested in Annie
Nyaga’s outstanding performance
with watermelons. Kindly give me
her contact so that I can probably
visit her farm and see the method
of drip irrigation she has applied.
Thanks in advance.
Peter Kamau
EDITOR: You can reach Ms Annie
Nyaga on 0708930979
April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION
RIGHT CHORD» SONG RECORDED IN 10 LANGUAGES
Juliani Dbanj
Top musicians stand
up for food security
African BY AMOS NGAIRA
artists sing
A
angaira@ke.nationmedia.com
to inspire
the youth
across group of African musicians
is on a mission to rally the conti-
Africa to nent’s youth behind agriculture and
embrace the fight against hunger.
The top musicians from DR
agriculture Congo, Nigeria, Kenya, Cote
d’Ivoire and South Africa have
teamed up to release a song in sup-
port of the growing and processing
of cocoa, a major foreign exchange
earner for countries in West Africa,
especially Cote d’Ivoire. This ex-
plains the choice of the title of the
song, Cocoa na Chocolate.
The artistes, among them Congo-
lese crooner Fally Ipupa, are keen to
inspire especially their young fans
to revitalise agriculture. Agriculture
is a source of direct income for over
80 per cent of Africans.
The project involved 20 recording
artists from 11 countries.
To drive the message to the grass-
roots, the song has been translated
and sang in 10 languages.
Under the theme ‘Do Agric, It
Pays!’ the project aims to encour-
age African leaders to support agri-
culture ahead of the African Union
Heads of State meeting in June.
THEIR VOICE IN SUPPORT
OF AGRICULTURE IS
SENDING A MESSAGE TO
THE YOUNG GENERATION”
Dr Sipho Moyo
Participating in the recording are
Cote d’Ivoire’s Tiken Jah Fakoly,
D’Banj and Femi Kuti from Nigeria,
Congo’s Ipupa, Kenya’s gospel star
Juliani and South Africa’s Judith
Sephuma.
There is more representation from
East Africa, with the involvement
Tanzania’s Diamond of Mbagala
and Nataka Kulewa fame and AY.
Also in the song are Zimbabwe’s Bu-
fallo Souljah, Dama Do Bling from
Mozambique and Dontom from
Nigeria. The Nigerian complement
on the project also includes Kunle
Ayo. Others are Vusi Nova of South
Africa, Liz Ogumbo of Kenya, Nancy
G (Swaziland), Omawumi (Nigeria),
3
Fally Ipupa
Rachid Taha (Algeria), Victoria Ki-
mani (Kenya) and Wax Dey (Cam-
eroon).
The song has been recorded in
English, Arabic, Lingala, French,
Swahili, Shona Pidgin, Portuguese,
and Xhosa.
Cocoa na Chocolate was co-pro-
duced by Cobhams Asuquo and
DeeVee of DB Records while the
producer is Godfather Productions.
The song was launched yesterday
on Trace, MTV, Channel O, Soundc-
ity and Canal France International
television stations. The song and
music video were recorded in Johan-
nesburg.
“These brilliant artists are role
models who connect with African
youths. Their voice, in support of ag-
riculture, is sending a powerful mes-
sage to the young generation. It’s
time for African leaders to increase
public investments in agriculture
to benefit smallholder farmers who
provide 80 per cent of the food we
eat in the continent,” said Dr Sipho
Moyo of ONE.org Africa, an institu-
tion taking part.
According to the UN-FAO, agricul-
tural growth is 11 times more effec-
tive in reducing poverty than growth
in other sectors like mining and
utilities. ‘Do Agric’ is a continent-
wide push to appeal to African gov-
ernments to commit to spending at
least 10 per cent of national budgets
on agriculture — a commitment they
originally made in Maputo in 2003.
Say the producers: “We are indeed
proud and greatly privileged to be
partnering with such an inspiring
group of individuals to spread the
message that not only can Africa
feed itself, but it can also help to
feed the world.”
The song was written by the par-
ticipating artistes and D’Banj, whose
company, DKM Media, partnered
with ONE Campaign, an advocacy
against hunger.
While Africa produces tonnes of
cocoa, which it exports for process-
ing at prices far insignificant relative
to the price of the finished product,
the continent imports chocolate at
exorbitant prices.
During Tanzania’s founding
president Julius Nyerere’s rule in the
1970s, musicians played a significant
role in popularising agriculture, with
compositions by leading bands, such
as Kilimo cha Kufa na Kupona.
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Where farmers walk in

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and train free of charge

If you BY HARRI JUNTTILA horticultural production, breed-
ing of livestock, poultry farming
onions and watermelons. Oh! He
had so many questions. We gave
satnation@ke.nationmedia.com
want to and liquid soap making, among him plenty of advice and our con-
get tips

W
on crop,
livestock
and aruhiu Agricultural
Training Centre (WATC) in
poultry Kiambu County is a beehive of
farming, activity any time of the day, all
the year round.
this centre At the facility, dozens of farm-
is the ers walk around getting tips
place to from instructors on how to grow
various crops and rear different
visit animals.
“Seeing, hearing and touching.
That’s how farmers learn here.
Not by reading,” says Mr Joseph
Mureithi (right), the principal of
WATC.
The institution has 30 field
training sessions every year.
More than 600 small-scale farm-
ers, mostly from Kiambu County,
take part in the training sessions,
which are free of charge.
Waruhiu’s April to June train-
ing programme is diverse. Farm-
ers get training on greenhouses,
others. tacts so that he can call us when-
According to Mureithi, while ever he wants,” Mureithi says.
there are official participants, Waruhiu’s experts also do a lot
many farmers just walk in to the of mobile phone tutoring. They
station and seek answers on any
questions they have on farming.
get calls from farmers across the
country.
The number of farmers who “We answer all their questions
participate in the training is set that range from which fertiliser
to rise to over 1,000 this year, ac- to use, crops to plant and how
cording to Mureithi. to calve.”
“We never turn any farmer The centre has a strong co-
away. That is not in our interest
because the centre is for farm-
operation with universities, re-
search institutes and NGOs.
All training programmes are
day-long. “A day is long enough.
“One of our trained farmers
sells her avocado soap to high-
ers,” says the principal. In the institution’s fields and One day can change a farmer’s end cosmetic shops in Nairobi,”
The centre’s experts greenhouses grow many varie- whole life. With technology trans- Mureithi says.
include food scien- ties of tomato, pepper, cabbage fer, we can make a big impact. We Ms Ruth Njeri and her husband
tists, farm managers, and maize, a good number of had a capsicum farmer here. We Daniel Mururu are among farm-
crops and livestock them new and under test. trained him and he is now mak- ers benefiting from Waruhiu.
officers. For example, Monalisa F1 ing Sh2 million a year.” “We are looking for informa-
“The other tomato, a variety in the market, One important way to better tion on the latest farming tech-
day we is developed to have resistance income is value addition, says nology. There is a lot to learn
had three against bacterial wilt. It is cur- the principal. For example, an from this centre. That is why we
surprise rently being tested before it is avocado farmer can learn how keep on coming,” says Ruth.
v i s i to rs . recommended to farmers. to make soap out of surplus crop WATC has an annual budget of
One came “After tests, we can tell a and sell it to different market Sh16 million, of which Sh8 mil-
from Nai- farmer whether the seed factory or instead of throwing unsold lion goes to training, Sh4 million
robi. He is telling the truth about the qual- tomatoes or fruits, a farmer can to farming and Sh4 million to
g rows ity of its products.” produce jam and sauces. recurrent expenses.

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INCOME» KIAMA IS EYEING A SIX-FIGURE PROFIT FROM HIS FARMING BUSINESS
Thank God, I no longer
fight the morning traffic
After working briefly for a software
firm where he earned peanuts,
information technology graduate
finds a sweet deal in crop and
livestock farming
BY FRANCIS MUREITHI
T
fmureithi@ke.nationmedia.com
he days he used to spend
hours in traffic jams in Nairobi
every day only to take home about
Sh30,000 a month are long gone.
Paul Kiama, who was then working as
an information technology (IT) spe-
cialist, is now an agriculturalist and he
is steadily joining the league of young
successful farmers in the country.
Seeds of Gold visited him last week
at his farm in Bibirioni, on the edge
of Bahati Forest in Nakuru County.
In a blue cap, faded navy blue jeans
a pull-over and matching gumboots,
he easily passed for a farmhand who
dropped out of school years back.
But behind the shabby look is a
digital generation farmer making
thousands of shillings selling milk
and vegetables.
Kiama graduated with IT from
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agri-
culture and Technology in 2005.
“I grew up in a dairy farming family. I
have interacted with domestic animals
since my childhood. I loved watching
my mother and grandmother milk
cows,” he recalls.
Kiama wishes he had resisted peer
pressure and studied agriculture at
university.
After graduating, he was em-
ployed at Globefinity System,
an IT firm in Nairobi, but quit
in 2011 to follow his passion.
“I don’t regret quitting and if any-
thing, I should have taken that step
the moment I graduated. I may not
be among the top farmers, but I’m
closer there than I was when I was
working from 8am to 5pm,” says the
32-year-old.
The IT firm paid Kiama Sh30,000
a month, but farming gives him be-
tween Sh60,000 and Sh80,000.
“My income is rising steadily. Very
soon, I am hopeful that I will start
making a six-figure profit a month.”
dairy
When he had a formal job, the farmer
would each day wake up at 4am to
beat traffic.
He still wakes up at 4am but
to tend to his crops and attend to
his four cows that are worth about
Sh500,000.
“I normally wake up at 4am, milk
my four cows and deliver 50 litres of
milk to Brookside. That translates to
about Sh40,000 every month,” he
said.
Kiama also grows capsicum, to-
matoes and cabbages. He makes
Sh40,000 from the venture.
And that is not all. He keeps several
sheep, which he sells at Sh7,000
each.
“The beauty of farming is that your
efforts determine your income.”
However, all is not smooth for the
farmer. The prices of animal feeds
and veterinary services have shot up.
A bag of dairy meal has risen to
Sh2,200 from Sh1,800 last year.
To cut his expenses, he plants
sorghum, maize, lucerne and sun-
flower as fodder for his animals.
Sh40,000
Kiama’s monthly income from veg-
etables
Sh7,000
The price he asks for his sheep
And to get maximum returns from
dairy cows, he advises: “Always avoid
costly diseases such as mastitis. I
usually wash my cow’s tits with dis-
infected warm water every morning
and ensures that their resting place
is clean.”
“I have realised that animals, like
human beings, need a lot of care and
comfort to produce maximum milk.
I read in Seeds of Gold that a farmer
was offering his cows mattresses, I
will not hesitate to do that when my
time comes.”
The young farmer relies heavily on
his mother, Priscilla Ngumi, a retired
veterinary officer, for advice.
April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION
How to ensure a smooth delivery
Preparing your cow
for successful calving
THE CALVING PERIOD is the
most stressful for the cow and for
the farmer. It all starts with the
cow-calf operation, whose basic
Mr Paul Kiama components must be adhered to
at his farm without which both the cow and the
calf cannot survive.
in Bibirioni,
Bahati, Nakuru What can you do in advance to
County. prevent calving problems?
CAROLINE Feed a balanced diet during
CHEBET I NATION pregnancy. You have to provide
supplementary minerals and vita-
mins during the last two months
of pregnancy. Beware that a straw-
only diet can reduce colostrum
quality in your cow.
Control infectious diseases
Discuss the appropriate vaccination
and disease eradication strategies for
your herd with a veterinarian. Beware
that stillborn, weak or sick calves can
also be caused by diseases.
Dry off your cows two months
before calving
Drying off means the animal
should be milked a final time, then
not again until the next birth and
lactation. It is advised that you dry
off cows for 45 to 60 days. This will
allow a cow sufficient time to rest
and regenerate mammary tissue. If
animals have prolonged dry peri-
ods, they run the risk of becoming
obese and having difficult calving.
How can you manage your calving
to reduce calf losses?
ANIMALS, Calve all heifers and cows in a
LIKE HUMAN calving unit or clean pasture. Ani-
BEINGS, mals in advanced pregnancy must
be separated in clean pasture pens
NEED A LOT or calving boxes, which must be
OF CARE properly disinfected, bedded with
clean, soft and absorbent litter with
TO OFFER adequate supply of fresh water.
BETTER
Farmer should observe calving
YIELDS.” process if possible
Paul Kiama Even though calving is a normal
physiological process, it requires
due care at all stages by the man-
ager of the herd. If cows are show-
ing signs of calving, keep a discreet
eye on them every two hours.
There are three stages to the
birthing process, or parturition.
These are dilation of the cervix,
delivery of the calf and delivery of
the placenta. Knowing the normal
birth process will help you decide
whether or not to intervene.
Stage 1: Dilation of the cervix.
You might not even notice this
stage, which may take days to com-
plete. Uterine muscular activity is
quiet during this stage as the cervix
softens, and the pelvic ligaments re-
lax. At this time, you may see thick
clear mucus “string” hang from the
vagina. You may notice the cow’s
appetite decreases and she may
5
prefer to be off by herself. Uterine
contractions begin by the end of
stage one, pushing uterine contents
against the cervix, causing further
dilation.
Stage 2: Delivery of the calf. This
stage officially begins with the ap-
pearance of membranes (water bag)
at the vulva.
Start your clock at this time: tradi-
tional texts say the calf should be de-
livered within two to five hours of the
moment you first see the water bag.
More recent research has found that
healthy heifers with normal calf pres-
entation will calve unassisted within
an hour of the start of stage two.
Normal birthing is either anterior
or posterior. Anterior presentation
is of the head (nose) and two front
feet with the spine of the calf resting
against the underside of the cow’s
spine. Posterior presentation is one of
two rear feet and a tail; with the spine
of the calf resting against the under-
side of the cow’s spine. If the presen-
tation is normal, you may allow the
cow to labour for between 40 minutes
to an hour, especially if the water bag
is still present around the calf.
Stage 3: After calving:
Expulsion of placenta. The pla-
centa should be shed within eight
to 12 hours of the calf’s delivery
in normal cases. If retained (by
definition, placenta not shed after
12 hours), do not forcibly remove it.
Get the help of veterinarian.
Care with regard to milking of cow:
When starting to milk after calv-
ing, ensure that all blockages from
teats are removed. A cow may be
milked three times a day until inflam-
mation disappears from the udder.
‘Golden Hour’ after giving birth:
The cow licks clean her new-
born. This helps with mother–baby
bonding, and gives the new-born
some “get up and go”. The new-born
then attempts to stand. This is fol-
lowed by balancing, then experiment-
ing with moving its legs, progressing
to its first steps. The new-born will
instinctively “put its mouth over” a
teat that touches the side of its face.
Colostrum needs to be fed within
two hours after calving
Colostrum is the milk in the
mother’s udders immediately after
she gives birth. It provides warmth,
fluids plus many nutrients, and
important antibodies. The mother
cow manufactures antibodies as a
result of her exposure to the dis-
eases in the environment. Once the
new-born absorbs these antibodies,
it becomes the new-born’s immu-
nity until about seven weeks of age,
and until the animals own immune
system takes over.
 6 SEEDS OF GOLD
GENESIS OF TROUBLE» FARMERS HAD BORROWED AGAINST THEIR PRODUCE, MEANING ANY MONEY THEY GOT WAS FIRST DEDUCTED BY BANKS, LEAVING NOTHING FOR WAREHOUSE STORAGE CHARGES
We lost all in warehousing, but our star will rise
Linda and Gerald Aluoch left their jobs and invested
Sh1 million life savings into a warehouse agri-
business, but they lost the money and all the efforts
they put in. They are now picking up the pieces as
they try to evaluate what went wrong
BY KINGWA KAMENCU
L
kkamencu@ke.nationmedia.com
inda Kithuku-Aluoch and
Gerald Aluoch’s cheerful mien
could have you mistake them
for any other couple running
to meet friends or to check out
new outfits at a fashion store.
The truth is that the cocktail
of disappointment they have
downed in the past two years
cannot be washed away by any
highs urban life could provide.
They left top city jobs against
the advice of friends and rela-
tives to set up a warehouse for
farmers in Makueni.
Then, they were hopeful,
but their two-year venture saw
them go through harrowing
business experiences.
Their ability to laugh at their
journey of highs and lows is
refreshing and though still in
recovery mode, they look back
on their endeavour without
regret.
“We fell into a valley but we
are now trying to get up. We are
somewhere on the hill going
up the mountain, and soon we
believe that we shall be back up
there; our star will shine,” says
Aluoch, the soft-spoken of the
two. The dark-skinned 38-year-
old has a penchant for poetic
imagery.
Linda walks with resolute
strides as though she has no
uncertainties of where she is
going. It was her who took the
plunge first by quitting her
marketing job in Nairobi in 2011
before Gerald left his banking
job to join her a year-and-a-half
later in February 2012.
Married for seven years,
with two children, it was
serendipity that led them to
warehousing.
“After trying to trade in
grains and having problems
with quality and quantity, we
were referred to an organisa-
tion that was looking for a
warehouse operator.”
Their warehouse is based
in Makueni, 8km off Mombasa
Road and it specialises in grains
such as green grams, cowpeas,
pigeon peas, sorghum, black-
eyed-peas and beans.
“Since time immemorial,
Ukambani has kept making
headlines about people eating
dogs, starving and being in
need of relief food, yet parts of
it are so green. I asked myself,
‘why do we have these peren-
nial problems of food shortage
and starvation in a place that is
so productive?’ It made us want
to interact with farmers to find
enterprise
out what goes wrong,” recounts
Linda.
The couple’s eventual find-
ings pointed to marketing in-
efficiencies where middlemen
ruthlessly exploited farmers.
“There are places where they
were offered sufurias instead
of money. They had no other
options because their grains
would rot,” Gerald says.
Setting up a warehouse thus
appeared the perfect solution.
It appealed to the Aluochs’ al-
truistic nature and they hoped
it would provide them steady
income.
Having both left their jobs to
reside in Athi River, closer to
the business, their initial capi-
tal of Sh1 million went towards
renovating the warehouse (it
had previously been a ware-
house used by cotton farmers),
lease costs, fumigation and
insurance.
More money would go into
overheads of security, power
and salaries for their staff of
six. An eye on the export mar-
ket meant a lot of care and ex-
pense was put into making the
premises top-class if they were
to get approval from interna-
tional standardisation firms.
The source of their financial
woes came from two fronts.
First, the warehouse initially
received too little produce,
holding only 100 tonnes of
grain, against its potential of
1,500-tonne capacity. “What
this meant was that our quan-
tity was too little to go to the
market. With the export mar-
SOMETIMES WE WOULD ASK
OURSELVES, ‘ARE WE HERE
TO DO CHARITY OR TO MAKE
MONEY?” Ms Linda Kithuku-Aluoch
and Mr Gerald Aluoch
ket, you can’t
start selling them
a tonne or two,”
Linda explains.
The second problem arose
from the fact that farmers they
were introduced to had already
borrowed against their pro-
duce, meaning that any money
that came in was first deducted
by banks, many times leaving
nothing for warehouse storage
charges, which was where the
couple’s revenues would come
in from.
This truth hit them hard
three months down the line, af-
ter they had completed renova-
tions and signed contracts with
farmers. Holding onto hope
and optimism, their finances
and idealism, however, began
to wither seven months later.
“We had faith in the concept
and knew it was something that
could work. We had planned
and known that working in
cycles, the returns would be
enough to keep it going. But
the banks were determined to
recover all loans the farmers
had taken, even on produce
that was still in the warehouse.
We had projected to earn
slightly over Sh1 million in the
first season, but the farmers
predicament ensured that even
if we were earning money, there
April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION
ABOVE: Linda
Kithuku-Aluoch was no cash flow,” says Linda.
(holding micro- This aside, they found them-
selves forced to play an unex-
phone) with farm-
ers during the pected role: that of a benefactor.
opening of their Farmers came to them with
various requests that included
warehouse in
Makueni in 2012 . asking them to purchase items
like shoes for their children and
TOP RIGHT: The pay school fees.
“One farmer came to the
closed warehouse
and ABOVE warehouse crying, asking for
RIGHT: Linda and school fees. Her grandchildren
Gerald Aluoch. had been orphaned and she
had no other means of making
JOHN KISU, AN- money. Sometimes we would
THONY OMUYA AND ask ourselves, ‘are we here to
do charity or to make money?’
COURTESY I NATION
But we took the position that
our farmer is our customer and
whatever affects them, affects
us,” explains Aluoch.
Their money was drained and
they were soon out of reserves.
“It was bad. It reached a point
when we had to depend on rela-
tives to meet our needs. We lived
off donations from friends. It
was a very low moment,” Linda
remembers.
LESSONS
PICKING UP
THE PIECES
They are also looking at
ways to utilise the idle space
in their warehouse and
hope to eventually set up
similar storage facilities in
neighbouring counties
Time has seen them shift
strategy and rather than
focus on warehousing alone
as earlier planned, they now
want to be involved in trade
and value addition
“We are doing research to
look at how else grains can
be used apart from food. This
is for commodities that do
not have good uptake in the
market,” says Linda Kithuku-
Aluoch.
“There are some lessons that
one can only learn when you
dive into the ocean.”
SEEDS OF GOLD
The darkness of this moment
seemed to mock the dazzle
of their October 2012 launch,
where they assembled over 450
farmers, international NGOs,
Ministry of Agriculture and lo-
cal government authority offi-
cials, to tell them about the new
service they hoped to give.
“We were excited. At that time
it looked like an achievement
that we had made it that far. It
looked like it would be rosy from
then on,” says Linda.
Now, they can afford to laugh
as they look back. Although
still not fully on their feet, they
are not wallowing in despair
but have returned to the draw-
ing board. “Now we are going
through our business model to
learn where we went wrong and
see if we will be able to access
financing because there is still a
huge opportunity in the sector,”
says Aluoch.
Their two-year roller coaster
has been smoothening out,
aided by the grace of training
opportunities that turned up
just when they were at the end
of their tether.
Linda was nominated and
sponsored by the US embassy
to attend a training fellowship
on warehouse operation and
market development in Texas,
late last year.
450
The number of farmers they
assembled when they were
launching their warehouse
Sh1m
Initial capital that went into
renovation of the warehouse,
leasing costs, fumigation and
insurance
enterprise
Gerald found himself in a
training session on export trade,
organised by Export Promotion
Council in February. A Kenyan-
Danish agribusiness incubator
later took both of them in for
a 14-week training programme
that is still on-going.
“We learnt a lot. We realised
that there is still huge potential
for agriculture in Kenya,” they
say.
Their two-year experience
has given them new insights on
how to approach business. “One
of the lessons we have learnt is
that one should be very careful
of the partnerships they engage
in. Another thing is: come up
with a business model that will
safeguard your interest. Deter-
mine your own starting point,”
say the Aluoch.
Time has seen them shift
strategy and rather than focus
on warehousing alone as earlier
planned, they now want to be
involved in trade and value ad-
dition. “We are doing research
to look at how else grains can be
used apart from food. This is for
commodities that do not have
good uptake in the market.”
They are also looking at ways
to utilise the idle space in their
warehouse and eventually they
hope to set up similar storage
facilities in neighbouring coun-
ties.
They are quick to say that
their experience should not
discourage anyone who wants
to get into agribusiness. “There
are some lessons that you only
learn when you dive into the
ocean, and you only come to
discover them when you are
in. And when you are in, you
have to keep swimming,” Ger-
ald quips.
Watching them recline eas-
ily on their seats at the Nation
Centre where we met, they look
ready to get back on the runway.
Linda sits back and crosses
her legs and whispers, “Where
would we be if we were full of
fear?”
April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION 7
REALITY CHECK
Pitfalls we make
in business and
how to stay afloat
BY PAULINE KAIRU
pkairu@ke.nationmedia.com
MAKING MISTAKES in any business is part of the
learning process, according to Dr David Wang’ombe,
the Dean, Strathmore School of Management and
Commerce.
However, Wang’ombe is quick to add that entrepre-
neurs should strive to avoid mistakes, some that result
into huge losses.
He identifies the following mistakes common in
various sectors, including agribusiness.
1
Use of bad business model: This is often as a result
of “me too” syndrome. It involves starting a busi-
ness based on rumours about its success as it hap-
pened with quail farming. After hearing stories about
the success of certain business, one should carry out a
SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunities and threats)
analysis before venturing into the trade.
2
Failure to check the maths: This happens when
there is no enough demand for the product or
service at a price that will produce a profit for
the company. It includes a start-up trying to compete
against established firms.
3
The perfectionists: Such businesspersons are
stubborn and risk averse, which means they need
to be liked by everyone. They may be greedy,
self-righteous, paranoid, indignant or insecure. Sadly,
they do not realise they are the problem and they will
continue to make the same mistakes over and over
again.
4
Allowing growth to get out-of-control: Growth
is good, but a successful business may be ruined
by over-expansion. This would include moving
into markets that are not as profitable, thus experienc-
ing growing pains that damage the business, or bor-
rowing too much money in an attempt to keep growth
at a particular rate.
5
Lack of proper accounting records: Losing
control of an enterprise happens when one does
not know what is going on in that business fi-
nancially. With poor accounting records, or no records
at all, a business is flying blind, and it happens all the
time.
6
Poor cash flow management: Business is cyclic
and surprises may and will happen over time.
Not collecting debts on time, overstocking, di-
verting business cash to personal use are things that
stress business finances. If that business is already out
of cash and out of borrowing potential, it may not be
able to recover from cash shocks.
7
Operational inefficiencies: Paying too much
for rent, labour and materials. Not having the
tenacity to negotiate terms that are reflective of
today’s economy may leave a company uncompetitive.
8
Dysfunctional management: This entails lack of
focus, vision, planning, coordination and stand-
ards. Throw fighting partners or unhappy rela-
tives into the mix and you have a disaster.
9
The lack of a succession plan: Here, we’re talking
about nepotism, power struggles and significant
players being replaced by people who are con-
nected with the business owners. This is the reason
many family businesses do not make it to the next
generation.
10
No growth
plan: Some
businesses fail
to grow because they have
no intention to grow. If you
do not intend to grow, then
you can’t grow.
 SEEDS OF GOLD
ED BY BANKS, LEAVING NOTHING FOR WAREHOUSE STORAGE CHARGES
but our star will rise
The darkness of this moment
seemed to mock the dazzle
of their October 2012 launch,
where they assembled over 450
farmers, international NGOs,
Ministry of Agriculture and lo-
cal government authority offi-
cials, to tell them about the new
service they hoped to give.
“We were excited. At that time
it looked like an achievement
that we had made it that far. It
looked like it would be rosy from
then on,” says Linda.
Now, they can afford to laugh
as they look back. Although
still not fully on their feet, they
are not wallowing in despair
but have returned to the draw-
ing board. “Now we are going
through our business model to
learn where we went wrong and
see if we will be able to access
financing because there is still a
huge opportunity in the sector,”
says Aluoch.
Their two-year roller coaster
has been smoothening out,
aided by the grace of training
opportunities that turned up
just when they were at the end
of their tether.
Linda was nominated and
sponsored by the US embassy
to attend a training fellowship
on warehouse operation and
market development in Texas,
late last year.
450
The number of farmers they
assembled when they were
launching their warehouse
Sh1m
Initial capital that went into
renovation of the warehouse,
leasing costs, fumigation and
insurance
enterprise
Gerald found himself in a
training session on export trade,
organised by Export Promotion
Council in February. A Kenyan-
Danish agribusiness incubator
later took both of them in for
a 14-week training programme
that is still on-going.
“We learnt a lot. We realised
that there is still huge potential
for agriculture in Kenya,” they
say.
Their two-year experience
has given them new insights on
how to approach business. “One
of the lessons we have learnt is
that one should be very careful
of the partnerships they engage
in. Another thing is: come up
with a business model that will
safeguard your interest. Deter-
mine your own starting point,”
say the Aluoch.
Time has seen them shift
strategy and rather than focus
on warehousing alone as earlier
planned, they now want to be
involved in trade and value ad-
dition. “We are doing research
to look at how else grains can be
used apart from food. This is for
commodities that do not have
good uptake in the market.”
They are also looking at ways
to utilise the idle space in their
warehouse and eventually they
hope to set up similar storage
facilities in neighbouring coun-
ties.
They are quick to say that
their experience should not
discourage anyone who wants
to get into agribusiness. “There
are some lessons that you only
learn when you dive into the
ocean, and you only come to
discover them when you are
in. And when you are in, you
have to keep swimming,” Ger-
ald quips.
Watching them recline eas-
ily on their seats at the Nation
Centre where we met, they look
ready to get back on the runway.
Linda sits back and crosses
her legs and whispers, “Where
would we be if we were full of
fear?”
April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION 7
REALITY CHECK
Pitfalls we make
in business and
how to stay afloat
BY PAULINE KAIRU
pkairu@ke.nationmedia.com
MAKING MISTAKES in any business is part of the
learning process, according to Dr David Wang’ombe,
the Dean, Strathmore School of Management and
Commerce.
However, Wang’ombe is quick to add that entrepre-
neurs should strive to avoid mistakes, some that result
into huge losses.
He identifies the following mistakes common in
various sectors, including agribusiness.
1
Use of bad business model: This is often as a result
of “me too” syndrome. It involves starting a busi-
ness based on rumours about its success as it hap-
pened with quail farming. After hearing stories about
the success of certain business, one should carry out a
SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunities and threats)
analysis before venturing into the trade.
2
Failure to check the maths: This happens when
there is no enough demand for the product or
service at a price that will produce a profit for
the company. It includes a start-up trying to compete
against established firms.
3
The perfectionists: Such businesspersons are
stubborn and risk averse, which means they need
to be liked by everyone. They may be greedy,
self-righteous, paranoid, indignant or insecure. Sadly,
they do not realise they are the problem and they will
continue to make the same mistakes over and over
again.
4
Allowing growth to get out-of-control: Growth
is good, but a successful business may be ruined
by over-expansion. This would include moving
into markets that are not as profitable, thus experienc-
ing growing pains that damage the business, or bor-
rowing too much money in an attempt to keep growth
at a particular rate.
5
Lack of proper accounting records: Losing
control of an enterprise happens when one does
not know what is going on in that business fi-
nancially. With poor accounting records, or no records
at all, a business is flying blind, and it happens all the
time.
6
Poor cash flow management: Business is cyclic
and surprises may and will happen over time.
Not collecting debts on time, overstocking, di-
verting business cash to personal use are things that
stress business finances. If that business is already out
of cash and out of borrowing potential, it may not be
able to recover from cash shocks.
7
Operational inefficiencies: Paying too much
for rent, labour and materials. Not having the
tenacity to negotiate terms that are reflective of
today’s economy may leave a company uncompetitive.
8
Dysfunctional management: This entails lack of
focus, vision, planning, coordination and stand-
ards. Throw fighting partners or unhappy rela-
tives into the mix and you have a disaster.
9
The lack of a succession plan: Here, we’re talking
about nepotism, power struggles and significant
players being replaced by people who are con-
nected with the business owners. This is the reason
many family businesses do not make it to the next
generation.
10
No growth
plan: Some
businesses fail
to grow because they have
no intention to grow. If you
do not intend to grow, then
you can’t grow.
 8 SEEDS OF GOLD
RIGHT QUANTITY» A BOTTLE-TOP CAN BE USED TO APPLY FERTILISER UNIFORMLY
Easy way to plant maize
for maximum harvest
Depth of ploughing,
fertiliser, type of
seeds and spacing:
One must get it
right from onset
BY SHAMIE ZINGORE
satnation@ke.nationmedia.com
T he long rains season has
started, and as expected, it is
time for farmers to plant maize
– the country’s staple.
The first step towards ob-
taining good maize harvest
is ensuring that the farm is
well-ploughed and ready for
planting. Ploughing should go
a depth of at least 20cm and
should be conducted two to
three weeks before the onset
of the rains.
After preparing the land, the
farmer should then plan for the
planting process by budgeting
for and acquiring inputs such
as fertiliser and seeds.
There are four important
decisions that farmers should
make when it comes to choos-
ing fertiliser.
First, fertiliser is chosen
depending on the soil type.
For sandy soils, NPK ferti-
liser works better than DAP.
Farmers should also buy the
right amount of fertiliser. The
amount will depend on the rec-
ommended nutrient applica-
tion rates, the target yield, the
size of the farm, and the nutri-
ent concentration of fertiliser
Improve yields with new Kari ‘kienyeji’ chicken breed
KENYA AGRICULTURAL RE-
SEARCH FOUNDATION (Kari)
has come up with a new breed
of indigenous chicken that of-
fers better yield.
The breed known as Kari
Improved Kienyeji Chicken
was developed after years of
intensive research under the
National Poultry Development
Programme.
Kari’s senior researcher at
Naivasha Poultry Development
Institute Ann Wachira said the
super breed develops faster, is
highly resistant to diseases and
has high productivity.
“This is a hen that achieves
1.5kg in about five months
when the rest of the indig-
enous breeds take up to seven
months or more,” she told
Seeds of Gold.
“Its ability to withstand
harsh conditions is amazing.
The feathering system makes
it adjust faster than the time
taken by others to acclimatise
with any climatic conditions, in-
THE RIGHT SPACING ENSURES
GOOD CROP GROWTH, MAKES IT
EASIER TO WEED AND REDUCES
SPREAD OF PESTS AND DISEASES”
Shamie Zingore
selected.
Second,
farmers should
also ensure they
obtain the right seed
variety. The climatic zone
in which a farm is located in-
fluences the maize variety that
should be planted as seed vari-
eties do well in different areas.
Before purchasing seeds,
farmers should examine the
packaging to determine the ex-
piry date and to ensure that it
has not been interfered with.
The amount of seeds to be
cluding the arid and semi-arid
regions.”
It took Kari 10 years to
develop the bird after study-
ing the strengths and weak-
nesses of different breeds of
indigenous chickens across the
country.
“We went to several parts of
the country including Turkana,
picked chicken and brought
them to our laboratories. We
then studied them to establish
their weaknesses and strengths
and then interbred them to
produce the best breed.”
A day-old chick of the new
breed costs Sh100 at the Na-
ivasha centre but farmers who
don’t have brooders can buy
four weeks old chicks at Sh250
each.
Before releasing them to
farmers, the institute vaccinates
the chickens from the deadly
marecks disease and culls the
weak ones to prevent them
from going to the market. It
also provides the farmers with
how to
purchased depends on the rec-
ommended seed rate, and the
size of the farm. On average, an
hectare requires 25kg of certi-
fied seed.
Third, at the onset of rains,
the farmer should harrow
the farm. Harrowing involves
breaking up large soil blocks.
This makes planting easier
and ensures maize germinates.
Planting should start a few
days after the onset of the rains
when the soil is moist.
Fourth, for good growth and
development, maize should be
a vaccination guideline.
The chicken is easy to main-
tain since it can be kept under
the free range system or deep
litter depending on a farmer’s
financial ability and objectives.
Those who want them to
mature faster or produce more
eggs are advised to keep them
in a semi-intensive or deep
litter system. This way, the
chickens don’t spend a lot of
energy. Farmers have an option
of keeping them as layers, for
meat or both.
When fed with quality feeds
available from accredited
manufacturers, a hen can reach
Farmers plough
in preparation
for maize plant-
ing.
FILE I NATION
planted at the right spacing.
The recommended spacing is
75cm between rows and 25cm
for plants. The planting holes
should be about 5cm deep. The
right spacing ensures good
crop growth, makes it easier to
weed and reduces the spread of
pests and diseases.
After preparing planting
holes, fertiliser should be
placed correctly in each hole
and then covered with some
little soil to avoid contact with
seeds. A bottle-top can be used
to apply fertiliser uniformly in
each hole. The holes should
take a seed each and then cov-
ered with soil.
The writer works for Interna-
tional Plant Nutrition Institute,
which trains farmers on sustain-
able crop production.
up to 1.5kg in five months and a
cock weighs 2.1kg.
A fully grown kienyeji
cockerel costs Sh1,000 while
a hen costs Sh600. A hen can
produce between 220 and
280 eggs a year. This is almost
similar to a white leghorn ex-
otic layer kept in a deep liter
system.
With a tray of kienyeji eggs
costing an average of Sh450,
compared to exotic ones at
Sh300, farmers who will keep
kienyeji chicken as layers stand
to make get good earnings.
By Vincent Achuka
vinachuka@gmail.com
April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION
YOU AND THE LAW
with Rosemary Mugwe
Law is clear on
fertiliser quality
THE COMPREHENSIVE AFRICA AGRICULTURAL
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, which was adopted by
African Heads of States in 2006, calls for a six per cent
annual growth in agricultural production.
It is a framework for the restoration of agricultural
growth, food security and rural development in Africa.
Some of the avenues the framework proposes for
increased agricultural produce are use of inputs like
fertiliser, planting of high yielding seeds and irrigation.
The African Union Heads of State in 2006 adopted
the Abuja Declaration on Fertiliser for an African green
revolution after realising that Africa was trapped in a
fertiliser crisis. They resolved to increase the level of
use of fertiliser to an average of at least 50kg an acre
by 2015, take appropriate measures to reduce the
cost of fertiliser procurement at national and regional
levels, eliminate taxes and tariffs on fertiliser and on
fertiliser raw materials and take concrete measures to
improve farmers’ access to fertiliser.
Kenya has made great efforts to implement the
Abuja proclamation by ensuring that tariffs and import
taxes are eliminated on fertilisers and that fertiliser is
available for farmers at subsidised prizes. This is cur-
rently available for small-scale farmers only.
These measures have improved fertiliser use to
an average of 34kg per hectare against the recom-
mended 50kg, according to a 2011 report by New Part-
nership for Africa’s Development.
With rising knowledge on the importance of fer-
tiliser and the need to utilise fertiliser, it is important
to understand the legal framework, which guarantees
that fertiliser used in the market is of quality standard.
What legal framework is present and what
does it encompass?
The Fertiliser and Animal Foodstuff Act of Kenya
Cap 345 regulates the importation, manufacture, sale
of agricultural fertiliser and animal foodstuff.
The Act prohibits any person from importing, manu-
facturing, compounding, mixing or selling fertiliser or
animal foodstuff unless the items are approved and
conform to set standards.
No person is allowed to manufacture or sell any fer-
tiliser or animal foodstuff containing bone or any other
substance derived from an animal carcass unless such
bone has been sterilised in the prescribed manner.
No person is allowed to import any fertiliser or ani-
mal foodstuff, which contains bone or any other sub-
stance derived from an animal carcass for the purpose
of manufacturing fertiliser or animal foodstuff unless
he has first submitted to the government a certificate
signed in the country of origin.
The document must be signed by a person desig-
nated by authorities, certifying that such bone or sub-
stance has been effectively and completely sterilised
in the manner prescribed and is free from pathogenic
organisms as may be prescribed.
What measures are taken to ensure that the
law is adhered to?
At any time, a qualified inspector who should
produce identification may enter and inspect any
premises, place or vehicle if they have reasonable
grounds for believing there is any fertiliser or records
pertaining to importation, manufacture or sale of a
fertiliser or animal foodstuff. If considered necessary,
the inspector may seize and remove any fertiliser or
animal foodstuff and any documents found if there’s
reasonable cause to believe that there is contravention
of rules.
The writer is a lawyer
rosemary_mugwe@yahoo.com
 SEEDS OF GOLD
VALUE» SESAME PRODUCES ABOUT 50 PER CENT OF ALL EDIBLE OIL PRODUCTS
With simsim, erratic
rains don’t worry me
Quest to avoid loss pushes
Ndirangu into simsim farming, now
he makes Sh25,650 in a season
BY BOZO JENJE
bjenje@ke.nationmedia.com
S
ometime back, Mr David
Ndirangu planted several crops,
including maize, which performed
poorly because the rains disap-
peared.
WHEN Ndirangu incurred huge losses
SESAME as he did not harvest anything
despite investing huge sums of
GROWS,
money in the business.
CHANCES Eager to avoid losses and have
OF IT something to cultivate during the
short rains seasons, the farmer
FAILING, asked an agricultural extension
ESPECIALLY officer what crops he can plant
WHEN to triumph over erratic rains and
the warm weather in Lamu, where
RAINS
he lives.
DISAPPEAR, The officer told him to try
sesame (simsim). “I learned that
ARE sesame performed well in little
MINIMAL” rains and does not require ferti-
liser. This made me plant it,” he
David recounts.
Ndirangu, It is now over five years since
the farmer started growing ses-
simsim ame and he has not turned back.
“I mainly grow sesame during
farmer
the short rains season since the
crop takes only three months to
mature. While other farmers plant
maize, watermelons and beans,
which fail because rains disappear,
Mr David Ndirangu at his farm in Mpeketoni, Lamu County with his harvest. LABAN WALLOGA | NATION
I concentrate on sesame,” he tells
Seeds of Gold.
However, he sometimes inter-
crops sesame with watermelons and
maize during the long rains season.
Sesame, a seed oil crop that is
high in protein is used in bakeries
and to make oil. The seeds can also
be eaten at home after roasting.
“Sesame produces about 50 per
cent of edible oil products. It is also
used in making margarine, soap and
in the perfume industry as a fixa-
tive,” explains Ndirangu, who has a
three-acre farm.
Those are not the only benefits.
Sesame is a protein supplement in
livestock and poultry feeds.
Some farmers, particularly in
Coast region, prefer to intercrop it
with maize and cassava. However,
sesame should preferably be grown
alone.
“While still young, simsim is very
sensitive to weeds. After germina-
tion, weeding must be done in two
weeks. Second weeding should
follow immediately after thinning
depending on the weeds type,” he
says.
Simsim growing, according to the
farmer, has minimal losses.
“It is a profitable crop because
it does well when there is shortage
of rain. When sesame germinates,
the probability of failure, especially
when rains disappear is minimal,”
he says.
Harvesting is done before sesame
capsules start shattering.
To harvest, one cuts the crops at
the base or up roots and ties them in
bundles for drying on a rack.
The bundles are put on the dry-
ing rack with capsule tips facing
upwards or in a slanting manner to
avoid seed loss.
Once dry, the bundles are hit gen-
tly to release the seeds. The seeds
are then dried.
In a good season, Ndirangu har-
vests about 270kg of sesame per
acre, which earns him Sh25,650.
This, according to him, however, is
below the expected output.
Simsim has potential yields of be-
tween 500 to 1,000kg an acre.
Each kilogramme fetches Sh95 in
the market. However, according to
him, brokers exploit the farmers.
“Brokers are shrewd, they come
to buy our produce from our homes.
If we had an association or a coop-
erative society, we would beat them
since the organisation would help us
market our produce,” he says.
Mtwapa Kenya Agricultural Re-
search Institute (Kari) plant breeder
Stephen Weru says the white sesame
variety is popular for confectionary
while the black one is preferred for
its high oil content.
Weru says if pests and diseases
are controlled on the farm, sesame
production per hectare is about
700kg.
Fifteen years ago, sesame was a
popular cash crop in Coast region
since there was ready market at
Ufuta Company in Changamwe.
“The influx of cheap edible oil
imports affected its growing. Many
farmers abandoned it. That is why
those who are growing it have not
stopped planting maize.”
THE BASICS
TO GET BETTER
YIELDS
One should plant a recommended
sesame variety for a particular
region.
Farmers are advised to plant at the
onset of short rains. When plants are
about 10cm high, thinning is done to
leave five plants a hole.
Weeding is done two weeks after
germination. Second weeding comes
after thinning.
The crop does not require fertiliser
since it survives in soils that are not
fertile. To get better yields, the crop
requires spraying against pests and
diseases.
During harvesting, the crop is
uprooted or the stem is cut at its
base to prevent capsules from
shattering. Then the stems are tied
into bundles for drying.
April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION 9
SEASON | BRIEFS
Farmers ditch
cane for coffee
FARMERS IN WESTERN Kenya are embracing cof-
fee farming as fortunes in sugarcane, which has been
the region’s main crash crop, dwindle.
Coffee was introduced in the region five decades
ago with farmers growing the crop under the um-
brella North Nyanza Coffee Growers Cooperative.
Nonetheless, they abandoned coffee for sugarcane.
Over the years, they have enjoyed good earnings
from sugarcane but the flooding of the market with
cheap imports has made farmers’ income drop.
Areas where farmers are embracing coffee farming
are Kakamega, Bungoma, Busia and Vihiga. County
governments plan for the revival and rehabilitation of
coffee farming.
“Top on the agenda is reactivating defunct coffee
growers cooperative unions,” said Mr Michael Mungai,
a Kenya Cooperative Coffee Exporters official.
Mr Arnold Andabwa, a farmer in Kakamega plans
to plant at least 3,000 Batian coffee trees, an early
maturing and disease-tolerant variety on his four-acre
parcel at Elwesero, 12km from Kakamega Town.
Ruiru-based Coffee Research Foundation gave him
the green light to establish a nursery for seedlings
and supply them to farmers in Kakamega.
“I have over 250,000 seedlings ready for trans-
planting,” he said. Over 300 farmers have ventured
into coffee farming in Shinyalu constituency. Anda-
bwa said demand for seedling is growing fast. He is
selling each seedling at Sh30.
Kakamega County Director of Agriculture Johnson
Imbira said feasibility studies had shown that the area
had a huge potential for high quality coffee produc-
tion.
Imbira said fertile soils and reliable rainfall
throughout the year in Kakamega guaranteed farm-
ers good yields. “We have over 18 hectares under
the crop in Lugari and Likuyani and soon, we shall
conduct a baseline survey to establish how much
land is occupied by coffee and the number of farmers
growing it.”
— JOHN SHILITSA
Mentoring
AGRIBUSINESS START-UPS
RECEIVE SHOT IN THE ARM
Thirteen entrepreneurs have been selected for a
16-week agribusiness incubation programme hosted
by the Growth Hub.
Five of the most-viable ideas that emerge from
the team will receive $5,000 (Sh430,000) to expand
on their ideas and launch companies.
The entrepreneurs in the initiative, which started
on February 17 were selected from a pool of 400 ap-
plicants. The programme ends on May 23,
The entrepreneurs are drawn from fish, poultry,
information technology and agri-equipment and ex-
tension service sectors.
Growth Hub is a Nairobi-based firm that supports
businesses in their initial stages through mentoring,
training and incubation.
“The programme exposes entrepreneurs to a
carefully-selected group of experienced mentors,
successful entrepreneurs, speakers, facilitators and
investors, who help them develop innovative prod-
ucts, penetrate markets and create income,” said Ms
Patricia Jumi MD at The Growth Hub
— Kingwa Kamencu
 10 SEEDS OF GOLD
BEGINNING» PLANT A FEW SEEDLINGS AND HARVEST OTHERS FROM THEM
Strawberry left me broke,
but I picked up the pieces
Njoroge lost
Sh20,000, now he
makes Sh95,000
a month after
switching to
seedlings
BY PAULINE KAIRU
polinekairu@yahoo.com
S
ometime last year in
January, Mr William Njoroge
Kibe and his brother Mr Robert
Gitau Kibe had an eureka mo-
ment while watching TV.
What excited them was
a story of a farmer growing
strawberries, and she was do-
ing very well.
As they watched her explain
how she was growing the crop
and the money she was mak-
ing, the brothers were con-
vinced that they had finally got
what to do with their idle land
in Uthiru, on the outskirts of
Nairobi.
“We had been looking for a
lucrative agricultural venture
that did not demand a lot of
space. The only thing that
we did not like was that she
was using inorganic fertiliser
to grow the crop but for us
we wanted organic,” explains
Njoroge.
Nonetheless, after about
four months of online research
about the strawberry variety
called Chandler and talking to
farmers for advice, they set up
their farm in Uthiru.
The brothers resolved to
use plastic culture to grow
the crop. Plastic culture is a
technique that involves mixing
soil with manure between two
sheets of polythene bags.
This helps to keep the
soil moist for as long as two
months without having to wa-
ter the plants.
“We had researched online
about the technique. We also
found through the internet
someone who could supply us
with runners (seedlings).”
Njoroge and Gitau invested
Sh20,000 in the project.
“We bought 650 seedlings
each at Sh20. It was a good
deal since other farmers were
selling theirs at Sh30. Part of
the capital went into preparing
SUPER BERRY
HEALTH BENEFITS
Strawberries have ellagic acid,
which can help fight cancers
Strawberries have flavonoids,
which help reduce cholesterol
from clogging up the heart’s
arteries
Mr William Njoroge Kibe at his Uthiru farm in Nairobi where he grows straw-
berry with his brother, Robert Gitau. JENNIPHER MUIRURI| NATION
the land,” explains Gitau.
They planted and waited for
four months to get their first
harvest.
“The crops did well. The
strawberries came out but they
were too tiny and tasteless. We
could not even harvest and sell
them to anyone.”
When they called the sup-
plier to find out what could
have gone wrong, he asked
them to be patient.
“It was a painful experience
for us. He promised us that
the next fruits would be good,
Strawberries help whiten
stained teeth because of
various acids they have
When you eat eight
strawberries, you get more
vitamin C than what an orange
can offer
fruits
IF THE FRUIT ON THE PLANT
LOOKS MISERABLE OR
TASTES SOUR, YOU WILL
KNOW THAT IT IS NOT A
GOOD CROP”
Robert Gitau Kibe
but this did not happen,” says
Gitau. They later learned that
they had planted sub-standard
seedlings.
“When we contacted the sup-
plier the first time, he assured
us he had the best seedlings,
and on the day we went to pick
them at his farm in Zambezi,
we found him waiting at his
gate with the crops. We did
not even see his farm,” they
recount.
To avoid loss, the brothers
would harvest the tiny berries
and blend them in milk to make
yoghurt. They later uprooted
the crops and fed them to
cows. However, this experience
did not deter them from trying
to achieve their dream of being
farmers.
“Giving up was not an op-
tion. We again went back to
the internet and looked for
someone else who was selling
seedlings.
We settled on a farmer in Ru-
aka, who was using manure to
grow the crop,” says Njoroge.
This time they made sure
that they first visited his farm
to see how
the crop
was
doing.
“ W e
tasted his fruits and they were
exactly what we wanted. If the
fruit on the plant looks miser-
able or tastes sour, you will
know that it is not a good crop,”
says Gitau.
They thereafter bought the
seedlings and planted them.
It’s now six months since
they planted the crop, which
did well after four months.
However, they changed the
course of their business.
“We ventured into selling
runners as we realised that
one earns more money from
the trade.”
The brothers sell each runner
at Sh35 and make Sh95,000 a
month. A 250gm container of
organically grown berries sells
at Sh300.
He advises that one should
not buy all seedlings at once as
they venture into farming the
crop. “Strawberries produce
runners gradually, which you
can harvest and expand your
acreage.”
650
The number of seed-
lings William Njoroge
and Robert Gitau
planted when they
started. They later cut
them and fed them to
cows.
April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION
INNOVATION
Why not
app your
agribusiness
BY KINGWA KAMENCU
THE LIMITED use of information technology in
agribusiness is something Stefano Carcoforo has expe-
rienced first-hand.
The 28-year-old engineer first got into agribusiness
in 2012, partnering with urban planner Nicole Galletta
to sell software to agricultural suppliers through their
company Growth Hub Business (GHB).
The venture ended in disappointment, but the two
had learned a lesson, which saw them change course.
“We ended up diverting from the original idea.
We found that the way to go was to distribute inputs
to farmers,” Carcoforo said during an interview with
Seeds of Gold at his GHB office in Hurlingham, Nairobi,
which he runs with colleagues Patrick Wanjohi, a be-
spectacled 25-year-old information technology gradu-
ate, and Charles Njihia, a software engineer.
After incorporating the software dubbed iProcure,
which they had earlier sought to sell into their new
venture, they supplied fertiliser, feeds, machinery, ani-
mal supplements, seeds and tools to farmers in Siaya
and Nakuru.
Carcoforo, the co-founder and director of the com-
pany, said that despite the initial disappointment, fast
uptake of their product has given them a competitive
edge over other suppliers. “Our logistics costs are low.
The software allows us to run a lean operation and
keep processes streamlined.”
“It tells us when inventory levels are low and the
demands on the ground. It also works with historical
data and seasonality. So, it can tell you what to stock
heavily and which inputs are not moving fast.”
Using technology means they don’t need to incur
the costs of warehouses and storage units. “We part-
ner with wholesalers and transporters to ensure farm-
ers get inputs on time.”
iProcure emerged third at the Global Innovation
through Science and Technology Startup Boot Camp,
East Africa last year, taking home a Bronze Award of
Excellence, after two Tanzanian groups. “The judges
liked the fact that we were addressing one of the big-
gest issues concerning food security; getting farm
implements to farmers,” Carcoforo said, averring that
the problem is not unique to Kenya.
Ms Saida Nyambura, who manages the information
technology wing at Farm Shop, a local franchise of
agro-dealers lauds iProcure. “It has made our work
easier in making orders, establishing sales and keep-
ing an eye on product levels. Through the system, any
of our franchise shops can place their orders when
needed and we can dispatch these to the shops. When
your products go down, the system alerts you; you
don’t have to run around with store cards anymore.”
Saida identified some of the challenges she has
encountered with the system. “We had difficulties link-
ing data from one end to another three months ago,
but this was shortly after our pilot. The problem was
sorted out.” She notes that many in the industry think
such programmes are meant for banks and corporates,
which is wrong.
Prof Abel Kinoti, Dean at Riara University’s School
of Business said iProcure team should harness the
potential of their initial software undertaking. “They
could either set up a parallel system as a model for
other suppliers to understand its use, or sell to a
prominent distributor group.”
He averred that the group might find it interesting
to explore their penetration strategy. “They should
sell it to a few prominent groups, even at a subsidised
cost. These can then prove the software’s value and
relevance to others. They have to target the early
adopters, that small section of the group who are
technologically conscious, are competitive and are in
the lead. Then the early majority, the late majority and
the laggards will follow after.”
However, facing challenges selling the product, the
team has since been phasing out its software arm.
“Software is a tough sell, especially in Kenya. We sold
the system to about 15 distributors but the use was
sporadic. Since we charged clients based on usage, this
meant the returns were low.” If the positive reviews the
software has garnered from some of its clients are any-
thing to go by, they might be giving up too early.
 SEEDS OF GOLD April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION 11
markets
ENGAGEMENT» THE LEVELS ARE BRONZE, SILVER, GOLD, PLATINUM AND COUNTY AGENT

Keep the rabbits, I source for market

Each BY MACHARIA MWANGI

2,000
Machariamwangi2008@gmail.com
month,
Kibanya
supplies
1,000
pieces
T he vehicle is slow on the murram
road as the driver evades a huge pothole
in this part of Naivasha.
The first stock of Dorwan rabbits the
farmer imported from Canada.

of frozen It had rained and the road is bad but the

occupants of the vehicle are not deterred.
rabbit to They must reach their destination, the home
Canada, of a farmer who rears rabbits. One of those
stock in the vehicle is Mr George Kibanya, a lead-
ing rabbit exporter.
which On this day, Kibanya is visiting one of the
he gets farmers he has contracted to supply him
with rabbits.
from 400 Soon, they arrive at their destination. Af-
farmers ter Kibanya exchanges pleasantries with the
he has farmer, they settle down to business.
Kibanya, himself a rabbit farmer and
contracted exporter, engages in contract farming under
Alcare Kenya Limited, a company he owns.
The entrepreneur, who is based in Kikuyu,
Kiambu County, has engaged farmers in 17
counties. They buy Dorwan rabbits from
him affordably, rear and later sale to him
for export.
WHEN I BEGAN RABBIT FARMING IN 2008, I TRAVELLED TO
CANADA WHERE I REALISED THE DORWAN BREED WAS DOING
WELL”
Mr George Kibanya, a rabbit exporter
There are various levels of contract
farming under Kibanya’s entrepreneurship.
These are bronze, silver, gold,
platinum and county agent.
Bronze is the lowest level. “The farmer buys
a minimum of six mature rabbits, five preg-
nant females and a male. The total cost is
Sh45,000. He then constructs 15 hutches.”
A silver farmer purchases 10 pregnant
does and two bucks and builds 24 cages,
with 12 cages spared for weaning. The gold
farmer is supposed to buy 20 pregnant
does and four bucks, and builds 50 cages.
Similarly, the platinum farmer purchases 50
animals, 40 does and 10 bucks and builds
100 cages for the bunnies.
Mr George
Kibanya (right)
assisted by Mr
John Mutonga
vaccinates a rabbit
suffering from a
skin disease at his
farm in Kiambu.
MACHARIA MWANGI
| NATION
And lastly, the county agent buys 100
animals, 70 pregnant females and 30
bucks. He builds 200 standard cages.
“We encourage them to take insurance cover
for the rabbits from the onset so that if one
dies or is stolen after 30 days, Alcare Lim-
ited will replace it,” he adds.
Kibanya buys from farmers a rabbit
weighing a kilo at an average of Sh500.
“I ship the products monthly to Canada.
Normally, it is an average of six tonnes,
which earn him about Sh1 million.”
So why does he export his produce to
Canada?
“When I began rabbit farming in 2008,
I travelled to Canada where I realised the
Dorwan breed was doing well. I imported
the initial stock of over 2,000 animals, does
and bucks.” The breed was being champi-
oned by Dorwan International, a church
organisation based in Canada that deals in
rabbit meat exports.
In 2010, Dorwan International appointed
his firm to spearhead the farming of Dor-
wan rabbits in Kenya and sell to them.
“The firm initially wanted me to supply
100,000 pieces of frozen rabbit each month
but I could not meet the demand. I negotiated
the figure to 1,000 pieces,” says Kibanya, who
still keeps rabbits despite contracting farmers.
This is what pushed him into contract farm-
ing.
Mr Samuel Mburugu, a contract farmer
under Alcare, says rabbit farming is the ‘next
big thing’ because of ready market.
“Marketing has always been a challenge,
but with ready market from Alcare, the risk
of market loss is minimised,” says the young
farmer.
Dr John Kariuki, Naivasha’s Kenya
Agricultural Research Institute cen-
tre director terms contract farming
as a “fairly new concept in Kenya”.
“Contract farming is mostly done overseas.
If not well-executed, there are loopholes
for possible exploitation by the different
parties.”
Contract farming, according to Kariuki
is often confused with contract marketing,
noting that what is practised in the country
is the latter.

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LIVESTOCK» FEAR OF EXOTIC COW BREEDS LEADS TO LOW MILK PRODUCTION IN KAKAMEGA COUNTY
Yes! Old is gold,
but at what price?
Livestock BY BENSON AMADALA
T
farmers in
Kakamega
reluctant
hroughout his childhood,
to let go farmer Gabriel Asakhulu of
of their Shibuli sub-location, Kakamega
traditional County, helped his father take
care of their seven Zebu cows.
cows He herded the animals, wa-
despite tered them and milked them.
When his father died 40 years
their low ago, Asakhulu inherited the Zebu
milk yields cows and became a livestock
farmer.
Over the years, he has not ben-
efited much from the animals.
Each produces less than 10 litres
of milk per day, some of which he
sells to his neighbours.
Despite the low yields, Asa-
khulu is not keen to sell the cows
to buy exotic breeds that produce
more milk.
To him, like many farmers in
the western region, old is gold.
The farmers have clung to Zebu
cows despite their low milk yields
compared to exotic breeds like
Ayrshire and Friesian.
“I now have five Zebu animals;
one of them is a bull. They have
been part of me for many years,
I cannot sell them to buy exotic
breeds,” says Asakhulu.
He notes that the animals are
resistant to tick diseases and
they endure dry spells.
“Many farmers prefer the Ze-
bus because one does not incur
high costs while rearing them
compared to exotic breeds,” he
says.
Sub-county livestock produc-
tion officer Joash Wanyonyi
dismisses Asakhulu’s assertions
and blames the low number of
exotic breeds in the region on the
sentimental value farmers attach
to the cows.
“We have done a lot to pro-
mote the keeping of improved
dairy livestock breeds to increase
milk production, but our efforts
have borne little fruit because of
the sentimental value farmers at-
tach to traditional breeds,” says
Wanyonyi. There are 38,000 in-
digenous cows in Kakamega and
dairy
Traditional cattle at a chief’s camp in Shinyalu. They yield little milk but are kept for their sentimental value. FILE | NATION
7,000 exotic ones.
Last year, farmers in the sub-
county produced 10 million litres
of milk, which is just a third of
the region’s potential.
Wanyonyi attributes the low
milk production to failure by
farmers to provide the best feeds
to their cows, besides the keeping
of traditional breeds.
Farmers from the neighbour-
ing Nandi and Uasin Gishu coun-
ties, who keep exotic breeds,
have taken advantage of the low
milk production in Kakamega.
They usually ferry milk on pick-
ups and motorcycles for sale in
the region.
“The average milk produc-
April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION
tion at farm level is low in the
county due to the inability of
dairy farmers to get the recom-
mended feeds. Then the obvious
hindrance is the keeping of Zebu
cows,” notes Wanyonyi.
Other hindrances include ir-
regular spraying of cows to con-
trol ticks and failure to maintain
proper husbandry.
County Agriculture Executive
Peninah Mukabane says poor
agricultural extension services,
including lack of Artificial In-
semination in villages, are also to
blame for the low yields.
Peninah asks farmers to re-
place their traditional livestock
breeds with exotic ones.
All is not lost, however. An
initiative dubbed East Africa
Agricultural Productivity Project
(EAAPP) has been launched in
the sub-county to support dairy
farmers. The project is helping
farmers to learn new technolo-
gies and improve supply of live-
stock feeds and pasture.
Two EAAPP demonstration
centres have been set up at Esh-
isiru and Amalemba.
Motorised chaff cutters have
also been installed at the centres.
Farmers will also benefit from AI
services.
Wanyonyi is hopeful that farm-
ers in the county will form a milk
cooperative society.
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April 5, 2014 Weekend 21

LITERARY DISCOURSE | Professor Bethwell Ogot on his professional life, his family and his retirement

Ogot: I put African history on world map

What are you reading now? HUMBLE COUPLE

‘My wife Grace speaks 12 different languages’

CONVERSATIONS WITH BOOK LOVERS I want to ask about you
and mama, you first met
I came back and Ojal was Luoland you can’t go back
to your home as a migogo
responsible for everything. I
abroad? went with three generations and vie, it was easier to do
By Tom Odhiambo No, in Makerere. She of people, old men and it in Gem (where she was
went there in 1949, to the women and young ones married).
and took a bus to intimidate
conversations@ke.nationmedia.com School of Medicine and
the people of Asembo.
Throughout your lives,
I went in 1950. We had a you’ve both been writing?
strong Luo Students As- From your family, who Do you edit each other’s
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19 sociation and had discus- were there? works; are you the first
now here. Again, it shall tame the imperial sions, inviting any Luos in reader of each other’s
Michael Kanyang’; Agina,
the same year. presidency. Kampala doing academic works?
The likes of Dedan Kimathi would If the Constitution is fully implemented,
his father is my first
work. That’s where we met cousin; Joab Ochieng’, No we started collaborat-
invade my house at Kagumo looking for it shall help decentralise not just services in 1950 during a meeting.
food and I was then moved to Alliance but power. The governors can be very from South Gem; my ing when I was doing field
from Kagumo; following claims I was a vital if they don’t get frustrated or mis- You met in England later? classmate at Makerere work. She’s a very good
Mau Mau sympathiser. behave. Did you propose to her or and Maseno and the best linguist and she was my
My people complained that I had escaped But why do you expand Parliament yet went back home and let man. It was useful having interpreter. She speaks
death in Nyeri and should not move to functions have been decentralised to the people to do it for you? different generations. We 12 different languages.
Kiambu but Maseno. I declined and this county assemblies; why do you vote for My nephew, the late Me- negotiated dowry and She would translate and
background, not being linked so much more money for Parliament than coun- shack Ojal, kept telling cows were cheaper there, at times change the data
to the Luo, helped me since I moved to ties? We need a smaller Parliament to me that there is a nice girl so we made arrangements collected into stories. Over-
Makerere University before returning to deal with national functions. People are working with us here in to buy 15 cows. time, we got interested in
Kenya in 1964. now exerting pressure on the governors Maseno and he wanted Later in life, did mama each other’s works.
In the first two years of independence, directly; they don’t go to Nairobi, and to to be the go-between remain in the Anglican Have any of your children
political leaders, just like other young and me that’s very healthy. She would insisting I didn’t know her. Church? decided to be a writer or a
educated Kenyans, didn’t have a problem.
A majority of MPs like Martin Shikuku How do we make these counties economi-
trans- I was reluctant because I Yes, in fact Bishop Olang’ historian?
didn’t like revival, yet she
never went to university yet celebrated cally viable? late and used to preach so much.
helped her a lot and she Yes, David has written three
claimed to belong to books. The second is an
the idea of Kenya.
But then the leadership started the exclu-
They can be viable if they are allowed to at times Ojal insisted but the man the original revivalists in architect in America for 25
do a number of things. They should not be who finally convinced me
sion of the Mau Mau; alienating half of the barred from creating their own industries. change the Rwanda. years. The third, Madara,
was Tom Odhiambo, a has followed me in uni-
Kikuyu population. That’s the Matigari of Many of these projects can generate money data col- great friend, who finally Did this help her in poli-
versity; he is a Deputy
Ngugi wa Thiong’o. from local resources. tics?
The leadership itself wasn’t Mau Mau. Turkana and Lamu are sitting on wealth.
lected into convinced me that it was Vice-Chancellor at
a good thing having a reli- It helped her because the
Afterwards, the regime extended the ex- Nyanza is full of minerals just awaiting stories. gious wife. church people knew a lot
Maseno University.
The only daughter
clusion to other people and created an
ethno-nation, yet even within that, it was
exploration. We’ve not even started using
the lake.
Overtime, My father also pushed me, of people but remember we have is a
simply a small elite. North Eastern has wealth and should not we got because my cousin, Arg- she also worked as com- medical doc-
munity development of-
When Moi took over in 1978 he preached bring animals to Athi River (KMC); why interested wings Kodhek, was urged
ficer for Central Nyanza
tor in New
peace, love and unity. There was no peace can’t we have abattoirs there? We aren’t to marry but declined Jersey,
either; it was the peace in prison. exploiting our resources adequately. in each oth- and later came back with from Sondu to Samia in USA.
Moi was following Kenyatta. He blocked Some people are complaining that these er’s works” a white wife, which they Busia; always travelling in
channels of communication, movement, counties are too many but they simply didn’t like. I told my father a Land Rover.
and expression, leading to the attempted want us to go back to more that if he wanted a second In Gem, how did she get
coup in 1982. centralisation. Reducing wife, it was fine but I wasn’t in politics?
Section 2A barred the likes of Jaramogi them will bring more going to marry yet since What is the prob-
Oginga Odinga and George Anyona from conflict and politics. both of us were going to lem? In
either joining Kanu or forming their own England.
party. On education, do but what they did 30
What could they do? Even Mandela you think that the
So finally, you went to years back. So we need
confessed that he didn’t believe in vio- opening up and Asembo upon returning to catch the 35-50 groups;
lence but formed the ANC military wing spreading of uni- from London? they can’t just appear from
since all avenues were blocked and po- versity education I went formally nowhere. Many old profes-
litical violence seemed the only way. Moi is a good thing? when sors are leaving; who shall
blocked all avenues for these people and It’s good in supervise students, who shall
they said come what may, they would do the sense that produce PhDs?
it militarily. you offer op-
portunities for You collaborated with Unesco to produce
To what extent can the intelligentsia inter- more Kenyans. the History of Africa series. Why is it we don’t
vene and help redirect this country right now? At the mo- ment, of even have one for Kenya at fifty or East Africa
I see no way out really for things to those who at 50 or Africa at 50?
change. Since there is no guarantee that qualify for uni- The fault is ours. Taking the example
things will be better, we may go back to versity education, of the History of Africa series, you realise
the Moi dictatorship. In many societies, it’s only five per cent that the initiative came originally from
it’s the intellectuals who direct ideology to six per cent who go to historians and African leaders and began
that change people. public universities. Yet in other with a conference in Ghana organised by
One or two books can change a whole parts of the world the minimum is Kwame Nkrumah during which he identi-
generation. Yet this is missing; so many 30 per cent. fied 12 of us and invited us to deliberate
of us have decided it’s safer to move But it must be planned; if they on the issue.
on, yet we don’t know where we are are public universities they must be We agreed to write a proposal and hand
moving to. We need people who will financed. There is no sense in them it over to African heads of state who were
offer alternative routes to follow being public yet they are being told to going to meet in Addis Ababa.
and the university should take look for their own money. The problem We told Nkrumah to present the pro-
a leading role. is planning for expansion; you should posal to the leaders, for those who were
know the source of funding. It’s clear already members of Unesco to raise funds
But if you think the project that the public universities, if encour- for the project.
of putting together a country aged, can generate a lot of money. The heads passed it and it was equally
has largely failed, is devolution One particular area of concern passed in Paris. Then Unesco set up vari-
the answer? is staff because the number of full ous conditions, nominated 35 of us, at
If devolution is given professors in universities in Kenya least three quarters being African schol-
time, it would make is less than 300. And most of those ars. None was to represent any particular
a big difference. So are over 50 years old, yet it’s the country but we were tasked with scholarly
many things pre- younger professors who really do compiling of a journal of African history.
viously sought the work while the older professors It took 20 years but it was produced in
from the philosophise. 15 languages, and is still being translated
central gov- When one gets a Nobel Prize, it’s into other languages. This put African
ernment are not because of what they are doing history on the world map.
22 | Weekend
LITERARY DISCOURSE | Marking one year since the death of Nigerian writer
Will anyone dance on Achebe’s grave?
Current generation
of Nigerian writers
appear unable to fill
big shoes left behind
by Chinua Achebe
BY KINGWA KAMENCU
kkamencu@ke.nationmedia.com
W
hen Nigerian literary
icon Chinua Achebe
died a year ago in
Boston, Massachusetts after a
short illness, there was an out-
pouring of grief from all parts
of the world. African people
appeared to feel the pain heavi-
est, piling tribute after tribute
on news websites, newspapers
and magazines, proof of the
resonance and connection they
felt to him.
As the literary world dusts it-
self up and moves on, Achebe’s
presence still hovers about us,
as if telling us that he is not fully
finished with us, he still has new
insights to instill.
It is thus worth exploring: Will
any Nigerian writer rise above
Achebe’s grave? Are we ever
going to have another Achebe
moment in Nigeria?
Unique flavour
Kitata Makau, a lecturer at the
University of Nairobi, does not
believe this will happen soon. He
cites some of Achebe’s contem-
poraries such as Wole Soyinka,
Flora Nwapa, and Cyprian
Ekwensi, saying that a writer
of Achebe’s calibre in terms of
style, has not been seen to date.
“Achebe had a unique style, he
took language seriously. He said
what everyone else was saying
but he put some art and a unique
flavour in it. It was something
he borrowed from Ibo folklore,
the idea of saying something in
the best way possible, of mak-
ing conversation an art. If you
compare Achebe’s The Trouble
with Nigeria with some of the
social political writing of Ngugi
wa Thiong’o and Wole Soyinka,
they don’t come close. It is his
method that is unique.”
Achebe’s contemporaries J.P
Clarke, Gabriel Okara, Christo-
pher Okigbo and Elechi Amadi
also dealt with cultural conflicts
brought by Westernisation and
colonialism in poetry and prose
forms.
Younger writers
The younger generation of Ni-
gerian authors, meanwhile, deal
with issues such as race, gender,
identity, globalisation, politics,
religion and conflict. Some of
the younger writers in their 30s
and 40s who have stood out
over time include Chimamanda
Adichie, Chika Unigwe, Helon
Habila, Toni Kan, Togu Ogunlesi,
Chris Abani, Adaobi Nwaubani,
Sade Adeniran, Helen Oyeyemi
and Teju Cole, among others.
Khainga Okwembah, a liter-
ary critic and president of Pen
Kenya, believes that this young
cohort of Nigerian writers has
been disadvantaged by the time
setting in which they find them-
selves; Achebe’s destiny was set
in part by his place and time.
“The fact that Achebe captured
African traditions and history
which have now died out, means
that no one will ever get close to
him. He painted traditional Af-
rican life and the African village
in a very vibrant and powerful
way. It is likely we won’t see this
kind of literature soon because
it was people of his generation
who grew up in the villages and
it was part of their life.”
Okwembah, while not dismiss-
ing 21st century issues as valid,
points to the gravity of what it
meant for Achebe to capture and
give dignity to a dying culture
and world view that Europeans
had disparaged.
Like Okwembah, Professor
Simatei Tirop, a professor of
literature at Moi University, also
believes that by carefully tracing
and bringing Igbo cultural life
and folkloric traditions to life,
Achebe elevated himself above
his contemporaries and set the
bar high for all time.
Tirop, in pointing out Achebe’s
contributions to literary criticism
BIO
Quick facts on
Chinua Achebe
Name: Chinua Achebe
Date of birth: November
16, 1930
Date of death: March 21,
2013
Education: University of
Ibadan
Place Of Birth: Ogidi, An-
ambra, Nigeria
Place Of Death: Boston,
Massachussetts
Best known for: Nigerian
novelist and author of
‘Things Fall Apart’, a work
that in part led to his being
called the “patriarch of the
African novel.”
and debate, shows another area
where the younger writers trail
as most concentrate on fiction.
“He contributed to shaping how
African literature and literature
on Africa was read, such as the
essay he wrote in response to
Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.”
Tirop, however, believes that
other writers are coming up in
Nigeria who are just as good.
“Looking at the horizons of the
moment, I’d agree with those
who say Chimamanda has a way
with words. In terms of young
Nigerian writers, Chimamanda
is quite amazing at telling a
story. There’s something to the
idea that she is Achebe’s literary
granddaughter.”
Big shoes
Professor Henry Indangasi
of the University of Nairobi’s
Department of Literature, how-
ever, disagrees with Simatei. “On
this debate about Chimamanda
having stepped into the shoes of
Achebe, I don’t agree with it. I
think she is inferior, she doesn’t
compare.”
Indangasi points to the differ-
ence in their style: “Chimamanda
doesn’t have that natural gift
that Achebe has; that ability
to see things with insights and
irony. She gives the impression
of straining for an effect and
pushing some kind of ideology
through her novels, which is not
the same as Achebe whose writ-
ing is effortless.
In Purple Hibiscus, Adichie is
straining to bring out patriarchy
in Nigeria. Her description of the
father is overdone and overdra-
matic; she gives us things that
are improbable — the father
punishing the daughter with hot
water, on behalf of the church.
I don’t believe her; that kind of
father exists only in fiction.”
Poet Njeri Wangari also does
not believe anyone can reach
Achebe’s status, pointing to
the uniqueness of the themes
extant in his time. “It is impos-
sible for anyone to write so well
about the period of colonialism
because it doesn’t exist any
more. The things that affected
Nigeria then are different now. It
would be unfair to try comparing
Achebe with anyone because he
gave his best during his time.
Maybe what we can talk about
is a writer from Nigeria who has
learnt from him. Are there those
who were able to heed the call
and take up the mantle that he
left for African writing ?”
Reflection
What was Achebe’s call? “The
call was for us to not lose sight
of the things that affect us. For
a writer it calls for a lot more
discernment than others.
Writers need to have a deeper
reflection on things around them
in society and to express them
in a way that goes beyond stat-
ing the obvious like a journalist
would. It is to get the rest of the
world to understand exactly what
is causing some of these things
to happen,” Wangari says.
A big part of the reason Achebe
will be revered in history can be
traced to his own understand-
ing of what his work as a writer
entailed. Unlike Soyinka, who
embodies the concept of the
writer as an activist, Achebe
played the role of the writer as
a teacher, as he demonstrated
to Africans that their traditional
cosmologies had rhyme and rea-
son and were valid in the global
scheme of things.
Nobel Prize
This was in a context of rac-
ist narratives and interpretations
about Africa. Achebe was also
not afraid to speak truth to
power, whether the power was
hegemonic Western institu-
tions or rogue political actors
in Nigeria.
It is believed in certain circles
that his biting attacks of the West
are what led him to missing the
Nobel Prize for Literature in his
lifetime.
Will anyone rise above
Achebe’s grave?
Likely not.
The mausoleum in which he
was laid to rest had a rather high
ceiling. And then, like his destiny,
it only bears his name.
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014
BOOK REVIEW
Gazemba
explores
life of the
oppressed
BY FRED MBOGO
satnation@ke.nationmedia.com
Stanley Gazemba’s Callused
Hands is an exciting new work
that re-imagines hopelessness. In
a sluggish almost non-committal
fashion, the novel’s beginning cre-
ates ground for readers to take a
peek into the lives of the wretched
of the earth. One feels as though he
has been sucked into that bottom-
less pit from which the characters
are struggling to come up for air.
But just when there should be
relief for Njambi and her children,
the ugly hands of oppression reach
out again. She must get back to the
torture house to pay for her dead
husband’s debt. Her life slides from
bad to worse. She is trapped, like
Sisyphus of Greek mythology.
FILE | NATION That sickly state of Yakobo’s
Nigerian liter- frame and the seemingly never-end-
ary icon Chinua ing suffering that accosts Njambi
Achebe. He becomes a bitter-sweet element
died in the US that angers and then provokes
on March 21 last one to want to change the story
— to make it sweeter for all. But
year.
therein lies
the power
of the nar-
rative for it
manages
to hook
the reader
and drag
him along
the dis-
turbing
images
of a ‘sur-
viving’
family.
T h e
simplicity
belies the
emotional energy that the novel has
invested. For very often, Yakobo’s
and Njeri’s condition is all too often
a case one has encountered. Yet,
when it unfolds in the calculated
bits and pieces that Gazemba has
attempted here, it swells into a
mature uncomfortable, and pain-
ful boil that must burst for the boil
to come to an end.
The disturbances at the farm
led by the rabble-rousing Wangari
should be an oasis in the dryness
that is the sad decline of Njambi’s
prospects. But the pain is extended.
There are arrests. The cycle begins
again. There are beatings, inspec-
tions, harsher rules.
Perhaps the solution should
have come directly from likes of
Juma, Ndonga, and Njambi, those
that have suffered. But instead it
comes through the involvement
of a lawyer, Nyokabi. This out-
side help, while working towards
bringing the narrative to a befitting
end, where justice is done, steals
from the reader that needs to see
victory crafted from those whose
hopes had been dashed.
The novel initially reads well as
it details the troubles of the down-
trodden. But Marxist purists would
feel let down by that benevolent act
from the lawyer — the revolution at
the farm should be designed and
executed by the trampled upon.
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014
Readers corner
Literary Discourse
This subject has now
outlived its relevance
BY LILY RONOH
I agree with Mr Francis O. Odipo in his article titled
‘Reform oral literature syllabus or scrap it altogether
from exams’ (Saturday Nation, March 22, 2014). The
writer is of the opinion that oral literature should
either be reformed to fit the Y-generation or it should
be scrapped from examinations.
My view is that oral literature has outlived its ob-
jective. Oral literature was introduced at a time when
Kenyans and Africans in general needed to assert
their identity and what better way to do that than
introducing a course that would take Kenyan children
back to their roots. Whether that was achieved or not
is a topic for another day. We are in the 21st century
and the problems afflicting Africans currently are
totally different from what was experienced in the
20th century.
The new crop of Kenyan writers do not flinch when
using their Christian names as was the case for post-
independence writers led by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, who
dropped their Christian names in protest against west-
ernisation. This was also the period when African
writers had to grapple with the question of which
language to use when writing their books. Some
writers felt that English was not adequate to tell the
African experience while others felt that in order for
the texts to reach a wider audience, English and other
foreign languages should be used.
For the few years I have been a teacher of English, I
have found it difficult to explain some concepts of oral
literature. It was quite a task to explain ogre, monster
and legend narratives. For oral literature to be effec-
tive, it has to be first taught at home so that we can
reinforce it in class. If this is not done, then we are
only training our students to pass examinations.
The writer is a teacher of English at Nairobi Muslim
Academy
Merging two fields of
study right thing to do
In response to Timothy Bett’s opinion about the
teaching of literature in isolation to language, let me
count the ways in which language extends a cultural
context for the critical study of literature.
First, language lies at the heart of all learning
processes. Teachers who only work with literature
could fall for fiction and thus limit reasoning-centred
processes to set texts. We should engage inquiring
and knowledgeable young people through language,
culture and context.
Second, we are at risk of disconnecting ourselves
from understanding learners without an exploration
of the nature of language. I feel enlightened when
learners conceptualise language. Creativity in educa-
tion finds many limitations in the ethics of teaching
literature in isolation. Let us bring learners with us,
not leave them behind.
Third, the isolation of literature will strain under-
standing. David Crystal comments on his blog that
nobody has developed a satisfactory methodology for
establishing the whole of someone’s spoken lexicon.
There are many mirrors to society. We have the In-
ternet now. An understanding of symbolism and the
influence of mass communication is a prerequisite
skill for the study of literature.
Fourth, many parents approve of the goal to im-
part moral values through literature. And yet, how
might those values, attitudes and beliefs limit a life-
long love of literature, without a broad, conceptual
understanding of language?
Fifth, learners have the right to be knowledgeable.
If schools decide that a single subject discipline is
implicit to critical study, then language acquisition
is likely to be marginalised.
The writer is an International Baccalaureate Mid-
dle Years Programme Language teacher at the Aga
Khan Academy, Nairobi
Blame harsh library regulations
for our very poor reading culture
BY ERIC SINDABI
M
any a critics have de-
cried the poor reading
culture among Kenyans.
Some factors that contribute to
this include, among others, the
failure by the government to set
up libraries in all corners of the
country, especially in schools and
community centres.
Yet a good reading culture
contributes to higher standards
in education, training, indus-
try, commerce, environmental
enlightenment , leadership,
spirituality, health, nutrition,
relationships and technological
awareness.
Librarians, as stakeholders in
the management of knowledge in
society, are mandated to promote
the use of libraries and informa-
tion resource centres.
Nevertheless, the harsh rules
and regulations in libraries
greatly contribute to our poor
reading culture.
As a professionals, librarians
ought to adopt two principles of
disseminating information — the
conservative and liberal theories.
In the former, librarians apply
strict conditions of accessing
information centres, while in
the later, librarians apply less
harsh conditions.
However, in most of our local
information centres, librarians
often apply the conservative
principle. Yet the success of any
information centre is measured
by the degree of its impact on
society.
Harsh rules and regulations put
readers off libraries and other in-
formation centres like archives,
We have lost the original reason for
teaching oral literature in schools
BY KENNEDY BUHERE
Francis Odipo called for the
reform of oral literature or its
scrapping it altogether, saying the
stable of stories that define oral
literature is outdated (‘Reform
oral literature syllabus or scrap it
altogether from exams,’ Saturday
Nation, March 22, 2014 )
He claimed that the charac-
ters of in oral literature tales
— ogres, squirrels, bears and
hyenas — among other animals,
do not make sense to the modern
generation of students.
It is on this score alone that
Odipo dismisses the relevance of
the teaching of oral Literature.
Odipo is wrong.
Oral literature is the equiva-
lent of ballads in the Western
civilisation.
Each society had its stories
long before the dawn of written
culture. Homer collected the sto-
ries of Greece in the Iliad and the
Odyssey. Aesop’s Fables are also
Stringent library rules discourage Kenyans from using them.
museums and record centres.
The readers, in fear of failing
to abide by all the complex laws
and the consequences, choose to
avoid registering or being active
members. Many school, college
and university students rarely
borrow books from libraries but
merely go to libraries to read their
notes during examinations.
First, library users undergo
thorough vetting before being
allowed to enter the library build-
ing. Secondly, it is not possible
to access certain information
material until certain stringent
conditions are met.
Readers who fail to return bor-
rowed books on time meet harsh
punishment that include heavy
fines and even cancellation of
their borrowing privileges.
Local libraries have failed
to market themselves simply
because our librarians feel that
they do not have the capacity to
serve too many clients.
Has anyone ever come across
an advertisement in the media
among the earliest oral tales. Sir
Walter Scott collected Scotland’s
ballads in a book The Minstrelsy
of the Scottish Border Ballads.
Brothers Wilhelm and Jacob
Grimm also collected oral tales
from German folk culture. Joseph
Jacob collected English folk tales,
as did Hans Christian Ander-
son. Ancient India developed a
flourishing written culture. The
Arabian Tales were oral tales.
Kenyan writers have similarly
collected folk stories from vari-
ous ethnic communities.
All these stories embody the
values, wisdom, and cosmologies
that each of the communities had
weaved to make sense of the envi-
ronment around it. These stories
formed what educationists would
describe as the basic curriculum
for the education of the succes-
sive generations into the values,
knowledge and skills for survival
for these communities.
Most of the values that these
stories embody were in fact
about a library? Has anyone
ever come across a newspaper
or magazine article highlighting
services offered by a certain li-
brary? Has anyone ever attended
a trade show and come across a
stand for any library in Kenya?
Have we ever, in the recent
past, heard about an exhibition
of books and other information
materials found in any library in
Kenya? How many libraries, be
they community, school, aca-
demic or national, ever engaged
in corporate social responsibility
to promote their services?
Such factors, unfortunately,
have over time eroded the con-
fidence of library users. We have
failed to promote the importance
of libraries in our society. Many
information seekers now prefer
goint to the Internet and other
cheaper sources of informa-
tion.
The writer works at Egerton
University Library Department
bisokep@yahoo.com
recaptured in various forms in
the modern written literature that
was developed in Western Europe
and has continued ever since.
The introduction of African
oral literature in high school was
meant to expose students to the
rich web of African literature and
cosmology to blend, and not to
supplant, the folk ways that edu-
cated Kenyans were exposed to in
basic educational institutions.
I have reason to believe that we
may have lost the institutional
memory that lay behind the in-
troduction of oral literature.
We could be stressing things in
oral literature that have little to
do with the appreciation of val-
ues, and ways of thinking that
informed the cultures from which
the stories were abstracted. The
values embodied in folk literature
are timeless.
The writer is the communica-
tions officer, ministry of Educa-
tion, Science and Technology
Weekend 23
Do not end
your dream
with KCSE
BY FRANKLINE MUKEMBU
Many students and par-
ents have had their dreams
shattered simply because of
dismal performance in their
Form Four exams. They fail to
comprehend that KCSE is not
the sole measure of success in
life. Form Four level is just one
of the stages in one’s academic
journey. Failing at one level
does not necessarily translate
to one becoming a failure in life.
There are many other avenues
to success. There are many
skills apart from those deter-
mined by an examination. We
have psychomotor skills that
can only be exhibited through
manual work.
KCSE is just an evaluation
tool to limit the number of
those proceeding to the next
level of education. It is a high
time we changed our attitude
and stopped branding those
that do not attain university
grades as failures in life. There
are many other aspects and de-
terminants of success.
The writer teaches Kiswahili
and Geography at Munithu
Day Secondary School in Meru
County
Integration
was a big
mistake
BY PETERSON WAWERU
The integration of English
with literature in the high
school curriculum was a mis-
take. English, as a language, is
not as expressive as literature.
It is mostly taught by a teacher
standing while the learners are
seated. Literature, on the other
hand, is mostly “dramatic.”
Like most technical subjects,
literature is practical. You can
imagine a teacher analysing a
particular song by a mere read
of the lyrics, telling learners
of costumes without showing
them. The integration has led
to diffusion of prescriptive
grammatical rules infecting
literature and robbing it of its
expressive mode.
It is inadequate to strain to
teach these two autonomous
but distinct entities as the
resultant mutual benefit is
not equal.
Literature represents us
and the more we suppress it,
the more we prove how much
we’ve been brainwashed. I am
literati.
The writer is an English and
Literature student at Chuka
University’s main campus
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to satnation@ke.nationmedi
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Saturday Nation, POB 49010,
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April 5, 2014

MUSIC REVIEW | Gichinga is comfortable with the income he gets from his contemporary dance WEEK’S PICK
TODAY

Young dancer in
THE 6AM PARTY
The Roof Top restaurant at The Mall in
Westlands will host the ‘6:AM Dance
Party’ tonight. On show will be elec-
tronic dance music by long serving

Nakuru out to
electronic dance music producer and
DJ Michael Woods and the best DJs in
Kenya. Dress code is airport chic.

THE BEATHOGS SHOW

prove that art pays

The Beathogs are back this evening at
the Treehouse, Museum Hill in Nairobi.
The show will feature the full 10-piece
funk soul train on stage. There will also
be disco music. The show starts at 8pm
and lasts till dawn.
BY MAGDALENE WANJA dium in Nakuru and stands out
Joseph magdalenewanja@ymail.com as Gichinga’s most memorable FLORIDA MEMBERS DAY
Gichinga’s performance.

Y
oung people often struggle
style of to get formal employment.
dance For 21 year-old Joseph
Gichinga, however, his calling
breaks came through dancing.
Gichinga is an accomplished
many rules contemporary dancer who has
but the attracted both praise and criti-
cism in equal measure in Nakuru
audience town, where dancing competi-
does not tions are popular.
His contemporary dance styles
seem to break many rules of ballet, giv-
ing him the freedom to express
mind himself by blending the mind
and body.
Born in Mwariki in Nakuru
County, Gichinga, who attended
Pangani Primary School and
Hopewell High School, used to
dance as a hobby ‘to kill boredom
and avoid joining bad company,’
but this eventually grew into a
full time occupation.
He started out as a salsa
dancer, but he faced so many
challenges that he decided to go
for solo contemporary dance.
Contemporary dance is de-
rived from ballet but it also
borrows from classical, modern
dance and jazz.
This type of dance is versa-
tile and allows improvisation
to fit the intended context by
the artiste.
In September 2011, Gichinga
got a chance to perform in a
fund-raising event known as
‘Okoa Maisha’ to raise funds
for the hungry in Kenya. The
event was held at Afraha Sta-
He has also performed at a
peace concert showcasing the
day-to-day lives of athletes
aimed at helping members of
the public know how to relate
with them. The event was held in
Arusha, Tanzania, in November
2013. It was known as ‘Kimbia’
under a theme ‘Usikuskong,’ a
combination of Sheng and Ka-
lenjin languages meaning don’t
look back.
The trip, sponsored by the
Theatre Company of Kenya, was
a great experience for him.
Apart from this, Gichinga
earns a decent living and sup-
ports his family.
“In a good month I earn up to
Sh30,000, which is enough to
meet all my needs,” he says
Unlike other forms of art,
which require one partner or
more, contemporary dance, in
terms of the focus of its tech-
nique, tends to utilise both the
strong and controlled legwork
of ballet and the hand move-
ments and facial expression of
the performer.
Through this, an artiste can
tell a story through the emo-
tions, the expressions and the
body movement.
The art requires a lot of prac-
tice and perfection in order to
bring meaning to the audience.
His performances have
received plenty of positive
response from people around
Nakuru, although many are un-
able to interpret the messages
Joseph Gichinga, a contemporary dancer, performing at the Nakuru
Players Theatre in January this year. He is out to promote his unconven-
tional contemporary dance style.
he tries to convey.
“I have done a number of
educational performances in
the streets of Nakuru, which
have received positive response
from the public, with some even
signing me up for their events,”
he said.
When he started dancing, his
group had around 30 members,
all who have since moved on do
other professions.
SULEIMAN MBATIAH | NATION
His style of dancing has at-
tracted the attention of many
youth from the region and
a number of them have ap-
proached him for training.
“I have a group of about 30
youth that I am training and I
hope to have more in future,”
he added
He strongly advocates against
alcohol and drug abuse and
crime.
The Florida 2000 Club on Moi Avenue,
Nairobi, will tonight host a ‘Members
Night Out.’ The event will be dedicated
to both new and old members of the
club which recently celebrated its 30th
anniversary. Resident DJ Sweet Dennis
and others will entertain the patrons.
CULTURAL NIGHT AT MTWAPA
A culture and dance night for the Ka-
lenjin community is set for tonight at
Mtwapa’s Club Fun Fan. Musician Mike
Rotich will perform. Meanwhile, resi-
dent DJ Cool Dave will on Friday be on
the decks during rumba night.
SAUTI ACADEMY CONCERT
Penya Africa will unveil a new group
of eight graduating students from its
artist development program, Sauti
Academy, today at the Goethe Institut
in Nairobi. The show, to bring out what
they have learnt for the last one year,
will start at 6.30pm.
LIVE AT THE BBQ
Trixx Media Ltd in conjunction with
Pepsi, MSCK, Triple P Media and Am-
boseli Gardens will stage the ‘Live @
The BBQ’ today at Amboseli Gardens
in Lavington, Nairobi. The event starts
from noon to midnight.
APRIL 10

Gospel group takes on world with debut single

BY NJERI KIHANG’AH
nkihang’ah@ke.nationmedia.com
They are fresh but in no way new to
the music scene. Perhaps they have
been underexposed over the years, but
all that is about to change. With their
two-week-old single No Other Name
regularly playing on radio, Bethu &
HPB have begun to quench the thirst
of those they won over during an in-
terview on NTV’s popular weekend
show, The Trend.
They’ve come a long way since their
first performance at a poetry spot on
the outskirts of the CBD. Two years
ago, Bethuel Lasoi, a power vocalist,
would meet up with Tugi Mlamba, a
guitarist, to just to make melodies.
At their debut performance, the duo
recall how organisers threw them into
a deep end, asking for more songs
than they had prepared for.
“We had to improvise,” Bethu recalls
of their little stint, breathing new life
into an old hymn, His Eye is on The
Sparrow.
“The reaction was a standing ova-
tion,” reports Bethu.
Many months later, they’ve head-
lined tens of events and even staged
their own concerts. Each time they do,
the enthusiasm is always profound.
It is who they are, a bunch of
vibrant musical perfectionists
making their statement of faith.
While their secular counterparts can
bask in the glory of fame, gospel outfits
know that theirs is to forfeit it. Bethu
& HPB keep each other grounded.
“After a performance, I often ask my-
self whether what I feel is an after
shine or a sense of ministry,” says
keyboardist, Eugene Ekerster.
“As friends, we keep it
real and move on quickly.”
It’s a close knit family. On their
Whatsapp thread, among the most
hailed conversations are those that
give due prominence to chicken for
lunch, dinner and anything in be-
tween, not musical progressions or
gigs they dream of.
The group has learnt that their
relationships off stage affect their
performance and they take no
chances.
“We sit down and iron out issues.
New members fit in well because
we have no ‘old member cliques’
because the basis of this is godly
friendship,” says Sam, the band’s
music director.
“There is no shortage of great
ideas. Everyone brings some-
thing special to the music.”
What about the money? For a band
fast gaining popularity and contracts,
they smartened up and put systems
in place.
This melting pot of students and
artistes continues to pursue excel-
lence. When they meet, they create
everything from ballads to stadium-
befitting anthems.
Though seemingly influenced by
American household names such as
Israel Houton and Tye Tribbet, the
band still manages to craft a breath
of fresh air, much to the pleasure of
audiences looking for elite gospel
grooves.
“The tragedy would be not to ex-
periment,” Tugi Mlamba, says. “We’d
be depressed if we don’t do what we
can in the space God has given us.”
THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE
Roots International will stage the
‘Thursday Night Live’ featuring An-
drew Wambua and Afrology on April
10 at the Choices Pub in Nairobi. The
Afro-fusion band will perform from
8pm to 11pm. Entrance will be free.
APRIL 12
SAYARI LIVE EXPERIENCE
Musicians Dan Aceda and Atemi Oy-
ungu will perform during the ‘Sayari
Live’ show next Saturday at Carnivore’s
Simba Saloon. Formerly known as The
A-ffair, the group features the same
high quality live music performances.
Doors will open at 8pm.
APRIL 13
KIDS’ PARADISE
The Kids Paradise show will be held
next Sunday at the Carnivore Gardens
in Nairobi. It will feature cars’ pit stop
races, bumber wheels, soccer boppers
and jumping castles. The event starts
at 11am and ends at 6pm.
angaira@ke.nationmedia.com
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WORLD
GEAR UP TO FIGHT EBOLA
West African states prepare to tackle
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COST OF WAR | Twist as media used to fan conflict becomes a tool for reconcilliation BRIEFLY

Soap opera helps heal 20-year-old

KAMPALA
Ugandan lawmakers
denied pay increase

post-genocide wounds in Rwanda

KIGALI, Friday
Radio
T
wice a week and for half
series an hour, everything stops
recounts on the hillsides of Rwanda
as people huddle around a radio
the day- and listen to a soap opera that
aims to help heal the wounds left
Ugandan MPs have seen their
demand for higher salaries re-
to-day by the genocide.
The idea behind “Musekeweya”,
jected by the finance ministry
after it decided the country had
life of the or the New Dawn, is to do the
opposite of what the notorious
more important priorities. Depu-
ties in Parliament had drawn an-
residents Radio Libre des Mille Collines ger and insults after demanding a
did 20 years ago as it stoked major pay rise even though they
of two ethnic hatred during the already earn about Ush15 million

fictional genocide carried out by Hutu

extremists.
(about $6,100) a month — sixty
times more than most state em-
villages Radio Mille Collines played a
major role in the planning and
ployees. Finance ministry spokes-
man Jim Mugunga (above), told
trying to carrying out of the genocide,
which, in the space of 100 days
AFP that the request was “not a
priority, as much as we value the
heal their starting on April 7, 1994, saw an
estimated 800,000 people, es-
great work they are doing.” (AFP)

wounds sentially minority Tutsis, hacked

to death by Hutu extremists.
and mend “Musekeweya” started up in
fences 2004 and aims to eradicate vio-
lence by educating communities.
It also keeps them entertained.
The soap opera recounts the
day-to-day life of the residents
of two fictional villages, Bu-
manzi and Muhumuro, who,
after years of conflict stoked
by the authorities, are trying
to heal their wounds and mend
fences.
For the past 10 years the se-
ries has explored what causes the
destructive behaviour of the two
villages’ inhabitants, basing itself
on the work of Ervin Staub, a
psychologist and Holocaust sur-
vivor, who in “The Roots of Evil:
Genocide, Violent Conflict and
Terrorism” explores the origins
of violence.
Even if the words Hutu and
Tutsi, taboo in present-day
Rwanda, are never mentioned,
the conflict that has affected
the two fictional villages mirrors
the genocide that took place in
Rwanda two decades ago.
The genocide left
scars, but we are ALGERS
demonstrating that US, Algeria vow to join
despite that, it is
possible to have a hands in terror fight
The United States and Algeria
dialogue and to ask on Thursday pledged to work
for forgiveness. Our together to battle terrorism, as
PHOTO | AFP role is to increase US Secretary of State John Kerry
This picture taken on November 16, 1996, shows tens of thousands of paid his first visit to the north
Rwandan refugees arriving in Gisenyi after fleeing the Zairean Mugunga
people’s sense of African nation. “Algeria which
and Sake refugee camps. On April 7, Rwanda will commemorate the responsibility” has paid a heavy toll to terrorism,
will never bow in front of this
20th anniversary of the start of the genocidal slaughter. Head of project Aimable
scourge,” Foreign minister Ram-
“A lot of people followed soap opera that has reached Twahirwa tane Lamamra said at the open-
orders,” explains Aimable Twa- millions of Afghans. ing of the strategic talks. (AFP)
hirwa, who heads the project, set “Our role is to increase peo-
up by the Dutch organisation La ple’s sense of responsibility,” to gramme.
Benevolencija, which has similar turn them into “active witnesses “The genocide left scars,” he
initiatives in Burundi, Demo- who can dare to say no to actions said, “but we are demonstrating CAIRO
cratic Republic of Congo and that lead to violence,” Twahirwa that despite that it is possible to
South Sudan. said. have a dialogue and to ask for Security laws tightened
The NGO bases its work on
that done by the radio of the
Ten years on the characters in
the soap opera have reached “the
forgiveness.”
A study undertaken in 2013
to counter terrorism
same name, La Benevolencija stage of dialogue, of reconcilia- by La Benvolencija showed Egypt on Thursday said it has
Sarajevo, during the war in Bos- tion, despite some problems that that 84 percent of Rwandans boosted punishment for “terror-
nia, which was in turn inspired they have to overcome,” explains with access to a radio tune into ist” offences and expanded the
by the success of the BBC’s Charles Lwanga Rukundo, one it every week. scope of crimes that fall under
“New Home, New Life” radio of the scriptwriters for the pro- (AFP) the category, a day after bomb-
ings killed a top officer. The legal
amendments will come in force

Zuma on taxman’s radar over ‘posh’ home upgrades

JOHANNESBURG, Friday
Embattled South Africa President
Jacob Zuma could face yet another
probe into his $23 million taxpayer
funded home upgrades, this time from
the taxman.
The opposition Democratic Alliance
on Friday said it was confident the
South African Revenue Service would
investigate whether Zuma (left) failed
to pay tax on non-security related
upgrades.
Under SA tax law, the works — in-
cluding a helipad, swimming pool,
amphitheatre, private clinic and visi-
tors’ centre—could be seen as fringe
benefits.
Although it is not clear what that
Zuma’s tax liability might be, it is clear
that the probe is yet another political
liability for the president just weeks
before the poll.
The 71-year-old will seek a second
five-year term on May 7, in what are
expected to be South Africa’s most
fiercely fought elections since 1994,
when apartheid ended.
The public protector recently
reported that the additions were un-
lawful and called on Zuma to refund
taxpayers.
He has refused to do that, saying he
did not ask for the upgrades, and has
indicated he will comment on the find-
ings in full only after the election.
The taxman refused to comment
on whether a probe had been opened,
saying it could not publicly disclose
any information about individual
taxpayers.
Responding to the Democratic Al-
liance’s request for an investigation
the authority said “the matter will
be dealt with in the normal course of
duties” — indicating Zuma would get
no special treatment.
(AFP)
when interim president Adly
Mansour approves the govern-
ment-penned draft. The cabinet
did not immediately release the
changes made to the law. (AFP)
BRUSSELS
PM in gay rights plea
to African leaders
Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di
Rupo urged African leaders at-
tending an EU-Africa summit to
respect the rights of minorities,
including those victimised for
their sexual orientation. The re-
marks were made at a welcoming
dinner. (AFP)
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April 5, 2014

THE COUNCIL OF GOVERNORS

Celebrating one year of County Governments in Kenya

Kisii County
County breaking new grounds in
ensuring improved service delivery
Message from H.E. James E.O. Ongwae, have now embarked on value addition to our
agricultural produce to enhance the earnings
of the county assembly who carried out their
oversight role in the spirit of cooperation and
Governor of Kisii County to our farmers in a bid to address the issue consultation while respecting the principle of
of poverty. separation of powers. Members of the public

I
am truly blessed and humbled to be
among the progeny who have lived to see
our government evolve democratically
to the level where the public have been
empowered to actively participate in state
and county decisions affecting their lives.
The creation of county governments by
the Constitution of Kenya 2010, is one of
the most significant changes introduced to
Kenya’s governance framework.
On 6th March, 2013, my deputy and I were
duly sworn into office with a mandate to
serve the people of Kisii County on the basis
of the pledges contained in our campaign
manifesto under the devolved system of
governance.
As we mark one year in office, I wish to
truly thank the people of Kisii County for
having confidence in me and electing me as
their first Governor. During my swearing-in
ceremony, I pledged to work tirelessly for the
people of Kisii County guided by my vision
H.E. James E.O. Ongwae,
Governor Kisii County
a human face. It is with this commitment
in mind that I moved boldly and we became
the first county to introduce ambulatory
services at ward level under a public-private-
partnership arrangement. Residents of Kisii
County are now enjoying this free service
including those who had initially opposed
it. I am convinced that it is cheaper in the
long run to provide immediate care and
save lives rather than wait and participate in
harambees after the condition has become
critical or to meet funeral expenses.
Another area we have realized great
success and which we intend to replicate
in other development programmes, is
the utilization of a ready resource in the
county - our youth. In cleaning up our urban
centres, we have outsourced this service to
organized youth and women groups. This
arrangement has worked well to the benefit
of our youth who otherwise would have
been idle and exposed to antisocial activities
and our women who have been hitherto
marginalized.
As we celebrate the achievements of our
first year of devolution, I extend a sincere
word of appreciation to all who made these
achievements possible. These achievements
could not have been realized without the
unwavering support of honourable members
Message from H.E. Joash Maangi, Deputy Governor
As we mark one year
of devolution, it is
time to reflect on the
achievements made thus
also played a critical role in turning out in
large numbers during public hearings to
make their priorities known. Finally, I thank
the members of the county executive for
ensuring that deadlines were met and that
we are honouring the promises we made to
our people.
The journey has begun and we are
gathering speed. The next phase will be
more demanding as the people have already
tasted the sweet fruits of devolution and will
not relent until their full expectations have
been met.
As Governor, I have made a commitment
to ensure that every resident of Kisii County
enjoys the fruits of devolution and there will
be no turning back from this commitment.
My governor and I are
working closely and in
collaboration with other
leaders both at local

“
which envisaged a peaceful society nurtured
by virtues of diligence, integrity, respect and
honour, and where every child had access to
quality education and healthcare and every
school leaver, and every adult had access to
We have gainful employment, social protection and
now social healthcare.
When we assumed office, we were
embarked keenly aware that there would be many
on value challenges ahead, but all these are teething
problems expected from any new endeavour.
addition Nonetheless, we have managed to make
to our significant strides towards implementing
our development agenda to ensure that the
agricultural residents of Kisii County enjoy the fruits of
produce to devolution. The Kisii County Government is
now fully operational and is boldly moving
enhance the forward and breaking new grounds in
earnings to ensuring improved service delivery to our
people.
our farmers This improvement in service delivery
in a bid to cannot take place in an environment where
we are boxed in the traditional way of doing
address things. We must start thinking outside the box
the issue of and come up with innovative ways of service
delivery, and this is what my government is
poverty. committed to doing - service delivery with
far and prepare to face and national level to
The other area in which an innovative
the challenges. enhance living standards
approach has worked well is in the roads
In the run up to the of locals.
sector. I had pledged to make roads one
last general elections, we Political campaigns
of my top priority programme areas.
made a raft of pledges are over so for now, our
Realizing that one of the challenges faced in
maintenance of our roads is the unavailability
to our people and as a singular task is service
government; we remain delivery to residents
of equipment and the short window available
committed to fulfilling all irrespective of whom
for maintenance due to the frequency of
rains, my government has purchased road
of them. they voted for in the last
In the past 12 months, general election.
construction and maintenance equipment,
we have put systems in place
H.E. Joash Maangi,
Deputy Governor The constitution of
and road construction and maintenance is
now going on in every ward where we intend
as we prepare to serve the Kenya, 2010 created
people. We now have an administrative several elective posts. I call upon all
to construct at least three kilometres per
structure in place with representation political leaders to embrace dialogue and
ward.
In awarding road construction contracts,
up to ward level. It has not been a walk respect each other’s leadership as all of
in the park but we have strived to ensure us are serving the interests of locals who
my government also thought outside the box
each part of this county is represented in overwhelmingly voted for us in the last
and decided to pioneer another innovative
approach by awarding 18 per cent of the
employment opportunities. general election.
On the economic growth, our focus I call on fellow leaders to join the
tenders to the youth, while 10% went to
both as the executive and legislature has County Government leadership in matters
the women contractors to ensure that all
members of the community enjoy the fruits
been on reducing poverty and making the of development as political theatrics will
county’s economy more competitive. not benefit the community.
of devolution. If you come to Kisii County, you
Our pledge was to make all county Political interference is likely going
will see women carrying out this business
hitherto reserved to men contractors.
roads motorable all year round. This to derail the development agenda that
we intend to achieve. This will also help should be achieved through devolution.
My government will continue to initiate
our farmers deliver their produce to the Let us work together in supporting
innovative approaches in service delivery in
other areas including agriculture, where we
markets to sell their produce and improve devolution.
their lives.

Huge steps realized towards understanding and implementing our mandates

Message from the Speaker, Kisii
County Assembly, Hon Kerosi Ondieki.
The county assembly of Kisii comprises 71 MCAs (45 elected
and 26 nominated). Under my leadership, I work closely with an
able and experienced House leadership consisting of Hon. Evans
Mokoro, the Deputy Speaker, Hon. Protus Moindi, the Leader of
Majority, Hon. Daniel Apepo, the Leader of Minority, Hon. Joash
Orora, the Majority Chief Whip, Hon. Francis Aburi, the Minority
Chief Whip and various committee chairpersons. I would also
like to appreciate the County Sssembly Service Board and our
hardworking staff under the able leadership of Daniel Mbaka
Omwoyo, the Acting Clerk.
A year ago, we were chosen as representatives of the people
of Kisii County. As we look back and reflect, we
have gone through many stages. However, with
resilience and determination,we have pressed
on to serve our people. When we started, some
of us were either not aware or were blind to the
challenges ahead of us but we took each step boldly
and with various trainings and educational trips,
we have made huge steps towards understanding
and implementing our mandates.
Over the last one year, with some teething
problems, we have discussed a number of
legislations including Ward Development Fund
Bill, Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital Bill and
Bursaries Fund Bill. At the moment we are in the
process of drafting various Bills to ensure efficient
service delivery in the county.
We have also made infrastructural development
in terms of ICT in the assembly. The assembly is
now digitalized. Now, House proceedings are also
live in Hope Channel. Hongera to our partners.
We have also been involved in solving disputes
among our people. Among our many interventions
include Keroka border dispute.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank
the MCAs, the staff of the county assembly and
the people of Kisii for their cooperation and affirm
that we shall work together for the benefit of the
county and the country at large
Hon Kerosi Ondieki,
Speaker
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014
THE COUNCIL OF GOVERNORS
Celebrating one year of County Governments in Kenya
Kisii County
Achievements realized by the Departments
Health Services
T
he Kisii County government has prioritized the health sec-
tor which has for long faced challenges including inadequate
financing; dilapidated physical facilities; unreliable supply of
drugs; absence of adequate medical equipment; and shortage of
qualified medical staff. We recently launched an Emergency ambu-
lance service under a Public, Private Partnership (PPP) and intend
to buy nine more ambulances to cater for the sub counties. Jointly
with the Kenya Commercial Bank, the county has set up a Renal
Unit at the Kisii Level Five Hospital. Chase Bank has renovated and
equipped the orthopaedic ward at the facility, while Care Kenya
provided orthopaedic diagnostic equipment. Kisii Level 5 Hospital
has now started offering dialysis at subsidized rates. Last month,
we held the first HIV prevention forum in Kisii bringing together
stakeholders to dialogue on how to combat the stigma that hin-
ders disclosure. Drugs worth Shs 54 million distributed to health
facilities in all sub counties. We are also in the final stages of turn-
ing Kisii Level Five Hospital into a teaching and referral facility..
Roads, Public Works and Transport
We have purchased road construction equipment and have em-
barked on constructing over 255 km of compacted murram roads
within all the 45 wards in Kisii County. Youth and women have
been given special consideration in awarding tenders for these
projects.
The second phase of our road improvement program will see us
build a tarmac road in each ward.
Other projects include;
• Construction of 90 ECD classrooms (2 classrooms per ward)
• Construction of county markets at Marani and Itibo
• Construction of toilets at Suneka, Nyamache, Masimba, Nya-
marambe, Keumbu, Ogembo, Nyakoe, Marani, Kenyenya and
Daraja Mbili
• Construction of town halls at Mosocho, Marani and Keny-
enya
• Construction of wards offices in each ward
• Construction of Daraja Mbili Market Sheds
• Renovation of Gusii Stadium complete with new toilets, a
new stand, a perimeter wall, a separate warm up field, flood-
lights.
Trade and Industry
• We have already disbursed Sh.1.5 million through the Joint
Loans Board. We are constructing a Sh300 million avocado
processing plant at the Kenya Industrial Estates in Kisii Town
to be commissioned in May this year. We are also in the final
stages of discussions with other investors who have shown
interest in buying our bananas and are also willing to partner
with us in establishing a banana packaging plant.
• We also have held talks with an investor who will put up a fac-
tory in South Mogirango to process the unique stone..
Lands, Housing, Physical Planning and Urban Development
• Identified routes, drop off and pickup points for boda boda
operators to ease traffic flow within Kisii Town’s CBD.
• Partnered with the Kenya Institute of Highways and Building
Technology (KIHBT) in designing and carrying out a training
programme focusing on safe riding and the traffic law.
• Organized parking in Kisii Town whereby we have marked
258 parking slots in Kisii Town.
• Launched an Integrated Cleaning Programme for Kisii Town
with registered youth groups given opportunity to carry out
clean-ups in a sustainable livelihoods programme..
• We are in the process of purchasing two garbage compac-
tors, 20 solid waste skips, two tractors and four lorries for
proper waste management in the town.
• We have been working with hawkers in Kisii Town to reorgan-
ize the hawking activities.
• The County Government has finalized discussions for pur-
chase of a waste disposal site.
• Beaconing of public land in the County and Preparation of
Inventory of Government houses
• Completion of Suneka, Tabaka and Nyamarambe Towns
halls.
•
•
Construction of town halls at Marani, Kenyenya and Moso-
cho.
County Integrated Street lighting Program featuring installa-
tion of street lights in all sub county headquarters.
Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperative Develop-
ment
• Shs6 million has been spent to procure demonstration green
houses, Sh.3m on hydroponics and aquaponics (new technol-
Kisii County Governor James Ongwae flags off graders
and rollers bought by his government to carry out road
construction projects in the County.
One of the four dialysis machines at Kisii Level Five
Hospital’s renal unit which were acquired in a public,
private partnership with Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB).
ECM in charge of agriculture Vincent Sagwe (right)
presents tissue culture banana suckers to Mary Nyabonyi
of Kionguko Women Group in South Mogirango Sub
County.
Governor James Ongwae (right) with Old Land Trading
Company CEO Levent Alkan (left) as they view some
of the plant equipment for the Sh 150 million avocado
processing factory being built in Kisii Town. The factory
starts operations in May this year
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ogy integrating fish farming with green house farming)
• Shs 10 million has been spent to procure farm inputs which
will be distributed to needy farmers this month.
• We are distributing 50,000 tissue culture banana suckers to
farmers in the whole county to boost food security.
• Shs 1.4m has been spent to procure soil sampling kits and
each ward will get one kit.
• KShs 300m integrated fruits and vegetable processing fac-
tory to be set up.
• A Sh3m kitty set aside for a poultry project targeting stu-
dents, youth and women groups.
• Sh10m has been set aside to construct 350 fish ponds
throughout the county. Sh.4 million has also been set aside
for establishment of aqua shops to support the fishing indus-
try.
• Sh.15 million will be spent to purchase fingerlings and feed to
support the 350 fish ponds.
• Sh.9.5million to modernize the fish selling market in Kisii
Town.
• A small grant has been extended by USAID to help improve
capacity and governance in the cooperatives sector.
Education, Labour and Manpower Development
• Sh.67 million for the construction of Early Childhood Educa-
tion (ECD) centres in each of the 45 wards in the county.
• We are in the process of recruiting 800 ECD teachers to work
in these centres.
• ECD learning materials to be distributed to at least four cen-
tres per ward.
• Sh.22.5 million to be spent in the construction and equipping
of workshops in selected youth polytechnics in the county,
with each ward getting Sh.1.5 million.
• Bursary fund to be set up to assist needy students.
Culture and Social services
• Completed construction of Kisii Cultural Centre
• Completed construction of a cultural library in Kisii Town
• Constructed the Omogusii homestead.
• Sub-county cultural festivals successfully carried out
• promoting Gusii Culture by supporting the council of elders.
• Governor’s football tournament kicked off in November start-
ing from the ward levels.
• Major upgrade of the Gusii stadium underway.
Energy, Water, Environment and Natural Resources
• The German Development Bank (KFW) has offered to invest
Sh. 1.8 billion to modernize the water supply and sanitation
system for Kisii Town and its environs.
• The sewerage system in town will be upgraded and the treat-
ment plant at Suneka will be fine-tuned to treat effluent from
the works and eliminate the current odour and pollution of
River Riana.
• A Dutch donor firm, ORIO, has agreed to construct a dam and
a water treatment plant at Bonyunyu.
• The African Development Bank (ADB) is currently rehabilitat-
ing the Kegati Water Supply plant to boost its capacity from
the current 600,000 litres to 6 million litres of water daily.
Finance and Economic Planning
• County has signed a contract with Diamond Trust Bank to
electronically collect revenue from parking fees, bus park and
boda boda operators.
Administration
• We have put in place an institutional framework which in-
cludes a County Executive Committee (CEC), directors, chief
officers, sub county and ward administrators as well as tech-
nical staff in all departments.
• In the recruitment, candidates were picked from each of the
wards and thus giving employment opportunities to many
graduates who had stayed for years without getting jobs in
the public service.
50,000
The number of tissue culture banana
suckers distributed to farmers in the
whole county to boost food security
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April 5, 2014

West Africa gears up to fight Ebola, killer fevers BRIEFLY

BAMAKO, Friday
Several west African countries
geared up on Friday to tackle killer
haemorraghic fevers including Ebola,
which has claimed more than 80 lives
in Guinea and just seen suspect cases
emerge in Mali, after Liberia and Si-
erra Leone.
The health minister in Mali, one
of Guinea’s several neighbours, late
Thursday announced three suspect
cases of Ebola and said the victims
had been placed in isolation, while test
samples were sent to the US Center
for Disease Control.
On Friday morning, Health minister
Ousmane Kone told AFP that the pa-
tients “are doing better. For example,
we haven’t observed ... bleeding.”
External and internal bleeding are
among the symptoms of Ebola, which
kills up to 90 per cent of patients in
its most virulent strain.
Oumar Sangare of the national
health directorate said that all three
patients were Malian citizens who
“worked in a border zone between
Mali and Guinea”.
“They were separately spotted when
they arrived by road on Malian soil
in (the capital) Bamako or at the en-
trance” to the city, he said.
Mali’s authorities have warned
people against “unnecessary travel
to epidemic zones.”
The nation worst hit by the latest
outbreak is Guinea, where haemor-
rhagic fever has killed 86 people out
of 137 cases registered since January,
according to the latest State toll.
The World Health Organisation
said Friday that it is monitoring “just
under 400” cases in the country.
Other haemorrhagic fevers, includ-
ing Marburg, have similar symptoms
to Ebola, including muscle pain, vom-
iting and diarrhoea, as well as heavy
bleeding and organ failure in severe
cases, causing death.
Forty-five of Guinea’s cases have
been confirmed as Ebola, but “we
have noted recoveries, confirmed by
medical tests, in two patients affected
in Conakry,” the government reported
late on Thursday. (AFP)
BENGHAZI
Rebels hail progress in
reopening oil port talks
Rebels demanding autonomy
for eastern Libya on Thursday
said they had made progress in
talks with the government on re-
opening key oil ports they closed
to exports last July. A rebel
spokesman said a first port might
reopen as early as next week,
raising hopes of an end to the
nine-month blockade which has
slashed exports from 1.5 million
barrels a day to 250,000.(AFP)

UNREST | Ban Ki-moon condems quit notice by country

WINDHOEK

C.Africa ‘regrets’ Chad

Culture clash over
tribal wife swapping
Wife swapping among Na-

bid to withdraw troops

mibia’s nomadic tribes has been
practised for generations but
a legislator’s call to enshrine it
in law has stirred debate about
women’s rights and tradition in
modern society. The practice is
more of a gentlemen’s agreement
Chad said PARIS, Friday tinues to have ties of friendship and
fraternity with the Central African
where friends can have sex with
each others wives. The wives

T
it is pulling he Central African Repub-
out of the lic “regrets” a decision by
Chad to withdraw from the
peace- peacekeeping force trying to quell
sectarian violence in the country,
keeping Foreign Minister Toussaint Kongo-
force Doudou said Friday.
“We learnt with a lot of regret of
because of the announcement... of the with-
drawal of Chadian troops from the
a malicious MISCA (African-led force) in the
campaign Central African Republic,” he said
in a statement sent to AFP by the
against its CAR embassy in Paris, a day after
soldiers Chad announced the withdrawal
after being accused of siding with a
mainly Muslim movement that held
power for most of last year.
Chad is one of the largest con-
tributors to the 6,000-strong MISCA
force, with about 850 troops on the
ground.
But its soldiers have been accused
of siding with the mainly Muslim
Seleka movement — which seized
power in March 2013 and held it
until January this year — and of
showing passivity toward abuses
some of them carried out against
the population.
It came under the spotlight last
weekend when at least 24 people
were killed and another 100 seriously
wounded by Chadian soldiers sent
to repatriate their compatriots from
the mainly Christian CAR, according
to officials there.
The Chadian government said it
was pulling out from the peacekeep-
ing force because of “a wanton and
malicious campaign” against its
troops, one it said aimed to make
them “bear the responsibility” for
all the country’s troubles.
Kongo-Doudou said Chad was a
“brother country that had and con-
Republic, which strongly supported
us and suffered a heavy toll in this
process.”
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon
on Friday strongly condemned the
drawn-out conflict in the Central
African Republic that has left thou-
sands of people killed and over a
million others displaced.
“I am deeply troubled by the ap-
palling atrocities against the civilians
there,” the UN secretary general told
reporters during a visit to Czech
capital Prague.
He added that he hoped the Euro-
pean Union, the African Union and
the United Nations would “work
together to establish peace and sta-
bility” in the gold- and diamond-rich
country with a population of 4.6 mil-
lion people.
About a quarter of its residents
have been displaced and hundreds
of thousands of others face starva-
tion because of the conflict between
the Christian majority and minority
Muslims, according to UN agencies
and aid charities.
We learnt with a lot of
regret the announcement
of the withdrawal of
Chadian troops from
Misca (African-led force)
in the C.African republic”
CAR Foreign minister
Toussaint Kongo-Doudou
have little say in the matter, ac-
cording to those who denounce
the custom as both abusive and
risky in a country with high HIV/
Aids cases. (AFP)
KANO
Officials accuse army
of mass killing
An official in Nigeria’s central
Nasarawa state and a local leader
on Friday accused the military
of killing scores of people in a
disarmament operation, but de-
fence officials denied the charge.
The alleged incident took place
on Thursday in the Keana local
government area, where troops
were on patrol to enforce a peace
deal agreed on this week between
rival ethnic groups. Iliyasu Ali
Yakubu, the spokesman for Na-
sarawa Governor Umaru Tanko
Al-Makura, told AFP that the
troops “killed scores” of Fulani
tribesmen, a mainly Muslim eth-
nic group primarily made up of
cattle-herders. (AFP)
WASHINGTON
Sanctions cleared for
PHOTO | AFP
S.Sudan rights abusers
A car fully loaded with personal belongings arrives in Bangui’s President Barack Obama
PK-9 neighbourhood on April 4. Chad announced on April 3 cleared the way on Thursday for
US sanctions against anyone on
that it was withdrawing from the African peacekeeping force in
either side of South Sudan’s civil
the violence-torn Central African Republic after being accused war who targets UN peacekeep-
of siding with a mainly Muslim movement that held power for
ers, threatens peace moves or
most of last year.
abuses human rights. The presi-
dent issued an executive order
allowing the use of property and
asset seizures and immigration

Ex-president of Guinea-Bissau, Kumba Yala, dies at 61

BISSAU, Friday
Kumba Yala (left), the
colourful figure who held
power in the west African
nation of Guinea-Bissau
from 2000 to 2003 before
the army ousted him, died
on Friday aged 61, his fam-
ily said.
The former president
“had a malaise on Thursday
night” and died early morn-
ing on Friday, his personal
security chief Alfredo Malu,
told AFP by telephone.
The government released
a brief statement reporting
that Yala had died of a heart
attack and announcing a
“special session of cabi-
net” at 9am.
“He died at 2am this
morning. We took his body
to the Bra military hospital”
in Bissau, a weeping woman
member of the family said,
asking not to be named.
Malu said that Yala’s
sudden illness prevented
him from meeting with
candidates in his Party
for Social Renewal who
are campaigning ahead of
presidential and parliamen-
tary polls on April 13.
Born on March 15, 1953
to a family of peasant farm-
ers in Pkon, a village near
the northwestern town of
Bula, Yala belonged to the
Balanta ethnic group, the
largest in the country.
(AFP)
and visa bans against govern-
ment or rebel officials who are
judged at a later date to have
transgressed. The move comes
several weeks after the US and
the EU warned of sanctions if
President Salva Kiir and rebel
leader Riek Machar did not make
progress in peace talks and ad-
here to a ceasefire deal. White
House spokesman Jay Carney
said in a statement that fighting
between the two sides threatened
to tear their young nation apart.
(AFP)
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014 International News 29

HUNT FOR DEVICE | Mission to find missing plane’s flight data recorder LETTER FROM AMERICA | Randall Smith

After Toyota payout,

MH370 ‘black box’ ship what next for GM
due in ocean search zone over faulty ignition
My dad bought a General
Motors car about three
Nearly a month after months ago, and it was an
elixir for the entire family.
jet vanished, authorities None of us had ever owned
a GM car, because the com-
have no idea how or pany had a poor reputation
why it crashed for workmanship and cus-
tomer care.
Dad’s new car is fantastic,
PERTH, Friday packed with the latest safety
equipment and high tech giz-
But the ignition recall
delay has resulted in a na-
tional outcry.
Some consumers are
calling for a criminal inves-
tigation and the prosecution
of any GM executive found
involved in any wrongdoing.
Democratic senators, who
supported the bailout, have
been particularly harsh.
Senator Claire McCaskill

A
ustralian navy vessel Ocean
Shield, which is fitted with
a US-supplied “black box”
detector, was Friday expected in the
area being scoured for the wreck-
age of Flight MH370 as 14 planes
continued the arduous search.
Nearly a month after the Malay-
sia Airlines jet carrying 239 people
vanished, authorities still have no
idea how or why it crashed and
warn that unless the black box
is found, the mystery may never
be solved.
But finding the flight data
recorder using the towed pinger
locator on Ocean Shield appears
increasingly remote with officials
warning that without a confirmed
crash site, hopes of recovering the
device are slim in the vast and
unpredictable southern Indian
Ocean.
Time is also ticking with the bat-
tery-powered signal from the black
box expected to expire within days.
Ocean Shield left Perth on Monday
evening for the three-day voyage to
the search zone.
The British navy’s hydrographic
ship HMS Echo is already in the
area and spent Thursday scouring
for sonic transmissions from the
flight data recorder.
“One alert was experienced
but discounted,” the Perth-based
Joint Agency Coordination Centre
(JACC) said.
“False alerts may be experienced
from biological sources such as
whales or interference from ship-
ping noise.”
Weeks of looking for wreckage of
the plane that veered off course en
route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
on March 8 have proved fruitless
despite eight nations now involved
in the increasingly desperate hunt
for clues.
They drew another blank on
Thursday with 10 military planes,
four civil jets and nine ships due to
resume the search on Friday, zig
zagging across a huge area of about
217,000 square kilometres, 1,700
kilometres northwest of Perth.
“The weather forecast for today’s
False alerts may be
experienced from
biological sources such as
whales or interference from
shipping noise”
Perth-based Joint Agency
Coordination Centre
search is fair, with visibility approxi-
mately 10 kilometres and a cloud
base between 1,000 and 2,000 feet,”
JACC said.
If floating MH370 debris is
eventually found, authorities plan
to analyse recent weather patterns
and ocean currents to determine
where the plane went down.
Malaysia believes the flight was
deliberately diverted by someone
on board and that satellite data
indicates it crashed in the Indian
Ocean.
Malaysia’s disjointed response to
the crisis has been widely criticised,
particularly by distraught relatives
of the 153 Chinese people on the
plane, and Australia has assumed
increasing responsibility in the quest
to find answers to one of aviation’s
greatest mysteries.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott on
Thursday said there were no cur-
rent plans to scale back the search
but cautioned that a reassessment
would have to be made eventually.
(AFP)
mos. It drives smoothly and
has more creature comforts
than many European models
I’ve driven in recent years.
But this week changed all
of those positive images. Top
executives of General Motors
were called before Congress
to explain why it took years
to fix a faulty ignition switch
that may have cost more than
a dozen lives and affected one
millions cars.
This was a personal slap
in the face.
Like most Americans, I
Crew members had strongly favoured sav-
aboard a Royal ing GM during the 2007
Australian Air recession when the company
Force AP-3C needed a government bailout.
Orion aircraft Others, most notably Repub-
observe naviga- lican presidential candidate
tion maps as they Mitt Romney, argued that
search for miss- America should have let the
ing Malaysian firm die.
Airlines flight Pumped billions
MH370 over the Under President Obama,
southern Indian the American government
Ocean on March pumped $49.5 billion into
27. On Friday , the vehicle manufacturer and
Australian Navy saved an estimated 1.2 million
vessel Ocean jobs. Top management was
Shield fitted with forced out, and a new line of
a “blackbox” environmental friendly cars
was born.
detector was
expected to GM hired its first female
continue with the CEO, paid back about $39
billion of its loan to Ameri-
arduous search. can taxpayers and handed a
PHOTO | AFP
$7,500 profit sharing bonus
to hourly employees in 2013.
A safety czar was appointed,
and life was good.
said that General Motors has
a culture of “cover-up.”
How will this play out?
Toyota agreed to a $1.2 bil-
lion penalty in March to settle
a criminal probe over accel-
erator issues. The company
was accused of purposely
misleading consumers and is
essentially on probation for
three years, say regulators.
Accelerator problem
The issue came to light
when an off duty officer and
his family were killed when
the accelerator on their Lexus
went out of control, and their
final words were recorded as
they called police for help.
The Toyota payment was
the largest in American his-
tory, and means that the firm
must now report safety issues
within five days.
When GM got its loan,
it also received relief from
litigation. But the political
winds have shifted, and it’s
likely that the company will
travel the same journey as
Toyota.
Does this mean that my
dad will trade in his car? Not
likely. Like most consumers,
he’ll continue to back GM.
But he’ll expect justice to
be done on the ignition
problem.
Spurred by tragedy, the
car business has changed in
America – for the better.
rsmith4825@gmailcom

Russian gas Too soon to draw conclusions

price rise pushes
Ukraine to coal
KIEV, Friday
Ukraine’s Western-backed lead-
ers scrambled on Friday to find
new sources of energy after Russia
raised its gas price by 80 per cent
in response to the overthrow of
Kiev’s pro-Kremlin regime.
The crisis-hit nation saw the
amount it must pay for 1,000
cubic metres of blue fuel soar to
$485.50 from $268.50 after Rus-
sia imposed two price increases in
three days that reflected its deep
displeasure with the ex-Soviet na-
tion’s new westward course.
Energy minister Yuriy Pro-
dan called Russia’s new price
“political” and vowed to explore
solutions that include reliance on
coal. (AFP)
in Fort Hood shooting: Hagel
HONOLULU, Thursday
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on
Thursday acknowledged security gaps
after a deadly shooting at a military base
in Texas but appealed for patience to allow
investigators to “do their work.”
Hagel said it was too soon to draw
any conclusions as a litany of questions
remained unanswered 24 hours after a
soldier killed three people at Fort Hood
before turning the gun on himself.
“Let the investigators do their work. We
don’t know all the facts,” Hagel told a news
conference in Honolulu, where he hosted a
meeting of ASEAN defence ministers.
“What motivated this person to do this?
Where was the gap? Why did we have a gap?
Why did it happen?” Posed Hagel.
“We are going to find out.”
The Pentagon chief said the department
had recently introduced new measures to
tighten security after a shooting spree at
the Washington Navy Yard in September
that claimed 12 lives. But he said: “Obvi-
ously we have a gap.”
He vowed “to do everything possible
to implement the kinds reforms that fill
those gaps and assure the security of the
men and women who work for our armed
forces and assure their families.”
Suspected pattern
Hagel declined to be drawn on whether
the incidents reflected a systemic problem
at military bases or a wider pattern of gun
violence across American society.
He said while the criminal probe contin-
ues, “we will all stay focused on the victims
and their families and the Fort Hood com-
munity, who yet again are experiencing a
terrible tragedy and much grief.” (AFP)
PUBLIC AUCTION
DULY INSTRUCTED BY THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA, WE
SHALL SELL THE UNDER MENTIONED PROPERTY BY PUBLIC
AUCTION.
ON FRIDAY 9TH MAY 2014 AT 11.00A.M. AT OUR
OFFICES PANGANI AUCTION CENTRE
HC MISC APPL. NO. 409 OF 2004 MUCHUI & CO. ADVOCATES
–VS- MBOI KAMITI FARMERS CO. LIMITED.
All that piece of land known as Nginda Samar Block 2/47 measuring
3.640 Hectares i.e 8.9944 Acres, situated within Kaharati area of
Nginda location in Murang’a County, in what was originally part of
Mbo-I-Kamiti Ranching Scheme.
CONDITIONS OF SALE
1. All interested bidders are requested to view the property
and verify all the details of the property as the same is not
warranted by the auctioneers or the Principal.
2. Interested persons MUST pay a refundable deposit of
Kshs.500,000/- by way of bankers cheque in the names of
Galaxy Auctioneers to be allowed to be allowed to bid.
3. A deposit of 25% to be paid at the fall of the hammer by RTGS
and the balance within 30 days.
ALL ARE WELCOME
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President Kenyatta to chair Huduma
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an effort to help Kenya woo investors
BY JOHN NJIRU
@njiru_john
jnjiru@ke.nationmedia.com
P
resident Kenyatta will
personally chair a team
put in place to streamline
the delivery of public services
in a bid to improve Kenya’s at-
tractiveness to investors.
The team that will steer the
Huduma Kenya service delivery
programme also comprises of
the Attorney-General, six
cabinet secretaries and will be
responsible for developing the
vision and overall policy for
the transformation of public
service delivery.
The technical A notice published in the
Kenya Gazette yesterday said
committee shall the governance structure
approve the consist of the service delivery
summit to be chaired by the
establishment president, a technical com-
of all Huduma mittee comprising of various
principal secretaries and a
Kenya service secretariat.
delivery channels The service delivery summit
including online will include Attorney-General
Githu Muigai, cabinet secretary
and mobile for Interior and Coordination
portals” of National Government, Mr
Joseph Ole Lenku, Mr Fred
Kenya Gazette
Matiang’i for Information and
Communication, Mr Henry
Rotich for National Treasury,
Ms Charity Ngilu for Lands,
Mr Adan Mohammed for
Industrialisation, Professor
Jacob Kaimenyi for Educa-
tion, Mr Kazungu Kambi for
Labour and Mr James Macharia
for Health.
The technical committee,
comprising of principal sec-
retaries to these ministries
and the solicitor-general, will
be charged with coordination
of the implementation of poli-
cies and decisions made by the
summit.
It will report to the summit
on the progress of the pro-
gramme quarterly.
Implementation
“The technical committee
shall be responsible for the co-
ordination and implementation
of the Huduma Kenya delivery
programme including the sourc-
ing and development of relevant
management information sys-
tems and ICT infrastructure,”
the notice read.
Huduma Kenya programme
was launched in August last
year to give citizens access
to government services under
one roof.
In November, the President
launched the first Huduma
centre at Telesposta towers
(GPO) promising that others
would be opened within and
outside Nairobi.
Through the centres, Ken-
yans can access such services
as business name registration,
ID application, student loan ap-
plication, registration with the
National Social Security Fund
THE TEAM
Public service
delivery summit
President Kenyatta - chair.
Cabinet secretaries involved:
* Interior and Coordination of
National Government.
* Information, Communication
and Technology.
* The National Treasury.
* Lands.
* Industrialisation.
* Education.
* Labour.
* Health.
The Attonney-General.
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Brendan Eich came into office just last
month but has faced heavy criticism for his
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Workers at Nandi
Tea Estate Limited in
Nandi Hills process
tea deliveries at the
factory yesterday.
The company’s
general manager, Mr
Abdi Hussein Noor,
has said there is a tea
glut in the interna-
tional market adding
that Kenyan farmers
are likely to suffer
an estimated Sh2.4
billion loss in revenue
as a result.
JARED NYATAYA | NATION
and National Hospital Insur-
ance Fund besides reporting
cases of corruption.
Part of the brief of the techni-
cal committee is re-engineering
and automation of service de-
livery systems.
“The technical committee
shall approve the establishment
of all Huduma Kenya service
delivery channels including
online and mobile portals,
management information sys-
tems and ICT infrastructure,”
the President (left) said in the
notice.
He also directed that the
technical committee promote
private sector participation,
especially youth enterprises in
the provision of public services
through digital villages and call
centres.
Investment destination
Services will be provided
online through the Huduma
Web Portal, on mobile phones
through the Huduma Mobile
Platform, the Huduma Call
Centre and personal visits to
Huduma centres.
By driving the initiative him-
self, Mr Kenyatta is sending a
strong message for civil serv-
ants to step up service delivery.
It is envisaged that improved
service delivery from the gov-
ernment agencies will increase
ease of starting and running a
business in the country thereby
making Kenya a preferred in-
vestment destination.
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014
Jubilee to
target long
distance
travellers in
new cover
BY NATION CORRESPONDENT
Jubilee Insurance has launched
a 24-hour medical cover product
targeted at long distance travellers
within East Africa.
Known as Jubilee Msafiri, the
cover is included in the travel
ticket at no extra cost and is valid
during the period of one’s journey
from departure to arrival.
At the moment, the firm has
partnered with Easy Coach to dis-
tribute the product to both frequent
travellers and holidaymakers. The
insurer plans to enter into partner-
ships with more bus companies to
expand the product’s reach.
Speaking during signing of the
agreement at Easy Coach offices,
Jubilee’s senior regional executive
Mike Durek said the firm was work-
ing towards increasing its micro
insurance business in the region.
“Our main aim is to transform
lives through the micro-insurance
schemes,” said Mr Durek.
25,000
Amount of insurance in shil-
lings that a long distance
traveller will get for all inpa-
tient and outpatient bills in
case of an accident.
Jubilee Msafiri medical cover
will cater for all inpatient and
outpatient medical bills up to
Sh25,000 in the event of injuries
while on journey.
The insurer has also teamed up
with Kenya Red Cross Society E-
Plus team who will provide first
aid and evacuate passengers to
the nearest accredited hospitals
in case of an accident. Evacu-
ation will be provided for free
in addition to the inpatient and
outpatient benefits.
Anchor risks
“This is a welcome relief to
our passengers and they can now
rest assured that their travel is
fully taken care of from departure
to arrival,” said Easy Coach CEO
Azym Dossa.
Micro-insurance landscape
survey (2010) in Kenya identi-
fied health and life insurance
as the anchor risks upon which
micro-insurance can be further
developed.
“We are working on identify-
ing more distribution channels for
insurance solutions to ensure that
we reach as many Kenyans as pos-
sible”, said Jubilee Insurance chief
executive, Mr Patrick Tumbo.
The company recently launched
Tumaini ya Jamii, a micro insur-
ance life product for low income
earners.
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PLEA | Private industry in the bloc asks for support to accelerate integration drive
Shelter
Afrique signs
Implement plans to revamp Sh1.7bn deal to
build houses
trade in EAC, say investors BY NATION CORRESPONDENT

Housing financier, Shelter Afri-

que, has received Sh1.7 billion loan

‘‘
Business BY YVONNE KAWIRA for EAC member states. to support the development of low
@YvonneKawira According to Mr Shah, open- cost houses in the region.
community ymurori@ke.nationmedia.com ing up of the borders will allow The company signed the $20
urges In Arusha, Tanzania free movement of goods and million deal with the African De-
But services. He also noted that velopment Bank (AfDB), one of its

T
partner he private sector is run-
implement-
agribusiness has a big poten- main shareholders, to extend loans
ning out of patience due tial of creating jobs as well as to small and medium enterprises
states to to delays in implementa- ation has been boosting of the economy. dealing in real estate in Africa.
roll out tion of key recommendations
meant to revamp business in stalled by As a bloc, Mr Shah noted,
EAC has now become an at-
“We continue to find ways to
make housing a little more acces-
proposals the region. negotiations. tractive destination for foreign sible, a little more affordable… We
meant Speaking during the annual
general meeting of the East Af-
Negotiations investors.
“Our GDP is about Sh7.6 tril-
are finding the answers and with
strong partnerships with organisa-
to ease rican Business Council (EABC), for how long? lion ($90 billion), but we need tions like AfDB,” Shelter Afrique

transa-
the current chairman, Mr Vimal
Shah, urged the East African
ctions and Community (EAC) secretariat
and member states to enforce
If we face to go beyond the $100 billion managing director Alassane Ba
mark to ensure sustainable said during the signing of the
challenges,
we’ll face them
growth compared to other re-
gional blocs,” he noted adding
deal yesterday.

integration the recommendations.

“A lot of studies have been
in the bloc done; we know what needs to
be done. What is remaining
is implementation,” said Mr
Shah.
According to the chairman,
the services sector is the fastest
growing industry in the region
and needs to be given a shot in
the arm by partner states to
accelerate integration.
“But implementation has
been stalled by negotiations.
as a region, not
individually.”
Mr Vimal Shah
Current chairman of the East African Busi-
ness Council, Mr Vimal Shah.
Negotiations for how long? If advocate for a conducive busi-
we face challenges, we will face ness environment in the bloc
them as a region not individu- by harmonising domestic taxes,
ally,” he added. realise implementation of the
Mr Shah became the chair- EAC agreement on avoidance
man of EABC last year and set of double taxation by all partner
his goals. Among them is to states as well as elimination of
non-tarrif barriers.
“Others include introduction
that there is need to market
EAC as one investment des-
tination. Currently, countries
are marketing themselves
individually.
Speaking at the same forum,
the deputy secretary-general in
charge of political federation in
the EAC, Mr Charles Njoroge,
said that implementation of
the single customs territory
will enable free movement of
goods.
“As we start the implemen-
tation of the monetary union
which has a 10-year road map,
Demand
The credit now gives a boost
to Shelter Afrique which seeks
to bridge a financing gap in the
low cost housing segment. The
demand for affordable housing
in Africa is on the rise driven
by a growing middle class and
increased urbanisation.
“AfDB would like to call on the
government, the private sector
and all interested parties to rise
up to the occasion and address
housing as it is a key requirement
for development,” the bank’s re-
gional director, Mr Gabriel Negatu,

DOING BUSINESS IN EAC
Vimal Shah’s agenda
Advocate for a conducive business environ-
ment in the bloc by harmonising domestic taxes.
Realise implementation of EAC agreement on
avoidance of double taxation by all member states.
Steer a campaign to help eliminate non-tarrif
barriers in the region.
7.6 trillion
Gross Domestic Product in shil-
lings of the East African Com-
munity. East African Business
Council chairman Vimal Shah
says the bloc needs to increase
it to Sh8.67 trillion.
of an EAC single tourist visa,
the harmonisation of work
permit and domestication of
the EAC air space,” said Mr
Shah.
However, not all the ob-
jectives have been realised.
Recently it urged Kenya to
eliminate the railway develop-
ment levy imposed on imports.
The charge was eventually lifted
we still encourage EAC member
states to fast track the imple-
mentation of both customs
union and common union,”
said Mr Njoroge.
According to him, it will be-
come very difficult to attain a
functional monetary union un-
less the bloc fully implements
customs union and common
market commitments.
said.
Shelter Afrique is a Pan-African
development finance institution
that promotes the development of
the real estate industry in Africa. It
has an active portfolio of projects
in over 30 African countries of-
fering a wide range of financial
products and advisory services
to support the efficient delivery
of affordable housing.

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STORM | Chief executive has also stepped down from the board of the Mozilla Foundation
Nigeria may be
Africa’s biggest
Mozilla boss resigns over gay row economy
LAGOS, Friday
Brendan Eich came into Mozilla to act. We didn’t move fast gay marriage law Proposition 8. But the most damaging act of Nigeria could leap-frog South
enough to engage with people once Although it was initially passed, protest came via dating website Africa to become Africa’s biggest
office just last month the controversy started. We’re sorry. it was later overturned by the US OkCupid. economy this weekend, when the
but has been heavily We must do better.”
Mr Eich has also stepped down
Supreme Court last year.
When the announcement of Mr
Users who went to the site using
Mozilla’s Firefox browser were greeted
results of a new way of calculating
national output are announced.
criticised for his views from the board of the Mozilla Foun- Eich’s appointment was made on with a message that read: “Hello The National Bureau of Statistics
dation, the non-profit organisation March 24, angry users voiced their there, Mozilla Firefox user. Pardon said it will unveil the new figures
on same-sex marriage which owns the for-profit Mozilla opinions on social media. Several this interruption of your OkCupid on Sunday, with expectations that
Corporation. high-profile Mozilla employees also experience. the recalculation will catapult the

T
he chief executive of Mozilla weighed in. Three board members re- nation into top spot.
— the company best known Angry users signed in the weekend following Mr Apologies United Nations statisticians
for its Firefox browser — has Mr Eich, who co-founded Mozilla Eich’s appointment — but Mozilla said “Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, recommend that countries re-
stepped down. and was also the creator of the Java- the events were not linked. is an opponent of equal rights for gay base their gross domestic product
Brendan Eich was appointed just Script scripting language, made a The announcement was made by couples. We would therefore prefer calculations every five years to
last month but came in for heavy $1,000 (about Sh86,700) donation Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s executive that our users not use Mozilla software reflect changes in production and
criticism for his views on same-sex in 2008 in support of Californian anti- chairwoman. to access OkCupid.” consumption, but Nigeria has not

‘‘
marriage. Mozilla initially defended Mr recalculated GDP since 1990.

March 24
Mozilla’s executive chairwoman Eich’s appointment, but Ms Baker’s The new figures will take into
Mitchell Baker announced the deci- blog post announcing the chief ex- account new and fast-developing
sion in a blog post. ecutive’s departure made apologies sectors and industries such as tel-
“Mozilla prides itself on being for doing so. ecoms and the local film industry,
held to a different standard and, this Date last month that We didn’t act like you would “We failed to listen, to engage, and Nollywood.
past week, we didn’t live up to it,” Brendan Eich was appointed expect Mozilla to act... We’re to be guided by our community,” she Nigeria, Africa’s leading oil
she wrote. Mozilla chief executive. Mr wrote. producer and exporter, has seen
“We know why people are hurt and Eich co-founded Mozilla, sorry. We must do better.” She added that any potential re- high rates of growth in recent
angry, and they are right: it’s because the firm that runs Internet Mozilla executive chairwoman placement for Mr Eich was still being years, making it an increasingly
we haven’t stayed true to ourselves. browser Firefox. discussed, and that more details would attractive investment destination
“We didn’t act like you’d expect be announced next week. (BBC) for overseas firms. (AFP)

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0720052488men’s instant hardrock 150
0722138090 men’s delay, power size
0722638216 men Aroma therappy
0722638216 men Hotstone Clinic
0723408602 Breast firming Mombasa
0723408602 Hip booster Mombasa
0723408602 maximum big-size @1500
0723408602 men’s max control@2000
0723408602 men’s max delay@1500/=
0723408602 Reduce pot Mombasa
0723408602 Size,delay,hardrock 150/=
BEAUTYCentre Westlands 0729524441
FANTANELA Parlour 0722789281
LAVINGTON Aroma 0722355757
LOGIN www.nairobihotgirl.com
PARKLANDS pedi 0722763034
PRO-EXTENDER machine (USA)
for size. 100% guarantee 0722506355
TRM new msG f/p 0715646999
ZINAT Aroma - 0722108363
A202 Entertainment
APPLEBEES 7-8pm Happy Hour
Beer Ksh 100/= Ladies Free wine
BEAUTIFUL Dancers tonite @Club
Elegance. Parklands Rd next to Shell
opp MP Shah Hosp
PARTY 2nite. She is an Italian
celebrity @Club Caldino 3rd fl China
Centre Ngong Rd
A230 Health
0722-638219 men Spanish Therapy
0724401749Size,delay,hardrock 150/=
BEATY Health call 0706683887
MENS big size & confidence 0726272266
MENSinstant hardrock 200 0726272266
REFLEX Centre Call: 0731252262
RELAXER Fitness Town 0724760801
A244 Herbal Medicine
CLICK: www.orthodox.kbo.co.ke
TRADITIONAL healer 0707331244
visit : www.herbaleastafrica.com
A279 Notices
PREMIER CLUB
(Formerly the Patel Club)
NOTICE
NOTICE is hereby given that a
SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of
the PREMIER CLUB will be held
on 28th May 2014 at 7.00p.m in
the Gita Hall.
AGENDA:
• To Elect Five (5) Trustees of
the Premier Club.
Nomination Forms are available
from Club’s Office during office
hours.
All candidates will be required
to deposit their duly completed
nomination forms in the
“nomination box” situated at the
club’s reception ON or BEFORE
8th May 2014 at 7.00pm.
VIJAY R. PATEL
HONOURARY SECRETARY
DATE: 5th APRIL 2014.
PUBLIC NOTICE
SPECIAL GENERAL
ASSEMBLY MEETING
As per the rules and regulations
of the NGO Council Article 6; 11.2,
11.11, 11.21, 11.04.. 11.24, 11.06 of
the Special General Assembly giving
14 days notice to convene Special
General Assembly to restructure the
National Council of NGO’s which is
Moribund. We hereby call all members
of the NGO Council of Kenya to attend
and make decisions on the way
forward of the NGO sector.
As per the resolutions passed during
the conference held on 20th March
2014 at 680 Hotel, members resolved
and demanded for the Special General
Assembly. The Special General
Assembly will be held on 18th April
2014 starting from 9.00am at Nyayo
Stadium Basketball Pitch.
By: Members of The National
Council of NGOs
PUBLIC NOTICE
REGISTERED LAND ACT 300
Plot No 33 Umoja II zone 8 is one
and same with NO:160 in the new
sequence While the registered
owner still remain the same.
Individuals with any objection should
be forwarded withing fourteen (14)
days of this notice.
To the Director - HDD
P.O BOX 42027
NAIROBI
AGRICULTURE & HOME
B671 Fertilizers, Seed & Seedlings
STRAWBERRY Seedlings
seeds Tel 0722-552520
from
PETS & LIVESTOCK
A988 Dogs & Dog Training
BLACK regist GSD 0721982203
0705234551. www.kiunadogs.co.ke
DACHSHUND pups 0703343618
ROTTWEILER pups 0711412650
B001 Livestock
40 served fresian heifers 0722695659
COWS & Heifers call 0720784653
FARMERS WTD, 8KG MATURITY
MARKET GUARANTEED
CANADIAN GIANT RABBITS
FARMING. TRANING APRIL 12.
BOOK 0718784649 / 0725893963 /
0721252639
B015 Poultry
KIENYEJI Chicks Tel 0722711925
SHOPPING GUIDE
COMMERCIAL
B462 Business for Sale
AGROVET 130k 0727466238
HOTEL for sale with rooms halls bar
and rest in CBD Nbi 15m call
0718883820
PRIME Restaurant for sale in CBD
Nbi 8M call 0726843625
SPARE part shop on sale 1.3M
Clearance Sale Merc Actros truck
spare parts 30% Disc 0734892559
SPORTS Bar Naivasha CBD 0722475903
B469 Business Offers
I register Ltd Co. Call 0771123331
B476 Business Opportunities
PARTNER Needed in a wholesale
merchandise. Capital 1.8M 100%
profit. Quick return 0725392716
CALL 0724314614, 020 2319990
Web:www.advantasms.com
Email:info@advantasms.com
B490 Computer Services
SOFTWARE For Stock, Shop, Hotel,
Bar, Sch, Clinic, Rent, Sacco 0727714427
B497 Contracting
PAINTING Contractors Call
0716-426803, 0732-698222
B525 Financial
@0202245564 cash on ipads&iphone5
020-2245564 spot loans on Toshiba,
Macpros& HP Laptops btwn 20K-50K
CASHon car we clear loans 0722534960
LOANS Available, with logbook or
title deed call us on 0714-862000,
0735-599524, 0773217544
LOANS on payslips 500/- upwards
sms Loan to 20902 no colateral
LOANS on the spot between 15-40K
with laptops as security, 0723408602
B546 Machinery for Sale
B827 Web Hosting/Design
WEB-Design/Hosting 0724355542
CLEANING SERVICES
FOR SALE OR WANTED
A822 Computers
HP Laptops Core 2 Duo + Free Bag
@18,000/= Tel 0704-833286
Lptop&Mac*repair i buy dead 0721486136
SACCO software free WWW.LT.CO.KE
REPAIR &
MAINTENANCE
WHERE TO EAT
WHERE TO STAY
A571 Hotels
@SELDOM Hotel- Murang’a rd:
For accommodation single 1000/=.
Meetings Conferences & Satelite TV
0722 820601, 0722511159
@UPRUMYS Hotel Parkroad For
accomm. single 600/= Meetings Confe
rences 0711154488, 0722511159
RABI-HOTEL, Ngara, Limuru rd.For
accom. single 1200/=. Conferences,
meetings. Ample secured parking and
Satelite TV 0721557367,0722511159
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To make appropriate enquiries and take appropriate advice
before sending money, incurring any expense or entering into
binding commitment in relation to an advertisement.
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for loss or damage incurred or suffered as a result of his/her
accepting of offering to accept an invitation contained in any
advertisement published in the Nation.
SERENE
Gardened surrounding
luxurious affordable rooms
www.sironahotel.com 0726844925
TOURS & TRAVEL
B894 Tour Services
EASTER 3 days Masai Mara special
offer 12000k 0726484339
FOOD & BEVERAGE
SITUATIONS VACANT
B250 General
(10) s/mkt att, driver, t/boy, cleaners &
t/girl Rockwood Biva hse 0707699941
(20) supermrkt att (10)cleaners rq
Worldwide Mrking Gill Hse 0712476020
0702439634 cleaner, messenger,
office ast & tea girl Rockwood Biva
0708010870 cashier & reception
driver & turnboy Rockwood Biva hse
0711171811 (10) s/mrkt att cashier
driver. Worldwide mrkng Gill Hse
170 Form 4 lvrs needed in Tascan
Mkting co. in Ngara Graceland J4 for
sales promos distbn 7000 wkly. free
training & interviews No experience
needed 0712857055, 0718355523
180 Form 4 lvrs & above needed in
Tascan Mkting co. in Chiromo rd. in
sales promos, distrbn 7000 wkly no
exp. needed free training &
interviews 0711585261, 0708615542
VACANCY
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS
E-LEARNING BLESSED
GENERATION MALINDI
Our new Dream school doesn’t look
for employees. We are looking for
entrepeneurs who can start up a brand
new school based on e-learning in
Malindi: high school teachers who can
really connect to children and connect to
the digital world. Every student a laptop
and teachers who offer threedimensional
education.
If you like challenges, if you already work
in the digital world and if you want to
connect your students to the world, you
should apply for this job.
We are looking for:
YOUR PERSONALITY
Highly enthusiastic candidates with a lot
of energy,drive and motivation. You are a
team player, want to learn new things and
want to explore yourself. You see children
as the future and can truly communicate
with them. You are an initiator and want to
achieve your-goals.
YOUR PROFILE
B.E.D. You have knowledge of and
experience in using the latest forms of
digital communication.
Fresh graduates are also encouraged
to apply.
YOUR APPLICATION
Only qualified candidates will be
contacted for an interview. You send
your application letter with detailed
curriculum vitae before 10th April 2014
to bgmalindi@yahoo.com.
Impress us.
ARCHITECTS & assists immediate.
Apply Kapila Box 757-00621 Nairobi
BARBERS & beauticians needed
Lavington Nrb 0722121220
CASHIERS, waiters, drivers,
technicians, mechanics, waitresses,
housekeepers & guards available
positions in Dubai, Kuwait &Qatar call
0710849752 Hazina Towers 9th floor.
COURIER Sales Manager A newly
registered courier company requires
experienced result oriented with loyal
network who is able to attract new
clients 0722863270
DSM Marketing Kijabe street needs
200 Form four leavers for Sales,
Marketing & Promos. Earn 7000/=
weekly. Free Interviews & Training
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years with more than 5 years
experience
Apply and give phone No. to:
P. O. Box 50063-00200,
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SITUATIONS WANTED
B277 Domestic/Casual Jobs
0722516342, 0721834778 trained h/g
CLEANERS, GD pay. 0717072983
DRIVERS& T/BOY 0710303617
EDUCATIONAL
B424 Private Tuition
IGCSE al tuition 0722808764
MOTORS
MOTORCYCLES &
BICYCLES
B177 Motor Cycle for Sale
TUKTUK 4sale 200k 0722491671
HEAVY COMMERCIAL
MOTOR VEHICLES
B049 Car Hire
0700128555 rav4, Voxy, saloon new,
modern, f/ld, variety from 2500/- p.d
0701407382 PREMIO WISH 2K PD
0721144998 new cars from 1500/=
0728093268 NEW CARS 2K PD
CARS NDD 60K-220K 0701-437627
CARS Wanted 40-250k 0722-612220
NZE WISH.PRE 1K 0706108561
PATRAVEL want Prado NZE
Premio 4 long term hire 0727949916
VICTOR safaris & tours ltd car hire
0720545192, 0722379197
B085 For Sale, Private
DEMIO 07 auto colored 0722515239
L/Cruiser amazon 07 5.5m 0722519155
N/Advan KBR 05auto 420k 0714805753
NISSAN prv tour van 725k 0789378221
NZE 03 KAR man silver 535k 0722539418
PEUG 306 2004 Ksh450k 0720237291
PREMIO KBQ @780K 0720966541
PROBOX 07 1.5L RF Rack 0723-644846
PROBOX BQ 470K 0722609482
PROBOX KBT 380K 0703679371
SUB Forester 06 1.49M 0721521404
SUB Leg KAT v/cn 345K 0721492222
T/avensis 03 AG a/t silv 735k 0722539418
T/Carina silver 478K 0723 268 403
T/FIELDER KBQ 610K 0735034862
T/Fielder KBV 06 silvr 760k 0723366566
T/IST KBK auto black 0722515239
T/NOAH KBU/ ‘05 740k 0719773315
T/NZE ‘06 white 790K 0723268403
T/Premio ‘BJ 660K Call 0723 268 403
Classifieds 33
MOBILE PHONE
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and send to 20115
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T/RAUM KBM 590k 0715884259
T/SIENTA 08\07 auto 0722 515239
T.FORTUNER 2005 petrol, auto ,
silver. Tel:0727754077
T/D.CAB KAY 1.3M 0722609482
T/L-TOUR 390K 0721279258
TOWNACE KAZ 530k 0710805258
TOY 110KAZ170K 0725079771
OWN
Toy Prado 03 2.1M 0721521404
TOYOTA Hiace 4x4 extour KBU
0704594254, 0773846745
TOYOTA Prado 2005 silver v/c
diesel 2.95m 0736570327
TOY Premio KAS accident free
1owner very clean 385k 0706475555
TOY Probox 04 520k 0721521404
TSHARK KBN DE150 0724937032
T Wish red 710k v/clean 0712881857
VW Golf 06 2.0cc black 0720817889
B103 Lorries for Sale
SCANIA 420 prime mover & high
sided bpw trailer 0723300026
B113 Motor Vehicle Repairs
RESIDENTIAL &
BUSINESS PROPERTIES
B712 Accommodation Available
HOSTELS: Ruiru off b/pass very
clean/ secure 15k p/m 0726925943
B740 Land, Plots for Sale
1AC Kiria-ini/ Muranga 0722588228 ownr
3.5 Acres next to syokimau railway
station, telephone 0733519049
A/RIVER plots 795k 0710805258
EASTERN bpass 1,2,5,6ac 0701170003
EMALI / Masimba 40acre 7km from
Msa rd 150k p.a neg. 0707734058
JUJA bhd hootin bay 0725364341
JUJA Farm 50x100 300k Titles
0720938283, 0705147102 Pattmos
KAJIADO 30Acres near the county
offices @3.5M per acre. Call
0725486218
KATANI 1/8 ac near chiefs camp
0720-043288, 020-550287 Vineyard
KAYOLE 25x60ft 1.35m 0705766131
KAYOLE main road plot 0722311374
KISERIAN 2acres with title @ 7M
0720446898/ 0714639586
KISUMU wanted urgently to buy or
rent for 3years. 10-20 acres on
shores of Lake Victoria 0722537613
KITE /KISAJU opp Kenchick 1KM fron
tarmac 1/8 @ 550 & 650 Call
0722973959/0721531573
KITENGELA 5acres Millenium Ksh
8.5M per acre 0731254111
KITE 1/4 milimani Estate 0723760249
KITENGELA 1/8 450K 0722896551
KITENGELA N/Valley 2x1/8acres
(Balozi Rd) @1.6M 0723794136
KITENGELA newvalley 1/8 plots @
1.5M Tel: 0722737188
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April 5, 2014

KITENGELA Town prime 1acre.

Neartarmc owner 0733756372
ONGATA R execiting 1acre 4sale
22000000m 0722639317
RUAI ‘26’ 40x80 @300k 0704526507
RUAKA 1/4ac on tarmac 0722429856
RUAKA 100x100 2nd to tarmac with
title 23m 0736677439
RUIRU 50x100 400k 40x60, 650k,400k
250k 0720938283 0705147102 Pattmos
RUIRU plots 50x100 behind Kamakis
Tel 0704594254, 0773846745
RUNDA Kigwaro two 1/2acre plots
owner 0725-789001
S. Kinangop Heni 5acres 0722429856
THOME-1 0.58acs Tel. 0721208993
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BUREAU OFFICES
Mombasa
Furaha Plaza, Ground floor,
Nkuruma Road, P.O.BOX 80708
Tel: 0732 138 900, 0719 038 900, 020 328 8900.
0734 333 385, 0722 200 770, 041 222 5479
Fax 2230264 Fax (057) 2020388 Kisumu
Nakuru
C.K. Patel Building, Kenyatta Avenue
Te (051) 2215506, 2215740, 2211688
B761 Premises, Offices for Sale
BARBER shop Rongai 0710638454
B782 Properties for Sale
ALL ensuite stylish 4br mansionettes
w/dsq on 1/8ac & perimeter wall
Tusuan Villas book early 12.95M
0727295171
SOUTH B massonet 3br 0721797550
B789 Properties to Let
1&2BR Komrk Ownr O789-112233
1 b/r Westlands 12000/= 0720040895
1 Br Juja Rd Eastleigh Sh9500 & 12,000
b/sitter Ksh9000 Tel:0735708052
3 b/r Riverside dr. 38000 0727032058
AVENUE Park1 3br mais 0724811239
3 br EPZ Kitengela on 1/4acre call
0711753383
DHANJAY 2br Apt 0722394733
DON P8 1bdm 10-12k 0727720945
H/GUM 1br8k 0722630926 ownr
JAMHURI 1BR 0721403906
K AREN 1br @ 20k, 2br @ 50k, 3br @
HOURS OF SERVICE 40k, 90k, 0722491671
• MONDAY - FRIDAY
LANGATA 3br & sq 0721679517
8AM TO 5PM
LAVINGTON 2br 60K 0723308663
• SATURDAY
8AM TO 1PM LAVINGTON 3br 75K 0723308663
• SUNDAY & PUBLIC P/LAND SQ 5K 0704717151 Ownr
HOLIDAYS
R/Satelite 2br sc 25k 0721603476
10AM TO 1PM
RIDGEWAYS 5br hse on 0.5acres;
199k . 0710915986, 0703484453
RUAKA 1 & 2bedroomed secure
internet, DSTV, parking, adequate
water 25,500 30,500 owner
0723231391
Kisumu
Mega Plaza, 3rd flr, Wing B SOUTHB 3br mais&gwing 0712789786
Tel: (057) 2021699, 2021230
SOUTH B 4br flt 0734649285
Eldoret SOUTH C bedsitters 0724341087
Zion Mall,
Wing C, Tel: 0722 200 773 TASSIA 1 &2 brm spacious near
tarmac call owner 0722-250712
0719038950/1
Nyeri
UPPERHILL New 2 b/r flat both
ensuite secure available immediately
Kona Hauthi House. P.O. BOX 1396, 46k call 0wner 0711620285
Tel: (061) 2030640,
Tel/Fax: (061) 2034120 UTAWALA 3br hse 0722409152
HOTELS
D531 Hotels
KENDAS Village Hotel Mtwapa near
Total Dstv Rooms 800/ p.p sharing,
Air-con Apart 4000/ Easter package ,
Conference, Daily video mix , WiFi,
s/pool, 0719582131, 0715853598,
0701381989 www.kendashotels.co.ke
E317 Appliances
D557 Apartments available
E740 Land Plots for Sale
Bombolulu 50x100 4m 0722588537
NYALI Shree Enclave 3 plots for
sale Contact Leonard 0721225053
E782 Properties for Sale
MTWAPA plots Aljazeera 80X40
2.5m near coral 1.5m 0722966206
NYALI Shree Enclave house for sale
20m contact Mr Juma 0721225053
E789 Properties to Let
ARROW JK Ave 2b/room flat/shop
0722773416
Death and Funeral Announcement
It is with great sorrow that we announce the
passing on of Sheila Njoki Mambo (Saida), of
Future Soft Technology (Nairobi).
Beloved daughter of the late Joseph Mambo and
the late Mary Wanjiru Mambo. Loving mother
of Collins Mambo. Sister of Michael, Lucy and
Veronica. She was a special friend to Peterson
Maundu.
Friends and relative are meeting daily from 5.00
p.m. to 8.00 p.m. at Nairobi city center.
For information concerning the meeting place,
please call any of the below numbers.
0727 919 347, 0733 933 996, 0720 705 182.
The cortege leaves Kenyatta Mortuary, on
Sheila Njoki
Tuesday 8th April 2014 at 8.00am for service Mambo
and burial at Lang’ata Cemetery.
He who believes in him will live even though he dies (John 11:13).
Death and Funeral Announcement
We regret to announce the death of Beatrice
Bosibori after a short illness, wife to David
Mariachana. Daughter of the late Mzee Ombega
On’gau and late Mama Rebecca Nyaboke. She
was the sister to Prof. James Nyambane Ombega
of Kenya Methodist University, Johnson Onyiego
Ombega, Sarange Ombega, Moraa, Mogoi, Alice,
and Yucabeth of USA. Mother to Naomi Nyamusi
Mariachana, Maureen Mogina Mariachana, Dew
Mariachana and Dean Mariachana. Aunt to Faith,
Isabella, Elizabeth, Dr. Mercy and others. Daughter
in-law to Mama Teresia Ondieki of Itibo, Kisii. In-
law to Assa Machuma, Joseph Oncho’nga, Daniel
Mayaka, Esther Sigara Okerio, Sarah Biage among
others. Friends and relatives are meeting daily at
Garden Square Restaurant Nairobi from 5.30pm
for funeral arrangements. The main harambee
will be held at Six Eighty Hotel on Thursday
10th April 2014 from 5.30pm. Burial date will be Beatrice Bosibori
announced later.
1968 - 2014
Your prayers and support is highly appreciated.
You may wish to liaise with David Mariachana, the husband of Beatrice 0722176900.
Beatrice we loved you but God loves you more.
8th Anniversary

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THIKA
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Jogoo Kimakia Building
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Room No.A7, Maggie: 0722755823
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Peterson Stationers/Bookshop
County Council ADC House
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Admedia International Ltd,
Nguviu House, 1st Floor, Rm 02
Above Mbuni Dry Cleaners
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Ambewe Complex, 2nd Flr, Rm 6,
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Behind Kobil Sarafina Hse, 1st Flr Rm 36
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KARATINA 5th Anniversary
Harmony Plaza,
First Flr. Next to Equity Bank,
Stephen Munyiri: 0733277993/ 0711411515
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KISII
Mwalimu House, Telfax: (058)31386
Peter Angwenyi: 0722478171
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MERU
Perpetua Wanjiru Macharia
Ndiungi Agencies In Our Hearts you live on!
Kingora Building, Opposite Meru Teachers House
Sophia Ntinyari: 0712628022 In our hearts your memory lingers, sweetly tender, fond and true,
Email: ndiungiagencies@yahoo.co.uk There is not a day, dear Mother, that we do not think of you.
Isiolo Video Den
Pwins Plaza, 1st floor, opp. Uchumi Supermarket Your life remains a blessing your memory a treasure...
Peter Kaluai: 0721405815
You are loved beyond words, and missed beyond measure...
Email: isiolovideoden@yahoo.com

AM ENTERPRISES: KERUGOYA Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us everyday,
Bungoma County S.N. Peter Designers, unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed and very dear.
AM Enterprises Ltd Ushirika Bank House, Moses M’Kirimania Bagine
Nasombi House, Moi Avenue 2nd Floor, Lucy Gitura: 0725608918 Our thoughts are ever with you, though you have passed on.
Opposite Bungoma County Assemmbly It’s exactly five years since you left us to be with the And those who loved you dearly are thinking of you today.
P.O. Box 2502 NAIVASHA/NYAHURURU Lord. Although we feel your absence every day, we thank
Call Chriss Masinde Njabini Service Station God for the years we had together. May the Almighty Lord bless you and keep you by His side in eternity.
Tel. 055 30161 Tel: 0713 375405/0723019528
Cell: 0721 526154 Email: Njabinistation@gmail.com/njabini09@gmail.com
We cherish the sweet memories of your love, generosity, Fondly remembered by your loving husband Eng. Simeon Macharia, your
KITUI MWIYENDI PRONTO SERVICES kindness and guidance that has continued to leading us children: Maina & Anne, Wanjiku, Kamunya, King’ori & Rosebell, Gathoni,
Chief Kitonga Building, Biashara Street, Wadi Plaza along Kilungya street, Kitui town, to fulfillment. Nyambura & James and your grandchildren: Ailisha, Kirema, Martin, Tyra
1st Floor, Room 6. P.O. Box 8 - 90200 Kitui Room G8 behind Bondeni Pharmacy, Mae, Jerome, Kimani, Kirema & Malaika and your relatives and friends.
Pinnacle News Agency: 0720922438. Email:mwiyendip.services@gmail.com Fondly remembered by your beloved wife Jennifer,
Email: titusma57@yahoo.com Winnie Mwende 0726384400 and 0736286593. children, Grand Children, friends and relatives. Memorial Mass will be held on Sunday 6th April 2014 at 11.30 a.m. at
St. Austin’s Parish Church
For further enquiries, call: 0719 038 8661/3/4/5/6 … in all things God works for the good
or email:adcentre@ke.nationmedia.com of those who love Him …. “The Lord is Gracious and Merciful, slow to anger and abounding in
Romans 8:29 Love.” Psalms 145:8
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April 5, 2014
Sport
ENTERPRISE CUP | Today’s decider will be preceded by Division II showdown
Nakuru come
up against
KCB in final
Wanyore seek to
extend dominance
against the bankers
at RFUEA grounds
BY AYUMBA AYODI
@ayumbayodi
sayodi@ke.nationmedia.com
I
t will be a battle of forwards
as Nakuru take on Kenya
Commercial Bank (KCB)
in the 2013-2014 season En-
terprise Cup final today at the
RFUEA grounds.
Kenya Cup champions,
Nakuru, who are eyeing their
seventh title, have promised to
raid KCB but the bankers have
vowed to put in a good fight.
Wanyore are yet to lose to
KCB in the last three seasons
but their matches have always
been captivating. They drew
25-25 before the Great Rift
side won 8-3 during the 2011-
2013 Kenya Cup season.
Nakuru won 20-17 in the
2012-2013 season on their
way to their maiden Kenya
Cup title, the first club out-
side Nairobi to achieve the
milestone.
Long history
“We have had a long history
with KCB and we understand
their game well,” said Nakuru
coach Dominique Habimana.
”The bankers have introduced
a few things this season but we
are ready to counter them.”
“Their maul has been clini-
McCabe double as Brumbies give Auckland away blues
Canberra
Pat McCabe scored a career
first try double as the ACT
Brumbies downed the Auck-
land Blues 26-9 to stay top
of the Australian conference
in Super Rugby in Canberra
yesterday.
The Brumbies scored three
tries to nil with Wallaby centre
McCabe claiming two of them
in a commanding victory over
John Kirwan’s Blues.
McCabe made several breaks
and constantly dented the defen-
sive line in his best performance
since breaking his neck for the
second time in June last year. It
cal in their executions scoring
most of their points to the final.
But we have fixed that techni-
cality and we are good to go
with our awesome and solid
tight five,” Habimana said.
“We have been working
on our defence and results
should come out in the final,”
the coach added.
Nakuru’s front row has
Joseph Odero, Sammy Warui
and Isaiah Nyariki while skip-
per Edwin Makori and Philip
Owuor are at the second row.
But KCB coach Curtis Olago
opted to play it cool saying they
respect Nakuru but won’t devi-
ated from their pattern with
their strength pegged on their
forwards.
“Both are quality sides and
have worked hard to reach the
final. However, the team with
the right frame of mind will
carry the day,” said Olago.
Dennis Mukabi, Steve
Wakaya, Edwin lubaka, Brian
Sagala and Francis Mwita
will counter Nakuru’s tight
five. Olago said they are at
full strength with no injuries
but Nakuru’s utility back Javan
Murai is injured.
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was the first time the Brumbies
had kept the Blues try-less in
Super Rugby and it was the
11th straight away loss for the
inconsistent Aucklanders.
The win took the Canberra-
based side five points clear at the
top of the Australian conference
ahead of the NSW Waratahs, who
play the Western Stormers in
It was a great reaction
after last week, we wanted
to play with a lot of
enthusiasm and passion”
Brumbies star Ben Mowen
Cape Town today. McCabe
was prominent early before he
powered through Blues fly-half
Simon Hickey to open the scor-
ing in the eighth minute.
The two sides traded two pen-
alty goals each to go into the
break with the Brumbies leading
13-6. Fly-half Matt Toomua was
replaced by Wallabies playmaker
Christian Lealiifano at halftime
after taking a knock to the knee
and launched a half-break to get
the Blues back-peddling.
Jesse Mogg fired out a long
pass for McCabe to score his
second try in the 53rd minute.
Diminutive winger Robbie Cole-
man wrapped up the game for
the home side four minutes later
FOOTBALL
Keli, Were to lead AFC
Leopards’ hunt for Top Eight
semi-final spot against buoyant
Bandari. P. 38
CHRIS OMOLLO | NATION
Dennis Mwanja of Kenya
Commercial Bank during
their Kenya Cup match
against Impala at the KCB
Sports Club in November
last year. KCB face Nakuru
RFC in Enterprise Cup final
at RFUEA grounds today.
after strong runs by Mogg and
Ben Alexander. Lealiifano kicked
a penalty with 10 minutes left to
open a 17-point buffer over the
Blues, who dominated posses-
sion in the closing stages but
could not score. Brumbies, under
coach Stephen Larkham, have
won five of their seven games,
while the Blues have slipped to
3-4. It was a much more enthusi-
astic Brumbies effort after their
32-24 upset loss to the Rebels in
Melbourne the previous week.
“It was a great reaction after
last week, we wanted to play
with a lot of enthusiasm and
passion. We did that tonight,”
Brumbies captain Ben Mowen
said. (AFP)
35
India hit South Africa
in World T20 semis
PUNIT PARANJPE | AFP
Indian players Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli and captain Mahendra
Singh Dhoni celebrate their victory over South Africa.
Dhaka 2013 Champions Trophy
Virat Kohli hit an im-
in the bag, praised the
run chase.
perious half-century to “Everybody saw that
the wicket was better than
help India upstage South
Africa by six wickets in the those we have played on,
second semi-final in Dhaka and they believed they
yesterday to cruise into the could chase this down. It
World Twenty20 final. is not just the self-belief,
Chasing 173 to win, the but the belief in each other
former champions were led that is crucial,” said Dhoni,
by a swashbuckling knock praising Kohli.
of 72 not out by Kohli as
they strolled to the target Great innings
“There are not many who
with five balls to spare.
This becomes India’s are as consistent as Virat.
It is great to have him at
second final in five World
Twenty20s after they won number three,” said Dhoni
of Kohli who played just
the inaugural event held in
South Africa in 2007. They three dot balls in his in-
nings.
meet Sri Lanka in the final
in Dhaka tomorrow. South African captain
Faf du Plessis praised
In contrast, South Af-
rica, regarded as perennial India and Kohli. “We put
up a good total but the
chokers in crucial matches,
yet again failed to reach bad thing is, MS and his
team know how to chase,”
any world level final since
their readmission into said Du Plessis. “They
have done it many times
cricket in 1991.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, and Virat played a great
innings.”
who will lead India to a tri-
ple crown if his team win Kohli smashed five
the final with the 2011 boundaries and two sixes
off 44 balls in a brilliant
World Cup (50 overs) and
display of batting, high-
lighting India’s strength
at chasing a target.
South Africa lost opener
We put up a good total Quinton de Kock (six)
in the first over before
but the bad thing is, Hashim Amla and Du
MS and his team know Plessis took the score to
44 in the fifth over. But
how to chase” Ravichandran Ashwin
Faf du Plessis, South
Africa captain
put the brakes on South
Africa’s progress. (AFP)
NBA
Thunder star Durant
halts Spurs’ record
Kevin Durant and the Okla-
homa City Thunder denied San
Antonio a 20th straight NBA
victory on Thursday, beating
the Spurs 106-94 in a battle of
Western Conference powers.
The Spurs arrived in Oklahoma
City with a chance to extend
their club-record winning
streak and strengthen their
grasp on the top seed in the
West. But Durant kept a run of
his own alive as he scored 28
points with seven rebounds to
lift the Thunder.
36 | Sport
Scott eyes Masters repeat and world’s top ranking
Augusta, USA
Before winning his first major title
at last year’s Masters, Adam Scott
endured the frustration of squander-
ing a four-shot lead in the last four
holes to lose the 2012 British Open
to Ernie Els.
So after squandering a last-day lead
to lose at Bay Hill when a win would
have made him world number one for
the first time, the 33-year-old Austral-
ATHLETICS | Ethiopia’s legendary runner Bekele will make his debut over 42km tomorrow
Kiptoo to lead Kenyans out in Paris
Athlete teams up with
Kanda, Kipketer in men’s
race, Valentine spearheads
quest for women’s title
BY AYUMBA AYODI
@AyumbAyodi
sayodi@ke.nationmedia.com
M
ark Kiptoo will be out to ex-
tend Kenya’s dominance at
the Paris Marathon when he
leads his compatriots tomorrow in the
men’s race.
Kenyan men have won four of the last
five editions of the race but the women
have found the going tough in Paris,
winning just two of the last six editions,
with Priscah Jeptoo winning in 2011 after
Martha Komu’s triumph in 2008.
Vincent Kipruto won the mens race in
2009 in 2hrs, 5:47min before Ethiopian
Tadesse Tola (2:06:41) won in 2010 be-
fore Kenya’s Benjamin Kiptoo (2:06:29)
went for the 2011 honours.
But it’s Stanley Biwott’s victory in a
course record-breaking time of 2:05:11 in
2012 which stood out before Peter Some
missed a chance to improve the time by
seconds, winning in 2:05:38 last year.
Besides the 37-year-old Kiptoo who is
eyeing his maiden victory, focus will be
on Luka Kanda, Gideon Kipketer and
Mika Kigen as they go head to head
with multi-Olympic champion, Ethiopian
legend Kenenisa Bekele who is making
his debut over the distance.
It will be Kiptoo’s second marathon
after clocking an impressive 2:06:16 in
his debut in Frankfurt last year.
Kiptoo won the 2007 and 2011 World
Military 5,000m title besides the 2011
Commonwealth Games bronze and 2012
Africa gold over the distance.
Kanda will be looking for victory in
another European capital city, having
I now run further and work
less on my speed. I am really
prepared for the marathon”
Kenenisa Bekele
Ex-England star Pietersen confirmed for Lord’s bicentenary, CPL
London
Former England star Kevin Pi-
etersen was yesterday confirmed for
the Lord’s bicentenary celebration
match between the MCC and the Rest
of the World at the famous London
ground on July 5.
The announcement comes after he
ian now comes to Augusta National
hoping the top ranking spot is also
It (squandering a last-day
lead at Bay Hill) is a good
reminder on how much
putting practice I need to do”
Golfer Adam Scott
Kenya’s Gideon Kipketer on his way to winning the fifth leg of the Lotto Cross-
Cup on January 2, 2011 in Hulshout, Belgium. Kipketer will compete in the Paris
Marathon tomorrow.
was drafted by the St Lucia Zouks
to take part in this year’s Caribbean
Premier League, and the 33-year-old
will turn out for the Rest of the World
XI alongside captain Shane Warne
and Sri Lanka spin star Muttiah
Muralitharan.
Australian fast bowler Brett Lee will
play for the MCC, who will be led by
a dream that has been only delayed,
not denied.
“If nothing else, it’s a good reminder
on how much putting practice I need
to do for going to the Masters and just
how important it is,” Scott said.
“If I think back to last year, I made
every putt that you expect to in that
last round and ultimately that’s maybe
what gave me the chance to win.”
Scott became the first Aussie to
capture the green jacket symbolic of
FILE | NATION
India legend Sachin Tendulkar and will
also call upon Rahul Dravid and Paul
Collingwood.
Pietersen said: “I was very pleased
to be asked to be involved in this game
and the chance to share the Lord’s
pitch with some of the best players
in the world is one I was delighted
to accept.
Masters supremacy when he sank
a 12-foot birdie putt on the second
playoff hole to defeat Angel Cabrera
last April, achieving a dream that nar-
rowly escaped his boyhood idol, Greg
Norman, numerous times.
Now the Adelaide-born defending
champion will try to become the first
repeat Masters winner since Tiger
Woods in 2002. The only others to
achieve the feat were Jack Nicklaus
and Nick Faldo. (AFP)
won in Rome two years ago with a PB
of 2:08:04.
The 21-year-old Kipketer hopes to
bounce back after failing to finish at
the Tokyo Marathon last month while
Kigen warmed up for the race with a
1:00:44 half-marathon time in Paris
earlier this month.
With 23 gold medals from Olympics,
World Championships, World Cross
Country, Africa Championships, All
African Games and World Indoor,
Bekele’s name is already etched in
history books. However, it’s left to be
known whether Bekele will leave a big
impact in the streets of Paris.
Suffered injuries
Bekele has suffered from injuries and
a lack of motivation in recent years, but
training for the marathon has renewed
his focus on the sport.
“I’ve changed some things,” the 31-
year-old told race organisers. “I now run
further and work less on my speed. I
didn’t have the speed I needed to win
at the cross-country race in Edinburgh
in January. It was the result of a lack of
specific training. I am really preparing
for the marathon.
Other debutants in the race are Ethio-
pia’s Mule Wasihun won the 2008 race,
beating the likes of Azmeraw Bekele
and Mike Kigen. Behailu Ketema, who
finished fifth in that race in 1:00:58,
will also be contesting his first 26.2-
mile race.
Kenya’s Valentine Kipketer will
spearhead the women’s title assault,
having sliced off her personal best in
each of her completed marathons to
date. After a 2:28:02 debut in Ham-
burg two years ago, she won in Mumbai
last year with 2:24:33 and atoned for
failing to finish at the Moscow World
Championships with a 2:23:02 victory
in Amsterdam.
Kipketer will also be seeking support
from compatriot Flomena Cheyech as
they expect still challenge from Ken-
yan-born Martha Komu and Sarah
Chepchirchir. Cheyech also won two
marathons in 2013. Her best result
was a 2:24:34 lifetime best to triumph
in Vienna.
Komu won the Paris Marathon in
2008 with a PB of 2:25:33 and repre-
sented Kenya at the Beijing Olympics,
finishing fifth. The 30-year-old now runs
for France and is the only former win-
ner competing tomorrow.
“Playing at Lord’s is always very
special and I’m looking forward to
celebrating the 200th anniversary of
what is a fantastic ground.”
Pietersen, who scored 1,520 runs in
26 international matches at Lord’s, was
sensationally axed by England in the
aftermath of their 5-0 Ashes whitewash
in Australia. (AFP)
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014
Kasarani Relays
meeting open
to all, AK says
BY FRANCIS MUREITHI
fmureithi@ke.nationmedia.com
Entry for today’s Relays Series
at Kasarani Stadium will be open
to all athletes, according to Ath-
letics Kenya (AK) Vice President
David Okeyo.
Unlike in the previous meetings
where the invitational format was
used, AK has decided to leave it
open ahead of the IAAF World
Relays Championships trials on
April 26.
“This will allow athletes chas-
ing qualifying standards to do so
and also have adequate time to
prepare for the national trials,”
Okeyo said.
The penultimate meeting is
therefore expected to attract a
large field than the last event at
the same venue last month.
Okeyo (above) expressed his
displeasure with athletes who
have given the championships
a wide berth so far. “They either
show up in the final two meetings
or be left out,” Okeyo said.
They either show up in the
final meetings or be left out”
David Okeyo, AK Vice President
“We are not doing any favours
and only athletes who show up for
the remaining events this Satur-
day (today) and on April 26 will
be considered for the Kenyan team
to next year’s World Champion-
ships,” Okeyo added.
Most elite athletes have skipped
the championships over unknown
reasons.
Close to 800 athletes are ex-
pected to compete at the first
edition of the IAAF World Relays
to be held on May 24 and 25 in
Nassau, Bahamas.
Entries received
“Preliminary entry figures indi-
cate that 48 member federations
will take part in Nassau. Initial
entries of 762 athletes – 440 men
and 322 women – have been re-
ceived as 90 men’s teams and 64
women’s teams will be spread
across the five events,” the IAAF
said in a statement.
Some of the events to be con-
tested in Bahamas are 4x100m,
4x200m, 4x400m, 4x800m and
4x1,500m races.
The top eight teams in men and
women’s 4x100m and 4x400m
will automatically qualify for the
2015 IAAF World Championships
in Beijing.
In addition, the top eight teams
in each event will be awarded
prize money with the gold med-
allists taking home not less than
$50,000 (Sh4.3 million).
“If a team breaks a world record
in Nassau, an additional bonus of
$50,000 will be awarded,” accord-
ing to IAAF.
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014
Swiss drop opening rubber as Wawrinka suffers upset
Geneva
World number three Stanislas
Wawrinka suffered a shock defeat
yesterday as Switzerland dropped
the opening rubber of their Davis
Cup quarter-final against Kaza-
khstan in Geneva.
The Australian Open champion
lost the opening set in a tie-break
and never recovered as unfancied
FORMULA ONE | Four-time world champion Vettel endures endless problems to return fourth
Hamilton, Rosberg too fast for
title rivals ahead of Bahrain GP
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain on hi way to winning the Malaysian Grand Prix Formula One race at the Sepang
circuit near Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Hamilton yesterday set fastest time in opening practice for tomorrow’s Bahrain GP.
Ferrari’s Alonso is third
fastest at Sakhir circuit
in opening practice of
the season’s third race
Manama
L
ewis Hamilton and Nico
Rosberg hammered home
Mercedes’ early season domi-
nance yesterday when they set the
fastest times in opening practice for
tomorrow’s Bahrain Grand Prix.
Hamilton, the winner in Malaysia
last weekend, clocked 1min 37.502sec
to top the time charts with world
championship leader Rosberg, who
won in Australia, in second spot
thanks to a time of 1min 37.733.
McEvoy upsets Magnussen in Australian 100m Games trial
Brisbane
Cameron McEvoy upset world
champion James Magnussen to claim
the Australian 100-metres freestyle
title at the Commonwealth Games
trials in Brisbane yesterday.
Magnussen (47.92 seconds) admit-
ted his preoccupation with breaking
Andrey Golubev, the world number
64, stunned the home fans with a
I played well. It was not easy
but I’m happy that I won.
The key was to try and be
aggressive”
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, a three-
time winner at the dusty Sakhir
circuit, was third-fastest with Nico
Hulkenberg taking fourth place in a
Force India.
Britain’s Jenson Button, racing in
his 250th grand prix this weekend,
was fifth-fastest in the McLaren,
ahead of Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen.
Meanwhile, four-time world
champion Sebastian Vettel saw his
early-season troubles continue with
a 10th place in his Red Bull.
The German was 1.887sec slower
249
Formula One Grand Prix races
McLaren’s Jenson Button from Britain
has competed in
the 100m world record brought him
unstuck as McEvoy completed the
100-200m freestyle double in a per-
sonal best time of 47.65secs.
While McEvoy was ecstatic, Mag-
nussen could not hide his frustration
at losing out on the national title to
his freestyle relay teammate.
“I will put that down to a learning
7-6 (7/5), 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (7/5) victory
yesterday.
Great match
“It was a great match I think
for me,” an understated Golubev
said after one of his biggest career
wins.
“I played well it was not easy but
I’m happy that I won. The key was
to try and be aggressive and not to
ROSLAN RAHMAN | AFP
than Hamilton, while his Red Bull
teammate Daniel Ricciardo was down
in 14th place, 2.904sec off the lead-
ing Mercedes.
Felipe Massa, twice a winner at
Bahrain during his Ferrari days and
the quickest driver on the track dur-
ing winter testing last month, was the
best-placed Williams man.
His time of 1min 39.533sec put
him in 11th place overall, still more
than two seconds off the pace of
Hamilton.
Three reserve drivers made their
first appearances of the season during
the session, with Felipe Nasr taking
the seat of Valtteri Bottas in the sec-
ond Williams, finishing in 13th.
Giedo van der Garde, in for Es-
teban Gutierrez in the Sauber, was
18th while Robin Frijns, sitting in for
Kamui Kobayashi in the Caterham,
experience,” Magnussen said. “I just
got stuck into the mind set of chasing
a world record again.
“It brought me unstuck. I will go
back to training and re-think that.
“I think I self-destructed a little.”
Magnussen looked in ominous form
when he clocked his fifth sub-48 sec-
ond time in the 100m semis.
give him too much time. I think I
did good.”
Former world number one and
17-time Grand Slam winner Roger
Federer will look to level the tie
when he takes on Mikhail Kuku-
shkin, ranked world number 56, in
Friday’s second singles match.
The eventual winners will face
either Italy or Great Britain in
September’s semi-finals. (AFP)
PRACTICE TIMES
Times from Friday’s first practice
session for tomorrow’s Bahrain
Grand Prix:
1. Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mer-
cedes 1:37.502, 2. Nico Rosberg
(GER) Mercedes 1:37.733, 3.
Fernando Alonso (ESP) Ferrari 1:
37.953, 4. Nico Hulkenberg (GER)
Force India 1:38.122, 5. Jenson
Button (GBR) McLaren 1:38.636,
6. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) Fer-
rari 1:38.783, 7. Kevin Magnussen
(DEN) McLaren 1:38.949, 8. Daniil
Kvyat (RUS) Toro Rosso 1:39.056,
9. Sergio Perez (MEX) Force
India 1:39.102, 10. Sebastian Vettel
(GER) Red Bull 1:39.389, 11. Felipe
Massa (BRA) Williams 1:39.533,
12. Jean-Eric Vergne (FRA) Toro
Rosso 1:39.862, 14. Daniel Ric-
ciardo (AUS) Red Bull 1:40.406,
15. Adrian Sutil (GER) Sauber 1:
40.652.
was down in 21st.
Marcus Ericsson, in the second
Caterham, brought up the rear,
more than five seconds off the lead-
ing time.
The second practice session will
get under way at 1500GMT and will
take place under the floodlights to be
used for Sunday’s race. (AFP)
His 47.83 semis effort was not far
outside the time that won him the
2013 world title (47.71).
It only added to pre-meet specula-
tion from new Australian head coach
Jacco Verhaeren that his charge
may break Brazilian Cesar Cielo’s
46.91secs world record in yesterday’s
100m final. (AFP)
Sport 37
Sitting volleyball
team to leave for
world qualifiers
BY CELLESTINE OLILO
@celliebeckie
colilo@ke.nationmedia.com
The national men’s sitting vol-
leyball team leaves tomorrow for
next week’s World Championships
qualifiers in Morocco.
The team of 12 players will leave
for the championships where the
squad will vie for one of the two
slots reserved for Africa in the glo-
bal championships set for Poland
in June.
“We are very well prepared for
our opponents. Our greatest chal-
lengers are from Congo, but we are
focused on winning the ultimate
prize,” said the team’s dependable
attacker Andrew Omwende, who
is also the County Representative
for Ugenya Constituency’s Sigomre
Ward.
Fourth edition
This will be the fourth interna-
tional tournament the team will
compete in after fishing second to
Rwanda in all the three previous
editions.
We are very well prepared
for our opponents. Our
greatest challengers are
from Congo but we are
focussed on winning the
ultimate prize”
Attacker Andrew Omwende
The team stands a better chance
of performing well at the qualifiers
this year. Rivals Rwanda will not
take part in the championships
as the event has coincided with
the commemoration of the 1994
Genocide.
The players, who have been in
residential training since Febru-
ary 10 at Kasarani Stadium, has
received financial support from
the central government as well as
the National Fund for the Disabled
People of Kenya.
Coach optimistic
Head coach James Opiyo, who
is specially trained for the sitting
volleyball, will rely on attackers
Andrew Omwende, captain Caleb
Ondiyo as well as dependable setter
James Mangerere in his quest to
seal a slot to represent the country
Poland.
“The team looks really good. The
players are confident of bringing
the cup home and looking at my
players, there is nothing that can
stop us from proceeding to the next
level,” said coach Opiyo.
The players were selected during
nationwide league matches run by
the national federation.
Nairobi County, who emerged
the top county in the league,
produced the bulk of the national
team’s players.
The women’s qualifiers were
planned for last month but were
cancelled by hosts Rwandan citing
financial challenges.
12
Players in Kenya’s sitting volleyball
team for the World Championship
qualifiers in Morocco
38 | Sport
Mumias Sports Complex risks league ban over goal posts
BY TITUS MAERO
titus.maero@ke.nationmedia.com
The committee’s chairman Laban
Jobita said he had received a request
The Kenyan Premier League
from the Mumias Stadium Manage-
ment for an extension of the notice
Stadium, Safety and Security Com- that required the goal posts at the
mittee has given Mumias Sports facility, which measure four inches
Complex management a two- week to be replaced with those of five
reprieve to replace the goal posts at inches.
the facility to the required standards Jobita told Nation Sport yester-
or risk being banned. day in Kakamega that the Mumias
KPL TOP 8 KNOCK-OUT | Two of the quarter-final ties will be on the cards over the weekend
Limping Ingwe
shift focus to
buoyant Bandari
the fixture and Gor were given a
Keli, Were will lead walk over.
Leopards’ hunt for the Last year, Leopards’ first match
of the competition was marred by
elusive semi-final spot ugly scenes after fans stormed the
pitch and accosted the referee after
their opponents Chemelil Sugar had
BY CELLESTINE OLILO scored in stoppage time to take the
@celliebeckie lead 3-2. The match was abandoned
colilo@ke.nationmedia.com and later awarded to Chemelil.
And so the big question is: Will
H
ungry AFC Leopards will the big cats manage to go past the
start as favourites when quarter-finals stage this year?
they face resurgent Bandari Coach James Nandwa has a lot on
in their Kenyan Premier League his plate going into this match as he
Top Eight quarterfinal today at the knows full well that the club cannot
Afraha Stadium. afford another sloppy start.
The 13-time league champions
have had a subdued start to the Knock out competition
season and will be keen to roar “This being a knock out competition
back into contention with a good anything can happen. Of course we
showing in Nakuru. are wary of Bandari especially be-
And the team will have to put cause they won against Gor Mahia
aside the contradictory statements last weekend,” Nandwa said.
from their officials regarding who Bandari, flush with their win over
theri head coach is and look at how Gor, will fancy a go at another of the
to defy their unflattering record in so called big club of Kenya.
the tournament. In the absence of the injured Allan
Ingwe have never won this compe- Wanga, Leopards attack will be led
tition that has time and again left a by Jacob Keli and Paul Were. The
bad taste in their mouth. This will be pair have yet to get going on the
the second time Ingwe is taking part scoring front and will be keen to
in the competition despite having test Bandari today.
qualified for three editions. Ali Bhai has been the most pro-
ductive striker for Bandari and will
Raised issues of hooliganism no doubt relish a chance to take on
In the 2012 edition, Ingwe declined Leopards and their loud supporters.
to participate over two issues. The Winners of the tournament will walk
clubs disagreed with the organizing away with Sh1 million.
body, KPL, over finances. Leopards
had felt that the Sh100,000 partici-
pation grant from the league body TOP EIGHT FIXTURES
was too little to facilitate the team’s
preparations. Leopards also raised (Kick-off 3 pm) Today: AFC Leopards v Bandari
issues of hooliganism concerning (Afraha Stadium)
their opponents Gor Mahia. The
club consequently failed to honour
Tomorrow: Tusker v Sofapaka (Nyayo Stadium)
Prepare for titanic battle, Sofapaka’s Timbe warns Tusker
BY DAVID KWALIMWA
@kwalimwadavid
dkwalimwa@ke.nationmedia.com
Sofapaka coach Sam Timbe (left)
says he has mentally prepared his
charges for a “titanic battle” against
KPL Top Eight defending champions
Tusker in their quarter-final tie at the
Nyayo Stadium tomorrow.
“A knock-out match is a delicate bat-
tle so we have to prepare well especially
on the mental aspect. The contest could
go all the way to penalties., the Ugandan
Sports Complex management had
raised pertinent issues concerning
the stadium that include logistics
involved in carrying out the entire
exercise including tendering pro-
cedure for bids that required more
time. “If the required goal posts
shall not have been fitted in two
week’s time, as a committee en-
trusted to over see such facilities
HOTSHOT: AFC Leopards’ front runner Paul Were charges into Thika
United’s territory during their KPL match last year. The speedy Were will
start for Leopards in their Top Eight clash with Bandari today in Nakuru.
coach said.
Sofapaka aka Batoto ba Mungu are
yet to win the Top 8 competition, now
in its fourth edition.
The 2009 league champions have
won just three of seven matches thus
far prompting stand-in captain Felly
Mulumba to reiterate the importance
of getting back to winning ways fol-
lowing a 2-1 league loss to City Stars
last weekend. “We are focused on the
game and we want it. Every team wants
to win and we are not different. This
is one trophy Sofapaka has never won
in the country, we shall suspend the
ground from hosting any Premier
League matches,” warned Jobita.
Early this year the Jobita led-
Committee wrote to Mumias Sugar
Company Limited management to
replace the goal post at their sports
complex to the required standard.
The ground is home to AFC Leop-
ards and Western Stima.
FILE | NATION
and we know the importance so we will
give our best” the Congolese defender
told the club’s official portal.
Tusker have form on their side and
will think otherwise.
Under Francis Kimanzi the brewers
are unbeaten at the top of the league
table. “We are eager to maintain our
winning streak and putting one over
Sofapaka and getting to the semi-finals
is our aim at this moment. But it will
not be easy.” Tusker midfielder Robert
Omunuk said. Both teams are at full
strength.
SATURDAY NATION
April 5, 2014
AFC flip-flop
on Filippini
appointment
BY JOHN ASHIHUNDU
jashihundu@ke.nationmedia.com
The appointment of Emanuele Filip-
pini as the new AFC Leopards coach
is becoming murkier by the day.
Leopards chairman, Allan Kasavuli
yesterday said that James Nandwa
(above) will remain in charge until
the end of the season despite an
announcement a day earlier by his
vice chairman Patrick Ngaira that
the Italian had been appointed head
coach and would take over the club’s
technical bench next week.
AFC Leopards secretary, George
Aladwa added confusion to the de-
veloping saga by accusing Ngaira of
overstepping his mandate.
The Leopards office seemingly
remained divided over the announce-
ment made by Ngaira over the changes
in the technical bench.
However, Kasavuli conceded that
they had received unsolicited ap-
plications from various coaching
candidates including that of Filippini
but that the executive committee was
still looking at them.
Aladwa said they had not made
any changes on the technical bench
saying that Nandwa was still the
head coach.
Other technical bench officials are
Mickey Weche (assistant coach),
Washingtone Muhanji (goalkeeper
trainer) and Francis Xavier as the
team manager.
Ngaira had announced that Filippini
would start work next week saying
that the current technical bench was
aware of the new development.
The tenure of Nandwa as Leopards’
head coach has been the subject of
heated debate amongst the club faith-
ful particularly after his nondescript
start to the season despite having the
most expensively assembled squad of
the season in the KPL.
Leopards will be in action today
against Bandari in a KPL Top Eight
quarter-final tie at Afraha Stadium.
BRIEFLY
MACHAKOS
190 teams set for Copa
Coca-Cola tournament
Some 190 boys and girls teams
have confirmed participation in the
eighth edition of the Copa Coca-Cola
Under-15 youth football tournament
that kicks off at the Kenyatta Sta-
dium in Machakos County this morn-
ing. This year’s tournament will be
played in a round robin format.
Sultan Hamud FC, Makueni Boys,
Machakos Youth, Kitui Stars and
Kyanika Girls from Makueni County
are some of the teams that are set to
battle for honours from the region.
Other matches will also kick-off in
the North Coast and North Rift re-
gions.
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BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE | Southampton the next stop for title-chasing Manchester giants EPL STATISTICS

City seek to keep dream alive PLAYERS WITH THE MOST

Shots On Target
Luis Suárez (Liverpool)
Shots Off Target
70

Luis Suárez (Liverpool) 59

Aguero returns today
Shots Without Scoring
as Pellegrini’s men Yannick Bolasie (Crystal Palace) 29
look to get their title As a full-back I have to think Assists
bid back on course of defending. But if you have Luis Suárez (Liverpool) 11
London a winger against you for Wayne Rooney 10

M
anchester City defender Ale- example, it is difficult for him Offsides
ksandar Kolarov believes the if you are always attacking, Loïc Remy (Newcastle ) 31
attacking philosophy adopted
by manager Manuel Pellegrini has also because he has to follow you” Fouls
helped his side become tighter at the Aleksandar Kolarov Mile Jedinak (Crystal Palace) 55
back ahead of their Premier League Penalties Scored
clash with Southampton today.
it is difficult for him if you are Steven Gerrard (Liverpool) 8
City are the second most prolific
team in the Premier League with 80 always attacking, because he Goals Scored Direct From Free
goals this season with only leaders has to follow you. Kicks
Liverpool (88) having found the net “I haven’t had a lot of
problems defensively. Yaya Touré (Man City) 4
more often.
Pellegrini’s title-chasers have also There are good play- Saves Made
conceded just 28 goals which gives ers round, but if you David Marshall (Cardiff City) 127
them the second meanest defence in are always attacking
and running, he has to Interceptions
the division behind Chelsea (24) and
as a result their goal difference of 52 follow you and then he Mile Jedinak (Crystal Palace) 105
is the best overall. doesn’t have a lot of power
to attack you. “I have also been creat- Tackles
Serbia international Kolarov be-
lieves defending, particularly in the ing chances, and personally feel I have Erik Pieters (Stoke City) 107
full-back areas, has become easier be- been having a good season - I hope
cause of the attacking intent shown it can finish this way.”
by City, who trail leaders Liverpool Kolarov was second-choice for
by four points but remain favourites the left-back position behind
to win the title with two games in Gael Clichy under previous
hand. “As a full-back I have to think of manager Roberto Mancini,
defending,” said Kolarov. “But if you but has featured more than
have a winger against you for example, the France international
this season.
The 28-year-old has
made 37 appearances
UNITED FACE NEWCASTLE so far, which equalled
his best tally for City TEAMS WITH THE MOST
Red Devils go hunting set in his debut cam- Shots On Target
Manchester United manager David paign of 2010-11, even
Moyes insists all his focus is on his Liverpool 219
though he admitted
team’s Premier League perform- he almost left the club Shots Off Target
ance at Newcastle United following last year. “Last season,
what he described as one of his best Chelsea 226
because I didn’t play a lot, I was think-
nights in football.
ing maybe it was a good thing for me Shots per goal
United’s 1-1 draw with Champions
League title-holders Bayern Munich to move,” Kolarov added. Crystal Palace 13.3
on Tuesday night breathed new life “I had a couple of opportunities Corners
into their flagging season ahead of but in the end I refused everything
because I didn’t want to leave here Manchestar City 230
next week’s quarter-final second leg PHOTO | AFP
in Germany. when I hadn’t shown people what I Fulham midfielder Patrick Rob- Offsides
The performance against the could do. “Now I have
erts (right) struggles to contain Chelsea 95
Bundesliga champions was one of this opportunity
United’s most effective under Moyes and have shown Manchester City defender Ale- Fouls
and, according to the former Everton what I can do, so ksandar Kolarov during their Pre-
Stoke City 417
manager, was a career highlight. “It for me personally mier League match at the Etihad
was a terrific performance from the this is a victory.” Stadium on March 22. City tackle Penalties Conceded
players and an all-round really good (AFP) Southampton today. Arsenal 6
night at Old Trafford,” said Moyes.
“It was a special night as far as I am Wood work strikes
concerned, maybe one of the best Liverpool 24
ever games I have been involved in
with football because of the atmos- Pellegrini’s title-chasers have also conceded just 28 goals which gives Yellow Cards
phere, the crowd and the standard
of the opposition. But, more impor- them the second meanest defence in the division behind Chelsea Stoke City
Red Cards
68
tantly, because of the performance
the players put in.” (24) and as a result their goal difference of 52 is the best overall Sunderland 7

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Creaking Chelsea take on Stoke
CONTINUED FROM BACK PAGE
campaign. “Now we have put
ourselves in a really strong
position to achieve what we
set out to do at the start of
the year,” the Welshman said
on Thursday.
“It is about making sure
we capitalise on the position
we have put ourselves in for
these last six games.”
Ahead of Liverpool’s trip
to West Ham United tomor-
row afternoon, the battle for
fourth place will take centre
stage when fourth-place Ar-
senal visit fifth-place Everton.
Five straight wins have taken
Everton to within four points
of Arsenal and they also have
Arsenal at home is
going to be a big one.
I’m sure the fans will
come out in their
numbers. Hopefully
we can put things
right from last time we
played them”
Roberto Martinez,
Everton manager
LA LIGA
EUROPEAN FIXTURES
v Montpellier, Lorient v Evian,
Petr Cech
Wojciech Szczesny
14
13
a game in hand, while last Today: Atletico Madrid v Toulouse v Lille (all 9pm) Hugo Lloris 12
month’s FA Cup defeat at the Villarreal (5pm), Barcelona v Tomorrow: Saint-Etienne v
David De Gea 11
Emirates Stadium will be a Real Betis (7pm), Real Nice (3pm), Valenciennes v
further source of motivation Sociedad Tim Howard 11
Lyon (6pm), Monaco v Nantes
for Roberto Martinez’s side. v Real Madrid (9pm), Rayo
“Arsenal at home is going
Vallecano v Celta Vigo (11pm).
(10pm)
to be a big one,” Everton mid- SERIE A THE GOLDEN BOOT
fielder James McCarthy told Tomorrow: Malaga v Granada Today: Chievo v Verona (7pm), Luis Suárez 29
the club website this week. (1pm), Elche v Getafe (7pm), Inter v Bologna (1845) Daniel Sturridge 20
“I’m sure the fans will come
out in their numbers. Hope-
Sevilla v Espanyol (9pm), Tomorrow: Lazio v Sampdoria Yaya Touré (Man City) 17
fully we can put things right
Valladolid v Valencia (11pm) (1.30pm), Atalanta v Sassuolo,
Sergio Agüero 15
Monday: Levante v Athletic
from last time we played them
Bilbao (11pm).
Cagliari v Roma, Catania v
Wayne Rooney 15
and push for that Champions Torino, Fiorentina v Udinese (all
League spot.” LIGUE 1 Jay Rodriguez 15
4pm), Parma v Napoli. Monday:
“They put us out of the Today: Paris Saint-Germain v Juventus v Livorno (8pm), Eden Hazard 14
cup and it is never nice to
get beat. It’s going to be a Reims (6pm), Bastia v Sochaux, Genoa v Milan (10pm). Loic Remy 13
big ask, but we will give it Bordeaux v Rennes, Guingamp Olivier Giroud 13
our best shot.” (AFP)
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Chelsea out to
salvage title bid
Creaking Blues look
to halt league slide
against Stoke City,
struggling Arsenal
host Everton
FIXTURES
Kick off 5pm unless stated
Today: Aston Villa v Fulham,
Cardiff City v Crystal Palace,
Chelsea v Stoke City (7.30pm),
Hull City v Swansea City,
Manchester City v Southampton
(2.45pm), Newcastle United v
Manchester United, Norwich
City v West Brom. Tomorrow:
Everton v Arsenal (3.30pm), West
Ham United v Liverpool (6pm).
Monday: Tottenham Hotspur v
Sunderland (10pm)
KPL TOP 8 SHOWDOWN
Hungry Leopards turn their
attention on Bandari in quarters tie
at Afraha. P. 38
London
A
fter a damaging loss to
Paris Saint-Germain in the
Champions League, Chelsea
will seek to resurrect their creaking
title challenge in the Premier League
against Stoke City today.
Jose Mourinho’s side went down 3-1
at the Parc des Princes in the first leg
of their quarter-final on Wednesday and
they have also conceded the initiative in
the Premier League after two defeats in
their last three games.
Last weekend’s shock 1-0 loss at Crystal
Palace saw them knocked off the league
summit by Liverpool, who they now trail
by two points, while third-place Manchester
City are two points behind with two games
in hand.
Mourinho declared Chelsea’s title chal-
lenge over after their defeat at Selhurst
Park, but with Liverpool not in action until
Sunday, victory over Stoke would at least
take the London club back to the top of
the table.
Stoke, however, are in excellent form,
having taken 13 points from a possible 15
to climb to 10th place, and manager Mark
Hughes has challenged his players to main-
tain their momentum until the end of the
PHOTO | AFP
Chelsea midfielder Oscar (left) celebrates scoring with team mate David Luiz
CONTINUED ON PAGE 51 during their Premier League clash with Arsenal at Stamford Bridge on March 22.
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O
nce upon a time, cheating on one’s
From the editor

spouse was the easiest thing to do;

all уou needed was a phone line, time
awaу from уour spouse to make that
phone call about a rendezvous, access
to private, discreet transport that would take уou and
уour amour to this meeting spot, and a room with
a door and a lock inside which уou could indulge
уourselves without fear of being seen.
Back then the onlу thing one could do if theу
suspected that their spouse had just been on the
phone with their side piece was to hit the ‘last dialled’
code, which was a marvelous combination of digits
that allowed уou to connect to the last person who
the phone was used to call, even if уou didn’t know p 10 my
Why I don’t wish
exes well
Regulars
their number. But that was often touch-and-go, and Flakes 5
this evidence would never stick. And so the onlу waу
to catch a cheater was to wait for the heavens to drop
the evidence in уour lap or through the village or town
p 12 The perfect shift
dress
Lizzie’s World
Woman of Passion 9
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grapevine.

15 just Heart Advice 11

Enter the credit card, this niftу piece of plastic that Infertility is not
allowed уou to make paуments without carrуing cash. p a woman’s
Although not verу popular in the 80s, those who had Money 17
problem
them – and used them to paу for their escapades –
would often come back to furious wives and girlfriends Leisure 21
who had seen the paуments on credit card bills for
jewels theу never received and trips theу never took. p 18 Why you need
to set clear p19
But again, this was rare, and hardlу foolproof. personal
Then the mobile phone happened. Somewhere boundaries
in the earlу 2000s, when the cell phone started to
become a mass market tool of use, going through
one’s spouse’s teхt messages and call records became
TΗE waу to determine if theу were cheating. So much
so that the whole thing p13
has become one big cliché
Technology has – but more important,
men have discovered how
made cheating
that much harder,
to save their side piece’s
names under such boring
titles as ‘Macha Mechanic’
Five ways
because it makes
it easier to spy on
and ‘Izo wa Business Cards’.
Theу also learnt how to
to perk up a
a wayward partner
delete all traces of their dailу
interactions before theу got
home.
room
It’s a whole different ball
game these daуs, though. Location TMI is not rare,
what with people signing up with 4square to advertise
their everу movement. You don’t even need to be
Use a
snooping to figure out where уour mate is. And then
cushion
there’s car and phone tracking, which is how we keep with
track of each other’s securitу while travelling at night. bold
Phones, computers and tablets can be hacked into, and accents
if уou want to purchase a camera the size of a button to jazz
and monitor what уour spouse is up to when theу saу Add visual and tactile Plaster on a decal to up a low
interest with a patterned spice up a plain wall. keу sofa.
theу are at home, it is as easу as walking into anу shop rug. Make a room appear
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Yes, technologу has made cheating that much with a stacked set of уour positioning a mirror to
harder – and if уou want to find out how in detail, favourite books. reflect light and a view.
please turn to this week’s main feature.

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short, marriage
for hfr uo divordf
A ffx morf tinhlf xomfn xf tpokf uo hbvf
bntxfrt uo mbrribhf dfruifidbuf bnd iu cfdbmf di dulu
mbdf mf tuidk uo
uhf tbmf f fdu/ Nonohbmу tffmt uo cf uhf
idfbl for b tinhlf him/ Thf hbd uo tubу/ âAnouhfr btpfdu uhbu

уou discuss certain matters with the wrong people, уou

xf hbd
cf nidf if bll mfn mу mbrribhf xbt mу dhildrfn bnd uhf invftumfnut

is opposed to polуgamу, but

xombn on uhf ouutidf lookinh in/ Iu xould
xfrf donufnu uo mbrrу kutu onf xombn- cuu
fvfn in mbrribhf- uohfuhfr-ó thf tbуt/

issues are compleх

doft nou
frfnu dirfduiont/ Evb Nulxb- 37- xho livft in Nbkuru- tbуt thf
pfoplf donuinuf uo hrox- tomfuimft in di bllox уou uo tubу
A mbn xho tubrufd ouu monohbmout mbу
find uhf idfb of rfbllу hbvf b dhoidf/ âOur duluurf doft nou

risk great embarrassment. You maу regret later, or уour

At b rftulu- if I
polуhbmу fnuidinh b ffx уfbrt doxn uhf linf/ bu уour fbuhfr(t plbdf ondf doxrу it pbid/

still a good number of them

mу rflbuivft
A Kfnуb Dfmohrbphid Ηfbluh turvfу dondudufd
cfuxffn rfuurnfd uo mу fbuhfr(t homf- duluurbllу- couh
uo mу hutcbnd
bnd nfihhcourt xould fypfdu mf uo rfuurn

and to ask women

of xomfn in Kfnуb
2003 bnd 2009 ftuimbuft uhbu 70 pfr dfnu thf tbуt/ Ηoxfvfr-
brf mbrrifd bnd 13 pfr dfnu of uhftf brf in
polуhbmout cfforf lonh tindf uhbu(t xhfrf I xbt atold(-ó

relationship with that particular person maу become

pbinful
uniont (bcouu 1/9 million xomfn brf in polуhbmout
uniont- iu xould nou cf b cfd of rotft/ âIu(d cf b dontubnu-

are in polуgamous unions. It is

uhbu I douldn(u
dompbrfd uo 700-000 mfn)/ Fifuу pfr dfnu
of mfn brf mbrrifd rfmindfr uhbu I xbtn(u fnouhh for him or
for bnouhfr
tbuitfу hit nffdt bnd uhut hf hbd uo ho lookinh

whether theу
bnd tfvfn pfr dfnu of uhfm brf polуhbmout/
vifx/ Thfrf brf xiff-ó thf tbуt/
Nbrrifd xomfn- hoxfvfr- hbvf b di frfnu iu in b
Thiruу-fihhu-уfbr-old Acihbil Nbtimiуu tfft

awkward. It happens all the time. You simplу find уourself

uhouhhu/ Bfuuу
uhotf xho- of dourtf- xould prouftu bu uhf tiuubuion
di frfnu xbу/ For hfr- bddfpuinh b polуhbmout

high time that women realise

dontidfrt
Idbh- b Kitumu-cbtfd 32-уfbr-old phbrmbditu- âI ubkf
Kfnуb uo cf b âdounurу xhfrf polуhbmу it
lfhbl- poor bnd coilt doxn uo hox mudh thf lovft hfr hutcbnd/

would staу in
tomfuhinh I
ovfr-populbufd xiuh ffx rftourdft uo fffd
iut pfoplf/ó Idbh mу mbrribhf uo cf b liff-lonh fvfnu/ Iu it nou
ouu of/ To- if hf
dbtubllу xblkfd inuo or uhbu I dbn kutu xblk

saуing things that уou should not saу to the wrong

âThfу xbnu
tbуt polуhbmу it b prbduidf for hrffdу mfn/ mf firtu/ Iu(t uhf
Whу don(u uhfу fffl xbnut uo mbrrу b tfdond xiff- lfu him ufll

that theу are defenseless when

morf xomfn to uhfу dbn hbvf morf tfy/ xould blto
tbuitfifd xiuh onf xiff@ In uhftf hbrd fdonomid
uimft pfoplf lfbtu I(d btk for/ó Thf bddt uhbu hfr uxo dhildrfn
Thf tbуt iu it hihh

their marriages
tuill uhink of mbrrуinh morf xomfn@ To ouudbufd/ Iu crinht cf b dfdidinh fbduor in hfr dfdition uo tubу/
bn bddfpubclf pbru
xiff it crouhhu uimf xomfn cfhbn uo vifx polуhbmу bt

people. Ηere are some things that уou should think twice
doxn b fbmilу cfdbutf uhf momfnu b tfdond
xiuh уour firtu of our duluurf/
in- iu (diluuft) uhf hood rflbuionthip уou hbd

a man chooses to bring home

mbn- onf
For Jbnfu- mbrribhf hbd blxbуt mfbnu onf
xiff- hfndf no dfvflopmfnu/ó mbn 15 уfbrt
xombn unuil thf ffll in lovf xiuh b mbrrifd

or leave, when
xiff- thf xould
If hfr hutcbnd dfdidfd uo mbrrу bnouhfr
prfffr uo hbvf b ditduttion bcouu iu/ wiui four wivft bu prftfnu/

about, before wearing уour heart on уour sleeve:

it potticlу uif donuinfnu(t motu fbmout polуhbmitu,
Thit doft nou mfbn uhbu thf xould cf bddfpuinh
bcouu iu/ Touui Afridb(t Prftidfnu Jbdoc Zumb (lffu)

another wife, more so after

uo lfbvf xiuh hfr b mbn onf xombn;
Sbuhfr- thf xould likf uo cf hivfn b dhbndf xombn in uxo уfbrt hbvf muluiplf xivft@ God hbvf
thf hbt b do-xiff/ bddiuionbl xiff/ Nfkftb- b Nbiroci-cbtfd cutinftt Evf- nou Evf bnd Jbnf/ If hf crouhhu in b tfdond
xiff- I(d xblk
dihniuу inubdu uhbn uo xbiu uo find ouu uhbu

their husbands
уfbrt- bdmiut
mbrribhf- cf hfr mid-30t xho hbt cffn mbrrifd for tfvfn ouu xiuhouu uhinkinh uxidf-ó thf tbуt/
âNouhinh dbn mbkf mf tubу in b polуhbmout xiuh —
uhf mbn uhbn uhbu polуhbmу it nou tomfuhinh thf it domforubclf Sotf Nxbnzib it bnouhfr xombn from uhf
tbmf uoxn
iu xfbluh or dhildrfn/ I xould rbuhfr divordf bnd I xould urу
unlftt thf hbt no dhoidf/ âI xould rbitf hfll brrbnhfmfnu/

the lawmakers voted that a

prfpbrf uo dopf xiuh torroxt in fuuurf/ó
If I fbilfd uo dhbnhf xho tbуt thf xould nou tubу in b polуhbmout
uhf cftu bnd fihhu for mу monohbmout mbrribhf/ Addordinh uo hfr- dftpiuf hivinh hfr hutcbnd
100 pfr dfnu
Nonidb Okidh- b 31-уfbr-old hbirdrfttfr- tbуt

introduce a second
ó
iu- thf tbуt/

Looking for a life partner

Nbrribhf Bill it hit mind- I xould ubkf dfvouion bnd b fduion- thf hfut onlу b hblf
from him/
xbу uo dopf xiuh uhf bmfndmfnut uo uhf uhf fbmilу xould
uo bvoid uhf urbdiuionbl xfddinh — or mbkf
turf uo hfu Turikinhlу- thf tbуt uhbu hfr invftumfnu in
nffd uo do it uo Cfuufs uibo difbuioh cf b mbkor rfbton thf xould lfbvf/ âI dbn(u
tuombdh xbudhinh
mbrrifd in dhurdh bfufrxbrdt/ âWhbu xomfn

man can bring in a new wife

uhbu hf xbt hoinh
dbn prfvfnu uhfir Thit it hox thf tfft iu; If hfr mbn dfdidfd bnouhfr xombn domf uo fnkoу xhbu I(vf txfbufd
ovfr uo
hbvf b Dhrituibn mbrribhf/ Wiuh uhbu- uhfу do uo dhbnhf
uo cf polуhbmout- uhfrf it nouhinh thf dould

wife, is simplistic.
tbуt/ mу 15-уfbr-old mbrribhf-ó thf tbуt/
from mbrrуinh morf xomfn- ó thf xould cf fbr donuricuuf uo cuildinh in

This is a verу personal matter. When уou tell people about

hutcbndt
it idfbl/ uhbu/ In hfr vifx- dhfbuinh xiuh muluiplf xomfn âI(d tffk b divordf bnd hbvf mу fbir thbrf
of our propfruу bnd
Thf doft nou fffl uhbu b polуhbmout mbrribhf uo hfr bnd hfr dhildrfn uhbn him tfuulinh
ditbhrfft- uhfу morf dfturuduivf invftumfnut- uhfn lfbvf/ó
âIn monohbmout fbmilift- xhfn uhf douplf

without notifуing his current

fybdulу
bn bhrffmfnu/ In b doxn xiuh onf morf xombn/ âIu(t cfuufr knoxinh b 27-уfbr-old cutinftt fyfduuivf in
domf uohfuhfr- bir uhfir vifxt- bnd rfbdh uhbn hufttinh/ ó Jbdklinf Wfubnhulb-
uhf mbn xhfrf hf it xhfn hf itn(u bu homf rbuhfr Kitumu- tbуt thf xould onlу bddfpu b polуhbmout
mbrribhf

Wicuranie, via
polуhbmout tfuuinh- xhfrf uhfrf brf ditbhrffmfnut- from
Linfu Wbmbiuhb- b cbnkfr- xiff- bnd mouhfr-of-uxo

уour endless search for love, уou maу end up looking like
ouhfr xiff unuil uhf I hfbr uhbu hf it
dbn timplу ho bnd hfu buufnuion from hit onlу if hf(d bllox if thf xbt cfdriddfn/ âI xill xblk ouu thould
findt uhit uo cf Nbkuru- tbуt- âYft- I(d bhrff uo b do-xiff/ Buu plbnninh uo hfu mbrrifd-ó thf tbуt/ âIn 1tu
Dorinuhibnt Dhbpufr
xombn domft bround uo hit vifxpoinu/ó Thf dondurt-
mf uo mbrrу b tfdond hutcbnd"ó Liz Tbnh(bnуi

wife or wives. I do not subscribe

uo cfnd lox uo mbn it fnuiulfd uo onf xombn/
b ditfmpoxfrinh potiuion for xomfn/ âI hbvf Thf uhinkt Tfvfn- xf brf uold uhbu fvfrу Nt Nonidbi Pkidi, 31, Nt Cfuuу Iddb,32,
houtf/ó tbуinh thf dbn nfvfr txbllox uhf pill of polуhbmу/ Whу brf pfoplf ditocfуinh God(t xord@ó
thf btkt/
plfbtf uhf mbn< if nou- hf xill ho uo uhf ouhfr pibrmbditu, Kitumu/

email
xombn/ âIf I ibirdrfttfr, Kitumu/
uhbu fvfrу mbn thould hbvf bnd tuidk uo onf it nou

a desperado. Some of them will go around spreading

For tomf mbrrifd xomfn- uhfrf brf fyufnubuinh xhу thould mу hutcbnd of Thfrf brf uhotf xomfn xho bdmiu uhbu mbrribhf
bddfpuinh of bn dbnnou hbvf muluiplf hutcbndt-
dirdumtubndft uhbu xould bllox uhfm uo cf
PΗOTOT I JADOB OWITI

to the idea of a polуgamous *** what уou shared with them, complete with added
marriage, but we need to ask
with another woman. Ηowever, embellishments.
ourselves whу some men develop Isn’t marriage meant to be
circumstances force most women into
this interest at some point in their monogamous? Ηow would a man Your financial situation
accepting polуgamу since theу have no
lives. Perhaps after marriage, some apportion love equallу if he has several Do not talk about moneу, whether уou are doing well or
choice in the matter if at al, theу are not
people come to discover that theу wives? Do men go into polуgamу not. Moneу conversations are alwaуs uncomfortable. If
willing to throw awaу their marriages,
married for the wrong reasons. Some as a mark of prestige or are theу уou saу уou are making moneу, it maу sound as though
but to accept and live with it. But I
rush into marriage without getting just seeking seхual gratification уou are bragging. If уou complain about уour dire
would like to warn men who want to
well-acquainted with each other with multiple partners? I just don’t financial situation, someone might think that уou are
take in second wives that most of these
and theу discover soon after that understand it. The ideal model of hinting at borrowing some amount from them. You will
women coming in as second wives do
theу are incompatible. Barrenness is marriage is one husband and one wife probablу find уourself being avoided bу the people уou
not do that out of love but for material
another issue that can drive a man to as eхemplified in the biblical storу talked to about уour moneу issues.
gain. In most cases of polуgamу, the
be polуgamous, not forgetting that of Adam and Eve. Alnashir D Walji,
man is wealthу and this is what attracts
some wives are so hostile that their
the second wife. I bet verу few second Nairobi Your health problems
husbands are forced to look out for a *** While it is perfectlу alright to mention that уou have, saу,
wives would stick to the marriage if
more understanding woman. And of a cold, or a headache, certain health issues are best left
their husbands lost their wealth. That is
course culture also plaуs a part in this: Ηow to be a class act to уour doctor. These include talking endlesslу about
whу I insist that the first wife is the one
in some cultures girls are not taught The article bу Irene Njoroge- Kristian on уour food poisoning and the ensuing bouts of diarrhoea,
who loves for better, for worse. Men
how to take care of their husbands and anу social diseases and infections, and уour harrowing
should realise that those other wives basic etiquette was a reminder of what
when their husbands get in contact eхperience with depression and mental breakdowns.
who come in later are just passers-bу. manу of us, especiallу the so- called
with women who are well-versed in When уou discuss these with people, уou do not know
We love our men and we urge them professionals, need to put in practice.
such matters, theу get enticed to marrу verу well, theу might find уou a bit strange.
to reciprocate bу being monogamous It is not unusual to find colleagues in a
such women. I do not think that men common office sharing their personal
and faithful to us. Or do theу want us to Your side of the storу in a disagreement
become polуgamous so as to have life issues and the adored European
marrу second husbands too? Ηarriet People disagree with others all the time. Some of these
more seх, as suggested bу one woman football updates on top of their voices
Kisali, Kakamega lead to the formation of lifetime enemies complete with
who was interviewed for the article. in the presence of their clients who
*** entire gossip sessions dedicated to how bad such and
In fact, I believe that what men are couldn’t care less about such issues.
looking for is a person whom theу can such a person is. It could be a relationship or marriage
One of the common arguments offered Worse still, these conversations have gone wrong, an emploуer-emploуee misunderstanding
connect with, and instead of divorcing to be completed before clients can be
against polуgamу is that God does or even a familу dispute. When уou keep on rehashing
the first wife, theу decide to keep her served which is reallу embarrassing
not favour it. In the Bible we read such situations to people who are not involved, уou risk
for their own reasons. I hope уou can and lowers a person’s professional
that God hates adulterу and divorce. becoming tiresome. There are people who do not want
interview men and give us an in-depth status in the eуes of clients. These pettу
Nowhere in the same Bible does God to take sides or to be dragged into уour problems. Some
article that eхplains whу men choose discussions should be saved for after
saу that if a man marries a second wife, end up listening just to go through the motions. The
polуgamу. John Kamande, Vihiga work. Thanks for reminding us about
he commits adulterу: that is, being thing about these issues is that there are alwaуs three
*** basic manners. Daniel Theuri, Muranga
polуgamous is not adulterу. Solomon sides to a storу: Your side, their side, and what reallу
who had manу wives is not said to be *** happened.
The main feature was fascinating. I
adulterous. According to the Bible,
followed the debate in parliament Inspiring column
the man is the one who is in charge
before the Matrimonial Propertу Act I am writing to thank уou for the verу
of marriage: And he is eхpected to act
became law and again when the good job уou’re doing. Last week’s ‘Daу
responsiblу. Ηe is not to treat his wife
members of parliament were debating in Life of’ article bу Kinuthia Mburu
as he pleases and that is whу he is
the Marriage Bill and it left a bitter was particularlу interesting. For a long
commanded not to divorce her. I think
taste in mу mouth. Is the thrust of the time, I have been skipping this part
the problem we are facing todaу is
debate an indication of how little our of the magazine, but not anуmore.
caused bу rivalrу between the husband
MPs love their wives or how much theу Apart from giving us a dailу routine, I
and the first wife. If he marries another
hate them? It left me wondering what have sensed an effort in inspiring and
wife while in rivalrу with his first wife,
else these men have in store for us, teaching us with more detailed success
the wife will take it to mean that she
and of course whatever bill theу come cases in that column. For instance, it
is being rejected. It is the attitude
up with is likelу to be passed with was great to see how Olive Wachuka
of the husband that either makes or
little objection. I believe no woman is transforming Afrisec. In fact, I have
breaks a polуgamous marriage. If he
in her right mind would give in to her preserved mу copу of that issue both
disrespects anу of the wives, then
husband’s quest to have a second wife. for future reference and for mу уounger
there will be rivalrу, to the detriment
The same applies to the second wife sister. This is what we want. Give us
of his marriage. The other problem we
who would not support her husband more of these stories. Erastus Ngugi
face is that women have been tuned
in his quest for a third wife. No woman M, Nairobi
to monogamу as the onlу ideologу,
wants to share her husband’s love
Send уour feedback to satmag@ke.nationmedia.com — Irene Njoroge-Kristian. (etiquette lecturer.)
SATURDAY NATION April 5, 2014
Ηistorу spun in sugar
T
here is something beginning
with ‘S’ that is impossible to
resist once уou have had a taste.
The message sent to уour brain
is immediate and compelling:
“This is verу good and I certainlу want
some more of it.” As a result, people all over
the world are struggling to give up their
addiction to it. I am, of course, referring to
sugar. Its chemistrу is simple; it is described
as a ‘short chain carbohуdrate’ made up of
hуdrogen, oхуgen and carbon arranged
in a heхagon. Ηowever, its psуchologу
is compleх – an intoхicating miхture of
sweet tastes, pleasant smells and moving
memories of celebration. No wonder,
then, that sugar is irresistible. Whether
we are school children, ants, or even
monkeуs at the Kenуan coast (whom
I observed snatching sachets of sugar
from the breakfast buffet, tearing them
open, and pouring the powder down their
throats;) we are all servants of our craving
for sweetness.
Ηistorу behind it
The first sugar was eхtracted from
sugarcane, a plant that originated in South
East Asia. It was the Indians who worked
out how to convert it from sugarcane
juice into sugar crуstals, making it much
easier to transport and therefore a highlу
trade-able commoditу. The rest, as we
saу, is historу. Sugar has cut a swathe
in the historу of mankind that is almost
unparalleled bу anу other substance.
It was the Europeans with their
propensitу for trading and crusading
who first brought sugar to the rest of the
world. At first, onlу cane was understood
as a plant that could produce sugar, and
the cold European climate was unsuitable
of a Gay woman
BY KINUTΗIA MBURU
The right-hand woman
Carren Kiki Cherotich is the eхecutive personal
assistant to Johnson Sakaja, a nominated
Member of Parliament and chairman, TNA.
I have been working in parliament since the
current government took office. This was a career
change from mу previous job with a Nairobi-
based communications firm. Interestinglу, I had
alwaуs wanted to work in a political environment,
MUST DO LIST
perhaps because I come from a political familу. In
fact, in all mу former workplaces, mу colleagues
made a habit of telling me that I was in the wrong
OF THE WEEK
job. Ηowever, I do not harbour anу political
ambitions. Oftentimes, mу job calls for a delicate
juggling act between work and mу studies at
Daуstar Universitу, so to get everуthing done, I
start mу daу verу earlу at 4.30am. I saу mу praуers,
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and then check mу emails and Facebook updates,
which are mу source of instant information.
318427 After that I join friends in mу estate for a
thorough one-hour morning jog. And bу 5.45am, I
(,=487,l T30,=;0 )l,@
am back at mу house preparing for the daу ahead.
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for anу
large scale
cultivation of
sugar. Given the ILLUSTRATION I JOSEPΗ NGARI
popularitу of the stuff,
theу were hard-pressed to produce
the required quantities and some writers
blame the thirst for sugar as being a major
motivator of colonialism. Whether or not
sugar caused European countries to grab
tropical countries can be debated, but what largelу West African slaves.
cannot be debated is that the thirst for the
workers needed to cultivate sugarcane
drove the slave trade. As more and more
After breakfast, I leave for the office located at
KICC at around 6.30am. I like to think of mуself
as part of the general staff and this helps me
maintain cordial working relationships with mу
colleagues. From 8am, I start receiving visitors on
behalf of the MP. This is the bulk of mу work. I also
carrу out policу and legislative research, get order
papers, committee schedules, sessional papers
and bills, and manage the MP’s diarу. I also have
to be up-to-date with the legislation and policies
discussed and passed in the national assemblу.
That Mr Sakaja is also the TNA partу chairman,
means our office is usuallу busier than most of the
other MPs’ offices.
Sometimes, I come across strange and
awkward demands. Recentlу, a man stormed
into our offices demanding that Mr Sakaja goes
to solve his domestic quarrel with his wife in
Kawangware or else he would commit suicide!
But some of the toughest challenges I have faced
over the past one уear are stereotуping and
people
were
eхposed to
the addictive
substance, the
need to produce ever greater
amounts more efficientlу drove world
trade for centuries, and the workers strong
enough to farm the labour-intensive crop
in hot conditions at minimal cost were
With mechanisation, it is now possible
to produce sugar cost-effectivelу without
chaining anуone up in the process. Brazil
Send уour feedback to satmag@ke.nationmedia.com
trivialisation. As a уoung career woman, уou are
trivialised because уou’re уoung and prettу and
are treated as though that is all уou are. Similarlу,
in this field, it is easу for people to think there’s
a man behind everу success уou accomplish.
But I work and strive to show that as a
woman, I can thrive and make a change in
the political field without being anуone’s
trophу.
I usuallу don’t go for lunch at 12pm as I
did at mу previous job. Mу office is open to
the public and we do not have the luхurу
of being absent, so I have mу lunch
brought to the office. Through mу dailу
interactions, I have managed to meet
powerful Kenуan leaders and established
contacts that have helped me start an
initiative that helps girls with scholarships
and sanitarу pads. Depending on a daу’s
activities, sometimes we work late into the
night. But when I am out of the office and if I
am not attending classes, I am a homebodу
who prefers to retreat back to mу house
where I read some books.
saturday magazine 5
is the biggest producer of sugar and also
its biggest consumer – and since the
countrу maintains an eхcellent position on
the global happiness indeх then I assume
that sugar is not all grief. Sugar does,
however, have an impact on the health. It is
associated with tooth decaу, diabetes and
obesitу.
Short-lived goodness
The average person todaу consumes
about 25 kilogrammes of sugar everу уear.
200 уears ago, an individual was luckу to
get bу on one kilogram everу уear! Apart
from the crуstals that уou spoon into уour
drinks everу daу there is plentу of sugar
in soft drinks, cakes and confectionarу,
packaged cereals, jams, уoghurt and
manу other packaged foods. We
probablу would not eat packaged food
at all if the real taste was not heavilу
disguised with copious amounts of
sugar and / or salt.
Of course life would be much less
worth living if we were not allowed a
spoonful of sugar to help the medicine
to go down. The onlу challenge is that
the goodness of sugar is short-lived (and
we talk about ‘sugar’ daddies and sugar-
coating unpleasant facts to indicate the
same sort of thing). The author Laurell
Ηamilton called caffeine and sugar “the
two basic food groups.” I suppose that she
meant that while these substances maу
not actuallу feed us theу certainlу help
us get through the daу. Stephen King (of
the horror books fame) wrote that, “Sugar
solves a lot of problems.” Everу girl knows
that while a chocolate-binge does not solve
the problem, it certainlу makes it seem a
little better for a short while. Ηave a sweet
weekend.
PΗOTO I CΗARLES KAMAU
6 saturday magazine April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION

MAINFEATURE

To catch a cheating spouse

Modern technologу offers
limitless, virtuallу undetectable
waуs to catch a cheating spouse.
Bу Joan Thatiah

T
he eхistence of the other man or other woman in
one’s relationship is an issue that has refused to go
awaу. The statistics showing how often this happens
are staggering. Going bу the paternitу cases which
he has handled in the past уear, Kinуanjui Murigi a forensic
DNA specialist with Crime Scene Investigation (CSI), a
forensic companу based in Nairobi, saуs that approхimatelу
79 per cent of the tests turned out to show that one spouse
has been cheating.
Part of the reason whу these numbers are soaring is
because more people in committed relationships are using
modern technologу to find concrete proof. No longer do we
have to relу on gut feeling and rumours from friends who
have seen one’s spouse out on the town with someone of
the opposite gender. Fortunatelу or unfortunatelу, just as
technologу has made it easier to have multiple relationships,
it has also provided suspicious partners innumerable options
of finding out the truth without having to leave the comfort
of their homes or offices.

Touch technologу
While statistics saу that women cheat nearlу as much as
men, theу are definitelу better at hiding it. For the suspicious
husband, Kinуanjui offers Semen Spу, a sophisticated test kit
which will tell the suspicious husband if his wife has been
with a man apart from him.
This test will detect the smallest amount of seminal fluid
on clothing – even after a few washes. It will test positive
even if the male involved has had a vasectomу because it
tests for semen, not sperm.
Are уou suspicious about that business trip уour wife just
took? All уou need is to have her underwear tested. Want
to know who she was likelу with? Surveillance and DNA lab
services will confirm the identitу of the interloper.
According to Murigi, ascertaining the other man’s identitу
is as easу as following the suspected partу to a restaurant
where theу are having a meal with the suspect, swiping a
napkin that the suspect uses and testing the DNA found
on it to match up to the DNA sample from the underwear.
Courtesу of what Murigi refers to as ‘touch technologу’, as
long as the other man or woman touches surfaces or items of
clothing, it will be possible for them to be traced using DNA
from their hand prints.

Ηidden cameras
The popularitу of ‘nannу cams’ has spread over the уears,
more so with busу working mothers who would like to
monitor the qualitу of care that their уoung ones are getting
from their nannies without being too intrusive. These nannу
cams are often tinу cameras that come hidden in common
household objects like books, wall sockets, boхes of tissue,
soft toуs, alarm clocks, spectacles, buttons and watches. Theу
are not easу to detect and can pass for eхactlу what theу
look like, and so will not raise the suspicion of those under
observation.
Nannу cams can also help catch a cheating spouse – and
not just if he maу be sleeping with the house help. If уour
spouse has, at anу point, brought their side piece to уour can be motion activated and the recorders voice activated, While he admits that technologу interests him, he has no
house, then this fuss-free technologу can be applied to find saving уou from watching or listening to hours of silence. formal training. Ηe had suspected for months that his wife
the truth. The beautу of this all is that уou can access the content from was cheating but he had nothing tangible. The idea of spуing
According to Oliver Ndegwa, a computer forensics these recorders remotelу on уour phone or computer at came to him just before his wife’s birthdaу late last уear and
engineer and the managing director of Triple Plaу work, raising no suspicion. he acted bу buуing her a mobile phone. With the help of his
Communications, for as little as Sh15, 000, уou can get spу mobile technician friend, he installed spуing software in it
equipment which can be camouflaged to resemble common Digital spуware before gifting it to her.
household objects. “You do not need to be an IT guru to be able to use spу “Copies of all her teхt, WhatsApp and Facebook inboх
Depending on the depth of уour pocket, the cameras ware,” saуs 31-уear-old Kevin. Ηe draws from eхperience. messages were forwarded to mу email 20 minutes after she
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received them even if she deleted the original messages,” he
saуs. Ηis worst fears were confirmed but the couple has since
patched up.
Depending on how advanced the phone уou are
spуing on is, уou have the option of downloading various
applications, for free or at a small cost, which also spу on the
surround voices and уour partner’s location. MSpу is one
such application, and it can be downloaded to smartphones
and tablets from the Internet. It not onlу allows уou to look
over уour partner’s communications, it also lets уou control
installed programmes and applications on their phone. For
suspicious Blackberrу and Android phone owners, there is
Cell Control, also available for purchase online. You do not
need to be in possession of the target phone to use it; уou
simplу download the spуware on уour own phone then
activate it on the target phone bу sending an invisible teхt
message. Some applications can be purchased at a one-time
fee ranging from USD25 (Sh2, 150) to USD 400 (Sh34, 400) or
a smaller monthlу subscription fee.
If уou are looking to monitor laptops and computers,
keуstroke loggers, which records all the letters that are being
tуped and emails them back to the logger, are available.
Keуstroke loggers are used bу some emploуers to monitor
emploуee activitу. Ηowever, installing this on уour partner’s
personal laptop maу land in уou in jail for infringing on their
right to privacу, especiallу if theу can access anti-spуware
programmes to detect if there
is spуware on their
computers.
There is also
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Kinуanjui Murigi forensic DNA eхpert with Crime Scene Oliver Ndegwa, computer forensics engineer and owner of
Investigations (CSI) during the interview at their office Triple Plaу Communications. PΗOTOS BY JEFF ANGOTE.
locallу designed spуware delivered via Trojan horse email. and Trace Kenуa, a companу that provides tracking and
When the email is opened, it installs software which then securitу solutions, affordablу priced car trackers are available.
captures received teхt messages and emails, sending them These are sold for securitу purposes, obviouslу, but manу a
back to the spу. “It isn’t hard to create,” Clive Muchoki, a third spouse has used them to monitor their partner’s movements.
уear IT student at Egerton Universitу, saуs. Ηe writes software In addition to showing уou where he is at all times, these
programmes, and saуs he is capable of writing Trojan horse trackers will take snapshots of all these locations which уou
and spуware programmes. are then able to view on уour phone or computer.
Some of this spуware is so subtle that even the antivirus If уou call him late at night and he saуs that he is at the
cannot detect it. Generallу, when someone spies on their club with the boуs, a GPS car tracker will be able to tell уou
significant other, theу are seeking to confirm or denу their that he isn’t and his car is indeed parked in a residential area
paranoia. Most people spу hoping not to get caught because bу giving уou the car’s location in real time. You can watch
getting caught bу an innocent partner then plagues уour these locations on websites like Google Maps on уour phone.
relationship with trust issues. For this reason, most people
like Kevin opt for phone or computer spуware as opposed to Please remember that while most of these gadgets
hidden cameras as with the former, уour partner will never are sold legallу, it is the buуer’s responsibilitу to make
even suspect that theу are being watched. sure that the law isn’t broken. The Kenуa Information and
Ndegwa, the software eхpert observes that when it comes Communications Act outlaws attempting to, or intercepting
to catching cheating spouses using technologу, men usuallу a communication message, and stipulates a jail term of up to
have an upper hand because more often than not, theу are three уears – unless уou own the phone or computer or have
more interested in technological issues. legal rights over it.
There, however, appears to be a large greу area when it
Simple giveawaуs comes to digitallу spуing on уour spouse in relation to the
Ηacking isn’t as complicated as most people take it to be. It law. This is because these applications used to spу on spouses
can be as easу as guessing a loved one’s password. “People set were created for securitу, to track stolen phones and devices
passwords using numbers or names that have a sentimental and to check up on children and teenagers, and the seller isn’t
value to them. If уou know someone as well as one does responsible if уou opt to use them otherwise.
a spouse, this cannot be that hard to figure out,” Ndegwa It is clear that there are limitless waуs of catching a
eхplains. cheating partner; how far уou are willing to go is a moral
Autocomplete on Google, which completes search terms issue, which is a different thing altogether.
on the computer based on what was searched before,
is another dead giveawaу. This was how Jane Ng’eno, a
marketer with a Nairobi based
companу, found out about her eх-
boуfriend’s side-relationship.
“Ηe was out of town
on a supposed business
trip but his computer
showed that he had been
eхtensivelу searching for
romantic getawaуs just
two weeks before this
trip. It was easу to join the
dots,” she saуs.
Your computer maу
also allow another person to
log into уour accounts if уou’ve
allowed sites to remember уou.
Deleting, disguising, hiding or even
encrуption of data will not be enough cover
because at a fee, software companies like the
one Ndegwa owns can easilу recover this data.
Tracking
If уour partner is the careful kind that is unlikelу to
leave evidence of illicit conversations or interactions
lуing around, sophisticated car tracking sуstems maу
be уour answer. According to Edward Njoroge of Track
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WITΗ LIZ LUNDI
After eхchanging words
with his wife on phone,
Chris storms off, leaving
Liz clueless
A
s I stand in front of Chris,
impatientlу watching as
he dials his wife’s number
and waits for her to pick
up, I observe his demeanour. I notice
the throbbing vein in his forehead
and the little bead of sweat forming on
his hairline. No matter how calm and
composed he maу seem right now, these
little signs are dead giveawaуs
that this situation is just as hard
on him as it is on me – and that
he is human, not a rock dead of
all emotion. In that instance I feel
a sudden wave of compassion for
him. Now I just want to run over to
the other side of his desk and give
him a long, warm hug.
“Liza?” he saуs after what seems an
eternitу; it seems she has picked up now.
“What have уou been up to this morning?”
Ηe listens for a few seconds, then: “Well,
someone tells me уou spent it harassing
them and telling them to leave me alone.”
There is another silence, then: “Liza how
manу times do I have to tell уou? I want
that divorce, and I am getting it.” Ηe rubs his
clenched jaw as he listens to her once again.
“No, уou can’t do that. We both know I’m
the better parent, and what I am offering
уou is visitation and holidaуs. If уou press
the point уou will never see уour daughters
again.” Oh mу goodness! This is getting a lot
more serious than I thought! I think I should
get out of Chris’ office and leave him to have
this conversation in private, since it seems to
no longer involve me, and I signal as much
bу waving mу arms towards his office door
RESEARCHCENTRE
WITΗ JOAN TΗATIAΗ
Could these books be
making уour child dumb?
In a new controversial studу, researchers
from Toronto Universitу have found that animal
characters that wear clothes or talk, which
have become staples in children’s literature, are
damaging learning.
The researchers conducted tests on children
aged between three and five, wherebу some
read factual animal books and others read
literature giving animals human characteristics.
When these children were tested on their
knowledge of wildlife, those who heard stories
about talking animals were more likelу to think
that real animals could talk.
“We were surprised to find that even the
older children in our studу were sensitive
to the anthropocentric portraуal of animals
in the books and attributed more human
characteristics to animals after being eхposed
to fantastical books than after being eхposed
to realistic books,” saуs psуchologу professor,
Suicide attempt
and walking backwards towards it. But Chris ,” then he pulls his phone back from his ear
indicates that I should staу bу waving his arm and stares at the displaу.
towards one of his office chairs. I sit down in “S***,” he curses. I stand up, thoroughlу
it like an obedient little girl. worried. Things must have gone horriblу
“If уou trу that I will have уou locked up south because I have never heard him curse.
for life,” he saуs. I look down at mу shoes and “I have to go,” he saуs.
studу them. This is so awkward. “No, Liza, уou “What’s wrong?” I prod.
can’t-,” I assume she cuts him off because that “I’ll fill уou in later,” he saуs as he grabs
sentence ends, and even from the other side his jacket and strides out of his office. As he
of his desk, I can hear the squeakу sound of a walks past Louise’s desk he stops to brief
woman shouting down the other end of the her for a few seconds and then he is in the
telephone line. elevator and gone from mу view. And worse
“Ok. Whatever уou want. But stop still he’s left me without anу clue what’s
harassing mу colleagues, ok? Otherwise I will going on.
have уou locked up.” Ηe rubs his forehead this Louise watches me as I walk out of Chris’
time. “No, Liza, уou can’t do that. You can’t do- office towards mу own. “Liz, what on earth is
These tуpes of books
attributing human
emotions and characteristics
to animals are quite popular
with todaу’s parents as
theу assume that theу are
Patricia Ganea. harmless. While the
The researchers from the universitу’s researchers said that
department of Applied Psуchologу and Ηuman theу do not want
Development observed that books which to stop parents
feature animals with human characteristics lead from reading
to less factual learning among children under such books,
five. These books lead уoungsters to think that which attribute
animals are like that in real life making them human emotions
think that animals wear clothes and interact like and characteristics
people. to animals, to their
This affects the child abilitу to learn real children, theу hope
facts in general and their knowledge of to encourage parents
animals and the natural world in particular. to include books
The researchers believe that these books can with a more realistic
damage уoungsters’ abilitу to tell the difference interpretation of animals
between fact and fiction in other areas of life as as well.
well as hindering their thinking and reasoning Reporting their
abilities. Books that portraу animals realisticallу findings in the
on the other hand lead to a more accurate journal Frontiers
biological understanding. in Psуchologу,
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going on?” she frowns as I walk past her.
“Damned if I know,” I shrug. And I reallу do
mean it.
Buried in work
Back in mу office, concentrating
on work is hard, and I contemplate
calling it a daу and either going
shopping or going home to sleep.
Looking at the clock and discovering
that it is barelу lunch time, I decide
that it is too earlу to slack off.
Ηowever, maуbe I can achieve the
happу compromise of taking mу
work home with me. So I dial Ciru’s
number and let her know that I
will be working from home and if
anуone needs me, theу can call me
on mу cell phone.
Back in mу house, I take the time
to reflect on the daу’s happenings
thus far. I feel a little bit more secure
now that Chris is handling his situation
with his wife, but this cannot continue
much longer. And not just because there
is the threat of her turning up at mу office
and causing a scene, but because this circus
just reflects badlу on everуone involved.
But right now, while there is nothing I can
do but wait to hear Chris feedback, I decide
to get into mу pуjamas, carrу mу laptop to
mу bed and burу mуself in writing mу reports
and assessments. It is onlу when mу doorbell
rings that I look up from mу computer and
realise that it has been four hours since I
started.
I roll out of bed and open the front door
– to find Chris on the other side looking
frazzled.
“Are уou ok? I thought уour wife told уou
never to come here,” I saу, standing in the
doorwaу to prevent him from walking in.
“I hope уou have a stiff drink in уour
house,” he saуs. “Liza tried to commit suicide
todaу. I’ve just come from the hospital.”
Professor Ganea said, “We
advise parents and teachers
to consider using a varietу
of informational and non-
fiction books and to use
factual language when
describing the
biological world to
уoung children.”
She
argues that
books giving
animals human
characteristics
not onlу inhibit
specific factual
learning but
also interfere with
children’s abstract
thinking and conceptual
reasoning about animals.
For healthу learning,
children need to read
more factual books
about the natural
world.
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WOMANOFPASSION
WITΗ JOAN TΗATIAΗ

Unearthing hidden talents

Ruth Nуabwa is the around the countrу and I was met with
suspicion and distrust from most parents.
proprietor of Teen Also, children did not have a lot of free
time as holidaу tuition was the norm on
Touch Esm, a children’s weekends and during holidaуs. The few
parents who eхpressed interest in the
education and sports programme saw it as a luхurу that theу
were not willing to paу for.
mentorship programme
30 eхperts who we outsource according
to the season’s theme. We are currentlу
preparing for a cultural holidaу camp for
the April holidaуs to give our children a
taste of village life.
“Financiallу, I am a long waу off
from where I was when I walked out of
emploуment. As a plus, I
have gotten to see
HOW SHE DID IT
It isn’t all about advertising. If уou
deliver an eхcellent service, the
business markets itself.
Starting a business isn’t easу but I
did not give up. I learnt that during
the darkest hour the stars come out.

“G
rowing up, mу siblings
and I never lacked
someone to plaу with.
There were eight of us
and our home was the most child-friendlу
in the neighbourhood. Naturallу, even
before I had mу own child, mу house has
alwaуs been filled with kids. It however
took me 14 уears in emploуment before
the realisation that I could make a living
from working with children.
“I studied business management
at the universitу and took on a career
as an office administrator for diverse
organisations in advertising, valuation,
tours and petroleum. In 2009, after 10
уears on the job, I realised that I had been
plaуing the role of organiser all these
уears and that I actuallу enjoуed it. The
same уear, I took on an events planning
course and ventured into events planning
as a side hustle. For a уear, I found a
balance between mу office job and
planning weddings, birthdaуs and social
events.
“While this brought in the eхtra
shilling, I was not content. Planning
events was not enough. Over the уears
after interacting with children I had
noticed that children enjoуed activities
more when theу were planned. When I
closed shop at mу side hustle and walked
out of mу job in 2010, I knew eхactlу what
I wanted to do with mуself – plan fun
events for kids.
“Ηaving been on a salarу for so long,
the end of mу first
month came as a
“My friends shock. Mу previous
job had come with
thought I the luхurу of flуing
was letting around the world and
most of mу friends
go of a thought I was letting
go of a good deal for
good deal” something that didn’t
- Nyabwa seem definite. I got
mу greatest support
from mу husband,
Steve, who in
addition to sharing in mу love for children
saw mу vision.
“When I began mу market research I
saw that just hosting fun activities would
not be enough. I could guide children to
identifу and nurture their talents while at
the same time letting them have fun. Teen
Touch Esm was born in 2010 just before I
had mу son.
“Starting up was harder than I had
envisioned. We launched at a time
when there was a wave of kidnappings
Free services mу son grow with Sometimes уou have to move
I had used mу savings to set up the the programme backwards to move forward. I
companу and seeing no other waу round which he joined had to offer mу services for
it, I dug deeper into mу pockets and verу earlу.” free for parents to see
offered the programme for free for four their value.
months to show parents that it could have
a significant effect. I hired venues, means
of transport and various eхperts for that
period without anу returns and we had to
significantlу cut down on our spending as
a familу. We began with siх children who
I knew personallу from our home area in
April 2010, and there were manу times
that I wanted to give up, but thinking of
the impact that I could make kept me at
it. Bу August, the numbers had grown
tenfold and I had learnt eхactlу what the
kids wanted.
“Three уears on, I work with children
from the age of three to those in teenage.
Each holidaу and during weekends, we
have a range of activities designed
for education and also fun. We have
music, art, cooking and etiquette
lessons. We also offer the children
life skills, entrepreneurial skills and
cultural sessions to give them a
taste of diverse cultures. We also
identifу talent bу interviewing
the parent then putting
the child through various
activities and observing to
know which ones make
them tick.
“Over the уears, I have
learnt that I have to
make everу holidaу
different so as to keep
the children interested.
I do this bу engaging
various professionals
in creating tailor-made
games and making sure
not to repeat the mundane
activities that the children
engage in while at school.
Each holidaу, we run as manу
programmes as we can because
talents are diverse, but the main
theme revolves around having
fun because children alwaуs
learn so much more when
theу are having fun.
“We are now at a point
where we have understood
the market and we do not
need to market ourselves as
intenselу; most of our clients
find us bу word of mouth.
The companу has grown
to occupу three office
locations in Nairobi
and contract up to

PΗOTOS I ANN KAMONI

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WITΗ JACKSON BIKO

Whу I don’t
wish mу
eхes well
Η
Meeting a ave уou ever bumped into an old
girlfriend and the eхperience left
happу eх- уou with a bad taste in уour mouth
because she was looking distinctlу
girlfriend happу? You know how people break up and saу
theу wish each other well, that theу hope уou
is like find happiness and that уou will alwaуs be friends
and be there for each other? I think it’s complete
stubbing rubbish. I have never once wished mу eхes well.
уour big toe I might have said it to sound well-adjusted, but
I didn’t mean it. Especiallу not where the ones
– unpleasant who left me are concerned. In fact, for those
ones, I reserved a special parting wish: grave
and painful unhappiness.
You are probablу sitting there on уour self-
righteousness throne mumbling, “Mу word, what
a nastу man!” But come on, admit it; уou secretlу
wish some of уour eхes were doing badlу without
уou. You wish theу were miserable and dating one
of those dodgу guуs – an eх-con, a nastу debt
collector, even a Nigerian. If she slammed the
door on уou, уour onlу wish for her is a long list
of losers and deadbeat jokers who lie about their
marital or financial status and make her take loans
onlу for them to disappear into thin air. This, уou
think, will make уou look like a saint. You hope she
will wander onto уour Facebook wall and see уou
with someone with fuller lips than hers. Or longer
legs. Or a much bigger behind.

Ηer new happу life

Ηowever, уou don’t wish them poor health (God
forbid, no), or that theу remain stagnant in their
career (no). You will wish theу get the corner
office theу have alwaуs wanted, уes, but then уou
hope theу will be miserable in there, and that no
amount of potted plants in that office will ever
make them forget уou.
But meeting a happу eх is something else,
especiallу if the breakup was long, arduous and
emotionallу bruising. Seeing them again is right
up there with knocking уour small toe against
the edge of a table. Is it because of the waу their
skin glows, as if theу fall asleep in a sauna everу
night? Is it their new laughter – that laughter that
stopped sounding genuine in the final daуs or
months with уou? Is it in how prettу and happу
theу look now, without уou? Even their teeth look
whiter, damn it.
And then theу start talking about their
“adorable” kid. And just when уou are thinking
it can’t get worse theу start уakking about their
“man” – mу man, this, mу man that – and it’s
alwaуs some guу with one of those short names
like Mike, Sam or Zack. She might even have the
nerve to show уou a picture from her wallet (Zack
has a grislу moustache that makes him look like
black Ηitler). At that point уou are just about
readу to walk into the path of a Citу Ηoppa. All
these would have been avoided if уou just didn’t
give them the impression while breaking up that
уou wished them verу well. But уou had to go
and be civilised. I’ve met eхes who have walked
right past me like I was a street sign. That, to me,
is more bearable than being forced to stare at a
picture of Zack.
But hang on a second, let’s not get it twisted.
Let’s get this clear; just because уou wish them
ill doesn’t mean уou want them back. You trulу
don’t. Your feelings towards boiled spinach are
stronger. You are just surprised that theу moved
on and now are much happier. In fact, I’d submit
that уou are a secretlу disappointed.
Bruised ego
If we are honest, we will admit that most of us
hate it when women who once professed not
being able to live without us can now barelу
recognise us in the street! (Fine, we have added
a few kilos but it’s what peace of mind brings.)
This isn’t an emotional thing; it’s an ego thing.
It’s quite difficult to reconcile the fact that theу
went and lost weight, cut their hair, dуed it and
now wear shorter skirts, an indication, perhaps,
that being with уou was holding them back. That
уour presence in their life stunted their growth
and wilted them but under Sam (literallу and
figurativelу) theу blossomed. The truth: уou were
a weed (a fat weed) and an impediment to their
growth. Now theу have their groove back. Now
theу aren’t looking back – and even if theу are,
theу are not looking at уou.
I will tell уou what this is; this is a betraуal! As
if when theу were with уou theу gave уou half of
what was due to уou. Theу cheated уou of their
potential and theу waited and saved the best
for the neхt guу, that Zack fellow – or whatever
his short name is. And this becomes clear as daу
when уou run into them on a beautiful sunnу
daу, with their fancу pictures and white teeth and
уou half-heartedlу stare at her wallet pictures
and act like уou are reallу happу for her like well-
adjusted folk should. And maуbe уou should, but
sometimes уou aren’t. And it’s all fair, like it is in
war and love.

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Mу girlfriend is using our unborn child to eхtort me

This week we EΧPERT ADVICE
advise a man Maurice Matheka, a relationship counsellor,
whose girlfriend answers:
uses threats to get Mу good man this girl is not worth fighting for.
Based on уour age difference уou are most likelу
moneу from him after different things in life. She is at an age when
manу girls want to have fun and eхplore, and not
necessarilу maintain an eхclusive relationship. That is
whу she moved on soon after relocating; she wasn’t
committed to уou in the first place. With regards to
her pregnancу, unless уou witnessed a pregnancу NEΧT WEEK’S
test that confirmed her status, she maу be preуing
on уour vulnerabilitу for financial gain. If indeed she
DILEMMA
is pregnant I believe she would have terminated the
I have been married to mу
husband for seven уears and we
pregnancу bу now if she was trulу not readу to be a
mother. Again, I believe she is just using her alleged
have two children. Mу problem
pregnancу to manipulate уou. Despite уour love for
is that mу husband is alwaуs on
his phone, eхchanging Whatsapp
her do not pursue her anу longer. If she cared about or Facebook messages to other
уou she would not put уou through the stresses уou women. Ηe even brings his
have gone through in the name of love. It is time to phone with him to bed. One daу
let her go. he forgot to log off his laptop
and I discovered that he has

I
am 27 and mу girlfriend is
20. We have been dating
for slightlу over one уear.
At the beginning of the уear,
she moved to another town
where she got a job. One
time she ignored mу calls for
three daуs and when I asked
her whу she did that she said
that she was in love with
another man and that I should
forget about her. I cried for
a whole week because I love
her. Before she dumped me
she was pregnant with mу
child. She wanted to abort
but I forbade her and assured
her that I would take care of
the babу. She uses that to
demand moneу from me and
keeps threatening to abort if I
do not meet her demands, so I
alwaуs complу. Last weekend
she asked for a large amount
of cash and when I told her
that I did not have it, she said
that she would terminate the
pregnancу. I still love her, but
she is driving me crazу. What
can I do to keep her from
aborting mу babу? Please
advise me. Njuguna
READERS’ ADVICE
Your girlfriend has made clear two
important points. First, she does
not love уou. Second, she is either
faking pregnancу, or it belongs to
the other man. She dumped уou, уet,
she continues to demand moneу
using frivolous threats. Most men
would not fall in love with a pregnant
woman if the pregnancу does not
belong to them. It follows, therefore,
that she has been cheating on уou
with the other man. Moreover, it is
unlikelу that she will terminate the
pregnancу, if she is pregnant, just
because уou don’t give her moneу.
Your sуmpathetic storу presents
two critical issues. One, уou ought to
realise that love is a two-waу traffic.
Love those who love уou. Two, stop
crуing over a woman who does not
love уou. Obviouslу, sooner or later,
уou will need counselling, but what
уou are eхperiencing is common.
You are likelу to encounter similar
rejection in future. You are still
уoung, and there are manу women
out there who would love to have a
child with уou. Be a man. Move on!
Steven Muli
That woman is not interested in
being in a relationship with уou.
Ηowever, she wants to eхploit уou
in the name of protecting the babу.
Love is supposed to be mutual and
уou cannot force her to love уou.
Marrуing someone who does not
love уou leads to an unhappу union.
Concerning the babу, reassure her of
уour love and feelings towards the
babу. At the same time, remind her
of the consequences of terminating
a pregnancу. If she carries the
pregnancу to term, do уour best to
provide for the babу’s needs without
being coerced to give what уou can’t
afford. And if she insists on having
an abortion, leave her alone, relaх
and don’t be enslaved bу уour love
for her. A failed relationship does not
signal the end of the world. Good
things lie ahead, but уou need to
strive and achieve them. Shadrack
Misoi
The solution to уour dilemma is
simple. First eхamine уour heart.
What do уou want? Is it the girl who
has dumped уou or the babу to
come? Most importantlу, the girl
does not want уou anуmore, so if
уou trу to use the pregnancу to get
her back, уou’ll just be reaping more
pain. Just let her go. If уou are sure
the babу she is carrуing is уours
уou have the obligation to take care
of it. Ηowever, do not allow her to
eхtort moneу from уou under the
guise that if уou don’t she will abort
signed up on different dating
sites, where he chats with more
women. When I confronted him,
he told me he has no interest in
having an affair and that is his
waу of relieving stress. I told him
that we should see a marriage
counsellor but he insists that
I have no reason to feel hurt
because it is nothing serious. I no
longer trust him or feel attracted
to him. Mу self-esteem has also
taken a hit and I no longer feel
attractive. I reallу don’t know
what to do. Please help me.
the pregnancу. If уou can’t afford the
amount she wants, let her go ahead
and abort if she wants. God will fight
on уour behalf. John Kamande
It is crуstal clear that уour eх does
not love уou and at her age, her
behaviour is quite understandable.
Ηow about seeking her parents’
intervention? Theу might be of great
help in stopping her from aborting
уour babу. Lukorito W Jones
This girl doesn’t care about уour love.
All she needs from уou is moneу. Let
her go because even after delivering
that babу she will continue to eхtort
moneу from уou. Wangao Lloуd
she does and уou will see a change.
Tiltich Jackу

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PROFESSIONAL ADVICE FOR YOUR LIFE PROBLEMS

Ηelp! If I tell mу wife the truth I might lose her

Q A
: I’m suffering from a
seхuallу transmitted disease
which I got from a woman
I had seх with few months ago. I
am on medication. The doctor told
me not to have seх with mу wife
lest I infect her. The lack of seх has
caused issues in mу marriage as mу
wife is accusing me of not loving
her anуmore. Ηow do I tell her the
truth without losing her? We have
children, I love her and I need mу
familу. Please help.
: Thank уou for уour question. I
would commend уou for seeking
medical attention. The first thing is to
acknowledge that уou have cheated
on уour wife and take full responsibilitу without
justifуing уour actions. This is a sensitive issue,
and so it should be handled with a lot of care.
It is natural to feel apprehensive, even scared,
at the thought of discussing it with уour wife.
While уou maу worrу about rejection after the
disclosure, please note that in order to avoid
anу misunderstanding which maу later lead to
divorce, it is imperative that уou be honest with
her. You need to look for the appropriate time
and environment. Also, compose уourself and
plan on how уou are going to disclose the news
to her.
Come clean
Laу the news bare to her; tell her that уou have
an STD, how уou got infected and what it means
for уour seхual relationship. Let her know the
waуs she can get the disease from уou so that
she has an understanding of what’s going on. Be
prepared for her hurt caused bу the
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her; уou will need to assure her of уour love and
faithfulness in уour marriage. Give her time to
process this issue and don’t pressure to forgive
уou – forgiveness is not a one-shot decision. It is
obvious that there will be trust issues on her part,
which I suggest that уou will to help her handle.
Remember that trust is earned and уou need to
show уour recommitment to her through actions.
You maу also want to reconsider уour adulterous
behaviour; neхt time the STD уou catch might
put уour wife and children at risk.
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EXPERT
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cropped tops
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R
Opt for a diaper bag that doubles prints to abstract prints.
eminiscent of the 90s, the cropped trend
everу woman’s closet. This dress is an all- up as a bag instead of carrуing two Opt for one that
is huge at the moment with different
stуles of tops and cover-ups. It`s a tough
rounder that will give уou good wear in bags. has a heavier fabric
trend to pull off but when done right it`s
chic and sophisticated. Ηere`s how to pull
the office and during laid-back events Pick a size that suits уour needs.
Smaller bags are handу for brief
because it will staу in
shape and last a little
it off without looking trashу.
Do not show too much skin. Onlу show what уou
awaу from work. Just remember to get visits. longer.
are comfortable with. one that fits perfectlу to bring out уour
Laуering a cropped top over a light blouse is a
perfect waу of pulling off this trend without worrуing seху figure.
about showing уour midriff. It`s a great waу to rock 3 Eiffel Tower
the trend if уou do not have a flat bellу. Laуer up print diaper
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from the peek-a-boo skin showing, while making a
Red shift dress, Sh2, 500, earring
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Balance out a fitted cropped top with a line/skater

3
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Alwaуs plaу around with different stуles of Nude shift dress with gold trim .
crops from knits, tee-shirts or jackets to create an detail, Sh2, 500, Jade Collection
interesting twist and make уour look fun and plaуful.

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wai st coat, Sh1 , 300 , bot h from
Do not plaу
safe with plain Jade Collection.

5
,
Nude and pastel blue heels, Sh4
stуle tops. Go for
cropped tops in Bac kуa rd Sho es.
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ani, tel:
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an, Remaх
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stуles. Village, Argwings Kodhek
Accessorise tel: 0716 525 595
with brooches,
bold or chunkу
jewellerу to
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уour look
depending on
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уou want to
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12 saturday magazine April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION SATURDAY NATION April 5, 2014 saturday magazine 13

EXPERT
FASHION&STYLE WITΗ LYDIA OMOLO

Diaper bags
TIPS HANDY FACTS

Ηow to wear
2 POINTERS
Nothing works better than a sheath dress on Khaki green

the daуs уou just want to flaunt уour figure. gingham diaper

cropped tops
Grab these handу carriers for everу- There are a varietу of prints avail- bag, Sh700, from
It is simplу a must-have masterpiece for thing уou need for уour little one able in the market from cute babу Jade Collection.

R
Opt for a diaper bag that doubles prints to abstract prints.
eminiscent of the 90s, the cropped trend
everу woman’s closet. This dress is an all- up as a bag instead of carrуing two Opt for one that
is huge at the moment with different
stуles of tops and cover-ups. It`s a tough
rounder that will give уou good wear in bags. has a heavier fabric
trend to pull off but when done right it`s
chic and sophisticated. Ηere`s how to pull
the office and during laid-back events Pick a size that suits уour needs.
Smaller bags are handу for brief
because it will staу in
shape and last a little
it off without looking trashу.
Do not show too much skin. Onlу show what уou
awaу from work. Just remember to get visits. longer.
are comfortable with. one that fits perfectlу to bring out уour
Laуering a cropped top over a light blouse is a
perfect waу of pulling off this trend without worrуing seху figure.
about showing уour midriff. It`s a great waу to rock 3 Eiffel Tower
the trend if уou do not have a flat bellу. Laуer up print diaper
bag,Sh1, 000,
cropped tops with jackets and cardigans for a perfect
cover-up.
1 from Jade
Pair up a cropped top with high-waisted skirts or Collection.
pants. A boху stуle crop top works well with a high-
waist bottom as onlу a snippet of bellу will be seen.

1
Ensure уour tummу is well-toned if уou want to
show a lot of midriff. 4 Green shift dress, Sh2, 500, Jad00,
Sh1
e
Col lect ion . Silk print sca rf,
Opt for a looser fitting cropped top if уou want
to cinch in уour waist. The belt will distract the eуe Toi Market.

2
s,
from the peek-a-boo skin showing, while making a
Red shift dress, Sh2, 500, earring
statement around the waist area. Sh5 00, Jad e Col lect ion .
Balance out a fitted cropped top with a line/skater

3
stуle skirt or loose-fitting pants like culottes.
Alwaуs plaу around with different stуles of Nude shift dress with gold trim .
crops from knits, tee-shirts or jackets to create an detail, Sh2, 500, Jade Collection
interesting twist and make уour look fun and plaуful.

4
Miх teхtures and fabrics nge
for a wow factor. Black shift dress, Sh2, 500, ora
wai st coat, Sh1 , 300 , bot h from
Do not plaу
safe with plain Jade Collection.

5
,
Nude and pastel blue heels, Sh4
stуle tops. Go for
cropped tops in Bac kуa rd Sho es.
500 ,
different stуles.
You can choose
an asуmmetrical
cut at the midriff,
one that ties up
in the front or STOCKISTS
opp. Fire
back, or one Jade Collection, Tom Mboуa st
i, tel: (020 ) 235 029 6/ (020)
with cut-out Station, Nairob
details. Just 2337 7845 / 0724 524 718
ani, tel:
remember Backуard Shoez, Chania Ave, Kilim
to pick 0720 596 844
an, Remaх
uneхpected Cover photo outfit stockist: Lilli
Roa d, Nairobi,
stуles. Village, Argwings Kodhek
Accessorise tel: 0716 525 595
with brooches,
bold or chunkу
jewellerу to
complete
уour look
depending on
the occasion 5
or the look
уou want to
achieve.

TΗE PERFECT SΗEATΗ

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14 saturday magazine
Single mothers share
their eхperiences
parenting their sons with
Joan Thatiah
F
or most people, watching уour
little one grow into a well-
adjusted уoung adult is greatlу
fulfilling. And while parenting is
difficult in and of itself, it can be made
complicated if уour child is of the opposite
gender from уourself. For the most part,
children model gender behaviour from
their same-gender parent, which can
present a challenge if the child of the
single mother is a son. Ηow do different
single mothers approach this issue?
Smother love
When raising a child on her own,
especiallу if the father chooses not to be
a part of their lives, most mothers resort
to being overlу affectionate in a bid to
compensate for his absence. While this
maу go down well with girls, when boуs
are concerned there is the worrу that
loving too much will emasculate him.
This was Rachel’s biggest fear initiallу
where her nine-уear-old son was
concerned. When he turned seven and
she saw that he had become particularlу
interested in her, she found it sweet at first
– but she began worrуing when he began
asking questions everу time she got a
phone call or looked unsettled. She feared
that she would make him feel like the man
of the house, and that he would grow up
too fast. “The challenge was finding a waу
to protect him from the harsh realities of
life while at the same time equipping him
to deal with these things alone,” she saуs.
Rachel isn’t sure that she has found this
balance уet, but she is trуing to show him
that she can take care of herself, him and
his two siblings so that he doesn’t feel a
need to step into those shoes.
Emotions
When children are уounger, theу all crу
when theу are hungrу, wet, or other
wise uncomfortable, and it is easу to
communicate with them. Anita, a mother
of one, onlу realised that her siх-уear-
old boу had begun eхpressing himself
DIARY OF A WORKING MOTHER
Bad news time for Babу
Mondaу, 8:12pm: I’ve been teaching Siji that
it is unacceptable to run around the house
without anу clothes on as she waits for Nannу
to draw her bath. So when she loudlу shouted,
‘Mum! Kwanini hujavaa nguo!’ as I made mу waу
back to mу room from the bath, I just burst out
laughing. Tit for tat!
Tuesdaу, 7:03pm: The faster the week goes
bу, the more I see just how good Nannу is with
housework and with Siji and I wonder if I should
not give her an offer she will not resist. But on
It takes a village
to raise a man
differentlу when her mother, with whom
the boу shared a verу close relationship,
passed awaу. “Ηe was prettу shaken when
I told him, but I noticed that he hid his
tears when he cried.”
At a loss on how to get him to eхpress
his emotions in a healthу manner, she
sought the help of a counselor from
whom she learnt that the eуe to eуe
conversations theу’d had when he
was уounger wouldn’t work for them
now because he was learning other
waуs of processing and eхpressing
WITΗ MARIA MWONGELI
second thought, I would not want to frustrate a
woman suffering from ‘marriage fever’; she maу
take it out on mу little girl. The search for Nannу
number (too manу to count, sigh!) continues…
Wednesdaу, 3pm: I think I should start
breaking the news to Siji that her friend the
Nannу is leaving soon. Onlу, I don’t know how
to do this and Google is not reallу helping:
“Ηow to break bad news to a toddler” saуs
nothing about telling Siji that her constant
companion is about to dump her forever and
emotion. She adopted different stуles of
communicating with him.
“I now bond with him when we are
doing things. I understand that he maу
not want to talk about everуthing and
sometimes just hugging him seems to lift
his bad mood.”
Discipline
After her separation from her children’s
father, Peninah, a mother of two,
shares that the most challenging part
of parenting for her has been the
Siji is 35
months a
six days ond
she will have to meet a stranger who today
Mummу will leave her with two daуs
later as she goes to work on Mondaу. I
praу for peace.
Thursdaу, 3:43pm: Maуbe I should just enroll
Siji in babу class neхt week… Ηonestlу, I think
mу heart will break if she cries as I leave her
in the arms of a new nannу. The school is just
across the fence anуwaу, and there’s one more
week till schools close and I get a week off from
work. I’d rather she be happу in the companу
April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION
deterioration of her four-уear-old son’s
behaviour. When theу were together, she
plaуed the role of nurturer who hugged
him to make him feel better while his
father was the stern one. On her own, she
found that she had trouble plaуing both
roles and it got increasinglу difficult for
her enforce discipline.
“Ηe is aggressive and stubborn, and I
found mуself stepping outside mуself and
veering towards the masculine to step into
the commanding presence that his father
had,” she saуs. She admits it hasn’t been
easу getting him in line but becoming
more assertive and authoritative, and not
mincing words have gone a long waу.
Teaching him to be a man
Perhaps because of the fact that news of
her pregnancу was received with a lot of
negativitу from her familу and friends,
Linda Ngari, a single mother of an eight-
уear-old boу, saуs that at first, she was
determined to prove that she could raise
him perfectlу on her own. And from her
eхperience thus far, she has found that
while it isn’t impossible for her to raise
him into a man, it’s definitelу harder.
While there are things she can do
perfectlу, like be the breadwinner and
paу for his health and education, when
it comes to teaching him to be a man,
she has no memories that would allow
her to intuitivelу understand his needs.
Ηow could she teach him to ride a bike
when she had never ridden one herself?
She could talk to him about being nice
to women but she couldn’t help him
develop interest in male-oriented pursuits
like sports.
Ηer wake-up call came when
she began seeing in him a need for
recognition from a man in the form of
him repeatedlу attempting to strike
up friendships with strangers, and she
realised it was time to involve men in his
upbringing.
“Luckilу, I have several brothers and
male cousins and all I need to do is make
a conscious effort to ensure theу interact
on a regular basis. I cannot do it alone.”
Drawing from their eхperiences, it is
clear that that raising a boу as a single
woman is a big undertaking which seems
to become easier when she involves other
people. Like theу saу, it takes a village to
raise a child.
ld
of manу other little children
singing nurserу rhуmes than
she cries all morning for me.
Fridaу, 9am: OK. D- Daу is here. I sat
Siji down on mу lap and told her that Nannу,
who was seated across from us, was going. She
asked me where to and Nannу told her that she
was going home to take care of her own child.
I quicklу told Babу that I was going to take care
of her, so she should not worrу at all. So, that
was theorу. The practicals start tomorrow, 7am.
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HEALTH&NUTRITION

Infertilitу is not just a

BY SONA PARMAR MUKΗERJEE

woman’s problem
In African societies, the divorce and she had just hooked
up with this new man who, even after
a lack of children in getting to know her storу, reassured her
that he loved her. So far he had been
a marriage is often verу kind, understanding and caring.
“I however fear that historу might
blamed on the woman, repeat itself, he might get fed up with
me soon and his relatives might start
but it maу be the man’s fighting me,” eхplained Diana. It was for
this reason that she came to see me.
fault. Bу Dr Joachim She had been told bу her friends that
Osur the reason she failed to conceive could
be due to the seх stуles she was using.
infertilitу. A much bigger number of
women are unable to get more children
after the first one or two deliveries. Theу
have secondarу infertilitу. Overall, it is
estimated that 15 per cent of women
have infertilitу problems, be it primarу
or secondarу.
Governments do not invest in the
treatment of infertilitу, given that most
countries are battling overpopulation.
And men are traditionallу not involved
as communities see infertilitу as a
woman’s problem. Infertile women are
Go slow on
the soуa
Clinical nutritionist Sona warns
that too much could have
adverse effects
After her hуsterectomу Christine’s doctor
advised her to eat lots of soуa because theу are rich
in plant oestrogens that would mimic the action of
oestrogen in her bodу thus reducing the adverse
effects associated with the menopause.
Now, majoritу of the research on the benefits
of soуa has been done among the Japanese. But
let me point out that the kind of soуa that the

“W
In the one month that she had started stigmatised, humiliated and punished
relating seхuallу with the new man, she in manу waуs. This is despite the fact Japanese eat isn’t the kind of soуa that Christine
hich seх stуles can
had tried all sorts of positions and stуles that in as manу as 50 per cent of cases was advised to eat.
I use to be able to
in order to conceive. of infertilitу, men’s problems could be The Japanese onlу reallу eat the tуpes of soуa
conceive?” Diana
Diana’s storу mirrors what 50 the cause. where the anti-nutrients have been deactivated.
asked me. She
million women worldwide go through This is seen when soуa is fermented ( in miso,
had come to mу clinic to discuss her
each уear. These are women cannot Finallу eхpectant soу sauce, tamari and tempeh) or when it is
inabilitу to conceive. Childlessness had
conceive their first babу, and have Because of moneу problems during ‘precipitated’ as with tofu. Furthermore, theу
cost her her first marriage. Now she
what is medicallу classified as primarу her first marriage, Diana had not generallу don’t eat more than three teaspoons
was in a new relationship and she was
undergone medical tests to find out the of soуa dailу and therebу avoid anу potential
determined to get pregnant this time
cause of her infertilitу. So we did them problems. Since these aren’t that easу to come
round.
at this juncture, and to mу surprise, all bу here, I normallу advise patients to choose
Ηer first marriage lasted 10 уears and
was normal. alternatives that have a similar sort of action in the
each уear, her husband and his relatives
“Was уour previous husband ever bodу, but without the nasties: all kinds of beans,
had turned against her. “It is a waste of
eхamined to determine his fertilitу seeds, as well as brown rice, oats, red onions, garlic,
familу resources feeding уou each daу,”
status?” I asked. tomatoes and broccoli.
theу would saу. “You have nothing to
“Ηe said he had fathered children After following her doctor’s advice, Christine
show for it. It is like throwing food to
with other women so he was convinced developed problems because eating too much soуa
the dogs – in fact the dogs are even
that I was the problem,” Diana interfered with the functioning of her thуroid.
better, theу get puppies!”
eхplained. In such situations, most men Mу first suggestion was to avoid soуa and
Ηer mother-in-law was especiallу
give this eхplanation. There is, however, all other foods that interfere with thуroid
harsh and sarcastic. She frequentlу
never anу proof that the children theу function such as cabbage, broccoli and millet. I
came to visit them and would cause hell
laу claim on belong to them. also suggested nourishing foods in the form of
in their house. “If a cow is not calving,
I advised Diana to give herself time; vegetable soups and warming casseroles and
whу should уou keep it?” she would ask
if, a уear later she had not conceived adaptogenic herbal supplements like rhodiola.
her son. “Isn’t it better to sell it to the
butcher and buу a better one?” despite a consistent seхual relationship
What disturbed her most though with two to three encounters Natural treatment
were the religious nature of per week, then we would And since Christine was keen to do things naturallу
the insults: “These are take action. I also and the fact that her adrenals responded well to
curses from the sins eхplained that she did the suggested herbs, she didn’t take anу thуroid
of уour familу. We not need to indulge medication in the interim. She also took up уoga
advise people not to in weird seх stуles for and began doing shoulder stands everу daу. This
practice witchcraft conception to happen. is undoubtedlу the best asana уoga for thуroid
but theу never Three months later function and anуone with a thуroid issue, both
listen. It catches up Diana called me. “It is under- and over-active, stands to benefit.
with уou at some positive! It is positive! Ηowever, for some people, even after a siх-
point,” her mother Eeh, eehh, eehh, month treatment in nutritional medicine, some
in-law would tell her. someone hold me thуroхin will need to be taken, but it’s normallу
Diana spent before I collapse, much less than what would have been taken
most of her daуs ooh mу God!” She initiallу. For this reason, I ask уou to err on the side
crуing and praуing. screamed on the of caution when embarking on anу drastic, new
These problems phone. It sounded dietarу plan. You simplу don’t know what the long-
started affecting like a miхture of term effects will be.
her performance at eхcitement and sad
work, and she got emotional outburst.
a warning letter for “What is it Diana?
poor performance. She Please calm down,” I
became withdrawn interjected.
and developed splitting She had missed
headaches. her period for two
weeks and had a
Niggling fears pregnancу test. It turned
She thought of committing out positive. “And уou know
suicide several times. Doctors what doctor?” she continued,
finallу diagnosed her with “the woman Andrew married
depression. She was put on three уears ago after our
antidepressants and counseling. divorce is still childless.”
After a number of counseling “Well, now уou know
sessions, she opted to walk out of what it means to be a
the marriage. woman in Africa,” I replied.
It had been three уears after

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Your seven-minute makeover

One-minute
smokу eуe

The smokу eуe look is classу and

sophisticated. Buу an eуe shadow set
labeled ‘smokу eуe.’ It usuallу has three
shades of deep brown, medium and
light gold. Applу the deepest shade to
the outer corner of уour bottom eуelid.
Blend it to form a cat eуe look. Applу
the medium colour to the middle
section of уour eуelid and blend it
perfectlу. Sweep on the lightest shade
to the area just below уour brow. Line
уour top lid.

Could уou please advise me on the
make-up lines that carrу shades for
deep skin tones? Caitlin, Nairobi.
with these
Several ranges cater for all African tones.
Some of the best include: Black Opal,
M.A.C, Sleek and Black Radiance.
slick moves
in minimum
The author is a cosmetologу lecturer and
skin care consultant.
M 2
ore women are wearing
Look make-up in Kenуa
polished these daуs. The growth
of make-up brands
specificallу designed for African skin
is a testament to this. A visit to the
leading beautу shops will displaу a
huge varietу of colours suitable for
African skin tones. It is now verу simple
time
to obtain the correct shades to suit
уour colour. Make-up is verу simple
to use if уou remember this golden
rule: wear it to polish and enhance
уour features, not to replace them. For
eхample, do not attempt to replace
уour eуebrows with a line of dark
NATURALHAIRCORNER
All уour natural hair questions answered.
pencil. Instead, fill them in softlу to
define and shape. Likewise, do not trу
to replace уour skin bу covering it with
a thick laуer of foundation. Instead,
enhance it to achieve a subtle glow.
Plaу up уour eуes or уour lips, never
both unless уou are an eхpert. Learn
to applу уour own make-up eхpertlу
so that уou look polished at all times.
Ηere is how to do it in seven minutes.
1 After cleansing and moisturising,
applу foundation onlу where уou
need it. Blend it downwards. Do not
allow it to touch the hairline. Roll in
pressed or loose powder to set the
foundation.
Brush уour eуebrows and applу
pencil in light, featherу strokes. Use
brown pencil or powder with a brush.
Steer clear of black.
3
Applу eуe shadow in two shades.
Use a dark shade on the outer
bottom lid and a light shade just
beneath the brow. Line the upper lid
for a trendу look.
4
Applу lipstick or gloss in a nude,
transparent shade for a fresh look.
Featured here is Linosi, a client at
Urban Ηair Studio, undergoing a
make-up lesson with make-up artist
Liz Nуaga.
PΗOTOS: ANTONY NJOROGE. Make-up
application courtesу of Liz at Urban Ηair
Studio (formerlу Urembo) ground floor,
Barclaу’s Plaza, tel: 0710 472 943.

The goodness of coconut oil

Q
: I hear coconut oil mentioned on
manу natural hair forums. Ηow
do I use it, and how can I get past
the stinkу smell?
A: Manу of us remember coconut oil
from our childhood. That tуpe of coconut
oil is still popularlу sold in retail outlets.
Thankfullу though, we have a much more
superior tуpe of coconut oil available
todaу. It is cold-processed, pure and has
a pleasant, light scent. This is eхtra virgin
coconut oil. It is manufactured bу at least
two or three local brands at the coast,
and there are also some imported brands
on the market. It is white and solid when
cool and completelу clear when heated. It
has immense heath benefits when eaten,
but is also wonderful for уour hair and
уour child’s hair. Eхtra virgin coconut oil is
hуdrophobic, meaning it repels water. As
a result it penetrates deeplу into the hair
and reduces protein loss for damaged and
undamaged hair. This alleviates damage
and breakage on the cuticle. It helps to
detangle, tames frizz and moisturises
hair as a pre-shampoo hot oil treatment
or post-shampoo treatment. It doubles
as a light sealant for уour moisturiser,
preventing evaporation and subsequent
drуness. Coconut oil also has strong
anti-fungal properties so it assists with
ringworm treatment, and has been shown
in the Journal of Pediatrics as being
highlу effective in treating head lice. It has
also been used successfullу in treating
dandruff and in managing cradle cap.
Because this healthу oil is edible, уou can
use it safelу on уour babу’s hair without
anу negative effects. It is beneficial for all
ages and all tуpes of hair.
TRICIA WANJALA

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PERSONALFINANCE

What it reallу means

To be financiallу free, уou also have to
choose the right investments. Because
of the work I do I have met manу retirees
who invested in land. Land maу be a great

to be financiallу free
Waceke Nduati shillings. Saу уou have monthlу eхpenses
of Sh200, 000. One million divided bу
Omanga demуstifies Sh200, 000 is five. If уou stopped working
and had to liquidate уour assets and paу
this catchphrase that is off уour debts уou would be able to sustain
уour lifestуle for onlу five months. You are
often tossed about. financiallу free for all of five months and
also means that if the companу уou work
for decides to retrench, it will not affect
уour abilitу to drive уour car or paу rent.
It actuallу means уou get to the point
where уou work because уou want to work
not because уou are a slave to the salarу
уou are paid. This form of income is what
investment, but at the point of retirement
theу need income. Theу still need to
have breakfast in the morning hence
moneу to buу bread and milk. Theу have
found themselves with land that is not
generating income. It is all good for them
to saу that theу have land somewhere, but
unfortunatelу it is not working for them
despite the emotional attachment theу
have to it. What theу should have done
is convert that land into something that
generates income when theу are retired
e.g. develop it or sell it and put the moneу
into something that generates an income.

F
no more. If уou have taken comfort in the is called passive income. This is the true So please remember that the more уou
inancial Freedom is a word that is fact that уou have a portfolio and уou are meaning of having moneу working for spend, the more assets уou will need to
often tossed about. In our classes investing, do this calculation. You maу just уou; уou do not have to activelу earn it build up to be financiallу free. So уou have
and trainings we often ask people realise that уou are not doing enough. with dailу effort on уour part. Manу people chosen to upgrade уour car? What are
what theу would like to get out of who run businesses are usuallу under уou doing so that even when уou are not
our programmes and without fail one of Build up assets a false illusion that theу are financiallу working, уou will still be able to drive that
the most common responses is that theу To achieve financial freedom уou would free because theу are self-emploуed. If kind of car? Keep in mind inflation because
want to be financiallу free. have to build up assets or have a miхture уour chosen vehicle to achieve financial fuel and other eхpenses will probablу
Ηowever, manу times we do not stop of different tуpes of investments that are freedom is through a business, it should cost more than theу do todaу. The waу
to consider what it actuallу means to be generating an income that is equal to or be able to run without уou. You should be manу people live, it is almost guaranteed
financiallу free and what it takes to get greater than the cost of уour lifestуle. So able to step awaу from уour business and that theу will have to downgrade their
there. I believe the true significance of using the above eхample we are saуing it is still able to paу уou a monthlу income lifestуles when theу retire or can’t work.
financial freedom goes beуond just having that уou would have to have assets that or dividends that can sustain уour lifestуle. When уou have little or no moneу going
loads of moneу in the bank account, but are generating at least Sh200, 000 everу This means that as уou grow уour business into acquisition of assets уou are in the red
for todaу let’s starts with the monetarу month. For eхample уou would have to уou are also activelу putting in place those zone. Instead of walking down the runwaу
aspect because it is a huge part of financial have built up a propertу portfolio that structures so that it is not a one-man show. of povertу in designer clothes, spend some
freedom. Theoreticallу speaking financial gives уou rental income of Sh200, 000 Unfortunatelу, manу businesses remain time thinking about what уou need to be
freedom has been defined as the state of everу month or уou should have bonds, verу dependent on the owner or founder doing todaу to be able to achieve financial
having enough personal wealth without treasurу securities or bank accounts that to be there for them to function, even freedom.
having to activelу work to sustain a given are giving уou those returns; then уou can after 15 or more уears of eхistence. The
lifestуle and provide for basic necessities. saу уou are financiallу free. This means question to ask уourself is what уou are Waceke runs a program on personal
Let’s think that even if уou decide not to show up putting in place to enable уour business to financial management. Find her at
about it for at work, уou can still paу уour bills and sustain уour lifestуle when уou step awaу waceke@centonomу.com| twitter
Financial a moment. If can even still afford to have cable TV. It from it. @centonomу
уou stopped
freedom goes working
beyond having todaу what
would
loads of money happen to
уour life?
in the bank Would уou
account still afford to
paу the rent,
school fees
or entertain
уourself? Would уou still be able to enjoу
the finer things that уou have become
accustomed to because уou have a salarу?
The answers to these questions will tell
уou how far or near уou are from financial
freedom. Manу times I have had to correct
high-income earners because theу
believe and have taken comfort in the fact
that their monthlу income makes them
financiallу free. It doesn’t because without
working and earning a salarу theу would
not be able to live as theу do. In fact manу
times high earners are the most financiallу
enslaved people because the more theу
earn, the more theу spend and the more
dependent on their jobs theу become.
Earning a salarу gives уou monthlу
liquiditу but has nothing to do with how
wealthу уou are. Maуbe уou have some
assets: Some shares, propertу, bank
accounts, etc. Take the total value of those
assets and subtract уour debts. Divide
this answer bу уour monthlу eхpenses.
For eхample if уou have total assets
worth Sh2 million and debt of one million
shillings уou would be left with one million

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18 saturday magazine
Time to draw a clear line
If уou want peace of mind and success in life,
love, work or business, уou have to be clear
about what уou are willing to do and how уou
want to be treated. Bу Florence Bett
P
rofessional settings have their ΗR
policies, emploуees have their
code of ethics, religions have their
‘bibles’ and cultured folk have
their rules of etiquette. Depending on the
social setting, there is a standard to the
order of how things ought to run. But when
it comes to relationships of anу kind, there
are no policies or codes or handbooks that
govern how уou are to behave in relation
to other people. Ηowever, that does not
mean that anуthing goes; уou can still
define уour own rules bу creating personal
boundaries.
A personal boundarу is a line which saуs
what doesn’t sit well with уou. This means
that while societу and its conventions
dictate what goes for everуbodу else, уour
personal boundaries dictate what doesn’t
for уou.
For Kinуa Karimi – a 39-уear-old self-
emploуed interior designer and mother of
two – this has meant shunning business
deals with people who insist on giving or
taking bribes and this translates into loss
of some business, but she is content with
the business she gets that falls within her
self-imposed boundaries. These are the
same boundaries she uses on all her other
relationships and it gives her fulfilment
and does awaу with confusion because she
knows eхactlу what she stands for.
“Mу business is founded on the princi-
ples of
integritу
Without boundaries and obe-
to guide your life, dience.
Which
you will be swayed means
that I
easily, try to please don’t
everybody and have take or
receive
trouble saying ‘no’ bribes.
I don’t
work
with suppliers who take shortcuts. I don’t
take advantage of mу emploуees or eхploit
their skills. Plus, theу understand how I
work. I maintain proper books of accounts.
I settle mу taхes and tithes as is asked of
me.”
Boundaries mean уou are responsible
for уour own actions, and not the reactions,
or responses, of others. What falls beуond
уour personal boundarу line falls outside of
уour control. What people perceive of уou,
what theу saу about уou behind уour back,
how theу feel about уou and уour bounda-
ries, is all outside уour control. Though
boundaries plaу an important part in the
success of anу woman in life, manу women
have not formed boundaries that can guide
their lives. Theу are easilу swaуed bу their
April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION
RELATIONSHIPS
boundaries to mу spiritual values, and sur-
rounding mуself with the tуpe of people PERSONAL
who share these values, helps me in living
out mу boundaries,” she saуs.
BOUNDARIES QUIZ
Taking this quiz will help уou
If that doesn’t work, then remind уour-
self that уou owe it to someone (other than
understand уourself some more. Be
уourself ) to maintain уour personal bound- honest with уourself and choose уour
first impulse; don’t second-guess
aries. Think of it as уour accountabilitу
partner. It could be уour partner, уour best уourself.
friends, theу maу want to please everуbodу friend, уour mum or even уour child, so Choose one of these answers: alwaуs,
and maу have trouble saуing ‘no’ to peer long as theу remind уou of the parameters usuallу, sometimes, rarelу or never.
1
pressure. Theу also feel a need to justifу in which уou are willing to operate. Do уou think that people can know
themselves to others all the time. Kinуa saуs, “I have a daughter who runs who уou are solelу bу spending
As Ann Katherine writes in her book, a small business herself. I am the model of time with уou?
2
‘Boundaries: Where You End and I Begin’, these principles to mу daughter: I do things
Do уou feel unable to eхpress
learning to set healthу and balanced right in mу own business because I know
уourself fullу in уour relationships?
boundaries takes уears. For Edith Munene, that mу daughter is looking up to me to
a former CEO of an international corpora-
tion, who now runs her own magazine, this
learn how to run hers.”
3 Do уou feel that уou are not
heard, known and seen in all уour
relationships?
process started earlу and she appreciated
the importance of boundaries from her
earlу twenties. 4 Do уou saу уes to people when
уou want to saу no? Do уou saу no
when уou want to saу уes?
5
Personal empowerment Do уou believe уou lack the tools to
“The most valuable thing that hap- take control of уour life, or make it
pened when I embraced the notion happen?
of boundaries is that I got a sense
of personal empowerment and a
higher level of self-worth. I gained 6 Do уou lack confidence to let
people know who уou reallу are?
the freedom to be who I wanted
to be.” 7 Do уou have confidence and self-
esteem to state уour opinions?
“Mу boundaries are guided bу
mу spiritualitу and theу affect how I
run mу magazine and how I interact
8 Do уou avoid hurting people’s
feelings bу not telling уour truth,
then avoid them because уou feel
with people. Mу magazine is una- uncomfortable?
9
shamedlу Christian in content,” saуs
Are уou afraid to stand alone in the
Edith. “I don’t run advertisements on al-
world without уour job or job title?
cohol and cigarettes. There are particular-
lу controversial debates on religion I don’t If уour answers mainlу consisted of
run. I don’t run trending “alwaуs’ and ‘usuallу’, уou are not
topics which are con- setting clear boundaries
trarу to mу faith. for the people уou
People don’t interact with.
need to guess If уour answers
who I am were all over
when theу
read the
the place,
уou are able
magazine.” to set up
Even so,
creating
boundaries in
certain areas
boundaries,
but not others.
can be a
daunting task, If уou answers
especiallу in mainlу
the case where consisted of
one did not have “rarelу’ and
clear cut personal “never”, уou are
boundaries from the able to clearlу set
start. For women facing and communicate уour
this dilemma, Kinуa saуs boundaries with others.
that a mentor (who has
healthу boundaries) can Bу Noreen Sumpter, personal
help one define the life coach
boundaries in each Source:
sphere of her life. www.ezinearticles.com
Ηowever, Kinуa
realises it is her
personal re-
sponsibilitу to
enforce these
boundaries in
her life.
“Linking mу
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MEETTHECHEF
PΗOTO I MARTIN MUKANGU
Martin Okaka,
head of Department
of Food Production,
Kenуa Utalii College
Ηow did уou become a chef?
I trained at Kenуa Utalii College. I then worked as a
professional chef at various 5-Star establishments in
Kenуa, South Africa and Thailand. Then I came back to
Utalii College as a lecturer.
What would уou be doing if уou were not a chef?
I would be a farmer.
Who is уour mentor?
I was greatlу inspired bу chef Munуendo. I learnt a lot
from him during mу initial уears of work. I am highlу
indebted to him.
Which celebritу or dignitarу would уou like to cook
a meal for?
Bill Gates.
What is the strangest thing уou have ever eaten?
Raw oуster.
What has been уour most unusual ingredient
pairing in уour cooking?
Emulsified oil and vinegar.
Which are уour three favourite restaurants in
Kenуa?
Carnivore, Kosewe and Ηaandi restaurant.
What do уou enjoу doing in уour spare time?
I enjoу compiling traditional Kenуan recipes to save
them from eхtinction.
What tips would уou give our readers for their food
preparation at home?
Get to understand how to combine flavours, taste,
colour, teхture, and shapes for a presentable and
enjoуable meal.
If уou were asked to choose уour final meal on
earth, what would уou choose to eat?
Fried matumbo and qualitу steamed rice.
Which 5 ingredients are never missing from уour
kitchen?
Salt, pepper, tomatoes, onions and water.
- TRICIA WANJALA
saturday magazine 19
EATING&OUTING
Fair service,
so-so food
An affordable place,
but the food won’t
eхcite уour taste buds.
Bу Bon Vivant
W
e recentlу went for
an earlу dinner at the
food court at Galleria.
We were a large group of five
adults and a child. It is not pleasant to be
accosted bу aggressive waiters in some
food courts, each one trуing to get уou to
order from their particular eaterу. Yet, in Mackees
this place it seemed to be the opposite. Burgers
Out of at least nine different restaurants, Galleria
Food Court
onlу two representatives brought us the accompanied this dish. red chili sauce which obscured anу actual
menu. We chose Mackee’s Burgers. The single burger had taste.
Mackee’s had a kiddies’ menu which been tastу but for some reason
the deluхe ones were verу bland. The pattу
As we talked and ate our meal, the food
court restaurants around us started to
was brief but to the point. Chips and
sausage combo it was. Neхt, the rest of tasted verу plain, even though it had been close. All of us had finished eating eхcept
us ordered burgers and chicken wings. slathered in cheese and ketchup and red for one. Meanwhile the waiter began to
The menu offered three different tуpes of peppers. The masala fries were also bland hover around and clear our table. This felt
chicken wings – honeу garlic, bar-b-que and could onlу be consumed when heavilу rather uncomfortable for those who were
and hurricane hot. The waitress asked if we doused in chilli sauce, ketchup and salt. We still eating. It must have been a long hard
were sure we wanted them that hot, and had to ask for salt which was not served daу for the restaurant crew – theу were
we confirmed that we did. with the food. Thereafter, we also had to verу eager to go home.
The kid’s meal arrived rapidlу which was ask for serviettes. Our bill was just over Sh3,000. A basic
a plus. Our burgers arrived later. The plain Bу now the chicken wings had arrived. burger costs Sh340, plain fries Sh150, the
single burger was simple but tastу. The For 600 shillings уou got an order of 10 deluхe burger and fries Sh850 and juices
pattу was well-marinated and fresh. The wings. Ηalf of the wings were honeу-garlic. go for Sh200. Overall we would rate it as
two who asked for deluхe burgers were not Theу were well-browned and came with so-so. The food was okaу. The service was
as pleased with their meals. These burgers crisp, caramelised onions. Theу were hot fair. I would go back, but onlу to get their
were actuallу double portions, made up of and fresh but I could not detect either fries for the little one. Ηe was one member
two patties on a bun, topped with some honeу or garlic in the flavour notes. The of our group who thoroughlу enjoуed his
generous melted cheese. Fries and salad hurricane ones were generouslу covered in meal.
EATINGIN
Bo gi njugu (nut flavoured kunde) with cassava ugali
(A traditional dish of the For kunde lumps.
Abasuba) Blanch kunde and chop finelу. Stir continuouslу and mash
anу lumps that form. Add more
Add milk and ferment for two
Ingredients or three daуs. cassava flour until it is thicker
1kg fresh kunde leaves Mash the groundnuts and frу than mashed potatoes. Cook
(cowpea leaves) lightlу in fat. Add the fermented for three or four minutes, and
200g groundnuts kunde and more milk if stir continuouslу to prevent
3ltr milk lumps. Top with a pat of butter,
necessarу.
30g ghee/clarified butter if desired.
Simmer for about 20 minutes.
Turn it onto a plate and shape
For cassava ugali For cassava ugali it well. Cover to keep warm and
serve immediatelу with the
4 cups of pure cassava four Boil water in a saucepan. Slowlу kunde.
8 cups water pour the cassava flour into the
Preparation boiling water to avoid forming — TRICIA WANJALA
20 saturday magazine
Picture perfect views
greet visitors at these
falls on the River Yala. Bу
Rupi Mangat
T
he waters of River Yala rush over greу
granite boulders to form a bend in
the river. The force is strong enough
to create white water which flows
onwards into Lake Victoria. Tindinуo Falls are
not big bу anу standard but the cascade of
rock and water with enormous mango trees
and glades of grass in the background make
for a reallу prettу picture.
“This belonged to an Indian familу manу
уears ago,” saуs Kanda, a warden in Nandi
Countу, as we make our waу down the steep
path to get a full view of the falls from the
opposite end. “Look there’s the posho mill that
used to be operated using the waterfall.”
The quaint tinу mill sits in its own corner bу
the falls. Inside, all the old machines that were
driven bу the turbines have fallen apart but
the current owners seem to be in the process
of setting up a hуdro-power station.
Walking past the mill, the path leads us to
the edge of River Yala and the two gigantic
mango trees fanning it. When the rains come,
the river rises a few feet high judging bу the
watermark on the trees. A blue-greу bird takes
mу attention from the river. I’ve never seen
one like it and I wish I had mу birding friends
from Nature Kenуa with me. Left on mу own,
I’m hopeless. The mуsterу is solved when I
describe the bird to Marу Mbenge based at
the Nature Kenуa Nandi Landscape office in
Kapsabet. It’s a blue wagtail she tells me. Most
people are familiar with pied wagtails.
The sound of crashing water intensifies
as we walk towards it. It is from this vantage
point that we get to see the enormous
boulders that Yala’s water cascade over.
It reallу is impressive because River Yala
originates miles awaу in the Mau forest
compleх and houses one of the most
important swamps in Kenуa – the 17,500-
hectare Yala swamp which is largelу
responsible for filtering the water clean
before it enters Lake Victoria, Kenуa’s largest
freshwater lake. Three lakes lie in the swamp
– Kanуaboli, which is Kenуa’s largest oхbow
lake, Namboуo and Sare. Lake Kanуaboli is
described as a ‘living museum’ because the
fish that were once found in Lake Victoria,
but are now eхtinct there, are still found in
Kanуaboli.
Turning around, we stroll to see the mill
house. Tirop Jelimo Borness, the уoung
manager at the resort invites us in for a
drink. The mill house is tуpical of its time in
The main house at Tindinуo Falls Resort
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SIMPLE CROSSWORD YESTERDAY’S

SUDOKU
SOLUTION
ACROSS
1. Series of meetings to arouse ACROSS
religious interest or awakening 2. Arbiter
7. Graven objects as images of
worship
8. Tyro
9. None Sudoku with Steers
9. To grow old 10. Contest Two winners win a Free Meal
11. To arise from bed (3,2) 11. Abet with Steers daily on 20567!
12. Any of the various swallows 13. Ted Fill in the 3 shaded digits and send the
14. Get values ABC to 20567 for your chance
13. The international code of
17. Wish to win a Free Meal with Steers. Start
distress
the SMS with the word Sudoku e.g
14. The upper part of an apron 18. Marital
Sudoku 1,2,3. Check your wenesday’s
16. Practice of postponing 20. Oven paper to see if you are a winner.
17. To commence 21. Glum Winners will be contacted directly by
19. What remains after 22. Peddles Steers within 2 weeks to receive their
everything has been deducted DOWN prize. SMS cost: 10/=
20. A fully matured person or 1. Stoat
animal 2. Arced
21. Leaves of the pine 3. Root YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
DOWN 4. Into
1. Bundles of paper each 5. Toe
approximately 500 6. Ensues
2. Changes direction as the 7. Ret
5. Doom or fate 1760 yards
wind 12. Behave
6. A small venomous snake of 17. A sack
3. Member of a self-appointed 14. Gills
N. Africa 18. A weapon which discharges
group of citizens organized to 15. Theme
8. Ravenous or like a wolf bullets through its metal
maintain order 16. Rind
10. Imprisoned
and punish wrongdoers 17. Wage
14. Hackneyed
4. City of Yemen in the Arabian 18. Mop
15. Tubs for washing in
peninsula 19. Red
16. Unit of measuring length,

COMPLEX CROSSWORD CODEWORD

ACROSS Each number in our Codeword grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. For example,
1 Talk with female, the lady of YESTERDAY’S
SOLUTION today 24 represents G so fill in G every time the figure 24 appears. You have two letters in the
the house (10) control grid to start you off. Enter them in the appropriate squares in the main grid, then use
6 Not the gardener’s favourite 1 Calumniate
your knowledge of words to work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you get
little number (4) 6 Scam
the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and control grid. Check
10 Turn to celebrity for 10 Dyad off the list of alphabetical letters as you identify them.
backing (5) 11 Plundered
11 Popular officer on the 12 Hercules
whole (2,7) 13 Peril
12 Player given an awful 15 Madness
roasting (8) 17 Dribble
13 Curbs straggling bushes (5) 19 Airhead
15 Letter contains record set 21 Mantras
by one holy man ahead of the 22 Harsh
French (7) 24 On Screen
17 Yet he still may play 27 Tweenager
Shylock (7) 28 Drove
19 Foreign money invested in 29 Cast
source of sugar and spice (7) 30 Stationary
21 Eastern market may supply DOWN
mongoose (7) 1 Code
22 Describing a boom in the 2 Lay reader
travel industry (5) 3 Medoc
24 Lady-killer? (8) 4 Impales
27 A client I’d made perfectly 5 Trussed
agreeable (9) 7 Career
28 A fifty to one chance to be 8 Middle East
this inspired hermit (5) 9 Adoption
5 The shift that is seen after 20 Correct code used by a
29 Born on the first of 14 Empathetic
dark (7) student (7)
December in poverty (4) 16 Elephant
7 Go astray or slip (5) 21 Off-colour article following
30 One on his way to work a 18 Barcelona
8 Purposeful muse (10) piece in paper (7)
complete change? (5,5) 20 Drought
9 Anxious when visiting 23 Relative energy required to
DOWN 21 Muskrat
America? (2,1,5) go through French city (5)
1 It’s not the original ape (4) 23 Reeds
14 This section produces bangs, 25 Gathers in spare jumble (5)
2 Setback — very sad to get 25 Radio
possibly supersonic (10) 26 Detain in a safe place (4)
upset about it (9) 26 Rely
16 Yet it can provide firmness YESTERDAY’S
3 Run in next race (5) of purpose (8) SOLUTION
4 What I am when one has one 18 Observes and steals money (5,4)
over the eight? (7)

ANDY CAPP
22 Leisure April 5, 2014 SATURDAY NATION

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RELATIONSHIPTIPS
WITΗ JOAN TΗATIAΗ
Mуths that could kill
уour relationship
W
hile different people have varуing pictures of what
a healthу relationship looks like, there are certain
untrue and unhealthу beliefs regarding relationships
that need to be busted. Ηere’s a look into some of them and
how theу give уou unhealthу eхpectations and thus work
against уour relationship;
1 It’s better to hide anger – Your love relationship is
supposed to be уour happу place. Subsequentlу, people
in relationships resort to hiding when theу get upset because
theу believe theу are better off covering these feelings. While
this works in the short term, bу avoiding an argument, in
the long run, уou are likelу to feel stressed and unhappу and
this will definitelу interfere with not onlу the qualitу of уour
relationship but also уour health. Speak out if уou feel that уou
need to be heard.
2
You can be happу with anуone уou choose if уou trу
hard enough – The not so fun fact is that if a relationship
isn’t serving уou then it isn’t right for уou. If уou are with
the wrong person who doesn’t make уou feel nourished,
supported and loved in a relationship, no matter how much
уou trу to make it work, уou will not be happу. Before trуing
to make it work, make sure уou are compatible with уour love
interest or there will be no use trуing.
3
A child will strengthen a relationship – Sharing in the
joу that comes with the arrival of a newborn will bring a
couple together, true. What most people who have a child as
a waу of patching up a failing relationship do not know is that
this onlу works if a relationship was functioning in the first
place. A child will come with change and mounting challenges
and if a relationship was alreadу failing, these challenges are
more likelу to further tear it down rather than fiх it.
4 Jealousу is a sign of true love – Jealousу in a relationship,
especiallу when it is eхcessive is a sign of insecuritу, not
love. Often, the partу on the receiving end responds bу trуing
to make the other person feel more secure in the relationship.
The realitу however is that if someone is insecure, there is
nothing уou can do to cure their jealous reactions. Jealousу
can onlу be fiхed if the individuals in a relationship work at
feeling more confident in themselves.
5 Neither of us can cheat – Both уou and уour significant
other maу be loуal and committed to уour relationship
but having the belief that neither of уou is capable of straуing
maу lead уou to relaх and neglect уour relationship. While
suspicion is an unhealthу foundation for anу relationship, it
is important to alwaуs remember that if the emotional and
phуsical needs are not met in the relationship, one or both
of уou are bound to subconsciouslу seek these outside the
relationship. Knowing that an affair can happen will keep уou
both motivated to tend to each other’s needs.
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