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May 25, 2013
No. 17589
African leaders to vote on Uhuru, Ruto ICC cases today
BY EDITH FORTUNATE
in Addis Ababa
AND KEVIN J KELLEY
in New York
newsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com
A
resolution calling on
African countries to
petition ICC to drop
charges against President
Kenyatta and his deputy is
to be tabled before African
Union Heads of State this
morning.
The resolution agreed
upon and prepared by Afri-
can foreign aairs ministers,
also seeks to have African
countries pull out of ICC if
it continues with President
Kenyatta and Deputy Presi-
dent William Rutos cases.
Ugandas Foreign Aairs
Minister Sam Kutesa is lead-
ing the delegation to present
CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
President Uhuru Kenyatta
POLITICS | Former Prime Minister to bare it all in new autobiography
In his rst in-depth interview since
leaving government, Cord leader
speaks candidly on family, politics
and friends P. 10,11&17
Ida has played
a very positive
role in my
life and she
did her best
for us in the
elections.
She has been
accused
unfairly and
I am upset
about that
Mr Raila Odinga
Raila: My
life outside
State power

ON OTHER PAGES
WEEKEND
WOLE SOYINKAS LAST
WORD ON ACHEBE
Nobel laureate says Chinua
was a great story teller, but
didnt deserve prize. P. 21
INDEX
News P. 2-11, 19-20
Opinion P. 12-14,
17-20
Letters P. 16
Weekend P. 21-28
World P. 33-36
Business P.37-39
Sport P. 43-48
7 ways to feel
sexy every day
Magazine Find out how
to become a condent and
amazing woman
Shame of doctor
who left mother
and baby to die on
the operating table
P. 5
R
oads in Rift Valley are
turning out to be the
worst to drive on after
the highest number of people
were killed on them last year.
Nearly a third (977) of
people who died in trac ac-
cidents last year were killed in
the expansive region. In total,
4,457 people died on Kenyan
roads in 2012.
This was more than any
other accidents such as food
poisoning, wrong medication
or being crashed by a tree.
All the other accidents
killed 4,232 people, according
to the Economic Survey 2012
released on Thursday.
The report released by Devo-
lution and Planning Secretary
Anne Waiguru is the rst under
the Uhuru Kenyatta Jubilee
government and presents a
grim reality to deal with.
It shows that 173,912 people
died last year, according to the
Department of Civil Registra-
tion that keeps such data.
On the roads, accidents
killed 797 people in Nairobi fol-
lowed by 721 in Central. North
Eastern, which has fewer roads
and a smaller population, had
44 trac accident deaths.
The number of people killed
in road accidents surpassed
that caused by dreaded dis-
eases such as meningitis, which
killed 3,968 people last year.
The report also says heart
diseases killed 1,438 people
in Nairobi (the highest) while
Eastern had the second highest
with 1,063.
Unhealthy lifestyle
The least number of heart-
related deaths, 38, occurred in
North Eastern.
Health expert Victor
Ombeka, attributed the deaths
From missing jobs to lifestyle diseases,
BETTER LIFE | Treasury to dig deeper for more funds in bid to meet citizens expectations
in Nairobi and its environs to
the unhealthy lifestyles.
Many people in Nairobi and
surrounding areas are rarely ac-
tive, making them candidates
for obesity, Dr Ombeka said.
This puts them at risk of heart
disease.
The situation is dierent in
rural areas where many people
are active in their farms and
walk long distances every day,
which burns many calories that
keeps their weight under check.
The number of health-related
deaths was highest in Nairobi
despite the fact that the city
has the best hospital that can
help detect the diseases.
According to the report,
pneumonia was the leading
killer, taking away the lives of
19,011 people countrywide.
The report also says that Rift
Valley had the highest number
of registered births (175,175),
nearly a quarter of all the
754,429 births countrywide.
It is followed by Nairobi and
Central all of which registered
104,416 and 104,859 births.
The least number of regis-
tered births, 30,668 in North
Eastern Kenya.
It is, however, instructive
that although the number of
registered births is a pointer
to the trends in birth rates of
each region, the gures might
not always mirror the actual
births because some parents
never register their births.
This is because some women
deliver at home with the help of
traditional birth attendants.
Dr Ombeka agreed, arguing
some mothers fail to access
facilities where they could
register their births.
However, registered births
nonetheless provide a good pic-
ture of the number of newborns
in certain areas, he said.
They also may show that
some areas have facilities ac-
cessible to mothers.
People dying
According to the 2009 Popu-
lation and Housing Census, the
countrys population rises by
about a million annually, an
indication that the number of
births could be closer to that
gure.
However, since migrations
and deaths account to popu-
lation change, experts also
capture the number of people
dying each year to help account
for the trends.
According to the Economic
Survey, Nyanza and Rift Valley
regions registered the highest
number of deaths at 29,294
and 32,402 respectively.
The lowest number of reg-
istered deaths in the country
was recorded in North East-
ern, 1,995. There were, overall,
lower registration of births in
Nyanza, Eastern and Rift Val-
ley last year compared to 2011,
according to the survey.
Only 12,000 public jobs were
created last year, with Eastern
and Central the best places
to work, writes SAMUEL
SIRINGI
NUMBER OF CRIMES
REPORTED T POLICE
STATIONS IN 2012
Stealing 14,111
Dangerous drugs 4,181
Robbery 3,262
Homicide 2,761
Theft of stock 2,377
Source: Economic Survey
2013
STATISTICS
Stealing tops
crime numbers
Registered births give
a good picture of the
number of newborns in
certain areas,
Dr Victor Ombeka,
Health expert
STATE OF THE ECONOMY
Number of accidents last year, 977 lost their
lives in Rift Valley
4,457
Number of people who died of heart diseases
last year. Nairobi led with 1,438
5,492
Births registered last year. Rift Valley had
175,175
754,429
Doctors who attend to 100,000 people
20
TOUGH TIMES
All eyes now on Jubilee government to full pledges as outlined in manifesto
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The Lewa Conservancy, where the
Crown Prince got engaged to his wife
Kate Middleton has
been besieged by
poachers and Prince
William will hear none
of it. Read how he and
his father Prince
Charles, plan to
deal with the il-
legal hunters to
save the conserv-
ancy so beloved
by his wife.
Raila Odinga has dominated
Kenyas politics for the last three
decades, like few other Kenyans
have done. Read his candid views
on the Odinga dynasty and how
the International Criminal Court
case aected the March 4 elections
outcome and his assessment of
his opponents Uhuru Kenyatta
and William Ruto in the
second instalment of his most
comprehensive interview
since leaving oce.
Railas reections on
The Hague trials and
the Odinga dynasty
Prince William declares
war on poachers
ICC musical chairs
The case against President Uhuru
Kenyatta and Deputy President William
Ruto is not playing out only within the
courtroom in The Hague. We examine
the intrigues behind the diplomatic
dance around the case in Addis Ababa
and the motivation behind the aborted
attempt to convince the UN Security
Council to terminate the trials.
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
2 | National News
Low number of registered
births in North Eastern was
attributed to insecurity which
affected government opera-
tions in the area.
The report shows that the
registration coverage rates
for both births and deaths
was lower in 2012 compared
to the previous year.
It shows that the number of
old people who beneted from
the governments social protec-
tion fund through which they
receive Sh2,000 per month
rose by 4,000.
Cash transfers
The number went up to
49,000 from 45,000 in 2011.
Expenditure to this pro-
gramme amounted to Sh1.5
billion, meaning, it will cost
much more to extend the pro-
gramme to all the two million
older people in line with the
Jubilee manifesto.
According to the manifesto,
the Jubilee government will
increase the reach of cash
transfers to attain universal
coverage of older persons and
persons with disabilities.
A similar fund for orphans
and vulnerable children cost
the government Sh1 billion,
indicating the Treasury will
dig deeper to extend the pro-
gramme to all those targeted.
The report also provides a
pointer to the challenge facing
the new government in its bid
to create a million jobs per year,
showing that the economy
only created 660,000 jobs
last year.
A worse reality was that the
growth rate in the number of
jobs created in the wage labour
went down from the 2011 levels,
indicating that the authorities
new Labour Secretary Kazungu
Kambi has a harder job in his
hands.
There were 12,000 new jobs
created in the public sector last
year, nearly half less than the
23,500 created the previous
year.
This contributed to the
overall decline in the jobs cre-
ated in the modern sector in
2012, the report said.
Wage employment
The report indicates that
Nairobi is now matched by
at least three other regions
in terms of growth in people
engaged in wage employment
in the modern sector.
The gures show Eastern
and Central regions recorded
the same increase in wage
employment as Nairobi at 3.2
per cent in 2012 compared to
the previous year.
Dr Siringi is an Associate Edi-
tor. (ssiringi@ke.nationmedi
a.com)
its a tough life
STATE OF THE ECONOMY
Number of jobs the country created last year
660,000
Of children under one year old in North East-
ern who were immunised
60%
JOBS FULL IMMUNISATION
War on corruption loses steam
as number of cases probed falls
BY SAMUEL SIRINGI
ssiringi@ke.nationmedia.com
A leadership vacuum and sta exits at the
anti-corruption commission led to its worst
performance in ve years.
The Economic Survey 2013 shows that
the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission
(EACC) handled the least number of cases
in 2012. In fact, the suits dropped by half
compared to 2011.
According to the report released on Thurs-
day, the total number of cases the commission
handled declined by 51 per cent, from 7,326
in 2011 to a mere 3,592 last year.
Additionally, the number of criminal cases
the agency handled alone dropped from 2,916
in 2011 to 1,486 last year.
Commission Vice Chairperson Irene Keino
agreed that the poor performance can be at-
tributed to the leadership and sta problems
the agency faced during the period.
Most the commissions operations stalled
and this is reected even in our inability to use
the budget allocated to us, she said.
Recently, Ms Keino said the agency would
recruit more sta to execute its mandate ef-
fectively.
Jubilee manifesto
Whereas the agency had in 2011 advised
2,050 people on the right agencies to report
their allegations to, the report shows it could
only oer the same service to 1,021 people
last year.
The number of cases the commission for-
warded to the Director of Public Prosecutions
Keriako Tobiko reduced by 49.3 per cent, from
138 to only 70 last year.
Mr Tobiko accepted more than half of the
cases referred to him for prosecution during
the period.
The number of cases handled by the com-
mission in 2012 was the least ever for the last
ve years. In 2008, the agency, then known
as the Kenya Anti-corruption Commission,
handled 3,868 cases, the lowest previous
gure recorded in the Economic Survey. The
commissions performance could challenge
President Kenyattas government to move
fast and shore up operations at the crucial
agency. The Jubilee government made the ght
against corruption one of the central planks
of its campaign manifesto.
The manifesto promises to give the commis-
sion powers to prosecute corruption cases as
is the case in other African countries.
The alliance also pledged to ban anyone
convicted on corruption charges from working
in government or any public sector job.
The Economic Survey, however, shows
that the performance of the Judiciary has
improved.
The number of pending cases has been
reducing since 2009.
Fewer prisoners
This may be attributed to the judicial re-
forms that have been put in place, the report
says. Also declining were the number of cases
disposed of and those that were being led in
various courts countrywide.
This, the report says, was an indication that
there were fewer disputes nding their way
to the courts.
In fact, the number of cases disposed of
has remained higher than the number of led
cases since 2008. There were 345,241 cases
led in courts last year. Some 337,870 were
disposed of, according to the report.
The number of prisoners has also gone
down, the survey shows. Prison population
dropped last year to 196,911 from 247,166 in
2011. According to the report, the number of
people who applied for new identity cards last
year doubled.
This was attributed to the rush to obtain
the documents in order to vote in the March
4 General Election.
The number of applications made to obtain
identity cards increased from 1.2 million in
2011 to 2.4 million last year.
The number of prisoners in Kenya in 2012. This
is compared to 247, 166 that were in jails across
the country in 2011. The decrease came as the
cases pending reduced due to what the survey
said was a reformed Judiciary.
196,911
FILE I NATION
EACC Vice-Chairperson Irene Keino
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
National News 3
NAKURU
Vetting starts amid
row over teams boss
Vetting of executive commit-
tee members in Nakuru County
started yesterday amid contro-
versy over the integrity of its
chairperson. A group opposed
the appointment of former mag-
istrate Gladys Ndeda to chair the
team saying she has no moral
authority as she was dismissed
from the Judiciary. The rst to
appear before the panel was Prof
Mary Kariuki who admitted that
she was short-listed for a posi-
tion she did not apply.
BRIEFLY
BY NATION
CORRESPONDENT
The Makueni senatorial by-
election will be held on Monday
July 22 .
The seat fell vacant following
the death of Senator Mutula
Kilonzo (below) on the 27th
of last month.
Among those expected in the
race are former assistant minis-
ter Mr Gideon Ndambuki.
Mr Ndambuki lost the
nominations for the Wiper
Democratic Movement ticket
to Mr Kilonzo.
However, the main chal-
lenger in the election, former
Transport assistant minister
Harun Mwau, had led a pe-
tition in court disputing the
outcome of the election and
it remains to be seen whether
he will throw his hat in the
ring again.
In his petition, Mr Mwau
named the Independent
Electoral and Boundaries
Commission as the rst de-
fendant and Mr Kilonzo as
the second.
Mr Mutula died before the
case was heard by the High
Court. Senate Speaker Ekwee
Ethuro declared the seat vacant
on May 13.
Yesterday, the electoral com-
missions communications
manager Tabitha Mutemi said
they would gazette a returning
ocer for the by-election.
The officer will be issued
with a notice to conduct the
election by commission chair-
man Ahmed Issack Hassan.
Makueni County has six
constituencies Mbooni,
Makueni, Kilome, Kaiti,
Kibwezi East and Kibwezi
West.
Electoral agency sets date
for Makueni by-election
NAIROBI
Ugandan tycoon faces
Sh16m fraud charges
A Ugandan tycoon was yesterday
charged with fraud in Nairobi. Mr
Michael Ezra Mulyoowa will face
trial for allegedly obtaining credit
amounting to $200,000 (Sh16 mil-
lion) from a business enterprise
by false pretences. He is accused
of drawing a cheque in favour of
SMR Ltd in the knowledge that
his account had insucient funds.
He was remanded to await ruling
on bond terms.
NAIROBI
Two sets of speeches
to be read on June 1
Two sets of speeches will be
read during this years Madaraka
Day celebrations in the counties.
There will be one for governors
and another for county commis-
sioners. This is designed to cut
out the supremacy war between
the two sets of county leaders. A
source said the Presidents speech
would be read by Commissioners
as governors read their own.
BY CAROLINE WAFULA
cwafula@ke.nationmedia.com
T
he anti-corruption
commission has op-
posed the nomination
of Mr Francis Kimemia as
Secretary to the Cabinet.
The Saturday Nation yes-
terday established that the
Ethics and Anti-corruption
Commission (EACC) had
written to Parliament ask-
ing members not to approve
the outgoing Head of Public
Services nomination as the
rst holder of the position.
The commission argued
Mr Kimemia had abused
his current oce and that
he had been involved in cor-
ruption.
Political bias
Based on the letter, the
parliamentary committee
that vetted Mr Kimemia
questioned him on allega-
tions of involvement in
various corruption matters,
allegations of political bias,
favouritism and nepotism.
He denied the allega-
tions.
In particular, the commit-
tee asked about his role in the
2013 presidential campaigns
in which he was accused of
favouring one side. He denied
the accusations.
Mr Kimemia promised to
ensure recommendations of
the Truth, Justice and Rec-
onciliation Commission were
fully implemented.
Mr Kimemia said he will
fast-track the preparation
of a Cabinet memo show-
ing how the report will be
implemented and bring it to
the National Assembly within
the next 21 days.
He told the Parliamentary
Committee on Administra-
tion and National Security
that according to the Con-
stitution, the report has to
be implemented within six
months.
He, however, said the
onus was on the National
Assembly to either approve
or reject it.
Responding to questions
by members of the commit-
tee, Mr Kimemia said there
are more than 100 Cabinet
memos that require to be
implemented by the new
Cabinet and that he will
give them priority.
A committee member,
Mr Mohammed Shidiye
(Ladgera), had expressed
concern over failure by civil
servants to implement good
programmes and ideas pro-
posed by the Cabinet.
Mr Kimemia said he will
treat it as a key agenda if he
is conrmed.
The nominee also outlined
his plans for the oce and
said he will ensure that the
executive does not slow
down Parliaments legisla-
tive agenda.
There is a lot of business
and the Cabinet needs to
work closely with Parlia-
ment, he added.
He said he will ensure
that all crucial Bills are not
delayed at Cabinet level.
He promised to ensure
constitutional Bills that
must be passed by the Au-
gust constitutional deadline
are speeded up for tabling in
to Parliament.
Speaking in a National
Assembly sitting last week,
Majority Leader Aden Duale
said all crucial constitutional
Bills that are supposed to be
enacted within the next two
months should be tabled at
the oor of the House for
deliberation.
At yesterdays vetting
meeting, Mr Kimemia
outlined his vision for the
security sector terming it
a priority for the Jubilee
government.
He told MPs that a Na-
tional Security Council will
be established immediately
the Cabinet secretary in
charge of security assumes
oce.
Protocol wars
On the protocol to be fol-
lowed on Madaraka Day, he
said County Commissioners
will read the presidential
speech but Governors will
be the last to speak during
the functions.
They will also be allowed
to read their own speeches.
The directions have
been made to avoid a clash
between the two offices,
which have previously waged
supremacy battles.
Graft body wants Kimemia out
Anti-corruption
team accuses him
of abuse of oce
as MPs say he took
sides in elections
VETTING | Outgoing Head of Civil Service pledges to implement Cabinet decisions
PHOEBE OKALL | NATION
Secretary to the Cabinet nominee Francis Kimemia when he faced the Parliamentary Committee on
Administration and National Security yesterday.

There is a lot of
business and the
Cabinet needs to
work closely with
Parliament,
Outgoing Head of
Civil Service Francis
Kimemia
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
4 | National News
BY NATION
CORRESPONDENT
A Ugandan tycoon who
staked a bid on English Pre-
miership club, Leeds, causing
shares to shoot up by 14 per
cent was yesterday charged
with fraud in Nairobi.
Mr Michael Ezra Mulyoowa
will face trial for allegedly
obtaining credit amounting
to $200,000 (Sh16 million)
from a business enterprise by
false pretences.
A second count stated
that on October 29, 2009 at
Ecobank Towers on Muindi
Mbingu Street in Nairobi, he
drew a cheque number 085728
for $200,000 in favour of
SMR Ltd in the knowledge
that his account had insu-
cient funds. Makadara senior
resident magistrate Emily
Nyongesa ordered he be taken
into custody pending a ruling
on his bond terms.
Mr Mulyoowa had been ear-
lier charged with one count of
issuing a bad cheque in pay-
ment of credit incurred from
SMR Ltd and released on cash
bail of Sh3 million, but after
the prosecution presented an
amended charge sheet, with
an additional charge, the
magistrate set the bail terms
for a review.
The businessman has
pleaded innocent and set to
go on trial next month.
Yesterday, the prosecution
asked for time to review the
documents in the case in light
of the additional charges.
The businessman who has
enjoyed media limelight as a
sports philanthropist, in 2004
made an oer to the Ugandan
Government to the tune of $30
million to buy the Uganda
National Stadium (Mandela
National Stadium).
Ugandan charged with Sh16m fraud
Sh3m
Amount of money tycoon had
paid for bail earlier on, but
more charges meant review of
bail terms
the resolution.
We are asking the ICC to
stop the prosecution of the two
Kenyan principals or they re-
investigate the cases because
they are a lot of falsehoods,
Mr Kutesa said in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia yesterday.
We will present our resolu-
tion to the Heads of State for
them to decide.
Among the proposals is
a call to have the two cases
returned to Kenya.
Foreign Affairs Cabinet
Secretary Amina Mohammed
yesterday declined to comment
on the withdrawal.
We are not talking about with-
drawal, rather we are discussing
the relation between Africa and
ICC, she told journalists at the
African Union headquarters.
The ministers on Thursday
discussed the consequences
African countries would face if
they do not intervene, especially
on the Kenyan cases.
The Heads of State will make a
decision on whether to pull out,
petition ICC to re-investigate the
cases or have them returned to
Kenya.
The resolution comes a day
after a Kenyan delegation failed
to get the UN Security Council
to stop the two cases.
Western nations on the 15-
member council told Kenyan
diplomats at a private meeting
that the two leaders and radio
presenter Joshua arap Sang
must face the court, diplomats
told journalists after the meeting
in New York.
The US and EU countries, the
envoys said, opposed the move
but China and Russia were sym-
pathetic to the request. Rwanda,
Morocco and Pakistan were also
more receptive to the Kenyas
request. None of the countries
in the second group are ICC
members.
There was a very rm re-
sponse from ICC member States
and the US that they must take
their case to the court, said one
diplomat, speaking on condition
of anonymity.
Kenyas Ambassador to the
UN Macharia Kamau hinged
the request on the premise that
the Security Council has some
measure of political oversight
regarding the functioning of
the ICC.
However, the council made it
clear that it did not intend to take
any action on the cases.
Mr Kenyatta, Mr Ruto and Mr
Sang are facing crimes against
humanity charges over 2007/08
post election violence, which
claimed more than 1,100 lives.
They have denied the charges.
The trial of Kenyatta is cur-
rently scheduled to start in July.
He has vowed to cooperate with
the court.
Additional reporting by AFP
Africa leaders to vote on ICC cases
African
Heads
of State
to take
a stand
on cases
facing
Kenyatta
and Ruto
HAGUE TRIALS | UN turns down request to terminate Kenyan cases

There was a very

rm response from
ICC member States
and the US that they
must take their case
to the court
A UN envoy
FILE | NATION
Deputy President William Ruto
is welcomed by his lawyer Karim
Khan to the ICC at The Hague.
CONT. FROM PAGE 1
EAST POKOT
Road patrols stepped
up after robberies
Security has been stepped up
along Loruk-Chemolingot road
following robberies targeting
motorists. East Pokot police
boss Fredrick Ochieng said
patrols have been intensied on
the highway after unscrupulous
traders were caught transport-
ing stolen livestock. In the
recent past 14 people have been
killed by armed raiders since
January in Baringo North.
Two speeches to
mark June 1 fetes
BY NATION
CORRESPONDENT
Two sets of speeches will
be read during this years
June 1 Madaraka day cel-
ebrations in the counties.
There will be one for
Governors and another for
County Commissioners.
This is designed to cut
out the supremacy cold
war between the two sets
of county leaders.
An impeccable source
said the presidents speech
will be read by the County
Commissioners and the
Governors will read their
own speeches.
The source indicated that
the commissioners will take
the salute as members of
the disciplined forces
march past the dias while
Governors will stand still.
It has not yet been estab-
lished who between the two
will host the Madaraka Day
luncheon.
In some counties,
Governors and County
Commissioners do not
see eye to eye.
TAITA-TAVETA
Resolve border row,
pleads Taita leader
Taita-Taveta governor John
Mruttu has asked the national
government to resolve the bor-
der row between his county,
Makueni and Kwale. We still
have issues at Mtito Andei
which borders Makueni and
at Mackinnon Road where we
neighbour Kwale. We want to
know their borders, said Mr
Mruttu. Its not clear who owns
Tsavo West National Park.
BARINGO
Sh4.9 billion water
dam completed
The Sh4.9 billion Chemususu
dam has been completed and
will be commissioned soon
by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Water permanent secretary
David Stower, touring the dam
in Baringo on Thursday, said
contractor Frabo International
completed it in the three years
set out in the contract. It will
hold 12 billion litres of water
and serve over 600,000 house-
holds in Baringo and Rongai.
NAKURU
Lobby wants police
probed over killing
A lobby wants police alleged
of killing a suspect probed. Na-
kuru Human Rights Network
executive ocer David Kuria
further demanded the arrest of
the three ocers implicated in
the killing. Mr Samuel Kiplagat
was allegedly frog marched
from a pub at Arap Chumu cen-
tre on May 16 and shot dead.
But police boss Bernard Kioko
said the suspect tried to attack
the ocers with a knife.
BRIEFLY
MERU
Governors pledge
to work as a team
Five governors from the ve
counties in upper eastern have
pledged to work together. Nthi
governor Samuel Ragwa said
his colleagues Godana Doyo
(Isiolo), Ukur Yatani (Marsa-
bit), Peter Munya (Meru) and
Moses Kasaire (Samburu)
agreed this at a meeting in
Meru. They all agreed to share
ideas on development because
the region had almost similar
geographical conditions.
FETED | Principal of the year in county awarded
Leader of Minority in Sen-
ate Moses Wetangula
(right) presents a trophy
to Ms Josephine Wanyama,
the principal of Moi Girls-
Makusinga in Bungoma
County. Ms Wanyama was
awarded yesterday for
being the principal of the
year in the county during
the closing of a one-week
Kenya Secondary Schools
Heads Association seminar
held at Marriott Hotel in
Eldoret town.
JARED NYATAYA | NATION
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
National News 5
BY ALLAN OLINGO
aolingo@ke.nationmedia.com
I
ts the ultimate walk of shame for
any visitor to Mathari Hospital.
The main road is dilapidated,
the paths overgrown with grass
and serenaded by garbage, the sta
quarters soiled by years of disrepair
and the faces you meet downcast as
if the people here are in a permanent
state of mourning. The buildings are
dilapidated. Condemned, just like
the patients.
Recently when over 40 patients
escaped from the hospital, most
people blamed it on negligence. To
some, it was just a case of lunatics
seeking freedom. But it was a case of
hunger, abuse, lack of basic services
and a ght for survival.
Patients and sta told the Saturday
Nation tales of hunger, abandonment
and disease. Many sleep on cold, hard
and dusty oors. Cases of abuse are
so rampant that complaints of sexual
harassment or abuse no longer jerk
the management into action.
I walk into Ward 5, claiming to be
an intern from Kenyatta University
medical school. Its stuy like a public
toilet. The patients look like they have
been drugged.
One stares at me in a daze; his
clothes torn, eyes bloodshot, hair
uncombed and face dishevelled. If he
had come across any water, it must
have been when it last rained.
I turn around the room and count
32 saddened faces. I turn to the nurse
by my side and quickly avoid her gaze.
I am embarrassed at the appalling
physical conditions in the room and
the haplessness of the patients and
the nurses.
There are beds all over me, but no
mattresses. The blankets look like
doormats at marikiti.
A gush of wind blows through the
windows painted by grime and the
whole ward is enveloped in a stench
of urine and drugs. I ashback to
my last visit to the Industrial Area
Remand Prison in Nairobi. This is
not a home for sick people in need
of delicate care. Its a dumpsite where
mental patients are condemned to wal-
low in their solitude. I ask to see the
hospitals medical superintendent,
Dr Kisivuli Atsenga, but hes out in a
meeting and promises to call back. I
am still waiting for the call.
How do you survive in such a dirty,
depressing environment? I ask the
nurse. Its work. My job is to care
for the patients and theres only so
much I can do, she says, walking into
another row of wards.
There are no doctors, the drugs have expired, patients sleep on
creaking old beds without mattresses, the diet is worse than
prisoners and sexual and physical abuse are the norm
Inside Kenyas most depraved hospital
The entrance to
Mathari Hospi-
tal in Nairobi.
Patients at the
hospital are
neglected and
abused
FILE | NATION
ON DEATHBED | Patients at Mathari hospital blame recent break-out on hunger, abuse and lack of basic services

Almost 50
per cent of
the patients
in the
hospital are
abandoned
by their
relatives
because
they are too
poor to clear
bills
Dr Christopher
Ouma
Wards 8 and 9 are clean, having
been recently renovated, she says.
For the rst time her face beams
with a smile, but its not the smile
of happiness. It seems to convey
some sense of inevitability that eve-
rything that can go wrong here has
gone wrong.
Eat in turns
The conversation returns to Ward
5 and 6. These wards were meant for
47 patients each, but they are holding
double that.
It is very unfortunate that the
patients have to eat in turns because
the wards do not have enough plastic
plates for them. It is that bad and
the administration is doing very little
about it, she says.
The diet is worse than that of
prisoners with boiled cabbage and
porridge being a constant on the
menu.
The nurse, who cannot be named
for fear of reprisals from the manage-
ment, says the mattresses in ward 5
were withdrawn after the patients
started using them as toilet paper.
We had the standard mattresses
provided by the government but they
were phased out and replaced with
ones bought by donors. It is these new
ones that these patients turned into
tissue papers. When we ask for new
mattresses, we are told the hospital
is underfunded, she says.
Cases of patients escaping are not
strange here. On average, at least four
patients escape every month.
We are overstretched and patients
escaping is the least of our worries.
All we do is mark them as abscond-
ers, inform the police and move on,
she says.
The recent case only gained media
prominence because of the number of
patients who escaped. Interestingly,
they were all in Ward 8, which is one
of the cleanest.
The nurse says they work in shifts,
but are rarely fully staed. At times
the patients turn violent, and the dan-
ger of sexual assault is always real.
It is claimed that the nurses work
in full capacity only on Monday and
Tuesday, because of the open day
and cleanliness day. From Wednes-
day to Sunday, the story is dierent.
A ward with 94 patients is manned
by a single female nurse, especially
on night duty.
In the 1990s, the annual budget for
the hospital was Sh6 million, now it
is Sh2 million annually. This saw the
hospital revise its fees, making it more
expensive for the poor. Admission fee
has risen from Sh3,000 to Sh5,000,
while the daily surcharge is Sh1,000,
up from Sh500.
This has made a bad situation
worse because some of the patients
are stranded as they cannot clear
the bills.
Power blackouts are frequent, as
is the case in Nairobi today, but the
hospital does not have a back-up
generator.
This has hit the pharmacy hardest,
with most drugs that must be refriger-
ated going to waste.
The hospital receives drugs that
are almost expiring from donors and
has to work with them due to lack
of funds.
Some of those drugs in the fridge
are at the mercy of the blackouts,
says the nurse.
A former employee and psychiatrist
Christopher Ouma who is now in pri-
vate practice says in Mathari, patients
pay for treatment when they can or
when they have health insurance.
From my own estimation, al-
most 50 per cent of the patients in
the hospital are abandoned by their
relatives because they are too poor
to pay. Imagine a patient has been
in the wards for six months. His bill
is almost Sh160,000. How will they
bail themselves out? he asks.
According to a Kenya National Com-
mission on Human Rights report, The
Silenced Minds: The Systemic Neglect of
the Mental Health System in Kenya, out
of the 10 million metal patients, only
1.5 million receive treatment with the
remaining 8.5 million left out.
The government spends less than
one per cent of its health budget on
mental health.
Dr Lukoye Atwoli, the secretary
of the Kenya Psychiatric Associa-
tion, says that the government does
not really fund the mental health
department.
Whatever they give is money to pay
salaries for sta. With 0.01 per cent
of the national budget translating to
Sh100 million, that is not enough.
Patient admission fees at Mathari
Mental Hospital in Nairobi, up from the
previous Sh3,000
Sh5,000
Patients
escaping is
the least of
our worries,
all we do is
mark them as
absconders,
inform the
police and
move on,
Nurse at Mathari
Hospital
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
6 | National News
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
7
NO PETROL | Fuel shortage in Malindi
ROBERT NYAGAH | NATION
Boda boda taxis queue to buy fuel at Petro Service Sta-
tion in Malindi town yesterday. The town has been hit by an
acute shortage of petrol.
BY GALGALO BOCHA
gbocha@ke.nationmedia.com
T
he High Court has
ordered consolidation
of two murder cases in
which ve men are accused of
killing four police ocers on
the eve of the March 4 poll.
Last week, the prosecution
applied to Mr Justice Martin
Muya to merge the cases in-
volving Mr Jabiri Dzuya, Mr
Alwan Jabu and Mr Anthony
Mughendi with another one
facing Mr Badi Kassim and
Mr Omar Juma.
Mr Dzuya, Mr Jabu and Mr
Mughendi were charged on
March 20 and denied murder-
ing Changamwe police chief
Otieno Owour, OCS Salim
Chebii and police constables
Stephen Maithya and Andrew
Songwa on March 3, 2013 in
Jomvu.
Two weeks ago, detectives
from Special Crime Prevention
Unit arrested Mr Kassim and
Mr Juma and immediately ar-
raigned them before Justice
Muya who ordered them not
to take plea.
Yesterday when all accused
persons were brought before
the court, Mr Mughendi op-
posed the consolidation of the
two matters, saying it was un-
clear whether they were more
suspects to be charged with the
murder of the ocers.
Your honour I have an
instruction from the third ac-
cused person to oppose that
application because of a phrase
in the charge sheet, which
states he is charged jointly
with others not before court,
said lawyer George Igunza.
Similar sentiments were
expressed by lawyer Joseph
Tarus for Mr Dzuya and Mr
Badi, who also notied the
court that the prosecution
has not supplied him with
any statements.
Prosecution counsel Jami
Yamina argued that it would
be a waste of time for the
court to hear the two cases
separately.
Your honour our witnesses
and exhibits are same for both
cases. We will use the same
doctor and police ocers said
Mr Yamina
However, Justice Muya said
considering judicial timeline,
he could not hear and deter-
mine the two cases in piece
meal and ruled in favour of
prosecution.
The case will be heard from
next Wednesday.
Judge orders merger
of police murder cases
Five suspects in the
two suits set to be
tried as from next
week after plea
TRIAL | Prosecution plans to use same witnesses, evidence
n The four ocers were
killed while on night pa-
trol in Miritini.
n They were ambushed
by over 100 armed men
at 2am as they kept vigil,
hours to the elections.
n Police linked the attack
to break-away MRC.
THE ATTACK
How ocers
were killed
BRIEFLY
MOMBASA
Two men charged
with theft of Sh5m
Two Tanzanian brothers
were arraigned in a Mombasa
court yesterday for fraudu-
lently obtaining Sh5.54 mil-
lion from two Kenyan women.
This is by posing as witchdoc-
tors. Messrs Wasandala Dami-
ani Chacha and Wambula
Damiani Chacha were charged
with using fraudulent tricks to
obtain Sh4 million from Ms
Nerea Mwangi and Ms Do-
reen Rachiel Isika in Kisauni.
They denied the charges and
were released on bond. The
case will be heard on July 7.
NANDI
County assembly
rejects cabinet list
County Assembly repre-
sentatives in Nandi clashed
over the list of cabinet nomi-
nees submitted to them for
approval. Some rejected the
entire list while another group
wanted the Tourism nominee
dropped warning Governor
Cleophas Lagat against using
the assembly to rubber stamp
his personal choice. The
Speaker Edwin Cheruiget had
to adjourn proceedings for 30
minutes but at the end, the
entire cabinet was rejected.
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
8 | National News
BY PAUL OGEMBA
pogemba@ke.nationmedia.com
P
resident Uhuru Kenyatta
has seven days to appoint
a tribunal to investigate the
conduct of Justice Joseph Mutava,
as details emerged why the Judi-
cial Service Commission (JSC)
recommended his suspension.
Sources privy to the commis-
sions report said judge Mutava
was indicted on two grounds of
interfering with the judgment of
two other judges and favouring
Goldenberg scandal mastermind
Kamlesh Pattni.
Although JSC ruled that it could
not overturn or make a nding on
the merits of the judgment that
let Mr Pattni o the hook, Justice
Mutavas accounts as to how the
case came before him cannot rule
out allegations of impropriety
raised against him.
The fact that he not only
caused the le to be retrieved
from the safe custody of the
High Court in Nairobi and taken
to him at Kericho but also went
ahead to write a judgment on it
at a time when the JSC was still
inquiring into the allegations of
misconduct against him with
regard to the same matter was
a serious failure of judgment on
his part, says the report
The JSC last week bowed to
pressure and recommended the
suspension of Justice Mutava over
allegations of misconduct.
The judge was facing 11 counts
of impropriety, eight of which
were dismissed by the five-
member sub-committee headed
by Supreme Court judge Justice
Smokin Wanjala.
The committee had ruled
that it was satisfied that the
three complaints disclosed suf-
cient grounds to petition the
President to appoint a tribunal
to inquire into the conduct of
Justice Mutava.
The complaint against the judge
in his handling of the Goldenberg
case was raised by lawyer Nel-
son Havi who outlined instances,
which he contended constituted
misconduct on the part of the
judge.
Mr Havi complained that the
judge inappropriately called
for the file from the Judicial
Review Division and handled it
when he was not serving in that
division. The judge at that time
was attached to the Commercial
Division.
In his response to the allega-
tions, Justice Mutava stated that
the le was not inappropriately
before him but that he had been
requested by Justice Weldon Korir
to handle the Judicial Review mat-
ters for that day on his behalf to
enable him (Justice Korir) travel
out of Nairobi to pick his children
from school.
He defended the decision to
stop criminal charges against Mr
Pattni, saying granting orders is a
matter of judicial discretion and
that his ruling granting leave and
stay of the Goldenberg proceed-
ings has never been challenged by
any party, either by way of an ap-
plication for review or an appeal.
The JSC committee agreed with
Mr Havi that the judge should
not have handled the matter
but declined to recommend any
action on the substance of the
judgment.
The appropriate forum for
ventilating that grievance would
be the Court of Appeal, it said.
Another reason that made the
JSC to recommend investigations
into Justice Mutavas conduct
was a complaint by Rose Mbithe
Mulwa, made through the Ombud-
sperson, Mr Kennedy Bidali.
The complaint was that a
ruling that had been pending
before Justice Leonard Njagi
had leaked to the parties before
delivery. Mr Bidali said the judge
had persistently made inquiries
about the ruling in a manner that
went beyond ordinary judicial
curiosity, attempted to inuence
the outcome in the ruling and
solicited for Sh2.5 million bribe
from Ms Mulwa on behalf of
Justice Njagi.
Justice Mutava admitted mak-
ing inquiries into the file but
stated that he was doing so on
behalf of the complainant who had
approached him through his wife
to establish when the ruling would
be delivered.
He, however, denied having any
personal interest in the matter
or soliciting Sh2.5 million from
Ms Mulwa on behalf of Justice
Njagi.
Justice Njagi on his part testi-
ed that Justice Mutava personally
made persistent inquiries to him
about the pending verdict until
he decided to avoid him. He also
denied asking Judge Mutava to so-
licit for any bribe on his behalf.
The committee found the
judges conduct in this matter
unacceptable. It called for inves-
tigations into Sh2.5 million bribe
demand claim.
The third claim that faced the
judge was made by Industrialisa-
tion Permanent Secretary over the
manner he handled a dispute with
the East African Portland Cement
Company.
The PS complained that the
judge granted an interim injunc-
tion on the basis of an exparte
application in a case led by the
same parties who had been denied
similar orders in another court,
and that he falsely and unfairly
attributed a statement to lawyer
Fred Ngatia to justify the orders
he granted. He also alleged that
the judge had been seen in the
company of one of the parties
in Karen the weekend before he
issued the orders. But Justice
Mutava responded, saying the
prayers sought and the parties in
the two suits were dierent; that
he was not aware of the existence
of another case.
Law Society of Kenya Chair-
man Eric Mutua yesterday said
they were anxiously waiting for
the tribunal to be formed to give
LSK members who did not le
complains with the JSC to appear
before it.
However, he said he would not
pursue a complaint he lodged
against the judge in the manner he
handled a dispute between KAA
and World Duty Free Company
because of public perception that
he has a personal vendetta against
Justice Mutava.
The cases against suspended judge
ON THE SPOT | Court ocial accused of seeking Sh2.5 million bribe on behalf of his colleague
The persistence
with which he made
inquiries about the
case coupled with
the text message to
Judge Njagi (I am
for the plainti)
betrays more than
just a casual interest
by a judge
JSC report
Justice
Mutava
was sent
packing for
interfering
with
rulings of
two other
judges and
favouring
Kamlesh
Pattni
FILE | NATION
Suspended Justice Joseph Mutava
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
National News 9
Former PMs memoirs
to lift the lid on life in
politics and beyond
BY ROY GACHUHI
gachuhiroy@gmail.com
Kenyans will have a chance
to know some of former
Prime Minister Raila Odin-
gas best kept secrets when he
publishes his autobiography
in about two months.
In his first detailed in-
terview since the March 4
General Election and the
Supreme Court ruling that
armed his loss to President
Uhuru Kenyatta, Mr Odinga
told the Saturday Nation that
the book takes most of his
time since he relinquished
office as Kenyas second
Prime Minister.
It is taking a lot of my
time these days, he said.
As you know, a lot has been
written about me. There have
been biographies. This is an
autobiography. It is now my
turn to tell my story.
In the wide-ranging in-
terview, Mr Odinga said he
did not lose the 2013 elec-
tion but was rigged out. He
cast himself as a victim of a
relentless, fully-funded and
all-reaching State machinery
intent on winning the poll at
any cost.
Free of bitterness
But remarkably, he
sounded conciliatory, free of
bitterness and repeatedly said
the battle was never personal
but ideological. It was a war
of competing systems.
As I have said before, I
wish President Uhuru Ken-
yatta the best because life
must continue for Kenyans
and they have a manifesto.
They made promises that
they must keep and they
should be given the oppor-
tunity to deliver on their
promises. I have not taken
this personally about Uhuru
or Ruto because we are talk-
ing about a system, not two
individuals.
If you try to individualise
it, you miss the point. It is a
system. These two individu-
als are just beneciaries of
a system and now that they
are there, they are Kenyans,
and they should be given
ample opportunity to show
their worth.
Looking drawn after the
long campaign and its af-
termath, Mr Odinga found
plenty to laugh about on is-
sues that many Kenyans are
ripping themselves apart
about, especially behind the
anonymous and safe plat-
forms of social media.
Tearing the justices of the
Supreme Court apart, he
laughed uproariously as he
remarked that their decision
was inuenced by very, very
high stakes and that if you
see an individual acting out
of character, you must ask
yourself what is it that is
motivating it.
This will doubtless be inter-
preted as a swipe at his long
term friend and once fellow
detainee, Chief Justice Willy
Mutunga, whom many Ju-
bilee supporters had feared
would endorse Mr Odingas
petition.
But in the interview, he
shrugged: When they did
what they did, I said this
is a setback. You count your
loses and move on. This is
just one of the roadblocks.
You have hit a roadblock here,
you reverse and then move
on, because this is a move-
ment. It is not an even... It
must continue.
He made light of television
footage showing people in
Nyanza, the bedrock of his
support, beating up his post-
ers and banners during Cords
botched nominations.
He said: When I saw it, I
just enjoyed it. So long as it
was not violent. What I de-
tested was the violent part
when some people organised
to hijack returning ocers,
ballot papers, beating up the
returning ocers, burning
the ballot papers and so on;
that was abhorrent.
However, he seemed
agitated when addressing
charges that his wife Ida had
a role to play in his election
defeat.
Clearly upset, he said:
Some people can be very
unfair. Ida has played a very
positive role in my life and
she tried to help in any way
she could. But rst, I didnt
lose this election. I was rigged
out of it. How can anybody
accuse her of contributing to
a loss that never was?
Rigging machinery
Ida was not part of the
Kenya intelligence system,
she was not part of the elec-
tion rigging machinery at the
IEBC, she didnt steal votes
in polling stations how
unfair can people get!
During the interview con-
ducted at his private Raila
Odinga Centre at Nairobis
Upper Hill suburb, the former
PM was at pains to distin-
guish his person and the fate
of the Cord coalition that he
leads, remarking: The thing
is that we are just players in
this game. You dont look at
it as an end. If you look at
it as an end then you will
end up committing suicide
politically.
You must look at it as a
movement and that you are
not indispensable. You have
got your own life. So this will
go on even if Raila Odinga is
no longer here.

Ida was not part

of the Kenya
intelligence
system, she was
not part of the
election rigging
machinery at the
IEBC
Raila Odinga
H
ow do you spend your days
these days? With the burdens
and stresses of being Prime
Minister behind you, how
does the diary look?
I am writing my autobiography. It
is taking a lot of my time these days.
As you know, a lot has been written
about me. There have been biogra-
phies. It is now my turn to tell my
story. As you might guess, I know
a lot of things that people dont
know. (Breaks into a laugh).
Will it be a big, big tell-all book like
say, Bill Clintons My Life or Tony Blairs
A Journey? Can Kenyans look forward
to knowing the real Raila Odinga? And
when will it come out?
(Laughs). It will be the story of
my life, told by me, not by other
people. It will come out in about
two months.
Which book are you currently read-
ing?
Change We Choose. Its a book
by Gordon Brown, former Prime
Minister of the UK. Its a collection
of his speeches.
Some people have said that part of
the blame for your loss in the General
Election should be laid on Ida, your wife.
Address this, and also your relationship
with your life partner.
(For the rst time, he gets agi-
tated) No! No! No! Some people
can be very unfair! Ida has played a
very positive role in my life and she
tried to help in any way she could.
But rst, I didnt lose this election.
I was rigged out of it. How can any-
body accuse her of contributing to
a loss that never was? Ida was not
part of the Kenya Intelligence, she
was not part of the election rigging
machinery at the IEBC, she didnt
steal votes in polling stations how
unfair can people get!
Ida is not infallible. She is a
human being and like all other
human beings, she has her strengths
and weaknesses. She has played a
very positive role in my life and she
did her best for us in the elections.
She has been accused unfairly and
I am upset about that.

The question in the minds of all Ken-
yans, your supporters and opponents
alike, is what your specic plans going
forward are?
Well, as you know, this is not a
one-man band. This is a movement
that I represent. I represent the
quest for Kenyans to democratise
their country, to improve their lives.
And this movement is almost as
old as this country has been inde-
pendent. There have always been
two forces pulling in two opposite
directions - the forces for status quo
versus the forces for change. You
see the nationalist movement that
The system was against
In his rst in-depth
interview since losing the
March 4 General Election
and failing to get the
Supreme Court to overturn
that result Cord leader
Raila Odinga spoke candidly
to ROY GACHUHI about
politics, family and friends
INTERVIEW | Cord leader says he has no hard feelings against Uhuru and Ruto
I am looking
forward to a
time when
our society
will be that
tolerant;
that even if
somebody
is talking
disparagingly
about Raila,
you dont
beat him up
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INTERVIEW | Cord leader says he has no hard feelings against Uhuru and Ruto
me but I have moved on, says Raila
brought independence to this country
split immediately after independence
because there are those who now felt
that We have arrived; this is Jerusa-
lem. We are now the new masters,
who have taken over from the outgo-
ing colonial masters. Sisi ni wazungu
weusi. This group of Kenyans wanted
to use this new privileged position
to step in the shoes of the outgoing
colonial masters and to now lord it
over their fellow Kenyans. They were
called rulers as opposed to leaders
because if you are a leader, you are
leading the people. It is what is called
servant leadership. But these ones felt
that they had taken over from the
governors. On the other hand, there
were those who were saying No, let
us achieve the objectives of the strug-
gle for our independence, which was
emancipation of our people. This was
the actually basis of the disagreement
in the nationalist movement and thats
what caused the split. It is against
this background that you can explain
the post independence developments.
Ask yourself, why was Pio Gama Pinto
assassinated? Because there was a
struggle between these two forces
and Pinto became the rst casualty,
the rst victim.
Some people say this election was irre-
trievably lost when Cord failed to register
people en mass. They also say there was
ineptitude in mobilising the turn-out oth-
erwise the numbers existed. What will you
write in your memoires about the cause of
your loss?
See, it is not that Cord failed to
mobilise the people, or to register. It
was collusion (involving) the Inde-
pendent Electoral and Boundaries
Commission. It is the electoral com-
mission that is supposed to get people
to register. But the way it was being
done was actually selective because
it was actually colluding with the
administration. For example, people
were registered bio-metrically in some
areas, there were very few BVR kits
you nd that three or four polling
stations were sharing one BVR kit
in certain areas whereas in others
there was a BVR kit in every polling
station and they deliberately gave a
very short period of registration to
accelerate the registration of voters
in some areas and slowing it down in
other areas. And then they only gave
30 days for registration. In 2007, in
order to register 12 million people
they gave 60 days. This time they
wanted to register 18 million people
and they gave 30 days and when the
30 days were over and we appealed for
an extension of time, they refused to
give it. So it was a deliberate strategy
by those who were involved to exclude,
to disenfranchise certain sections of
society from the electoral process. At
that time Cord was not registered as
coalition. So you can see it was a tar-
geted registration.
Second, the issue of mobilising
people to vote, that again is a myth.
Kenyans turned up to vote country-
wide in such large numbers. You
cannot say there were some areas
that had a higher turn-out than oth-
ers. There are certain areas where
there were deliberate efforts to
block people from voting, like at the
Coast. There are some areas where
they closed polling stations at 4pm.
In some places, they came and threw
teargas, to send people away. Then
there was an incident where some
police ocers were attacked. They
used that as an excuse to close some
polling stations to stop people from
voting, the reason being they knew
the Coast was a Cord stronghold and
therefore to block people from voting
worked in their favour.
But this idea that there were some
areas where there was 95 per cent
or 100 per cent turn-out is a myth.
Because if you look at the records,
the average turn-out was 72 per cent
for county reps, for women reps, for
MPs, for Governors, for Senators but
only for the Presidential 86 per cent.
What accounts for that dierence?
They were stung ballot papers and
that was the evidence that we wanted
to adduce in court that over one mil-
lion people turned up for the ballot
and only voted for the presidency and
not for the others. That is not right. So
they should not blame the people, you
should blame the forces, the process
which was awed. It was deliberately
awed to achieve the purpose that
they did.
When the IEBC announced the results and
further when the Supreme Court handed
down its verdict, how did you feel. How
did you take it?
I was prepared for the outcome. You
see if you go to court its an either
or situation, you expect to win or to
lose, so you must be prepared for the
worst while being ready for the best.
So I was under no illusion that there
would be pressure on the Supreme
Court because the stakes were very,
very high. So if you see an individual
acting out of character you must ask
yourself what is motivating them. You
saw in the court how they started by
rejecting our evidence, expunging it
from the records then the next thing
they did was to allow the Attorney
General to be amicus curae and deny
the Law Society of Kenya and Prof
Yash Pal Ghai of Katiba Institute to
be a friend of the court. So now look
at this, if you are already rejecting
people seen to be neutral, and admit-
ting somebody who is very partisan,
is that fair? The Attorney-General
is advisor to the government. The
government was not accused. The
government was not in court. Yet he
is allowed to oer an opinion. This
showed you the intimidation of the
court. So, when they did what they
did, I said this is a setback; you count
your loses and move on. This is just
one of the roadblocks; you reverse and
move, because this is a movement as
I said. It is not an event. It is just one
of those hurdles in the race. This is a
movement, so must continue.
You can be adequately mentally prepared
for a loss of such big magnitude.you were
prepared?
You see, the thing is that we are just
players in this game. You dont look
at it as an end. If you look at it as an
end then you will end up committing
suicide politically. You must look at it
as a movement and that you are not
indispensible you have got your own
life. So this will go on even if Raila
Odinga is no longer here. It is not a
fatalistic game that you must win at
all costs. You win but you saw what
happened in 2007. In 2007, Justice
18 million
The number of registered voters IEBC
sought to register in the March 4
General Election
ANN KAMONI | NATION
Top: Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga during the interview at his Raila Odinga Centre in Nairobi on Tuesday. Above: With
his wife Ida and census enumerator Collins Opiyo at their Karen home August 25, 2009. Left: The Odingas hand over their
daughter Rosemary during her wedding to Amos Ndanyi in 2004.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 17
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
National News 11
Leaders must chart
new path for Africa
T
he African Union Heads of State Summit
takes place in Addis Ababa this weekend and
coincides with the celebrations to mark the
organisations 50th anniversary.
Established rst as the Organisation of African
Unity (OAU) to help in the liberation of the conti-
nent from the shackles of colonial rulers, and later
changed to AU, the body has had a mixed bag of
results. In the earlier years, it played a pivotal role
in the emancipation of many African countries and
oered a platform for the continents collective en-
gagement with the rest of the world.
OAUs founders such as Ghanas Kwame Nkuru-
mah and Algerias Ahmed Ben Bella envisioned that
the organisation would form a basis for unication
of the continent and strengthen its institutions and
agencies for economic prosperity.
However, the organisation has the lingering leg-
acy of playing host to dictators and for long burying
its head in the sand when its members destroyed
their nations. It has the reputation of keeping silent
amidst violations of rights in member states. Yet,
it should act as a forum where errant members are
corrected.
The continent is still divided along regional and
linguistic blocs. Few member states trade with each
other. Travelling across the continent is nightmar-
ish. At a time when the rest of the world is working
towards strong and large economic blocs, AUs
members are still preoccupied with protecting their
territories.
As it enters a new era, AU must redene itself
and pursue strategic goals. To this extent, it is ret-
rogressive when some of its members vouch for
the continents withdrawal from the International
Crime Court (ICC) because it has indicted Kenyas
leaders over election violence in 2007. AU must not
continue to operate as an insular club for dictators.
Economy still in the red
T
he Kenya output last year managed to expand
by 4.6 per cent, a fact that may elicit some
excitement given the pre-election paralysis
and terror attacks that convulsed the economy.
But a good crunching of the numbers tells you that
policy-makers have little to smile about.
With an annual population growth slightly above
two per cent and ination and per capita GDP
changes cancelling each other out at about nine per
cent, it is easy to tell that the welfare of Kenyans is
hardly improving.
Besides, the Economic Survey released on Thurs-
day indicated only 660,000 jobs were generated by
the economy. Out of this, just 68,000 was salaried.
The upshot here is that the Jubilee government
needs to roll up its sleeves and deliver its noble
but ambitious promises. Faced with a potentially
implosive socio-economic situation where idle and
impoverished youth ring the leafy suburbs amidst a
polarised political environment, the coalition has to
act quickly and decisively.
That said, we plead with the opposition to closely
monitor government operations and ensure crooks
who may have ridden to power on the Jubilee band-
wagon with a view to plunder are neutralised in
public interest.
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President Uhuru made a stop-over in Juba on his way to Addis Ababa for the African Union Heads of State Summit.
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POINT BLANK | George Kegoro
T
wo developments this
week underscored
the diculties that
Uganda is going through
with regard to its observ-
ance of the rule of law. The
rst was the closure of The
Monitor, a sister publication
to this newspaper, together
with its two related radio
stations, KFM and Dembe
FM, in connection with
a story published in the
newspaper about President
Yoweri Musevenis al-
leged grooming of his son,
Muhoozi Kainerugaba, to
succeed him.
The second was a judg-
ment by the East Africa
Court of Justice in Arusha
declaring that the decision
by Uganda to expel Mr.
Samuel Mohochi, a well-
known Kenyan lawyer and
human rights defender,
upon his arrival at Entebbe
Airport in 2011, without ac-
cording him the due process
of the law was illegal, unlaw-
ful and a breach of Ugandas
obligations under the Treaty
for the East African Com-
munity.
Mr Mohochi had travelled
to Uganda from Kenya in
April 2011 as part of a 14-
member delegation of the
International Commission
of Jurists, Kenyan Section,
scheduled to meet Ugandan
Chief Justice, Benjamin
Odoki, with whom they
were to take up the case
of another human rights
defender, Al Amin Kimathi,
then detained in Uganda.
On arrival at Entebbe In-
ternational Airport, Mr.
Mohochi was not allowed
beyond the immigration
checkpoint. He was arrested
by immigration authorities,
and subsequently served
with a Notice to Return or
Convey Prohibited Immi-
grant.
While the rest of the del-
egation, with whom he had
travelled on the same ight,
was allowed into Uganda,
he was returned to Kenya
the same day. Despite his
request for an explana-
tion as to the conduct of
the Uganda government,
nobody talked to him or
oered a reason why he
was being excluded from
Uganda.
Before the court in Aru-
sha, Uganda argued that as
a sovereign state, it had the
right to exclude any person
that it wished from entering
its territory. In dismissing
this argument, however, the
court found that Ugandas
sovereignty to deny entry to
persons who are citizens of
partner states was not taken
away by the Treaty and the
Protocol, but the exercise of
this power can only be valid
if it is done in strict compli-
ance with the requirements
of the Treaty, which require
that the exclusion of nation-
als of a state party to the
Treaty must be notied to
that party.
The court reasoned that
the limitations on sov-
ereignty, implied by the
provisions of the Treaty,
into which all East African
states entered voluntarily,
constitute rights for the citi-
zens of the partner states of
the Community.
The expulsion of Mr.
Mohochi from Uganda
had been preceded by that
of a British lawyer, Clara
Gutteridge, who was also
working on the issue of the
Kenyan nationals facing ter-
rorism charges in Uganda.
Like Mr. Mohochi, she had
also been bundled out when
she arrived at the airport,
with no explanation being
given for this action.
Considered together,
these incidents demonstrate
that Uganda is experiencing
serious setbacks in the ob-
servance of the rule of law,
making it dicult to predict
how its government will be-
have on a day-to-day basis.
As these occurrences
show, Ugandas internal
situation is not without ef-
fect on its neighbours, or
indeed on the East African
Community.
Ugandas arbitrary con-
duct has implications on the
free movement of persons,
labour and services, as well
as the right of establish-
ment and residence, which
are provided for under the
Treaty.
As the Nation Media
Group must have realised,
its investments in Uganda
face risks that are peculiar
to the unusual political situ-
ation in that country. Also,
as the longest serving presi-
dent in the region, President
Museveni is the de facto
leader of the region whose
conduct has implications
beyond his own country.
The high-handed behavior
coming from Uganda makes
it easy for such behavior to
be replicated elsewhere.
In this context, the time
has come to view Ugandas
growing internal problems
not as a domestic matter to
be addressed by Ugandans
alone, but as an issue that
has direct implications on
the realisation of the objec-
tives of the East African
Community and also on the
continuing stability of East
African region as a whole.
gkegoro@icj-kenya.org
Why we must all be afraid, very
afraid of Ugandas power games

The high-handed
behaviour coming
from Kampala
makes it easy for
such behaviour to be
replicated elsewhere.
President Museveni is
the de facto leader of
the region and his actions
have implications beyond
his own country
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
12 | Opinion
U
ntil this week, when
the Truth, Justice and
Reconciliation Commis-
sion released its nal report, the
prospect of beginning a national
conversation about Kenyas past
appeared very dim.
It has been 10 years since
Prof Makau Mutuas task force
recommended the establish-
ment of a truth commission,
and four years since the TJRC
was set up. Its vice-chairperson, Betty Murungi,
resigned her slot in an attempt to force its belea-
guered chairman, Mr Bethuel Kiplagat, to resign
on perceptions of conict of interest. Although Mr
Kiplagat did step aside for nearly two years, he
returned mid last year, courtesy of a court order,
and political mediation from the Ministry of Justice,
National Cohesion and Constitutional Aairs and
the Commission for Administrative Justice.
Since May 3 when President Uhuru Kenyatta was
expected to receive the report, he has been curi-
ously unavailable. When he did receive the nal
report, the signatures of Prof Ronald Slye and Jus-
tice Gertrude Chawatama were missing from the
chapter on land, as are four plucky paragraphs.
Notwithstanding its shortcomings, which only
become apparent as the country grapples with the
2,000 pages, the TJRC report recommends further
investigations for Mr Kiplagat, who handed over
the report, and President Kenyatta, who received it.
Most important, however, are not the recommen-
dations, so I will write plainly once again.
The TJRC report is a milestone because it is a
rewriting of the formal Kenyan history as passed
down in text and by mouth.
Malkiat Singh and other curriculum historians
have taught generations of Kenyans that their coun-
try has a normal and proud history. Kenya must
confront the reality that much of that history has
been a lie.
This country was not forged into a nation by de-
mocracy. It was fashioned on the murder of people
who held political views that were disagreeable to
the rulers: Pio Gama Pinto, Thomas Joseph Mboya,
Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Robert John Ouko, Bishop
Alexander Kipsang Muge and Dr Crispin Odhiambo
Mbai, among others. The rulers lost their ability to
out-argue these dissenters, so they killed them.
It is a history that acknowledges, for the rst
time, that the police and the army were never
meant to protect the common people, but rather to
terrorise using death, rape, sexual violence, looting
and burning. Massacres are part of the expectations
of the Kenyan police and the armed forces. The
peace that Kenya has enjoyed has been produced by
the systematic and widespread use of torture, rape,
sexual violence, burning, looting and collective pun-
ishment. These qualities have continued to dene
the countrys security services.
Kenyas new history acknowledges that citizen-
ship has been layered there are real citizens and
second-class citizens, depending on gender, on who
is ruling the country, and the state sanctioned this
discrimination.
Many of the nations wealthy did not become
that way by creating their riches. They raided the
state and robbed communities. They grabbed land,
stole opportunity and rigged the economy as part
of state policy, which nurtured the theft of public
resources as the new culture of enterprise.
The history of the rst 50 years of Kenyas in-
dependence is writ in blood, robbery, pain and
injustice but more than anything else, it is under-
lined by silence. Yet, history is not just a collection
of happy and sad episodes. It is a derivation of
meaning about who a people are, and what they
want to become. The TJRC report shows Kenyans
who they have been. They must use it to determine
who they want to be.
kwamchetsi@formandcontent.co.ke
Writing a new
history of Kenya
after 50 years
POLITICALLY CORRECT |
Kwamchetsi Makokhas sideways
look at the TJRC report
DIFFERENT STROKES | Gabriel Dolan
L
ast week I met a father
of ve children strug-
gling to retain them
in full time education. In the
course of our conversation,
Joseph not his real name
told me he was HIV positive,
but since his wife was nega-
tive, he always used a condom.
My friend was neither seeking
sympathy nor expecting con-
demnation but just informing
me in a matter-of-fact way how
he was dealing with his family
responsibilities.
Morality is all about mak-
ing informed decisions and
taking responsibility for our
actions. Joseph cannot aord
to buy a newspaper and only
occasionally watches TV in his
neighbours home, so he was
spared all the hullabaloo about
the condom debate. Maybe
it was just as well as he has
enough problems to deal with
without further adding to his
burdens or guilt.
Jesus condemned the reli-
gious leaders of his day for
laying heavy burdens on the
shoulders of the common
folk and not lifting a nger
to remove them (Mt 23). He
also warns us not to judge.
The only time he is angry
and judgmental himself is on
the subject of the poor in Mt
25. Our religious leaders may
well be right about condoms
but married couples make
choices of their own and I will
not condemn them. Besides,
sexual intimacy is one of the
few pleasures that couples can
enjoy or aord these days with
18 million Kenyans living on
less than Sh100 a day.
John Wesley said there is
no holiness but social holi-
ness yet we hear more about
bedroom morality than social
justice from many of our re-
ligious leaders. All the more
preposterous when some of
them lump the issues of con-
doms, abortion and euthanasia
all together. That is alarmist,
extremist and dangerous fun-
damental thinking.
Jesus was certainly pro-life,
but he was not just concerned
about issues of the womb and
the tomb but in every aspect
of human life in between. In
Matthew 25, we are told that
we will be judged by how we
treated the least of these
brothers and sisters of Jesus.
Put rather more colloquially,
we are required to view IDPs,
slum dwellers, people with
HIV, albinos, autistic children,
widows and orphans and every
other forgotten sector of so-
ciety as our own kith and kin
because when we ignore them
we reject the divinity and dig-
nity present in each of them.
So, authentic religion is
about mercy and challeng-
ing unjust systems and laws
that shackle the marginalised
in our midst. Timothy Njoya
was the only religious leader
involved last week in protest-
ing the greed of the latest
bunch of parliamentarians. I
could imagine Jesus cleansing
Parliament with a whip like he
cleansed the temple of money
dealers two millennia ago.
Faith communities should
choose authenticity over
conformity, reection over cer-
tainty, leadership by example
and not by control according
to theologian Jim Wallis. Jesus
came to comfort the aicted
and aict the comfortable
but churches today worship
power and preach a prosperity
gospel. Indeed, Jesus showed
it was more important to be
in contact than correct and
Joseph taught me the same
lesson. The poor are the great
prophets of our time.
gdolan54@gmail.com
Churches have abandoned social justice
Rev Timothy Njoya was the only
religious leader involved in the
protest against MPs greed.
TJRC REPORT | Magesha Ngwiri
K
enyans like talking, and for
the next three weeks or so,
they will be talking of noth-
ing else but the Truth, Justice and
Reconciliation Commission report,
which cannot in any sense be de-
scribed as explosive.
My own feeling is that the only
value of the three-year, exhaus-
tive, not to mention expensive,
investigation will be ultimately
therapeutic a purging of the Ken-
yan psyche and soul, a cleansing
of sorts, similar to the feeling you
get when, under deep emotion, you
open up to a sympathetic listener
and pour out all your troubles.
That outburst usually leaves you
feeling better, but it does nothing to
solve the cause of your distress.
Alternatively, the report may just
reopen old wounds, resentments
and hatreds. In that sense, far from
having a cathartic eect, this report
may turn out to be of value only to
historians and graduate students.
But rst, I must confess some-
thing: by the time I was writing
this, I had only read a few high-
lights of the report in the papers,
and since I have no intention of
reading the 2,000-page tome in
one sitting, perhaps I should seek
forgiveness from my readers in ad-
vance for asserting that this could
turn out to be the biggest exercise
in futility to have occurred in this
our beloved nation.
In fact, since there does not seem
to be any possibility of the report
achieving a closure of any sort, per-
haps we should just read it, digest
it, discuss it and move on.
But before the liberal brigade of
activists goes for my jugular, let me
explain. I do not condone the atroc-
ities, assassinations, extra-judicial
executions, massacres, pogroms,
detentions without trial, torture, ir-
regular or illegal alienation of vast
tracts of land by past rulers, or
what happened to the victims who
became collateral damage during
police and military operations. But
I have to ask this: So what?
This question may sound quite
callous, but it is not meant to be.
We are talking about revisiting
Kenyas history from the pre-inde-
pendence days to the 2007-2008
post-election violence, a half cen-
tury of atrocities committed by the
State through its agencies.
We are talking about prosecuting
at least 400 individuals for land-
grabbing, fanning ethnic clashes,
committing brutalities against
fellow Kenyans in the guise of safe-
guarding national security, torture,
rape, political assassinations, eco-
nomic crimes and corruption.
Are we going to spend another
50 years pursuing miscreants,
murderers, thieves, malefactors
and neer-do-wells? Dont we have
other things to do, like growing the
economy and reforming all our in-
stitutions so that such things never
happen again?
Again, the idea here is not to
belittle the importance of the TJRC
report. It is an important milestone
in the development of our nation.
Major crimes have been commit-
ted and some forms of reparation
are still possible. For instance, it is
absolutely vital to tackle one issue
that is the mother of all inter-ethnic
resentments land.
There is no doubt that too few
people own too much land, most of
which they acquired illegally.
I do not know how reparations
can be carried out so that minor-
ity and indigenous groups recover
their ancestral land grabbed by the
rich and powerful. Perhaps it can
be done because if the report says
200,000 illegal land titles were
created between the independence
period and 2002, most of them
during the notorious land grab-
happy years of the Moi regime,
such titles can be revoked and the
land restored to its original owners.
But how do you deal with a situ-
ation in which a land-less peasant
from Central Kenya who joined a
land-buying company and was al-
lotted land in Rift Valley, and from
which he was evicted during the cy-
clical politically-motivated violence
of the dark Moi years?
What we, as a nation, need to do
is to take these things in the right
perspective. The emphasis should
be on healing and reconciliation,
and perhaps that is where the TJRC
report fails miserably.
A public apology by a sitting
president who was mere toddler
when the issues under review
started may help, but it will not be
the panacea. Perhaps, we require
another report telling us how to go
about healing this nation.
And this time, the commission
should be headed by a person who
is himself not mentioned adversely
by the same report he authored.
amagesha@ke.nationmedia.com
Truth report fails miserably when it
comes to healing and reconciliation
Trying to
prosecute
the 400
individuals
named in
the report
will be an
exercise in
futility
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
Opinion 13
MARK MY WORD |
Philip Ochieng
Knowledge is
an attribute of
human beings
Were TJRC people short of names to include me in
the list?
Former minister Noah Wekesa on TJRC in-
cluding him on list of leaders to be probed
QUOTED
T
his weeks Eastafrican re-
ports that, last year, tech-
savvy employees stole
Ksh1.5 billion from Kenyan
banks How did they pull it
o? Of course, by being tech-
savvy. But what is it to be tech-
savvy?
The adjective savvy, which
means wise or hard-nosed,
is a corruption of the Spanish
sabe, one form of a verb which
means to know, to be skilled in. We nd it in
the conversational question: Sabe usted? (You
know? or You see?)
To be tech-savvy, then, is to be a dab hand at,
for instance, the computer: to be wise about the
secrets of high tech. After all, the English adjective
wise is etymologically related to the German verb
wissen, which means to know and whose noun
form Wissenschaft is the German word for science.
Sabe is cognate with the French verb savoir (to
know), which when attached by a hyphen to
the verb faire (to do, to make) is what gives
us the double-barrelled verb savoir-faire. That is
instructive.
For savoir-faire which literally means to know
how to do or how to make is what, when used
as a noun, translates into English as know-how,
which is just another term for technology and skill
in the making and deployment of tools of produc-
tion, research and defence.
To be tech-savvy, I reiterate, is to know how all
our increasingly futuristic gadgets have been put to-
gether, how to manipulate them, even how to repair
them. But, of course, technology is always double-
edged. Thus the cutting edge of every technological
advance may pierce even its inventor with fatal
consequences.
That is the second edge of technology that has
fallen into the laps of thieves, robbers, murderers
and other felons and enabled a section of them to
stash into their pockets whole fortunes from East
Africas nancial houses.
Nevertheless, of course, this is technical knowl-
edge. Even in the hands of killers and other
criminals, it is skill. In short, knowledge and skill
are not attributes of machines and other contrap-
tions. Knowledge and skill are attributes only of
human beings.
If the human mind is the most perilously dou-
ble-edged of all the machines in our natural
environment and if ...the hand is the cutting
edge of the mind... (as Jacob Bronowski recognised
it in The Ascent of Man) then, in Shakspeares
phrase, we are ...in a parlous state...
The French language has a charmingly self-con-
tradictory term for this double-edgedness of human
thought and work. It speaks of idiots-savants.
The word idiots is self-explanatory. Savant is the
continuous form of the verb savoir (to know), the
form which, when used as a noun, means scholar
or man of erudition.
The scientists Francis Crick (British) and Isaac
Asimov (American) have expressed alarm at the
fact that over-specialisation is leading the world
into such a rut of scholarly ignorance that we get
to know more and more about less and less until
a time will come when we know everything about
nothing. Such learned imbeciles are what French
calls idiots-savants.
philipochien39@gmail.com
I
n the last week, I have
been struck by how
unrecognizable Kenya
has become. This is not
because the geographic
or demographic make-up
of the country is dierent
but because the over-
whelming pettiness and
scandalous waste around
us isnt attracting more
outrage from citizens.
There was the scandal-
ous announcement that
the Deputy President had
hired a jet to gallivant
around the continent.
Nothing I know so far
suggests the trip was ur-
gent or useful to Kenyans.
Then there was the re-
action of some to pigs at
the gates of Parliament.
Rather than keep the eyes
on the provocative salary
issue, some Kenyans were
focusing on the pigs and
blood; the very instru-
ments used to dramatise
this genuine outrage.
Finally, there was that
childish discussion in
Parliament about which
house is superior. Even
Ababu Namwamba af-
forded the speaker that
rare privilege of imagin-
ing himself as potential
Commander in Chief of
the Armed Forces. Funny
that this childish discus-
sion somehow united
people who only a few
days ago could not agree
on the composition of
Parliamentary commit-
tees, a more serious issue.
These three instances
illustrate not only how
scandalously wasteful
and childish our politics
has become but also how
immune Kenyans are to
things that used to elicit
public outrage. We have
become pushers of gen-
teel politics played on
social media but with lit-
tle action on the ground.
It often feels like con-
structive outrage was a
Moi-era preserve targeted
at the person of Daniel
arap Moi. After he left,
we are ne with repeated
misuse of public re-
sources. So immune are
we that a statement like
you stole the elections
or he is corrupt attracts
the retort: who stopped
you from stealing or
being corrupt?
We have been numbed
to a point of accepting
theft or corruption as
normal. Otherwise, why
have we taken lightly at-
tempts by Dr Bitange
Ndemo to casually ex-
plain away the misuse of
public resources by the
Deputy Presidents oce?
Dr Ndemo argued that
the Deputy Presidents
oce did not use Sh100
million. As if to imply
that we should be grateful
to the Deupty Presidents
oce, he suggested that
the oce only spent Sh18
million, these being pea-
nuts by his standards.
We live in crushingly
tough economic times
where every penny mat-
ters. It is tough for an
average citizen and worse
for the lower classes. The
Jubilee Coalition prom-
ised to rectify very many
previous wrongs in the
use of national resources.
As a self-declared hustler,
the Deputy President
should know the impor-
tance of frugality.
He should know that
Sh18 million is lots of
money in a country with
runaway insecurity and
where oods have killed
and displaced many.
He should know that
IDPs are wasting away
in camps. These IDPs
celebrated the Jubilee vic-
tory believing that their
plight would end soon.
They might just rue the
day they celebrated.
It seems to me that we
should not only be pro-
testing against the MPs.
Our ire should be directed
at the Deputy Presidents
oce that thinks wasting
away Sh18 million in less
than a week is reasonable
in these hard times.
And here I am, mak-
ing the assumption that
the explanation given by
the oce is correct. How
embarrassing will it be if
in fact the properly docu-
mented Sunday Nation
exposure of this waste is
true? Kenyans should by
now be tired of counting
scandals whenever a new
administration takes over.
I hope that this hiring of
a jet will not be the rst
scandal of the new ad-
ministration.
Godwin Murunga is sen-
ior research fellow, IDS,
University of Nairobi
and deputy director
of the African Leader-
ship Centre, Nairobi.
gmurunga@gmail.com
POINT BLANK | Godwin Murunga
With all this pettiness and sideshows
in the country, where is the outrage?
Information permanent secretary Bitange Ndemo reacting
to the Sunday Nation expos on May 19, 2013.
As a self-
declared
hustler, the
Deputy
President
should
know the
importance
of frugality
FAIR PLAY | Peter Mwaura
J
udges enjoy immunity from civil liabil-
ity arising for their judicial actions.
Even when they are malicious or
incompetent, no lawsuit can be brought
against them. This notion comes from
the English common law. Historically,
judges were the kings representatives for
dispensing justice, and the idea was that
the king can do no wrong. However, the
report of the Truth, Justice and Reconcili-
ation Commission published this week
has not spared our judges.
The commissioners have recommended
the Judiciary apologise to the people
of Kenya for failing to address impunity
eectively and perform its role of deter-
rence to prevent the perpetration of gross
human rights violations during the period
between 12 December 1963 and 28 Febru-
ary 2008.
The Judiciary frequently cooperated
with the prosecution and security forces
in the commitment of violations by re-
fusing bail and by admitting evidence
obtained through torture.
The report states the judges were com-
plicit in the violations to the extent that
they conducted trials at night.
The judges were working on the same
wavelength with the security agencies
who systematically committed untold
atrocities against citizens they were sworn
to protect. This, coming from the eight
commissioners, ve of whom are lawyers
including a judge from Zambia, is a seri-
ous indictment of our Judiciary.
But there are extenuating circum-
stances. The commissioners state the
process began with Jomo Kenyattas gov-
ernment soon after independence.
In June 1982, President Moi had the
Constitution amended to remove security
of tenure for judges as part of his eorts
to consolidate his powers. The consolida-
tion of immense powers, coupled with
the erosion of the independence of the
Judiciary, was one of the factors that
encouraged the perpetuation of gross vio-
lations of human rights.
Those who held sway usurped the in-
stitutions of government to their bidding
including the legislature, the Executive
and the Judiciary. Political activists and
individuals who dared oppose President
Mois rule were routinely detained and
tortured.
The Commissioners blame the Judici-
ary for wrongs even after the Moi regime,
particularly the perpetuation of discrimi-
nation against minorities. In 2003, for
example, the Nubians sought the inter-
vention of the High Court, claiming they
were being discriminated against in mat-
ters of citizenship.
Responding to the action, the State
said the Nubians were foreigners who
had never renounced their Sudanese citi-
zenship, that they had been negligent in
not pursuing citizenship by registration,
and that their claim was decient on the
grounds of laches (negligence in pursuing
a right).
The commissioners also blame the
Judiciary for lack of access to justice. Mi-
nority and indigenous communities have
to travel hundreds of kilometres to access
courts.
The nation awaits the apology from
the Judiciary. How will the apology be
worded?
gigirimwaura@yahoo.com
The Judiciary owes Kenyans an apology

The report states the judges were

complicit in the violations to the
extent that they conducted trials
at night
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
14 | Opinion
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
In the Matter of the Approval by the National Assembly, of the persons
nominated to be appointed as Cabinet Secretaries
SUBMISSION OF MEMORANDA
Pursuant to Article 152(2) of the Constitution, H.E. the President shall nominate
and with the approval of the National Assembly, appoint Cabinet Secretaries.
The following two (2) persons have been nominated for appointment as Cabinet
Secretaries for the respective Ministries as indicated below:-
Nominee Ministry
1. Mr. Joseph J. Ole Lenku Interior & Coordination of National
Government
2. Mr. Samuel Kazungu Kambi Labour, Social Security and Services

Following the receipt of the nominations from H.E the President on 23
rd
May,
2013, the Committee on Appointments is mandated to vet, consider their
suitability for appointment and submit its report to the House for approval.
Pursuant to Section 6(9) of the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval)
Act, 2011, the Committee on Appointments now invites interested members of
the public to submit any representations by written statement on oath (affdavit),
that they may have on the suitability or otherwise of the nominees for appointment
as Cabinet Secretaries. The representations may be forwarded to the Clerk of
the National Assembly, P.O. Box 41842-00100, Nairobi; hand-delivered to
the Offce of the Clerk, Main Parliament Buildings, Nairobi; or emailed to
clerk@parliament.go.ke; to be received on or before Friday 31
st
May, 2013 at
5.00 p.m.
Justin Bundi
Clerk of the National Assembly
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
NOTIFICATION ON VETTING BY THE COMMITTTEE
ON APPOINTMENTS FOR PERSONS NOMINATED FOR
APPOINTMENT AS CABINET SECRETARIES
Pursuant to Article 152(2) of the Constitution and Section 6(9) of
the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act, 2011, the
National Assembly invites the following two (2) persons who have
been nominated for appointment as Cabinet Secretaries for vetting
by the Committee on Appointments on Monday 3
rd
June, 2013 as
indicated below:-
VENUE 4TH FLOOR CONTINENTAL HOUSE, PARLIAMENT
BUILDINGS
Nominee Ministry Interview Time
1. Mr. Joseph J. Ole Lenku Interior & Coordination of National
Government
10.00 a.m.
2. Mr. Samuel Kazungu
Kambi
Labour, Social Security and
Services
2.00 p.m.
All candidates should bring with them originals of their identity card,
academic and professional certifcates and any other supporting
documents and testimonials.
Justin Bundi
Clerk of the National Assembly
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
15
B
illions of dollars con-
tinue to be poured
into Africa to address
the HIV epidemic. We have
bombarded the youth with
one strong message until
they have come to believe it.
A few years ago, young
people used to hear the
message of sexual self con-
trol to avoid contracting
Aids. However, the entry
of the Obama Administra-
tion has shifted the focus
from behavour change to
scientic approaches that
seek interventions that can
be measured, such as the
number of condoms being
used by people.
However, have the youth
of this country ever won-
dered why adults encourage
them to be promiscuous
while placing their safety
on a latex? The same world
will, ironically, demand and
expect the youth to remain
faithful to one partner for
life in marriage, yet they
are not being taught about
faithfulness now. This is
absurd.
Parents and adults have
a duty to tell the youth the
whole truth. Our govern-
ment places disclaimers on
beer and cigarettes to warn
consumers. The same dis-
claimer should be placed on
condom packs to indicate
that condoms are not 100
percent proof against STDs,
HIV and pregnancy.
Why have we assumed
that our youth are incapable
of controlling themselves?
Can anyone show me any
patient in hospital who is
sick or dead because they
never had sex?
Why do we act as if sex
is everything and give the
youth the impression that
everyone has to do it or
they will perish?
The message we are giv-
ing the youth is that they
are no dierent from the
dogs in our neighbourhoods
that cannot control them-
selves. There will always be
those who engage in care-
less acts that jeopardise
their lives. But that should
not be a reason enough for
us to stop reminding our
youth that they were cre-
ated for something greater
than momentary pleasure.
Sex is not a private aair
since the consequences of
the act aect other people.
We should avail information
about all the HIV preven-
tion methods and allow our
youth to make wise choices.
Some years ago, you
could never have seen a
condom advertisement on
national television. Today,
there are some that openly
promote casual sex. MPs
should allocate part of the
Health ministry budget to
behaviour change messages.
Thomas Mundia, Nairobi
ON THIS DATE IN 1976
COMPILED BY AUGUSTINE NYAGAH
To the editor
The editor welcomes brief letters on topical issues.
Write on e-mail to: mailbox@nation.co.ke You can
also mail to: The Editor, Daily Nation, POB 49010,
Nairobi 00100.
TALKING POINT
Kenyan youth need lessons on
behaviour change, not condoms
Should the government implement the TJRC report?
TIMOTHY OKATA: No, Too
many senior government of-
cials have been mentioned in
the report. Maybe in future.
ERASTUS OUMA. NO. How
do you implement a report
that accuses you, your rela-
tives and friends? Those who
think that the report will be
implemented should know
better.
TITUS NDAMBUKI. No. The
government has never han-
dled well past issues of injus-
tice. Kenyans are watching.
LINCOLN M. KINYUA: No.
Implementation of the report
will be accorded, as usual,
to Kenyans who cannot do
much. The question should
be, will justice ever prevail?
FILE | NATION
A controversial condom billboard in Nairobi. Kenyan youth should
be taught to change their perceptions about sex.
Lenient law only works
to encourage poachers
The move by the Kenya Wild-
life Services to push for a harsher
penalty of a 15-year jail term for
anyone caught poaching is com-
mendable. Poaching has for long
been a painful thorn to our tourism
and our economy. I recently visited
a Nyahururu court to hear the mag-
istrates verdict on a case in which
a man had been arrested with four
elephant tusks. I was surprised
when the man was ned Sh10,000
for every tusk. To me, this sounded
like a joke since the convict had
testied earlier to the court that he
could have sold the tusks at a price
of Sh120,000 each. If poaching has
to end, then we must start by revis-
ing the laws aimed at punishing the
poachers.
Simon Kimani, Nakuru
Give new regime time
to put house in order
If Deputy President William Ruto
did, in fact, spend a few million
shillings to spread a positive word
about Kenya, then his recent for-
eign trip was worthwhile. However,
the state should buy him a special
jet aeroplane so that he can go
wherever he wants as long as more
business will ow into the country.
Let us give the new government a
breather. Let us see what they can
do for this country. If spending
Sh20 million will bring in several
hundred million shillings, then so
be it. It is barely 100 days since the
new regime came into oce and yet
we are already busy aiming arrows
at them. We should give them at
least a year. The new government
must put its priorities right. Wast-
age of public resources will not be
accepted.
James Wakibia, Nakuru
Government should
repair crucial highway
Anybody using Nairobi-Nakuru
highway will agree with me that the
section between Rironi and Uthiru
is in a deplorable state. It has very
many dents and potholes, and if
left with the current rate of deterio-
ration, the highway will soon not
be usable at all. It is clear that this
is the main road connecting the
capital city to the western part of
the country. Since the highway is
ever busy, the government should
urgently ensure that the worn out
sections are repaired. A serious
accident could occur as drivers cir-
cumvent these potholes.
Peter Muongoya, Kambaa
Our archaic laws should be
purged from statute book
Poor state of road denying
town business opportunities
Our statute book is weighed down with
laws carried over from pre-independence
times. These laws are archaic, anachronistic
and a direct impediment to development.
For example, under the Nairobi by-laws,
it is illegal to harvest rainwater. Does this
make any sense? Mining Secretary Najib
Balala has said that the mining industry
is governed by a law dating back to 1940.
There are many more examples of such
laws in our rule books. Governors and Cabi-
net secretaries must eliminate irrelevant
laws that impede our progress.
Anthony Gittens, Kili
DEBATE QUESTION
THE CUTTING EDGE
BY THE WATCHMAN
PIGS AND HYENAS. As far as symbolism goes,
Onyango Alare says he wishes the civil society ac-
tivists, who recently staged a big demonstration at
Parliament Buildings in Nairobi to protest against
the MPs clamour for a pay rise, had delivered hye-
nas instead of a pig and piglets. Using pigs to show
the MPs greed was a bit lenient to them. This would
have been better manifested through a hyena. In fact,
the over Sh500,000 a month salary should be re-
duced. His contact is onyangokalare@yahoo.com.
PHILANTHROPY. Manu Chandarias name is to be
found on buildings at USIU, Kenyatta University, and
will soon grace the University of Nairobis 22-storey
tower, all courtesy of his philanthropy, remarks X.N.
Iraki. But, he adds, this makes one wonder where the
other philanthropists in Kenya have gone. There are
lots of auent Kenyans who can donate their money
to universities and have their names immortalised,
but where are they? Manus great deeds will make a
big dierence to future generations. His contact is
xniraki@gmail.com.
PERFECT 10. The number 10 seems to have a
pride of place in retired President Mwai Kibakis po-
litical legacy, says Andrew Macharia, adding: He
served as the MP for Bahati constituency in Nairobi
for 10 years, from 1964-1974, was the Finance minister
for slightly more than 10 years, from 1970-1982, and
was the Vice-President from 1978-1988. He as an op-
position MP from 1992-2002 and nally, he was the
President from 10 years, from 2002-2013. His con-
tact is amashaa@yahoo.com.
Have a interesting day, wont you!
DARKNESS IN KINANGOP. Since a power trans-
former serving Mekaro Ndunyu Njeru area in Kinan-
gop constituency, Nyandarua County, blew up on
April 15, the residents have been pleading with Kenya
Power to either repair or replace it and restore their
electricity, in vain, says James Muturi. Their frequent
pleas to the local managers of the power utility to
x the problem, he charges, have fallen on deaf ears.
Weve been in darkness for too long, moans James,
whose contact is njamesmuturi@gmail.com.
DELAYED PRIZE. It will make only a negligible
dent in Safaricoms mega prot, but Shabbir Hussein
Chandabha would like to know if and when he will get
the free airtime he won in a promotion recently. Shab-
bir received an SMS, on November 13, at 3.44pm, say-
ing he had won Sh3,000 in the Changamka Na Mauzo
promotion. Despite assurances from a Mr Simba, Mr
Chandabha is still waiting and hopes the managers
will intervene for him to be paid. His contact is Tel.
0726505855.
CABINET MEETING President Jomo Kenyatta
with Cabinet ministers at State House, Nakuru, where
he chaired a meeting called to discuss routine govern-
ment matters.
I was surprised to see a Kenya National
Highways Authority pick up car parked
along Nyahururus Koinange Street. What
amazed me was not really the car but rather
the fact that KENHA knows the road is
under its mandate. The potholes in this
road are unbearable for both the motorists
and the town dwellers. It gets worse during
the rainy season as ooding becomes the
order of the day. Being the busiest street in
Nyahururu town, one cannot fail to notice
how it denies this town business opportuni-
ties. It is retarding this towns growth.
Simon Kimani, Nyahururu
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16 | Letters
Johann Kreigler (who investigated
the conduct of the 2007 election),
told me that Raila, I dont see my
duty as telling Kenyans who won or
who lost this election. Any fool knows
that. I see my duty as helping Ken-
yans to avoid a recurrence of what
they have been through. So in my
recommendation, I am going to be
vague when it comes to saying who
won or who lost the elections. But I
will make recommendations which
will help to carry out reforms. That
is why he said that the election was so
awed that you could hardly tell who
won. So Kenyans moved on with that
and thought that sucient reforms
had been carried out so that there will
be no recurrence. But we saw these
weaknesses in the electoral commis-
sion; we saw these weaknesses in the
Supreme Court, so we are saying there
is still room for further reforms. So
if I had said, no we dont accept (the
results and court ruling), I knew the
consequences. The people would have
come out into the streets all over the
country and there would have been
bloodshed because I know that the
system was very prepared -- there
were orders of shoot to kill. So I
didnt want that bloodbath; there is
another tomorrow. It may not be Raila
tomorrow but there will be somebody
else. It is a movement.
What is your biggest hope and your
biggest fear for Kenya under President
Uhuru Kenyatta?
Well, as I have said before, I wish
President Uhuru Kenyatta the best
because life must continue for Ken-
yans and they have a manifesto. They
made promises that they must keep
and they should be given the oppor-
tunity to deliver on their promises. I
have not taken this personally about
Uhuru or his deputy William Ruto
because we are talking about a sys-
tem, not two individuals. If you try
to personalise it you miss the point.
It is a system. These two individu-
als are just beneciaries of a system
and now that they are there, they are
Kenyans, they should be given ample
opportunity to show their worth. It
is easier to make promises, to come
up with lofty words and so on but
much more dicult when it comes
to the actual doing. What we dont
want is at the end for somebody to
have an excuse of saying that oh, we
have done ABC, but we could have
done XYZ if we were not blocked by
the Opposition. That is why I talked
of a constructive Opposition, where
you dont just criticise for the sake of
criticizing. You criticise by oering
alternative solutions, that is, you say
the government has done this and that
but it should have done it this way.
That is the way I look at it.
Some of your supporters have moved
on, expecting to ght another day while
others have given up on you ever becom-
ing president. I want you to talk to both
of them.
Yes, you see, the struggle is long as
I have already mentioned. Naturally,
there will be casualties in the course of
it. There are those who will surrender,
and we have seen a number surrender-
ing all along this journey and I will not
be surprised if some will be tired this
time round. All that we are saying is
that if you feel tired, just step aside,
but dont go and block other people,
say oh, this will not work; just exit,
allow those others who still feel strong
to continue. So naturally those com-
rades who are now disillusioned and
want to surrender and join the other
side are welcome to do so that is
their democratic right. For that we just
say, theres a casualty, a comrade has
been injured in the struggle (laughs)
but for those who have energy to
move on, who still see hope in this I
tell them, look, nothing comes easy;
theres always a price.
If, for example, people like the late
George Anyona, Martin Shikuku,
Mukaru Nganga, Kamonji Wachira
and Ngugi wa Thiongo, had not taken
risks, the freedom that we have today
would not be there. See, today, you
can see that people are freer in this
country, you can talk, you can criticize
the government without fear, without
looking over your shoulder that some-
body is going to arrest you. But take a
journey down memory lane, 20 years
ago, you could not do this. These days
you can caricature the president and
his deputy and so on. Just imagine
the height of Nyayo rule, that would
be treason.
So we have this democratic space;
the major beneciaries are those who
were comfortable on the other side.
Always, its the Left which has led
the struggle to make life better in the
country. But the major beneciaries
have always been the Right. So my
view is that we should not be discour-
aged because of setbacks, all these
setbacks are temporary.
During the Cord nominations for all elec-
tive oces there were television images
from Nyanza that showed people beating
up your banners. Your opponents reacted
with glee while your supporters were aghast
with horror. How could this happen?
You see we have democracy. De-
mocracy has got its weakness. There
were people who were expecting to
be nominated. Nomination in some of
these areas is like the election itself.
So losing a nomination means
that you have lost an election even
if you go to another party. So that is
why it becomes a matter of life and
death in some of those areas. The
same thing happened in Central. If
you miss the TNA ticket, it was like
a kiss of death.
That is why some of these people
were angered. So they hired some
of their supporters and those who
were beating my banners and so
on. When I saw it I just enjoyed it
(laughs loud and long). So long as it
is not violent.
What I detested was the violent
part of it when some people organ-
ised to hijack returning ocers, ballot
papers, beating up the returning of-
cers, burning the ballot papers and
so on; that is abhorrent. That is not
acceptable.
But peaceful protest and demon-
stration, even somebody carrying an
egy (starts laughing again, loud and
long) its alright. You know that I used
to be a student leader; we demon-
strated in London so many times,
burning egies of many people. I have
participated in debates in Hyde Park
corner, and somebody can be insulting
the Queen but nobody can attack him.
The police are there to protect him
because there is freedom.
So I am looking forward to a time
when our society will be that tolerant;
that even if somebody is talking dis-
paragingly about Raila, you dont beat
him; you also just insult him, thats
what they do at Hyde Park corner.
Some people say that your politics is
born of Left wing idealism that is out of
synch with todays world. The time for the
true Left is gone. What do you say to those
who say that you are ideologically hostage
to a romantic past that cannot win an elec-
tion today?
First of all what is the Left and What
is the Right? The real Right wing are
those who believe in a laissez-faire fare
society, that is, survival of the ttest.
Just like in the animal world where
you have the lions and the antelopes
and the tter one eats the weaker one
following the law of nature. That is
the extreme right.
The extreme Left is the one that
believes completely that the State
should control everything; that the
state should provide for everything;
that it owns all the means of pro-
duction, provides employment for
people, housing, and so forth. That
is the ideal of the extreme Left. And
then we are talking about Left of cen-
tre and Right of centre. That means
there is a Centre.
The Left of Centre is known as
social democracy as opposed to
socialism. Social democracy is ba-
sically a market economy. We are
talking about a market economy as
opposed to a controlled economy. A
market economy can be centre-right
or centre-left which is capitalism with
a human face as opposed to laissez-
faire capitalism which sees all means
of production as privately owned, the
gap between the rich and the poor is
so wide, that you have people who are
completely deprived. But the social
democratic state is where the means
of production are privately owned by
there is a social safety net and the
government ensures there are things
like health, education, housing and
basic needs, nobody should go with-
out food and so on.
Now these days we talk about a
social market economy. A social
market economy is now, for example,
the Labour Party of Britain moves too
far left and then they come up with
New Labour pursuing social market
economy policies. Other people say
they are to the right of the Tories.
So, what we are talking about these
days is so relevant. You go to Europe
now, for example, it is the centre-left
parties that are bouncing back, you
see Labour is now rebounding, Social
Democrats in Germany are coming
up, even in France, the Socialists are
now in power.
So the political philosophy that I
represent is not irrelevant; it is too
relevant today. It is the extreme right
that is under siege now.
Roy Gachuhi, a former Nation
Media Group reporter, writes
for The Content House. Email:
gachuhiroy@gmail.com
Ill defend your right to burn my egy
SUCCESSION WATCH | Dierences in ideology does not mean enmity, says Cord leader
The year Raila was released from
detention by President Moi. Left:
celebrates with his wife Ida after
being set free
1991
The rst time Raila contested the
presidency on an NDP ticket. He
also ran in 2007 and 2013.
1997
FILE | NATION
Cord leader Raila Odinga (centre) is received by electoral commission chairman Issack Hassan at Old Kibera where he regis-
tered as a voter on 27 November 2012. He was accompanied by his son, Fidel (second left).
TOMORROW: His views on the Od-
inga dynasty and how ICC cases
aected election outcome
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
National News 17
S
omething sinister is afoot
with our leaders, and
if we are not alert and
resist in every way we can, this
country will be in big trouble.
Even though we have pretty
low expectations of them and
their sense of public service
given their common view that
being elected is analogous to
ripping us o, openly and not
so openly, with huge remunera-
tion, it is always shocking to
see them work so diligently
against the words and spirit of
our Constitution.
There is the still ongoing at-
tempt to scuttle the Salaries
and Remuneration Commis-
sion, and oust the Constitution
by giving the Parliamentary
Service Commission illegal
powers to set their earnings.
Then there is their disdain
for our rights to peaceful as-
sembly, paying more heed to
the supposed abuse of animal
rights, when they have never
cared a jot for human rights.
And they forget that human be-
ings are animals, too, and not
a word of sympathy to those
brutalised by the police using
methods that would make
apartheid South Africa proud.
And now they have added
in threats to the freedom of
the press and of expression,
lauding President Yoweri Mu-
sevenis crude, uncouth and
illegal eorts to silence the
Nation Media Groups Monitor
newspaper and radio stations.
One would think that as Ken-
yans, they would rst and
foremost be concerned that a
Kenyan listed company was
under threat.
The issue at hand is a sim-
ple one between Nation Media
Group on the one hand, and the
Deputy President William Ruto,
and PS Bitange Ndemo on the
other. The Sunday Nation al-
leged that William Rutos oce
had committed we taxpayers to
paying more than Sh100 mil-
lion for a year (not counting
fuel and other incidentals) so
that the Deputy President can
travel in style across the world
whenever he feels like. William
Ruto and Bitange Ndemo deny
this and say the contract is a
one-o costing Sh18.5 million
for Rutos recent trip and less
expensive than had he taken
a direct Kenya Airways ight
to Gabon, Nigeria, Ghana and
then found a local airline for
the Morocco segment.
Simply put: Who is telling the
truth about the contract and
cost of Mr Rutos recent trip to
West Africa?
The Nation has produced pa-
pers and analysis that suggests
that Kenyans were ripped o
on this trip. William Ruto and
Bitange Ndemo have denied
it, producing dierent papers
(with spelling errors and omis-
sions) and bashed the Nation.
But their arithmetical analysis
saying that it is cheaper to
rent a plane than travel on com-
mercial ights suggests that
they need to go back to math-
ematics classes.
But at the heart of all this
is the credibility of the Jubilee
regime that came to power
promising change and a dif-
ferent approach to ruling that
would focus on the people.
If hustlers can so quickly and
obviously acquire a love for
luxury, then what will become
of their promises?
There are also the con-
stitutional requirements for
probity, respect for taxpayers
resources, prudence and truth-
fulness of public ocers.
And there is also Section 19
of the Public Ocer Ethics Act,
which states that A public of-
cer shall not knowingly give
false or misleading information
to members of the public or to
any other public ocer.
When an issue like this is
raised, more mature and so-
phisticated parliamentarians
would want to get to the bot-
tom of the matter, seeking to
save public resources and act
as checks and balances on the
Executive.
Instead, what we have is
Aden Duale and Mithika Lin-
turi attacking the messenger
and wishing Uganda abuse and
brutality tactics on us. We have
seen those before when John
Michuki went for The Standard,
but that was before the new
Constitution and is something
that is now outlawed.
But even wishing for such
methods and restrains against
freedoms says a lot about the
pair.
It is hard to think of peo-
ple less deserving of the title
honorable as Aden Duale
and Mithika Linturi. They
are hacks, pure and simple,
who seem to think that power
means sycophancy and doing
whatever they want without
question.
They are dangerous to Kenya
in many ways and seemingly
have no understanding of
democracy, human rights, over-
sight and checks and balances.
But then again, choices have
consequences, and maybe this
is the price we pay for electing
people on the basis of party
tickets rather than what they
stand for.
mkiai2000@yahoo.com
THINK AGAIN | Maina Kiai
With leaders like these MPs,
Kenya does not need enemies
The leader of majority in Parliament Aden Duale. Some MPs do not de-
serve the title honourable.
The Jubilee
regime is
not living
up to its
promise of
change and
focus on
the people
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RD
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May 25, 2013
18 | National News
SUPERIORITY CONTEST | Sekou Owino
T
he last few days have
seen a dispute be-
tween senators and
members of the National As-
sembly on the Appropriation
Bill following amendments
made to that Bill by the Sen-
ate after it was passed by the
National Assembly.
As typical of politicians in
Kenya, this has degenerated
from a dierence of opinion
to a puerile ght over which
of the two houses is superior.
There have even been claims
as to which of the two legis-
lative chambers is really the
Parliament of Kenya.
It needs to be said that
rstly, neither the Senate
nor the National assembly
by itself is the Parliament of
Kenya: The Constitution is
clear that the Parliament of
Kenya consists of the Senate
and the National Assembly.
In Kenya, since the Sen-
ate established under the
Independence Constitution
was abolished, the National
Assembly has always been
the legislative body. It is,
therefore, not entirely sur-
prising that confusion and
lack of clarity would emerge
following the re-emergence
of a Senate after over four
decades. I would, therefore,
say that this also represents
an opportunity for Kenyans
and the lawmakers to ac-
quaint themselves with the
Constitution and to test how
it works in practice.
Dierences between the
respective chambers of a bi-
cameral legislative are not
uncommon. The Constitu-
tion of Kenya 2010 itself
contemplates a dierence of
opinion between the Senate
and the National Assembly in
the course of their functions
and establishes a mediation
Committee to reconcile the
chambers in case one cham-
ber passes a Bill, which is
subsequently rejected by the
other.
The establishment of
the Senate as an additional
chamber of legislation
was compelled by histori-
cal realities and theoretical
imperatives. The historical
reality was the concern that
the executive may use the
National Assembly to frus-
trate the expected roll-out
of devolution. This was the
case following Independ-
ence when the executive
undertook actions that
would weaken the regions so
as to retain power to itself
and govern without the ac-
countability that a devolved
governance structure would
require.
The second concern was
that minorities and the mar-
ginalised regions needed to
be given a presence, voice
and representation in the
national legislative nucleus
so as to safeguard their inter-
ests and prevent a recurrence
of the historical concerns.
This is why Kenyas Sen-
ate is somewhat unique in
that its legislative roles are
circumscribed to focus spe-
cically on the protection of
the interests of the counties
and their governments. In
this way, the Constitution
ensures that the Senate must
perform the role of the bat-
ting for the counties in the
national legislative frame-
work.
In addition to the legisla-
tion governing the counties,
the Senate is also accorded
the specic responsibility of
considering the removal of
the President and the Deputy
President either for incapac-
ity or impeachment.
In this sense, therefore,
the Senate checks both the
national Executive and its
legislative counterpart, the
National Assembly.
It is the protector of the
Constitution with regard to
devolution. It has a respon-
sibility to hold the national
executive to account in
ensuring that the gains of
devolution are realised to
their fullest.
However, the Constitution
of Kenya, at least with regard
to the role of the Senate,
departs from the more com-
mon prescriptions of other
constitutions in the sense
that the senatorial chamber
is actually a full legislative
law-making body. However,
this is limited to Bills and
laws concerning the coun-
ties.
The National Assembly, on
the other hand, has complete
legislative jurisdiction over
all laws, including those in
which the Senate has power.
In this sense, one may see
why the National Assembly
may consider itself superior.
That it must legislate on all
laws for them to take eect
in Kenya, but the Senate
does not have to. This is un-
like the situation in almost
every other constitutional ar-
rangement for countries with
a bi-cameral legislature.
By constitutional practice
elsewhere, the Senate often
is the Upper Chamber of
the legislative body. The
Senators, just like in Kenya,
tend to represent a big-
ger geographical area and
population than the others.
It can be said that in Kenya,
however, the Constitution
sought to prescribe dier-
ent roles to the legislative
chambers without concern as
to which of the two was the
Upper Chamber.
The drafters of the Con-
stitution, it seems, were not
concerned by the issue as to
which of the legislative arms
would be superior to the
other. The concern was that
their respective roles be spe-
cically prescribed so as to
be performed for the benet
of the citizenry.
The wisdom in the refusal
to prescribe which of the two
chambers is superior may
have been deliberate. Mem-
bers of Parliament (be they
Senators or members of the
National Assembly) should
instead compete on the qual-
ity of the Bills that each of
them produces, rather than
the ego-wars as to which of
the chambers is superior.
sowino@ke.nationmedia.com
Stop these silly wars between MPs and senators

The Constitution is
not concerned with
the issue of which of
the two is superior
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
National News 19
BY NIC CHEESEMAN
niccheeseman@gmail.com
O
n 14 May, protestors
in Nairobi released
a sow and a dozen
piglets outside parliament to
show their anger at legislators
proposals to increase their al-
ready large salaries.
Legislators, they argued,
care rst and foremost about
getting their snouts in the
trough.
Over the last 20 years, the
debate over MPs pay has been
heated. MPs argue that they
work exceptionally hard and
need the salary to meet all the
demands that are placed upon
them. Their critics point out
that they are already extremely
well paid but have consistently
failed to perform.
A banner held at the Nairobi
protest read: After 50 yrs of
Greed, Lets have 50 yrs Where
you Lead?
But it would be a mistake
to decide how much Kenyan
MPs should earn on the basis
of their past performance
however disappointing.
Instead, it is important to
think about how parliament
ts into the broader picture
of democratization.
Although the idea of better
paid MPs may be unpalatable,
the growing financial inde-
pendence of the legislature
over the last 20 years has
made MPs less dependent
on the executive. In turn, this
has made it more dicult for
the government simply to
rush its legislation through
without scrutiny, creating an
important check on the power
of the president.
This is not to say that MPs
are in any way hard done by.
There is no doubt that Ken-
yan MPs get a good nancial
package. Relative to the size
of the countrys economy,
they are some of the very
best paid in the world. In a
country in which the average
annual salary is about $1,700,
they are now asking for about
$10,000 a month despite the
fact that Kenyas Salaries and
Remuneration Commission
has recommended that their
salaries should be pegged at
$6,300.
Members of Parliament also
have access to other kinds of
valuable political resources.
Take the Constituency De-
velopment Fund that was
established in 2003. Through
their ability to select the funds
committee, MPs have been
able to direct development
expenditure.
This provides them with
the ability to respond to local
needs and to make sure that
the demands of their sup-
porters are met, although
this may change under new
proposals.
Given all the resources ow-
ing through MPs hands, some
suggest that there is a case for
reducing their salaries.
But there is another way of
looking at this issue. Back in
1998 MPs only earned $154 a
month barely enough to sur-
vive. Research by Joel Barkan
and Fred Matiangi suggests
that although the other al-
lowances that MPs received
brought this total to $1,220 a
month, most MPs were unable
to nance the expectations of
their constituents.
The constant requests for
school fees, hospital bills,
and transport costs drained
their resources.
Worse still, following the
norm established in the Keny-
atta era, voters expected MPs
to provide large donations at
harambees for new schools
and hospitals. Legislators
who failed to contribute risked
being accused of neglecting
their local duties and losing
the next election.
Things were even more dif-
cult around elections, when
politicians funded their cam-
paigns. This made it extremely
expensive to be a successful
MP in Kenya.
The money had to come
from somewhere and MPs
typically relied of one of
three fundraising strategies.
Some established business
empires. Others sourced
funds from family members
or inherited wealth. A third
group resorted to corruption
and made alliances with senior
political gures in order to get
loans at preferential rates, or
took hand-outs in return for
political favours.
This third category was par-
ticularly problematic because
many MPs access to funds
depended on their loyalty to
major gures in the govern-
ment. As such, they were
unable to speak out against
bad legislation or the abuse
of power.
The creation of these patron-
client relations at the heart of
power contributed to the de-
cline of the National Assembly,
which went from being a more
vibrant body in its golden
age in the mid 1960s to little
more than a rubber stamp for
government policy in the late
1980s. What scrutiny occurred
depended on a small number
of more independent gures
most notably, the Bearded
Sisters and Martin Shikuku,
The Peoples Watchman.
When multiparty politics
was reintroduced in the early
1990s, some Kanu MPs were
unable to defect to the new op-
position because they simply
could not aord to. Moi made
it clear that anyone leaving
Kanu would rst have to pay
back their loans and debts to
banks and party leaders.
The reforms of the early
2000s higher pay for MPs,
the ban on political leaders
being involved in harambees
and the creation of the CDF
were in part designed to put
an end to the MPs nancial de-
pendence on the executive.
Around this time, I talked
to Martin Shikuku who was
pleased that CDF allocations
were determined by objective
criteria such as poverty, rather
than the subjective favour of
Ministers.
Shikuku also pointed out to
me that higher pay for MPs
would have the same eect.
Better paid MPs would not
only be less likely to engage in
corruption, they would also be
better placed to employ assist-
ants who could help them to
run their constituency oces
and scrutinize legislation.
As so often, he also recog-
nized the limitations of these
reforms and the danger that
they would be subverted. The
widespread misuse of CDF
suggests that his concern
was well-founded.
But it is also true that the
Kenyan legislature has made
significant strides over the
last decade.
For example, it was ag-
gressive action by the Public
Accounts Committee which,
along with the report of the
Auditor General and pressure
from civil society and the
media, blew the whistle on the
Anglo Leasing scandal. The
more nancially independent
they are, the more likely it is
that legislators will engage in
this kind of scrutiny.
This is not to say that sala-
ries should be increased much
further.
Paying 349 MPs and 67
Senators $10,000 a month
would equate to a parliamen-
tary wage bill of a shocking
$49,920,000.
It is important to remember
that although a vast amount of
money has been spent paying
legislators since the return of
multiparty politics, a greater
degree of political independ-
ence has also been gained.
Dr Nic Cheeseman teaches
African politics at Oxford Uni-
versity and is the co-editor of
www.democracyinafrica.org
Are Kenyan MPs
worth the money?
PROS & CONS | Poorly paid legislators kept quiet about graft
Critics say they
are extremely well
paid but have
consistently failed
to perform

Even though
we have spent
much to pay
MPs, a greater
degree of political
independence has
also been gained
The author, Nic
Cheeseman
KAJIADO COUNTY ASSEMBLY
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC AND NOMINEES ON
NOMINATIONS AND VETTING
The Kajiado County Assembly has been notifed by the Offce of H.E. The
Governor of Kajiado County of the nomination of various persons for appointment
to offces in the Kajiado County Executive Committee and County Public Service
Board.
Consequently, pursuant to the provisions of Article 179(2)(b) of the Constitution
of Kenya, 2010, as read together with Section 35 of the County Governments
Act, 2012, the following listed nominees to the respective offces in the County
Executive Committee and County Public Service Board are invited to appear
before the County Assembly Committee on Appointments at the Assembly
Chambers for vetting on the dates and time indicated below:
1. COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Monday, 3
rd
June, 2013
No. Name Gender ID/PP. No. Department Time
1. Mr. Keswe
Mapena
Male 14572128 Finance and Economic Planning 8.30 am
2. Mr. Nicholas
Lepilal Matiko
Male 11587835 Land, Physical Planning,
Environment, Wildlife and Natural
Resources
9.30 am
3. Mr. John Saitoti
Kipaseiya
Male 12981197 Health Services 10.30
am
4. Mr. Dickson
Leponyo ole
Ntikoisa
Male 4719175 Public Works, Roads, Transport
and Housing
11.30
am
5. Ms. Gladys
Seleina Marima
Female 13086605 Information, Communication and
Citizen Participation
12.30
pm
6. Mr. Parsakei
Jonah Orumoi
Male 12643008 Water and Irrigation 1.30 pm
7. Ms. Lucy Mukami
Mathai Githaga
Female 3414874 Public Service and E-
Government
2.30 pm
8. Mr. Paul Nteiya Male Agriculture, Livestock and
Tourism
3.30 pm
9. Mr. Ali Kisipan Male Education, Gender, Youth,
Culture and Social Services
4.30 pm
2. COUNTY PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD
Tuesday, 4
th
June, 2013
No. Name Gender ID/PP. No. Position Time
1. Mr. Joel Kumoi ole Leshao Male 11385665 Chairman 9.00 am
2. Ms. Gladys Nasieku Taraiya Female 1344871 Member 10.00 am
3. Mr. Michael Nyamute Male 4410602 Member 11.00 am
4. Ms. Christine Njambi Kimani Female 11384777 Member 12.00 pm
5. Mr. James Taiko Nkoke Male 13610368 Member 1.30 pm
6. Ms. Purity Sein Karariet Female 23756830 Member 2.30 pm
The nominees are required to collect Vetting Forms from the Offce of the Clerk
to the County Assembly during offcial working hours and return them together
with true copies of the following documents by Friday, 31
st
May 2013 at 2.00 pm.
1. Curriculum Vitae/personal credentials /academic certifcates and other
testimonials
2. Compliance Certifcate form the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB)
3. Clearance Certifcate from the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (EACC)
4. Certifcate of Good Conduct from the Department of Criminal Investigation (CID)
Members of public are invited to attend the vetting sessions, and/or submit any
information or comment on the suitability or otherwise of any of the candidates
for appointment to the respective position. The submissions may be made by way
of sworn statements or affdavits and may be accompanied by any documentary
evidence. The submissions may be sent or hand delivered to the following
address so as to be received by Friday, 31
st
May 2013 at 5.00 pm:
The Interim Clerk, Kajiado County Assembly
Kajiado County Assembly Chambers
P.O. Box 11-01100
KAJIADO
D.O. KONYANGO
THE INTERIM CLERK, KAJIADO COUNTY ASSEMBLY
KAJIADO COUNTY GOVERNMENT
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
20 | National News
Weekend
WORLD BIDS FAREWELL
TO LITERARY LEGEND
Kenyans hold special ceremony
to celebrate the life and times of
author Chinua Achebe.
PAGE 26
A
s the world sang dirges
for African literary
icon Chinua Achebe,
who was buried on Thursday
night, his traditional nemesis
Wole Soyinka was unrepent-
ant about their wars both in
the academy and in Nigerian
politics.
In an interview published
on the eve of Achebes burial,
Soyinka dismissed calls for
Achebe to be awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature
posthumously; the argument
being that the fallen writer was
the father of Modern African
Literature. He instead termed
Achebes memoirs There Was
a Country, a book he should
never have written.
He told New York-based
Sahara Reporters Soyinka
that the departed novelists
Africa Writers Series, credited
for nurturing authors such as
Ngugi wa Thiongo and Taban
Lo Liyong, ghetto classica-
tions.
Do you recall where or how you
rst learned about the death of Prof
Chinua Achebe? And what was your
rst reaction?
Soyinka: I was on the road
between Abeokuta and Lagos.
Who called rst BBC or a
Nigerian journalist? Cant
recall now, since other calls
followed fast and furious, while
I was still trying to digest the
news. My rst reaction? Well,
you know the boa constrictor
when it has just swallowed
an abnormal morsel, it goes
comatose, takes time off to
digest. Todays global media
appears indierent to such a
natural entitlement. You are
expected to supply that instant
response. So, if as was the
case my rst response was
to be stunned, that swiftly
changed to anger.
Now, why was I stunned?
I suspect, mostly because I
was to have been present at
his last symposium just a few
months earlier together with
Governor Fashola of Lagos.
Something intervened and I
was marooned in New York.
When your last contact with
someone, quite recent, is an
event that centrally involves
that person, you dont expect
him to embark on a permanent
absence. Also, Chinua and I
had been collaborating lately
on one or two home crises.
Most irrational expectations
at ones age but, thats human
presumptuousness for you. So,
stunned I was, primarily, then
media enraged!
Achebe was both a writer as well
as editor for Heinemanns African
Writers Series. How would you
evaluate his role in the populari-
sation of African literature?
At the beginning, I was very
sceptical of the Heinemanns
African Series. As a literary
practitioner, my instinct tends
towards a suspicion of ghetto
classications which I did
feel this was bound to be. When
you run a regional venture, it
becomes a junior relation to
what exists.
Sri Lankan literature should
evolve and be recognised as lit-
erature of Sri Lanka, release
after release, not entered as a
series. You place the books on
the market and let them take
off from there. Otherwise
there is the danger that you
start hedging on standards.
You feel compelled to bring
out quantity, which might
compromise on quality.
I refused to permit my works
to appear in the series to
begin with. My debut took
place while I was Gen Yakub
Gowons guest in Kaduna
prisons and permission to
publish The Interpreters was
granted in my absence. Expo-
sure itself is not a bad thing,
mind you. Accessibility. Mak-
ing works available thats
not altogether negative.
Today, several scholars write
their PhD theses on Onitsha
Market literature.
Both Chinua and Cyprian
Ekwensi not forgetting Hen-
shaw and others published
with those enterprising houses.
It was outside interests that
classied them Onitsha Market
Literature, not the publishers.
They simply published.
All in all, the odds come
down in favour of the series
which, by the way, did go
through the primary phase
of sloppy inclusiveness, then
became more discriminating.
Aig Higo who presided
Soyinkas
last word
on Achebe

Chinua is entitled
to better than
being escorted
to his grave with
that monotonous,
hypocritical aria
of deprivations
lament,
orchestrated by
those who dye
their mourning
weeds a deeper
indigo than those
of the bereaved
Wole Soyinka
CONTINUED ON PAGE 22
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
21
some time after Chinua himself
admitted it.
For any major writer, theres the inevi-
table question of inuence. In your view,
whats the nature of Achebes enduring
inuence and impact in African literature?
And what do you foresee as his place in the
canon of world literature?
Chinuas place in the canon of
world literature? Wherever the art
of the story-teller is celebrated, de-
nitely assured.
In interviews as well as in writing, Achebe
brushed o the title of father of African
literature. Yet, on his death, numerous
media accounts, in Nigeria as well as else-
where, described him as the father even
grandfather of African literature. What
do you think of that tag?
As you yourself have observed,
Chinua himself repudiated such a
tag he did study literature after all,
bagged a degree in the subject. So,
it is a tag of either literary ignorance
or momentary exuberance ala
(Nadine) Gordimer to which we
are all sometimes prone.
Those who seriously believe or
promote this must be asked: have
you the sheerest acquaintance with
the literatures of other African na-
tions, in both indigenous and adopted
colonial languages? What must the
francophone, lusophone, Zulu, Xhosa,
Ewe and other literary scholars and
consumers think of those who persist
in such a historic absurdity? Its as
ridiculous as calling Wole Soyinka fa-
ther of contemporary African drama!
Or Mazisi Kunene father of African
epic poetry. Or Ko Awoonor father of
African poetry. Education is lacking in
most of those who ponticate.
As a shortcut to such corrective,
I recommend Tunde Okanlawons
scholarly tribute to Chinua in The
Sun (Nigeria) of May 4. After that, I
hope those of us in the serious busi-
ness of literature will be spared further
embarrassment.
Let me just add that a number
of foreign African experts have
seized on this silliness with glee.
It legitimises their ignorance, their
parlous knowledge, enables them to
circumscribe, then adopt a patronis-
ing approach to African literatures
and creativity. Backed by centuries
of their own recorded literary history,
they assume the condescending pos-
ture of mid-wing an infant entity. It
is all rather depressing.
Following Achebes death, you and J.P.
Clarke released a joint statement. In it,
you both wrote: Of the pioneer quartet
of contemporary Nigerian literature, two
voices have been silenced one, of the
poet Christopher Okigbo, and now, the
novelist Chinua Achebe. In your younger
days as writers, would you say there was a
sense among your circle of contemporaries
say, Okigbo, Achebe, Clarke, Flora Nwapa
of being engaged in a healthy rivalry for
literary dominance? By the way, on the In-
ternet, your joint statement was criticised
for neglecting to mention any female writ-
ers say, Flora Nwapa as part of that
pioneering group. An oversight?
This question the omission of
Flora Nwapa, Mabel Segun (nee
Imoukhuede) and do include D.O.
Fagunwa, Amos Tutuola, Cyprian Ek-
wensi, so it is not just a gender aair
is related to the foregoing, and is
basically legitimate. JP and I were,
however, paying tribute to a colleague
within a rather closed circle of interac-
tion, of which these others were not
members. Finally, and most relevantly,
we are language users this means
we routinely apply its techniques. We
knew what we were communicating
when we placed pioneer quartet in
yes! inverted commas. Some of
the media may have removed them;
others understood their signicance
and left them where they belonged.
Did you and Achebe have the opportu-
nity to discuss his last book, There Was a
Country: A Personal History of Biafra, and
its critical reception? Whats your own as-
sessment of it? Some critics charged the
book was unduly divisive and diminished
Achebes image as a nationally beloved
writer and intellectual. Should a writer
suborn his witness to considerations of
fame?
No, Chinua and I never discussed
the book. Matter of fact, that aborted
visit I mentioned earlier would have
been my opportunity to take him on
with some friendly re at that open
forum, continuing at his home over
a bottle or two, aided and abetted by
Christie (Achebes wife)s cooking.
Unfortunately, that chance of a last
encounter was missed, so I dont re-
ally wish to comment on the work
at this point. It is, however, a book
I wish he had never written that
is, not in the way it was. There are
statements in that work that I wish
he had never made.
The saddest part for me was that
this work was bound to give joy to
sterile literary aspirants like Adewale
Maja-Pearce, whose self-published
book self-respecting publishers
having rejected his trash sought
to create a tragedy out of the rela-
tionships among the earlier named
pioneer quartet and, with meanness
aforethought, rubbish them all WS
especially. Chinua got o the lightest.
A compendium of outright impudent
lies, sh market gossip, unanchored
attributions, trendy drivel and name
dropping, this is a ghetto tract that
tries to pass itself up as a product of
research, and has actually succeeded
in fooling at least one respectable
scholar. There will be more said, in
another place, on that hatchet mission
of an inept hustler.
One of the specic issues raised con-
stantly in recent Nigerian public debate
has to do with whether the Igbo were indeed
victims of genocide. What are your thoughts
on the question?
The reading of most Igbo over what
happened before the Civil War was
indeed accurate yes, there was only
one word for it genocide. Once the
war began however, atrocities were
committed by both sides, and the
records are clear on that. The Igbo
got the worst of it, however. That
fact is indisputable. The Asaba mas-
sacre is well documented, name by
victim name, and General Gowon
visited personally to apologise to
the leaders. The Igbo must remember,
however, that they were not militarily
prepared for that war. I told Ojukwu
this, point blank, when I visited
Biafra. Sam Aluko also revealed that
he did. A number of leaders outside
Biafra warned the leadership of this
plain fact. Blu is no substitute for
bullets.
Your joint statement with Clarke bal-
ances the sense of depletion you felt
over Achebes death with consolation
in the young generation of writers to
whom the baton has been passed, those
who have already creatively ensured that
there is no break in the continuum of the
literary vocation. How much of the young
Nigerian and African writers do you nd
the time to read?
Yes, I do read much of Nigerian/
African literature as much as my
time permits. My motor vehicle in
Nigeria is a mobile library of Nige-
rian publications you know those
horrendous trac holdups thats
where I go through some of the lat-
est. The temptation to toss some out
of the car window after the rst few
pages or chapter is sometimes over-
whelming. That sour note conceded
and as I have repeatedly crowed
that nation of ours can boast of
that one virtue its bursting with
literary talent! And the women seem
to be at the forefront.
Theres the impression in some quarters
that Achebe, Clarke and you were virtual
personal enemies. In the specic case of
Achebe and you, theres the misperception
that your 1986 Nobel Prize in literature
poisoned your personal relationship with
a supposedly resentful Achebe. How would
you describe your relationship with Achebe
from the early days when you were both
young writers in a world that was becoming
aware of the fecund, protean phenomenon
called African literature?
Now all right I feel a need
to return to that question of yours
I have a feeling that I wont be at
ease with myself for having dodged
it earlier which was deliberate. If I
dont answer it, we shall all continue
to be drenched in misdirected spit-
tle. Im referring to your question
on the relationship between myself
and other members of the pioneer
quartet JP Clark and Chinua spe-
cically. At this stage in our lives, the
surviving have a duty to smash the
mouths of liars to begin with, then
move to explain to those who have
genuinely misread, who have failed to
place incidents in their true perspec-
tive, or who simply forget that life is
sometimes strange rich but strange,
and inundated with ux.
My rst comment is that outsiders
to literary life should be more humble
and modest. They should begin by
accepting that they were strangers
to the ferment of the earlier sixties
and seventies. It would be stupid
to claim that it was all constantly
harmonious, but outsiders should at
least learn some humility and learn
to deal with facts.
Where, in any corner of the globe,
do you nd perfect models of crea-
tive harmony, completely devoid of
friction? We all have our individual
artistic temperaments as well as par-
tisanships in creative directions. And
we have strong opinions on the merits
of the products of our occupation. But
rivalry for domination, to quote
you healthy or unhealthy? Now that
is something that has been cooked
up, ironically, by camp followers, the
most recent of which is that ignoble
character Ive just mentioned, who
was so desperate to prove the exist-
ence of such a thing that he even tried
to rope JPs wife into it, citing her as
source for something I never uttered
in my entire existence.
I cannot think of a more unprin-
cipled, despicable conduct. These
empty, notoriety-hungry hangers-on
and upstarts need to nd relevance,
so they concoct. No, I believe we were
all too busy and self-centred that
is, focused on our individual creative
grooves to think dominance!
Writers are human. I shudder to
think how I must sometimes appear
to others. JP remains as irrepress-
ible, contumacious and irascible as
he was during that creative ferment
of the early sixties. Christopher was
ebullient.
Chinua mostly hid himself away
in Lagos, intervening robustly in
MBARI aairs with deceptive dis-
inclination. Perception of Chinua,
JP and I as personal enemies? The
word enemy is strong and wrong.
The Civil War split up a close-knit
literary coterie, of which the quar-
tet formed a self-conscious core.
That war engendered a number of
misapprehensions. Choices were
made, some regrettable, and even
thus admitted by those who made
them. Look, I never considered Gen-
eral Gowon who put me in detention
my enemy, even though at the time, I
was undeniably bitter at the experi-
ence, the circumstances, at the man
who authorised it, and contributing
individuals including Chief Tony
Enahoro who read out a fabricated
confession to a gathering of national
and international media.
But the war did end. New wars
(some undeclared) commenced.
Chief Enahoro and I would later
collaborate in a political initiative
though I never warmed up to him
personally, I must confess. Gowon and
I, by contrast, became good friends.
He attended my birthday celebrations,
presided at my most recent Nigerian
award the Obafemi Awolowo Lead-
ership Prize. JP was present, with his
wife, Ebun. What does that tell you?
Before that, I had hosted them in my
Abeokuta den on a near full-day visit.
Would Achebe, if he had been able, and
was in Nigeria, have joined us? Per-
haps. But he certainly wouldnt have
been present at the Awolowo Award
event. That is a dierent kettle of sh,
a matter between him and Awolowo
which, however, Chinua did let
degenerate into tribal charges.
Well then, this prospect that my
Things fall apart for pioneer quartet
ALL IS NOT LOST | Women at the forefron of bursting literary talent in Nigeria
INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM
Literary icon
Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian
ction writer whose book Things
Fall Apart earned him international
recognition. The London Guard-
ian wrote in 2007 that the novel
turned the wests perception of
Africa on its head. South African
writer and Nobel Laureate Nadime
Gordimer called Achebe the father
of modern African literature in the
same year.
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Charlies Asiba with Prof Wole Soyinka at the Film festival at Nairobis Prestige Plaza on October 28, 2011
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BY JOACHIM BUWEMBO
buwembo@gmail.com
S
hortly after the National Re-
sistance Army took power in
Uganda almost three decades
ago, its puritanical Prime Minister, Dr
Samson Kisekka, banned the playing
of a local soul hit on Radio Uganda.
Hardly international headlines stu,
but locally, the ban was quite pain-
ful because the national broadcaster
was the only radio station in the
country.
The song Ebaasa (The Envelope)
by The Ebonies would by todays
standards of permissiveness sound
like a church hymn. In it, the crooner
accuses her best friend of opening
her secret envelope by snatching her
boyfriend. The ban made The Ebon-
ies concerts and audio cassette tapes
even more popular.
The Envelope was just one of doz-
ens of love songs that had endeared
The Ebonies to the population since
its founding during the tail-end of
Idi Amins military regime in 1977
by a young school teacher, Jimmy
Katumba, and a wealthy city lawyer,
J. W. K. Ssembajjwe.
In 1979, The Ebonies caught the
whole countrys attention with their
powerful hit Congratulations which
they composed to mark the Catholic
Centenary in Uganda. For a decade
after Congratulations, The Ebonies
grew from strength to strength and
seemed unstoppable.
A lot has since happened and
Ugandan music is now known more
by young rappers, with the name Eb-
onies hardly recognisable outside the
country. And now 36 years since the
founding of The Ebonies, with most
of its original stars dead or retired,
the group has embarked on a daring
mission to recapture its golden years
in Ugandan music.
One thing is certain The Ebon-
ies are not short of cash and other
resources. But will the youngsters now
manning the band be able to revive the
magic that The Ebonies brought onto
the stage three decades ago?
The group staged a high prole
re-launch a couple of weeks back
dubbed The Drumbeat - Enguliko at
their own modern and classy theatre,
which they own in a prime corner of
Kampala city centre, the Theatre La
Bonita. No less a personality than the
King of Buganda, Ronald Mutebi II,
was chief guest.
The concert now runs three days
of the weekend and may go on for
months, showcasing the Ebonies of
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.
According to the Ebonies market-
ing manager Wilson Jaga, who issued
a statement on behalf of the group
co-founder J. W. K. Ssembajjwe, the
group has decided to go back to their
roots music performances with
which they launched before branching
into drama and lm.
There is no question that the Ebon-
ies of yesterday were a winner. What
the Ugandan audience will have to
decide by voting with their money
is whether the Ebonies of today and
Ebonies of tomorrow can match the
Ebonies of yesterday.
For the third week now, concert
goers are still ocking to the Ebonita
theatre for the Drumbeat Enguliko
shows that are relatively highly
priced the cheapest ticket goes
for USh25,000 (Sh1,000) yet other
top popular bands can be watched for
a little as USh10,000 (Sh400).
When the Ebonies of Yesterday
were launched in 1977, the group im-
mediately gave respectability to stage
music. For decades before that, a ca-
reer in music was generally frowned
upon by the conservative Ugandan
society. Then came The Ebonies group
that was made of well-educated young
people, mostly with a church back-
ground and they brought the most
sophisticated stage production that
the country had ever seen.
They brought modern stage lighting
eects, projector screens and other
technological aides. It was in 1977
Forget Chameleone
and Bebe Cool, this
is the group that
taught East Africans
music can be chic,
cool and intelligent
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Return of The Ebonies
MUSICAL JOURNEY | Youngsters step up to the podium to recreate the magic that won over Ugandans in the 1970s and 1980s
1977
The year The Ebonies was
formed by Kampala lawyer,
JWK Ssembajjwe

There is no question
that the Ebonies of
yesterday were a winner.
What the Ugandan
audience will have to
decide is whether the
Ebonies of today can
match the Ebonies of
yesterday
Author
The Ebonies
band on stage at
The Theatre La
Bonita in Kam-
pala. The group
is perfoming live
shows at the the-
atre three days
in a week. Its
the only group
that owns its own
auditorium and
members are well
paid.
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SARAH KIARIES NEW ALBUM
Popular gospel singer Sarah Kiarie of Liseme
is back with a new eight track album titled
Yupo. Her earlier songs include Nina Sababu,
Tutabarikiwa and Usiyeshindwa. The album
will be launched soon.
EXTRA MUSICA 20 YEARS FETE
Extra Musica Band of Etat Major and Losambo
fame led by Roga Roga (pictured) are planning
concerts to mark their 20th anniversary on June
20 and June 29 in Congo, Brazzaville.
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Reloaded Ebonies ght for their crown
that the Kampala concert-goers rst
saw a cordless microphone in the
hand of Jimmy Katumba. When the
military government fell in April 1979,
the Ebonies blossomed beyond even
the dreams of the founders, for the
people could now enjoy the new found
freedom by attending concerts and
live band music all night long. But
the freedom of the post-Amin era was
short-lived and nightlife in Kampala
virtually died due to insecurity.
But this served to further entrench
The Ebonies in the Kampala theatre-
going crowd, for they started staging
their shows in relatively safer places
outside the city, and the concert
goers started following them for
night performances, only return-
ing to Kampala town the following
morning. The Ebonies thus became
the symbol of entertainment during
the countrys dark years of the rst
half of the eighties decade.
With the restoration of peace in
1986, the Ebonies popularity con-
tinued to grow, further helped by
the ban of The Envelope. But in 1989,
the Ebonies had to quickly reinvent
when the lead personality, Jimmy
Katumba, jumped ship for greener
pastures abroad. His partner Stella
Nanteza was the lead female vocal-
ist and the bands image had been so
built around the couple that without
them, the identity of the band was
decidedly altered.
The Ebonies now elevated their
stage work to full television drama
productions. Over the years, the group
has come to be associated with theatre
and lm primarily, which makes their
recent move to return to music quite
daring, and only time will tell if they
will pull it o sustainably.
The Ebonies return to music nds
the eld crowded with a lot of new
stars who have made music a prof-
itable undertaking, many of them
operating solo.
High tech stage eects and compu-
ter-assisted output are now cheaply
affordable by smaller groups and
so the Ebonies no longer have the
technology edge they had 20 years
ago. But the group has a resources
superiority that far exceeds that of
any local band.
Household name
Besides having their own classy
auditorium in the heart of the capital
city, The Ebonies have deep pockets
that enable them to travel for extended
periods outside the country. Besides,
they have now become a household
name in TV and theatre comedy. So
they need no introduction. What
remains to be seen is if after several
months, the now curious public will be
convinced with their band music.
Without the original Ebonies
greats like vocalists Jimmy Katumba
and composer Peter Clever Lwanga,
both of who have since died, and Stella
Nanteza (retired in Europe), the new
Ebonies music image will have to be
built on talented youngsters like Fauz-
iah Nakiboneka, Jonathan-Edwards
Ssubi and Jacobs Nsaali.
An advantage the Ebonies have is
that they can aord to stick to their
concept unswayed by market pres-
sures, until it works.
For sure, the Ebonies of the seven-
ties and eighties is almost unequalled
in Uganda and the Ebonies of 2013
is trying to step into its own foot-
steps.
The year the National Resistance
Movement took over power and
promptly banned The Ebonies pop-
ular song Ebaasa (The Envelope)
1986
The year The Ebonies lead personal-
ity Jimmy Katumba and his partner
Stella Nanteza moved abroad
1989
MUSICAL JOURNEY | 1980s band believes it has a lot to oer Kampala after 36 years in existence
The Ebonies are
back, bigger and
even more hun-
gry for success.
King of Buganda,
Ronald Mutebi II,
was chief guest
at their relaunch
concert dubbed
The Drumbeat
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BY GLORIA MWANIGA
glominage@yahoo.com
Reading Taban Lo Liyongs in-
terview (Saturday Nation, May 18),
I agreed with one of his arguments
that African authors and literary
critics who emigrate to western
capitals stop speaking to the audi-
ences in their homeland.
It worries me that many African
writers, once they hit the fame
button, take the next ight out
of town.
Save for the oer of writer in
residency that some prizes like
the Caine Prize come with, many
African scholars seem to be on a
mission to move to the west. Like
Lo Liyong, I am concerned that
once these writers move abroad,
they start speaking a dierent
language.
No longer aware of their ever
changing native homes, they
stick to writing about what hap-
pened in yester years. They start
to see Africa through the eyes of
the west.
We know the truth
Beautiful tales that they once
coined, of university life and
happy childhoods swiftly turn to
ugly disconcerting tales of poverty,
crime, war, and disease. It leaves
us, the readers born and raised
here, wondering just how horrible
our childhood was.
Except, we know the truth that
there are pretty yarns about Africa.
Of family get-togethers and roast
goat meat; of weekend hook-ups
to spiritedly discuss politics; of
weddings that cost millions. Yet
such stories are rarely written in
the New Yorkers African Story
section.
Once these immigrant writers
conform to the western standards,
they lose their African roots and
stop speaking to the audiences in
their homeland.
In an earlier interview, Nigerian
author Chimamanda Adichie of the
Purple Hibiscus fame passionately
spoke of how she wanted to write
dierently about Africa, about the
middle class Nigerians who were
happy with their lives.
Biafran war stroy
And she did a great job in Half
of a Yellow Sun, which tells the
story of the Biafran War through
the eyes of a well o middle class
young woman Ollana, her schol-
arly husband and their friends.
The book is so well written,
the events in it so authentically
African that the reader is left
yearning for more.
Regrettably, I do not get the
same feeling as I read her lat-
est book The Thing Around Your
Neck. In this collection of 12 short
stories previously published in
popular magazines like Granta,
the New Yorker and Iowa Review,
I get the feeling that Chimamanda
is very careful in her selection of
themes and characters.
With every stroke of her golden
pen, she seems to be painting
her characters quite guardedly,
probably against a backdrop of
Binyavanga Wainainas How To
Write about Africa. Nevertheless,
she is good.
For writers,
home is
always best
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BY JOHN KIBET
satnation@ke.nationmedia.com
T
he Kenyan literary com-
munity gave Chinua
Achebe a heros send-
off last Saturday in Nairobi.
The legendary Nigerian author
was laid to rest on Thursday at
Ogidi Village in Anambra State
in southeast Nigeria. Literature
scholars, writers and readers
converged on the Professional
Centre in Nairobi to break some
kola and celebrate the works of
the pioneer African author.
Achebe died on March 21 in
Boston, USA. His body arrived
in Abuja, Nigeria, on Monday
to a urry of elaborate funeral
activities.
The memorial ceremony
in Nairobi was organised by
the East African Educational
Publishers. The EAEP chair-
man, Dr Henry Chakava, said
Achebes friends, who could not
travel for the funeral in Nigeria,
had expressed their wish to hon-
our him here.
Dr Chakava said he had a
40-year working relationship
with Achebe.
Prof C.J. Odhiambo of Moi
University was the chief guest.
The function was coordinated by
Prof Egara Kabaji of Masinde
Muliro University.
Among those who attended
were Prof Henry Indangasi and
Wanjiku Kabira of the University
of Nairobi, Dr Hellen Lungaho
of Moi University and Prof
Waveney Olembo and Dr Kamau
Wangu of Kenyatta University.
Veteran authors Majorie Oludhe
MacGoye and David Mailu were
also present.
Prof Odhiambo took the au-
dience through Achebes works,
likening the author to egwugu
the intermediary between the
living and the dead in Igbo my-
thology and that his spirit will
be present in all literature talks.
Things Fall Apart resonated
well with his life in Eastlands,
Nairobi, in which Okonkwo
resembled an estate bully they
nicknamed Bodie.
Dr Lungaho regretted
Achebes death that came so
soon after that of Kenyan play-
wright, Prof Francis Imbuga,
saying Africa had lost great
talent.
David Mailu identified
Achebes concern for African
values as the most outstanding
element of his works. Playwright-
cum-civil society activist Okiya
Okoiti Omtatah credited Achebe
for having laid the foundation
for the African struggles even
before independence.
Dr Olembo, who is of Carib-
bean descent, described the
experiences and impact of
Achebes novels in Guyana, her
native country. She said the au-
thor was equally acclaimed in the
American islands as his books
provided a social link between
Africa and the Caribbean.
For six hours, Chinua Achebe was
alive in Nairobi as scholars and
readers paid tribute to writer
who fertilised the African novel
Kenyans break last kola for Achebe
AFP AND JULIUS KIHIKO |
DAILY NATION
Above: Mourners pray
in front of the con of
Nigerian writer Chinua
Achebe upon arrival
at Abuja airport on
May 21. He was buried
in his native town of
Ogidi in Anambra
State on Thursday.
Right: Chinua Achebes
widow, Professor
Christie Achebe (cen-
tre) stands next to her
daughter Dr Chinelo
Achebe (left) and elder
son Dr Ikechukwu
Achebe. Right: Author
Kinyanjui Kombani in
talks with writer Gay-
lord Gitau during the
Authors Buet at The
Junction in Nairobi last
Saturday. Below: Kin-
yanjui Kombani signs a
copy of his book The
Last Villains of Molo
for a delighted family.
Below right: Author
Nganga Mbugua
shares writing tips with
Carole Kimutai and Dr
Martin Mburu.
LITERARY DISCOURSE | Chinua Achebe was buried in Nigeria on Thursday
Achebe not
only wrote
for Africa
but the
Anglophone
Caribbean as
well
Prof Waveney
Olembo
Its big pay day
for writers as
books sell out
at literary feast
BY CARLOS MUREITHI
cmureithi@ke.nationmedia.com
It started with a bang and
ended with a bang. Thats how
a Kenyan literature fan described
last Saturdays book signing and
discussion event at The Junction
Mall in Nairobi.
Titled Authors Buet, the event
brought together writers from dif-
ferent genres to tell their stories to
fans and budding writers and also
woo new readers.
Among the prominent authors
present were Binyavanga Wainaina
(winner of the Caine prize and
godfather of the Kwani? genre),
Stanley Gazemba of The Stone
Hills of Maragoli Fame, Kinyanjui
Kombani (who shot to fame with
The Last Villains of Molo) and
Nganga Mbugua, twice-winner
of the Wahome Mutahi literary
prize for Terrorists of Aberdares
and Dierent Colours.
Mbugua and Joyce Mbaya, whose
self-published book Gibebe sold out
at the book signing event, shared
with upcoming writers on the
merits of self-publishing.
Mr Musyoki Muli, the managing
director of Longhorn Publishers,
shared tips on getting published
in Kenya.
It was a fantastic event, one
of its kind, said writer Winnie
Thuku-Craig.
I realised that very few people
know about self-publishing. It was
good to learn more about other
authors and see things from their
perspective.
John Sibi-Okumu was surprised
at the turnout.
I have never signed so many au-
tographs in one sitting, he said.
Others in attendance were Mbu-
gua Mumbi, Bonnie Kim, Kigwa
Stephen, Jennifer Karina, Dr
Charles Orero, Muthoni Likimani
and Anthony Gitonga.
The buffet was organised by
Kombani and hosted by the Text
Book Centre, the largest book seller
in the region.
Kinyanjui Kombani
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
Weekend 25
BY MARGARETTA WA GACHERU
margacheru@gmail.com
L
atin American writers like
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
invented a literary genre
known as magical realism. And Id
like to suggest that the guy (and it
was denitely a guy) who wrote Flor-
inda Hotel, the play that opened last
Wednesday staged by Phoenix Play-
ers, invented (or at least engaged
in) another genre that Id like to call
fantastical realism.
The reason is its a pure fantasy in
this day and age for a wife to be okay
with her husband having a mistress,
especially one that he maintains in
South B. Sometime back, polygamy
was the norm in Africa and wives
had no say as to how many or who
became their co-wives. But that was
before Western culture came on the
scene, and wives nally had some say
about the kind of family they wanted
and about the equity they now ex-
pected in intimate relationships, like
marriage.
So when George (Martin Githinji),
the owner-manager of Florinda Hotel,
tells his buddy Aramis (Brian Munene)
that his wife Seraphine (Nice Githinji)
is okay with his having a mistress
named Yvette (Veronica Waceke), one
has to suspect the playwright is either
creating a fantasy about wives who
are not bothered with their spouses
sleeping around, or writing about the
Dark Ages when wives were never
consulted or even informed about
the mans concubines.
What we do know is that Seraphine
is fed up with all the domestic double
duties she is stuck with, working at
Florinda Hotel with her spouse. For
not only does she have to cook, clean,
waitress and serve all the guests who
visit the hotel, like the two foreigners
played by Shiviske Shivis and Sahil
Gada. She is stuck doing comparable
duties for George, who also relies on
his wife to keep the hotel accounts and
regularly balance the books.
Seraphine is a restless, frustrated
soul who clearly wants her freedom.
She takes her angst out on George
who doesnt connect the dots to think
maybe she is not okay with having a
kept woman in her husbands life.
But even if she werent feeling
exploited and bored with the tedium
of domestic work, she does feel un-
dervalued and overworked. So when
George suggests that she take a
holiday from the hotel, she jumps at
the chance. Never mind that Georges
pal Aramis initiated the idea since he
sees that both wife and concubine are
bored sti with their lives.
Domestic bliss
Yvette yearns to live the domestic
bliss that she believes Seraphine has
had. Meanwhile, Seraphine, wanting
a change, feels good about living by
herself even though its in the rented
at that George got for Yvette.
But the life-swapping of the women
turns out to be a total disaster. It gets
especially unsettling when Georges
Aunt Marie (Allison Gibwini) shows
up and meets Yvette who she believes
is Seraphine.
What brings out the realism of
the fantastical realism is the way the
women come together to solve the
immediate problem at hand. I wont
tell what they decide, but that decision
is what makes Florinda Hotel a show
that ends up being quite contemporary
and ironically quite fun!
Aunt Maries arrival is the game-
changer since shes not a fool and
quickly sees theres something strange
about this utterly undomesticated
Seraphine. Whether the co-wives
will ever truly return to life as it was
before the switch is an open-ended
issue; but all obviously gain a deeper
understanding of what they want and
need in their lives. And it all happens
at the Florinda Hotel, which is directed
by Nick Njache.
THEATRE REVIEW | Sometime back, wives had no say as to who became their co-wives
Current play by Phoenix
Players explores complex
issues of polygamy and
the womans place in
the modern world
Realism draws fans to Florinda show
MARGARETTA WA GACHERU | NATION
Players perform the play Florinda Hotel at Phoenix Theatre in Nairobi.

What brings out

the realism of the
fantastical realism is
the way the women
come together to solve
the immediate problem
at hand
Author
TODAY
FIESTA ESPANOLA NIGHT
A special Spanish night dubbed Iiva
Espana will be held this evening at the
Que Pasa Bar and Restaurant in Nairobi.
There will be a Marques de Riscal wine
tasting and sale from 6pm and Spanish
food. Spanish artistes and bands will
perform at the all-night event.
SOCCER CITY AT K1-KLUBHOUSE
The K1 Klubhouse tonight hosts Band
Nites Soccer City Special. Patrons will
watch the nals of the UEFA Champions
League with the Gogosimo Band per-
forming in the background. Meanwhile,
every Fridays the bar hosts Barmans
Special with special oers on snacks and
drinks.
22ND EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL
The 22nd European Film Festival ends
tomorrow at the Alliance Franaise in
Nairobi. It features lms from various
European countries. The lm screening
will be held at 3pm, 5.30pm and 7.30pm
today and tomorrow.
TOMORROW
COCKTAIL OF JAZZ CONCERT
The Cocktail of Jazz concert will be
held tomorrow at the Phoenix Theatre
at Professional Centre in Nairobi. There
will be two concerts at 3pm and 6pm.
The 3pm show will feature Dugald Mc-
Donald, Nathan Okite, Aaron Colverson
and Bionic Ngalu. The 6pm show will
feature Ugandan jazz musician Brian
Mugenyi Seremba.
ART EXHIBITION AT ONE OFF
An art exhibition by local artist Anthony
Okello, dubbed Masquerade, will be
opened tomorrow at the One O Cen-
tre in Nairobi. In this exhibition, Okello
explores the human psychology of dis-
guise, and the coverage of true identity.
The exhibition will last through June 26.
MAY 28
NAIROBI HIP-HOP RAPSODY
Roots International will srage the Hip-
Hop Rapsody on Tuesday, May 28 at
Club Choices in Nairobi. The night will
feature DJ Supay treating disco fans to
the best hip-hop beats and rhymes from
8pm till midnight. It is the rap apprecia-
tion week.
MAY 31
RAMOGI NIGHT AT CARNIVORE
A special Luo Cultural Night dubbed
Ramogi Night, is set to be held next
Friday at the Carnivore Restaurant in
Nairobi. The extravaganza will showcase
popular Luo musicians and cuisine.
Those to perform include Madanji Pe-
rimeter, Onyango Alemo, Osogo Winyo
and Lady Maureen. The show is from
6pm till dawn.
GLOW OUT PARTY
Lumiglow will stage Who Let The Glow
Out Party next Friday at the Island Bar
and Lounge in Westlands. Disco music
will be presented by DJs Paps, Duez, Ke-
nartistic and Hypnotiq. The show is from
7pm till dawn.
JUNE 1
MAMA MULAYI NIGHT AT DRUIDS
Vincent Ongidi of the Mama Mulayi and
Oseso hit songs fame will perform at
Druids Lounge and Grill at Doonholm
in Nairobi on June 1 (Madaraka Day).
The event organisers promise a night
of great Luyia and rhumba music and
plenty of traditional Luyia dishes and
liquor.
angaira@ke.nationmedia.com
WEEKS PICK
The scene
Entertainment, night life and society
AN EVENING OF AFRO JAZZ
Ricky na Maraki band will on Tuesday perform at
An Evening With Afro Jazz, Divas Edition show
at the Phoenix Theatre The divas include Mishel
Muriuki, Edna Arona, Val Ziki and Cece Sagini.
BY ANTHONY NJAGI
The second edition of the
Malaika Festival is taking
place today at the Mwan-
yambo Secondary School
grounds in Ronge Juu, Taita
Taveta County. The event was
postponed from February 9
because of the March 4 Gen-
eral Election.
The festival celebrates the
life and times of legendary
musician Fadhili Williams and
is usually held at his ancestral
home in Mwatate Town.
This year, the festival will
be preceded by a clean-up
of the town followed by a
church service at Kighombo
Dam. The dam, which is in
need of rehabilitation, was
built and commissioned by
Kenya Railways in 1941.
World famous
Festival convener Duncan
Mwanyumba said they would
strive to identify the historical
origins of the song Malaika,
Fadhili Williams world fa-
mous composition.
The programmed list of
activities include traditional
dances, music, food and
drinks, exhibitions, acrobatic
shows, poetry, games, tour-
ist excursions, tree planting
and speeches. Previously,
the festival used to be held
in Nairobi. Although Fadhili
was buried at the Kariokor
cemetery in Nairobi in 2001,
he hailed from Ronge-Juu in
Mwatate District.
Apart from Malaika, Fadhili
also composed other patriotic
songs including Ukika Taita,
which the festival organisers
will use as the 2013 theme
song. Their theme for the
year is Promoting Peace
and National Cohesion
through Music.
Fadhili Williams pictures
kept in the Kenya Railways
Corporation archives, some
dating back to the era of
the East African Railways
and Harbours Show Boat
Program of the 1950s, which
were produced by the late
Peter Colemore, will also be
displayed at the Festival.
County celebrates the life of Malaika composer
Fadhili Williams
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
26 | Weekend
Readers corner
BY CHARAGU KIMANI
L
iterary discourses on
Kenyans reading habits
cannot be delinked from
the role of primary school teach-
ers in the creation of a reading
culture in the nascent minds
bequeathed to them. Books can
play a signicant role in the life
of a child, but the extent to which
they do so depends entirely upon
adults. Children have a literary
heritage; adults must see that
they receive their legacy.
Emergent childrens literature
has become prominent only re-
cently, even though there is a long
history of research in young chil-
drens reading and writing. The
literary desert epithet espoused
by Taban Lo Liyong requires an
interrogation of how reading is
taught. This, in turn, calls for
an examination of the primary
teacher education syllabus and
its effectiveness in preparing
teachers for effective content
delivery.
Since independence in 1963,
the rst major PTE curriculum
review was done in 1986 fol-
lowing the introduction of the
8-4-4 system of education. The
second review was carried out
in 1994 after a major curriculum
review for primary and secondary
schools in 1992. The current syl-
labus in use in primary teachers
colleges was reviewed in 2004.
The 2004 syllabus review
had serious ramications in the
teaching of childrens literature.
Aspects of drama and mother
tongue teaching were incor-
porated in the two languages
taught. However, the extent of
their teaching was not dened,
leaving it to individual tutors
discretion. The second death
knell was the abolition of the
library science subject that was
integrated into English to pave
way for ICT.
In both subjects, the syllabus
just mentions childrens literature
in a casual manner akin to foot
notes. Whereas in other topics
the content, objectives, learning
activities and aids are clearly
developed, the casual approach
behoves us to question why the
curriculum developer ignored
such an important area that is
meant to develop a childs com-
munication skills.
Too little attention is placed
upon reading for pleasure and
using reading and writing as tools
for learning and exploration. That
gap in curriculum implementa-
tion can be plugged by a better
appreciation of the importance of
childrens literature rather than
treating it as a comprehension
passage.
According to Strictland D.
in his book Emerging Literacy:
Young Children Learn to Read and
Write, eective reading calls for
preview of the book, establishing
a receptive story listening con-
text, briey reading the book
and reading with expression.
It also calls for a discussion
on characters, their motivation
and responses, making predic-
tions, actions to confirm and
disconfirming them, drawing
inferences, discussing themes,
examining the authors use of
language, and drawing connec-
tions among various books.
Childrens literature is not a
compulsory unit in the literature
departments in most universities.
It is oered as an elective unit.
Since the course is tailored
towards producing secondary
school teachers, the graduates,
in essence, cannot appreciate its
importance. It is only appreciated
fully by primary school teachers
who are advancing their studies.
The national primary teacher
trainers induction course in its
rationale states that almost all
the tutors are trained primarily
to teach in secondary school
learners whose age ranges from
13 to 19 years.
Finally to quote Plato: What
is honoured in a country will be
cultivated there. The KIE should
review its set books and replace
them with childrens books.
These books are more appropri-
ate to our primary schools.
The writer is a lecturer at
Muranga Teachers College.
There is a diconnect between training syllabus and school needs
Teacher training curriculum
ignores childrens literature
Literary Discourse
A class session at a rural primary
school in Kenya.
Publishers should
heed this advice
BY CHARAGU KIMANI
At a recent book launch by Moran Publishers in
Nairobi, the guest of honour was Safaricom chief
executive Bob Collymore, who had a word of advice
for publishers and readers. An avid reader himself,
Mr Collymore stressed the importance of books and
the importance of turning Kenya into a knowledge-
based economy. To do that, we have to encourage
more Kenyans to read, he said.
On publishing, Mr Collymore said there will forever
be a demand for knowledge in the world. However,
because we live in a fast-paced mobile world, he
advised Kenyan publishers to very quickly move to
e-books. He stressed that this is, indeed, a digital age,
hence digitisation of knowledge should be prioritised
by the Kenyan government and publishers.
On voluminous research books, Mr Collymore sug-
gested the publishing of the books in bit sizes. The sell
of stand-alone chapters would make research books
more aordable to students who need to research on
a particular topic but, unfortunately, have to buy a
whole voluminous book in order to do so.
The chief executives advice could not have come at
a more appropriate time. If social media presence is
anything to go by, then Mr Collymore has quite some
experience in interacting with Kenyan youth. This
could probably have informed his next piece of advice,
where he told publishers to consider the volume of
their books and make them short. It is very hard to
read long books. Go for 30 instead of 500 pages, he
said. Adopt and adopt new technology.
With the e-textbook programmes and ongoing dis-
course among publishers, young readers and writers,
this outlook sheds quite some light on the matter.
The reduction of reading volumes, he says, is because
people are very busy these days. There is simply no
time to sit and read a very huge book. However, one
can read a chapter and, when they have time, pur-
chase another and read it. Perhaps he borrowed this
particular advice from the kadogo economy, which
Safaricom has successfully targeted. Purchasing a
book by the chapter would denitely make the books
aordable to many low income Kenyans.
As I listened to literary scholars presenting their
papers on Achebe the next day at the University of
Nairobi, I wished for a moment that I would get my
hands on just a single one of Achebes essays. This
would have been possible if local publishers sold
books in chapters.
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BY NICHOLAS KALOKI
The National Cohesion and
Integration Commission last
month advertised its annual
bids for various goods and
services for the nancial year
2013 to 2014. Among them
was a curious pre-qualication
for the services of short story
writers. Writing is an art and
though anybody may tender,
not everybody can provide
the commission with short
stories appropriate to the
execution of its mandate.
The best thing was not to tell
bidders to pay for, collect, ll
and return bid forms, unless
they wanted to cash in on
the bidders non-refundable
fees. The commission should
instead have asked short story
authors to send in samples
of their work while returning
the bid forms. This is because
writing services cannot be
procured in a free-for-all bid as
the commission wants to do.
Writing is an art. Period.
Published
works can
never expire
BY COSMAS MARUKO
I read with astonishment
Peter Oduors article,
Shakespeares works no
longer relevant (Saturday
Nation, May 4, 2013). To argue
that Shakespeares works
are not relevant today is like
concluding that literature
expires, like foodstu.
Literature is a mirror of the
society past, current and
future. The ability of works of
art to predict or foresee the
future is the very reason they
can never be irrelevant. Take
for instance Henrik Ibsens
An Enemy of the People.
The play was written in 1882
in Norway about a corrupt,
inept, and incompetent
municipal government. The
main character, Dr Stockman,
engages in an argument over
salary with the mayor, Peter
Stockman, who is also his elder
brother. The doctor does not
see why as a medical ocer,
he should earn lower than a
mere county judge. In 2013, in
Kenya our MPs are agitating
for salary increase. But then
Ibsen reminds them that
what they are paid depends
on circumstances and that is
why they have been promised
a review once the economy
improves. Therefore the book
is as relevant today as it was
131 years ago. This is how
peculiar Literature is.
A lot has been written of late about students who
do not read books and the negative inuence of
technology, which has shifted the reading culture
from worrying to near-oblivion. Mohammed Hussein
(Saturday Nation, May 11) said the school curricu-
lum was to blame for the poor reading habit among
students. So, which books do young Kenyans read?
They most certainly read romance titles and ction
horror novels. Eavesdrop on any high school students
mingling and youll catch them talking about their
favourite books, and Daniel Steel, Sidney Sheldon
quickly come up. It boils down to the content they
are looking for. Hardly will you hear a school readers
text mentioned. Some brag of having read all Daniel
Steeles titles, and inter-school exchanges of the
novels are among the biggest trades among students.
So, where do they get the time to read these ones? A
spot check would reveal students curled up behind
trees and classrooms reading the newest Nora Rob-
erts romance. Such novels are carefully hidden and
sneaked into school. Prep times for some are the get-
that-novel times. Reading culture may not exist for
literature texts, but for backstreet novels it does.
JOY WANJIKU KAGIKA, Nairobi
Books that our
students read
BY MWAURA KIRAGU
We have come to associate English with Literature
so much that some of us actually believe it is the
same subject. Literature and English will never be
the same thing. That is why I totally dier with
curriculum developers decision to teach the two
as an integrated subject. When a teacher applies
for a TSC number, there is no option for Literature.
The TSC gives only the option of double English.
Literature has always been a distinct discipline,
just like physics or chemistry.
I will use my experience as a teacher of both
English and literature to illustrate the trauma I go
through. How do you go to class and teach oral
literature as English? Poetry cannot be English.
It only uses English as a way of communicating.
As a Literature teacher, I should not be limited to
Literature in English. This notion is the one that
prompted our early scholars to ask this question:
Do we have African literature? This question came
about because the form of Literature that was being
taught was all English. They concluded that African
literature does exist, but in oral form.
As much as language and Literature are inter-
twined, English should be taught as it is, while
Literature should be left as a discipline. Students
sometimes get confused during revision because
Literature and English examinations are merged,
hence they cannot revise systematically. Earlier,
there were three exams composition writing,
English grammar, summary and comprehension
and a distinct Literature Paper, which had poetry,
drama, novel, short story and Oral Literature. It
should have stayed that way.
Also, I read James Lagat (Saturday Nation, May
18) and would like to make the following corrections.
In 2003, the set texts were A Man of the People by
Chinua Achebe, Encounters from Africa edited by
Macmillan and Aminata by Francis Imbuga. He
omitted Aminata and instead put Merchant of
Venice by Shakespeare. He nally asserted that it
is The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiongo that talks
about a rogue press. The role of the media is well
captured in An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen.
Otherwise, he was spot on, on KIEs role.
English and literature are as
dierent as night and day
Curious
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writers
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
Weekend 27
LITERARY DISCOURSE | Mbugua wa Mungai
Y
ou might recall the
sight of a livid Boniface
Mwangi shouting down
Cotu boss Francis Atwoli dur-
ing the recent Labour Day
celebrations at Uhuru Park,
Nairobi. For his labours, the
activist was brutally arrested
and subsequently charged in
court for rabble-rousing. That
incident, though, is not what
earned Mwangi an important
position in critiques of Kenyan
society popular culture had
already done that.
I met him at a conference
up in the Aberdares one chilly
overcast day in November. He
made a presentation about his
documentary Kenya Burns;
scenes of plunder and loss of
life and limb were brought up
for viewing in absolute gore.
The documentary archives the
foolishnes, incivility and de-
spair experienced during the
2007-2008 election-related vio-
lence with such candour, one is
goaded into shame.
But that is what honest pro-
ducers do they force us to
take a position in situations
involving moral choices. Still
photos of the violence were
mounted on boards on streets
in various Kenyan towns and
people encouraged to discuss
them.
Bonifaces work is popular
culture with a purpose. I really
loved my job as a photojournal-
ist with The Standard, but I had
to quit because I needed to con-
centrate on telling stories about
social injustices, he said at the
lunch table we shared. I have
since been following his photo-
activism.
I was thrilled to learn that
he was behind the grati on
Imenti House depicting MPs
as vultures. I keenly listened to
reactions to the grati. I heard
some of the choicest epithets
directed at Kenyas legislators;
none of them disagreed with
the artists ascribing of vultur-
ine attributes to politicians.
The point is, popular culture,
in this case grati and photog-
raphy, is an important platform
upon which discussions about
national issues can take place.
Sadly, our popular culture
has not quite been appreciated
as a medium of serious social
discourse, maybe due to the
kind of formal education Ken-
yans undergo.
The curriculum is mainly rote
learning memorising and
correctly reproducing loads
of information, which is often
useless. Very little of what one
learns in school encourages
thinking and creative problem
solving.
Having thus been taught
that knowledge resides only in
books, nothing prepares the
regular Kenyan to appreciate
the wealth of cultural produc-
tion daily owing around us.
Values can be taught through
popular culture, of which ad-
vertising is a good example.
Remember the Milo beverage
tin from the 1970s and 1980s?
It depicted a well-built foot-
baller blasting a ball into a net.
Quite appropriately, the new
Milo advert extends the sports
theme and depicts Kenyas elite
runners Janeth Jepkosgei and
Ezekiel Kemboi holding am-
ing torches as they lead teams
of youngsters in a victory lap.
The Milo advert also shines
the torch on both male and fe-
male athletes; perhaps Kenyan
gender scholars might concede
that this advert states the case
for gender equity better than
all the tomes on theory that we
require our university students
to look at?
Popular culture is in a sense
social history. Comparing deco-
rations in Kenyan beer halls,
one nds todays bars drab. The
Arsenal logo and other football
paraphernalia predominate
most football bar displays.
On the other hand, to look at
the walls of 1970s and 1980s
beer halls covered by oil-paint
murals painstakingly drawn is
to sample a genuine love aair
with the brush. T.G. Karau,
Kanyoni Arts and Murai were
some of the more conspicuous
signatures on Nairobi, Nakuru
and Central Kenya beer halls.
Perched high on the walls
behind bar counters would be
the ubiquitous framed picture
of a cigar-smoking wealthy-
looking white man patting his
well-rounded paunch proudly
stating I sold in cash! Beneath
the picture would be the redun-
dant declaration, No Credit.
For Credit Come Tomorrow!
Stories of communities ori-
gins are told in detail on these
walls. On the outer wall of a
popular bar at Uthiru Corpora-
tion, Nairobi, is depicted the
history of Gikuyu migration
into Kenya, complete with age
sets, names and years. For
contrast, you will nd Kenyas
colonial history documented in
framed black and white photos
in Nairobis The Sarova Stanley
Hotel and in even more inter-
esting ways at Red Eagle (Kwa
Katela) bar, opposite the local
post oce at Kithimani on the
bumpy road to Machakos.
Bar murals also depict life-
styles. Nairobis downtown
bar murals commonly used to
depict men perched on a sina
taabu stool, wearing Afro hair-
styles, in buttery-collar disco
shirts, bell-bottom trousers and
platform shoes, a cigarette in
one hand as the other slithered
around the waist or shoulders
of a buxom waitress bringing
more beer to a Formica-top
table already covered with
brown beer bottles.
Popular culture is dizzy-
ingly dynamic, and interesting
to study. The challenge is for
students of culture to interro-
gate its messages and see how
these forms connect to broader
discourses taking place in the
social mainstream. Only then
might we appreciate Boniface
Mwangis passion for photo-ac-
tivism and grati.
Dr Mungai is a senior lecturer
and chairman of the Literature
Department, Kenyatta University.
(mungai.mbugua@ku.ac.ke)
Of murals, grati and the rise of popular culture
Activist Boniface Mwangi being
arrested at Uhuru Park on Labour
Day. He uses grati for his activ-
ism.
Activists
like
Boniface
Mwangi
make
good use
of murals
and grati
to pass
on their
message
1986 Nobel Prize in literature
poisoned my personal rela-
tionship with a supposedly
resentful Achebe I think
I shouldnt dodge that either.
Even if that was true which
I do not accept it surely
has dissipated over time. For
heavens sake, over 25 people
have taken the prize since
then! The problem remains
with those vicarious laureates
who feel personally deprived,
and thus refuse to let go.
Chinuas death was a chance
to prise open that scab all over
again. But theyve now gone
too far with certain posturings
and should be rmly called to
order, and silenced in the
name of decency.
I refer to that incorrigible
sect no other word for
it some leaders of which
threatened Buchi Emecheta
early in her career that she
had no business engaging
in the novel, since this was
Chinuas special preserve! In-
credible? Buchi virtually ew
to me for protection read her
own account of that traumatis-
ing experience. It is a Nigerian
disease.
Nigerians need to be purged
of a certain kind of arrogance
of expectations, of demand,
of self-attribution, of a spu-
rious sense and assertion of
entitlement. It goes beyond
art and literature. It covers
all aspects of interaction with
others. Wherever you witness
a case of Its MINE, and no
others, its OURS, not theirs,
at various levels of vicarious
ownership, such aggressive
voices, 90 per cent of the
time, are bound to be Nige-
rians. This is a syndrome I
have had cause to confront
defensively with hundreds of
Africans and non-Africans. It
is what plagues Nigeria at the
moment its MY/OUR turn
to rule, and if I/WE cannot, we
shall lay waste the terrain.
Yes, these are the ones
who, to co-opt your phrasing,
diminished (and still dimin-
ish) Chinuas image. In the
main, they are, ironically, his
assiduous but basically op-
portunistic hagiographers
especially of a clannish,
cabalistic temperament.
Chinua we have to be frank
here also did not help mat-
ters. He did make one rather
unfortunate statement that
brought down the hornets nest
on his head, something like:
The fact that Wole Soyinka
was awarded the Nobel Prize
does not make him the Asiwaju
(Leader) of African literature.
I forget now what provoked
that statement. Certainly it
could not be traced to any
such pretensions on my part.
I only recollect that it was in
the heat of some controversy
on a national issue, I think.
But let us place this in con-
text. Spats between writers,
artists, musicians, scientists,
even architects and scientic
innovators etc. are notorious.
They are usually short-lived
though some have been
known to last a life-time.
This particular episode was
at least 20 years ago. Unfor-
tunately some of Chinuas
cohorts decided they had a
mission to prosecute a matter
regarding which they lacked
any vestige of understanding
or competence or indeed any
real interest. It is however a
life crutch for them and they
cannot let go.
What they are doing now
and I urge them to end it
shame-facedly is to conne
Chinuas achievement space
into a bunker over which hangs
an unlit lamp labelled Nobel.
Is this what the literary enter-
prise is about? Was it the Nobel
that spurred a young writer,
stung by Eurocentric portrayal
of African reality, to put pen to
paper and produce Things Fall
Apart? This conduct is gross
disservice to Chinua Achebe
and disrespectful of the life-
engrossing occupation known
as literature. How did creative
valuation descend to such ba-
nality? Do these people know
what theyre doing? They are
inscribing Chinuas epitaph in
the negative mode of thwarted
expectations. I nd that dis-
gusting.
China, with her vast popu-
lation, history, culture arts
and literature celebrated her
rst Nobel Prize in Literature
only last year. Yet I have been
teaching Chinese literature on
and o within Comparative
literary studies for over 40
years. Am I being instructed
now that those writers needed
recognition by the Nobel for me
to open such literary windows
to my students? Do these stri-
dent, cacophonous Nigerians
know how much literature
and of durable quality
radiates the world?
Let me add this teacher
complaint: far too many Nige-
rians students of literature
most perniciously are being
programmed to have no other
comparative literary structure
lodged in their mental scope
than WS vs CA. Such crass lim-
itation is being pitted against
the knowledgeable who, often
wearily, but obedient to sheer
intellectual doggedness, feel
that they owe a duty to stop the
march of condent ignorance.
For me personally, it is galling
to have everything reduced to
the Nigerian enclave where, to
make matters even more acute,
there are supposedly only those
two. It makes me squirm. I
teach the damned subject
literature after all. I do
know something about it. So let
me now speak as a teacher. Its
high time these illiterates were
openly instructed that Achebe
and Soyinka inhabit dierent
literary planets, each in its
own orbit.
If you really seek to en-
counter and dialogue with
Chinua Achebe in his rightful
orbit, then move out of the Ni-
gerian entrapment and explore
those circuits coursed by the
likes of Hemingway. Or Mar-
yse Conde, Salman Rushdie,
Edouard Glissant, Ngugi wa
Thiongo, Earl Lovelace, Jose
Saramago, Bessie Head, Syl
Cheney-Coker, Yambo Ouo-
loguem, Nadine Gordimer,
Patrick Chamoiseau, Toni
Morrison, Hamidou Kane,
Shahrnush Parsipur, Tahar Ben
Jelloun, Naguib Mahfouz and
so on along those orbits in the
galaxy of ction writers.
In the meantime, let us quit
this indecent exercise of fatu-
ous plaints, including raising
hopes, even now, with talk of
posthumous conferment,
when you know damned well
that the Nobel committee does
not indulge in such tradition.
It has gone beyond sickening.
It is obscene and irreverent.
It desecrates memory. The
nation can do without these
hyper-active jingoists. Can
you believe the kind of letters
I receive? Here is one beauty
let me quote:
I told these people, leave
it to Wole Soyinka he will
do what is right. We hear
Ben Okri, Nuruddin Farah,
even Chimamanda Adichie
are being nominated. This is
mind-boggling. Who are they?
Chinua can still be awarded the
prize, even posthumously. We
know you will intervene to put
those upstarts in their place.
Ive assured people you will
do what is right.
Alfred Nobel regretted that
his invention, dynamite, was
converted to degrading use,
hence his creation of the Nobel
Prize, as the humanist coun-
ter to the destructive power of
his genius. If he thought that
dynamite was eviscerating in
its eects, he should try some
of the gut-wrenching concoc-
tions of Nigerian ponticators.
Please, let these people know
that I am not even a member of
Alfreds Academy that decides
such matters.
As a club member, how-
ever, I can nominate, and it
is no business of literary ig-
noramuses whom, if any, I do
nominate. My literary tastes
are eclectic, sustainable, and
unapologetic.
Spats between writers
are usually short-lived
FILE | NATION
Nigerian literary icon and Nobel
Laureate Wole Soyinka at The
Kenya International Film Festi-
val in Nairobi in 2011.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 22
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ACROSS
1. Joyful or merry as of
celebration of anniversary
7. One brothers daughter
9. Application
11. Summons with authority as
a witness
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to place
13. A female fowl
14. A small house or cabin
16. The act of waiting in a
concealed position in order to
launch a surprise attack
17. A confused hand to hand
ght
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20. To bedeck
21. Large non-venomous
constricting serpents
DOWN
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strong ow of water
2. Harsh
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4. A small stoppered bottle for
medicine
5. A ribbon-shaped slippery sh
6. It is so
8. Distinct provision of a
document such as a contract,
law, etc.
10. Simmered or boiled slowly
as meat or vegetables
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15. Melts as snow or ice
16. An eagles nest
17. Insane
18. To cut o or trim
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6 Sounds like robust greeting (4)
10 A set backing fabulous
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27 Half of our race between two
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28 Spike Milligans nal letter
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30 Debase worship around
Troys rst queen (10)
DOWN
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2 Bishop taken in by old maid
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3 Leading light in Fleet Street
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4 European behind such as
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5 Talk about person said to be
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7 Clay when getting another
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8 Fruit began to be arranged
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9 In terrible heat I work on
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14 Half accept phone signal
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16 What business makes pie? (8)
18 Prove a sun explodes as
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20 Hot former lover called (7)
21 Walters proigate
goodfornothing (7)
23 Load carried initially by
legendary ship (5)
25 Small child swallows slice
of roast joint (5)
26 Bet TV presenter takes
drug (4)
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SOLUTION
ACROSS
5 Clothed
7 Loose
9 Impugn
10 Next Door
11 Toy Soldier
13 Slim
14 Gertrude Stein
16 Burn
17 Donald Duck
19 Santiago
20 Tendon
22 Hedge
23 Theatre
DOWN
1 Non U
2 Chandler
3 Elixir
4 Condescend
5 Cameo
6 Dandie Dinmont
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12 Springtide
14 Goulash
15 Splitter
17 Dealer
18 Close
21 Nett
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Although it is wise and prudent to want to know
where you stand and to keep your liabilities within a
predictable range, you should at least give a ghting
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Emotions can be expressed in many dierent ways,
and today you will discover that humour often masks
hidden insecurities and feelings and is the only way
that certain individuals who are close to you can ex-
press themselves. Make sure that you listen carefully to
what they are saying and try to understand what they
mean behind the jokes.
ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20)
The planets will be in the secretive part of your
chart. This will be encouraging your imagination,
creativity and instincts which you should listen to for
a change instead of always relying on that sensible
head of yours.You dont want to be either besieged or
abandoned by people whose support you need.
TAURUS (APR 21- MAY 20)
You may become too optimistic about something
connected with property, family or home matters in
general. This evening it would not be a good idea to
stay at home: get as far away as possible, preferably in
the company of new people.
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There is a possibility today that you will realize that
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thought, or perhaps a cheaper substitute that is not
a compromise will present itself. It appears that, in
one way or another, you are about to come up with a
perfectly answer to a problem.
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The stars will be in the secretive part of your chart.
This is an indication that there are matters bubbling
beneath the surface which you should perhaps make
it your business to discover before anybody else does.
When travelling, take a certain amount of care, as
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behind the wheel.
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You seem very introspective today and may be
considering what area your life you would change if
you really had a choice. If this is so, you need to be
careful how you choose to alter a situation which you
may feel is dragging you down.
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Like most of us, you were probably taught that if you
cant say something nice, you should keep your mouth
shut. This could be a problem, because the only way
to deal honestly with certain situation at the moment
is to force yourself into saying exactly what you think,
come what may..
LIBRA (SEPT 24-OCT 23)
In no other area of life is timing so critical as when
dealing with loved ones such as children, relative or
partners. For some time you have been hesitant to
speak your mind but you have no choice. Make sure
your words come from heart just as they usually do.
SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22)
The planets seem to be suggesting that the key to
success with arrangements, plans or exciting ventures
is to assume nothing and talk matters through with
other people. Although arrangements may be nalised,
you really must make room for discussions and serious
talks about every detail.
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how your ideas and thoughts can be made to t in
with the opportunities on oer at this time. Luckily
for you; time is on your side; as development later will
prove in the meantime, take things in your usual cau-
tious fashion.
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There is a possibility that you may be preoccupied
with minor disputes or augments, or with putting
right situations where your intentions may have been
misunderstood. You could allow more worthwhile
opportunities to pass by if you are not careful, and
then you will live to regret it because others will be
dashing past you and collecting all the praise and
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Childrens Corner 31
Kipsois children had either
scattered or died; now he lived
with his eldest grand-daughter,
who made him furious by treating
him in the same brusque way that
she ordered her children around.
Very few children remained in the
village. Since the drought, most
of the people had gone looking
for water, taking their cattle and
families with them.
Scratching himself thoughtfully,
Kipsoi spat into the dust at
his feet. Raising a querulous,
quavering voice, he called out to
his granddaughter.
Grand-daughter! Where is my
food! Then he went on grum-
bling to himself in a low voice.
Todays children have no respect
for their elders! Ive been sitting
here since before dawn, but my
grand-daughter hasnt brought
me any food. If shed been one
of my wives, Id have beaten her
for being lazy! He continued mut-
tering to himself.
At last a young woman came to
the doorway with a steaming bowl
of food. Kipsoi took the bowl of
hot gruel with trembling hands,
afraid of spilling it, for food was
scarce in the village those days.
Weeks had passed since any of
them had tasted meat for there
was no one left to hunt.
The old man ate very slowly,
sucking at the bowl and making
the most of his meal, knowing
that he would not get another
until evening. He felt his skinny
old body warm as he sucked up
the hot gruel. Finally, he ran his
nger around the inside of the
bowl and licked it clean.
The village was awake. Dogs
barked, cocks crowed, hens
clucked around with their chicks
and the few children left in the
village shouted or cried as they
played in the dust.
Kipsoi went inside for his spear
and shield. Old as he was, it was his
self-appointed task to accompany
the women to the waterhole. There
were very few young men left, so
Kipsoi had taken this duty upon
himself. There were many wild
animals and other dangers on the
way to the waterhole which was
some distance from the village. It
was dangerous for the women to
travel alone, but water had to be
fetched daily.
CONTINUES ON MONDAY
BOOKS
THE MONEY TREES
Title: The Money Trees and Other Stories
Author: Valerie Cuthbert
Publisher: Kenya Literature Bureau
1.Which East African
country is President Obama
visiting during his trip to
Africa?
2. What is the colour of
uniform worn by senior
police officers in Kenya?
3. How many players are on
one cricket side?
4. Which town serves as the
headquarters of Samburu
County?
5. Which body organ
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waste?
6. Who is the speaker of the
Kenyan parliament?
7. On which lake is the
Migingo island?
8. Which is the capital city
of Zimbabwe?
9. Which US city was
recently hit by a tornado?
10. Who is the president of
Myanmar?
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SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
32 | Childrens Corner
WORLD
UNITED STATES PRESIDENT
DEFENDS USE OF DRONES
Rights groups have condemned
use of unmanned aircraft to carry
out killings. Page 36
PEACEKEEPING | Military missions largely funded by western donors
Cash shortage hampers AU drive
to tackle conict on the continent
ADDIS ABABA, Friday
T
he African Union, cele-
brating this weekend 50
years since the launch of
the continental bloc, regularly
repeats the mantra: African so-
lutions to African problems.
But AU eorts to tackle those
problems especially the con-
icts that plague the continent
are strained by a shortage of
cash, poor organisation, lack of
capacity and often reluctance to
get involved, analysts warn.
The key AU policy of inter-
vening in the internal aairs of
member states emerged in the
wake of Rwandas 1994 genocide,
as the international community
recoiled at its own failure to in-
tervene.
Set up in 2002, the AU adopted
a rm policy of nding internal
solutions to African problems,
and gave itself the mandate to
intervene in the case of grave
circumstances, namely, war
crimes, genocide and crimes
against humanity.
Founding congress
The AU is the successor to the
Organisation of African Unity
(OAU), which held its founding
congress in May 1963.
The original goals of the
OAU were to rid the continent
of the remaining vestiges of
colonisation and apartheid and
to promote solidarity and devel-
opment among African States.
But today the AUs Peace
and Security Council (PSC),
the blocs body for tackling
conict, remains hampered by
nancial constraints, with mili-
tary missions largely funded by
western donors.
It wants control of the mis-
sion, but it doesnt bring the
resources to the table to do so,
said J. Peter Pham, from the US-
based Atlantic Council, adding
that even when member states
have the resources, the willing-
ness to chip in is limited.
The AU doesnt want to bear
the cost of ownership, and I think
you cant have your cake and eat
it, Pham added.
Some analysts say this im-
pedes its ability to respond to
crises eciently and compro-
mises the AUs authority on
peacekeeping missions.
The AU was criticised for not
responding fast enough in Mali,
when rebels took over in a coup
in March 2012, rapidly crumbling
one of Africas longest standing
democracies and prompting a
French military intervention
in January.
Where was the PSC in Mali,
for example, where France
intervened militarily earlier
this year? asked Liesl Louw-
Vaudran, writing for South
Africas Institute for Security
Studies.
Divisions revealed by the re-
cent conict in Libya when
members squabbled between
those wanting to recognise
rebels and those backing Mua-
mmar Gaddafi showed its
disunity.
Its sidelining during the
Libyan crisis in 2011 and almost
total absence that year during
the Arab Spring that engulfed
North Africa indicated the limits
of the AUs capacity to play a
role in conicts, Louw-Vaudran
added.
Praising the bloc
Nevertheless, AU leaders
themselves are keen to take
the praise for achievements in
Africa, which, despite still being
riddled with troubles, has seen
a decline in major conicts in
recent years.
Africa has made remarkable
progress over the last decade in
terms of promoting peace and
stability on our continent, said
Teodros Gebreyesus, the foreign
minister of Ethiopia, the current
AU chairman, praising the bloc
for its eorts.
Key achievements include the
force in Somalia, where 17,700
AU troops from ve nations are
ghting to regain territory from
Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab insur-
gents for the government.
High casualty rates one
senior UN official recently
estimated as many as 3,000
African troops had been killed
since 2007, similar to the num-
bers of UN peacekeepers killed
worldwide since 1948 show
the AU forces willingness to
take the risk of active combat
roles, but also reect the cost
of success.
Although funding for that
mission comes mainly from
Western backers, its role in So-
malia shows the potential for an
AU force.
The commitment of African
nations to peacekeeping roles
is clear: the peacekeeping mis-
sion in Sudans war-torn western
Darfur region is a hybrid AU-UN
force, while Mali now has a be-
latedly deployed African-led
international support mission.
Five of the top 10 contributors
of soldiers and police ocers to
UN missions are African.
However, some say the
AUs labyrinthine bureaucracy
which, with 54 members,
has double the number of the
European Union hampers a
rapid response to a crisis.
There is a management struc-
ture within the AU that shies
away from delegation and seeks
to micro-manage ... this makes
responding to rapidly changing
events dicult, Alex Vines, from
Britains Chatham House, wrote
in a recent report.
The AUs African Standby
Brigade to intervene in sud-
den crises a proposed force
of 32,500 troops and civilians
drawn from ve regions of the
continent has made little
headway since preparations for
it started a decade ago. (AFP)
Leaders are, however, upbeat over
organisations achievements,
including operation in Somalia
to regain territory from Shabaab
Africa
has made
remarkable
progress
over the
last decade
in terms of
promoting
peace and
stability
on our
continent
Teodros
Gebreyesus,
Ethiopias
foreign
minister
PHOTO | AFP
Somalias President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud speaks at a function held at the Amisom base in Mogadishu,
to mark the African Unions 50th anniversary, on Thursday.
Regional politics can hamper
eorts too, with smaller or
weaker nations eyeing some-
times resentfully the lead taken
by more powerful neighbours,
such as South Africa, or in the
west, Nigeria.
Adding to the challenge of
any would-be response is that
the nature of conict is also
changing.
While the number of wars
have dramatically dropped
there were 11 wars in 2000,
and four in 2012, Chatham
House calculates numbers of
small-scale insurgent groups
often operating across borders
have grown. Today conict
in Africa is increasingly frag-
mented, tending to be fought
on a smaller scale and on the
peripheries of states, said ISS
analyst Jakkie Cilliers.
HINDRANCE
Regional politics can be a setback
Khartoum,
Juba pledge
to honour
agreements
BY MACHEL AMOS
NATION Correspondent
JUBA, Friday
Sudan and South Sudan have
vowed to implement the nine
agreements they signed to ease
tension and establish coopera-
tion.
Sudans Foreign minister Ali
Karti and his South Sudan counter-
part Nhial Deng Nhial rearmed
the promises of their governments
for good neighbourliness during
a meeting on the sidelines of the
African Union Summit in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia, yesterday.
Although their meeting made
headway on trade, the critical is-
sues such as oil, security and the
status of the Abyei region were left
for South Sudans President Salva
Kiir and Sudans President Omar
al-Bashir to resolve during a meet-
ing scheduled for Saturday.
Returned to normal
Life has returned to normal be-
cause of these agreements. Even
if there are diculties here and
there on pending issues, they will
be resolved, Karti told a United
Nations-sponsored radio station.
I want to assure you that the
summit will dwell on the issues
contained in the cooperation
agreements signed between the
two countries, he said.
South Sudans Minister in the
Oce of the President, Emmanuel
Lowilla, said Kiir and Bashir are
to discuss a recent threat of
the closure of the ow of South
Sudan oil.
Since the split in July 2011,
Sudan and South Sudan are yet
to resolve a raft of post-seccession
issues that include border demar-
cation, status of Abyei, security, oil
and citizenship.
BRIEFLY
KIGALI
Rwanda is critical to
DRC peace, says Ban
Rwanda is key to ensuring
peace in the volatile eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo,
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said yes-
terday as he toured the region to
boost a new deal to end decades
of violence. A United Nations-
brokered accord, signed in Febru-
ary by 11 regional countries after
a bloody uprising by Congos
M23 rebels, seeks to quell a long-
running conict in mineral-rich
eastern Congo, which neighbours
Rwanda. That deal is the best
chance for peace in many years,
Ban told reporters in the Rwan-
dan capital. (AFP)
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
33
FOREIGN RELATIONS | Policies must help create jobs and reduce poverty
Top diplomat should keep her eyes
on the economic, not political, prize
BY MOHAMED WEHLIYE
mwhussein@hotmail.com
T
he new foreign secre-
tary, Amina Mohamed,
is assuming oce at a
critical period in our countrys
history.
This means she needs to
shift the focus of her minis-
try from political to economic
diplomacy.
Although there has been
a lot of talk about economic
diplomacy, it has never been
pursued rigorously. All we
have seen so far is mere
empty rhetoric from the For-
eign Aairs ministry and other
government ocials.
Our foreign policy since in-
dependence placed primacy on
the countrys political stand-
ing while marginalising its
economic interests. This is
paradoxical because most
nations start with the premise
that economic power is the
basis for political bargaining
in the world.
Ours is still based on the
rather old-fashioned Dr
Kwame Nkrumahs famous
dictum seek ye rst the po-
litical kingdom and all the rest
will follow.
The new foreign secretarys
top priority should thus be the
promotion of policy that will
propel our economy.
The focus should be to
induce economic growth.
Our countrys foreign policy
thrust must translate into
putting food on the table of
ordinary Kenyans.
Foreign policy must support
the domestic and government
priorities, that is to improve
the living standards of Ken-
yans through creating jobs
and reducing poverty.
Ms Mohamed should ensure
that our diplomacy must fol-
low trade and sources of
foreign direct investment.
If we are to meet Vision
2030 targets, we would need
to attract those with the cash
from other countries to invest
in Kenya. They will get high
returns on their investments,
while we get our infrastructure
developed, jobs created and the
money they pump in circulates
around our economy.
Apart from the cash they
bring, the investments
should serve as a useful
conduit through which skills
and expertise are transferred
from the industrialised world
to ours.
We cannot pursue economic
diplomacy without the help
of our missions abroad. The
missions are our formal links
with the rest of the world and I
cannot think of any other issue
that should be top of their
agenda other than attracting
investments into Kenya.
We have over 50 embassies
and hundreds of diplomats
abroad. It is time they justied
their costs by taking practical
steps to promote the countrys
economic interests abroad.
We need to learn from the
Asian Tigers and appoint
competent diplomats with
the knowledge and skills to
practise the art and science
of economic diplomacy.
A dynamic foreign policy
leaves no room for amateurism
like the posting of incompetent
and tired-looking political re-
jects as envoys.
Economic diplomacy entails
tracking down corporate ex-
ecutives, who will look at the
opportunities our country
offers. In order to identify
such company executives,
foreign service personnel are
enjoined to break out of their
gilded and leisurely diplomatic
cocoon where too much time is
spent chatting with ones fel-
low diplomats at receptions.
The economy has increas-
ingly replaced politics as the
main preoccupation of dip-
lomats everywhere. So our
diplomats should interact
more with host businesses.
Most countries now assess
their diplomats by their suc-
cess in meeting targets for
trade promotion and exports.
They now spend more time
in corporate boardrooms and
chambers of commerce.
We must appoint diplo-
mats who will compete with
many other diplomats from
emerging markets who are
aggressively looking for new
markets and contracts for their
countries abroad.
The effectiveness of an
ambassador or a high com-
missioner as representatives
of the nation should be meas-
ured by the extent to which
his or her mission leads to job
creation, supports the expan-
sion of our infrastructure and
assists in building a stronger
economy.
Those who dont meet such
goals should be recalled.
Of course, the government
neither can nor must usurp
the role of businesses, and
the Ministry of Foreign Af-
fairs is not the only ministry
that should be involved in
economic diplomacy.
But it must make a strong
contribution to achieving
the economic goals set by
President Kenyattas admin-
istration.
In seeking to visualise
Kenya 10 or 20 years from
now, a top priority for Ms
Mohamed should be to for-
mulate and then implement a
foreign policy that contributes
to economic growth.
I have no doubt she will be
up to the task.
The writer is vice-president,
Financial Risk Management,
Riyad Bank, Saudi Arabia.

Foreign aairs
must make
a strong
contribution to
achieving the
economic goals
of President
Kenyatta
The author
NIAMEY
French troops stage raid
after Niger deadly attacks
French special forces and local
troops raided an army base yesterday
in northern Niger, ending a hostage
seizure by Islamist ghters who had
staged twin suicide bombings that
killed at least 20 people. The dawn
raid came after Signatories in Blood, a
jihadist group that claimed Thursdays
blasts, threatened to continue attacking
Niger until the country withdraws its
forces from neighbouring Mali, where
they are part of a French-led military
campaign against Al-Qaeda-linked
Islamists. Two terrorists are said to
have been killed in the raid. (AFP)
BRIEFLY
MOGADISHU
Agency registers 1,345
foreigners in Somali city
Some 1,345 foreigners have been
registered in Mogadishu. The Director
of Immigration and Citizenship, Gen
Abdullahi Gafow Mohamoud, said the
foreigners included diplomats, ocials
with non-governmental agencies and
others who are in the country for busi-
ness. The operation to register the for-
eigners in the city was for the Somali
Government to remain informed on the
people in the country, said Gen Gafow.
On May 9, Cabinet ministers discussed
reports that 924 foreigners were work-
ing in the country illegally. (Abdulkadir
Khalif, Nation Correspondent)
MONROVIA
China pledges to help
maintain calm in Liberia
The Chinese ambassador to Libe-
ria Zhao Jianhua has assured that his
government is committed to ensuring
that the West African country remains
peaceful. He recounted what his gov-
ernment has done to stabilise the
country. China, he said, as a permanent
member of the United Nations Security
Council, has called for and supported
the retention of the peacekeeping
mission until the countrys security is
durable. He said construction of the
$60 million ministerial complex will
continue. (Terrence Sesay, Nation Cor-
respndent)
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Flooring is wood parquet (bedrooms), granite (sitting/dining room& kitchen), & coloured
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Apartment has one car park.
24 hour security.
Common facilities: RENT: KSHS: 150,000/-per month
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Intercom system from the guard house linked to each apartment.
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floor and covers
2004 sq. feet of built up area. All tenants to date were from the United Nations.
It has three bedrooms all en-suite with built in wardrobes.
American style open kitchen, attached store, laundry & expansive sitting cum dining room
Entrance door is multi-lock, fire& bullet proof, pressed metal doors.
Flooring is wood parquet (bedrooms), granite (sitting/dining room& kitchen), & coloured
ceramic tiles (laundry & bathrooms).
Apartment has one car park.
24 hour security.
Common facilities: RENT: KSHS: 150,000/-per month
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Fully equipped Gymnasium with Steam & Sauna facilities.
Intercom system from the guard house linked to each apartment.
Emergency power back up generator
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Apartments is an exclusive block of apartments: Apartment A1 is on the 2
nd
floor and covers
2004 sq. feet of built up area. All tenants to date were from the United Nations.
It has three bedrooms all en-suite with built in wardrobes.
American style open kitchen, attached store, laundry & expansive sitting cum dining room
Entrance door is multi-lock, fire& bullet proof, pressed metal doors.
Flooring is wood parquet (bedrooms), granite (sitting/dining room& kitchen), & coloured
ceramic tiles (laundry & bathrooms).
Apartment has one car park.
24 hour security.
Common facilities: RENT: KSHS: 150,000/-per month
Apartment is served by 2 lifts.
Fully equipped Gymnasium with Steam & Sauna facilities.
Intercom system from the guard house linked to each apartment.
Emergency power back up generator
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American style open kitchen, attached store, laundry & expansive sitting cum dining room
Entrance door is multi-lock, fire& bullet proof, pressed metal doors.
Flooring is wood parquet (bedrooms), granite (sitting/dining room& kitchen), & coloured
ceramic tiles (laundry & bathrooms).
Apartment has one car park.
24 hour security.
Common facilities: RENT: KSHS: 150,000/-per month
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SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
34 | Africa News
Opposition urges Syria to
state stance on peace talks
CONFLICT | Group insists meeting must lead to Assads ouster
PHOTO | AFP
Syrians stage an anti-regime demonstration in Kfar Nubul, northwestern province of Idlib, yesterday.
ISTANBUL, Friday
S
yrias divided opposition
today called on the regime
of President Bashar al-Assad
to bluntly state whether it was in-
terested in peace talks and on what
terms rather than use ally Moscow
as its mouthpiece.
Louay Sa, spokesman for the
Western-backed National Coali-
tion, the main opposition group,
issued the call after Russia said
Damascus had agreed in princi-
ple to attend a peace conference
in Geneva.
We would like to hear that state-
ment from the Assad government,
said Sa, whose group is meeting
in Istanbul to determine whether
to attend the conference.
This has been related to us
through the Russians, I have no
idea why the Syrians are silent.
The peace conference, which ac-
cording to some media reports has
tentatively been scheduled for June
10, is aimed at putting an end to
more than two years of bloodshed
in Syria that has left more than
90,000 people dead.
The conference was jointly
proposed by Russia, a key backer
of Assad, and the United States,
which supports the rebels ghting
to overthrow his regime.
Russian foreign ministry spokes-
man Alexander Lukashevich said
Russia had received the Damascus
governments agreement to take
part in the Geneva conference dur-
ing a visit to Moscow by Syrias
Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal
Muqdad.
We note with satisfaction that
we have received an agreement in
principle from Damascus to attend
the international conference in the
interest of the Syrians themselves
nding a political path to resolve
the conflict, Lukashevich told
reporters.
Russia is seen as the nation ex-
ercising the strongest inuence
over the Syrian regime, thanks
to years of military and other
cooperation that stretches back
to Soviet times.
Moscow has in recent weeks also
been keen to show its diplomatic
inuence in the region by ensur-
ing that Assads representatives
attended a conference agreed
this month by Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov and his
US counterpart John Kerry.
But Lukashevich said reports
of a date having been set for
the conference in Geneva were
premature and cannot be taken
seriously.
Demands to immediately name
a specic date for the conference
without having clarity about who
and with what authority will
speak in the name of the opposi-
tion, cannot be taken seriously,
Lukashevich said.
The Syrian opposition and its
backers, including the United
States, has insisted that any
transition talks must lead to As-
sads ouster.
The Syrian leader, however, has
said he wont leave before elections
are held in his country.
We would like to have guaran-
tees, particularly from the Russian
side, because the Russian leader-
ship has been defending Assad
himself, said Sa.
Khaled Khoja, another member
of the coalition, said that in of-
fering in principle to attend the
Geneva conference, Damascus was
clearly playing with words and
trying to buy time.
He added that unless the rebels
ghting the Assad regime gained
the upper hand on the battle front,
no political solution was in sight.
(AFP)
Assad
regime
asked
to stop
using its
ally Russia
as its
mouthpiece
on planned
conference
Date in June peace confer-
ence has tentatively been
scheduled
10
The number of people who
have been killed in the Syria
violence
90,000
Botswana bans vegetable imports over pest
BY MTOKOZISI DUBE
NATION Correspondent
GABORONE, Friday

Botswana has banned fruit
and vegetable imports follow-
ing an outbreak of the Asian
fruit y in the northern part of
South Africa, the main source
of the produce.
The diamond-rich nation
spends over $23,760,000
per annum importing 34,000
tonnes of fruits and vegeta-
bles to supplement the 41,000
tonnes produced locally.
The restriction is likely to
cause a shortage of fruit and
vegetables in the country.
Botswanas Ministry of
Agriculture this week quar-
antined farms and banned
imports to control the spread
of the pest.
The Asian fruit flies at-
tack and damage fruits and
vegetables.
They can spread from one
area to another through the
movement of infested fruits
or vegetables.
The Ministry of Agricul-
ture spokesperson, Georey
Pheko, said that local produce
would not meet the nations
demand.
During the 2011/2012 fi-
nancial year, local farmers
produced 55 per cent of the
national requirement.
This was an increase from
the 20 per cent produced
in the 2003/2004 financial
year.
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line DAD update for Somalia. Submissions should include evidence
and supporting documentation relating to above selection criteria, and an
illustrative budget for the frst round of data collection/capture. Full SoW
available upon request at: dotieno@ibtci.com.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Under instructions received from the fnancier, we shall sell by Public Auction the under
mentioned motor vehicle.
ON TUESDAY 4
TH
JUNE, 2013 STARTING AT 10.30 A.M OUTSIDE OUR OFFICE
MERU TOWN
REG MAKE/MODEL BODY TYPE LOCATION CONDITION
1 KBS 791D ISUZU FSR LORRY C.M.C MERU WORKING
CONDITIONS OF SALE
1. All intending purchasers are requested to view and verify the details for themselves.
2. Viewing can be done through arrangement with ourselves.
3. Bidders to pay a refundable deposit of Kshs 50,000.00 to obtain a bidding number
prior to the Auction.
4. Cash at the fall of the hammer.
5. Sale is subject to reserve price.
Auctioneers, Repossessors, Debt Collectors and Commission Agents
MERU OFFICE NAIROBI OFFICE
Kingora Building Jiwabhai vekaria Building,
2nd foor, Rm1, Mboa Street Taveta road,1
st
Floor, Rm 102 B
P. o. Box 3131-60200, Meru P.o Box 552-00600 Nairobi
Tel.064- 30154 fax: 064-32839 Tel.0202670605, 0752-219854
Cell: 0722-219854
E-mail: viewlineauctioneers @yahoo.com
Under instruction received from our principals, we shall sell movable properties by public
auction as below-:
ON SATURDAY 8
th
JUNE 2013 AT OUR YARD ALONG MOMBASA ROAD MACHAKOS
JUNCTION NEXT TO SHALOM GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL STARTING AT 10:30 AM:
IN THE MATTER OF REPOSSESION: FINANCIER VS- ANGELA NZULA WANYINGI
One Thicknesser machine, one Cross-Cut Machine, One double deck Bed, one bed, Sash
Clamp 5Ft,Two MDF Panel Door, one Panel Door, One louvers Window, Two Ordinary
MDF Flash Door, Two MDF board, 80pcs Bedside stools, Four Aluminum Rails,4pcs MDF
Wardrobe door, One Staircase stand.
IN THE MATTER OF DISTRESS FOR RENT: LAND LORD VS- SASA KENYA LTD
1. Sharp AR-5132 photocopying machine, 100ltr Skyplast tank ,HP 3845 DeskJet Printer,
HP 2050 DeskJet Printer, 3 Offce Desk, Small Green Safe, 21 Unitron Color TV,4 Pcs
Offce arm Chairs, metal fle cabinet four drawers, 2 complete Computers, Stapler,
Speakers, 2 cash boxes, 2 Pen and pin stand, 2 Casio calculators, 2 wall clocks, IBM
desktop CPU, Power Com UPS, 2 Extension cables, two dust bins, document tray,
Executive offce chair, Blue offce chair, Digitel CPU. One Small Bed Side Board.
IN THE MATTER OF DISTRESS FOR RENT: LAND -VS - BENJAMIN M. MULUNDI
One motor cycle Reg. No. KMCH 714Z in good running condition the body condition is fair
with several dents.
CONDITION OF SALE Cash at the fall of the hammer. ALL ARE WELLCOME
SADIQUE ENTERPRISES AUCTIONEERS
AUCTIONEERS, COURT BROKERS AND DEBT COLLECTORS
NAIROBI OFFICE: AFYA CENTER 10
TH
FLOOR, TOM MBOYA STREET
TEL 020-2327525, 0734-989464, 0722-505018, 0770-141440, FAX: 020-2327525
MACHAKOS OFFICE: ATHI RIVER- MAKADARAAREA NEXT TO EQUITY BANK ATM
MACHAKOS TEL: 0723-757513, 0734-989464, 0770-141440
P.O BOX 36525 - 00200 Nairobi Email: sadiqueauction@yahoo.com
PUBLIC AUCTION PUBLIC AUCTION PUBLIC AUCTION
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
International News 35
BRUSSELS
EU bans pesticides
harmful to bees
The European Commission
yesterday said it will ban for
two years beginning December
pesticides blamed for killing
bees that pollinate food and fruit
crops. The decision to ban the
three insecticides marks another
milestone towards ensuring a
healthier future for bees, EU
health commissioner Tonio Borg
said. The insecticides are imida-
cloprid and clothianidin produced
by Bayer, and thiamethoxam by
Syngenta. Bayer of Germany and
Switzerlands Syngenta, however,
insist that their products are not
to blame for a very sharp decline
in the bee population. (AFP)
This week, a devastating tornado
swept through an Oklahoma City sub-
urb, destroying thousands of homes
and causing untold deaths. But the
damage will ultimately be cleaned
up and the community will nd a
way forward together. That is how
Americans respond to disasters.
Far more damaging and chilling
than a tornado was the action of the
government in two key areas: the in-
tegrity of the press and, separately,
the unrestrained killing of American
citizens on foreign soil.
The Justice Departments actions
against the Associated Press has
weakened the ability of the nations
largest news-gathering consortium to
do its work, and is threatening the
validity of the First Amendment.
Briey, here is what happened: Last
year, on the anniversary of Osama
bin Ladens death, security ocials
stopped a plot to bomb an American
plane on its way back to the US. At the
same time, the Obama administration
told the American public that there
were no credible terrorism threats, a
misstatement of facts.
AP discovered and reported the
story exclusively. Our government
ordered the story be held for secu-
rity reasons. And AP held it for four
days.
On the fifth day, the story was
published after two senior ocials
in separate areas of the government
said the danger had passed.
The story was published one
day before the Obama administra-
tion planned to announce it to the
public.
What happened next is the issue.
The government secretly requested
and received permission to acquire
the phone records of AP.
It collected thousands of call
records made by reporters in New
York and several news bureaus. AP
found out about the incursion only
recently.
According to Gary Pruitt, the presi-
dent and CEO of AP, the impact is
already being felt. Sources are re-
luctant to talk to the press, because
they are afraid the government may
be listening.
Raising questions
The governments message, said
Pruitt, is clear: If you talk to the
press, we will get you.
There is a second issue that is
smouldering. Our attorney-general,
Eric Holder, said that drone strikes
have killed four Americans overseas.
This means that our government is
identifying, judging and sentencing
Americans to death without the
benet of any system of identiable
justice.
The lack of public outrage in Amer-
ica is overwhelming. The Republicans
are whipping up questions about the
death of four Americans in Libya to
wound Hillary Clintons chances at
the presidency in 2016.
Likewise, they are raising questions
about the IRS investigation of con-
servative groups to lift up the spirits
of the Tea Party. Democrats are saying
little, except that Republicans would
be doing these same things or worse
if in power.
To date, there is no national conver-
sation about the assault on the First
Amendment, which guarantees the
freedom of the press, speech, assem-
bly, religion, and assembly. There is
no discussion about the Sixth Amend-
ment, which guarantees a fair, speedy
and public trial.
What, my friends, is America be-
coming?
Letters9876@gmail.com
A cold wind is blowing in the United States
LETTER FROM AMERICA | Randall Smith
ANKARA
Turkey passes law to
restrict alcohol sales
Turkeys parliament yester-
day passed a controversial law
restricting the consumption
and advertising of alcohol in the
predominantly Muslim coun-
try. The law prohibits alcoholic
beverage companies from spon-
soring events and restricts the
places where such drinks can
be consumed. It also bans the
sale of alcoholic drinks between
10pm and 6am. Supporters of
the measure, introduced by the
ruling Justice and Development
Party, which has its roots in
Islam, say the law is seeking to
protect society, particularly chil-
dren, from the harmful eects of
alcohol. (AFP)
Obama defends the use
of drones in just war
WASHINGTON, DC, Friday
P
resident Barack
Obama has defended
the use of drones in
a just war of self-defence
against deadly militants and
a campaign that had made
America safer.
In a wide-ranging speech
on a programme shrouded
in secrecy, he said there
must be near certainty
that no civilians would die
in such strikes.
In a renewed push to
shut Guantanamo Bay in
Cuba, he said he had lifted
a moratorium on prisoner
transfers to Yemen.
Obama also defended the
use of drones to kill four US
citizens.
Self-defence
We are at war with an
organisation that right now
would kill as many Ameri-
cans as they could if we did
not stop them rst, he said
in Thursdays address at the
National Defence University
in Washington DC.
So this is a just war a
war waged proportionally,
in last resort, and in self-
defence.
He added: And yet as
our fight enters a new
phase, Americas legitimate
claim of self-defence cannot
be the end of the discus-
sion. To say a military tactic
is legal, or even eective, is
not to say it is wise or moral
in every instance.
Declaring America at a
crossroads in its eorts
to combat militancy, Obama
also said his administration
would be willing to accept
increased oversight of
drone strikes outside war
zones like Afghanistan.
Human rights groups
have long condemned the
use of unmanned drones to
carry out killings.
Mr Obama warned that
a perpetual US war on
terror, whether through
drone strikes, special
forces operations or troop
deployments, would be
self-defeating.
As the president ad-
dressed efforts to close
the detention centre at the
US base in Guantanamo
Bay, he was interrupted by
a protester shouting about
the current hunger strike at
the prison.
Im willing to cut the
young lady who interrupted
me some slack because its
worth being passionate
about, he said.
Obama told his audience:
Guantanamo has become
a symbol around the world
for an America that outs
the rule of law.
Shutting prison
The president had made
shutting the prison a top
priority at the beginning of
his rst term, but his eort
foundered amid strong op-
position in Congress.
Calling on Congress not
to block his eorts to trans-
fer the facilitys inmates to
American high-security
jails, he added: No person
has ever escaped from one
of our super-max or mili-
tary prisons in the United
States.
Obama said he was ap-
pointing envoys from the
defence and state depart-
ments to negotiate transfer
of detainees to other coun-
tries, adding that he would
lift a moratorium on trans-
fers to Yemen.
However, Republican
Senator Saxby Chambliss
told reporters that Obama
was wrong to lift the Yemen
moratorium. (BBC)
Four US citizens killed
in strikes since 2009.
Bureau of Investiga-
tive Journalism has re-
corded 368 drone strikes
in Pakistan since 2004,
46-56 conrmed strikes
in Yemen since 2002.
Vast majority of at-
tacks under Barack
Obama
BACKGROUND
Strikes by
America
Human rights
groups have long
condemned use
of unmanned
aircraft to carry
out killings
PHOTO| AFP
President Barack Obama
speaks at the National De-
fence University in Washing-
ton, DC, on Thursday.
ATTACKS | This is a just war, says American president
Russias Far
East hit by
earthquake
MOSCOW, Friday
A massive undersea earth-
quake today in Russias Far East
prompted a tsunami warning and
was felt in cities including Moscow
far to the west, but there were no
immediate reports of casualties.
The USGS estimated the quake
at 8.2 magnitude and placed its
epicentre in the Sea of Okhotsk
o the shore of the Kamchatka
Peninsula at a depth of more than
600 kilometres.
Russia rapidly issued a tsunami
warning for Sakhalin island and
its region, urging residents to seek
higher ground. But the warning
was then lifted with no reports of
casualties.
The huge magnitude and great
depth of the quake meant that its
echoes were felt across the Eura-
sian continent, including in the
Russian capital itself.
There were repercussions of
the quake in Nizhny Novgorod,
Moscow and Europe, in particu-
lar Romania. Practically the whole
continent shook, Anatoly Tsyg-
ankov of the state Rosgidromet
environmental monitoring service
told the Interfax news agency.
Chandeliers shaking
According to the RIA Novosti
news agency, the earthquake was
also felt across Russias Far East
and Siberia, including big cities
like Krasnoyarsk and Blagovesh-
chensk.
The emergencies ministry in
Moscow, which is eight time zones
away from the region hit by the
quake, said it had received reports
early in the morning today of phe-
nomena like chandeliers shaking
and turbulence in aquarium water
as a result of the quake.
Moscow is part of the zone
where possible repercussions from
earthquakes can be felt. Its not
dangerous but important, for ex-
ample, for standard construction,
Arkady Tishkov of the Geography
Institute at the Russian Academy
of Sciences told Interfax. (AFP)
BRIEFLY
LONDON
British Airways plane
in emergency landing
A British Airways plane made
an emergency landing at Lon-
dons Heathrow airport yesterday
after a technical fault, forcing
ocials to close both runways.
Emergency slides were used
to evacuate the planes 75 pas-
sengers while amateur footage
shot near the ight path showed
smoke spewing from the Airbus
A319s right engine shortly after
takeo. The northern runway at
Heathrow one of the worlds
busiest airports remained
closed following the incident at
around 9am, a Heathrow spokes-
woman said, but the southern
runway was later reopened. (AFP)
BANGKOK
Five rangers killed in
Thailand bomb blast
Five paramilitary rangers were
killed and one other wounded
in an ambush when suspected
rebels detonated a bomb buried
on a road in Thailands insur-
gency-plagued south, local police
said yesterday. The mid-morning
attack was a reminder that rebels
in the Muslim-majority deep
south have yet to curb violence
against Thai security forces or
civilians despite ongoing peace
talks in neighbouring Malaysia.
Police said the rangers were trav-
elling in a pick-up truck to meet
Muslim community leaders in the
Saiburi district of Pattani. (AFP)
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
36 | International News
BUSINESS
AMAZON EXPANDS KINDLE
SALE TO 170 NATIONS
Online retail titan steps up oensive
against rivals Apple and Google in the
market for tablets and apps. Page 39
Rise in sales
drive Sasini
prot up by
6.3 per cent
BY NATION CORRESPONDENT
Increased production and sales
of coee and tea led to a 6.3 per
cent rise in Sasinis net earnings
in the half year period ending
March this year.
The agricultural companys
profit after tax rose to Sh170
million in the half year period
that ended on March 31 com-
pared to Sh160 million recorded
in a similar period last year with
the management attributing the
performance to good rainfall and
increased sales and volumes of its
products coee and tea.
This was largely as a result
of higher production and sales
volume for tea and coee and
also improved tea prices in the
period under review, the rms
management said, but added that
lower coee prices and a stronger
Kenyan shilling against the dollar
negatively impacted the overall
earnings. The companys total
revenues climbed by 7.4 per
cent to Sh1.47 billion compared
to Sh1.37 billion recorded in the
same period last year.
While tea have improved, cof-
fee prices at the auction have been
declining since the peak in 2010
mainly as a result of a stronger
Kenya shilling, Standard Invest-
ment Bank analysts said in a note
to investors.
The company also experienced
high costs of production in rela-
tion to labour, electricity and
agricultural inputs, which further
ate into the prot margins.
In particular, frequent power
outages, which were as high as 12
per cent, have necessitated the
increased use of expensive diesel
generators, the management said
in its earnings statement.
This was largely as a result
of higher production and
sales volume for tea and
coee and also improved
tea prices in the period
under review
Sasini company statement
Sh170m
Sasinis prot after tax in
the half year period ending
March 31 this year up from
Sh160 million recorded in a
similar period last year
BY JOHN NJIRU
jnjiru@ke.nationmedia.com
Y
ou would want to know
where the money is if you
are making a career move.
The most rewarding job in terms
of wages and salaries in Kenya
for the last ve years has been in
the Non-Governmental Organi-
sations, a survey has said.
According to the Economic
Survey 2013 conducted by
Kenya National Bureau of Sta-
tistics, an average monthly salary
for an employee in NGOs was
Sh194,000 last year, the highest
amount in both the private and
public sector.
This is despite the fact that
the remuneration has been re-
ducing over the last ve years,
where an employee used to
take home Sh202,000 in 2008
on average.
A career in the insurance
industry is the second-most
rewarding after NGO, followed
by banks, saccos and other -
nancial services organisations.
These careers include actuaries,
accountants, cashiers, tellers or
nancial managers.
The nancial sector in both
private and the public sector
rewarded its employees with
average monthly salaries of
Sh100,000.
Other careers in the private
sector with tidy returns include
electronic engineering, cargo
handling and logistics, lectur-
ers, scientists, ICT and human
resource (HR) management.
According to the study, engi-
neers are taking home Sh80,000
per month on average, lectur-
ers and scientists (Sh59,000),
technologists (Sh55,000) while
human resource personnel make
Sh47,000.
Other surprising entrants in
the lucrative returns brackets
are those working in the en-
tertainment industry, events
organising, and mechanics in
garages who made between
Sh38,000 and Sh47,000 per
month on average.
There is a new wave in the
country; that of entertainment
and ICT. It is now the fad driven
mainly by the increasing mid-
dle-class population, notes the
University of Nairobi economics
lecturer Joy Kiiru.
For anyone seeking to build a
career as a civil servant, a stint
at the Treasury, parastatal bodies
or in one of the numerous com-
missions available in the country
is recommendable.
The head of these com-
missions, accountants and
administrators are the most
remunerated government
employees with Sh100,000
monthly take home. Doctors,
army officers and surpris-
ingly caretakers are also in
the category of better-earning
public service employees.
Doctors, engineers and archi-
tects take years of education in
colleges and are named as the
top choices for students join-
ing universities. However, this
is no longer the case according
to the survey. Data compiled over
the last ve years shows that a
supermarket owner or a retailer
and an artist earned almost the
same salary as a doctor.
Generally, total monthly
wage earnings in the country
per employee went up by 4.7
per cent to Sh36,000 last year.
An estimated 660,000 new jobs
were created last year, majority
of which were in agricultural,
manufacturing, education and
security sectors.
In the private sector, agri-
culture and forestry absorbed
296,000 workers, wholesale
and retail (171,000), education
(107,000) and manufacturing
(249,000).
Increasing activities in
the real estate and property
market saw 11 per cent surge
in job openings with employ-
ment of 99,000 Kenyans.
In the public sector, employment
was highly manifest in the ICT
which registered 18.2 percentage
growth. This can be explained by
the governments zeal in pushing
for technology-driven develop-
ment in the country.
The education sector em-
ployed 285,000 people while
174,000 hired in public admin-
istration and defence. There were
a total of 12 million registered
employees in Kenya last year
with the informal sector, com-
monly referred as Jua Kali ,
contributing 90 per cent.
According to Dr Kiiru the
education system in the country
should focus more on training
job creators rather than employ-
ment seekers.
There is a problem with the
education system in Kenya. It
is called the diploma disease.
This is when the economy is
nearly driven by desire to accu-
mulate more and more papers,
she says.
The nominal wage bill during
the period under review was
Sh930 million. This poses a
major headache to the taxman
because of the inability to rope
in the informal sector in the tax
bracket.
However, due to ination and
slow growth, the average wage
increase was eroded due to rise
in cost of living.
NGOs, insurance lead the pack as
best-paying employers, says report
FILE | NATION
A study, Economic Survey 2013, shows that mechanics in garages made an everage of Sh38,000 and
Sh48,000 per month.
Economic Survey 2013 shows
that last year the average salary
for an employee in an NGO was
Sh194,000, the highest in both the
public and the private sector
SURVEY | Entertainment industry, events organising and mechanics also make lucrative returns
There is a
new wave in
the country;
that of
entertain-
ment and
ICT. It is
now the
fad driven
mainly by the
increasing
middle-class
population
The University
of Nairobi
economics
lecturer Joy
Kiiru
TO COMMENT ON THESE
AND OTHER STORIES GO TO
www.nation.co.ke
Job 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Financial and insurance activities Sh1.2m Sh1.17m Sh1.11m Sh1.05m Sh1.11m
Garages/ supermarkets Sh1.05m Sh935k Sh816k Sh723k Sh641k
Logistics and Cargo handling Sh956k Sh888k Sh802k Sh753k Sh761k
Electronic engineer Sh950k Sh925k Sh890k Sh873k Sh841k
Care-takers Sh696k Sh618k Sh540k Sh479k Sh428k
ICT Sh677k Sh641k Sh597k Sh563k Sh535k
Doctors Sh667k Sh614k Sh560k Sh513k Sh478k
NGOs Sh2.33m Sh2.34m Sh2.36m Sh2.39m
Sh2.42m
Human Resource/ administration/
army
Sh546k Sh508k Sh466k Sh432k Sh404k
Entertainment 515k 495k 466k 447k 431k
Average employment wages in select sectors according to survey
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
37
NAIROBI SECURITIES EXCHANGE
Last 12 Mths Security Prices
High Low Yesterday Prev Shares
deal traded
Agricultural
57.00 22.00 Eaagads Ord 1.25 28.00
89.00 67.50 Kakuzi Ord.5.00 86.00
148.00 111.00 Kapchorua Tea Co. Ord 5.00 127.00 130.00 500
500.00 400.00 Limuru Tea Co. Ord 20.00 470.00
23.50 14.50 Rea Vipingo Plantations Ord 5.00 21.50 22.25 3,300
13.90 10.00 Sasini Ltd Ord 1.00 14.00 13.95 3.600
315.00 180.00 Williamson Tea Kenya Ord 5.00 240.00
Automobiles & Accessories
29.00 21.00 Car & General (K) Ord 5.00 26.00
- - CMC Holdings Ord 0.50 13.50
14.20 12.00 Marshalls (E.A.) Ord 5.00 12.30
5.95 3.40 Sameer Africa Ord 5.00 5.30 5.30 42,800
Banking
18.50 10.70 Barclays Bank Ord 0.50 18.20 17.90 1,823,700
67.00 34.50 CFC Stanbic of Kenya Holdings Ord.5.00 63.00 63.50 18,300
165.00 86.00 Diamond Trust Bank Ord 4.00 173.00 169.00 30,300
36.50 19.50 Equity Bank Ord 0.50 35.00 35.00 344,600
26.50 13.00 Housing Finance Co Ord 5.00 25.25 25.00 165,400
44.00 20.25 KCB Ord 1.00 41.75 42.00 928,700
24.25 16.00 NBK Ord 5.00 21.00 20.50 44,600
58.00 25.00 NIC Bank Ord 5.00 55.00 55.00 37,400
320.00 160.00 StandardChartered Ord 5.00 301.00 299.00 4,400
18.00 10.15 Co-op Bank of Kenya Ord 1.00 16.95 16.90 2,559,400
Commercial & Services
4.50 3.00 Express Ord 5.00 3.95 4.00 5,400
- - Hutchings Biemer Ord 5.00 20.25
19.00 10.25 Kenya Airways Ord 5.00 11.25 11.30 97,400
21.00 8.50 Longhorn Kenya Ord 1.00 9.00 9.00 5,3300
400.00 145.00 Nation Media Group Ord. 2.50 312.00 307.00 9,800
75.50 40.00 ScanGroup Ord. 1.00 66.50 66.50 267,900
38.00 20.00 Standard Group Ord 5.00 30.25 30.00 1,500
61.00 36.00 TPS EA (Serena) Ord 1.00 52.00 52.00 1,500
24.00 9.00 Uchumi Supermarket Ord 5.00 19.90 19.85 1,432,000
Construction & Allied
74.00 48.75 ARM Cement Ord 1.00 69.00 69.00 1,300
225.00 143.00 BamburiCement Ord 5.00 208.00 205.00 29,200
58.00 24.00 Crown Paints Kenya Ord 5.00 56.00 56.50 1,500
17.50 9.55 E.A.Cables Ord 0.50 15.05 14.35 5,500
65.00 32.00 E.A.Portland Cement Ord 5.00 56.00 56.50 400

Energy & Petroleum
16.05 7.05 KenGen Ord 2.50 15.15 14.95 385,100
16.95 9.00 KenolKobil Ltd Ord 0.05 10.35 10.05 136,300
20.75 14.00 KP&LC Ord 2.50 17.30 17.55 123,200
18.00 12.65 Total Kenya Ord 5.00 17.05 16.60 35,100
Umeme Ltd Ord 0.50 11.95 -
Insurance
9.60 3.80 British American Investments Co.0.10 8.35 8.15 147,000
7.00 3.05 CIC Insurance Group Ord.1.00 5.25 5.30 254,400
280.00 150.00 Jubilee Holdings Ord 5.00 264.00 260.00 27,400
18.50 7.15 Kenya Re Corporation Ord 2.50 17.10 17.10 226,200
14.05 6.30 Liberty Kenya Holdings Ord 1.00 12.45 12.35 36,600
67.00 18.00 Pan Africa Insurance Ord 5.00 59.00 57.00 100

Investment
23.50 11.05 CentumInvestment Co Ord 0.50 21.75 21.75 145,800
500.00 220.00 City Trust Ord 5.00 448.00
6.00 3.05 Olympia Capital Holdings Ord 5.00 5.20 4.95 1,800
37.75 20.00 Trans-Century Ord 0.50 32.50 34.00 100
Manufacturing & Allied
- A.Baumann & Co. Ord 5.00 11.10
115.00 90.00 B.O.C Kenya Ord 5.00 111.00 111.00 1,000
565.00 280.00 BAT Kenya Ltd Ord 10.00 550.00 543.00 9,700
150.00 88.00 Carbacid Investments Ord 5.00 140.00
426.00 180.00 East African Breweries Ord 2.00 388.00 408.00 30,100
3.70 1.35 Eveready EA Ord 1.00 2.70 2.80 4,100
- - Kenya Orchards Ord 5.00 3.00
7.35 4.00 Mumias Sugar Co. Ord 2.00 4.40 4.40 876,800
16.50 8.60 Unga Group Ord 5.00 15.65 15.65 14,300
Telecommunication & Technology
11.00 3.75 AccessKenya Group Ord 1.00 9.55
7.55 3.05 SafaricomLtd Ord. 0.05 7.00 7.05 5,192,600
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ABC buy 109.46 83.75 129.83 82.82 89.15 1.55 85.87 9.33
sell 109.75 83.95 130.16 83.06 89.65 1.55 86.16 9.40
Barclays buy 108.10 84.20 126.58 81.10 86.03 1.52 81.85 8.77
sell 108.91 84.70 127.50 81.74 86.72 1.53 82.50 8.84
Co-op buy 108.89 84.25 127.20 81.64 87.14 1.51 83.10 8.66
sell 109.17 84.45 127.52 81.84 87..40 1.51 83.24 8.94
Equity buy 108.62 84.20 126.90 81.45 87.08 1.52 82.90 8.75
sell 108.90 84.40 127.20 81.65 87.20 1.52 83.10 8.90
NBK buy 108.89 84.25 127.19 81.61 87.07 1.51 83.11 8.80
sell 109..02 84.35 127.32 81.75 87.26 1.51 83.22 8.85
KCB buy 108.70 84.20 126.80 81.40 87.20 1.51 82.90 8.70
sell 109.20 84.40 127.50 81.80 87.60 1.52 83.35 9.00
CBA buy 108.75 84.25 127.16 80.65 87.21 1.51 82.80 8.77
sell 109.57 84.45 127.58 81.75 87.53 1.55 83.10 8.89
CFC Stanbic buy 108.79 84.05 126.97 81.46 86.91 1.51 83.00 8.82
sell 109.06 84.25 127.27 81.62 87.12 1.52 83.00 8.92
GulfAfrican buy 108.38 84.35 126.92 81.32 86.40 1.50 82.44 8.79
sell 108.66 84.55 127.25 81.55 86.63 1.51 82.67 8.81
FCB buy 109.50 83.80 128.45 81.55 90.00 1.55 84.35 9.15
sell 109.80 84.00 128.80 81.80 90.25 1.60 84.55 9.20
Prime buy 109.10 84.20 127.40 81.60 87.70 1.51 83.40 8.80
sell 109.60 84.70 127.90 82.10 88.20 1.52 83.90 9.30
CBK RATES
Mean Buy Sell
1 US Dollar 84.3700 84.2756 84.4644
1 Sterling Pound 127.3450 127.1973 127.4931
1 Euro 109.0370 108.8953 109.1783
1 South African Rand 8.8249 8.8389 8.8249
Ksh/Ush 30.7930 30.6993 30.8868
1 Ksh/Tsh 19.2960 19.2152 19.3769
1 Ksh/Rwanda Franc 7.7042 7.6363 7.7721
1 Ksh/Burundi Franc 18.6800 18.3628 18.9972
1 UAE Dirham 22.9703 22.9440 22.9967
1 Canadian Dollar 81.6740 81.5697 81.7783
1 Swiss Franc 87.1495 87.0322 87.2668
100 Japanese Yen 82.9673 82.8722 83.0624
1 Swedish Kroner 12.6923 12.6761 12.7085
1 Norwegian Kroner 14.4775 14.4590 14.4960
1 Danish Kroner 14.6326 14.6124 14.6528
1 Indian Rupee 1.5160 1.5145 1.5176
1 Hong Kong Dollar 10.8820 10.8696 10.8944
1 Singapore Dollar 66.6640 66.5841 66.7439
1 Saudi Riyal 22.4975 22.4717 22.5233
1 Chinese Yuan 13.7653 13.7494 13.7811
1 Australian Dollar 81.6913 81.5787 81.8038
UNIT TRUSTS
Money Market Funds Daily Yield Eective Annual Rate
African Alliance Kenya Shilling Fund Kenya Shilling 7.47% 7.73%
Old Mutual Money Market Fund Kenya Shilling 7.64% 7.92%
British-American Money Market Fund Kenya Shilling 9.03% 9.47%
Stanbic Money Market Fund Kenya Shilling 7.44% 7.70%
CBA Market Fund Kenya Shilling 7.58% 7.88%
CIC Money Market Fund Kenya Shilling 8.75% 9.11%
Amana Money Market Fund Kenya Shilling 10.38% 10.58%
Zimele Money Market Fund Kenya Shilling 9.0% 9.31%
ICEA Money Market Fund Kenya Shilling 7.82% 8.14%
Madison Asset Money Market Fund Kenya Shilling 8.99% 9.37%
African Alliance Fixed Income Fund Kenya Shilling 11.35 10.98
CIC Fixed Income Fund Kenya Shilling 9.84 10.09
Stanbic Fixed Income Fund B1 Kenya Shilling 101.92 101.92
Stanbic Fixed Income Fund A Kenya Shilling 100.42 100.42
Standard Investment Income Fund Kenya Shilling 96.37 96.92
Standard Investment Equity Growth Fund Kenya Shilling 78.97 79.51
African Alliance Kenya Equity Fund Kenya Shilling 177.07 166.29
ICEA Equity Fund Kenya Shilling 122.29 128.72
British-American Equity Fund Kenya Shilling 180.15 185.87
CBA Equity Fund Kenya Shilling 157.44 165.73
CIC Equity Fund Kenya Shilling 13.20 13.89
Dyer and Blair Equity Fund Kenya Shilling 172.20 181.26
Old Mutual Equity Fund Kenya Shilling 370.74 393.36
Stanbic Equity Fund Kenya Shilling 146.81 154.95
Madison Asset Equity Fund Kenya Shilling 56.30 59.26
African Alliance Managed Fund Kenya Shilling 20.74 19.53
British-American Managed Retirement Fund Kenya Shilling 126.20 127.27
Amana Growth Fund Kenya Shilling 95.98 95.98
ICEA Growth Fund Kenya Shilling 124.76 131.32
Amana Balanced Fund Kenya Shilling 94.87 94.87
British-American Balanced Fund Kenya Shilling 182.57 187.91
CIC Balanced Fund Kenya Shilling 12.50 13.09
Old Mutual Balanced Fund/Toboa Kenya Shilling 154.18 162.72
Madison Asset Balanced Fund Kenya Shilling 69.11 72.37
Zimele Balanced Fund Kenya Shilling 4.53 4.67
CFC Simba Fund Kenya Shilling 122.26 128.69
Old Mutual East Africa Fund Kenya Shilling 149.36 156.81
British American Bond Plus Fund Kenya Shilling 150.09 153.15
Dyer and Blair Bond Fund Kenya Shilling 124.48 127.03
ICEA Bond Fund Kenya Shilling 96.01 96.98
Old Mutual Bond Fund Kenya Shilling 102.07 104.15
ARAB CURRENCY/$
Algerian Dinar 78.73
Bahrani Dinar 0.37698
Djibouti Franc 174.70
Egyptian Pound 6.7727
Jordanian Dinar 0.7068
Kuwait Dinar 0.28431
Lebanese Pound 1500
Libyan Dinar 1.2787
Omani Riyal 0.3850
Qatar Riyal 3.6401
Saudi Riyal 3.7501
Syrian Pound 70.72
Yemeni Riyal 214.2
UAE Dirham 3.6729
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BY JOSHUA MASINDE
jmasinde@ke.nationmedia.com
T
he manufacturing industry received
a beating from the high cost of credit
and sti competition from imports
to register a year-on-year decline in growth
last year.
Increased cost of production also hurt
the sector which accounts for 10 per cent
of the countrys gross domestic product
and employs 13 per cent of the labour force
in the formal sector.
According to this years economic survey
report released on Thursday by the Kenya
National Bureau of Statistics, growth in
the sector declined to 3.1 per cent in 2012
from 3.4 per cent recorded in 2011. Sluggish
growth in the food industry mainly attrib-
uted to reduced milk and tea production
owing to poor weather conditions earlier
in the year pulled down the overall gains
in the sector.
Manufacturing activities were nega-
tively aected by high production costs,
uncertainties relating to the General Elec-
tion, the high cost of credit, and strong
competition from imported goods, the
report said.
Analysts say the government needs to
x the ineciencies at the oil renery in
Mombasa, in the electricity supply sys-
tems as well as explore cheaper energy
sources if the sector is to record signicant
growth.
The cost of energy in the country is very
high. This is worsened by an inecient
renery, inecient petroleum pipeline
and the erratic power supply, which have
shot up production costs, economic ana-
lyst Robert Shaw told Saturday Nation on
phone.
Ineciencies at the renery have been
worsened by the approximately Sh102 bil-
lion funding dilemma required to overhaul
the facility to streamline fuel supply.
Kenya also over relies on expensive
and at times, unreliable energy sources
like diesel and hydroelectric power. The
high cost of energy is a big fault line in
the economy that needs to be addressed
urgently. We are over reliant on imported
fuel in powering our production systems
instead of focusing on cheaper energy op-
tions like geothermal and wind energy,
Mr Shaw said.
Players in the manufacturing sector have
on several occasions blamed Kenya Power,
the countrys sole electricity distributor,
for ineciencies in energy supply.
The manufacturing industry which
consumes about 60 per cent of the total
energy in the country, has previously pro-
tested attempts by Kenya Power to raise
electricity taris, saying the plan would
make the sector uncompetitive.
Costly credit, electricity
see sector decline by 3pc
FILE | NATION
Ineciencies at the Kenya Petroleum Reneries Ltd in Mombasa have contributed to the
high cost of manufacturing goods in the country.
FINDINGS | Poor weather conditions aected milk and tea production last year contributing to muted activity in the industry
The cost of
energy in
the country
is very high.
This is
worsened by
an inecient
renery
Economic
analyst Robert
Shaw
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
38 | Business
REACH | Up to now, the gadget had been selling in US, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Japan
Amazon to sell Kindle in 170 nations
NEW YORK, Friday
O
nline retail titan Ama-
zon has announced it
is expanding sales of its
Kindle tablet computers to over
170 countries and territories
around the world, and its App-
store in nearly 200 nations.
The move steps up the oen-
sive of Amazon against rivals like
Apple and Google in the market
for tablets and content sold for
the devices.
Kindle Fire HD is the number
one best-selling item in the world
for Amazon since its launch, and
were thrilled to make it available
to even more customers around
the globe today, Amazon Kindle
vice-president Dave Limp said.
Not only does Kindle Fire
feature advanced hardware, its
also a service. When combined
with our content ecosystem,
great email and browsing and
top-rated customer service, we
hope people around the world
will agree that Kindle Fire HD
is the best tablet for an incred-
ible price.
Amazon said Kindle Fire,
which starts in the US market at
$159 (Sh13,409), will start ship-
ping to the additional countries
by June 13. It has been sold out-
side the US in Germany, France,
Italy, Spain, Japan and UK.
The company said its Amazon
Appstore is now available to
millions of customers in nearly
200 countries, oering games,
books, and other content.
Amazon sells apps for Kindle,
but also for PCs and other An-
droid phones and devices.
We think our customers will
love the app selection we have
to oer and also nd features
such as Free App of the Day and
personalised recommendations
very helpful as they discover and
explore new apps and games,
Amazons Mike George said.
Online content
By further expanding the
distribution of apps to millions
of customers around the world,
we are continuing to make it
easy for customers to enjoy their
Amazon apps on Kindle Fire and
any Android device.
The Appstore was launched in
2011 and prior to Thursday was
only in Britain, Germany, France,
Italy, Spain, China, Japan and the
United States.
Amazon is competing with the
likes of Apple and Google in the
market for tablets and also online
content and apps. Some reports
say Amazon is developing its
own smartphone as well.
The Seattle-based company
has not released sales gures,
but research rm IDC says that
Amazon is the fourth leading
seller of tablets despite limited
distribution, with 1.8 million
units sold in the rst quarter.
(AFP)
Retail giant steps
up oensive against
rivals Apple and
Google in the market
for tablets and apps
Amazon CEO Je
Bezos introduces
the new Kindle
Fire HD Family
during the
Amazon press
conference in
this September
6, 2012 le photo
in Santa Monica,
California.
Amazon is likely using Kindle
to globally expand its power
as an online retailer, according
to Silicon Valley analyst Rob
Enderle.
The Kindle is a window into
Amazon, he said. It is about
much more than eBooks,
music and movies; once you
are there Amazon wants to sell
you televisions, refrigerators,
stereos and more.
Even when sold at a loss,
Kindle tablets power a prot-
able ecosystem for Amazon
with sales of digital media
boasting attractive margins ,
Morgan Stanley said in a note.
ANALYSIS
Firm using Kindle
to market goods
JOE KLAMAR | AFP
US trade panel
rejects Motorola
patent protest
SAN FRANCISCO, Friday
The US International Trade
Commission sided with Microsoft
on Thursday in a patent dispute
with Google-owned Motorola Mo-
bility that could have gotten Xbox
360 videogame consoles banned
from import.
The investigation is terminated,
the ITC said in a notice announcing
it was rejecting a Motorola Mobil-
ity patent complaint dating back to
late 2010.
Motorola Mobility had argued
that Xbox 360 consoles infringed
on patent technology for wirelessly
transmitting data.
Ban on importing
If the ITC had sided with Mo-
torola Mobility, which was acquired
by Google in a $12.5 billion deal in
2012, it could have resulted in a ban
on importing Xbox 360 consoles,
which are manufactured in China.
This is a win for Xbox customers
and conrms our view that Google
had no grounds to block our prod-
ucts, said Microsoft.
Motorola Mobility countered that
it was disappointed with the ITC
decision and would explore its op-
tions.
Xbox consoles are at the heart
of Microsofts push to lay claim
to Internet Age living rooms. On
Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled a new-
generation Xbox One console touted
as a home entertainment hub that
goes far beyond games. (AFP)
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
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SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
40 | Classieds
Its three years since youve been gone, but in our
hearts you still live on.
Our family chain is broken and nothing is the same.
We as a family miss you and we nd time long
since you went.We mention your name and speak
of you often. We think of you daily, hourly, all the
time; but try to be brave and content.Tears that we
shed are in silence and we breathe a sigh of regret.
For you were ours and we remember, though all
the world forget.You still live on in the hearts and
minds of the loving family you left behind.You will
never be forgotten. Fondly remembered by family
and friends
Blessed is the man who does not walk in
the counsel of the wicked...he is like a tree
planted by streams of water, which yields
its fruit in season and whose leaf does not
wither, whatever he does prospers
(Psalms 1:1-3)
Dominic
Kipchirchir
Ngeno
In Loving Memory
We regret to announce the death of John
Njuguna Kaguai which occurred at Tenwek
Mission Hospital on 18th May 2013, after
long illness. Husband of late Eunice Wairimu,
Father to late Kaguai, Wanjiku (farmer) Njambi
(Farmer-Njoro), Gitimu (Branch Manager-KFA
Nyahururu), late Muhiki, Wambui (farmer),
late Ngenda, Nguru (Driver) Kaguai (HT -
Grassland), Njoroge (C.I.P- Prison Kwale) Nyoro
& Kamau Teacher St Yermo Sec. Subukia. Son
of the Late Kaguai wa Njoroge and late Wanjiku
Kaguai. Brother of late Njoroge, late Muhiki, late
Kamau, Kariuki (Isibania), late Njeri, Waweru,
Gathoni, late Mukami. Grandfather to many.
The cortege leaves Tenwek Mission Hospital
mortuary on 24th May 2013 and burial to take
place on 25th May 2013 in Kipkelion.
May God rest his soul in peace.
John Njuguna
Kaguai
Death and Funeral Announcement
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce
the death of our beloved mama Rebecca kwamboka
Nyakundi Of Kegati (Kayati) which occurred in Minnesota
in U.S.A. Daughter of the late Gilbert Obwocha and Miriam
Nyagoti. Wife of Late Mzee Nyakundi Ogwankwa. Co-wife
of Kerubo, Nyaunga, Nyabeta, Sibia and Anna. Mother of
late Samuel, Josephine, Florence, Beatrice (Kisii Level 5),
Stella (U.S.A), Divinah (Birongo Pri.), Ombogo (Milina
Transporters). Sister of the late Loice, Anne, Nyaboke,
Ombogo, Nyarangi, Hellen, Anyona, Nyamweya, Kemba,
Manase, Nyabaro and Moogi. Sister in-law of Elizabeth,
Robina, Joyce among others. In-law of Motari, Ombati,
Ombwori among others. Cousin of Yunuke, Kamanda, Juma,
Machogu, Ombati, Samson, Kepha, Getanda, Nyabwari among
others. Mother in law of late Magara, Nyagaka (Amabuko
Sec.), Wilfred (Nyangeni Pri.), Shem (USA), Ruth, Janet and
Mila. Auntie of Laban, Nyagaka, Openda, Stella (Taracha Pri.),
Ombogos, Nyabokes, Momanyi among others. Step mother
of Kimori, Magetos (Canada), Gwaro (Kodak Kisii), Kengaya,
Milkah and Obonyos. Korera to Late Gideon, Nyangito, Ogao,
Makere, Masinde and Mwebi. Grandmother of Hesbon,
Ngina, Damaris, Zedekiah, Nyabokes, Nyagoti, Bosire, Elijah,
Brian, Gideon, Ivyette, Nyakundi, Breddy-Brittney and Sammy
(USA), Lucy, Ruth, Hellen among others. Family, relatives and
friends are meeting daily at her home Kayati kegati for
prayers and funeral arrangements. The cortege leaves Lee funeral home - Nairobi on Friday 24/05/2013. She
will be laid to rest on Sunday 26th / 05 / 2013 at her home Kayati, Kegati Sub-Location Kisii County.
Rebecca Kwamboka
Nyakundi
1942-09/05/2013
Cerebration of a life well lived
We announce the passing on to glory of John
Ngugi Ngumi on 21st May 2013 at K.N.H.
Beloved husband of the late lydiah Njoki
Ngugi and Susan Waithera Ngugi. Father of
Peterdon Ngumi and Joel Ngumi. Son in law of
Mr. & Mrs. Dominic and Jane Kimani. Brother-
in-law of Wangondu Gachimo. Brother of
Manasseh Ngumi (J.K.I.A) Daniel Mwaniki
(Schindler), Mary Wanjiru, Rachel Ngumi,
Salome Bidan, Anne Peter (Madison) and
Esther Shem. Nephew of Mr. Peter Gichoho
(Nyeri) and James Kamau (Narok). Uncle to
Ruth Ngumi (Daystar University) and others.
A close friend to Bal. Belay and family from
Eritrea. Cousin to many. Family and friends are
meeting daily at Abbey Hotel, his residence at
Thika, and at Muiri-ini from 6.00pm.
The cortege leaves Githumu Mortuary on Tuesday 28th May 2013 for prayers and
burial at his farm in Muiri-ini Village, Mungaria location Kandara Muranga County.
The pain of our loss shows what you have given to us.You are beautiful
and we loved you more dearly than the spoken word can tell.To live in
the hearts you left behind is not to die.
John Ngugi
Ngumi
Death and Funeral Announcement
UTAWALA 4br Touch/Bypass very
dev Com/res. Owner 0711765338
B789 Properties to Let
1&2 bed flat Kidfarmaco 0720410030
1&2BR, SHOPS, DSTV, TIED,
WARDROBES, @ pipeline stage opp.
Total petr stn.12-25k 0737014784
2 bed Lower Kabete @21k 0720410030
2BR exec Ruaka 30k CCTV DSTV
master ensuite inside parking
hotshower intercom 0724474249
7.5K Big BS Thika 0722332842
BEDSITTER nxt Nakumatt junction
0720410030
DONHOLM new 2br apt hot
shower 16k water & service fee inc.
0716-869623
GARDEN Terraces Ngong Rd
3b/room flat with sq, Swimming pool
& Gymn. Ksh.75,000 p.m 0727033808
GREENFIELDS Ph.3 hse no 1107
msnt 45K main hse 15K sq spt. ent.
new kitchen granite top undg. water
refurbished call 0721666770
KAREN 5b/r t/hses 200k 0712422955
Komrock 2bedrooms 0721327850
LAVINGTON Hatheru rd 3brm apt
60K. Call 0735-092622
MADARAKA 2&3br apt 0722813866
NASRA Gardens 3br M/ENST water
Tank 10,000 Litres 0722448396
PANGANI apat to let 2bdr 30K
0721988810
UTHIRU 87 2br flat 0720693881
HOTELS
D531 Hotels
A. Glory Nyali holiday resort 1,500/- pp
+ b/fast & swimming pool 020-
2107105, 0721-895935, 0720- 298208,
0735-202728, 0721895935 Mr. Bachani
PRESTIGE Apartments Mtwapa fully
furnished 2 & 1b/room self catering
s/pool AC DSTV WIFI restaurant
3000/= p/day
0722351275www.letsgoprestige.com
GRAND Ocean view hotel &
Apartments (next to serena) rooms
1250/-pp luxurious fully furnished a/c
apart 3000/- Wi-Fi s/pool, conference
disco, Karaoke 0719582131,
0715853598 www.kendashotels.co.ke
D571 Hotels
BAXTON Leisure Lodge Msa Island
opp Municipal Stadium, Sagana Rd off
Coach Mohammed Heri rd From
1300, Room TV for your comfort &
Hot shower. Tel 0722252440
www.baxtonleisure.com Email:
baxtonleisure@gmail.com
E085 For Sale Private
Matatu Toyota&Nissan 0700869669
E782 Properties for Sale
KILIFI Modern Hse for sale in 1acre
9M Call: 0731327805 owner
We regret to announce the death of
Rtd. Mwalimu Anthony Kipkemoi Mutai
(Kaplong village Sotik District). He was the
son of the late Mengewo arap Bartyo and
the late Tablule Bartyo. He was the husband
of Marcella Mutai, brother of Tabsabei,
Raphael and Grace.
He was father of Richard Cheruiyot-
Yaganek Pri, Margret Korir (Moi Teaching
& Referral Hospital), Lucy Chepkwony
(Nairobi Hospital), late Chepkirui, Paul,
Irene, David, William, Charles, Cherotich
and Dominic. He was grandfather of many.
He was father in-law of Charles Korir
(UN Nigeria), Richard Chepkwony (KEBS)
Mombasa, Denis Yegon (KENCHIC Nbi)
and Margret Cheruiyot.
The cortege will leave Kaplong Mission
Hospital on Friday the 24th May 2013 at 10.00 a.m. for a requiem mass at
Kaplong Catholic Church and thereafter the body will be taken home for an
overnight stay.
Funeral and burial service will be held at his home, Kaplong village, Sotik
district, Bomet County on 25th May 2013 beginning at 10.00 a.m.
May The Almighty rest his gentle soul in eternal peace Amen.

Rtd. Mwalimu
Anthony
Kipkemoi Mutai
Death and Funeral Announcement
1s/q Westlands 5,000/= 0720040895
2b/r State hse rd 25,000/= 0720020410
GREENSPAN 3BR 25K 0729931076
OWNR
DANDORA area 2 10room house
income 28k pm Call 0722868239
STUDIOS at Kirinyaga road 3million
0733363100
ADAMS 1BR 7K 0720836225
0WNER
PARKLANDS Need Urgently for
Sale/Let/Dev Blocks 0707181206
B/BURU 1BR 7K 0722899291
OWNER
H/GUM1br 8k 0720985378 owner
KASARANI Sport drive New 3br
24k & 2br 19k 0727-430209
KILIMANI Near Yaya and Junction.
3bdrm flat 1 ensuite, s/pool Ksh
70,000. Contact 0722 801875.
*NYAYO Emba 27k ready 0722
215780
W/LANDS SQ+DS 5K 0723159576
OWNER
KAYOLE 3 storeys 28 rooms income
63k asking 6.5M 0722170079
LAVINGTON: 3bd Exec Appts, All
Ens Frm 13M; 4bd Twnhses Frm 35M
0717484867; 0707902987
O-RONGAI: 3bd Bungalows Mst
Ens, Gated Estate, Borehle Kes 5.4M
0716119989; 0717484867
1BR Spring Valley furnished 55K
unfurnished 40K 0733266774
UTAWALA Gsu 30 by 60
0721284122
KAHAWA sukari 4br 3ensuite
behind shopping ctr 0721284122
KAHAWA Sukari 5 br + Dsq &
garage on 1/4 ac 21M 0736 763 587
1,2,3br Parklands 7-28k 0702933180
1BR FLT SouthC 20k 0722389129own
1BS H/GHAM 4K 0725472002 owner
CITYPARK new 2b/r flat both
ensuite secure 42K Call owner
0721-168863
EASTLEIGH Umoja 1 bedroom
Hses, tiled floors, DSTV, hot shower,
and Tel: 0722477200, 0720924792,
0727897999, 0202361152
THIKA Godown 40x80 0722214426
VALLEY View Estate 3br master
ensuite 6.9 m 0722510463 owner
1,2, 3 BR Ngong rd 6-25K 0718023488
RUNDA View apts in Ruaka. 3B/r
beautiful finishing. @45k. 0720736295
SOUTH C mucgoya 3bdrm house
with sq @ 75k 0725701897
BURU- 3br,1br Vacant 0722885302
One year ago, when the Lord called you home,
you left us in tears, pain, grief and moments of
disbelief. As the sun rises each day, memories of
you ll our hearts. Your warm smile lights our
lives, your kindness inspires us to be better and
moments spent with you gives us something
to always reminisce on with fondness as the
sun sets.
Remembered by your loving mum Lydia Murugi
Mwangi; brothers Joseph Mathenge, George
Maina, Samuel C. Mwangi, Francis Ndugi, Joseph
Gitahi; sisters Margaret Wairimu, Phylis wanjiru,
Hellen Wacheke, Jane Mathenge, Margaret
Maina and Margaret Ndugi; nieces Eva, Karen,
Eliza, Rita, Melody; nephews Victor, Levis and
the Mwangis.
In Gods hands you rest, in our hearts
you cherish forever
Sarah Wambui
Mwangi
(Wakajore)
In Loving Memory/1st Anniversary
Death and Funeral Announcement
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce the death of our
beloved father Isaac Oiko Okello on 17th May 2013 following a long battle with
prostrate cancer. Son of the late Joshua Okello and the late Seline Mandera.
Husband of Ida Aoko Oiko. Father of the late Irene Adhaimbo Ogwel, the late
Celine Ochieng, Florence Anyango (Norway), James Opere Oiko and Dickens
Mbogo Oiko. Grandfather of Maureen (Dada) Norway, Brian, Oscar, Billy,
MaryRose (Daughter), Shirley langelle (Norway), Paul, Sherince Ochieng, Vidal,
Dephone, Sista, Gordy, Caren Owiti (KQ). Father-in-law of the late Amos, Bjorn
Pedersen, Linda Njoga, Hesbone Ochieng, Margaret and Marion. Uncle of Jane
Ohuma, the late Haiten, Alice Angila, Ambrose, Wycliff among others.
Family and friends will meet for fundraising on Tuesday 28th May 2013 at Tin Tin
Restaurant- KICC at 5.30pm.
The cortege will leave the Aga-Khan Hospital, Kisumu on Friday 31st May 2013 at
10.00am for burial on Saturday 1st June 2013 at his Kunya Village home Rarieda
Constituency, Siaya County.
You fought a good ght Atuech.We love you. Rest in peace.
Isaac Oiko Okello (Atuech)
It is with humble acceptance of God`s will that we
announce the death of Kennedy Mukeku Ngau which
occurred on 20th May, 2013 at his Kathangathini
home, Kathiani District. Son of the late Ngau and the
late Katheke. Husband of the late Nzilani, late Nduku,
late Mukulu and the late Ndele. Brother of Nthambi,
the late Nduume, the late Mueke the late Ndeve.
Step brother of the late Nzive and the late Muimi.
Father of Kitonga, wambua, Peter, Mbithi, Makau,
Mutuku, Muasya, Sila, Mboya, Mutinda, Sammy, Michael,
Mwei, Musyoki, Munyao, Ngina, Mbulwa,Anna, Kavindu,
Beth, Wayua, Betty, Ndinda, Mary, Margaret and the
late Mutindi Grandfather of 144, great grandfather of
157 and great great grandfather to 14.
Friends and relatives are meeting at his Kasaini/Mbee
home for funeral arrangements. The body leaves
Kathiani District Hospital Mortuary on Tuesday 28th
May, 2013 at 9.00am for burial at Kasaini Village,
Kathiani District Machakos County.
Nau, we thank God for the time we shared
with you. In our hearts you live forever!
Kennedy Mukeku
Ngau
Promotion to Glory
PANGANI 1br 14K 0722808722
Dam estate 1 b/room ext 18k,1 sq
10k contact owner 0722354847
JUJA 2bdr 12K 0722435644
2br Westlands 20,000/= 0718023488
NGONG 4br & SQ own 0713882449
LAVINGTON Valley 2 bedroom apt
Ksh. 50,000/ month call: 0722720382
THIKA 50x100 ft near Castle. Prime
Ksh 2.9m ono Tel. 0716-356968
THIKA Highway plots at Juja few
remaining ready title deed 40x80
800,000 Ksh contacts 0728-807735,
0715-041471
WOULD You wish to sell your land?
We finance Sub-division and we have
ready buyers for your land/ plots
0729557220, 0729922155
B768 Premises, Offces to Let
HURL Office suite @60k 0772166006
SHOP&Office Baricho rd 0737512658
SHOPS & offices to let Kasarani near
Naivas 0718-770894
SHOP Tomboya St. 50k rent 550k
gdwill-heavy traffic 0722770064
B782 Properties for Sale
5 brm maisonete on Msa Rd near
General motors. Corner plot, gated
community 14m. Tel 0725-645250
LANGATA 5br mnet 0723721175
South-C Rangers 4br 14M 0715086866
COAST (Telephone
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E042 Bus Hire
D557 Apartments available
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
Classieds/Transition 41
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will
that we announce the death of Retired
Senior Chief Samuel Njoroge Kungu, which
occurred at Kenyatta National Hospital
on 21st May, 2013. Son of the late Josphat
Kungu and the late Esther Kungu. Husband
to Jane Wangari Njoroge and Jane Wanjiru
Njoroge. Father of Albert Kamau Njoroge
of Tuskys Nakuru, Eric Kungu Njoroge,
Josphat Kungu Njoroge, Siphira wambui
Njoroge and Grace Wanjiku Njoroge.
Brother to late Wanjiku Kungu, Henry
Ngugi, late Helen Njeri Njuguna, Rachael
Wakonyo, Daniel Mburu, George Wachiuri,
Mary Wanjiru Waiganjo, Wilson Maina Kungu
and Anne Nduta Theuri.
The funeral will be on Tuesday the 28th May
2013, at his Rwathe farm, Mungaria, Kandara
District, Muranga County.
In Gods hands you rest, in our hearts you live forever
Rtd Senior Chief
Samuel Njoroge
Kungu
1943-2013
Death and Funeral Announcement
It is with great sorrow that we announce
the sudden and untimely death of Halima
Kazee.Wife of the late Abdul Ali. Mother
of Rukia, the late Zuhura, the late Fatuma,
Rehema, the late Amina and Ibrahim. Loving
Grandmother of Habiba, Mariam, Ahmed,
Lulu, the late Abdul, Leteipan, Lemayian,
Simo, Toti, Letia, Leina, Farouk. Doting Great
Grandmother of Rahima, Siloon, Djara and
Lemaron.
She was buried on 20/05/2013 at the Kajiado
Mosque Cemetary. Even though you are no
longer with us, we will always treasure the
memories and you will be in our hearts
forever.
Until we meet again Nyanya.
Inna lilahi waina ileihi rajiun.
Halima Nasieku Abdul
Ali (Halima Kazee)
1930 - 20/05/2013
Death and Funeral Announcement
Its with great sorrow and humble acceptance
of Gods will that we regret to announce the
passing on of Benson Kwemoi Tebes of KRA
Eldoret which occurred on 20th May 2013 at
Eldoret Hospital. Beloved son of Mr.Richard Tebes
and Sophia Tebes of Kabolet village, Sinyerere
Location, Transzoia County. Brother of Alfred
Sakong (MOA Transmara), Phelisters Rotich
(RVIST Nakuru), Alice Tebes (MOH PMO ofce
Nakuru), Micah Kisasia (Kangundo Police Station),
Edwin Tebes (Tuiyokong Pri Sch.), David Tebes
(CID Kakamega), Sylivah Tebes (Nakuru) and
Stephen Majani (Eldoret).
The cortege leaves MTRH Mortuary on Monday
27th May 2013 and the burial will take place on
Tuesday 28th May 2013 at their home in Kabolet
village.
In Gods hands you rest in our hearts you
live forever.
Benson Kwemoi
Tebes
20/1/1968 - 20/5/2013
Death and Funeral Announcement
It is with great humility and recognition of
Gods sovreignity that we announce the
passing on onto glory of Francis Gathua
Mathenge former Under Secretary Ministry
of Local Government which occurred on
21/5/2013.
Beloved husband of Wambui Elizabeth
Mathenge. Father of Patience Mumbi, Karen
Wanjiru, Angela Wangeci, Joseph Mwaura,
Edwin Mathenge. Grandfather to Stephanie
Mwende, Fahim Mwaura, Anisa Makena,
Anekah Wambui. Son of the late Morris
Mathenge Gathua and the late Herina
Ngatha Mathenge. Brother of the late
Haron Wanyeki, Mary Wangeci and the late
Anita Wanjiru. Son-in-law to the late Joseph
Mwaura Thuku and Gladys Rabecca Thuku.
In-law to John Wambicho, Rose Nduku
among others.
Family and friends are meeting at Petma
Restaurant Kimathi Street Nairobi Monday to
Friday from 5.30 pm for burial arrangements.A major fund raising will be held on
Tuesday 28
th
May 2013 to offset the medical bill at the same venue.
The cortege leaves Chiromo Mortuary on Thursday 30
th
May 2013 at 8.00 am for
burial in Kagio.The funeral service will be at the graveside.
Yes though i walk through the deep sunless valley of the shadow of
death i will fear or dread no evil for you are with me; your rod to
protect and your staff to guide they comfort me (Ps 23:4 )
Francis Gathua
Mathenge
Promotion to Glory
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce the
passing on of Daniel Shipwoli Ingosi which occurred on 18th of
May 2013. Son of the late Missionary Mzee Elisha Ingosi Chitayi
and Mama Rasoa Ikonyi Elisha of Miracle Revival Fellowship
Pentecostal Church Mariakani (HQs). Beloved husband of
Jedida Shushu Ingosi. Brother of the late Henry, Jones, Joyce,
Habel, Imani, Grace and Allan. Son-in-law of the late Mzee
Cornel Juma and Mama Mary Juma. He was a brother-in-law
of Judy Muthoka (USA), Conny Kiage (Shanzu), Lumumba
Juma of Netherlands, Rose Juma (USA), Emmanuel Juma, Elisha
Juma, Sharon Juma, Rally Juma,Tabby Lumumba and Caroline
Emmanuel.
Cortege left Pandya Funeral Home on Friday 24th May 2013
and the burial will take place today Saturday 25th May 2013 at
his home in Mariakani Township near the Kenya Police Station
(Mariakani).
In Gods hands you rest, in our hearts you live forever.
Death and Funeral Announcement
Daniel Shipwoli Ingosi
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we
announce the passing of David Njoroge Muiruri
(Kaa) after an illness bravely borne. Beloved
husband of Mrs Lucy Wanjiku Njoroge. Son of
the late Muiruri Kangarua and the late Njeri
Muiruri. Loving father of George Mwangi (G), John
Muiruri, Joseph Ngugi, Anthony Mwenje, Gabriel
Wandu,Henry Gakuo, Julius Nganga, Peter Wainana,
Francis Kihara and the late Paul Njuguna. Beloved
father-in-law, grandfather and a friend to many.
Friends and relatives are meeting at upways hotel
Thika road and at his home mumbu-ini from
6.00pm. The cortege leaves Kenyatta University
Funeral home on Tuesday 28th May 2013 at 8.30am
for funeral and burial service at Mumbu-ini village
Gatundu South.
He fought a good ght, kept the faith and
has nished the race. In Gods arm he rests,
in our hearts he remains forever.Amen.
David Njoroge
Muiruri (Kaa)
Death and Funeral Announcement
It is with humble acceptance and deep sorrow that we announce the
passing on of Eli John Muhia, which occurred at Nairobi West Hospital
on Monday 20th May, 2013. Son of the late Stephen Njoroge Muguku
and the late Edith Wambui Njoroge. Husband of the late Judith Mumbi.
Father of Stephen Njoroge, Edith Gathungu, Njeri Muhia, Wanjiku Muhia,
the late Ngara Muhia, Patrick Muguku, and Pauline Karugu. Grandfather of
Brian, Kevin, Ian, Georgia, Angela, Ivy, Owen, Jasmine, Ethan, Joshua, Mumbi.
Brother the late Nelson Muguku, Peris Wanjiku, the late Munyua Maina,
Prof. Kihumbu Thairu, Paul Kariuki, Damaris Wangari, the late Kiarie wa
Njoroge, Njogu Wahinya and Lucy Njenga. Father in law of Lucy Wambui,
Jimmy Kahuthu, Peninah Kanyua and Kenneth Karugu. Brother in law of
Dr. Fred Wangati, and, James Mwaura, Ruth Ngara, Sarah Mugo, Margaret
Kahinga and Alice Mwangi.
Family are meeting for prayers at his farm in Sigona daily at 4pm and also
Clarion Hotel-Nairobi on Thursday, Friday and Monday at 5.30pm.
The cortege leaves Chiromo Mortuary on Tuesday 28th May 2013 at
9.00am for the funeral service at St. Lukes ACK Sigona Church at 11.00
am. Burial will take place at his farm in Sigona at 1.00 pm .
And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead
which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, Saith the Spirit, that they may rest
from their labors; and their works do follow them Revelations 14:13.
In Gods hands you now rest and in our hearts forever.
Eli John Muhia
Celebration of a life well lived
It will be a year today since our darling Sarah
Wairimu Moses left us, gone to the angels above
where theres nothing but happiness, joy and love.
Back to God who gave her life. Although we are
heartbroken we rejoice that God chose our sweet
ower for his own.
Our family circle has been broken, a link gone from
our chain. But though we are parted for a while, we
know well meet again in a better place and never
part again.
In our home wairimu, you are fondly remembered
and sweet memories cling to your name.
In life we loved you sincerely and in death we do the
same. In our hearts theres not a day dear sarah that
we do not think of you.
Our deepest gratitude and appreciation goes to
our relatives, friends and well wishers for your overwhelming love and sacrice expressed
in prayer, visits, words and messages of encouragement, and support in kind and nancially
during the departure of our dear daughter. Special thanks goes to the committees in kitale,
kimende and the U.S.A, that made it possible for our dear daughter to come home. It is only
the generosity of you that has brought us through this difcult time.Thank you for being there
when we needed you the most.

Wairimu, In Gods hands you rest, in our hearts you live forever
Ngai niwe utumaga maundu mothe magirire
Sarah Wairimu
Appreciation
The family of the late Gabriel Popi Owitti wish
to announce the passing of beloved son, brother,
husband and father Heavenson Ochieng Owitti on
17th May 2013 after a short illness. He is survived
by his mother Priscilla Nyagudi Owitti, wife Jennifer
Anyango Ochieng, sons Gabriel Ochieng Owitti
and James Odhiambo Ochieng, brothers Hopeful,
Sylvester, Justice and Joel, sisters Jacquiline and Faith,
sisters-in-law Violet, Fridah, Asha, and Judy as well as
many relatives and friends.The body is laying at Russia
Mortuary in Kisumu. The cortege will leave there on
Friday 31st May at 2:00 pm. Funeral and burial services
will be held at his home in Chiga, Kolwa on Saturday
1st June 2013 beginning at 10:00am. The services
will be presided over by Pastor Elias Odhoch of
Deliverance Church, Kibos Road, Kisumu. Friends and
family will be meeting every evening at Mrs. Priscillas
home in Buru Buru, Mesora from 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm.
A harambee to offset medical and funeral expenses
will be held at Professional Centre next to Parliament
Building, Nairobi on Wednesday 29th May at 5:00 pm.
All are invited.
Japolo, you were a shining example to your siblings who realize that big brothers dont come
any better! We will carry on your legacy.We love you greatly and will miss you deeply. Rest in
Peace that passes all understanding.
Heavenson
Ochieng Owitti
Gone Too Soon
The death has occurred of Mama Elizabeth B.
Nyaburi of Ikuruma, Kenyoro, Kitutu Chache North
Constituency, Kisii County on 21st May, 2013
in Nairobi. Wife of the late Rev. Philip Nyaburi.
Daughter of the late Mzee Nyambisa and mama
Kerubo of Bokiambori, West Mugirango. Mother
of Daniel Nyaburi (KETRACO), Onsomu Nyaburi,
Jacob Nyaburi, Nyanchama, Rebecca, Alice, Yunesi,and
late Nemuel. Sister of Nyatika, Hosea, Late: Bosire,
Masira, Ouya, Nyanchoka, Maganya and Gekondo.
Aunt of Antony, Bosire, Teresa, Tom, Kwamboka,
Angasi, Nyambisa, Isaac, David, Mogire, Getanga,
Ondicho, Obondi and many others. Sister in Law of
Mama Pauline Agoka, late Nashon Agoka, late Bosire
Nyagwoka, late Zedekia Mayieka and others. Mother in
law of Shem, Matage, MasindeElisa, Fenn and Margaret.
Korera of Late - Kenyanya, Late Orina, Late Masinde, Late
Monyoro -. Maria, Nyansimera. Grandmother of Jackline
and Mega, Agneta and Osano, Zainabu and Nyaburi,
Nemuel and Philip, Margaret and Antony, George and
Maclean, Liz and Mega, Lillian and many others. Great
grandmother to many. Meetings are going on from today Saturday 25/5/2013 at Rapid Food
Restaurant-KICC, from 2pm - 4.30pm, Monday and Tuesday from 5.30pm and at Karen.The body is
lying at Chiromo Mortuary Funeral Home.The body leaves Chiromo Mortuary on Thursday 30/5/
2013 at 8.00am. Burial will be on Friday 31/5/2013 at her home in Nyabisero Village near Kenyoro
Secondary School,Kitutu Chache North, Kisii County starting at 9.00a.m. For more information
contact:- Jacob Nyaburi: 0722714465. Daniel Nyaburi - 0722443385.
We thank God for the life and time we shared with you.
Mama Elizabeth B.
Nyaburi
Death and Funeral Announcement
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
42 | Transition
BY AYUMBA AYODI
sayodi@ke.nationmedia.com
T
he 2011 World Cross
Country junior cham-
pion, Georey Kipsang,
yesterday retained the Kenya
Police Athletics Champion-
ships 10,000m title assertively,
tearing through the red turf to
victory in 28min, 17.0sec.
At the same time, two-time
World junior 3,000m cham-
pion, Mercy Cherono (2008,
2010), mesmerised the crowd
with victory in 1,500m as the
2011 Africa junior 1,500m
bronze medallist, Stacy Ndiwa,
reigned in womens 5,000m.
Rono second
Kipsang floored national
Cross-country titleholder,
Philemon Rono (28:18.3) as
Philemon Limo, who nished
third in his Prague debut last
year, came third in 28:20.0.
Former World Cross
junior champ retains
10,000m title as
Cherono rules 1500m
Kipsang lights
up Kasarani
It ended well but my focus
is on securing a place in the
10,000m team for the World
Championship, said Kipsang,
who made his marathon debut
last year in Berlin, posting 2:
06:12. Rono is also targeting
a slot in the world team.
Eyeing world honours
The 2010 World Cross
junior champion, Cherono
was home and dry in 4:10.3 in
the metric mile race, but was
quick to say: I am just gaug-
ing my speed in readiness for
the 5,000m national battle to
the world championships.
Ndiwa, the 2008 Junior
Commonwealth Games
1, 500m winner, romped
home in 16:19.3 followed by
Mary Wacera (16:19.8) and
Lydia Rotich (16:20.0).
Francisca Koki claimed
a double with victories in
womens 110m hurdles and
400m hurdles races in 15.6
and 61.3.
World Indoor 3,000m
bronze medallist Augustine
Choge and 2011 Diamond
League 1,500m winner Nixon
Chepseba will go head-to-head
in the 1,500m nal today.
BY CAXTON APOLLO
Womens basketball Premier League
champions Eagle Wings are poised to
dethrone Strathmore University from
the top of the 12-team table when they
play a key rst leg xture at Nyayo
Stadium at noon. Eagle Wings, the
three-time league champions, face
KCA-U today in a crucial tie where
a win will propel them to the league
leadership with 11 points.
KCA-U ranked eighth
KCA-U are placed eighth with only
six points. Mens defending champions
Co-operative Bank could also remain
in the second position even if theyre
beaten by Blazers today. The bankers
hit Strathmore University 82-61 last
weekend to move to the second with
eight points.
Thunder are top with 12 points after
six consecutive victories.
Other xtures: Today: Parklands Baptist v Pirates
(9am); Sprite Storms v Oryx (10.30am); Ulinzi
Warriors v Nairobi Aviation College (3pm); Lions
v Terrorists (4.30pm); Nakuru Club Tigers (USIU-
A) (12pm). Tomorrow: KAA v Umoja (9am);
Equity Bank v Upper Hill School (10.30am);
KCA-U v Pirates (1.30pm); Flames (USIU-A)
v Oryx (3pm); Mennonites v Terrorists (3pm);
Blazers v Nakuru Club (4.30pm).
Champs Eagle Wings prey on KCA-U in womens basketball
MOHAMMED AMIN | NATION
Stacy Ndiwa (tight) and Mary Wacera battle to the nish line in the 5000m nal at the Kenya
Police Championship at Kasarani on Friday. Ndiwa won the race in 16:19.3.
KENYA POLICE CHAMPIONSHIPS | Choge faces Chepseba in a tough 1500m nal today
HALF-FIT MESSI SUMMONED BY
ARGENTINA FOR QUALIFIERS
Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella
has called up Lionel Messi for the
forthcoming World Cup qualiers
against Colombia and Ecuador, even
though the Barcelona forward is only
half-t. Messi is recovering from a thigh
injury which limited his participation in
Barcas Champions League semi-nal
rout by Bayern Munich.
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BY AYUMBA AYODI
The 11th edition of the Bamburi
Rugby Series semi-nal matches get
underway today in Kampala and Nai-
robi, with mouth-watering ties.
Hosts Rwenzori face Nyumbu at the
Kyadondo Rugby Grounds in Kampala
today. However, confusion later arose
over the venue of Nyumbus match with
Rwenzori after Nyumbu players claimed
they should have hosted the match after
topping pool A and Rwenzori nished
second in pool B.
According to tournament rules, pool
leaders usually have the advantage of
hosting the semi-nal matches.
At the RFUEA grounds, Ndovu face
Papa in an encounter that could go
either way.
Top players
The majority of the players in
Rwenzori and Nyumbu will form the
bulk of Uganda and Kenyan teams for
the Elgon Cup and Africa Cup tourna-
ments due next month. Uganda beat
Kenya 19-17 on aggregate to reclaim
the Elgon Cup last year for the rst
time since 2006.
With the reconstitution of the Ken-
yan franchises, Nyumbu has emerged
the strongest side, drawing players
from some of the countrys finest
clubs like Kenya Harlequin, Nonde-
script and Impala.
Rwenzori face Nyumbu in Super Series semi-nals
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BY ISAAC SWILA
When Tusker Premier League
leaders Thika United play KCB
this afternoon, it will be the rst
time that the bankers tactician
Juma Abdallah will be meeting his
former employers, two years after
he was fired under acrimonious
circumstances.
The two sides face o at City Sta-
dium from 2pm in a match expected
to be full of reworks.
Since his summary dismissal by
Thika, Abdallah has been a bitter
man and todays match will perhaps
provide him with a perfect opportu-
nity to prove a point to his former
employers.
His next stop after his ouster
in May 2011 was the Nationwide
side Congo United, that was at
the time playing in the top ight
league before he was conned to
the doldrums after the coastal side
was relegated.
Two years on, Thika United are
now considered genuine title con-
tenders, thanks to one John Irungu
Kamau, the man who replaced
Abdallah.
KCBs Abdallah
faces his former
employer
BY LARRY NGALA
Home golfer Nicholas Rokoine
charged to the top as the KCB
Advantage Banking Golf Tour
entered its third day at Muthaiga
Club yesterday.
Rokoine played a conservative
level par 71, a round which included a
birdie four at the fourth and a single
bogey at the 10th, to bring his three
rounds total to two over par 215,
putting him in the same team with
Ajay Shah and Dismas Indiza who
closed the day just a shot adrift.
Ajay shot a near-clean round of
four under par 67 despite dropping
a shot at the end after three putting
the last hole.
Meanwhile, ICEA Lion will spon-
sor a series of golf events in various
regions in the country starting with
the rst one at Vet Lab Sports Club
in Nairobi today.
Others will follow in Nakuru, El-
doret, Mombasa, Kisumu, Nandi,
Machakos, Nyeri and Ruiru.
Rokoine grabs
Tour series lead
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
Sport 43
BY JOHN KAGAGI
john.kagagi@gmail.com
T
he Kenyan team wanted tracksuits, and
we have given them tracksuits. They
wanted boots, weve given them boots.
We wish them the best in the tournament.
These were the words of Robin Cahill, the driv-
ing force behind the Safari Sevens international
tournament, in his opening speech at the launch
of the 1997 edition of the tournament.
Team tracksuits and equipment which today
are like basic necessities, were considered osten-
tatious when the national sevens team started
competing seriously in the late 1990s.
The 1997 Kenya Sevens surprised everyone
except the fans. They won the Safari Sevens
competition outright.
It has been the story of Kenyan sport. No
money, minimal technical preparation, huge
talent and huge expectations. Rugby is no
exception.
In 1986, Kenya made their rst sevens ap-
pearance in Hong Kong. A year later, the Hong
Kong organisers withdrew Kenyas invitation to
the competition after some Kenya Rugby Union
(then Kenya Rugby Football Union) ocials,
embroiled in a succession battle, allegedly as-
sociating the tournament with apartheid.
Kenyan rugby put its house in order in-
ternationally when the Dennis Awori-led
administration formally joined the Interna-
tional Rugby Board in 1990, getting access to
IRB support and competitions.
The next opportunity for Kenya Sevens
came in 1992 with an invite to take part in a
qualier competition in Italy for the inaugural
1993 Sevens World Cup. That team dropped
to the Bowl competition on day two, missing
out on qualication.
You make your own luck, so the saying goes.
Kenyas consistent international exposure came
with the introduction of the Safari Sevens in
1996. Driven by a combined eort from the
Rugby Patrons Society and the KRU, the Sa-
fari Sevens was Kenyas stepping stone to the
international stage.
Kenya beat Zimbabwe
It was from the Safari Sevens in 96 that we
landed an invite to the Border Sevens in Selkirk,
Scotland, recalls Ham Onsando, Kenya Sevens
coach at the time. It was in Selkirk that Kenya
beat Zimbabwe at rugby for the rst time.
That year was also a qualier year for the
1997 Sevens World Cup in Hong Kong, and
for the rst time, the team had two interna-
tional tournaments to participate in as part of
its preparations for the qualiers. Kenya took
part in the qualier, but dropped to Bowl.
I thought we did well, given the fact that we
had limited resources, says Onsando.
The expectations of the KRU board were
very high. They wanted better results. Onsando
was told that if he didnt win the next Safari
Sevens, his chances of retaining the coaching
job were slim.
I used their demand for better results to ask
for more resources, remembers Onsando. I
asked that the national team get more kit, al-
lowances and that we be allowed to move into
the Safari Sevens hotel when other international
teams moved in. In the previous year, the
team went into residential stay the night before
the tournament. The team got its kit and was
Years of hard
The countrys rugby story is
a tale of no money, minimal
technical preparation but
huge talent and expectations
PHOTO | FILE
The rst Kenya Sevens team
to play at the famous Hong
Kong Sevens in 1986. From
Left, Alunga Omolo, Jack-
son Omaido, Max Muniafu,
Jimmy Owino (with ball),
Cli Mukulu and Evans
Vitisia. Kenya reached the
Plate quarter-nals.
BEATING THE ODDS | Against expectations,
PHOTO | FILE
Spains Marcos Poggi (left) tackles Kenyas ying winger Horace Otieno during their IRB World Se-
ries Sevens rugby union match in Dubai on November 30, 2012.
BY JOHN KAGAGI
Beth Omolo of Watembezi
Pacesetters says this of their
rst warm-up at the 1982 Dubai
Sevens.
When the spectators saw us
running and passing the ball,
at pace, they looked at us dif-
ferently. They realised that we
knew how to play the game.
Speed and the quick evasive
sidestep has been the hallmark
of Kenyan rugby since it be-
came widely popular in the mid
seventies. Sprinkled with a few
enforcers in the forwards who
steadied the ship, the rave was
all about the players creative
ability in the open spaces.
Bill Big Bad Okwirrys
name was always in the pa-
pers, and I always admired
his physical play, remembers
Max Muniafu, himself an en-
forcer and backrow of repute,
of the player he looked up to
as a youngster.
But it was always the open
play that stole the show. Wal-
ter Omaidos graceful swerve,
Eric Kibes jinxing runs, Martin
Ndedas audacious feigns and
Eddy The Eagle Rombos
blinding sidesteps cut a place
for them in rugbys folklore.
Its about keeping the ball
alive, not taking it into contact
and moving at pace. Its the
freedom to take the initiative,
and use your individual eva-
sive skills to pass the ball into
space, says former national
sevens coach Bill Githinji.
We have a Kenyan air, ar-
gues Tom Odundo, a former
national 15s coach, but we
do not have a Kenyan style,
or philosophy. Style is not an
unspoken concept, its instruc-
tions that come from the top,
and lter down.
Developed rugby nations in-
corporate their philosophy all
the way from the national team
to age-grade rugby. Everyone
is in the know on the skills
needed, and what to do.
The change from the six-year
secondary system to the four-
year system nationally changed
the way sports in schools was
played. Focus shifted to aca-
demic performance, and the
graduated sporting system that
previously existed in schools
stopped. Sporting skills were
no longer transferred.
Strategy is the next best
option, one that Gordon An-
ampiu adopted while coaching
the national sevens side. Our
ball handling skills were not
good, so when we got a pen-
alty, we kicked it up eld and
started again from the lineout.
That way we had less time to
handle the ball and gained the
distance. I saw other national
teams with weaker skills adopt-
ing our strategy. There was a
time that kicking the ball in
sevens was unheard of.
The learning of sports
skills should happen at a much
younger age, around 13 or 14
years of age, argues Jackson
Omaido, who learnt his excep-
tional rugby skill at that young
age in the late 1960s.
Omaido could pass a ball on
both sides, kick o both feet,
run straight as a ruler and was
as hard as nails.
Pace, air teams calling card
1982
The year little-known
Watembezi Pacesetters
dazzled spectators at the
Dubai Sevens with their speed
and air
WATEMBEZI PACESETTERS | Time to go dazzle the world
PHOTO| FILE
The 1982 Singapore Sevens-bound Watembezi Pacesetters. From left: Ken Thimba, Juma Mwira (Stan-
chart Bank), Manuel Okoth, Dennis Awori (club chairman), George Ogolla and Shadrack Odhiambo.
When the
spectators
(at the Dubai
Sevens) saw us
running and
passing the
ball, at pace,
they looked at
us dierently.
They realised
that we knew
how to play the
game
Beth Omolo,
Watembezi
Pacesetters
player (1982)
SPORTS DIGEST
1986
The year Kenya made their rst appearance at
the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
44 | Sport
work pay o for Kenya 7s
brought into the hotel on a Thursday morn-
ing before the competition, a Sh200 training
allowance agreed upon and a winning bonus
of Sh10,000 per player oered.
It must have been good motivation be-
cause the team responded by winning the
tournament, beating Cumbria 24-21 in the
nal. The surprise upshot: The board sacked
Onsando the following Tuesday.
The timing of Kenyas sevens resurgence
could not have come at a better time. Inter-
nationally, the abridged version of the game
was growing.
In 1998, the team was invited to the Mid-
dlesex Sevens in London and reached the
semi-nals to win 10,000 (about Sh1.3
million) in prize money.
Reaching the Middlesex Sevens semi-
nals raised the public expectations of the
team, remembers Michael Tank Otieno.
After that I was under constant pressure.
After a credible performance at the Amster-
dam Sevens, the team was all set later that
year for the Commonwealth Games in Kuala
Lampur. This was the rst edition of sevens
rugby at the Commonwealth Games.
A wonderful experience
Teams took the Commonwealth Games
very seriously and sent strong sides, recalls
Otieno. We played against people like (Fiji
sevens legend) Waisale Serevi, (All Blacks
legend) Jonah Lomu and (Fijian) Marika Vu-
nibaka, big names at the time. It was a big
challenge and a wonderful experience.
The sevens game, initially a fun pastime
compared to 15s, was taking root globally.
As it retained its carnival atmosphere, the
players on the pitch got more serious.
A few years ago players would spend a year
or two with the sevens squad to improve their
running and passing skills, wrote former
Wales international John Taylor. That is hap-
pening less and less. Players have to make
a choice. Do they want to concentrate on
Sevens or 15s?
In 1999, the IRB introduced the World
Sevens Series and Kenya was invited to par-
ticipate in two legs; Dubai and Stellenbosch,
South Africa.
In 2000, Kenya qualied for the World
Cup in Mar de Plata, Argentina. Otieno had
handed in his resignation and was replaced
by Bill Githinji. Coaches, as Githinji came
to be known, immediately put in new blood
into the side, rarely a popular move.
We had very few resources. Sometimes
(team manager) Mark Andere and myself
would dig into our pockets to buy cheap
T-shirts for the team so that we could look
like a team in the hotel dining hall, he re-
members.
Come the 2004/5 season, Kenya was
a core member of the IRB World Series
and attended all legs of the circuit. Kenya
qualied for the 2005 World Cup in Hong
Kong. Under Githinjis watch, Kenya Sevens
achieved two milestones: Core status in the
World Series and appearing in two World
Cups back-to-back.
The ex-Mean Machine dynamic duo of
Gordon Anampiu and Edward Rombo took
over the helm from Githinji. Anampiu took
the team through a gruelling schedule of 60
days abroad.
Benjamin Ayimba, Oscar Osir and Felix
Ochieng, in the sunset of their illustrious
careers, were identied as the next coaching
sta by Anampiu.
Player coach Ayimba managed the team to
its best ever result in a World Cup - a semi-
nal appearance at 2009 World Cup in Dubai
and a sixth-place nish in the world.
In the World Series, Kenya made it to the
nal of the Adelaide leg, losing to South
Africa. Ayimbas tenure was ended abruptly
and Mitch Ocholla took over for brief non-
descript stint.
This year, Kenya, coached by the Mike
Friday and Chris Brown, qualied for the
2013/4 circuit in style, nishing in an all-time
best position of fth in the overall standings
with 99 points, a credible performance by
any standards. By comparison, the Kenya
Sevens team has fewer resources than their
global opponents but far beyond that of any
other Kenyan squad in the past. A story by
Reuters put Kenya Sevens modest budget
at not more than $200,000 (about Sh16.8
million).
Although not at top world standards, the
jigsaw puzzle of resources came together this
year on the back of 18 years of sustained
international participation: Regular interna-
tional competition, regular local competition,
planning, technical playing skills, strength
and conditioning, quality athletes, air, will
power and last but not least, money.
Skills had to be outsourced
Of the resources, technical and strength/
conditioning skills had to be outsourced, by
way of Britains Friday and New Zealands
Brown. Back in 2001, KRU adopted the IRB
technical training curriculum and has been
using it since, for coaches and match of-
cials. It consists of three levels. Only one
coach, Paul Odera, has made it to Level
Three nationally.
Its like assembling a car from little parts,
says Odera. Youve got to understand how
to break a game down, and rebuild it.
More than anything, the Level Three cer-
tication requires meticulous record keeping
and planning. Our culture is such that we
dont like recording things, and it has per-
meated into our rugby, says Fred Ollows,
Kenyas rugby development manager from
2002 to 2012.
Like Rome, Kenya sevens was not built in
a day. Some people look at the big picture as
artists, while others look at it as architects.
If the KRU makes the right decisions and
implements them, like the late Robin Cahills
achievements, sevens rugby in Kenya will
leave a legacy and nally meet fans expec-
tations of bringing an IRB World Sevens
Series home.
John Kagagi is a writer with the Content
House
BY JOHN KAGAGI
It has taken many
coaches to get Kenya
Sevens where it is now.
Below are the men behind
the successive teams that
have captured the imagi-
nation of the world before
Mike Fridays time.
Tom Oketch (1986-1992):
He was made Kenyas rst
sevens national team coach
after successfully guiding
Watembezi RFC to glory
in the Middle East. Oketch
took the sevens team to
Hong Kong in 1987 and
for the inaugural 1992
Sevens World Cup pre-
liminaries in Italy. He is
best remembered by his
players for making them
super t and for carefully
selecting working com-
binations. Known for his
reverse psychology, he fa-
mously told Jimmy Owino
in Bulawayo: Im only se-
lecting you because you are
big. Jimmy Green had a
huge game that day against
Matebeleland.
Ham Onsando (1996-1997):
He coached the side to its
rst ever Safari Sevens win
in 1997 but was sacked two
days later. When assessing
the teams capabilities, he
noticed that the most tal-
ented players could attack
well and defend averagely.
He focused on scoring. In
rugby, all you have to do is
score more than the other
team.
Michael Tank Otieno
(1998-2000): He kept
the 1997 momentum and
reached the semi-nals of
the Middlesex Sevens in
London. He was the man
in charge in a difficult
Commonwealth Games
competition in Kuala
Lampur in 1998.
The players were very
talented and matched the
best in the world. Our tech-
nical abilities were lagging,
and it was an experience
to play at that stage, re-
calls Otieno, who is now
the Technical manager of
the KRU.
Bill Githinji- (2001-2005):
The successful Impala
coach, immediately
brought new blood into
the side after Otienos
resignation. He took the
team to the 2001 Sevens
World Cup in Mar Del
Plata, Argentina, and the
2005 Sevens World Cup
in Hong Kong. It was
during his time that Kenya
achieved core world series
status.
Gordon Anampiu ( 2005-
2006): Was elected after
winning the national sev-
ens circuit with Harlequins.
Together with legendary
Edward Rombo, the duo
alternated in travelling
with the team for eight
IRB legs, including the
2006 Commonwealth
Games in Melbourne.
During their time,
they identied Benjamin
Ayimba, Oscar Osir and
Felix Ochieng to take
over the side as senior
players. Anampiu was the
only coach to create a suc-
cession plan.
Benjamin Ayimba (2006-
2011): After playing
professional rugby in the
UK and for the national
sevens team, Ayimba was
identied, along with Osir
and Ochieng, as the senior
players to take over train-
ing the side.
Our schedule was full,
and we had day jobs.
The three of us decided
to coach the side when
Rombo and Anampiu had
their hands full, Ayimba
says. Ayimba and Osir
eventually stopped play-
ing competitively to take
over their new administra-
tive roles.
It was under Ayimba
and Osir that the side
reached the semi-finals
of the 2009 World Cup in
Dubai, beating Fiji 26-7 in
the quarter nals. That was
the rst time for Kenya to
defeat the fabled sevens
masters.
In the same year the side
also made it to the nal of
the Adelaide World Series
leg where they lost 26-7 to
South Africa. In the 2008/
2009 season, Kenya n-
ished a heady sixth in the
world after accumulating
64 points.
Mitch Ocholla (2011-2012):
His tenure was troubled
and with the imminent
threat of losing the World
Series core status, the KRU
moved to bring in foreign
coaches to preserve the
coveted recognition.
Kenya dropped to 12th
position overall with 40
points. We had a great
side, but we couldnt focus
fully, recalls Ocholla. Pay-
ment issues meant some
players, although earning
a salary from the union,
had to look elsewhere to
make ends meet.
The men who came
and went before Friday
the 1997 team wins the Safari Sevens, while the 2009 squad storms World Cup semi-nals
SPORTS DIGEST
The players were very talented and
matched the best in the world. Our
technical abilities were lagging, and it was
an experience to play at that stage
Michael Tank Otieno, on the 1998
Commonwealth Games team
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
Sport 45
Borussia Dortmund Will rue the loss of Mario
Gotze but they can still win the Champions League, predicts
former Germany captain Michael Ballack.
Playmaker Gotze, 20, has been ruled out of todays nal at
Wembley against Bundesliga rivals Bayern Munich because
of a hamstring injury. He will join Bayern in the summer for
31.5m after agreeing a deal in April. Ballack at Bayern. Bal-
lack said: Its not just about Gotze. Dortmund are dangerous
for Bayern Munich.
Gotze will become the most expensive German player of all
time when his transfer goes through on 1 July. Ballack played
for the Bavarian side between 2002 and 2006.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE | Monumental evening beckons for German football at Wembley Stadium as the
Live on
SuperSport 3
9.45PM
Moment of truth: Dortmund and
Coach Heynckes out to atone
for loss in 2010 and last years
nal when his team takes on
domestic rivals in the rst all-
Bundesliga decider in history
London
T
he home of English football will
reverberate to the roar of Ger-
man voices today when Bayern
Munich and Borussia Dortmund col-
lide at Wembley Stadium in the rst
all-Bundesliga final in Champions
League history.
It is only two years since Barcelona
confirmed their status as Europes
pre-eminent side by outclassing
Manchester United in the same arena
to win the 2011 tournament, but the
way that Bayern and Dortmund have
torn through this seasons competition
suggests a new continental order is as-
serting itself.
Bayern left Barca in ruins with an
incredible 7-0 aggregate win in the
semi-nals, while Dortmunds 4-1 de-
feat of Real Madrid in the same round
left the football world open-mouthed
in amazement.
Monumental evening
Irrespective of the result, it is cer-
tain to be a monumental evening for
German football, but the two sides
approach the game driven by very
dierent motivations.
For Bayern, the game represents
an opportunity to make amends for
painful nal defeats in 2010 and, in
particular, 2012, when a heart-breaking
penalty shoot-out loss to Chelsea was
played out before a crowd of horried
and disbelieving fans at their own Al-
lianz Arena.
Dortmund, the 1997 champions,
yearn to inict further misery upon
Bayern, who have gravely undermined
their opponents attempts to establish
themselves as creditable long-term ri-
vals by snatching away star playmaker
Mario Goetze in a sensational 37 mil-
lion euros (31.7 million, $47.8 million)
transfer.
No diplomatic embarassment
A hamstring injury to Goetze has
reduced the risk of diplomatic embar-
rassment today, but Bayern are also
believed to lead the race for Dortmunds
Polish striker Robert Lewandowski,
who put Madrid to the sword with an
extraordinary four-goal haul in the rst
leg of their semi-nal.
Goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller has
tried to downplay the signicance of
Goetzes injury by pointing to the 2012
German Cup nal, when Dortmund
thrashed Bayern 5-2 in his absence.
It goes without saying that with him
we have a dierent quality, he said.
But everything shouldnt rest on
him. In the DFB-Pokal nal in 2012,
Mario also didnt play. After losing ve
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
46 | Sport
Bayern Munichs Former midelder Thomas Hitzl-
sperger says the Bavarians need to win the Champions League
after losing two of the last three nals. Evertons Hitzlsperger, 31,
spent 11 years in Bayerns youth ranks and knows the importance
of todays Wembley nal against Borussia Dortmund.
It is massive. It is a huge game for them, he said. They are due
a title, they need to win. Dortmund face less pressure. Bayern lost
last seasons Champions League nal in their own Allianz Arena
to Chelsea on penalties, having been beaten at the same stage by
Inter Milan at the Bernabeu in 2010, and have not been European
champions since 2001. Victory in London would complete part
two of a possible treble, with the Bundesliga already won and the
German cup nal against Stuttgart to come on 1 June.
two teams head to the 101st competitive meeting between them
times in a row to Dortmund during the
Ruhr clubs back-to-back Bundesliga
title successes in 2011 and 2012, Bay-
ern have redressed the balance this
season, avoiding defeat in all four of
their most recent contests en route to
a nigh-on awless triumph in the Ger-
man title race.
Todays game will be the 101st
competitive meeting between the
sides and after seven encounters over
the last two seasons, Bayern manager
Jupp Heynckes believes there is little
scope for sleight of hand.
Familiar rivals
Both teams know each other very
well, both trainers are fully informed
about the opponent, so there are no
secrets, he said.
Heynckes can become only the fourth
coach to win the competition with two
dierent clubs, having previously led
Madrid to their eighth Champions
League title in 1998. It will, however,
be the 68-year-olds nal match in the
dug-out.
He has announced his retirement
after former Barcelona coach Pep Guar-
diola was appointed to succeed him,
despite a phenomenal campaign that
could end with Bayern claiming their
rst ever treble of league, German Cup
and Champions League honours.
Weve taken a massive stride to-
wards perfection, and were aiming
for a perfect performance in the nal,
said midelder Bastian Schweinsteiger,
whose side will tackle Stuttgart in the
German Cup nal on June 1. If we
play to our potential, its very hard for
anyone to win against us.
Nine years after almost going bust,
Dortmund hope to repeat their shock
1997 success, when a young Lars
Ricken, now the clubs youth team co-
ordinator, came o the bench to seal
a 3-1 win over Juventus at Munichs
Olympiastadion with an audacious
25-yard chip.
Juergen Klopps side have charmed
neutrals with their breathless counter-
attacking football over the last three
seasons and the likeable 45-year-old
Dortmund manager hopes their rise
has not left the impartial observer
unmoved.
Aside from Goetzes conrmed ab-
sence, Dortmund also have concerns
over the fitness of former Bayern
centre-back Mats Hummels, who in-
jured his ankle in Saturdays 2-1 loss
to Hoenheim.
Bayern are missing long-term injury
victims Holger Badstuber and Toni
Kroos, but unlike 12 months ago,
when they were without Badstuber,
David Alaba and Luiz Gustavo due to
suspension against Chelsea, they are
otherwise at full strength. (AFP)
PROBABLE STARTING LINE-UPS:
Bayern Munich: (4-2-3-1): Manuel Neuer; Philipp
Lahm (c), Jerome Boateng, Dante, David Alaba;
Bastian Schweinsteiger, Javi Martinez; Arjen
Robben, Thomas Mueller, Franck Ribery, Mario
Mandzukic. Coach: Jupp Heynckes
Borussia Dortmund (4-2-3-1): Roman Weidenfel-
ler (c); Lukasz Piszczek, Neven Subotic, Mats
Hummels, Marcel Schmelzer; Sven Bender, Ilkay
Gundogan; Jakub Blaszczykowski, Marco Reus,
Kevin Grosskreutz; Robert Lewandowski.
Bayern seek Euro glory
THE COACHES
Jurgen Klopp
(Borussia Dortmund)
Having coached Mainz 05 straight after
retiring in 2001, the 45-year-old cut his
managerial teeth by getting them into
the Bundesliga before joining Dortmund
in 2008 after Bayern Munich opted
for former Germany trainer Jurgen
Klinsmann instead. With his unkempt
appearance, quick wit and laid-back
personality, Klopp was better known as
a TV pundit in Germany before leading
Dortmund to back-to-back league titles,
including the 2012 league and cup dou-
ble, with an impressive counter-pressing
system.
Jupp Heynckes
(Bayern Munich)
A World Cup winner in 1974 and a Euro-
pean Champion in 1972 with West Ger-
many, Heynckes nished his playing career
as the third-highest scorer in Bundesliga
history with 220 goals in 369 league
games, the majority of which were with
his native Borussia Moenchengladbach. He
moved into coaching in 1979 at Gladbach,
but despite winning the 1998 Champions
League title during his single season at
Real Madrid, he has enjoyed only limited
success as a coach until this season. At
68, he is in his third stint as Bayern coach,
after leading the Bavarians to back-to-
back titles in 1988-89 and 1989-90, then
returned to help steer Bayern to a Champi-
ons League place when Jurgen Klinsmann
was sacked in 2009. After Bayern lost last
seasons Champions League nal to Chel-
sea on penalties and, nishing runners-up
to Dortmund in both the league and cup,
Heynckes was under pressure to deliver.
Both teams know
each other very well,
both trainers are fully
informed about the
opponent
Jupp Heynkes
Bayern coach
ROAD TO FINAL
Teams have stood test of opponents
Bayern Munich
Group F
P W D L GF GA P
Bayern Munich 6 4 1 1 15 7 13
Valencia 6 4 1 1 12 5 13
BATE 6 2 0 4 9 15 6
Lille OSC 6 1 0 5 4 13 3
Round of 16
Arsenal (ENG) 1 (Podolski 55) Bayern Mu-
nich 3 (Kroos 7, Mueller 21, Mandzukic 77)
Bayern Munich 0 Arsenal 2 (Giroud 3,
Koscielny 85). Bayern go through on away
goals
Quarter-nals
Bayern Munich 2 (Alaba 1, Mueller 63) Ju-
ventus (ITA) 0
Juventus 0 Bayern Munich 2 (Mandzukic 64,
Pizarro 90+1). Bayern win 4-0 on aggregate
Semi-nals
Bayern Munich 4 (Mueller 25, 82, Gomez 49,
Robben 73) Barcelona (ESP) 0
Barcelona 0 Bayern Munich 3 (Robben 48,
Gique 72-og, Mueller 76)
Bayern win 7-0 on aggregate
Final
At Wembley (today, 9.45pm)
Borussia Dortmund v Bayern Munich
Borussia Dortmund
Group D
P W D L GF GA P
Borussia Dortmund 6 4 2 0 11 5 14
Real Madrid 6 3 2 1 15 9 11
Ajax Amsterdam 6 1 1 4 8 16 4
Manchester City 6 0 3 3 7 11 3
Round of 16
Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) 2 (Srna 31,
Douglas Costa 68) Borussia Dortmund 2
(Lewandowski 41, Hummels 87)
Borussia Dortmund 3 (Felipe Santana 31,
Goetze 37, Blaszczykowski 59) Shakhtar
Donetsk 0. Dortmund win 5-2 on aggregate
Quarter-nals
Malaga (ESP) 0 Borussia Dortmund 0
Borussia Dortmund 3 (Lewandowski 40,
Reus 90+1, Felipe Santana 90+2) Malaga 2
(Joaquin 25, Eliseu 82)
Dortmund win 3-2 on aggregate
Semi-nals
Borussia Dortmund 4 (Lewandowski 8, 50,
55, 67-pen) Real Madrid (ESP) (Ronaldo 43)
Real Madrid 2 (Benzema 82, Sergio Ramos
88) Borussia Dortmund 0
Dortmund win 4-3 on aggregate
UP THERE WITH THE BEST
Todays nal showcases Bundesliga rise
Germanys Bundesliga will be on
show to the world in todays Cham-
pions League nal when Bayern
Munich take on Borussia Dortmund
in the rst all-German European cup
nale.
Wembley is set to be bathed in
black, red and gold for the day and
football fans will have a chance to
see why the crowds are turning to
the German league in their droves.
With an average of 44,293, the
Bundesliga has the highest attend-
ance gures in the world with the
cheapest season ticket for an adult
standing on the terraces costing 120
euros (155 dollars, 102 pounds) at
Bayerns Allianz Arena, while Dort-
mund charge 187 euros (241 dollars,
160 pounds) at the Westfalensta-
dion.
In contrast, last seasons prices in
the English Premier League (EPL)
saw the cheapest season ticket at
Arsenal set fans back 985 pounds
(1,151 euros, 1,488 dollars), while it
cost 255 pounds (298 euros, 385
dollars) to watch relegated Wigan
Athletic.
The Bundesliga is now broadcast
in 150 countries, but still falls behind
the EPL in terms of global popular-
ity, although in terms of value-for-
money in the stadiums, the Ger-
man league goes from strength to
strength.
Bayern Munich president Uli
Hoeness has said the attitude of
clubs towards their fans is the key
dierence between the leagues in
England and Germany.
We could charge more than
102. Lets say we charged 300.
Wed get 2m more in income but
whats 2m to us?, said the Bayern
boss. In a transfer discussion, you
argue about that sum for ve min-
utes. But the dierence between
102 and 300 is huge for the fan.
We do not think the fans are like
cows, who you milk. Football has
got to be for everybody.
Thats the biggest dierence be-
tween us and England.
Another key factor is the Bundes-
ligas 50+1 ownership rule, wich
protects German clubs from inter-
ference by big-spending overseas
backers.
English clubs receive huge funds
from foreign investors, with wealthy
gures from Russia, the Middle East
and Asia lling various clubs cof-
fers, leading to three Champions
League winners (Liverpool in 2005,
Manchester United in 2008 and
Chelsea in 2012), plus ve runners-
up from the EPL.
With huge wage bills, the suc-
cess comes at a price with most
clubs saddled with heavy debts
and foreign sugar daddies who can
withdraw their nancial support at
any moment.
In contrast, German teams abide
by the principle of 50+1 owner-
ship, which means members must
retain a majority stake in the club,
while investors can own no more
than 49 percent. The rule is de-
signed to allow investment opportu-
nities while preventing an individual
from having overall control.
The biggest dierence for the
development of German football
is the 50+1 rule, it means clubs can
make their own decisions, said
Dortmunds CEO Hans-Joachim
Watkze.
We can decide our own politics
with good-value tickets. The fact we
can have 28,000 people in our sta-
dium paying between 10 to 12 euros,
but we still have sporting success is
interesting for the English media.
(AFP)
Gor Mahia out
to salvage pride
after Top 8 exit
BY ODINDO AYIEKO
oayieko@ke.nationmedia.com
If there was a time Gor Mahia coach
Zdravko Logarusic badly needed a win,
then it is this weekend when Gor face
Western Stima in Mumias.
For AFC Leopards Luc Eymael, it
will be to continue from where he left
last weekend when they beat Ulinzi
Stars 1-0. Leopards have a date with
Mathare United this afternoon at City
Stadium.
League leaders Thika United face o
with Kenya Commercial Bank in todays
other match at City Stadium today with
City Stars hosting Homeboyz and Hope
Centre.
Champions Tusker look to return to
winning ways when they visit Muhoroni
Youth tomorrow. Tusker has lost two
successive matches to Thika United and
Chemelil Sugar and coach Robert Ma-
tano is beginning to feel the pressure.
Chemelil welcome Ulinzi in Chemelil
while in Awendo Sony Sugar will lock
horns with Karuturi Sports. Coast-based
Bandari also have a date with Sofapaka
at Mbaraki Sports Club.
Back to Logarusic, the darling of
KOgalo fans deservedly won the 2012
KPL Coach of the Year award. Gor
Mahia may not be in a bad position
in the league but last weekends draw
with City Stars coupled with their
elimination from the Top 8 tournament
by Tusker has put the Croats tactics
under scrutiny.
He must get his act right in Mumias,
a fan thundered after Wednesday nights
match against the brewers which ended
scoreless.
Desperate for league crown
After nishing second last season,
just a point behind Tusker on the nal
day when the title seemed headed to
KOgalo, Logarusic is all too aware that
the Green Army are desperate for the
league crown that has eluded them for
18 long years. Logarusic himself has said
his ultimate target is to win the title.
It (league) is what we want and we
are very focused. It will not be easy but
we are in a good position to achieve this
goal, he said.
Before that though, he must collect
maximum points in Mumias tomorrow
to keep pace with leaders Thika United
and Sofapaka who are ahead of Gor by
three points. The joint leaders have 21
points apiece.
Beating Stima will not be easy though
Gor won 2-1 in the second leg last season
at the same venue.
In Nairobi, Eymael will parade Ingwe
against Mathare United, a very tricky
opponent although Leopards go into
the match full of condence after last
weekends 1-0 win over Ulinzi.
It is good now we are back to winning
ways. It gives the players condence but
we must also learn to hold the ball, play
a passing game and seal victory early
enough, Eymael said.
At Tusker, another defeat will throw
Matanos team into a crisis. Loses to
Thika and Chemelil has dealt a heavy
blow to Tuskers title defence bid. But
all is not lost. Tusker are tenth with
13 points from ten matches and with
20 games to go and 60 points to ght
for, Matanos men are still very much
in contention.
Weekend xtures - Tomorrow: City Stars v Homeboyz
(Hope Centre), KCB v Thika United (City, 2pm), Mathare
United v AFC Leopards (City, 4pm). Sunday: Western
Stima v Gor Mahia (Mumias), Muhoroni Youth v Tusker
(Muhoroni), Chemelil Sugar v Ulinzi Stars (Chemelil), Sony
Sugar v Karuturi Sports (Awendo), Bandari v Sofapaka
(Mombasa).
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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL
Bundesliga goliaths Bayern Munich and
Dortmund clash at Wembley tonight to
ght for supremacy in Europes most
celebrated tournament. P.46-47
KIPSANG LENDS COLOUR
TO KENYA POLICE GAMES
ATHLETICS
2011 World Cross junior champion
retains 10,000m title in style and
sets his sights on World title. P.43
MOHAMMED AMIN | NA-
TION
World 800m cham-
pion David Rudisha
stretches during
training at Kasarani
in July last year.
Rudisha will com-
pete in the Diamond
League in New York.
BY AYUMBA AYODI
sayodi@ke.nationmedia.com
D
avid Rudisha came close to
breaking his own World 800m
record at last years New York
leg of the Diamond League Series.
When he surpassed Wilson Kip-
keters record of 1:41.11 in a new
time of 1min, 41.09secs in Berlin on
August 22, 2010, Rudisha improved
that time to 1:41.01 within a week in
Rieti, Italy.
The trail-blazing 24-year-old
World champion would later charm
the crowd at Icahn Stadium in New
York City in June 2012 with a world
leading and meet record time of 1:
41.74, missing his own World record
at the Adidas Grand Prix.
Expected to dominate
But that was then. Rudisha will
be in the spotlight today, with many
expecting another blazing show, es-
pecially after the Policeman glided
to a world leading 1:43.87 in Doha
on early this month.
We expect Rudisha to dominate
again this year and would be surprised
if anyone in the eld nished within
one second of him, said a leading
World 800m record
holder expected to shine
today after winning the
opening leg in Doha
athletics blog, LetsRun.com. But Rudisha will
have to contend with competition from fellow
countrymen such as the London Olympics
800m bronze medallist, Timothy Kitum, who
ran a personal best of 1:42.53 at the Olympics,
as well as 2010 Commonwealth Games 800m
gold medallist, Boaz Lalang.
Rudisha was cagey about the prospects of
improving on his World record when he set
personal best 45.15 in 400m at a local meeting
before heading to Doha. I have crafted a rened
training programme but it is still too early to
tell; one never really knows until we get deep
into the season, Rudisha said.
But Lydia Chepkurui is looking to building
on her gains from Doha in the womens 3,000m
steeplechase.World Cross champion, Josphat
Korir, Gedion Gathimba, Mark Kiptoo, 2007
World Cross junior silver medallist, Vincent Ki-
prop, will vie against Ethiopians, Olympic silver
medallist Dejen Gebremeskel, and World junior
record holder, Hagos Gebrhiwet in 5,000m.
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nfrmatn dmnatn, but vn th lak f a
rr atn lan n th NSSF d. It nl a
mattr f tm bfr th lan fall aart and t all
bau th rt managr at th NSSF uldnt
b bthrd t tak m tm t thnk thng
thrugh.
A a rult, thr ar lt f drat wmn
wrkng mthr wth mddl t lw nm and
ung hldrn wh th nd hl takng ar f
wh ar walkng arund flng lk th ar abut t
bm rmnal. In a fw da tm, NSSF r
wll tart dr-t-dr hk lkng t la ann
wh ha nt rgtrd thr hl wth a hug n.
And thr a lt f nfun. Ar mlr
ud t rgtr thr ml? Shuldnt
th rgtr thmlv, ut lk w dd whn w
wr rt mld? Nw that th gvrnmnt wll
b art t th arrangmnt btwn dmt
hl and thr ml, wll th b abl t tll
f w ar ang thm mnmum wag? What abut
th wmn wh annt ard th Sh9, 75 (fr
urban ntr) that th dmt mnmum wag?
Frm m brvatn, th avrag a fr a Knan
nann m t hvr btwn Sh3, 5 and 6, .
And t b qut hnt, nt man hu hl ar
wllng t ar Sh4 frm thr a bau th
nttut a hug hunk f what
th arn.
And hw wll th NSSF l
th nw law? u hl and
mlr ar nw lludng t
bm rlatv n rdr t gt
rund th k NSSF bun.
Wll NSSF r b abl t
artan that th nt ? And
dnt vn gt m tartd n
th arha amnt tm that
rqur mlr t quu at
thr t a. Evr mnth! What - dd MPa
uddnl brak dwn r mthng?
Bau f all th, a numbr f hu hl ar
abut t l thr b, and th daar bun
abut t bm.
I hav ablutl n rblm urng m
dmt hl futur, and I am glad that th
gvrnmnt ha td n t rgular what ud
t b an nfrmal arrangmnt. wvr, la
dnt antagn a natn f drat mthr.
Eduat th ubl, ntad. Snd th NSSF agnt
ut armd wth rgtratn frm, nt n ht.
Lt wrk tgthr t rat th Kna w want.
Wr all n th am d.
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Thr nthng a tantalng a atng an
qutl-rard mal at a n rtaurant.
A uful dnng rn, hwvr, all
fr grau bhavur n ur art. r ar
m wa t hl mak t tr-fr and nur
that u n ur mal mmnl wthut
wrrng abut m fau a r thr.
Dnng tqutt
If u ar gng ut a a ul, th man ftn
tak th u. Th rul n lgant rtaurant
alwa lad rt. A u ntr th rtaurant,
th matrd wll at u at a lung whl ur
tabl bng rard. r h wll thn
annun that ur tabl rad. A a lad, u
ar td t tand u and fllw hm. Whn
u gt t th tabl, ur at wll b ulld
ut and u huld bnd ur kn n a ttng
tn untl t uhd t whr u ar, and
thn lwr ur bd t th har. Yu wll b
handd a mnu. If u ar th ht, ur
mnu wll hav a r lt. If u ar th gut,
ur mnu wll ml lt th tm wthut
r, whl th ht gt th rd mnu. A
a lad, u hall b td t rdr bfr th
man. Pla ur nakn n ur la a th rt
ur arrv.
Th fllwng t ma b dud
vr dnnr, f ur mann a nw
aquantan:
Th wathr
Th fd
Yur wrk
Nn-ntrvral ubt.
D nt du th fllwng:
Dtal f ur rnt ratn
Rlgn and lt
Trat th ta urtul and avd ratng a
n. In a thr a rblm, a, th fd
nt a frh a t huld b, all th watr ad,
and qutl lan ur rdamnt. Mt
f th n rtaurant wll rla ur mal
wthut muh ad.
Smtm, a rnal r rar t ugl
had wthut warnng. It uld b n f th
tuatn:
Thrwng u at th tabl:
Fr m ran th ght and mll f m
fd ma mak u nauu. Th bt wa t
d damag ntrl t hld ur nakn vr
ur muth and mak a bln t th lad
rm. Tr ur bt nt t thrw u n urlf
r n th tabl.
On t man:
Thr ar rtan t f alhl drnk that
aar harml whn u ar atd and lwl
ng awa. Th rblm ar whn u gt
u t nd th rm wang arund. A u tr
t nd balan and targt ur at, t wa
awa frm u and u land n th r nt t
t. T avd uh an mbarrang tuatn, t
bt t fgn a kn and allw th watr t
hl u u. T rvnt th rblm n futur,
h ur drnk wth ar.
-Cmld b Irn Nrg (Lturr @ Irn
Baut Inttut, Nr.)
Ar van makng ur hld
mntall ll?
Thank u fr th nfrmatv fatur
n u that mattr t u. I artularl
fund th fatur n th MMR van vr
mlghtnng. I am ur nt man mum
knw abut th van and t d t,
and I am rtanl n f th wh had
n da abut t t. Unfrtunatl, I
tk m lttl n fr th MMR ab thr
wk ag, but I h h wll b ard
th d t and grw nrmall. I wh
th gvrnmnt wuld rla a wdl
ubld lt f th rmmndd and
mandatr van. I al wh dtr
wuld ndr th lv f ur hldrn
abv mn bfr th rmmnd
harmful ubtan t unutng
mthr. Patn Kahr, va mal.
***
Twnt ar ag ndtn lk autm,
attntn dt drdr and hratvt
wr almt unhard f n Kna. Th
rrlatn btwn vanatn and th
ndtn huld b lkd nt. I al
wndr wh arnt ar frd b law t
vanat thr hldrn. Parnt huld hav
th frdm t mak halth h that ar
bnal fr thr hldrn. W d nt want
ur hldrn t bm tatt n th rll
f vanatd hldrn. Ananda Ruhra, va
mal
***
Cndntall, autm uuall dttd
n hldrn whn th turn tw, whh
abut th am ag whn th MMR van
admntrd. Thr mght b a rrlatn
but that d nt man th van au
autm. J, va mal
***
Kud, wmn f an!
Lat Saturda Wman f Pan mad
fr ntrtng radng and rd a lt
f nuragmnt t wmn. It wa
al a hallng t mn wh thnk that
wmn an nl urvv
undr thr wng. I hav
wtnd a f wmn
wh mmt ud, ut
lk Mar Wambu almt
dd, bau th want t
qut bad marrag but fl
tuk a th lak man t
urt thmlv and
thr hldrn.
Lk Mar, wmn huld
ral that th an mak
t n thr wn and lad
a mfrtabl lf b
fllwng thr an
and makng t a ur f
nm. Kud Satmag fr
brngng u th nrng
tr! Fran Orna, va
mal
***
Slng tandard at
hu
I am an ardnt radr f th Saturda
Magazn all th Eatng and Outng
tn. I ttall agr wth th rvw
n Java. Fr a lng tm Java blak frt
ak wr unmathd b an thr n th
twn. wvr, I mght hav t lk fr an
altrnatv. I rntl bught a blak frt
at thr Gallra utlt and t wa a ttal
dantmnt. It wa mr f a hlat
ak and I ddnt n t n bt bau
I hat hlat ak. I wrt an -mal t
Java Gallra rng m datfatn
wth th ak but t dat th hav nt
rndd. I t that thr fdbak -mal
dnt wrk (gallra@narbavahu.
m) r th a tratg t hd m
dhard fan f th blak frt ak? In
ur nt rvw kndl lt u knw whr
t nd llnt blak frt ak. Lu
Gkn, va mal
***
Yu huld hav nludd th Mmbaa
branh f Java; th
nd t hk thr fd bfr rvng
utmr. Th rntl rvd m ak
and a rant that wr nt frh. Salwa
Omar, va mal
***
I dagr wth th wrtr f lat wknd
rvw f th hu han, Java. I
hav bn t th Java at Catal Cntr,
alng Mmbaa Rad and I agr that t
rwdd; but dnt u thnk th bau
th r gd fd and grat rv? I
n th fd and rv at Java and I k
gng bak fr mr. Gra Makat, va
mal
***
Y, mn and wmn ant b ut frnd
Knutha Mburu artl n wh mn and
wmn an nvr b ut frnd wa
a tml and ntrtng rad. I ttall
agr wth th ndng f th rarh
that urt th lam. It tru that mn
and wmn vw latn rlatnh
drntl. I hav a fmal frnd wh ha
gnrall tad blnd t m rmant
attratn tward hr, t I n mutual
attratn btwn u. In fat, th
rmant flng ar thratnng t brak
ur rlatnh bau hr bfrnd
ftn gt alu f ur frndh. Mn
and wmn ant b ut frnd. Rmant
flng wll alwa dvl, but wmn
dn havng an flng fr thr mal
frnd bau th ar afrad that f
th r thm, th mght l th
frndh. Mulnd Car, Kakamga
***
Lat wknd Rarh Cntr wa
ablutl tru. Wmn bm vulnrabl
and ma bgn fl attratd t thr
latn frnd f th ar rnng
trubl wth thr bfrnd. Chrtn M
Chr, va mal
***
Thnlg runng ur rlatnh
I nd radng th nfrmatv alth
Mattr fatur n hw hn, lat and
thr gadgt rb u f ur artnr and
ntrfr wth ual ntma. wvr, Dr
Jahm Our nl takld what t d f nl
n artnr abrbd n h hn t th
nt f dnng h wf attntn. What
abut f bth artnr ar addtd t th
knd f bhavr? Wh rnblt t
t mak ur that th bth wrk tward
rbuldng ntma wth ah thr? Shm
Oglla, va mal
***
Dnt k rt frm ur hld
I aratd th fatur n dlng
rt t hldrn. It mrtant fr
hldrn t b ut n th tur f thng
that at thm, a arl a bl. Parnt
huld al dl thr IV tatu t
thr hldrn that th dnt hav t nd
ut b adnt. Kagur Lu, va mal
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J
was born ln l973 ln Nyerl County, the rst born ln a famlly of slx slsters, and | got marrled ln l995 to the man | belleved was of my dreams, ln a Klambu County church. He was a tout and | was unemployed, and our unlon was all chemlstry and no wlsdom. "wlthln three years, | found out that | had marrled a chauvlnlst who belleved that a woman's place was ln the kltchen and the bed, and that she needed regular beatlng to keep her on her toes. | faced abuse and outrlght contempt from my husband. Many are the tlmes that | wlshed | could dle to escape the frustratlons of my marrlage, but a volce lnslde kept telllng me sulclde was the path of cowards.
"Durlng my renectlons ln thls tlme, lt struck me that | was better educated than my husband. | also came from a well-to-do famlly that would not refuse to support me and my two klds. | had a chat wlth several condantes and we all came to one conclusloncall lt qults and move on. "| left my husband ln l998 and retreated back to my parent's homestead to recoup my energles to march me lnto the future, and started my slngle llfe wlth [ust two klds, bralns, potentlal and the strength to reslst the vlclssltudes of slngle-motherhood. "|t was whlle ln my parents' care that | found out about the latest buslness fad: herbal theraples belng taught by the Chlnese Herbal Pesearch Centre ln Nalrobl. | declded to look lnto lt. My mother pald for me to attend thelr research courses and for slx months, | learnt about tradltlonal crops and herb comblnatlons to come up wlth dletary solutlons for mlnor allments. The same year, | [olned a grassroots women's self-help group ln Murang'a Dlstrlct where the Kenya Agrlcultural Pesearch |nstltute (Karl) was researchlng tradltlonal crops wlth medlclnal value to tame dlabetes and H|v/ Alds.
"The lnstltute was collaboratlng wlth the Unlverslty of Nalrobl and the Pennsylvanla Unlverslty of USA to carry out research on tradltlonal crops that have nutrlents of hlgh medlclnal value capable of tamlng these dlseases. The pro[ect, whlch was funded by USAld, was to later be repllcated ln 8omet, Makuenl, and Mbeere dlstrlcts. |n
the meantlme, | declded to concentrate my enorts on researchlng herbal toothpaste. "|n 2000 | [olned the Kenya Porestry Pesearch |nstltute (Kefrl) research programme, where for four years, | concentrated on the pro[ect. The Maseno Unlverslty had teamed up wlth Kefrl to carry out research on the enectlveness, safety and acceptablllty to many users of herbal medlclne. The study also had on board the Natlonal Museums of Kenya, whose mandate was to enhance capaclty and capablllty of local communltles to conserve the blodlverslty of medlclnal plants. 8y 200l, | had researched and developed a herbal mlx that was capable of removlng stalns on dlscoloured teeth.
Tubjofe uffui tpmvujpo "|n the course of my research, | examlned the real causes of stalned teeth and dlscovered that the onendlng colour never permeates the tooth beyond the enamel. | also found out that the dlscolouratlon can occur at a tender age as a result of tooth decay, often caused by lnadequate brushlng. |n other lnstances, an lnfant may have teeth dlscolouratlon lf the mother took tetracycllne durlng pregnancy. Tetracycllne ls a powerful antlblotlc used to treat bacterlal lnfectlons such as typhus fever, upper resplratory lnfectlons, pneumonla, gonorrhea, amoeblc lnfectlons and urlnary tract lnfectlons. |t ls also used to help treat severe acne and trachoma. Medlcs advlse that lt
should not be prescrlbed
durlng the last half of pregnancy or for chlldren under the age of elght slnce lt may damage developlng teeth and cause permanent dlscolouratlon. "| call my herbal formula 'Smlle and Sparkle Solutlon'. |t ls a comblnatlon of seven dlnerent herbs, whlch are found ln the bushes and forests of Meru and Ukambanl. | boll, mash and dry them, then add a llttle water to form a
paste llke that
of common
toothpaste. | am constantly researchlng and lmprovlng lts formula. |t ls currently ln the process of belng patented. "|t only takes 20 mlnutes of me and my paste, and stalned teeth are restored to thelr orlglnal colour. | rub lt on the dlscoloured teeth wlth a small thlck-brlstle brush. |n 20 mlnutes, the onendlng colour ls gone and you are free to smlle.
"|n 2002, | establlshed a cllnlc ln wanglge, Klambu County. My mother advanced me a Shl00, 000 to help me start up. | chose wanglge because teeth dlscolouratlon ls commonest ln Klambu and Nakuru reglons. 8ut lt was not easy to convlnce people that my formula would work. | had to devlse a slmple and result-orlented marketlng strategy.
Sftvmu.psjfoufe nbslfujoh "| advertlsed ln PM statlons, telllng my would-be cllents that they would only pay after conrmlng the results. | pegged my charges at Sh200 per tooth cleansed of the onendlng colour. wlthln a month, the results were overwhelmlng. | had managed to repay my mum the cash she had advanced me and stlll remalned wlth enough to move to a more favourable locatlon. "8y 2007, my cllentele base had attracted among others, leadlng Tv, entertalnment and publlc speaklng personalltles. | opened another branch ln Glthural 45 to net customers from the Mt Kenya reglon, and all the worrles of an uncertaln future as a slngle mother dlsappeared.
"Today, | run ve cllnlcs ln Nalrobl. | am dolng well enough: my bank can lend me an unsecured loan of up to Shl.5m wlthout too much trouble. However, the eld ls not wlthout challenges.
"The most vlclous one emanates from dentlsts who can resort to unorthodox terrltorlal wars. Also, we have encountered lmposters who belleve that they can copy-cat us, advertlslng themselves as an extenslon of our company. Also,
the Government
does not
recognlse
herbal medlclne
as a genulne
eld wlth a
followlng ln
soclety.
"what do | hope
for my future! To forget
completely that | was
once marrled, to
see my chlldren
become self-
dependent, and
to see herbal
medlclne take lts
rlghtful place ln the
soclety.
Mary wambul, 39, left
an abuslve marrlage
wlth no ldea how to
fend for herself, and
became an unemployed
slngle mother of two
chlldren. 8ut when she
saw an opportunlty ln
the herbal toothpaste
buslness she took lt wlth
both hands. Here ls her
story.
WOMANOFPASSION w|TH PATP|C|A wAN1ALA
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Tnjmjoh bmm uif
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PHOTOS | SULL|MAN M8AT|AH
HOW SHE DID IT: Held onto hope after leavlng an abuslve marrlage
Uslng her mlnd as an lnvestment Searchlng for a tlmely ldea to lnvest her mlnd ln
Asklng for nanclal help from famlly
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E
vr w arnt gt thr
hld rad t fa th
nvtabl hallng f
lf, but n th da f
nrang rrt th
muh hardr t d than t ud t
b. Fr aml, tak th dradd
ntn f trar. (Th da t
rar fr a hld t nd a rk and
whn t dn th u a buttr
and mak vr rt t rdu th
tr and an f th rn.)
In m uth, vr ntn wa a
t f ntatn rmn dgnd
t rar u fr frthmng lf
nat.
In th da dtr urgr
mlld trngl f urgal rt,
th famlar ubtan that wa
rubbd brkl n th ntn t
ut bfr th hrrd rdur.
Thu, ut ntrng a dtr rm
wa alrad a gnal that u wr
abut t rn a rblm.
Wr, dtr wr nt h abut
dlng what th ntndd t d.
Th hld nd an ntn, th
dtr wuld annun ludl. A a
rult, th trrr tartd lng bfr
th atual vnt. T mak mattr
wr, vr urgr had a al
latn fr th admntratn f
ntn. It wa markd b a larg
arrw and a rd antd gn: WAIT
ERE FOR INJECTION. A hard wdn
bnh wa lad bnath th gn
and n uld a hrt urtan
vrng th ntran t a rm.
Sttng n th bnh wth Mthr
(h had t b thr t k u n
la thrw u wuld url
) wa a lttl lk bng n th
watng rm t hll.
Drat ram
Evr ftn a hld wuld b
ld nt th rm and thr wuld
nvarabl fllw a drat ram.
Th rtatd mahm n th
bnh a mthr trd dratl
t rtran th rmanng hldrn.
Whn t wa ur turn, th tar
tartd t w a n a ur
nam wa alld. In th da th
favurt t fr ntn wa
th bhnd, aart frm all th
thr ndgnt, n wa frd t
undr fr th vgru rt-rub.
Thn mamum far wa ndud
b th ntr f a thn, tall man
warng gla wh arrd a w-
tratmnt-z ndl. rdd
t ll th rng frm a bttl, thn
kd t wth a ngr. ntd
th ndl uward and rad
th lqud nt th ar. At th
nt t rqurd th full trngth f
a mthr t k hr hld n la.
If u wr luk and t wa a rvat
htal, u mght gt a lll a
nlatn aftr th ntn wa
dn. Th wa anthr duatnal
rn n th numtn f
th lll ld t mlar rblm
n a dntt urgr. Thrfr,
ntn wr an llnt wa f
rarng ungtr fr th harh
ralt f lf. Fr th hldrn
wh wr t halth t b trand
n th wa, th hl amnatn
wa ntrdud. Smlar t th
mdal rdur, th amnatn
nludd a gn, a trturu wat, a
al rm, th mll f far, an
ntmdatng nvglatr and a anful
rult. Th nl mng art wa th
rn f ur mthr t hld u
dwn. Eamnatn wr dgnd
t ndu th am knd f mnd-
numbng far a ntn. Ann
wh uld g thrugh th trtur f
an ntn r an amnatn wa
rad t fa lf.
Frghtnng ngtatn
Yu mght argu that nt vr
tn nvlv th knd f
hallng that rqur th rt f
harh raratn. wvr, untl
vr rntl, mt ung l
ndd t b rard t g
thrugh th anful and frghtnng
rn f dwr ngtatn. A
vntur nt n-law trrtr whl n
th thr f a trng mtn nt
unlk ttng n a hard bnh watng
t b rd b a har ndl.
Of ur w h that th rult
f all th rdur llnt
halth, a rru arr, a ha
marrag, and mtahrall
a af rng f th Rvr Jrdan
nt th Prmd Land. S, dt
th dmfrt, I am gratful t m
arnt fr lttng m g thrugh th
hard tm n rdr t ahv th
bt.
D nt vad ur hallng th
Saturda!
Irn Kak a qualt r wth a halth NGO
I rawl ut f bd at 5am, a a rar, and tart
rng. I am wrkng n m tmah at th mmnt and
h t th rult f m rt n. I d nt dll-dall
n th hu and lav fr wrk b 5.5am t bat th tra
n m wa t th n Wtland, Narb.
An hur latr, I arrv at wrk whr I kk-tart m da
wth a u f grn ta and a bwl f ral n I dd nt
hav tm fr brakfat at hm. Aftr anthr half-hur f
athng u wth th natnal nw frm th dal, I am
rad t gt dwn t bun. Bun man gng t
drnt halth falt, hkng f th ar wll-managd,
hav quald ta, and that th d f wat wll. If
th mt th tandard, I gv thm a rtat.
I hav fund that l d nt lk t hang vn
th mlt thng. Fr ntan, vr halth falt
ught t hav tr at vr nk hwng hw t wah
hand rrl. W wr rntl at a falt whr th
managmnt wa nvnd that th wr rng th
bt halthar arund, but thr wr n handwahng
tr n th wall and n n thught t wa mrtant.
W had t nvn thm that th nl wa th wuld gt
a rtat, dt havng vrthng l n la, b
uttng u th tr th blgd.
Enurng gd halthar
I am ha t nun l n that wa and
all nurng that vn thugh l ar r, th
tll gt gd qualt halthar.
I lav wrk at 5m and gt hm at 7m. I nd dnnr
rad, thrfr I nd mt vnng bndng wth m
ungr brthr, Ian, vr a mv r TV. Sal buttr
nt a wrd u wuld u t drb m but vr n
n a whl, all n Frda r Saturda, I g ut wth
frnd. M favurt t D at Narb Wt.
I lk t rad n btwn atvt r n quu durng
th da. I am urrntl radng Lttr to My Dauhtr b
Maa Anglu. It a grat rad and I am ar a vr
nrng qut n t: Yu ma nt ntrl all th vnt that
han t u, but u an dd nt t b rdud b
thm. Tr t b a ranbw n mn l lud. D nt
mlan. Mak vr rt t hang thng u d nt
lk. If u annt mak a hang, hang th wa u hav
bn thnkng. Yu mght nd a nw lutn.
I k a urnal n whh I wrt vr nght. It a hbb
and t hl ut m thught tgthr. Gng bak t th
da that wr har hl
m gt thrugh th
blu da.
Lkng bak,
th nvaluabl
ln that I hav
larnt ha bn
t t gal that
ar ralt and
attanabl and nt t
b afrad t fllw
m dram.
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Pan n th hu!
Th hurrd mlmntatn
f th Natnal Sal Surt
At antagnng mthr
and gvng hu hl b
nurt. Wh th ? Jan
Thatah and Knutha Mburu
nd ut
S
ta Ikua a nw mthr. Sh ha nt had tabl
and ntnt hl fr hr bab. I hav hangd
hu hl thr tm n a an f vn
mnth. Mt f th I mld dd nt hav
th rt and atn that m wth tndng a
ung hld, a th 31-ar-ld.
Chrtn Adma, a rdnt f Karbang Suth Etat
and a mthr-f-tw, rval that h t t mt th
mnmum alar rqurmnt fr a dmt rvant n
Narb, whh nw tand at Sh9,75. Sh an nl ard
t a hr hl Sh4,5. Sh ha a wman wh m n
dal frm th nghburng Mathar lum, wh al
a mthr and ml mn t lk aftr hr wn
hldrn whl h wrk at Chrtn hu.
Thrt-tw-ar-ld Stlla Odng ha bn wrkng
a a hu hl fr th at thr ar. Sh lv n
Mukuru Kwa Nnga and wrk at th adant Vlla
Frana tat. Sh a ngl mthr-f-thr, tw b
and a grl, and wrk frm 7am t 6m. In a wk tm,
thugh, Stlla afrad that h ma l hr ur f
nm.
Th wmn frm drnt bakgrund and nm
brakt ar nw bng nfrntd b n tr; th
Natnal Sal Surt Fund (NSSF) dmt hl
rgtratn and rmttan rt that abut t b
nfrd.
Th law n tlf nt nw; Parlamnt ad th
Natnal Sal Surt Bll n 21, makng t mandatr
fr all dmt wrkr t b rgtrd wth NSSF. Th
nludd wrkr n atgr 1-4 wh had rvul
bn lft ut, nludng hu hl, drvr, hrdmn,
and gardnr. In h Labur Da h, Prdnt Uhuru
Knatta akd th Natnal Ambl t fat-trak th
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WHAT THE PROCESS INVOLVES
1
Th mlr mut rgtr rt ung
thr KRA PIN numbr. (Th rgtratn
drnt frm th n that u ma alrad
hav a an ml f ur rganatn.)
2
Th hu hl wll rgtr ung thr
ID nl. Th ml wll b ud
a mmbrh rgtratn numbr. Th
mlr wll rmt th mn ung hr wn
numbr.
3
Yu an rgtr at an NSSF branh. Yu
an al rgtr nln b dwnladng
th mlr rgtratn frm frm
www.nf.r.k. Th frm huld b lld thn
drd at th nart NSSF wth a
f ur natnal dntt ard, art, r
aln ID attahd. Rgtratn wth NSSF fr
and huld b dn mmdatl n bm
an mlr.
4
Th mnthl ntrbutn an b ad
thrugh hqu, bankr hqu, r ah
dt mad at th nart NSSF .
5
Cntrbutn fr ah mnth huld b
ad bfr th 15th da f th fllwng
mnth. Lat amnt attrat ntrt at th
rat f 5 r nt f th ntrbutn fr ah
mnth, r art f th mnth, that ad lat.
A a lat rrt, NSSF ma tak u lgal atn
agant dfaultr t rvr uttandng
ntrbutn.
6
Eml an all tll-fr n (2)
271 39, 271 312, 271 31 t ldg
mlant agant mlr wh hav fald
t rgtr thm r t rmt thr ntrbutn.
mlmntatn f th At. It th r
f mlmntatn that ha lft Stlla, Sta,
Chrtn, and hundrd f thuand f
thr Knan wrkng mthr nfud.
Ardng t Mr Chrthr Kha, th
NSSF mmunatn managr, all mlr
mut abd b th law rgardl f thr
tatu and thr wll b n tn. All
mlr ar rqurd t rgtr wth th
NSSF and thraftr rgtr thr ml.
Aftr that, th wll b rqurd t rmt
Sh2 and an addtnal Sh2 frm thr
ml vr mnth. Emlr hav
bn gvn a gra rd whh nd n
Ma 31, aftr whh mlan r wll
ndut randm hu-t-hu ntn.
Th wh wll b fund t hav fald t
ml rk lgal atn. a that th
NSSF At gv th NSSF wr t uru
rutn and falng t ml ma attrat
a n f u t Sh2,.
What t d?
Manwhl, Sta wndrng what t
d abut hr rvlvng dr f labur. I hav
n rblm ang th mn f I an gt
a tabl ml. Wll I k ang NSSF
lv fr ah rn I ml ah wk r
mnth? h ak. And Chrtn wndr f
hr hu hl, wh an mlr hrlf,
an ard th NSSF f fr hr wn hl.
Sh an barl ard t gt b. Etng
hr t mak a mnthl ntrbutn f Sh2
fr hrlf and Sh2 fr th ung wman
wh lk aftr hr hldrn unranabl,
h a.
Th NSSF targtng rgtratn f an
tmatd thr mlln dmt wrkr
n all mar twn n Kna. Ardng t Mr
Kha, th gvrnmnt ml trng t
radat vrt n ld ag and t t th
trnd f arnt dndng n hldrn a
al urt.
But thr ar th ml wh ar
nt kn n havng an mn ddutd
frm thr alar. Whn Drn Mugwana,
a rdnt f Rua ara n Narb, thd th
rgtratn da t hr 21-ar-ld hu
hl, h a that th grl wa nt ld n
t. Sh ad h nt ntrtd f h annt
a th mn whn h want t and
warnd m that f I ddut an amunt frm
hr alar, h wuld qut.
Th mthr-f-n ha thr u wth
th NSSF bun a wll. Th rganatn
ha, fr aml, rvdd a tll-fr
numbr fr ml t all and rrt
mlr wh d nt rmt th mn.
Drn fl that th brdng bad bld
btwn mlr and ml. And
whl h d nt rl a that h
wll nt rgtr hrlf a an mlr, h
mantan that h annt ard t a,
fd, hu, and mt mdal bll fr hr
hu hl and tll ntrbut mn fr
hr al urt. wvr, a a wrkng
ung mthr, h nd a hu hl. M
rlatnh wth m hu hl rnal.
Th NSSF ntrbutn huld hav bn
mad tnal fr th wh an ard
thm, h a.
Thr ar, f ur, mlr wh
th ntatv a tml. Rba Mwt,
a rdnt f Thm Etat alng Thka
Rad, a that h ha nt nl mt th
mnmum wag but h ha n qualm abut
rgtrng hr hu hl wth th hm.
Sh ha bn wth m fr thr ar nw
and drv t hav mthng t fall bak
n n ld ag. Whl w wr grwng u,
hu hl wh tad wth a faml lng
mtm vn nhrtd land. Th lat I
an d a m ntrbutn, h a.
Th mthr-f-thr a rgtrng
hr dmt ml ha al gvn hr
m knd f attahmnt t thm. Sh
a that n r tw n th at, h ha
bn a vtm f thft b a dmt wrkr.
I undrtand that th NSSF hang
nfrmatn wth th Natnal Burau f
Rgtratn. Thr m n f urt
n knwng that f h turn ut t b a
rmnal, th l an a hr ngr
rnt and rnal dtal.
But an vn bggr numbr f wmn
ar ml lannng n wrkng arund th
law. Trha Muganda, 33, rntful f bng
frd t rgtr hr dmt wrkr and
thnk that th huld rgtr and a thr
NSSF and NIF lv n thr wn. That wll
mak thm rnbl and auntabl.
Akng u t a fr thm frng u t
huldr thr burdn.Th mthr-f-tw
a that f nd b, h wll dm hr
urrnt hu grl and nl rqur hr
rv n Saturda durng gnral hu-
lanng. I annt ard t a m hu
hl a dnt alar and tll rmt thr t
t hr fund, h a.
N mn t thrw arund
Gra Kak, anthr mlr,
a that whl th law ha
gd ntntn, t ha bn
ntrutd wth th wrng
rtn rgardng
mlr. W d nt
ml hu hl
bau w hav tra
mn t thrw arund.
W d t bau ur b
ar dmandng and w
annt amlh all ur
dmt tak, lk dng
laundr, and tll mak
t t wrk n tm r
rfrm at ur bt,
h a. But
th law m t uggt that w ar vl,
mnd mlr wh dnt ar abut
th al wlfar f ur hu hl.T
avd nfrntatn wth th law, Gra wll
dm hr urrnt mad at th nd f th
mnth and brng n hr 19-ar-ld n
frm th vllag. Sh drd ut f th
vllag lthn, h a. Ill a hr what
Iv bn ang m urrnt ml and
h wll av m th trubl f dalng wth
th nfrr.
Jb l far
Nt all dmt wrkr ar ha wth
th nw, thr. Jb l bmng a ral
ndratn fr man f thm. Trha
hu hl, Carln Wafula, a h wuld
rathr nnv wth hr mlr and l
abut thr rlatnh than l hr b,
mthng that h and hr mlr hav
agrd n. I wll nt agr t l m Sh4,5
alar r tak a a ut f Sh4. If th
ntr m hr, I wll a that I am
Trha n, h a. Man f m fllw
hu hl frnd wll nt rat. W
dnt want t l ur b.
Stlla mlr, Pnnah, ad h
wa nt ur f h wuld ml wth th
law. Wrk ha rdud and I dnt knw
what Ill d f h dd t trmnat m
mlmnt. Sh akd fr tm t thnk
abut ntnung r dntnung m
mlmnt, Stlla a.
Stlla a th law und
lk a gd thng bau h ha bn tld t
am at avng mn fr u n ld ag. But
t ma b dtrmntal t m f u. I nthr
want t l a b nr gt a a ut n rdr
fr m mlr t rmt mn t th fund.
Stlla arn Sh7,5 a mnth.
Cnnvng wth mlr
Sm hu hl hav dvd a wrkng
lan wth thr mlr. Irn Nkab, fr
aml, ha agrd t hav th ntr Sh4
ddutd frm hr Sh4,5 alar. M b
had ad h wa nt gng t a and wuld
brng n hr wn rlatv. But aftr dung
th mattr, I akd hr t ddut th rqurd
mn frm m alar rathr than ak m. I
wuldnt hav anwhr t g a I dnt hav
an thr b kll, a th 23-ar-ld.
Alarmngl, man hu hl n mar
twn utd Narb ar nt awar that
thr mlr ught t a thr al fund
lv. I am nt awar that I am ud
t b nrlld wth NSSF, a Eun Br,
a hu hl n Nakuru. Int that fr ld
l, anwa? r gnran hd b
Ral Km frm Eldrt. Ral thnk that th
NSSF d nt atr fr hu grl. w an
w n t and t w nl arn Sh3,? W
dnt hav unt alar t b ddutd!
Ral, 24, ha bn wrkng a a hu hl
fr a ar. On th trm d, Jan Rugu, a
hu hl frm Nahururu, d nt knw
what al rttn . What that? ak
th 18-ar-ld.
Ardng t NSSF mmunatn
managr, Chr Kha, th aarnt lak f
nfrmatn t b untrd thrugh th
mda and ubl ntatn radhw
tartng nt mnth. Emlr and
ml an ntrat wth NSSF n
Fabk (Nf Kna) and Twttr (nf_k).
Sm hu hl
far th ma l
thr b f th
nt n bng
rgtrd wth
NSSF
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I
am rr abut m utburt arlr
n tda,Chr ang n th
hn. It narl lunh tm and
I am ut abut t had ut whn
h all m t a th. I an nl magn hw
mbarrad h mut b.
It alrght, Chr,I a. Wr all human, u
knw.
Qut frankl thr ar ut m thng that I
ndr vr unrfnal and that wa n
f thm. I trut that w wll, r, k t btwn
th tw f u?
Of ur, Chr,I a. Jut a lng a u
rm nvr t walk nt th warng
mmathd k, ha ha!I laugh, but thr
dad ln n th thr nd f th ln.
Chr dnt hav t a anthng fr m t
knw that I hav ndd hm. Um, I wa ut
tng ut fr lunh, , um, anwaI tral
nrvul.
Ok,Chr a urtl, n ur lunh.
Ya,I rl and thn ut dwn th hn,
m ar burnng wth th mbarramnt I fl.
I lk at th bk n m hand; I had lannd
n a n, qut lunh radng t, but nw thr
ar t man thught n m had t gv
m nugh a f mnd t nntrat n
radng. I dd t all Fatma and f h
fr fr lunh, ng a h wrk
narb; h . Aftr wghng ur
tn, w ttl n mtng at a
bu fat fd rtaurant halfwa dwn
th trt frm bth ur , whr
w ut ur dt t th d and rdr
larg f frd hkn.
Th ut havn,Fatma a a h
lk hr l ngr whn w dg n. I
dnt knw wh I dnt at hr mr
ftn.
Bau ud gt fat, Fatma,I nt ut.
Wll, mab that nt uh a bad thng,h
a, kng u anthr f hkn. Sa,
hw t gng wth th nw agn?
I rall want t tll Fatma all abut m wknd
wth Shla, and abut what a m I thnk hr,
Jan and thr ntr man atuall , but
I hav t rmmbr that Fatma wrk fr th
ad agn that w kkd ut n rdr t hav
Jan man rla thm. Whl Fatma
m lt frnd n th lant, I dnt knw
f harng that nfrmatn wth hr wuld b
n a unthal.
It ut that, u knw, I fl rall hurt,h
ntnu.
Lttl t
Abut what?I ak hr.
Th wa u gu kkd u ut.
Yu knw that t want m fault,I a. I fught
fr u and vrthng but Chr wa rall
mrd b Jan ratvt and frhn.
And u knw, vn I had t agr wth hm a
lttl bt n that.
Ar u ang I am trrbl at m b?Fatma
hu.
N, I am ml ang that mab u gu
hav bn wrkng n ur amagn fr
lng that w hav all falln nt a rdtabl
grv. W ndd frh thnkng t hak u
u a lttl bt.
mm,h a. And hw t wth Jan and
h tam?
A lttl g wnt hurt
It a lttl wrd,I a. I gv hr a brf
rundwn f m lunh wth Shla.
mmh a agan. a h bthrd t
all u at all n h md ur mtng?
If h hant kd u h an hn all,
wh wuld h k u mn?I ak hr.
Bau u ar th n wh wll gn h
hqu, that wh.
Gd nt but I dnt thnk that wll wrk wth
hm. In an a, gu what l hand th
mrnng,I ntnu, nw llng Fatma n n
Chr rblm wth h wf.
Oh,h a,
hldng an l hand u t hr l n a gn f
urr. Nw that h avalabl mab u
tw an gt tgthr,h gggl.
Fatma!I am urrd h wuld vn thnk
that far. I lt a raft f ran wh that a
trrbl da, untng thm m ngr n
b n. On, h m b and I dnt wng lk
that. Tw, h ltrall ut gt lft! Mab hll
b bak n tm fr dnnr, r mab h ut
wnt n a hrt hlda and frgt t lav
a nt! Thr, I am ablutl nt ntrtd
n hm and nthr h n m. And fur, n.
Jut n.I wav m hand mhatall. Evn
ut th thught f t makng m fl lghtl
ll.
Fatma gggl m mr and ra an
brw. Im ut ang Lz. Yur ngl, h nw
ngl, h lgbl, ur rtt I dnt
what th rblm .
Wll, u ar wrng,I a, tandng u and
wng m hand wth a rvtt. A far a
I am nrnd, that nvratn and th
lunh all vr.
Nw tud rval th rght tm t rf ur lv
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Fatma and Lz gt nt a
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dun
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I thr a rght tm t dlar ur flng
t a rn u ar attratd t? Fr ar,
t wa thught that wmn fall fatr
n lv and rval thr flng f
attratn arlr than mn, bau
wmn ar rvd t b mr
mtnal abut lv. In ntrat, mn
ar ad t b lgndar at hdng thr
mtn and rvu tud rvd
that wmn bng mr rv
wr lkl t b rt t dlar
thr lv. wvr, nw rarh
uggt that th tabl hav
turnd, and that mn ar nw
mr lkl t fall n lv and
a I lv u qukr than
wmn. Th al want t
har th wmn rf
thr lv fr thm n
rturn a th bt thr
han lvl. Th
ardng t tw nt
tud ndutd n th US.
Ardng t th rt tud b hlgt
at th Pnnlvana Stat Unvrt, wmn wr
fund t b mr rmantall autu than
mn. On th thr hand, mn wr thr tm
mr lkl t a I lv u n a rlatnh than
wmn. Irnall, mt f th mn and wmn
lld b th rarhr thught t wa th
wmn wh wr mr lkl t nf rmant
atn rt n a rlatnh.
Cntratng vw
Th rarh, ublhd n th Jurnal f Sal
Phlg ndatd that mn wr mr lkl t
fall n lv wthn th rt fw wk, whl n th
t trm, wmn wr mr lkl t fall
n lv aftr vral mnth. Th tud nludd
172 ntrvw. Whl wmn ar gnrall
rvd t b l ratnal abut lv, th tud
ntratd th vw b nludng that wmn
tndd t b mr ragmat abut lv than th
t lk t blv, and th dd nt alwa
ruh nt rlatnh. Mn wr al fund t
want fr th rt tm aftr a fw wk, whl
wmn rfrrd t wat fr a fw mnth. Th
rarh nnthl hwd that anat lv
and ual dr wr dtntl drnt.
In a aralll tud ndutd b th
Maahutt Inttut f Thnlg, wmn
tndd t b l mrd wth r-
rmant nfn. wvr, th tndd t
bm gnantl har and mrd f
th nfn f lv am aftr th ul had
tartd havng . Aarntl, wmn rvd
thr ntmat ngagmnt t hav ltd a n
f mmtmnt. Th rarh furthr ndatd
that mn wr lghtl mrd and l ha
f th wman lv nfn am aftr th tw
had alrad had . In ntrat, th rrtd
aggratd han lvl whn th lv
nfn am bfr that tw had ngagd n
ntma. Th rult f th tud uld m
n hand fr th wh wndr whn t talk abut
bng n lv n a nw rlatnh.
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amla Ahng Vrw vvdl
rall th mrnng f Fbruar
7, 28, whn maht-wldng
uth trmd hr Navaha
hm, takng what uld b
arrd and dtrng what uld nt b
al mvd. Sh had ut bught a Tta
Prad, whh wa t n r and rdud t
a hll n th nung ml.
I had lkd m tw ard hldrn
and mlf n th man hu, dratl
watng fr hl a w wathd th uth
run amk n m farm, h a. Whn th
n-hur rdal ndd, tw f Pamla farm
wrkr bam art f th tatt f th
l wh dd n th natnwd t-
ltn vln.
r urt man rndd t hr
alarm n tm t ru hr and hr tw
hldrn, agd 16 and nn at th tm.
Th nd 6, thr dlad l
lvng n tmrar am r kng rfug
wth frnd and rlatv. W amd at
th hm f a faml frnd frm Cntral
Prvn fr thr da bfr nakng ut
t Narb b ar aftr t bm nrangl
dangru t ta wth hr, Pamla a.
Mntal anguh
Th gang had dtrd a bun that
mrd vn grnhu, 9 brlr
hkn and vn ttag that h rntd
ut t turt n a fur-ar farm. B thn
(th tm f th t-ltn vln) m
nvtmnt wr arnng m btwn
Sh25, and Sh3, dndng n th
an, h rmmbr. It wa a bun
h had tartd frm rath and grwn vr
th ur f 1 ar. Aftr t wa dtrd,
all that rmand wa Pamla an fr
agr-bun. Sh had aqurd that an
whn h tartd wrkng at a wr farm n
1993, whr h larnt th r.
Pamla and hr hldrn w t Dar
Salaam t ta wth hr huband, Valt
Vrw, wh wa wrkng thr, a h
rvrd frm th nanal l and mntal
anguh. Thn, n 21, h ddd t g
bak nt bun.
I rald that thr wa an urgnt nd
t mv n rathr than dwllng n th
at r hang gvrnmnt agn fr
mnatn, a Pamla. Sh tartd b
uttng hr Navaha farm u fr al. Wth
th ntntn f rlatng hr rvu
bun mdl and makng t vn bttr,
h bught a tw-ar f land n th
utkrt f Kumu twn.
A h rarhd hr nw bun,
Pamla ntd a hug markt ga n th
gg, brlr, mlk, and frh vgtabl
markt. S h tartd b bung 5 lar
and 3 brlr a h rgand hr farm
t ammdat th man rt h had
n mnd.
Ent land u
Th al f hr Navaha farm n md-21
aftr a lng wat gav hr a muh-ndd
nanal ntn t ugrad hr farm and
ntal rt that wuld hr mam
land u. r farm nw a mdl t man
farmr frm arund th untr wh
rgularl vt t t gan t n tv
utlatn f land. Sh ha al rvd
rtat f rgntn fr tv land
utlatn frm th Mntr f Agrultur,
whh al hld farmr ld da n hr
farm.
Pamla ha fur dar w and tw
hfr, 5 lar, 3 brlr, and a
hd nt n whh h grw ndgnu
vgtabl thrughut th ar, thank
t rrgatn. Ardng t hr, th
ht wathr n Kumu and Nanza
gnrall nt utabl fr grnhu,
hn hr dn t u hd nt that
rdu th un mat n r b u t
5 r nt. In Navaha, grnhu ar
ular bau t ld, hn th nd t
nra warmth. But hr, u nd t
rdu th mat f hat n
th lant, h lan.
Thr ar tw h nd n
th farm fr tlaa and at h.
Sh u ran watr harvtd
frm hr hu and trd n
undrgrund tank. Sh ha
nw tartd kng g t
mt th dmand fr rk and
t rdut n th lakd
t. And wth a buddng
htalt ndutr n Kumu
and b th ugradng
f th Kumu Intrnatnal
Arrt, Pamla ha thr
ttag n hr farm that tak
ar f turt wh lv
th rn
nvrnmnt. Th ntr farm ha a mnthl
turnvr f btwn Sh2, and
Sh3,, dndng n th an.
Whn u nvt n fd,
u wll nvr g wrng;
thr wll alwa b
dmand fr fd,
h lan.
Tm
ha lwl
hald th
wund
frm th
t-ltn
vln.
A bu
hdul n
th farm that
bgn at 5am
runnng thrugh
t 9m ha al
hld Pamla t ut th
at bhnd hr and trv
t frtf hr futur.
WOMANOFPASSION
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POTOS I SULEIMAN MBATIA
Pamla Ahng Vrw
wa runnng a uful
agr-bun untl
th 28 t-ltn
vln turnd hr
nt an IDP. Sh talk t
Ramna Gbnd abut
rvrng, rbuldng
and rvvng hr an
fr farmng
Bak t bun
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Fat? It all n th had
S
m vnng ag I nt a fw
hur n a luur ru bat
th at f Durban. A th un
dd bhnd th krar
n th hrzn, w nhd farthr nt
a, uttng awa gla f hamagn
a th braai nt mk nt th r
vnng ar. I wa n th man f a
gauntlt f Ngran, tw Cngl, an
Anglan and thr Knan (nludng
a kr wh wr that h wuld
nvr m bak t Kna t ttl).
Th ttng wa ut rght fr a t f
dadn t I wa k t th
tmah. Sakn. Turn ut I thrv
n th lak but I am allrg t th a. I
am an mbarramnt t m lan.
Anwa, vn a th bbbng and
huggng f th a vl thratnd
t dgrg all th rawn I had at
lunh, th nvratn I wa havng
wth th Ngran kt m ntrtand.
Th nludd a 5-mthng-ar-
ld ublhr frm Lag, a fatur
dtr fr an nln magazn n Abua,
tw wrtr frm Lag, anthr dtr
fr a nwar, and n wrtr wh
tld m h wa a rn frm wtrn
Ngra. Prn Wal wa h gallant
nam: h had tatl mannrm, lft
gtur, a lght nr that h martl
maquradd a kn ntrt, and a
hat, kd at ut th r angl
t math h kn. I qukl larnt
that Ngran ak n fnt z 73,
Aral Blak. Th nvratn nvtabl
turnd t wmn. Suth Afran
wmn, t b .
Whn Wtrn ultur rmatd
Afra thrugh ardabl abl
tlvn at th turn f th ntur,
th Afran
nrm
f what
nttut
baut gt
ntangld
n a m
f dntt.
And nw
w ar
whtr nw
than w
vr wr.
Our dg ar n lngr ml mbwa
kali wh lv n a ag n th gardn
and ar lt ut at nght t rtt th
hu; nw th hav nam lk St
and Ma and a rr bd nd th
hu. W ng alng t Mhal Bubl
but annt rmmbr th lat tm w
hard Olvr Mtukudz. Our at g fr
unllng. W at alad bau mat
wll kll u. And d nt vn gt m
tartd n ga. W rad th labl n
rdut akagng bau 2.5 mr
alr wll t ur hart. Aftr lvng
undr th un n Gd wa a b, nw
th un ra ar lthal, w la n
unrn and ungla bfr w
t ut f th hu. And w all h
fr.
In all f th m, n untr hld
ut. Suth Afra whh a wht
a th m th untr that wll
rmnd u that u ar tll n Afra.
w? Thr wmn. Th ar bg. Nt
fat, bg. Rubnqu. Th all t th
ranbw untr, but Suth Afra al
a untr unbwd b nvntn f
wght. Blak wmn hr aunt what
th hav gt. Th lumbr abut thr
bun n that unalgt fahn
that uggt that z nl t n
mallr had. And t fanatng, th
nbrd truan.
T m, a wman nl bm
fat whn h nt hr wght;
thrw, h ut bg. And bg
mr f an atttud than a tuatn.
And f u want t knw a wman
wh nt nu f hr wght,
a wman unmvd b hr watln,
u nl hav t lk at hr lat. And
vr tm I hav bn t Suth Afra,
I hav tudd thr lat; th ar nt
burdnd b arrt and lav and
th thng that wmn at t ta
trm. Thr lat ar alwa glrul
vrd n mat and fr and naan.
Plu-z mn krt
Wght nl bm an u whn
wmn mak t n whn th brng
ur attntn t t b ang tu lk, I
ud t b mallr bfr m bab, r
mak an -hand rmark abut knn
wmn. Or f th rah fr a uak
wth a gult gran. Or f th war
bkr hrt undr an r krt. Suth
Afran wmn d nt ar. Th lt
vrthng mv f vrthng want t
mv.
Thr n gratr hw f
ndn than f a lu-z wman
n a vr hrt krt r dr. And u
wll thm n SA, krt hrt th
hav tranndd nudt and bm
an rn f mthng mr
ublm. And th wmn wng abut
n th hrt tu, thgh all ut, arm
wngng abut wth authrt. Cllult?
What that? It a thng f baut,
th ndn, th ttal drgard f
Wtrn nrm that dtat t wmn
wh lv n rt and hrbal ta.
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Th nl tm a
wman vrwght
f h thnk h
vrwght
Thught
Flng bgn n th mnd. At th tart f
ah da, thnk abut th thng that mak u
amazng a a wman. K ratng thm t
urlf thrughut th da. Abandn ur
lf-bahng mndt. Yu an vn wrt a nt
t urlf and k t n ur ur u an
k at t frm tm t tm whn u har ur
nnr rt whrng t u. Whn u fl
gd, t radat.
Fak t tll u fl t
Evn f u d nt fl t t, mak a nu
rt t at ndnt and lf- aurd all th
tm. Qut luhng, hld ur had hgh and
k ur huldr bak. Gt rd f ur bagg
lth and war th n that antuat ur
at. Wth tm, u wll tart blvng and
vntuall flng .
En bng -and
Bng tard at r gld uuall mak mt
wmn vrl lf-nu. Eah tm u
nd urlf thnkng that h r h ma b
ltng ur aw, rmnd urlf that a rn
wll nt lk lngngl at mthng that th
d nt nd attratv. If u larn t n th
tln glan and bng aratd, ur lf-
ndn wll ar.
St marng
Cmarng urlf t thr wmn wh
u rv t b rft lf-dtrutv.
Intad, fu n ur trng nt. Eah tm
u ath urlf n th da whng that u
wr a thn a, r had har a lng a anthr,
a attntn t ur unqun. Larn t
arat and la u ur wn at ah
da. Smlarl, qut dwn gradng thr wmn.
It hurt ur tm a muh a marn
d bau th ard tk u u t maur
anthr wman rvd hrt mng th
am u wll u t maur ur wn.
Sml
A ml th mt natural frm f baut.
Mak t a gal t ml mr thrugh th da.
Smlng nd th mag that u ar ha
and ntnt wth urlf. Thr lttl that
mr attratv than a ndnt wman.
Flahng that ml uld vn vr fr th
mak-u that u dd nt war.
Flrt
Smlarl, larn t rt. Flrtng mak u hft
ur fu frm ur lf-nun and
whn th thr rn rt bak, t bt ur
lf-ndn.
Clth
Tak m tm t thnk abut what u
war vr da. Mak a nt f uttng n
mthng that mak u fl gd ah da.
Cndn btr lk ra lngr r a a
ar f a hl wll hav u radatng
aal.
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7 wa t fl
vr da
South Africa
is a country
unbowed
by the
conventions
of weight
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Q
: I am a 23-ar-ld wman.
All m frnd thnk I am wrd
bau I am tll a vrgn. I hav
a bfrnd whm I lv vr muh and I
knw h want u t b ntmat, but I d
nt knw what hldng m bak. I hav
nvr bn uall abud. I thr
anthng wrng?
EXPERT ADVICE
Maur Mathka, a rlatnh unllr, anwr:
Th gd nw that u ar nt blgd t hav
and dt what ur r a, t nt dd t b
a vrgn at 23. Yu wll knw whn u ar rad t hav
, but t ha t b ur h rathr than a rult f
trnal rur. Whn u d h t hav , d t
fr u and frgt th ntn that u huld av t fr
Mr Rght. Yur rt bfrnd nt lkl t b ur lat
and lng wth a man d nt guarant that h wll
nd a lftm wth u. Mrvr, lng ur vrgnt
d nt mak u mr r l f a wman, gnr
ur frnd and hav a andd hat wth ur bfrnd
that u knw atl whr u bth tand. It
mrtant that ur bfrnd d nt fl hut ut.
Mutual mmunatn wll mantan a halth bnd
btwn u.
NEXT WEEKS
DILEMMA:
I hav bn n an
abuv marrag fr
17 ar. Thr ar
ag, m huband
wa akd du t
drunknn. ha
n b but tll drnk,
urt f h frnd,
whl I truggl t fnd
fr ur hldrn.
al tll abuv. I n
lngr lv hm and
I am ut trd f th
marrag. Shuld I all
t qut? I rall nd
ur hl.
Pla hl m t datng ld, marrd mn
T
hank u fr ur qutn.
Th hard truth that u nd t
knw that rlatnh brn
ut f aar ftn hav lw han
f urvval. Datng a marrd man a
tuatn that ha n futur n u
wll nvr b h wf. Th uld b th
ran u hav datd vral f thm.
It lk lk m u tartd datng
marrd mn aftr flng frutratd du
t th brak-u wth ur bfrnd.
Th, t m, gnal that u ar afrad f
mmtmnt. Bng wth a marrd man
mmtmnt-fr and mab vn a
lttl dangru and, thrfr, a t
dal wth. Bng wth a ngl, ung
man rnt a hallng bau u
ar afrad f avalabl mn. Th ml
man that thr mthng that
makng u ur mmtmnt hba
and u nd t nfrnt t. Manwhl,
d nt ut ur lf n hld watng
fr a marrd man t b fr. Chan
ar that vn f h , u wll nt want
hm thr bau nw h wll b
avalabl. I uggt that u r-valuat
th tuatn and dd whthr th
what u want n lf. Thr ar n
a lutn: u nd t mak a
rm dn f u n lngr want t
dat unavalabl mn. Tak m tm
t b lar abut wh u ar and
what u want, kng n mnd that
th mt mrtant rlatnh u
wll vr hav th n wth urlf.
Th tm wll hl u t rt ut ur
mmtmnt u and mak u a
bttr rn rad fr th datng n.
Yu ar ung and hav ur lf ahad
f u. Yu wll vntuall vrm
ur hba f u ar mmttd.
Q
: I am a 24-ar-ld wman wth a rblm wh
lutn I annt nd. I ud t hav an a, lvl
rlatnh. I wa muh n lv wth m bfrnd.
Thn thng tartd hangng. M flng tward hm
hangd ttall and I had t brak u wth hm. I dd nt hav a
gd ran, althugh h had n hatd n m wth h ,
fr whh I frgav hm. M rblm that I hav n bn
datng ld, marrd mn. ntl, I knw thr n futur
wth uh l. I am nw datng th marrd man whm I
lv. I d nt knw what t d t t fallng n lv wth th
ld mn. Surrngl, I d nt hav an flng fr an ung
man wh arah m and, fr ur Aunt, I am bautful. S I
d nt knw whthr m baut gng t wrk. I nl at
ld mn, nt ung n. Pla Aunt, hl m.
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a 23-ar-ld vrgn wh fl
rurd t l wth hr
bfrnd
READERS ADVICE:
Grl! Thr n au fr alarm. Yu
ar 23 ar ld and tll a vrgn,
what? Thr ar man wmn wh ar
tll vrgn. Yu d nt w anbd
an lanatn and t d nt mattr
what ur frnd thnk; what mattr
that u knw wh u ar tll a
vrgn. It nrmal t b afrad f th
unknwn, but mak ur that th far
f gttng ntmat wth ur bfrnd
d nt drut ur da-t-da
funtnng. Talk t ur bfrnd
nrnng th far and lt hm
walk wth u. But f th far rt,
u huld a unllr t hl
u vrm t. All n all, d nt b
drd abut bng a vrgn.
Omu Arthur
Yu ar a wman wth dgnt and u
ar luk t b a vrgn. D nt vn
thnk abut dng mthng that u
d nt want t d bau u wll lv
t rgrt t. D nt rur urlf
and d nt gv n t ut t mak
thr ha. B rud f urlf
and wat fr th rght tm. Jan
Warh
Yu ar a mrall urght wman n
a rrut t. Th t th
rblm, nt u, k u ual
urt fr ur huband n ur
wddng nght. Luka Lb
I had gvn u n grl but radng ur
dlmma ha gvn m h that thr
ar tll m ur wmn lft ut
thr. Thr nthng wrng wth u.
Oar Akama
Yu ar n th rght trak and thr
nthr a ra t hav nr d u
l anthng b abtanng. Prrv
ur vrgnt and Gd bl ur ul.
Vtra Nutu
Cngratulatn fr mantanng ur
vrgnt. Yu ar vr nrmal, m tr.
I uggt that u hld bak bau
f u gv n t ur bfrnd, h wll
nvr want u agan.
Allan Mutwr Mambu
Yu huld b ngratulatd bau
ual urt mthng t b rud
f and nt t b ahamd f. D nt
fl rurd t d anthng u ar
nt rad fr. Lft ur had u and b
rud. Maln Mah
D nt gv n ut t la hm. If
u ar nt rad and h ntng,
thn knw that h ut want aftr
whh h wll mv n. Emm Karl
Nr
Yu ar nt aln. I am al a vrgn
and watng fr th da I wll hav .
Lawrn Irr
Yur frnd ar alu bau th
lt thr vrgnt t mn wh ar nt
wrth t. Yu g, grl! Mara An
Oluhna
Yu ar nt th nl vrgn n th wrld,
lu rmmbr that man mn ar
nl aftr and thn th abandn
u. Bng a vrgn d nt man that
u ar nav. K t lkd tll ur
wddng da. Luk Mut
Yu ar lvng a l. If u ar aual,
ur bfrnd rtanl nt. Falng
t atf h nd man h mut
k gratatn lwhr. If tang
a vrgn mr mrtant t u,
tll hm t nd anthr grl and t
watng h tm. Enh Kvt
I t nrmal t b n ur
twnt and tll a vrgn?
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FASHION&STYLE WIT LYDIA OMOLO
EXPERT
TIPS
Stl fr th
tt wman
C
ntrar t mmn blf that t a t nd
lth fr a tt bd, th truth that t a
dauntng tak. wvr, thr ar m ba t
t fllw t rat a tlh wardrb dt ur
mall fram:
T: Invt n thr-quartr lv t a th attr
mt wmn and hw th bt art f ur arm. Lng
lv wrk t but nl f th t.
Nkln: V-nk and
nk nkln hw a bt f
kn and gv an llun f
hght.
Skrt: War kn-lngth
r hrtr mn-krt a
that wll mak ur lg
aar lngr. If ur at
th , u ma want
t k th hmln
mdt. Lt th wat band
t at ur natural wat
and tuk n ur t fr a
urv, attrng lk.
Pant: Whthr lng
r rd, nur that
ant ar wll ut and t
u. Crd ant ar
dal a lng a th hav
th rght rrtn fr a
mallr fram. Th al
lk grat whn ard wth
hl r at a lng a th
ankl ar d.
Prnt: Dnt b
vrwhlmd b th
rnt -- k thm
lurful and laful.
Abv all dnt
drwn urlf n
vrz lth. Th
nl wa t ahv
th attrng ut-
tgthr lk
t mak ur that
ur lth t
rftl.
Ptur b: Dunan Wllt
Sht Atant: M
Kamaka
Mak-u b: Glad Gthg
ar b: Rh fr th
Strand Gru Afra. www.
trandgruafra.kb..k
Mdl b: Vratl
Mdl, Tl: 2 318 674
Mdl: Eatr Wahm
Prfn: Studnt
bb: Travllng, tr
and wathng mv
1
2
1
Flral rnt
bat lv t
wth rht
bak dtal
Sh1, 4, rang
knn Sh2, 2,
bangl Sh8, all
frm Mr Pr.
STOCKISTS: Mr. Pr, Th Juntn, Narb, tl: 2 386 1894. Kah, Th Juntn, Narb, tl: 2 387 5178
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POINTERS
Nthng r rnal tl bttr than a n
rng. wvr, unlk thr rng, n nd t
fatr n ag and wrk dr d n th rng ar
vr ntabl. r ar a fw ntr t ndr:
Th n rng!
5
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Mak a tatmnt
wth tlh
mdrn rht.
Ch frm-
ttng utt
fud wth thr
fabr fr rft
a mbnatn
Ch th rght n rng, bau
t t at a fal nt f ur fa.
K t ml. Jut rmmbr
th mallr t th mr tatful
and lar t lk. Thn h and
tud n th rght z mak fr a h,
vrda lk.
If u hav a larg n, a n rng
wll nl draw mr attntn t t,
u ma want t k th n rng
altgthr.
3
4
1
Flral rnt
bat lv t
wth rht
bak dtal
Sh1, 4, rang
knn Sh2, 2,
bangl Sh8, all
frm Mr Pr.
2
Rd rht
hft dr
Sh4, 999,
Kah. Slvr
larat Sh6, Mr Pr.
Earrng, tlt
wn.
3
Cram mh and
rht and ral
alqu dr t
Sh17, 5. Buttrnut
ant Sh4, 9 bth frm Kah.
Bangl Sh8, Mr Pr. Blt
and arrng, tlt wn.
4
Blak rht
dr Sh5, 5.
Slvr and blu
handlr
arrng Sh2, 5, bth
frm Kah.
5
Pwtr rht
luth Sh 7, 9,
Kah.
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FASHION&STYLE WIT LYDIA OMOLO
EXPERT
TIPS
Stl fr th
tt wman
C
ntrar t mmn blf that t a t nd
lth fr a tt bd, th truth that t a
dauntng tak. wvr, thr ar m ba t
t fllw t rat a tlh wardrb dt ur
mall fram:
T: Invt n thr-quartr lv t a th attr
mt wmn and hw th bt art f ur arm. Lng
lv wrk t but nl f th t.
Nkln: V-nk and
nk nkln hw a bt f
kn and gv an llun f
hght.
Skrt: War kn-lngth
r hrtr mn-krt a
that wll mak ur lg
aar lngr. If ur at
th , u ma want
t k th hmln
mdt. Lt th wat band
t at ur natural wat
and tuk n ur t fr a
urv, attrng lk.
Pant: Whthr lng
r rd, nur that
ant ar wll ut and t
u. Crd ant ar
dal a lng a th hav
th rght rrtn fr a
mallr fram. Th al
lk grat whn ard wth
hl r at a lng a th
ankl ar d.
Prnt: Dnt b
vrwhlmd b th
rnt -- k thm
lurful and laful.
Abv all dnt
drwn urlf n
vrz lth. Th
nl wa t ahv
th attrng ut-
tgthr lk
t mak ur that
ur lth t
rftl.
Ptur b: Dunan Wllt
Sht Atant: M
Kamaka
Mak-u b: Glad Gthg
ar b: Rh fr th
Strand Gru Afra. www.
trandgruafra.kb..k
Mdl b: Vratl
Mdl, Tl: 2 318 674
Mdl: Eatr Wahm
Prfn: Studnt
bb: Travllng, tr
and wathng mv
1
2
1
Flral rnt
bat lv t
wth rht
bak dtal
Sh1, 4, rang
knn Sh2, 2,
bangl Sh8, all
frm Mr Pr.
STOCKISTS: Mr. Pr, Th Juntn, Narb, tl: 2 386 1894. Kah, Th Juntn, Narb, tl: 2 387 5178
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Nthng r rnal tl bttr than a n
rng. wvr, unlk thr rng, n nd t
fatr n ag and wrk dr d n th rng ar
vr ntabl. r ar a fw ntr t ndr:
Th n rng!
5
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Mak a tatmnt
wth tlh
mdrn rht.
Ch frm-
ttng utt
fud wth thr
fabr fr rft
a mbnatn
Ch th rght n rng, bau
t t at a fal nt f ur fa.
K t ml. Jut rmmbr
th mallr t th mr tatful
and lar t lk. Thn h and
tud n th rght z mak fr a h,
vrda lk.
If u hav a larg n, a n rng
wll nl draw mr attntn t t,
u ma want t k th n rng
altgthr.
3
4
1
Flral rnt
bat lv t
wth rht
bak dtal
Sh1, 4, rang
knn Sh2, 2,
bangl Sh8, all
frm Mr Pr.
2
Rd rht
hft dr
Sh4, 999,
Kah. Slvr
larat Sh6, Mr Pr.
Earrng, tlt
wn.
3
Cram mh and
rht and ral
alqu dr t
Sh17, 5. Buttrnut
ant Sh4, 9 bth frm Kah.
Bangl Sh8, Mr Pr. Blt
and arrng, tlt wn.
4
Blak rht
dr Sh5, 5.
Slvr and blu
handlr
arrng Sh2, 5, bth
frm Kah.
5
Pwtr rht
luth Sh 7, 9,
Kah.
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Q
: My v-yar-old has bn having nightmars
almost vry othr night. As a rsult, w ar vry
slp-dprivd. ow can w gt hr to go back to
hr room and slp without waking up and crying vry
coupl of hours? Sh has a night light and sh usd to
com into our bd, but w do not allow hr to slp with us
anymor bcaus sh is vry dgty.
A: Jhn Wabuu, 34, mthr-f-tw, rnd:
M fur-ar-ld a ntv, ratv, hghl
magnatv ul. Sh ftn ha vvd dram and th
nghtmar an b qut trrfng. W mak ur w ra
wth hr bfr bd that h g t l flng mr
ur, but whn h wak and m t ur rm w
gnrall lt hr lmb nt ur bd and mv hr n h
fall al. Our lat brn ght mnth ld I d nt gt
muh l wth th tw f thm. M huband rmmnd
that I lt th ldr n ta n hr rm that h larn
t g bak t l n hr wn, but I nd mlf gng t
hr r lng wth hr n hr bd untl h nd agan.
Yu huld d what wrk fr ur faml, althugh I hav
hard f m arnt wh g n and raur th lttl
n a ul f tm, althugh vntuall th lav thm
t larn hw t g bak t al. Th ran that f u
ar t hautd t funtn durng th da, u wll nt
hav th nrg t b a gd arnt. Th advat lv,
rauran, and uddl durng th da and u t bdtm,
but tugh lv at nght. Prha whn m lttl n gt
ldr I wll tr th uggtn. On thng that al
rmmndd hamml ta wth hn bfr bd
tddlr an drnk th wth n rblm. Al a fw dr f
lavndr l n thr llw. Altrnatvl, u an u varu
hmath rmd t alm thm dwn fr bttr l.
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T
h ng and gurglng f rtt
lttl bab mmrng, but
wat tll u har th dradd,
rng, unldng hrk frm an
nfant that tar ur hart aart.
It brak m hart whnvr m 1-
mnth-ld bab r. It mak m fl lk
rng t, all whn I d nt knw
what aung h tar, a J Wana,
a mthr-f-thr.
Lk thr mthr, J ha trd
drnt thng t t th rtnt and
rrtatng r that k man arnt
awak at nght r t thm frm attndng
t thr mattr a th attmt t ln
th bab, but t d nt alwa wrk.
Magdaln O, a 29-ar-ld auntant
and mthr, at a l t lan wh a
bab wh wll-fd, bathd, warm, and
halth wuld k hr awak at nght
rng. Anthr mthr, Ja, a 32-ar-
ld, ha trd gnrng hr bab r
hng that h wuld t aftr a whl,
but t nvr wrk.
I nvr thught m daughtr had uh
aat t k th tar wng fr uh
a lng tm, a Ja.
Whl mt argvr rk rng bab
t th and ln thm, at rt mul,
hld thrat Nan Nduta warn agant
t.
Rt th urg t rk th bab. It nt
alwa th rght rn, h a.
wvr, Nan autn arnt frm
takng th thr trm f lavng th
bab t r hmlf t ln a th t
th nl hannl f mmunatn that
bab u t r thr nd.
If a bab ntantl gnrd, h wll
t gnallng and bm wthdrawn. Yu
wll magn u hav a lvl nfant wh
d nt lk t r, whl n th ral n
that nt tru. A r a gnal that huld
b rndd t rathr than ubdud.
Th trk t rnd rrtl t a
bab r, but th a mar hallng,
all fr nw mthr. T undrtand
and rnd tvl t ur nfant r
languag, Nan adv that u larn and
matr ur nfant r-r gnal. Yur
bab wll gv gnal t ndat that h
garng u fr a bg r. Th nlud
lttl grma, alng arm, wrgglng and
anu faal rn, and hang n
thr brathng attrn, h a.
r ar th manng f mmn
r and what t d abut thm:
A r f l: Th th mthr
f all r. Th bab rlntl and
nnlabl wthut ran fr lngr
than thr hur, thr da a wk, and
manl lat nt th nght. Th bab wll
r wth a fu and fr and hr r
wll mt lkl b rng and m wth
tnd lmb, lnhd t, and an arhd
bak. Sh wll al aar a f h trng
t rawl frm ur arm. Th mtm
f l bgn frm tw t thr wk
aftr brth, ak n ntnt arund t
ght wk and bgn t ubd at thr
t fur mnth aftr brth. Yur bab wll
rqur rumtan t alm
dwn and u wll gur thm ut wth
rmntatn. wvr, brght grn
vmtng wth lk rng an uggt
a ru nttnal blkag rqurng
mmdat mdal attntn.
A r f dmfrt: Wth th knd f
r, ur bab unlah a whn, ndv
hrk. Sh wll b rttv and gt ludr
wth ah r. Sh ma al wrggl a lt.
Th th mt mmn t f r, h
a. Th nfant tllng u that h
rnng dmfrt. T avrt furthr
dmfrt and rng, hk hr dar, tr
t radut hr tn, and al hk hr
tmratur.
A r f hungr: Th n rn-
lk, rhthm and hrt. Th bab wll
ntnf th r and gt ludr t mak
u rnd, a Nan. Th lutn t
th fd! B arful nt t vrfd hr,
all f th bab ha takn hr mal n
th at hrt whl. Sh ma nl nd t
ukl.
A r f ndgtn: r r wll
lkl nlud whmrng and a uh
und that rd t an urgnt, ank
r, brv Nan. Whn rng, th bab
wll ull u hr lg r tart alng. T t
th rng and a th ndgtn r th
rvalng abdmnal ga, tr burng.
If th an m mr nttnal, la th
bab n hr bak and mak aggratd
dallng mvmnt. Maag hr lwr
abdmn frm lft t rght n th ha f
an n (lwra).Yu ma t t hk th
bab dt and nult ur adatran
t.
A r f an: If ur nfant r
vlntl wth a hgh th and hrt lud
ram, h gnallng that h n ral
an. Th t f r ma al m wth
ld and uhd r fvrh kn. T
bgn wth, hk hr tmratur, hk
fr wllng, bld, rah, and brathng
dult. Yu ma al ndr allng
ur adatran.
A r f far: If ur nfant tartld
r n th rn f unfamlar fa r
trrtr, h ma rl n far. T r
t, h wll bgn t r n nfud au
bfr vntuall lttng ut a full hgh-
thd r. Yu nl nd t uddl and
rk ur hld t raur hr that all
wll.
Undrtandng
what ur bab
r man
Crng th languag
that bab u t r
thmlv. Knutha
Mburu ntrrt what
ur bab rng
hrk man.
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I
t a ar nw n Mar
glamru wddng. Sh
rmmbr that da wth
ntalga. All hr rlatv
and frnd wr thr. All that a
wman uld dram f a t f
Mrd-Bnz ar t rt th
ul, mrtd gldn wddng
rng, an nv ak, rtn
at a v-tar htl and, t rwn t
all, a hnmn at a bah htl
n Zanzbar. Marrag wa th
dram m faml had fr m,h
a. Thr wr man aml
f bad grl n th vllag wh m
mum kt rmndng m abut. I
alwa fard that I wuld lt hr
dwn f I ndd u ut lk thm.
wvr, marrag ha turnd
ut t b a nghtmar fr Mar nw
that th glamur f th wddng
n th at. It all ha t d wth
r lak f t. Mar ha bn
avdng wth hr huband. r
huband nt ha and annt
undrtand hr bhavur. ha
vn gn t th tnt f aung
hr f ndlt. ut d nt
undrtand that I hat , I d nt
ut want t, I fl t drt,h a.
Mar grw u n a faml whr
dun rvlvng arund
wr tab. r arnt hd
awa frm talkng abut . Th
alld anthng ual tabia mbaya,
a Kwahl hra manng bad
mannr.
Whn Mar rahd
adln and hr brat
tartd t grw, hr mthr at hr
dwn and tld hr nvr t allw
an b r man t tuh thm. Sh
wa al tld that t wa tm t
t lang wth b bau h
had rahd a dangru ag fr
rgnan. r mthr ntd ut
t hr a numbr f ung grl wh
had gt rgnant and drd ut
f hl.
In hurh, Mar wa taught that
nfatuatn and ual fanta
wr n. It n urr that b
th tm Mar wa gttng marrd,
h wa uall numb.
Durng urtng, Mar avdd
. r man wa undrtandng
and dd nt fr hr. thught
I wa a vr gd grl and t mad
hm lv m mr,h a. What
h dd nt knw wa that I ut dd
nt want t.Aftr th wddng,
thugh, Mar had t fa hr wrt
far. Sh dd nt n at all
and alwa flt drt aftrward.
Mar a a tal aml
f hw ubrngng at ual
halth. Ngatvt arund
mmn n faml and whl
th ma hl n rang hldrn
wh ar nt uall ru,
t mtm lad t ual
dfuntn n adulthd. Mt
arnt and guardan ar nt
trand t talk t hldrn abut
, and nd u ang n
ngatv mag that ha hw
vwd n adulthd.
Marrag ar mantand
thrugh ntma, d-
rtd ngatv flng mak t
mbl fr th atd rn
t b ntmat wth thr artnr.
Intma ha thr mnnt:
mmtmnt, l frndh,
and fanta. If n brught u
t blv that ual fanta ar
nful, ntma ma b hard t
ahv.
Aatng wth n
dangru and n ntradtn
wth buldng tabl faml. A
balan mut b fund whr
ndvdual ar mad t arat
th baut, mrtan, and
rnblt f bng a ual
rn. It al mrtant that
arnt larn th bt wa t
du wth thr hldrn.
If u nd urlf n Mar
tn, d nt dar. Sn
wth a thrat wll hl t
dntf th ur f ur rblm.
A tratmnt rtl thn
dgnd t mt th nd f
th atd ul. Mar and hr
Mnda, 9.34am: I had vr ntntn f
gttng u arl and gng t th Natnal
Sal Surt Fund t rgtr Nann,
and w had talkd abut hw I wa rqurd,
a hr mlr, t ntrbut Sh2 and h,
th ml, wuld math th amunt. Thn
I rald that I knw lttl l abut hw th
mn, lltd vr an ml wrk
lftm, uld bnt thm (mlf nludd)!
And th man wrk ar latr...
Tuda, 5.56m: Whn S tld m h want
t susuI wnt alng wth hr t th bathrm
thnkng h wuld, a alwa, hang hr
mnd abut ttng n t, and that Id latr nd
a uddl (r wr) n th r alng th
rrdr. But th tm, whn I hld hr ut
f hr thundr war(dnt ak), h at n th
tt and I atuall hard a trkl! I lad fr
hr and kd hr and wa td a I alld
Nann vr t la fr hr rt rn n
th tt, nl fr Nann t rrt that bab
susud n th tt thr tm th rvu
da and vn dd pupu n t. And Im tld 1
ar latr?!
Wdnda, 8.22am: What mn! It
m and bab S tda. W tartd havng
chai mlk wth m hlat fr hr
thn d thrugh th hannl fr a
artn whh h kt
rfrrng t a a CD. Th
ttall mak n bau
I bu hr lt f th 5
bb dtn frm th tall n an rt t
nr th knd f languag and mag h
d t. Tn mnut latr, w wr
uddlng undr m duvt radng, and nw h
al n m arm a I wrt th.
Thurda, 11.5m: W wr tt trand
nl tw da ag, I am amazd t har
Bab all m at nght t a h want t susu.
Sh ha hr dar n and Im trn btwn
tllng hr t ut g n th dar bau I
dnt rall want t lav m warm bd r
mantanng th gd wrk f full tlt
tranng hr n h alrad ha th rght da.
Frda, 7.3am: S ad h want t g t
hl. I ral that h bng nund, but
h tw nw, I rall huld tart thnkng
abut hr hlng. Thr n Mntr
hl n m nghburhd that rqur
that I huld hav rgtrd hr durng m
rgnan I wll hav t d th th hard
wa lk arund untl I nd a utabl la
la. If nt, Ill tart m wn hm vrn fr
th nghburhd tt. I hav abut a ar t
t u.
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rmnal n
nvratn wth
ur hldrn, w d
thr futur ntmat
rlatn mr harm
than w ral. B
Dr Jahm Our
Q
: Abut a ar ag I
ntd that m rd
had bm thk and
lr. I th nrmal? I al hav
an rrgular, anful l. Th an
tart abut tw da bfr m
rd and at vn m nt,
mul, and bak. I al fl an
durng . What uld b wrng?
K, Nakuru.
Dar K,
It und a f u hav an nftn
f th rrdutv rgan alld
lv nammatr da. In
wmn, batral nftn f
th rrdutv tm ma tak
wk, mnth, r vn ar
bfr mtm aar. Durng
th rd, a lt f damag dn
t ntrnal rgan. At m nt
thugh, th mtm bgn t
manft. Th nlud an n th
lwr art f th abdmn, anful
and mtm hav rd,
an durng , and mtm
an abnrmal dharg frm th
vagnal anal. Whn u th
mtm, u mut a dtr
mmdatl t b amnd, ttd,
and dagnd. Thr ar thr
da that hav mlar mtm
and nludng n th dagn
wthut a thrugh hk nt
rmmndd.
Th frtunat thng, thugh,
that lv nammatr da
tratabl wth antbt. wvr,
th damag aud t ntrnal
rgan ma b rrvrbl. S a
dtr a arl a bl bfr
ru damag han.
Wh d Gd
gft t marrag?
huband nrlld fr thra
and Mar nw n th ath t
rvr. r mmnt th lat
tm w mt wa: I h n hld
gt branwahd t th tnt f
avdng n marrag latr n lf;
a bautful gft frm Gd.
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T
h bt tm t tnd ur kn, fa, and
nal and gt th bt rult at nght
whn th bd rgnrat tlf. Drnk
a gla f watr wth tw tabln
f lmn u t lan ur ntrnal
tm, thn attnd t th drnt art f ur
bd.
Bdtm har ar:
Al a d f lv l t ur al. Wra ur
had wth a lk arf that th al abrb
th l thrughut th nght. If ur har latd
r n a wav, u n f th al rdut n
th markt dgnd t rmt har grwth. Th
baut f alng th tratmnt n ur har
and al at nght that b mrnng thr wll
hardl b an rdu.
Nght kn ar:
Mt knar tratmnt, uh a Rtn-A fr
an, wrk bt at nght. Slathr n a lant-bad
l, a t lt t th natural bum th kn
rdu, t rla what th da tak awa. Sun
ur, dut, ar ndtnng, tr, and thr
nvrnmntal llutant dull th kn. U ant-
agng rdut arund ur and nk. Rt
th tmtatn t l wth ur maku n and
tart ur bdtm baut rutn b rddng ur
fa f t all. In th mrnng, ml wah r lan
and u nn-gra unrn.
and, nal, and ft:
Th ara bnt mmnl frm a lathrng f
gd ld glrn wrn undr a ar f ur ttn
glv and k. Glrn, a mturr, k
ur nal frm bmng brttl and ur hand
and ft ak t all u t rman ul and ft.
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Slng
baut
Q
: ow do I proprly maintain
braidd hair?
Bd hw th brad ar ut
n, hw u ar fr ur har whl
bradd an ltrall mak r brak
t. I wrt n a rvu artl that
rmvng th alkaln ba frm
ntht har bfr bradng t
rvnt thng and tntal allrg.
On ur brad ar n, d nt lt t
bm a a f ut f ght, ut f
mnd.Yur har tll nd dal ar.
Clan ur al wkl r b-wkl
ung an atrngnt r mld antt
ald ung ttn ball. U a dal
lav-n ndtnng rtz fllwd
b a mtur f l t k ur har
wll-mturd. Natural l lk
avad, ba, nut, and lv
l ar m gd aml. Al a
havr mturng ram r a ha
buttr m drtl t th al. Evr
tw t fur wk, rn ur har wth
an al dr vngar lutn t lar
drt and rdut buld-u frm ur
brad. D nt ham ur har a
th wght f th watr wll tug at th
rt and wakn ur har. It an al
ln th brad rmaturl. But f
u ablutl mut ham, war
a tkng n ur had, aturat th
har wth vr dlut ham, gntl
maag and thn rn. Avd alng
ndtnr a th dult t wah
ut and nrmall lav wht lum.
Dr th har wth an ld T-hrt r lso
wthut rubbng t. Rmmbr t t
ur brad at nght n a atn arf r
bnnt. Prr ar fr ur brad wll
rult n mamum lngth rtntn
and ft, mturd har whn u
und thm.
Carng fr bradd har
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All ur natural har qutn anwrd.
Wak u t ul kn and
halth har b fllwng a
bdtm baut rutn. B
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Smtm I wak u wth u
. w an I rvnt th?
annah, Nr.
Pun aud b
aumulatn f mtur n th
ll blw ur . Mak ur
u vr ur tar dut wth
ram that th ud w
ut. Brng dwn th bag b
lang ld n vr ur
fr a fw mnut.
Ovrnght mral
D u hav a al an
n th mrnng and want t
wak u glwng? Tr th trk.
Wah ur fa wth mld a,
fllwd b tamng fr vn
mnut.
Pat ur kn dr, thn al a
dr f kn rtrng l whl
ur fa tll warm and mt.
Th l wll b abrbd qukl
nt th r. B th nt
mrnng, ur kn wll lk
grat.
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B
ab ar wndrful lttl
thng. I knw, bau
I hav n. And, lk all
mthr, I wuld gv
m bab anthng h
ndd. Th wllngn t gv ur
bab vrthng tart frm th tm
u nv. Th nl drn
durng rgnan that u ftn
nd u gvng ur hld thng that
u d nt rall hav t n th rt
la.
Yu , bab, amazng a th
ar, ar lk lttl arat whn th
ar n th wmb. Th tak whatvr
th nd t urvv and rbabl
vn a lttl bt mr. Aumng th
mthr halth, takng hr rnatal
vtamn and gnrall lkng aftr
hrlf, rblm ar unlkl t ar.
But hw man f u rall lk aftr
urlv whn w ar rgnant? w
man f u hav t uh n thrugh
mrnng kn and fatgu t g
t wrk and nd u takng hrtut
at hw w nurh urlv? A
urrngl larg numbr.
On f th wmn 34 ar-
ld Jant. Sh ha a -ar-ld b
and hr halth tartd t dtrrat
n th at thr ar. Sh urd
frm blatng and lwr abdmnal
an and nt an. Evn thugh hr
bwl mvmnt nw aard t
b nrmal, durng th nultatn w
dvrd that h wa ntatd
thrughut hr rgnan. Sh dd
nt tak an rnatal nutrnt whl
rgnant r bratfdng (tw ar
n ttal).
S what wa gng n? Frt,
wthut th rnatal vtamn at a tm
whn hr bd wa n dr nd f
tra nutrnt, h had ud u hr
wn tr and rbabl had a dt.
Thnk f hw w ut l n a ar t
k th art lubratd and wrkng
wll. If th l wr t run dr, th ar
wuld tll wrk, but th art wuld
bgn t tak th brunt f th war
and tar. A mlar thng had hand
n Jant bd.
Evn thugh th nrg
rqurmnt durng rgnan ar
nl 3 tra alr a da durng
th nal thr mnth, th fd u
at nd t b mr nutrnt-dn
(thnk mr nut, d, frut, vgg,
lan rtn, and l mt unk
alr). Thr hundrd alr
lk lk tw l f tat wth
anut buttr. Durng bratfdng,
th alr ntak um t 5 tra
alr.
Whl Jant had ndd bn
atng mr durng hr rgnan,
h wa llng u n th wrng
tu: r, uali, brad manl
arbhdrat that hav had muh
f thr nhrnt gdn trd
awa. Th wa, hr bd fad a dt
vr da fr almt thr ar.
Th rt t fr Jant wa t lar
hr bwl. Gntl hrb lk barbrr,
rhubarb rt, babrr, and fnnl
wr ud t mv thng alng and
tn hr mul. W al hangd hr
dt t nlud mr nutrnt-dn
fd, addd mr watr, and ut ut
what.
On mnth n, hr nt an ha
gn and th blatng ha ubdd
ndrabl. Jant nw flng
bttr and wrkng n hddng hr
bab wght.
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Th avrag rn blv that falur t b avdd at
all t. Yt all th l wh hav udd n anthng
hav al fald. Th 8-mtr wrld hamn, Davd
Rudha, ha ad n ntrvw that whn h tartd rang h
wa, t qut hm, hl.
Th am tru fr vrn wh mbark n th urn
t halth and tn. Mt l tr all knd f fad bfr
nall atng that nl a ttal lftl hang wll brng
latng rult. And vn thn, th tll mak mtak whh
dla thr rgr, gt dlnd b lln and nur, r
l thr mtvatn and fall th wagn. It hardl vr a
traght ln frm tart t nh.
Whn th urn bm dult, ntad f flng lk
a ttal falur, tak tk f whr u wr a ar, mnth, r
vn a da ag. If u rd whn u wantd nthng
mr than t rla n th fa, thn u hav mad rgr. If
u walkd fr 15 mnut ntad f ndng an hur at th
gm, t tll a gd thng that u rd.
Whn w th lk f all Brr, Marah Car, and
Jnnfr Lz l thr bab wght n a mattr f mnth,
t a t al want fat rult. wvr, th l
ar ad, and handml at that, t lk gd. Th hav
a t nann, hf, rnal tranr, and gm that
w an nl dram abut. Th nvr rall balln
durng rgnan and na bak nt ha aftr
hldbrth. In addtn, t lamd that mt lbrt
mthr hav tumm tuk at hldbrth t gt thm
tartd n lng th wght.
St urlf u fr u
Th nt t a that th d nt hav t wrk
hard; lbrt ndur lng, grullng wrkut
and ur th an f drvatn whn ravng
trat utd thr trt alr allwan.
wvr, th ar t u t ud n an atal
wa. T ba ur urn n thr t
t urlv u fr untld frutratn.
Thng wr gng wll fr Sall
Gahun wh, fr vral mnth, had
bn fllwng a utanabl and
tv r rgramm.
wvr, whn h fund a lum
n hr brat, all th dln h
had bult uld nt k hr n
trak. Sh a, I dd nt r
fr th tw wk t tk t gt th
rult. Th thught that I mght hav brat
anr wa dvatatng!
Thankfull, th lum wa bngn. But
ntad f rgnng t th mfrt f nt
fllwng hr rgmn, h gt rght bak t
t. Sh ndd u drng 11kg.
Yu, t, an ahv th rult u
want f u k ur atttud tward
btal and vn falur tv.
Althugh th ar ur t m,
dult d nt
hav t dtr ur
rgr. In fat, th
ma mak u bttr.
FITNESS
B Vvan Mua
Dnt lt tbak hld u bak
NUTRIENT-DENSE
FOODS:
Nutrnt-dn fd ar a rh
ur f man ntal nutrnt,
whh man that atng thm atr
fr a larg art f ur nutrtnal nd
vn wthut addng thr fd. Suh
fd gv u vtamn, mnral,
htnutrnt, br, and mr-fr-l
alr. r a lt f m u an
gt frm ur lal markt:
Kal (sukuma wiki)
Snah
Cabbag
Caulflwr
Carrt
Tmat
Orang
Lntl
Kdn ban
Swt tat
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L
k mt hldrn, 28-ar-
ld Nawra wa brn t lv-
ng arnt wh mad ar-
t hr thrugh lf.
Fr th, h rt thm and fl
trnall gratful. Th managmnt
nultant mak a td um frm
hr b. r arnt gt nugh t
lv n frm thr rtrmnt bn-
t but h ntrbut t thr
uk n a rgular ba. Whn-
vr th hav a bggr nd, h
t u. I want t d t bau I
fl that t th rght thng t d,
h a. Evr ftn, thugh, t
han that th wll nd mn
whn t hrt n hr nd. Durng
th mmnt, hr fathr n ar-
tular n th habt f hldng th
fat that h ard and rad hr
vr hr had t gt hr t gv n
t h dmand.
Whn h ak abut th
lngth that h ha gn t gt
hr t whr h and h annt
m thrugh fr thm, h fl
vulnrabl and gult t hav nt
mn n hr wn nd. T math
hr arnt hgh nanal ta-
tn, Nawra ha nurrd a z-
abl amunt f dbt.
Chld nvtmnt
I fl havl ndbtd t thm
and th hav mad t lar that
th t ramnt. I fl
trad, a f I hav th hug dbt
that I hav t a bak bfr I an
fu n mlf, h a.
Julu Gtar, a hld hlgt
wth th Kna Inttut f Prf-
nal Cunllng, brv that
Knan arnt mmnl ra
thr hldrn a nvtmnt t ah
n n latr n lf, a trnd whh h
attrbut t ur Afran ultural
tatn. Whl t nbl fr a
hld t urt th wh rad
hr, thr an b rblm f bund-
ar ar nt drawn. Ardng t
Mr Gtar, whn thr a gd rla-
tnh, a hld huld want t, but
nt fl frd, t gv thng t th
arnt. Al a mrtant, a arnt
huld nt t a hld t gv t
th dtrmnt f thr wn wlfar.
A arnt gal huldnt b t
ra a hld that th an rl n
thm n futur but t mwr th
hld. Rnbl hldrn wll
and knw whn th nd t hl.
Th arnt wh tak u thr r-
nblt and ra trng hl-
drn ra th rward, h a.
autn agant hldrn b-
ng mad t fl a f th w th
arnt fr rang thm. That n
f ndbtdn, h a, an brd
rntmnt n a hld, all
whn h/h fl a f h/h
unabl t a bak. If hldrn ar
rad wll, mt f thm wll want
t urt thr arnt, h a.
And thn thr ar arnt wh
nt that hldrn tak u a artu-
lar arr f th want thr f ad.
Ardng t Mr Gtar, manulatng
hldrn t ubmt t ur hn
arr ath ma brng frth bttr,
unatd adult. Yur hld dnt
w t t u t full th arr ath
that u hlvd r that u dr.
R, 34, th nd brn f
fur hldrn. Grwng u, h natu-
rall tk n th rl f bg tr t
hr ungr blng. Whn h gt
hr rt tabl b, h hld a
thr hl f and al ad art
f hr arnt lvng n. M
arnt wuld hav managd but
I flt th nd t a frward th
thng that had bn gvn t m,
h lan.
Sblng dndn
wvr, fr th at fw ar,
h ha bn flng that hr
ungr blng hav tartd fl-
ng nttld.
Prha t bau I run m
wn bun that th aum that
I hav mn t nd whnvr
th nd t. Whn thr f thm
gt nt a , ntad f makng
an attmt t nd a lutn, th
m t m rt. If I ant hl, th
rat angrl and all m lh.
D th man that b bng ldr
and havng mr mn, I w
thm? h ak.
Mr Gtar aknwldg that a
funtnal faml thrv n th
urt that mmbr gv n an-
thr. R rdamnt, h a,
tm frm th fat that ntad f
hlng hr blng bm nd-
ndnt, R mad thm dnd-
nt n hr. Intad f ntnuall
gvng thm handut, h huld
hav hld thm wrk ut mr
rmannt lutn t thr nan-
al w r hld thm t u n-
m-gnratng rt. T avd
nng th rlatnh u hav
wth ur blng, f u dd t
gv, unt t a a gft, nt a lan.
A lt wr
48-ar-ld Kn Andrn, a Ca-
nadan, wa abandnd b h ar-
nt at 15, frng hm t dr ut
f hgh hl t fnd fr hmlf.
Yu an magn h hk whn, 33
ar latr, h larnt that h mthr,
whm h had barl n thrugh
th ar, had ud hm fr arntal
urt. Dt th lngth -
trangmnt, th urt awardd hr
a mnthl urt f $1 frm hm
and h fur thr blng. Sh a-
ald agant th amunt arlr
th ar and lt.
In what ha bn n a -
trm blgatn n hldrn t a
bak thr arnt, untr lk
Canada and Sngar hav law r-
qurng hldrn t urt arnt
wh ar alng, ld, r brk. Th
law gv arnt n th tuatn
wr t ml adult hldrn t
urt thm nanall.
Dt Afran tradtn lang
n hldrn th rnblt f
lkng aftr arnt, adult Knan
hldrn tll hav a a n whthr
r nt, and al hw, th full
th tatn.
Mrvr, th gvrnmnt ha
ut n la al wlfar hm
t rtt th ldrl, lk th
Oldr Prn Cah Tranfr Shm
whh gv a mnthl ah hand-
ut t nd Knan vr th ag
f 6.
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EATING&OUTING
MISTER WOK
CAPITAL CENTRE, MOMBASA ROAD
I
hav hard bad rvw abut
Mtr Wk frm l wh wr
nt artularl namurd b thr
fd: Th thught t lakd th
authnt Chn tat and that nt t
muh rt wa ut nt t raratn.
wvr, I lk t gv vrwhr a
han bfr I trk t an lt. S I
gathrd th uual ut and hadd
dwn t Mtr Wk t hk t ut fr
mlf.
Mtr Wk a ba tu n th
rt r, nt t anthr bar, and
rad ut ar a dla f tabl
dn u n rd and wht tabllth.
It aar t b qut ular a vn
n th nght I wnt thr qut lat t
had mr than a fw atrn. Yu an
th kthn frm anwhr u t,
r at lat har t. A n ha alld
Aarn brught th mnu. Th fd
th uual Chn
far: rng rll,
rawn, u, alad,
and lt f h fr
vgtaran nludng
wra, alad, and th lk.
W had th tr frd hkn
and th hkn frd r.
Th hkn wa lghtl d, nt t
muh a t vrwr th n and
nt t lttl a t add n ark t t
tat. Nw, a nt t nt hr that
th rtn an b dvdd btwn
tw wmn and th wll bth b full.
wvr, f u m wth a mtr,
t bt t rdr mr lat, r vn
mr ur, bau f u d nt,
u mght tll b hungr whn u
lav. Yu an hav mb, whh
m wth r/ndl, r ml rdr
ah ur aratl (frm alad,
u, and wra rght t th lattr
f th man ur and drt). Su
avrag Sh3.
A mb abut Sh75 whl a man
ur abut Sh8. Amanng
dh uh a r tart at arund
Sh45. Th drnk ar al ranabl
rd: a da Sh8 and a br
Sh25. Th al rv wn and
frut u. Our fd wa rvd thr
mnut aftr w rdrd t, whh wa
vr mrv. It wa dnt fd a
wll, thugh l than I thught t wuld
b fr that r.
I lkd Mtr Wk. Th rv wa
gd. Th fd wa gd. Th md
brr u I had wth m mal wa al
gd. On a al f ur (1) t wt (5),
Mtr Wk gt a gd 3.
EATINGIN
Ingrdnt
Prawn
Plan (natural) ghurt
Garam maala S
Gngr
Garl
Mthd
Clan ur frh rawn thrughl. In a arat
dh, mbn th ghurt, ruhd garl and
gngr wth th maala . Marnat rawn wth
all th ngrdnt. Cvr n a dh and lav t t fr a
mnmum f n hur. Grll untl gldn brwn, rfrabl n
a tandr vn. Bruh wth mltd buttr and rv mmdatl
wth r and m vgtabl.
Chf Jtndra Mamga bhatt ka hnga
(Grlld tandr rawn)
Q: w lng hav u bn n th fd and
bvrag rfn?
I hav bn n th htl and fd ndutr fr 2
ar and at th Bandn Rtaurant fr th at
1.
Q: Drb ur tl f un and th
nun that ld u t rat th tl.
I am rgnall frm nrthrn Inda, what m
mthr mad fr m whn I wa grwng u
nr what I mak. I rnall mak authnt
Indan fd.
Q: What ur favurt dh t rar fr
ur gut?
Murg tkka lababdar, bhattka nga (tandr
rawn), and lamb h wth r.
Q: What ar a fw f ur favurt dh t
at?
Buttr hkn, lntl (dhal), r, naan and rt.
Q: What th wrt thng u hav vr
atn?
I at bf b mtak and t wa hrrbl.
Q: Whh v ngrdnt ar nvr mng
frm ur kthn antr at hm?
Garam maala, hll wdr, hald wdr, alt,
l.
Q: Kndl har wth u a t t mrv ur
kng kll at hm.
Fr an Indan dh t wrk, u hav t hav
garam maala.
Cmld b Tra Wanala
MEETTHECHEF
Jtndra Mamga,
utv hf, Bandn
Rtaurant, Narb
Intrntnntal
Yu dnt hav t travl far t
gt th authnt and dlu
tat f Chna. B Fdhl
Imrv
Chn far
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HOMES&GARDENS
W
hthr u hav a grand and
mng hall wth a hav rnat
ntran r ur frnt dr a hl
n th wall, th th rt ndatn
t ur gut f th rnalt f ur hm.
Fr ur laur and thr, u ma want t
gv attntn t th ml nt f ntr.
Yu ma want t tart b lang a wlm
mat. A wlm mat an b bth funtnal
and attratv. It arr th mrtant tak f
nablng gut and rdnt t w drt
thr h and nt trak t nt th hm. Dr
mat nd nt b lan r brng a th m
n a vart f matral and dgn. Sm ar
mad frm durabl matral uh a rubbr,
wkr, almra, wvn hanth and rd, and
lth. Yur h wll dnd n th amunt f
tra u antat, whthr t t b tatnd
ndr r utdr, a wll a ur vrall
tat n trm f lur and tl. Mat ma b
ndd at frnt, d, and bak dr, and th
an b lad nd r ut. Takng rr ar f
drmat and rlang thm whn ndd wll
hl mmnl whn t m t kng ur
hardwd r, art, and tl lan and dr.
Ea t ar fr
Th mat turd ar mad frm r, a
durabl nut br that a t ar fr.
Suh mat ar al a frm f rlng n th
matral wuld thrw b dardd. Rgularl
hak th mat ut t rmv drt, dut, and
drd mud. Vauumng wll al k u drt that
trad dr and an anal rubbng
wth lqud dtrgnt r art ham wll
mak thm arkl. Dr mltl bfr u t
rvnt muldng.
Th mat turd ar frm Wdl Wavr
and r rang frm Sh1,5 t Sh2,5.
Othr tkt nlud mar urmarkt
and furntur tr a wll a raft far lk th
Bzarr Bazaar whh wll tak la at Karura
Frt n Jun 22 and 23.
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Wanala
Mak a grand ntran
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PERSONALFINANCE
Jut bau u lk
rh dnt man u
ar rh. Oftn, th
l wth th bggt
ar and hu ar th
n lvng n vrt.
B Wak Nduat
Omanga
Q
: I want to start planning for collg ducation for
my daughtr. Sh will b going in approimatly
1 yars tim. What should I considr?
A: Yu nd t lk at what duatn wll t at th
tm u want ur hld t g t hl. D nt wrk
wth what t t tda, thrw u wll nd urlf
unabl t ard t at th tm. Bau f natn, vr
ar hl f wll nra, wrk wth what t wll
t thn. Th wll tart t gv u a gd tmat f
what u nd t tart avng.
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J
hn a nr managr n a
multnatnal man wth th
knd f b ttl that n bg
dr. arn a nt nm
f Sh5, and lv n a hu and
drv a ar bttng h tatu. b
dmandng and h rarl ha tm t
uru thr ntrt. urrntl
ndrng atng anthr b
r, whr h wll arn Sh62, a
mnth. Aftr lvng n, hl f,
ntrtanmnt, and dbt ramnt,
Jhn abl t av Sh1, a mnth,
rrntng 2 r nt f h nm.
ha nvtd n land and har and h
rtfl wrth abut Sh5 mlln.
Jan dlvr mal t Jhn .
A ar ag h wa wrkng a a drvr
arnng a nt nm f Sh15,, but
h gt rtrnhd. Sh tartd makng
nak fr al t utan hrlf whl
watng fr anthr b. But whn h wa
rntl rd a b fr Sh25,, h
turnd t dwn. r mall-al bun
ha grwn muh that h urrntl
rvng tw buldng and ha mld
an atant. Sh ll 2 mandazis a da
at Sh2 a and urrntl ha 2 lunh
rdr at Sh1 r mal.
Stmat lannng
Sh mak a dal nm f Sh6,
and abl t rtan Sh4, aftr t.
Evr mnth hr bun gv hr
Sh6, n rt. Sh abl t av
Sh4, aftr rnal n. In
thr wrd, h urrntl av 67 r
nt f hr nm. Sh ha nw avd u
Sh4,. Sh3, f th wll b ut
tward bung a f land uuntr
t tart hkn rarng. r brthr, wh
lv thr, wll run that bun. Sh
t t mak abut Sh2, a mnth
aftr all t, takng hr ttal rnal
nm t Sh8,.
T th untrand brvr, Jhn rh
whl Jan r. But th rall tru?
Lt u amn th.
Wth Sh5 mlln n at and ut n
urrnt ur f nm, Jhn an nl
urvv fr a ar bad n h urrnt
What
untrft
walth rall
lk lk
n f h lt h ur f nm.
alrad ud t a artular
tandard f lvng, huld h l h
b, h ha t gur ut hw t rla a
Sh5, lftl. An rtunt that
m h wa wuld hav t mt that
tatn bth n tatu and nm.
Buldng a aft nt
Jan knw what t lk t l hr
aft nt n h ha alrad lt hr
b. Whn h wa dlard rdundant,
hr mmdat hallng wa rlang
a Sh15, lftl. Thr wa n tatu
t mantan and h wa rad t d
whatvr t tk t arn a lvng. Tda,
hr avng f Sh4, an nur hr
urvval fr 2 mnth f h wr t l
hr ur f nm. Mr mrtantl,
h abl t u hr tm tvl t
buld dvr ur f nm, uh
a th hkn, that d nt narl
rl n hr fulltm. If h nd anthr
buldng t ul nak t, hr nm
nra and t a ml a that.
Jan nvtmnt arah atv
t nt ut abut bung land that
wll rman dl and b n t hav,
but dng mthng wth t that wll
nra hr nm
Manwhl, Jhn nl thr ur
f nm t t a a r, whh
h wll gt f h hfull gt th nw
b h watng fr. wvr, th
b wll tak u mr f h tm and
Jhn wll nl vr b abl t uru
av nvtmnt that h d nt
hav t b drtl nvlvd n. l
ur f nm wll ntnu t b h
alar, and bau f h lftl, h
wll num mr, th mr h arn.
Ultmatl, aftr h rtr r f h gt
rd, h tram f nm wll a t
t.
Sml h wth grat
mat
Jhn bu mandazis frm Jan.
ha n da f th nm mat f
hr dtvl ml h. Jan
ha dvld an ntnt t nra
whl Jhn ha dvld th ntnt
t num. Whl Jhn atttud
t mn ndng and avng a
lttl, hr atttud multlatn and
avng. Jhn wll ntnu wrkng
fr a lftl whl Jan wll ntnu
wrkng t rat nm tram that
wll mfrtabl utan th lftl h
h t hav. Jhn td t an mag
and wll wat fr rtunt that algn
t that mag. Jan ha n al tatu
t lv u t, thrfr abl t gra
rtunt qukl. Jan ha larnt
th valu f hr tm and what that tm
an rat. Jhn tm valud fr hm
b a alar. In ummar, Jhn ratng
a lf f dndn, whr h ha t
wrk t at. Jan ratng a lf f
ndndn, whr h an alwa at
bau hr at ar wrkng fr hr.
Jhn drvng a bg ar n th
hghwa t vrt. Jan rdng a boda
boda n th hghwa t walth. Whh
hghwa ar u n? Lt m knw.
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T
h ragng mud-lld watr f th
wlln Sabak Rvr ar th lat
f m wrr a w drv vr th
brdg frm Malnd. On m mnd
th lttl-lrd and unqu atal frt
whr th ndangrd Clark wavr
brd th Dakatha Wdland.
Fr a lng tm naturalt utd
th wdland t b th ndangrd brd
brdng grund, and a rnt dvr
f a ntng t wthn ha nrmd thr
un. Th brd wa ghtd fr ar n
th Dakatha Wdland and th Arabuk-
Skk frt n Kl, but n n magnd
t brd n th wtland, ndng rarhr
and ntt n a wld g ha n thr
drtn. It wa Flur Ngwn f Natur
Kna and hr tam, wh dvrd th
ntng t n th anal wtland f th
wdland. A fw wk aftr th dvr,
Flur wantd t brv th ntlng
bfr th w and I umd nt
th bandwagn. I al wantd t ath a
glm f t that I uld add t m lt
f brd that ar nl fund n Kna. S far
th ar, Iv managd t fur uh brd
n drnt art f th untr nd
babblr, Tata aal, Shar lnglaw
and nw Clark wavr. Id nlud th
aru gnlk n th lt but t fund n
thr untr t, thugh t lv nl n
aru wam makng t habtat .
Dakatha Wdland a 32,-htar
ma f frt, thkt and farmland
almt dubl th z f Narb Natnal
Park 117 quar klmtr. Thr
muh t dvr n t and t a magnt fr
rarhr and -turm. wvr all
th wuld hav vanhd undr a wath f
mntu atrha lantatn a fw ar
ag whn dvlr thught f turnng
what th aw a undvld land nt
a 5,-htar atrha lantatn t
rdu bful fr th mrgng grn
nm. ad th mgudd rt gn
ahad, Kna wuld hav lt a traur
trv f rt and bn th rr,
bau n Kna Brahtga tr (Mrha
n Grama) nl grw n th and l f
Dakatha Wdland and Arabuk-Skk
frt. Th lal mmunt th Watha,
Grama and Kauma rat rtatnal
lah-and-burn farmng, gvng th land tm
t rlnh t nutrnt.
Rarh hw that atrha lantatn
hav rdud lttl n thr art f th
tral wrld.
D n th wdland, w t u am
n an ara alld Chalalu. Chalalu man
Afran Gant Snal n Watha languag,
land Samn Bar and Ptr War
bth Watha and mmbr f th Chalalu
Cmmunt Cnrvatn Gru, whh
fall undr th umbrlla f Dakatha
Wdland Cnrvatn Gru. Thr n
n arund fr ml. In th glar f th
full mn, th tr lk lk ultur n
an art gallr. Flur gv a lv rndtn f
th k ma that lld wth ntllatn.
Bng l t th quatr, w
ntllatn n bth th nrthrn and
uthrn hmhr .
Th annt Grk uldnt th
uthrn r r th ntaur, rmark
Flur, S th wr namd mr rntl.
Alha ntaur th tar lt t ur lar
tm.
Sn aftr unt, th r-nkd
nghtar ng a bautful mual trll
fllwd b a mntnu taat frm
th lndr-tald nghtar. Th drt r
n blm and th mt vbrant dah
f nk u n th and vrd arth
a w walk thrugh ath f frt n
arh f th luv Clark wavr. It
fl lk lkng fr a ndl n a hatak.
Kng m n th grund, Im arful
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SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Programme Minimum Entry Requirements Fees (Kshs.)
Department of Geography
Master of Arts in:
- Agricultural Geography
- Biogeography
- Climatology
- Economic Geography
- Geomorphology
- Geography of Marketing
- Industrial Geography
- Medical Geography
- Population Geography
- Settlement Geography
- Transport Geography
- Urban and Regional Planning
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Arts, Science or Bachelor of
Education Degree with at least Second Class
Honours (Upper Division) or equivalent from
a recognized university and has studied
Geography either as a major or regular subject
to a degree level. Those with Second Class
(Lower Division) may be considered provided
they show proven evidence of research ability.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Geography
Master of Science in:
- Hydrology and Water Resources
- Integrated Watershed Management
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelors Degree with at least Second Class
Honours (Upper Division) or equivalent in
Engineering, Hydrology, and related disciplines,
Natural Sciences or Social and Human
Sciences from a recognized university. Those
with Second Class (Lower Division) and at
least two years relevant work experience will
be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Sociology
Master of Arts in
Sociology
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening & Weekend (City and
Nyeri Campus)
Bachelor of Arts degree with at least Second
Class Honours (Upper Division) from Kenyatta
University or any other recognized University
and has studied Sociology as either a major
or regular subject at degree level or equivalent
qualifcations from a recognized university.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division)
may be admitted provided one shows proven
evidence of research ability.
Tuition:
East Africans: - 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Sociology
Master of Arts in
Community Development
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening & Weekend (City
Campus)
Bachelor of Arts degree with at least Second
Class Honours (Upper Division) from Kenyatta
University or any other University and has
studied Sociology as either a major or
regular subject at degree level or equivalent
qualifcations from a recognized university.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division)
may be admitted provided one shows proven
evidence of research ability.
Tuition:
East Africans: - 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Sociology
PhD in Sociology
Full-time (Main Campus)
Masters Degree in Sociology from Kenyatta
University or a recognized Institution.
Tuition:
- East Africans: - 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
Department of
Kiswahili and African Languages
Master of Arts in Kiswahili
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Education (Arts)
with at least Second Class Honours (Upper
Division) or equivalent in relevant disciplines
from a recognized university with an average
grade of B in Kiswahili Studies.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division) and
at least two years relevant work experience will
be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: - 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Kiswahili and African
Languages
PhD in Kiswahili
Full-time (Main Campus)
Master of Arts in Kiswahili with an average of
grade B in Kiswahili Studies from Kenyatta
University or any other recognized institution.
Tuition:
- East Africans: - 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
Department of Psychology
Master of Arts in
Counseling Psychology
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening and Weekend (City
Campus, Nakuru and Nyeri
Campus)
Bachelors Degree with at least Second
Class Honours(Upper Division) from Kenyatta
University or any other recognized university
Those with Second Class Honours (Lower
Division) from Kenyatta University or any other
recognized Institution should have at least two
years relevant Professional experience in a
clinical setting or a Postgraduate Diploma in
Counseling or Education or equivalent with at
least a Credit Level Pass.
Tuition:
East Africans: - 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Gender and
Development Studies
Master of Arts in Gender and
Development Studies
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening and Weekend (Nyeri and
City Campus)
Bachelors Degree with at least Second Class
Honours (Upper Division) or equivalent in
related feld from any disciplines from Kenyatta
University or any other recognized university.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division) and
minimum of two years relevant work or research
experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: - 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Gender and
Development Studies
Ph.D in Gender and Development
Studies
Full-time (Main and Nyeri Campus
Masters degree in related feld from a
recognized university.
Tuition:
- East Africans: - 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
OFFICE OF THE DEAN, GRADUATE SCHOOL
APPLICATIONS FOR POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 2012
Applications are invited from qualifed applicants for the following Programmes which will be offered in various campuses as indicated, under Full Time, Evening & Weekend mode of study in the Academic
Year 2012/2013, beginning September, 2012. The entry requirements for each Programme are as shown below:
Department of History, Archaeology
and Political Studies
Master of Arts in:
Peace and Confict Management
History
Political Science
Archaeology
Diplomacy and International
Relations
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening & Weekend (City Campus)
Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Education (Arts)
Degree of at least Second Class Honours
(Upper Division) or its equivalent in related
disciplines from a recognized university. Those
with Second Class (Lower Division) and at
least two years relevant work experience will
be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of History, Archaeology
and Political Studies
Master of Arts in:
- Peace and Confict Management
Evening & Weekend (Nyeri
Campus)
Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Education (Arts)
Degree of at least Second Class Honours
(Upper Division) or its equivalent in related
disciplines from a recognized university. Those
with Second Class (Lower Division) and at
least two years relevant work experience will
be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of History, Archaeology
& Political Studies:
Masters in Public Policy and
Administration (MPPA)
Evening & Weekend (City
Campus)
Bachelors Degree of at least Second Class
Honours (Upper Division) from a recognized
university in any area of specialization. Those
with Second Class (Lower Division) and at
least two years relevant work experience in
research, administration or management will
be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Foreign Languages
Master of Arts in French
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Education (Arts)
Degree of at least Second Class Honours
(Upper Division) or its equivalent with a
specialization in French, from a recognized
university. Those with Second Class (Lower
Division) and at least two years relevant work
experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Foreign Languages
Master of Arts in Teaching French as a
Foreign Language (TFFL)
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Education Degree of at least
Second Class Honours (Upper Division) or
its equivalent with a specialization in French,
from a recognized university. Applicants with
Bachelors in (Teaching French as a Foreign
Language) may have a unit waiver of the frst
Semester units. Those with Second Class
(Lower Division) and at least two years relevant
work experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of English and
Linguistics
Master of Arts in:
- English and Linguistics
- Applied Linguistics
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Education (Arts)
Degree of at least Second Class Honours
(Upper Division) or its equivalent with an
average means score of 60% from a recognized
university. Those with Second Class Honours
(Lower Division) and at least two years relevant
work experience may be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Literature
Master of Arts in Literature
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Education (Arts)
Degree of at least Second Class Honours
(Upper Division) or its equivalent in related
disciplines from a recognized University. Those
with Second Class (Lower Division) and at
least two years relevant work experience will
be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Philosophy and
Religious Studies
Master of Arts in Philosophy
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelors Degree in Philosophy of at least
Second Class Honours (Upper Division) from a
recognized university or Second Class Honours
(Lower Division) and at least two years post-
graduation relevant work experience.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Philosophy and
Religious Studies
Doctor of Philosophy(Ph.D) in
Philosophy
Full-Time(Main Campus)
Masters Degree in Philosophy from Kenyatta
University or a recognized Institution.
Tuition:
- East Africans: - 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
Department of Philosophy and
Religious Studies
Master of Arts in Religious Studies
(Christianity, Islam, African Religion)
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelors Degree with specialization in
Religious Studies with at least Second Class
Honours (Upper Division) from a recognized
university. Those with Second Class (Lower
Division) should have at least two years relevant
work experience after graduation.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Philosophy and
Religious Studies
Doctor of Philosophy(Ph.D) in;
(Christianity, Islam, African Religion)
FullTime (Main Campus)
Masters Degree in Philosophy from Kenyatta
University or a recognized Institution.
Tuition:
- East Africans: - 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
SCHOOL OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES
Department of Mathematics
Master of Science in:
- Statistics
- Biostatistics.
- Applied Mathematics
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening and Weekends (City
Campus)
Bachelors Degree in related disciplines with at
least Second Class Honours (Upper Division) or
equivalent from a recognized University with an
average grade of C (of 55%) in area applied.
One must also be a Major in the specifc area of
specialization namely: Statistics, Applied Math,
Pure Math or Biostatistics. Those with Second
Class Honours (Lower Division) at least two
years work experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
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SCHOOL OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
Department of Fine Arts
Master of Arts in Fine Art
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Arts / Education in Fine Art with at
least Second Class Honours (Upper Division) or
equivalent in related disciplines, from Kenyatta
University or any recognized University. Those
with Second Class (Lower Division) and at
least two years relevant experience may be
considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Theatre Arts and Film
Technology
Master of Arts in:
- Film Technology
- Theatre Arts
- Theatre Arts and Film Technology
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theatre Arts
and Film Technology, Journalism or Mass
Communication or equivalent with at least
Second Class Honours(Upper Division) from
a recognized University, plus a Certifcate or
Diploma in Theatre Arts and Film Technology.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division) and
at least three years relevant work experience
will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Music & Dance
- Master of Musical Arts
(Performance)
- Master of Music Education
Master of Arts in:
- African Music and Ethnomusicology
- Musicology
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Arts (Music) or
Bachelor of Education (Arts) Degree of at least
Second Class (Upper Division) or equivalent in
related disciplines from a recognized University.
Those with Second Class Honours (Lower
Division) Degree and at least three years
relevant work experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Theatre Arts and Film
Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in:
- Theatre Arts and Film Technology
- Film Technology
- Theatre Arts
Full-time (Main Campus)
Master of Arts in Theatre Arts, Film Technology,
Mass Communication from a recognized
university.
Tuition:
- East Africans: 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
Department of Music and Dance.
Doctor of Philosophy(Ph.D) in:
- Music Composition
- Music Performance
- Music Education
- Musical Arts(Performance)
- Ethnomusicology
Full-time (Main Campus)
Masters Degree in a relevant area of study in
Music from a recognized university.
Tuition:
- East Africans: 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
Department of Fine Art
Doctor of Philosophy(Ph.D)in:
- Fine Art
Full-time (Main Campus)
Masters Degree in relevant area of study in
Fine Art from a recognized University.
Tuition:
- East Africans: 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM
Department of Hospitality
Management
Master of Science in Hospitality and
Tourism Management
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Science with at least Second Class
Honours (Upper Division) in Hospitality or
Hospitality and Tourism Management.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division) with
at least three years Post graduation working
experience in Hospitality and Tourism related
area will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Hospitality
Management
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in
Hospitality Management.
Full Time (Main Campus)
Masters Degree in Hospitality or Hospitality and
Tourism Management with a mean grade of B
or its equivalent from Kenyatta University or any
other recognized institution.
Tuition:
- East Africans: 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
Department of Tourism Management
- Master of Science in International
Tourism Management
Full-time (Main and Mombasa
Campus)
Evening and Weekend (City
Campus)
Bachelor of Science with at least Second
Class Honours (Upper Division) in Tourism
Management and related feld.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division) and
at least two years relevant work experience will
be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
Department of Energy Engineering
Master of Science(Renewable Energy
Technology)
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Science/ Bachelor of Education
(Science) with at least Second Class Honours
(Upper Division) with specialization in
appropriate branch of engineering, Physics,
Chemistry, Environmental Science or Biological
Sciences. Those with Second Class Honours
(Lower Division) with at least two (2) years
working experience and shown evidence of
research will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 140,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Energy Engineering
Master of Science (Sustainable Energy
Engineering)
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Science Energy Engineering,
Engineering and Technology related areas
with at least Second Class Honours (Upper
Division) with specialization in any of the
following Appropriate Technology, Agriculture,
Civil and Construction, Physics, Mechanical
Electrical, Chemical Engineering or Technology
Education. Those with Second Class Honours
(Lower Division) in the above Stated areas with
at least two (2) years experience in Energy
Sector will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 140,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
Department of Agribusiness
Management
Master of Science in
- Agribusiness Management
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening and Weekend (City
Campus)
Bachelor of Science of at least Second Class
Honours (Upper Division) or equivalent in
Agriculture, Horticulture, Range Management,
Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics or any
other equivalent qualifcation from a recognized
institution. Those with Second Class (Lower
Division) in the above and at least two years
relevant work experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 140,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Agricultural
Resource Management
Master of Science in:
- Land Water Management
- Integrated Soil Fertility Management
(ISFM)
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Science of at least Second Class
Honours (Upper Division) or equivalent in
Agriculture, Dry land Agriculture ,Agricultural
Engineering, Agricultural Resource Management,
Environmental Science, Horticulture, Range
Management, Agricultural Education, or any other
equivalent qualifcation form Kenyatta University
or other Institutions recognized by Kenyatta
University Senate.
Those with Second Class Honours (Lower
Division) in agricultural related areas but with
at least two years experience in Agricultural
Research / teaching.
Tuition:
East Africans: 140,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Agricultural
Resource Management
Ph.D in Soil Science
Main Campus
M.Sc Degree in Soil Science, Integrated Soil
Fertility Management, Agronomy, Horticulture,
Crop Science, Land and Water Management, Dry
land Agriculture, Agro forestry, Environmental
Science, or any other equivalent qualifcation
from Kenyatta University and other Institutions
recognized by Senate of Kenyatta University.
Tuition:
- East Africans: 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
Department of Agricultural
Resource Management
Ph.D in Land and Water Management
Main Campus
M.Sc Degree in Soil Science, Integrated Soil
Fertility Management, Agronomy, Horticulture,
Crop Science, Land and Water Management, Dry
land Agriculture, Agro forestry, Environmental
Science, or any other equivalent qualifcation
from Kenyatta University and other Institutions
recognized by Senate of Kenyatta University.
Tuition:
- East Africans: 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
Department of Agricultural
Resource Management
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in:
- Integrated Soil Fertility Management
(ISFM)
Full Time(Main Campus)
M.Sc Degree in Soil Science, Integrated Soil
Fertility Management, Agronomy, Horticulture,
Crop Science, Land and Water Management,
Agricultural Resource Management, Dry
land Agriculture, Agroforestry, Environmental
Science, or any other equivalent qualifcation
from Kenyatta University and other Institutions
recognized by Senate of Kenyatta University.
Tuition:
- East Africans: 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
Department of Agricultural Science
and Technology
Master of Science (Agronomy)
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelors Degree with at least Second Class
Honours (Upper Division) in Agriculture or other
related areas e.g. Environmental Sciences,
Biotechnology, Zoology / Botany and from a
recognized institution.
Bachelors Degree with Second Class Honours
(Lower Division) in Agriculture or other related
areas (Environmental Sciences, Biotechnology,
Zoology / Botany) with at least two years
relevant research experience in an agricultural
feld or related area or with a Post-graduate
Diploma will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 140,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Agricultural Science
and Technology
Master of Science in:
- Plant Breeding
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelors Degree with at least Second
Class Honours (Upper Division) in Agriculture
or other related areas e.g. Environmental
Sciences, Biotechnology, Zoology / Botany and
Horticulture from a recognized institution.
Bachelors Degree with Second Class Honours
(Lower Division) in Agriculture or other related
areas (Environmental Sciences, Biotechnology,
Zoology / Botany) with at least two years
relevant research experience in an agricultural
feld or related area or with a Post-graduate
Diploma will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 140,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Agricultural Science
and Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in area
of choice in Agricultural Science and
Technology.
Full Time(Main Campus)
Master of Science Degree in Plant Breeding,
Plant Pathology, Agricultural Entomology,
Agronomy, Horticulture, Seed Science,
Plant Nutrition or other related felds from an
institution recognized by Kenyatta University.
Tuition:
- East Africans: 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
DURATION AND PATTERN OF MASTERS DEGREE COURSES
(i) The Masters Degree Courses shall extend over a minimum period of eighteen (18) months.
(ii) The courses will be offered by Coursework, Examination and Thesis (or Project where stated)
DURATION AND PATTERN OF POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA COURSES
The Postgraduate Diploma courses shall extend over a minimum period of one (1) academic year, and will be offered
by Coursework and Examination.
DURATION AND PATTERN OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE COURSES
(i) The Doctor of Philosophy Degree (Ph.D) courses shall extend over a minimum period of three (3) academic
years.
(ii) The courses will be offered by Thesis (unless stated otherwise)
MODE OF APPLICATION
(i) Application forms can be obtained from Kenyatta University, Admissions Block, Offce No. 12 or at the Regional
Centres based in Nairobi, Embu, Nyeri, Mombasa, Nakuru, Kisumu, Garissa, Marsabit and Kakamega or be
downloaded from our website. Applicants shall pay non-refundable processing fee of kshs.2,000/= for East
Africans and Kshs.4,000/= for non-East Africans through Bank deposit into any of the following bank accounts:
Standard Chartered Bank - Account No. 010-201-881-4400
Co-operative Bank of Kenya - Account No. 011-296-246-1400
National Bank of Kenya - Account No. 010-035-915-0801
Equity Bank Limited - Account No. 0180290518859
(ii) Duly completed forms should be returned to the Dean, Graduate School, Kenyatta University P.O. Box 43844
00100, NAIROBI, on or before May 30
th
2012. Copies of relevant academic and professional certifcates,
original receipt of application and 4 passport size photos 1 inch by 1 inch MUST be attached to the application
form.
ENQUIRIES
For further information please contact:
The Dean,
Graduate School,
Kenyatta University,
P.O. Box 43844 00100,
NAIROBI
Tel: 020 8710901/2/3 Extension: 4151/4160
Email: admissions-graduate@ku.ac.ke
www.ku.ac.ke
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Department of Mathematics
Master of Science (Social Statistics)
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening and Weekends (City
Campus)
Bachelors Degree in related disciplines with at
least Second Class Honours (Upper Division)
or equivalent from a recognized University with
an average grade of C in area applied. One
must be at least a Regular in statistics with an
average of C. Those with Second Class (Lower
Division) and at least two years work experience
will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Mathematics
Master of Science in:
- Pure Mathematics
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelors Degree in related disciplines with at
least Second Class Honours (Upper Division) or
equivalent from a recognized University with an
average grade of C (of 55%) in area applied.
One must also be a Major in the specifc area of
specialization namely: Statistics, Applied Math,
Pure Math or Biostatistics. Those with Second
Class Honours (Lower Division) at least two
years work experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Physics
Master of Science in
- Electronics & Instrumentation
- Physics; with specializations in
Material Science, Environmental
Physics, Polymer Physics,
Theoretical Physics (Atomic
Collisions)
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Education
(Science) Degree with at least Second Class
Honours (Upper Division) or equivalent from a
recognized university and studied Physics as
a major or regular subject with Mathematics as
the Second Subject.
Those with Second Class Honours (Lower
Division) or its equivalent from a recognized
university and at least two years relevant work
experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Biochemistry and
Biotechnology
Master of Science in:
- Biochemistry
- Biotechnology
- Medical Biochemistry.
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening and Weekend (City
Campus)
Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry /
Biotechnology or related discipline with at least
Second Class Honours (Upper Division) or
equivalent from a recognized University.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division) in the
above mentioned areas and at least two years
relevant work experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department Plant and Microbial
Science
Master of Science in:
- Plant Pathology
- Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
- Microbiology
- Genetics
- Plant Ecology
- Plant Taxonomy
- Ethnobotany
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Education
(Science) with at least Second Class Honours
(Upper Division) or equivalent with Biology as
the main subject from a recognized university.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division) or its
equivalent and at least two years relevant work
experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Zoological Sciences
Master of Science in:
- Immunology
- Applied Medical Entomology
- Agricultural Entomology
- Animal Ecology
- Aquatic Ecology
- Animal Physiology
- Applied Parasitology
- Fisheries Sciences
- Vertebrate Biology
- Developmental Biology
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Education
(Science) Degree in related disciplines with at
least Second Class Honours (Upper Division).
Those with Second Class Honours (Lower
Division) or its equivalent with an average of
C in the area applied and at least two years
relevant work experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Chemistry
Master of Science in:
- Chemistry
- Applied Analytical Chemistry
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Education
(Science) Degree with at least Second Class
Honours (Upper Division) or equivalent from a
recognized university and studied Chemistry as
a major or regular subject and obtained at least
an average grade C in Chemistry units.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division) or its
equivalent from a recognized university and at
least two years of teaching Chemistry or working
in a research Institution will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Department of Educational
Management, Policy and Curriculum
Studies
Master of Education in:
- Educational Administration
- Educational Planning
- Curriculum Development
- Economics of Education
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Education Degree in related feld,
with at least Second Class Honours (Upper
Division) or equivalent from Kenyatta University
or any recognized institution.
Those with Bachelor of Education Second Class
(Lower Division) or its equivalent with at least
two years of relevant work experience may be
considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Educational
Foundations
Master of Education in:
- History of Education
- Philosophy of Education
- Sociology of Education and Policy
Studies
- Comparative and International
Studies
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Education Degree in related feld,
with at least Second Class Honours (Upper
Division) or equivalent from Kenyatta University
or any recognized institution.
Those with Bachelor of Education Second Class
(Lower Division) or its equivalent with at least
two years of relevant work experience will be
considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Educational
Foundations
Master of Education in Health
Education
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Nursing,
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
(MB.ChB), Bachelor of Science (Nursing and
Public Health) or any other Science or Social
Science Degree from a recognized University
with at least Second Class Honours (Upper
Division).Those with the above qualifcations and
Second Class (Lower Division) and two years
relevant working experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Educational
Foundation
Post Graduate Diploma in Social
Research
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Education Degree in a related feld
with at least Second Class Honours (Upper
Division) or its equivalent from Kenyatta
University or any recognized institution OR
Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts Degree
attained at Second Class(Lower Division) or
equivalent with at least two years relevant
working experience.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Educational
Psychology
Master of Education in:
- Educational Psychology
- Guidance and Counseling
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening & Weekend (Nyeri and
City Campus)
Bachelor of Education Degree in related feld,
with at least Second Class Honours (Upper
Division) or equivalent from Kenyatta University
or any recognized institution. Those with
Bachelor of Education Degree Second Class
(Lower Division) or its equivalent with at least
two years of relevant work experience will be
considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Educational
Communications & Technology
Master of Education in:
- Educational Technology
- Mathematics Education
- Science Education
- Language Education
- Social Studies Education
- Creative Arts Education
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Education Degree in related feld,
with at least Second Class Honours (Upper
Division) or equivalent from Kenyatta University
or any recognized institution.
Those with Bachelor of Education Degree
Second Class (Lower Division) or its equivalent
with at least two years of relevant work
experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Special Needs
Education
Master of Education in
Special Needs Education in the
following areas:
(Learning Disabilities / mental
retardation, Communication Disorders,
Emotional and Behavioral Diffculties,
Gifted and talented.)
Full-time - Main Campus
Bachelor of Education Degree in related feld,
with at least Second Class Honours (Upper
Division) or equivalent from Kenyatta University
or any recognized institution.
Those with Bachelor of Education Degree
Second Class (Lower Division) or its equivalent
with at least two years teaching experience in
related area.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Special Needs
Education
Postgraduate Diploma in Psycho-
educational Assessment
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening and Weekend (City
Campus)
Bachelor of Education or Master of Education
(Special Needs Education or Guidance and
Counseling), Bachelor of Arts or Master of Arts
(Counseling Psychology, Clinical Psychology
or Sociology) or Bachelor of Science (Nursing,
Medicine, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy)
or its equivalent from Kenyatta University or any
other recognized institution.
Tuition:
East African: - 120,000/= p.a.
Non East African: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Library Studies
- Master of Education (Library)
- Master of Library and Information
Sciences
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening & Weekend (City
Campus)
Bachelor of Education Degree in related feld,
with at least Second Class Honours (Upper
Division) or equivalent from Kenyatta University
or any recognized institution. Those with
Bachelor of Education Degree Second Class
(Lower Division) or its equivalent with at least
two years of relevant work experience will be
considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Early Childhood
Studies
Master of Education in Early Childhood
Studies
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Education Degree in Early Childhood
Studies, with at least Second Class Honours
(Upper Division) or equivalent from Kenyatta
University or any recognized institution. Those
with Bachelor of Education Degree Second
Class (Lower Division) or its equivalent with a
Practical Experience of at least three years with
young children will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Early Childhood
Studies
Postgraduate Diploma in Early
Childhood Studies
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening and Weekend(City
Campus)
Bachelors Degree or its equivalent from
Kenyatta University or any other recognized
institution.
Tuition:
East African: - 120,000/= p.a.
Non East African: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Early Childhood
Studies
Doctor of Philosophy(Ph.D) in Early
Childhood Studies
Full-Time (Main Campus)
Masters Degree in Early Childhood Studies
from Kenyatta University or any other accredited
University OR a Masters Degree in a related
area with three or more years of experience in
Early Childhood Services.
Tuition:
- East Africans: - 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Department of Environmental
Planning and Management
Master of Environmental Planning and
Management
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Environmental Planning
and Management, Environment Studies;
Environmental Studies (Planning and
Management), Urban and Regional Planning.
Bachelor of Science/Arts in Geography,
Economics, Surveying, Geometrics and
Geospatial Sciences, Land Economics, Building
Economics, Estate Management, Housing
Technology. Engineering, Sociology, Agriculture
Forestry and Wildlife, Zoology or Botany.
Bachelor of Architecture and Law.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division) in
the above areas and at least two years relevant
experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Environmental
Planning and Management
PhD in Environmental Planning and
Management
Full-time (Main Campus)
Masters Degree in a relevant area of study from
Kenyatta University or any other recognized
institution.
Tuition:
- East Africans: 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
Department of Environmental
Sciences
- Master of Environmental Science
- Master of Science in Environmental
Studies (Agro forestry and Rural
Development)
Full-time ( Main Campus)
Evening & Weekend (City Campus)
Bachelors Degree with at least Second Class
Honours (Upper Division) in Environmental
Science Environmental Education, Geography,
Geology, Meteorology, Physical Science,
Biological Sciences Technology, Agriculture or
Engineering. Those with Second Class (Lower
Division) in the above mentioned areas and at
least two years research and work experience
may be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.

Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Environmental
Sciences
PhD in Environmental Sciences
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening & Weekend (City Campus)
Master of Science Degree in Environment,
Forestry, Agriculture, Geography, Ecology,
Biology Sciences, Meteorology from a
recognized university.
Tuition:
- East Africans: 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
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Department of Environmental
Studies and Community
Development
Master of Environmental Studies
(Community Development)
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening and Weekends (City
Campus)
Bachelors Degree with at least Second Class
Honours (Upper Division) in Environmental
Studies and related disciplines such as
Geography, Natural Resources Management,
Agricultural Sciences, Biological and Physical
Sciences, Urban & Regional Planning,
Development Studies, from Kenyatta University
or any other recognized university.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division)
in the above disciplines with at least two
years of relevant experience after the frst
degree in areas related to Environment and
Development.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Environmental
Education
- Master of Science in Environmental
Education
- Master of Science in Environmental
Education(Climate Change &
Sustainability)
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelors Degree with at least Second Class
Honours (Upper Division) or equivalent from
a recognized university in Environmental
Education, Education, Environmental Studies,
Forestry, Agriculture, Biophysical Sciences and
Social Sciences.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division) in
the above mentioned areas with evidence of at
least two years relevant work experience will be
considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
Departmental of Economic Theory
Master of Economics (Policy &
Management)
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelors Degree in Economics with at least
Second Class Honours (Upper Division) from
Kenyatta University or a recognized institution
of Comparable status.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division) in
the stated discipline and two (2) years relevant
work experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Econometrics and
Statistics
Master of Economics (Econometrics)
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelors Degree in Economics with at least
Second Class Honours (Upper Division) from
Kenyatta University or a recognized institution
of Comparable status.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division) in
the stated discipline and two (2) years relevant
work experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Applied Economics
Master of Economics (Finance)
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelors Degree in Economics with at least
Second Class Honours (Upper Division) from
Kenyatta University or a recognized institution
of Comparable status.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division) in
the stated discipline and two (2) years relevant
work experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in
Economics
(in respective Departments)
Evening on Fridays and
Saturdays (City Campus)
Masters Degree in Economics from Kenyatta
University or any other recognized institution.
The PhD is based on coursework, examination
and research project or coursework,
examination and thesis. The coursework must
have covered the following three core courses:
Micro Economic Theory, Macro Economic
Theory and Quantitative Methods.
One must have attained at least B in
Microeconomic Theory at Masters Level.
Tuition:
- East Africans: 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Department of Business
Administration
Master of Business Administration
(MBA)
with areas of Specialization in:
Human Resource Management,
Entrepreneurship, Marketing,
Finance, Strategic Management,
Management Information Systems,
Project Management.
Full-time (Nakuru, Nyeri,
Mombasa and City Campus).
Evening and Weekends (Nakuru,
Migori, Embu, Nyeri, Mombasa
and City Campus)
Bachelors Degree with at least Second
Honours (Upper Division) or equivalent from
Kenyatta University or any other recognized
university. Those with Second Class (Lower
Division) and at least two years relevant work
experience may be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Accounting and
Finance
- Master of Science (Finance)
- Master of Science
(Entrepreneurship development)
Evening & Weekend (City
Campus)
Bachelor of Commerce Degree with at least
Upper Second Honours or equivalent from
Kenyatta University or any other recognized
university.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Business
Administration
Executive Master of Business
Administration
Evenings & Weekends (City Campus)
Bachelors Degree or equivalent in a relevant
area from Kenyatta University with at least two
years work experience at an executive or senior
position.
Tuition:
East African: - 400,000/=
Non East African: 450,000/=
(for the entire program)
Department of Business
Administration
Master of Science in:
- Human Resource Management
- Marketing
Evening & Weekend (City Campus)
Bachelor of Commerce Degree with at least
Second Class Honours(Upper Division) or
equivalent from Kenyatta University or any other
recognized University. Those with Second Class
(Lower Division) in above mentioned discipline
and at least two years relevant work experience
may be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES
Department of Medical Laboratory
Science
Master of Science in
Infectious Diseases
With Options in: Virology, Bacteriology;
Immunology Parasitology and
Mycology.
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Science in Medical Laboratory
Science with at least Second Class Honours
(Upper Division) from Kenyatta University or
any other recognized Institution in Biological
Sciences, Pharmacy, Food Science and
Environmental Health.
Those with B.Sc. (General) or Second Class
(Lower Division) in B.Sc. (MLS) and at least
two years practical experience in an area of
Infectious Diseases.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Department of Health Management
& Informatics
- Master of Health Management
- Master of Health Information
Management
Evening & Weekend (City
Campus)
Bachelors Degree in Medicine, Veterinary
Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry or
Second Class Honours (Upper Division) in
Environmental Health, Community Health,
Nutrition, Psychology, Information Science,
Economics, Business Administration,
Commerce, Community Development, Public
Administration, Law and Human Resource
Management.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division) in the
above felds and at least two years experience
in Health related feld or holders of a Health
related Post Graduate Diploma with at least two
years post qualifcation experience.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 31,700/= p.a.
Department of Community Health
Master of Public Health in
- Epidemiology and Disease Control.
- Monitoring and Evaluation
Full Time(Main Campus)
Evening & Weekend(City
Campus)
Bachelors Degree in Medicine, Veterinary
Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Dentistry
or Second Class Honours(Upper Division) in
Nutrition, Environmental Health, Community
Health, Health Education, Health Administration
and Planning.
Those with Second Class (Lower Division) in
Nutrition, Environmental Health, Community
Health, Health Education, Health Administration
and Planning with at least two years Post
Qualifcation experience in a Health related feld
or a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Health.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 31,700/= p.a.
Department of Environmental
Health
Master of Science in Public
Reproductive Health
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening & Weekend(City
Campus)
Bachelors Degree with at least Second
Class (Upper Division) in Community Health,
Population Health or any other related feld.
Those with Second Class Honours (Lower
Division) in Community Health, Population
Health or any other health related feld with at
least two years work experience.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 31,700/= p.a.
SCHOOL OF APPLIED HUMAN SCIENCES
Department of Foods Nutrition and
Dietetics
Master of Science in Foods, Nutrition
and Dietetics
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening and Weekend(City
Campus)
Bachelor of Science in Foods, Nutrition
& Dietetics, Community Nutrition, Clinical
Nutrition and Dietetics with at least Second
Class Honours (Upper Division), Bachelor
of Education Degree with a major in Foods,
Nutrition and Dietetics and two years work
experience in the feld of Nutrition. Holder of
Post Graduate Diploma in Nutrition from a
recognized Institution.
Those with second Class Honours (Lower
Division) with at least two years experience in
Nutrition will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Foods Nutrition &
Dietetics
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in: Foods
Nutrition and Dietetics
Full-time (Main Campus)
Evening and Weekend(City
Campus)
Masters Degree in relevant area of study from
Kenyatta University or any other recognizes
institution.
Tuition:
- East Africans: 200,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 250,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 32,300/= p.a.
Department of Community
Resource Management & Extension
Master of Science in
Community Resource Management
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Science Degree with at least
Second Class Honours (Upper Division)
from a recognized University in Community
Resource Management, Family and Consumer
Science or any other Community Development
or Community Resource Management and
Extension feld. Bachelor of Education (Home
Economics) with at least two years experience
in the feld of Community Development,
Community Resource Management and
Extension. Those with Second Class (Lower
Division) and a minimum of two years related
work experience will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Fashion Design and
Marketing
Master of Science in
Fashion Design
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelor of Science with at least Second
Class Honours (Upper Division) in Textile
Science and Design, Textiles, Clothing or Fine
Art, with a bias in Textiles or its equivalent in
related discipline from a recognized University.
Bachelor of Education (Home Economics or
Home Science). Those with Second Class
(Lower Division) degree with at least two years
of relevant experience (after graduation) in
Textiles, Clothing, Fine Art and Fashion Design
will be considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Physical and Health
Education
Master of Science in Physical
Education
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelors Degree in Physical Education,
Bachelor of Science in Leisure & Recreation
with at least Second Class Honours (Upper
Division) from Kenyatta University or any
recognized institution. Postgraduate Diploma
in Physical Education from an accredited
Institution will be considered.
Those with Second Class Honours (Lower
Division) with two years relevant experience
after graduation will be considered. They must
be teaching Physical Education or Sports
Administration.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Recreation
Management & Exercise Science
- Master of Science (Exercise and
Sports Science)
- Master of Science (Leisure and
Recreation Management)
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelors Degree with at least Second
Class Honours (Upper Division) or its
equivalent in Exercise and Sports Science
Physical Education, Leisure and Recreation
Management or related felds OR Bachelors
Degree with Second Class Honours (Lower
Division) in the above areas or its equivalent
and minimum of two years work experience.
Those with relevant Postgraduate Diploma
in the above mentioned areas from Kenyatta
University or any recognized institution will be
considered.
Tuition:
East Africans: 130,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 175,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
Department of Recreation
Management & Exercise Science
Postgraduate Diploma in Sports
Administration and Management
Full-time (Main Campus)
Bachelors Degree or its equivalent from
Kenyatta University or any other recognized
university.
Tuition:
East Africans: 120,000/= p.a.
Non East Africans: 150,000/= p.a.
Statutory Fees: 22,700/= p.a.
SATURDAY NATION
May 25, 2013
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