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MUM’S DARKEST HOUR PALM SUNDAY
Mother tells
of generous
and loving
daughter

Ivy Wangechi who was brutally

murdered /FILE
PAGE 2 EASTER RITUAL: Faithful holding palm fronds parade to mark Palm Sunday at Holy Ghost Cathedral in Mombasa yesterday / JOHN CHESOLI

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MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2019 DARKEST DAY
‘Sweetest Ivy’ a family
role model, says mother
Bloggers condemned for creating a slay queen they don’t know
MOSES ODHIAMBO
@MosesAliwa
For Winfred Waithera, mother of
slain Moi University student Ivy
Wangechi, the day she received a
call from the school’s health sci-
ence dean remains the darkest in
her life.
She told journalists at the fam-
ily home in Makongeni Phase 10
Estate in Thika yesterday that the
departed student was the family’s
role model.
Waithera recounted that when
she got to the university, her
daughter’s friends told her of how
Ivy, as was nearly becoming a tra-
dition in their relationship, was to
bring her gifts for Easter.
“She was my mentor and care-
taker. I don’t know how tomorrow
will turn to be without my sweetest
Ivy,” she said in her eulogy.
The student was brutally killed
last Tuesday by a man who claimed
to be her boyfriend.
Naftali Kinuthia attacked Ivy
outside Moi Teaching and Referral
Hospital where she worked.
He stormed the premises bran-
dishing a brand new axe.
Waithera said her daughter was
fond of bringing her pairs of ear-
rings, a purse or a bottle of per-
fume.
“She was a great girl,” a tearful
Waithera said, adding that Ivy had
a great sense of fashion.
“Ivy could easily combine fash-
ion and medicine,” Waithera told
reporters.
The family condemned social
media bloggers for “creating the
image of a Wangechi they did not
know.”
They accused the lot of spreading
lies about their daughter, causing
the family a lot of pain and distress.
“These character vandals went
out there spreading false and dam-
aging information about some-
STAR SURVEY
TODAY’S QUESTION
Do you support the decision
to recall Cuban doctors in
Northeastern after Kidnap?
YESTERDAY’S QUESTION
Is Jubilee secretary general
Raphael Tuju trying to
Sabotage DP Ruto?
YES 45%
NO 55 %
Ivy Wangeci who was brutally murdered last week /COURTESY
body they did not know and had
no reason to attack,” Waithera said.
“As her mother, I want to state
that no one paid her fees apart
from her parents and the govern-
ment through the Joint Admissions
Board. She never deferred her stud-
ies and never sat a supplementary
exam.”
The family announced that the
student’s burial is slated for Thurs-
WANT THREATS PROBED
Ruto allies slam Atwoli
over 2022 candidature
STAR TEAM/ Allies of Deputy Presi-
dent William Ruto yesterday took
a swipe at Central Organisation of
Trade Union boss Francis Atwoli
for saying the DP will not be on the
presidential ballot in 2022.
On Saturday, Atwoli said in
Lamu, “I want to tell you one
thing, come 2022, Ruto will not be
there.”(“Mimi nataka kuwambia
kitu kimoja, jina la William Samoei
Ruto haitakuwako.”
“You can take it to the bank for
free, na hiyo sio mambo yangu,
usijukue kama ni mambo yangu.
Haya ni mambo ya mwenyezi Mun-
gu mumba inchi, Mungu aliye ni
umba mimi akanileta hapa...,”At-
day next week at her parents’ home
in Mahiga, Nyeri county.
They said they have let justice
take its course adding that they be-
lieve the police will act on the mat-
ter diligently.
“The law must take its course.
It’s not for us as a family to define
which way it should go,” John
King’ori, the family’s spokesper-
son, said.
woli said amid cheers.
“When 2022 comes, you won’t
see Ruto anywhere. He won’t be
the President, Deputy President,
Prime Minister, Deputy Prime
Minister or the rest. Only those
standing for justice will have their
names featured.”
He asked the DP to “find some-
thing useful to do and stop lying to
Kenyans as he would never lead.”
Kipkelion East MP Joseph Limo
said Ruto still remains the best bet
to succeed President Uhuru Ken-
yatta in 2022.
“With or without the amendment
of a new Constitution ahead of the
next election in the much-publi-
Monday, April 15, 2019
END OF FOUR YEARS
KDF chief’s term
expires this week
STAR REPORTER/ Chief of Defence Forces Samson
Mwathethe’s term expires on Thursday after serving
four years.
Mwathethe is a naval officer and is supposed to be
replaced by his deputy Lit Gen Robert Kimbochi of
the Kenya Army.
The KDF Act states that the Chief of Defence Forc-
es, his deputy and service commanders to serve a
single term of four years or retire upon the attaining
of the mandatory age. The law gives the President
powers to extend the term of office of military chiefs
for a period not exceeding one year.
Mwathethe was appointed on 17 April 2015. In
military tradition, the top seat is held in rotation by
officers from Navy, Airforce and the Army.
He replaced Julius Karangi from Kenya Airforce
and the next CDF should be the senior most Kenya
Army officer – Kimbochi.
Mwathethe has held various command appoint-
ments such as Vice Chief of the Defence Forces,
Navy Commander, Deputy Navy Commander and
Navy logistics Commander.
Karangi was appointed on July 13, 2011 and
served upto May 4 2015.
DISPUTE WITH UGANDA
Take Migingo row
to ICJ, Uhuru urged
MANUEL ODENY/ President Uhuru Kenyatta has been
asked to take the Migingo island ownership dispute
to the International Court of Justice.
Siaya Senator James Orengo says Uhuru should
seek redress at the ICJ the same way Somalia has
done in its border row with Kenya.
“The question of Migingo being in the territory of
Kenya is undisputed; we need to resolve the issue at
the International Court of Justice,” Orengo said.
He said he is ready “ to offer free legal services as
senior counsel to Kenya.”
The senator was addressing a fundsdrive at
Pe-Hill High School on Friday. The convener of the
function was East African Legislative Assembly MP
Oburu Odinga, an old boy of the institution.
On March 27, Ugandan President Yoweri Mu-
seveni made a two-day visit to Kenya and he and
Uhuru agreed to address the Migingo issue.
Migingo is a one-acre island strategically located
in Lake Victoria. The population is mainly Kenyan
fishermen but it is policed by Ugandan security
forces.
The Ugandan government deployed security forc-
es more than 10 years ago to rid the island of armed
pirates who had been terrorising fisherman.
Deputy President William Ruto (R) with MPs Benjamin Washiali and
Dan Wanyama in Kakamega yesterday /DPPS
cised call for a referendum, Ruto still stands as the best
presidential material to take over from President Ken-
yatta,” the MP said.
But In Kakamega where the DP was attending a
church service, MPs from Western Kenya told off At-
woli. “How does Atwoli know he will be there in
2022? It’s God who elects leaders and we want to tell
him (Atwoli) that Ruto will be Kenya’s fifth president,”
Mumias East MP and National Assembly Majority
Whip Benjamin Washiali said.
Monday, April 15, 2019
DROUGHT PERSISTS
Brace for hot weather
Rainfall expected in a few areas in Western and Lake Victoria region
as 17 counties face starvation and water shortage, says Met
GILBERT KOECH
@TheStarKenya
Hot and dry conditions are ex-
pected in most parts of the coun-
try today, the Meteorological De-
partment has said.
However, rainfall is expected in
a few areas in Western and Lake
Victoria regions.
A forecast shared with the Star
by Kenya Meteorological Depart-
ment acting director Stella Aura
shows strong winds of 25 knots (
12.5m/s) and above are expected
over Turkana and Marsabit.
In Nyeri, Muranga, Kirinyaga,
Embu, Meru, Kiambu, Tharaka
Nithi, Laikipia, Nyandarua and
Nairobi, showers were expected
over few areas last night.
On Monday afternoon showers
are expected over a few areas, the
12-hour forecast shows.
Showers and thunderstorms
were expected last night in the
counties of Kakamega, Vihiga,
Busia, Bungoma, Kisumu, Kisii,
Siaya, Homabay, Kericho, Nandi,
Bomet, Nakuru, West Pokot, El-
geyo Marakwet, Baringo, Uasin
Gishu, Trans Nzoia and Narok.
Sunny intervals are expected in
the morning before paving way for
showers and thunderstorms over
a few places in the afternoon.
Turkana and Samburu were
expected to be partly cloudy last
night.Sunny intervals are predict-
ed the whole day today.
Marsabit, Garissa, Mandera,
Wajir and Isiolo were expected to
be partly cloudy last night.
In the counties of Machakos,
Makueni, Kitui, Taita Taveta and
Kajiado partly cloudy conditions
were expected last night.
Sunny intervals are expected to-
day in the morning and afternoon.
In Kwale, Mombasa, Kilifi,
Lamu and Tana River counties,
CARTOON
partly cloudy conditions were ex-
pected last night.
There will be showers over few
areas today in the morning before
paving the way for sunny intervals
in the afternoon.
Red Cross says the effects of be-
low average October–December
short rains last year continue to be
experienced in many parts of the
country, with the food security sit-
uation continuing to deteriorate.
So far 17 counties are particular-
ly hard hit.The National Drought
Management Authority says over
1.1 million people require urgent
food support.
KRCS says the delayed onset
of the March-May rain season is
worsening the situation, making it
difficult for affected communities
to recover. The KRCS has rolled out
cash transfers in eight most affect-
ed counties with support of the
British Red Cross.
The counties are Turkana,
Marsabit, Samburu, Isiolo, Garis-
sa, Wajir, Mandera and Tana River.
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With support of the Danish Red
Cross, the society will roll out a
cash transfer programme target-
ing 1,200 households in Turkana
county for three months.
KRCS has appealed for help for
50,000 households in 17 counties
up to September.
The society also plans to distrib-
ute food where cash transfer is not
feasible. Some 10,000 households
are targeted.
KRCS will rehabilitate 20 com-
munity water facilities and dis-
tribute water treatment chemi-
cals to 20,000 households. Some
25,000 households will be target-
ed for health and nutrition relief.
A Ministry of Health report
shows that at 91,740 children in
arid and semi-arid areas are under
severe malnutrition.
On Thursday, Agriculture CS
Mwangi Kiunjuri warned that the
current maize stocks can only last
for five months. Kiunjuri said the
country has about 21 million bags,
most of them still with farmers.
3
CORRIDORS OF POWER
Flash floods in
Siaya after it
rained yesterday
/LAMECK
BARAZA
POLITICAL
GOSSIP
Who is doing what
and where in the
world of politics
WHAT could Deputy President William Ruto
(pictured) have done to warrant underground
attacks by a Chief Administrative Secretary?
The former MP is said to be right at the nerve
centre of those scheming and mobilising re-
sources for a team of politicians campaigning
against Ruto succeeding President Uhuru Ken-
yatta. During Jubilee Party campaigns in 2017
and even before the handshake between Uhuru
and ODM party leader Raila Odinga in March last
year, Ruto was the darling of the former MP
and she defended him fiercely. And it was Ruto
who pushed for her appointment as CAS. What
has changed?
IS a subcounty land officer in Kisumu too
powerful even to dismiss directives from Ardhi
House? Well, the officer who has overstayed
in the station is a law unto himself. Nobody, not
even the local administration, dares challenge
his irregular directives and the unlawful fees he
charges clients who flock his office for the cru-
SOME 1.1 cial government services. Moles in the office tell
MILLION Corridors the officer has ignored a record ten
transfer letters moving him from the station.
PEOPLE He is said to be a member of a powerful cartel
REQUIRE operating from Ardhi House.
URGENT A businessman who is a director of a sof-
SUPPORT tware company that was awarded a tender
by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries
Commission in the run-up to the 2017 general
elections is a worried man. Reason? The man
had used a senior official at the electoral
agency to have his company slotted for a lu-
crative job to do with the candidates that were
contesting for various positions with a promise
that he would reward them. After the company
was given the green light to provide the service
and was paid, the man began dodging the
junior officials who would have benefitted. Just
last week, the officials met at a city hotel to
brainstorm on how to expose the whole deal to
the public and the Directorate of Criminal Inves-
tigations. According to a mole, the businessman
has been daring the junior officials to take the
matter to wherever they think, as he is too
powerful.
ARE foreign interests at the heart of a push
for a merger or take over of one of the key
state organisations? The merger or take over
seems to have nothing beneficial for either the
parties involved or Kenyans if what Corridors
has learned is anything to go by. Some of the
ardent proponents of the merger are doing so
with the motivation of huge kickbacks from
foreign agents. If the deal goes through, the fo-
reign agents have promised to pay Sh3 million
monthly to every supporter for the next three
years.
4 THE-STAR.CO.KE
news INDICTMENT SLAMS GOVERNMENT OVER LOW MORALE, POOR EDUCATION QUALITY, TUTOR SHORTAGE, OVER
Pupils learn
in makeshift
classrooms in
Kitui  /FILE TSC blasts Jubilee
for frequent strikes
Employer says Sh5bn needed over 5 years for world-class system
BY IMENDE BENJAMIN/ The Teach-
ers Service Commission has sharp-
ly criticised the national govern-
ment’s education policies, saying
they are a cause of the frequent
calls for teachers strikes, failed
projects and low-quality educa-
tion.
In its strategic plan ( 2019-2023
), the teachers’ employer says the
policy framework has caused low
morale among teachers, compro-
mising the quality of education.
“The Strategic Plan is a deliberate
measure to transform the teaching
service while also amplifying the
legal and statutory provisions in
the execution of its mandate,” TSC
boss Lydia Nzomo said.
The report cites poor planning,
lack of consultation and under-
funding when coming up with
policies.
The government has been keen
on ensuring free primary edu-
cation, 100 per cent transition to
secondary schools and affordable
secondary education.
But the TSC says the measures
aiming to reform the sector have
compromised the quality of edu-
cation.
The new plan was developed af-
ter an audit of the 2014-2019 stra-
tegic plan, which found that the
education sector was unstable be-
cause of low funding, weak laws,
political interference, low teach-
ers’ morale, industrial unrest, poor
teacher-to-student ratio and union
agitation.
“Of particular concern is a short-
age of staff at the county, sub-coun-
ty and zonal levels. This adversely
affects supervision of curriculum
implementation and provision of
support services to teachers,” the
draft plan says.
TSC said it requires Sh11 billion
over the next five years to initiate
reforms, enhance service delivery
and provide a world-class educa-
tion system.
The commission is calling for
more consultations among stake-
holders, increased funding and
recruitment of more teachers to
enhance reforms, more investment
in technology, better payment of
teachers, enhanced supervision
and capacity building.
The TSC also wants a “vibrant
innovation platform”, realignment
of laws to support teachers’ promo-
tion and grading, as well as build-
ing a strong structure that supports
the high number of students and
teachers.
However, the national govern-
Monday, April 15, 2019
ment says it can only provide Sh3.4
billion to the TSC for specific proj-
ects, which the union says it needs
in the next five years.
Documents obtained by Star
showed that the government this
year provided Sh31 million for
teacher competency, conduct, and
performance and Sh662 million for
service delivery reengineering.
However, no monies were pro-
vided to fund reforms and innova-
tion in the education sector.
The commission had requested
Sh721 million for teacher compe-
tency, conduct, and performance,
Sh866 million for reforms and
innovation and Sh970 million for
service delivery and reengineering.
The funds for reforms and inno-
vations were meant to fund projects
such as performance contracting,
teacher performance appraisal and
 Monday, April 15, 2019
ERPROMISING, FAILED PROJECTS
development, the roll-out of teach-
ers’ professional development pol-
icy framework and teacher’ profes-
sional development framework.
The trade unions have already
threatened nationwide teachers’
strikes, arguing the government
was rushing to implement the
projects without proper planning.
“However, in the case of TSC, the
recruitment has been largely con-
strained by the limited budgetary
provisions from the national gov-
ernment,” the strategic plan states.
Others are Teacher Performance,
Appraisal and Development in-
struments and review of the Code
of Regulations and Conduct for
teachers, which are meant to im-
prove the country’s education level
into a world-class sector.
“The TSC requires 500 new in-
ternal staff to effectively execute its
mandate at counties. These reforms
will address various approaches in
curriculum implementation, guar-
antee equity and exclusivity in the
management of the teacher re-
source,” the strategic plan said.
There was also a conflict of roles
and mandate between the TSC and
other stakeholders at the National
Government Level. The commis-
sion agrees that there is a lack of
inadequate enforcement capacity
in public and private learning in-
stitutions.
As of June 2018, the TSC was re-
sponsible for 317,069 teachers de-
ployed to 30,892 public education-
al institutions.
These include 217,291 teachers
serving in 22,263 public primary
schools and 99,778 teachers serv-
ing in 8,629 public post-primary
institutions.
The learner population served
by these teachers presently stands
at eight million in public primary
schools and two million in public
post-primary schools.
Over five years, the government
recruited 28,843 teachers. The pri-
mary schools benefited by 8,390
while 20,453 were recruited for
secondary schools.
“It is a clear indication that the
government funded the recruit-
ment of approximately 5,000
teachers every year. We should hire
heavily in order to sustain reforms,
innovations and put our education
on a competitive scale globally,” a
Nairobi principal said.
Currently, the TSC estimates an
overall teacher shortage of 96,345.
This includes 38,054 in primary
schools and 58,291 in post-primary
schools.
The TSC warns that the project-
ed shortages are expected to rise to
84,478 for secondary schools and
34,941 for primary schools by 2023.
“Widening of the pupil-teacher
ratio leads to an inequitable distri-
bution of teaching resources, gen-
eral dissatisfaction, demotivation
and, hence, industrial unrest,” the
union said.
The strategic plan warned that
issues raised must be addressed or
else they will affect the implemen-
tation of the national curriculum
that equips learners with values,
attitudes, knowledge, skills and
competencies, particularly in tech-
nology, innovation and entrepre-
neurship.
“The manner in which the coun-
try sources, develops, deploys,
manages and supports teachers
largely determines or influences
the quality of education, hence,
contributing to the national devel-
opment agenda,” TSC said.
The commission attributed the
teacher shortage to rapid growth
in school enrolment attributable
to the implementation of the Free
Primary Education, Affordable
Day Secondary School Education
programs and the establishment of
new schools.
The TSC said insufficient school
infrastructure denied students
good learning facilities and materi-
als to realise their potential.
“The increase in enrolment in
secondary schools occasioned by
the objective of 100 per cent tran-
sition from primary schools has
already led to the increased de-
mand for teachers at the secondary
school level,” the TSC said.
“The Competency-Based Edu-
cation system rolled out has com-
pounded the teacher shortage. The
Board of Management employed
only 80,000 teachers.”
The commission has also pro-
posed teachers recruited on a con-
tract basis, internship and in cer-
tain cases the sharing of teachers
across schools for elective subjects
as short-term measures to address
Trends in recruitment of teachers
9000
8000
7000
6000
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0 the Commission shall continue to
2014 2015
Net projections on teacher shortages
120,000
110,000
100,000
90,000
80,000
70,000
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
2019 2020
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the escalating crisis.
TSC further said the transfer pol-
icy was facing multiple challenges
among them teachers’ reluctance
to serve in other counties, insecu-
rity and political/stakeholder in-
terference.
Others are an unwillingness of
teachers to be separated from their
families and medical consider-
ations.
The rapid establishment of new
schools constrained the distribu-
tion and utilisation of the teaching
resource, thus affecting curricu-
lum implementation. There was
a shortage of teachers in specific
subject combinations such as Hu-
manities, Kiswahili, Physics and
Computer Studies.
“Physics and Computer studies
have been occasioned by the mo-
bility of these teachers to the pri-
vate sector,” the plan said.
“All this has constrained effective
delivery of the curricula and con-
sequently, has led to a poor per-
formance by the students studying
these subjects.”
Increased student enrolment
overcrowded classrooms con-
straining effective and quality
teaching and learning. The evalu-
ation, promotion and salary incre-
2014-2018
*To facilitate the 100%
transition, TSC recruited
8,700 post primary
school teachers
POST
PRIMARY
PRIMARY
2016 2017
*No data available
2019-2023
POST
PRIMARY
PRIMARY
2021 2022
ment of teachers was not support-
ed by current existing policy and
legal framework for consistency.
“Teachers face limited opportu-
nities for growth that lead to stag-
nation, a de-motivated teaching
force and high turnover, which has
created instability in the provision
of teaching services,” the policy
said.
Budgetary constraints failed to
recognise teachers for exemplary
performance, while the increased
number of registered teachers led
to the rise in indiscipline that calls
for enhanced capacity.
“Decreased/inadequate fund-
ing for teacher recruitment and
promotion has led to a widening
of the pupil-teacher ratio leading
to an inequitable distribution of
teaching resource, general dissat-
isfaction, demotivation and, hence,
industrial unrest,” the plan said.
The new plan aims to harmonise
the system for managing and shar-
ing of data, address teachers ‘ab-
sence from work, boost the teach-
ers’ morale and create a framework
for engaging development partners
in resource mobilisation. It will
also create a framework for talent
identification, staff retention and
succession management.
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COMMENT
BY NANCY MACHARIA
Our strategic
plan for
excellence
T
he Teachers Service
Commission was established
by the Constitution of Kenya
as an Independent Commission
regulating the teaching service.
It plays a significant role in
supporting national development
initiatives, including the Big Four,
and international conventions
such as the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs).
TSC operations are linked to the
reforms in the Education sector
articulated in the Vision 2030.The
intermediate outcome of reforms
is to enhance the quality of the
teaching service by improving the
professional capacity and conduct
of teachers.
This Strategic Plan outlines the
vision, mission, goals, strategic
objectives and strategies upon
which TSC reforms are anchored
for quality education and training.
Three broad thematic areas are
Teacher Competence, Conduct
and Performance Management,
Reforms and Innovations in
Provision of Teaching Services and
Service Delivery Re-engineering
form the basis for the Plan.
In implementing the Strategic
Plan, TSC shall be guided by our
core values of Professionalism,
Customer Focus, Integrity and
Team Spirit. I am convinced
these norms shall propel the
Commission towards its Vision,
“To be a transformative teaching
service for quality education” and
eventually contribute to globally
competitive quality education,
training and research for
sustainable development.
The Strategic Plan ( 2019-2023 )
shall also be implemented within
the Medium Term Expenditure
Framework budget guidelines.
During the implementation,
engage stakeholders, including the
private sector and development
partners, to support programmes.
At the same time, efforts will be
made to strengthen governance
structures and provide a
harmonious working atmosphere
for improved efficiency in
resource mobilisation, utilisation,
minimising duplication of efforts
and optimising opportunities
for interagency linkages in
programme implementation.
I convey my appreciation to
the chairperson and members
of the Commission whose
support and invaluable input
shaped the quality of this Plan,
TSC secretariat for their efforts,
time and input that led to the
successful completion of this plan.
I acknowledge all the stakeholders
for their direct or indirectt input
into the successful preparation of
the Strategic Plan.
The extract is from the TSC 2019-
2023 draft policy. The writer is the
TSC chief Executive Officer.
 6 THE-STAR.CO.KE Monday, April 15, 2019

NEWS GENERAL
COUNTY UNDERSTAFFED
MCAs approve Nyong’o hiring of board nominees Fishermen reject
FAITH MATETE /Kisumu county can now start
hiring after the assembly approved the list of
nominees for the Public Service Board.
The MCAs on Thursday unanimously
approved the six nominees picked by Governor
Anyang’ Nyong’o. The nominees are the
board’s chairman Charles Karan and members
Jacinta Kapiyo, Stephen Orot, Edward Kochung,
Nashon Aluoka and Jane Oyare.
A report on the proposed board nominees
was tabled in the assembly by Labour and
Social Welfare committee chairperson Beatrice
Kisumu county assembly in session/MAURICE ALAL Odongo. Odongo told the assembly that the
committee was convinced on the suitability of
all the nominees.
She said the nominees met the requisite
educational and constitutional requirements.
She, however, noted that the committee
was concerned that representation of youth
and people with disability was lacking in the
governor’s appointments. While deliberating
on the report, the MCAs said the constitution
of the board would be a reprieve for the
county in terms of employment. Majority
leader Kenneth Onyango said the delay in had
derailed key operations.
KILLING MARINE LIFE
sand harvesting
in Diani waters
CHARI SUCHE /Tourism players,
fishermen and residents are
opposed to sand harvesting
at Diani Beach as it will have
devastating effects on marine life. 
The sand is being harvested
along Waa and Tiwi in Kwale county
for use in the construction of the
second phase of the expansion
of the Mombasa port container
terminal. 
The terminal is being built on
100 acres at Kilindini Harbour. It
is projected to ease congestion
at the port. Kenya Association
of Hotelkeepers and Caterers
chairman Harald Kampa said the
harvesting of sand will result in the
death of the reef and subsequent
destruction of the Diani beaches.

PRESSED FINANCIALLY
Moi Airport police
‘assist traffickers’
ERNEST CORNEL /Police officers
manning Moi International Airport,
Mombasa, yesterday admitted
having been compromised at some
point to allow drug trafficking and
smuggling.
Three officers, who spoke in
confidence, attributed this to an
array of concerns including “poor
treatment” from Kenya Airport
Authority, the management of MIA.
Dozens of cops have been
The National Treasury/ENOS TECHE influenced by hefty bribes after
KAA failed to provide allowances
NON-PERFORMANCE for special duties, according to the

More woes for counties as

police.
The airport is a vital security
installation in the country.
Some of the officers have been
guarding the airport for close to

funding slashed by Sh9 billion

Auditor General shows that country’s cumulative revenue hit an all-time shortfall
ceive Sh371 billion, being the share
of revenue; conditional allocations
MOSES ODHIAMBO by the national government (Sh14.16
@TheStarKenya billion), Road Maintenance Fund
(Sh8.98 billion), and donor grants
Low revenue collection has returned (Sh38.7 billion).
to haunt counties in the wake of a The allocation presents a Sh25
Sh9 billion funding cut. billion variation from the proposed
The situation, as captured in the allocations by the Commission on
Division of Revenue Bill 2019, has Revenue Allocation.
seen the base allocation of county The commission proposed that
governments’ equitable share re- county governments be allocated
duced to Sh304 billion. Sh335.7 billion as an unconditional
However, counties have some re- fund to be shared on the basis of the
prieve in a Sh5.04 billion added to latest approved formula.
the allocation as adjustment based The formula takes into account
on the fiscal framework, as well as population ( 45 per cent), land area
Sh5.76 billion Equalisation Fund. ( 8 per cent), poverty ( 18 per cent),
MPs are on recess and on their re- basic equal share ( 26 per cent), fiscal
turn, they will prioritise the 2019-20 responsibility ( 2 per cent) and de-
budget for which the bill is key. velopment factor ( 1 per cent).
In 2018-19, the base was set at For CRA, counties were entitled
Sh314 billion which the National to Sh314 billion in equitable share
Treasury now says it won’t meet, and a Sh21.7 billion adjustment for
citing shortfalls in performance revenue growth in the financial year
of revenue raised nationally since 2019-20.
2015-16. But Treasury CS Henry Rotich
In this regard, counties will re- explained, in an earlier proposal
to the Budget and Appropriations
Committee led by Kimani Ichung’wa
(Kikuyu MP), that the adjustment
was after the country’s cumulative
revenue shortfall hit Sh374 billion.
The largest shortfall of Sh195 bil-
lion was reported in 2018-19, bring-
ing into focus, weakness of the na-
tional and county governments to
marshal resources.
Counties have been on the spot
over weakness in revenue collection
by Auditor General Edward Ouko
and Controller of Budget Agnes
Odhiambo.
The budget controller in her Half
Year Report for Financial Year 2018-
19 said counties generated Sh15.37
billion against a target of Sh51 billion
between July and December 2018.
“The under-performance of own-
source revenue collection implies
that some planned activities may not
be implemented in the financial year
as budgets will not be fully financed,”
Odhiambo warned.
The report revealed that Nairobi
collected far more (Sh3.8 billion)
compared to its close competitors
Narok and Nakuru at Sh1.84 billion
and Sh1.55 billion respectively.
Ouko, in numerous audit reports,
has reprimanded county govern-
ments for not only failing to meet
revenue targets but also spending
the same at the collection source.
Audit reports for 2018-19 seen by
the Star had cases of counties either
failing to account for revenue col-
lected or employing ICT systems that
don’t work.
In what now exposes a split be-
tween the National Treasury and
CRA, counties have also lost a fur-
ther Sh12.5 billion in differences oc-
casioned by additional conditional
allocations financed from national
government revenue.
The two entities have differed on
their proposed allocations for free
maternal healthcare, leasing of med-
ical equipment and cash for cities.
Whereas CRA sought Sh4.3 billion
to be set aside for funding maternal
healthcare, the Treasury has not al-
located the same.
a year. They requested not to be
named fearing reprisal.
They were not specific on the
dates or the goods they helped to
smuggle into the port city.
The airport is notorious for
trafficking of drugs, ivory and
elephant tusks. In January 2017, an
Ivorian woman was nabbed with
heroin with a street value of Sh10
million.
A month later, a 51-year-old
Mohamed Jibril Ali, had concealed
Sh10 million-worth heroin in his
shoe soles. He was headed to
Dubai.
One cop said officers attached
to Kenya Ports Authority, Kenya
Revenue Authority, Standard
Gauge Railway and Kenya Pipeline
Corporation, are paid allowances by
those parastatals.
“Why not KAA? It used to pay
but stopped. We feel demotivated,”
he said.
He said police guard the facility
round the clock to ensure its safety
is not compromised yet they
receive no compensation.
The officers’ financial burden
worsened after moving out of
police flats.
The second officer said the
apartments are in Magongo and
Migadini. “Magongo has 40 units
while Migadini has 25,” he said.
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NEWS GENERAL
SAYS ANIMALS ENDANGERED
Only elephants should
wear ivory, says Balala
Wages war on bid by four African countries to allow relaxed trade in trophies
GILBERT KOECH
@AliwaMoses
The Kenyan government has warned
four African countries against try-
ing to relax laws protecting iconic
species.
On Saturday, Tourism and Wildlife
CS Najib Balala said a proposal by Bo-
tswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe for
unrestricted trade in elephant ivory
from the four elephant populations
of the three countries, and South
Africa, will be shot down.
The 18th meeting of the Confer-
ence of the Parties will be held in
Colombo, Sri Lanka, from May 23
to June 3, and Kenya has started
lobbying.
The CS commented during the
Global March For Elephants, Rhinos,
Lions and Other Endangered Species.
“Demand creates an incentive for
poachers. Therefore, we must urge
the few countries in Asia and Europe
to appreciate that only elephants
should wear ivory and rhino horn
has no medicinal value,” the CS said.
During the Cites Conference Ken-
ya called for the closure of all ivory
markets and the listing all African
elephants in Appendix I — in danger
of extinction.
Elephants in the four countries
are listed in Appendix II under the
Convention on International Trade
in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna
and Flora (Cites).
Cites lists species according to the
degree of protection they need.
Appendix II is not necessarily
threatened with extinction, but in
which trade must be controlled to
ensure their survival. Appendix I is
endangered, Appendix III contains
species protected in at least one
country that has asked other Cites
parties for assistance.
Balala said strategies to conserve
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Speaker Lusaka pledges devolution support
to eliminate marginalisation of communities
SOLOMON MUINGI/ Speaker Kenneth
Lusaka has told governors the Senate
will ensure citizens enjoy the fruits
of devolution as per the Constitution.
Lusaka said he would push for
strong relations between the Coun-
cil of Governors and the Devolution
ministry for better services.
“If we don’t support the devolved
units, most Kenyans would feel
marginalised. As the Senate, we
will ensure that county governments
remain strong because they have
worked wonders for this country,”
he said.
Lusaka spoke on Saturday in
iconic species from 2012 to 2015 have
succeeded.
More than 4,000 people joined the
march with conservation partners
and the government to champion
wildlife protection. It is an annual
worldwide event.
Balala said Kenya has turned
around the elephant and rhino
poaching crisis between 2011 and
2015. For example, 38 elephants
Mwatate, Taita Taveta county, during
a fundraising for Jones Mwaruma
Foundation.
“Whoever thinks that counties
shall be scrapped should think
otherwise. Counties are here to stay,”
Lusaka said.
He urged senators to oversight the
performance of governors instead of
politicising development projects
undertaken by county governments.
Lusaka criticised people who
intimidate county governments by
relying on connections with senior
national government officials.
He said the Senate would stand
killed by poachers last year, com-
pared to 84 in 2012.
Four rhinos were poached last year
compared to 59 in 2013. However,
some of these efforts risk being wa-
tered down by international trade.
“The scale of poaching and wild-
life trafficking in Africa reflects
increased demand for ivory, rhino
horn and other endangered wildlife
products,” Balala said.
firm and protect devolved units. He
said continued land injustices in Tai-
ta Taveta have derailed development.
Citing the brewing tussle between
locals and Voi Sisal Estate, Lusaka
asked local leaders to petition the
government to subdivide the land.
“How is it possible that land whose
lease agreement has expired is be-
ing sold to other people without the
knowledge of the governor? That is
pure land grabbing and a serious
injustice to the residents,” he said.
He backed demands of local lead-
ers for the county to share resources-
from Tsavo National Park.
Monday, April 15, 2019
TRADERS TO CHOOSE
KNCCI poll hots up in Embu
as candidates hunt for votes
REUBEN GITHINJI /Embu county traders’ election
campaigns have become highly charged, prompting
a public debate to identify the best candidate for
chairman.
The forthcoming Kenya National Chamber of
Commerce and Industry Embu chapter election pits
contractor John Mugo against former chairman John
Nyaga.
The election is scheduled for Wednesday and has
brought business to a standstill as campaigners for
the hopefuls move from shop to shop canvassing for
votes.
A debate was organised at Prime Hotel in Embu on
Sunday night for aspirants to sell their agenda.
Mugo is gunning for the seat with Gerald Ireri as
his running mate and Emily Wanja Njiru as one of
the directors. He appeals to young traders who want
the KNCCI chapter run by an energetic leader. He
has expressed support for Nairobi chairman Richard
Ngatia in the fight for the organisation’s presidency.
Mugo has promised youthful traders he would
facilitate their training on how to register companies to
get tenders in the national and county governments.
Nyaga is calling for revival of loans to help
small traders and farmers. He accuses the county
government of awarding most contracts to outsiders.
Nandi Education executive Valentine Chumo /BARRY SALIL
Tourism Cabinet
Secretary Najib SHE BLAMES PREDECESSOR
Nandi MCAs split over
Balala
/ ENOS TECHE
plan to sack executive
BARRY SALIL/ A showdown is looming at the Nandi county
assembly following a split over planned impeachment of
Education executive Valentine Chumo over allegations
of incompetence and irregularities.
MCAs want the anti-corruption web to be expanded
to seize all those behind the misuse of the department’s
kitty since 2017.
Some MCAs blame Chumo’s predecessor Stanley
Baliach. He is currently the Water and Lands executive
moved after a mini-reshuffle Six months ago.
The MCA for Kaptel/Kamoiywo ward Pius Sing’oei
defended Chumo, saying the majority of the represen-
tatives were not consulted when the assembly adopted
a report to impeach her.
She has denied responsibility and said any misconduct
took place under her predecessor.
The Education and Vocational Training committee
under chairman MCA Emmanuel Rono tabled the report
calling for the CEC’s sacking.
The committee cited the skewed disbursement of coun-
ty bursaries during 2018-19 in which the department
was allocated Sh60 million.
The report said they had recommended to the exec-
‘DEVOLVED utive to double the kitty’s funds to Sh120 million, but
the recommendation was not acted upon. They blamed
UNITS HAVE the CEC.
WORKED Bursary distribution was also questioned as the CEC
could not provide names and details of all beneficiaries
WONDERS’ to the Education committee.
Monday, April 15, 2019
NEWS GENERAL
‘WON’T REPEAT MISTAKE’
Cobbler admits
stealing television
to please wife
CLAUSE MASIKA / A cobbler who was
charged with stealing a television
in Kawangware has pleaded guilty.
Moses Karanja admitted
the theft before Kibera senior
magistrate Florence Mutuku. He
was charged with stealing a 32
inch television on April 11.
The prosecution said the
accused was arrested after the
public tipped off the police on
suspicion that Karanja was a thief.
He was then arrested and taken to
Kabete police station.
In his mitigation, Karanja told
court he was a Christian and he
only stole the TV to make his wife
happy.
He said he had a beautiful wife
and children who depend on him
and he was making sure that they
enjoy his company.
He asked the court to forgive him
and give him a lenient sentence as
he will not repeat the mistake.
The magistrate directed that he
be remanded until his sentencing
today.
In same court, a man was
charged with causing disturbance
at a police station by breaking
a customer care table and
threatening to beat up officers who
were at the reception.
Bernard Mudaha is accused
of refusing to enter the cell at
the Parklands police station and
causing commotion at the recption.
He was arrested while drunk in
Ngara. He denied the charge.
HEALTH COMPLICATIONS?
Police deny killing
Kajiado mason
KURGAT MARINDANY/ Police in Maili
46 town, Kajiado county, are under
pressure from residents after a
suspect died in their custody.
Eyewitnesses and the police
have given contradicting accounts
of what happened before and
after Mathias Mbatha Nzimbi, 39,
was arrested on April 5. His body
was found at the Kajiado Referral
Hospital mortuary.
Pastor Noah Matina told the Star
on Sunday Nzimbi was arrested by
unidentified police from a bar in the
town while he was in the company
of another police officer.
Matina said Nzimbi, who was
suspected to have a stolen gas
cylinder and music system, went
with the officer to the police station.
He told the police he bought them.
Matina said he was shocked to
learn that Nzimbi, a well-known
mason, had died in custody.
“He was not violent. He admitted
to having the stolen property, and
even took the officer to his house to
recover the items,” Matina said.
But Kajiado Central deputy
commander Josephat Kiarie on
Sunday denied the suspect died
in custody. He said he developed
health complications. “Officers took
him to Elang’ata Wuas health centre
where he was pronounced dead .”
TERROR ATTACK
Kidnap: Cuban
medics recalled
Search for missing doctors is still going on
STEPHEN ASTARIKOI
@TheStarKenya
The government has recalled four
Cuban doctors from Wajir and Ga-
rissa following the kidnap of their
COUNTY OWES LEGAL FIRM
Two Mombasa officials face
arrest over Sh18.5m debt
MALEMBA MKONGO /The High Court
in Mombasa has ordered the arrest
of county chief officer of Finance
and the Finance and Economic
Planning executive over an unpaid
Sh18.5 million debt.
Mombasa resident judge Erick
Ogola issued a warrant of arrest
against chief officer Aisha Abdi
and CEC Maryam Mbaruk.
Regional police commander
Marcus Ocholla was told to
effect the order unless they pay
Robinson Onyango the money.
Onyango had rendered legal
Mombasa law courts /FILE
THE-STAR.CO.KE
two colleagues on Friday by sus-
pected al Shabaab militants.
Assel Herera Correa (physician)
and Landy Rodriguez (surgeon)
were kidnapped in Mandera.
It was the second abduction
of foreigners in five months by a
suspected al-Shabaab extremist
services to the county government
in a miscellaneous case no 417 of
2016 but the county government
failed to pay him.
The order further requires the
police boss to ensure the two are
presented before the court where
they will be committed to a jail
term of six months for wilful
disobedience of orders issued on
January 2018.
However, county director of
communication Richard Chacha
said they have not been arrested.
group linked to the al Qaeda ter-
ror group.
The gunmen may have taken the
doctors to Somalia, police spokes-
man Charles Owino said. He said
the doctors’ driver had been de-
tained to help with investigations.
A senior security officer in Ga-
rissa, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, said the doctors left
Garissa on Saturday morning un-
der heavy security.
“We received orders from our
seniors on Friday evening to ar-
range for their transport back to
Nairobi and on Saturday morning
they left,” he said.
He added: “It is natural that fol-
lowing the abduction of their col-
leagues, who are also their coun-
trymen, they have a lot of anxiety.
The kidnap makes it impossible
One of the
kidnapped Cuban
doctors treating
a patient at the
Mandera County
Referral Hospital
in February this
year /STEPHEN
ASTARIKO
9
for them to work under the pre-
vailing conditions”.
Garissa Deputy Governor Abdi
Dagane said the county govern-
ment has been worried about the
security of the Cuban doctors.
Mid last year, burglars broke
into their house while they were
asleep and stole goods including a
TV and a home theatre.
“We had to tighten the security
around the doctors and make sure
they are not exposed to risk,” Da-
gane said.
Mandera Governor Ali Roba
blamed the abduction of the doc-
tors on security lapses. There are
many security officers in the re-
gion yet they do not guarantee
safety, he said.
In Wajir, Governor Mohamed
Abdi confirmed the two Cuban
doctors stationed there had been
flown to Nairobi. He did not give
details.
Governor Roba on Saturday
during a meeting with residents
hit out at the security apparatus
following the lapses that led to the
abduction of the foreign doctors.
A search for the medics is still
going on.
He wondered how the doctors
could be abducted from Mandera
town which has more than a 1,000
security officers on patrol.
Ali Roba condemned the attack
and appealed to the elders to ini-
tiate talks with their counterparts
in Bulahawa and ensure that the
two return to Kenya safely.
Elders from Mandera have al-
ready gone to Bula Hawa in So-
malia where the abductors are
believed to have fled with the
doctors. Mandera remained tense
following the incident. Business-
es were closed as security officers
searched for the doctors.
Mandera has been the scene of
frequent al Shabaab attacks.
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NEWS GENERAL
Hospital admits paying
nurses less than rivals
Nairobi Hospital’s case being resolved alongside other complaints
IMENDE BENJAMIN
@TheOkinda
The Nairobi Hospital pays staff lower
salaries than its competitors, accord-
ing to an internal memo obtained
by the Star.
The hospital management is also
aware of multiple complaints by
workers but it is working to resolve
the issues and remain an employer
of choice.
“We are working on equity adjust-
ments to remedy salary issues such
as wrong grading, significant salary
lag to comparable internal positions
or inequity compared to market pay,”
hospital managing director Christo-
pher Abeid said.
Abeid wrote the memo on April
5 in his capacity as the acting chief
executive officer. He said the new
staff salary raise will be dealt with
in due course.
Officials from other hospitals
who spoke to the Star on condition
of anonymity said Kenyatta National
Hospital was the best employer in
terms of pay.
“I have worked at a number of
hospitals and from what I gather,
Kenyatta’s starting salary for a nurse
is Sh100,000. Mater, Gertrude and
MP Shah hospitals pay 70,000 while
Nairobi and Karen pay Sh50,000,”
the nurse said.
“Other private hospitals and most
county-ran hospitals are paying
Sh30,000.”
Abeid had told the staff to expect
letters by Wednesday, April 10 and in
the case of clarifications, the Human
Resource director would provide
guidance.
“They should join the union. Or-
ganisations such as Medicine San
Frontiers Kenya are paying up to
Sh150,000 for new nurses. Howev-
er, I can’t comment on the issues of
people who are not our members.
They should join us,” Kenya National
CORRUPTION AT TREASURY
Anti-graft auditor approved case against
Mwiraria, PSs over Anglo-Leasing scam
ALPHONCE MUNG’AHU/ A former EACC
investigator recommended the pros-
ecution of former Finance minister
David Mwiraria, two PSs and three
businessmen over conspiracy to de-
fraud the government of Sh5.5 bil-
lion, a Nairobi court heard on Friday.
George Makembo, who was an
auditor, led the investigations into
the Anglo Leasing scandal involving
Mwiraria (now deceased), former
PSs Joseph Magari and Dave Mwan-
gi. The others are former head of
debt management at the Treasury
David Onyonka and businessmen
Chemanlal Kamani, Rashmi Kamani
and Deepak Kamani.
Union of Nurses secretary general
Seth Panyako told the Star by phone.
The increment, which is between
10 and 12 per cent, will be guided
by performance, tenure and pro-
motions.
“In recognising the success of the
hospital, due to your commitment
and hard work, the board of man-
agement has approved a review of
the salaries based on performance
and inflation with effect from April
1, this year,” the MD said.
Abeid is acting after The Nairobi
Hospital board suspended Gordon
Odundo for 90 days. He was first sus-
pended last year in mid-December.
The suspension was supposed to
expire on March 13, but in a board
meeting in February, the suspension
Makembo was testifying before
trial magistrate Martha Mutuku led
in his evidence in chief by senior
assistant Director of Public Prose-
cutions Nicholas Mutuku.
ABUSE OF OFFICE
He also recommended that Mwirar-
ia, Magari, and Mwangi be charged
with abuse of office contrary to the
Anti-Corruption and Economic
Crimes Act.
The witness aid the accused con-
spired to defraud the government of
Euros 59,688,250 in a fictitious proj-
ect using Infotalent Ltd, a non-exis-
tent company.
was extended by 30 days to April 13.
The move followed wrangles at the
health facility following the man-
agement of the Sh8 billion hospital
projects.
Two board members represent-
ing the Medical Advisory Committee
were recalled after it emerged that
the board was ignoring their views
a couple of months ago. When the
committee later recommended two
fresh names, the board refused to
admit them. The board, as currently
constituted, exists without the voice
of doctors who play a critical role in
the hospital’s management.
The Kenya Hospital Association
has called for a meeting to address
the wrangles in the management of
the board.
He also established that Mwangi
entered into supplier’s financing
agreement with Infotalent Ltd with-
out verifying the issues raised by the
Attorney General on the legal status
of the company.
Mwiraria, he said, committed to
meet the project obligations from
the Consolidated Fund when the
project cost was not budgeted for.
The witness said the inquiry in-
volved an allegation that the gov-
ernment on November 19, 2003, ir-
regularly signed a supplier financing
agreement with Infotalent Ltd for
computerisation and improvement
of security project for Kenya police.
Monday, April 15, 2019
MARSABIT MEET THE PEOPLE
Make your voices heard in
public forums, residents told
CHARI SUCHE /It is the responsibility of the public
to point out and prioritise their development needs
by attending and making contributions during public
participation forums.
Their views on public funds and other development
aspects should be well articulated for easier
implementation by the government, Governor Mohamud
Ali has said.
The governor said that it is the responsibility of the
public to point out and prioritise their development
needs.
Mohamud was assessing the drought situation in
Sololo subcounty. He reiterated that development will
not happen if the public shied away from participation.
He urged residents to desist from activities that might
affect peaceful coexistence, adding that full development
would be realised if there was peace. “We as leaders wish
to assure the county at large that we will use all available
means to unite our people to coexist peacefully.”
The governor emphasised the need for education as
the means of shaping the future of their children.
Deputy Governor Solomon Gubo Riwe urged boda
boda operators and women to join the cooperative
movement.
Senator Godana Hargura said he was committed to
play his oversight role. Also present were Moyale MP
Qalich Gufu and Laisamis MP Musa Arbelle.
The Nairobi
Hospital /FILE
Embu Governor Martin Wambora / FILE
DEVELOPMENT
Cash for Embu dams
safe, says Wambora
REUBEN GITHINJI/ The construction of four mega dams in
Embu is being handled at the “highest level”, Governor
Martin Nyaga Wambora has said.
Wambora, who was speaking in Embu town, dismissed
doomsayers spreading fears that the money for the dams
will go down the drain as it happened with the now con-
troversial Kimwarer and Arror dams in Elgeyo Marakwet
where Sh21 billion is suspected to have been stolen.
He said President Uhuru Kenyatta is fully aware of
the dams situation.
The governor said a Belgian construction company had
agreed to build Kamumu mega-dam in semi-arid Mbeere
‘SUSPECTS North subcounty. It will recover its cost in 25 years.
A Portuguese company is interested in building the
CONSPITRED Thuci mega-dam in Embu East subcounty and also re-
TO DEFRAUD cover its funding a quarter of a century later.
Wambora appealed to the national government to
STATE OF hasten the deals so that the perennial drought and famine
SH5.5 situation in the arid Mbeere subcounty can be sorted out
once and for all. The other dams lined up for construction
BILLION’ are Thambana and Rupingaci.
Monday, April 15, 2019
NEWS GENERAL
FILTHY DILAPIDATED MUD HUTS
Prison housing crisis: Auditor says
20,000 new units urgently needed
Warders’ houses are not much better than the prisons themselves, says report
MATHEWS NDANYI/Auditor General
Edward Ouko has painted a grim
picture of staff housing at prisons
where some warders live in filthy di-
lapidated mud and rusting mabati
huts.
‘Sanitation’ is primitive to nonexis-
tent. Ouko says the Prisons depart-
ment needs at least 20,000 new
housing units.
“The indecent housing of prison
staff has not only affected officers’
social life but also work performance
in general,” the report says.
Ouko in a special audit on prison
staff housing cites a total of 3,894
permanent houses, against a staff
population of 23, 831.
“As a result of the housing deficit,
the majority of officers were accom-
modated in temporary structures,
including mud houses, A-frames and
pre-independence. In some cases
staff live in open halls, the auditors
said.
Water supply is uneven and toilets
ONE OF THE BIG FOUR
First affordable houses to be
available in September — PS
GEORGE MURAGE/ The government has
said at least 199,000 people have reg-
istered for the affordable housing
programme.
PS for Housing Charles Hinga said
the programme has faced problems
but by September the housing units
will be handed over to owners.
The numbers of units and loca-
tions were not specified, but some
will be in Nakuru and Naivasha.
The first window, which involved
engaging investors, ended on Febru-
ary 14 with tens of investors seeking
to work with counties to identify
land.
Addressing the press in Naivasha,
Hinga said landowners have offered
more than 9,900 acres where the
houses will be constructed. He called
this encouraging.
“We have investors who are keen
to invest in this affordable housing
programme and so far we have re-
ceived 17 construction technologies
and latrines are in bad shape, or they
are not usable.
Ouko said officers often must
share housing. He said at eight out
of the 17 stations visited by auditors
had officers living outside prison
lines. All stations had uncontrolled
house extensions.
Lack of proper housing also af-
fects officers’ family life as most said
they don’t live with their families on
prison grounds due to lack of decent
accommodation.
Some who lived with their fami-
lies make do with single rooms.
Apart from Kisumu station, which
had a deficit of 31 per cent, all the
other stations visited had a hous-
ing deficit of more than 50 per cent.
Stations such as Kakamega, Kaloleni,
Kilifi, Murang’a, Ruiru and Shimo la
Tewa Women had housing deficits of
between 82 to 95 per cent.
“Although staff numbers have in-
creased over time, the Kenya Prisons
Service has not constructed houses
for consideration,” he said.
The PS said court cases are the ma-
jor impediment, but he said several
have been thrown out or resolved.
“This project is mostly driven by
the private sector and the court cas-
es had a negative effect but we are
addressing this,” he said.
“Works on the first phase are ad-
vanced and we expect by September
to hand over the houses to low cadre
workers who applied and paid for
them,” he said.
Governor Lee Kinyanjui said more
than 4,000 units set to be construct-
ed in Nakuru town.
He said that the county had man-
aged to repossess 50 acres of public
land that was grabbed in Naivasha.
About 2,000 units will be built on
them.
“We have managed to get the ti-
tle back and we expect work on the
houses to start soon,” he said.
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UNABLE TO PAY SH200,000
Governor’s
brother-in-law
jailed over debt
MAGATI OBEBO/A relative of Nyamira
Governor John Nyagarama is to spend
a month in jail for failure to clear a
Sh200,00 debt.
Hillary Obutu, a brother to the
Governor’s wife Naomi Nyagarama,
was arrested in Nyamira town after four
months on the run. He was arraigned
on Friday evening before Kisii senior
resident magistrate Simphy Makil who
sent him to Kisii Prison.
Obutu was flushed from his hideout
on Friday morning by detectives who
had been tracking him since an arrest
warrant was issued four months ago.
He also works as a driver for the
county. He was charged with failing
to pay Fred Michira the money he had
borrowed to help in a family emergency.
It took Makil five minutes to rule that
Obutu be committed to 30 days in jail
until he refunds the debt.
The mud houses used by prison warders /FILE The prosecution told the court that
Obutu consistently failed to heed
at the same pace. being used to accommodate staff in calls to refund the money and cut
Prisons staff population increased Eldoret and Kakamega stations. Most communication with the debtor.
by 34 per cent from 17, 777 to 23,831 of the houses have no water and oth- Yesterday, Michira a medic, told the
But housing units increased mar- er necessities. Star how on April 6, 2018, through his
ginally by six per cent from 3,660 He says the prisons service is ex- friend, Obutu asked him for money. He
to 3,894 during the period of 2000 pected to provide adequate housing promised to pay it back in a month.
to 2018,” Ouko’s team said. units to accommodate its entire staff The suspect changed his mobile
Aged and dilapidated mud houses within the prison lines. number to evade Michiri.
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BIG READ / TOO IMMATURE FOR SEX
TEENS, EARLY MUMS
OPPOSE MAKING 16
THE AGE OF CONSENT
They say it will increase early marriage and child abuse, faulting
judges for implying teens engage in sex ‘with their eyes fully open’
JOSEPH NDUNDA
@TheStarKenya
The opinion held by three Court of Ap-
peal judges that a national discourse
is needed over appropriate sexual
consent age has elicited condemna-
tion from minors and victims of early
pregnancies.
Justices Roselyne Nambuye, Daniel
Musinga and Patrick Kiange on March
22 said a discussion about this topic
is long overdue. But children say the
discourse may sire a legal regime that
is likely to expose children, mostly
helpless girls, to sexual abuse.
The judges set aside a 15-year jail
term handed to a convict of defile-
ment by a Thika court and set him
free. Eliud Wambui had been handed
the sentence in 2014 after conviction,
and the sentence was upheld by High
Court judge Lydia Achonde after he
made his first appeal.
He had been found guilty of defiling
a girl he had married in 2009, when
she was 17 years and five months old.
Wambui’s wife was a form four stu-
dent, but the judges said that alone
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would not rule out a reasonable belief
that she would be over 18 years old.
The judges said they think it stands
to reason that a person is more likely
to be deceived into believing a child is
over 18 if the child is in the age bracket
of 16 to 18 years old.
“The act does cry out for a serious
For more Big re-examination in a sober, pragmat-
Read stories, ic manner. Many other jurisdictions
scan the QR code criminalise only sexual conduct
above. with children of a younger age than THEY MAY
16 years. We think it is rather unre-
alistic to assume that teenagers and
NOT HAVE
maturing adults do not engage in, and ATTAINED
often seek sexual activity, with their
eyes fully open,” they said, quoting a
THE AGE OF
UK court decision. MATURITY
“They may not have attained the age
of maturity but they may well have BUT THEY MAY
reached the age of discretion, and are
able to make intelligent and informed
WELL HAVE
decisions about their lives and their REACHED
bodies. That is the mystery of growing
up, which is a process, and not a series
THE AGE OF
of disjointed leaps.” DISCRETION
DECEPTIVE ADOLESCENT GIRLS — COURT
Some men are duped by lustful and
seductive adolescent girls who act
OF APPEAL
Schoolgirls/FILE like adults, then get in trouble with JUDGES
the law because of the provisions of
Sexual Offences Act, while others are
outright paedophiles intentionally
preying on minors.
The three judges said the closer to
18 years the child is, the more likely
the deception, and the more likely the
belief he or she is over 18.
And they agreed with Wambui’s
claims he reasonably believed the
complainant was over the age of 18
years.
“A candid national conversation on
this sensitive yet important issue im-
plicating the challenges of maturing,
morality, autonomy, protection of
children and the need for proportion-
ality is long overdue,” the judges said.
The three appellate judges said it is
relevant to point out that a child need
not deceive by way of actively telling a
lie that she is over the age of 18 years.
The trio said where to draw the line
for what is referred to as statutory rape
is a matter that calls for serious and
open discussion.
“In England, for instance, only sex
with persons less than the age of 16,
which is the age of consent, is crimi-
nalised, and even then, the sentences
are much less stiff, at a maximum of
two years for children between 14 to
16 years of age,” they ruled.
The judges said the number of
young men serving lengthy sentenc-
es for having had sexual intercourse
with adolescent girls whose consent
has been held to be immaterial be-
cause they were under 18 years is on
the increase.
“The wisdom and justice of this un-
folding tragedy calls for serious inter-
rogation,” they pointed out.
RECIPE FOR MOLESTATION
They suggested a review of consent
age from 18 to 16, but this drew crit-
icism from minors and women who
were early mums, who feel girls will
be exposed to danger.
The critics say this is a recipe for
child molestation because most
girls at this age are still vulnerable to
manipulation and less informed on
sexual issues, adding that it amounts
to introducing discretion for judicial
officers to pass lesser penalties for
convicts of defilement.
A 16-year-old girl who dropped
out of school early this year for lack
of school fees argues that reducing
the consent age to 16 will open the
floodgates to girl child abuse.
“At this age [16], most girls are still
ignorant of the things they ought to
Monday, April 15, 2019
be aware of before making decisions
about certain issues, like consenting
to sex and bearing its consequences.
The reason why it has always been 18 is
to allow one to finish schooling, where
they acquire information and attain
adulthood,” said Halima* (not real
name), who aspires to be a journalist.
“It will mostly affect orphaned
children and those from poor back-
grounds because it means if your
parents or relatives choose to marry
you off at that age, the law cannot pro-
tect you because you are presumed
an adult, despite the fact that the
marriage was planned against your
will and your opinion does not count
during making of such decisions. The
judges should have sought children’s
views about this topic and gotten their
interests.”
Fatuma, 28, is a single mother of
four, who has been in three marriages.
The first man duped her that he want-
ed to marry her and later abandoned
her with two children.
“Every man who marries me now
wants a child with me, but they lat-
er leave because they don’t want to
raise the other men’s children. I am
struggling to raise and educate my
daughter, and this proposal is very
scaring,” she said.
Another 16-year-old, a class six
pupil at a school in Kayole, expressed
fears for children’s safety. The minor
says lowering the age to 16 will limit
parental care because of the assump-
tion of maturity and expose them to
danger.
She said the court should be cog-
nisant of the wider spectrum of con-
sequences that could arise due to the
lowering of the consent age.
SEXUAL SAFETY
Dr Mary Njoroge, a Nairobi-based
gynaeocologist, said a child at 16 has
not fully grown and the cervix is still
premature.
The reproductive system of girls
in that age is not fully developed for
sexual activity, and it is not the ap-
propriate age for pregnancy, she said,
adding that women who have early
sexual debut are also more exposed
to cervical cancer.
Monday, April 15, 2019
Dr Njoroge said since children be-
low 18 are dependent on their parents
financially and on everything else,
lowing the consent age will be giving
room to sex pests to prey on children
who don’t have bargaining power.
She said the consent age review is
not suitable in a social set up where
sex education is limited or unavailable,
and issues of contraceptives are not
well ingrained in the society.
Dr Njoroge said if the consent age
is lowered, there is going to be a lot
of harm on children. They lack the
mental capacity to decide on terms
for protection, and the bargaining
power to determine what they want
with their sexual partner.
“Why would we now say they can
have sex when they are not able to ne-
WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT
RAISING THIS AGE TO 20 OR
21 BECAUSE THAT IS WHEN
ONE HAS MATURED AND IS
WELL EXPOSED, HENCE WELL
INFORMED — EARLY MOTHER
WHO HAD HER FIRST CHILD AT 17
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Justice Daniel gotiate for sexual safety? They might
Musinga/FILE not be well informed on issues like
STIs and how to protect themselves.
Justice Patrick The earlier you engage in sex, the ear-
Kiange/COURTESY lier you expose yourself to things like
STIs,” she said.
Justice Roselyn “It is a dangerous decision to take for
Nambuye/FILE both boys and girls. We are going to
have a lot of unplanned pregnancies
and social problems because these
children have no financial power to
manage the consequences of engaging
in unplanned sexual activity.”
A 32-year-old mother of three says
she had her first child at 17, which was
followed by three miscarriages due to
cervical problems.
She has had partial paralysis of her
right leg, which doctors told her is as
a result of the early pregnancy and
over-straining during childbirth.
“We should be talking about rais-
ing this age to 20 or 21 because that
is when one has matured and is well
exposed, hence well informed.
“Lowering this age means declaring
minors in that age bracket marriage-
able, yet if they marry at that age, they
are always prisoners in such marriages
because the husband is always having
a suspicion that you could be planning
to run away,” she said.
REALITY CHECK
Sexual Offences Act: Is
a review long overdue?
JOSEPH NDUNDA/ The Court of
Appeal’s latest appeal for a dialogue
over the sexual consent age is the
most serious onslaught on the
13-year-old Sexual Offences Act
enacted in 2006.
The Act was proposed by Supreme
Court judge Njoki Ndungu, who at the
time was a nominated MP. It set stiffer
penalties for those engaging in sexual
activity with children below 18.
And despite the Act raising the jail
terms to include life imprisonment for
a conjugal act with a person under 11
and at least 15 years for those below
16, the harsh penalties have not
stopped the vice.
But there have been concerns
that the law has been used to settle
scores. In a recent visit to Nairobi Area
remand and prison in Industrial Area,
the Senate’s Justice Committee was
told of how women are using it to jail
men.
It has been said that in most
cases, police forward files to court for
prosecution to meet the demands
of parents who want to achieve
something beyond justice for their
defiled children.
For example, in the case where
Eliud Wambui was convicted of
defilement, the complainant’s
father admitted in court that he had
demanded Sh80,000 from Wambui,
who was his tenant, during a meeting
at a chief’s office.
He was acquitted by appellate
judges Roselyne Nambuye, Patrick
Kiage and Daniel Musinga. Wambui
had impregnated the complainant,
who was his lover, and married her
immediately after she cleared high
school. She was six months away
from 18.
In court, the girl’s father said
the Sh80,000 he demanded from
Wambui was meant for taking care of
educational expenses of his daughter
and was not for dowry.
“The picture that emerges is of
a father righteously indignant that
his daughter has been seduced
and put in the family way, and who
would have the culprit prosecuted
unless he would pay some kind
of compensation. This, too, raises
questions as to whether the
prosecution was for the proper
purpose of enforcing the law or
settling a score,” the three judges
ruled.
TEENS DOOM MEN?
The law has also been criticised for
denying the child defilement victim a
voice to express themselves to courts,
on whether they could have participat-
ed in the sexual activity with their lovers
willingly and were not offended.
That means courts must close
their eyes and ears on the possibility
that those considered children in the
Act could be deprived of the right of
choice.
The law states that a person who
commits an offence of defilement
with a child between 16 and 18
years is liable upon conviction to
imprisonment for a term of not less
than 15 years.
Although consent is available as
defence, if it is proved that such child
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THERE HAVE BEEN CONCERNS
THAT THE LAW HAS BEEN USED
BY PARENTS TO SETTLE SCORES
AND BY WOMEN TO JAIL MEN.
THE LAW HAS ALSO BEEN
CRITICISED FOR DENYING THE
CHILD DEFILEMENT VICTIM A
VOICE TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES
TO COURTS ON WHETHER THEY
PARTICIPATED WILLINGLY AND
WERE NOT OFFENDED
deceived the accused person into
believing he or she was over 18 at
the time of the defilement, and the
person charged with defilement
believed, very few are acquitted out
of it.
Nambuye, Kiage and Musinga are
concerned that girls between 16 and
17 have unfairly continued to make
young men go to prisons, where they
are serving lengthy terms.
The judges feel the cure for this lies
in dialogue over the age limit, which
they feel needs to be lowered to 16,
which might mean there is no offence
if there was consent.
And the three are not the first
judicial officers to raise concerns over
the law. Justice Waweru Kiarie raised
similar concerns in 2007, when he
was a senior magistrate.
“Unless we establish the causes
of the many sexual crimes, the laws,
however accurate, however harsh,
may not secure any security for
our grandmothers, mothers, aunts,
sisters, wives, sons, brothers and
other male relatives,” justice Kiarie
ruled in 2007.
AGE OF CONSENT AROUND AFRICA
But that will require review of several
Acts that define a child, or open the
Sexual Offences Act for scrutiny over
whether there are some instances
the consent of a person below 18 can
be considered.
Although most countries have set
the sexual consent age at 18, there
is a big number of countries with a
lower age limit. Should Kenya consider
lowering the majority age to 16, it will
be the first in Eastern Africa to do so.
There are 15 African where the
sexual consent age is 16, and there are
others with the age limit below that,
and some with ridiculous age limits.
For instance, DR Congo has fixed the
maturity age for girls at 14, but their
male counterparts have to wait until
they are 18.
In Niger and Comoros, anyone who
has attained the age of 10 and 13 is
an adult, while in Sudan, sex out of
marriage is not allowed, but the age
when one is ripe for marriage is not
specified.
In Libya, adulthood starts from 18
years, but the country’s law says
a 16-year-old girl can marry if her
parents consent. In five countries –
Lesotho, Madeira, Madagascar, Sao
Tome Prince and Chad – the consent
age is 14.
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NEWS BUSINESS
MARKET REPORT
ALY KHAN SATCHU
The platform
economy
T
he strategy, like big tech’s, is to
be the platform, said Bob Colly-
more to Africa Report, “whether
it was for the banking industry, the
healthcare industry, the agricultural
industry.’’ Last week, Uber filed an
initial offering amount of $1 billion,
typically a placeholder amount. The
company applied to list on the New
York Stock Exchange. In the IPO Pros-
pectus, the word ‘platform’ appears
more than 700 times.
Uber is seriously ubiquitous and
SWEET PLANS
Ngilu’s bee-keeping plan set to
earn millions for Kitui farmers
Farmers have a lot of honey but lack a market and the right processing skills
MUSEMBI NZENGU
@StarKenya
Kitui county government is em-
barking on a programme to ensure
that more than 5000 beekeepers in
the county reap full benefits of the
multi-million industry.
Research has shown that a proper-
ly managed honey industry in Kitui
County, could produce 400 metric
tonnes of honey annually which
would conservatively translate to
cumulative earning of Sh. 80 mil-
lion for the beekeepers.
Governor Charity Ngilu has thus
ordered the registration of all bee-
keepers in the county that has the
potential of producing 400 metric
tonnes of honey annually for im-
mediate training on harvesting and
handling of honey.
In a statement from Ngilu on
Sunday, Ngilu said it has dawned
on her that Kitui beekeepers were
not reaping optimum benefits from
their honey.
She said that for lack of knowledge
on the suitable honey refining tech-
niques and facilities coupled with
lack of a reliable and direct market,
Kitui beekeepers remained paupers
in the midst of plenty.
“I visited Athi ward and realized
that many beekeepers have a lot of
honey but they languish for lack
of a market for their honey and
the right honey processing skills. I
want them to be trained on how to
produce high-grade honey. We will
also buy refining machines for them,”
said Ngilu.
She said the idea was to see to it
I recall how it arrived in Nairobi and
made its Gladwellian level move. “The
tipping point is that magic mo-
ment when an idea, trend, or social
behaviour crosses a threshold, tips,
and spreads like wildfire”- Malcolm
Gladwell. The new high tech, millenial,
crypto, avocado economy exhibits
viral, wildfire and exponential and even
non-linear characteristics not unlike
Ebola.
Uber cites a preferred metric:
monthly active platform consumers,
otherwise known as people who
touch one of its services at least once
a month. Uber says it has 91 million
MAPCs, more than double the number
in 2016. So now you know that when
you call your Uber you are in fact one
of 91m MAPCs. Uber posted a $3b
operating full year loss on revenue of
$11.3 billion, bringing total operating
losses over the past three years to
more than $10 billion, Thursday’s filing
shows. In a brilliantly counterintuitive
move, Uber even said they might
never make a Profit ever. Ride-hailing
revenue grew 95 per cent in 2017 from
the previous year, that rate slowed to
that high-quality Kitui honey would
not only be easily accepted in the
local Kenyans market but also in-
ternationally.
“From Monday morning, I want
them (beekeepers) to register and
also give a projection on the amount
of honey they produce. Village ad-
ministrators should register all hon-
ey producers in their areas so that
they could be given ideal training,”
said Ngilu.
The value chain adviser in the Of-
fice of the Governor Temi Mutia said
the training programme which will
be done in phases is meant to ensure
that Kitui people engage in profitable
beekeeping practices. “The idea is
to commercialize beekeeping for
sustainable livelihood,” said Temi
on Sunday.
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33 per cent last year.
Uber argues that its share of the
entire global transportation business
is less than one per cent. Uber argues
its platform positions it to become
all-things transportation, encompas-
sing everything from scooters and
bicycles to freight delivery, driverless
vehicles and even flying cars . Uber’s
food-delivery business grew 149
per cent year-on-year to $1.5 billion
in revenue in 2018. Uber is seeking
to raise about $10b. ‘’The punchline
is this the largest high-growth tech
company that’s going to be going to
the public markets,” David Erickson, a
finance professor at the University of
Pennsylvania’s Wharton School told
Bloomberg.
I feel investors will look through the
accumulated losses and focus on the
ubiquity of the platform and that the-
refore, these shares will pop meanin-
gfully. Therefore, if the IPO price range
is between $100b-$110b market cap,
I would be a buyer looking for a move
towards $150b. This is a conviction
buy recommendation within those
parameters.
He lamented that beekeepers
have been producing honey in a
disjointed, haphazard and uncoor-
dinated way which gave them little
monetary benefit.
Jumia Technologies listed in NYSE
[raised $196 million with the sale
of 13.5 million American depositary
receipts at $14.50 each] and those
shares popped as much as +75% at
one point. Jumia has more than 4 mi-
llion customers in 14 African countries,
its retail platform isn’t profitable yet
however sales jumped by almost 40
percent last year to $147.3 million and
has accumulated losses of just shy
of $1b. There has been debate about
whether Jumia should characterise
itself as an ‘’African’’ company given
that its headquarters are in Berlin
and was initially financed by German
startup incubator Rocket Internet SE.
MTN is its largest shareholder. Pernod
Ricard SA and Mastercard recently
stepped into the shareholder register.
“It’s an opportunity for retail inves-
tors to buy the Africa growth story,
the story of a growing consumer
class,” said Steven Grin, managing
partner of Lateral Capital, a New
York-based investment company
focused on Africa.
“Rising per-capita incomes, an
increasingly young and urban popu-
Kitui governor
Charity Ngilu
lending a hand in
the procession
and packaging of
honey last Friday
when she visited
the Kamaki Bee
keepers manual
honey refinery
in Athi ward
Kitui county,
Below, Kitui
Governor Charity
Ngilu admires
packaged honey
at the Kamaki
bee keepers
Kamaki bee
keepers manual
honey refinery
in Athi ward
Kitui county last
Friday.
/MUSEMBI NZENGU
“Honey is a natural resource that
has the potential of turning around
lives. It came to make the poor bee-
keepers very affluent is handled in
a structured way,” he said.
Monday, April 15, 2019
lation, falling internet and data costs,
surging mobile-phone penetration
— these favorable long-term trends
underpin the rise of the African online
consumer.”
Investors are looking through the
accumulated losses, seeing eCom-
merce penetration levels of 1% or less
in Africa versus something like 24%
in China and betting that Jumia can
parlay its first mover advantage into a
seriously meaningful head start. Jumia
is higher beta than Uber but on balan-
ce is a buy as well on Friday’s closing
price basis.
Last week we witnessed the big-
gest single day % move in any share
price at the Nairobi Securities Ex-
change in more than a decade. Bharat
Thakrar pulled a special 3/- dividend
and surged WPP Scangroup’s share
price some +71.57%, [once in a decade
phenomenon] got zero ventilation
across our media. This loops me to
a comment that the UNCTAD SG Dr.
Mukhisa Kituyi made to me.
Aly Khan Satchu is a
financial analyst
BE TACTFUL WHEN
YOU PROVIDE
FEEDBACK IN WRITING
In an ideal world, feedback
would always happen face-
to-face, so the other person
could read your body language
and hear your voice. But
there are times when you
have to provide input through
email, text message, or even
instant message, and in these
cases it’s important to be
careful about tone. Written
criticism can easily lead to
misunderstandings, since it’s
missing the natural empathy
that comes from talking to
someone in person. And
once it’s typed, it’s harder
to take back than a spoken
comment. Generally, your
written feedback should stick
to descriptive, rather than
evaluative, language. People
are usually more receptive to,
for example, “This is what I
see happening” than to “This
is what I think you should do
differently.” The latter can be
read as harsh and uncaring,
whereas the former is more
objective. You’ll have more
latitude if you have a strong
relationship with the recipient,
because the person is less
likely to perceive the criticism
as an attack. Still, the extra
effort you put into thinking
through what to say and how
to say it will help the person
hear your message (even if
they’re reading it).
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NEWS BUSINESS
PHOTO STORY GREENING THE CITY
From left Edith
Nyenze, MP Kitui
Malindi Businesses
West, Ashok clean town monthly
Shah, Apollo
Group CEO, and ALPHONCE GARI / Malindi Business
Enock Wambua, Community and residents have
Senator Kitui launched an aggressive garbage
county assist clean up exercise to revive the lost
with building the glory of the resort town.
latest sand dam The initiative is aimed at positioning
in Kitui County. the resort town as a blue and green
/COURTESY town to exploit the blue economy in
an economically, socially and environ-
mentally sustainable way.
Hundreds of business people, tour-
ism stakeholders, county government
officials and local residents turned up
for the first major cleanup on Satur-
day from Malindi airport to the central
business district and the Baobab
beach area. They were collecting all
kinds of wastes including bottles,
plastics and polythene is removed.
The community has also began
a beautification programme in the
town by planting flowers and trees to
ensure the town is green.
MOTORING The cleanup received a major

Carmakers battle for Africa’s

boost after top government officials
including Principal Secretary State
Department for Housing andUrban
Development Charles Hinga and Sec-
retary to the President delivery Unit

booming automotor market

Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana potential manufacturing hubs with potential for 3 to 4 million new cars
REUTERS
@StarKenya
At the edge of Nairobi’s Ngong Forest,
thousands of used cars glitter in the
hot sun on a dusty field, waiting for
buyers.
Imported from Japan or the Middle
East, they offer an affordable route
to vehicle ownership in Kenya and
have dominated the market for de-
cades.
That is an obstacle big carmakers
must overcome if they are to crack
Africa, a market promising rapid
growth as trade tensions threaten
sales elsewhere. African consum-
ers also still need conventional en-
gines as demand in more traditional
markets is curbed by restrictions on
carbon emissions.
Volkswagen, BMW, Toyota, Nis-
san and others have joined forces
to lobby governments for steps that
would reduce the imports.
“The question on Africa isn’t, ‘Is
it a market of the future?’” Mike
Whitfield, Nissan’s top executive
for Africa, told Reuters. “It’s a case
of when.”
Four years after forming the As-
sociation of African Automotive
Manufacturers (AAAM) their efforts
are starting to bear fruit. Carmakers
that set up local assembly plants
could get tax holidays of up to 10
years and duty exemptions in Nige-
ria, Kenya and Ghana, according to
government plans seen by Reuters.
Thomas Schaefer, head of Volk-
swagen’s Africa business, said there
is a potential market in sub-Saharan
Africa for 3 to 4 million new cars, up
from just 420,000 in 2017.
But that will require addressing
the well-entrenched interests of
second-hand car dealers, smugglers
and lowering the price of new cars.
“It will largely depend on how
successful the African govern-
ments are in limiting the amounts
of second-hand imports and how
price-competitive new vehicles can
be with their tariffs,” said Craig
Parker, Africa research director at
Frost & Sullivan, a US-based market
research firm.
Africa’s population and household
incomes are rising rapidly. But its
1 billion inhabitants account for
only 1 per cent of the world’s new
passenger car sales, industry data
shows. South Africans bought over
85 percent of those vehicles.
The AAAM identified Kenya, Ni-
geria and Ghana as potential man-
ufacturing hubs and helped draft
legislation setting up standards and
incentives.
Details of governments’ plans
provided to Reuters demonstrate
that African nations are keen to se-
cure a spot as a beachhead for the
industry. Nigeria and Ghana are pre-
paring to offer automakers tax holi-
days of up to 10 years and duty-free
imports of parts and components
used in local assembly.
Nigeria also plans to double the
levy on new, fully-built imported ve-
hicles to 70 percent to boost demand
for locally produced cars, though the
policy’s approval has been delayed.
In Kenya, automakers will pay
no import or excise duties and get
a 50 per cent corporate tax break.
For African nations facing massive
demographic pressures, such con-
cessions make sense if they create
jobs, said Jelani Aliyu, of Nigeria’s
National Automotive Design and
Development Council.
“The multiplying effects are expo-
nential,” said Aliyu, who foresees
supporting industries developing
around the plants.
Andrew Wakahiu hailed the Malindi
community for initiating the clean up
to make the town clean.
Shops were closed for nearly three
hours to participate in the cleanup and
sensitize locals on the importance of
maintaining cleanliness.
Philemon Mwavalla a popular
tourism investor in Malindi who is part
of the organizing committee for the
cleanup said their aim is to ensure the
town regains its lost glory.
Speaking at Cleopatra grounds, he
said the support they had received in
moving towards a green city of Malindi
is commendable.
“Our strategy in collaboration with
the county government is to get
Malindi a green city and we believe
this is achievable we want to draw
awareness to community members
on how to dump garbage.’’
The cleanup exercise will be held
every second day of the month.
Cate Mwikali, chairperson of Malindi
Community Steering Committee said
the aim was to ensure the community
is sensitized on the importance of
keeping environment clean.
“We want to position Malindi as a
green city to exploit the blue econ-
omy in a social and environmentally
sustainable manner.”

ENVIRONMENT

Plastics recycling plant opened

The plant will reclaim between 1,000 and 5,000 tonnes monthly
GILBERT KOECH/ A Chinese firm has set up a Sh 4.5 bil-
lion (US$ 45 million) plastic waste recycling company
in Athi River.
The company will be collecting and recycling 2,000
tonnes of PET bottles every month.
Weeco Recycling Company has set up operations
in Athi River and Mombasa. It will collect and recycle
plastic bottles into pellets which are later converted
into fibre and garment.
“We have entered into the Kenyan market to provide
a lasting solution to the challenge posed by post-con-
sumer PET bottles. In addition, we will provide em-
ployment opportunities, revenue for the exchequer
and improve standards of living for the collectors who
will be supplying us. We are able to recycle between
1,000 tonnes and 5,000 tonnes every month with two
processing lines in Nairobi and Mombasa,” Weeco
Recycling Company director Wang Zhangyin said.
The firm signed a partnership contract with Kenya
PET Recycling Company, an industry body mandated
with regulating management of post-consumer PET
packaging in the country. PETCO Kenya chairman John
Waithaka said the firm will play a key role in recycling
of post-consumer PET packaging. Weeco director Wang Zhangyin and PET chairman John Waithaka /COURTESY
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NEWS WORLD
STRANDED FOR TWO WEEKS
Four EU countries to
take rescued migrants
after Med standoff
REUTERS/ Pope Fr Four European Union countries have
agreed to take in 64 African migrants rescued by the Ger-
man ship Alan Kurdi and stranded at sea for almost two
weeks, the Maltese government announced on Saturday.
The ship, operated by the humanitarian organization
Sea-Eye, had been refused entry by Italy and Malta, but
two migrants were evacuated to Malta earlier this week
because of poor health.
Both countries had insisted it was Libya’s responsibility
to take in the boat, Sea Eye said earlier in the week.
FLASHES
KATHMANDU/ A small plane
operated by a private airline in
Nepal hit a parked helicopter
on Sunday while preparing
to take off in a mountainous
area near Mount Everest,
killing three people including
a co-pilot, an airport official
said. MOGADISHU/ Somali
security forces shot dead
a rickshaw driver and his
passenger in the capital
Mogadishu on Saturday and
killed another four people
who were protesting against
the shootings, witnesses
and lawmakers said. TUNIS/
Tunisia’s ruling party Nidaa
Tounes on Saturday elected
two leaders, one of them the
president’s son, in two parallel
congresses, deepening the
division that has hit the party
in recent years. LONDON/
Police in London opened
fire outside the Ukrainian
embassy on Saturday after
a man rammed his vehicle
into the ambassador’s
empty parked car at least
twice before being arrested,
officials said. WASHINGTON/
President Donald Trump said
on Friday he was considering
sending illegal immigrants
in the country to so-called
sanctuary cities, prompting
US mayors to accept such
an offer as the battle over
border security raged.
THE DATA
64
Migrants to be taken in by
four European countries
The migrants will be redistributed
among Germany, France, Portugal
and Luxembourg.
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The Maltese government said that through the coordi-
nation of the European Commission, the migrants will
be redistributed among Germany, France, Portugal and
Luxembourg.
“None of the migrants will remain in Malta. The ship
Alan Kurdi will not be allowed to enter Malta,” the gov-
ernment said.
Migrants who
were stranded
on the German
“Once again the smallest member of the European Union NGO Sea-Eye
was put under unnecessary pressure, being asked to resolve migrant rescue
a case which was neither its responsibility nor its remit,” ship Alan Kurdi
the government added. disembark
“A solution was found in order not to let the situation from an Armed
deteriorate further while making it clear Malta cannot Forces of Malta
keep shouldering this burden.” patrol boat
In March, Malta received 108 migrants after the small at its base in
tanker which rescued them was hijacked by some of the Marsamxett
migrants themselves. Maltese soldiers stormed the vessel Harbour,
and escorted it to Malta. Valletta on
Three teenagers have since been taken to court and are Saturday
under arrest. /REUTERS
WANT CIVILIAN RULE
Sudan protesters
await army word on
transition demands
REUTERS/ Several thousand
Sudanese protesters continued a
sit-in outside the Defense Ministry
yesterday as they pressured the
military to accelerate a transition
towards civilian rule.
The head of the military council that
replaced former President Omar al-
Bashir, who was ousted on Thursday
after three decades in power, has
said a civilian government will be
formed after consultations with the
opposition.
The main organiser of protests that
led to Bashir’s ouster, the Sudanese
Professionals’ Association (SPA), has
demanded that civilians be included
on the transitional military council
and has pressed for Bashir’s close
associates to leave.
It has called for a restructuring of
the powerful National Intelligence and
Security Service and the dissolution
of militia forces that operated under
Iraqi members of the Civil Defense cover the bones from an unearthed mass grave of Kurds in the west of the Bashir.
city of Samawa yesterday /REUTERS The sit-in, which began on April
6, was the culmination of a protest
movement that began nearly four
NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN months ago, triggered by a worsening
Iraq unearths mass grave
economic crisis.
SUDAN SIT-IN DEATHS
of Kurds killed by Saddam At least 16 people
were killed, and
20 injured by stray
Upto 180,000 people may have been killed during ‘Anfal’ campaign
bullets at protests
REUTERS/ Iraq must never forget not accept the continuation of this account what she said were the last
Saddam Hussein’s crimes or allow regime, because they wanted to words her father had for the Iraqi and sit-ins on
his party to return, President Bar- live a free and dignified life,” Salih, people, four days before his execu-
ham Salih said yesterday after at- a Kurd, told a news conference at tion. Thursday and Friday,
tending the unearthing of a mass
grave of Kurds killed by the former
the grave site. Raghad Hussein, who has been
“He brought them to Samawa to living in Jordan ever since the United a Sudanese police
leader’s forces three decades ago.
The grave, found in the desert
bury them but our people in Sama- States invaded Iraq in 2003, posted
wa embraced them,” Salih added. the message on the 12th anniversary
spokesman Hashem
about 170 km west of the city of Sa- Iraq’s southern provinces are of her father’s death.
mawa, contained the remains of doz- predominantly inhabited by Shi’ite “Oh honourable people, I entrust
Ali said on Saturday.
ens of Kurds made to “disappear” by Arabs, who also suffered oppression you and my soul to the merciful
Saddam’s forces, Salih’s office said. and mass killings under Saddam, a Lord, who does not disappoint the
Government
They were among up to 180,000
people who may have been killed
Sunni Arab. honest believer … God is great,” the
“The new Iraq must never forget message read.
buildings and private
during Saddam’s “Anfal” campaign these crimes that were committed Saddam was sentenced to death property were also
that targeted Iraqi Kurds in the late against Iraqi people from all groups,” by hanging on the first day of Eid
1980s when chemical gas was used, he said. al-Adha, on the order of then-Prime attacked, he said in a
villages were razed and thousands of Saddam was executed on Decem- Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who had
Kurds were forced into camps. ber 30m 2006. In december last year, insisted the execution be carried out statement.
“He killed them because they did his daughter posted on her Twitter on that particular day.
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comedian Eric Send your views to letters@the-star.co.ke
Omondi shortly
after he checked
in for Easter. The Sharing problems
comedian will
be on stage on can ease growing
Easter Saturday
during their depression burden
dinner party
/COURTESY
Depression is a fast-growing killer
disease among the Kenyan youth.
Every time a ‘strange’ story goes
around, we always find a young and
promising Kenyan involved. This
compels us to wonder whether
some youths value their lives at all.
Among the causative agents are
cases of poor mentorship which
leads to a weak approach among un-
employed youth and other job seek-
ers; cheating in relationships, harsh
lifestyles which promise nothing
but tough times ahead. Prolonged
frustrations have been known to
cause depression. A person will go
through an unpleasant experience
and decide to keep it to themselves;
if it happens again, they still keep it to
themselves in the name of ‘keeping
up with the world’, which is mostly
just the picture that is painted on so-
cial media. This life has gone through
countless filters to make it ‘Insta-
gram worthy’ just to gain likes. Weak
minds and negative thinking amount
to depression among affected
individuals, leading to separation or
total detachment from society. This
is where we start to lose the youth
as they smile in public and cry behind
closed doors. Frustration is generat-
ed internally and it piles up slowly in
one’s mind for years before it affects
them to the extent of taking action
beyond their thinking. Little knowl-
edge on how to approach harsh living
conditions, for instance, has forced
many people to either change tactics
of living or give in and start breaking
the law either through crime or
engaging in drugs- which is not a
solution. During this period, very few
people share their problems and end
up surviving, others cannot and end
up getting enslaved by the burden of
depression. Another serious factor
which promotes depression is living
in denial; the affected individuals
may find it hard to open up to people
especially on matters of romantic re-
lationships, health and other serious
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and confidential issues. Many youths
will accept to die alone because
they will not withstand humiliation
from their colleagues. It is hard to
conclude what others are going
through, you will only realise after
extreme outcomes of the decisions
of affected individuals. Few people
believe in themselves and they trust
their friends with their information
so they share and acquire solutions.
The larger percentage want to share
but feel insecure about giving their
information, so they end up consol-
ing themselves with the common
phrase; ’wacha nipambane na hali
yangu’. Youths need to pray continu-
ally, rethink seeing a mentor, sharing
information with an expert or close
friends and checking on their health
status to overcome daily setbacks
and frustrations.
IAN KIPROP CHEPKUTO
Nairobi
Jokes aside; give
the deceased, her
family their respect
The recent brutal murder of uni-
versity student Ivy Wangechi has
been one of the most trending
topics on social media. In giving their
opinions, many Kenyans have taken
sides, with some taking this action
to create jokes and fun. Well, the
Constitution allows for freedom of
expression and I am not in any way
against the opinions given, but why
make fun when a family is fighting to
accept the loss of their loved one?
It is pure malice. People are fast to
justify the brutal act, saying “it was a
much-deserved lesson for the vic-
tim and others like her”. But how can
she learn a lesson from the grave?
It is high time Kenyans developed
mannerism, put themselves in the
shoes of the deceased’s family and
understood that even the deceased
deserve respect. May she rest in
peace.
JOSEPH MACHARIA
Nairobi
Monday, April 15, 2019
VOX POP
COMPILED BY MARRYANN CHAI
Do you think Raphael
Tuju is trying to
sabotage DP Ruto?
Yes: The reckless
statements he issues have
the capacity of breaking
up the party. Tuju needs to
consult the officials before
issuing any statement.
CHRISTINE ELIJAH
Kasses
Sexuality education
a step in tackling
gender violence
No: Both are fighting to
In Kenya, 61.1 per cent out of 2,500 control the political party
Kenyan students needs information ahead of 2022 polls and
on sexual and reproductive health,
this may disunite the party.
and rights and skills to protect them-
selves against sexually transmitted Tuju is only executing the
infections or unintended pregnan- President’s directives.
cies. Only 2 per cent of teachers has
admitted to having information on IAN NDUNG’U
Kobos
comprehensive sexuality education.
The percentage of students with
knowledge of contraceptives is
higher than that of those who have
used or prefer using contraceptives.
Effective sexual and reproduc-
tive health and rights entails safe
decision making and the right to live
healthy and productive lives. Sexu-
ality education to children and young
people provides information about
sexuality, sexual and reproductive
health and rights and also enhanc- No: Leaders should stop
es positive values and attitudes engaging in early politics
towards their reproductive health.
Comprehensive sexuality education
and instead focus on
serving Kenyans. Early
enables development of self-es-
teem, respect for human rights, pro- politics will bar jubilee from
motes gender equality and enhances implementing their pledges.
skills for positive decision making. It
generates demand for reproductive PETER OKWONJO
health services by young people, Makutano
including demand for contracep-
tives and family planning services
and also reduce the age at first sex.
To achieve this, communication
on sexuality between parents and
adolescents should be promoted. We
must also create awareness on the
dangers of myths and misconcep-
tions that hinder the provision of
comprehensive sexuality education
in learning institutions. It ensures
individuals, especially adolescents, Yes: Raila has been known
gain better knowledge of their rights in the past for breaking up
and make informed choices about parties. I wonder why Tuju
sex and relationships. Comprehen-
sive sexuality education will provide
goes to extent to praise the
a rights-based approach towards party competitor in 2022.
the prevention of gender-based The party needs another
violence and HIV-related stigma. secretary general.
PURITY NTHIANA ROSE KARENGER
Youth health advocate Makutano
Monday, April 15, 2019
word is...
SOCIALBYTE
WITH ELIZABETH NGIGI
@nyambs_liz
Festival director Brian Owango
/COURTESY
Tandawazi, a festival of culture, re-
turns this year for its 10th edition
with a precursor event called ‘The
Sundowner’ on Saturday last week-
end at the Pool House 19 Kibagare
way, Nairobi.
The Sundowner came a day shy
of the official opening of Tandawazi
Festival, slated from today to April 21.
Tetu Shani, a self-taught percus-
sionist and guitarist, will headline
the event, which will also feature
demos from Nairobi’s finest artistes.
“Tandawazi began in 2010 as a festi-
val that mainly targeted capoeira,”
festival director Brian Owango said.
“Later I realised that getting var-
ious artistic communities from Af-
rican dance, break dance, capoeira,
yoga, Afro-Latin dance communi-
ties, drumming, and so on, will
make Tandawazi achieve its goal of
connecting more cultures.”
Rose Muhando
finally recovers
ELIZABETH NGIGI @nyambs_liz/ Rose
Muhando is back in the limelight,
looking much better and healthier.
She made the headlines a few
months ago after a disturbing vid-
eo surfaced online allegedly of 10
demons talking about how they
destroyed the gospel star’s career.
Rose had been down on her luck
and in that video, she looked like
a shadow of her former self with
bruises on her feet and a bandaged
left hand.
The current photo of her was
shared online by a fellow gospel ar-
tiste, Betty Bayo, and Rose looked
much better.
“She has been around but she has
not been feeling well. For about four
months she has been in the hospital,
but the people around her do not
want to reveal which hospital for
now,” Betty told Word Is.
“She is healed and the bruises she
had on the hands are completely
healed.”
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I PAY SH450,000 SCHOOL
FEES — PASTOR KANYARI
ELIZABETH NGIGI/ Evangelist Victor
Kanyari has rebuffed claims by his
ex-wife singer Betty Bayo that he is
a stingy father to their two children.
For more Word Is “I take care of my children and pay
stories scan the their school fees, which is expen-
QR code above. sive,” Kanyari told Word Is on Friday.
Caps and shades a trademark for ‘introvert’ Nameless
He said he visits every term and it Kanyari
is he who chooses the school. “She /COURTESY
only provides for food, which we also
help each other sometimes,” he said.
“It costs me Sh450,000 every term
because they are in one of the best
schools.”
Nameless ELIZABETH NGIGI @nyambs_liz/ Da-
/COURTESY vid Mathenge, aka Nameless, says the
reason he is always in a cap and shades
is to fit his status of being a celebrity.
“What most people do not know
about me is that I am an introvert,
and that’s why I am always in a cap
and shades,” Nameless told Word
Is on Friday.
“It is a subconscious way to deal
with the introvert me ‘coz I am in the
industry where I have to get the full
attention, which is not my thing.”
Fans might have asked themselves
what’s up with the hats all the time,
even when it’s too hot to wear a hat.
A few years ago, Nameless appar-
ently shared a photo of himself with-
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WORDIS@THE-STAR.CO.KE
In an earlier interview, Betty said
the two coordinate where possible
because he (Kanyari) is a stingy man
who provides little for his children.
“I don’t think he is the kind of
man you wake up and ask for ev-
erything,” Betty said, adding that
she doesn’t miss him one bit.
But Kanyari denied being stin-
gy. He said it all depends on what
amount of money she asks for and
how much he is able to give her.
“Every person is ‘stingy’, depend-
ing on what they can afford. Could
be she wants Sh10 million and you
don’t have; that is how the stinginess
comes,” he said.
Betty has finally moved on and is
set to wed. She wrote on social media
that she is engaged.
“I have moved on but when the
right time comes, I will speak about
it. I will even introduce you to the
man and even my wedding... you
will all know him,” Betty wrote.
Asked if he has moved on, Kanyari
said, “I don’t want to talk about if I
have moved on or not.”
“If Betty has moved on, I don’t
know, but I have nothing to tell her.
Betty is not a bad woman... She is a
good person.”
Does he miss her? “She is the
mother of my two kids and she will
always be,” he said.
Daddy Owen at VFS South Africa
Visa Application Centre on 5th floor,
Park Field Building, Muthangari
Drive, on Friday at 12:30pm. He was
in a maroon T-shirt, black jeans and
white sneakers.
out a hat, baring his gudu forehead.
He captioned it: “#TeamForehead
mpo??? Tag anyone with a gudu
forehead and tell them its ok ata
Nameless ana yake!!!”
Nameless is a veteran in the mu-
sic industry. Currently, he is ruling
the airwaves with a remix of his
first-ever song ‘Megarider’, featur-
ing Khaligraph Jones.
“I wanted to give a new spice of the
song because it is 20 years since I did
it and I chose Khaligraph because I
wanted to do it with a new genera-
tion of arstistes,” he said.
He promised to do a couple of
remixes of his older songs with dif-
ferent artistes.
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EDITORIAL
Legacy at risk: It’s time
Uhuru cracked the whip
P
resident Uhuru Kenyatta must be a
frustrated leader - nay, an angry man.
Soon after his re-election nearly two
years ago, he came up with a four-
pillar development agenda, which he continues
to articulate in various forums.
His frustration is a result of open defiance
by some of his cohorts in the Jubilee party
who have made it their business to bombard
the citizenry with toxic politics on Saturdays
at funerals and on Sundays during Christian
services.
The President constantly reminds these
noise makers that they should have put to a
stop campaign politics after the August 2017
elections and concentrate on his development
agenda of ensuring that there is enough food
in the country, Kenyans have decent houses,
they need not to worry about dying at home
because of unaffordable healthcare and that
the youth have jobs in the manufacturing
sector.
The Head of State’s attention is ever split,
with hardly any time to ensure that his
agenda is understood and embraced by every
mwananchi. He must find a way of ensuring
that the toxic politics does not result in him
being a lame-duck president.
Uhuru has only three years to crack the
whip against those derailing his development
agenda before his two-term presidency ends. It
is his legacy at risk if he doesn’t do so.
HISTORICAL QUOTE
“If you don’t like something,
change it. If you can’t change it,
change your attitude.”
MAYA ANGELOU
She was an American poet, memoirist, singer and civil
rights activist
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GWYNNE DYER
Author, ‘Growing Pains: The Future of Democracy (and Work)’
The chief impact of global warming on humans is going to be on
food supply, which will plummet in the tropical and sub–tropical
countries and the desperate people will start to move
WORST OF IMMIGRATION YET TO COME
I
n a recent survey of potential adult migrants
worldwide, 47 million said they would most like to
move to Canada. There are only 37 million people
in Canada. The same goes for Australia: 36 million
would like to move there; only 25 million do live
there. Most of these would-be immigrants are
going to be disappointed. In fact, Canada lets in
just 300,000 immigrants a year; Australia 200,000.
Other developed countries are significantly less
popular destinations, but potential migrants amounting
to around half the existing populations want to move to
the United States, France, Britain, Germany and Spain.
They too are going to be disappointed.
In its most generous year, 2016, Germany let in a
million immigrants, mostly Syrian refugees, but 80
million Germans are never going to let in the 42 million
foreigners who also want to live there. Indeed, former
US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said bluntly
last November that “Europe has done its part, and must
send a very clear message: ‘we are not going to be able
to continue to provide refuge and support.’”
Clinton was mainly concerned about how
anxiety about mass immigration has fuelled the
@RepJayapal
Women once
rise of populism in Western countries. That’s hardly
surprising, given how Donald Trump’s tight focus
again leading on the alleged criminal and job-stealing propensities
the way to of Latino immigrants won over enough formerly
@THESTARKENYA peace through Democratic voters in the Rust Belt states to give him the
nonviolent
approaches,
presidency.
It didn’t just work for Trump. It helped the Brexiteers
key to their win their anti-European Union referendum in the
success—in United Kingdom, it brought the populists to power in
Sudan & around Italy, and it underpins Viktor Orban’s ‘soft dictatorship’
the world. We in Hungary (even though Hungary has never let
Associate Editor, Daily stand with immigrants in, and they don’t want to go there anyway).
Joseph Olweny these brave, But the fact is that the levels of immigration are
courageous not particularly high in the US and most European
Photo Editor Sudanese countries at the moment. Net migration to the UK has
Jack Owuor women who been stable since 2010; in both the US and in Germany
won’t stop (with the exception of 2016, in the latter case), net
Sports Editor til they get migration is down by half since 2000. Something
Chris Mbaisi a peaceful more is needed to explain the level of anger in these
transition countries.
to a civilian It is, of course, unemployment, which is much higher
government. than the published (official) figures in every case, and is
Monday, April 15, 2019
particularly high in the post-industrial areas that voted
so heavily for Trump in the US, for Brexit in Britain,
and for ultra-nationalist parties in Germany. In the
US, according to Nicholas Eberstadt of the American
Enterprise Institute, 17.5 per cent of American men of
prime working age ( 24-55 ) are not working.
So you can see why Hillary Clinton is concerned, but
she seems unaware that the pressure of migration is
also going to grow rapidly.
More than half of Kenyans would immediately move
to another country if they could, a 2017 survey by the
US-based Pew Research Centre discovered. More than
a third of Nigerians, Ghanaians and Senegalese are
actually planning to emigrate in the next five years,
according to the same survey. (Good luck with that!)
Even a third of Chinese millionaires would like to
emigrate (half if you include moving to Hong Kong
as emigration). And all this
is before climate change
MORE THAN HALF OF kicks the numbers into the
KENYANS WOULD stratosphere.
The chief impact of global
IMMEDIATELY warming on human beings
MOVE TO ANOTHER is going to be on the food
supply, which will fall as the
COUNTRY IF THEY temperature rises. And the
food shortages will not affect
COULD, A 2017 everybody equally: the supply
SURVEY BY PEW will hold up in the temperate
zone (the rich countries), but
RESEARCH CENTRE it will plummet in the tropical
and sub-tropical countries
where 70 per cent of the world’s people live. They will
be desperate, and they will start to move.
That’s when the pressure of migration will really take
off, and the rich countries are simply not going to let the
climate refugees in. Not only would it stress their food
supply too, but the numbers seeking to get in would be
so large – two or three times the resident population –
that it would utterly transform the country’s character.
So the borders will slam shut.
It’s a myth that you cannot close borders. You can, if
you’re willing to kill people. (Think of the Iron Curtain,
which divided all of Europe for 40 years.) And the rich
countries will, in the end, be willing to kill people.
Monday, April 15, 2019
VOICES
COMMENT
PAUL WAINAINA
Vice chancellor, Kenyatta University
KU and partners will hold an
international conference on
May 20–24 to address concerns
HOW SAFE IS FOOD
ON YOUR TABLE?
G
lobal food security has been shaken by
growing population and famine. Food
and nutrition security is a situation where
all people, at all times, have physical and
economic access to adequate, safe and
nutritious, and diversified food to meet their
dietary needs and preferences for an active
and healthy life.
Scientists have argued that unsafe food is likely
responsible for more deaths than malnutrition
and hunger, due to acute and chronic disease
consequences. Unsafe food has been attributed to
the increase in cancer cases, among other food-
borne illnesses and intoxications. This further
exacerbates the vicious cycle of disease, starvation
and malnutrition.
Food-borne illnesses overload an already burdened
healthcare system. They lower productivity, leading to
economic and trade loss at national and international
level. Prevention is better than cure, hence, the safety
component of food security cannot be ignored.
However, evidence-based research is scarce to
inform and guide policies and action points. There
is minimal information on risk and exposure
assessment of food hazards. Kenya faces many
perennial food safety issues. Consumers are
continually exposed to food-related hazards such
as pesticide residues, aflatoxins, food pathogens,
heavy metals, adulterated foods (such as alcoholic
beverages) and dairy products.
Food additives and toxic compounds produced
during cooking and processing methods such as
roasting and frying add to the challenge of food
safety. The safety of what we consume has been
compromised at almost all levels of the food value
chain; from agricultural production, post-harvest
handling, processing, packaging, storage, distribution
and retailing.
The use and misuse of nutritional supplements
as well as ergogenic aids in the population are now
reaching alarming levels. Kenya has put in place legal
frameworks to protect consumers from unsafe foods.
Despite this, the consumer is not assured about the
safety of the foods they consume, and the information
is either lacking or incorrect. How effective are the
corrective and preventive measures taken?
Corruption has worsened the situation. Who then
will protect the consumer? How will these food safety
issues be addressed? What is our responsibility?
Kenyatta University’s vision is to be a dynamic,
inclusive and competitive centre of excellence in
teaching, learning, research, and service to humanity.
As such, research and dissemination of findings
remain one of the university’s mandates.
The university is supportive of the government’s
Big Four agenda, which includes food security. In this
direction, Kenyatta University, together with other
partners, will hold the International Conference on
Food Safety on May 20-24, 2019.
The theme is ‘Food safety from farm to fork - a
missing link in consumer health, education, and
food security’. The conference seeks to address safety
concerns involving all the key players in the food
value chain.
The conference will bring together
multidisciplinary actors to share evidence-based
research, disseminate findings and gather sustainable
solutions to food safety concerns. The outcomes of
this conference will provide a vital roadmap on how
we deal with the issues of food safety going forward.
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COMMENT
DOROTHY JEBET
Political commentator
Youth too emotional to deduce prevailing political trends unike
their parents and grandparents, who want squabbling to cease
so leaders can concentrate on improving their tattered lives
RIFT YOUTH BLINDSIDED, OLDIES FRET
I
have been crisscrossing the North Rift the past are flooded with so that a few sleazy individuals can
couple of months minding my own business but benefit.
I couldn’t fail to capture the political mood vis-a- In brief, the youth in Rift Valley are too emotional to
vis the multiple bare-knuckle tremors sweeping deduce prevailing political trends compared to their
across a progressively shifting political landscape. parents and grandparents. That is the folly of being
Even the apolitical pockets dotting the region young without a care in the world of where your next
are waking up to the reality that our hopelessly meal will come from.
fluid politics affects their lives one way or the other. When you put the region’s lawmakers on the
They are keenly following the volley of words between magnifier, you gather that some have thrown caution to
the bona fide team leader of the adrenaline-charged the wind and deserted their duties and responsibilities
Tanga Tanga squad, DP William Ruto, and his erstwhile to the masses to engage in an unending war of words.
political foe Raila Odinga. They can perfectly be described as dogs for hire.
Flip the coin and your ears risk going deaf as the Their barking antics have drawn some blood.
Kieleweke battalion and the Tanga Tanga conglomerate They think after President Uhuru Kenyatta’s recent
noisily receive and deflect punches from State of the Nation address the war
each other. on corruption, which had gained
The youth are smack in the middle FOR THE LAST FIVE momentum, will be slowed and
fighting on social media in support of the measured to protect suspects from
DP while the older citizens watch keenly YEARS, THINGS HAVE being lynched in the court of public
from the periphery hoping and wishing
that the squabbles could cease for a minute
SPIRALLED DOWN THE opinion.
It was evident that the suspects
to allow their leaders time to concentrate VALLEYS AND RIFTS and their crooners were elated at the
on improving their tattered lives.
“Look at me,” Kiprugut Mengech told me
TAKING RESIDENTS’ President’s pacifying speech. If I were
these court dancers, I would tread
in a recent tete a tete in Ziwa, Uasin Gishu LIVELIHOOD WITH very carefully and watch what I utter.
county. The poverty-stricken farmer was The Head of State just changed tack to
once a successful maize and milk farmer. THEM INTO AN ABYSS checkmate those fingered in the Arror
His stone house bears evidence that he was
once living in the fast lane thanks to his
OF HOPELESSNESS and Kimwarer dams’ bloodless heist,
among others being investigated.
farm produce. Prior to Uhuru’s address, the country had
For the last five years, things have spiralled down the experienced heightened political temperatures. The
valleys and rifts taking his livelihood with them into mud-slinging and the accompanying razzmatazz had
an abyss of hopelessness. Multiple times, he has had to be reduced to a manageable level and that is exactly
his maize returned with the excuse that its moisture what the President did.
content is high. “This is a ploy by our leaders who have I see some foot soldiers being fattened for the big day
turned into scrupulous maize importers to sell their when their behinds will be marinated and roasted in
cereals,” Mengech says. style.
His counterpart in Moiben, Leah Chepling’, wishes That aside, the rifts and valleys this side of the globe
she could roll back the hands of time to when her continue unabated below the sea level between the real
Scan this QR maize produce could be bought without a query at the kingpins and the wannabes.
code using your National Cereals and Produce Board. The blue-blooded royal prince Gideon Moi is quietly
smartphone to The 68-year-old farmer says this year she will reduce propelling himself to a national seat leaving the noisy
see more opinion her maize acreage to 10 from 50. battle to the son of a hustler who, for more than 27
columns on the She longs for the day when quality farm inputs years, wined and dined with the Royals but never shed
Star website. are available instead of the substandard ones they the ‘hustler’ tag. Interesting!
 22 THE-STAR.CO.KE Monday, April 15, 2019

SOCIETY@THE-STAR.CO.KE

SOCIETY
FUN GALORE AT RADIO
AFRICA TEAM BUILDING
Radio Africa Group got down to
a day of friendly competition on
Saturday during a team building
session in Safari Park, Nairobi.
Led by Group CEO Patrick
Quarcoo and head of content
Paul Ilado, they engaged in acti-
vities including football and tug-
of-war.
They competed in four teams,
with Team Blue emerging the
winner followed by Team Yellow,
then Team Red and finally Team
Green.

1 2 3

4 5 6 7

8 9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16
1. Group photo 2. Enos Teche runs round a stick 3. Radio Africa Group CEO Patrick Quarcoo does a jig 4. Senior digital journalist Nancy Agutu takes a break 5. Gideon Keter, Josephine Kamau, Claire Munde and Lucy Swan
6. Monicah Mwangi and Moses Aliwa lead a dance 7. RAG COO Agnes Kalekye awards Team Blue 8. Brian Ndung’u and Rosa Mumanyi take a selfie 9. RAG digital editor Oliver Mathenge crawls between teammates’ legs
10. RAG head of content Paul Ilado acknowledges applause 11. News editor Francis Mureithi, Ivy Muthoni and Angela Mueni do the tandem challenge 12. Elizabeth Musyimi and features editor Tom Jalio enjoy the crawl and run 13.
Team Green cheer one of their members 14. Ivy Muthoni, Davies Ndolo and Peninah Wambui follow instructions in the gestures games 15. Patrick Vidija, Chris Mbaisi, Dennis Tarus and Esther Wandia hold on to a rope in the circle
game 16. Graphic designer Vincent Okeyo leads teammates in tug of war /DOUGLAS OKIDDY
Monday, April 15, 2019 THE-STAR.CO.KE 23

counties COUNTIES NAIROBI

Faithfuls walk as
they celebrate
Palm Sunday /
BEN NDONGA

YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU’LL LAND

Don’t go with the wind, reject

evil deeds Cardinal urges youth
Says they are easy targets for crime, radicalisation, drug abuse and other vices
GILBERT KOECH
@TheStarKenya
Cardinal John Njue yesterday
warned young people against be-
ing “enslaved” by people with bad
intentions.
Speaking at Saint Mary’s Msongari
Catholic Church during Palm Sun-
day Mass yesterday, Njue said young
people must vigorously avoid bad
deeds.
Afterward, he blessed several
tonnes of relief food and supplies;
priests urged everyone to pray for
rain.
“Short or tall as you are, you are
who you are, not by choice. Be proud
of what God has made you,” Njue
told more than 5,000 youth.
“Do not allow yourself to go with
the wind. Otherwise, you will never
know where you will land,” he said.
Njue said the youth, who are the ma-
jority, are often misused.
He said, “Young people are often
faced with a myriad of challenges.
However, challenges will come and
go.”
The youth are normally easy tar-
gets for all sorts of crimes, radical-
isation, drug abuse and other vices,
he said.
He urged the youth to use their
energies in productive work and re-
ject activities that add no meaning
or harm themselves.
Njue challenged the youth to
know themselves before “following
a clear path to success”.
For them to succeed, the arch-
bishop said they must differentiate
between “good and evil and keep off
that which is evil at all costs”.
Njue asked the youth to continue
praying for the country to overcome
its challenges. He said for mean-
ingful development to be achieved,
peace must prevail.
During the Mass, priests urged
Kenyans to pray for rain.
The government says 1.2 million
people are at risk of famine.
About 14.7 million people are
without food as the drought takes
its toll. he National Drought Manage-
ment Authority blames the crisis on
lack of rain, disease outbreaks, locust
invasion and insecurity.
The authority said communities in
the 12 most affected counties are in
danger of insecurity due to conflicts
over resources.
The worst-hit counties are Mande-
ra, Wajir, Turkana, Garissa, Marsabit,
Tana River, Makueni, Kwale, Isiolo,
Kilifi, West Pokot and Kajiado.
The below-average short rains
increased the food insecure popu-
lation from 655,800 in August 2018
to 1,111,500, with the top 12 counties
having 865,300 food insecure people,
the report reads.
In Turkana, the hotspots are
Kibish, Turkana North and Turka-
na East where 192, 800 people are
in dire need of basic things such as
water, food, treatment, peace and
security,” it says.
At least 88, 800 people in Mande-
ra East, Banissa, Mandera West and
Mandera North in Mandera county
face death. Another 86,100 people in
Garissa at Hulugho, Daadab, Lagdera,
and Fafi are in critical condition.
In Baringo, where more than 15
deaths have occurred, 73,700 people
living in Tiaty, Baringo South and
Baringo North are in a bad state. They
are surviving on wild fruits.
Some 60,300 people in Kilifi’s
Ganze, Magarini and Kaloleni are
in critical condition while Tana River
has 59,700 in need of food aid.
In West Pokot county, the health of
57,600 people has deteriorated due
to lack of water, food and security
in Pokot North and Pokot Central.
In Marsabit 56,600 people in
North Horr and Laisamis need food.
Makueni has 54,800 cases in Mbooni
and Kibwezi. In Kajiado, 47,100 need
relief food while Kwale has 45,800.
In Isiolo 42,000 are in dire need
of help.

BUILDING APARTMENTS before the property was allegedly sold to a developer.

MP leads protesters
The developer demolished it and took over the land but
Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko repossessed last August.
There had been plans to rebuild the county dispensary

in evicting developer and a nursery school before the land was grabbed several
years ago and sold.

from hospital land

JOSEPH NDUNDA / Demonstrators on Saturday ejected a
private developer who allegedly grabbed hospital land
in Highridge, Nairobi.
The developer has started putting up a 24-storey resi-
dential building on the half-acre parcel. A person found
at the site was assaulted by the protesters who destroyed
temporary structures and earth-movers digging up the
land in preparation for construction.
Westlands MP Tim Wanyonyi led the protesters.
Westlands MP Tim Wanyonyi /FILE The land housed a dispensary which was run down
Sonko had warned that he will not relent in protecting
public land and told grabbers to surrender the parcels
or risk being evicted.
Wanyonyi said Sonko should explain his sudden
change of heart.
“Sonko recovered this land last year and promised a
hospital. But aren’t the people issuing building approvals
sitting at City Hall?”
The MP said he will continue leading protests until
the development stops.
Residents said they have been suffering and forced
to seek treatment in Mbagathi and Kenyatta National
Hospital because there is no nearby public
 24 THE-STAR.CO.KE Monday, April 15, 2019

COUNTIES CENTRAL
SUCCESSION POLITICS CARTELS WARNED
Commissioner
Stop insulting Uhuru if you declares war on
rogue meat dealers

want Kikuyu vote, say elders KNA/ Days of rogue inspectors

Council of Elders say community owes Deputy President William Ruto no political debt
Bishop David Kiarie of Fishers of Men Church and Kikuyu Council of Elders vice chairman David Muthoga in Nyeri town on
Saturday /EUTYCAS MUCHIRI
EUTYCUS MUCHIRI
@TheStarKenya
Kikuyus will only back a presiden-
tial candidate in 2022 who will have
supported President Kenyatta to
fulfill his pledges, elders have said.
National vice chairman of the
Kikuyu Council of Elders David
Muthoga called on leaders to wait
for official campaign time.
“But you cannot be going around
the country insulting the President
then expect support from the com-
munity,”Muthoga said.
He urged politicians to respect
the President because he has good
things in store for Kenyans including
the Big Four agenda.
Muthoga spoke in Nyeri during a
meeting with Mau Mau veterans on
Saturday. The meeting was attend-
ed by representatives of Meru and
Kamba communities.
“There are politicians who are
drunk with power and are going
around insulting the head of state.
They should stop disrespecting the
President if they want our support,”
he said.
He said the elders are embarrassed
by leaders from Central who have
rebelled against the President.
Muthoga said Deputy President
William Ruto has not been rejected
by the Kikuyu but shall be among
candidates the community will
negotiate with about Uhuru’s suc-
cession.
However, he said, there is no
agreement between the Kikuyu
and Kalenjin communities that the
former would support DP Ruto to
take over from Uhuru.
The council, he said, will continue
engaging with all community elders
to ensure peaceful coexistence.
But Muthoga reiterated that who-
ever will be supported by the Kikuyu
community must show what he or
she brings to the table.
The council has met various lead-
ers including former Prime Minister
Raila Odinga, former vice presidents
Kalonzo Musyola and Musalia Mu-
davadi and Somali leaders to foster
peace.
“But I do not remember the
council signing any MoU with the
Kalenjin elders to support one pres-
idential aspirant from the Kalenjin
community in 2022,” he said.
“And if there was any, then that
could have been between two peo-
ple, President Uhuru and his deputy.
They know what they agreed upon
themselves but the two communities
are just friends.”
Duncan Kariuki, the national
chairman of Matigari Mau Mau
group, criticized people appear to
be fighting Uhuru’s government.
“Some of these people are very
educated but I am shocked what
they say is of no use to this country.
These are the kinds of people who
can cause anarchy. They should al-
ways preach peace,” he said.
and dealers in uninspected meat
are numbered, Nyandarua county
commissioner Boaz Cherutich has
said.
He raised the alarm over the
increase in cattle theft in the region
and said they would ensure no meat
is transported without a permit.
“Cartels are buying emaciated
and sick cattle for meat. They
slaughter them at night and
transport the meat to Burma market
in Nairobi for sale to unsuspecting
traders,” Cherutich said.
He said he would marshal
veterinary officers in Nairobi and
other counties to help in wiping
out the cartels. The commissioner
regretted that 24 cattle that had
recently been stolen were later
found slaughtered. “The governor
has promised to work with us to
eliminate rogue meat inspectors.”
FOR BETTER SERVICES
Murang’a’s Kiria-ini
hospital installs
ICU equipment
ALICE WAITHERA/Murang’a residents
will get better medical services
following installation of an intensive
care unit at Kiria-ini Mission Hospital.
The hospital in Mathioya, built in
1955, installed five ICU machines at
the weekend to save patients from
long journeys to Nyeri or Kenyatta
National Hospital for services.
Murang’a Catholic Bishop James
Wainaina said the church-owned
hospital wants to improve services.
“Our aim is to offer good health
services to people as a way of
spreading Christ’s love,” he said.
The hospital has received ISO
certification for offering high quality
laboratory services.
Wainaina said the certification
gives the hospital’s laboratory
services international recognition,
meaning their test results can be
accepted outside the country.

SLOW START SH100 MILLION PLAN

More than 800,000 listed in
Huduma Namba registration
EUTYCUS MUCHIRI/More than 800,000 people have
registered for Huduma Namba in Central.
Regional commissioner Wilfred Nyagwanga said the
region targets seven million people by the end of the
exercise. He said challenges that slowed the exercise in
the initial days have been solved.
“The problems in terms of technology have been
addressed and I can see that the exercise is now going
on smoothly,” he said. Nyagwanga spoke in Mahiga ward
in Othaya, Nyeri, on Saturday when he toured to mobilise
residents to register.
He said officials were still facing some difficulties
in transmitting data due to failure of machines. The
government has dispatched ICT experts to every
subcounty to address the problem.
“If the problem of data transmission is addressed, then
I am optimistic that by the end of the 45 days, we may
achieve the set target,” the administrator said. He said
great strides have been made following a good working
relationship with political leaders .
Murang’a to rehabilitate eight
stadiums for nurturing sports
ALICE WAITHERA/ Murang’ a county government is in the
process of rehabilitating eight stadiums at a cost of
Sh100 million.
The government wants to nurture sports among
youths and position the county as a sports hub in Central.
Work has already started at Ihura and Mumbi
stadiums in Murang’ a town. Erection of a perimeter wall,
construction of a dais and planting of grass are under
way. Governor Mwangi wa Iria wants all subcounties to
have a stadium of national standard.
The stadiums will be renovated in the next 6 weeks,
the governor said. He spoke after the conclusion of
Murang’ a Sevens rugby tournament featuring 16 teams
at Mumbi stadium.
The rehabilitation programme will be combined with
skills development for young people. “We want to
support youths through sports as part of wider talent
and skills development programme,” Wa Iria said. The
skills development programme kicked off three years Rugby players during the Murang’a Sevens tournament at Mumbi stadium last
ago and has benefitted over 30,000 youths. week /ALICE WAITHERA
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COUNTIES COAST

Squatters protest outside Malindi police station demanding the release of those arrested for allegedly invading ADC Kisiwani complex in Magarini last year /ALPHONCE GARI

LIVED THERE SINCE INDEPENDECE

Magarini squatters demand

pensation.
“ADC came with false promises
that they would train us in farm-
ing and cattle rearing. They said our

900-acre land given to ADC

Say agency has sold property to private developers; MPs demand residents get back land
ALPHONCE GARI
@TheStarKenya
Residents of Sabaki within the Ag-
ricultural Development Corporation
Kisiwani farm in Magarini want the
state to give back 900 acres given to
the parastatal.
They said they had been squatters
since independence and were evict-
ed to make way for agriculture and
livestock rearing. They said the ADC
had failed to utilise the farm and in-
stead sold it to private developers at
their expense.
They spoke on Saturday during the
hearing of a petition filed by Magari-
ni MP Michael Kingi that prompted
the Parliamentary Lands Committee
to tour the area to help find a per-
manent solution.
The committee of seven included
chairman Omar Mwinyi (Chan-
gamwe), Kingi, Owen Baya (Kilifi
North), Teddy Mwambire (Ganze),
Samuel Kinuthia (Subukia), Josephat
Gichunge (Tigania East) and Simon
Ng’ang’a (Ruiru).
The public hearing was also at-
tended by top officials from ADC, the
National Lands Commission and the
provincial administration.
During the hearing, it emerged
that all the 900 acres, including the
land with the ADC offices, were sold
to private developers and influential
people in government by a former
managing director.
In an earlier meeting during
a courtesy call by Malindi depu-
ty county commissioner Kamau
Karungo, the ADC managing di-
rector pleaded with the committee
to push for allocation of the land to
the corporation.
The move was rejected, however,
by the three legislators from Kilifi
who demanded that all titles allocat-
ed to individuals be revoked and the
land be given back to the residents.
Kingi said ADC was to blame for
the injustices done to the residents
of Sabaki and should not be allowed
to take over the land.
“The ADC has failed in its mandate
as they are protecting the tycoons
who bought land instead of helping
the residents,’’ he said.
Kingi said there is a lot of corrup-
tion within the ADC and called on
the authorities to ensure culprits are
brought to book.
Witnesses who testified before the
committee narrated how their land
was taken back since the pre-co-
lonial era before falling into the
hands of the ADC, who are still on
the ground despite the land being
sold illegally.
Kahindi Charo, an elderly man
who was born and brought up on
the ADC farm, said he used to live
there with his grandfather before
they were evicted without any com-
local breeds would be changed to
high-yielding breeds,’’ he said.
Charo even showed mango trees
which belonged to his family, but
they have no access to them.
Kavumbi Karisa Kazungu said
the land was first taken by a British
missionary who built a school and
a church, and later by a colonialist
before he gave it to ADC.
Stembo Kaviha produced docu-
mentation on how the land was sold
out and even revealed that there are
other 3,800 idle acres at Kisiwani
top farm.
He said ADC took over the land in
1974 but has since gone bankrupt as
there is no activity on the farm and
all of it belongs to private developers.
Baya and Mwambire said the resi-
dents deserved to get back their land
and promised to push for justice.
Mwinyi promised to ensure fair-
ness to the people.
“We will go through the statements
and come up with a report with rec-
ommendations,’’ the Changamwe
MP said.

CALL FOR TIGHTENED SECURITY SAY IT’S TIME FOR PRAYERS

Kilifi medics afraid after Cuban KNUT rejects teacher training
doctors abduction in Mandera over weekends, Easter holiday
ALPHONCE GARI/ Kilifi medical personnel want security
strengthened in health facilities following the abduction
of two Cuban doctors in Mandera on Friday.
A spot check by the Star revealed that most health
facilities are manned by unarmed security guards who
are unable to engage in combat in case of attack by al
Shabaab. Malindi Subcounty Hospital does not even have
metal detectors. During visiting hours, the gates are
opened for all without any security measures.
The medical superintendent in charge of the sub-
county hospital Evans Ogato said they require security
for all doctors. Terrorists could be targeting any doctor
regardless of whether he is Kenyan or Cuban.
In an interview at the hospital, Ogato said the Malindi
DCI boss called him assured him of stringent security
measures beginning after a week’s time, on Monday
next week.
ALPHONCE GARI/ The Kenya National Union of Teachers
has opposed a government move to train teachers on the
new curriculum during the Easter holidays and weekend.
They said it is wrong for the Ministry of Education to
subject teachers to training, while the rest of Kenyans are
celebrating Good Friday and Easter Monday.
The officials said teachers would not attend the train-
ing and asked Education CS George Magoha to intervene.
They spoke after a four-day training of Knut executive
members and chief executive members from all the 110
branches in Kenya, John Wesonga, the KNUT National
Executive Council member and Executive Secretary of
the Mumias branch, spoke on behalf of the officials.
He said teachers’ insurance cover requires they work
between 8.30am to 4pm. Addressing journalists at Turtle
Bay Resort in Watamu, he said the teachers are sup-
posed to be worshipping during the weekend. KNUT National Executive Council member John Wesonga /FILE
 26 THE-STAR.CO.KE Monday, April 15, 2019

COUNTIES EASTERN
‘BLOATED WORKFORCE’ FAMILY IN DISTRESS

CS Munya condemns
Trade CS Peter
Munya and ACK pastor on ‘fast and prayer’
Transnational
CEO Luncheum retreat goes missing in Embu
Mugambi during

Kiraitu’s Meru budget

the opening of REUBEN GITHINJI/ An Anglican Church of Kenya preacher who
Transnational left home for an 11-day retreat “to fast and pray” cannot be
Sacco Mikinduri traced. The 32-year-old Stanley Kivuti, who is the in-charge
branch on of Gikuuri ACK parish in Embu East, left his Kianjokoma
Saturday home on April 4 for Shunem Retreat Centre at Piai in neigh-
/DENNIS DIBONDO bouring Kirinyaga.
Questions employment of 4,800 workers since he took office He has since then remained incommunicado. He had
asked his wife Catherine to pack some clothes to use for
three days. Catherine said her husband left home for the
retreat centre, which is 30km away at 10am. The mother
of a two-year-old child called in the evening to inquire if he
arrived safely.
“His mobile phone was off and I thought that he was deep
in prayer,” said Catherine. The phone remained off and she
decided to go to the retreat centre to find out what was
happening. She was dumb-founded after learning that he
never reported to the retreat centre.
Catherine and the other family members have unsuc-
cessfully searched for him in all places they thought he
could have gone.

NGILU’S MOST TRUSTED ALLY

DENNIS DIBONDO
@TheStarKenya
Trade CS Peter Munya has hit out at
Meru Governor Kiraitu Murungi over
the 2017-2018 audit.
Munya, who spoke at Mikinduri
on Saturday after opening a Trans-
national Sacco branch, said it is not
viable to employ 4,800 new workers.
The former Meru governor said, “It
is not also possible that Sh1.7 billion
has been increased to pay salaries.”
He questioned the huge amount
of money spent on salaries of “un-
known people”, adding that he had
fired 1,700 employees in his tenure.
He asked Kiraitu to come clean
on Auditor General Edward Ouko’s
queries when he appears before the
Senate Public Accounts Committee.
Munya was trounced by Kiraitu
in 2017.
“I left the county employees at
5,000 workers but Kiraitu has em-
ployed 4,800 workers within one
year in office; where will the money
for development come from if he has
such a bloated workforce?” he asked.
The CS said there was no enmity
between him and Kiraitu but “ques-
tions must be asked especially con-
cerning developments”.
Munya said, “[Senator] Mithika
Linturi has also raised questions
about the state of affairs in our
county. When he was campaigning,
Kiraitu said he will do more devel-
opment than myself so he should be
up to the task.”
Also at the function was East Af-
rican Legislative Assembly member
Mpuru Aburi.
Aburi said he has teamed up with
Munya since Kiraitu is “not working
for the people”.
The MP said, “I campaigned for
Kiraitu and went against Munya al-
though we both come from Tigania
because I thought he (Kiraitu) would
help our people. He has turned
out to be worse. Munya and I will
trounce Kiraitu in 2022.”
He said he had in 2017 seen a bee-
hive and convinced Kiraitu to climb
and harvest honey for the people.
“He said he was too old to climb the
tree and I told him we will help him.
We volunteered to help but when he
got there, he started eating the honey
that was meant for our people. We
will bring him down,” the MP said.
The legislator added, “People
should bring firewood and Munya
brings pepper. We will make smoke
and throw pepper in the fire and he
(Kiraitu) will choke and fall.”
A fierce critic of Munya in the past,
Aburi three times failed to unseat the
former in Tigania East.
He was defeated by Josphat
Gichunge in 2013 after Munya chose
to go for the governor’s seat.
Kitui executive Nguli survives
sacking for lack of evidence
MUSEMBI NZENGU/ Governor Charity Ngilu’s trusted treasury
executive Mary Nguli was spared the sack due to lack of
evidence on integrity and governance accusations against
her.
MCAs who were vocal against her did not attend the qua-
si-judicial session that was investigating the accusations.
The few who showed up failed to sufficiently prosecute their
case. Kitui county Assembly Special Committee headed
by Johnson Kanandu (Mumoni ward) sought to determine
the authenticity of allegations that formed the basis of the
impeachment motion on December 14, 2018. It found her
faultless.
Kanandu yesterday said since Nguli’s accusers had
developed cold feet, there were no incriminating grounds
or evidence to nail her. “Out of the 37 MCAs who signed
the motion to impeach Nguli, only four appeared before
my committee and even then, they did not provide any
documentary evidence to back their allegations,” Kanandu
said in an interview.
He spoke in the wake of a barrage of social media posts
in a number of Kitui county platforms that accused his
five-member committee of being compromised to let
Nguli off the hook. He said his team’s decision was reached
professionally on the evidence presented.
The MCA said when Nguli appeared before the commit-
tee, she provided documentary evidence to clear her name.
He said it was clear that most of the accusations should
have been directed to other accounting officers.
‘HE’S EATING “Seventy per cent of the committee members found the
allegations unsubstantiated. I had to rule on the basis of the
THE HONEY majority decision,” Kanandu said.
THAT WAS Last year, the Kitui assembly overwhelmingly voted to
impeach Nguli, one of Ngilu’s most trusted Cabinet mem-
MEANT FOR bers. She was accused of violating Chapter 6 on integrity,
OUR PEOPLE’ misleading the assembly, violating procurement laws and
disregarding Assembly resolutions.

BURNT TO DEATH

Thieves lynched after Njuri Ncheke curse

DENNIS DIBNDO/ Two armed robbers were last week
lynched by residents of Nchiru, three weeks after Njuri
Ncheke elders cursed them.
The two, who had allegedly been harassing residents
in Nchiru, Tigania West constituency, were burned to
death after elders performed a curse known as Uthi on
them. Uthi is the worst curse that the elders can invoke,
worse than Kithiri. One can be cleansed of Kithiri after
paying a fine of three white bulls.
Uringo division Njuri Ncheke chairman Julius Mbogori
said the robbers were armed with guns and daggers. They
had killed three people and stolen several motorcycles.
“Three armed men recently attacked a resident known
as Kinyua. Luckily he escaped. In California, they stole
from residents and stabbed some with daggers,” Mbo-
gori said.
The robbers poisoned eight pigs belonging to Catholic
priest Francis Liwa and stole a solar water pump.
Last month, 67 elders gathered at their shrine, applied
red ochre on their cheeks, slaughtered a lamb and threw
it into a fire made from Sodom apple plant twigs. Ripe
Sodom apple fruits were thrown into the fire as the elders
chanted curses. The ceremony lasted from 10am to 4pm.
Mbogori had at the time said the lamb would be ac-
cepted by God and in 21 days the culprits would either
commit suicide or die in an accident.
“Uthi is irreversible. They will perish as the lamb
burned to ashes,” he said. A Njuri Ncheke elder burns a lamb to curse thieves /DENNIS DIBONDO
Monday, April 15, 2019
COUNTIES NORTHEASTERN
ABDUCTED IN MANDERA
Use all means to rescue
Cuban doctors – clerics
Supkem leaders appeal to Somali community in Somalia to help
STEPHEN ASTARIKO
@TheStarKenya
Muslim clerics in Garissa have asked
the government to use all possible
means rescue two Cuban doctors
who were abducted on Friday by
suspected al-Shabaab militants in
Mandera.
Herrera Correa and Landhi Rodri-
guez were kidnapped by gunmen
as they headed to work from their
residence. One of their bodyguards
was shot and killed on the spot be-
fore the doctors were bundled into
two waiting cars that later sped off
towards Somalia.
The government has intensified its
search mission with a multi-agency
security team coordinating the res-
cue efforts.
Speaking at the Rtd General Mo-
STATE, NGOS ASKED TO SUPPORT
Roba appeals for help to feed
Mandera’s starving residents
STEPHEN ASTARIKO/ Mandera Gover-
nor Ali Roba has appealed to the
government and donors, including
NGOs and partners, to provide food
support to starving residents.
Roba on Saturday said the county
could not provide sufficient aid to all
residents facing starvation.
“We will not tire to appeal for help.
The prolonged drought is really af-
fecting our people and the situation
on the ground is getting worse by
the day. We wouldn’t wish to start
losing lives and animals,” Roba said.
He spoke during the launch of the
third distribution of relief food to
residents in Mandera town.
The governor said delayed rains
have adversely affected the liveli-
hoods of residents and livestock.
Mandera has been assessing the
impact of the drought on residents
over the last few weeks to identify
households in dire need of help.
“Accordingly, my government has
hamud Eid Grounds during a prayer
for rains yesterday, the clerics urged
“those involved in the cowardly crim-
inal act to unconditionally release
the doctors.”
Garissa Supkem chairman Ab-
dullahi Salat said the kidnap was
un-Islamic and unacceptable. He the
Somali community living in Somalia
to closely work with their govern-
ment and Kenya security personnel
to ensure the doctors are rescued.
“We want to strongly condemn this
incident that has only served to tint
the image of our region once again
when we all know that Mandera was
slowly but steadily recovering from
insecurity. It was four steps forward
and now six steps backward,” Salat
said.
The government has since recalled
other Cuban doctors stationed in
Wajir and Garissa counties as pre-
caution.
invested more than Sh600 million
in the pro-poor programmes. We
will continue to expand these pro-
grammes over the next three years
to make a significant impact on the
lives of the vulnerable,” Roba said.
He said the assessment had iden-
tified about 40,000 households that
need food assistance.
The county is currently provid-
ing monthly food ration to IDPs, or-
phanages and some of the most vul-
nerable at an annual cost of Sh200
million. Another Sh60 million has
been set aside to provide shelter and
non-food items to the vulnerable.
“In the programme, we have iden-
tified 65 extremely poor families
who will each get one housing unit
with a toilet and several non-food
items,” Roba said.
Another 116 families have been
identified to benefit and each is due
to receive 10 goats to support their
livelihoods, he said.
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He said the doctors were passion-
ately serving after a majority of Ken-
yan medics working in Northeastern
fled citing insecurity.
Salat said that the incident had
not only dented the religion of Islam,
the Somali community but also the
image of the people of Northeastern.
Sheikh Hussein Mahat said the
incident should act as a wake-up
call to security officers to always
remain alert.
“These criminals are always in our Garissa Supkem chairman Abdullahi Salat (R) in the town yesterday
midst and only wait for an oppor- /STEPHEN ASTARIKO
tune moment to strike and carry out
attacks. Security is our responsibil- Governor Ali Roba and Mandera East officers in the town. Mandera also
ity and its start with me and you,” MP Omar Sheikh on Saturday held has about 100 KDF soldiers.
Mahat said. a security meeting with residents “Honestly, how is it that we have
Mandera has not experienced ter- in Mandera town. They urged them more than 1,000 security officers
ror attacks for the last three years, to volunteer information to assist in in a small town like this yet such
but trade which was slowly picking rescuing the doctors. an incident can take place in broad
up could be at the risk of disruption Roba wondered how the militants daylight. These are the questions
in the wake of the attack. managed to abduct the doctors de- we need to ask ourselves. I find it
Police and Mandera leaders, led by spite the heavy presence of security strange,” said Roba.
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COUNTIES WESTERN
SH 1.38 BILLION
Bungoma carriageway faces
bump as activists go to court
Say it’s Kenha road, no environmental impact assessment or public input
JOHN NALIANYA
@TheStarKenya
The planned Sh1.38 billion Bungoma
dual carriage is facing a hurdle after
rights groups moved to court block-
ing it, saying the national government
should build it.
They also cite the lack of public
participation and environmental
impact statements regarding the
Bungoma-Mumias highway.
They want all work stopped.
The Kisumu High Court set April
30 for a hearing between Bungoma
government and human rights activ-
ists on the planned construction and
expansion of a Bungoma road into a
dual carriageway.
Already a Chinese construction
company is on site in Musikoma.
On April 11 human rights activists
John Khaoya Wekesa and Raphael
Makokha obtained orders to serve the
NINE IN ONE SCHOOL
TSC probes girls’
pregnancies in Teso
Says tests confirmed teens are expectant
HILTON OTENYO / The Teachers Service
Commission is investigating a case
where nine girls in one school in
Busia are pregnant.
The nine pregnant girls are in
forms two, three and four at a school
in Teso North subcounty.
A teacher at the school, who de-
clined to be named for fear of re-
county for an inter-parties hearing
that could stop planned works on the
Musikoma-Kanduyi road.
However, as the activists were seek-
ing orders, Bungoma Governor Wy-
cliffe Wangamati, Roads CEC Collins
Mukhongo and some MCAs held a
public participation forum at Royal
Hotel in Musikoma ward.
Mukhongo said they had followed
all procedures and would proceed
with the road expansion.
“This is one of our flagship projects
and we will save our people from
deaths and injuries on the narrow
road. We have finalised everything,”
he said.
Activists are claiming a gross viola-
tion of the Constitution, no adherence
to the rule of law and due process
with regard to the construction of
class C-33 KenHA road from Sang’alo
junction to Kanduyi Junction.
The lobbyists urgently seek an in-
terpretation of the functions of the
national government vis a vis those
prisals, told the Star the nine were
confirmed pregnant after tests.
School principal declined to com-
ment on the alleged involvement of
his male staff and referred us to the
county director of TSC Thaddeus
Awuor.
But in a post on a WhatsApp group
for the school’s teachers on Friday,
THE-STAR.CO.KE
of the county government.
In the petition dated April 9, the
duo have sued Bungoma Governor
Wycliffe
Wangamati, Roads CEC Collins
Mukhongo, Chief Officer Maurice Ma-
rango, the director general of KenHA,
the Attorney General and the Control-
ler of the budget have been listed as
respondents.
The activists said the respondents
violated the Constitution, the Roads
Act of 2007, the Environmental Man-
agement and Coordination Act 1999.
They also violated Nema regulations
on impact statements, the County
overnment Act 2012, the Public Fi-
nance Act 2012, the Public Procure-
ment and Disposal Act 2015 and other
legislation.
They want the court to interpret,
among other issues, whether the
county and its officials violated the
Constitution by awarding Sh60 to 70
million in 2018-19 on the Kenha road
from Musikoma to Kanduyi.
the head teacher said, “Good evening
members. Today has been a long day
for me. I have been in communica-
tion with the TSC headquarters all
day about the recent event in our
school.”
“Please pray for your principal. I
believe with your support, things
[will] be okay.”
Last week, he told a local radio
station that the girls were impreg-
nated by students and men living
near the school.
The county TSC boss was unavail-
able for comment as calls made to
him went unanswered.
However, in an earlier interview
with the media last week on the
same issue, Awuor only called on
parents to instill good morals in their
children.
Monday, April 15, 2019
TAX COLLECTORS
Treat small-scale traders fairly,
Governor Ottichilo advised
HILTON OTENYO /The newly-elected Vihiga chamber of
commerce chairman Billy Nyonje has asked the county
government to use proper ways of collecting revenue from
small businesses.
Nyonje asked the county not to oppress the small
businesses, saying they are a major source of income.
He said revenue officers use excessive force to collect tax.
He spoke in Luanda market on Friday.
“Let’s have a proper procedure to collect this revenue
from our people rather than harassing them,” Nyonje said.
He said the county should replace enforcement officers
with staff who will advise on how to pay taxes. “I have
experienced the worst with these officers in our markets.
When you haven’t paid tax they harass you. Some traders
are beaten and their goods confiscated,” Nyonje said.
AILING MILLER
Mumias Sugar farmers ask for
better deals to boost output
HILTON OTENYO/Farmers want troubled Mumias Sugar
Company to adopt a new method of contracting them to
boost cane production.
Kenya National Federation of Sugarcane Farmers deputy
Secretary Simon Wesechere on Tuesday said the company
should adopt a model where millers enter into a land lease
agreement with farmers to expand acreage under the crop.
The current contracts do not take into account the land
lease aspects and only addresses the terms and conditions
of cane production. The contracts were designed in 1970s.
Former Mumias Sugar management under Errol
Johnston planned to implement the new model in 2016 but
he resigned. Now, the miller would enter into a six-year
Bungoma lease deal with farmers to allow them (miller) take full
Governor management of sugarcane development and production.
Wycliffe
Wangamati and
Chinese GIRLS SHINE
contractors
working on the Top Busia students make it to
Musikoma road
/JOHN NALIANYA EA athletics championships
JANE CHEROTICH /Two students will represent Busia county
at this year’s East African secondary schools athletics
championships in Arusha, Tanzania, in August.
Delisha Atyang from Achiya Echakara Secondary School
booked a ticket after finishing second in the 200m race in
26.1 seconds behind Beatrice Odero from Kowuor Secondary
School in 25.8 seconds.
Atyang will be joined by Desta Wafula from Canon Awuor
Secondary Nambale who finished second in long jump.
Antoneela Juma from Kwathanze.
Despite failing to secure a place for the EA games, Cynthia
Isapu from St Monica Chakol Girls High School finished
fourth in Javelin with a throw of 40.0m while Maryline
Nabwire from Kingandole took eighth position in shot put
Busia failed to produce any male student for the East
African championships.
School girls/ FILE
Monday, April 15, 2019 THE-STAR.CO.KE 29

COUNTIES NYANZA
RUTO, RAILA TO ATTEND

Uhuru in Kisumu to open

legislative summit today
Regional police commander says tight security put in place
MAURICE ALAL
@alalmaurice
President Uhuru Kenyatta will today
preside over the fourth annual leg-
islative summit in Kisumu.
State House spokesperson Kanze
Dena could not confirm the Pres-
ident’s tour. But Nyanza Regional
Police Commander Vincent Mak-
hoha said preparations for the event
are complete.
“There is enough security in place,”
Makokha told the Star on the phone.
Deputy President William Ruto
and the AU Special Envoy for In-
frastructure Raila Odinga will also
attend the summit. Raila will give
his speech on April 16, while the DP
will close the forum on April 17.
The President is expected to give
a keynote address, award national
honours to county assembly speak-
ers and launch the global champion
for youth agenda.
More than 4,000 delegates are
expected to attend the summit that
brings together senators, MCAs from
the 47 county assemblies and part-
ners at the Grand Royal Swiss Hotel
from April 15 to 18.
This will be the third time the
President will touring Nyanza re-
gion in six months after the March
9, 2018, handshake. Last year, Uhuru
toured Kisumu and Siaya counties
where he launched development
projects.
On January 19, the Head of State,
accompanied by Raila, attended the
burial of the former Youth Enterprise
Development Fund chairman Brice
Odhiambo in Koru, Muhoroni.
The President also toured Kisii
alongside Ruto and Raila on Febru-
ary 20 when he launched projects.
Senate Speaker Kenneth Lusaka,
vice chairperson of County Assem-
blies Forum Esther Ndile, Senate
Leader of Minority James Orengo
and Senate Leader of majority will
be among the guests.
Cabinet secretaries Eugene
Wamalwa (Devolution), Henry Ro-
tich (Treasury) and Attorney General
Kihara Kariuki will be present.
Kariuki will highlight areas that
require urgent legislation, implica-
tions for county assemblies and way
forward. Muhoroni MP Onyango Koyoo with President Uhuru Kenyatta in Koru, Kisumu
Other guests include Auditor county on January 19 /MAURICE ALAL
General Edward Ouko, Control-
ler of Budget Agnes Odhiambo and Senator Fred Outa will give opening existing policies and legislation to
consultant Martin Oduor who will remarks. achieve the Big Four sgenda while
handle the case for Regional Eco- Council of Governors chairman Rotich will give a statement on the
nomic Blocs and their impact on the Governor Wycliffe Oparanya will talk Treasury and planning on the Na-
Kenyan economy. about the challenges facing region- tional Policy and Legislation.
Kisumu Governor Anyang’ al economic blocs and enhancing Ouko is expected to speak on how
Nyong’o, Kisumu speaker Onyango social and economic development. to improve the audit function for ef-
Oloo, George Okode and Kisumu Wamalwa will talk on aligning fective oversight.

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kidnap, Nyamira leaders told
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COUNTIES RIFT VALLEY

WANTS LAW FOLLOWED
Chief officer Barus hits out at
MCAs over impeachment plan
JOSEPH KANGOGO/ Baringo Finance chief officer Jane
Barus has criticised MCAs over an attempt to impeach
her. Lembus-Kwen MCA Lawi Kipchumba and his
colleagues on Thursday passed a motion that gave
Governor Stanley Kiptis a one-week ultimatum to
either sack or replace Barus for gross misconduct.
However, Barus said,“According to the County
Government Act a chief officer cannot be impeached.
How can they come directly to me leaving out my boss
and the executive committee? They should follow the
hierarchy.”

2022 ELECTION
Chama Cha Mashinani pledges
to support Ruto for president
FELIX KIPKEMOI/ Chama Cha Mashinani will support
Deputy President William Ruto for the presidency in
2022, party leader Isaac Rutto said on Saturda.
Colleagues watch as the body of murdered university student Ivy Wangeci is moved from MTRH mortuary in Eldoret last week /MATHEWS NDANYI at Boroiwyek in Chepalungu.
“Our party is ready to work with the DP and support
him in his 2022 quest to succeed Uhuru,” Rutto said at
KNIFE EVIDENCE Boroiwyek in Chepalungu.

Wangechi murder suspect

The former Bomet governor also said CCM would
popularise itself countrywide and enter into coalitions
with political parties and individuals with common
interests before the general election.

to appear in court today

Naftali Kinuthia recorded a statement with police after dischargefrom hospital
Moi Referral Hospital on Friday Lukoye Atwoli said, “We are still
and whisked away to a police sta- shocked by the killing of Wangechi
MATHEWS NDANYI tion where he spent the weekend. who was about to graduate.”
@TheStarKenya Kinuthia is likely to be charged at Kinuthia admitted to the police
the High Court in Eldoret. that he travelled to Eldoret to attack
Naftali Kinuthia, the man accused The suspect drove from Thika to Wangechi out of bitterness. She was
of hacking medical student Ivy Eldoret where he bought the axe his former schoolmate. The vehicle
Wangechi to death will appear in and knife. Witnesses said he waylaid he used to travel to Eldoret has been HISTORICAL INJUSTICES
court today to face murder charges.
An axe and a knife used to attack
Ivy near the Moi Referral Hospital
Wangechi as she was returning to her
hostel and hacked her several times,
killing her at the scene. Nearby boda
seized and it is parked at Naiberi po-
lice station.
Police found tablets in the sus-
NLC wants Kericho
on April 9 will be presented in court
as evidence.
boda riders tried to intervene but he
threatened them with the axe.
pect’s car, which they took for test-
ing. tea farms repossed
The suspect has recorded a state- The riders attacked Kinuthia using It was not clear if Kinuthia’s rela-
ment at Naiberi police station in stones and other weapons. Police tives had visited him since the inci- FELIX KIPKEMOI/ White farmers are panicking after the
Eldoret over the gruesome killing rescued him. Wangechi’s body was dent. On Friday, Wangechi’s family National Land Commission ordered a survey of tea farms
that shocked the country. Four other moved from Eldoret to Kiambu on members blocked the media from in Bomet and Kericho.
witnesses have also recorded state- Friday ahead of her burial. covering the removal of her body Multinationals have denied claims that they own up to
ments. In the initial investigations, Kinut- from Moi Teaching and Referral 200,000 hectares of tea farms in the two counties. They
“We have him in custody and we hia told the police he attacked Hospital. have said their land is only 89,000 hectares.
will take him to court over the kill- Wangechi because she had refused They were angered by social me- ‘WE’RE STILL On March 1, the NLC ordered that the vast tea estates
ing,” Eldoret East Divisional Police
Commander Lucy Kananu said.
to return his love. Others said he had
stalked her for a year.
dia posts that have been speculating
about the cause of her killing and
SHOCKED BY be reverted and held in trust for the community by the
two counties as public resources.
Kinuthia was discharged from Dean of the Medical School Dr her behaviour. THE KILLING’ On renewal of the leases for the land, the commis-
sion ordered that such a decision be withheld until an
agreement is reached with the two counties. The NLC
UNIQUE CHALLENGES wants the 999-year-old leases be converted to the con-
stitutional requirement of 99 years.
Conserve border wetlands, urges expert “The county government and multinationals should
sign a memorandum of understanding for the multi-
JANE CHEROTICH/ Conservationists at the border are seeking support from nationals to provide public utilities for the community,”
governments to make their work easier. the commission said.
Nature Uganda executive director Achilles Byaruhanga said conserva- But the multinationals through their umbrella union
tion of cross- border wetlands faces unique challenges. the Kenya Tea Growers Association, claim the decision
“Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri by NLC offends the principles of natural justice as the
Museveni need to give us blessings to participate in planning together and commission did neither afford them a fair opportunity
exploiting these resources jointly by developing activities together,” the to be heard nor notify them of the claims by the counties.
Ugandan environmental expert said. The firms point out that if the matter is not urgently
He spoke on Friday during a workshop at Busia Agricultural Training heard, NLC recommendations will be carried out and
Centre that drew participants from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. they will lose their properties thereby incurring irrep-
The meeting was aimed at coming up with wetlands management and arable harm, loss, and damage.
investment plans to be incorporated in the county integrated development They claim they contribute significantly to the Kenyan
plans.Byaruhanga said when Uganda and Kenya are allowed to plan alone; economy through international tea exports which is a
they end up scrambling for resources and over exploiting them. They need Nature Uganda executive director Achilles Byaruhanga at major foreign exchange earner to the government.
to work together, he said. Busia ATC on Friday /JANE CHEROTICH
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SPORTS SPORTS LOCAL
SQUASH
Women category axed as players brace up for show
BY CONSOLATA MAKOKHA /
Organisers of the second edition
of Nairobi Club Squash invitational
tournament set for April 26-28 have
dropped the women’s category due to
poor standards.
However, six women have been
entered in the tournament to play in
the men’s main draw.
Squash vice captain of Nairobi Club,
Otto Kwach, said letting the women
play in the main draw would help them
learn one or two things from their male
counterparts as they seek to raise their
competition level.
“We think it is high time our female
players improved their game. Playing
amongst themselves has not helped
Edna Kiplagat crosses the finish in a past race / FILE
ATHLETICS
Edna seek to stop
Linden in Boston
Rotich and Cherop return as they seek to recapture title
BY STAR REPORTER AND IAAF/
Kenya’s two-time world champion
Edna Kiplagat’s experience in win-
ning championship-style races will
be her major strength as she takes on
defending champion Desiree Linden
in today’s Boston Marathon.
Though Kiplagat boasts the sec-
ond-fastest PB in the field (a 2:19:50
from London in 2012 ), she also has
two World Championship victories (
2011 and 2013 ) under her belt.
Linden has asserted that she’s
stronger and better-prepared this
year than she was in 2018 when vic-
tory came from being the only ath-
lete among the leaders not crushed
under the conditions.
Linden’s win came after a lengthy
series of top-10 finishes in Boston,
most notably a second place in 2011
race where she contended for the
win up to the last few metres of the
race. Among the top women, few
have Linden’s accumulated expe-
rience with the Boston course. She
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much, and having them play some of
the best squash players in the East
Africa region is a step in raising the
standards,” said Kwach.
“Player will use this tournament to
gauge their level of play and pick areas
they need to improve ahead of the
World Squash Federation’s Ambassa-
dor’s Tour of Kenya in May,” he added.
The tournament has attracted over
62 players from Kenya and Uganda and
24 will play in the main draw.
Ten juniors will feature in the under
18, 15 seniors in 36-45-year-old
category, seven veterans (46-55-year
olds) and five vintage (56 years and
above) players.
Those who will be knocked out
is the only one whose PB came in
Boston ( 2:22:38, from 2011 ).
While Kiplagat and Linden play
the wily veterans, it’s less simple to
compare the others. Boston’s 2015
and 2012 winners Caroline Rotich
and Sharon Cherop, respectively, are
returning to Hopkinton for another
try, but without the kind of recent
performances, they had before their
victories. Aselefech Mergia, Mare
Dibaba and Worknesh Degefa all
have sub-2:20 PBs from Dubai.
Degefa’s PB of 2:17:41—the fastest
non-winning women’s marathon
ever—came just this past January,
so the question she raises is not so
much how fast she might be, but
whether she can bottle that particu-
lar lightning again so soon.
Most of these athletes exist at the
opposite end of the athletic spec-
trum from sumo wrestlers, but today
the best of them will follow some of
the same basic patterns: keep your
balance and don’t get too far ahead
Monday, April 15, 2019
in the main draw will drop down to
play in the plate.
Muqtadir Nimji will be defending
the title but he is bound to face fierce
opposition from his sister Khaliqa Nimji,
last year’s losing finalist Uganda’s top
seed Ian Rukunya and James Dalidi.
Kenya international Violet Luchendo
and Nairobi Club’s Yvonne Wangui lead
to female contingent.
The total prize money is Sh65,000
only meant for the main draw, whereas
the finalists in the other four categories
will take home medals and trophies.
The main draw winner will pocket
Sh32,500, first runners up takes home
Sh19,500 as the losing semifinalists
get a consolation Sh6,500 each. Muqtadir Nimji during a past competition/ FILE
ATHLETICS
Athletes meet in Kapsabet
to catch up with Boston race
BY EMMANUEL SABUNI/ After yesterday’s Paris Marathon,
the world’s athletic focus will be in the USA for the 123rd
Boston Marathon set to take place today with Kenyan elite
athletes set to reclaim their glory.
Locally, Bank of Africa will host its first 2019 ‘Viewerthon’
series with the live airing of the marathon at Stevenice
Hydepark Hotel in Kapsabet town.
The “BOA Viewerthons” provides a forum for the Bank’s
customers, elite and upcoming athletes and local athletic fans
to interact as they support the marathoners.
The “BOA Viewerthons” —that celebrate the five races of
the World Marathon Majors— will also feature the London
Marathon on April 28 along with the Berlin, Chicago and New
York marathons at various locations in the North Rift towns
of Kapsabet, Eldoret and Iten.
BOA will also offer free lunch for the first 200 athletes who
register for today’s viewerthon in Kapsabet where the Kenya
Revenue Authority will also offer education on customs, tax-
ation and tax returns, among other subjects, to the athletes.
“This is the sixth year we are sponsoring the Viewerthon
series as part of our commitment to support a Kenyan
heritage that is world class athletics. To this end we will
identify upcoming athletes who we can sponsor to various
marathons across the country and the world,” said Bank of
Africa’s head of marketing, Jimmi Wanjohi.
Multichoice Kenya is also supporting the World Marathon
Majors viewerthons with all races being broadcast on Multi-
choice platform, SuperSport.
Serious attention in Boston will be on Geoffrey Kirui and
Edna Kiplagat as they seek to reclaim the titles they won in
2017, having been affected by bad weather last year.
Kirui won the 2017 title in two hours, nine minutes and
37 seconds with other strong contenders in the men’s race
including Lawrence Cherono, Kenneth Kipkemoi, Felix Kandie,
Festus Talam, Wesley Korir and Benson Kipruto.
of your feet. But if you can draw your Kiplagat will lead Kenya’s female elite line up as she
opponents into overbalancing, it attempts to put the 2018 debacle behind her and prove her
won’t matter how fast their PB was. 2017 victory having finished in 2:21:53.
In the men’s cadre, Yuki Ka-
wauchi, winner of the 2018 Boston
Marathon, himself as a sumo wres-
tler might not have the same levers
at his disposal this year, but he is
unlikely to be underestimated again.
Geoffrey Kirui, the 2017 Boston
champion, and Lelisa Desisa, last
fall’s New York champ and 2013
and 2015 Boston winner, have both
demonstrated the tactics to win a
marathon run.
Wesley Korir has not shown his
2012 form more recently, but like
Kawauchi he won on a day when
hot conditions took many runners
out of their comfort zone, much like
Lemi Berhanu did in 2016.
Lawrence Cherono, who ran
2:04:06 in Amsterdam last year,
and Sisay Lemma, whose 2:04:08
came from Dubai will be the other Bank of Africa’s head of marketing Jimmi Wanjohi (R) pres-
athletes to watch. ents gifts to elite marathon runners during a viewing party.
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SPORTS LOCAL
(+) TOP 10 PRO RESULTS
1. CJ Wangai (-5) 139 T2.
2. Alfred Nandwa (-2) 142 T2.
3. Riz Charania (-2) 142 T2.
4. Simon Ngige (-2) 14 T2.
5. Dismas Indiza (-2) 142 6.
6. Greg Snow (-1) 143 T7.
7. David Odhiambo (level par) 144 T7.
8. Erick Ooko (level par) 144 T7.
9. Kenneth Bolo (level par) 144 10.
10. Hesbon Kutwa (+2) 145
GOLF
GOLF
Wanjau leads team of
6 qualifiers to Pro-Am
BY SAMSON ATEKA / Home player Gathuri Wanjau
became the third overall winner of this year’s KCB ‘Road
to the Masters’ following brilliant displays at the Par 72
Thika Sports Club course.
Playing off handicap 17, Wanjau fired 41 Stableford
points made up of 20 in the first nine and 21 on the
second nine. He had his campaign effectively sewn up
when he beat men’s winner Moses Mburu (also playing
off 17) on count-back to lead six Thika qualifiers to the
Pro-Am of the 3rd KCB Karen Masters which will be cel-
ebrating it’s the second year in the prestigious Sunshine
Tour this year. Mburu shot 23 in the front nine and an
inferior 18 in the back nine to lose the overall prize to his
club-mate Wanjau.
Other qualifiers from the club joining the overall and
men’s winners are lady winner Ann Kariuki (handicap 29),
guest winner Irene Kimeu (Railway Club), staff winner
Martin Kiambi (Ruiru Sports Club) and indeed a wild-
card slot awarded to the club’s top junior. The last two
wildcard winners Jolly Esmail (Sigona) and Abubakar
Bajaber (Nyali) were picked from a lucky dip of score-
cards. The men’s runner up prize went to handicap 19, J.
Muracia on 38 points.
Lady winner Kariuki shot 20 in the front nine and 17 in
the back nine to prevail on a total of 37points. The ladies
runner up was Winnie Mugo on 35. Guest winner Kimeu
playing off handicap 29 shot a Stableford total of 39. The
guest runner up was handicap 22 John Githunguri with
similar scores of 19 on both nines.
Martin Kiambi playing off handicap 18, clinched the
staff top prize on 39 while staff runner up was Allan

Wangai not done yet

Kirui with 38. First and second nine winners were Munge
Karoki and SP Gachanja both with 21 points. Best effort
prize better is known as “Piga Mingi’ went to handicap 24
Harris Maina who managed 17 points.

Sigona resident pro seeks to end KCB Road to Masters with a clean sweep
BY SAMSON ATEKA/A Sigona res- series, Wangai has landed an in-
ident professional Charles John vitation to play in the Sunshine
Wangai better known as CJ Wangai Tour event in Sun City down south
believes his back-to-back success during the first week of June. CJ Wangai in
in the ongoing KCB Road to the “Now I have a very busy schedule action
Masters Series is a sign of better ahead. Sun City will be held a few / COURTESY
things to come. weeks before the Karen extrava-
After clinching Nyali’s second leg, ganza, so this together with the
which was the first event for the remaining two rounds locally, will
pros, Wangai went on to amass a offer me an opportunity to play
5 under par 139 gross to complete competitively prior to the big event
back-to-back wins in the series in Karen,” said Wangai, who is also
being used as a yardstick to select the Professional Golfers of Kenya
the Kenya team for Sunshine Tour’s (PGK) captain.
KCB Karen Masters 2019. The Sigona man got off to a flying
In an interview at the Par 72 Thi- start with a round of 5 under par 67
ka Sports Club, where pros played and level par 72 on the last day to
in a two-day 36-hole stroke-play rule the roost in Thika.
tournament, Wangai also noted that He beat four pros Alfred Nandwa,
he has hit form “which unfortu- Rizwan Charania, Dismas Indiza
nately never clicked in time at the and Simon Ngige by three strokes
European Tour Kenya Open 2019.” while Greg Snow settled for an un-
Following his good run in the familiar and disappointing sixth
with scores of 70 and 73 for a total
of 1 under 143 gross. And having
taken some impressive scalps, Wan-
gai reiterated his best is yet to come.
“Playing in the Safari Tour and then
almost immediately going into the
KCB event had quite some positive
effects to my game.
Hard work and practice has been
the key to my success; then of course
investing in new equipment with
better irons and drivers has also
helped immensely. I am traditionally
very formidable off my tee box shots
but again I really need to work more
on perfecting my short game.”
Asked about his game on the
second day where he plays level
par, Wangai said: “My front nine
was all good, I shot one under but
my back nine wasn’t that good be-
cause I picked a double bogey on
hole number 17.”
RUGBY
KCB are next for Impala after
running over rivals Mwamba
BY WILLIAM NJUGUNA / Impala face KCB next in the
semi-finals of the Enterprise Cup after crushing Mwam-
ba 71-19 in quarterfinals. The bankers booked a place in
semis after beating Nakuru 36-16.
The second semi will see Quins take on Kabras. Quins
demolished Blak Blad 55-0 at the RFUEA ground while
Kabras beat Nondies 21-11.
In their match against Mwamba, the Sarries out-
scored the visitors by 11 tries to 3 as the hosts earned
a measure of revenge following the 20-16 loss in
January. Impala coach Frank Ndong hailed his charges
for all-round performance. “We dominated all facets
from the kickoff.
Our scrum and line-out were solid and the continuity
in attack kept the opposition clueless on what we were
going to do,” added Ndong.
Billy Omondi, Quinto Ongo and Anthony Nyandigisi
scored two tries each with Samson Onsomu, Steve Juma,
Eric Kerre and Anthony Odhiambo scoring a try each.
Ongo added four eight conversions as Impala led 39-14
at the interval. Collins Injera scored a brace for the losers
with Yahya Hussein adding a late consolation.

FOOTBALL
Kenyatta confident despite Ushuru’s loss to Shabana
BY ANGWENYI GICHANA/ Despite
dropping to the third position on the
log after a 2-1 loss against Shabana,
Ushuru coach Ken Kenyatta is still
upbeat that he can lead the taxmen
Daniel Murage to the SportPesa Premier League.
(C) is carried “The league is marathon and
shoulder high losing is part of the game but a draw
by team-mates would have been a fair result. We can
after scoring still qualify to the premier league,”
the second goal Kenyatta said his team succumbed
against Ushuru to their fourth loss of the season.
at Gusii Stadium “We have to put this loss behind
/ ANGWENYI us and we are focusing on the next
GICHANA game against Administration Police
on Wednesday. We need to bounce
back,” he said. Hamisi Hadi and
Daniel Murage scored for Shabana
while Brian Otieno scored Ushuru’s
consolation. Shabana coach Gilbert
Selebwa maintained they are still
keen on playoff position.
“Our target remains a playoff
position. We want to keep winning
and hope the teams above us fal-
ter,” added Selebwa
“The boys displayed character
after conceding in the first half. I
was impressed by especially Daniel
Murage who is a makeshift striker.
He has now scored in three con-
secutive games,” noted Selebwa.
Following the win, Shabana moved
to the eighth position on the log
with 40 points.
Francis Oduor’s Kisumu All Stars
climbed to the summit of the log
after a 2-0 win over Migori Youth at
Moi Stadium in Kisumu. New signing
John Oruko and Shadrack Omondi
scored for the Blue Eagles.
All-Stars lead the log with 53
points same as second-placed Nai-
robi Stima but the Kisumu team has
a better goal difference.
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SPORTS LOCAL
HOCKEY
Lakers move top after first win of KHU tie
BY EVANS OUSURU / Newcomers
Lakers coach Brian Aduda is over the
moon after his side registered a good
start in the ongoing Kenya Hockey
Union (KHU) women’s League.
The Nyanza-based outfit won
against regulars Kenyatta Univer-
sity 1-0 yesterday at the City Park
Kenyatta Stadium, only 24 hours after playing
University’s to a 1-1 all draw against Strathmore
Laura Wabala University on Saturday. The lone
fights for ball goal against KU was scored by Judith
possession Abayo in the 11th minute
against Vivian Following the weekend’s results,
Ogweno of Lakers bagged four points that move
Lakers in their them top ahead of record holders
match yesterday Telkom who were not in action with
at City Park five points. Aduda said:
stadium. “I am happy with the result and
/ERICK BARASA the manner in which we approached
the game. Obviously, we didn’t
give the match our all because
we were still fatigued after the
Saturday match.”
The tactician, however, said the
players are yet to gel considering
most of them are students.
“We only train on the weekends
as the majority of my players are
students assembled from various
institutions. This team is young
with a 16-year-old goalkeeper and
more than half the players play-
ing for the first season in the top
tier,” he added.
He said if they train together,
they will no doubt create a rhythm
as a team and better the re-
sult,” he added.
His opposite number, Moses
Kagochi, conceded defeat but urged
his players to up their game going
forward, as they seek their first
win of the season.
“All I can say is there was no
coordination in all departments but
we are going to make amends and
adjust our style of play. Hopefully,
the results will start coming in due
time,” he said.
In the earlier match played at
the same venue in the national
men’s league, Karate Axiom and
Bay club shared spoils, thanks to
a 2-2 all draw.
Sukhman Grewl and Peter Muinde
scored for the hosts in the 18 and
29 minutes respectively, while Val-
entine Otieno scored a brace in the
19th and 25 minutes respectively.

SCHOOL GAMES

New champs are born

Term Two games
head to Kisumu in
August as Arusha
host regional show
BY EUGENE OMILO/ There was
twists and turns as new cham-
pions emerged in various dis-
ciplines in the just concluded
Kenya Secondary Schools Sports
Association (KSSSA) national Term
One Games in Mombasa.
In girls’ handball, Rift Valley’s
Karandich overpowered regu-
lars Moi Girls Kamusinga 17-13 to
win the title while in basketball,
Buruburu Girls humbled cham-
pions Kaya Tiwi courtesy of a
43-41 triumph.
Karandich at the same time pro-
duced Daisy Chemutai as the Most
Valuable Player in the handball.
In rugby 7’ and 15’s, Nairobi’s Up-
per Hill turned the tables on 2018
champions Laiser Hill Academy of Loreto’s Nelima Britny goes past Yvonne Atieno of Kaya Tiwi during their girls’ basketball match/ANDREW KASUKU
Rift Valley, whom they edged out
10- 05 in the final while in the 15’s,
Kakamega defeated Nairobi’s new
kids on the block Dagoretti 18-11 to
emerge new champions.
Commenting on the new found
status, Karandich Principal Richard
Nyolei, said their win was a dream
come true having yearned for a na-
tional trophy for many years.
Participants in 5000m race during the national Term 1
games at Mbaraki Sports Club grounds/ANDREW KASUKU
“We thank God for our achieve-
ment. We hope to push it further
and again win the East Africa
Games. For now, it’s a good feeling
to be the champions,” said Nyolei.
Buruburu coach Julius Otieno
attributed the win to hard work
and persistence.
“We won the title last in 2000 and
really it has been a long time and fi-
nally, we are here,” said Otieno.
On the flipside, the status quo
remained in the boys’ handball,
basketball (hockey boys and girls)
and athletics.
Kimilili retained the boys’ hand-
ball title, thanks to 35-21 win
against Mbooni under new coach
Wasike Wangwa as giants Laiser Hill
Academy (Rift Valley) saw off Da-
goretti 69-52 in 15s rugby.
Laiser Hill was once again
crowned national champions for the
fourth time in a row in boys hockey
with a 3-1 win over Kamusinga after
penalty flicks following a 2-2 draw
in regulation time.
In athletics, Rift Valley dominated
all the field and track events as well
as the cross country to emerge top.
They bagged a total of 23 medals ( 10
gold, 8 silver and 5 bronze). Nyan-
za finished second with 14 med-
als ( 7 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze)
while western finished third with
a total of 12 medals ( 1 gold, 7 silver
and 4 bronze).
At the same time, Kirandich, Bu-
ruburu, Agoro Sare, who won boys’
basketball playoffs against Alliance
60-42, will make a debut at the
East Africa Games set for August in
Arusha, Tanzania.
Others making their debut in
the regional show include — Meru
(hockey) and Kangaru (Rugby 7s)
after emerging third in their respec-
tively disciplines.
Rift Valley were ranked the best
region with 106 points followed
closely by Western ( 100 points)
with Nyanza completing the podi-
um with 80 points.
Others followed in the or-
der: Nairobi ( 74 points), Eastern
( 64 points), Central ( 62 points),
Coast ( 60 points) and North East-
ern (six points).
KSSSA secretary David Ngugi
announced that Term Two games
which include football, volleyball
and racket games will be held in Ki-
sumu in August.
Ngugi also acknowledged the
government’ sregistration of school
pupils through the National Inte-
grated Identity Management System
(NIIMS) has made it easier for games
officials to deal with cheats.
“When I moved around the pitch-
es, I was impressed to see only gen-
uine learners participating in the
games. This was a big break from
the past, where we have grappled
with fake players,” said Ngugi.
He also said the KSSSA General
Council had resolved to minimise
the participation of foreign stu-
dents in the games to a maximum
of two per team per discipline to
ensure the Kenyan youth get an op-
portunity to showcase their talent
and transit to join national teams
in their respective disciplines upon
completing school.
St John’s Kaloleni’s Sandra Kasena (L) tries to control the ball
past Sarafina Mutunga of St Joseph Kibwezi/ANDREW KASUKU
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SPORTS INTERNATIONAL
PREMIER LEAGUE BUNDESLIGA

Barcelona falter
Red hot Sancho sets new
Bundesliga scoring record
BERLIN / Jadon Sancho scored twice to become the
youngest player ever to score 11 Bundesliga goals as
Borussia Dortmund beat Mainz.
The 19-year-old hit a first-time half-volley from Mario
Gotze’s cross to put them ahead in the 17th minute on
Saturday. Sancho, lined with a summer move to Man-
chester United, made it 2-0 seven minutes later with a
deflected strike.
Robin Quaison gave Mainz a lifeline by scoring in the
83rd minute and Dortmund were thankful for a triple
save from goalkeeper Roman Burki to secure the victory.
Dortmund, eager to make amends for last week’s 5-0
demolition by Bayern, put in a whirlwind start and Mainz
almost scored an own goal when Danny Latza deflected
a Mario Goetze cutback onto the post in the sixth min-
ute. Jacob Bruun Larsen twice came close before Goetze
tried it again in the 17th minute and found England inter-
national Sancho at the far post who drilled in for the lead.
The 19-year-old doubled the score in similar fashion in
the 24th minute, firing in a Thomas Delaney assist for his
10th goal of the campaign.

Borussia Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho celebrates / REUTERS

Vidal says Barca distracted by thought of United duel
HUESCA / Barcelona midfielder
Arturo Vidal said his side were dis-
tracted by their upcoming Cham-
pions League quarter-final decider
against Manchester United after
the runaway La Liga leaders could
only draw 0-0 at struggling Hues-
ca on Saturday.
Barca coach Ernesto Valverde
made 10 changes to the team that
had beaten United 1-0 in Wednes-
day’s first leg as well as hand-
ing three players their La Liga
debuts and the unfamiliar team
failed to break down the league’s
basement club.
Despite the draw, Barca are well
on course to lift an eighth Spanish
league title in 11 years after beating
nearest challengers Atletico Madrid
2-0 last week, and Vidal said Tues-
day’s second leg against United was
their priority.
“I think everyone that was play-
ing today was thinking about to-
morrow’s game, just like the guys
who stayed at home,” the Chilean
Vidal told reporters.
“The Champions League is what
everyone is dreaming about.”
Barca’s imperious domestic re-
cord is in stark contrast to their
recent failures in the Champions
League, where they have failed to
get beyond the quarter-finals since
winning the competition in 2015.
They suffered a humiliating exit
last year by losing 3-0 at AS Roma
and coach Valverde came in for
serious criticism for not resting
players in their encounter with
Leganes three days before their col-
Barcelona’s
Arturo Vidal FOOTBALL
in action with
lapse in Italy.
Valverde was not about to make
Huesca’s Pele recovering well after
the same mistake again, leaving
Christian Rivera
/ REUTERS
kidney stone operation
talisman Lionel Messi back in Bar-
celona along with Sergio Busquets SAO PAOLO / Brazilian soccer great Pele had a suc-
and Ivan Rakitic, while Luis Suarez cessful operation to remove a kidney stone on Saturday,
and Gerard Pique were suspended. doctors in Sao Paulo said.
“Obviously, we always want to Pele had the surgery at the Israelite Albert
win but this game came in spe- Einstein hospital.
cial circumstances for us. We had “The procedure was a success and the patient is back
just played on Wednesday and in his room,” a brief statement from doctors said.
we have the second leg on Tues- Considered by many the game’s finest player and the
day and I thought this was the only man to have won three World Cups, Pele had also
moment to make changes,” said been admitted to hospital in France last week after suf-
the Barca coach. fering a fever following an event in the city with French
“If we hadn’t beaten Atletico, I World Cup-winner Kylian Mbappe.
would have picked a different team He was soon released but his doctors in Brazil decided
today, although you never know if to admit him again when he returned home on Tuesday.
the result would have been differ- The 78-year-old former Santos and New York Cosmos
ent. We could have done better to- player has suffered from kidney and prostate problems
day, but overall we’re happy.” and also had hip replacement surgery in recent years.

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich applauds fans in past duel / REUTERS
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Chelsea hold talks with three groups keen to buy the club
LONDON / Chelsea have held talks with three interested
parties over the potential £2.5billion sale of the club.
They are believed to have included the US and Asian-
based finance groups, while Britain’s richest man Jim Ratcliffe
has also expressed an interest. Chelsea chairman Bruce
Buck recently insisted owner Roman Abramovich was
committed to the London club despite stopping attending
games. However, reports have it that Chelsea officials have
held what has been described as ‘exploratory talks’ with the
three parties in recent weeks.
Abramovich is not believed to have attended any Chelsea
games since being denied a visa in May 2018. The 53-year-
old Russian billionaire subsequently sought Israeli citizenship,
moving to Tel Aviv.He has spent between £1m and £3m on
corporate hospitality boxes at Stamford Bridge every year
since 2011 but did not buy any before the start of this season
for the first time in almost a decade. Abramovich has con-
tinued to pump money into Chelsea, however, and the total
debt owed to him by the parent company increased by £75m
last year.It now stands at a total of £1.25bn, money he would
want to recoup if the club were sold. Leading football club
acquisitions company, Oakwell Capital, said well respected
US and Asian-based finance groups have emerged with a re-
newed interest in Premier League clubs because many have
posted healthy profits. Tottenham, Liverpool and Burnley
are among clubs to have announced record profits recently.
Doug Harmer, director of Oakwell Capital, said:
“There is a renewed interest in Premier League clubs from
within the Asian and US investment communities. “While
domestic television deals have plateaued, the international
TV deals have gone up and are expected to continue to rise
in the long term. “Reputable and well-regarded institu-
tions can see the potential for further growth at Pre-
mier League clubs.”
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Aubameyang hopes racism can be kicked out of football

‘WHEN YOU’RE BLACK LIKE

ME, IT’S REALLY PAINFUL’
P
ierre-Emerick Aubameyang says he is disap-
pointed at football’s ongoing problems with
racism - and claimed they are damaging Arsenal’s
the English game. Arsenal star Aubameyang Pierre-Emerick
had a banana skin thrown at him while Aubameyang
celebrating a goal during December’s / REUTERS
north London derby.
It preceded Raheem Sterling being al-
legedly racially abused at a Chelsea game,
and England internationals Danny Rose
and Callum Hudson-Odoi being targeted monday 15 th april 2019
by fans in Montenegro last month.
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Kalidou Koulibaly on
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Aubameyang admitted the is- sue rearing 19:00 3696 Sliema Wand vs Senglea Athletic 2.06 3.44 3.39
its head hurts him. He said: “I am really 19:00 3874 Anorthosis Fam vs Ermis Aradippou 1.15 7.37 15.80
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Asked whether they could end their hoodoo there,
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he replied: ‘Of course, because if you win there I
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think you send a message to everybody. It will be an
important game and a good challenge for us. “We 21:30 2685 FC Koln vs Hamburger SV 1.77 3.87 4.30

know away we have some difficulties. We have to im- 21:30 2783 Barracas Central vs UAI Urquiza 1.76 3.35 5.21
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a good result today and we have everything in our 21:35 1646 Nueva Chicago vs Sarmiento 2.60 2.97 2.87
hands. We go there and will try to win the game.” 21:45 1496 Dundalk FC vs Bohemians FC 1.57 3.95 6.23
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phere but Aubameyang suggested he preferred that 21:45 3512 Sligo Rovers vs Waterford Utd 2.78 3.16 2.68
type of venue. He said: “We already know. That’s 21:45 5206 Paris FC vs Lorient 2.57 2.78 3.26
football. All of the players, they love to play this type 21:45 5317 St Patricks vs Derry City 1.99 3.40 3.94
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are really satisfied after the game. Me personally,
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Tusker slay Sharks
Kariobangi condemned to sixth defeat in a row as Mt Kenya suffer
FRANCIS WADEGU
@fwadegu198
Kariobangi condemned to their six
defeat in a row as Mt Kenya con-
tinue suffering
Kariobangi Sharks failed to win
their sixth match in a row after fall-
ing 2-0 to former champions Tusker
yesterday at Moi Stadium, Kasarani.
Tusker have beaten Sharks in
both legs having trounced them
3-1 in the first leg at the Ruar-
aka grounds. Timothy Otieno
and Boniface Muchiri scored a
goal apiece to continue Sharks’
six-match drought.
Otieno sent Tusker ahead in the
64th minute while Muchiri added
the second goal in the 73rd minute.
Tusker coach Robert Matano hand-
ed defender Eugene Asike a debut
on his return to the Ruaraka-based
side after unsuccessful short stint
in Zambia with Nkana.
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He was given a starting role in
the absence of Justine Omary who
is serving a one match ban. In an in-
terview, Matano said they still need
to do more despite the win. Tusker
are currently fifth with 37 points
while Kariobangi Sharks sit in the
eighth place with 31 points.
Meanwhile, the wheels are start-
ing to come off the basement club
Mt. Kenya United as they were
walloped 6-2 by Posta Rangers yes-
terday—a result that left them nine
points adrift of the relegation play-
off spot.For a team that signed sev-
en new players during the mid-sea-
son transfer window, it was ironical
that for a second successive week-
end, they shipped in six goals—a
sure sign that rather than steadying
the ship, it is sinking fast.
At the beginning of the cam-
paign, the renaming of the club and
subsequently relocation to Ruiru
and the return of then respected
coach Melis Medo after a reported
takeover, was expected to be the
catalyst for upward mobility.
Now with 22 games already
played, they have 12 points and
are staring down the barrel. “We
Sharks’ Thomas have to focus on getting results
Teka battles on the pitch because ultimately
with Tusker’s that is what matters. We are going
Timothy Otieno through a difficult period but we
in yesterday’s need to stand together and fight
match. for the club,” remarked a desolate
/OLIVER MORGAN Medo after the clash.
Posta had earlier endured sim-
ilar struggles until John Kamau
brought firm hands at the tiller.
Rangers despite going five games
without victory, they showed
against the league’s whipping boys
that they still have it in them to dish
out a ruthless performance. “I be-
lieve we deserved the three points.
We created better chances and got
our reward,” Kamau noted.
The thumping victory saw Posta
improve their goal difference tally
significantly in what is expected
to be a close fight and are now out
of the bottom three after Vihiga
United were beaten 1-0 at home by
Kakamega Homeboyz.
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City heap pressure
on rivals Liverpool
LONDON / Manchester City for-
ward Raheem Sterling struck twice
as the Premier League champions
beat Crystal Palace 3-1 at Selhurst
Park yesterday to heap pressure on
title rivals Liverpool.
The victory left City on 83 points
from 33 matches. The victory was
the ninth straight win for City in the
Premier League.
Having missed an easy chance
early on, Sterling put City ahead
in the 15th minute when he ran on
to Kevin De Bruyne’s inch-per-
fect pass from behind the halfway
line and fired past goalkeeper
Vicente Guaita.
The England international added
a second for his 17th league goal of
the season after the break, meeting
Leroy Sane’s first-time cross into
the box with a calm left-footed
finish that wrong-footed Guaita
as it rolled in.
Palace ensured an entertain-
ing finish to the contest when
Luka Milivojevic scored from a
free kick with nine minutes to go
after midfielder James McArthur
was brought down on the edge of
the penalty area.
City, however, sealed the deal
with their third of the match as De
Bruyne latched on to a poor pass
from defender Aaron Wan-Bissaka
before feeding substitute Gabriel
Jesus who finished emphatically.
“We controlled the ball really well
but one moment in the game and
they are back in it. But we respond-
ed again and got the third goal,”
said Sterling, who added his belief
that the title race will go down to
the wire. “100 per cent the way
Liverpool are playing. It will go down
to the wire. I don’t see us slowing
down now,” he added.
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