I'm good at.....socialising and making new friends. I'm very bad at......lying. The last book I enjoyed reading is......Gifted Hands by Ben Carson. A common misconception of me is........I do not have emotions. The most surprising thing that happened to me is....being in the music industry for less than a year and doing things I never imagined while at the same time pursuing my dream career. One of my worst childhood fears was..........going to the dentist. I wish people would take more notice of..........the local music industry. My ideal night out is..........with friend enjoying good music...
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5-Minutue-Interview: There's no rehearsal for life, live it to the fullest
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This playground must stay with this primary school
Indeed, for well-rounded child development, kids need to run around and play. The land grabbing of Nairobi’s Lang’ata Road Primary School playground, first reported by the Star, is an especially vicious venal action. It is an attempt to bring to an end 51 years’ worth of children playing in this space, assembling there and receiving prizes. Whatever other use the so-called developers who have fenced it off envision for it – whether car park, mall or a combination – this particular playground must stay with this primary school. Lang’ata Road Primary must win a victory against land-grab forgery...
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Ranting politicians can also be humble
Partisan politicians are once again shifting goalposts on dialogue. Last year, Cord wanted dialogue within two months or else... The rejection of dialogue by the ruling coalition recreated the push for a constitutional referendum. Last week, Cord renewed the call for dialogue without conditions. President Uhuru Kenyatta immediately accepted the call, in the Holy Shrine, as good for national unity. But during the burial of Fidel Odinga on Saturday in Bondo, some Cord politicians 'sneaked' two conditions to the call. The resolution of the strike by teachers in public schools, and the withdrawal...
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Two traders 'harassed' by Nema official
Two Nairobi businessmen have accused an environmentalist and a police officer of harassment. Ravji Kerai and Mahesh Rabadia filed a report with the police director of complaints at Jogoo House on Monday. Kerai said on January 9, the National Environment Management Authority official, a Mr Orina, and a police officer identified only as Birgen, arrested them in their Dohnholm office. They accused the traders of violating Nema laws. Kerai is the director of Radheshyam Transport Company while Rabadia is a manager. The businessmen said Birgen was on leave during the time of the arrest. Kerai said...
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Kamkunji MP helps city schools fence land to keep off grabbers
Kamkunji MP Yusuf Hassan has cautioned residents against grabbing school land. “We have many landgrabbers in our constituency. We had a problem at Kamkunji Secondary School and recently Maina Wanjigi Secondary School, where land had been hived off by private developers,” he said. The MP said his office is working with school managements to fence compounds. Hassan was speaking at St John’s Centre yesterday during a meeting with 12 pupils from the constituency. They qualified for Equity Bank’s Wings to Fly programme. They were heading to the Safaricom Stadium, Kasarani, where the programme’s...
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Pregnant women avoid Pumwani
THE number of mothers giving birth at Pumwani Maternity Hospital has dropped by 40 per cent in the past week. Nairobi Health executive Robert Ayisi yesterday said the decline has been caused by bad publicity, competition from private hospitals and an increased number of traditional birth attendants. “It is very sad to see this drop, a few months after the number rose by 30 per cent because of the government’s free maternity services,” he said. Ayisi denied media reports that a mother last week lost her twin babies at the hospital because of nurses’ negligence and carelessness. He said the...
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Owner of collapsed flats spared from police cell
THE owner of the Huruma building that collapsed killing five people will not be held in police custody. The High Court yesterday stopped police from detaining Margaret Mwaura. Judge Roselyne Korir, however, instructed Mwaura to record a statement at Pangani police station within 24 hours. The collapse of the seven-storey building on January 4 also injured 40 people. “The applicant should continue presenting herself before police when required until investigations are complete,” Korir said. Mwaura’s lawyer, Johnson Omboga, said her rights will be infringed on if she is detained. He said she...
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Council slams media attack
THE Media Council of Kenya has condemned the attack on the Paris satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on January 7. Twelve people, including 10 journalists and two policemen, were killed by masked gunmen during the attack .
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City painting project hitch
THE city’s painting project that aims to empower youth and women is yet to kick off. It was launched by Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero in November last year. The project aims to paint buildings and 13 estates in Nairobi county. Speaking to the Star yesterday, Jeremy Ochieng, secretary of the Governor’s Youth Oversight Board, said partners might pull out, delaying project.
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Kenya asks Egypt to ease travel visa rules
KENYA has asked Egypt to ease restrictions on Kenyans applying for visas. This will boost travel and investment between the two countries, Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed said yesterday. She was speaking when she met a delegation from Egypt, led by Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, in Nairobi. Amina said some of the conditions imposed on Kenyans discourage trade. This is despite direct flights between Nairobi and Cairo. “Kenya grants Egyptian passport holders three-month visas at the ports of entry,” Amina said “I wish to urge Egypt to reciprocate this friendly gesture and...
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TNA to meet Kajiado hopefuls over rules
TNA has invited the seven people interested in the party’s ticket for the Kajiado Central parliamentary seat to attend a status conference tomorrow. The conference at the party headquarters aims to ensure contenders for the nomination agree on procedures. A secret ballot will determine the nominee for the by-election set for March 16. The decision to host the conference was arrived at yesterday after consultation between the party and TNA MPs from Kajiado county. The meeting was chaired by party chairman Johnson Sakaja and attended by secretary general Onyango Oloo, Senator Peter Mositet, MP...
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Nyabuto loses IEBC job over credibility
Integrity queries and possible culpability over irregular procurement locked out Beatrice Nyabuto, former acting IEBC chief executive, from ascending to the helm of the electoral commission. Her implication into the controversial procurement of the Sh1.3 billion Electronic Voter Identification Devices in 2012, returned to haunt the law graduate as the commission named an outsider to the top job. On Monday, IEBC named Ezra Chiloba, a specialist in electoral governance and political management, as the new commission’s chief executive after day-long interviews that involved four candidates...
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Corridors Of Power
A prominent city lawyer known for his gift of the gab and intellectual mien is planning to put up a 25-storey building worth billions of shillings in Nairobi’s Upper Hill after making a kill in one of his business deals. The man, who has cut lucrative deals with prominent figures, is well-known for his miserliness among his peers. He is reportedly looking for a contractor to put up the modern office building. === A two-time MP from Western lost Sh10 million to conmen just before Christmas. The conmen, a Nigerian and a Somali, convinced the MP, who has since gone underground, that they had the...
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Talks to stop nurses strike
The Nairobi government yesterday invited the nurses’ union to discuss health workers’ demands to avert a strike. The nurses issued a 14-day strike notice that expires on January 20. “The county government has invited us for a meeting on January 17. They have to meet our demands or we proceed with our strike as planned,” said Kenya National Union of Nurses Nairobi secretary Vincent Omondi. Health workers want staff hired under the Economic Stimulus programme paid their salaries and employed on permanent and pensionable terms.
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12 survive Athi crash
Twelve passengers were injured yesterday when a matatu was hit by a lorry in Athi River. The accident happened outside the main entrance of the East African Portland Company on the Nairobi-Namanga road. Francis Babu, one of the passengers, said the lorry did not check for oncoming vehicles before getting on the road. The lorry, which belongs to East Africa Logistics Company, was delivering limestone from Kabeberi in Sultan Hamud. The passengers were treated at Athi River Health Centre, Shallom Community Hospital and Athi River Medical Hospital.
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Fight crime, CS urged
Interior CS Joseph Nkaissery has been urged to fight crime instead of unauthorised sirens. Kenya Muslims National Advisory Council chairman Sheikh Juma Ngao said Nkaissery should not “be another Lenku”. “Interfering with vehicle sirens and strobe lights does not befit his standard as a retired major general. How does that help us face the al Shabaab menace?” he said. Ngao spoke to the Star on the phone yesterday. He urged Nkaissery to form a committee to study how Ethiopia has managed to ward off al Shabaab attacks.
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Bureti chief killed by lorry
Four people died instantly when they were hit by a lorry on the Kericho-Bureti road yesterday morning. The four were riding on a boda boda. They were the Kusumeek chief Jonathan Sang and three brothers, one of whom was the boda boda operator. Bureti police boss Ali Abdullahi said the boda boda operator entered the highway in front of an oncoming lorry. The bodies were taken to Kapkatet Subdistrict Hospital. Abdullahi urged boda boda operators to carry one passenger at a time and obey traffic rules. The lorry and motocycle were towed to Bureti police station.
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Nkaissery remarks rile police agencies
Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery has been criticised for proposing an amendment to the law to disband two police oversight agencies. Police Reforms Working Group-Kenya said Nkaissery’s remarks “are not only disturbing but also a dangerous, misleading misrepresentation and stigmatisation of the institutions”. Nkaiserry was quoted in the media last month saying: “We cannot have civilians commanding uniformed people. It cannot happen, it has never happened anywhere in the world.” He was referring to the National Police Service Commission and Independent Policing Oversight Authority. “...
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Court to hear out the teachers today
The Industrial Court today will hear the case seeking to stop the teachers’ strike. Justice Nduma Nderi last Friday declined to declare the strike illegal as had been requested by the Teachers Service Commission. “I need all the officials from the TSC, Knut and Kuppet to help come up with an amicable solution that will see children resume school as soon as possible,” Nderi said. The teachers’ strike enters its eighth day today. More than 280,000 primary and secondary school teachers are demanding a basic salary increase and allowances. The teachers initially wanted a 300 per cent basic salary...
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DPP recalls Baringo speaker William Kamket’s criminal file
Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko has recalled the file for the criminal case against Baringo speaker William Kamket and two MCAs. Kamket and MCAs Nelson Lotela (Silali) and Daniel Tuwit (Ripko-Kostei) in October last year denied planning to commit murder and incitement to violence in Kapedo, Turkana. Several police officers were killed by bandits in the violence. Kamket appeared before senior resident magistrate Tom Olando in Eldoret yesterday but the case could not proceed after the prosecution said the file had been recalled to Nairobi for further directions. Kamket’s, Lotela’...
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