Council of Governors and Meru Governor Peter Munya has accused President Uhuru of dictatorship following the manner he is pushing counties to accept health equipment being ‘donated’ by the national government.

Munya maintains there has to be openness in how the equipment is to be handled; claiming the national government is hiding something from counties. The equipment are to cost Ksh. 38 billion.  The Governor insists some counties already have the equipment they are being told to accept, prompting allegations that someone in the national government already benefited from the whole package.

Speaking for Meru County, Munya said they already have some of the machines being leased to them.

“Among equipment they want to bring to us are dialysis machines, but we already have five such machines from Germany, and not the Chinese ones we are being offered,” Mr Munya said.

Munya also lamented on the infrastructural base the equipments are expected to operate in, saying some counties are just starting build modern hospitals.

“What time are they being given to put up the necessary infrastructure to accommodate the machines? Are they going to put them in stores? If the equipment gets damaged, who will pay for them, the national or county government? It is good to know this. We  have asked questions but answers have not been forthcoming,” Munya said.

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Hon. Raila Odinga with Mr Hindpal Singh Jabbal, a son of the late trade unionist Markhan Singh. Mr. Jabbal is a consultant on energy matters.

Here is brief bio of Makhan Singh:

Makhan Singh was born in Gharjakh, a village in British-ruled India‘s Gujranwala district, a Sikh-majority area in the province of Punjab (since 1947, his native region has been a part of Pakistan). In 1927, at the age of 13, he moved with his family to Nairobi, amunicipality which, since 1905, had functioned as the administrative capital of the British East African protectorate. In 1935, he formed the Labour Trade Union of Kenya and, in 1949, he and Fred Kubai formed the East African Trade Union Congress, the first central organization of trade unions in Kenya.

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Deputy President William Ruto has sponsored Gor Mahia FC ahead of their Kisumu match against Tusker FC.

The DP bought air tickets for all players of the team and the technical bench.

Appreciating the good gesture by the Deputy President, Gor Mahia chairman Ambrose Rachier said they are more than happy and players will not be tired after avoid the long trip by road to Kisumu.

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President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Speech writer Eric Ng’eno insists that businessman  Herbert Ojwang is a conman,a racketeer and a crook.

In response to Herbert Ojwang who threatened to sue him and others over remarks made in TV interviews, Ng’eno says Ojwang admitted to be a conman in public.

He will be represented by lawyer Miguna Miguna and Gregory Mutahi.  Miguna describes Ojwang in detail in his book Peeling back the Mask.

Ngeno in a statement says, “I am quite sure that his reputation amongst the brokers, wheeler-dealers, influence peddlers,extortionists and kickback racketeers who wantonly infest our public sphere must be formidable indeed.”

Adding, “What I will do and without any reservation whatsoever is welcome Ojwang to institute action against me without delay.”

Ng’eno declares in his statement that, “I am extremely keen on using the court process to clarify Ojwang’s career in the looting of public funds, the structural aspects and models of various schemes to steal public resourseful. “

PSCU and Nexus senior directors led by Emmanuel Talaam,Munyori Buku and Dennis Itumbi will be enjoined in the case, if Ojwang keeps his threat to sue them for their remarks in the Media.

“I encourage Ojwang and his team of ‘prominent lawyers’ to move with the swiftest dispatch and institute the case against me” Ngeno concludes.

-Nexus

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The persistent Alshabaab attacks in Wajir County has forced deputy governor Hon Yarrow to squeeze time to teach KCSE candidates.

The Deputy Governor has taken part-time teaching at Wajir High School, a national school, to teach business studies to the form four class expected to sit KCSE Exams at the end of this year.

Several schools across the expansive region remain under-staffed as insecurity and terrorism take its toll on citizens. This is despite the lip service by the national government that normalcy has returned in the region. Yarrow, while taking up the responsibility, said he was moved by seeing the situation his former school.

“I was a former student of this institution and I have a huge connection with it. This school is also a national school and I had to take some time out of my busy schedule to at least be here once in a week”

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Senator Mike Sonko seem to have been taking flying lessons silently and he is excelling. Sonko’s top aide confirmed the senator who has been under probe by EACC and DPP for corruption allegations and had stepped aside to be cleared put more hours into flying.

Check out the videos below and drop a comment for Nairobi senator.>>>

Its senator, Captain Hon Mike Sonko hahaha

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Deputy President William Ruto met former President Daniel Arap Moi in Eldoret during a function to celebrate 25 years of Bishop Cornellius Korir as a prelate. Bishop Korir is the Eldoret Catholic Diocese Bishop.

Moi’s son and current Baringo Senator Gideon did not attend the ceremony. Others present included Uasin Gishu governor Jackson Mandago, several MPs and MCAs from the region.

After exchanging a few words the retired president stuck to his bible and programme of the day with very limited interaction between the two Kalenjin greats.

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Former Raila Odinga aide turned critic has dramatically turned to the CORD leader the Rt Hon Prime Minister to assist him raise the KshS 2 million Court fine and get his freedom back.

Gachoka who spent the weekend at industrial area remand prison is said to have reached out the former premier through his wife’s sister -a close friend of the Odinga family – after attempts to contact state house became futile.

Considering that Gachoka, like Miguna Miguna, like Ngunjiri Wambugu, has built a career of rent-seeking by shit-talking about Raila, it must have been an embarrassing situation to eat his bloated pride and consuming arrogance and meekly turn to the Rt Hon Prime Minister, the father of modern democracy.

Aides of Odinga were non-committal to comment on the issue, only saying Odinga is the most forgiving person and may just bail the man out with no pre-conditions.

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Deputy President William Ruto yesterday said he will not resign over the controversial acquisition of Weston Hotel land.

On Thursday, Senators James Orengo and Johnstone Muthama said Ruto should step aside.

They called for thorough and independent investigations to establish how Ruto acquired the land from the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority on Lang’ata Road.

Calls for Ruto’s resignation were triggered by a TV interview on Tuesday in which he admitted he owns shares in the hotel. Orengo and Muthama said Ruto must surrender the land because they suspect it was irregularly acquired in 2002.

Muthama said there is no point for Ruto to remain in office if the government is serious about the war on graft.

“The Deputy President should lead by example,” he said.

Yesterday, Ruto told a church fundraiser at Kathanje Secondary School in Tharaka Nithi that he is not corrupt. He told the two politicians to leave him alone and instead concentrate on important national issues.

“They should leave me alone. When they go to sleep, they dream about Ruto. When they wake up, they mention my name,” Ruto said.

SOURCE: STAR

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Several Nyanza leaders, including Luo kingpin Raila Odinga skipped the belated home-coming ceremony of Kisumu County Governor Jack Ranguma held at Otieno Oyoo secondary school over the weekend.

Raila, who was expected to grace the occasion, failed to show up as were all the Luo Nyanza governors and senators. All MPs, save for two from Nyanza and one from Western, also boycotted the low key event. The CORD is in Tanzania for an unspecified errand.

Among Ranguma’s colleagues at Council of Governors, only Bomet Governor Isaac Rutto and Kakamega’s Wickliffe Oparanya attended. The two however left before the ceremony ended.

Ranguma, who has been accused of sponsoring endless wrangled in Kisumu county, was left eating his tomatoes alone, in signs of what is to come in the future. His Deputy, Ruth Odinga, also absconded the meeting. Kisumu Senator Prof. Anyang’ Nyong’o, who has indicated he will vie for the gubernatorial position in the next elections, also did not attend.

Apparently, the number of those who did not attend were more than those who attended.

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Two CORD MPs have claimed the Jubilee government want to remove Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko and replace him with one they can easily manipulate.

Addressing the Press at Parliament Buildings, Suna East MP Junnet Mohammed and Ruaraka MP TJ Kajwang’ revealed the ploy is after the DPP declined to charge some of the cabinet ministers who had been suspended owing to insufficient evidence.

The two MPs claim the presidency is weakening independent institutions so as to appear to be the only institution fighting corruption.

“When the President hijacked the war on corruption by presenting a list of several Kenyans who were under investigations by EACC; and gave deadlines to the duration they were to be found guilty; some of us protested the move because we saw it not just as another attempt to usurp the powers and functions of independent constitutional institutions but also attempting to re-establish the imperial presidency the country already rejected,” said Junet.

A section of TNA MPs led by Maina Kamanda said over the weekend that they will name people scuttling the war on graft. The MPs had claimed by clearing all those who had been named, the anti-graft bodies (EACC and ODPP) exposed the President as ‘soft on corruption’.

“There is selective prosecution of the people allegedly involved in corruption. There are people who are using big money to determine who should be prosecuted. It is a concern for many people,” claimed Kamanda.

“Names have been circulated of the people we believe are the driving force behind these dirty games at the DPP and EACC. We will name them on the floor of the House. EACC and the DPP are not acting independently,” he added.

However, ODM MPs Junet Mohammed and TJ Kajwang have dismissed their TNA colleagues, accusing them of plotting to remove the DPP.

“From statements by a section of Jubilee politicians, it appears they had other standards to be used in apportioning guilt on these people and which EACC failed to adhere to. This is quite reminiscent of Nyayo era where you were guilty because some powerful MP or minister or businessman close to the President said you were guilty,” said Hon. Junet.

“We warn that the continuing politicization of the fight on corruption, especially by members of President Uhuru’s party, EXPOSES the regime as filed with which-hunt and fixers. It is like this new onslaught on the EACC and DPP is as a result of some people not having been fixed to the liking of some Jubilee politicians. We urge the Jubilee MPs to take the list of those they want jailed without following due process to the commissioner of prisons   or get serious with life and let EACC and DPP do their work” read the statement.

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The woman sits on the dirty floor and next to her lies a bag. Into that bag, people throw money. In the woman’s hands, asleep, is a two year old baby. He is in a dirty hat and dirty clothes

“Madonna with baby” – numerous passers-by will donate money. The people of our kind – we always feel sorry for those less fortunate. We are ready to give unfortunate people our last shirt, the last penny out of our pocket and never think another issue. Helping, seems like a “Good job done.”

I walked past the beggar for a month. I did not give any money, as I knew that this is a gang-operated scam, and that money collected by the beggar, will be given to whoever controls beggars in the area. Those people own numerous luxury properties and cars. The beggar also gets something, of course, “A bottle of vodka in the evening and a döner kebab.” A month later, walking past the beggar, a shock suddenly hit me….

I’m standing at a busy crossing, staring at the baby. He is dressed, as always, in a dirty track suit. I realized that it seemed “wrong”, finding a child in a dirty underground station from morning to evening. The baby was always asleep. He never sobbed or screamed, he always slept, burying his face in the knee of a woman who was his MUM.

Do any of you, dear readers, have children? Remember how often they slept at the age of 1, 2 or 3 years old? An hour, two, maximum three (and never consecutive). An afternoon nap, and there was always movement.

For the whole month, every day I walked to the underground station, I never saw the child awake! I looked at the tiny little man, with his face buried in the knee of his mother, then at the beggar, and my suspicion was gradually formed.

“Why does he sleep all the time?” I asked, staring at the baby.

The beggar pretended not to hear me. She lowered her eyes and hid her face in the collar of her shabby jacket. I repeated the question. The woman again looked up. She looked somewhere behind my back, tired with utter irritation. Her look was similar to the creatures from a different planet.

“F *** off,” her lips murmured.

“Why is he asleep?!” I almost cried.

Behind me, someone put their hand on my shoulder. I looked back. An old man was looking at me disapprovingly:

“What do you want from her? Can’t you see how hard she’s got it in her life? Eh?”

He took some coins from his pocket and threw them in the beggar’s bag.

The beggar made a cross by waving her hand, portraying the face of humility and universal grief. The guy removed his hand from my shoulder and strolled out of the underground station. I bet, at home, he will tell how he defended poor, distraught woman from a soulless man in a tube station.

Next day, I called a friend. He was a funny man with eyes like olives. His nationality – Romanian. He only managed to complete three and a half years of education. His lack of education did not prevent him from moving around the City streets in expensive foreign cars and live in a “small” house with a countless number of windows and balconies.

From my friend, I managed to find out that the beggar is part of a business. Despite the genuine appearance, it is clearly organized. It is supervised by organized crime rings. The children used are “rented” from families of alcoholics, or simply stolen.

I needed to get the answer to my question – Why is the baby always sleeping? And I received it. My friend explained it to me, casually and with a calm voice that twisted me in shock, just like he was talking about weather report: “They are on heroin, or vodka.”

I was dumbfounded. “Who is on heroin or vodka?!”

He answered, “The Child, so he doesn’t scream. The women will be sitting whole day with him, imagine how he might get bored?

In order to make the baby slept the whole day, it pumped up with vodka or drugs. Of course, children’s bodies are not able to cope with such a shock. And children often die. The most terrible thing – sometimes children die during the “working day”. And imaginary mother must hold another dead child on her hands until the evening. These are the rules. And the by passers-by will throw some money in the bag, and believe that they are moral. Helping the mother alone.”

The next day, I was walking near the same underground station. I built up journalistic confidence and was ready for a serious conversation. But the conversation didn’t work out. Instead, it turned out the following way … the woman was sitting on the floor and in her hands she was holding a different child. I asked her a question about the documents of the child, and, most importantly, where was the child from yesterday. She simply ignored me. My questions were not ignored by passers-by though. I was told that I was out of my mind, questioning a poor beggar with a child. Eventually, I was escorted out of the station in disgrace.

The one thing that remained was to call the police. When the police arrived, the beggar with the baby had disappeared. I stood with a full sense of “trying to fight windmills.”

When you see in the subway, or on the street, women with children, begging, think before your hand them your money. Think about it, that if it wasn’t for your hundreds of thousands of handouts, the business like this would have died. The business would die and not the children, pumped full of vodka or drugs. Do not look at the sleeping child with affection… See horror… Since you are reading this article, you know now why the child is sleeping in beggars hands.

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ODM Secretary of Political Affairs and Ugunja  MP Opiyo Wandayi has exposed Gem MP Jakoyo Midiwo as a mole and sympathiser of Jubilee Alliance. Wandayi claims Midiwo is two-faced, supporting Raila by day and Jubilee by night.

While Midiwo’s philandering with the Jubilee regime is well known, and often discussed in low tones by  ODM MPs, many are often shy to publicly expose him owing to the fact that he is Raila’s cousin. Luo Nyanza MPs on ODM have often claimed those close to Raila like Midiwo are the real moles.

Despite being the Deputy Minority Leader and the highest ranking ODM MP in the leadership of parliament, Midiwo has always been AWOL when critical motions discussing the government are tabled with allegations that he gets paid to be absent or support motions.

“It will not be business as usual. Mr Midiwo is not with us. We only see him at day time but at night he works with Jubilee,” Mr Wandayi said at a press conference on Monday in Kisumu.

Mr Wandayi said the Gem MP was not honest in his support for Mr Odinga. He claimed Mr Midiwo worked more for Jubilee.

“Mr Midiwo is not working in the best interest of Raila. At day time he supports Raila’s course with words, but his actions are to the contrary,” the legislator said.

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Two high profile corruption cases involving DP Ruto may impact his ICC case to his detriment.

Businessman Herbert Ojwang’ and billionaire mineral magnet Jacob Juma have taken on the DP in two cases which may give Bensouda much needed evidence to destroy the image of a ‘righteous, God fearing, church attending man’ that lawyer Karim Khan has built of his client.

Already, Juma has successfully exposed, in court documents, how DP Ruto and his agents grabbed public land belonging to KCAA and another belonging to Nairobi City Council for the construction of a sewer line.

The suit has evidentially unearthed how William Ruto is prone to sleaze, especially involving public land. Add this to the grabbing of IDP Muteshi land in his Eldoret backyard, the epicentre of post election violence, then Madam Bensouda can, even without the corrupt kikuyu witnesses now signing out of the case after getting their money (bribed to withdraw), put up a strong case on the DP.

Bensouda has also got hold of one of the DP Ruto properties -Weston Hotel – which can easily be used to pay victims and survivors of Kiambaa Church slaughter and other post-election casualties their compensation dues. This is however a long shot as ODM MP Junet Mohammed revealed there are plans to force the government to repossess the said hotel for ‘public use’ just as KICC was snatched from KANU.

DP Ruto trial at the Hague resumes on June 16 and will run till July 16. His lawyers have indicated they will file no case to answer.

“So in essence, Ruto will have to juggle in one hand a cantankerous defamation suit against him touching on Fraud, Graft and everything Corruption. On the other hand, at the ICC his defence team will continue to maintain how ‘Kenya’s public servant number two’ is upright and of impeccable integrity” observed a blogger.

Herbert Ojwang’, a former Raila aide who is now a known state house operative (cuts deals for the government)  has threatened DP Ruto with a defamation suit. DP Ruto and his handlers referred to Ojwang’ as a conman, which the businessman claim is injurious to his reputation as honest, modest broker.

Brokerage is not illegal in Kenya.

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President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Director of Digital Media and Diaspora Affairs Dennis Itumbi has sued the Government over his arrest and detention without trial over alleged hacking of International Criminal Court’s ( ICC) prosecution office email in 2012.

Mr Itumbi, in his case against the Attorney General Githu Muigai, Director of Public Prosecution Keriako Tobiko and Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinett is seeking damages for the violation of his constitutional rights.

He also wants the court to protect him from any further arrest and prosecution in relation to the issues, claiming he is still under close watch by the investigators even after President Kenyatta’s case was terminated.

In his suit papers filed before the Constitutional and Human Rights Division of the High Court, he claims his arrest was influenced by his close relations to the President, who was then facing charges on crimes against humanity at the ICC.

“The ICC did not issue an arrest warrant against or summon your petitioner. There has never been a request to the Government of Kenya through the respondents or any other public office to investigate, summon or arrest the petitioner,” he said.

Itumbi, formerly a blogger, says he was arrested in Embu and detained in different police stations for close to four days. He claimed police did not tell him why he was arrested. “I was traumatised for four days. It was either at the instigation of the OTP or any organ of the court,” he said.

-Standard

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The pressure to have Deputy President William Ruto held accountable days after revealing he owns Weston Hotel has taken a new twist after Kenyans demanded Weston Hotel should be demolished.

Here are the top trending tweets on #DemolishWestonHotel:

Weston Hotel is an icon of impunity and should be demolished by the Air Force in a show of might #DemolishWestonHotel

— Cyprian, Is Nyakundi (@C_NyaKundiH) June 9, 2015

Uhuru should should supervise demolition of Weston Hotel by Air Force just like he supervised sinking of drugs ship #DemolishWestonHotel — Cyprian, Is Nyakundi (@C_NyaKundiH) June 9, 2015

The piece of land in which weston was built was acquired ilegally #DemolishWestonHotel

— Amos Kituyi (@KituyiAmos) June 9, 2015

#DemolishWestonHotel As long as it still doesn’t have parking space. The owners shall ever be serial land grabbers pic.twitter.com/ew7sPD2RWb — Leon™ (@LeonLidigu) June 9, 2015

Am waiting to hear the DP blaming the opposition, #DemolishWestonHotel

— IG @iam_StephenNel (@iam_StephenNel) June 9, 2015

@C_NyaKundiH Weston Hotel owner having known that its built on public land,let him sue the guys who sold him the land #DemolishWestonHotel — salim nyaoga (@SalimNyaoga) June 9, 2015

#demolishWestonHotel to prove the govt is serious in fighting corruption

— O’Bryan Morang’a (@goonerobra) June 9, 2015

We sank unclaimed ship which was loaded with drugs.We torch recovered ivory. Why cant we demolish weston? #DemolishWestonHotel — Kavita Muoki (@Ukambani_pundit) June 9, 2015

The most useless argument is ” If we demolish Weston Hotel ” People will lose jobs . End of the story #DemolishWestonHotel

— Cyprian, Is Nyakundi (@C_NyaKundiH) June 9, 2015

#DemolishWestonHotel No, let the building stand as a CORRUPTION MUSEUM. — Righteous Child. (@iezrah) June 9, 2015

so #DemolishWestonHotel is trending at no 1

— Jnr kemboi (@pato_jnr) June 9, 2015

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By Dennis Itumbi

Dear Your Excellency, The Governor,

I start this letter by stripping myself of all titles to my name, because I want to speak to you Mr. Governor as Dennis Itumbi, Citizen number 22219988.

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