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By BERNARD SANGA
Kenya Wildlife Service uncovered what is be-
lieved to be a multi-billion shillings international
syndicate involving the endangered rosewood at
the Mombasa Port.
The seizure of 34 containers of the precious
timber estimated to be over Sh584 million is a
major victory against the rampant logging trade
that threatens to wipe out the species.
According to copies of the manifest, the pre-
cious timber was docked and ofoaded as ordi-
nary wood from Zanzibar but according to in-
telligence sources within KWS rosewood is only
grown in Madagascar.
The timber is among the endangered wood
protected under the Convention on the Inter-
national Trade in Endangered Species (Cites).
KWS ofcials promised to liaise with their coun-
terparts in Madagascar to establish whether the
consignment had a permit. Rosewood is targeted
for making high-price furniture, musical instru-
ments, chess pieces and ooring.
Uhuru, Raila teams plan
parallel showdown rallies
Multi-billion shilling rosewood ring busted at KPA
Security chiefs
meet CJ over
terror cases, P.8
Kenya Wildlife
Service Coast
Region director
Arthur Tudor dis-
plays rosewood
timber from
Madagascar in
one of the 34 con-
tainers seized at
the port in Mom-
basa soon after
it was off-loaded
from a ship. The
consignment was
in transit to Hong
Kong from Zanzi-
bar and is worth
of millions of
shillings. [PHOTO:
GIDEON MAUNDU/
STANDARD].
SEE STORY ON PAGE 26 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
By GEOFFREY MOSOKU
The Opposition and the ruling coalition
will test their popularity on Friday with paral-
lel rallies in Nairobi.
CORD has planned a rally for the same
day to be addressed by its co-Principal Raila
Odinga.
This will be a day after launching a mass
movement to force out Mr Ahmed Issack Has-
san and his team at the electoral commission,
and block more payments to Mr Anura Perera,
the face of the Anglo Leasing contracts.
According to the Coalition for Reforms and
Democracy (CORD), the movement dubbed
Okoa Kenya (Save Kenya), will be launched
in Mombasa just 24 hours before the coali-
tions co-Principal Raila Odinga arrives from
the US.
But the ruling Jubilee coalition is wary of
the timing of the CORD rally and now plans to
mobilise its supporters for a rally at a yet-to-
be-decided venue in the heart of the capital on
Ahead of former
PMs return, CORD
plans for welcome
rally at KICC grounds
as Jubilee settles for
another one to rival
its opponents
By CYRUS OMBATI
Nairobi Senator Mike Mbuvi Sonko
was last evening grilled over gun dra-
ma at a city club with Woman Repre-
sentative Rachael Shebesh.
Police said they were still expect-
ing Shebesh to record her statement
at Kilimani Police Station. Shebesh
had visited the station on Saturday
evening but did not record her state-
ment. Sonko was grilled at his Kenyat-
ta International Convention Centre
ofce for hours after he requested the
ofcers to go there instead of him go-
ing to the station.
Kilimani CID boss George Ojuka
said they are looking for Shebeshs
bodyguard for questioning and dis-
arming.
The investigations are ongoing
and we will take further action with
time including charging the individu-
als involved in this fracas, said Oju-
ka.
CONFRONTATION
In a statement, Sonko said the gun
drama erupted over a Sh8.5 million
Range Rover he is alleged to have
bought Shebesh a few years ago. Po-
lice had summoned the duo and their
bodyguards for grilling following the
confrontation.
Shebeshs bodyguard was forced to
shoot in the air two twice to disperse
what he called an angry mob that
wanted to attack his boss.
Shebesh could not be reached for
comment.
By STANDARD REPORTER
Kenya Power has said a generation
system breakdown at the Coast region
caused a major power blackout affect-
ing Nairobi, Mount Kenya and Coast
regions.
The fault has caused system dis-
turbance triggering a power outage
affecting most parts of the country ex-
cept North Rift and West Kenya
(Kisumu, Eldoret and Kitale), Kenya
Power said in a statement yesterday.
The companys engineers are
working to restore normal supplies in
the shortest time possible. Kenya
Power regrets the inconvenience to
customers, the company said.
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Rivals in bid to show their might
the same day.
We are meeting today evening
(yesterday) to decide on the venue,
but I want to assure you that we are
not political cowards. We shall hold a
major rally for our supporters in Nai-
robi on Saturday, National Assembly
Majority Leader Adan Duale told The
Standard last evening.
He claimed that CORD is planning
to spoil the party by raising political
temperatures during their rally at
KICC, so that Government leaders
would be forced to react to their alle-
gations during the national day
speeches.
President Uhuru Kenyatta, who
will ofciate his second Madaraka
Day, is expected to outline measures
to deal with insecurity following ter-
ror attacks by suspected Al-Shabaab
sympathisers.
Last year, CORD leaders led by
Raila skipped the countrys Jubilee
(50th) Madaraka Day celebrations.
Duale claimed CORD is planning
violence and said security agencies
should be fully alert.
It is on record that CORD rallies
are marred with violence and incite-
ment, security agencies should ready
to avert a situation where the rally
would affect the peaceful daily lives of
Kenyans, Duale alleged.
The title of CORDs movement is
themed to resonate with CORDs
claim that the Jubilee government is
on the wrong path, and must urgent-
ly convene a national dialogue confer-
ence to tackle the Independent Elec-
toral and Boundaries Commission
(IEBC), Anglo Leasing payments, ris-
ing insecurity and the high cost of liv-
ing.
CORDs plan is to receive Raila at
the Kenyatta International Conven-
By ISAAC MESO
The National Cohesion and Inte-
gration Commission has admitted
that it was facing challenges in con-
ducting investigations and recom-
mending prosecution of individuals
believed to propagate hate speech.
NCIC assistant director of the
compliant, legal and enforcement de-
partment Kyalo Mwengi said the com-
mission was being discouraged from
fully pursuing individuals accused of
propagating hate speech since the af-
fected parties were not willing to
lodge formal complaints.
The ofcial spoke yesterday when
Moses Kuria, Political Analyst and a
Pubic Relation Consultant, appeared
before the commission over alleged
inciting statements made on social
media.
We are ready to conduct investi-
gations and recommend prosecution
of any individual whos speech or
statement may be detrimental to na-
tional cohesion but currently we are
facing the difculty of taking up mat-
ters of ethnic hatred and hate speech
because nobody is willing to lodge a
formal complaint, said Kyalo.
Mwengi said they had not sum-
moned former Vice President Kalonzo
Musyoka since the journalist offend-
ed by his remark was no longer inter-
ested in pursuing the matter.
He said they will only follow up the
matter once the journalist les a for-
mal complaint.
Kalonzo had declined to answer a
question from the journalist, respond-
ing instead that his name betrayed
it .
Kuria was summoned over a Face-
book post concerning terror. He was
summoned to appear before the com-
mission following his Facebook post
that Mwengi noted was a threat to na-
tional cohesion as it incited Kenyans
against a particular ethnic group.
tion Centre in Nairobi, with the kind
of political passion accorded to for-
mer Opposition leader Kenneth Mat-
iba when he arrived from the United
Kingdom in 1991, at the height of the
battle for multiparty politics.
Siaya Senator James Orengo and
Suna East MP Junet Mohamed trav-
elled to Mombasa on Sunday to con-
sult with Coast leaders on the rally to
be held at either Khadijah or the fa-
mous Tononoka grounds.
The Mombasa rally will be preced-
ed by one in Nairobis Mathare Con-
stituency tomorrow, the third by
CORD in Nairobi in the last seven
days, as part of the build up to Railas
return on Saturday.
CORD appears to be planning be-
yond Railas return for mass action
last witnessed in the push for consti-
tutional reforms in the 1990s.
Yes CORD is planning a rally in
Mombasa. Whether it portends some-
thing bigger than just preparing to
welcome its leader we cannot tell at
this moment. The politicians will
make public their intentions at the
rally, Junet Mohamed said.
On Saturday, fellow CORD co-
principals Kalonzo Musyoka and Bun-
goma Senator Moses Wetangula will
receive Raila, who is expected to ar-
rive in the morning.
Raila and his entourage will ride
on an open bus through parts of the
city from Outering, Jogoo, Haile Se-
lassie and Moi Avenue roads to KICC
where he will address his supporters.
We are pleased to go receive our
coalition leader who has been away
for some time to give us direction. Ke-
nya is undergoing serious challenges
of insecurity, corruption, high cost of
living and poor governance that need
urgent solutions, Senate Minority
Whip Janet Ongera said.
According to Ongera, CORDs na-
tionwide rallies are meant to put pres-
sure on the Government to deliver on
its pre-election promises.
ZERO TOLERANCE
The cost of living has gone up,
corruption is back and you can see
Sh1.4 billion paid to ghosts and an-
other Sh3 billion about to be paid in
the Anglo Leasing scam even as Ke-
nyans suffer and that is what we want
to remind Kenyans, she said.
We want to remind Jubilee that
they campaigned on the platform of
zero tolerance for corruption and re-
ducing the cost of living among oth-
ers.
Makueni MP Dan Maanzo said the
rallies are meant to reinvigorate CORD
in the face of criticism by Jubilee that
they were asleep, adding that they
would use all legal and constitutional
means, including peaceful street pro-
Cohesion
body facing
hurdles probing
incitement
Police probe Sonko for hours following Saturdays gun drama
Kenya Power
explains blackout
Continued from P1
tests to drive their point home.
We want to show Jubilee that we
are not asleep and are a formidable
force that will tell Kenyans where the
Government is erroneous and pres-
sure it to pull up its socks, Maanzo
said.
By yesterday, CORD was asking its
supporters to avoid going to the Jomo
Kenyatta International Airport to re-
ceive the former Prime Minister, but
instead wait in town due to the pre-
vailing security situation, as only MPs
and other dignitaries will be allowed
in at the airport.
MOBILISE SUPPORTERS
We want to give Baba a grand re-
ception betting a stature of a presi-
dent. You will see a sea of humanity in
Nairobi on Saturday, said ODMs Nai-
robi branch chairman George Alad-
wa.
Aladwa, the immediate former
Mayor of Nairobi, said CORD had mo-
bilised supporters from across the
country to throng in the city adding
that they will meet by Thursday to -
nalise the programme.
But Duale said it is too early for
CORD to condemn Uhurus govern-
ment.
It is not the right time for the Op-
position to call for mass action when
the country is under attack from the
Al-Shabaab militants. Kenyans should
be more united now than never, said
Duale.
Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kip-
chumba Murkomen called CORD ir-
responsible, saying its actions were
meant to sabotage Kenyas economy.
People must differentiate be-
tween opposing the government of
the day and opposing your country.
The acts by the Opposition do not
demonstrate patriotism for our coun-
try, claimed Murkomen.
Aden Duale Kipchumba Murkomen Janet Ongera
BIG BOYS FIGHT
CORD and Jubilee will hold
separate rallies on Friday
CORDs plan is to receive Raila
at the Kenyatta International
Convention Centre in Nairobi,
with the kind of political pas-
sion accorded to former op-
position leader Kenneth Mat-
iba when he arrived from the
United Kingdom in 1991, at the
height of the battle for multi-
party politics
On Saturday, fellow CORD co-
principals Kalonzo Musyoka
and Bungoma Senator Moses
Wetangula will receive Raila,
who is expected to arrive in the
morning
It is on record
that CORD rallies are
marred with violence and
incitement, security agencies
should ready to avert a
situation where the rally
would affect the peaceful
daily lives of Kenyans
They now want
court to set him free
on a technicality,
arguing Scotland
Yard illegally
co-operated in probe
Man convicted of tourist kidnap
in 2011 innocent, UK activists say
By WILLIS OKETCH
Claims have emerged that a
man on death row for kidnap
of a British woman and murder
of her husband in 2011 may
have been wrongfully convict-
ed by a Lamu court.
Human rights activists in
UK claim that Ali Babito
Kololo, who was sentenced to
hang by a Lamu court last year,
could be the wrong suspect.
They are now challenging the
conviction in British court.
The UK activists want the
court to set him free on a
technicality, arguing that
Scotland Yard illegally cooper-
ated in an investigation and
trial leading to the death
penalty.
WRONG SUSPECT
According to Daily Mail on
Sunday, the activists say
Scotland Yard detectives who
investigated Kololos involve-
ment in the killing of David
Tebbutt and kidnap of his wife
Judith on September 10, 2011,
wrongfully linked him to the
crime.
Kololo had no lawyer for
most of his trial in Lamu and
was sentenced to hang on July
29, last year.
He has appealed against the
sentence and the case is
pending before the Court of
Appeal in Malindi.
The conviction is deemed
so unsafe, it faces a High Court
challenge in London, led by
Lord Macdonald, a former
director of public prosecu-
tions, reported the Daily Mail
on Sunday.
According to the newspa-
per, the action brought by a
human rights charity wants the
court in UK to rule that the
involvement of UK authorities
was unlawful because Kololos
trial was an abuse of natural
justice. And because he faced
death sentence, it was also a
breach of guidelines that say
British police may only offer
limited assistance when a
suspect faces such punish-
ment.
The case is set for hearing in
a UK high court on June 4.
DEATH SENTENCE
The Daily Mail on Sunday
quoted Maya Foa saying thus: I
fail to see what assurances they
can have been given when he
was facing what amounted to a
mandatory death sentence, and
a farce of a trial.
Judith, who was kidnapped
by pirates during a raid at a
hotel in Kiwayu and her
husband killed, said in Kololos
trial via video link that she
never saw Kololo during the
attack, according to the
newspaper.
She said she could only
remember that her husband
David turned off the lights and
got into bed.
Then, she eventually told
detectives, they held hands as
they drifted off to sleep. Three
hours later, her nightmare
began.
Judith was set free from
captivity after close to a year in
Somalia.
Ali Babito Kololo, a
former worker at Ki-
wayu Safari Lodge,
being led to court
last year during the
hearing of his case.
He was sentenced
to hang after being
found guilty of
abduction in which
British tourist
David Tebbutt was
killed and his wife
Judith taken to
Somalia. [PHOTO:
MAARUFU MOHAMED
/STANDARD]
The kidnap sparked Kenyas
invasion of Somalia in October
2011.
The accused, who was tried
for 16 months, declared he had
been subjected to a sham trial
and proclaimed his innocence
as the sentence was read out
and translated to him from
English to Kiswahili.
The magistrate declared
that: After a careful consider-
ation of the evidence, I have
found that the accused was
responsible for the crime of
murder and kidnap meted
against the couple, referring to
the kidnap by suspected
Al-Shabaab militants.
I hereby sentence him to
hang, rst for robbery with
violence as prescribed by the
law, and sentence him to serve
another seven years in jail for
the crime of abduction, the
magistrate declared after
rejecting his defence that he
was also a victim of abduction.
Kololo, who was unrepre-
sented for most of the trial,
never stepped out of jail after
his arrest as he was unable to
raise a Sh1 million bond.
UNFAIR TRIAL
I am innocent and this trial
was unfair. You are the judge
but I have been oppressed. We
shall all die, declared Kololo,
who was shocked and de-
pressed by the sentence.
The kidnap brought the
tourism industry to its knees
and forced the US and Europe-
an Union to issue travel
advisories.
The magistrate said Kololo
was positively identied and
rejected his defence that he was
forced by the abductors to lead
them to the Kiwayu Safari
Lodge where the crime took
place.
The accuseds defence that
he was also a victim of the
abduction does not hold water,
said the magistrate.
Speaking after the verdict,
Kololo said I do not harbour
any bitterness against the
magistrate and I surrender my
fate to the Almighty God.
The magistrate said Kololo
knew the scene of the crime
well and other hotel workers
positively identied him soon
after his arrest.
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BY TITUS TOO
Deputy President William Ruto
and National Assembly Majority
Leader Aden Duale, who also belongs
to the United Republican Party (URP)
are in the crosshairs of disgruntled
Rift Valley MPs.
Mr Rutos situation was triggered
by his defense of besieged Devolution
Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru
while Mr Duale waded into trouble
when he made disparaging remarks
against controversial Nandi Hills MP
Alfred Keter.
Rutos statement that he and
President Uhuru Kenyatta were re-
sponsible for recent changes at the
National Youth Service (NYS), which
have sparked a storm because of the
removal of Kiplimo Rugut as director,
has apparently done little to calm the
rising tide.
Duale, who was nominated by
Rutos URP for the leadership post in
the House, has infuriated fellow party
lawmakers for belittling remarks tar-
geted at Mr Keter.
Yesterday, MPs who spoke to The
Standard said it was disrespectful of
Duale to refer to his fellow MP as
bubu (dumb). Duale had said that
Keter, who has become too critical of
the ruling coalition at public rallies,
avoided debates in Parliament.
The MPs asked Duale to apologise
to the Nandi Hills electorate and their
MP for the remarks he made in Ker-
icho during a function that was also
attended by Ruto.
The MPs Julius Melly (Tinderet),
Elijah Lagat (Chesumei), Stephen
Bitok (Mosop), Zakayo Cheruiyot
(Kuresoi South), Alex Kosgei (Emg-
wen) and William Kisang (Marakwet
West) told Duale off for disrespect-
ing them.
But Bowen Kangogo (Marakwet
East) said Duale had nothing to
apologise for, arguing that it was
Keter who should seek forgiveness
from the Jubilee coalition for being
disrespectful to the Government.
Mr Cheruiyot accused Duale of
disrespecting Kalenjin leaders. Du-
ale should understand Kalenjin poli-
tics are dynamic and stop playing
games, he insisted.
RESPECT LEADERS
Mr Lagat warned: Duale should
talk to us with respect not with con-
tempt and insults. Every leader de-
serves to be respected. Nobody
should accuse us when we speak the
truth. Duale is not a roll-call keeper
in Parliament. Keter has made contri-
butions.
Referring to the recent crackdown
on terrorism, Mr Melly argued,
Kalenjin leaders are not dumb and
we will not be stopped from raising
BY FAITH RONOH
A section of Rift Valley resi-
dents have differed with Dep-
uty President William Ruto
over his remarks on the trans-
fer of Kiplimo Rugut as the
National Youth Service (NYC)
director.
On Saturday, the DP, said
President Uhuru Kenyatta and
himself should take responsi-
bility over Mr Ruguts transfer
and leaders should not blame
Devolution Cabinet Secretary
Anne Waiguru.
But yesterday, residents
from his political bedrock took
to Kass FMs Lee Nee Emet
morning show and lashed on
the DP for what they termed as
outright betrayal, of the
Kalenjin community.
We thought the DP was
not aware of what was happen-
ing but we were shocked to
hear him saying he was among
those who made the decision,
Tecla Rono from Uasin Gishu
County said.
Another caller accused Ruto
of failing to: stand by the very
people who mentored and -
nally brought him to power.
The listeners hit out on Na-
tional Assembly Majority
Leader Adan Duale for insinu-
ating that the vernacular radio
station was being used to di-
vide members of URP.
Abel Rop insisted that Mr
Duale must apologise to the
radio station as well as the
Kalenjin as soon as possible.
If Duale has an interpreter
then he must know that what-
ever is discussed in this pro-
gram is not in any way hate
speech or is meant to divide
this (Kalenjin) community. We
are one, Mr Rop said.
The residents further
thanked outspoken Nandi Hills
MP Alfred Keter for speaking
his mind and urged him to
continue pointing out what he
feels is not right in the party.
However, in a bid to quell
down the angry residents, po-
litical adviser in the ofce of
the President, Joshua Kuttuny,
sent a text message to the sta-
tion saying: I stand with all
Kass FM fans on any allega-
tions labelled against them. We
hope Kalenjin leaders will nd
time to iron out their differ-
ences.
DP defence on Waiguru
stirs debate in region
concerns touching on our people.
When Duales people had problems
recently, he came out strongly and
nobody accused him.
Melly said Duale was insensitive
towards Keter, the electorate and
people with disabilities, and should
apologise. As an independent leader,
I did not like the remark by Duale. He
stooped too low, Melly said, adding
that Ms Waigurus impeachment pro-
cess was going on.
Waiguru is in trouble with MPs
over the NYS replacement with Nel-
son Githinji as Director General.
The Deputy President has de-
fended Waiguru, asking the report-
edly more than 100 MPs who have
signed a petition for the censure Mo-
tion against the CS to stop targeting
junior people and take him and the
President head on.
But Rutos remarks have not gone
down well with leaders from the re-
gion and were the subject of a popular
regional radio talk show.
Yesterday, Cheruiyot questioned
why Ruto told MPs off over the issue.
When you say you are in Govern-
ment, who are your trusted lieuten-
ants? You have a small window to re-
consider your political leadership
style, Cheruiyot warned.
Cheruiyot challenged the DP to
come out clean on the issues raised
by the MPs if he intends to maintain
support from the community.
You cannot tell Kalenjin MPs to
stop asking questions. Those are
petty intrigues and will lead us no-
where, Cheruiyot said adding: If
Ruto was sent by the President to
Kericho for damage-control, then its
wrong.
Mr Songok said the electorate in
Nandi Hills elected Keter to represent
them in the National Assembly and it
was therefore regrettable that Duale
made disrespectful remarks against
him.
Mr Bitok said every elected leader
has a right to express his or her opin-
ion about what is happening but
emphasised that politicians should
respect one another.
We should be moderate in how
we handle issues so that we dont
cause disunity. We need to sit and
solve issues in a friendly environment
as leaders, he said.
Bitok said the dispute should be
handled amicably and challenged
URP leaders to protect the party and
the Deputy President as their party
leader.
Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto asked
URP to call an urgent meeting to sort
out issues that are threatening to tear
the party apart. I want to ask URP to
call a meeting urgently so that we can
sort out issues affecting it at the mo-
ment if it wants to stay on as a party
and see tomorrow.
He added: Everyone is free to
speak his or her mind and some URP
leaders should stop their harassment
and chest-thumping.

Additional reporting by Patrick
Kibet and Gilbert Kimutai
DUALE CLAIM ON KETER
Duale had claimed Keter
makes no contribution on seri-
ous issues in Parliament. Aki-
ambiwa kuna hoja kali bun-
geni, huyu mtu anaitwa Alfred
Keter ni bubu, anajifcha kwa
choo (When told there is a seri-
ous debate in Parliament, this
person called Alfred Keter is
dumb; he hides in the toilet)
Alfred Keter is just being
used by those against the Gov-
ernment to give the Jubilee
administration trouble
Alfred Keter: We were
elected as leaders and we
have the right to speak on
issues of concern and raise
questions where neces-
sary
Julius Melly: Kalenjin lead-
ers are not dumb and we
will not be stopped from
raising concerns touching
on our people
Zakayo Cheruiyot: You
cannot tell Kalenjin MPs
to stop asking questions.
Those are petty intrigues
and will lead us nowhere
Isaac Ruto: Everyone is
free to speak his or her
mind and some URP lead-
ers should stop their ha-
rassment and chest-
thumping
Ruto, Duale
under fre from
Rift leaders
They accuse the two
of belittling MPs
who criticise Jubilee
government on
important issues
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014 / The Standard
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All this will increase Kenyas visibility by making it top of mind-choice
for tourists and investors.
Caring Elephant in wood Our Wealth in wood Prophet at The National
Museum
Enyamchera(Bird of Peace)1978
UNESCO Hdqs. Paris. Soapstone
Dancing Birds, 2010 in Kisii granite.Visit by schools
to view the 30-ton gift for the people of Kenya &
America
Other famous sculptures by Elkana Ongesa in Kenya and overseasp
Elkana Ongesa is a soapstone sculptor. His philosophy is, Art is the Bond between Humanity,
Nature, and The Creator, God. Through art he tries to appreciate and share what God has already
made perfect. He borrows and uses them to tell his story of where he has been, where he is and
each new piece he makes is a revelation of the long journey a head, ever unnished, tune to
eternity. Ongesa is one of the most admired and prolic contributors to art in Kenya, having
taught art in several schools and Colleges in Kenya and currently a freelance Fine Artist
Sports Ministry and Kisii County Ofcials agging off
the centrepiece in Kisii
Page 6 / NATIONAL NEWS
By GATONYE GATHURA
Widowed women may soon be
able to donate their late spouses
bodies or organs to research institu-
tions if they die without writing a
will.
In addition, it may soon be lawful
for one to receive payment for the
trouble of donating a body organ to
another party.
The proposal also makes it legal
for the Cabinet Secretary to donate
unclaimed bodies or parts of bodies
to research and training institutions
or medical use.
The controversial proposals are
part of the new Health Bill 2014. It
says that in the absence of a will indi-
cating how the body should be dis-
posed of when the person dies, close
relatives, number one being the wife,
will have the right to donate the body
for research, training or replacement
purposes.
Although the Bill makes it clear
there should be no commercial har-
vesting body organs, it allows a donor
to be paid for unspecied costs and
the trouble involved in the exercise.
The Billl does not say the amounts
that would be involved, but suggests
donors could be legally compensated
for things like transport costs or time
away from gainful employment.
This open-ended clause may be
interpreted to mean surrogate moth-
ers would be able to claim for pay-
ments, and even resort to court for
arbitration in case of a dispute. This
could also be true for other organ
donations.
It is an offence for a person who
has donated organ to receive any
form of nancial or other reward for
such donation, except for the reim-
bursement of reasonable costs in-
curred in the donation exercise, says
the proposed law.
Just to make sure poor people are
not lured to backstreet clinics to have
their organs harvested for money, the
Act says such an operation can only
be carried out in a duly licensed facil-
ity by qualied medical personnel.
However, any expert authorised to
harvest an organ cannot be the lead
doctor in the transplant of the same
to another individual.
This is expected to check unscru-
pulous medical workers becoming
middlemen in a possible body parts
trade. It is possible to create a false
By GATONYE GATHURA
The long-awaited Health Bill has
nally been drafted, with proposals to
retain old structures, create many
new plum jobs while keeping most of
the power in Nairobi.
The draft Health Bill 2014, nalised
on Friday, proposes the establishment
of a powerful post of the Director
General of Health, a raft of new direc-
torates at the headquarters and the
creation of more than seven new
agencies.
The draft also proposes the estab-
lishment of the Kenya Health Service
Commission (KHSC).
The creation of such a commis-
sion, similar to the Teachers Service
Commission, has been one of the
major demands by health workers
during their recent strikes.
Early in the year, Devolution Cabi-
net Secretary Anne Waiguru had said
this was non-negotiable as it would be
unconstitutional.
A report prepared in January by
the Health Professionals and Health
Stakeholders Consultative Forum for
input into the proposed law, had also
advised against the creation of such a
commission.
MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS
The proposed draft says the com-
mission, to be established through an
act of Parliament, would be respon-
sible for the recruitment, promotion
and assignment of health workers in
public hospitals.
The commission shall have all the
powers necessary for the performance
of its functions, reads the draft signed
by Health Cabinet Secretary James
Macharia.
In any case the commission, it is
indicated, can only make recommen-
dations to the national and county
public service commissions and, the
Salaries and Remuneration Commis-
sion. The proposed commission has
a singular function of advisory role.
Therefore, the commission will be
ineffective, said the stakeholders
forum.
The Bill proposes the establish-
ment of a Kenya Health Professions
Oversight Authority, which in an ear-
lier proposal was supposed to collapse
more than eight professional bodies
into one. For a long time, investors in
the sector have complained of the
many regulatory bodies they have had
to deal with and wanted them re-
duced.
For example, currently a pharmacy
or hospital has to deal with inspectors
from as many as seven different regu-
latory agencies: the nurses council,
the dentist or pharmacy boards, the
radiation board, the nutrition council
and several others.
The new draft proposes to retain
all the current seven regulatory agen-
cies but also create a new entity to
oversee all the others.
The draft also proposes creation of
the Kenya National Blood Transfusion
Service as well as the National Re-
search for Health Committee. Further
good news for top medical profes-
sionals especially in Nairobi, is the
creation of a single body for the regu-
lation of health products and tech-
nologies.
demand as happens with the lucra-
tive market of C-section births, says
Mr Abote Akoko, a lab technician in
Kisumu.
Breaking the law would attract a
jail term of ve years and a ne a mil-
lion shillings or both. The Bill also
allows the Cabinet Secretary for
Health to draft more laws dening the
type of facilities that can harvest or
transplant body organs in the coun-
try.
A boon for the many medical
training institutions coming up is a
suggestion that people who are com-
petent to make a will can donate their
bodies or specied parts to be used
for research, training or other medi-
cal purposes after their death. Such a
will can be made in writing or ver-
bally in front of witnesses, but the
donor must specify to which institu-
tion the donation is being made.
Also for the rst time the country
attempts to legally address the emerg-
ing issue of ethical use of stem cell
research.
CLONE HUMAN BEING
In a chapter that proposes to re-
peal the current Human Tissue Act,
the words stem cell research for the
rst time are introduced in to Kenyas
legal lexicon. Anyone wishing to
carry out such research in Kenya
would have to get express permission
from the Cabinet Secretary for Health
as well as the person donating the
cells.
In the chapter, which seems to
give most of the powers to the Cabi-
net Secretary, no person can clone
another human being without the
written permission of the CS.
One provision that could put CS
Macharia on a collision course with
genetically modied food (GMO) lob-
byists and companies says that no
person shall be allowed to manipu-
late any genetic code, including that
from human tissue. This could be
used to block genetic manipulation
of crops to, for instance, produce
disease-resistant or high-yielding
varieties.
Kenya is already under pressure to
lift the ban on GMOs placed in 2012
and the Health ministry largely de-
pends on US funding for its
programmes.
In March, a posting on the minis-
trys website asked Kenyans to send it
their views on GMOs to be included
in new legislation for the sector.
What Bill says on body parts donation
Though proposal
warns on commercial
harvesting, it allows
donation for research
and proposes payment
Seven health
agencies in
proposed law
Ministry drafts new law
to change sector HEALTH REFORM
The Bill says in the absence of a will indicating how the body should be dis-
posed of when the person dies, close relatives will have the right to donate the
body for research, training or replacement purposes. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]
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NATIONAL NEWS / Page 7 Tuesday, May 27, 2014 / The Standard
Medics who turn patients away face jail term
Bill drafted by Health
ministry proposes that
emergency cases be
handled regardless of
patients ability to pay
been met with strong resistance from
the private sector wanting it accom-
panied by a clause explaining who ex-
actly will be meeting the cost of treat-
ing such people.
With the increasing number of
armed robberies, terrorism, general
By GATONYE GATHURA
Any health worker or hospital
which turns away a patient on emer-
gency visit may be inviting hefty pen-
alties in nes and even jail time.
A proposed Bill drafted by the
Health ministry and which has par-
tially been a cause of recent strikes,
wants it made mandatory that all
emergency cases be attended to im-
mediately regardless of a patients
ability to pay.
The Health Bill 2014 proposes that
any health service provider who turns
away a patient on emergency visit be
ned or sent to jail.
Any clinician who fails to provide
emergency medical treatment while
having the ability to do so commits an
offence and is liable upon conviction
to a ne not exceeding Sh1 million or
imprisonment for a period not ex-
ceeding 12 months or both, proposes
the Bill. The proposal also includes in-
stitutions which are to be ned about
Sh3 million.
In the past, this suggestion has
violence and backstreet abortions, the
Health Professionals and Health
Stakeholders Consultative Forum said
health emergencies are on the rise
and require a rational approach.
The forum, which includes players
from faith-based organisations and
private health providers, had advised
the drafters of the Bill to propose the
establishment of an Emergency Med-
ical Services Fund.
Such a fund, the forum said, would
reimburse costs to private facilities
which render services during emer-
gencies.
Without such or a similar mecha-
nism to reimburse private facilities,
then the forum said the good inten-
tions of the punitive law would only
fall at on their faces.
The draft Bill suggests the estab-
lishment of an emergency medical
treatment fund to provide for what it
says are unforeseen situations. It how-
ever is non-committal on whether the
same would be used to reimburse the
private sector for emergency cases
treated. The Health Bill 2014 also be-
comes the rst legal document to
spell out the details of who, where and
under what circumstances in Kenya a
procedure to terminate a pregnancy
can be performed.
A trained medical ofcer, nurse,
midwife or a clinical ofcer with skills
to carry out an abortion will be legal-
ly covered by the suggested Bill to car-
ry out the procedure if they have a val-
id practicing licence.
FREE MATERNITY
The Bill, which gives Parliament
another chance to have a go at the
controversial abortion debate, would
also require that public hospitals ac-
quire minimal infrastructure and hu-
man skills that allow for deserving
women to get abortions as well as
post-abortion services.
These suggestions seem to contra-
dict the recent action by the Health
ministry to suspend national guide-
lines for abortion services sent earlier
to all health workers.
In December the ministry, under
pressure from pro-life groups, sus-
pended the guidelines for what the
Director of Medical Services Dr Fran-
cis Kimani said is to allow for further
consultations.
Conspicuously absent is any men-
tion of whether the free maternity
policy adopted by the Government
last year would be ingrained in the le-
gal document.
THE CONTROVERSY
In the past, this suggestion
has been met strong resis-
tance from the private sector
wanting it accompanied by a
clause explaining who exactly
will foot the cost of treating
such people
The Health Professionals
and Health Stakeholders Con-
sultative Forum proposed the
setting up of an Emergency
Medical Services Fund which
would reimburse costs to pri-
vate facilities which render
services during emergencies
The Ministry of Health has drafted a Bill proposing that any health worker who
fails to attend to an emergency case should pay a ne not exceeding Sh1 mil-
lion, be jailed or both. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]
Ministry drafts new law
to change sector HEALTH REFORM
By CYRUS OMBATI
The Judiciary and some members
of National Security Council (NSC)
met last evening to discuss violent
crimes, terrorism and administration
of justice.
A statement from the Judiciary
said Chief Justice Willy Mutunga was
to host top leadership of key security
organs as well as the Director of Pub-
lic Prosecutions for a meeting at the
Supreme Court.
The meeting is preliminary to the
two-day conference for judicial of-
cers, security ofcials and experts to
discuss counter-terrorism in the con-
text of the Constitution and interna-
tional human rights law, the state-
ment read in part.
Interior Co-ordination Cabinet
Secretary Joseph ole Lenku, Inspector
General of Police David Kimaiyo, the
Director-General of the National In-
telligence Service Michael Gichangi,
and the Chief of the Kenya Defence
Forces Julius Karangi were also ex-
pected to attend the 5pm meeting.
CJ hosts counter-terrorism meeting
Follow-up forum
to discuss security
responses within
context of Constitution
and international
human rights law
Another meeting is scheduled for
Thursday to discuss appropriate se-
curity responses within the context of
the Constitution and international
human rights law.
Ofcials said the meeting aims to
explore international human rights
and counter-terrorism, which some-
times seem to be at cross-purposes,
and demonstrate that they should be
properly viewed as complementary as
envisaged by the Constitution.
This followed a request by the
Chief Justice in April who wanted a
meeting between the Judiciary and
the NSC at the Judiciary Training In-
stitute (JTI) in Nairobi.
The request came at a time when
seemed to blame the Judiciary for
some of the terror attacks in the coun-
try after magistrates and judges re-
leased terror suspects on bond.
In a letter to Interior Co-ordina-
tion Principal Secretary Mutea Iringo,
the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary
Anne Amadi said the proposed meet-
ing should exclude both the President
and his deputy and is aimed at dis-
cussing the interface between nation-
al security and the administration of
justice.
The Judiciary believes that the
discharge of its constitutional man-
date is better served by a greater un-
derstanding of the broader social con-
text within which it operates, the
statement partly reads.
This is what informs Judiciarys
constant engagements with govern-
ment agencies, business, civil society
Adan Mohamed alias Haro Kare at the Milimani Law Courts yesterday where he
was charged with being in possession of electronic photographs intended for
instigating a terrorist activity. [PHOTO: FIDELIS KABUNYI/STANDARD]
By RAWLINGS OTIENO
A union for civil servants has vowed
to protect 52 ofcials interdicted by In-
terior Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole
Lenku.
Union of Kenya Civil Servants
(UKCS) castigated the move to interdict
ofcers over the recent killer brew that
claimed the lives of 86 people.
The union, instead told Lenku to
take political responsibility and re-
sign and demanded the interdicted
ofcers be reinstated with immediate
effect.
The interdiction was irregular and
an abuse of fundamental human rights.
How do you interdict a police ofcer in
Embu or Kiambu for a lethal drink that
was packed in Nairobi. It is Lenku and
John Mututho who should have taken
political responsibility, said Tom Ode-
ge, the unions secretary general.
The union said it had led a petition
in court and would make sure that the
interdicted civil servants do not lose
their jobs.
The union said the Kenya Bureau of
Standards should have rst been inves-
tigated as the lethal drink had its trade-
mark quality.
The interdicted ofcers included
two CEOs, deputy county commission-
ers, OCPDs and heads of intelligence in
ve counties most affected by the killer
brew.
Union tells off
CS over action
on 52 ofcers
and academia mostly through the
mediation of the Judiciary Training
Institute, it continues.
Amadi said it is important for judi-
cial ofcers to understand the imper-
atives and challenges of the national
security and the proposed meeting
will afford the other two arms of gov-
ernment an invaluable forum to share
perspectives on the critical issue in
public interest.
The letter was copied to Cabinet
Secretaries for Interior, Defence, For-
eign Affairs, Chief of Defence Forces,
National Intelligence Service, AG
Githu Muigai, IG, Head of Public Ser-
vice Joseph Kinyua and Director of JTI
Joel Ngugi.
Page 9
Terror blast
suspects
denied bail
BY FRED MAKANA
A Nairobi court has been asked
not to release on bond two men
suspected to be behind the ter-
rorist attack at Pangani Police Sta-
tion over a month ago.
The court informed Chief
Magistrate Hannah Ndungu that
Abukar Mohamed and Omar Ab-
dullahi who allegedly obtained
registration by false pretenses two
years ago are said to have com-
municated with the terrorists be-
hind the incident, which claimed
two police ofcers.
Prosecutor Eddie Kadebe, op-
posing the release of the two on
bond, asked the court to take ju-
dicial notice of the recent spate of
terror attacks that have caused
deaths and maimed thousands of
innocent Kenyans.
He further said investigations
by Anti-Terrorism Police Unit
show that there was a link be-
tween the two and the events that
led to the Pangani blast.
Police investigations into the
Pangani incident indicate that the
accused through mobile phone
communication were in contact
with those who carried out the at-
tack, Mr Kadebe said.
JUMP BAIL
The prosecutor urged the
court not to release the accused
on bond, saying they are a threat
to witnesses and the ongoing in-
vestigations.
He noted that the grounds
highlighted in the afdavit by the
investigating ofcer Emmanuel
Tinega are enough to warrant the
court to deny the accused bail.
He said once the accused are
out, they are likely to execute such
attacks or interfere with prosecu-
tion witnesses. Kadebe also told
the court that the accused were
likely to jump bail to escape the
harsh penalty pronounced upon
conviction.
He said the prosecution is will-
ing to have the trial of the two ex-
pedited and concluded in the
shortest time possible.
According to the charge sheet
produced in court, Mr Mohamed
was accused that on April 13, 2012
at the Registrar of Persons ofce
in Wajir Central, he willfully and
by false pretense procured regis-
tration as a Kenyan, which en-
abled him to obtain an identity
card.
Governors visit
Kajiado
Governor David
Nkedianye (left)
with Kiprono
Kittony, the
Kenya National
Chamber of
Commerce and
Industry
chairman
(centre) when
he visited the
governor in his
ofce over the
weekend.
Looking on is
County
Executive in
charge of
Industrialisa-
tion Florence
Mutua. [PHOTO:
PETERSON
GITHAIGA/
STANDARD]
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Duale calls for
discussion around
gender equity
BY MAUREEN ABWAO
and JOSPHAT THIONGO

The National Assembly Majority
Leader Aden Duale has asked Mem-
bers of Parliament and the public to
start discussions around the imple-
mentation of the two-thirds gender
equity rule.
The constitutional principle pro-
vides that not more than two-thirds of
the members of elective public bodies
shall be of the same gender.
Majority Leader
says Parliament
will be considered
unconstitutional in 2017
if rule is not refected
DUALE ON TWO-THIRDS GENDER RULE
The constitutional principle provides that not
more than two-thirds of the members of elec-
tive public bodies shall be of the same gender
Parliament, National Assembly and Senate,
will be considered unconstitutional after the
next General Election if the membership of
both Houses does not refect the requirement
Kenya has made signifcant strides towards
achieving gender equity and inclusion in its
legislation
Political leadership is the main problem, not-
ing that key decisions lay with the politicians
Parliament, National Assembly
and Senate, will be considered uncon-
stitutional after the next General Elec-
tion if the membership of both Hous-
es does not reect the requirement.
In December last year, the Su-
preme Court ruled that the two-thirds
gender principle should be imple-
mented progressively. It added that a
roadmap for enforcement should be
in place by August 2015.
Failure to have the law in place will
see the 2017 Parliament termed as un-
constitutional. The landmark ruling
then provided that the current Na-
tional Assembly and Senate will not
be illegal if it had less than one-third
of women.
Yesterday, Mr Duale said: We need
to have discussions on the same as
members of the National Assembly
and the public so that we can have
equal representation in terms of the
number of women in authority and
also in terms of those who are consid-
BY KIPCHUMBA KEMEI
The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and
the management of Tanzania National
Park (Tanapa) have introduced anti-
poaching lessons in 10 secondary schools
bordering Maasai Mara National Reserve
and Serengeti National Park.
The lessons that will later be included
in the teaching curriculums to sensitise
communities neighbouring the two wild-
life sanctuaries on the importance of con-
serving the wildlife.
Ofcials said the students will in return
reach out to their communities and edu-
cate them on issues of wildlife conserva-
tion to curb poaching and expose those
behind the menace.
We decided to introduce lessons on
wildlife conservation to these schools to
sensitise communities that neighbour
Mara and Serengeti parks on the need to
end poaching. The students will visit vil-
lages to educate locals on the dangers
posed by the menace, said Nick Murero,
the Mara-Serengeti Ecosystem Coordina-
tor. Students from Moi Naikara, Olchekut
Supat, Aitong, Siria Boys and Siria Girls on
the Kenya side and Machochwe, Kisangu-
ra, Ikoma, Natta and Nagusi in Tanzania
will benet from the exchange pro-
gramme.
Mr Murero said KWS personnel would
visit all the schools on the Kenya side to
teach conservation lessons while ofcials
from Tanapa will do so in their jurisdic-
tion, adding that the lessons have already
started in Siria Boys and Siria Girls.
The lessons that will cover all aspects
of conservation will take ve months. The
two countries decided to start this on re-
alisation that poaching has the potential
of killing the multibillion tourism industry
that is a major foreign exchange earner for
the two countries, he said.
BY CAROLINE RWENJI
The State has been ordered to
pay Sh200,000 in damages to a
victim of police brutality.
Joseph Njoroge will be paid
the money after High Court Judge
Justice David Majanja found that
his rights were violated.
Mr Njoroge told the court that
he was arrested alongside three
of his friends while on their way
home from a cafe at around 9pm
on March 11, this year.
On the way, he said, they met
four men who ordered them to
stop, to which order they com-
plied.
They realised they were police
ofcers as two of them had ries.
They were handcuffed and on
asking the reason for the arrest,
one of the ofcers started beating
him.
When I asked why we were
under arrest one of the ofcers
started beating me while telling
me not to instruct him on how to
do his job, he said.
Police abuse
victim gets
Sh200,000
ered marginalised.
Speaking during a forum organised
by the Kenya Alliance of Resident As-
sociations (Kara), Duale said there
cannot be equality without equity.
Rwanda as a country is growing
socially, politically and economically
because they have been able to main-
stream the gender equality issue in
their national policies, he said.
He pointed out that Kenya has
made signicant strides towards
achieving gender equity and inclu-
sion in its legislation.
Kenya has had its share of chal-
lenges in terms of gender issues. The
systems in place have been tilted in
favour of men thus discriminating
against women, youth and the dis-
abled, said Duale.
Duale cited political leadership as
being the major problem noting that
key decisions lay with the politicians,
majority of whom are men.
Chairperson of the National Gen-
der and Equality Commission Winnie
Lichuma noted that the gender equity
issue has been observed in some
quarters.
In the National Assembly and the
Senate, gender equality has been ad-
dressed but the threshold of the two-
thirds majority rule has not yet been
achieved, she said.
On the appointments of women as
parastatal heads, Ms Lichuma said
there should be inclusion of more
women as currently there are only two
women parastatal heads out of the 36
posts available.
Statistics from the commission
shows that the number of persons
with disabilities has also increased by
nine in National Assembly.
Anti-poaching lessons introduced in schools
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 / The Standard NATIONAL NEWS / Page 11
Hope as 300 tourists arrive in Mombasa
Two KDF soldiers killed in Al-Shabaab ambush
By STANDARD TEAM
Armed militants suspected to have
crossed from Somalia have killed two
Kenyan soldiers during a night raid
deep inside the Kenyan territory in
Lamu.
This has raised fresh fears over the
effectiveness of Kenyas counter-ter-
rorism operations in Somalia.
The soldiers are missing following
Sundays attack on a truck as it was
heading to deliver supplies to Kenyan
forces stationed at Ras Kamboni in-
side Somalia.
It is unclear if they were abducted
or got lost in the nearby Dondori for-
est where the attackers are believed to
have ed and are possibly still holed.
A statement from the Kenya De-
fence Forces headquarters did not ac-
knowledge deaths on its side.
Last night (Sunday) KDF soldiers
operating in Kiunga agged down a
vehicle. But its occupants instead
opened re. Our soldiers retaliated,
killing one of the shooters. KDF is in
hot pursuit of the other assailants
who ed following the shootout, read
part of a statement yesterday. But lo-
By PHILIP MWAKIO
Two airplanes with close to
300 tourists from Western Eu-
rope landed at Mombasas Moi
International Airport (MIA)
early yesterday, a gesture hailed
by stakeholders as a sign of un-
dying faith in Kenyas tourist
destinations.
One of the worlds leading
leisure airlines, Condor, has
announced it will increase its
ight rotations to the Momba-
sa airport beginning end of Ju-
ly to four ights a week.
The airline announced yes-
terday when it ew in 200,
mainly German tourists, who
are en route to Zanzibar at a
time when Kenyas tourism
sector at the Coast has taken a
beating due to terrorism fears.
Condor has an annual
transportation capacity of
more than 6.7 million and over
75 destinations in Europe, Af-
rica, Asia and the Americas.
TUI-D Resident Manager in
charge of the German and Pol-
ish markets in Mombasa Tim
Remberg told The Standard at
MIA yesterday that the current
two ights per week on Mon-
day and Saturday will increase
to three from next month.
Remberg said a fourth char-
tered ight will be deployed
from end of June from Frank-
furt, Germany.
The German visitors arrived
on a Condor ight 7265 from
Frankfurt at 5.45am. German
tourist Sebastian Glau and his
partner Eileen Grossmaur are
on their rst visit to Kenya.
Local police have said
soldiers were attacked
by about 10 militants
but the army has not
admitted the deaths
KDF soldiers in Somalia. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]
Some of the more than 100 German tourists who arrived at the
Moi International Airport on board a Condor chartered ight
from Frankfurt, walk to board buses headed for various tourist
destinations. [PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD]
cal police disclosed the deaths, with
sources within the military intelli-
gence corps indicating the Kenyan
soldiers were attacked by an Al-Sha-
baab force of about 10 militants.
The success of the attack on a KDF
Land Rover has embarrassed the Ke-
nyan military but also uncovered the
possibility of major intelligence fail-
ures and possible inltration by mili-
tants.
It is puzzling how close to a dozen
militants could inltrate the Kenyan
territory, bypassing a KDF base at
We are upbeat and looking
forward to an eight-day Safari
to Kenyas idyllic wildlife and
sceneries, which we have only
heard of before heading off to
Zanzibar for beach holiday,
Glau said.
TRAVEL ADVISORIES
Earlier on, a Turkish Air-
lines ight with 50 tourists
touched down at 3am from Is-
tanbul via Kilimanjaro, Tanza-
nia.
The recent travel advisories
issued by the United Kingdom,
France and the US followed by
evacuations created a dent in
Kenyas travel and tourism in-
dustry.
The UK-based all-inclusive
tour company, First Choice,
and Thomson Airways can-
celled all ights and vacations
to Kenya until October.
They transported about
200 vacationers to London a
fortnight ago.
By the end of the evacua-
tions night all 400 visitors were
moved from Kenya to the UK.
Most of the tourists had ex-
pressed disappointment over
the evacuation.
Ishakani on Kenyas border with So-
malia unnoticed and disappear with-
out a trace or pursuit by reinforce-
ments from nearby military camps or
Air Cavalry helicopters.
LONELY ROAD
It is also not clear what else was on
the KDF vehicle besides food and the
military has claimed one militant was
killed but failed to explain why the
soldiers were travelling on a lonely re-
mote road alone. And the sense of
anxiety and shock has been exacer-
bated by the fact that the attackers,
armed with light weapons including
AK47 but possible Rocket Propelled
Grenade or RPG-7, inltrated 45 kilo-
metres into the Kenyan territory to kill
KDF soldiers at a place called Mili-
mani, less than three kilometres from
the supposedly secure Manda Bay na-
val base.
The soldiers were from Lamu and
were on their way to Ras Kamboni to
deliver foodstuff when they were at-
tacked at night. Their lorry was stuck
in the mud following heavy rains,
Leonard Omollo, the Lamu County
police commander said yesterday.
According to the army, an ex-
change of re erupted after KDF sol-
diers agged down a vehicle but
Omollo said the gunre started when
militants ambushed the soldiers from
nearby bushes.
The police boss said the Kenyans
vehicle was stuck in mud due to heavy
rains but the KDF statement made no
reference to this.
The exchange of re resulted in
the death of two soldiers. The military
lorry was sprayed with bullets after it
was stuck in the mud, said Omollo.
Sources in Lamu said suspended
Al-Shabaab elements ambushed the
soldiers as they struggled to pull out
the lorry at Milimani, 45 kilometres
from Ras Kamboni.
Meanwhile, independent sources
in Lamu informed The Standard that
militants from Somalia were pursuing
a Kenyan police patrol car that was
holding two Tanzanian jihadists that
had sneaked into Lamu through Ki-
unga when they bumped into the Ke-
nyan military men and opened re on
them. Omollo said the soldiers were
from Lamu and on their way to Ras
Kamboni to deliver foodstuff .
Sources in Lamu said the soldiers
were from the 15th KA Batallion of the
Kenya Army and were delivering the
food ration from Manda Base in La-
mu. But The Standard has learnt the
truck(s) ferrying the supplies moved
from Nairobi late last week.
Reports by Patrick Beja, Benard
Sanga and Willis Oketch

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By KURIAN MUSA
The Mathare Constituency by-
election will be conducted within
90 days after the Supreme Court on
Friday upheld the declaration that
George Wanjohis win was uncon-
stitutional.
Judge Smokin Wanjala said the
Independent Electoral and Bound-
aries Commission (IEBC) was free
to announce an election date and
ordered that National Assembly
Speaker Justin Muturi be served
with the court decision to enable
the process of a by-election to be-
gin.
Supreme Court judges led by
deputy Chief Justice Kalpana Raw-
al nullied the election and direct-
ed that the people of Mathare
should brace for a by-election to
choose their own leaders.
IEBC was ordered to cater for
the legal fees of Stephen Kariuki of
ODM party, who successfully chal-
lenged the election of Wanjohi
(TNA). The highest court upheld
the decision of the Court of Appeal
which ordered for a by-election,
saying the election results were
marred by massive irregularities,
making it difcult to establish the
winner.
By LUKE ANAMI
A row is brewing between the
Commission on Revenue Allocation
(CRA) and the Mining ministry over a
proposed law that excludes a formula
for sharing proceeds from minerals.
CRA has accused the ministry of
disregarding its revenue sharing pro-
posals in the Mining Bill 2014, which
is pending before Parliament.
The Mining Bill 2014, which is be-
fore the National Assembly, lacks pro-
posals on how to share revenue be-
tween locals, county and the national
government, something that has
prompted CRA Chairman to raise is-
Cabinet Secretary
on the spot over
Mining Bill, which
does not have revenue
sharing formula
BREWING TROUBLE
Commission on Revenue Allocation has ac-
cused the Mining ministry of disregarding
revenue sharing proposals in the Mining Bill
2014, which is pending before Parliament
CRA Chairman Micah Cheserem wrote to
Mining Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala com-
plaining that the Mining Bill being debated by
the National Assembly does not include a rev-
enue sharing formula
Insisting on the formula, Cheserem cites the
principal function of CRA, which is to make
recommendations for equitable sharing of
revenue raised by the national government
between the national and the counties
sue with Mining Cabinet Secretary
Najib Balala.
The proposals were made and sent
to Mr Balala a month ago.
It has now been brought to our at-
tention that the Mining Bill being de-
bated by the National Assembly does
not include a revenue sharing formu-
la, CRA Chairman Micah Cheserem
said in a letter addressed to Balala,
dated May 22.
You will recall that I led two del-
egations from the commission to your
ofce to make recommendations on
the formula that could be included in
the Mining Bill. The purpose of this
letter is to request you to intervene
and reinstate the revenue sharing for-
mula that we had recommended to
you, reads part of the letter.
Mr Cheserem said the formula
must be included in the Bill because
minerals will in the coming years be a
major source of revenue.
The Energy Bill 2014, he said, must
also include a formula as the commu-
nities where the natural energy plants
are will require compensation as well.
By JOSPHAT THIONGO
and MAUREEN ABWAO
As the alternative government, the
opposition should offer solutions, Na-
tional Assembly Majority Leader Aden
Duale has said.
He said CORD leaders who have
been holding a series of rallies, where
they have criticised the Jubilee Govern-
ment, should stop the blame game and
instead offer solutions to the problems
facing the country.
Duale told the opposition leaders to
concentrate on development issues
that will benet wananchi and save pol-
itics for 2017.
Cord leaders should be account-
able for what they say as they have
formed platforms to propagate hate
speech messages against the govern-
ment of the day, which is in no way in
the interest of Kenyans, said Duale.
On regime change, Duale said: Cord
leaders should allow the Jubilee Gov-
ernment to serve its term, and resell
their policies ahead of the next general
elections.
He urged Alfred Keter to table any
grievances he had in Parliament where
answers would be provided.
Keter is just being used by a section
of those against the Government. He
needs to understand that the Jubilee co-
alition represents the interests of both
parties and those of the Kenyan citi-
zens, he said.
The legislator said Devolution and
Planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waig-
urus impending impeachment was not
a collective decision of the Jubilee alli-
ance but an opinion of Igembe South
MP Mithika Linturi.
Duale said talks were underway to
ensure Mithika Linturi reconsiders his
stand over the Motion he had tabled in
Parliament on impeaching Waiguru.
Some 116 MPs have signed a peti-
tion to oust Waiguru, who is accused of
gross misconduct and gross violation of
the constitution.
She is also accused of intimidating
and threatening public servants under
her jurisdiction.
Duale tells CORD to offer solutions
Help tap talent, education stakeholders told
By FRED KIBOR
The government has advised education
stakeholders to help nurture talent among
learners instead of emphasising only on
academics.
Basic Education Director Leah Rotich
said learners have continued to exhibit tal-
ent in learning institutions and it is high
time these abilities were developed.
She said the Ministry of Education has
drafted a national educational sector plan
that will help encourage development of
various kinds of talent among children in
learning institutions besides emphasising
academic excellence.
We should look at a child as a whole
person, not just concentrating on academ-
ic excellence. We need to incorporate their
talents as they go on with class work, said
the director.
She said parents and teachers should
be able to identify different talents inher-
ent in the learners.
Apart from academics, learners have
continued to exhibit several talents which
need to be nurtured and which in the end
would benet them even if they fail to per-
form well in class, said Mrs Rotich.
CONTINUE EXPLOITING
She said the Ministry of Education
through its curriculum has encouraged
development of talent among learners and
urged other stakeholders to continue ex-
ploiting them.
Our learners have not disappointed
when it comes to displaying their co-cur-
ricular activities which if tapped would
help them excel in future, she said.
Speaking at Metkei Girls secondary
School in Keiyo South sub-county, where
she graced an educational day, Mrs Rotich
said her department has set programmes
that would help in nurture talent at a ten-
der age.
She said reforms were underway in the
education sector to help address untapped
talent.
These reforms will ensure our educa-
tion is competency-based to help develop
abilities such as critical thinking and com-
munication skills to explore their full po-
tential, she said.
Area MP Jackson Kiptanui who also at-
tended the education day urged teachers
to do their best to uplift academic stan-
dards in the area, saying that quality grades
posted over the years in the area were few-
er compared to other areas.
National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale
Court gives
nod to hold
mini polls
Micah Cheserem
The same applies to the Energy Bill
2014, he said.
In an interview with The Standard,
Cheserem said it is important for the
people of Kwale to know what is there
upfront from the mining of Titanium
instead of waiting for the time bomb
to explode.
The Turkana County people
should know what share they will get
from the mining upfront. There is also
Coal in Kitui, Soda in Magadi among
other mineral and natural resources,
he explained.
GOLD DEPOSITS,
We must have a formula because
in the next ve years, if we dont have
a formula, we will be opening a pan-
doras box, he added.
The discovery of oil and other min-
erals including gold deposits, natural
gas among others is likely to be a
source of conict within the regions
where the discoveries are made.
Turkana was in the news early this
year when the residents demanded
compensation from Tullow Oil Com-
pany.
It is therefore important that we
make good policy decisions upfront
to avoid conict and chaos that many
countries have encountered due to
their failure to share mineral revenues
equitably, he said.
Insisting on the formula, Cheser-
em cites the principal function of
CRA, which is to make recommenda-
tions for equitable sharing of revenue
raised by the national government be-
tween the national and the county
governments.
Further, the issue of minerals and
natural resources is governed by
Chapter Five of the Constitution,
which deals with Land and Environ-
ment.
With due regard to the provisions
therein, the Government is expected
to develop legal and institutional
frameworks that will guide the exploi-
tation, management, utilisation and
conservation of minerals; and, natu-
ral resources for maximum economic
benet of the country and local com-
munities, he explained.
Revenue body
hits out at Balala
over Mining Bill
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Swoops not best way
to address insecurity
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Empower police service to bolster war on crime
WHAT OTHER MEDIA SAY...
A
s much as we appreciate police efforts to beat
back the wave of crime and terrorism in the
country, these efforts must be done within the
confines of the law to avoid antagonising the citizenry.
Police swoops in Mombasa are becoming the norm
even as they raise public outcry on the manner of their
execution. Hundreds of people were recently arrested
inside a nightclub that operates legally and faced
various charges in court yesterday.
These random swoops infringe on peoples freedom
of movement and assembly that the Constitution
upholds in the Bill of Rights. These blanket arrests can
be tolerated only under a state of emergency that has
not yet been declared.
The police must learn to act on targeted intelli-
gence, which should lead them to specific groups and
individuals either suspected or confirmed to be
indulging in subversive activities.
Experience has shown that the scattergun approach
is counterproductive and at worst, sets up the public
against the government. In truth, too many arrests
have been made at the coastal town of Mombasa in the
name of fighting terrorism, but none has led to
conviction. Lack of sustainable evidence has always
seen the suspects released by the courts. Instances
abound where suspects are released after the greasing
the palms of police officers.
This newspaper has insisted before that rapport
must exist between the police and the citizens if the
war on crime is to be won.
The opposite of this obtains where the police
officers assume the role of bullies. Lack of trust and
confidence in our police service, brought about largely
by the canteen culture, has seen even those who would
have volunteered vital information withholding it for
fear of harassment.
It was everybodys hope that the change from a force
to a service would make some difference. Now it seems
there is a long way to go.
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M
odernisation of the Kenya
Police Service is a prerequisite
to enhancing security and
fighting crime that appears to be on an
upswing. Though statistics indicate that
there was a 14 per cent drop in crime in
the last two months, it is not an indicator
of the effectiveness of the police in
fighting the vice.
While speaking to governors in
Naivasha on issues of insecurity, the
Inspector General of Police, Mr David
Kimaiyo, said the country needed to
urgently recruit an additional 200,000
police officers to help in combating crime.
Coming at a time when the country is
under siege and the existing small number
of police officers is unable to fully cope,
this is a request that needs immediate
attention.
Only last week, security chiefs met in
Nairobi to decry low budgetary allocations
to the police service that hinder opera-
tions. In fact according to an opinion by
the Leaders of Majority of Parliament (see
p15), the government will spend Sh2
billion on guns for the officer, Sh18 billion
less. At the meeting, it was revealed that
police cars were allocated two litres of
petrol each per day.
Currently, Kenya has 75,000 police
officers. This number has been going
down gradually through natural attrition,
dismissals, resignations and retirement.
Against a population of 40 million plus,
what this translates into is that we have
one police officer per every 523 people.
The United Nations recommendations
propose one police officer for every 450
people. Given that 680,000 illigal arms are
in the hands of criminals and the bigger
number of people to police, the task
becomes almost impossible to accomplish.
For effective patrols, the police service
must be furnished with modern and
well-equipped patrol aircraft to keep
perpetual surveillance over high crime
areas especially in urban centres. The
number of motor vehicles assigned to the
police should also be increased and
enough fuel given to allow officers to make
timely responses to calls for assistance.
The welfare of officers is of paramount
importance as it helps in boosting morale.
The proposal to give insurance cover to
officers is a move in the right direction. In
the past, families of officers killed in their
line of duty have been taken round in
circles and ended up with no benefits. In
addition to insurance, decent housing that
does not rob officers of their dignity is a
must. The conditions of what passes for
houses in police lines are deplorable and
dehumanising. Officers have on several
occasions had to execute their duties
while adorning torn uniforms and shoes. It
is the duty of the Government to ensure
that officers are resplendent in their
uniforms. Replacement of old uniforms
must be regular. In the past, some officers
have had to buy uniforms from their
salaries. Also, a review of the salaries of
the officers should be considered so that
they are commensurate with the hard,
dangerous and demanding work they
perform in helping maintain law and
order.
Besides a forensic laboratory, police
officers need to be supplied with arms that
can match the weapons that criminals use.
Going into hotspots with ancient rifles
when criminals are using advanced
weaponry is exposing police officers to
unnecessary dangers.
A right to be forgotten? Forget it
The beauty of the Internet is that it
accumulates once-unimaginable stores of
information and makes them accessible
instantly from anywhere with the click of a
mouse. But if you believe the European Court
of Justice, thats not a feature; its a bug. The
court recently upheld what is known as the
right to be forgotten. If you do something you
would rather people didnt know about, the
World Wide Web is not your friend. It retains
such items permanently, allowing search
engines to nd them. The court says that needs
to change. After a certain amount of time has
passed, it decided, people should be able to
lock unwelcome incidents away. The verdict
came in a suit by a Spanish lawyer who wanted
to suppress a 1998 legal notice that his house
was being repossessed to pay his debts.
The Banality of Anger
Nowhere is the crisis of modernity felt
more acutely than in France where for a
quarter-century now, globalisation has
brought moroseness and mistrust on an epic
scale. Uneasy with capitalism, uncomfortable
with exibility, unpersuaded by the so-called
Anglo-Saxon model, France has retreated into
its rancour. Immigrants and openness have
constituted threat more than possibility. Even
its glorious cuisine seems somehow static, too
heavy for its times, unable to adapt, short on
Spanish inventiveness, locked in the past. Its
wines, the best in the world by some distance,
have proved short on narrative, that core
ingredient of modern marketing. Its world-
class private companies get swept beneath the
relentless wave of functionaries complaints.
Older Egyptians may welcome stability
under Sisi, but his regime only a stop-gap
A promise to deprive people of a decent
nights sleep might not be a vote-winner in
many countries. But for the retired General
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the absolute shoo-in as
next president of Egypt, the offer of tough love
is part of the appeal. Speaking on television, Mr
Sisi declared that, once he became head of state,
I will not sleep and neither will you. It was
vintage stuff from a man who likes to compare
Egypt to a lazy child and the army to a father
who rightly does not spare the rod. Todays
vote is not a genuine election. Only one rival to Mr
Sisi is standing, a tame left-winger who has been
allowed to run in order to preserve constitutional
niceties about competition. The once-dominant
Islamists, who convincingly won the much freer
election that followed the fall of...

Palaver
Raila Odinga, aka baba,
will be jetting into the coun-
try soon, after a two-month
sojourn in the US. The coun-
try is divided
along tribal
and party
lines now more
than ever be-
fore yet leaders
keep yapping
about national unity. Do you
agree? Now, palaver has been
thinking; what if President
Kenyatta and Ruto led the
welcoming party and laid the
red carpet for Tinga? How
far can this go for national
unity? Burying the hatchet,
you get?
Someone please tell the
KUPPET leadership that when
separate entities merge for a
common good, they lose their
individual
identities. Al-
legations that
KNUT wants to
swallow KUP-
PET are jejune,
and seriously so. But then the
clincher is simply that Kuppet
wants to partake of the eating.
Ahoy there teachers, are you
listening?
Some people just never
learn. No matter how hard
you hit them, no matter how
hoarse you shout yourself,
they just cant learn. Must
be something that runs in
the genes. Despite having
come under heavy ak, IEBC
continues to mire itself in
controversy. Sadism, would
you say? Come on guys, next
time you want to do regis-
tration, holler, its a mite
healthier that way!
The Constitution should be
redone, and the sooner the
better. We break about every
law in the book without a care
in the world. This animal called
bail is giving people big heads.
And the courts are there to
keep countermanding orders
they themselves give that one
needs to be a learned friend to
make head or tail of anything.
Too exasperating! Next time
you hear of going to court, run,
babe run!
And nally...
There is this Swahili say-
ing, usimwamshe alalaye,
ukimwamsha utalala wewe
(simply, let the sleeping dogs
lie). For a long time, CORD
was actually sleeping and
Jubilee went ahead to taunt
it. It was called names and
now that it has come awake,
the same fellows who threw
barbs at it are alarmed. You
wanted CORD to be active,
now it is, what are the com-
plaints about?
Soldier, on fellows!
oped@standardmedia co.ke
OPINIONS / Page 15 Tuesday, May 27, 2014 / The Standard
Our wastefulness can make your head spin
chance.
In essence, you have robbed
185 200 citizens of the chance to
empower themselves, their fami-
lies and their communities, or 21
constituencies with Mandera
South poverty levels.
Are you surprised then, that
public condence in the institu-
tion continues to fall?
Extrapolate to Sh7 billion and
you will likely end up with a head-
ache or a really bad case of heart-
ache.
NO CONFIDENCE
While were on the topic of
wastage, we seem to have redis-
covered, along with the fact that
the Judiciary is quickly losing ob-
jectivity and independence, that
a worth-while pastime is injunc-
tions, election petitions, im-
peachments, appealing against
impeachments it is enough to
make your head spin.
How about we stop wasting
taxpayers money and free those
dockets for deserving citizens
who need fair hearing on perti-
nent matters?
There should be a limit to how
many times an ofce holder can
be ousted, and re-ousted from
power.
If there is an overwhelming
vote of no condence in your ex-
ecution of duties, then as the late
Michael Jackson said, you need to
look at the man in the mirror.
Ms Ngima is a strategy, nance and
governance expert
tania.ngima@gmail.com
W
hoever said no news
is good news was
right on the mark
given the events of the last few
months. It has become hard to
shake the feeling of foreboding
that grabs us every time we take a
cursory look at the news. From
the ghosts (present and past) of
Anglo Leasing, terrorism and in-
security to the high cost of living
and a warning of even harder
times ahead, everything raises my
ire, my blood pressure.
The alternative is to adopt the
laissez faire attitude that becomes
so commonplace when we nd
ourselves powerless and resigned
to what we feel is out of our con-
trol (mostly everything is, actual-
ly, nowadays).
It is also quite possible that the
one thing that works for Kenyans
allowing us to go about our dai-
ly lives is ignoring the latest au-
thentic (or so it claims) terrorist
alert warning us about an attack
at some road or mall.
Unfortunately, my disposition
is too perky for laissez faire: I will
be the person still standing on the
soap box, preaching to the con-
verted and thumbing through the
Bible until the cows come home.
They also say a problem shared is
a problem halved. So Ill take my
chances and share my problem
today.
I abhor wastage. In all its forms
including inefciency, excessive-
ness and proigacy. This week,
two gures kept popping up in
my peripheral vision. Sh7 billion
and Sh645 million. They repre-
sent what was classied as dubi-
ous Anglo Leasing contracts and
misappropriated funds by the Ju-
diciary.
In light of the larger scheme of
things, such as the Eurobond and
our trillion-shilling budget, these
may not look like gures that
should cause alarm. After all, we
have since discovered that the
taxpayers are a bottomless source
of money.
But lets park this gures for a
minute and look at a few more is-
sues in our backyard.
CORPORATE GAMBITS
Having worked in the corpo-
rate sector for over 10 years, I
know the psychological and -
nancial anxiety that comes with
the merest hint of layoffs. For the
majority of people, the answer to
who are you/what do you do in-
variably alludes to both place of
work and trade or craft.
Where we work and what we
do is deeply entrenched in our
personal identity. If you dont be-
lieve me, read about how people,
in the wake of being laid off leave
their houses as if they were going
to work only to kill time until
they gather the nerve to disclose
to their spouses (yes, just like in
the movies).
The numbers though, are
coming in hard and fast; East Af-
rican Breweries Ltd have laid off
100. Hot on their heels, Barclays
are planning to let go of 19,000
people, half of these in Europe,
UK and Africa.
Chances are low to nil that Ke-
nya will not suffer some casual-
ties.
As insecurity rises to almost
pandemic levels, the tourism sec-
tor that suppoprts direct employ-
ment in agriculture, the airline in-
dustry and related informal
trades, is predicted to lose an ad-
ditional 150,000 jobs.
The Kenya Revenue Authority
must also be alarmed with the po-
tential losses in revenue, given
their ambitious collection tar-
gets.
Did I mention harder times
ahead?
In the wake of the reported
(and somewhat controversial)
740,000 jobs that were created,
this feels like one step forward
and many steps back.
HARDLY AFFORD
Let us revisit the gures that
we had parked. Context, as al-
ways, is everything. With an econ-
omy that is almost on its knees,
we can hardly afford to be waste-
ful.
What I dont understand is
why the principals entrusted with
duciary responsibility nd it so
easy to whittle away public funds
as if it were monopoly money.
But then again, our existences
and livelihoods are as disparate as
earth and sky.
What exactly does the Sh645m
allegedly misappropriated in the
Judiciary mean to us local folk.
Any entrepreneur seeking to start
a business will be seeking nanc-
ing of between Sh2 and Sh5 mil-
lion just to have a fair ghting
TANIA NGIMA}
HARD TI MES
T
here are no doubts
among Kenyans that the
twin problems of crime
and terrorism have become a ma-
jor challenge to the country.
But Kenyans of goodwill are
agreed that the difculties in the
ght against crime are systematic.
They are the results of low fund-
ing, poor working conditions for
the police, lack of adequate trans-
port and lack of technology and
general lethargy among security
ofcers problems that accumu-
lated in the previous years be-
cause the country did not invest
adequate resources in the securi-
ty sector.
These are the challenges that
the Jubilee administration identi-
ed as soon as it came to power a
year ago. The new government
quickly realised that the battle
cannot be won until these chal-
lenges are tackled.
And this is what the Jubilee
Administration has been tackling.
As a long-term solution to the
crime-terrorism menace, funding
for the police has been scaled up
and procurement of all security
equipment streamlined.
Last year for example, the
president and deputy president
reduced the budget for buying
ADEN DUALE AND KITHURE KINDIKI} Jubilee doing a lot to address insecurity
Budget-
wise the Ju-
bilee gov-
ernment
has allocat-
ed Sh67 bil-
lion shillings
to security in
the next s-
cal year
guns from Sh20 billion to Sh2 bil-
lion, freeing a whopping Sh18 bil-
lion for other security needs.
Instead of buying vehicles, of-
ten done at double the market
price, the government opted to
lease 1,200 vehicles which are be-
ing used to monitor and contain
crime across the counties.
Police will, for the rst time in
Kenyas history, be insured against
the vagaries and hazards of their
job.
Budget-wise the Jubilee gov-
ernment has allocated Sh67 bil-
lion shillings to security in the
next scal year.
These are long-term measures
to address the historical prob-
lems that have bedevilled the se-
curity sector over the years of pre-
vious administrations and the
Jubilee government must be ap-
preciated for seeking to tackle
and seek permanent solutions to
this problem.
But while doing this and await-
ing the outcomes, the govern-
ment is not lost to the fact that the
country continues to face major
security threats from organised
criminal groups like the Al Sha-
baab, a ragtag militia whose ele-
ments are running away from So-
malia where our KDF forces have
routed them.
The expansive and porous
Mandera and Coast regions have
become entry points for Al Sha-
babab where they are assisted by
lax and corrupt government of-
cials to look the other way after
taking bribes.
But this is not all. The govern-
ment is increasing border surveil-
lance especially in the North
Eastern region.
The Government has also sent
a tough message of action to all
citizens and businessmen in the
vast north Eastern region who
hide Somali refugees in their
homes that they will be prosecut-
ed for criminal offences.
According to the government
and all regulations of refugee
management, all such aliens
must be registered and remain in
designated camps. Other Somali
refugees who do not face any ac-
tual threats in their original
homes should be repatriated back
home in line with international
protocols.
This is why people of goodwill
should appreciate the govern-
ments efforts in mapping all ref-
ugees who are not in the camps
and vetting all those suspected to
be in the country illegally.
This is why it is unfair for the
International Community and
some elements in the opposition
to accuse Kenya of proling mem-
bers of the Somali community.
It does not need reminding
that Kenyans of Somali extraction
are a critical part of the Kenyan
community. They are in govern-
ment, businesses and the NGOs.
They are also in our security forc-
es and in high decision-making
levels.
The vetting exercise was a se-
curity operation focused on all
aliens. It is meant to secure the
country and its people. It is hap-
pens all around the country, even
if not publicly.
This is why it is saddening that
some people in Europe and Amer-
ica have been holding demon-
strations against Kenya based on
wild allegations that the govern-
ment has been carrying out eth-
nic proling of Somalis.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and
Deputy President Wiliam Ruto
and indeed the entire govern-
ment need full support so that
they can deliver on promises
made to Kenyans during the 2013
campaigns.
Mr Duale and Mr Kithure are
Parliaments Majority Leaders
The Ke-
nya Reve-
nue Authority
must also be
alarmed with
the potential
losses in rev-
enue, given
their ambi-
tious collec-
tion targets?
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All leaders, even women, must be
accountable to the public
Deputy President William Rutos
sentiments on the censure Motion
against Devolution Cabinet Secretary
Anne Waiguru assassinates the
spirit of accountability placed on
Government agencies. The Constitution
lays the mode of sanctioning various
administrative steps. I acknowledge
the existence of male chauvinism in
our society but shielding the Kenyan
woman from accountability should not
happen at the expense of development
and societal growth. Where are
the Wangari Maathais of today?
Neptone Aduma
Strathmore University sports
complex causing sleepless nights
I have lived next to Strathmore
University for nearly 20 years and one
thing I can conrm is that the university
has been a good neighbour. But the
contractor working on the universitys
sports complex has been blowing dust
into neighbouring homes for a number
of years now. We cannot wash clothes
and are constantly coughing. When will
this project end so that we can have
some peace? Why cant the contractor do
something about the noise and dust, and
please stop the night work? Peter Oloo
Ethnic democracy to blame for our
economic woes
Ethnic-based democracy, not Western
powers, is to blame for our problems.
The leadership sees nothing wrong with
the politics of exclusion. Those who
supported them benet from jobs and
State resources while the opposition
mobilises their communities against
the Government. This breeds an our
government attitude. The trend is
dangerous and punctures patriotism
among the citizens. Benard Amaya
Africa must invest in information
sharing, strong inter regional trade
Anger and excitement have greeted
the entry of China in Kenya. This was
not unexpected given the long history
of the West in Africa. Africa must now
thrive without big brothers tutelage.
Africas aid dependence has made it a
pauper. China grew due to the wealth
of information that owed freely. This is
not true for Africa. Information is a very
powerful tool marketing local products.
Look at the goods the Chinese people
sell; the are cheaply manufactured
but have gained access to many global
markets. Africa needs to strengthen its
inter regional trade to enhance local
manufacturing rms and open up road
links and rail lines across the continent.
George Ojwang, Mombasa
Demos over alleged fees increase
could have been averted
Demonstrations by university
students against an alleged fees in-
crement wouldnt have taken place
had the student leadership trusted
authorities assurance that reports
about the increment were mis-
leading and inaccurate.
The Principal Secretary for Ed-
ucation, Belio Kipsang had, over
the weekend, got in touch with
student leaders from all public
universities and assured them that
the Government had not sanc-
tioned a fees increment in public
universities.
In fact, the Ministry of Educa-
tion invited all student leaders to
meet with the Cabinet Secretary
for Education, Jacob Kaimenyi.
NOTHING SINISTER
There was nothing sinister
about the meeting at the Ministry
of Education headquarters, which
was open to all students leaders.
Prof Kaimenyi explained to the
students that the envisioned dif-
ferentiated unit cost for nancing
academic programmes in public
universities did not mean that the
Government would impose a new
burden on parents.
Rather, he said the aim was to
determine the actual cost of the
each degree and diploma pro-
gramme that universities and ter-
tiary institutions offer.
ACTUAL COSTS
The envisioned differentiated
unit cost for nancing academic
programmes will entail, if it ap-
proved, the Government nancing
academic programmes in line with
the actual costs of the courses.
It means the Higher Education
Loans Board may give students
undertaking more expensive
courses more money in the form of
loans, unlike in the current model
where all students are given equal
amounts of money regardless of
the cost of the academic
programmes they are studying.
Universities across the country
reiterated that plans to increase
fees were neither here nor there
given the rigours of the consulta-
tive process that such a decision
must take into account.
The mass media institutions at
the countrys disposal gave wide
coverage to a Press release that
Prof Kaimenyi sent out clarifying
the misrepresentations surround-
ing the matter.
By the time students were guid-
ed to the streets to demonstrate,
their leadership was privy to these
clarications. They should have
prevailed on their followers not to
protest as they sought a face to
face audience with the authorities
over the matter.
Unlike in the past, policy mak-
ing is highly consultative.
Unless we have exhausted all
avenues, demonstrations do not
serve any public good. All they do
is create conditions for rioting,
looting and consequent tarnishing
of the good name university stu-
dents are entitled to.
{Kennedy Buhere, Nairobi}
Page 16 / READERS DIALOGUE
The uproar about the recent
transfer of former National Youth
Service director Kiplimo Rugut to
the Ministry of Sports must come
to an end.
It has now become clear that
some MPs, especially from the Rift
Valley, are politicising the issue for
their own selsh gains.
The manner in which Nandi
Hills MP Alfred Keter is using a he-
licopter to move from one part of
the region to another criticising the
transfer shows that somebody else
is using him to undermine the lead-
ership of Deputy President William
Ruto.
Keter should read the mood of
people, especially in the Rift Valley,
and concentrate on development
matters.
It is wrong for leaders to use
transfers for political contests at the
expense of deliberating on matters
like security.
It has become clear that the
same team that criticised the Presi-
dent for the standard gauge railway
project is the same one politicising
Government appointments.
The Constitution is clear on the
appointment of top civil servants
and I wonder why some politicians
engage in matters that dont con-
cern them. Anybody who claims
that Keter was speaking on behalf
of the deputy President should be
ignored.
Although the timing of the trans-
fer was suspect, Devolution Cabi-
net Secretary Anne Waiguru should
not be crucied because she was
simply doing what the Constitution
has empowered her to do.
The ongoing debate on the
transfer has nothing to do with the
appointment of top Government
ofcers.
The debate should be put to rest
so that the MPs can concentrate on
more serious matters affecting Ke-
nyans.
{Joel Onyango, Kericho}
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We must help police
ush terrorists out
The ongoing security operation
to ush out terrorists and
other criminal elements is
commendable and must be
supported by all Kenyans.
We cannot achieve development
if there is no peace.
Terrorism has nothing to do with
religion and ethnic afliations
and Kenyans should rally behind
the Government and look for a
lasting solution to it.
Inspector General of Police
David Kimaiyo has assured
Kenyans that the operation is
being carried out in accordance
with the law; without infringing
on the rights of those involved.
Nobody has gone to any police
station to give evidence of
harassment or inhumane
treatment of suspects as
claimed by some individuals.
Security matters should not
be politicised, as a matter
of fact, the security arms of
Government should be given
the opportunity to ensure that
law and order are observed at
all times.
Citizens should volunteer
useful information that can
lead to the arrest of criminals
because security agents are
not angels with powers to
identify individuals terrorising
wananchi in the country.
Kimaiyos move to send home
nine ofcers found guilty
of professional misconduct
during the operation shows
the seriousness with which the
matter is being handled.
A new unit to watch over the
conduct of the police ofcers
has interdicted an OCPD and
an OCS tarnishing the image of
police force and such a move
should be supported.
{Ezron Wanyama, Bungo-
ma}
Its fear, not conspiracy
against us by the West
Lets put our house in order before
claiming that the West is against us.
The West is merely safeguarding its cit-
izens and I do not think there is any-
thing wrong with that.
Unresolved murders, grenade at-
tacks and bomb explosions are scaring
even Kenyans away. Lets improve our
security and then tourists will ow in-
to our country. And to do this, we must
ght graft.
Hit squads who ambush and kill in-
nocent Kenyans, and get away with it
should be apprehended. Unresolved
murders worsen an already wanting
security situation.
The recent attack on Maina Njen-
gas convoy that left ve dead illus-
trates the state of security in Kenya.
This came soon after the horric dis-
covery of secret graves in Kitengela.
Those killed, raped, maimed, mas-
sacred and displaced during the 2007-
2008 post-election violence seven
years ago are still waiting for justice. It
appears as if there is a cover-up by the
State to shield the militia gangs who
caused terror for fellow Kenyans.
Were completely lost as long as au-
thorities fail to punish the culprits.
Why should they be under the States
protection?
Lets put our house in order; who
wants to visit a country where law and
order are not in place?
It is fear, not conspiracy, that is mo-
tivating the West.
{Justin Nkaranga, Mombasa}
Banda shouldnt join
autocratic leaders
Malawian President Joyce Bandas
decision to declare the just-conclud-
ed elections null and void has cast her
in a bad light. She has just joined a
long list of autocratic African leaders
who overstay their welcome even
when they are no longer liked by the
citizens. Only this time round, a wom-
an president is doing what her male
counterparts have been doing.
As a woman, the Malawian Presi-
dent is expected to be motherly and
have with the interests of her people
at heart. For heavens sake, how can
an incumbent president, with mili-
tary and police at her disposal, cry
foul over election irregularities in-
cluding cases of double voting?
When she took over as President,
everyone was happy including Mala-
wis neighbours. At the height of Ban-
das international glory, it became
normal to wonder whether much of
her success in international eyes was
the result of her being Africas second
female president or from having
achieved something signicant for
the people of Malawi.
Now that she has failed to achieve
whatever she thought was so easy
when she took over from Mbingu wa
Mutharika, she should do the most
honourable thing; concede defeat
and let the people of Malawi move
on.
{Casper Musanga, Nairobi}
Ruguts transfer being used for political gains
Mass prostate cancer tests expose
men to impotence, medics warn
Kenyan men may be unnecessarily un-
dergoing the medical procedures that
have devastating side-effects such as
impotence, loss of control of urine ow
or even death.
Besides the harmful side effects, it
causes them to incur unnecessary ex-
penses.
A top panel of US medical experts
the US Preventive Services Task Force
says that the risk of population-wide
screening using PSAs far outweigh the
benets.
The ndings are published in the
journal, Annals of Internal Medicine.
Ruchika Kohli, a consultant clinical
pathologist and country director of Pa-
thologists Lancet Kenya, the largest in-
dependent laboratory network in the
country that tests a variety of diseases
including prostate cancer, said that
many Kenyan men without risk factors
such as age and family history are hav-
ing the tests done at medical facilities
in the country.
Dr Kohli further explained that only
those aged above 50 years, or in some
cases men in the 40s with a family his-
tory of cancer, stand a prostate cancer
By ALLY JAMAH
Researchers have raised an alarm,
saying men face the risk of impotence
over unnecessary exposure during
mass screening for prostate cancer.
The medical test, technically called
the PSA or Prostate Antigen Test, is of-
ten offered during mass screening cam-
paigns, and also routinely recommend-
ed by medics in Kenya.
Prostate cancer tests are also being
offered by medical facilities during gen-
eral medical check-ups for patients or
during corporate wellness pro-
grammes during which staff are taken
through a series of tests.
Now researchers warn that many
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pupils of Rodi
Primary School in
Homa Bay County
for reporting to
school late despite
a Government ban
on corporal punish-
ment in schools
and the Childrens
Act, which protects
them from all
forms of abuse and
violence. [PHOTO:
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Those above 50 years
should be tested only
if there are specifc
symptoms of disease,
says pathologist
By PAMELA CHEPKEMEI
The Kiambu County Police Com-
mander risks being committed to civ-
il jail for refusing to effect court or-
ders against a company owned by
nephews of President Uhuru Kenyat-
ta.
High Court judge Jonathan Have-
lock has directed the police ofcer to
appear in court on June 5 for the hear-
ing of the case led against him by a
businessman who bought the farm
previously owned by Kenyattas rela-
tives.
Judge Havelock, sitting in Nairobi,
allowed Bidii Kenya Limited to com-
mence contempt of court proceed-
ings against the county police com-
mander for disobedience of court
orders directing the eviction of Ke-
nyattas relatives from the farm.
Bidii Kenya Ltd, through its direc-
tor Rahul Bid, wants the ofcer to be
committed to civil jail for six months
for refusing to effect court orders
made in February this year.
The judge had ordered the county
commander to supervise the eviction
of Muiri Coffee Estate Ltd from land
bought by Bidii Limited.
Mr Bid told the court that the
county commander had refused to
evict Muiri Coffee Estate Limited as-
sociated with Kenyattas nephews
from the 443-acre farm in Kiambu.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Bidii is seeking possession of the
farm, which it bought through a pub-
lic auction conducted by Kenya Com-
mercial Bank.
The bank auctioned the property
to recover a loan owed to it by Benjoh
Amalgamated that is associated with
Ngengi Muigai and his brother Kungu
Muigai.
The bank and Benjoh had been
involved in several legal battles over
a disputed Sh1.8 million loan given to
the rm between April 1989 and 1990.
Benjoh offered two properties in Ki-
ambu and Nyandarua as security.
The bank sold the coffee estate for
Sh70 million to Bidii Ltd.
The company bought the prop-
erty in September 2007 but has been
unable to take possession of it.
Judge Havelock on February 13,
2014, directed Muiri Coffee Estate to
vacate the land and deliver it to Bidii
Kenya Ltd.
The judge further ordered the
county commander to supervise the
eviction of Muiri from the land.
Ofcer faces civil
jail for failing to
evict Uhurus kin
By STANDARD REPORTER
The Government has come up
with a comprehensive plan to re-
structure Kenya Power to rid it of
cartels frustrating efforts to speed
up distribution of electricity, Dep-
uty President William Ruto has
said.
The Deputy President assured
Kenyans that the Government was
working on a plan to reduce the
cost of power so that more Kenyans
could have electricity in their
homes.
Speaking at St Arnesens High
School on Sunday when he wound
up his two-day tour of South and
North Rift regions, the Deputy Pres-
ident put on notice cartels operat-
ing in Kenya Power, warning that
stern action would be taken against
those frustrating efforts to provide
Kenyans with electricity at afford-
able rates.
Mr Ruto said for the Govern-
ment to achieve its target of ensur-
ing more than 70 per cent of Ke-
nyans get electricity in the next ve
years, Kenya Power must be re-
structured to ensure efciency.
The Deputy President said the
Government had reversed Kenya
Powers decision to double electric-
ity connection fees.
We are planning to further re-
duce the cost of connecting elec-
tricity in the next two years to as lit-
tle as Sh15,000, he said.
COMMON SYMPTOMS
Common symptoms of pros-
tate cancer include high fre-
quency of passing urine, or
burning sensation while do-
ing so. The urine fow is often
poor and unsteady as a re-
sult of the enlarged prostate
gland. At advanced stages,
blood or pus may be noted in
the urine
In PSA tests, the blood is
tested for the presence of
the Prostate Specifc Antigen,
which is secreted normally in
the prostate gland, but in in-
creased amounts when there
is prostate cancer or other
anomalies
PSA testing is generally not
recommended for men aged
70 years or older
By NDERITU GICHURE
A medical board has warned that
action will be taken against doctors
found violating the Patients Rights
Charter.
Kenya Medical Practitioners and
Dentists Board chairman George Ma-
goha noted that there was need for
health regulatory boards and councils
to ensure balance, with the patients
interest being supreme.
Prof Magoha made the remarks at
the weekend during the launch of the
Patients Rights Charter at Green Hills
Hotel in Nyeri.
The right to emergency treatment
as contained in Article 43, Section 2 of
the Constitution must be adhered to
by all, Magoha said.
He said there was need for doctors
to uphold human rights and avoid
conict of interest in order to serve pa-
tients better.
Magoha noted that the Kenya Na-
tional Patient Rights Charter has bor-
rowed heavily from the three codes
and discipline, saying practitioners
would be required to adhere to them.
Doctors warned against
violating patients rights
Ruto warns Kenya Power cartels
risk high enough to warrant PSA
testing.
In addition, this age bracket
should be tested only if there are
specic symptoms of the disease.
Indiscriminate PSA screening is
unnecessary and may indeed lead to
more harm than good. High PSA in
the blood may mean prostate can-
cer but not always. It could also be
due to other reasons like inamma-
tion of the prostate gland or age,
she said.
Ahmed Kalebi, an anatomical
pathologist and laboratory director
based in Nairobi, explains that pa-
tients with high PSAs may be trau-
matised by the thought of having
cancer and insist on further tests
that involve cutting a small piece of
the prostate gland and examining it
to see if it has cancerous cells.
A test could lead a perfectly
healthy person to unnecessary and
complex medical procedures and
expenses for nothing. Thats why
doctors insist that only targeted in-
dividuals with specic symptoms
should go for the test, he advises.
Illegal whipping
NATIONAL NEWS / Page 17
IEBC asks for Sh1
billion more
By RAWLINGS OTIENO
and IMMACULATE AKELLO
The Independent Electoral
and Boundaries Commission
(IEBC) wants the Treasury to
allocate at least Sh1 billion for
continuous voter registration.
IEBC Corporate Affairs and
Communications Manager
Tabitha Mutemi said the Sh1
billion is an addition to the
Sh52 million already allocated
for voter mobilisation and
awareness creation at the con-
stituency level.
We want those who failed
to register before the last Gen-
eral Election and those turning
18 to register, said Ms Mute-
mi.
Commission
says the cash is
required for voter
registration
The exercise comes barely
weeks after the commission
did a post-election evaluation
following criticism from the
opposition and other civil or-
ganisations.
Mutemi claried the differ-
ence between fresh voter reg-
istration and continuous voter
registration, citing that cur-
rently, the country has a voters
register that was compiled last
year, adding that the registra-
tion process that started on
April 15 would continue.
She said IEBC should be
commended because out of
the 188 court petitions, only a
paltry 25 were nally heard
and determined while 163
were thrown out due to lack of
merit.
Only 25 have been deter-
mined and in the ones that
resulted in a by-election, the
same people were re-elected,
said Mutemi.
Already, IEBC returning of-
cers are on the ground mobil-
ising eligible voters but nan-
cial constraints are hampering
the exercise.
The commission hopes that
by May 2017, a total of 20 mil-
lion new voters will have been
registered and their data cap-
tured in the voter register
ahead of the General Election.
ELIGIBLE VOTERS
But for the commission to
realise the gure and avoid the
hitches experienced in 2013,
Mutemi has asked all eligible
voters to ensure they obtain
national identity cards in time
and register as voters.
Kenyans like the last-
minute rush. We are appealing
to all eligible people to collect
their IDs and register as voters
before 2017. We had some
hitches last time, but now we
have adequate time for the
exercise, said Mutemi.
To improve the outcome of
the next General Election, the
commission wants some laws
governing elections amended
to remove existing ambiguity.
By SILAH KOSKEI
Politicians should air their views in a respon-
sible manner and without dividing Kenyans,
Deputy President William Ruto has said.
The DP said politicians have the right of
speech but should not use it to promote negative
ethnicity. Speaking in Burnt Forest during a
fundraising event in aid of 13 churches torched
during 2007-2008 post-election violence, Ruto
cautioned leaders against instigating tribalism.
Every leader, be it in Government or the op-
position, is entitled to speak about anything but
we should realise that the bottom line is respon-
sibility. We must safeguard the interests of the
country, he said.
In reference to the current disgruntlement
from a section of Rift Valley leaders following
claims that the region was being sidelined in
Government, Ruto maintained that the wave
would soon end. He said a solution would be
reached between those complaining and those
who see nothing wrong with the replacement of
Kiplimo Rugut as the National Youth Service
boss. He criticised CORD leaders for spreading
unsubstantiated claims that the Independent
Electoral and Boundaries Commission is regis-
tering voters indiscreetly.
Ruto tells leaders to be responsible
Trophies galore...
Rural Electrication Authority chairman Simon Gicharu (left) with students of Muranga High
School, where he went to school, after presenting them with prizes during the Catholic Diocese of
Muranga Education Day. [PHOTO BY BONIFACE GIKANDI/STANDARD]
Loan No.: 2100150028345
Financing Agreement Reference: Project Appraisal Report
Project ID No.: P-Z1-AAZ-011
Date: 27 May 2014
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries has received nancing from the African Development
Fund toward the cost of the Drought Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Horn of Africa
(DRSLP) - Kenya Project, and intends to apply part of the agreed amount for this loan to payments
under the contract for Consultancy services on Feasibility Study, Design and Supervision of
Irrigation Schemes Rehabilitation as indicated in the table below
Lot
No.
Item
No
Scheme Name County Approx.
Command
Area- Ha
1 1.1 Songa Irrigation Scheme (Saku Sub County) Marsabit 100
1.2 Kalacha Irrigation Scheme (North Sub County) 100
2 2.1 Simaile Irrigation Scheme (Turkana South Sub
County)
Turkana 180
2.2 Konoo Irrigation Scheme (Loima Sub County) 120
3 3.1 Kaminia Irrigation Scheme (Pokot South Sub
County)
West Pokot 300
4 4.1 Gafarsa Irrigation Scheme (Garbatulla Sub County) Isiolo 130
5 5.1 Seiya Irrigation Scheme (Central Sub County) Samburu 100
The services included under these consultancies are to undertake feasibility studies on identied
schemes, design and supervision of the schemes construction/rehabilitation works for the sites
indicated in the table above.
Specic objectives of the consultancy services shall include but not limited to the following;
1. Review of the nal project document for identication of the necessary improvements of
the schemes, to get information and data needed for best practice at the design level,
2. Carry out Environmental Impact Assessments/ Audit and incorporate the proposed
mitigation and management measures into the designs,
3. Carry out mapping of the proposed irrigation area and corresponding major infrastructure
sites as well as other typical structure sites and prepare corresponding drawings, plans
and maps,
4. Prepare detailed design criteria, approaches and working detailed drawings of all
infrastructure to be rehabilitated or improved, Prepare layouts, cross-sections and designs
for intakes, spillway and associated regulation and control facilities and all irrigation and
drainage infrastructure for the proposed irrigation projects,
5. Prepare tender documents complete with detailed specications, engineers estimates,
tender notice, draft contract agreement for construction works, Mobilization, organization
and involvement of irrigation Water Users Associations (WUAs) in the design and
6. Supervise the construction works
The State Department of Agriculture now invites eligible consultants to indicate their interest in
providing these services. Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they are
qualied to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar
conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc.). Consultants may constitute joint-ventures
to enhance their chances of qualication.
The Expression of Interest should be for a maximum of two (2No) lots due to the wide
geographical spread/distribution of the sites which would make it administratively difcult
to execute and manage the contracts. The RFEOI should clearly indicate the lots they are
interested in.
Eligibility criteria, establishment of the short-list and the selection procedure shall be in accordance
with the African Development Banks Rules and Procedures for the use of Consultants [May 2008
Edition, Revised July 2012], which is available on the Banks website at http://www.afdb.org.
Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during ofce hours (0800-
1300hrs and 1400-1700hrs)
Expressions of interest must be placed in the Tender Box or delivered to the address below by
Wednesday June 11, 2014 at 1100hr and mention Consultancy Services on Feasibility Study,
Design and Supervision of Lot No. ...........................
Principal Secretary,
State Department of Agriculture,
P.O. Box 30028, Kilimo House, Cathedral Road,
00100 Nairobi, KENYA
Attn: Project Coordinator, DR&SLP
Hill Plaza Building, 9
th
Floor
E-mail: npchoa@kilimo.go.ke
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STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
DROUGHT RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS IN
THE HORN OF AFRICA (DRSLP) - KENYA PROJECT
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
TENDER No. MOALF/DRSLP/T006/2013-2014: CONSULTING SERVICES ON
FEASIBILITY STUDY, DESIGN AND SUPERVISION OF IRRIGATION SCHEMES
INFRASTRUCTURE REHABILITATION
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New county levies may hinder EAC integration
basa on the other hand is toying with
the proposal to introduce a levy on all
goods that pass through the port of
Mombasa in a bid to broaden its rev-
enue base. The county had proposed
the introduction of $2 (Sh175 as per
current exchange rates) for every
tonne that passes via the port.
Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho
has often insisted that the port is the
biggest asset in Mombasa and the
county should benet from it. Any in-
troduction of a levy at the port will au-
tomatically push the cost of imports
through Mombasa and is bound to
elicit sharp condemnation from EAC
members using the facility.
The PS says that though he under-
stands that counties ought to seek
ways of raising revenue, the levies
were not within the spirit of EAC inte-
gration, adding that the ministry is
concerned that such moves could
hinder smooth ow of goods and ser-
vices.
She said the ministry will engage
all the 47 counties and especially
those at the borders to make sure they
understand the Governments plan
and policy on the integration process.
The PS was addressing a sensitisation
forum on regional integration at a
Mombasa hotel yesterday.
Mombasa, Kwale, Kili, Tana River,
Lamu, Taita Taveta, Kitui and Macha-
kos counties where being educated
on the Governments draft regional
strategy and policy document which
will guide Kenyas participation in the
regional integration process.
By BENARD SANGA
The introduction of levies on tran-
sit goods by some border counties
may inhibit trade within the East Af-
rican Community, The East African
Affairs ministry has warned.
Principal Secretary Mwanamaka
Mabruki said the move by the some
counties to levy taxes on transit goods
will hinder the communitys quest to
create a seamless trade area and pos-
sibly lead to retaliations from other
EAC members.
Imposing taxes on goods going to
the EAC members especially by the
counties at the border is one of the
tariff barriers that we are trying to
solve. It is hindering trade and they
will retaliate, said Mabruki.
Kwale had in its 2014/2015 bud-
getary estimates proposed the intro-
duction of levies on goods that pass
through its jurisdiction en route to
Tanzania and in the opposite direc-
tion.
STRUCK OUT
But yesterday the countys mem-
ber of the budget committee, Omar
Kitenge assured the government that
those proposals were struck out say-
ing: We thought it would go against
the Constitution.
The County Government of Mom-
RoundUp
NAIROBI: Women in
court over illicit brew
Two women have been
charged with being in
possession of counterfeit
alcoholic drinks before a
Makadara court. Jacinta
Njoki and Emilly Wachuka
were allegedly found in
possession of 24 bottles of
Moonwalker vodka spirits
valued at Sh2,880 on May 23
in Nairobi. They denied the
charges before Senior principal
magistrate Victor Wakumile
and told the court that they
did not know that the drinks were counterfeit. They asked for
lenient cash bail claiming they are from poor backgrounds.
The magistrate, however released them on a cash bail of
Sh50,000 or personal bond of Sh100,00 plus one surety of
similar amount. The case will be heard on August 28.

NAIROBI: Man charged with stealing building
materials
A 23-year-old man was yesterday arraigned before a
Makadara court charged with burglary and stealing building
materials valued at sh6.3 million from a construction
companys ofces in Embakasi. Daniel Kefa Ondieki is accused
of breaking into UNIBEE Construction company ofces in
Transami and a stealing gas welding kit, cutting machine,
water pump, four water closets and a welding generator. He is
also accused of stealing roong iron sheets, metallic rods and
other steel materials. The accused denied the charges before
Chief Magistrate Emily Ominde and was released on a Sh50,
000 cash bail or a Sh100, 000 bond. The case will be heard
on August 18.
East African Affairs
ministry says if devolved
units charge proposed
taxes, member states
might retaliate
BY KAMAU MUTHONI
A supplier has sued the Indepen-
dent Electoral and Boundaries Com-
mission (IEBC) seeking more than
Sh220 million for goods supplied last
year.
According to court papers, Ofce
Technologies says it supplied printers
to IEBC during last years General
Election.
In the case before High Court
Judge Erick Ogola, Ofce Technolo-
gies told the court that it was con-
tracted to supply printers for 337 tal-
lying centres and it managed to supply
290 pieces and was given an invoice
of Sh220,400,000 which ought to have
been paid within a wmonth from the
date of invoicing of February 14,
2013.
In a sworn afdavit, the companys
Managing Director Basil Mark Serrao
says: Based on the defendants repre-
sentation in the agreement to the ef-
fect that payment would be effected
within 30 days, the plaintiff (Ofce
Technologies) acted on the represen-
tation and borrowed funds from its
bankers to nance the purchase and
delivery of the goods.
He adds that IEBC has refused to
pay the agreed amount.
However, IEBC has denied the
claims by the company, arguing that
its management has never been in-
formed about the breach of the con-
tract.
According to IEBC Legal Affairs
Manager Mahamud Mohamed, the
signed contract changed to state that
the machines were to remain the
property of the plaintiff until the same
were fully paid for and that they (ma-
chines) are available for collection by
the stationery company at any time.
I believe that justice may be
served if the plaintiff collects its goods
Supplier sues IEBC over
Sh220m poll materials
Offce Technologies says it supplied
290 printers to tallying centres in
last years General Election
from the defendants warehouse, Mr
Mohamed said.
He added that the company had
breached its end of the deal by failing
to deliver the machines as per the
specications that were agreed on.
Failure to deliver goods as per
specications constitutes fundamen-
tal breach, which discharges the de-
fendant from any legal obligation to
pay for the goods, he added.
Mohamed in a sworn afdavit be-
fore the court said the contract entails
that the commission would pay for
the goods upon the approval and re-
ceipt of funds from the National Trea-
sury.
He argues that the plaintiff knew
that the commission is subject to -
nancial regulations of the State Fi-
nance Act and the supplementary
budgeting process, which the Nation-
al Assembly and the Treasury are
mandated to pass and effect.
In their response, Ofce Technolo-
gies argues that there was no stipula-
tion in contract that the payment was
to be done upon the approval by the
two.
The defendants failure to pay the
claimed sum amounts to the depriva-
tion of the plaintiffs constitutional
right to enjoyment of its property, the
MD said.
SUPPLIERS CLAIMS
That IEBC had admitted it owes
the company the money and that
the legal claim by the body was
not in tandem with its earlier
standing
Serrao refuted the claims by
IEBC, saying the management
had not complained about the
machines terming the statement
of defence as an afterthought
That IEBC had not complied with
the contractual terms applicable
when any claims arise, which was
in respect of defaulting from de-
livering the machines specifed
I believe
that justice
may be
served if
the plaintiff
collects
its goods
from the
defendants
warehouse
BY CYRUS OMBATI
and GEOFFREY MOSOKU
The slain suspected drug
kingpin Komani Camara alias
Boss Kamara was yesterday
buried at the Kariokor ceme-
tery, Nairobi.
His body was taken from
the City Mortuary by a group of
Muslim youths who said they
had learned of the death
through The Standard and de-
cided to give him his last re-
spect.
The late Camara, a Guinean
national, was found dead on
Saturday with gunshot wounds
in the head and police say they
are yet to know the killers.
He had been deported from
Kenya over drug trafcking ac-
cusations and sneaked back to
Nairobi.
Those who participated in
the burial said police did not
give them a hard time in col-
lecting the body from the mor-
tuary.
His lawyer Cliff Ombeta
said he was due to meet Ca-
mara yesterday to nalise his
stay papers in Kenya.
Mr Ombeta said Camara
had been cleared by the courts
after he produced his docu-
ments to prove he was never
deported.
I was shocked to learn that
he had died in unclear circum-
stances because we were in the
nal stages of regularising his
work permit and residence
permit, said Ombeta.
Although Camara is said to
have come to Kenya in 1982, he
did not have any immediate
relative known to most of his
friends.
Mystery surrounds his
death. Kilimani division police
said they were called and in-
formed about a body that was
lying along Cemetery Road
near Jamhuri Park, Nairobi.
CID head George Ojuka
said Camaras body had two
gunshot wounds in the head.
We do not know who killed
him but some people say they
heard gunshots on Saturday
morning from the same area.
We are investigating the inci-
dent, said Mr Ojuka.
He said preliminary nd-
ings had shown that Camara
was among those who had
been deported last June over
allegations of drug trafcking
after a presidential order.
He had been deported
alongside more than 90 other
suspects, including Nigerian
Anthony Chinedu.
Suspected drug kingpin laid to rest
amid mystery over his death
NOTICE / Page 21
By KIPCHUMBA KEMEI
The economy loses more than
Sh300 billion annually in unpaid taxes
from alcohol, the National Authority
for the Campaign against Alcohol and
Drug Abuse (Nacada) has said.
The authority said unregistered al-
coholic beverage manufacturers do
not pay stamp duty, value added tax
and income tax to the exchequer, add-
ing that the sector has the potential of
remitting more than Sh1 trillion an-
nually.
Launching a campaign against
counterfeit alcoholic drinks in Narok
County yesterday, Nacada Chairman
John Mututho said there were more
than 900 factories manufacturing al-
coholic beverages without licences.
The Government loses more than
Sh300 billion in unpaid taxes annual-
ly from most manufactures. It collects
only 30 per cent from manufactures
that are in the tax bracket.
The sector is riddled with corrup-
tion, and it is sad that manufacturers
pay hefty amounts of money to tax of-
cials to evade taxes, he said.
He said since the crackdown on
Sh300bn lost in unpaid alcohol taxes
Mututho says most
manufacturers lack
licences and dont
remit taxes, resulting
in the annual loss
the purveyors of illicit drinks started
early this month, the authority has
identied only 150 factories that pro-
duce some brands of alcohol.
Mututho directed all alcoholic
drinks outlets to submit their busi-
ness permits, proprietors PIN/tax reg-
istration, liquor licenses and public
health certicates to their respective
county commissioners by Wednesday
this week for proling.
The anti-alcohol agency boss not-
ed that 60 per cent of all alcoholic
drinks outlets in the country sell fake
or adulterated products to unsuspect-
ing buyers.
EFFORTS HAMPERED
He added that the authoritys ef-
forts to nab illicit brewers were being
hampered by conict of interests
among law enforcement agencies, in-
cluding Nacada.
Most bars and wines and spirits
outlets are owned by policemen and
my ofcers. This has made the crack-
down hard. We are going to take ac-
tion against them because of the con-
ict of interests, he said.
In the 2014/2015 nancial year,
Mututho said a huge amount of mon-
ey will be allocated to the rehabilita-
tion of alcohol and drug addicts, add-
ing that Sh300 million will be
earmarked for enforcement and an-
other Sh3 million for reviewing and
harmonising alcoholic and beverages
laws. He directed county commis-
sioners and police to close bars and
nightclubs operating in residential ar-
eas and near learning institutions.
Nacada Chairman John Mututho (right) in Narok County yesterday where he
launched a campaign against counterfeit alcoholic drinks. [PHOTO: KIPCHUMBA
KEMEI/STANDARD]
By ANTONY GITONGA
Testing of all liquor samples col-
lected from brewers across the coun-
try will be conducted abroad, the an-
ti-alcohol agency has announced.
With fears rising that unscrupu-
lous brewers could tamper with re-
sults, the National Authority for the
Campaign against Alcohol and Drug
Abuse (Nacada) said the samples
would be taken to a secret location for
testing.
According to the agency, over 2,000
samples have been collected in the
exercise that began a fortnight ago fol-
lowing the deaths of over 90 after they
took liquor laced with methanol.
The authoritys chairman John
Mututho said the country would have
to wait for another week as the testing
is conducted.
He said the authority took the de-
cision to get quality results, adding
that some of the liquor was foreign.
He dismissed claims that Nacada
lacked condence in the Government
Chemist or the Kenya Bureau of Stan-
dards, terming the exercise as nor-
mal.
All the samples will be own
abroad for testing and we expect the
exercise to be through in a weeks
time, he said.
He was addressing the Press in Mai
Mahiu, Naivasha, while on his way to
Narok South.
Nacada: Liquor
testing to be
done abroad
Hundreds detained in
Mombasa police swoop
The night-long raids on
Casablanca and Bella
Vista clubs spread to
Majengo slum areas and
the main city streets
By KELVIN KARANI
Hundreds of men and women
were detained in a night-long raid
on clubs and bars on Saturday
sparked by recent grenade attacks in
downtown Mombasa.
The raids on Casablanca and
Bella Vista clubs soon spread to slum
areas in Majengo and the streets of
Mombasa as police yesterday denied
that a newly-wed couple were
whisked away from a party during
the crackdown.
Bella Vista was targeted by
terrorists in 2012 and a man, Thabit
Yahya Jamaldin, is facing charges for
allegedly lobbing a grenade into the
club.
Yesterday, Mombasa Deputy
police commander Sevelino Kubai
said police are looking for those in
the country illegally and for
criminals who were involved in
Tononokas incident where a grenade
was discovered near a church.
FOOTBALL FANS
Kubai said police were acting on
intelligence reports that the suspects
involved in the Tononoka incident
were moving between the two clubs.
Independent reports place the
gure of those detained at 300.
However, Kubai said: We only have
126 suspects in our custody who we
are now sorting out to determine
who are the aliens and those without
proper documents.
Reports show that about 100
football fans watching a match were
taken away from Casablanca club.
Ali Awadh was one of those
arrested and released after he
produced his identity card at the
Central Police station.
Speaking to The Standard after
his release, Awadh said they were
having a small party at the pub
before police ofcers arrived and
asked them to lie down.
He said police instructed them to
remain silent as they were escorted
outside the pub into a truck that was
waiting for them.
We were just having a small
function at the club, watching the
UEFA Champion League nal, when
police ofcers arrived in the wee
hours and asked us not to attempt to
escape. They later asked us to go to
the trucks outside without rst
checking our identities, he said.
NO JUSTIFICATION
Awadh said once they got to the
police station, they were asked to
register themselves before being
locked up in the cells.
It is alleged that there was an
ongoing wedding before the
operation and the couple were also
arrested in the same raid though it is
still not been clear where the
wedding was taking place.
The arrest has however been
highly criticised, with people saying
police have been arresting people
without any legal considerations.
Speaking as he arrived at the
station to free his son who was
arrested, Babu Nur said police
should have used the legal way in
arresting people.
He said the mode of arrest being
used by police is creating tension in
the county, making it hard for
citizens to live freely.
Why arrest people watching
football without rst conrming
who they are? Police should learn
ways of arresting real terror suspects
without involving the public because
the moment you arrest innocent
citizens then you block many from
walking or enjoying their rights in
the country, Nur said.
Ali Awadh displays his passport outside the Mombasa Central Police Station
after he was released on Sunday. He was among more than 200 people arrest-
ed in Mombasa during a night raid in the town. [PHOTO: KELVIN KARANI/STAN-
WHAT HAPPENED
The police action was
allegedly sparked by the recent
grenade attacks in downtown
Mombasa
Deputy police commander
said the police were searching
for aliens and suspects
involved in an incident where a
grenade was discovered near a
church in Tononoka
He said police were acting
on intelligence reports that
suspects involved in the
Tononoka incident were
moving between the two clubs
Page 23
SOLIDARITY: MCA calls for
political unity in county
Kitui County Assembly Majority
Leader Kilonzi Maundu has asked
residents to foster political unity in
order to cement gains made by the
county government.
Maundu said the county
government is on course towards
fullling the promises it made to the
people during the electioneering
period.
The majority leader said unity and
mutual respect among all leaders are
paramount if the devolved systems
are to succeed and effectively deliver
services to wananchi.
Maundu was speaking during the
burial of John Kiilu Ndotto, brother
to assembly speaker George Ndotto,
at Kavou village, in Kitui Central
constituency at the weekend.
I urge our people to support both
the assembly and county government
so that our vision and mission can
be realised. All leaders must speak
in one voice to meet the electorates
expectations, Maundu said.
FAULTED: Use of alternative
dispute resolution rejected
East African Law Society (EALS)
President James Mwamus (pictured
above) recent call for lawyers to
embrace out of court system has
been faulted as insensitive.
Mwamu had asked lawyers to
embrace this method while speaking
at the Continuing Legal Education
Seminar on Alternate Dispute
Resolution (ADR).
However, Womankind Kenyas
CEO Abdullahi Mohamed said
Mwamus idea would only reduce
backlog of court cases and not
necessarily provide justice.
Speaking in Garissa town,
Abdullahi strongly opposed use of
ADR in cases involving female genital
mutilation, delement, rape and
murder.
He said the law clearly spells
out that there is no room for ADR in
crimes like violent robbery, murder,
delement and rape.
Page 23
MOMBASA COUNTY
KITUI COUNTY
GARISSA COUNTY
Monday, March 24, 2014
C
oun
cil locks out public
tran
sport from
city C
B
D
Residents received
the move varmly
as matatu operators
protested, but nov
council says all is vell
By KEPHER OTIENO
The Municipal Council of Kisumu
in conjunction with the trafc police
department has successfully locked
public transport out of the towns
centre.
Thanks to the combined forces,
no 14-seater matatu and boda boda
operates in the central business
district now.
And residents have praised the
effort, arguing sanity has been
restored in the CBD and trafc ow
was now smooth.
No matatus or boda bodas are
allowed to pick or drop passengers
at the CBD. The ban also applies to
tricycles and it has been in effect for
the past one week, though amid
protests.
Distances shortened
The authorities have also blocked
Oginga Odinga Avenue up to
Standard Chartered Bank junction to
ease trafc ow.
Passengers are now being
dropped at Jomo Kenyatta Highway
and trek to town.
The move follows successful
negotiations between the authority
and matatu operators whose
distances have now been cut short.
We are happy because the plans
have reduced our distance by
one-and-a-half kilometres, said a
matatu operator George Onyango.
According to the town authorities
the plan aims to decongest the city
and will remain in force until 2013.
Thereafter the council will
develop fresh plans to accommodate
the increased number of private cars
in town, a source from the council
said.
Already, the number of private
cars streaming in the town has
peaked and the trafc department
anticipates the gure will rise.
The councils enforcement ofcer
in charge of the trafc order Adrian
Ouma said they would not back
down on the move.
WIN-win situation
Eng Ouma said matatu owners
appreciated the directive because
they still charge the same bus fare
despite the distance being short-
ened.
It is a win-win situation, the
matatu operators have all the
reasons to smile same as the
council, he said, as he asked them
to co-operate.
Kisumu Mayor Sam Okello
thanked the residents for allowing
them to bring sanity within the CBD.
There have been complaints of
matatu disorder within the CBD,
which have been disrupting smooth
operations of businesses.
With the new measures in force
people can now go about their
business easily without disruptions
by blaring sounds.
Nyanza PPO Njue Njagi promised
to support the council to restore
sanity and warned that those who
resist change would be arrested and
charged.
Eng Ouma said matatu owners
appreciated the directive because
they still charge the same bus fare
despite the distance being short-
ened.
It is a win-win situation, the
matatu operators have all the
reasons to smile same as the
Trafc Police ofcer redirects a matatu driver at Kisumu Bus Park entry, yes-
terday. Kisumu Municipal Council has re-routed trafc from the central busi-
ness district to de-congest the town. [PHOTO: TITUS MUNALA/STANDARD]
WHAT WAS AT STAKE
when the Council announced
the plan to reroute public
transport from the C8u, it was
received with mixed reactions
Pesidents welcomed it, say
ing it would help in planning
the town and reduce matatu
noise
At frst, the public transport
operators complied for hours
before they regrouped to
protest the directive
however, yesterday the
council said operators and
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TANZANIA: Two suspects
ashed out of hotel, killed
Two suspected notorious
criminals who have been
terrorising tourists in Masai Mara
have been lynched by a mob
in Musoma, Tanzania. Nelson
Segeria and his accomplice were
ambushed inside a guesthouse in
the town and attacked by an irate
mob, which had identied them
as known gangsters. According
to Mara Triangle Chief Executive
Ofcer Brian Heath, two other
members of the gang escaped, but
security ofcers recovered one
AK-47 rie with 427 bullets.
CORNERED: Two suspects
ashed out of hotel, killed
mob, which had identied them
as known gangsters. According
to Mara Triangle Chief Executive
Ofcer Brian Heath, two other
members of the gang escaped, but
security ofcers recovered one
AK-47 rie with 427 bullets.
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Veried Alcohol Manufacturers & Distributors
F
ollowing the press release of 8th May 2014 by the cabinet secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government, the Government of Kenya has
launched an initiative to vet all alcoholic drinks manufacturers in the Country; Patiala Distillers (K) Limited from the onset strongly supports this initiative as
it will go a long way in bringing order and sanity in the sector.
Consequently, the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) announced that all alcohol manufacturers and importers
submit their documents for vetting and their brands for testing and analysis, Patiala Distillers (K) ltd in obeying and complying with this order submitted all the
statutory certi ed documents that were veri ed and cleared, receiving a letter of Compliance on 15th May 2014, Reference number NACADA 7/20/.
We would like to inform the public and the consumers of our products that Patiala Distillers (K) Ltd adheres to all the regulations under the operational Kenyan
Law in manufacturing our products including the most stringent quality standards that conform to local and international requirements as stipulated in the
Kenyan laws. In this regard and end, we would like to reiterate that the entire portfolio of manufactured brands, as listed below are fully compliant with the above
requirements and that we will continually seek to provide to our esteemed customers with products that comply with the law and hence help in having a healthy
population to leverage on, as the Country seeks to attain a middle income country by the year 2030.
Patiala Distillers brands
Flying Horse Gin
Flying Horse Brandy
Best Gin
Best Brandy
Blue Ice Vodka
Following the ambiguous report regarding spirituous liquor packaging in Plastic/PET (polyethylene terephthalate) and glass bottles, Patiala Distillers
(K) Ltd would wish to clarify the following;
The alcoholic Drink Control Act 2010 under section 31 stipulates as follows:
Subsection (1) No person shall sell, manufacture, pack or distribute an alcoholic drink in sachets or such other form as may be prescribed.
Subsection (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), (a) no person shall manufacture, pack, distribute or sell an alcoholic drink in a
container of less than 250 Mililitre;
Following the amendment of the Customs and Excise Act by Parliament on 14th January 2013 which was subsequently gazetted on 25th January
2013, Section 2 of the Act stipulates as follows:
Section 2. The Customs and Excise Act is amended in section 91A by inserting the following new subsection immediately after subsection (1). (1A) For
the avoidance of doubt, the container referred to in subsection (1) shall either be a glass or PET (polyethylene terephthalate)
bottle.
Section 3. The Alcoholic Drinks Control Act is amended by inserting the words or PET (polyethylene terephthalate) immediately after the word glass
appearing in paragraph (b) of subsection (2).
In his ruling on a previous suit Petition No. 320 of 2011, Justice Isaac Lenaola on 27th February 2013 made the following ndings:
That by the implied repeal of section 31(2)(a) of ADCA Section 91A of the Customs and Excise Act, Chapter 472 of The Laws of Kenya is the applicable law in as far
as the capacity of packaging of alcoholic drinks is concerned.
Among others, he granted the following order;
A declaration that section 32(2)a) of the Alcoholic Drinks Control Act 2010 (No. 4 of 2010) is inapplicable and non-existent in as far as it was impliedly repealed by
the provisions of section 91A of Customs and Excise Act pursuant to the Finance Act amendment of 2010.
Therefore, Patiala Distillers (K) Ltd wishes to inform all our distributors and partners that we will continue to comply with the regulations under Kenyan law in
manufacturing our products. We wish to inform our clients and partners that we shall continue to sell our products in both PET and glass bottles of 205 Ml and
above, in line with Section 91 A of the Customs and Excise Act.
We thank you for your continued support and look forward to a great success in your business.
For any information please contact our sales manager on Telephone no: 0715528540 or any Patiala representative in your territory.
Yours Sincerely
Managing Director
PATIALA DISTILLERS (K) LIMITED
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PUBLIC NOTICE
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DONATION: School seeks
aid in setting up ICT centre
St Angelas Mutune Girls
Secondary School in Kitui County
has embarked on a campaign for
donations to establish an ICT centre.
The Principal, Lenah Ngesa,
yesterday said that they are sourcing
for computers, printers, scanners,
projectors and much more from
donors.
In an effort to achieve the
schools vision and mission, the
management has begun a campaign
to equip the ICT centre. We are
therefore appealing for donations
and support towards making this
dream a reality before end of this
year, she said.
Ngesa spoke during a ceremony
where CFC Life Assurance Limited
presented a Sh40,000 cheque in aid
of a Form One student.
OPPOSITION: Claims of
forgery against DWUs
faction leader
Twelve members of the Dock
Workers Union (DWU) now want
the leader of a faction opposed
to the unions secretary general
investigated for forgery.
In an afdavit led by DWU
Secretary General Simon Sang, the
members say James Kisaku, the de
facto leader of the faction opposed
to the unions defection from Central
Trade Union (Cotu) to Public Sector
Trade Unions (Pusetu), forged their
signatures to support his afdavit.
The forgery claim was made
even as an Industrial Court judge in
Mombasa last week claried that
he had not issued any order barring
DWU from moving to Pusetu rather
it had issued orders against a special
conference by DWU.
The 12 say they were not in the
meeting that purportedly appointed
Kisaku and other leaders to act as
DWU ofcials hence could not have
appended their signatures against
their names as per the afdavit
sworn by Kisaku.
By PHILIP MWAKIO
The intelligence wing of the Kenya
Wildlife Service (KWS) says it has un-
covered a multi-million shilling inter-
national syndicate at the Mombasa
Port involving illegal trade in the en-
dangered rosewood from Madagas-
car.
Yesterday, KWS announced it had
seized 34 containers of the priced
timber from a vessel, MV Kota Hapas,
which had sailed into Mombasa from
Zanzibar under a false declaration of
cargo.
ILLEGAL LOOT
KWS Assistant Director Coast Con-
servation Area Arthur Tuda said the
intercepted wood is valued at Sh584
million and they have been tracking
the illegal consignment packed in 20
feet containers.
Though the ship that brought the
goods is no longer at the port, Tuda
said by noon yesterday, 13 containers
had been opened, searched and their
KWS fnds 34 containers of
rosewood timber at port
in the international market, this was
a ploy to hoodwink us but it did not
work, he said.
The KWS expose comes at a time
when environmentalists and the in-
ternational community are trying to
County in move to bring services closer to locals
By TOBIAS CHANJI
Kwale County Assembly has passed
a law creating more village adminis-
trative units.
The Kwale Village Administrative
Units Bill, which was passed on Fri-
day, creates 77 units, an increment
from the 66 inherited from the defunct
provincial administration.
MORE VILLAGES
Vanga village, which initially had
three villages, got an extra one at
Perani. Other villages are Sega, Kiwegu
and Vanga all in Lungalunga constitu-
ency.
Dzombo ward, which only had
Dzombo village will now have three
more villages after two more, Men-
zamwenye and Mwananyamala, were
added.
Pongwe/Kikoneni ward got one
more village Kigombero bringing the
number of villages to ve up from
four. The ward is also in Lungalunga.
In Msambweni constituency, Uku-
nda ward got two more villages,
Magutu and Kilolopwa, making them
three while Gombato ward, which had
two villages, got one more village
Mvumoni.
In Kinango Constituency, Samburu
ward got another village Maji ya
Chumvi, bringing this to ve villages.
EASY ACCESS
The additional village administra-
tive units were set up after members
said residents need to easily access
services.
We have to ensure our people are
placed in villages which are not far
from each other so that they can ben-
et from government resources, said
Kasemeni MCA Anthony Yama.
Also set to be passed is the Kwale
County Trade Revolving Fund Bill
2014 which will enable locals get busi-
ness loan.
Chairperson planning, trade, tour-
ism and cooperative development
committee, Anthony Lukuni, tabled
the Bill for a third reading before it
was passed on Friday.
This Bill will give our people ac-
cess to nancing which will make it
easier for them to begin doing busi-
ness and eventually break the poverty
cycle, he said.
KWALE COUNTY
KITUI COUNTY
MOMBASA COUNTY
The containers seized at the port loaded with Malagasy rosewood timber in
transit to Hong Kong from Zanzibar. [PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD]
nd ways of limiting the damage
caused by increased illegal logging of
precious hardwoods in Madagascar.
RESTRICTED TRADE
Rosewoods are strong and heavy
with an excellent polish. They are
suitable for guitars, marimbas, bil-
liard cues, the black pieces in chess
sets, furniture and luxury oorings.
According to copies of the cargo
manifest seen by The Standard, cargo
loading was done in Zanzibar, a fact
disputed by KWS who said rosewood
is only grown in Madagascar.
One of the importers is listed as
HK Trading Limited RM 601 Limited
Minas Plaza Ital Yaust Sanpokon KLN,
Hong Kong with PIL Zanzibar , Tanza-
nia, as the shipper.
The containers, where the wood
was found, are at the ports Verica-
tion yard.
Tuda said KWS will liaise with their
counterparts in Madagascar to nd
out if any permits were issued on the
consignment.
Such species of endangered wood
are protected and there is restriction
in trade of such items, Tuda said.
contents veried. The vessel carrying
the wood docked, off loaded the con-
signment then left.
According to the cargo manifest,
the load was declared as ordinary
wood from Kenya which is not banned
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Mruttu halts issuance
of education loans
By RENSON MNYAMWEZI
Taita-Taveta Governor
John Mruttu has suspended
issuance of university and
tertiary institutions loans to
students following com-
plaints that the recent
distribution of Sh25 million
loans to students was
riddled with corruption.
The county administration
has set aside Sh50 million in
this nancial year to assist
bright students from poor
families benet from
bursaries, scholarships and
loans to further their
education.
Mruttu accused the county
revolving fund committee of
being insensitive to the plight
of poor students in the region.
Distribution of loans to
university and tertiary
students was not done in an
accountable and transparent
manner. I have therefore
directed the County Executive
(CEC) member in-charge of
Education to stop the exercise
as needy students were left
out in the process, he said
yesterday.
UNFAIR ALLOCATION
Education CEC member
Jemimah Tuja and Deputy
Speaker Chrispus Tondoo also
conrmed the governors
allegations.
The loans committee,
drawn from the four Sub-
Counties in the region,
messed up the distribution
exercise. The exercise should
start afresh, Tuja said.
Tondoo said there was
huge discrepancy in the
There was huge
discrepancy in
allocation of the
monies. Many poor
learners were left out
TAITA TAVETA COUNTY
allocation of loans as majority
of poor students were left out
of the exercise.
There is hue and cry all
over the region as some
students were awarded a
paltry Sh7,000 while others
got Sh100,000. Those who
were awarded Sh7,000 owe
their institutions over 70,000
in fee arrears and it will be
impossible for them to
continue with their university
education, he said.
The Deputy Speaker who
is also the Bomani Ward
Representative said all post
primary school students
should be considered and
given the opportunity to
advance their education in
different institutions like
youth polytechnic, secondary,
university among other
tertiary institutions.
Speaking at Njoro springs
in Taveta district after
inspecting several water,
health and education projects
funded by the county
government, Mruttu assured
residents and leaders that the
distribution of loans will be
done afresh to ensure free
and fair process.
Tondoo said the loans
committee should be
disbanded and a new one
reconstituted to save the
county governments image.
SHODDY JOB
Committee members
failed to live up to the local
communitys expectations
and they should be done
away with. They have
engaged in discrimination in
the issuance of these loans,
Tondoo said.
Mruttu said he will
summon committee mem-
bers to explain why they have
done such a shoddy job.
During my campaigns, I
promised residents that my
government would establish a
bursary fund to help bright
students from poor families
continue with their studies.
This is a pledge I intend to
keep to the letter, he said.
By RENSON MNYAMWEZI
A minor, who has been living with disabil-
ity, was deled and murdered by her uncle in
Taita Taveta County on Thursday night, police
have reported.
Taveta OCPD, Simon Darso, said the
deceased had been living with her elderly
grandmother and the uncle.
Darso said the suspect came to his
Mutakuja home, on the outskirts of Taveta
town, late at night and in a drunken stupour
ordered his elderly mother out of the house.
When his 70-year-old mother resisted, he
chased her out, closed the door and deled the
helpless 17-year-old girl who has been living
with multiple body deformities, he said.
The OCPD said after committing the
heinous act, the suspect then attacked the girl
and hit her with a blunt object until she died.
Speaking at his Taveta ofce, Darso said the
grandmother later returned only to nd her
grandchilds lifeless body, lying in a pool of
blood. The body was taken to Taveta District
Hospital mortuary.
NUMEROUS CASES
We are still looking for the suspect who
escaped immediately after the incident. We
have also alerted authorities at his birth place
in Kitui County to assist in apprehending him
should he show up there, he said.
This case has brought to the fore the
severity of sexual offenses that have become
rampant in the region.
The incident comes barely a month after a
gang deled a nine-year-old epileptic girl and
dumped her body into a culvert in Werugha,
Taita district.
And an assistant chief was, early this
month, charged in court with raping a
mentally retarded woman in the county.
Hunt on for man who deled, killed niece
TAITA TAVETA COUNTY
Coast regions governors declare their unity in Lamu County.
They are from left Salim Mvurya (Kwale), Ali Hassan Joho
(Mombasa), Issa Timamy (Lamu), Hussein Dado (Tana River),
Amason Kingi (Kili) and John Mruttu (Taita Taveta). [PHOTO:
PAUL KINYANJUI/STANDARD]
Coasts big six
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Inakuletea...
JUMUIKA NA WATANGAZAJI WA
RADIO MAISHA
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of Tenders advertised in the Daily Nation and Standard News papers of 14
th
May 2014 for the
following goods, services and works for the nancial year 2014/2015. The tenders will now close/
open on 10
th
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Off Mombasa Road. Tender fee should be in Bankers Cheque or deposit the cash in the NEMA
Revenue Account, KCB KICC Branch, Account Number 1102298158, and submit the deposit
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of submitting the completed bid documents such Tenderers shall be required to enclose a copy of
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MAY 2014 TO 10
th
JUNE 2014.All OTHER CONDITIONS REMAIN THE SAME.
The Mandera County Government is soliciting for expression of interest from qualied
consultancy rms and individuals to undertake technical study develop strategies for the
support of the Jua Kali and Cottage Industries Support Programme and nally monitor
implementation of the programme. The consultancy is for a period of 3 years phased in 3
cycles beginning 1
st
July, 2014 and ending May 30
th
, 2017.
Scope of work and Objectives:
The consultancy shall cover:
i. To conduct a baseline survey to establish the number of Jua Kali players in each sub-
County, respective sub- sectors, challenges of the sector, enlist required appropriate
technologies, existing industrial skills sets and gaps to be lled taking cognizance of the
need for jobs for women and youth;
ii. To carry out an assessment of all existing programmes and projects (completed/Stalled)
relating to the Micro and Small Enterprises (Jua Kali/Cottage) at the County;
iii. To review and customize existing National policies relating to Jua Kali development for
County level usage;
iv. To identify stakeholders both at the County and the National levels, their functions/
mandates with a view to establish collaborative synergies for effective design and
implementation of support programmes for the sector to climbing the ladder from Micro
onwards in line with the First Mandera County Integrated Development Plan 2013-2017,
the County Investment policy, Ministry Plan 2013-2017 and Vision 2030.
v. To facilitate borrowing of best practices and sharing experiences from other Counties/
Countries.
vi. To promote sector participation by having conversations around the devolved functions;
and the role of the county government vis--vis the Jua Kali sector in the County economic
development.
vii. To put in place long-term measures to address Jua Kali/Cottage sector socio-economic
development needs within the devolved government framework.
viii. To develop a framework of action with clear deliverables and time lines for delivery in the
short, medium and long-term intervention measures.
Expression shall contain the following:
1. Snap summary include methodology and implementation plan;
2. Individual/Company background;
3. Summary of previous completed works relevant to this assignment and the contacts of
clients engaged with;
4. Budget with detailed cost breakdown and project implementation schedule;
All expressions must be submitted before Wednesday 12
th
June, 2014 at 10.00am. Each
EOI should include 3 hard copies and an electronic le in a CD or ash drive enclosed in
a plain envelop marked EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: CONSULTANCY TO STUDY AND
DEVELOP STRATEGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THECOUNTY JUA KALI AND COTTAGE
INDUSTRIES SUPPORT PROGRAMME should be put in the Tender Box at the ofces
of the County Government Headquarters in Mandera town and addressed to:
Director Supply Chain Management
Mandera County Government
P.O Box 13-70300
Mandera.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014 / The Standard Page 30 / COAST NEWS
Lamu County Assembly Deputy Clerk Omar Ahmed (right) with East African
Affairs PS Mwanamaka Mabruki after she opened an EAC integration
conference at the Mombasa Beach Hotel. [PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD]
By BENARD SANGA
The Ministry of East African
Affairs has warned that introduction
of levies on transit goods by border
counties is inhibiting trade within
the East African Community (EAC).
Principal Secretary Mwanamaka
Mabruki said the move by counties
to levy transit goods will hinder the
communitys quest for seamless
trade.
Imposing taxes on goods going
to EAC member states, especially by
counties at the border points, is one
of the tariff barriers we are trying to
solve. It is hindering trade and
increasing the possibility of a
retaliation by other EAC members,
she said.
Kwale County had in its
2014/2015 budgetary estimates
proposed introduction of levies on
goods that pass through its jurisdic-
tion from or to Tanzania.
However, yesterday Omar
Kitenge, member of the county
PS to counties:
Do not charge
transit goods
budget committee, said these
proposals were removed because
we thought it will go against the
constitution.
Mombasa county government,
on the other hand, is toying with a
proposal to introduce levies on all
goods that pass through the Port of
Mombasa to broaden its revenue
base. The county had proposed
introduction of a two dollar levy for
every tonne that pass at the Port.
EXTRA CHARGE
Mombasa governor Hassan Joho
has over time insisted that the port is
the biggest asset the county has and
it should therefore benet from it.
However, the PS has warned that
introduction of a levy at the port will
automatically push up the cost of
import and is bound to elicit sharp
condemnation from EAC members
using the facility.
Mabruki said though she
understands that counties have to
nd ways of generating income,
imposing such levies is not within
the spirit of EAC integration.
She said her ministry is con-
integration process.
The PS said the integration
process was in top gear citing
completion of the Arusha-Namanga-
Athi River road, reduction of
non-tariff barriers to trade along the
Northern Corridor and introduction
of the East African passport as major
millstones in the process.
We are trying to involve counties
in this process to enable them
identify opportunities that the EAC
integration presents, position
themselves and tap into them, she
said.
Mabruki said construction of the
Taita Taveta one stop border post is
almost complete and it will be
commissioned before the end of this
nancial year.
cerned that such a move could
hinder smooth ow of goods and
services in the region.
Mabruki said that the ministry
will engage all 47 counties, and espe-
cially those at border points, to make
sure they understand the Govern-
ments plan and policy on the
integration process so as to avert
such actions.
The PS made the remarks during
a county sensitisation forum on
regional integration held at Mom-
basa Beach Hotel.
Participants from Mombasa,
Kwale, Kili, Tana River, Lamu, Taita
Taveta, Kitui and Machakos were
sensitised on the Governments draft
regional strategy and policy
document which will guide Kenyas
participation in the regional
By PATRICK BEJA
Another workers strike is
looming at the Port of Mombasa as
Dock Workers Union mobilise
members to oppose a privatisation
plan at the multi-billion shilling
second container terminal.
Addressing hundreds of union
members at Bandari College Hall in
Mombasa at the weekend, DWUs
Secretary General Simon Sang said
they will petition the President.
Sang said their concern is that
the private terminal operators will
only absorb 200 workers and render
some 2,200 others redundant.
JOB LOSS
We request for a response from
the Presidents ofce by Wednesday.
We want to be given a chance to
clearly state our position as a union,
that we will not allow the second
container terminal to be in the
hands of a private operator because
it will lead to a loss of jobs, he said.
The secretary general was with
union chairman Jefa Kiti and
treasurer Patrick Atinga who backed
the petition.
The Sh29 billion container
terminal is being funded by a Sh26
million loan from the Japanese
Government with additional funding
from the Kenyan Government.
Possible
workers strike
at the port
MOMBASA COUNTY
MOMBASA COUNTY
TENDER NOTICE
The Geothermal Development Company Ltd (GDC) invites sealed tenders from eligible
candidates for the following service:
TENDER NO. TENDER DESCRIPTION CLOSING DATE
GDC/HQS/OT/072/2013-2014 Tender for Provision of Manpower
for geothermal drilling at Menengai
and Baringo geothermal project
12/06/14 at 2.00pm
(1400HRS)
Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information and inspect the tender document
from the ofce of Manager, Supply Chain at Riverside Ofce, along Riverside Drive between
9.00am and 4.00pm during week days. A complete set of the tender document may be
obtained by interested rms upon payment of a non-refundable fee of Kshs.1000 payable
to our accounts ofce in cash or by bankers cheque. The document can also be viewed and
downloaded from the website www.gdc.co.ke for free of charge. Bidders who download the
tender document from the website must forward their particulars immediately for records
and any further tender clarications and addenda
Tenders must be accompanied by an original bid security of Ksh 200,000 in the form specied
in the tender document.
The completed tenders in plain sealed envelopes clearly marked with Tender No. and Tender
reference name; shall be addressed to:
The Managing Director & CEO,
Geothermal Development Company
P.O Box 100746-00101
NAIROBI, KENYA
and deposited in the tender box at the GDC Riverside Ofce 2
nd
Floor located along Riverside
Drive, on or before the dates specied above.
Tenders will be opened immediately thereafter in the presence of the tenderers or their
representatives who choose to attend at GDC Riverside Board Room.
Late tenders will not be accepted.
MANAGER, SUPPLY CHAIN
APPOINTMENTS / Page 31
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014 / The Standard Page 32 / RIFT VALLEY NEWS
A survivor of the accident that killed 10 people and left 21 others injured at
Salgaa on the Nakuru-Eldoret highway is assisted by police ofces and Good
Samaritans at the Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital in Nakuru recently.
[PHOTO: KIPSANG JOSEPH/STANDARD]
Kericho Governor Paul Chepkwony.
[PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]
By KARANJA NJOROGE and
BOAZ KIPNGENO
The National Transport and Safety
Authority (NTSA) has deployed a pa-
trol vehicle at the accident prone
Salgaa stretch along the Nakuru-El-
doret highway to curb accidents.
The vehicle, tted with speed cam-
eras, will be used by police and NTSA
ofcers to patrol the 14km black spot
on a 24-hour basis.
NTSA Chairman Lee Kinyanjui,
who handed over the vehicle yester-
day, told drivers speeding on the
highway their days are numbered.
He said drivers arrested for free-
wheeling will not only be charged but
would have their licences cancelled in
accordance with the Trafc Act.
Over and above ning those free-
wheeling, we will be recommending
an immediate revocation of their li-
cences, he said
Kinyanjui announced that a lorry
park l with a capacity of 200 vehicles
will be constructed at Kibunja where
the NTSA ofcers will be checking the
lorries before they descend the
stretch.
IGNORANT DRIVERS
The NTSA boss attributed the ac-
cidents along the stretch to ignorant
drivers who use the climbing lane
while descending from Kibunja trad-
ing centre.
Two weeks ago, ten people died in
the area while 16 others were seri-
ously injured after a truck rammed six
vehicles.
The accident occurred when a
trailer ferrying maize from Eldoret to
Nairobi lost control and rammed the
vehicles, killing seven on the spot
while the others died in hospital.
Kinyanjui called on MPs to fast
track the passing of a Bill to regulate
scrap metal trade to curb vandalisa-
tion of road signs along the high-
ways.
Most of the vandalised road signs
nd their way into the scrap metal
trade and we are urging MPs to expe-
dite the passing of the Bill, he said
NTSA Director General Francis
Meja said his department would be
Patrol vehicle deployed at
accident-prone Salgaa
asking for reports from ofcers at Ki-
bunja on a daily basis to gauge their
effectiveness.
Meanwhile, a Nakuru court has
resolved to proceed with the hearing
of a child custody suit involving a
four-year-old boy between Kenyan
businessman Samuel Muchiri and
estranged Zimbabwean mother, Ju-
likka Makaure.
Moranga is the third magistrate to
hear the cross border child dispute
after two other magistrates withdrew
from the hearing.
LIMITED STAY
Moranga, who said her court cal-
endar is too squeezed, promised the
two parties she will determine the
matter within three weeks, the period
the Zimbabwean womans visa is due
to expire.
I have observed from the previous
proceedings that there are gaps that
need to be lled before we resume
hearing, Moranga said yesterday,
noting she still have to consult with
the two resident magistrates, Judi-
caster Nthuku and Rita Amwayi, who
withdrew from the case.
Amwayi withdrew from the case
last week, citing discomfort from the
defendants counsel, days after Nthu-
ku disqualied herself.
Muchiris lawyer Hari Gakinya in-
sisted on a fresh hearing proceeding
but plaintiffs legal representative
Elizabeth Wangari opposed him say-
ing the matter should proceed since
her clients stay in the country is lim-
ited.
Kenyan businessman and a Zimba-
bwean mother residing in South Af-
rica.
Nakuru Court Principal Magistrate
Mary Moranga set a new date for the
hearing proceedings for the disputed
By KARANJA NJOROGE
Teachers in Nakuru County have
threatened to paralyse learning in
protest against irregular transfers and
demotions.
Led by Kenya National Union of
Teachers (Knut) branch Executive
Secretary Njau Kuria, the teachers
said more than 100 teachers have
been irregularly transferred since the
beginning of the year.
Njau said the union would call
their members to stage protests over
the move beginning tomorrow.
Some of the teachers reported to
their work stations early this year
only to be transferred again when
schools reopened in April. This is
unfair even to their families, he
said.
Knut branch executive members
who met in Nakuru vowed to paral-
yse learning in the county until the
transfers are revoked.
They also accused the county
Teacher Service Commission ofce of
demoting four former head teachers
to assistant teachers.
Some of the teachers were de-
moted to the lowest rank even after
serving as managers in the schools
for over a decade, Njau added
The union cited Nakuru Munici-
pality and Rongai Sub County as
zones where teachers were being ha-
rassed by education ofcials.
By ANTHONY GITONGA
A police ofcer attached to the Fly-
ing Squad in Naivasha died on the
spot after an accident on the Naivasha-
Mai Mahiu road on Sunday.
During the night incident, three of
his colleagues sustained serious inju-
ries and were admitted at Naivasha
sub-county hospital.
Incidentally, the ofcers were
chasing some suspects when their
vehicle rammed onto a stalled lorry
near Fai Amario factory.
There was a moment of panic as
their colleagues rushed to the scene
to recover the weapons the ofcers
were carrying.
Nakuru County Police Command-
er Bernard Koki and Naivasha com-
missioner Mohammed Abass visited
the injured ofcer and ordered that
they be transferred to Kenyatta Na-
tional Hospital for specialised treat-
ment as investigations into the acci-
dent kicked off.
According to a witness, the acci-
dent occurred at around 10am as the
ofcers drove towards Naivasha
town.
The ofcers were chasing some
suspects who had failed to stop after
they were agged down when the ac-
cident occurred, he said.
Knut vows to
paralyse learning
over transfers
Ofcer dies in
accident chasing
criminals
By STEVE MKAWALE and
NIKKO TANUI
Impeached Kericho Governor
Paul Chepkwony has maintained he
is innocent as the ten-man Senate
Committee prepares to table its re-
port in the House on Wednesday.
The governor, who received sup-
port from Rift Valley leaders, includ-
ing Deputy President William Ruto,
said he was optimistic that he will be
cleared of any wrong doing.
Yesterday, Chepkwony said he
was optimistic reason will prevail as
he maintained that the accusations
levelled against him did not merit an
impeachment Motion.
Ruto, who visited the county over
weekend ahead of the Senate special
sitting, said Governor Chepkwony
was safe.
All the issues about Governor
Chepkwony will be sorted out by the
Senate. Kericho residents have noth-
ing to worry about, the DP told a
gathering in Kericho town where he
ofciated the opening a business
complex owned by a group of el-
derly men.
GROSS VIOLATION
Chepkwony, who spoke to The
Standard yesterday, said he is a
clean man and is only being cruci-
ed politically.
The governor, who was im-
peached on grounds of gross viola-
tion of the Constitution, the County
Government Act 2012, the Public
Finance Management Act and the
Public Procurement and Disposal
Act, said the allegations leveled
against him do not merit an im-
peachment motion.
The Senate committee is expected
to deliver its recommendations on
June 3.
I never engaged in any malprac-
tices or been summoned by any anti-
corruption agency since I took ofce
and no public funds have been lost,
maintained the besieged governor.
Kericho County Assembly Leader
of Majority Daniel Rono said the as-
sembly exercised its oversight role
and it is upon the Senate to scru-
tinise the allegations against Chepk-
wony and make its own verdict.
The assembly simply exercised
its oversight role and we had to do
what we had to do. It is now upon the
Senate to make its own judgment
over the matter, said Rono.
By BRYAN TUMWA
The Leader of Majority at Kericho
County Assembly Daniel Rono has
appealed to county leaders to invest
in green energy to protect the envi-
ronment and light up rural areas.
Speaking in Kericho town over
the weekend Rono said solar power
was the way to go if the country was
to achieve its objective of ensuring
accessibility of energy.
Most rural areas still do not have
access to electricity prompting slow
development, said Rono.
The majority leader was speaking
when he met a delegation of poten-
tial investors keen to set up a solar
panel assembly plant at Kericho
Central, which will serve parts of
Western Kenya as well.
They included Alf Liljehall the
CEO of Tellux which is a solar power
company based in Sweden and An-
ders Linden an ofcial of the com-
pany.
We welcome the project here in
Kenya and we hope to have a fruitful
engagement going forward, said
Rono.
Mr Liljehall said Africa had an
untapped potential for solar energy
which was available all year round.
Kenya has a lot of sun during the
day which is capable of running LED
lights throughout the night. The
rainfall the country experiences also
washes away the dirt to keep the
panels clean, he said.
Chepkwony pleads innocent ahead of Senate debate
Leader roots for investment in solar energy
KERICHO COUNTY
NAKURU COUNTY
NAKURU COUNTY
NAKURU COUNTY
KERICHO COUNTY
RIFT VALLEY NEWS / Page 33
County on the spot over
questionable papers in
staff hiring procedure
MAIN PICTURE: Nakuru Governor Kinuthia
Mbugua. INSET: Some of the letters exchanged
during investigation into the hiring scam.
[PHOTOS: /STANDARD]
By ALEX KIPROTICH and
STEVE MKAWALE
The Public Service
Board in Nakuru County
is on the spot over
irregularities in the
process of employing staff.
It has emerged that the
board short-listed some
candidates for the posts of
directors and county
administrators who either
had criminal records or
questionable academic
qualications.
According to documents
in possession of The Stan-
dard, two applicants short-
listed for the position of
county administrators did not
have the required qualica-
tions and another was being
sought by police over a crime he
committed in his previous employ-
ment.
The two, Geoffrey Kioko and Eric
Ogada, are also accused by their
former employer, Ministry of Local
Government, of forging transfer
letters and promotion in a letter
written to the interim county
transition secretary.
DISREGARD CONTENTS
We have veried our records on
two promotions and transfers of P/
NO.1851 Geoffrey Kioko and P/
NO.1872 Eric Ogada and are not in
our records hence did not originate
from this ofce, reads the letter
signed by Sally Tanui for the
Permanent Secretary.
You are advised to disregard
contents of the letters and initiate
investigations on the same with a
view to having the culprits brought
to book, reads the letter.
Ms Tanui said the promotion
letters which purports to have been
done in December 2012 are
non-existent but the le reference
belonged to Municipal Council of
Embu.
Both the two promotion letters
C/130823.IV (95) and C/130823.IV
(96) dated December 24, 2012
respectively are not in our records
and the le reference belongs to the
municipal council of Embu and the
current running volume is C/130823.
III. The public service commission
reference letter quoted being the
authority for promotions i.e PSC/45
dated November 2012 is not in our
records, reads the letter.
A senior ofcial at the county
government has conrmed that the
governor was informed of the raging
controversy at the board and had
already acted by rejecting the list
presented to him for appointment
twice.
We have seen those documents
and allegations raised against the
board. The appointments have been
stopped for verication of the
documents presented by the
applicants, said the ofcial who did
not want to be named.
Two of those shortlisted for county jobs are
said not to have requisite qualications while
another is wanted by police over graft claim
GENESIS
The investigation
followed a letter
of caution by one
Peter Kimaiyo who
warned the county
government on the
short-listing of Eric
Ogada, Gladys Pke-
mei and Geoffrey
Maritim
He claimed that
Ogada had no aca-
demic qualica-
tions by the time
he was shortlisted
for the post of ad-
ministrator
NAKURU COUNTY
SCHEDULE
PART 1 SITTING
PERIOD DAYS
Second Session, First Part
Tuesday 11
th
February Thursday 17
th
April, 2014 Tuesday (Afternoon), Wednesday
(Morning & Afternoon) and Thursday
(Afternoon)
Second Session, Second part
Tuesday 29
th
April Thursday 31
st
July, 2014 Tuesdays (Afternoon), Wednesdays
(Afternoon)

Second Session, Third Part
Tuesday, 2
nd
September Thursday 4
th
December 2014 Tuesday (Afternoon), Wednesday
(Afternoon)
PART II RECESSES
Second Session, First Part Friday 18
th
April Monday 28
th
April
2014
a) Short Recess
Second Session, Second Part

a) Long Recess Friday 1
st
August Monday 1
st

September 2014
Second Session, Third Part
a) Long Recess Friday 5
th
December Monday 9
th

February 2015
COUNTY ASSEMBLY OF KISUMU
CALENDAR OF THE COUNTY ASSEMBLY 2014
It is notied for general information that pursuant to Standing Order 25 of the County Assembly Standing Orders,
by a resolution made on 27
th
March 2014, the County Assembly approved the calendar for the Assembly (Regular
Sessions) for 2014 as set out in the schedule.
Nandi Hills MP Alfred Keter (left) during a thanksgiving ceremony at St
Peters ACK in Kesses. He wondered why Deputy President William Ruto took
more than two weeks to confess his involvement in Kiplimo Ruguts removal
from NYS. [PHOTO: ELIUD KOSGEY/STANDARD]
Uasin Gishu Senator Isaac Melly
By SILAH KOSKEI
Nandi Hills MP Alfred Keter has
dismissed remarks by Deputy Presi-
dent William Ruto on the replacement
of National Youth Service boss Kiplimo
Rugut.
Keter claimed Rutos recent de-
nunciation of calls to impeach Devo-
lution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waigu-
ru over Ruguts transfer was an
indication of hypocrisy.
Speaking at St Peters ACK in Kes-
ses constituency during the opening
of the church by bishop Christopher
Ruto on Sunday, the Nandi Hills legis-
lator wondered why the Deputy
President had to take more than two
weeks to reveal his involvement in the
transfer.
We sought divine intervention to
be shown who specically ordered the
replacement of our brother Rugut and
the truth came out. We now know
them because they owned up and it is
upon Kenyans to judge their actions,
he said.
The event took place concurrently
with a fund-raising ceremony held
15km away at Arnersens Boys High
School in Burnt Forest where Ruto
was the chief guest.
DAMAGE CONTROL
There was drama at the two func-
tions after senators Kipchumba
Murkomen, Kithure Kindiki and
Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi ew to Keters
function moments after the Nandi
Hills legislator had left for Kericho.
It was seen by pundits as attempts
by Ruto allies to do damage control.
The three leaders in a well orches-
trated plan left the Deputy President
with a host of local leaders at the
venue and landed at Kesses where
they used the platform that had ear-
lier been used by Keter to lash out at
Ruto.
The three donated Sh1.1 million
towards the church before defending
DPs actions on the replacement of
Rugut.
The recent transfer of Rugut is
currently used by a section of leaders
to divide the public which is indeed
not in good light, said Prof Kindiki.
Keter terms Rutos position
on Waiguru hypocritical
Keter had earlier claimed that the
changes were made so that certain
individuals can give room to corrup-
tion in the youth training institu-
tion.
He maintained that he would not
want the best for Jubilee leadership
and the country at large, Keter add-
ed.
The Nandi Hills MP lashed at
Leader of Majority in the National As-
sembly Aden Duale who recently re-
ferred to him as deaf. Keter said
Duale was not anybodys prefect and
his antics of insulting leaders in their
own backyard should stop.
CURRENT DEBACLE
He maintained that leaders from
the Rift Valley ought to be respected.
Rift Valley has always been calm
and no day have we elected Duale to
be our spokesman. He should stop
accusing leaders who have the respect
and esteem of the electorate, he
said.
Joshua Kutuny, a political advisor
to President Uhuru Kenyatta and who
was present at Kesses, warned the two
factions against engaging in public
spat.
He noted that the current debacle
is likely to destroy the Jubilee gov-
ernment before it delivers its prom-
ises.
I am worried about the current
situation. It is true that something is
not right but we should not use such
forums to portray our differences
because it will widen the problem.
Dialogue should be the best healer in
all problems, he said.
accept to be harassed by leaders at the
helm of leadership due to his constant
outright remarks.
We shall always speak on what is
good or bad and no leader, no matter
the stature, should intimidate us. We
By VINCENT MABATUK
There was drama in Nakuru Coun-
ty on Sunday when irate residents
held a day-long demonstration and
stormed illicit liquor dens burning
down seven houses of people suspect-
ing to be brewers.
Angry residents claimed a fellow
villager has become a notorious illicit
liquor brewer in Rongai sub-county
Sarambei village. The villagers ac-
cused the area Provincial Administra-
tion of working in cahoots with the
brewers and allowing the brewery to
thrive for years.
UNSPECIFIED ACTION
The residents threatened to take
unspecied action against the area
chief and accused the brewers of dis-
respecting a presidential directive
that all illicit brews should be wiped
out.
The villagers claimed they had
organised the demonstration follow-
ing the death of three people in the
area in less than two weeks after con-
suming illicit brews.
The villagers said the third victim
was discovered dead at Molo River
next to one of the raided homesteads
while they were making their way to a
fund-raising towards burial expenses
of another resident who died on Tues-
day under similar circumstances.
By FRED KIBOR
The Government will relocate all
people living on precarious escarp-
ments and landslides-prone areas,
Ministry of Environment, Water and
Natural resources Principal Secretary
Richard Lesiyampe has said.
Lesiyampe expressed concern that
continuous cultivation on dangerous
terrain and wanton destruction of the
steep escarpment has exposed the
residents to danger.
These areas are a ticking time
bomb. As Government, we are wor-
ried of the predicted El Nio rains in
June because people might be washed
away, he said.
He said they have discussed the
relocation issue with leaders at both
the national and county levels of gov-
ernment to relocate such people im-
mediately.
Addressing the Press after a con-
sultative forum with Elgeyo Marakwet
leaders and residents living in land-
slide prone areas yesterday, Lesi-
yampe said they are drafting a frame-
work that would be used in resettling
those living in the landslide prone
areas.
Villagers torch
suspected
brewers houses
State to relocate
residents in land
slide-prone areas
By RAEL JELIMO
A section of leaders in the North
Rift have accused county govern-
ments of deliberately withholding
useful information from youth.
They say many counties in the
region do not have an ofcial website
and this was a strategy to block out
the youth from opportunities.
Accusing county governments of
failing the youth in the access to
employment and entrepreneurship
opportunities, the leaders said lack
of information had made the youth
victims of servitude and slaves to
a culture of handouts.
They further accused the regions
county governments of lacking
transparency in procurement proce-
dures and job opportunities thus
opting to overlook the need for ac-
tive websites.
ACTIVE WEBSITES
The leaders who included Isaac
Melly (Uasin-Gishu senator), Ste-
phen arap Sang (Nandi senator),
Dominic Biwott (Nandi Deputy Gov-
ernor), Zipporah Kerring (Nandi
Women Representative), Julius Bit-
tok (advisor, economic affairs Ofce
of the President), Nixon Korir (Youth
Affairs advisor Ofce of the Deputy
President), Meshack Kimutai (Na-
tional chairman, Kenya Youth Alli-
ance) and Kipkirui Chepkwony
(Tindiret MCA) complained of the
governments lack of commitment to
the youth agenda.
The county governments have
not prioritised youth agenda. Unex-
plained lack of active websites has
resulted in the youth missing out on
useful information and opportuni-
ties. North-Rift county governments
lack openness in procurement and
job opportunities, said Meshack
Kimutai.
Calling on the county govern-
ments to put up policies and legisla-
tions to ensure youth empowerment,
the leaders talked of a need to im-
prove support on youth initiatives.
Despite availability of the youth
and Uwezo funds, the funds have
been left unutilised. Rampant lack of
information is making our youth
miss out on life changing opportuni-
ties, said Isaac Melly.
They were speaking at the Youth
Empowerment Forum held in Kap-
sabet on Saturday and Sunday.
By CHARLES NGENO
The Ogiek community has reacted
angrily to a move by the National
Land Commission to exclude them
from the recently commissioned
task force on historical land injus-
tices.
The community is now appealing
to the Kenya National Land Alliance
Co-ordinator Odenda Lumumba to
incorporate at least two members
from the community in the task
force. Speaking in Ololulunga town,
Narok County, the more than 200
members said for a long time the
community has suffered from mar-
ginalisation and other forms of in-
justices.
We read this deliberate move to
exclude our community in the task
force as part of the wider scheme to
marginalise us, said Sophy Tanki,
the groups spokesperson.
Ms Tanki said the Ogiek have
borne the brunt of land injustices
and should not be reduced to passive
participants when coming up with
laws that seek solutions to problems
aficting them.
Tanki also lamented that as a
community they are yet to get one of
them appointed in senior positions
in the public service.
The 14-member task force headed
by Samuel Tororei was commis-
sioned last Wednesday and is ex-
pected to come up with a draft Bill
on land.
Counties accused of sidelining the youth in opportunities
Ogieks angry over exclusion from land task force
NANDI COUNTY
NAKURU COUNTY
ELGEYO MARAKWET COUNTY
NANDI COUNTY
NAROK COUNTY
NOTICES / Page 35
Onions displayed for sale at a market in Nairobi. Farmers in West Pokot are
counting losses following poor yields and low prices. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]
By WILBERFORCE NETYA
Bulb onion farmers in West Pokot
County are counting losses after
recording low yields this season.
They attributed the situation to
poor seed varieties from suppliers.
The farmers say production has
been gradually declining over the
years as unscrupulous traders
supply them with seeds that have
not been sampled by experts.
Jasper Toman, one of the farmers,
says the once vibrant sector which
used to give growers more than Sh20
million per season, could be on the
brink of collapse.
He appealed to the Kenya Plant
Health Inspectorate, Kenya Agricul-
tural Research Institute and seed
producers to visit onion production
areas and carry out more tests.
Bulb onion production in this
region has been going down as the
varieties we plant lately weigh less
compared to what we used to reap in
the past. We suspect the variety has
been changed and the new one is
not doing well here, he said.
MIDDLEMEN MENACE
The farmers are now calling on
relevant Government institutions to
intervene in the shortest time
possible to revive the sector.
They also called on the county
government to build them stores for
their produce as they search for
markets elsewhere to curb middle-
men menace.
We do not want this sector to
collapse as was the case with
Onion farmers
suffer losses
due to poor
yields
pyrethrum which was only revived
recently and we are calling on the
Government to intervene early
enough before we abandon the
venture for other practices, said
Sarah Plimo, an onion farmer in
Ortum.
Leader of Majority in the county
assembly Simon Kalekem says
farmers opted to sell their onions to
middlemen at throw away prices
rather than take them back home
after transporting using donkeys and
carts through the rugged terrain.
SAME QUANTITY
He says due to lack of storage
facilities, the farmers are forced to
sell their produce at a throw away
price selling a kilogramme of
onions at an average of Sh18, yet the
same quantity goes for between
The majority leader further
explained that he had marshaled
farmers to form co-operative
societies that will help them market
their produce to have better bargain-
ing power as well as locking out the
middlemen.
Kalekem noted that more farmers
were taking up the initiative by
registering as members of the newly
established Ortum Onion Farmers
Co-operative Society but over 1,500
others were yet to join.
Sh80 and Sh100 in Nairobi, Mom-
basa and other areas.
Mr Kalekem says farmers
produce onions ranging from 100 to
2,000 tonnes per season, which is
often between November and June,
and are losing up to three times to
middlemen.
Farmers are losing close to Sh1
billion each year due to the chal-
lenges and are trying to seek the
help of the department of agricul-
ture in the county, he said.
By CHARLES NGENO
Expectant mothers from Bomet
East Sub-County will be saved the
trouble of travelling long distances
in search of maternity services after
the county government set aside
over Sh30 million for establishment
of maternity wings in seven
dispensaries.
Another Sh10 million has been
set aside for the upgrading of Tegat
Health Centre into a Level 4 hospital.
Bomet East Health Administrator
Alfred Korir said the county has
prioritised the provision of quality
health services to its citizens.
Speaking to The Standard at
Longisa Hospital, Korir said three
new dispensaries will also be opened
at Chemengwa, Kapsimbiri and
Cheboin.
PIPE DREAM
Free maternal services continue
to be a pipe dream for several
women because of distant hospitals.
The county government wants to
make this a reality by ensuring that
there is a maternity wing in every
dispensary, said Korir.
He said the Beyond Zero cam-
paign, which was recently launched
by First Lady Margaret Kenyatta,
may not amount to much if women
still have to travel long distances in
search of these services.
In the spirit of devolution, we
want to bring services closer to
people. Devolution will be meaning-
less if people will still be made to
travel long distances in search of
essential services such as health
care, said Korir.
Korir said laundry machine and
linen worth Sh16 million and Sh2
million respectively have been
purchased for Longisa Hospital
which has been upgraded to a Level
5 facility.
The dialysis machine that was
bought at a cost of Sh12 million will
be operational from June. Another
Sh4 million was spent in rehabilitat-
ing the mortuary, he said.
Sh30m set aside
for dispensary
maternity wings
By MERCY KAHENDA
A woman was murdered and her
body burned over the weekend in
Oldebes village, Kisanana division
in Mogotio Sub County allegedly
for practicing witchcraft.
Christine Jemeli Koech, 45, a
mother of six, was brutally killed in
her house by unknown people.
Oldebes location Chief Wesley
Molok said the villagers set on the
woman they suspected has been
practicing witchcraft at wee hours
of Sunday morning.
The woman was sleeping when
a group of people broke into her
house and attacked her claiming
she was a witch, said Molok.
Molok said one of the deceaseds
neighbours had claimed that she
had bewitched his 17-year-old son,
who had been ailing for a week.
Her body was taken to Nakuru
Municipal mortuary for postmor-
tem.
The neighbour has been
arrested.
Elsewhere, two nursery school
children both aged six years
drowned in an open well in Barut
village, Nakuru County, on Friday
evening.
Park View sub-location Assistant
Chief Joseph Oyawa said the two
boys from Little Angle Academy
were heading home from school
when they slid and fell into the
well.
Mother of six killed for alleged witchcraft
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G J A F 27
J H E C 23
F B C A 22
24 20 20 21
H E B D 13
YESTERDAYS SOLUTION
STANDOKU Imejin
1840 EASY
1 3 7 9
7 8 1 2
7 9 8
9
8
2 4
8 3 2 7
2 7 3 5
9 4 1 6
4 9
puzzling
37
Using all the letters
of the alphabet,
ll in the grid. To
help you, there are
three cryptic cross-
word-style clues:
Top line: Go bail
out the party. Its
necessary. (10)
Middle line: Brown
has gone from the
locked basement.
(7)
Bottom line: Fish-
mongers bargain
for miserly custom-
er. (10)
To start you off,
here is one of the
letters.
By Rosy Russell
All rows, columns and 3 by 3 grids
(dened by bold lines ) have the
numbers 1 to 9 appearing only once.
Some of the numbers have been en-
tered. Complete the whole table by
inserting the correct numbers.
Capricorn (Dec 22 - Jan 20)
You are charming, kind and popular but
you will enjoy any quiet time you can get
today. Money matters could be a hot dis-
cussion in the workplacehow to make
it, how to keep it, etc.
Aquarius (Jan 21 - Feb 19)
You could be coordinating some an event
today. Your mind is quick and you are
able to easily guide others. You know
your work is accomplished when the
people you depend on are positive.
Pisces (Feb 20 - Mar 20)
You are in a great mood today and can
appreciate your own qualities. You may
see value in or feel love for an older per-
son or someone in authority. You may
find yourself teaching, taking a class or
attending a lecture.
Taurus (April 21 - May 20)
There could be some work issues that
bring challenges your way today. Ambi-
tion is a powerful motivation and can
lead you into conflict if you let it get out
of control. Properly channeled, it results
in great achievements and recognition.
Aries (Mar 21 - May 20)
Circumstances may seem to irritate you
today. This is all of short duration and
the best action is no action just now. You
must practice patience at this time of
misunderstanding.
Cancer
(June 22 - July 22)
Sometimes your desire for knowledge
moves in so many different directions
that you lose focus and become scat-
tered. Think about creating a new habit
to help you insert a balance and focus
into your life.
Courtesy: dailyhoroscopes.com
YESTERDAYS SOLUTIONS
Horoscopes
Sudoku
Codeword Puzzle
(May 21 - June 21)
Despite the problems you may
get in the work arena just now,
there are areas of life where you
have clear insight and real tal-
ent, your judgment is sharpyou
always manage to take charge.
DIFFICULT
The letters have a distinct
value between 1 to 9. The to-
tals vertically and horizontally
have been given. Solve all the
values.
NO 5200
NO 5199
A B C D E F G H J
1 6 4 7 2 8 3 9 5
YESTERDAYS SOLUTIONS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
E
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
T L V E D R
I J F Q
O N Y X C H M P Z K
S
G
W
B
A
U
Leo (July 23 - Aug 22)
You and a co-worker may have an ongoing
competition this month about using a new
word each day. You enjoy nothing more than
a good conversation and may be very pro-
cient at speaking and communicating.
Virgo
(Aug 23 - Sept 23)
Now is a good time to read books on orga-
nising and to decide just how extensive you
want to get with the project. You work today
on becoming more organised and a little ac-
cent here and there will create pleasant sur-
roundings in your workplace.
Libra
(Sept 24 - Oct 23)
You are positive and you are able to get right
to the point of problems today. You have
plenty of enthusiasm and warm up to things
and people quickly. There is an inner self-
condence that burns with its own light to-
day for you to make your dreams a reality.
Scorpio
(Oct 24 - Nov 22)
Your fuel tank of energy may be full and you
should be judicious in its use. Try to engage
in projects that need to be nished before
starting another one. Your work may come
under scrutiny from people in authority.
Sagittarius
(Nov 23 - Dec 21)
Habits are in a cycle of change; variety satis-
es a deep inner need. Keeping a nger to
the winds of change makes you feel in touch.
Learning new tricks of the trade may be
where your energies are focused.
Gemini
Solution No. 1839
3 8 5 9 1 2 6 4 7
7 6 1 4 5 8 2 9 3
4 2 9 6 7 3 8 1 5
2 9 8 7 4 5 3 6 1
5 1 7 3 6 9 4 8 2
6 3 4 8 2 1 5 7 9
1 4 6 5 3 7 9 2 8
8 5 2 1 9 4 7 3 6
9 7 3 2 8 6 1 5 4
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puzzling
Across
1 Maker of bread (5)
6 Caribbean dance (5)
9 Wash and iron (7)
10 Spring bulb (5)
11 Gangway (5)
12 Chairs (5)
13 Hand over (7)
15 In favour of (3)
17 Single entity (4)
18 Falling star (6)
19 Tree type (5)
20 Newspaper boss (6)
22 Hares tail (4)
24 Feeling unhappy (3)
25 Strive, contend (7)
26 Anteroom (5)
27 Hairdressers shop (5)
28 Maths chart (5)
29 Venerates (7)
30 Brimless cap (5)
31 Lawful (5)
Down
2 Insight (6)
3 Give rise to (6)
4 Knock (3)
5 Bury (5)
6 Tanned hide (7)
7 Plant (4)
8 Spanish dance (6)
12 Cut off (5)
13 The sts, slang (5)
14 Furious (5)
15 Freedom from war (5)
16 Address the public (5)
18 Army ofcer (5)
19 Small crown (7)
21 Harm (6)
22 Scattered, scanty (6)
23 Perfect society (6)
25 Surrenders (5)
26 Golfers cry (4)
28 Hair product (3)
ACROSS: 3, Hades 8, Virus 10, Raven 11, Sum 12, Float 13, Regally 15, Sisal 18, Tie 19,
Sentry 21, Creeper 22, Lira 23, Dime 24, Develop 26, Fenced 29, Gun 31, Trees 32, Pag-
eant 34, Devil 35, Gin 36, Adder 37, Bared 38, Steep
DOWN: 1, Miser 2, Sumatra 4, Ally 5, Eraser 6, Satin 7, Debar 9, Rug 12, Fleeced 14, Lie 16,
Strip 17, Lyres 19, Senegal 20, Cleft 21, Crane 23, Donegal 24, Desert 25, Lug 27, Erode
28, Cedes 30, Inner 32, Pile 33, Air.
YESTERDAYS EASY SOLUTIONS
Easy Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Foam coming forth unexpectedly
(5)
6 Of money, cheat with a cry of dis-
taste (5)
9 Polish up a picture of the river (7)
10 Strong enough to take the short
way out (5)
11 Very apparent to many a listener
(5)
12 Highest possible rank or status (5)
13 Interrupts someone giving his ad-
dress (7)
15 Angry maybe, but akin to being
kind (3)
17 Shows humanity (4)
18 Possibly buries discoloured tis-
sue (6)
19 Men involved in the noble art? (5)
20 Club motorist? (6)
22 A letter from Greece (4)
24 Some newsagents look tired (3)
25 Its faster with a motor (7)
26 Dump by the wayside (5)
27 Runner with a name for being
highly smashed! (5)
28 Beast with a waterside joint (5)
29 Say no men can possibly hold it
back! (7)
30 Stayed sound and sober (5)
31 The price of thoughts? (5)
DOWN
2 Sooner than bring Romeo heart-
break (6)
3 Big boxes containing very personal
possessions? (6)
4 So, moving from the south, one
nds shelter (3)
5 Does he keep his distance? (5)
6 Their orders are patiently obeyed
(7)
7 Commonly ending up in solitary
(4)
8 Wine one is mad about at middle-
age? (6)
12 Hesitate to be awfully rude about a
military leader (5)
13 The bosses are a shade different
(5)
14 Rugged Scot, possibly stony? (5)
15 Being the xer, I have to be in the
right (5)
16 Dont allow a deb to be hard-heart-
ed (5)
18 A nice place to be stranded! (5)
19 Detectives are indeed very posi-
tive! (7)
21 Too much noise on court? (6)
22 Ox-like, bigheaded and sheep-
ish (6)
23 Sort of bowling one can gure to
x? (6)
25 They can cope with costs can-
nily (5)
26 Not a girls full name (4)
28 Hot work at the dance (3)
ACROSS: 1, Shoot 6, A-isle 9, Downing 10, A-B-ide 11, D-Ouse 12, Astor 13, M-on-arch 15, LED 17, Oban 18,
Archer 19, Go-U-da 20, Olive-R 22, Isla 24, Nor 25, Declaim 26, N-ever 27, Debar 28, Puppy 29, Managed
30, Aspel 31, Rents
DOWN: 2, Hob-nob 3, Odd man 4, Toe (leg end) 5, Gnash 6, Andorra 7, Igor 8, Les-see 12, Acto-r 13, Mo-r-on
14, Nadir 15, L-has-A 16, Dr-(m)e(n)-am 18, Adder 19, General 21, L-overs 22, Ill-ude 23, Limp-et 25, Dela-y
26, Name 28, Per
YESTERDAYS CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS
Cryptic Puzzle
WEIRD NEWS
I only regret that I have but one
life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale
A former lawyer has launched
himself on a new high-flying
career path as a human
cannonball.
Oxford graduate Gary Stocker,
30, had a 1million home and
six-figure salary as a legal
recruitment officer.
But he has left all that behind
to live in a caravan with a
travelling circus.
Mr Stocker set up Chaplins
Circus with his friend Mark
Foot two years ago when his
boss told him he would never
leave his job.
I got a big sum of money
every month. Then my boss
said: Youre going to make so
much cash you wont be able
to leave, he said.
When Mark put his proposal
to me I realised that being in
the circus was what I destined
for. I thought about his offer
for 15 minutes before giving
him a resounding yes.
Perhaps I only went to Oxford
to please my mum, he said.
Mirror Online
Millionaire lawyer turns human cannonball
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Solution No. 1839
3 8 5 9 1 2 6 4 7
7 6 1 4 5 8 2 9 3
4 2 9 6 7 3 8 1 5
2 9 8 7 4 5 3 6 1
5 1 7 3 6 9 4 8 2
6 3 4 8 2 1 5 7 9
1 4 6 5 3 7 9 2 8
8 5 2 1 9 4 7 3 6
9 7 3 2 8 6 1 5 4
FOX CINEPLEX SARIT CENT RE,
WESTLANDS
SCREEN I HEROPANTI (TBA) At
11.00am, 9.05pm, GODZI LLA I N 3D
(U16) At 1. 45pm, 6. 55pm, AMAZI NG
SPI DERMAN 2 I N 3D (PG) At 4. 10pm
SCREEN II X- MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE
PAST I N 3D (TBA) At 11.00am,
1. 45pm, 6. 40pm, 9. 15pm, GODZI LLA
I N 3D (U16) At 4. 15pm
PLANET MEDI A CI NEMAS - KI SUMU
SCREEN I LEGO (GE) At 2. 20pm,
4. 30pm, 300- RI SE OF EMPEROR
(16) At 6. 40pm, 8. 40pm
SCREEN II X- MEN: DAYS OF
FUTURE PAST (TBA) At 6. 20pm,
8. 50pm.
NYALI CINEMAX MOMBASA
SCREEN I AMAZI NG SPI DERMAN
2 I N 2D At 6. 30pm, NONSTOP At
6. 45pm, THE OTHER WOMAN At
89.00pm, X- MEN I N 2D At 9. 15pm.
Cinema Guide
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Nairobi 102.7 I Nyeri 105.7
Meru 105.1 I Kericho 90.5
Kisumu 105.3 I Mombasa 105.1
Nakuru 104.5 I Eldoret 91.1 Kitui:
93.8 I Kisii: 91.3
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07:00 Diamond Divers
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10:50 How Do They Do It?
11:20 How Its Made
11:45 Gold Rush
12:40 Gold Fever
01:35 Ice Cold Gold
Much of the plot line will be centred around
the Bermuda Triangle, an area over the North
Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft are
said to have disappeared.
YESTERDAYS TRIVIA: How to be
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03:55 Diamond Divers
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06:40 How Do They Do It?
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16:00 Citizen alasiri
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17:00 Pavitra Rishta
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19;35 Tahidi high
20:05 Wild at Heart
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22:00 The tempest
23:00 Afrosinema
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4:30 BBC
4:55 Morning Prayer
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5:30 Damka
8:00 Good Morning Kenya
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11:00 Daytime Movie
11:00 KBCc Lunch Time
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1:30 Moving The Masses
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2:30 Parliament Live
4:30 Spider Riders
5:00 Club 1
6:00 Spiders
7:00 Darubini Live
7:30 Road To Success
8:05 The Platform Live
9:00 Channel 1 News
9:45 National Cohesion
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10:30 Bold & Beautiful
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12:00 Club 1
12:45 BBC
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4:00 NTV at 4
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9:00 NTV Tonight
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10:30 Movie
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5.00 Command Your
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6.00 K24 alfairi
9.00 It seems so
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12.00 Al jazeera news
13.00 K24 newscut
13.30 Mabeste rpt
15.00 Housemates rpt
16.00 Mchipuko wa alasiri
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19.00 K24 saa moja
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LEADING TRAILER MANUFACTURERS
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C
MC Engineering is a Division of CMC Motors Group
Ltd. The products manufactured in Engineering
vary from Commercial high-speed trailers, Fuel
Tank Monoblock Trailers, Agricultural Trailers, Bodies on
various trucks of diferent capacities, Water Tanks, Fans,
conversion of 4x4 Vehicles into Specialized retail usage
vehicles and accessories.
CMC Motors Group Ltd has been synonymous with the
production of high speed trailers over the past 35 yrs.
Our main objective is to meet the increasing demands of
the road transport industry in Kenya and the rest of East
Africa with quality and efcient transport solutions that
are cost efective in terms of operation & maintenance.
We have developed designs for a very comprehensive
range of heavy commercial vehicle bodies, virtually for
every sector of the road transport industry to include
semi trailers, draw bar trailers, tipper trailers and
tankers among others. Our most recognized brand is the
L1 & YTE Suspension system depending on the trailer
type and customers preference.
With a competent team headed by the Divisional
Manager, skilled design staf, qualied production work
force and a keen quality control team, we have a fully
functional workshop that operates on a well supported
operational system to meet the customers requirements
in terms of delivery and quality. After sales support for
our products is available country wide at our Branches
in Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret, Kitale, Nakuru, Meru and
Nanyuki. These hubs capture their environs efciently
through timely recovery by our Service personnel and
well equipped service Vans. We are also well represented
in Tanzania Branch, Hughes Motors Arusha and CMC
Uganda Branch situated in Kampala.
We stock our High Speed Trailers at 80% completion
stage which allow for the shortest lead time of 5 working
days to complete, carry out Pre-Delivery Inspection (PDI),
Register and deliver to the client.
Of the Trailer variety, our range covers:
1. Container Haulage: These are Skeletal
Trailers, Flat Bed Trailers, Highsided Trailers and Low
Dropside trailers made of automotive steel which
light in weight and strong with Screw Type Twistlocks.
2. Specialized Pole Carrying Trailers: These
can be Skeletal Trailers, Highsided Trailers, Flat
Bed Trailers or Low Dropside Trailers. The installed
Bolsters are either permanent or removable
depending on the customers specications.
3. Loose Cargo Haulage: These are used to
carry the compact but loose cargo or life stock. In
this range, the Highsided Trailer, Flat Bed trailer or
Flat Bed Trailer are most ideal depending on the
cargo.
4. Construction & Mining: In this range we
ofer the 27cuM. Tipping Trailers c/w with PTO &
Pump. As a bonus, our units have twistlocks which
allow the customers transport containers if required.
5. Wide Load & Very heavy Haulage: In this
range we have the Low Loader Trailers of 45 60
Tons in capacity. We have improved these units to
include Side Dropside Door and retractable side aps
which allow for securing and transportation of the
wide load units/cargo.
6. Fuel Transportation: In this range we have
38000ltrs - 40000ltrs Monoblock Fuel Tanker with
inbuilt bafes. We are also able to build a 32000ltrs
fuel tank which can be mounted on either of Skeletal
Trailer or Flatbed trailers.
7. Custom- made
Trailers: These are manufactures
to the clients exact specications to suit their
special preference while observing the Kenyan
Road Transport Legal requirement. In the 2007, we
had the privilege of fabricating the Crate Carrying
Trailers for KWS used to relocate the Elephants.
Most of our trailers are adequate to suit multiple
applications and functionality. CMC Motors Group is
continuously involved in product improvement. Every
efort is being done to research and develop our products
in order to consolidate our image for growth within the
region.
CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS
CHRISTOPHER MWAURA
CEO, A Freight and Logistic Solutions Company
I
have been a customer of CMC for the past 10yrs. I have
bought my eet of trailers from CMC Motors Group
because of the quality of trailers and unique design they
ofer to each client. I am handled like a VIP customer,
which means that any service rendered will be of VIP
Quality.
I am encouraged to partner with CMC Motors Group
because I see the commitment in continuously improving
their products through valuing customer relations, after
sales efciency and exibility to customer specications.
The Trailers I have
bought from CMC Motors Group are
strong, light and durable which translates to
increased load capacity, efciency and reliabity.

ANTHONY MUTHOGA
MANAGING DIRECTOR, REGIONAL VENTURES

I
choose CMC Motors Group as my transport solution
provider because they are on record as one of the
best Motor vehicle companies in Kenya. This is because
of the provision of quality products and services to its
customers. The after sales services in CMC Motors Group
are like free Insurance that runs for a year. Such services
are rarely ofered in other companies.
I have been a customer at CMC Motors Group for more
than 2 year because of the professionals who specialize
in vehicle mechanics and diagnostics. When I (Regional
Ventures) purchase a Trailer from CMC, I get the
opportunity to take it there for maintenance. While the
vehicle is undergoing service and repair, I am condent
that it will come out better than it was before.
For Your Complete Haulage Solutions
Uganda
The Cooper Motors Corporation
(Uganda) Ltd.
CMC House
Katalima Loop, Nakawa
P. O. Box 2169
KAMPALA
Tel: 006 (414) 286780/4
Fax: 286039
Email: md@cmcuganda.co.ug
Tanzania
(TANZANIA)LIMITEDHUGHESMOTORS
Hughes Motors (Tanzania) Ltd &
Hughes Agricultural (Tanzania) Ltd.
Moshi Road P. O. Box 711
USA RIVER Aru Meru, Tanzania
Tel: Arusha (007 27) 2553764/
2553775/2553682/3
Fax: Arusha (007 27)
CMC MOTORS GROUP LIMITED,
a member of Al-Futtaim Group
We ofer Financing options
One year warranty
First free service after delivery
We ofer Leasing options
Tel:+254 693 2261 / 259
R
ecently R.T. (East Africa) Ltd,
(RTEAL) acquired the franchises for
world re-known Volkswagen and
MAN trucks and buses becoming a one-
stop-shop for the provision of commercial
transport solutions on the East African
market. Previously the rm, which boasts
of over seven years experience in the local
and regional market, was mainly known
for the supply of Randon trailers.
RTEAL commenced operations in Kenya
in March 2005 with the assembly of
Randon Trailers, a leading trailer brand
with its origin in Brazil. Through the
strategic partnership with RANDON S.A
IMPLEMENTOS the rm set up an assembly
facility in Nairobis Industrial Area that
also acts as a sole and major distribution
point for Randon brand in Kenya, Uganda,
Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, as well as
South Sudan.
We are amongst the market leaders in
the region in trailer manufacturing and
assembly. Our trailers are of high quality,
made using high grade automotive steel
coupled with unparalleled engineering
technology.
Owing to RTEALs track record and good
knowledge of the heavy commercial
transport industry, the Germany-
based Volkswagen brand, which is also
currently in partnership with the MAN
brand appointed the rm as a dealer and
distributor of the VW truck & Buses as well
as the MAN trucks in 2012. We have so far
set up a state-of-the-art assembly plant
that assembles these trucks and buses in
Kenya.
And when it comes to supporting our
products, the companys Trading Division
is tasked with the importation and supply
of various spare parts and automotive
related products to Randon, VW & MAN
customers in the region. Among many
other our trading products include: FRAS-
LE brake linings & brake pads, Suspensys
products, JOST world renowned fth
wheels & Kingpins, Hengst Filters, Double
Coin tyres, United tyres, Lipe Clutch Kits &
Synergy Batteries.
We have services in strategic towns and
cities in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and
South Sudan.
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By Joanne Wanjala
K
enyas heavy commercial vehicles
(HCVs) industry is gradually
growing thanks to heavy
investment as the country tightens its
sectors towards the attainment of vision
2030. The growth is also as a result of
Kenyas positioning as the economic hub
of the East African region.
About half of Kenyas motor vehicle
market is commercial, composed of
trucks, buses and pickups, its sale in
the country accounting to about 40%
of industry deals. This is mainly due to
increased demand in sectors such public
transport, haulage and agriculture.
Heavy commercial vehicles include Cargo
trucks, Tipping trucks, Tankers as well as
long haulage vehicles. With more roads
being constructed and more industries
being set up, the demand of the heavy
commercial vehicles has risen at a faster
pace. At present, most the automobile
rms have diversied their products
and now dominate the HCVs market.
Most of these brands are customized
to suit developing countries which are
characterized by rough terrains.
One of the pillars to drive the attainment
of Vision 2030 is investment in
infrastructure, which in turn is heavily
dependent on this industry. The countrys
investment in infrastructural facilities like
roads and the railway system has played a
big role in shaping the demand for heavy
commercial vehicles. Local assemblers
and manufacturers have cashed in to this
demand and are now churning out HCV
that suit diferent market needs.
According to data from the Kenya Motor
Industry Association (KMI), sales of new
heavy commercial vehicles in 2012 for
KMI members were 3792 which included
2,397 locally assembled and 1395
imported units. This accounts for about
26.8% of the total sales of the vehicle
market. Other means being used to seal
the market demand gap is through leasing,
where some rms have made leasing of
HCV as part of their core businesses.
Apart from local assembly, imported
HCV also don that market. This is more
so because of the liberalized vehicle
importation policies by the government.
Most local assembling rms have taken
advantage of such policies to import
parts and assemble their brands locally
to take advantage of the tax exemptions.
Because most of these vehicles are used
to transport heavy cargo, their capacity
and efciency is an aspect that most
players are keen on improving. This
is also coupled with the fact that most
of these vehicles go for long distances,
hence manufacturers are putting in
a lot of safety measures both for the
driver, other passengers, the cargo itself
as well as the safety of other road users,
given that Kenya has over a million road
users with vehicles of diferent kinds and
models.
These specications are dependent on
the line of work that they are to be used
for, like whether the trucks are to be used
as cargo pullers, tractor trailers, tippers,
and so on. Although technical and safety
standards in local vehicle assembly are set
by the source manufacturers of each brand
of vehicle, the Kenya Motor Industry
Association (KMI) has a Charter that
encourages reporting of any misconduct
and leads independent investigation of
any standards, safety or conduct issue.
In addition, given that all the major
assemblers, importers and distributors
of new HCVs are KMI members, the
association acts as a platform for
interaction between the members,
government and the general public.
However, to drive the economy and chart
a faster lead to industrialization, market
experts say more investment should be
put into local assembling rms. This will
ensure that benets are maximized.
Kenyas heavy commercial market robust
ADVERTISERS ANNOUNCEMENT / Page 41
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 4 / The Standard
C
MC Engineering is a Division of CMC Motors Group
Ltd. The products manufactured in Engineering
vary from Commercial high-speed trailers, Fuel
Tank Monoblock Trailers, Agricultural Trailers, Bodies on
various trucks of diferent capacities, Water Tanks, Fans,
conversion of 4x4 Vehicles into Specialized retail usage
vehicles and accessories.
CMC Motors Group Ltd has been synonymous with the
production of high speed trailers over the past 35 yrs.
Our main objective is to meet the increasing demands of
the road transport industry in Kenya and the rest of East
Africa with quality and efcient transport solutions that
are cost efective in terms of operation & maintenance.
We have developed designs for a very comprehensive
range of heavy commercial vehicle bodies, virtually for
every sector of the road transport industry to include
semi trailers, draw bar trailers, tipper trailers and
tankers among others. Our most recognized brand is the
L1 & YTE Suspension system depending on the trailer
type and customers preference.
With a competent team headed by the Divisional
Manager, skilled design staf, qualied production work
force and a keen quality control team, we have a fully
functional workshop that operates on a well supported
operational system to meet the customers requirements
in terms of delivery and quality. After sales support for
our products is available country wide at our Branches
in Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret, Kitale, Nakuru, Meru and
Nanyuki. These hubs capture their environs efciently
through timely recovery by our Service personnel and
well equipped service Vans. We are also well represented
in Tanzania Branch, Hughes Motors Arusha and CMC
Uganda Branch situated in Kampala.
We stock our High Speed Trailers at 80% completion
stage which allow for the shortest lead time of 5 working
days to complete, carry out Pre-Delivery Inspection (PDI),
Register and deliver to the client.
Of the Trailer variety, our range covers:
1. Container Haulage: These are Skeletal
Trailers, Flat Bed Trailers, Highsided Trailers and Low
Dropside trailers made of automotive steel which
light in weight and strong with Screw Type Twistlocks.
2. Specialized Pole Carrying Trailers: These
can be Skeletal Trailers, Highsided Trailers, Flat
Bed Trailers or Low Dropside Trailers. The installed
Bolsters are either permanent or removable
depending on the customers specications.
3. Loose Cargo Haulage: These are used to
carry the compact but loose cargo or life stock. In
this range, the Highsided Trailer, Flat Bed trailer or
Flat Bed Trailer are most ideal depending on the
cargo.
4. Construction & Mining: In this range we
ofer the 27cuM. Tipping Trailers c/w with PTO &
Pump. As a bonus, our units have twistlocks which
allow the customers transport containers if required.
5. Wide Load & Very heavy Haulage: In this
range we have the Low Loader Trailers of 45 60
Tons in capacity. We have improved these units to
include Side Dropside Door and retractable side aps
which allow for securing and transportation of the
wide load units/cargo.
6. Fuel Transportation: In this range we have
38000ltrs - 40000ltrs Monoblock Fuel Tanker with
inbuilt bafes. We are also able to build a 32000ltrs
fuel tank which can be mounted on either of Skeletal
Trailer or Flatbed trailers.
7. Custom- made
Trailers: These are manufactures
to the clients exact specications to suit their
special preference while observing the Kenyan
Road Transport Legal requirement. In the 2007, we
had the privilege of fabricating the Crate Carrying
Trailers for KWS used to relocate the Elephants.
Most of our trailers are adequate to suit multiple
applications and functionality. CMC Motors Group is
continuously involved in product improvement. Every
efort is being done to research and develop our products
in order to consolidate our image for growth within the
region.
CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS
CHRISTOPHER MWAURA
CEO, A Freight and Logistic Solutions Company
I
have been a customer of CMC for the past 10yrs. I have
bought my eet of trailers from CMC Motors Group
because of the quality of trailers and unique design they
ofer to each client. I am handled like a VIP customer,
which means that any service rendered will be of VIP
Quality.
I am encouraged to partner with CMC Motors Group
because I see the commitment in continuously improving
their products through valuing customer relations, after
sales efciency and exibility to customer specications.
The Trailers I have
bought from CMC Motors Group are
strong, light and durable which translates to
increased load capacity, efciency and reliabity.

ANTHONY MUTHOGA
MANAGING DIRECTOR, REGIONAL VENTURES

I
choose CMC Motors Group as my transport solution
provider because they are on record as one of the
best Motor vehicle companies in Kenya. This is because
of the provision of quality products and services to its
customers. The after sales services in CMC Motors Group
are like free Insurance that runs for a year. Such services
are rarely ofered in other companies.
I have been a customer at CMC Motors Group for more
than 2 year because of the professionals who specialize
in vehicle mechanics and diagnostics. When I (Regional
Ventures) purchase a Trailer from CMC, I get the
opportunity to take it there for maintenance. While the
vehicle is undergoing service and repair, I am condent
that it will come out better than it was before.
For Your Complete Haulage Solutions
Uganda
The Cooper Motors Corporation
(Uganda) Ltd.
CMC House
Katalima Loop, Nakawa
P. O. Box 2169
KAMPALA
Tel: 006 (414) 286780/4
Fax: 286039
Email: md@cmcuganda.co.ug
Tanzania
(TANZANIA)LIMITEDHUGHESMOTORS
Hughes Motors (Tanzania) Ltd &
Hughes Agricultural (Tanzania) Ltd.
Moshi Road P. O. Box 711
USA RIVER Aru Meru, Tanzania
Tel: Arusha (007 27) 2553764/
2553775/2553682/3
Fax: Arusha (007 27)
CMC MOTORS GROUP LIMITED,
a member of Al-Futtaim Group
We ofer Financing options
One year warranty
First free service after delivery
We ofer Leasing options
Tel:+254 693 2261 / 259
R
ecently R.T. (East Africa) Ltd,
(RTEAL) acquired the franchises for
world re-known Volkswagen and
MAN trucks and buses becoming a one-
stop-shop for the provision of commercial
transport solutions on the East African
market. Previously the rm, which boasts
of over seven years experience in the local
and regional market, was mainly known
for the supply of Randon trailers.
RTEAL commenced operations in Kenya
in March 2005 with the assembly of
Randon Trailers, a leading trailer brand
with its origin in Brazil. Through the
strategic partnership with RANDON S.A
IMPLEMENTOS the rm set up an assembly
facility in Nairobis Industrial Area that
also acts as a sole and major distribution
point for Randon brand in Kenya, Uganda,
Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, as well as
South Sudan.
We are amongst the market leaders in
the region in trailer manufacturing and
assembly. Our trailers are of high quality,
made using high grade automotive steel
coupled with unparalleled engineering
technology.
Owing to RTEALs track record and good
knowledge of the heavy commercial
transport industry, the Germany-
based Volkswagen brand, which is also
currently in partnership with the MAN
brand appointed the rm as a dealer and
distributor of the VW truck & Buses as well
as the MAN trucks in 2012. We have so far
set up a state-of-the-art assembly plant
that assembles these trucks and buses in
Kenya.
And when it comes to supporting our
products, the companys Trading Division
is tasked with the importation and supply
of various spare parts and automotive
related products to Randon, VW & MAN
customers in the region. Among many
other our trading products include: FRAS-
LE brake linings & brake pads, Suspensys
products, JOST world renowned fth
wheels & Kingpins, Hengst Filters, Double
Coin tyres, United tyres, Lipe Clutch Kits &
Synergy Batteries.
We have services in strategic towns and
cities in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and
South Sudan.
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p.u.bux 4IS9I-UUIUU naIub , Kenya.
U!ce ceII: +Z547Z76S97Z4, +Z547ZU7Z88US, +Z54:7Z948887S
lmaI:SaIeSn!ugIteaSta!Ica.cum
Web: vvv.IteaSta!Ica.cum
NumbaSa u!ce
Tangana Iuau next tu cuIneI gaIage,
ceII: +Z547Z65S9Z4S,
lmaI:maIk.vakgIteaSta!Ica.cum
By Joanne Wanjala
K
enyas heavy commercial vehicles
(HCVs) industry is gradually
growing thanks to heavy
investment as the country tightens its
sectors towards the attainment of vision
2030. The growth is also as a result of
Kenyas positioning as the economic hub
of the East African region.
About half of Kenyas motor vehicle
market is commercial, composed of
trucks, buses and pickups, its sale in
the country accounting to about 40%
of industry deals. This is mainly due to
increased demand in sectors such public
transport, haulage and agriculture.
Heavy commercial vehicles include Cargo
trucks, Tipping trucks, Tankers as well as
long haulage vehicles. With more roads
being constructed and more industries
being set up, the demand of the heavy
commercial vehicles has risen at a faster
pace. At present, most the automobile
rms have diversied their products
and now dominate the HCVs market.
Most of these brands are customized
to suit developing countries which are
characterized by rough terrains.
One of the pillars to drive the attainment
of Vision 2030 is investment in
infrastructure, which in turn is heavily
dependent on this industry. The countrys
investment in infrastructural facilities like
roads and the railway system has played a
big role in shaping the demand for heavy
commercial vehicles. Local assemblers
and manufacturers have cashed in to this
demand and are now churning out HCV
that suit diferent market needs.
According to data from the Kenya Motor
Industry Association (KMI), sales of new
heavy commercial vehicles in 2012 for
KMI members were 3792 which included
2,397 locally assembled and 1395
imported units. This accounts for about
26.8% of the total sales of the vehicle
market. Other means being used to seal
the market demand gap is through leasing,
where some rms have made leasing of
HCV as part of their core businesses.
Apart from local assembly, imported
HCV also don that market. This is more
so because of the liberalized vehicle
importation policies by the government.
Most local assembling rms have taken
advantage of such policies to import
parts and assemble their brands locally
to take advantage of the tax exemptions.
Because most of these vehicles are used
to transport heavy cargo, their capacity
and efciency is an aspect that most
players are keen on improving. This
is also coupled with the fact that most
of these vehicles go for long distances,
hence manufacturers are putting in
a lot of safety measures both for the
driver, other passengers, the cargo itself
as well as the safety of other road users,
given that Kenya has over a million road
users with vehicles of diferent kinds and
models.
These specications are dependent on
the line of work that they are to be used
for, like whether the trucks are to be used
as cargo pullers, tractor trailers, tippers,
and so on. Although technical and safety
standards in local vehicle assembly are set
by the source manufacturers of each brand
of vehicle, the Kenya Motor Industry
Association (KMI) has a Charter that
encourages reporting of any misconduct
and leads independent investigation of
any standards, safety or conduct issue.
In addition, given that all the major
assemblers, importers and distributors
of new HCVs are KMI members, the
association acts as a platform for
interaction between the members,
government and the general public.
However, to drive the economy and chart
a faster lead to industrialization, market
experts say more investment should be
put into local assembling rms. This will
ensure that benets are maximized.
Kenyas heavy commercial market robust
Page 42 / APPOINTMENTS
DIRECTORATE OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT & HUMANITARIAN
COORDINATION
Advert No. WCPSB/009/14 - DEPUTY DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND
HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR (1 Post)
Reporting to: The County Disaster Management and Humanitarian Coordinator
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To conduct regular site visits to NGOs and maintain close coordination mechanisms
Building capacity of the community on disaster preparedness and emergency response and
ensure inter-sectoral linkages for coordination.
Maintain a register of all NGOs and CBOs operating in the county, with their precise sectors,
afliations and location of their activities
Receive, analyze, monitor and evaluate the quarterly and annual reports of NGOs
Conduct regular site visits to NGOs and maintain close coordination mechanisms
Ensure the fundamental principles of Humanity, Impartiality, Independence and Neutrality are
adhered to by all the NGOs working in the county
Establish mechanism of humanitarian response that promotes participatory and
community based approaches Ensure the fundamental principles of Humanity, Impartiality,
Independence and Neutrality are adhered to by all the NGOs working in the county make
available sensitization, awareness creation and functional literacy to the public for disaster
management.
Perform other roles, such as to represent the CDMHC on issues to do with disaster
management and humanitarian coordination as well as relief and logistics coordination and
other forums related to the role.
REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT
Be a Kenyan Citizen
Be in possession of Bachelors degree from a recognized University in Kenya Preferably in
Disaster management and Humanitarian Assistance , Social Sciences or project management
and monitoring.
Masters degree relevant to the roles of the position will be added advantage
A minimum of ve (7) years of relevant experience in Humanitarian work, project management,
community work and public service.
Proven communication, computer literacy and report writing skills.
Fluency in the national and local languages of the County and the country
Satisfy the requirements of chapter 6 of the constitution of Kenya.
Advert No. WCPSB/010/14 - PRINCIPAL OFFICER - HUMANITARIAN
COORDINATION (1 Post)
The incumbent shall be responsible for the day-to-day management of the County coordination
of humanitarian affairs and ensure inter-sectoral linkages and coordination assignments.
Organize regular coordination meetings with sub county cluster partners, building when
possible on existing sector coordination and ensure that humanitarian needs are identied by
planning and coordinating joint, inter-departmental, initial rapid assessments.
Formulate and submit progress reports on NGO partnership to ensure continuous and time
efcient project implementation and reporting.
Ensure the fundamental principles of Humanity, Impartiality, Independence and Neutrality are
adhered to by all the NGOs working in the county
Provide timely and reliable information on humanitarian, food security and disaster issues
at the county
As job descriptions cannot be exhaustive ,the position holder may be required to undertake
other duties that are broadly in line with above key duties
Be a Kenyan Citizen
Be in possession of Bachelors degree from a recognized University in Kenya preferably in
Disaster management and Humanitarian assistance or Social Sciences or from a recognized
Institution in Kenya with a minimum of ve (5) years of relevant working experience.
Proven communication, computer and report writing skills.
Fluency in local languages of the County.
Advert No. WCPSB/011/14 - PRINCIPAL OFFICER - DISASTER
MANAGEMENT (1 Position)
Play lead role in the strategic planning and management of disasters in participatory
collaboration with development partners, international agencies, CSOs and other bodies.
Play a key role to ensure availability of the various resources for DM at all levels from County
Government sources and partners, to encourage this collaboration and partnerships for the
purposes of realizing synergies, providing linkages, promoting trust, goodwill and ownership
of the Disaster Management system.
Assess and identify disaster sub-regions, evolve strategies for the sub-counties, integrate
county strategic plan, harmonize Disaster Management for all disasters and provide for co-
ordination of all Disaster Management-related activities;
Promote continuous and partnership stakeholder consultations with relevant line departments,
to enhance co-ordination of interventions;
Promote and facilitate co-ordination and access to research based information for Disaster
Management.
Promote mass sensitization and awareness creation on Disaster Management and Climate
Change for the general public;
Promote and stress the urgent need for sustainable mainstreaming of Disaster Management
and Climate Change into Development Planning and Management, to promote poverty
alleviation, on the way to sustainable development;
Design Disaster Management Policy which stresses the Paradigm Shift to Disaster Risk
Reduction (DRR) Approach, including the EWS, preparedness, prevention and mitigation,
Disaster Cycle Management, (including EWS, response, relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction
down to recovery) to ensure appropriate remedial action
Be a Kenyan Citizen
Be in possession of Bachelors degree from a recognized University in Kenya preferably in
Disaster management and Preparedness engineering or Social Sciences from a recognized
Institution in Kenya with a minimum of ve (5) years of relevant working experience.
Proven communication, computer and report writing skills.
Fluency in local languages of the County.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, HOUSING AND PHYSICAL PLANNING
Advert No. WCPSB/012/14 DIRECTOR OF PHYSICAL PLANNING, SURVEY
AND HOUSINGJOB GROUP R (1 POST)
Reporting to Chief Ofcer-Lands, Housing and Physical Planning,
Oversee, manage, research, compile, and analyze information from maps, reports and
investigations.
Consult with stakeholders and other interested parties and negotiating with developers and
other professions, such as surveyors and architects;
Prepare, develop, maintain and update les and records, including land use data and
statistics.
Respond to public inquiries, complaints, attending and presenting at planning boards and
appeals.
Perform inspections and illustrate planning studies in areas such as population, land use, or
zoning and propose alternatives actions that would better accomplish countys vision and
goals.
Administer the implementation of the county integrated plan, including and ensuring
compliance with relevant codes, policies, or rules and regulations and the processing of land
use permit applications.
Conduct special studies or research and analyze growth management, environmental
protection matters and urban and rural development trends, issues and policies and provide
short and long term recommendations.
Schedule available resources to meet planning targets.
Oversee and provide direction to consultants undertaking design and land use projects.
Any other duties assigned.
REQUIREMENT FOR APPOINTMENT
Be a Kenyan citizen
A Bachelors degree in Urban & Regional Planning or Urban Planning or Town Planning from
a recognized institution.
A masters degree in planning or urban design will be an added advantage.
Minimum ve (5) years work experience of which two (2) years of which at senior
management level.
Prociency in computer applications and computer-aided designs (CAD) or geographical
information systems (GIS).
Demonstrate a high degree of professional and technical competence as reected in work
performance and results.
Be a strategic thinker and result oriented.
Registered with the relevant professional body.
Satisfy the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 on leadership and
integrity.
Advert No. WCPSB/013/14 - DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF PHYSICAL
PLANNING - JOB GROUP Q (1 POST)
Reporting to Director of Physical Planning, the Ofcer will be responsible for all physical planning
services.
Supervise all physical planning activities and continually monitor projects during the
construction phase and works directly with the architectural and engineering inspectors to
assure that plans and specications are followed and construction problems are minimized.
Act as the primary agent for the county in all matters dealing with construction projects, which
includes substitutions and changes in the provision of the approved specications.
Performs eld investigations to ensure projects conform to zoning codes, design regulations
and/or approved plans; performs design conformance plan checks; assists permit applicants
to satisfy conditions of approval.
Perform various administrative functions for the department, including accepting applications
and permits for processing and composing correspondence.
Prepare integrated land use plans with relevant stakeholders for use by land boards and other
allocating authorities.
Assist in developing county policies, legal and institutional frameworks for implementation of
the mandate of the department.
Assist in preparation of annual work plans and nancial budgets.
Perform any other duties assigned.
Requirement for appointment
Be a Kenyan citizen
A Bachelors degree in Urban & Regional Planning or Urban Planning or Town Planning from
Prociency in relevant computer applications and computer-aided designs (CAD) or
geographical information systems (GIS).
Ability to coordinate activities and deliver as per given schedules.
Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with developers, contractors,
property owners, fellow workers and the general public.
Good communication and interpersonal skills.
integrity.
Advert No. WCPSB/014/14 DRAUGHTSMAN - JOB GROUP K (1 POST)
Reporting to Deputy Director of Physical Planning, the Ofcer will be responsible for all spatial
planning.
Establishing liaison with planners in order to understand the nature of the project.
Should have ability to create manual and computer based drawings.
Should have the skills to create two and three dimensional drawings.
The draftsman should be able to create drawings according to the requirements of the
planners.
Be a Kenyan citizen
Be a holder of at least rst diploma in Cartographer from a recognized institution in Kenya.
Higher diploma will be an added advantage.
Prociency in relevant computer applications and computer aided designs (CAD) or
geographical information system (GIS).
integrity
Advert No. WCPSB/015/14 DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SURVEY JOB GROUP Q
(1 POST)
Reporting to Director -Lands, Housing and Physical Planning, the Ofcer will be responsible for
all survey works.
Responsible for the management and coordination of survey services in the County.
Organization, direction, control and co-ordination of the functions of the department.
Preparing and submitting technical and administrative reports of the division.
Developing, implementing and evaluating the departments strategic/work plans, programs
and projects in collaboration with other departments and stakeholders.
Developing county policies, legal and institutional frameworks for implementation of the
mandate of the department.
Oversee preparation of annual work plans and nancial budgets.
Perform other duties that may be assigned from time to time by the Chief Ofcer.
Be a Kenyan citizen
Bachelor degree in surveying from a university recognized in Kenya.
A masters degree in the relevant eld will be an added advantage.
Have at least ve (5) years experience two (2) years of which in senior management.
Demonstrate a high degree of professional and technical competence as reected in work
performance and results.
Be procient in computer applications and computer-aided designs (CAD) or geographical
information systems (GIS).
Be a strategic thinker and result oriented.
Registered with the relevant professional body.
integrity.
Advert No. WCPSB/015/14 CARTOGRAPHER - JOB GROUP K (1 POST)
Reporting to Deputy Director of Survey, the ofcer will be responsible for drawings, updating and
amending survey plans.
Designing maps, graphics, illustrations and layouts;
Researching, selecting and evaluating map source data for use in the preparation or revision
of maps and charts to various scales;
Analyzing and evaluating mappable information;
Liaising with surveyors and designers;
Operating plotting instruments;
Design, maintenance and manipulation of geographical information databases;
Working with geographical information system (GIS) to see, model and analyse landscape
features;
Capturing, maintaining and outputting digital geographic data;
Perform any other duty assigned to in the department.
Be a Kenyan citizen
Be a holder of at least rst diploma in Cartography from a recognized institution in Kenya.
Higher diploma will be an added advantage.
integrity.
Prociency in relevant computer applications and computer-aided designs (CAD) or
geographical information systems (GIS).
Advert No. WCPSB/016/14 DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF HOUSING -JOB GROUP Q
(1 POST)
Reporting to the Director Lands, Housing and Physical Planning, the deputy director of
housing will be responsible for providing overall leadership in the area of county government
housing management. The successful candidate will be responsible for the implementation
of the County Housing Management Policies.
He/she will provide leadership in the all county government Housing Estates Division and
advice the Chief Ofcer on all Housing related matters.
The County Housing Manager will also oversee valuations of County Government properties;
undertake estates administration, leasing, letting, liaising with other sections on acquisition of
title documents, advising on property trends and prices, enforcing rent collections, repairs and
maintenance of county government buildings and estates, marketing and sale of developed
properties, undertaking user reaction surveys and all other incidental matters.
Be a Kenyan citizen
Bachelor degree in housing administration, real estate management or any relevant eld from
Have ve (5) years work experience in estates, housing or property management of two (2)
years served in senior management.
Be conversant with prevailing property laws and housing management issues.
Be a team player who is exible and diligent.
Be computer literate.
A Masters degree in housing administration, estate management, maintenance or property
management will be an added advantage.
Satisfy the requirement of chapter six of the constitution of Kenya 2010 on leadership and
integrity.
Advert No. WCPSB/017/14 HOUSING OFFICERS JOB GROUP K
(2 Positions)
Reporting to the County Housing Manager, the Ofcer will be responsible for management
of County Government Housing Estates. The successful candidate will be responsible for the
implementation of the County Housing Management Policies.
The Housing Ofcer will, under the direction of the County Housing Manager, undertake
estates administration, leasing letting, liaising with other sections on acquisition of title
documents, advising on property trends and prices, enforcing rent collections, repairs and
maintenance of county government buildings and estates, marketing and sale of developed
properties, undertaking user reaction surveys and all other incidental matters.
Requirements for appointment
Be a Kenyan citizen
Diploma in housing administration, real estate management or any relevant eld from a
recognized institution.
Have two (2) years work experience in estates, housing or property management.
Be conversant with prevailing property laws and housing management issues.
Be a team player who is exible and diligent.
Be computer literate.
A Bachelor degree in housing administration, estate management, and maintenance or
property management will be an added advantage.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND FISHERIES
Advert No. WCPSB/018/14 LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION OFFICERS
(Job Group K) (5 Positions)
Kenyan Citizen
Bachelor of Science (Animal Production/Range Management/Food Technology/Agri-business/
Natural Resource Management/Livestock/Agricultural Economics and Dairy Technology/
Agricultural Education and Extension/Animal Health and Management and any other relevant
qualication or equivalent from a recognized institution.
Masters degree in the above elds will be an added advantage
Provide technical advice in animal production, livestock marketing, range management,
apiculture and ranching
Promote livestock farming
Organize extension activities like eld days, eld demonstrations and farm visits
Any other livestock production activities as they emerge.
Advert No. WCPSB/019/14 ASSISTANT LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION
OFFICERS III (Job Group H) (5 Positions)
Kenyan Citizen
K.C.S.E mean grade of C or its equivalent
A diploma in any of the following elds: Animal Husbandry/Range Management & Farm
Management/Dairy Science and Technology/Food Science and Technology/ Agriculture
and Home Economics/Apiculture/ Animal Health and Production, and any other relevant
qualication or equivalent from a recognized institution.
Computer literate
Assist in organizing and executing livestock extension duties
Designing livestock enterprise plans, and assisting in training locational and sub locational
farmers
Any other livestock production activities as they emerge.
Advert No. WCPSB/020/14 - LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION ASSISTANT II
(Job Group ) (3 posts)
Kenyan Citizen
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
WAJIR COUNTY GOVERNMENT
COUNTY PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD
VACANCIES
The County Public Service Board, Wajir wishes to recruit competent and qualied persons to ll the following positions in the following departments
K.C.S.E mean grade of C or its equivalent
Attended a two year course in any of the following elds: Animal Production/Dairy science and
Technology/Agriculture and Home Economics/Animal Science/Animal Health & Production,
Farm Management, Apiculture, Range and Natural Resource Management, and any other
relevant qualication or equivalent from a recognized institution.
Computer literate
Assist in dissemination of livestock production technologies like construction of livestock
housing and structures, clean milk production, pasture and fodder production and
conservation, farm planning, gross margin analysis, on farm feed formulation
Participation in sub-locational development action plans and collection of livestock data and
information within the area of work
Advert No. WCPSB/021/14 - DEPUTY DIRECTOR- AGRICULTURE,
EXTENSION, RESEARCH LIAISON AND TRAINING (1 Post)
(Job Group Q)
Reporting to County Director of Agriculture
Kenyan Citizen
Bachelor of Science ( in any of the following elds: Agribusiness Management, Agricultural
Education and Extension, Home Economics, General agriculture and agricultural Economics or
any other relevant qualication or equivalent from a recognized institution.
Masters degree in the above elds will be an added advantage
Demonstrated a high degree of technical competence and administrative capacity(reected
in work performance and results)
Served in higher grades in the public service for at least three years
Implementation of CIPD and County Sectoral Plan with respect to extension services
Participation in the development of extension services related policies
Coordination and dissemination of agricultural information to extension staff, farmers and
other stakeholders
Participating in the formation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of extension
services projects and programmes
Capacity building of extension providers
Participation in research extension in liaison with stakeholders
Organizing management and review meetings for the technical department
Advert No. WCPSB/022/14 AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERS II (Job Group K)
(2 positions)
Reporting to County Director of Agriculture
Kenyan Citizen
Bachelors Degree in the eld of Agricultural Engineering eg soil and water, mechanization/
farm power and structures
Implementation of programmes in soil and water conservation, mechanization, extension
and agro-processing
Coordination of implementation of environmental, agro-processing and land development
policies projects and programmes
Capacity building and backstopping on land use development, soil and water management,
agricultural mechanization, agro-processing, irrigation and drainage in the county
Promotion of water harvesting techniques in agricultural production
Participating in monitoring and evaluation of agricultural programmes, among many other
duties.
Advert No. WCPSB/023/14 - AGRICULTURAL OFFICERS II (Job Group K)
(5 positions)
Kenyan citizen
A Bachelor of Science in any of the following elds; Home Economics, General Agriculture,
Horticulture, Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness, Agricultural Extension and Education
Coordinate activities in one of the following areas at sub county level: crop production,
land development, agricultural extensions and project management and information desk
management
Advert No. WCPSB/024/14 - ASSISTANT AGRICULTURAL OFFICERS III
(Job Group H) (5 positions)
Kenyan citizen
K.C.S.E mean grade C
Diploma from a recognized institution in any of these elds: Agriculture, Food Technology,
Agriculture Home Economics, Agricultural Education and Extension, Horticulture
Involvement in training and advising farmers on matters relating to crop production, land
development, planning and management of demonstration plots in the wards
Advert No. WCPSB/025/14 - AGRICULTURAL ASSISTANTS
(Job Group G)(8 Positions)
Kenyan citizen
K.C.S.E mean grade C -
2 year certicate course from a recognized institution in any of these elds: Agriculture, Food
Technology, Agriculture and Home Economics
Assist senior ofcers in the provision of agricultural extension services
Advert No. WCPSB/026/14 - VETERINARY OFFICERS (Job Group L)
(4 Positions)
Kenyan citizen
Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from a recognized institution
Registered by the Kenya Veterinary Board
Certicate in Computer Application
Undertaking disease control activities such as disease search, vaccination and enforcement of
livestock movement regulations
Participate in training of stakeholders in vector control programmes
Treating sick animals
Advising on good veterinary practices
Collecting data and preparing reports on animal health, products and markets
Providing advise on animal breeding/welfare
Undertaking post mortem examination and other diagnostic tests
Advert No. WCPSB/027/14 - ANIMAL HEALTH ASSISTANT II
(Job Group G)(10 Positions)
Kenyan Citizen
Certicate lasting not less than two years in any of the following elds: Animal Health, Animal
Health and Production or equivalent from a recognized institution
Be registered by the Kenya Veterinary Board
Certicate in Computer applications
Work under the guidance of an experienced ofcer and participate in disease control, disease
surveillance, demonstration and training in animal husbandry techniques, and vector control
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE, LABOUR AND DEVOLVED UNITS
Advert No. WCPSB/028/14 - ASSISTANT DIRECTOR HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT (JOB GROUP P)
REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT:
Be a Kenyan citizen
Bachelors Degree in Human Resource Management
Registered member of Institute of Human resource Management (IHRM) with membership
card of 2014
At least not less ten (10) years experience (three (3) of which in a senior position)
A Master degree in HRM or Strategic Management will be an added advantage.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Deputies the Director of Human Resource Management, Oversee the payroll, implementation
of Human Resource Management policies, rules and regulations and ensuring adherence to the
laid down procedures, analyzing the impact of Human Resource Management policies, rules and
regulations on the staff, advising the department on succession Management, Human Resource
Planning/utilization of human resources, career development and initiating development and
review of scheme of service, interpretation of Labour Laws, other statutes that impact on Human
Resource Management and any other duties maybe assigned to your by the Director, HRM
Advert No. WCPSB/029/14 -HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
OFFICERS (14 POSTS)
Must be Kenya Citizen
A degree in Human Resource Management recognized University or equivalent
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
This is the entry and training grade of Human Resource Management Ofcers cadre. An ofcer
at this level will perform a variety of Human Resource Management duties of limited scope and
complexity under the guidance and supervision of a more senior ofcer. Specic duties and
responsibilities will entail verication of information relating to recruitment appointment, transfers
Human Resource Management and complement control and supervising and guiding clerical staff
in the department/division/ section
DEPARTMENT OF WATER, ENVIRONMENT, FORESTRY AND ENERGY
Advert No. WCPSB/030/14 - DIRECTOR ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL
RESOURCES (Job Group Q) (1 Post)
Coordinating all aspects of pollution control, waste management, recycling, environmental
health, conservation and renewable energy within the county
Implementation of environmental policies and practices
Managing environmental process within the county operations to ensure proper waste
management and minimization systems in accordance with the county government waste
management policies and public health
Managing environmental transmission process within the county to ensure permitted facilities
under the Clean Air Act operate in compliance with the regulatory requirements
Ensure compliance with Environmental legislation
Establishing monitoring and evaluation systems for the departmental goals
Facilitation of program objectives attainment and providing leadership to staff.
Have a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Studies/ Public Health or related eld
Have twelve years of environmental experience with strong knowledge of Environmental,
Health and Safety regulations
Have ve years managerial experience in public health/solid waste management
Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively (verbal and written) and make professional
presentations before various audience
Be able to drive regulations, change business understanding and teamwork thorough
understanding of risk management as relates to environmental and loss of outline
methodology
Be able to lead and manage staff working in the department
Be computer literate
Must satisfy the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya
Advert No. WCPSB/031/14 - ENVIRONMENT OFFICERS (6 POSTS)
undertaking various environmental management activities in the sub counties;
Data collection and compilation for projects and proposals; undertaking environmental
inspection and conducting environment education and public awareness; creating public
awareness on Environmental issues at the county/sub county level;
mobilizing the public to participate in environmental conservation and management at sub
county level; liaising with NGOs and coordinating community activities at county/sub county
level;
documenting and promoting best environmental practices ;
preparing county Environmental Action Plan and coordinating environmental education and
information ; identifying environmental offenders within the area of jurisdiction
select and prepare project designs in consultation with county director and chief ofcer
Environment & natural resources
Bachelors Degree in any of the following elds: Environmental Education, Environmental
Law; Environmental Sciences; Aquatic Ecology (fresh water), Natural Resource Management; ,
community development, or any other relevant qualications from a recognized institution;
Advert No. WCPSB/032/14 - FOREST OFFICERS (6 Positions)
The duty of Forest Ofcers is to manage the forests under their control consistent with the
objects of managements in each case in the sub counties. He/she has to attend to various
works connected with the protection and improvement of the forests, propagation of trees
and production of forest produce as well as its utilization and marketing. He/she must have a
thorough knowledge of the climatic, edaphic and biotic factors inuencing the state of forests,
the distribution of forests and their classication and type. He/she must be able to identify
the different kinds of trees in the forests, and must know the uses to which each can be put
and the localities where they are best adopted. The candidate must be able to manage forest
nurseries and know how to plant trees and when and how to sow seeds and when and where
one is preferable to the other.
He/she must be well conversant with the Forest Act and Rules
Bachelors Degree in any of the following elds: Forestry, Natural Resource Management and
community development
Diploma in forestry, Natural resource management but with experience
Advert No. WCPSB/033/14 - ENERGY OFFICERS (6 Positions)

Screen, monitor and communicate good practices in the area of renewable energy including
promoting appropriate energy saving technologies that can contribute to sustainable utilization
of Natural Resources and support community initiatives that will enhance adaptation to
climate change & poverty reduction.
A degree in one of the following elds is required: Environmental Science and Management;
Engineering (energy, renewable or sustainable energy) e.g. energy engineering, sustainable
energy and climate changes
Advert No. WCPSB/034/14 - WATER ENGINEER (1 POSITION)
Select and prepare project designs in consultation with county director and chief ofcer
water
Carry out emergency needs assessment, rapid and long term responses related to water
needs and facilities
prepare regular eld visit, fortnight, monthly and annual reports
Advice on equipment performance at water sources, actively participate in ordering of
appropriate equipments and spare parts
Keeping up-to-date with changes in regulatory legislation and guidelines and advice the
county leadership
Preparing and advertising tender documents and managing contracts
liaising with clients, contractors, government agencies, local authorities and suppliers
supervising and training of staff and workers at the project sites
using a variety of specialist computer applications/simulation software
managing and maintaining water infrastructure operations
ensuring that projects keep to agreed specications, budgets and timelines
Maintaining awareness of current sanitation and environmental issues.
REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENTS
Kenyan citizen
A rst degree in water or civil engineering
Experience of water needs and development gained in professional work in arid and semi
arid land.
excellent analytical and strategic skills
Proven ability to be exible in demanding situations, inter personal and team skills
communication skills

Advert No. WCPSB/035/14 HYDRO GEOLOGISTS (2 POSTS)
Kenyan citizen
At least a BSc in Geology from a recognized university
A Master in hydrogeology is an added advantage.
Minimum experience of 5 years
consulting geological maps and aerial photographs to advise on site selection
assisting in the usage of specialized computer software
collating data and producing reports
overseeing the progress of drilling contracts
planning detailed eld investigations for drilling and analyzing samples of deposits/bedrock;
supervising site and ground investigations
Conduct geological logging og drilled boreholes
Preparation of borehole completion reports
Advert No. WCPSB/036/14 MECHANICAL OFFICER (1 POSITION)
Provide technical guidance to technicians.
Help the technicians to identify relevant training needs and facilitate the pursuance of the
same.
Continuously appraise the technicians, instituting corrective measures or recommending
appropriate rewards.
Ensure that organizational rules and regulations, image, Discipline and work ethics are upheld
for the smooth running of the unit.
Coaching and mentoring subordinate
Ofce and workshop staff administration, including staff meetings, staffs leave planning and
briengs.
Operational support need assessment such as project material (s), transport and associated
logistical support.
Providing brief and regular updates to the transport Ofcer/ team leader on key happenings
and achievements in the Electro-Mechanical unit operation.
Keep an up to date Electro-Mechanical inventory of all relevant plant, tools and equipment
in the eld and in the workshop.
Constantly monitor stock levels of vehicle spares and related parts and prepare Requistions
for timely procurement.
Inspect incoming deliveries to authenticate quality and specications
Kenyan Citizen
Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, experience could substitute for formal qualication.
Diploma/ or Plant Grade one holder in the same eld but ve (5) years proven experience
will be considered
Advert No. WCPSB/037/14 ASSISTANT WATER ENGINEER (3 POSTS)
Prepare project designs in consultation with the sub County Engineer and County director
Carry out emergency needs assessment, rapid and long term responses related to water
needs and facilities in consultation with the supervising Engineer and County director
prepare regular eld visit, fortnight, monthly and annual reports
Advice on equipment and spare part performance at water sources
keeping up-to-date with changes in regulatory legislation and guidelines
preparing and advertising tender documents and managing contracts in consultation with
Supervising Engineer and County director
liaising with clients, contractors, government agencies, local authorities and suppliers
supervising and training of staff and workers at the project sites
Maintaining awareness of current sanitation and environmental issues.
A Diploma in Water or Civil Engineering
Experience of water needs and development gained in professional work in arid and semi
arid land
DEPARTMENT OF TRADE, CO-OPERATIVE, INDUSTRIALISATION,
WILDLIFE AND TOURISM
Advert No. WCPSB/038/14 COUNTY REVOLVING FUND MANAGER
(1 position)
Secretary and Technical Advisor to the Committee
Accounting Ofcer of the Committee
Authorized Ofcer of the Committee on stafng matters
Supervision and control of the day-to-day administration of the Fund
Mandatory signatory to the Fund.
Ensure efcient and effective management of funds and other resources
Ensure training of the Fund Beneciaries on basic business skills.
Ensure proper accounts are prepared and submitted to the County Auditor in accordance with
the provisions of the Government Financial Management Act, 2004
Oversee the implementation of the WCRF Committee Strategic Plan
Initiate training programmes for the Funds Human Capital Development
Receive and address complaints and disputes and take appropriate action in consultation
with the Committee
Receive and consider the project proposals submitted from the Wards in accordance with the
Act and forward to the Committee for approval of funding
Any other duty as may be assigned by the Committee.
Be a Kenyan Citizen.
Proven track record in leadership and demonstrated capacity to articulate a clear vision and
University Degree in Commerce, Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Community
Development, Law or a related eld from a recognized University.
At least 5 years working experience in a relevant eld, two of which must be at senior
management level.
Masters Degree in the relevant eld will be an added advantage.
Advert No. WCPSB/039/14 CO-OPERATIVE OFFICERS
(Job Group K) (6 Positions)
Implementation of cooperative policies, standards and regulation
Implementation of strategies for promotion of cooperative movement.
Registration of cooperative societies
Arbitrations and settlement of co-op disputes
Undertake investigations/inquiries into cooperative malpractice
Co-op audit and registration of audited account
Conduct co-op education and training services.
Co-operative extension, consultancy and advisory services.
Be in possession of a rst degree from a university recognized in Kenya preferably in
economics or social services
A minimum of 3 years` experience in relevant eld
Demonstrate attention to details and ability to follow procedure
Meet Deadlines and work independently and cooperatively with team members is required
Advert No. WCPSB/040/14 TRADE DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS
(Job Group K) (6 positions)
Undertaking market surveys and other economic research activities of more complex nature
and preparing reports thereon.
Initial preparation of background papers and briefs on trade.
Provision of advisory services to businesses at the Sub County.
Initial preparation of projects/programmes aimed at stimulating and promoting domestic
trade at the Sub County level.
Implementing all domestic trade development policy matters.
Coordination with relevant ministries/departments and other organizations on matters
related to trade development.
Preparation of periodic reports and general administration of the Trade Development Joint
Loan Board Scheme.
A rst degree from a University recognized in Kenya preferably in Economics or
Development studies.
A minimum of 3 years experience in relevant eld
Demonstrated attention to detail and ability to follow procedures
Meet deadlines and work independently and cooperatively with team members is required
Ability to write reports and conduct training
How to apply:-
A cover letter and a detailed CV together with copies of all academic and professional certicates
and testimonials should be sent in a sealed envelope clearly marked on its left top corner with the
reference number and job title should to:-
The Secretary
County Public Service Board
P O Box 45 70200,
Wajir
Hand delivered applications should be dropped off and signed for at the ofces of the County
Public Service Board in Wajir.
Deadline for Application: June 9, 2014
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ment Gatabaki promised to maintain
the momentum for change that was
by then sweeping across the markets.
Having resigned as chairman of Hous-
ing Finance in 2010, Gatabaki said en-
hanced corporate governance in the
capital markets was critical in bol-
stering investor condence and mar-
ket integrity.
National Treasury Cabinet Secre-
tary Henry Rotich said his ministry is
already receiving proposals on how
the new consolidated nancial sector
regulator would work. PTPR task
force wants all chief executives of the
State agencies merged to form a Gov-
ernment Owned Entity where heads
of their directorates will be only al-
lowed to serve for their unexpired
term for six months.
By JAMES ANYANZWA
A major crisis looms at the Capital
Markets Authority (CMA), following
the exit of four directors including
Chairman Kungu Gatabaki. Among
the four, one resigned while three
others opted out after their contracts
were not extended.
This has consigned the CMA board
to a leadership vacuum, making it dif-
cult for the market regulator to make
key decisions. Gatabaki, who was ap-
pointed by former President Mwai
Kibaki, will be forced to step down on
this Friday after three years at the
helm of the regulator.
POWER VACUUM
It is understood that the Jubilee
government has declined to renew
his tenure but it is yet to name the
successor, portending a serious pow-
er vacuum at the securities market
regulator. Im leaving CMA because
my contract has not been extended,
Gatabaki told The Standard yester-
day, adding that, The Government
has not agreed to extend the mandate
of the board.
The National Treasury has also
suspended the appointment of a sub-
stantive CMA chief executive. This is
as government moves to create a con-
solidated nancial sector regulator,
that will bring together CMA, Insur-
ance Regulatory Authority and Retire-
One director resigned
while three others opted
out after their contracts
were not extended,
leaving a vacuum
ment Benets Authority. The move is
part of the parastatal reforms pro-
posed by the Presidential Task force
on Parastatal Reforms (PTPR) last
year. PTPR seeks to consolidate mul-
tiple regulators to deepen growth and
development of the nancial sector.
CMA has operated with acting
Chief Executive Paul Muthaura, who
is the authoritys director-in-charge
of regulatory policy and strategy, for
close to two years. The position fell
vacant after the exit of Stella Kilonzo,
whose four-year term ended on June
30, 2012, but chose not to renew her
contract. Gatabaki replaced Micah
Cheserem who resigned on January
11, 2011 as chairman of the CMA to
join the Commission for Revenue Al-
location. At the time of his appoint-
Livelihoods
QuickStop
Ethiopia slowly opens retail
door to foreign investors
Ethiopia is slowly opening up to
foreign retailers keen to enter
the fast-growing market of 90
million people, welcoming them as
managers but keeping the state in
control. It is a tantalising, if limited,
offer for rms such as Walmart of
the US and Nakumatt supermarket,
which already have stores elsewhere
on the continent and would like a
foothold in sub-Saharan Africas fth
biggest economy. It is a vibrant
market. The population is huge, the
income is there, they have a lot to
go around, Nakumatts managing
director Atul Shah said. Why are
we not there? Ethiopias needs to
modernise its supply and distribution
networks and encourage competition
to cut costs and keep down ination.
Finance minister Suan Ahmed said
retail distribution is not competitive
and is archaic. We are looking for
outside management just to get
international experience. We are
open to any option, not only for
Alle, but for any other major public
enterprise, he added. Reuters
Manchester Uniteds brand
devalued by weak season
The value of the Manchester United
brand has been damaged by a
disappointing season according to a
study by consultancy Brand Finance.
They say Uniteds brand is worth
$739m (Sh65 billion), down $98m
(Sh8 billion) on last year. That makes
it the third most valuable football
brand after Bayern Munich and Real
Madrid. Real Madrids victory in the
Champions League nal on Saturday
helped boost its brand value. The
club already has the biggest sales of
any football club. The authors say
with arguably the nest player in
the world in the shape of Ronaldo
and now a rst Champions League
title since 2002, Reals brand is
back on a solid footing. Gareth
Bale helped Real Madrid win their
10th European Cup but despite
Reals strong season, Bayern Munich
has the most valuable brand in
football for the second year running
according to the report. English clubs
Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea
and Liverpool are placed from fth to
eighth most valuable. BBC
DT DOBIE appointed Packer
Racor lters distributor
DT Dobie has been appointed the
ofcial distributor of Parker Racor
lters which include air, oil, diesel,
marine and water separators. These
products are suitable for all makes
and types of cars, heavy commercial
vehicles and machinery. Parker
Racor products are approved by
vehicle manufacturers as original
equipment (OEM) and are ISO
TS16949 quality certied. The
company manages global customer
requirements in stages of the process
from concept, design and validation
through to manufacture of complete
engine ltration systems. Stephen
Farrell, director for aftersales at DT
Dobie said the lters are available at
all branches. DT Dobie is the dealer
for Mercedes Benz cars and trucks,
Nissan and Jeep which are among
the worlds most popular vehicles.
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By JAMES ANYANZWA
Key regional projects earmarked
for implementation under the New
Partnership for Africas Development
(Nepad) framework, a development
arm of the African Union, face the risk
of stalling.
This follows revelations that they
face capacity constraints and lack ef-
fective synergies among member
States to complete them. Nepad Chief
Executive Ibrahim Mayaki said inad-
equate skilled manpower for the de-
velopment and maintenance of proj-
ects is a major cause of concern.
All these projects need to be im-
plemented now but one of our weak-
nesses is the capacity to implement
them, he said. When we develop
roads and the railway system, we
need people with skills to maintain
them.
CORE AREAS
Dr Mayaki said Nepads success
hinges on its comprehensive frame-
work on projects covering key sectors
such as agriculture, infrastructure,
environment and Science and Tech-
nology. All these frameworks have
been adopted by the heads of State
but we have challenges in terms of ca-
pacity and synergies between coun-
tries. We need to ensure they are im-
plemented, Mayaki told a media
brieng in Nairobi yesterday. We still
have challenges of implementing the
projects but it is different from the
way it was 20 years ago.
Among projects being implement-
ed under Nepad framework in Kenya
include African Peer Review Mecha-
nism, Comprehensive African Agri-
cultural Development Programme,
climate change and natural resource
management. Others are infrastruc-
ture and regional integration, human
development and gender, youth and
ICT. Mayaki said African leaders have
already embraced domestic resource
mobilisation, reducing over-reliance.
Devolution and Planning Cabinet
Secretary Anne Waiguru said Nepad
has not developed appropriate moni-
toring and evaluation framework for
its programmes, adding that the agen-
cys ofces must be strengthened.
She however said Kenya remains
committed to the African Union-Ne-
pad agenda.
The governments Vision 2030
projects were conceived through the
Nepad initiative, she said.
Inadequate capacity puts key projects at risk
Major crisis at CMA as
chairman, directors exit
From left: Privatisation Commission Board Member Mugambi Nandi,
Investment Secretary Esther Koimett and Kungu Gatabaki during a stake-
holders workshop in Nairobi. Gatabaki is leaving CMA. [PHOTO: COURTESY]
By WINSLEY MASESE
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK)
has adequate foreign exchange re-
serves to cushion the shilling against
temporary shocks that left the local
currency weakened, Governor Njugu-
na Ndungu has said. Prof Ndungu
said the current level of foreign ex-
change reserves of $6.24 billion
(Sh547 billion) is equivalent to 4.4
months of import covering, adding
that the proceeds from the debut Eu-
robond will boost reserves.
The bonds value is estimated at $2
billion (Sh174 billion). The current
foreign exchange reserves are suf-
cient to provide adequate cushion
against temporary shocks, Ndungu
said in a statement yesterday. Prof
Ndungu blamed seasonal factors in-
cluding payment of corporate divi-
dends to foreign shareholders for the
volatility.
FINANCIAL YEAR
Majority of or all listed companies
have announced dividend payouts
for the 2013 nancial year. Barclays
Bank Kenya held an Annual General
Meeting on Friday and Standard
Chartered Bank the previous day,
with all announcing dividends.
The shilling has been trading at
two-and-a-half-year lows since late
last week. Yesterday, the local unit
traded at highs of 87.92 and lows of
87.74. On Friday last week, the local
currency traded Sh87.8583 to the dol-
lar, compared to the Sh87.533 record-
ed on Monday, the same week.
Yesterday, CBK also sought to mop
up Sh3 billion of excess liquidity from
the money markets using term auc-
tion deposits. CBK expects the situa-
tion to normalise as it continues to
monitor developments in the market,
adding that it stands ready to provide
support to minimise the volatility.
Forex reserves
enough to cushion
shilling, says CBK
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Equity hires ex-CCK
boss to run mobile unit
By MACHARIA KAMAU
Equity Bank will launch its much-hyped
Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) in
July.
The bank is largely seen as eyeing a piece
of the fast-growing cellphone-based nancial
services including Safaricoms M-Pesa, the
largest service in the segment.
Equity at the same time has tapped the
former Communications Commission of Ke-
nya (CCK) Director General John Waweru to
head the Equity MVNO as its executive chair-
man.
The appointment of Waweru appears to
be an indication of the banks readiness to do
battle with the other telcos already in the
marketas he is an industry insider with
much knowledge on the mobile money trans-
fer segment of the industry.
TELECOMS INDUSTRY
He was at the helm of telecoms industry
regulator when Safaricom was piloting M-Pe-
sa in Kenya and after the service ofcially
launched it to the market.
The bank said it plans to initially convert
its nine million customers before marketing
the product to new customers.
The banks customers will by July be is-
sued with new SIM cards for the MVNO that
can operate alongside conventional SIMs.
Equity Bank Chief Executive James Mwan-
gi said the launch of the banks MVNO would
see the institution commence its next phase
of growth to 2014, which is dubbed Equity 3.0
where it said it would no longer be compet-
ing with banks but with cash.
He said the institution has its eyes on con-
trolling retail payments, with plans to in-
The bank plans to enroll its
nine million customers to the
network before marketing to
new subscribers
By MARGARET KANINI
Lack of proper governance in public pro-
curement is blamed on growing cases of
high-level corruption.
Institute of Certied Public Secretaries of
Kenya (ICPSK) Chairperson, Catherine Mu-
sakali said this could put a brake to efforts to
improve the countrys economic prospects.
Investors and companies looking to set
businesses in Kenya seek transparency and
integrity to realise value for their invest-
ment, she said.
The institute noted that public procure-
ment the purchase by governments and
state-owned rms of goods, services and
works is a major economic activity where
corruption has a potentially high impact on
taxpayers money. Musakali said the organi-
sation has a critical role to play in reducing
the prevailing high corruption cases.
It is the duty of the institute to take the
rst step towards dealing with the root
causes of corruption in Kenya, and to actua-
lise the values of public sector leadership,
Musakali noted during the launch of code of
ethics for the private sector in Nairobi yes-
terday. She said lack of proper corporate gov-
ernance has the potential to reduce invest-
ment.
Speaking at the same event, former Vice
President Kalonzo noted that if good gover-
nance ideals were taken seriously, then Ke-
nya would experience less corruption.
Behind every major scandal in the coun-
try is a professional to cover it up, he said.
Poor corporate governance poses
major risk to economy, says ICPSK
crease use of cashless payments in a market
where cash payments account for over 98
per cent of all payments.
We are not competing with telcos, the
space is too big, he said during an investor
brieng on the progress of the roll out of the
MVNO in Nairobi yesterday.
CCK issued the bank with a licence to op-
erate an MVNO in March.
It will use Airtel Kenyas network which
has 60 per cent excess capacity to roll out
its network. Mwangi said the rm would try
to reduce cash transactions that have made
money transfers expensive. He said elimina-
tion of cash transactions and handling could
reduce the cost transferring money by as
much as 50 per cent.
The cost of money transfer will be one
per cent of the value of the money being
transferred the cost is capped at Sh25 and
therefore if you send Sh100, the cost will be
one shilling but the cost of sending Sh1,000
and other higher amounts will be Sh25, said
Mwangi.
This is in comparison with the current
rates of 16 per cent of money being trans-
ferred. He added that the bank would
charge an interest rate of between one and
two per cent per month on borrowings made
on its virtual platform.
Equity Bank CEO James Mwangi (right) and
Airtel CEO Adil El Yousse during the event.
[PHOTO: WILBERFORCE OKWIRI/STANDARD]
EWASO NGIRO SOUTH DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
PRE-QUALIFICATION OF FIRMS/INDIVIDUALS UNDER THE
CATEGORY OF YOUTH, WOMEN AND PERSONS WITH
DISABILITIES FOR FY 2014/2015.
Ewaso Ngiro South Development Authority (ENSDA) ,in line with the 30% allocation of all government tenders to youth, women
and persons with disabilities, invites sealed bids from enterprises owned by this target group for pre-qualication of the under listed
categories for the Financial Year 2014/2015.
A. PREQUALIFICATION FOR SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF GOODS/SERVICES
ENSDA/PQ/40/2014/15 Supply and delivery of ofce stationeries.
ENSDA/PQ/41/2014/15: Supply and delivery of newspapers, journals and magazines.
ENSDA/PQ/42/2014/15: Supply and delivery of mobile phone airtime.
ENSDA/PQ/43/2014/15: supply and delivery of ofce common user items
.ENSDA/PQ/44/2014/15 Supply and delivery of sporting equipment, staff uniforms and protective clothings
ENSDA/PQ/45/2014/15: Supply and delivery of ofce furniture
ENSDA/PQ/46/2014/15; supply and delivery of electrical materials, appliances, ttings accessories
B. PREQUALIFICATION FOR PROVISION OF SERVICES
ENSDA/PQ/47/2014/15: Provision of cleaning services
ENSDA/PQ/48/2014/15: Provision of labor contracts.
ENSDA/PQ/49/2014/15: Provision of printing and publishing services.
ENSDA/PQ/50/2014/15: Provision of repair services for ofce equipment and machines (Computers, printers, scanners,
photocopy, server & network)
ENSDA/PQ/51/2014/15: Provision of design and branding services of promotional materials such as T/shirts, caps,
banners and posters
ENSDA/PQ/52/2014/15: Provision of photography and videography services
ENSDA/PQ/53/2014/15: Provision of motor vehicle repair services
ENSDA/PQ/54/2014/15: Provision of garbage collection services
C. PREQUALIFICATION OF CONSULTANCY SERVICES (FIRMS AND INDIVIDUALS)
ENSDA/PQ/55/2014/15. Provision of consultancy services for events organizations
Detailed Pre-qualication documents can be downloaded from www.ensda.go.ke . Completed pre-qualication tendering guidelines
documents, in plain sealed envelopes clearly marked Tender name, Code and category may be sent to:-
Managing Director
Ewaso Ngiro South Development Authority
P.O. Box 213, Narok
Or deposited in the Tender Box at the headquarters situated along Narok Bomet road opposite Maasai Mara University so as to
reach us on or before 18
th
June 2014 at 12.00 noon. Tenders will be opened immediately thereafter in the presence of bidders or
their representatives who choose to attend. The Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any application and is not bound to
give reasons thereafter.
All queries regarding this tender should be directed to the undersigned
Supply Chain Officer
PRE-QUALIFICATION OF SUPPLIERS 2014/2015
A. PREQUALIFICATION FOR SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF GOODS/SERVICES
ENSDA/PQ/01/2014/15 Supply and delivery of GIS software & equipment
ENSDA/PQ/02/2014/15: Supply and delivery of seedlings and farm equipments.(including seedlings propagation)
ENSDA/PQ/03/2014/15: Supply of fuel, oil and lubricants.
ENSDA/PQ/04/2014/15: Supply and delivery of general hardware materials
ENSDA/PQ/05/2014/15: Supply and delivery of computer hardware & software
ENSDA/PQ/06/2014/15: Supply and delivery of foodstuff, detergents and sanitary materials
ENSDA/PQ/07/2014/15: Supply and delivery of standby generators
ENSDA/PQ/08/2014/15: Supply and delivery of network goods & services
ENSDA/PQ/09/2014/15: Supply, delivery and installation of solar power system (Including demonstration)
ENSDA/PQ/10/2014/15: Supply and delivery of green house construction materials and accessories.
B. PREQUALIFICATION FOR PROVISION OF SERVICES
ENSDA/PQ/11/2014/15: Provision of legal services
ENSDA/PQ/12/2014/15: Provision of insurances services.
ENSDA/PQ/13/2014/15: Provision of motor vehicle repairs and maintenance services (Ministry of Roads Approved Garages)
ENSDA/PQ/14/2014/15: Provision of Human Resource & payroll software
ENSDA/PQ/15/2014/15: Provision of Accounting & Assets management software
ENSDA/PQ/16/2014/15: Provision of advertisement and marketing
ENSDA/PQ/17/2014/15: Provision of transport services (taxi 4w & truck) & car hire.
ENSDA/PQ/18/2014/15: Provision of conference facilities and hotel catering, accommodation & hire of tents (Nakuru, Kajiado, Transmara, Oloitoktok &
Nairobi
ENSDA/PQ/19/2014/15 Provision of ofce and compound cleaning services
ENSDA/PQ/20/2014/15 Provision of security services
ENSDA/PQ/21/2014/15 Provision of in and out patient staff medical cover
ENSDA/PQ/22/2014/15 Provision of staff team building services
ENSDA/PQ/23/2014/15 Provision of Air travel services
ENSDA/PQ/24/2014/15 Provision of maintenance & repair of Computers, printers, scanners, photocopy, server & network.
ENSDA/PQ/25/2014/15 Provision of web hosting, development and maintenance services.
ENSDA/PQ/26/2014/15 Provision of training services including community training providers (individuals and institutions)
ENSDA/PQ/27/2014/15 Provision of internet service, networking services (LAN & WAN)
ENSDA/PQ/28/2014/15 Provision of valuation services
ENSDA/PQ/29/2014/15 Provision of Sage accounting software technical support & maintenance
ENSDA/PQ/30/2014/15 Provision of hire of equipment and machinery
C. PREQUALIFICATION OF CONSULTANCY & CONSTRUCTION SERVICES (FIRMS AND INDIVIDUALS)
ENSDA/PQ/31/2014/15: Provision of consultancy services in pre-feasibility studies for multi- purpose projects, conservation and investments
ENSDA/PQ/32/2014/15: Provision of consultancy services in organizational development, baseline surveys, strategic planning and master planning.
ENSDA/PQ/33/2014/15: Provision of construction services in building (Architectural, landscaping, Quantity surveying and engineering services)
ENSDA/PQ/34/2014/15: Provision of consultancy service for environmental and social impact assessment
ENSDA/PQ/35/2014/15. Provision of consultancy for nancial advisory services
ENSDA/PQ/36/2014/15. Provision of consultancy for investment advisory services
ENSDA/PQ/37/2014/15. Provision of consultancy for corporate events organizations
ENSDA/PQ/38/2014/15 Provision of design and construction services for water works
ENSDA/PQ/39/2014/15. Provision of consultancy services on food security.
Detailed Pre-qualication documents can be downloaded from www.ensda.go.ke. Bidders should deposit a non-refundable fee of ksh. 1,000 to ENSDA A/C
NO.01003041548100 (NATIONAL BANK) and surrender the bank deposit slips to our cash ofce when submitting the tender documents. Completed pre-
qualication tendering guidelines documents, in plain sealed envelopes clearly marked Tender name, Code and category may be sent to:-
Managing Director
Ewaso Ngiro South Development Authority
P.O. Box 213, Narok
Or deposited in the Tender Box at the headquarters situated along Narok Bomet road opposite Maasai Mara University so as to reach us on or before 18
th

June 2014 at 12.00noon. Tenders will be opened immediately thereafter in the presence of bidders or their representatives who choose to attend. The Authority
reserves the right to accept or reject any application and is not bound to give reasons thereafter.
All queries regarding this tender should be directed to the undersigned.
SUPPLY CHAIN OFFICER
Ewaso Ngiro South Development Authority (ENSDA) invites sealed bids from interested eligible candidates for pre-qualication of the under listed categories for
provision of goods, works and services for the Financial Year 2014/2015.Youth, women and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
USDOLLAR EURO
BUY SELL MARG BUY SELL MARG
AB C 87.70 87.85 0.15 119.49 119.65 0.16
EQUITY 87.80 88.00 0.20 119.53 119.92 0.39
I & M 87.70 87.90 0.20 119.44 119.73 0.29
DIAMONDTRUST 87.70 87.90 0.20 119.55 119.85 0.30
NI C 87.70 87.90 0.20 119.44 119.73 0.29
ECOBANK 87.70 87.85 0.15 119.49 119.65 0.16
1ST COMMUNITY 87.80 87.90 0.10 119.65 119.80 0.15
PRIME 87.80 87.90 0.10 119.55 119.85 0.30
MIDDLEEAST 87.80 87.90 0.10 119.55 119.85 0.30
CFC STANBIC 87.65 87.85 0.20 119.37 119.66 0.29
CITIBANK 87.70 87.90 0.20 119.55 119.85 0.30
C B A 87.80 88.00 0.20 119.53 119.92 0.39
NB K 87.80 88.00 0.20 119.53 119.92 0.39
BARCLAYS 87.70 87.90 0.20 119.44 119.73 0.29
STANDARD 87.72 87.92 0.20 119.80 120.10 0.30
KC B 87.75 87.95 0.20 119.51 119.81 0.30
BOA 87.80 88.00 0.20 119.57 119.86 0.29
CO-OP 87.70 87.90 0.20 119.44 119.73 0.29
USDOLLAR 87.8289
STGPOUND 147.9714
EURO 119.6693
SARAND 8.5007
KES/ USHS 28.8175
KES/ TSHS 18.9346
KES/ RWF 7.7310
KES/ BIF 17.6483
AEDIRHAM 23.9124
CAN$ 80.8469
SFRANC 98.0453
JPY(100) 86.1750
SW KRONER 13.2206
NOR KRONER 14.7353
DANKRONER 16.0541
IND RUPEE 1.5003
HONGKONGDOLLAR 11.3282
SINGAPOREDOLLAR 70.1313
SAUDI RIYAL 23.4176
CHINESEYUAN 14.0795
AUSTRALIAN$ 81.1539
Source: Central Bank
EXCHANGE RATES
BANK RATES
FOREX BUREAU
LAST12MONTHS SECTOR MPRICES PREVIOUS SHARES
MAIN INVESTMENT MARKET
NAIROBI STOCKS
NSE All Share Index. Down 0.39 points to close at 149.41.
NSE 20-share Index. Down 25.66 points to close at 4899.92.
26/05/14
26/05/14
26/05/14
PER US DOLLAR PER EURO
BUY SELL MARG BUY SELL MARG
Amal Express Forex Bureau 87.60 88.10 0.50 116.00 121.00 5.00
Amana Forex BureauLtd 87.00 88.50 1.50 119.00 120.70 1.70
Arcade Forex BureauLtd 87.50 88.30 0.80 119.00 122.00 3.00
Aristocrats Forex Bureau 86.00 89.00 3.00 118.00 121.00 3.00
Bay Forex Bureau(NBI) Ltd 87.80 88.50 0.70 119.60 121.00 1.40
Central Forex BureauLtd 87.80 89.00 1.20 118.70 120.00 1.30
City Centre Forex Bureau 87.80 88.80 1.00 118.50 122.40 3.90
Commercial Forex Bureau 87.50 88.50 1.00 119.50 122.00 2.50
Continental Forex Bureau 87.80 88.30 0.50 119.50 121.00 1.50
Cosmos Forex BureauLtd 87.90 88.50 0.60 118.80 121.00 2.20
Crater Forex BureauLtd 86.80 89.80 3.00 118.70 121.70 3.00
Crown BureauDe Change 86.50 89.00 2.50 119.00 121.50 2.50
Gateway Forex BureauLtd 88.00 88.60 0.60 119.50 121.20 1.70
GNK Forex BureauLtd 86.00 88.00 2.00 120.30 122.00 1.70
Hodan Global Forex Bureau 87.80 88.40 0.60 119.50 121.50 2.00
HurlinghamForex Bureau 86.50 88.30 1.80 116.50 121.00 4.50
IslandForex BureauLtd 87.50 88.00 0.50 119.20 120.00 0.80
Junction Forex BureauLtd 87.00 88.50 1.50 118.00 121.50 3.50
Kenza Exchange BureauLtd 87.00 89.00 2.00 118.50 121.00 2.50
Lache Forex BureauLtd 87.00 89.00 2.00 118.00 121.50 3.50
LeoForex BureauLtd 87.30 88.50 1.20 118.70 120.30 1.60
Link Forex BureauLtd 87.80 88.00 0.20 119.00 121.00 2.00
Maritime Forex BureauLtd 87.40 88.30 0.90 118.50 120.40 1.90
Metropolitan BureauLtd 87.00 89.00 2.00 118.00 124.00 6.00
Middletown Forex Bureau 87.50 88.50 1.00 119.00 121.50 2.50
Mona BureauDe Change 87.00 88.50 1.50 117.50 121.50 4.00
Moneypoint Forex Bureau 87.00 88.00 1.00 116.00 122.00 6.00
Morgan Forex Bureau 87.70 88.20 0.50 120.00 120.50 0.50
Nawal Forex BureauLtd 87.50 89.00 1.50 118.50 122.00 3.50
Net Forex BureauLtd 87.70 88.40 0.70 119.00 120.00 1.00
Offshore Forex BureauLtd 87.60 88.20 0.60 118.50 120.50 2.00
Pacic Forex BureauLtd 88.00 88.40 0.40 119.10 121.50 2.40
Pearl Forex BureauLtd 87.70 93.00 5.30 118.70 119.50 0.80
Pel Forex BureauLtd 87.00 89.00 2.00 119.50 121.50 2.00
Princess Forex BureauLtd 88.00 88.70 0.70 119.00 121.50 2.50
Regional Forex BureauLtd 87.90 88.90 1.00 119.50 123.00 3.50
Satellite Forex BureauLtd 88.00 88.50 0.50 119.10 121.00 1.90
Sky Forex BureauLimited 87.80 88.40 0.60 119.70 121.50 1.80
SterlingForex BureauLtd 87.00 88.70 1.70 118.50 121.00 2.50
Warwick Forex BureauLtd 87.30 88.00 0.70 119.00 121.80 2.80
Bakaal Express Forex Ltd 87.40 88.20 0.80 116.00 124.00 8.00
Wanati Forex BureauLtd 86.50 88.50 2.00 118.00 120.90 2.90
CBD Forex BureauLtd 87.90 89.50 1.60 118.00 122.00 4.00
Nevada Forex BureauLtd 86.80 88.10 1.30 116.00 121.00 5.00
Gala Forex BureauLtd 88.00 88.50 0.50 119.20 121.00 1.80
GrandRoyal Forex Bureau 87.80 88.40 0.60 119.50 121.80 2.30
Iftin Forex BureauLtd 87.70 88.20 0.50 119.00 122.00 3.00
Ventures Foreign Exchange 86.20 89.30 3.10 116.50 122.30 5.80
ZTAForex Bureau 87.00 88.50 1.50 118.50 121.00 2.50
UNIT TRUSTS 23/05/14
KLM Airlines celebrates 45 years of ying to Kenya
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines marks 45 years of ying to Kenya this year. The carrier
has been ying to Nairobi since 1969. KLM has evolved from a weekly ight of
13 hours with stops in Munich, Zurich, Cairo and Entebbe to 14 ights a week in
only eight hours. According to the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Country manager
Samir Azzouzi, 2014 is a remarkable year for KLM, adding, We are not only
commemorating 45 years of service to our passengers in Kenya, but also 95
years of existence since 1919. We are grateful to our partners, customers and
shareholders for their support in making us the rst airline in the world to
celebrate this occasion. Azzouzi said the airline has recorded progress in terms
of service and product delivery, route network and customer base expansion
since its induction in the region. One of the major highlights of the operarion was
in 1996 when KLM started ying to and from Nairobi in a bilateral partnership
with Kenya Airways.
HIGH LOW AGRICULTURAL
31.00 21.00 Eaagads Ltd Ord 1.25 AIMS 30.00 30.75 200
145.00 80.00 Kakuzi Ltd Ord.5.00 144.00 145.00 5,100
167.00 110.00 Kapchorua Tea Co. Ltd Ord Ord 5.00 AIMS 156.00 144.00 1,000
670.00 450.00 The Limuru Tea Co. Ltd Ord 20.00 AIMS 670.00 -
30.00 19.40 Rea Vipingo Plantations Ltd Ord 5.00 27.50 -
19.95 11.25 Sasini Ltd Ord 1.00 16.85 17.20 700
350.00 210.00 Williamson Tea Kenya Ltd Ord 5.00 AIMS 272.00 275.00 100
AUTOMOBILES&ACCESSORIES
50.00 21.00 Car & General (K) Ltd Ord 5.00 35.00 35.00 100
- - CMC Holdings Ltd Ord 0.50 13.50 -
13.50 9.00 Marshalls (E.A.) Ltd Ord 5.00 9.40 -
9.40 4.50 Sameer Africa Ltd Ord 5.00 8.30 8.40 14,900
BANKING
19.15 15.00 Barclays Bank of Kenya Ltd Ord 0.50 16.65 17.00 139,300
155.00 54.00 CFC Stanbic of Kenya Holdings Ltd ord.5.00 142.00 144.00 1,113,600
248.00 141.00 Diamond Trust Bank Kenya Ltd Ord 4.00 237.00 236.00 600
42.25 29.50 Equity Bank Ltd Ord 0.50 40.25 39.75 685,600
42.50 22.00 Housing Finance Co.Kenya Ltd Ord 5.00 37.50 38.00 84,500
145.00 85.00 I&M Holdings Ltd Ord 1.00 130.00 129.00 1,500
51.00 35.50 Kenya Commercial Bank Ltd Ord 1.00 47.50 46.75 225,600
39.25 18.50 National Bank of Kenya Ltd Ord 5.00 31.75 32.75 107,700
68.00 48.50 NIC Bank Ltd Ord 5.00 60.00 59.50 298,600
340.00 271.00 Standard Chartered Bank Kenya Ord 5.00 306.00 311.00 1,000
25.00 14.50 The Co-operative Bank of Kenya Ord 1.00 21.75 21.75 571,700
COMMERCIALANDSERVICES
6.60 3.40 Express Kenya Ltd Ord 5.00 AIMS 6.25 5.70 2,000
- - Hutchings Biemer Ltd Ord 5.00 20.25 -
14.70 8.30 Kenya Airways Ltd Ord 5.00 11.70 11.85 103,900
16.50 5.00 Longhorn Kenya Ltd Ord 1.00 AIMS 14.00 -
400.00 271.00 Nation Media Group Ltd Ord. 2.50 315.00 316.00 1,400
247.00 44.00 Scangroup Ltd Ord 1.00 48.50 48.25 5,389,900
39.00 24.50 Standard Group Ltd Ord 5.00 33.00 32.25 1,300
56.50 39.25 TPS Eastern Africa Ltd Ord 1.00 39.75 40.00 5,600
24.00 13.00 Uchumi Supermarket Ltd Ord 5.00 13.00 13.05 17,900
CONSTRUCTION&ALLIED
98.50 60.00 ARM Cement Ltd Ord 1.00 81.00 81.50 63,200
225.00 170.00 Bamburi Cement Ltd Ord 5.00 172.00 173.00 31,700
98.00 75.00 Crown Paints Kenya Ltd Ord 5.00 93.50 93.00 1,400
18.00 13.80 E.A.Cables Ltd Ord 0.50 14.75 14.50 7,800
110.00 56.50 E.A.Portland Cement Co. Ltd Ord 5.00 92.50 -
ENERGY&PETROLEUM
17.90 10.00 KenGen Co. Ltd Ord. 2.50 10.65 10.75 102,400
11.80 7.90 KenolKobil Ltd Ord 0.05 9.10 9.15 148,600
20.75 13.50 Kenya Power & Lighting Co Ltd Ord 2.50 14.50 14.55 2,084,700
- - Kenya Power & Lighting Ltd 4% Pref 20.00 8.00
5.50 5.50 Kenya Power & Lighting Ltd 7% Pref 20.00 5.50
28.75 12.65 Total Kenya Ltd Ord 5.00 26.00 26.25 1,800
13.00 13.00 Umeme Ltd Ord 0.50 13.00
INSURANCE
20.00 7.30 British-American Investments Co Ord 0.10 17.50 17.50 198,400
12.20 4.20 CIC Insurance Group Ltd Ord.1.00 9.90 9.95 556,700
340.00 217.00 Jubilee Holdings Ltd Ord 5.00 334.00 -
21.00 13.10 Kenya Re Insurance Corporation Ltd Ord 2.50 19.00 19.35 209,800
23.00 9.20 Liberty Kenya Holdings Ltd Ord.1.00 19.10 19.70 17,100
145.00 51.50 Pan Africa Insurance Holdings Ltd Ord 5.00 122.00 122.00 5,600
INVESTMENT
41.00 17.05 Centum Investment Co Ltd Ord 0.50 39.00 39.25 527,100
6.00 3.50 Olympia Capital Holdings Ltd Ord 5.00 4.70 4.70 8,300
37.75 20.00 Trans-Century Ltd Ord 0.50 AIMS 23.75 24.00 100
MANUFACTURING&ALLIED
- - A.Baumann & Co Ltd Ord 5.00 AIMS 11.10 -
190.00 100.00 B.O.C Kenya Ltd Ord 5.00 147.00 142.00 300
635.00 521.00 British American Tobacco Kenya Ord 10.00 601.00 600.00 4,000
67.50 30.50 Carbacid Investments Ltd Ord 1.00 32.75 31.00 18,700
426.00 212.00 East African Breweries Ltd Ord 2.00 271.00 279.00 68,100
4.00 1.90 Eveready East Africa Ltd Ord.1.00 3.55 3.70 6,600
8.60 4.40 Kenya Orchards Ltd Ord 5.00 AIMS 8.60 -
5.05 2.85 Mumias Sugar Co. Ltd Ord 2.00 3.00 3.00 674,100
32.25 14.00 Unga Group Ltd Ord 5.00 32.00 29.50 12,700
TELECOMMUNICATION&TECHNOLOGY
13.40 6.15 Safaricom Ltd Ord 0.05 13.00 12.95 2,205,600
GROWTH ENTERPRISEMARKETSEGMENT(GEMS)
25.00 4.40 Home Afrika Ltd Ord 1.00 5.10 5.10 267,200
24/05/14
TODAY IN BUSINESS / Page 47 Tuesday, May 27, 2014 / The Standard
MONEY FUNDS Daily Yield E. A. Rate
British-American MoneyMarket Fund 9.41% 9.86%
CIC MoneyMarket Fund 9.75% 10.20%
GenCapHela Fund 10.85% 11.30%
ICEA MONEY MARKETFUND 8.34% 8.70%
Madison Asset MoneyMarket Fund 9.00% 9.38%
Old Mutual MoneyMarket Fund 6.32% 6.51%
CBA MoneyMarket Fund 6.03% 6.22%
STANLIB MoneyMarket Fund 7.35% 7.61%
OTHER FUNDS Buy Sell
British-American EquityFund 198.81 205.13
British-American Balanced Fund 190.67 196.24
British-American Bond Plus Fund 145.21 148.17
British-American Managed Retirement Fund 133.47 134.60
CIC Fixed Income Fund 9.18 9.41
CIC EquityFund 13.18 13.88
CIC Balanced Fund 12.83 13.43
GenCapEneza Fund 124.17 119.82
GenCapIman Fund 115.90 110.10
GenCapHazina Fund 119.11 114.94
GenCapHisa Fund 127.03 122.59
ICEA BONDFUND 98.80 99.80
ICEA EQUITY FUND 138.61 145.90
ICEA GROWTH FUND 139.55 146.90
Madison Asset Balanced Fund 69.44 73.26
Madison Asset EquityFund 57.12 61.64
Old Mutual EquityFund 376.23 403.12
Old Mutual Balanced Fund/Toboa 154.61 164.64
Old Mutual East Africa Fund 149.63 158.36
Old Mutual Bond Fund 102.47 104.91
Commercial Bank of Africa EquityFund 155.06 164.61
STANLIB Balanced fund 129.37 129.37
STANLIB EquityFund 167.55 167.55
Insurer defers payments
to creditors, policy holders
By NICHOLAS WAITATHU
Blue Shield Insurance creditors and policy-
holders will have to wait longer for payments
following another extension of the moratorium
from May to July this year.
The Statutory Manager Eliud Muriithi ex-
tended the payment freeze to July 4.
This the fth time for the moratorium to be
extended since the company was placed under
statutory management on September 2011 due
to its inability to honour claims.
In a Kenya Gazette notice published last
week, Muriithi said the moratorium on pay-
ments to policyholders and creditors has been
extended following a court order obtained by
the Commissioner of Insurance on May 9,
2014.
The rst order of extension was issued in
September 2012, giving the manager 12 months
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Former military chief on brink
of presidency as Egyptians vote
Presidential candidate and former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (front centre) arrives with his bodyguards at a
polling station to cast his vote during the election in Cairo, yesterday. [PHOTO: REUTERS]
CAIRO, Monday
Egyptians voted in an election ex-
pected to instal army chief Abdel Fa-
tah al-Sisi as president, with support-
ers brushing aside concerns about
political freedom and hailing him as
the strong leader the country needs.
Three years after an uprising that
ousted Hosni Mubarak, the vote is set
to restore rule by men from the mili-
tary after Sisi toppled Egypts rst
freely elected leader, Mohamed Morsi
of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Voters lined up to cast ballots at
polling stations guarded by soldiers
armed with assault ries. Sisi faces
one challenger in the two-day vote:
the leftist Hamdeen Sabahi.
We see Sisi as a real man. Egypt
likes a strong man, said 64-year-old
Saber Habib, clenching his st to
make his point as he waited to vote in
the city of Suez, east of Cairo.
We want the country to move for-
ward and for the people to have
bread, said Habib, a contractor.
BLOODY COUP
Widely regarded as Egypts de fac-
to leader since he toppled Morsi after
mass protests, Sisi, 59, faces manifold
challenges including an economy in
crisis and a campaign of Islamist vio-
lence that has spiralled since he over-
threw Morsi.
To the Islamists, he is the master-
mind of a bloody coup that led to a
crackdown that has killed hundreds of
Morsi supporters and landed thou-
sands more in jail. Secular dissidents
who led the 2011 uprising against
Mubarak have also been imprisoned.
At the same time, several hundred
members of the security forces have
been killed in a campaign of violence
by radical Islamists. The last year has
been the bloodiest period of internal
TRIPOLI, Monday
Libyas new Prime Minister
Ahmed Maiteeq won a vote of con-
dence from parliament on Sunday in
deance of a renegade former army
general who has challenged the as-
semblys legitimacy.
Maiteeq, backed by the Muslim
Brotherhood, was initially elected
two weeks ago after a chaotic parlia-
mentary session that some lawmak-
ers had rejected as illegal.
Libyas legislature is at the centre
of a growing standoff between rogue
former general, Khalifa Haftar, with
a loose alliance of anti-Islamist mili-
tias, and pro-Islamist factions posi-
tioning for inuence in the North Af-
rican country.
The Europe Unions special envoy
on Sunday called the crisis Libyas
worst since the 2011 war that ousted
Muammar Gadda, with the fragile
government struggling to control
brigades of former rebels and mili-
tias who are now key powerbrokers.
Lawmakers met on Sunday under
heavy security to vote to approve
Maiteeqs government, a week after
militia forces claiming loyalty to Haf-
tar attacked the congress to demand
lawmakers hand over power.
The congress has granted Prime
Minister Ahmed Maiteeq its con-
dence. Out of 95 members, 83 voted
in favour of his government, Abdul-
hamid Ismail Yarbu, an independent
lawmaker told Reuters.
ONE-MAN RULE
Another lawmaker conrmed the
votes for Maiteeq, a businessman
who will be Libyas third premier
since March after months of unrest
in the OPEC oil producer.
There was no immediate re-
sponse from a spokesman to Haftar,
a former Gadda ally who broke with
the Libyan autocrat in the 1980s,
sought exile in the US and returned
to help ght in the 2011 war to end
his one-man rule.
Three years after a NATO-backed
revolt toppled Gadda, Libya still
has no national army, no new consti-
tution and its parliament is caught
up in inghting, which has delayed
the countrys move to full democra-
cy. Reuters
Libyan premier wins congress backing after ex-generals threats
Abdel al-Sisi has
the huge task of
weathering a campaign
of Islamist violence
RoundUp
PRETORIA: Pistorius arrives
at psychiatric hospital
Oscar Pistorius sat in the passenger
seat of a black sedan speaking on
a cellphone as he arrived Monday
morning at a government psychiatric
hospital to begin the period of mental
evaluation as ordered by the judge
at his murder trial. Judge Thokozile
Masipa last week ordered that Pistorius
be observed by a panel of four mental
health experts for up to 30 days at
Weskoppies after a psychiatrist testied
at his trial that he had an anxiety
disorder and it could have contributed
to his fatal shooting of his girlfriend last
year. The disabled Olympian is charged
with premeditated murder for shooting
to death Reeva Steenkamp at his home
on February 14, 2013 and has been on
trial in Pretoria since March 3.
DJIBOUTI: 3 killed in
explosion at restaurant
An explosion at a restaurant in
downtown Djibouti killed three people
and injured several more, according
to a Ministry of Health ofcial and
a doctor at a local hospital. The
restaurant where the attack occurred
is La Chaumiere, a popular restaurant
among Westerners who visit the
small Horn of Africa nation. The US
Embassy in Djibouti issued an alert
to Americans following the attack at
the busy restaurant. The alert advises
citizens to exercise heightened
security measures. It also recommends
Americans to limit movements and
avoid areas frequented by Westerners.
SEOUL: Shopping mall re
kills ve in South Korea
A re at a bus terminal and shopping
complex in a busy suburban
neighbourhood killed six people and
injured more than 40 on Monday, the
latest in a series of accidents in South
Korea, including a ferry disaster that
killed more than 300. The re broke out
in the morning in the terminal complex
north of Seoul that houses large
shopping malls and a movie theatre.
Fire ofcials said the blaze started in
the food court area, where renovations
were being carried out and a welding
torch was likely responsible. Victims
suffered from smoke inhalation. South
Korea, Asias fourth-largest economy
and a manufacturing powerhouse, is
mourning more than 300 people who
drowned when a heavily overloaded
ferry capsized and sank on April 16.
LILONGWE: Electoral body
orders partial recount
Malawis electoral commission has
ordered a recount in some areas after
discovering some voting anomalies
after last Tuesdays general election. In
one constituency nearly ve times as
many people voted as there were names
on the voters roll. The High Court on
Saturday over-ruled an attempt by
President Joyce Banda to annul the
vote, which she said was marred by
rigging. One of her main rivals, Peter
Mutharika, has a lead in unofcial exit
polls. Her other main challenger is a
former preacher, Lazarus Chakwera, the
candidate of the Malawi Congress Party,
which governed from independence in
1964 until the rst multi-party poll in
1994. Mrs Banda came to power two
years ago after the sudden death of
President Bingu wa Mutharika.
Agencies
strife in Egypts modern history.
The Brotherhood and its allies
have called for a boycott, declaring it
the election of the presidency of
blood. Eleven of the groups support-
ers were arrested while staging a pro-
test in Alexandria, Egypts second city,
security ofcials said.
The government says the Brother-
hood is a terrorist organisation.
As he voted in Cairo, Sisi waved to
supporters, who chanted President,
President!
Today Egyptians are going to
write their history, said Sisi, who
hopes a big turnout will give him a
strong mandate.
The election is the seventh vote or
referendum since the 2011 uprising
that raised hopes for democracy. But
three years on, with democracy seen
as an experiment that failed, many
Egyptians say stability comes rst.
Sisi won 95 per cent of votes cast
in advance by Egyptians overseas, but
an opinion poll by the Washington-
based Pew Research Centre suggests
a more mixed picture, with Sisi viewed
favourably by 54 per cent and unfa-
vourably by 45 per cent.
At one polling station reserved for
male voters in Cairo, all bar one per-
son in a line of around 50 said they
would vote for Sisi, who has been li-
onised by media run by the state and
big businessmen overwhelmingly
supportive of the army.
Im voting for Sabahi because of
his programme and because Egypt
needs a civilian president to begin
building a democratic society like
other countries have, said Fathi Ab-
delhamid, 58, a manager at an engi-
neering rm.
MILITARY REGIMES
Interrupting him, the person next
to him said: But most people want
someone with experience, and that
person is Sisi. Look at his experience
in military intelligence. He knows how
to work with the state.
Since the army overthrew the king
in 1952, Egypt has been ruled by a
succession of military men Gamal
Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Muba-
rak. That pattern was briey inter-
rupted by Morsis divisive year in of-
ce, during which critical institutions
of state resisted his authority.
The 2012 election won by Morsi
was contested by around a dozen can-
didates, in stark contrast to this vote.
What happened in Egypt was
wrong and the best message against it
is to boycott this vote, said Abdel Ka-
rim Mohamed, a 45-year-old accoun-
tant, speaking in hushed tones near a
polling station.
Witnesses and security ofcials
said 400 Morsi supporters staged a
march against the election in Kerdasa,
a town on the Cairo outskirts where 14
policemen were killed in an attack last
August after the security forces killed
hundreds of Morsi supporters.
An inuential Muslim cleric with
Brotherhood links urged Egyptians to
boycott the vote. Sheikh Youssef al-
Qaradawi, who lives in Qatar, said Sisi
had disobeyed God.
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 / The Standard NEWS OF THE WORLD / Page 49
RoundUp
LUCKNOW: Train crash kills
at least 20 in north India
An express train slammed into a
parked freight train in northern
India on Monday, killing at least
20 people. The Gorakhpur Express
passenger train was traveling at high
speed and slammed on its brakes in
an attempt to stop, but plowed into
the train sitting on the tracks near
a railway station in Uttar Pradesh
state, district magistrate Bharat Lal
said. Six of the cars on the express
train derailed and at least 20 people
were killed. Rescuers worked to free
people trapped under toppled cars
and debris. At least 50 people were
injured, including the express trains
driver and assistant driver, who were
in critical condition, railway ofcial
Alok Kumar said. Five bodies have
been recovered so far, and efforts are
being made to bring out the remaining
bodies, Kumar said.
KIEV: Candy tycoon on way
to winning Ukraine vote
Early returns Monday suggested
candy tycoon Petro Poroshenko was
elected president of Ukraine in the
rst round of balloting. In taking on
the leadership of the bitterly divided
country, he vowed to put an end to
war, chaos, crime, and bring peace
to the Ukrainian land. The 48-year-
old billionaire, who claimed victory
after exit polls showed him with a
commanding lead in Sundays vote,
supports strong ties with Europe but
also wants to mend ties with Russia.
He said his rst steps as president
would be to visit the Donbass eastern
industrial region, where pro-Russia
separatists have seized government
buildings and battled government
troops in weeks of ghting.
TEL AVIV: Cardinal is rst
top Lebanese cleric in Israel
The head of Lebanons largest
Christian denomination has visited
a parish in Israel, becoming the
rst Lebanese religious leader to
come to the Jewish state since its
creation in 1948. Cardinal Bechara
Rai, a Maronite Catholic, made the
trip despite criticism at home. His
critics say the pilgrimage endorses
Israel when the two countries remain
formally at war. But Rai said his
journey is celebrating the roots of
Christianity in the region. In a veiled
response to his critics, he says he was
misunderstood and that his journey
is purely spiritual. He was cheered by
several dozen faithful as he arrived
at a Maronite parish in Tel Aviv. He
also visited a monastery west of
Jerusalem.
STOCKHOLM: Swedish
feminist party wins EU seat
With much of Europe veering to anti-
immigration groups, Sweden has
elected the only formal feminist party
to the EU parliament with a Roma
woman as its representative. The
Feminist Initiative (FI), founded by a
politician famed for publicly burning
100,000 Swedish crowns ($15,000)
to protest unequal pay and funded in
part by an ABBA member, grew from
almost nothing in polls a few months
ago to win over 5 per cent of the votes.
The party garnered votes with its Out
With Racists And In With Feminists!
slogan. Agencies
As Mid-east trip nears end, Pope
navigates minefeld of symbols
Palestinian militants.
Israel says its barrier in the occu-
pied West Bank was erected to safe-
guard security after a wave of Pales-
tinian suicide bombings. Palestinians
see it as a brutal attempt to grab land
they seek for a future state.
A day packed with political and re-
ligious encounters began at the gold-
topped Dome of the Rock, the pope
taking off his shoes before walking in-
to the Jerusalem shrine from which
Muslims believe the Prophet Moham-
med climbed to heaven.
Francis then went to pray at the
adjacent Western Wall, one the Jews
most revered shrines and a sole rem-
nant of their sacred Second Temple,
destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.
There, he, a rabbi, and an Islamic
leader - both friends from his native
Argentina he invited to make the trip
with him - embraced in a sign of the
inter-religious dialogue that Francis
says says catalyse regional peace.
At Yad Vashem, the pope made
the type of gesture of humility that
has become his custom since being
elected pontiff in 2013.
As he was introduced to six survi-
vors of Nazi concentration camps
and stories of struggle and near-star-
vation, he bent slowly to kiss the
hand of each elderly person.
Reading a haunting personal re-
ection that was a cross between a
poem and a prayer, he called the Ho-
locaust a boundless tragedy, add-
ing: A great evil has befallen us, such
as never happened under the heav-
ens. Now, Lord, hear our prayer, hear
our plea, save us in your mercy. Save
us from this horror.
The pope made a bold political
gesture on Sunday when he unex-
pectedly intervened in ailing diplo-
matic efforts to end the Israeli-Pales-
tinian conict, inviting the presidents
from the two sides to his Vatican res-
idence to pray for peace. The meet-
ing is expected to take place on June
6. Both Mahmoud Abbas and Shi-
mon Peres accepted the offer.
Reuters
JERUSALEM, Monday
Pope Francis navigated the mine-
eld of the Israeli-Palestinian con-
ict and humbly bowed to kiss the
hands of Holocaust survivors, the
last day of a Mideast trip laden with
bold personal gestures.
Never again, Lord. Never again!
he said in the dimly lit Hall of Re-
membrance in the Yad Vashem Mu-
seum which marks six million Jews
killed by the Nazis in World War II.
The fourth pope to visit Israel,
Francis became the rst to lay a
wreath at the tomb of Theodor Herzl,
seen as the founder of modern Zion-
ism that led to Israels foundation.
At the request of Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, he also made
an unannounced stop at Israels Me-
morial to the Victims of Terror, the
day after unexpectedly praying at a
towering Israeli security wall that is
despised by Palestinians.
REVERED SHRINE
In a mirror image of the halt at the
grafti-smeared wall, Francis put
both hands on the neat stone and
marble monument and bowed his
head - a gesture that will please his
Israeli hosts who had smarted in si-
lence over Sundays impromptu stop.
Netanyahu said Francis was asked to
go to the leafy memorial, which is
engraved with the names of Israeli
civilians killed mainly in attacks by
In a bold move, Pope
Francis invited Israel and
Palestinian leaders to
Vatican for peace prayer
DONESTSK, Monday
Armed pro-Russian separatists forced a shutdown
of Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine, an airport rep-
resentative said, a day after they prevented a majority
of the regions voters from taking part in presidential
elections.
Earlier this month, the pro-Moscow rebels declared
autonomous peoples republics in the regions of Do-
netsk and Luhansk after holding makeshift referen-
dums. They say the two regions, which include the
Donbass coaleld, are no longer part of Ukraine.
Only about 20 percent of the two regions polling
stations functioned in Sundays presidential election
and many voters stayed at home, fearful for their safe-
ty. No polling stations were open in the city of Donetsk,
home to one million people.
The head of Donetsk airports press service, Dmitry
Kosinov, said dozens of armed representatives of the
self-styled Donetsk Peoples Republic had come to
the airport in the early hours of Monday morning to
demand the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops.
The troops have been policing the perimeter of the
Sergei Prokoev airport. On the territory of the airport
there are armed people. This is ample reason to halt
our work on security grounds, Kosinov said in a state-
ment, adding there had been no violence. It was not
clear when the airport would reopen.
Reutersreporters reported seeing three open mili-
tary trucks carrying dozens of separatists with assault
ries heading towards the airport on Monday morning
after being allowed through by a police roadblock.
Reuters
China scraps old cars to cut emissions Pro-Russia rebels close
Ukraines airport
BEIJING, Monday
China plans to take more
than ve million ageing vehi-
cles off the roads this year to
improve air quality, with
330,000 cars set to be decom-
missioned in Beijing, the gov-
ernment said in a policy docu-
ment published on Monday.
Pollution has emerged as an
urgent priority for China as
they try to reverse the damage
done by decades of breakneck
growth and head off public an-
ger about the sorry state of the
nations air, water and soil.
In a wide-ranging action
plan to cut emissions over the
next two years, Chinas cabinet,
the State Council, said the
country had fallen behind in its
pollution targets over the 2011-
2013 period and was now hav-
ing to step up its efforts.
As many as 5.33 million yel-
low label vehicles that fail to
meet Chinese fuel standards
will be eliminated this year,
the document said. Another
660,000 will be withdrawn from
the city of Hebei.
Reuters
Pope Francis (C) kisses the hand of Holocaust survivor Sonia Tunik-Geron during a ceremony in the Hall of Remem-
brance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem May 26, 2014. [PHOTO: REUTERS]
RoundUp
MEXICO CITY: Mexico
captures drug gang leader
Mexico captured one of the top
leaders of the Gulf drug cartel who
was responsible for a recent wave
of shoot-outs and massacres in the
northern state of Tamaulipas. Juan
Rodriguez Garcia was arrested in
a wealthy suburb of the northern
industrial city Monterrey. National
Security Commissioner Monte
Alejandro Rubido said Rodriguezs
struggle to gain control of the Gulf
cartel was behind a wave of violence
that has hit Tamaulipas this year.
Mexican security forces caught Mario
Ramirez Trevino, the leader of the
cocaine-trafcking Gulf cartel, in
August last year, setting off a battle
for control of the gang.
MANILA: Lobby petitions
Philippine court on US pact
A group of people has asked the
Philippine Supreme Court to block
a new agreement with the US that
gives the American military greater
access to bases in the country until
outstanding issues are resolved. The
petition targets ve ofcials including
President Benigno Aquino IIIs foreign
and defense secretaries. The petition
says the defense pact signed last
month violates a constitutional ban
on foreign military bases or troops
except under a treaty approved by
the Senate, and ratied by a national
referendum and recognised as a treaty
by the other party. Agencies
Easing of tension as Pakistans premier
attends Modi inauguration in India
three wars over the disputed Himala-
yan region of Kashmir since their in-
dependence from Britain in 1947. Mo-
di and Sharif are scheduled to hold
formal talks on Tuesday.
Relations between Pakistan and
India froze after an attack on Mumbai,
Indias nancial hub, in 2008 in which
Pakistani militants killed 166 people.
Modi is likely to insist Tuesday that
Pakistan expedite investigations into
the Mumbai attack and put its perpe-
trators on trial. New Delhi would also
demand that Islamabad take action
against Islamic militant groups oper-
ating out of Pakistani territory to pre-
vent further terror attacks on India.
Other major problems relate to the fu-
ture of Kashmir.
Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Par-
NEW DELHI, Monday
Pakistans prime minister arrived
in the capital of his countrys archrival
Monday to attend the inauguration of
his Indian counterpart Narendra Mo-
di, a historic moment that could sig-
nal a thaw in relations between the of-
ten hostile neighbours.
Modis inauguration is the rst to
which India invited heads of State
from across South Asia.
The leaders of Sri Lanka, Mauri-
tius, Maldives, Nepal and Afghanistan
were expected to attend, and Bangla-
desh was to be represented by the
speaker of its parliament.
Indias President Pranab Mukher-
jee will administer the oath of ofce
and secrecy to Modi and his Cabinet
ministers at an inaugural event to be
held at the presidential palace.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif accepted Modis invitation on
Saturday. His presence at the inaugu-
ration signals an easing of tensions
between the nuclear-armed neigh-
bours, analysts said.
Pakistan and India have a history
of uneasy relations and have fought
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif waves as he arrives to attend the
swearing in ceremony of Indias prime minister-elect Narendra Modi in New
Delhi, India, yesterday. [PHOTO: AP]
Sharifs move signals
the closing of ranks
between the nuclear-
armed neighbours
50 / NEWS OF THE WORLD Tuesday, May 27, 2014 / The Standard
ty won a resounding victory in the
weeks-long general election that end-
ed this month. Modi has promised to
revitalise the economy and restore In-
dia as a leading global power.
The past few years have seen eco-
nomic growth plummeting, high in-
ation and declining exports.
The former Congress party-run
government had in recent years been
paralysed by a series of corruption
scandals, internal feuding and an in-
ability to deal with an icy economy
and deep-rooted problems with pov-
erty, infrastructure and education.
In an early indication that he plans
to streamline government function-
ing, Modis ofce said several minis-
tries, especially those dealing with in-
frastructure, were being combined to
make them more efcient and to re-
duce bureaucratic red tape.
Modi won the election with a
strong mandate that analysts say will
give him a free hand in choosing his
priorities without being constrained
by coalition partners. The BJP won
282 seats in the 543-member lower
house of Parliament, well ahead of the
272 halfway mark that it would re-
quire for conducting business.
During his campaign, Modi prom-
ised that if he was voted to ofce his
goals would be good governance, job
creation and rooting out corruption,
a message that struck a chord with
millions of voters.
AP
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Marsabit hereby publish to the general public that the public participation forums on the
Budget estimates for FY 2014/2015 shall be conducted as listed below:-
DATE CONSTITUENCY WARD(S) TIME VENUE
9/06/2014 Saku Marsabit Central,
Sagante, Karare
10:00 am Marsabit Ack Hall
10/06/2014 Laisamis Laisamis 10:30 am Laisamis Town Hall
11/06/2014 North Horr Maikona 11:00 am Maikona Catholic Mission Hall
12/06/2014 North Horr North Horr 10:00 am North Horr catholic M/hall
13/06/2014 Laisamis Loiyangalani 10:30 am Loiyangalani Town Hall
17/06/2014 Moyale Sololo, Uran, Obbu 10:00 am Sololo Town Hall
18/06/2014 Moyale Moyale Town,
Butiye, Manyatta/
Hellu, Golbo
10:00 am Moyale County Hall
Members of the public i.e. civil society, NGOs professional groups, youth, women groups,
persons with disability and faith based organizations are encouraged to participate.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
1. Hon. Wario Bulle - Chairperson
2. Hon. Halkano Sora - Vice chairperson
3. Hon. Mark Ekale - Member
4. Hon. Halake Diida - Member
5. Hon. Ano Mado - Member
6. Hon. Daud Tamasot - Member
7. Hon. Daniella Ntalaso - Member
8. Hon. Amina Hirbo - Member
9. Hon. Golicha Galgallo - Member
MR. MAHMOUD KAMAYA
CLERK TO THE COUNTY ASSEMBLY
COUNTY ASSEMBLY OF MARSABIT
BUBGET ESTIMATES FY 2014/2015 PUBLIC HEARINGS
MARSABIT COUNTY ASSEMBLY
Pursuant to Regulation 21 of the Environmental Management and
Coordination (Impact Assessment and Audit) Regulations, 2003, the
National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has received
an Environmental Impact Assessment Study Report for the above
proposed project.
The Proponent (Eastern Rift Sawmills Limited) proposes to develop
a private run cemetery on plot L.R. 10701 situated in Kinungi,
Nyandarua County.
The project will comprise of a crematorium, restaurant, commercial
centre and a memorial park on a 63 acre site that is bordered by the
Nairobi-Nakuru Highway, to the north, the Kikuyu Escarpment Forest
to the Southeast, and a mushroom farm to the west.
The following are the anticipated impacts and proposed mitigation
measures:
A N T I C I PAT E D
IMPACTS
MITIGATION MEASURES
Fall Hazards Provide safety harnesses and scaffolding
Falling objectst Provide helmets
Dust Water the ground before and during excavation
Noise Use of ear protectors by workers
Recondition engine exhaust systems
Engine tune-up
Establish inspection program for equipment.
Emissions Use of respirators by workers
Recondition engine exhaust systems
Engine tune-up
Establish inspection program for equipment
Sanitation Provide temporary sanitary facilities
Wastewater &
sewage discharge
Discharge to Septic tanks
Storage and
handling of
Hazardous
materials
Obtain material safety data sheets for all
hazardous materials and products handled at
the site
Obtain personal protective equipment for the
workers responsible for handling hazardous
materials
Train the workers on safe handling procedures
Waste oil
Contamination
Provide labelled containers for waste oil
Disposal of
waste oil
Identify a licensed contractor to recycle oil
Appoint a licensed contractor to collect waste
oil
Adhere to spill control procedures when
handling waste oil
Spill control Obtain spill control kit
Train staff on spill control
Emergency
response
Keep a record of the public emergency service
telephone umbers including:
Police
Fire brigade
Ambulance services
Document an emergency response procedure
Train staff on emergency response
National Environment Management Authority
Popo Road, off Mombasa Road
P.O. BOX 67839-00200, Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (254 020) 6005522, 6001945, Fax: (254 020) 6008997)
E-mail: dgnema@nema.go.ke Website: www.nema.go.ke
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC TO SUBMIT COMMENTS ON AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT STUDY REPORT FOR THE PROPOSED
GATES OF PEARL CEMETERY, MEMORIAL PARK AND COMMERCIAL CENTRE ON PLOT L.R. NO. 10701 IN KINUNGI, NYANDARUA COUNTY.
Regulatory
Compliance
Refer to relevant policy, legal and
administrative framework and comply
Environmental
Audits
To be carried out against the environmental
management plan and the mitigation plan in
this report.
Fire protection Ensure re ghting equipment are inspected
semi-annually
Disposal of solid
waste
Appoint a licensed waste transporter.
Noise Restrict construction activities to day time.
Noise level Measurements
Soil Erosion Site landscaping and planting of tree belts to
prevent soil erosion and to reduce wind velocity
The full report of the proposed project is available for inspection
during working hours at:
1. Principal Secretary,
Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources,
NHIF Building, Community Area,
P.O. BOX 30126-00100,
NAIROBI
2. Director General, NEMA
Popo Road, off Mombasa Road,
P.O. BOX 67839-00200,
NAIROBI
3. County Director of Environment
NYANDARUA COUNTY
A copy of the EIA report can be downloaded at www.nema.go.ke
NEMA invites members of the public to submit oral or written
comments within thirty (30) days from the date of publication of this
notice to the Director General, NEMA, to assist the Authority in the
decision-making process for this project. Kindly quote ref. no. NEMA/
EIA/5/2/1110
Comments can also be e-mailed to dgnema@nema.go.ke
Signature .

(Seal)
ZEPHANIAH O. OUMA
For: DIRECTOR GENERAL
This advertisement is sponsored by the proponent.
PANEL ONE
MONDAY 9
TH
JUNE, 2014
CLERK ASSISTANT II (SCASB 7) FIVE POSITIONS
No. Name of Applicant ID. NUMBER Date Time
1 Austin Adewa Odhiambo 21948225 9/6/2014 9.00 am
2 James Oginga Angila 22155739 9/6/2014 9.30 am
3 Susan Akinyi Kabunge 22828672 9/6/2014 10.00 am
4 Sylvester Douglas Adhiambo 27892911 9/6/2014 11.00 am
5 Carolyne Achieng Odundo 23303599 9/6/2014 11.30 am
6 Eric J. O. Okelo 21676245 9/6/2014 12.00 pm
7 John Ochieng Otieno 22382857 9/6/2014 12.30 pm
8 David Francis Okanga 9/6/2014 2.00 pm
9 Irene Adhiambo Owuor 23582910 9/6/2014 2.30 pm
10 Henry Nyabaya Apopa 20389206 9/6/2014 3.00 pm
11 Francis Ouma Opondi 24168597 9/6/2014 3.30 pm
12 Odeny Antony Jillah 24659735 9/6/2014 4.00 pm
TUESDAY 10
TH
JUNE, 2014
1 Benard Odhiambo Onyango 27728983 10/6/2014 9.00 am
2 David Oduor Odero 13786891 10/6/2014 9.30 am
3 Brian Omondi Kodhek 10/6/2014 10.00 am
4 Vivian Akoth Mbaya 28477650 10/6/2014 11.00 am
5 John Opondo Ooko 9309403 10/6/2014 11.30 am
6 Yvette Ochieng Atieno 27457975 10/6/2014 12.00 pm
7 Otieno J. Wycliffe 25986372 10/6/2014 12.30 pm
8 Merab Seline Omollo 27669729 10/6/2014 2.00 pm
9 Martin Kissinger Sumba 13465961 10/6/2014 2.30 pm
10 Simon O. Otieno 13222970 10/6/2014 3.00 pm
11 Lynette Achieng Gaunye 27985364 10/6/2014 3.30 pm
WEDNESDAY 11
TH
JUNE, 2014
1 Sanmac David Okoth 24588493 11/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Belinda Odhiambo 28012797 11/6/2014 9.30 am
3 George Onyango Odhiambo 26484787 11/6/2014 10.00 am
4 Jeremiah Oyongo Mauti 24416373 11/6/2014 10.30 am
5 Maurine Juma Owiti 20807912 11/6/2014 11.00 am
6 Fredrick M. Okinda 27201793 11/6/2014 11.30 am
7 Regina Akoth Owino 22270854 11/6/2014 12.00 pm
8 Michael Odipo Olweya 24962960 11/6/2014 12.30 pm
9 Edwin Isaac Onyango 25276073 11/6/2014 2.00 pm
10 Salome Alice Sijenyi 27033617 11/6/2014 2.30 pm
11 Alloo Rodgers Omondi 25049401 11/6/2014 3.00 pm
12 Maurine Awiti Wamaiba 11/6/2014 3.30 pm
THURSDAY 12
TH
JUNE,2014
1 Denish Omondi Juma 12/6/2014 8.00 am
2 Antony Oduor Omolo 12/6/2014 8.30 pm
3 Oliech M. Ogola 12/6/2014 9.00 am
4 Nelson O. Ouma 12/6/2014 9.30 am
5 Walter Ouma Nyasio 12/6/2014 10.00 am
6 Nereah Akinyi Odera 22668246 12/6/2014 10.30 am
7 Shadrack Douglous Ogolla 12/6/2014 11:00am
8 Gloria Amondi Miganda 28124634 12/6/2014 11.30 am
THURSDAY 12
TH
JUNE, 2014
CLERK ASSISTANT I (SCASB 8) TWO POSITIONS
1 Marco H. Oronje 7277917 12/6/2014 12.00 pm
2 James Oginga Angilah 22155739 12/6/2014 12.30 pm
3 Misoloh Abonyo Elijah 13759829 12/6/2014 2.00 pm
4 Yvette Ochieng Atieno 27457975 12/6/2014 2.30 pm
5 Maurine Juma Awiti 20807912 12/6/2014 3.00 pm
6 Robert Philip Otieno Olwande 23597222 12/6/2014 3.30 am
7 Benard Odhiambo Onyango 27728983 12/6/2014 4.00 am
FRIDAY 13
TH
JUNE, 2014
1 Tobias Opana 25932097 13/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Martin Kissinger Sumba 13465961 13/6/2014 9.30 am
3 Walter Odhiambo Olilo 13/6/2014 10.00 am
4 Jactone Gweno 13039039 13/6/2014 11.00 am
5 David Oduor Odero 13786891 13/6/2014 11:30 am
6 George Onyango Odhiambo 26484787 13/6/2014 12.00 pm
7 Salome Alice Sijenyi 27033617 13/6/2014 12.30 pm
FRIDAY 13
TH
JUNE, 2014
SENIOR SERGEANT AT ARMS (SCASB 9) ONE POSITION
No. Name of Applicant Date Time
1 Fredrick Okoth Otieno 22543161 13/6/2014 2.00 pm
2 Ochieng Gilbert Opiyo 20242803 13/6/2014 2.40 pm
3 Charles Otieno Amollo 21465635 13/6/2014 3.20 pm
4 Stephen Okoth Obiero 14631751 13/6/2014 4.00 pm
5 Peter Juma Ojwang 4347114 13/6/2014 4.40 pm
6 Samuel Ajode 22634940 13/6/2014 5.20pm
PANEL TWO
MONDAY 9
TH
JUNE, 2014
PRINCIPAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER (SCASB 10) ONE POSITION
1 Onesmus Mutua 7994384 9/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Philip Otiende Adundo 11231675 9/6/2014 9.40 am
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
COUNTY ASSEMBLY OF SIAYA
COUNTY ASSEMBLY SERVICE BOARD
Notice is hereby given to the persons listed below who applied for the positions advertised by the County Assembly Service Board of Siaya in the Daily Nation dated 3
rd
February, 2014 and The Standard
Newspaper of 11
th
April, 2014, that they have been shortlisted. They are therefore required to appear before the Interviewing Panel at the Agriculture Training College (ATC) Siaya on the dates and times
indicated.
The shortlisted persons are requested to bring with them the following documents: Original Identity Card, Academic Certicates and Testimonials, Certicates of Good Conduct from Criminal Investigation
Department (CID), Clearance Certicate from Higher Education Loans Board, Tax Compliance Certicate from Kenya Revenue Authority and Clearance Certicate from Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission,
(EACC). Applicants whose names do not appear on this list should consider themselves unsuccessful.
There will be a second level interview as may be determined by the Board and successful candidates will be contacted directly. Those who will not have been contacted will have to consider themselves
unsuccessful.
INTERVIEW NOTICE
3 David Ouma Ochieng 8239452 9/6/2014 10.20 am
4 Ezra O. Okelo 11196050 9/6/2014 11.30 am
5 David Ayieko Asugo 10693450 9/6/2014 12.10 pm
6 William Onyango Luballo 10010154 9/6/2014 2.00 pm
7 George Opar Onyango 10972168 9/6/2014 2.40 pm
8 Christine Winnie Omolo 13784920 9/6/2014 3.20 pm
9 Beatrice Adhiambo Owiye 24883475 9/6/2014 4.00 pm
TUESDAY 10
TH
JUNE, 2014
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER (SCASB 8) ONE POSITION
1 Steve Juma 10/6/2014 8.00 am
2 Grace Adhiambo Oduor 27612009 10/6/2014 8.30 am
3 Philip Alambo Obado 26315383 10/6/2014 9.00 am
4 Vincent Okinyi Oyugi 10/6/2014 9.30 am
5 Sharon S. Onyango 10/6/2014 10.00 am
6 John Osteen Oyieko 10/6/2014 11.00 am
7 Linda Damaris A. Augo 10/6/2014 11.30 pm
8 Rhodah Marvel Anyango 25795462 10/6/2014 12.00 Pm
9 Mary Sadia 10/6/2014 12.30 P.m.
TUESDAY 10
TH
JUNE, 2014
SENIOR DRIVER (SCASB 4) FOUR POSITIONS
1 Michael Omenda Odongo 10/6/2014 2.00 pm
2 Martin Mahani Agak 10/6/2014 2.30 pm
3 ElkanaA. Y. Omondi 25021629 10/6/2014 3.00 pm
4 Isaac Otieno Ooro 7445372 10/6/2014 3.30 pm
5. Alloyce Otieno Onyango 9287169 10/6/2014 4.00 pm
6 Daniel Bwana Nyabuyi 9048661 10/6/2014 4.30 pm
7 Samwel Oduor Sanjro 23472506 10/6/2014 5.00pm
WEDNESDAY 11
TH
JUNE, 2014
1 John Okaka Bwana 3482044 11/6/2014 9.00 am
2 John Aloo Leny 22795972 11/6/2014 9.30 am
3 Dan Achieng Owegi 20157308 11/6/2014 10.00 am
4 Raphael Oloo Omolo 21534179 11/6/2014 11.00 am
5 Moris Otieno Rockfeller Loch 11/6/2014 11.30 am
6 Vincent Omondi Otieno 13876916 11/6/2014 12.00 pm
7 Benson Ouma Rakuar 25442411 11/6/2014 12.30 pm
8 Moris Gor Odawa 22377642 11/6/2014 2.00 pm
9 Erick Ocheing Ouko 11/6/2014 2.30 pm
10 Francis Miluge Gogi 22842187 11/6/2014 3.00 Pm
11 Eunice Atieno Odhiambo 27958779 11/6/2014 3.30 Pm
12 Linton Ogweny 11/6/2014 4.00 Pm
13 Charles A. Otieno 8319496 11/6/2014 4.30pm
14 V incent Otieno Ongoro 13784910 11/6/2014 5.00pm
THURSDAY 12
TH
JUNE, 2014
CHIEF DRIVER (SCASB 5) ONE POSITION
1 Alloyce Otieno Onyango 9287169 12/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Stephen Odhiambo Awuor 20413761 12/6/2014 9.30 am
3 Titus Kitavi Mutua 9225649 12/6/2014 10.00 am
4 Omboga Evans Monyorwa 22556359 12/6/2014 11.00 am
5 Stephen Oduor Umija 11300583 12/6/2014 11.30 am
6 Willis Omondi Okello 27751286 12/6/2014 12.00 pm
7 Maurice Opondo 22489426 12/6/2014 12.30 pm
8 John Aloo Leny 12/6/2014 2.00 pm
9 Denis Oluoch 12/6/2014 2.30 pm
10 Benard Ogeya Mugele 12/6/2014 3.00 pm
11 Fredrick Ongo Burasi 27433878 12/6/2014 3.30 pm
FRIDAY 13
TH
JUNE, 2014
SECRETARY II (SCASB 6) SIX POSITIONS
1 Emily Nyevu David 13/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Masline Awuor Maduma 28546838 13/6/2014 9.30 am
3 Christine Masuwo Mugada 26823966 13/6/2014 10.00 am
4 Jackline Atieno Opondo 22508011 13/6/2014 11.00 am
5 Virginia S. Mutekhele 13856231 13/6/2014 11.30 am
6 Phoebe Muga Yongo 22154798 13/6/2014 12.00 pm
7 Mildred Obiero 13/6/2014 12.30 pm
8 Jane Auma Siso 11044139 13/6/2014 2.00 pm
9 Margaret Anyango Magero 28605892 13/6/2014 2.30 pm
10 Judith Achieng Onyango 22663911 13/6/2014 3.00 pm
11 Lilian Adhiambo Olemo 22216689 13/6/2014 3.30 pm
12 Florence Oduor Anyango 20048927 13/6/2014 4.00pm
13 Irene Akinyi Onialo 21789418 13/6/2014 4.30 P.m.
14. Margaret Ojwach 11248334 13/6/2014 5.00 P.m
PANEL THREE
MONDAY 9
TH
JUNE, 2014
SENIOR INTERNAL AUDITOR (SCASB 9) ONE POSITION
1 Sylvester Odhiambo Oluk 10478071 9/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Joel Patrick Opondo 23009082 9/6/2014 9.40 am
3 Daniel Odhiambo Achieng 21760513 9/6/2014 10.20 am
4 Sarah NjokI Maingi 24010243 9/6/2014 11.30 am
5 Edward Otieno Onyango 22140874 9/6/2014 12.10 pm
MONDAY 9
TH
JUNE, 2014
SENIOR PROCUREMENT OFFICER (SCASB 9) ONE POSITION
1 Rosemary Atieno Odongo 10703713 9/6/2014 2.00 pm
2 Elvina A. Osodo 13384696 9/6/2014 2.40 pm
3 Benard Oduor Osowo 11300764 9/6/2014 3.20 pm
4 Joshua Olango Abuya 13598055 9/6/2014 4.00 pm
TUESDAY 10
TH
JUNE, 2014
1 Susan Murende 102632293 10/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Odhiambo Job Louis Mfwaya 25115530 10/6/2014 9.40 am
3 John Otieno 13874323 10/6/2014 10.20 am
4 Gero Lilian Omolo 10/6/2014 11.30 am
5 Sisco Nickla Onyango 25476384 10/6/2014 12.10 pm
TUESDAY 10
TH
JUNE, 2014
SENIOR FISCAL ANALYST (SCASB 9) ONE POSITION
1 Jepkosgei Katwa 23074715 10/6/2014 2.00 pm
2 Sylvester Odhiambo Oluk 10478671 10/6/2014 2.40 pm
3 George Odhiambo Omuok 20455242 10/6/2014 3.20 pm
4 Sarah Njoki Maingi 24010243 10/6/2014 4.00 pm
5 Jack Onyango Aloo 8144076 10/6/2014 4.40 pm
WEDNESDAY 11
TH
JUNE, 2014
1 Peter Ochieng Onyango 11/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Thomas Otieno Ogwel 23046623 11/6/2014 9.40 am
3 Philip Owino Mala 22039991 11/6/2014 10.20 am
WEDNESDAY 11
TH
JUNE, 2014
PRINCIPAL FINANCE OFFICER (SCASB 10) ONE POSITION
1 Jenifer Ayoo Ogola 21783059 11/6/2014 11.30 am
2 Stephen Oloo Kokeno 23604674 11/6/2014 12.10 pm
3 Stanley Vincent Omondi Onyango 22958615 11/6/2014 2.00 pm
4 Danish Christopher Okuthe 9123057 11/6/2014 2.40 pm
5 William Otuol Picha 11229047 11/6/2014 3.20 pm
6 Victor Onyango Owuor 25847414 11/6/2014 4.00 pm
7 Jacob Oduor 20349130 11/6/2014 4.40 pm
THURSDAY 12
TH
JUNE, 2014
1 Michael Musega 14479330 12/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Allan Okwenda Asola 1450369 12/6/2014 9.40 am
THURSDAY 12
TH
JUNE, 2014
LIBRARIAN II (SCASB 7) ONE POSITION
1 Josephine Anyango Obura 13374874 12/6/2014 10.20 am
2 Alfred Oduogi Ozone 24540207 12/6/2014 11.30 am
3 Fredrick Oduor Muga 21891477 12/6/2014 12.10 pm
4 Meshack Onyango Ayugi 26250827 12/6/2014 2.00 pm
5 Joel Okello Wasera 14663886 12/6/2014 2.40 pm
6 Linda Florence Odhiambo 24597845 12/6/2014 3.20 pm
7 Edgar Oguta 22141463 12/6/2014 4.00 pm
FRIDAY 13
TH
JUNE, 2014
1 Joel Onyango Okoth 13/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Ruth Achieng Oketch 13/6/2014 9.40 am
3 Salome Apondi Ogwel 13/6/2014 10.20 am
4 Grace Akoth Odinga 13/6/2014 11.30 am
5 Evans Komondi 23247386 13/6/2014 12.10 pm
FRIDAY 13
TH
JUNE, 2014
ENGINEER (SCASB 9) ONE POSITION
1 Timothy Ole Kiok 13/6/2014 2.00 pm
2 Judy Khalamwa 26786484 13/6/2014 2.40 pm
3 Isaac Odhiambo Owuor 25098316 13/6/2014 3.20 pm
4 Alwy Kassim Alwy 13/6/2014 4.00 pm
PANEL FOUR
MONDAY 9
TH
JUNE, 2014
PRINCIPAL CLERK ASSISTANT (SCASB 10) ONE POSITION
1 Marco H. Oronje 7277917 9/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Felix G. Ogutu 9757916 9/6/2014 9.40 am
3 Kodindo Richard J.O 8975816 9/6/2014 10.20 am
4 Omweba Shadrack Makokha 24480165 9/6/2014 11.30 am
5 Tobias Okoth Opana 25932097 9/6/2014 12.10 pm
6 Erick Ochieng Otieno 26907871 9/6/2014 2.00 pm
7 Victor Ochieng Ogonda 20012876 9/6/2014 2.40 pm
9 Jacqueline Omwoha 21429141 9/6/2014 3.20 pm
TUESDAY 10
TH
JUNE, 2014
HANSARD EDITOR (SCASB 10) ONE POSITION
1 Beatrice Adhiambo Owiye 24883475 10/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Ojwang Stephen Adwera 13191417 10/6/2014 9.40 am
3 Martin Sumba Kissinger 13465961 10/6/2014 10.20 am
4 Roseline Achieng Ngige 9123778 10/6/2014 11.30 am
5 Fredrick Okoth Otieno 22543161 10/6/2014 12.10 pm
6 Erick Oundo Atolo 20758613 10/6/2014 2.00 pm
7 Ruth Damah Asewe 24000137 10/6/2014 2.40 pm
8 Vincent Okinyi Ogugi 22910275 10/6/2014 3.20 pm
9 Maurice J. O. Oguna 8547418 10/6/2014 4.00 pm
10 Richard Anyango Owuor 22285780 10/6/2014 4.40 pm
WEDNESDAY 11
TH
JUNE, 2014
HANSARD REPORTER II (SCASB 6) ONE POSITION
1 Juma Godfrey 29492629 11/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Joseph Adeka Otwala 22561574 11/6/2014 9.30 am
3 Caleb Ngesa Sonye 11/6/2014 10.00 am
4 Eunice Atieno Owino 23921423 11/6/2014 11.00 am
5 Alfred Oduogi 24540207 11/6/2014 11.30 am
6 Tom Brian Oduor 27622825 11/6/2014 12.00 pm
7 Jenifer Judith Ambunya 11/6/2014 12.30 pm
8 Linus Onyango Omondi 24592834 11/6/2014 2.00 pm
9 Willis Omondi Nyawanga 11/6/2014 2.30 pm
10 Damaris Achieng Odhiambo 25362878 11/6/2014 3.00 pm
11 Caren Atieno Atego 11/6/2014 3.30 pm
12 Lawrence Ahago Aluru 10010818 11/6/2014 4.00 pm
THURSDAY 12
TH
JUNE, 2014
DEPUTY CLERK (SCASB 11) ONE POSITION
No. Name of Applicant ID NUMBER Date Time
1 Elizabeth A. Oduor 10546561 12/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Isaac Felix Olwero 10843617 12/6/2014 9.40 am
3 Alfred Odiwuor Adongo 12599326 12/6/2014 10.20 am
4 William Onyango Lubalo 10010159 12/6/2014 11.00 am
5 Philip Otiende Adundo 11231675 12/6/2014 11.40 am
6 Thomas Ogutu 10008862 12/6/2014 12.20 am
7 Kodindo Richard J.O 8975816 12/6/2014 2.00 pm
8 Felix G. Ogutu 9757916 12/6/2014 2.40 pm
9 Maurice Omondi Aduda 13708017 12/6/2014 3.20 pm
10 Jacqueline Omwoha 21429141 12/6/2014 4.00 pm
11 Samwel Otieno Ochanda 13879203 12/6/2014 4.40 pm
FRIDAY 13
TH
JUNE, 2014
ASSISTANT HANSARD EDITOR (SCASB 7) ONE POSITION
1 Odhiambo Damaris 25362878 13/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Martin Kissinger Sumba 13465961 13/6/2014 9.30 am
3 Philip Alambo Obado 26315383 13/6/2014 10.00 am
4 Lawrence Ahago Aluru 10010818 13/6/2014 11.00 am
5 Christine Amondi Anyango 27407582 13/6/2014 11.30 am
FRIDAY 13
TH
JUNE, 2014
SENIOR SECRETARY (SCASB 8) TWO POSITIONS
1 Lydia Nyanchama Nyabaro 13/6/2014 12.00 pm
2 Petronilla Abala Okumu 0454958 13/6/2014 12.30 pm
3 Mildred A. Obiero 13/6/2014 2.00 pm
4 Carolyne Apiyo Milewa 20497747 13/6/2014 2.30 pm
5 Beryl Akinyi 13/6/2014 3.00 pm
6 Nancy Apiyo Apondi 22629140 13/6/2014 3.30 pm
7 Lilian Atieno Owino 11500777 13/6/2014 4.00 pm
8 Carolyne Terry Oyungu 14612706 13/6/2014 4.30 pm
9 Carolyne Achieng Owende 11196926 13/6/2014 5.00 pm
10 Mary Wambinda 14482201 13/6/2014 5.30 pm
PANEL FIVE
MONDAY 9
TH
JUNE, 2014
SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER (SCASB 9) ONE POSITION
1 Joseph Onam Auma 9/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Daniel Omondi Okello 9/6/2014 9.40 am
3 Kelly Omondi Owillah 9/6/2014 10.20 am
4 Walter Odhiambo Olilo 9/6/2014 11.30 am
5 Elijah Misolos 9/6/2014 12.10 pm
6 Sanmac David Okoth 9/6/2014 2.00 pm
7 Evans Charles Muga 9/6/2014 2.30 pm
8 Wilson Owino 9/6/2014 3.00 pm
TUESDAY 10
TH
JUNE, 2014
1 Judith Akinyi Ouma 10/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Lilian Achieng Ambila 10/6/2014 9.40 am
3 Maurine Juma Owiti 10/6/2014 10.20 am
4 Awino O. Wilson 10/6/2014 11.30 am
5 Eric Odhiambo Ogenga 10/6/2014 12.10 pm
6 Edwine Yongo 10/6/2014 2.00 pm
7 Nicholas Odongo 10/6/2014 2.40 pm
TUESDAY 10
TH
JUNE, 2014
RESEARCH OFFICER II (SCASB 7) ONE POSITION
1 Sanmac David Okoth 24588493 10/6/2014 3.20 pm
2 Daniel Omondi Okello 10/6/2014 4.00 pm
3 Maurine Juma Owiti 20807912 10/6/2014 4.40 pm
WEDNESDAY 11
TH
JUNE, 2014
1 Austine Ochieng Dieto 26473071 11/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Benard Oketch Otieno 24149786 11/6/2014 9.30 am
3 Jacob Obuno Madara 25997070 11/6/2014 10.00 am
4 Fredrick Opondi Oduor 23913343 11/6/2014 11.00 am
5 Alloo Rodgers Omondi 25049401 11/6/2014 11.30 am
6 Eric Muga Omollo 11/6/2014 12.00 pm
7 William Odhiambo 11/6/2014 12.30 pm
8 Osumba J. Omondi 11/6/2014 2.00 pm
9 Awino O. Wilson 11/6/2014 2.30 pm
10 Daniel Ngutu Ongudi 11/6/2014 3.00 pm
11 Walter Odhiambo 11/6/2014 3.30 pm
12 Nelear Akinyi Odera 22668246 11/6/2014 4.00pm
13 Sara Asamba 11/6/2014 4.30 Pm
THURSDAY 12
TH
JUNE, 2014
ICT OFFICER (SCASB 8) ONE POSITION
1 Joshua Auko Auko 12/6/2014 9.00 am
2 Tim Nyamusy 12/6/2014 9.30 am
3 Vincent Omondi Asewe 12/6/2014 10.00 am
4 Makanda Maxwel 12/6/2014 11.00 am
5 Beldine Wakajummah 12/6/2014 11.30 am
6 Daniel O. Migwa 12/6/2014 12.00 pm
7 Denis Okoth 12/6/2014 12.30 pm
8 Desmond Midigo Abidha 12/6/2014 2.00 pm
9 Rita Akoth Onyango 12/6/2014 2.30 pm
10 Ian Duncan Ochieng 12/6/2014 3.00 pm
11 Janet Margaret Adhiambo 12/6/2014 3.30 pm
FRIDAY 13
TH
JUNE, 2014
LEGAL COUNSEL (SCASB 8)ONE POSITION
1 Andrew Mwangi Gaitho 24896702 13/6/2014 8.00am
2 Celesa Asis Nyakundi 22098996 13/6/2014 8.40am
3 Alice Ochola 24143006 13/6/2014 9.20 am
4 Phanuel Omondi 13/6/2014 10.00am
5 Benjamin Otieno Odhiambo 24586668 13/6/2014 10.40 am
6 Patrick Anam 13/6/2014 11.20 a.m
FRIDAY 13
TH
JUNE, 2014
PRINCIPAL LEGAL COUNSEL (SCASB 10) ONE POSITION
1 Aloo Rodgers Omondi 25049401 13/6/2014 12.00 pm
2 Daniel Achach 22504137 13/6/2014 12.40 pm
3 Celesa Asis Nyakundi 22098996 13/6/2014 2.00 pm
FRIDAY 13
TH
JUNE, 2014
SENIOR LEGAL CLERK (SCASB 6) TWO POSITIONS
1 Mose David Osoro 22388294 13/6/2014 2.30 pm
2 Robert Philip Otieno Olwande 23597222 13/6/2014 3.00 pm
3 Kevin Mugala 25872527 13/6/2014 3.30 pm
4 Daniel Juma Aliwa 22062077 13/6/2014 4.00 pm
5 Andrew Mwangi Gaitho 24896702 13/6/2014 4.30 pm
6 Jumbe Wickly Otonde 20745516 13/6/2014 5.00 pm
7 Alice Okelo Ochola 13/6/2014 5.30 pm
THE SECRETARY
COUNTY ASSEMBLY SERVICE BOARD
COUNTY ASSEMBLY OF SIAYA
P.O. BOX 7 40600
SIAYA
Email: countyassemblyofsiaya@gmail.com
22
nd
May, 2014
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND
FISHERIES
STATE DEPARTMENT OF LIVESTOCK
SMALLHOLDER DAIRY COMMERCIALIZATION
PROGRAMME (SDCP)
VACANCY: PROGRAMME ACCOUNTANT (PA)
(1 POST)
The Government of the Republic of Kenya received nancial assistance from the International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD) towards nancing the 9 year Smallholder Dairy Commercialization Programme (SDCP).
The Programmes completion date is September 30, 2015. The overall goal of the Programme is to increase
the income of poor rural households that depend substantially on production and trade of dairy products for
their livelihoods in nine Counties namely: Nakuru, U/Gishu, Nandi, T/Nzoia, Bomet, Kisii, Nyamira, Bungoma
and Kakamega (Lugari). The Programme comprises of ve components: (a) Organisation and Enterprise
skills, (b) Technical Support to Smallholder Dairy Producers, (c) Development of the Milk Marketing Chain,
(d) Support to Policy and Institutions and (e) Programme Management and Coordination. The Programme
Coordination Unit (PCU) is based in Nakuru.
The Programme wishes to recruit suitable candidate to ll the above position.
RESPONSIBLE TO THE PROGRAMME COORDINATOR FOR THE FOLLOWING:
Contributing to the preparation of the Programme Implementation and Financial Manuals;
Ensuring the programmes nancial procedures as detailed in the Programme Implementation and
Financial Manuals are strictly adhered to by all programme staff and executing agencies at the National
and Local levels;
Facilitating the timely disbursement of programme funds;
Compiling the SOE for the PCU, the Counties and headquarters for submission to the National Treasury;
Liaising with the District Accountants from the Programme Counties and The Lead Programme Agency to
ensure that SOE are prepared in timely manner and forwarded to the National Treasury;
Preparing nancial reports and advising the Programme Coordinator on the programmes nancial status
and trends;
Ensuring adherence to Government of Kenyas nancial practices and circulars as issued from time to
time;
Facilitating and ensuring that external auditors are availed all necessary documents during the audit as
detailed in the Loan Agreement;
Identication of suitable nancial software packages for programme;
Compiling nancial accounts reports as required; and
Any other duty (related to the programmes activities) as may be assigned by the Programme
Coordinator.
QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND KEY COMPETENCIES
The applicant must have:
A Bachelors Degree in Commerce (Accounting option), or Finance, or Bachelors degree in Business
Administration; Accounting or Finance options from a recognized University and CPA - Kenya.
The candidate should have at least a minimum of 8 years experience working in a similar eld and 3 years
of which must have been in a senior management position.
The candidate should be familiar with nancial management/accounting in a government ministry/
department and donor-funded programme;
Strong computer skills; electronic spreadsheets and other accounting packages;
Working knowledge of banking and nancial control procedures
THE CANDIDATE SHOULD ALSO HAVE THE FOLLOWING:
Be a Kenyan Citizen; satisfy the requirements of chapter six (6) of the constitution, have knowledge of
Programme management cycle with emphasis on activity-based Annual work Planning and Budgeting and the
participatory planning process, be self motivated and have the ability to work with minimal supervision, be
uent in English both written and oral, and good report writing skills, communication skills and ability to work
as a team member; commitment to gender equity and working knowledge of Government of Kenya policies.
REMUNERATION
Successful candidate will be offered competitive salary commensurate with their qualications and experience,
appointed on performance-contract, with an initial probation period of six months. The contract will be
renewable every year, subject to satisfactory annual performance review. Interested applicants who meet the
qualications should send their applications along with copies of their academic and professional certicates,
testimonials and detailed Curriculum Vitae. They must also state their present employer, current position and
remuneration, names and addresses of two referees, and daytime telephone and e-mail contacts. Applicants
who are public servants should channel their applications through the Heads of their departments. Only
short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Applications clearly marked
PCU-SDCP should be addressed to:
The Programme Coordinator
Smallholder Dairy Commercialization Programme
P.O Box 12261-20100
Nakuru
Kenya
Nakuru-Ravine Road
Opp.Kenya Medical Supplies Agencies
Regional Depot Nakuru
So as to reach on or before 10
th
June 2014
Programme Coordinator
FOR: PRINCIPAL SECRETARY
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PROPERTIES
L1/PROPERTIES FOR SALE
2BR, Nyayo-Highrise, 4.2m. 0733-
233995.
3BR, Langata NHC, 8.5m. 0733-
233995.
3BR, Madaraka NHC, 9.5m. 0733-
233995.
4BR, Karen, house, ac, 38m.
0733-233995.
4BR, Lavington, maisonette with
2 sqs, calbro-parking, 1/3ac, 55m.
0733-233995.
4BR, Lavington, town house, m/
ensuite with sq, s/pool, gym, 40m.
0733-233995.
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Kwinda Rd, executive 5-brd house
on acre, 70m. 0714-137144, 0789-
441045.
D/PRITT, 3br, ensuit, 15.255m. 0721-
846422.
DAM, 4br maisont + s/q, 15m. 0736-
635479.
ENGINEER North Kinangop. 3
bedroom house with electricity/
piped water in 1 3/4 acres, 3.5m.
0722714228.
FOREST Road, brand new 3 bed-
rooms apt, excellent nishes, opp
Premier Academy & Gymkhana Club.
0725-492999.
HIGHRISE Pwani, 2br flt. 0722-
297773.
KAREN, 5brs, 1/2ac, 70m. 0714-
137144.
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H7/MOTOR VEHICLES FOR HIRE
CAR track @ 10k. 0723-022426.
H11/EXHAUST SYSTEMS
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written guarantee tted as-u-have
drinks. 552265, 0722-527924.
POSITIONS VACANT
I5/GENERAL
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il Works Supervisors. Call 0723-
896169/0412005816 during work-
ing hours only.
NGO urg req. 30 Form 4s n above.
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URGENT,NGO req volunteers-good-
pay.SMS ur no. 0728674322.
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0707928283.
J4/DOMESTIC
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702558.
J5/GENERAL
HOTELIERS jobs in Dubai, free
ticket. 0707-609502, 0722-782644.
KERARAPON, 4br + sq, acre.
0733-438297.
KOMAROCK Phase 3, 3br, 6.2m.
0733-438297.
KYUNA, 5br t/hse, clean title. 0756-
908194.
OFF Enterprise Rd, godowns. Tel.
0727-300450/0786-300450.
RIVERSIDE, apartments, 4 bed-
roomed. 020-2250625.
SOUTH C nxt Wilson, 3br b/lo, m/e,
lockable garage. 0722-595394, 0722-
853868.
STUDIOS at C.B.D. 3.2m, cash 2.8m.
0733-233995.
VALLEY Arcade, 2br, me. 0729-
336477.
W/LANDS, 5br hse, 37m. 0733712064.
L4/PROPERTIES TO LET
1 SQ, self contain, 15k, South C. 0726-
631685.
3BR next Yaya, 80k. 0721-846422.
3BR, Parklands, at (6th Ave), 80k.
0733-233995.
BREAKTHRU: Ngong Rd, 2br apt,
23,000 near Naku Jction. 0722-
523878.
BROOKSIDE, 4br m/net + 2 sq, 110k.
0720-892977.
BURU BURU, 1 & 2br, secure. 0707-
537670.
GIGIRI, Whispers Ave, 5br bunga-
low, g/wing 2br, dsq, 1/2 ac. 0725-
883388.
HIGHRISE, 2br flat. Tel. 0720-
791008.
KAREN 3br hse+sq+2G/wings near
Nbi Academy 140k. 0720912485
KAREN, 3 bedroomed hse, 55,000.
020-2250625.
KAREN, 5br hse, 250k + sq.
0733712064.
KAREN, Bomas, 2br g/hse, vcnt, 20k.
0756-908194.
KI TUSURU, 5br hse, 250k.
0733712064.
LAVI of Othaya Rd, self-contained
maisonettes, dsq, 130k. 0722-
730082.
LAVINGTON, 4br hse bungalow, ideal
for ofce, kindergarden & residential,
300k. Call 0720-175047.
NGONG, 4br hse, ens, ac garden,
ofce or rest, vnt, 55k. 0770-281469.
RIARA Rd, 4br maisonette, Kshs
110,000, owner. 0751-663312/0733-
757519.
SAVANNAH, 3br, 30,000. 0733-
438297.
SEDCO VALUERS (K) LTD. 0726-
775464, 0729-024580, 0722-832824.
SEDCO: Dam Estate, Langata, 4 bed-
room maisonette, master ensuite,
spacious, with self contained sq,
secure, gated community, 60,000.
SEDCO: Kingara Court, 5 bedroom
maisonette, all ensuite, spacious,
secure, only 5 in a compound, cabro
drive, proximity to shopping malls
and schools, 220,000.
SEDCO: Langata NHC, 3 bedrooms
apartments, master ensuite, spa-
cious rooms, borehole, ample
parking, secure, gated community,
35,000.
SEDCO: Langton, State House Cres-
cent Road, one and two bedrooms
ats, spacious, master ensuite, am-
ple parking, secure serene environ-
ment, 40,000 & 55,000.
SEDCO: Mombasa Rd, Bustani Villas,
3 bedroom maisonette with servant
quarter, cabro drive, perimeter wall,
water reservoir, 42,500.
SEDCO: Muthama Height, Mombasa
Road, 3 bedroom maisonette, master
ensuite, self contained DSQ, bore-
hole, electric fence, secure, gated
community, 38,000.
SEDCO: Northview Apartments, Pan-
gani, 2 bedroom apartments, spa-
cious, secure, ve minutes drive to
and from CBD, superb road networks,
secure, 34,000.
SEDCO: Outering Road, 2 bedrooms
ats, newly built, spacious, ample
water supply, 15,000.
SEDCO: Saru Gardens, Kilimani-Ole
Dume Road, 4bedroom penthouse,
master ensuite, fully tted kitchens,
tted wardrobes, DSQ, electric fence,
standby generator, Dstv, intercom,
razor wire, elegant nish, ample
parking, cabro drive way, tight gated
security, 135,000.
SEDCO: South B, newly built 2 bed-
room apartments, master ensuite,
open kitchen, ample water supply,
35,000.
SEDCO: South C, next to New Naku-
matt, 4 bedroom bungalow, master
ensuite, self contained sq, spacious,
parking for two cars, secure, gated
community, 80,000.
SOUTH B, P-view, 3br + sq mnet, 39k.
0733-441262.
SOUTH C, 2br bungalow w/parking
@ 45k rent pm. Call 020-2518925.
SPRING Valley, 5br t/hse, ens, 130k.
0733-740081.
STATE Hse Rd, an executive 1 b/
roomed and 2 b/roomed, furnished/
unfurnished at, beautiful gardens,
s/pool, 24 hrs security. 0722-301373.
W/LANDS, 3br apt, all ensu, 165k.
0736-635479.
WESTLANDS, 1/2 bed apartment,
furnished/unfurnished. Tel. 0722-
446055, 0733-446055.
WESTLANDS, 3br apt. 0707-753670.
L9/PLOTS/LAND FOR SALE
9 ACRES, Birika, 300m from tarmac,
2.5m/acre. 0738-632937.
BABA Dogo, 40 x 80 plot, 800k.
0733-740081.
ELEMENTAITA, 40ac @ Kshs 5m.
0722-837457.
ISINYA, 105 acres behind Konza
City, 19km from Isinya, 850k/acre.
0738-632937.
KAREN, 1 acre (Bogani Road). 0733-
233995.
KILIMANI 1acre. 0721-627965.
KIAMBU Rd, Kshs 75m. 0722-837457.
KISUMU, Riat Hills next to Raila Foun-
dation. lake, airport view 1/4 acre@
1.75M 0707180294
LUKENYA with ready titles. 0722-
724393.
MOMBASA, Greenwood Drive, 4ac,
Ksh 500m. 0722-837457.
NYARI Est, 1/2ac, 25m-35m. 0722-
308195.
OLD Muthaiga, 1.3ac, Kshs 220m ono.
0722-837457.
ONGATA Rongai, ac, serviced com-
mercial plot, 30m. 0770-281469.
REDHILL/Limuru, 15ac @ 16m. 0722-
837457.
RUNDA, 2 ac plot for shops, ats.
020-2250625.
RUNDA 10 acres. 0721-627965.
SOUTH B, 1/8, acre, q/sale !!!
0733-233995.
SOUTH C, acre plots. 020-2250625.
SOUTHERN bypass 0.5acres. 0721-
627965.
SPRING Valley, acre plot. 020-
2250625.
SYOKIMAU, title, 2m. 0734-254865.
WAGA: 4 ac, Sigona-area, 3rd row,
180m. 2213022, 0701-340967, info@
wagaholdings.com
WAGA: 1 ac, Karen-Pepo-Lane, 35m.
WAGA: 10 ac, Athi-River-nr Pinepark
Est, 10m/ac.
WAGA: 11 ac, Nakuru-town-nxt silos
(stonewall), 15m/ac.
WAGA: 33ac, Msa Rd. opp. Devki,
21m per/ac.
WAGA: 4.7ac, Msa Rd opp. Master-
mind, 75m/ac.
WAGA: 40 ac, Kitengela, 2km from
Namanga Rd, 2m/ac.
WAGA: 40 x 60 Kangundo-Rd-Koma,
3 km from rd, 260k.
WAGA: 4ac, Athi-River, 3km from
Msa-Rd, 13m.
WAGA: 5 ac, Karen-nr-Resurrection-
Gdn, 22m/ac.
WAGA: 50 ac, Mlolongo, quarry,
2.5m/acre.
WAGA: 5ac, Kisaju-touching Namanga
Rd, 6.5m/ac.
WAGA: 84ac, Kitengela-touching-
Namanga-Rd, 12 m/ac (cash buyer).
WANGIGE town, ats, 9m. 0734-
254865.
L10/PREMISES/OFFICES TO LET
LAVINGTON, 6br, d/s, 1 acre. 0736-
635479.
MUTHAIGA S/Centre, Oriental Res-
taurant/ art gallery/lounge prem-
ises available. 0722-837457.
MUTHAIGA S/Centre, ofces, vari-
ous sizes available. 0722-837457.
OFFICE suite, 668 sq ft, 5th Ngong
Avenue, Upperhill. Tel. 0733-613947.
SEDCO VALUERS (K) LTD. 0726-
775464, 0729-024580, 0722-
832824.
SEDCO: Westlands/ Parklands,
exclusive Ofce Suites from 2200
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NBA: Thunder beat Spurs
106-97, cut decit to 2-1
Serge Ibaka scored 15 points in a
dramatic return from what was
thought to be a season-ending left
calf strain to help the Oklahoma
City Thunder beat the San Antonio
Spurs 106-97 on Sunday in Game 3
of the Western Conference nals.
Russell Westbrook had 26 points,
eight rebounds and seven assists,
and Kevin Durant added 25 points
and 10 rebounds to help the
Thunder cut the Spurs lead in the
series to 2-1. Ibaka started after
missing the rst two games of the
series. The Thunder had said he
likely would miss the rest of the
playoffs, but the team changed
course Friday. Manu Ginobili
scored 23 points and Tim Duncan
added 16 and eight rebounds for
the Spurs. AP
GOLF: Scott edges Dufner
in playoff hole at Colonial
Adam Scott made a 7-foot birdie
putt on the third hole of a playoff
Sunday to end his rst week as
the worlds No. 1 player with a
victory at Colonial. Jason Dufner,
who made a 25-foot birdie putt
on No. 18 in regulation, slid a
40-footer past when he and
Scott played the 18th hole for the
second time during the playoff.
Scott then made the 7-footer for
his 11th PGA Tour victory. Only
days after ofcially overtaking
injured Tiger Woods at No. 1,
Scott bogeyed four of his rst
nine holes in the rst round at
Colonial. AP
CRICKET: Morgan bafed
by Englands sorry show
Eoin Morgan, Englands captain
in place of the injured Alastair
Cook, was left bemused by the
scale of their defeat in the second
one-day international against Sri
Lanka at the Riverside. England
were beaten by 157 runs after
scoring only 99 their fth-
lowest score in ODI cricket in
reply to the tourists 256-8. At one
stage, England were in danger of
failing to beat their worst-ever
innings of 86 against Australia
in 2001, but Morgans deant 40
avoided that humiliation. He was
the only batsman to cope with Sri
Lankas attack. Ian Bell was the
next highest scorer with just 12
runs only. AFP
PARIS
Seventh seed Maria
Sharapova encountered lit-
tle resistance as she
reached the second round
of the French Open on
Monday with a 6-1, 6-2 win
over fellow Russian Ksenia
Pervak.
The 27-year-old needed on-
ly 27 minutes to wrap up the
opening set as qualier Pervak,
the world number 156, was bro-
ken in all three of her service
games.
Sharapova, who has won all
four Grand Slams including the
French Open in 2012, rode a strong
rst serve throughout the match
and pinned her opponent to the
baseline with deep ground
strokes.
The Florida resident, who lost
last years nal against Serena Wil-
liams, looked comfortable under
cloudy conditions on the Philippe
Chatrier court as she broke her op-
ponent ve times in total.
Sharapova stays on
course to face Wil-
liams, who won her
opening match in
straight sets on Sun-
day, in the quarter--
nals.
Pervak, who has also repre-
sented Kazakhstan, has never gone
past the rst round at Roland Gar-
ros.
Sharapova will now face Bul-
garias 2010 Wimbledon semi--
nalist Tsvetana Pironkova for a
place in the third round.
On Sunday, defending womens
champion Serena Williams and
her older sister, No. 29 Venus,
moved closer to a possible third-
round meeting. Other women ad-
vancing: No. 3 Agnieszka Radwan-
ska, who weathered seven
consecutive service breaks at the
start before taking the last nine
games; No. 8 Angelique Kerber;
No. 14 Carla Suarez Navarro; and
No. 31 Daniela Hantuchova. The
only seeded player to lose was No.
25 Kaia Kanepi of Estonia.
Francesca Schiavone, the
French Open champion in 2010
and runner-up in 2011 but now
ranked only 53rd, was beaten 6-3,
6-3 by 71st-ranked Ajla Toml-
janovic of Croatia.
When Rodger Federer departed
the main stadium, Serena Williams
entered and had about the same
amount of difculty, beating
130th-ranked French wild-card
entry Alize Lim 6-2, 6-1. Across the
grounds at Court Suzanne Len-
glen, Venus defeated 17-year-old
Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 6-4,
6-1.
Venus, whose 34th birthday is
next month, turned professional
about 2 years before Bencic was
born. No longer are there teens at
the top Venus, for example, was
17 when she reached her rst
Grand Slam nal; Serena was that
age when she won her rst major
title. Indeed, the 2014 French Open
womens eld has more than twice
as many players 30 or older (17) as
teens (eight).
Agencies
TOP
SEEDS
EXCEL
Sharapova advances as Federer and
Williams sisters win at French Open
Venus Williams of the US returns the
ball during the rst round match of
the French Open tennis tournament
against Switzerlands Belinda Bencic
at the Roland Garros stadium, in
Paris. [PHOTO: AP]
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 / The Standard FEVERPITCH / Page 59
BACK TO WINNING WAYS
Is Haq tops in Mombasa
as Odoo shines in Nyali
By MAARUFU MOHAMED
Agil Is Haq rediscovered his
winning formula by posting
77 nett to win Division One of
the April 2014 Mug golf tour-
nament played at the par-72
Mombasa Golf Club course on
Saturday.
On both nines, the handi-
cap ve golfers luck came on
the back nine when he sank a
rare birdie on the par-4-10th
hole, with added eight level
pars. However, the rest of the
holes tormented Agil who un-
fortunately played a mixed pot
of bogey shots.
Putting was a big struggle
as most of the green was slip-
pery but I am happy its still a
good win, said Agil.
Division Two was won by
handicap 18 Mwangi Mburu
who had 74 nett scores, while
Division Three was claimed by
Thika Sports Clubs handicap
19 G. Wachira on 77 nett.
At the par-71 Nyali Golf
and Country Club course, lady
golfer Teresia Odoo, playing off
handicap 22, was the overall
winner of the Club Nite event
on 38 points, while handicap
12 Akil Mughal settled for the
runners-up slot on a count-
back score of 37 points after
tying on the same points with
third-placed handicap 13 Mb-
uru Kariuki.
SAME POINTS
Elsewhere, at the par-72
Kenya Railways, the clubs
handicap 27 Jid Wokabi posted
42 points to win the Netpaq
tournament that attracted 145
golfers.
Club colleague Frank Om-
bura, playing off handicap
14, was the runners-up on a
countback score of 40 points,
tying on the same points with
Karens handicap 14 W. Onyino
who was placed third.
At the par-72 Kiambu
course on Saturday, the Friends
of Captain event was won by
the clubs handicap 14 Charles
Nduati on 69 nett.
Clubmate Joe Njunge
scored 70 nett to claim the run-
ners-up slot while handicap 5
Jane Njoroge from Muthaiga
was third on 70 nett.
At the nine-hole Nyahu-
ruru course, the Sunday Spoon
event was won by handicap
16 Francis Kabona on 69 nett
while handicap 19 Ambrose
Gathongo settled for the run-
ners-up slot on 70 nett. Handi-
cap 12 Moses Karuga came
third on a score of 71 nett.
The matchplay subsidiary
event played on Sunday at the
par-71 Muthaiga golf course
was won by handicap 19 P.
Mbugua on 70 nett, beating a
team of 120 golfers to the over-
all title. mmohamed@stan-
dardmedia.co.ke
Kahawa Garrison lift KDF handball league title
By ERICK OCHIENG
Kahawa Garrison were
crowned the National Kenya
Defence Forces (KDF) Hand-
ball League champions on
Sunday.
Kahawa, who won the high-
ly competitive league with 25
points, were closely followed
by the Second Brigade who
collected 24 points and Artil-
lery Brigade in third place on
18 points.
Out of the 10 league
matches, we won eight, drew
one and lost one, noted Ka-
hawa Garrison team manager
Yusuf Kipruto.
Kahawas Doris Palanga, a
former international volleyball
player, was voted Best Goal-
keeper. The Best Player award
went to Chemosit Gladys of
Kenya Navy, while Most Valu-
able Player (MVP) was Nancy
Owaga of Second Brigade.
Kahawa Garrisons head
coach Sammy Kungu told Fe-
verPitch that they went back to
the drawing board when they
ended the league in runners-
up position in the inaugural
edition last year.
We had a good team but
we did not win the league as
we had expected. After the
league, we sat down and re-
ected on our weaknesses and
realised we had to work on our
poor ball-handling skills.
We also strengthened our
defence tactics before we em-
barked on the second edition
of the league this year. I am
glad that the whole effort paid
off, said Kungu.
Kipruto said the team was
going to work on ways to retain
the trophy in the leagues third
edition next year.
The mens category was
successfully defended by Artil-
lery who had 39 points. They
were followed by Kenya Navy
on 32 while Engineers Brigade
settled for third place on 30
points.
Ferdinand Amoke was vot-
ed Best Manager while Evans
Kiangi was voted MVP in the
mens league.
The league serves a great
purpose for KDF. First, it
strengthens the KDF hand-
ball league that represents the
country in regional, continen-
tal and global military games.
This years East Africa Mili-
tary Games will be played in
Arusha, Tanzania, in August
and the just ended league will
play a vital role in selection
of the players for the regional
championship.
The league also helps to
identify the best players who
are then slotted in the KDF
teams participating in the na-
tional Kenya Handball Federa-
tion leagues.
Kahawa Garrison players and ofcials display their trophy after
winning the womens Kenya Defence Forces Handball League
title at the weekend. [PHOTO:JONAH ONYANGO/STANDARD]
Westonian
bafes rivals
in Delamere
Gold Vase
Agil Is Haq prepares to
tee off during the April
Mug golf tournament
at Mombasa Golf Club
at the weekend.
[PHOTO:MAARUFU
MOHAMED/STANDARD]
By THE SQUIRREL
Westonian (Lesley Ser-
combe), hardly belonged on
this planet as he landed the De-
lamere Gold Vase like a moun-
tain slide.
Biding his time behind
Mpowered Mpire, Westonian
rippled away calmly to gain ex-
tra George Drew Series points
at the Ngong races on Sunday.
A subdued crowd was instantly
stimulated as they watched
the agship of thoroughbreds
stir bone-deep appreciation
for Mim Haynes. Irish Garden
and Parting Shot were never far
aeld, lling minor berths.
Bolt smashed his own
Lively Lads record in the Beryl
Markham Trophy, simmering
Joe Kararis ve-string guitar.
Julie McCanns Almeria
(David Miri), telegraphed her
preference for distance as she
fought with Blossom Hill for the
Louis Cup. Runye Karlsens lly
saved the bookies from a pulp-
ing, and, Oliver Grays River King
(James Muhindi) followed it up
with a nine-length resourceful
Victoria Maiden postscript from
Out of Africa.
NGONG RESULTS
12.50 pm- First Race - The Jill Harley Memorial Trophy
(1,200m)
1. King of Burma (James Muhindi) (Mogok/Born Noble)
2. Royal Silk (Patrick Mungai)
3. Espionage (David Miri)
4. Royal Glint (Daniel Tanui)
Distance: 1.75/1/0.75/7.5. Time: 1:14:1/10 secs. Favourite:
Royal Silk. Runners: 6, Owned by Doctor Joe Wanjui and
Captain Mutiso. Trainer Surat Mohammed Noor
1.25 pm- Second Race - Lake Naivasha Handicap -
(1,400m)
1. Shakara Man (Charles Kimani)
2. African Dream(Richard Kibet)
3. Carla (James Muhindi)
Distance: 3.5/3.5/4.5/6.5. Time: 2:13:8/10 secs. Favourite:
Runners: 7; Owned by Sheikh Hamid Butt and Doctor
Patrick MusimbaTrainer
2.00pm- Third Race - The Beryl MarkhamTrophy
- (2,400m)
1. Bolt (Lesley Sercombe) (Ashtontown/Majestic Wind)
2. Manly Wharf (Henry Muya)
3. Hunting Call (Paul Kiarie)
4. Rankin (Charles Kimani)
Trebbiano withdrawn
Distance: short-head/half/neck/1. Time: 2:11:00 secs.
Favourite: Runners: 6; Owned by The Lively Lads Syndicate.
Trainer Patsy Sercombe
2.35 pm- Fourth Race - The Delamere Gold Vase -
(2,060m)
1. Westonian (Lesley Sercombe) (Bezrin/Western Truth)
2. Mpowered Mpire (Patrick Mungai)
3. Irish Garden (Daniel Tanui)
4. Parting Shot (Richard Kibet)
Distance: 1/2.5/3.5/2.4. Time: 2:12:3/10 secs. Favourite:
Winner 2-9. Runners: 7; Owned by MimHaynes. Trainer
Patsy Sercombe
3.15 pm- Fifth Race - Lake Turkana Handicap -
(1,200m)
1. Jabal Aswad (Josphat Kultiang)
2. World of Approval (James Muhindi)
3. Mean Mistress (Richard Kibet)
Kaptivate withdrawn
Distance: nose/1.75/3.5/3.5. Time: 1:12:3/10 secs. Favourite:
World of Approval. Runners: 7; Owned by Trainer
3.50pm- Sixth Race - Lake Nakuru Maiden (900m)
1. Wildest Dream(Henry Muya)
2. Ashmore (Richard Kibet)
3. Manzhouli (Peter Lesengei)
Distance: 1/3/5/8. Time: 0:55:1/10 secs. Favourite: Nothing
specic. Runners: 9; Owned by Joe Muya and Hans De Boer.
Trainer Julie McCann
4.25 pm- Seventh Race - The Louis Cup (2,800m)
1. Almeria (David Miri) (WinterRomance/Paloma)
2. BlossomHill (Lesley Sercombe)
3. Barbados (Paul Kiarie)
4. Trifecta (Daniel Tanui)
Distance: half/2.4/4/1.5. Time: 3:07:6/10 secs. Favourite:
Nothing specic. Runners 11; Owned by Runye Karlsen.
Trainer Julie McCann
4.55 pm- Eighth Race - Lake Victoria Maiden (1,400m)
1. River King (James Muhindi)
2. Out of Africa (Richard Kibet)
3. Take Pride (Lesley Sercombe)
Distance: 9/1/1/1.5. Time: 1:28:8/10. Favourite: Out of Africa.
Runners: 8, Owned by Rowe, Kilburn, Grantham, and,
Manolios. Trainer Oliver Gray
Next Meeting: June 8, for the Kenya St. Leger, and,
Nakuru Champion Stakes - Nigel Brennand Trophy.
OTHER RESULTS
GREAT RIFT VALLEY GOLF COURSE: RV
Strokesplay Championships Winner-Simon Njogu-
73 - 04 = 69; R/Ups-John Corr-96 - 26 = 70, third-
Stephen Gichari- 80 - 04 = 76;
KAREN: Crown Paints-Winner-Lowe-Wade
Kilburn, David Lowe (Karen)-45pts; R/Ups-Hillary
Scott, Hugh Scott (Karen)-43 pts; Third-Z.Fazal,H.
Khan-43pts.
SIGONA: Hathee Investments;Winner: David
Dsouza 36pts; R/up: Ajay Matharu 36pts;
Third:Kabir Choda36pts; Fourth:AlymPopat 35pts;
Fifth:Ketul Tanna 35pts; Lady Winner:Jane Njau
37pts; Guest Winner:C D Shah 33 pts; Guest R/up:
H Chudasama 32 Pts; First Nine: David Muranga
20pts; Second Nine: Ashish Sachdeva 21pts
LIMURU: UAP Insurance-Winner-C. Kamau-41pts
(14); R/ups-Wacira Mucoki (Golf Park)-41pts (24);
Third-Mwongela Nzioka (Limuru) -38pts (07);
VET LAB: My Horn My Life Fundraiser-Winner-
David Renz (Windsor)-40pts(28), R/Ups-Rushba
Haria (default)-39pts (28); Third-Amos Kale ( Vet
Lab) -39pts (11)
GOLF PARK: Minimaster-Winner-Robert Kimani-
84 - 18 = 66; R/ups-Charles Oduor-83 - 16 = 67;
Third-Jacob Mbevi-81 - 13 = 68.
KENYAAIRFORCE: Club Nite sponsored by
Mulandi-Winner-Levis Kimotho-89 - 18 = 71; R/
ups-James Kamau-97 - 22 = 75, Third-Maj. D.K.
Chebosoon-86 - 11 = 75.
Page 60 / FEVERPITCH Tuesday, May 27, 2014 / The Standard
Fitness balance for
Ivory Coast coach
ABIJAN
Ivory Coast coach Sabri
Lamouchi said he was tread-
ing a ne line in his World
Cup preparations as he ca-
ters for players fatigued by
their club seasons and those
short of playing time.
We have many players at
different levels of physical
tness, said Lamouchi in
Dallas where the Ivorians are
holding their pre-World Cup
training camp.
We have players like Kolo
Toure (of Liverpool) and
(Turkish-based defender)
Souleyman Bamba who have
played little.
There are others too who
have not had much game
time at their clubs, either be-
cause of injury or because of
a lack of condence in them
from their coaches.
We have to give them op-
portunity. On the other hand,
we have to allow those who
have had a long season time
to recover.
Players like (Salomon)
Kalou, Gervinho and (Wil-
fried) Bony have had long
seasons, he added in an in-
terview published on the Ivo-
rian Football Federation
website (www.f-ci.com).
The idea is to get to a lev-
el of consistency in our t-
ness after our rst week of
training and before, or just
after, the match against Bos-
nia. We want the players as
close as possible to a 100 per
cent capacity, Lamouchi
said.
The Ivorians play the rst
of two warm-up friendlies in
the US against Bosnia and
Herzegovina in St Louis on
May 30, followed by a clash
with El Salvador in Dallas on
June 4. They will arrive in
Brazil on June 6.
At the World Cup, the Ivo-
rians have been drawn in
Group C and compete against
Colombia, Greece and Ja-
pan.
Salomon Kalou said the
Elephants once again have
high expectations heading
into an international event
but the Lille forward, who
played in three matches in
South Africa four years ago,
cautions supporters that ad-
vancing from Group C against
Greece, Japan and Colombia
will not be a simple task.
We have a chance and
opportunity to qualify for the
knockout stages. But to say
that this is an easy group
no! Reuters
GERMAN MACHINES TARGET
Frances Karim
Benzema (right)
challenges for the ball
with Germanys Per
Mertesacker during
their friendly match at
the Stade de France in
Paris. [PHOTO: AP]
BERLIN
Germany head for Bra-
zil aiming to end their 24-
year wait for a fourth
World Cup title, with
captain Philipp Lahm
insisting he is sick of
nishing third.
Consecutive semi-nal
defeats have led to Germany
taking bronze at the last two
World Cups with Lahm on the
side and it is 12 years since the
Germans lost the 2002 nal to
Brazil in Yokohama, Japan.
I do not want to go out in
the semi-nals again or visit
Brazil just to soak up the sun,
insisted Lahm after a decade
on the Germany team. I have
a clear goal, to achieve the big-
gest possible success and win
the World Cup.
In order to break their duck,
improved counter-attack and
a tighter defence are the key
areas coach Joachim Loew
wants to improve.
The squad is packed with
attacking potential, but there
have been rumours of discon-
tent in the past with disgrun-
tled stars disrupting the
squads harmony from the
bench at both the 2012 Euro-
pean Championships and in
the World Cup qualiers.
We have the necessary
punch to win the title, but we
must be sure that the talent
and ego of every individual
provides only for the teams
benet, said Lahm, with team
building also a priority in their
south Tirol camp.
LONG WAIT
The 24-year wait for a
fourth World Cup title is Ger-
manys longest since rst win-
ning the global crown in 1954.
Younger members of the
squad, including mideld star
Mario Goetze, were yet to be
born when West Germany won
Italia 1990 the last time they
were world champions.
In the past, Loews strength
has been instilling impressive
cohesion in his side by hours
of drilling. But injuries and a
lack of tness could hamper
the process.
We need to work on our
exibility and variation, he
said. You always need a what-
if strategy during matches,
but we also need to improve
our counter-attacking when
we have won the ball back.
We havent done that as
consistently well as we did at
the South African World Cup
and immediately after.
Germany have made a hab-
it of suffering from injuries go-
ing into World Cup campaigns.
In 2006, captain Michael Bal-
lack was nursing a calf injury
while current skipper Lahm
needed elbow surgery.
In 2010, Chelseas Ballack
was ruled out by a nasty tackle
in the FA Cup nal from Ghana
midelder Kevin-Prince
Boateng while rst-choice
goalkeeper Rene Adler was
ruled out with broken ribs.
In Ballacks absence, Lahm
took over and has been Ger-
manys captain ever since
while Manuel Neuer has ce-
mented his place between the
posts and is regarded as one of
the worlds best goalkeeper.
However, four years on and
the fault line runs right along
the back-bone of Loews side.
Lars Benders withdrawal
has removed a defensive mid-
eld option, with Loews rst-
choice pairing of vice-captain
Bastian Schweinsteiger and
Sami Khedira both lacking t-
ness after knee injuries.
Likewise, Neuer is battling
a shoulder injury never good
for a goalkeeper while Lahm
is also being treated intensive-
ly for an ankle knock. Loew
does not have the luxury of a
settled back four and is also
low on options up front with
only two recognised strikers.
Miroslav Klose, who turns
36 next month, has missed
large chunks of the season
with Lazio, and Hoffenheims
21-year-old Kevin Volland is
inexperienced, but Loew could
also convert one of his mid-
eld stars into a False Nine.
Traditionally, Germany
have boasted strong leaders
characters such as Stefan Ef-
fenberg, Michael Ballack or
Oliver Kahn. But both Lahm
and Schweinsteiger have been
criticised for their lack of lead-
ership when things go wrong
namely in the Euro 2012
semi-nal defeat to Italy and
the 2010 World Cup defeat to
Spain for a place in the nal.
Germany have a superior
team and thats the prob-
lem, said Boateng. Germany
are feeling the pressure to be
world champions, but they
dont have the characters and
types of player to deal with
that in Brazil, someone like Ef-
fenberg or Ballack. AFP
Former Euro
champs won
the World
Cup in Italy
back in 1990
16
DAYS TO GO
Germanys
football
team.
Ivory Coasts
forward Didier
Drogba dribbles
past Senegals
defender Pape
Ndiaye Souare.
[PHOTO: FILE/
STANDARD]
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TOP: French team
defender Bakary
Sagna (right) vies
with forward
Olivier Giroud
during a training
session in
Clairefontaine in
Paris. LEFT:
French team
players during a
training session.
[PHOTOS: AFP]
PARIS
Frances World Cup squad
will emerge from the isolation
of their secluded training base
to play Norway today in the
rst of three friendlies before
departing for Brazil.
Didier Deschamps squad
have spent the last week work-
ing at Clairefontaine, the na-
tional football centre hidden
away in the woods an hours
drive south of the capital.
Such peaceful surround-
ings could hardly feel further
removed from what awaits
them in Brazil, but when they
take to the eld against the
Norwegians at the Stade de
France they will start to feel
like the World Cup is nally
just around the corner.
Les Bleus begin their
Group E campaign against
Honduras in Porto Alegre on
Sunday, June 15, before going
on to face Switzerland and Ec-
uador.
To prepare, Deschamps
side have three friendlies
lined up on home soil, with
the Norway clash followed by
encounters with Paraguay in
Nice next Sunday and Jamaica
in Lille on June 8.
LIVING THE DREAM
It is the biggest competi-
tion that any player can imag-
ine taking part in. It is a boy-
hood dream come true,
admitted Newcastle United
midelder Moussa Sissoko
when asked what it means to
participate in a World Cup on
Brazilian soil.
To get there, France need-
ed a dramatic play-off win
against Ukraine back in No-
vember, when they triumphed
3-0 to overturn a two-goal
rst-leg decit, and now Sis-
soko is hoping to give fans at
home more to shout about in
the coming warm-up match-
es.
We want to continue
along the same lines and try
to win all of these games.
These are three important
matches to us in the build-up
to the World Cup, added Sis-
soko.
TEAM SELECTION
The team that faces Nor-
way today will almost certain-
ly not be that which takes to
the eld against Honduras,
with Franck Ribery having sat
out collective training over
the weekend because of a
back problem.
In addition, Karim Benze-
ma and Raphael Varane will
both arrive at the team camp
on Wednesday having been
given a short break after help-
ing Real Madrid win the
Champions League nal
against Atletico Madrid in Lis-
bon on Saturday.
The likes of Arsenal striker
Olivier Giroud, Real Sociedad
winger Antoine Griezmann
and Saint-Etienne goalkeeper
Stephane Rufer, who has re-
placed the injured Steve Man-
danda in the squad, could
therefore start.
Meanwhile, the six players
on Deschamps standby list
will leave the rest of the squad
on Wednesday, so this might
be their one chance to im-
press before departing for
their summer break.
For the likes of Lyon cap-
tain Maxime Gonalons and
Montpellier attacking mid-
elder Remy Cabella, the last
week has been about ensuring
that they remain in the coachs
plans going forward to Euro
2016 on home soil. AFP
Sturridge: The World Cup is at a different level

FastTrack
BRAZIL: WC song fails
to strike right tone
The ofcial World Cup song is
denitely striking a chord the
wrong one in Brazil. Since the
release of Fifas We Are One
(Ole Ola), hordes of fans in
Brazil have been slamming the
ofcial 2014 Cup theme. Many
expressed their frustration
on Twitter under the tag
#VoltaWakaWaka a plea for
the return of the widely loved
song that Colombian artist
Shakira performed for the 2010
tournament in South Africa.
Although Brazilian Claudia
Leitte is also featured in the
ofcial theme, critics say they
dont understand why Cuban-
rapper Pitbull and Jennifer
Lopez were chosen for the
song.
SYDNEY: Cahill leads
Australia to SA camp
Australia forward Tim Cahill
will lead the Socceroos in
Mondays World Cup warm-up
against South Africa in Sydney,
with recently named captain
Mile Jedinak still recovering
from injury, the team said
on Sunday. The 34-year-old
striker, named vice-captain
for the Brazil nals along with
midelder Mark Bresciano
last week, will lead Australia
for the rst time in his 68th
international in front of home-
town fans. Tims leadership
and the way he conducts
himself in the group as a senior
player has been impressive.
Tim will captain the side, said
coach Ange Postecoglou.
TOKYO: Kawashima will
not pay the penalty again
Japan goalkeeper Eiji
Kawashima is still rankled by
the teams World Cup second
round loss to Paraguay on
penalties four years ago,
a disappointment he is
determined to erase at next
months tournament in Brazil.
Otherwise impressive in the
2010 World Cup in South
Africa, Kawashima could not
stop a single spot-kick in the
round of 16 match against
Paraguay, who won the contest
5-3. Its nally here. Ive been
working towards this World
Cup ever since the Paraguay
game four years ago, he said.
SYDNEY
Daniel Sturridge scored 27
goals last season but he will be
happy if he nds the net just
once at the 2014 Fifa World
Cup Brazil.
Sturridges excellent form
for Liverpool almost catapult-
ed the Aneld club to their
rst title since 1990. The 24-
year-old, who formed a lethal
partnership with Luis Suarez,
was the leading English goal
scorer in the English Premier
League with 21 goals. The for-
mer Chelsea man has so far
struggled to take that form in-
to the international arena,
though.
Sturridge has three goals in
ten England games, but one of
those was a penalty, another
came against Denmark and
his rst was against San Ma-
rino. And Sturridge admits on-
ly the very best strikers are
able to cut it at World Cups so
he knows he has a tough task
ahead of him.
The World Cup is a differ-
ent level of football to the Pre-
mier League, Sturridge said.
I looked at Gary Linekers
stats the other day and he
scored ten goals in two World
Cups (six in 86 and four in 90)
I was like wow, thats a huge
task to even reach anywhere
near that. Ten goals in two
World Cups is incredible. If I
can score even one goal Id be
happy because I have come a
long way.
Sturridge has scored 36
goals in 49 appearances since
he swapped London for
Merseyside a remarkable re-
turn for a player released by
Manchester City and then de-
nied a main striking role at
Chelsea. Ive just been given
the opportunity since I came
to Liverpool and thats what
Ive asked for in the past,
Sturridge added.
Thats always what Ive
said give me that opportu-
nity and then I can try and
show what I can do. Thankful-
ly, I have had a decent season
but I still want to improve.
Sturridge has his strike
partner Suarez to thank for a
lot of those goals. The England
man enjoys a telepathic
partnership with the Uruguay-
an, who will come up against
the Three Lions in Sao Paulo
on June 19 provided he over-
comes a knee injury.
Sturridges task over the
next few weeks is to develop a
similar bond with Wayne
Rooney.
We get along really well
off the eld and we get on well
on the eld too, said Stur-
ridge, who has started just ve
games with Rooney.
Fifa.com
BRAZIL WC PERFECTION
Daniel Sturridge celebrates scoring for England with Wayne
Rooney. [PHOTO: FIFA.COM]
16
DAYS TO GO
France not at full strength
for Norway friendly today
Page 62 /FEVERPITCH Tuesday, May 27, 2014 / The Standard
By GILBERT WANDERA
Former Kenyan football of-
cials have hinted at the pos-
sibility that a 2010 World Cup
qualier against Nigeria may
have been xed.
This emerged even as a no-
torious match xer claimed to
have helped Nigeria and Hon-
duras qualify for the tourna-
ment held in South Africa.
World body Fifa has already
asked Nigeria to submit a tape
of the match as they begin in-
vestigations into the serious
allegations.
Former Football Kenya
Limited (FKL) vice-chairman
Titus Kasuve said they were
suspicious of some of the deci-
sions made by the referees
who handled the match.
EXCHANGING MONEY
The referees who were
from Seychelles had earlier
been at the under-17 World
Cup held in Nigeria and there
were rumours they had been
seen exchanging money at the
airport after our match against
the Super Eagles.
Clearly, some of the deci-
sions they made were ques-
tionable, said Kasuve. An ar-
ticle appearing on Kenyanpage.
net quoted a book written by
the Singaporean match xture
claimed he helped Nigeria win
the match 3-2 and qualify for
the 2010 World Cup.
Wilson Raj Perumal had al-
ready admitted to being part
of a syndicate that xed a
Match xer claims to have helped Nigeria,
Honduras qualify for 2010 World Cup
WAS KENYA ROBBED?
Nigerias John Obi Mickel (left)
vies for the ball against
Harambee Stars Victor
Wanyama at Nyayo Stadium.
[PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]
NYS-NHU and Zetech sides shine in league
By ERICK OCHIENG
Zetech College, Thika,
warded off strong opposition
from the Technical University
Kenya (TUK) to register a 3-2
win in the Universities and
Colleges Football League at
the weekend.
Zetech scored through
Emmanuel Chukunonso, Jo-
seph Makori and Newton
Simotwo while TUK scored
through Tom Mugusu and
Martin Njogu at Kabete Tech-
nical College on Sunday.
In other UCFL matches,
Nairobi Institute of Business
School (Nibs), Nairobi, ham-
mered the United States In-
ternational University 4-0.
Patrick Wambua opened
the score sheet in the 27th
minute for a 1-0 lead at the
breather.
On resumption, Peter Kel-
ly made it 2-0 for Nibs in the
50th minute as Cyrus Baraza
added the third goal ve min-
utes later. Patrick Aten sealed
USIUs fate with his 65th min-
ute cracker for the winners.
Former champions Zetech
College, Nairobi, also edged
NYS Vocational Training In-
stitute (VTI) 2-1. Zetech
scored through Daudi Tizeh
and Oloo Jarnice as Boniface
Baraza pulled one back for
VTI.
Elsewhere, Mathu Benja-
min scored a hat-trick as Na-
tional Youth Service (NYS)
Engineers raided hosts Ka-
bete Technical 3-1. Denis
Karanja scored Kabetes goal.
Joseph Ouma and Marita
Nelson led Nairobi Aviation
College to edge UCFL defend-
ing champions Kenya Insti-
tute of Professional Studies
(Kips ) 2-1 at the NYS Nairobi
Holding Unit grounds. Brian
Odi pulled one back for Kips.
Host NYS NHU won 2-1
against tough Premier. Serem
Japheth opened scores for
NHU in the fourth minute
before George Kasure netted
the winner. Premiers goal
was scored by Wellington
Akumu. Kips beat Mount Ke-
nya University (MKU) 3-1 as
Nibs, Ruiru thrashed TUK
4-0.
In other matches, Zetech
Thika hit Premier 1-0, NYS
Engineers held Kenya Insti-
tute of Management to a 1-1
draw as NYS NHU hit Kabete
Technical 1-0. eoyugi@
standardmedia.co.ke
Zetechs Isaac Njau (left) and
Nairobi Aviations Roy Otieno
during the UCFL action.
[PHOTO/JONAH ONYANGO]
string of international friend-
lies by bribing corrupt ofcials
and compromised players,
but this is the rst time that he
has claimed to have inu-
enced World Cup qualiers.
In the book, according to
the article, Perumal details a
meeting with a football ofcial
in which he promises to help
Nigeria qualify for the World
Cup in return for free rein in
organising three warm-up
matches and a cut of the mon-
ey Fifa provides for hosting a
training camp during the tour-
nament.
AUTOMATIC QUALIFICATION
First, he claims to have in-
uence three players on his
payroll to help Nigeria to vic-
tory in one of their qualiers.
Then he claims to have
promised the Mozambique
association a Sh8 million bo-
nus if they were able to hold
Tunisia to a draw and so stop
Tunisia leapfrogging Nigeria
and seizing automatic quali-
cation. Mozambique secured
an unlikely 1-0 victory.
My plan had worked and
I was the unsung hero of Nige-
rias qualication to the nal
rounds of the 2010 Fifa World
Cup in South Africa, writes
Perumal. Ferrying Nigeria
and Honduras to the World
Cup was a personal achieve-
ment,
During the encounter be-
tween Kenya and Nigeria, lo-
cal fans became increasingly
impatient with the referee
who seemed to be doing ev-
erything he could to help Ni-
geria win the match.
At one point, Kenyan fans
became so livid that they start-
ed to throw water bottles into
the eld.
Elsewhere, Kenyan ofcials
have expressed concern over
the whereabouts of interna-
tional striker Dennis Oliech
who has not been seen in
camp since the rst leg Africa
Cup of Nations qualier
against Comoros last Sunday.
Harambee Stars will play
the return match this Friday in
Moroni.
gwandera@standard-
media.co.ke
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Continued From P 64
Nkanata relishes moment despite missing podium

ANOTHER RECORD FALLS
Kenya bag another gold and
silver as IAAF World Relays
meeting ends in Bahamas
archipelago cheered wildly.
Kenyans won the rst gold
medal of the World Relays
the mens 4x800m (Fergu-
son Cheruiyot Rotich, Sam-
my Kibet Kirongo, Job Koech
Kinyor and Alfred Kipketer)
on the rst day on Saturday.
Mercy Cherono, Faith
Chepngetich Kipyegon, Irene
Jelagat and Hellen Onsando
Obiri, then bettered the
1,500m world record
(16:33.58) which they had set
at altitude in Nairobi
(17:05.72) on April 20.
The mens 4x1,500m world
record, which they proudly
dedicated to the First Lady,
Margaret Kenyatta, came in a
special way.
First because it was hith-
erto held by Kenyans who set
it in Brussels on September 4,
2009, then the manner in
which it was executed.
Put on lane three, Collins
Cheboi did not wait to hit the
front hardly 100m off the
gun. Ethiopias Mekonnen
Gebremedhin challenged for
the lead as USAs Patrick
Casey tried to ll the gap.
At 800m, the Ethiopian
overtook Chemoi but the Ke-
nyan regained the lead until
he handed the baton to Silas
Kiplagat.
DESTROYER-IN-CHIEF
The 1,500m world silver
medallist became the de-
stroyer-in-chief as he ran
away from the USs David
Torrence whose effort to
close the gap became a crop-
per.
The Ethiopian also lost
hope and slowed down con-
siderably. Magut maintained
the lead until Kiprop took
charge and ran the last lap in
54 seconds.
The Thomas A. Robinson
Stadium, which was lled to
the seams, went into a fren-
zied delirium, complete with
vuvuzelas as the emcee an-
nounced that Kenyans were
running inside the world re-
cord.
MARKET STAMPEDE
The scenes on the terraces
was like a market stampede
when Kiprop crossed the n-
ish line.
When we came here, we
had one mission: to break the
world record and we are hap-
py it happened, Kiplagat
said in a post-race press con-
ference.
The cheering crowd was
fantastic. The music was in-
spiring. This spurred us to
the record, said Kiplagat
with a grin.
Kiprop weighed in: Fol-
lowing the splits, I knew the
world record was very much
in sight and by the time I took
charge, it was only to nish
off the job already done by
these guys, he said.
I will be running the mile
in Eugene next year and go-
ing for my personal best in
Monaco.
He did not rule out a world
record, but avoided to com-
mit. Anything is possible.
With a good weather, good
coach, you can never rule out
anything, he said.
iomulo@standardme-
dia.co.ke
US snatch
womens
4x800m gold
from Kenya
ABOVE: Kenyas mens 4x1,500m relay team poses with the clock after setting a new world record in
the event during the IAAF World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas, on Sunday. The runners
are Silas Kiplagat (bottom, left), Asbel Kiprop (top, left), James Kiplagat Magut (top, right) and
Collins Cheboi. BELOW: USAs Ajee Wilson leads the 4x800m with Janeth Jepkosgei in hot pursuit at
the IAAF World Relays in Nassau. [PHOTOS: REUTERS AND IAAF]
For Carvin Nkanata, rep-
resenting the country for the
rst time at the rst ever
World Relays Series was an
amazing experience even if
they missed the podium.
The 23-year-old science
major at the University of
Pittsburg in the United States
got a surprise call-up to re-
place an athlete who failed to
get a visa in time and he nev-
er disappointed in 4x200m.
Going through to the -
nal was good enough and I
feel great about it, he told
reporters at the mixed zone
inside the Thomas A. Robin-
son National Stadium here in
Nassau.
The quartet that also in-
cluded Stephen Barasa, Tony
Kipruto Chirchir and Walter
Michuki Moenga, son of a
former top sprinter Elkana
Nyangau, nished their race
in fth position 1:22.35
which was not only their per-
sonal best but also a national
record.
Yohan Blake anchored Ja-
maicas Nickel Ashmeade,
Warren Weir and Jermaine
Brown to a world record time
of 1:18.63 ahead of St Kitts
and Nevis (1:20.51) and
France (1:20.66). Barbados
were fourth in 1:21.88.
The Kenyans were in
agreement that the event still
has some challenges which
they hope to conquer with
more competitions in fu-
ture.
We are used to the third
athlete dripping inside the
rst lane after 100m. But here
athletes were to stick to their
lanes throughout, said
Nkanata said this was a
good experience as he has a
big national event in the
United States next week.
I have never run in Ke-
nya. I went to the US when I
was three and I would like to
come back home and partic-
ipate in the Commonwealth
Games Trials next month, but
much will depend on my ac-
ademic programme and
schedule. Barasa, who was
the team spokesman,
thanked Athletics Kenya
(AK), IAAF and his team-
mates for a job well done.
Report by Omulo Okoth, Snr. Associate Editor
FROM LEFT: Stephen Barasa, Carvin Nkanata, Tony Chirchir and
Walter Moenga after participating in the 4x200m race during
World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas. [PHOTO:OMULO
OKOTH/STANDARD]
The United States
snatched the womens
4x800m relay gold medal
from favourites Kenya only
moments after their male
compatriots set a new world
record over 4x1,500m.
Eunice Sum, who an-
chored the women, had a
tough time redeeming what
seemed a lost hope after the
evergreen Janeth Jepkosgei
Busienei worked hard in the
third leg to return Kenya to
the medal bracket.
USA (pictured) won in
8:01.58 as Kenyans took sil-
ver in 8:04.28 and Russia
bronze in 8:08.19.
Agatha Jeruto Kimaswai,
who ran the rst leg let
Chanelle Price go a stride too
far as the American complet-
ed the last lap in 58.8 sec-
onds.
Sylvia Chemutai Chesebe
did not make matters any
better as she was overtaken
by three athletes to nish in
sixth position.
Jepkosgei, a former world
and Commonwealth Games
champion and Olympics sil-
ver medallist, clawed back to
second position in her typi-
cal magestic movement. Sum
tried her best, and almost
brought hope of a possible
upset as she approached the
home stretch, but Brenda
Martinez ensured the gold
medal was rmly in Ameri-
cans grip.
I congratulate Americans
for a job well done. They also
beat us in the Penn Relays
last year. But my daughters
also did a great job. Congrat-
ulations to them. Silver is not
bad for them because a win-
ner must be there even if not
us, said Jepkosgei.
Sum confessed that being
a front runner, she found it
difcult to t in a formation
where she started in second
position.
I am a typical front run-
ner and I knew it would be
difcult for me to overtake
the American, she said.
Meanwhile the Kenyan
golden girls of 4x1,500m will
continue with their respec-
tive programmes after set-
ting a new world record
here.
Mercy Cherono, Faith
Kipyegon and Hellen Obiri
will also proceed to Oregon
for the Prefontaine Classic
on May 31. Irene Jelagat
wont be in the race.
The athletics world will still see Janeth
Jepkosgei for a few more years.
Jepkosgei, who started running at the
global stage in 1999 during the World Youth
Championships in Poland, has deed age
and remains the most consistent Kenyan fe-
male athlete of her generation.
My coaches are helping me a lot. The
young athletes also make me feel like going
on. I will still be running until 2016 when I
expect to make an announcement, said
Jepkosgei.
The former 800m world champion in
Osaka in 2007 and Commonwealth Games
champion in Melbourne, Australia, in 2006
and African champion the same year, helped
the 4x800m relay team win the silver medal
behind the USA in Bahamas on Sunday.
She emerged in the Kip Keino High Per-
formance Centre in Eldoret in 1998 and
went through 1988 800m Olympic champi-
on, Paul Ereng's tutelage, hence the natural
adaptation to the two-lap race. Italian Clau-
dio Barrarderi has been coaching her along-
side Eunice Sum, Mercy Cherono and Silvia
Chesebe who were both in The Bahamas.
She helped the team win silver on Sun-
day when all hope seemed to have dissipat-
ed. Her protege, Sum, anchored the race but
fell short of American Brenda Martinez.
SELECTED RESULTS
4x200m Men
1. Jamaica 1:18.63
2. Saint Kitts and Nevis
1:20.51
3. France 1:20.66
4. Barbados 1:20.88
5. Kenya 1:22.35
4X1,500M WOMEN
1. Kenya 16:33.58
2. United States16:55.33
3. Australia 17:08.65
4X800M MEN
1. Kenya 7:08.40
2. Poland 7:08.69
3. United States 7:09.06
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By OMULO OKOTH IN NASSAU, BAHAMAS

Kenya engraved a seal of invincibility in the Bahamas
with a second world record on the nal day of the inau-
gural World Relays Series on Sunday.
Asbel Kiprop, former 1,500m Olympic and twice world
champion (2013 and 2011), anchored Collins Cheboi, Si-
las Kiplagat and James Kiplagat Magut to a world record
time of 14:22.22.
United States came second in 14:40.80 and Ethiopia
were third in 14:41.22. The quartet won $50,000 prize
money and a similar amount for the world record which
they shared equally.
The dummy cheque was displayed to the stadium
crowd and cameras clicked, followed by a lap of honour
with the athletes draped in Kenyan ag. Then the nation-
al anthem belted as the few Kenyans in this Atlantic ocean
Kiprop steers team to gold,
sets new world record time
CONTINUED ON PAGE 63
WE DID
IT FOR
KENYA
7 Pages of Sizzling Sports coverage!
Asbel Kiprop celebrates as he crosses the
nish line to win the mens 4x1,500m
relay, setting a new world record in the
event during the IAAF World Relays
Championships in Nassau, Bahamas, on
Sunday. [PHOTO: REUTERS]
TEAMSTANDINGS IAAF WORLD
RELAYS BAHAMAS NASSAU
1. USA 60.0
2. Jamaica 41.0
3. Kenya 35.0
4. Great Britain & N.I 24.0
5. Australia 21.0
6. Trinidad and Tobago 19.0
7. France 18.0
8. Bahamas 15.0
9. Poland 14.0
10. Nigeria 13.0
11. Brazil 10.0
12. Spain 8.0
13. Saint Kitts and Nevis 7.0
14. Romania 7.0
15. Russia 6.0
15. Ethiopia 6.0
17. Barbados 5.0
18. Germany 5.0
19. Japan 4.0
19. Cuba 4.0
19. Switzerland 4.0
22. Mexico 4.0
23. Italy 3.0
23. Canada 3.0
23. Venezuela 3.0
26. Bermuda 2.0
26 Qatar 2.0
26. PR of China 2.0
29. Slovak Republic 1.0
DIGITAL PAYMENTS:
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units as July deadline
looms
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Where are the incentives for
tourists? PAGE 6
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sectors shine PAGE 3
Farmers cash in on tasty,
healthy crickets PAGE 10
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By MARGARET KANINI
Jesse Moore, 42, has more than 10
years experience building emerging
market technology ventures. The father
of a two-year-old is co-founder of M-Kopa
Solar. In February, the rm closed its latest
round of funding, raising Sh1.7 billion to
grow its customer base from 50,000 homes
to one million by 2018.
Before M-Kopa, Mr Moore, a Canadian
by birth, was managing director at Signal
Point Partners and director at GSMA in the
United Kingdom.
How long have you been living in
Kenya?
For over a decade now.
But M-Kopa is in its fourth year
Yes I worked for various organisations
in Kenya before the idea of M-Kopa was
born. I have worked for Care Kenya and a
few other multinationals.
As managing director and co-founder of
M-Kopa, what does your job entail?
My job right now includes just running
the management tasks of M-Kopa Solar.
But four years ago, when the company
had just begun, I used to multi-task. I
was the engineer, the technician, the
communications ofcer, and many others.
Right now, M-Kopa employs over 300
people, so I do not have to multi-task.
Speaking of multi-tasking, you seem to
have knowledge on almost every eld,
what are your qualications?
I hold an MBA from Oxford University in
the UK and a BA from UNC Chapel Hill in
the US.
What inspired you to start M-Kopa?
I will not speak for my co-founders, but I
was looking for a business that would grow
and one that I would be able to sustain
over time. Kenya is a home for new, great
technology.
Who are the other co-founders?
We are three co-founders, the other
two are Nick Hughes, who is our strategy
director and also leads new product and
market activities he was previously
managing director of Signal Point
Partners, the advisory and venture rm
that started M-Kopa; and then theres Chad
Larson, our nance director.
What is your business about?
M-Kopa Solar was established in
2011 to provide affordable solar power
to low-income earners in the country.
Approximately 80 per cent of Kenyans
do not have access to the electricity grid
and rely on other forms of lighting, like
kerosene and charcoal. Some, if not all,
of these sources are dangerous to ones
health, expensive and not environmentally
friendly.
We provide solar appliances for
cheaper and healthier lighting, which
can be purchased from M-Kopa dealers.
Customers buy the solar home system
through an affordable payment plan, with
an initial deposit of Sh2,099 and daily
payments of Sh50 for up to one year. We
get 1,000 new customers each week.
What if I wanted to pay upfront?
You would have to part with Sh16,999.
Your greatest achievements so far?
M-Kopa was able to light up one per cent
of Kenyan homes just 18 months after its
launch. This means there is so much room
for growth, and I trust that by 2018, we
shall reach the one million mark.
What challenges have you had to deal
with in your efforts to reach one million
households?
Last years 16 per cent VAT levy on all
taxable products affected almost every
aspect of local business. That is why we
had to add customers daily payments for
the appliances to Sh50 from Sh40. There
are many Kenyans living below the poverty
line who cannot afford to part with this
amount daily, so it has slowed adoption of
green technology.
Advice for young entrepreneurs?
Pay attention to customer needs and
develop all your products and services
to meet these needs. Also, pay attention
to employee development and create an
environment where the staff are more
important than their job description.
If you could start or co-own another
business in Kenya, what would it be?
This is the only business I have ever
wanted to start.
Any plans to launch new products?
Watch this space!
What Kenyan dish would you eat over
and over?
I would have mukimo (dish that includes
mashed potatoes, maize and spinach) any
time.
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>> CORPORATE FOCUS
CorporateInterview
George W Ruba-
gumya has been
appointed senior
partner at MMC Africa
Advocates, with re-
sponsibility for MMCs
Africa-wide legal net-
work development. Mr
Rubagumya joins MMC
from Knutson Global
Inc, a US-based rm.
He boasts a career spanning more than 25 years in
international business and legal practice in the USA
and Africa, where he advised government and private
sector leaders. He was the co-founder of the Insti-
tute for Development Technologies, a public private
partnership initiative with the government of South
Sudan. He holds an LLM in international law from the
London School of Economic and Political Sciences,
and an advanced diploma from the Hague Academy
of International Law.
Stephen Mallowah
joins MMC Africa Advo-
cates as senior partner
and head of commer-
cial division. MMC is a
corporate law rm in
Kenya, with a develop-
ing regional footprint.
Mr Mallowah brings to
the rm more than 22
years experience in
commercial and corporate law, and international and
regional trade law, among other disciplines. Until
December 2013, he was the founder of the Kenya
Anti-Counterfeit Agency (ACA), specialising in intel-
lectual property law and enforcement. He has been
directly involved in signicant regulatory reforms of
the Kenyan nancial sector through the creation of
three regulatory agencies. He holds an Msc in public
policy and management, and an LLM in commercial
and corporate law from the University of London.
M-Kopa Solars Jesse Moore. [PHOTO:
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OVER THE PAST two weeks,
the world has received sobering
news concerning the melting of
polar ice. Unexpectedly deep
canyons in Greenlands bedrock
mean that its retreating glaciers
will be in contact with warm
ocean water for longer, and will
therefore melt faster.
And in West Antarctica, a wall
of glaciers separating a vast
basin of ice from the sea is
coming apart far faster than
anticipated, suggesting that
quite a lot of sea level rise is
now unavoidable and will occur
faster and more dramatically
than anticipated.
For many readers, the sense
of anxiety no doubt melted
away like a chunk of polar ice at
media reports bearing the
qualication in coming
centuries.
That is a nasty complication
for economists trying to gure
out the most appropriate way to
respond to climate change.
Is it worth taking action now
to reduce the odds of a
civilisation-ending outcome?
But if one believes that
humanity should take drastic
action now, even though it
might slow economic growth,
one has to assume that future
costs will be very, very big. Or
that people living today place
signicant value on benets
realised after their children,
and their childrens children are
gone. And that strikes many
dismal scientists as implausible.
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enough to take costly action today?
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Training project to restore solar sectors shine
Initiative: Programme launched to
improve quality of solar lighting
installations and increase uptake
By NICHOLAS WAITATHU
A
year ago, Mr Peter Mwangi
contracted a technician to
install a solar lighting
system in his elderly mothers
house in Muranga County.
He was hoping to spare her
the reliance on costly traditional
sources of lighting.
Mwangis mother is among
millions of Kenyans who have
never accessed power from the
national grid due to high
connectivity fees.
However, two short months
later, the solar panel system
broke down. It was later
discovered that the technician
Mr Mwangi had hired had made
a mess of the installation.
Mwangi was infuriated,
considering he had spent more
than Sh60,000 to procure the
panels and pay the technician.
On being contacted, the
technician turned on Mwangi
and accused him of tampering
RENEWABLE ENERGY <<
Many Kenyans have fallen victim to quack
technicians who only have a basic
understanding of solar lighting,
Francis Njoka
3
Business Beat
tively.
Through the regulations, we
have managed to tame the
prevalence of corrupt techni-
cians and traders. The number of
cases of failed installations being
reported to us now are fewer
than they were two years ago,
Mr Oimeke said.
Mr Cuxton Ngari, a trainee at
the Rwika Technical Institute,
Embu, said many solar techni-
cians are half-baked and often
work blind.
After this two-week training,
I now feel more condent ... I
have also noted there are many
things I wasnt doing right.
nwaitathu@standardmedia.co.ke
with the system.
Mwangis experience is not
unique, said Mr Francis Njoka, a
trainer and solar photovoltaics
(PV) expert at the Jomo Kenyatta
University of Agriculture and
Technology (JKUAT).
Many other Kenyans have
fallen victim to quack techni-
cians who only have a basic
understanding of solar lighting.
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
Mwangi later found out the
technician worked with the
wrong panel accessories and
batteries, and installed them
badly.
Mwangis is a story you will
hear repeated in many other
counties, and such incompe-
tence has denied rural families
the opportunity to access cheap,
renewable power.
To stop further damage to the
solar energy sector, industry
players have stepped up efforts
to train local technicians on
photovoltaics, which converts
solar radiation into electricity.
JKUAT is working with the
Japan International Cooperation
Agency (JICA) and the Energy
Regulatory Authority (ERC) to
implement the Project for
Capacity Development for
Promoting Rural Electrication
Using Renewable Energy (the
Bright Project).
The four-year programme,
which targets training at least
1,000 technicians, has also
developed a curriculum on
modern solar PV systems that
training institutions can adopt.
This move was meant to
ensure that the quality and
standards of solar PV installa-
tions all over the country do not
disappoint consumers any
more, the JICA Bright Project
chief advisor, Mr Otake Yuji, told
Business Beat last week.
RENEWABLE ENERGY
According to ERC, Kenya
leads in Africa in exploiting
renewable energy sources. Solar
technology has been in the
country the last 35 years, with
industry sources saying more
than 300,000 PV units have been
installed, though several
thousand have failed to work.
To streamline the sector, the
Government in 2012 published
regulations requiring that all
technicians be trained on how to
install solar systems.
The regulations also require
that suppliers and distributors
be licensed by the ERC after
passing an industrial test
administered by the National
Industrial Training Authority.
The director in charge of
renewable energy at ERC, Mr
Robert Pavel Oimeke, said since
the operationalisation of the
regulations, more than 70
technicians and over 30 compa-
nies have been licensed to install
and supply the gadgets, respec-
Instructors
from
various
technical
institutions
during a
Bright
Project
training at
JKUAT.
They are
expected to
transfer
their newly
acquired
skills to
their
students.
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By FRANKLINE SUNDAY
K
enyan Internet users are
slowly ceding their privacy.
They are also unknowingly
sharing their personal and
intimate data with more than
their small circle of friends and
loved ones.
Unknown to many, the
country is the stage of a covert
cold war pitting the US against
economic rival China. The prize:
your data.
Last week, reports leaked by
National Security Agency
whistleblower Edward Snowden
revealed that Kenya is among
ve countries where the US
intelligence agency has been
intercepting, recording and
archiving all phone calls for the
last one year.
The surveillance is said to be
part of a top-secret NSA
programme code-named Mystic
which has a backdoor to
Kenyas cellular telephone
network, enabling it collect
metadata on Kenyans phone
usage for up to 30 days.
Metadata, which loosely
translates to data about data, in
this case refers to information
revealing the time, source, and
destination of all phone calls
made in the country.
SPY OPERATION
By analysing this metadata,
authorities can develop patterns
based on a subjects daily
movements, location and
TECHNOLOGY:
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The spy operation in Kenya is sponsored by the
CIA, which collects GSM metadata with the
potential for content at a later date,
Leakedreport
associates for up to a month.
The spy operation in Kenya
is sponsored by the CIA, which
collects GSM metadata with the
potential for content at a later
date, states the leaked report.
The argument that has been
advanced by security analysts is
that Kenya, which is the only
country in Africa where surveil-
lance of this magnitude is being
carried out, is of signicant
interest to the US.
It is believed the focus of the
local operation is to intercept
phone communication relating
to terror since the US works
closely with local security forces
in combating the militant
fundamentalist group Al
Shabaab, based in neighbouring
Somalia, the report states.
A fortnight ago, the US and
UK issued travel advisories to
their citizens to leave Kenya, and
proceeded to evacuate tourists
who were in the country over
what was termed as credible
information on an imminent
terror threat.
But Kenya is not sitting idly
by as Western agencies tap into
its citizens information.
A fortnight ago, the Govern-
ment revealed that Safaricom,
the countrys biggest telco had
won a tender to build a sophisti-
cated security communications
and information-sharing system
at a cost of Sh14.9 billion.
The state-of-the-art security
system will include a labyrinth of
high-denition spy cameras,
which will be networked to a
command station tted with
facial recognition systems for
isolation and tracking of wanted
suspects.
GO LIVE
The system which is being
installed to help curb the recent
spate of terrorism threats and
activities will go live in Nairobi
by the end of this year, and in
Mombasa in 18 to 24 months.
A similar system of surveil-
lance used by the US and UK
drastically aided in investiga-
tions into last years Boston
Marathon and the July 7, 2005
train bombings, respectively.
However, the key cause for
alarm locally has been the
involvement of China through
Chinese telecommunications
giant Huawei, which sources
close to the matter claim is the
main muscle behind the
proposed security system.
A tender award of a similar
system has seen Chinese rms
Huawei and ZTE lock horns in
the countrys High Court for
years, each accusing the other of
outing tender rules.
Huawei is the lead vendor for
Safaricom, providing up to 60
per cent of core network
equipment and infrastructure.
These include the anticipated
long-term evolution (LTE)
network, expected to be rolled
out in tandem with the new
security system.
LARGEST NETWORK
With $38.6 billion (Sh3.3
trillion) in annual revenues,
Huawei is the worlds second-
largest network equipment
supplier and third-largest
smartphone maker, with a
product portfolio that includes
wireless routers and ber optic
cables.
The company has, however,
been accused by US authorities
of creating backdoors in its
equipment that allow Chinese
state-sponsored hacking into
commercial and military
interests of the Western world.
If the allegations by Mr
Snowden are true, Kenya could
be stuck between a rock and a
hard place with the countrys
data from high-level security
communication to intimate
phone calls between cheating
spouses on sale to the highest
bidder.
In this regard, Kenya is not
being watched by just one Big
Brother, but two.
fsunday@standardmedia.co.ke
By JOE OMBUOR
A fortnight ago, 287 Kenyans, some
ying for the very rst time, got a
memorable treat from Kenya Airways
aboard the carriers newly acquired
Boeing B787-8 Dreamliner.
The two-and-a-half hours round-
about demonstration ight started at
the KQ hub in Nairobis Jomo Kenyatta
International Airport (JKIA).
The wide-cabin aircraft, touted as
the aviation industrys latest offering,
is imposing and technologically
advanced. And it is only Africas second
Dreamliner, after Ethiopian Airlines
acquired one last year.
On take off, the futuristic jetliner
nosed its way towards Thika before
taking a left to cruise towards Nakuru
in the Great Rift Valley.
Fifteen minutes later, Menengai
Crater panned out before us, and the
ight purser announced we were
overying Nakuru town en route to
Magadi and Lake Amboseli. The speed
reading on the ight-path screen was
847 kilometres per hour, and the plane
was 28,000 feet above sea level.
Frequent yers will notice the
subdued noise levels and mood lighting
in the Dreamliner.
Lunch was served as the plane ew
over the Amboseli National Park and
approached the Kenya/Tanzania
border.
Soon: To your right is the beautiful
view of Mount Kilimanjaro, came the
pursers voice through the loudspeak-
ers.
Many passengers with cameras,
tablets or smartphones clicked away at
the roof of Africa. It was truly a sight
to behold from that vantage position
above the clouds.
Another turn and it was a south-
ward glide to Mombasa. We ew over
this rst capital of Kenya, turned right
above the blue waters of the Indian
Ocean and headed for Malindi.
The crew and passengers, who
comprised travel agents, tour
operators, journalists, KQ staff and
corporate executives, had joined the
lucky few with birthdays falling on May
15 for a truly unique celebration.
The crew, including the pilot,
Captain Eugene Musundi, was all
Kenyan, and KQ Chief Executive Titus
Naikuni mingled with passengers
during the ight to get their opinions
on the carriers newest addition, which
takes its eet to 46 planes from about
20 when I took over 11 years ago.
From takeoff at 11.30am, the sleek
aircraft with wings spanning 197 feet
(60 metres) touched down smoothly at
JKIA at 2pm.
As for the cost of the aircraft, which
has 20 per cent more fuel efciency
than similar-sized competitors, Mr
Naikuni said it was anywhere between
$150 million to $170 million (between
Sh13.2 billion and Sh15 billion).
He said KQ has ordered nine such
aircraft, with six of them to be
delivered this year.
Naikuni said the Dreamliner is
poised to make its long haul debut in
early June with scheduled ights on the
Nairobi/Paris route.
Besides Paris, we are looking to
open Shanghai and Beijing routes this
year with the ordered Dreamliners. The
Bangkok/Hong Kong route has also
been identied for the Dreamliner, as
has a West African route, he said.
The ultra-modern plane of the
future landed in Kenya on April 5,
2014, after a 16-hour, 14,456-kilometre
non-stop ight from the Boeing plant in
Washington, USA. It was received by,
among others, President Uhuru
Kenyatta.
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Sh15b Dreamliner offers yers unrivalled experience
Invasion: As State plans
Sh14.9b security system
with spy cameras, trends
in ICT indicate citizens
information is getting
easier to access
Kenya loses privacy war to snooping data spies
Inside Kenya Airways Boeing B787-8 Dreamliner. [PHOTO: JOE OMBUOR/
STANDARD]
Countries where USAs National Security Agency has been intercepting and recording phone calls. [GRAPHIC: THE INTERCEPTOR]
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Pension funds can, in fact, be the saviours
of the economy and stimulate growth
through an infrastructure-investing
revolution, MohamedWehliye
5
FUNDING GAPS <<
D
uring the opening of the
second National Confer-
ence on Energy about
three years ago, former Presi-
dent Mwai Kibaki directed the
ministries of Finance and
Energy to explore how pension
funds can be used to invest in
power and other infrastructure
projects. This would help
surmount challenges in
securing capital from interna-
tional financiers.
Unfortunately, to date, not
much has come out of that
directive, despite the fact that
there is still a serious funding
gap for economic infrastructure
such as energy, roads and ports.
The majority of infrastruc-
ture construction, maintenance
and upgrade work in the
country is currently publicly
funded. But with the Govern-
ment fiscally constrained, there
are question marks over
whether the public sector can
be expected to continue
dominating infrastructure
investment in the coming years.
INVESTMENT NEEDS
It is important, therefore,
that the Government taps into
pensions to offset growing infra-
structure investment needs for
the country to meet some of its
Vision 2030 targets.
Kenya currently invests less
than 10 per cent of its gross
domestic product in local
infrastructure. But the country
demands infrastructure
investments more than twice
the current levels if it is to
maintain sustained long-term
growth.
The countrys infrastructure
spending needs are high in
absolute terms and even
more so relative to GDP.
Meeting infrastructure targets is
estimated to cost more than
Sh400 billion per year.
The Government does not
have the resources to bridge this
gap and would usually have to
borrow this money.
But borrowing all this money
could endanger the fiscal
stability of the country, and
thus this gap needs to be
funded from elsewhere. But
where?
Commercial banks, which
are the traditional source of
finance in Kenya, face difficul-
ties in lending to infrastructure
projects that have long payback
periods they mostly lend
short-term funds, which creates
an asset liability mismatch.
Most banks are also subject
to Central Bank of Kenya
sectoral limits. Indeed, there is
currently limited capacity for
them to lend more to the
infrastructure sector.
Furthermore, tighter
regulations for banks means
they are facing the prospect of
needing to increase the amount
of capital they set aside to
support project finance
activities.
For these reasons, the
opportunities and need for
alternative financing sources
have never been stronger. That
is where pension funds come in.
The Government should look
to attract pension funds as a key
funding source for the infra-
structure sector. Using this
money to fund infrastructure
makes a lot of sense for a couple
of reasons.
RETIREMENT SAVINGS
First, pension funds, with
their need for long-term
investments to match their
long-term liabilities, are an
obvious substitute source for
such finance. They require
longevity of the assets and their
returns.
Second, the use of retirement
savings to invest in the future
of the country makes a lot of
sense and is a good selling
point, especially for public
sector pension funds such as
the National Social Security
Fund (NSSF).
The new NSSF Act is
projected to increase pension
fund contributions from the
current Sh10 billion to as much
as Sh100 billion annually in the
next few years. This is a lot of
money that would need to be
invested and can be used to
transform this nation economi-
cally.
As some of the largest
investors in the country,
pension funds should be
encouraged to allocate cash for
investments in infrastructure
projects.
Pension funds can, in fact,
be the saviours of the economy
and stimulate growth through
an infrastructure-investing
revolution. This has been quite
a trend in recent years in many
other countries, and there is no
reason Kenya should not follow
suit.
Over the past decade,
pension funds in other coun-
COMMENT:
Why cash for infrastructure projects should
come from pension funds, not global lenders
tries have moved significantly
into infrastructure as part of
their alternative investment
category. Long-lived assets such
as toll roads, airports and
electric utilities are a good
match for the investment needs
of such funds long-term,
steady growth in revenues based
on providing an essential public
service.
One of the key consider-
ations, however, is how the
pension funds should invest in
infrastructure projects.
There are two options:
indirect or direct investments.
DIRECT OWNERSHIP
The first includes the
purchase of stocks and bonds
issued by privatised infrastruc-
ture companies, such as
electricity, transport and
telecommunications firms, and/
or purchase of Government
bonds that are used to finance
infrastructure.
The second is investing
directly in infrastructure either
through direct ownership of the
projects or through the spon-
sorship of dedicated infrastruc-
ture debt funds.
Local pension funds such as
NSSF already indirectly finance
public sector infrastructure by
investing in bonds issued by the
Government relating to
infrastructure projects or
activities. The great majority of
pension funds hold Government
and infrastructure bonds
through their normal portfolios.
In some way, pension funds
are, therefore, already financing
infrastructure investment in the
country, although repayment
and risk still rests with the
Government.
Pension funds also hold
stocks of companies such as
KenGen and other utility firms,
and thus provide the necessary
capital for these companies to
invest in infrastructure.
The current indirect
investment in infrastructure is,
however, not intentional. That
is, the investment is not made
with infrastructure in mind, but
is viewed like any other
investment in stocks and bonds.
For pension funds, especially
the big ones like NSSF, to have a
bigger impact on economic
development and also secure
better returns that are less
volatile for their trustees, they
must target and invest directly
in infrastructure.
They can make direct
controlling investments, in the
manner of private equity
investments, in companies
operating in infrastructure
where the fund becomes the
main owner, or one of the main
owners, of such companies.
This can be done by buying
stakes in traditional utility
companies or by becoming one
of the major shareholders.
They could also invest in
infrastructure through debt by
sponsoring or co-sponsoring
debt funds that will invest only
in infrastructure.
The Government, with the
help of domestic pension funds,
could do what the Indian
government did by promoting
the setting up of Infrastructure
Debt Fund (IDFs) that will raise
capital required to finance
infrastructure projects.
Pension funds could be
asked to sponsor or co-sponsor
the IDFs. Such a fund should
then be restricted to cover
roads, railways, ports, airports
and power projects that
typically provide for a compul-
sory buy-out by the govern-
ment.
An IDF can be set up either
as a trust regulated by the
capital market regulator, CMA,
or as non-banking financial
institutions (NBFI) regulated by
the CBK.
CREDIT RISK
While the credit risk
associated with the infrastruc-
ture project will be borne by the
company if the IDF is set up as
an NBFC, the risk will have to
be borne by the investors if the
IDF is set up as a trust.
A trust-based IDF would
normally be a mutual fund that
would issue units, while a
company-based IDF would
normally be a form of NBFC
that would issue bonds.
The development of proper
infrastructure is vital for the
economic growth of any
country. The Government
cannot do it all. To meet the gap
in the funding requirement of
the sector, it is imperative to
promote public private partner-
ships.
President Uhuru Kenyattas
administration should follow up
on Mr Kibakis call for pension
funds to finance infrastructure
projects as a matter that
requires immediate action in
terms of Government policy. It
should also put in place the
necessary regulatory reforms
required to achieve the same.
The writer is senior vice
president, financial risk
management, Riyad Bank,
Saudi Arabia.
bizbeat@standarmedia.co.ke
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WEHLIYE
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the
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strained,
there are
question
marks over
whether
the public
sector
can be ex-
pected to
continue
dominat-
ing infra-
structure
invest-
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OPINIONS <<
The truth is, we have done a good job
publicising the negative things about
Kenya, keeping off tourists,
XNIraki
6
W
hatever the political
sentiments, we need
more foreign tourists.
They are likely to spend more
and our tourist facilities were
built with them in mind. They
also improve our brand and
market the country.
It is unlikely that a Kenyan will
spend a week at Serena Hotel in
Nairobi or Sarova Lion Hill inside
Lake Nakuru National Park un-
less for a seminar.
Therefore, the Governments
measures to save the tourism
sector from disaster will help tour
operators it seems their
lobbying paid off but may not
bring in more tourists.
Even our biggest attractions,
like safaris, are not our cup of tea.
Ask your friends how many of
them have been to Nairobi
National Park. How often do you
see a van full of tourists who look
like me driving around a national
park?
If we have to focus more on
domestic tourism, we have
change many things; we need to
do an Equity and change the
rules of the game so that we can
attract the untravelled the same
way we attracted the unbanked.
Im not a pessimist, but going to
beaches and visiting national
parks is yet to catch up with most
of us.
Economists will point out that
tourism is highly elastic its a
luxury that can easily be done
away with, particularly if there are
competing priorities.
LIFES PREOCCUPATIONS
The other businesses driven
by tourists, like curio shops, are
unlikely to be patronised by us.
Who has ever bought a Maasai
shuka from one of these shops?
There is no doubt that
travelling is fun, going by the
number of new school buses on
Kenyan roads. But after high
school, most Kenyans stick to
their homes, trying to make ends
meet. We normally travel only for
funerals or weddings.
Educating children, getting
enough to eat are often the great
preoccupations of life. Travelling
for leisure is rare.
Lots of Kenyans have relatives
who live in places like Shamak-
hokho or Ekalakala, and have
never met them, though they
would love to. Lets accept that
travelling is expensive, whether
by private or public means.
Enough on Kenyans; who are
the foreign tourists who visit and
spend their money here? How can
we attract more of them?
Among the tourists are lots of
retired people who have plenty of
time and money. Not that they are
rich, but their pension and saving
habits are good. Retired people in
Kenya often chase their pension
in several ofces instead of
travelling.
The lesson is simple; we shall
become tourists when we have
surplus money. If we need more
domestic tourists, we need to
improve our pension and savings
culture.
The other group of tourists are
young men looking for adventure,
fun and positive mischief. If you
are keen, youll notice many such
tourists dont visit our country.
But they do so in droves else-
where. American students ock to
Cancun, Mexico, during school
breaks. Lots of young Britons
travel to Spain, and vice versa.
These students and young
men are often working and have
some disposal income. How
many students work and how
many get jobs after school in
Kenya? Young people generally
have plenty of time, just like the
pensioners. They are also curious.
Interestingly, we have plenty
of facilities for elderly tourists but
not young ones. Maybe the Kenya
Tourist Board has data that
proles the types of tourists we
get and what attracts them.
EXPLOITED TOURISTS
We have given incentives to
key players in the tourism sector,
but what of the tourists?
If you visit our national parks,
you will realise that foreign
tourists pay almost 10 times what
we pay, and they know it. Can we
further reduce that differential?
These tourists probably feel
exploited. Does that explain why
they spend so little money in
Kenya?
The other incentive we need
to give is freedom. Most foreign
tourists who visit us drive
themselves in their home
countries. Why cant they drive
themselves to their destinations
in Kenya or beyond so that they
can enjoy their freedom,
particularly with the East African
visa?
But back to the basics, are our
highways world class? I would like
to hear a Japanese or American
tourists experience of travelling
on Kenyan roads. How do they
deal with calls of nature when on
the road before getting to
Delameres? How come no county
has replicated Delameres?
The biggest incentive for
foreign tourists is the experience.
What do they remember long
after visiting Kenya? There is no
doubt national parks are a big
attraction. But we have not
diversied much, and a tourist
does not want to visit only
national parks, especially with the
diversity of animals reducing
instead of increasing.
We can package our different
cultures for them to experience.
Kenyas different ethnic groups
are a tourism jewel. Why not have
tourists stay in our homes and
see how we get water, rewood
and cook? Imagine a tourist
reporting how Maasais mix blood
with milk for food?
Throughout history, Kenya has
been occupied by Britons, the
Germans along the Tanzania
boarder, the Arabs and Portu-
guese along the coast, and
Italians to the North. Why have
we not packaged that history to
attract tourists?
We need to get creative. Dont
tourists go to see graveyards in
Egypt or what are pyramids?
Needless to say, we must make
tourists feel secure in Kenya and
they will spend more money and
drive our economy. The truth is,
we have done a good job
publicising the negative things
about Kenya, keeping off tourists.
Tourists who visit Kenya will
confess that what they see in the
media and what they experience
in reality are two different things!
The writer is a senior lecturer at
University of Nairobis School of
Business. xniraki@gmail.com
A story is told of Bela Guttman,
the coach of the all-conquering
Portuguese football club Benca of
1961 and 1962. When he asked for a
pay rise from his seniors and was
ungratefully rebuffed, he was so
infuriated that he quit and reportedly
delivered the (in)famous Guttman
curse: Not a hundred years from now
will Benca ever be European
champions.
Since then, Benca has played
eight European nals including the
Europa League nal two weeks ago
against Sevilla and lost each one. It
has been 52 years since Guttman left
the club, and it is frightening for the
fans to imagine the curse may yet be
lifted for another 48 years.
Ironically, at around the same
time, power was changing hands in
Kenya in the name of independence,
and we inherited our own curse from
the colonialist the white-collar
curse.
This white-collar curse, or the job
curse, has coiled itself around the
population of young Kenyans such
that one can glide into political ofce
simply by promising to create jobs.
The situation is so dire that people
are willing to leak professional exams,
parents think nothing of coughing out
hefty sums to get their children
employed, and university students
are willing to seduce their way to
good grades.
The grimness of the state our
society is in dawned on me as I
conducted interviews a couple of
weeks ago for a vacant position in my
company.
What will you do if you dont get
a job in the next two years? I asked
most of the candidates.
Keep in mind that it takes an
average of two years for a college
graduate to get a job in Kenya. Also,
on average, every home in Kenya has
one unemployed youth.
EXCEPTIONALLY GIFTED
Most candidates said that they
would look for something to do,
others said that they would not lose
hope and would continue knocking on
more doors and, of course, praying.
One of the interviewees struck me
as exceptionally gifted, but he was
unaware of it. In his free time, he
repairs computers and laptops,
mostly for friends and referrals,
charging an assessment fee of Sh500.
Last month, he had six clients with-
out any advertising or taking the job
seriously.
Yet, the only thing he had been
doing full time is looking for a job.
Most young people will decry a
lack of capital. In a basic business
class, the four factors of production
are taught. In Kenya, the assumption
is that capital is the ultimate factor.
Consequently, young people believe if
they had ShX, their life would
automatically be better they would
have a better job, better prospects,
and on and on.
I think the Government was trying
to solve the capital problem when it
created funds for women and youth in
groups. But a better solution would
have been to nance strong business
plans presented by both individuals
and groups. Entrepreneurship is the
missing factor of production, not capi-
tal.
There is no doubt entrepreneur-
ship is a tough, sometimes painful
journey for those who choose it; it is
not for the faint hearted.
The upshot is that the few who
succeed can employ those still
engulfed in white-collar malaise.
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT
But I am hopeful for a time when
more young people will look to start
their own businesses than spend
years looking for a white-collar job.
When that time comes, a degree
will not be a passport to the
workplace, but rather a form of
empowerment on the solitary journey
from entrepreneurship to nancial
independence. Cheating in exams will
be a lazy option and buying a
masters degree will not make sense.
I just hope we will not fall victim
to Bencas 100-year curse, or else
we will be forced to bear the tragedy
of the job curse for another 50 years.
The writer runs a lighting technol-
ogy company.
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By JAMES ANYANZWA
and MOSES MICHIRA
E
ven with the best of inten-
tions, governments can
get their policies wrong.
In many such cases, policy
makers will choose to go ahead
with implementation without a
proper cost-benet analysis.
The result of these mis-
guided policies can have
damaging long-term conse-
quences on a country.
Last week, the Jubilee
Government found itself in a
difcult bind when it was forced
to pay Mr Anura Perera, the
man at the heart of the Anglo
Leasing-linked procurement
Paying for time: Kenyas inability to
pay back Sh52 billion received from
international lenders brings home
reality of countrys funding crisis
STATE VAULTS:
The Sh8b question as banks bail out Government to help it repay loan
>> SPECIAL REPORT
With less than two months to go before the end of
the nancial year, the choice was either to cut back
on Government expenditure or to pay in order for
us to move forward, President UhuruKenyatta
petroleum are paid for in
dollars, and the State needs
maintain a healthy import
cover, just in case there is a
major interruption in new
foreign currency inows.
It is this situation that sent
top Government ofcials,
including President Uhuru
Kenyatta, into a panic to the
point of giving in to Pereras
demands.
The country then appealed
to the international banks to
give it more time to repay the
loan with money borrowed
from other lenders through the
Eurobond.
This deferral, however, cost
taxpayers an extra interest
payment of Sh652 million, in
addition to a commission fee of
Sh574 million.
The appeal for an extension
also exposed just how much of
a nancial crisis Kenya is in
after Treasury issued an order
shutting down procurement
spending in all Government
departments.
The order was lifted after
payment was made to Perera,
who owns First Mercantile and
Universal Satspace.
deals, Sh1.4 billion.
Mr Perera has since issued
fresh demands for an additional
Sh3.05 billion.
To many, paying the Sri
Lankan businessman off was a
prime example of Government
failure; a policy with good
intentions that failed to achieve
its objectives and caused a
much bigger problem.
The Government had said it
would be unable to oat the
much-talked about $2 billion
(Sh175.6 billion) without
settling the claim. Now, it is
unclear if Pereras new demand
will still affect the issuance of
the bond, which is scheduled
for June.
Part of the proceeds of the
Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich.
bond are to be used to settle a
Sh52 billion syndicated loan
and fund infrastructure
projects.
It is this syndicated loan,
which was due this month, that
reportedly prompted the
unusual settlement of Pereras
claim.
Citi Bank Group, Standard
Chartered PLC and Standard
Group are the lead arrangers
and underwriters of the
syndicated loan.
An interview granted by the
bankers revealed for the rst
time just how much the loan
signed by former Finance
minister Njeru Githae on May
15, 2012, will cost the country.
Originally, the loan was
priced 4.75 per cent above the
0.23 per cent Libor (London
Inter-Bank Offer Rate), which is
the most widely used bench-
mark for short-term interest
rates.
Kenya would pay a total of
Sh5.2 billion in interest over the
two years an unavoidable
price to pay to shore up foreign
exchange reserves that had
come under pressure at the
Central Bank.
Mr Githae had also hoped
the loan would help ease heavy
borrowing from the local
market, where the State was
starving the private sector of
capital.
Arrangers of the loan, the
three international banks that
also insured the deal, would
earn Sh1.46 billion 2.8 per
cent of the principal amount.
COSTLY DECISION
What was unforeseen,
however, was that Kenya would
be unable to repay the loan on
the agreed date, May 15, 2014.
When that Thursday rolled
around, the vaults at CBK were
virtually empty, according to Dr
Kamau Thugge, the Treasury
permanent secretary.
Dr Thugge told reporters
that if Kenya had paid back the
loan, it would have been a very
costly decision.
The Government was
considering repaying the loan
with foreign exchange reserves
held at the Central Bank, a
decision that would dispropor-
tionately expose the economy
to a dollar crisis.
Crucial imports such as
President Uhuru
Kenyatta.
Business Beat
9
The Sh8b question as banks bail out Government to help it repay loan
SPECIAL REPORT <<
We could have gone to the market a year
ago and borrowed at four per cent.
Rwanda borrowed at four per cent last
year, Source
bonds issued by countries with
low credit ratings.
Fortunately for Kenya,
international credit rating
agencies retained a favourable
credit score for the country,
terming the extension a mere
debt and reserves management
strategy.
Ratings agency Fitch, for
instance, said Kenyas need to
extend the loan repayment
highlighted the renancing risk
inherent in African nations,
which are now turning to
international markets for
nancing, rather than relying
on concessional loans.
We understand that if the
Eurobond has not been issued
by August, the syndicated loan
will be repaid out of reserves.
It is not the case that
without the extension, a missed
interest or principal payment
would be likely. [The extension]
will, therefore, have no impact
on Kenyas sovereign rating.
AVOID DISRUPTION
According to the source, the
Government did have the
option of paying off the
syndicated loan because it had
enough shillings to buy dollars
from CBK, or it could have
utilised its foreign exchange
reserves at CBK
But acting on the advice of
its lead arrangers, Treasury
sought an extension of the loan
repayment by three months to
avoid disrupting the money
market.
National Treasury Cabinet
Secretary Henry Rotich and
Thugge believe that within this
period, the proceeds of the
anticipated June Eurobond will
be in the consolidated fund
the Governments main bank
account.
Treasury mandarins are now
crossing their ngers the bond
gets a full subscription.
However, taxpayers are
expected to pay a premium
prize for the cash raised.
With international lenders
waiting in the wings for their
dues, the Government has been
forced to tap into the interna-
tional debt market at a time
when interest rates are heading
north.
Economic activities are
picking up in Europe and
interest rates are likely to go
higher. Right now, the rates in
the international markets are
ranging between six and eight
per cent, and given that we are
issuing a long-term bond, the
rates shall be higher than
these, said the source.
We could have gone to the
market a year ago and borrowed
at four per cent. Rwanda
borrowed at four per cent last
year we could have done the
same.
In addition to prevailing
market conditions, credit
ratings also determine borrow-
ing costs.
A credit rating is used by
Business Beat has established
that the two-year loan, which
now matures in mid August, will
cost Kenyans no less than Sh8
billion in arrangement and
extension fees, and interest.
We are a commercial entity
and the extension has been
favourable to us. We are earning
interest, in addition to the
extension fee, a transaction
advisor, who asked not to be
named due to the sensitivity of
the issue, said.
SYNDICATED LOAN
Mr Kenyatta was forced to
explain his painful decision to
direct Treasury to settle the
Anglo Leasing debt, even
though he had always main-
tained that the money should
not be paid out.
The President said settling
the claim would pave way for
the issuance of the Eurobond,
which is the only realistic
avenue left for the State to repay
the syndicated loan, which is
now due on August 15.
He added that proceeds from
the proposed bond are also
expected to help plug a Sh329
Aug 15
Date by which Kenya is
expected to repay a Sh52
billion syndicated loan.
unenviable position.
While top ofcials could not
openly talk about their distress,
some of the small lenders who
provided the Sh52 billion loan
were worried about Kenyas
ability to repay the money, and
wanted out.
Business Beats source
reveals that as Treasury ofcials
pleaded for more time, the
underwriters were forced to buy
out edgy lenders.
DIFFICULT POSITION
Any lender who did not
wish to stay on was paid off, he
said, adding that the underwrit-
ers bought loans worth about
Sh17 billion ($200 million).
There are additional
interest costs that would be
borne; banks are not a charity.
In total, Kenya will now pay
a minimum Sh60.1 billion for
the syndicated loan.
The bigger concern,
however, was that the revised
repayment schedule would
affect the countrys creditwor-
thiness. Investors are wary of
putting their money in risky
assets, such as in sovereign
billion decit in the countrys
national Budget, while failure to
attract lenders could mean
cutting back on Government
services.
With less than two months
to go before the end of the
nancial year, the choice was
either to start cutting back on
Government expenditure, to
start cutting back on pro-
grammes and service delivery to
Kenyans, or to pay in order for
us to move forward as a
country, he said.
Cabinet Secretary Henry
Rotich also disclosed the
countrys desperation over the
funding crisis, telling Business
Beat there would be major
cutbacks in Government
spending in event the Euro-
bond, which is factored in
2013/14 Budget, is not success-
ful.
Kenya has put off issuing the
bond several times since
September last year, ostensibly
because of the legal challenges
presented by non-payment of
the Anglo Leasing claims. But
when the syndicated loan fell
due, Kenya found itself in an
Treasury Permanent Secretary Kamau Thugge.
sovereign wealth funds, pension
funds and other investors to
gauge the credit worthiness of a
country. The better the rating,
the more likely a country is to
pay back borrowed funds,
which enables it negotiate for
lower interest rates.
Standard & Poors credit
rating for Kenya stands at B+,
Moodys rating is B1 while
Fitchs credit rating for Kenya is
B+. In general, this means the
countrys economy is consid-
ered stable, and international
investors can expect Kenya to
pay its bond obligations.
Credit ratings are not based
on mathematical formulas,
rather, they rely on analyses of a
countrys history and its
long-term economic prospects.
Farmers cash in on tasty, healthy crickets
By LILLIAN KIARIE
M
r Otieno Alula, a cricket
farmer in Bondo, is
accustomed to people
turning up their noses at his
trade.
In July 2012, when the
Kisumu Agricultural Show
opened its gates and gave
thousands of farmers a chance
to showcase their products, Mr
Alula was among them.
Though many thronged his
stand, he couldnt help but
notice how skeptical they were
of his products.
I have heard even paupers
say they would rather die of
hunger than try eating fried
crickets, but I dare anyone to
try them and see if they wont
smack their lips with relish
after biting into just one crispy
piece. How I wish people would
get over some stereotypes and
be open to diverse experi-
ences, he says.
EXPORT MARKET
Alula says one can start
breeding crickets with less than
Sh500, and earn as much as
Sh5,000 a day.
The middle-aged farmer
started rearing crickets when
looking for a meal that would
supplement his diet. Today,
cricket rearing is his main
activity.
There is a huge market for
crickets not only in Kenya, but
also in Europe and Saudi
Protable crunch: With just Sh500,
one can start breeding crickets for the
export market, or use them locally to
make cookies, cakes and sausages
INVESTMENT IDEAS:
There
is a huge
market
for
crickets
not only
in Kenya,
but also
in Europe
and Saudi
Arabia.
Arabia. What began as a
small-time side job has slowly
become my main hustle and I
now have thousands of
crickets.
During the show, there were
other farmers displaying
different items made with
crickets, which included
sausages, cookies, cakes and
biscuits. The insects can also be
used to make rich soups, or
bait sh.
Alula says crickets are easy
to trap and available all year
round. They are rich in zinc,
iron, copper and proteins.
FOOD SECURITY
A visit to Ugandas capital,
Kampala will expose you to an
interesting scene. Unlike most
Kenyan hawkers in Nairobi who
focus on selling smokies and
eggs, the streets of Kampala are
full of hawkers selling fried
crickets and grasshoppers.
Because of the huge supply,
the product is sold at low
prices, with a 30-gramme pack
of fried crickets retailing at
Sh10.
But Kenyan streets may
soon resemble Ugandas. Bondo
Universitys Department of
Food Security in Kisumu has
been training farmers to rear
crickets to enhance the
countrys food security.
Alula says farmers have
formed groups and rear the
crickets, dry them and work
with the university and other
Business Beat
>> WEALTH CREATION
10
I dare anyone to try fried crickets and see if
they wont smack their lips with relish after
biting into just one crispy piece,
Otieno Alula
stakeholders to access export
markets.
Crickets are easy to breed
and require minimal space. A
one-square-foot box can hold
about 1,200 crickets.
You can involve children in
breeding them, and even turn
the activity into a school
project, especially in kindergar-
tens and primary schools.
However, remember that
crickets chirp all night, so keep
them in an area where they will
not disturb you or your
neighbours.
Each female cricket lays ve
to 10 eggs a day in her lifetime,
which means the insects are
constantly available. They also
require little feeding and
attention.
Alula says the insects can
keep for more than three
months when dried and stored
in a cool place.
One of the most popular
ways to capture crickets is to
use large shiny iron sheets
lined up vertically into a
bucket, with a bright bulb
suspended between the sheets.
CONFINED SPACE
At night, the insects will be
attracted to the light and begin
to circle the bulb until they fall
onto the sheets and slide into
the bucket. It is hard for them
to escape once they are in the
bucket.
Alula, who got his training
from Bondo University, says he
rears his crickets in a small
bucket that has a source of light
to keep the insects lively. He
covers this bucket at the top
with a transparent mesh to let
in air.
Ensure the storage bucket
you use is large enough for all
your insects because if the
insects breed in a very conned
space, they may begin to eat
each other.
Crickets also require a
high-protein diet, so feed them
on things like dried sh or cat
food. You can supplement this
diet with vegetables.
Wait for the eggs to hatch,
which takes about a week, and
once they have done so, avoid
touching the baby crickets but
make sure you keep them
warm. They will mature in
about two to three weeks, and
at this stage, are ready for
market.
For more information on the
companies proled here, email
OPPORTUNITY:
The GrowthHub, a Nairobi-based business accelerator, last week
announced that ve startups would receive $5,000 (Sh439,000) in
funding to launch their innovations in the market.
Business Beat covered the accelerators call for applications for
agribusiness solutions with national impact, and in February, 13
startups were accepted to be a part of a 16-week programme to
develop their ideas. The participants in the cohort got to interact
one on one with their peers, and GrowthHubs team of facilitators
and mentors.
From the 13 enterprises, ve high-impact startups that could
create the most employment and income-generating opportunities
for the youth and smallholder farmers, respectively, were selected.
This was incubators fth programme in Kenya. The GrowthHub
offers mentorship, advice and resources for early capable entrepre-
neurs and scalable-stage startups. In the last two years, 69 startups
and more than 110 entrepreneurs have successfully completed the
companys programmes.
The deadline to send in applications for the sixth programme is
May 31, with the amounts to be invested ranging between $50,000
and $100,000 (Sh4.4 million and Sh8.8 million). Find out more on
www.thegrowthhub.com/agribusiness.
The ve startups selected for funding are:
GARNET ENTERPRISES
Immediately after a bumper harvest, farmers sell their produce
at low prices due to low market demand and a lack of proper
storage facilities. To resolve this problem, Garnet Enterprises
started post-harvest management in arid and semi-arid areas. The
startup currently mobilises farmers, gives them proper storage for
their grain, and helps them market their produce locally and
abroad.
FARM LEASE
Land is a primary asset for development as it supports the
livelihoods of most rural people. Farm Lease mobilises idle arable
land for agricultural production and leases it out to smallholder
farmers to ensure more land is put to effective agricultural use. By
doing this, Farm Lease puts more arable land into production,
boosting food security in the country.
KIARA AGRO
Kiara Agro manufactures cassava our and starch, and plans to
venture into production of glucose syrup and alcohol from cassava
starch. The company sources its raw materials from Lower Eastern
region, giving farmers in Ukambani better prices for their cassava,
more income-generating opportunities and boosting production of
drought-resistant crops.
DALUC POULTRY
Daluc is a poultry hatchery, breeding, feed mill and chick
processing farm specialising in kienyeji chicken that works with
many smallholder chicken farmers. Although kienyeji chicken take a
bit longer to mature than broilers, they are cheaper to feed, fetch
better market prices and are more disease-resistant, making them
suitable for rearing in East Africa.
LAMACO
Lamaco makes machines for use in sisal bre processing and
also provides farm-gate processing for value addition before the
crop gets to the market. Lamaco mobilises sisal farmers to meet
export demand, and helps them access these markets, meet quality
requirements and get better prices for their crop.
Startups receive Sh439,000 to solve agribusiness hurdles
Worlds oldest drug rm
outlines plans for Kenya
MARKETS:
German rm Merck, established in 1668, is the oldest
pharmaceutical and chemical company in the world. The
companys Kenya ofce is expected to serve as a hub for
East Africa, and in an interview with Margaret Kanini,
Merck CEO Karl-Ludwig Kley shed some light on the
rms plans for the region. Excerpts:
Since last year, Merck has shown
a sudden burst of interest in
Africa; why?
Early 2012, the executive
board of Merck took the decision
to further invest in Africa. Since
then, we have established new
operations in six countries in
sub-Saharan Africa. But we are
not new to this region: rst
certiable contacts to South
Africa date back to 1897, and
Merck opened its afliate there
in 1971.
We believe in the future of
this continent. Therefore, we are
now present in Kenya with all
our businesses. We have the
biopharmaceutical division and
consumer health division,
providing over-the-counter
pharmaceuticals like Seven Seas.
We also decided to set up our
two chemical divisions, selling
high-tech chemicals like liquid
crystals for TV displays and
smartphones, and effect
pigments for cosmetics and
coatings.
What is Mercks projected
investment portfolio in Africa?
We decided to provide two
things: access to health, and
transfer of know-how and
capacity building. This, I believe,
is a sustainable way of building
business in Africa.
HEALTH <<
We want to avoid a situation like the 1960s, where the
tobacco industry were saying there is nothing wrong
with cigarettes, they are good for our health, and 30 or
40 years later, millions have died, LukeUpchurch
11
Business Beat
We have provided market-
leading drugs like the diabetes
drug Glucophage, our hyperten-
sion treatment Concor, and
Gonal-F to ght infertility. We are
in the process of launching more
products from our pharmaceuti-
cal portfolio in Kenya.
Through research partner-
ships with institutions like the
Kenyan Medical Research
Institute and University of
Nairobi, and collaborations with
local pharmaceutical producers,
we also build up local capacities.
What was the signicance of
opening a Merck ofce in
Nairobi?
Kenya is the leading economy
in East Africa. Furthermore, the
countrys strategic location and
its well-developed business
infrastructure will enable us to
boost our business in the region.
Kenya is the entry point to
East Africa, and Merck has a lot
to offer, such as accessible and
equitable healthcare. We,
thereby, want to contribute to
the countrys social and eco-
nomic development.
How will Kenyans benet?
We are not here for the short
term. More than 90 per cent of
our staff has been hired locally,
including in general manager
positions.
higher return on investment
today and tomorrow, but we do
not invest for the next quarterly
report.
As mentioned earlier, Merck
came to Africa to stay because
we believe in the long-term
potential of the continent.
Are there any local materials or
inputs that you get from Kenya
or any of the African states
where you operate to service
your manufacturing needs?
Local partners and suppliers
provide a lot of benets: high
exibility, short lead times, good
understanding of the market and
customer needs, and local talent.
If we want to work with local
partners, we have to invest
mutually to achieve the stan-
dards that our products and
services require. This includes
know-how transfer.
How will the Merck Capacity
Advancement Programme
(CAP) contribute to improving
Kenyas healthcare system?
The CAP for diabetes is an
important part of our corporate
responsibility agenda. The
ve-year programme aims to
improve accessibility and quality
of diabetes healthcare in Africa,
and builds mainly on strong
stakeholder engagement and
long-term partnerships.
The goal of this initiative is
very simple: helping the
population to better understand
how diabetes can be recognised,
and enabling physicians provide
the most appropriate therapy.
This will not only help the
people, but also reduce the
long-term costs for the Kenyan
healthcare system.
What has been the experience of
doing business in Kenya
vis--vis other African coun-
tries, for instance, in terms of
policies and regulations?
Regarding regulatory bodies
and institutions in general,
Kenya took the right direction
when it voted for devolution in
2013. Increasing institutional
maturity will now be decisive for
Kenyas long-term economic
success.
Governments urged to regulate food like cigarettes
By PIPPA STEPHENS
The food industry should be
regulated like the tobacco industry as
obesity poses a greater global health
risk than cigarettes, say international
groups.
Consumers International and the
World Obesity Federation are calling
for the adoption of more stringent
rules, including pictures on food
packaging of damage caused by
obesity, similar to those on cigarette
packets.
The Food and Drink Federation said
the food industry was working to
make healthy options for consumers.
The two organisations CI and
WOF said governments around the
world should impose compulsory
rules for the food and drink industry.
They said global deaths due to
obesity and being overweight rose
from 2.6 million in 2005 to 3.4 million
in 2010.
The new rules could include
reducing the levels of salt, saturated
fat and sugar in food, improving food
served in hospitals and schools,
imposing stricter advertising
controls, and educating the public
about healthy eating.
Articial trans-fats should be
removed from all food and drink
products within ve years, said the
recommendations.
Governments could review food
prices, introduce taxes, change
licensing controls and start new
research to make this happen, the
report said.
Luke Upchurch at Consumers
International said they were asking
for the same level of global treaty
as the tobacco industry faced.
He said: We want to avoid a
situation like the 1960s, where the
tobacco industry were saying there is
nothing wrong with cigarettes, they
are good for our health, and 30 or 40
years later, millions have died.
He said the new rules would be at
the highest level of global
agreement, meaning governments
would be legally required to
implement them, instead of being
able to opt out, which he said was the
situation at the moment. BBC
We also partner with various
institutions to work on state-of-
the-art medical innovations and
education.
Kenya is part of our Praziqu-
antel donation programme,
where Merck donates medica-
tion for school children to
eliminate the widespread
tropical worm disease schistoso-
miasis.
We work with local distribu-
tors as key partners in our supply
chain for pharmaceuticals,
chemicals and life sciences
products. Together, we invest to
ensure that local partners can
comply with global standards
and quality requirements in
storage and logistics.
You see, Merck has come to
Kenya to stay.
Has the entry of the rm made
drugs cheaper for Kenyans in
terms of pricing?
One of the big problems in
the African pharmaceutical
market is the large amount of
substandard and fake drugs.
These are creating problems in
public health.
At Merck, we do not believe
that the focus should be on
being as cheap as possible, but
on providing high-quality
medicine at the right price. And
Merck has been known for
centuries for its quality stan-
dards.
What we see is that non-
communicable diseases like
diabetes are progressing quickly
in Kenya, and also the rest of
Africa. With our long-standing
experience in ghting these
diseases, we believe we can bring
solutions to the country.
That is why we are fully
committed to partnering with
the Government, healthcare
institutions, academics and
other stakeholders to help
increase access to health
solutions.
We started our diabetes
awareness campaigns earlier this
year. And with our minilabs we
support authorities in the ght
against counterfeit medicines.
With the help of pre-dened
test kits, pharmacists or lab
technicians can identify inferior
and counterfeit medicines
rapidly and reliably.
How signicant is the local
market compared to other
emerging markets?
As a more than 340-year-old
family-owned business, we tend
to think in generations.
Investing in other emerging
markets like Russia or China
would denitely bring a much
OBESITY RISKS:
Merck CEO Karl-Ludwig Kley.
BIG BREAK:
By JACKSON OKOTH
O
ne morning seven years
ago, the price of a loaf of
bread hit one million
Zimbabwean dollars.
This economic meltdown hit
Mr Rob Nursten, then 58,
particularly hard. He had
thought he would be living out
his years comfortably in
retirement, not watching the
billions he had accumulated
become worthless.
Mr Nurstens entrepreneurial
journey had seen him rise to the
top of Zimbabwes corporate
ladder; he was a risk taker and an
enterprising businessman.
For years, he had owned of a
ourishing auto workshop that
carried out repair services on the
vehicle eets of all major
Zimbabwean companies.
He later sold off the business
and got into the building,
construction and telecommuni-
cations sector, and in 1994,
Currency crash: Rob Nursten found
lifeline in Nairobi after he was forced
out of retirement when his life
savings were rendered insignicant
FRESH START:
became a pioneer in Internet
services in Zimbabwe.
I nally decided to sell this
business to Econet Wireless and
retired from the corporate world
and took up shing, my favourite
pastime, said Mr Nursten.
He retired condent he had
accumulated enough money to
cushion himself, his wife and
daughter, who currently lives in
South Africa, in his sunset years.
But his condence did not
last long.
DOLLAR CRISIS
On June 25, 2007, Zimbabwe
woke up to one of the worst
currency crises recorded in
modern times.
In a state of panic, Zimba-
bweans began switching to
barter trade and foreign
currencies, such as neighbouring
South Africas rand, to survive
the hyperination and economic
meltdown.
Zimbabwes currency was
ofcially pegged at Z$250 to one
US dollar, but the informal
market price was about
Z$100,000 to US$1. When the
local currency crashed, the rate
hit Z$400,000 against US$1.
All my life savings became
worthless because of the
Zimbabwean dollar crisis, said
Nursten.
Purses and wallets became
redundant as Zimbabweans
began using shopping bags,
suitcases, sacks and large
containers to carry cash.
And just when he hit a point
of deep despair, Nursten, now
65, got a lifeline.
I got a call from someone in
Kenya who wanted to hire me as
general manager at a local bus
company to oversee the
servicing of their vehicles.
He took up the opportunity,
eager to regain what he had lost.
And he is glad he did.
I like the people here and the
individual freedoms enjoyed,
which are far better than in
Zimbabwe, he said.
While working at the bus
rm, Nursten noticed the market
potential in Kenya.
I saw thousands of small
retail shops selling essentials,
and this is when an idea struck; I
needed to nd a product that
could be sold here. I eventually
By PAUL KARIUKI
There is a saying that life begins
at 40, and Mary Wangari Ndichu,
44, is a rm believer in it.
Up until four years ago, she and
her husband, James Ndichu, 48,
were struggling to get by. The
residents of Mzee Wanyama area
on the outskirts of Nakuru town
suffered innumerable sleepless
nights, worrying about how they
and their three children would
survive the following day on a
meager income.
Several times they went to bed
with just porridge in their bellies,
and sometimes they did not have
even that luxury.
Ms Wangari was a primary
school teacher for six years, but
Land deals lift couples pay from
Sh1,500 monthly to Sh300,000
got it popped maize.
I sent my plans overseas for
approval and then bought a
Sh400,000 hand-made machine
to process the product.
Soon, Yalika Ltd, a food
processing and packaging
company situated in Nairobi
along Mombasa Road, was born.
MAIN CHALLENGES
It was not easy to get started
as the machine had many faults,
which forced Nursten to replace
parts, and redesign, strip and
reassemble it into what it is now.
He also needed more funding
from his partners, who included
his brother who lives in the
United Kingdom.
But eventually, everything
aligned just right.
The Yalika plant currently
employs 12 people, split into
four groups of three each who
work in eight-hour shifts. The
machines processing capacity is
480 kilos of maize a day.
On the list of main chal-
Worthless billions:
Zimbabwean rebuilds
ruined empire in Kenya
Rob Nursten, 65, the founder of Yalika Ltd, a food processing and packaging
company based in Nairobi.
lenges facing this business is the
supply of good maize, a situation
that has forced me to use a third
party to grade and clean the
maize and for this I pay a
premium, said Nursten.
Cooking gas, used to preheat
the cooking machine, is also an
expensive input.
But the enterprising Zimba-
bwean is no stranger to chal-
lenges, and he is determined to
make Yalika, whose prices start
at Sh10, a household name.
On the day of the interview,
he was preparing to ship a
consignment of the popped
maize, which has nothing added
but salt, to the Nairobi County
Government and the mayor of
Denver, USA.
His advice to entrepreneurs?
Even when the walls come
crushing down around you, do
not look back step forward
and position yourself, and if you
are in the right place, you will
succeed.
jokoth@standardmedia.co.ke
Business Beat
12
Nowadays, land is a thorny issue. One
should be cautious with whom theyre
dealing with,
MaryWangari NdichuMaina
>> ENTREPRENEURS
opted to resign from the Govern-
ments payroll after being forced
to ee her home following an
outburst of post-election clashes.
It was not until 2010 when the
couple opened a general merchan-
dise shop that they kissed poverty
goodbye.
FEW OPTIONS
Back then, the couple lived in a
house with a shop front in Tabuga
village, which is along the busy
Nakuru-Lanet road. After a couple
of years of working odd jobs to get
by, they decided they had to do
something to stop living from
hand to mouth.
They did not have much by way
of savings, but they were ready to
start with what they had.
They pooled what they could
from Mr Ndichus income of
Sh1,500 a month as a daytime
watchman at a saw mill, and from
other sources, and opened a shop
with Sh5,000 in capital.
There were other well-estab-
lished shops in the area selling the
same things they were, so most
months they recorded depressed
sales. But with few other options
available to them, the couple kept
the shop open. With time, the shop
began to record prots.
Their big break came in the
form of an unusual customer early
last year.
The woman came by the shop
and asked Wangari if she knew
anyone selling plots in the area.
Wangari had heard of a man
selling land nearby and asked the
customer to leave her contacts
behind. She called the seller who
asked her to tell her customer to
be at the shop the following day.
The woman and the seller
sealed a deal a day later. To thank
Wangari for sending a customer
his way, the man stopped by her
shop and gave her Sh20,000.
DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT
It turned out that the man was a
broker and had several plots he
was looking to sell in the area. The
couple entered a pact with him,
and their nancial situation
improved dramatically.
For every plot or property they
sell, the couple gets a 10 per cent
commission.
With their proceeds, they have
been able to purchase their own
plot and put up a house valued at
Sh1.2 million. They are also
constructing single and double
rooms for rent, as well as
self-contained units.
Further, they have got into land
brokerage, buying plots at low
prices, developing them and
selling them later at a prot.
The Ndichus also moved their
shop to a new location that has
more trafc, which has improved
its protability. But it still does
not top their earnings as brokers.
They can rake in anything
between Sh300,000 and
Sh400,000 on average in a month,
they said.
To cap their success, the couple
bought their rst car, which they
are still learning to drive.
However, they urge those
aspiring to get into their line of
business to be careful.
Nowadays, land is a thorny
issue. One should be cautious with
whom theyre dealing with and
verify that the land in question is
not a public utility, or at the centre
of a family or ownership dispute,
said Wangari.
Also, prospective buyers should
always make site inspections and
check land details with the
relevant authorities before
committing to buy property.
By FRANKLINE SUNDAY
I
n just over a months time,
you might nd yourself
unable to board a matatu if
you do not have a Near Field
Communication-enabled card as
Kenyas public transport system
makes the nal shift to cashless
payments.
The National Transport and
Safety Authority (NTSA) deadline
requiring all passenger service
vehicles to exclusively use a
cashless fare system lapses on
July 1.
Matatu operators and the
respective Saccos are currently
doing test runs on their units
and eets, and we expect that on
the material date, a good
number of matatus will be able
to go live and continue normal
operations, Mr Simon Kimutai,
the Matatu Owners Association
(MOA) chairman told Business
Beat last week.
MAGIC BULLET
The directive is expected to
go live in the capital rst, before
being rolled out in phases
throughout the country.
Matatu owners are optimistic
that electronic modes of
payment of bus fare in public
transport vehicles will be the
magic bullet that streamlines the
chaotic industry, which is worth
an estimated Sh205 billion.
The late Transport minister
John Michuki is best remem-
bered for his efforts to reform the
Matatus test cashless
units as deadline nears
Final shift: New
system to help
reduce cases of
bribery on roads
REFORMS:
public transport sector by
introducing stiff by-laws.
The Michuki Rules were put
in place in March 2004 and
required that all PSVs be clearly
marked and tted with safety
belts and speed governors.
Matatu crews were further
required to have a standardised
uniform, with drivers directed to
display a photo of themselves in
their vehicles in a position
clearly visible to passengers.
The rules brought a new
dawn in the sector, with some
reports stating that road
accidents reduced by up to 70
per cent in the rst year of
enforcement.
This remained the best effort
to reform the sector, until now.
Matatu owners lose a lot of
money through extortion from
cartels, bribes to police or even
embezzlement by employees
since the sector is very liquid and
the crews are often in control of
large sums of money on a daily
basis, said Mr Kimutai.
With NFC, an operator will
be able to collate the payments
collected by his crew, who will no
longer carry cash, reducing
incidences of bribery on the
road.
FINANCIAL WOES
This, however, is not the rst
time that Kenya has tried
organising its public transport
system through digitising fare
payments.
Megarider, the earliest form
of a cashless fare system, saw
commuters buy monthly scratch
cards that were redeemable in
the then vibrant Kenya Bus
Services (KBS) vehicles.
The system, which was
popular in the 90s, enjoyed
success until it was quietly
phased out as a string of
nancial woes hit KBS and led to
its eventual collapse.
In 2009, Tata Motors and the
then ministry of Nairobi
Metropolitan Development
launched Smart Buses, an idea
that became stillborn after
large-scale deployment became
impractical.
This time, however, both the
Government and private sector
believe cashless payments will
work.
Google, through its product
BebaPay launched in partnership
with Equity Bank, leads a
growing list of telcos and
nancial providers including
Safaricom, Family Bank,
MasterCard and Visa keen on
tapping into the opportunities in
the sector.
fsunday@standardmedia.co.ke
DIGITAL PAYMENTS <<
Matatu owners lose a lot of money
through extortion from cartels, bribes
to police or even embezzlement by
employees, Simon Kimutai
13
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14
By JACKSON OKOTH
B
ank customers who will not have
collected their new chip ATM cards by
May 31 could have their current
magnetic stripe versions disabled.
This is in an attempt to provide the
impetus some customers need to collect the
more secure Europay MasterCard Visa (EMV)
cards.
During a spot check last week at the debit
cards section at the City Hall branch of
Co-operative Bank, as well Equity and Kenya
Commercial Bank head ofces, which
normally have high numbers of retail
customers, Business Beat found just a
handful at people being served.
We are going to disable the old cards and
this is what will force those who have not
come to collect their cards to come forward,
said Mr James Kamau, an ofcer at one of
the leading retail banks in the city.
But even as the clock ticks towards the
deadline, the manual parts of the migration
to chip and pin cards are complicating the
process.
For instance, some banks are having their
staff manually sort out the cards, which has
seen some customers with similar names or
initials end up with the wrong card.
And if one is issued with the wrong
payment card, it is retained at the point
where the error was detected, forcing
customers to go back to their branch to sort
out the problem, a laborious and time
consuming undertaking.
LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE
Further, customers have to pick the new
cards from the branches where their
accounts are domiciled, which can be a
physical limitation and logistical nightmare
for both banks and customers.
Mr Jabu Basapo, Visas country manager
for Southern and East Africa, earlier said he
expects the distribution of EMV cards to take
up to three months and will depend on the
availability of customers.
Ms Jane Mbogho, 30, is among those yet
to pick the more secure cards. She opened
her account when she worked in Nairobis
Upper Hill area, but now works in Kisumu.
I have heard that I have to pick my new
card from the branch where I opened my
account, but Im not sure when I will be in
Nairobi next, so Im forced to wait, she said.
Besides, I havent seen my bank advertis-
ing that the new cards are ready yet, so Im
assuming they are not. They havent sent me
an email or text either. I dont want to
commit to making the journey to my branch,
only to be disappointed,
Other customers have put off migrating
because they have underestimated the
importance of the shift.
I dont know what it is I know my
bank migrated a while back and has told its
customers to pick the new cards. I think Im
waiting for the last-minute rush, or for a
good reason to suffer the inconvenience of
going to pick my card, said Mr Reuben
Kariuki, 39.
But if it is true that my card will be
disabled, then of course Ill rush to pick it
and queue a whole day if I have to. I think its
just laziness, but as it is right now, I dont
honestly foresee myself going to change my
Pick new chip cards
Security: Some banks
are expected to disable
magnetic stripe cards
from Monday in a bid to
enforce move to more
secure payment cards
FIGHTING FRAUD:
>> EMV MIGRATION
70%
The percentage of cards in Kenya that
have been converted to pin and chip
technology.
Central Bank Governor
Njuguna Ndungu.
I know
my bank
migrated
a while
back and
has told its
customers
to pick the
new cards.
I think Im
waiting for
the last-
minute
rush, or
for a good
reason
to suffer
the incon-
venience
of going
to pick my
card.
EMV MIGRATION <<
We are going to disable the old cards and
this is what will force those who have not
come to collect their cards to come forward,
James Kamau
15
Business Beat
lest youre unable to make ATM withdrawals
card. After all, it still works.
The trouble with the magnetic stripe
cards, however, is that they are easy to
duplicate and can be used to make fraudu-
lent purchases. The EMV cards have better
data encryption, making them difcult to
copy.
Further, from June 1, banks will bear the
cost of any fraudulent purchases made using
a customers magnetic stripe card, which
may force them to take drastic action once
the liability shifts.
Mrs Alice Musau, 66, had her savings
stolen by fraudsters last year, and is still
battling with her bank to get a refund.
When I saw an advert from the bank
asking me to upgrade my ATM card, I did it
that day. Last year, I lost about Sh200,000
from my account after someone used a copy
of my card to withdraw funds. I never, ever
want to go through that again, she said.
PHASE OUT
According to the Kenya Bankers Associa-
tion (KBA), more than 70 per cent of the
cards in Kenya had been converted to chip
and pin technology, and certied EMV-
compliant by Visa or MasterCard. But it is
still too soon to know how many of these
cards are in customers hands.
Central Bank had set March this year as
the deadline for EMV migration before it was
postponed to May 31. By this date, all banks
are expected to phase out the magnetic
stripe cards in circulation.
KBA has attributed the non-compliance
by some banks to migrate payment cards to
the EMV standard to customers failing to
return their old cards to get those with the
new technology, and the stringent require-
ments institutions must meet to get
certied.
Notwithstanding the challenges, KBA has
promised to reinforce its commitment to
card security and customer protection.
Over the past couple of years, the
banking sector has increasingly fallen victim
to cybercrime and payment card fraud. With
the introduction of the new system, these
incidences are expected to decline, saving
the industry billions of shillings in losses and
restoring customer condence.
Business Beat
>> NSE COMMENTARY
16
NSE 20 Share Index -0.8% Dow Jones +63.19 (+0.38%) Nasdaq +31.47 (+0.76%) S&P 500 +8.04 (+0.42%) Oil +0.63% US$ -0.03%
4,925.58 16,606.27 4,185.81 1,900.53 $104.39 1 EUR = $ 1.3630
Source: NSE, SIB
CIC Insurance was last weeks top loser. At the close
of the week, the insurer announced plans for a
rights issue, and set July 30 as the date for bonus
pay (1:5), StandardInvestment Bank
Stock Price % week on week % year to date
Safaricom 12.95 0.8% 19.4%
Equity Bank 39.75 1.9% 29.3%
KCB 46.75 0.0% -1.1%
EABL 279.00 -6.1% -3.8%
Express 5.70 14.0% 46.2%
Unga 29.50 13.5% 63.9%
Kakuzi 145.00 9.8% 52.6%
Longhorn 14.00 7.7% 3.7%

CIC Insurance 9.95 -11.6% 67.2%
Standard Group 32.25 -7.9% 24.0%
Carbacid 31.00 -7.5% -39.8%
Kenya Airways 11.85 -7.4% -9.2%
Kenya
Airways
lost 7.4 per
cent ahead
of its 2014
nancial
year results
next month.
The airline
received
a reprieve
following
measures
proposed
by the
Government
to assist
the tourism
sector.
The NSE 20 Share Index went down 0.8 per
cent last week, while the NSE All Share Index slid
a further 0.9 per cent (from -0.5 per cent
previously). Equity turnover declined for the
second consecutive week to Sh4.5 billion
compared to the previous weeks Sh5 billion.
Foreign investors turned net buyers despite
recording the lowest net inows in the year to
date at Sh38.4 million compared to last weeks
net outows of Sh130.2 million.
KCB was unchanged during the week as the
leading recipient of net inows. Safaricom
registered the highest net outows for the
second straight week, with local investors
providing support, leading the telco 0.8 per cent
higher from the previous week.
Having released rst half of 2014 results, Car
& General rose 4.5 per cent week on week (16.7
per cent year to date) despite issuing a slightly
negative outlook for the rest of the year. The
supplier of automotive and engineering products
recorded a 93.7 per cent annual jump in earnings
per share to Sh1.80. The performance was
supported by recovery in demand for products.
Shedding 11.6 per cent, CIC Insurance was
last weeks top loser. At the close of the week,
the insurer announced plans for a rights issue,
and set July 30 as the date for bonus pay (1:5).
Kenya Airways lost 7.4 per cent ahead of FY14
results next month. The airline received a
reprieve following measures proposed by the
Government to assist the tourism sector.
This week, Kakuzi and NBK will close their
books for dividend pay on May 30, while TPS and
Co-op Bank will close theirs on May 28 and May
29, respectively. Standard Investment Bank
Top Gainers
Top Movers
Top Losers
NSE 20 Index 149.80
Equity turnover Sh482.2 million
Shares traded 13,587,000
Market capitalisation Sh2.086
Statistics as at May 23, 2014
Friday 30
th
May
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KENYA MAMBO POA INAKULETEA....
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