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Kiambu Reps Approve Kabogo Move to Thika
The Kiambu County Assembly has approved Governor William Kabogo's move to temporarily relocate to Thika town for 6 months. A motion brought to the floor of the House by Ngewa ward representative Karungo wa Thangwa opposing the move was shot down by a majority of the members. "The members did not discuss it," Thangwa said. Kiambu town was gazetted as the county headquarters. ...
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MP Demands End to Goldenberg Schemes
An MP wants the National Assembly to set up an ad hoc committee to investigate the reappearance of Goldenberg related activities. In a motion to be tabled in the House, James Opiyo (Ugunja) wants the government to ensure that no further irregular payments are effected in regard to such schemes to avoid further loss of public money. The move comes after retired Ghanian Judge Edward Torgbor ...
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Governor Nkedianye Unveils Nine Kajiado Cabinet Nominees
KAJIADO governor David Nkedianye yesterday unveiled his cabinet nominees. Speaker Johnson Osoi is expected to forward the list to his committee on appointments and eventually to the assembly for vetting. Nkedianye also handed to the speaker another list of his nominees for the County Public Service board. The nominees are Ali Kisipan (education, gender, youth, culture and social services), ...
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Kenya Senate Has No Say in Revenue Bill Says Muturi
Speaker of the National Assembly Justin Muturi yesterday saidthe Senate has no role in scrutinising the Division of Revenue Bill as required by the standing orders and the Public Finance Management Act. The ruling came after Suba MP John Mbadi sought clarification on Tuesday on whether the Senate has the power to amend the Bill that had already been passed by the National Assembly. Mbadi's ...
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Kenya Insurance Firms Prices Not Reflecting Bullish Market
The Nairobi all share rallied 1.744% to close at a fresh all time record high. The all share is +35.916% in 2013. The all share has accelerated +8.075% higher over the last four weeks. The Nairobi NSE20 improved 4.89 points to close at 4983.54 and is within 1% of its 57-month closing high reached in early April. The NSE20 IS +20.5661% this year. The rally has been led by the big cap counters ...
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Kenya University student shot
The student is in a stable condition in hospital with a bullet lodged in the stomach. Police and witnesses say the student was walking to his hostel in the area when he met four men playing on the road. "The attackers had been doing press ups on the road and the student thought they were fellow students until he ...
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The Nairobian Who will cure Kenyans greed
greed y the society has become. Why did the victim empty her account which had Sh5 million to buy seeds worth Sh34,000 per kilo? She could have first tested the market with just that one kilo but she ...
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Kenya Major police operation underway in Daadab
operation that is jointly conducted by GSU, regular and Administration police officers is also meant to recover firearms used in the killings. Northeastern PPO Charlton Muriithi said the government was determined to apprehend suspects and end insecurity in the ...
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Kenya Kenya seeks AU help to drop ICC charges against Kenyatta
Court (ICC) to drop crimes-against-humanity charges against its new president and his deputy, according to an African Union document seen on ...
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Kenya KWS land grabbed
grabbed . Owiti said that the over 100 acres were feeding grounds for giraffes, zebras, gazelles and hippos from the nearby lake. "We are perturbed by the move to subdivide this ...
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Politics Jubilee plotting to kill devolution says Raila
devolution through the creation of the Devolution Ministry and allocating it a whopping Sh84 billion. The two, who chaired separate parliamentary group meetings for the different parties namely ODM and Wiper respectively, faulted creation of the ministry. They argued that the funds allocated to the ministry should have instead been channeled to the 47 counties to facilitate ODM warned ...
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World US Boy Scouts to allow gay members
The resolution repealing the 22-year-old ban "reinforces that Scouting is a youth program, and any sexual conduct, whether heterosexual or homosexual, by youth of Scouting age is contrary to the virtues of Scouting," the Boy Scouts of America said in a ...
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World Islamists kill 21 in suicide attacks in Niger
The attacks suggested Malian groups, despite the French campaign, remained capable of complex strikes against high-profile targets in remote parts of the vast ...
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Lifestyle Cockroaches evolving to evade traps
American scientists found that the mutant cockroaches had a "reorganised" sense of taste, making them perceive the glucose used to coat poisoned bait not as sweet but rather as ...
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Kenyan shilling firms as end-month dollar demand wanes
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A fuel attendant handles Kenyan shilling notes at a petrol station in the capital Nairobi March 15, 2011. REUTERS/Noor ...
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Kenya politics Musalia Mudavadi and Eugene Wamalwa should rally behind Senator Watengula.
Western province over who should claim credit for the region political kingpin is set to bury Musalia Muadavadi the son of the former King of Mululu, Moses Substone Mudamba Mudavadi who was prone to political con men and missed the boat in the March 4th General Election once again as he missed in ...
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Ongwae Objects to Revenue Cut
KISII Governor James Ongwae yesterday accused the national government of reducing the amount of money allocated to the county. He said his government was expecting to receive more than Sh6 billion but the Commission for Revenue Allocation reduced the money to Sh5.1 billion. "I am extremely displeased with the National government for reducing the money allocation for the county in this ...
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Kenya IEBC Wants Political Parties Act Amended
THE Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission is now considering an amendment to the Political Parties Act to change the way of calculating funding for the parties. The Act provides that political parties funding should be computed on the basis of election votes. The new proposed formula is based on the number of elected representatives that each party has. Political parties have been ...
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Kenya I Cant Lock Out Herders - Tseikuru Official
The deputy county commissioner of Tseikuru district in Kitui has said he no legal authority to stop livestock traders from pastoralist communities from trading in his area. Speaking to the Star in his office, Stephen Momanyi said there was pressure from the Mwingi North MP John Munuve to block herds from North Eastern province and neighbouring Tana River county. Momanyi said he does not have a ...
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Body of Missing Man Found in Thika Dam
The body of man believed to have been killed and dumped in a dam in on the Del Monte pineapple plantation in Thika has been retrieved. Said Ndung'u, 28, had been missing since Sunday. His elder brother, Ali Mungai, who arranged a search party, said he was informed by friends that Ndung'u had been arrested by plantation security guards. Mungai said he was told the guards were beating ...
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Kenya Cabinet Technocrats in for Huge Surprise
Despite the signs of enthusiasm I see all around in support of our new cabinet of technocrats, I remain skeptical that this experiment in governance will work. To illustrate my reservations, I shall use the examples of the two eminent bankers who have been appointed to the cabinet: Mr Adan Mohamed who was previously the regional CEO at Barclays Bank and now has the industrialization docket; and ...
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Kenya Half of Embu Executive Committee Sworn-in
Only four members of Embu county executive committee were sworn in yesterday after the other nominees were rejected by the county assembly. Embu governor Martin Wambora had not replaced the rejected nominees. The members sworn in are David Njiru (Infrastructure), Patrisio Njeru (Agriculture and Natural Resources), Emily Thaara (Women and Youth Empowerment) and John Njagih (Finance). The ...
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Kenya Bondo MP Wants Residents to Invest in Real Estate
BONDO MP Gideon Ochanda has urged his constituents to take advantage of real estate opportunities brought by the increasing number of institutions of higher learning in the region. He said with the increasing number of colleges in the region, accommodation issues have now become the greatest challenge hence the need to put up as many housing facilities as possible. The legislator lamented that ...
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Meeting Examines Kenya’s Peaceful Elections
2007 contest--reflects structural reforms in Kenya's political system, a new electoral alliance between former political foes and internationally supported work to prevent the return of mass violence, according to a panel of specialists who gathered at ...
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Kenya Kenya Honours Chinua Achebe in Symposium
"The policy of frustrating great African minds involved in Africa's noblest project of deconstructing and invalidating paraded Eurocentric notions about Africa did not end with Anta Diop and Kwame Nkrumah. In its most savage application with the attendant ethno-racial contemptit was practised on Chinua Achebe" - Tribute to Chinua Achebe: The Patriarch of African Literature, ...
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Kenya leading the world on credit access
Kenya has been hailed by the World Bank as a world leader in financial innovation, revamping its financial services sector in such a way that access for the poor to micro-loans is made easier, providing the means to independence and future prosperity.
Proponents of micro-loans argue that they are a significant means of lifting the poor out of poverty and providing them with the means by which to develop financial independence. When one considers that Kenya has a population in which around 56% of people live below the poverty line, the government’s efforts to increase access to credit and financial services for the poor becomes poignant. Read more
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