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Politics CORDs dilemma over House committees
Signs of trouble emerged this week as a leadership contest raged between its most senior leaders in Parliament. Sources told The Standard On Saturday that Leader of the Minority Francis Nyenze (Wiper) and his deputy Jakoyo Midiwo (ODM) were pulling in different directions on the naming of members to the House ...
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Politics Jubilee want Standing Orders amended after row with CORD
CORD tooth and nail on the issue because it needed to secure positions for key supporters. Having faced down the threat of a boycott, the ruling coalition forced the Opposition to accept a deal in which it will chair just two ...
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Lifestyle Lectures warn SRC over pay
pay hike. UASU Secretary General Muga Kolale (pictured) said for many years, the Government has underpaid lecturers in public universities despite churning out millions of professionals for the job market. "The salaries we currently earn were negotiated, agreed upon and registered in the Industrial Court. We will not allow a review downwards but will press for increments," he said. Mr ...
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American missionary priest in Kenya suspended in dispute over control of hospitals
An American missionary priest in Kenya who became embroiled in a legal dispute over the ownership of hospitals has been suspended from the priesthood. The Maryknoll Society suspended Father William Charles Fryda after he refused to drop a lawsuit he filed three years ago against Cardinal John Njue and Sister Marie Therese Gachamab, superior of the Assumption Sisters in Nairobi. He charges that ...
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Kenya Senate told of plot to derail devolution
Devolution could be crippled by lack of common understanding on its implementation and rival interpretation of laws guiding it, a Senators' retreat ...
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Kenya Balala pledges strict mining policies
Balala said no person or agency shall be licensed unless they prove they are competent and able to deliver. He promised to ensure transparency in management of natural resources and to promote Kenya as a mining destination. "We shall not give licenses to speculators. To explore any mineral the investors must prove their resource base to complete the job and deliver on the deal," he ...
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Kenya Row over plan to hire county police chiefs
Divisions are growing among senior officers over whether to apply for the Assistant Inspector General positions before the May 28 deadline. Potential applicants feel under pressure to "take sides" in the power struggle between the ...
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Kenya Bungoma residents recount losses
Bungoma . After all, I was born and raised here. Most of my schooling was also in this County. But it does not take more than five minutes to realise that this is not the same town I grew up in. Something has changed in the years since I was here ...
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Kenya Anger over slow police probe on Bungoma killings
Bungoma 's Kware village in early April. No other charges have been brought over the dozens of other attacks, including those that ended in ten murders. In an exclusive interview with The Standard On Saturday at ...
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Opinion Kenya needs laws against torture
One of the key reforms introduced in 2010 with the adoption of the new Constitution was the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading ...
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Columns Are Kenyan voters like pigs
At its finest, surrealism fuses the gap between imagination and reality, the image and the referent. The mess on Parliament Road this week, indeed, invited you to reflect on the possibility that there could be a meeting point between the private mind of the human being - in any event the private mind of some human beings - and that of the pig. You may, of course, want to question the possibility ...
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Business Public spending devolution top Rotich Treasury agenda
Rotich said his ministry would prioritise allocations to line ministries to maximise on usage of funds allocated, an approach he strongly believes would sustain economic growth and create more jobs. ?We will also work with the private sector to ensure favourable environment for business,?? ...
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Kenya Ruto Denies ICC Shuttle Diplomacy
DEPUTY president William Ruto yesterday clarified that he is on "an official bilateral trip" to four African countries, as the Senate saw heated debate on the issue. Ruto denied claims he is on a shuttle diplomacy to gain support against the International Criminal Court where he and President Uhuru Kenyatta, together with radio journalist Joshua arap Sang are standing trial for crimes ...
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Kenya Uasin Gishu Reps Snub NCIC Peace Meeting
Uasin Gishu county assembly members yesterday boycotted a key meeting of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission which had been called to discuss peace, reconciliation and operations of counties. NCIC commissioner Fatuma Muhammed said the boycott did not augur well for the planned peace activities in the region. "Even if they have complaints, it would have been better to attend ...
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Check EACC Vetting On All PS Applicants
The Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission has expressed concern over the recruitment of Principal Secretaries. The EACC vetted 155 applicants and passed their advice to the Public Service Commission. The EACC is now worried that their recommendations may have been ignored, although the PSC is yet to announce the short list for President Kenyatta's consideration. Vice chairman Irene Keino ...
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Ann Waiguru Goes to Her Official Office
DEVOLUTION and Planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru formally took office yesterday and announced plans to re-organise her ministry. Waiguru, who was sworn in on Wednesday, said the former Planning and Vision 2030 docket and local government will be merged in her ministry. She was welcomed to her new office at Treasury Building by Planning PS Edward Sambili. A statement from the ministry ...
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MPs Asks Uhuru Not to Scrap Gender Ministry
WOMEN MPs have asked President Uhuru to reconsider his decision of scraping the Ministry of Gender. Kenya Women Parliamentary Association has said changing the Gender ministry into a department will undermine issues touching on women. "There is need to retain the ministry because eliminating will be for our gender war," Kewopa chairperson Cecily Mbarire said. Mbarire was speaking ...
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Man Admits Killing Kin Over Land
POLICE in Kitui yesterday arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly killing his elder brother over a land dispute and dumping the body in a pit latrine for about two and half months. A herder on Wednesday discovered the decomposing body of Musembi Musyoka ,57, who had gone missing since March 2, in the bush near the suspect's home. Villagers who arrived at the scene after the herds boy ...
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Watamu Beach Boys Accuse KWS
More than 300 beach operators in Watamu yesterday protested against harassment by Kenya Wildlife Service warden. They said their businesses have been affected. Speaking to the press in Malindi, their spokesman Mwema Ngonde said the officials extort money from them and arrest those who refuse to pay up. They said the harassment has continued despite a court order against KWS. Ngonde said they ...
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Three Killed in Fresh Mandera Attack
Three people were killed last night following fresh attacks in Mandera North. Two men and one woman were shot death in Malkamari division near the borderline with Ethiopia after a group suspected to be from Ethiopia attacked the village. The militia which is reportedly made up of members from the Garreh clan raided the border village last evening killing the three villagers said to be from the ...
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Kenya Counties to Maintain Class D and E Roads
The Kenya Roads Board has said it will restructure its operations and devolve part of its mandate to county governments in line with the new dispensation. Speaking in Bomet yetsrday, the board's chairman Joel Wanyoike said the county government will be in charge of the class D and E roads. He said Kenya Rural roads Authority and Kenya Urban Roads authority, which are the board's ...
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Kenya Kenyan Traders Told to Increase AGOA Exports
Kenya' small scale entrepreneurs have been challenged to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the African Growth and Opportunity Act to access the American market. African Cotton and Textiles Industries Federation chief executive Officer Rajeev Arora said since Kenya currently exports less than thirty products yet the trade deal offers a market for more than 6,400 products from ...
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Kenya reviewed on torture reforms
There are two sides to the human rights story in Kenya and one of them deals with reports of torture and cruel treatment, the United Nations was told. Kenyan Attorney General Githu Muigai briefed a U.N. committee against torture from Geneva. He said there have been major improvements in Kenya's human rights record in terms of how it applies U.N. conventions on torture and ill-treatment. ...
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Kenya JSC wants judge who acquitted Pattni probed
Goldenberg criminal charges. JSC stated that it had cleared the judge of eight out of the 11 allegations but had found sufficient grounds to petition the President to form a tribunal to ...
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World Financial Times website Twitter feed compromised
Financial Times were hacked on Friday, apparently by the "Syrian Electronic Army", a group of online activists who say they support Syrian ...
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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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