Karachuonyo Bursary devolved to HELB

Students in Karachuonyo are stranded after finding out that they can no longer get access to their yearly bursaries just because the funds have been devolved to Higher Education Loan Board, some of the students were perplexed after visiting the CDF office at A Law Rachuonyo to pick forms for the same only to be told that the forms can be found in Nairobi anniversary Towers Helb Office. They were not given explanations on how the new devolved system works but were told that bursary will no longer be free but will be a loan which will be refunded at a rate that is not specified. This kind of partnership never put into consideration the middle colleges students that are not under the support of HELB therefore their fate in education is diverted to the den of roaring lions since they depend on the peanut bursary funds being allocated to them annually. They are now pleading with the owner of Karachuonyo CDF who is the area MP to consider them and help them to continue with their studies and have their ambitions achieved.

Jubilee MPs are piling pressure on Leader of Majority
Aden Duale to step aside over the promised list of
terrorist sympathisers.
Close to 10 MPs led by TNA chairman Johnstone
Sakaja said northeastern leaders were taking too long
to produce the list while Nominated MP (TNA) Maison
Leshoomo said Mr Duale (right) should step aside
until he is able to produce it.
“If he knows who is behind the terror attacks, why is
he taking so long to give us the list?” she said at a
press briefing at Parliament yesterday.
However, some MPs from the coalition disassociated
themselves from the statement, saying it would cause
divisions and affect the war on corruption.
Mr Jamleck Kamau, Mr Kimani Ichungwa and Moses
ole Sakuda said Mr Duale and leaders in northeastern
had show commitment in the fight against terrorism.
Two weeks ago, Mr Duale and other leaders from
northeastern promised to produce a list of terrorists
and their sympathisers within 30 days.
TERRORISTS IN HIS COMMUNITY
Mr Duale said he only offered to provide a list of
terrorists in his community.

GREAT MOVE TO HOMA BAY COUNTY

Significant strides made to improve homa bay county citizen's lives.
300 incubators in 40 wards. 6 per ward.
8 tractors were bought to the 8 sub-counties to subsidize rates at which farmers can afford.
More than 1,000 business equipments e.g car washing machines, welding machines, salon, and kinyozi equipments, gas freezers for fishing, homa bay boda boda sacco facilitated with 1m and another 10m donated to the women sacco, okonyo welo market project, solar power connectivity,
Tom Mboya university college a constituent of Maseno university, more than 1,500 ECDE teachers employment, 40m bursary fund @ 1m per ward, construction of students hostel at sero polytechnic, village polytechnics equipped with learning materials to boost learning, deployment of trained community health workers, 2,714 community health workers employed to tackle the communicable diseases, Maternity units are under construction at Ndhiwa, Rangwe and Karachuonyo,  5 rural health facilities are now with electricity, bore holes are under construction on various sub- counties among others. These are projects that have been effected by our county government where others do keep on telling the public that nothing constructive goes on. Lets not just bark for the sake but always substantiate our allegations and critics. Thank you

WILL DUALE ADHERE TO THE CALL OF HIS MASTERS?

Jubilee MPs are putting more pressure on Leader of Majority Aden Duale to step aside over the promised list of terrorist sympathisers that he confirmed to have been in posession. Big number of MPs led by TNA chairman Johnstone
Sakaja said northeastern leaders were taking too long to produce the list while Nominated MP (TNA) Maison
Leshoomo said Mr Duale should step aside until he produces it. “If he knows who is behind the terror attacks, why is he taking so long to give us the list?” she said at a press briefing at Parliament yesterday.
However, some MPs from coalition who are the die-hards disassociated themselves from the statement, saying it would cause divisions and affect the war on corruption. Mr Duale said he only offered to provide a list of terrorists in his community. Will he adhere to that as he always ask people to do? Duale must now know and have in mind that the corruption knife cuts across and should not be pointed to one particular direction, Kenyans are not sacks of maize or charcoal to be on trade chain for individual's interest.

SAFARICOM TO SHUT DOWN MONEY TRANSACTIONS OVER THE WEEKEND

The over 19 million Kenyans who use M-Pesa for their financial transactions will be left stranded over the weekend. The popular mobile phone money transfer system will be shut down on Saturday and Sunday as Safaricom moves it from servers located in Germany to Kenya.
That means that sending and receiving money, loading up on mobile money from bank accounts, making purchases at petrol stations, supermarkets, bars and restaurants through Lipa na M-Pesa, and paying electricity, water, and other utility bills will be unavailable for the two days.
“We have begun the long-awaited journey to bring M-Pesa home,” said Ms Betty Mwangi, Safaricom’s general manager for financial services.
Borrowers who use the M-Shwari platform — a partnership between Safaricom and the Commercial Bank of Africa — and M-Kesho — the partnership
with Equity Bank — will also not be able to borrow or repay loans during the 48-hour period.
Transactions on Kenya Commercial Bank’s Mobi-Bank and M-Benki will also be interrupted because they are hosted by M-Pesa.
Safaricom customers will also not be able to change their personal identification numbers, activate their accounts or access bank accounts for those who use
their mobile phones for banking.
The Commercial Bank of Africa is the largest bank by customer numbers largely because of its over 10 million M-Shwari customers. Each day, M-Shwari processes 50,000 loans and by early March this year, the bank had given out Sh29 billion in loans.
M-Shwari has Sh153 billion in cumulative deposits from its over seven million active users. These, too, will be affected when the system will be temporarily
unavailable this weekend.
According to records from Safaricom, M-Pesa users paid Sh11 billion per month through Lipa Na M-Pesa and Pay Bill in the last financial year, meaning that
they transacted business worth on average Sh360 million daily.
Every second in the last financial year, which ended in March 2014, M-Pesa users carried out 260 transactions through the mobile money transfer
system.
They also carried out 440 airtime top-up transactions through the system. The number of transactions can only have increased in the last 12 months, meaning
that on the two days the service will be unavailable, millions of transactions will be on hold. However, Safaricom yesterday said that once the
upgrade is completed, its customers will enjoy faster transaction times while the system will be more
secure.

Senator Moses Kajwang's takes a bold step to help communities after his election

Hon. Moses Otieno Kajwang.


The Mombasa Tea Auction has operated like a cartel since 1957. It
facilitates the sale of 67% of the tea produced in Kenya and seven
other African nations. It has only 10 brokers who earn
commissions on all sales and who have been accused of fixing
prices to the detriment of tea farmers. These 10 brokers control
the tea export trade that accounts for 4% of the country’s GDP.
Today we visited the Auction as the Senate Committee on
Agriculture. We sought ways of enhancing transparency, efficiency
and competitiveness in the Auction with the ultimate aim of giving
tea farmers a better return.
We are glad to note that the Auction recently relaxed their rules for
registering new brokers; this will allow more players to be involved
in the intermediation of tea exports. We are also glad that the
auction is committed to implementing an e-auction platform; this
will provide a real time trading platform and reduce the risks of
price fixing and collusion by brokers.
Despite these positive gains, there is concern that the tea industry
requires urgent intervention to save farmers from opportunists.
There is also concern that some players blend our tea with inferior
teas thereby damaging the brand and flavor of the Kenyan tea in
international markets. The tax regime is also unfavorable, and as
Senate we will continue to broker discussions on reduction and
rationalization of some of the taxes that include Value Added Tax,
ad valorem tax and several other levies imposed by County
governments.
Tomorrow we will meet the State department of Fisheries to
establish the plans they have for the revitalization of fisheries at
the Coast and other strongholds like the Western Lake region.
It is my intention to bring the Senate Committee on Agriculture to
the Lake Victoria region to meet fishermen and to understand their
plight and aspirations. I will also be sponsoring amendments to the
Fisheries Management Act once it comes to the Senate from the
National Assembly.
My commitment to protect and promote our farmers and fisherfolk
has never been this strong!

Youths paid by section of MPs to intimidate James Raballah on social media

Account by Vincent Osaso is fake.

On Friday night, I received a call from James Wanga complaining that Vincent Osaso made a post that Gladys Wanga is to run for Homa Bay county gubernatorial seat come 2017.

Today morning, I got another call from Lavenda Ojallah also complaining that Vincent Osaso made post that he will revealing the secrets behind the wars between Gladys Wanga, Lavenda Ojallah and James Rege. I wish to state as follows;

Yes, my name is Vincent Osaso. I changed to Sasman Sasle just after the senatorial by elections.I earned this name from friends and colleagues who nicknamed me Sasman following the position and tough war I fought in favour of SPLM. I currently and will continue using the name Sasman Sasle.

The account by the name Vincent Osaso is fake. Have engaged an IT specialist and we have realised that it is being operated by one James Raballa Ja Kendu. Raballa must therefore stop tarnishing people's names in social media. I urge all my friends not to to accept friend requests from this account.

Raballa, you have 72 hours to deactivate that account or we engage authorities.

Thank you.
By sasman.

Following this serious allegation upon me, I take this opportunity to warn a group of people who are paid by politicians to tint my image that i will unmask you and your financiers if this trend continues, i have good relationship with the leaders named above and would not at any point wish to come into political conflict with them and so i will take an action either legal or illegal but this issue of painting my name every now and then must come to an end. You can not  on a daily basis use my name to please your leaders and this only comes after i have written and posted some dirty things about their masters, I clearly state that i own 1 Facebook Account and several Facebook pages and groups then i own one blog site so whoever feels by using my details in operating fake accounts will bring me down or cause frictions between me and my leaders, that you have failed and you should begin looking for other things to pin me down but not social way. I have no time operating fake accounts coz i do not gossip or talk of unconfirmed issues. Kindly may you do your safe politics and stop hanging on my coat or soiling my name, I repeat i will be answerable to posts made on my official page #James.Raballah my account and my blog  site raballah.blogspot.com (COUNTY TODAY) But will dismiss all these political malicious groups being linked to me. Let us play our politics maturely without causing senseless commotion and playing divide and rule theory so that we earn respect but i will also begin disrespecting the financiers since i know more about them and why they are doing this. Investigation is currently underway and these accounts will be permanently brought down. Have a blessed day.

COULD DP BE EYING THE DAADAB LAND?

Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto on Saturday gave the United Nations' refugee agency three months to relocate refugees from the Dadaab camp -- the world's largest -- to Somalia, or "we shall relocate them ourselves." "The way America changed after 9/11 is the way Kenya will change after Garissa," Ruto said in Nyeri, according to a statement from his office.
On Saturday, a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees officer said the agency had not received any formal request from Kenya's government about moving Dadaab. The U.N. refugee agency manages the Dadaab complex , having set up the first camps there in late 1991 amid Somalia's civil war.
The agency and the governments of both Kenya and Somalia agreed in 2013 on a process for the repatriation of Somali refugees. But that was supposed to be mutually agreed-upon and voluntary, in accordance with the refugees' "freely expressed wish and their relevant knowledge of the conditions" where they'd end
up, according to the pact.
None of those things, it seems, applies now to the move pushed by Ruto on Saturday. It's not clear where he expects the refugees to go, other than somewhere into Somalia and out of Kenya.
Any mass move would be a monumental task, disrupting the already difficult lives of more than 600,000 Somalis who call the camp their home. Simply meeting basic needs is a challenge in the vast complex, which has seen devastating droughts, contagious diseases and other travails that have tested its residents and those trying to help.
Still, as tough as conditions there are, they are seen as a better alternative to life back in Somalia, where Al-Shabaab is based and
has carried out violent attacks for years. DP Ruto must know that things are followed procedurally and he should not act as if he owns the world, he was against Raila's move to relocate the mau settlers and now he wants to relocate the refugees. We should stop playing politics all the time and look on the possible way to solve security issues. It makes no sense to erect 700km perimeter wall as people dies of famine.

A MAN ARRESTED AFTER BEING LINKED TO THE BLAZE SET ON MRS. OKELLO'S (MOTHER TO RONGO MP. DALMAS OTIENO) HOUSE

A man who is suspected to have been behind burning  down of a house
belonging to the mother-in-law of Rongo MP.Dalmas Otieno was on Friday arrested in Homa Bay County.
Mr Peter Odoyo Ogure, a 46-year-old a bicycle repairman, was arrested on suspicion of having set ablaze Mrs Elizabeth Okello's eight-roomed house.
Mrs Okello is the mother of Homa Bay county executive for Tourism and Sports Dorothy Atieno Otieno, the wife to the Rongo MP.
The incident in Kamasaba Village, Komolo location in Rangwe, Homa Bay saw property of unknown value destroyed. Mrs Okello was however not in the house at the time.
She was reported to have been in Kisumu where she was still recuperating after a mild stroke.
A neighbour, Harrison Adina said he woke up at night only to see the house on fire and sounded the alarm. “By the time villagers arrived, the roof had already
caved in,” he said.
Mzee Adina later reported the matter to police who swung into action.
Homa Bay County Police Commander John Omusanga said his officers were following crucial leads. “The suspect in custody is assisting our officers with
useful information that will help us unravel the incident,” he said.

KIKUYU CAMPUS TRAGEDY

One student was confirmed dead this Sunday morning following a stampede at the University of Nairobi's Kikuyu Campus.The stampede was caused by  the explosion of a power transformer which caused a terror scare among the students who were in their hostels thereby they were finding safe places for their lives resulting to some of them jumping from as far as 5th floor to the ground .
Several others were injured and rushed to Kenyatta National Hospital and other city hospitals.
While Confirming the death of the student, the university's Vice Chancellor Prof Peter Mbithi said 99 students were being treated at KNH. "141 others were being treated at various city hospitals." He added
The body of the dead student was transfered to Chiromo Mortuary.
The incident that occured at 4am caused confusion and panic as many students mistook the explosion for a terrorist attack following the recent attack at Garissa University that claimed 149 lives of innocent Kenyans.

NYC YOUTHS COMPROMISED TO BETRAY THEIR LEADERS.

It has been quiet tiresome activity to investigate and know why some of the youths who are member of National Youth Council have been fishy in their fight against their leaders in the same institution but as they say no secrecy within a group and all that are done in darkness must one day be exposed by the darkness after it has been overcome by the light intensity.  There has been a good fight between a group of some youths and the Youth Fund CEO and here is the reality that leads to that. Gaddafi Issivali, Eduardo Githaitha, Wachira Wambui were paid by Amiran Kenya each Kshs. 100k to help Amiran get green house tender at youth fund by black mailing the CEO and fighting the possible forces that may have blocked Amiran from winning the tender, they ensured the NYC chair is out of the office by uncertified misuse of the office claims ....
As if that cash was not enough to these youths, they were compromised and paid by Gor Semelango to undermine PS ENG. Mangiti and CS Anne Waiguru unfortunately their deal backfired since their claims to the named persons were of no evidence.
Amiran bought cars to the youth fund employees working at lending and investment departments to give them tenders last year but the board decided to favour local and youth owned companies instead of amiran which is owned by foreigners(Israel Citizens ). The youths must desist from such activities just by earning petty cash from individuals who earns big money for the purpose of their own benefits. Lets shame the devil now not tomorrow
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ODM REBEL MP COUGHT UP IN A LAND CASE

Rangwe MP George Oner Ogalo tampered with original documents
for land he was contracted to survey, a court heard on Wednesday.
Businessman Benson Riitho told the court that the MP made
alterations to the 50-acre land, which he then subdivided and sold
without consent. Mr Riitho was giving evidence in a criminal case
against Mr Oner at the Milimani Law Courts. He said: “I gave the
MP all original title deeds, including
money to be paid as tax.” Magistrate Edda Agade heard that the
money given to Mr Oner was never paid to the Kenya Revenue
Authority because there was no documentation to prove the
payment was made.
Mr Riitho said there were fraudulent transfers of his property in
Embakasi Nairobi instigated by the surveyor while he was
indisposed.
The witness said that he later wrote a letter on December 7, 2011,
asking for the original receipts paid to the Kenya Revenue
Authority by the accused but he did not get any.
The witness said he came to discover anomalies on Mr Oner’s
progressive report on the land after he went through the document
and found it was not
reflecting the reality on the ground. “The surveyor took advantage
of my bad health when I was in hospital between 2008 and 2011 to
subdivide
my land and illegally dispose of it. “When I got the progress report
from Oner’s company, I discovered that it could not tally,” he said.
The court heard that the sub-divisions and sale that were
purportedly done by the accused were later cancelled by the
Nairobi City Council through minutes
dated September 25, 2007, because authority and consent had not
been obtained.
SUB-DIVISION ILLEGAL
“The entire sub-division of the 50 acres of land was cancelled
because it was illegal,” said the witness. Mr Riitho said that the
accused sold more than 150 plots without his authority, forcing
him to seek legal
redress.
The MP is accused of making a document without authority. The
charge states that on March 6, 2008, with intent to defraud
businessman Benson Riitho Mureithi, he issued him with
documents for the cancellation of a
parcel of land in Embakasi area, which he purported to be
genuinely issued by the Kenya Revenue Authority.
The hearing continues on May 29.

Major blow to PDP party as governor Zachary Obado decamps to ODM

Party Hopping is specifically Kenyan political strategy of
failed politicians who cannot convince voters to vote them on their
own merit except through a popular political party. We know that
some of these hoppers are under investigations of grand
corruption accused of embezzling billions of public funds.
ODM has been accused by some of its members of selling
nomination certificates to the highest bidder whether they win
nominations or not.
Having known these weaknesses, the party hoppers are warming
up with blood money ready to bribe the voters and the party. This,
if allowed by ODM will break this party
The other way of doing business with the party is to convince ODM
to form a merger with other CORD affiliates so that they can bring
their little parties into the coalition so they can get automatic
tickets. Yes, this is both a possibility and likelihood particularly for
party leaders. BUT, and I mean but, if the opposition gets
engrossed in blood money and uses it to vet who contests what
seat, then you can bet straightaway that it will not form the next
government but if it forms it, it will be the most corrupt
Government Kenyans will ever see.

FORMER MUMIAS CEO DENIES CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS

A former Mumias Sugar executive has denied claims
that he opened an account that was operated by only
four directors of the company in a deal that saw
Sh1.2 billion lost.
While responding to a suit filed by the company, Mr
Chris Chepkoit, who was the finance director, denied
allegations that he had contacted Dubai Bank to open
an account in order to effect an agreement to import
Mr Chepkoit argued that the board's role is oversightsugar through a firm called Dantes Peak Limited
while that of management is to carry out policies and
execute set strategies hence requesting funds from a
bank was not their responsibility.

Former Embakasi MP Ferdinand Waititu is among 10
candidates that have been cleared to contest the
Kabete parliamentary by-election on May 4.
Independent Electoral and Boundary Commission
(IEBC) official Esther Wanjiku said Friday the last
candidate was cleared on Wednesday evening.
Mr Waititu will represent President Uhuru Kenyatta’s
Jubilee Alliance Party (JAP) and rights activist John
Wamagata will contest on a Safina ticket.
The other candidates are Mr Kavore Kariuki (Narc
Kenya), Mr Kiriro wa Ngugi (Democratic Party), Mr
Isaiah Ndirangu (Party of Democratic Unity), Mr
Newton Njenga (National Vision Party), Mr George
Mungai and Mr Moses Wachaga, (independent), Mr
Paul Kariuki (People’s Party of Kenya) and Mr Wilson
Karanja (ODM).
The seat fell vacant following the death in February
of Mr George Muchai, who was shot with his two
bodyguards and driver in Nairobi.
Mr Waititu is confident of easily winning the seat,
saying the area is a JAP stronghold.

The Commission on Administrative Justice has asked Parliament to ament four Acts to force elected leaders out of office when integrity issues are raised against them. Speaking after the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the commission and the Intergovernmental Standing Committee on Shipping, Ombudsman chairman Otiende Amollo said reviewing these pieces of legislation would compel elected leaders adversely mentioned in corruption cases to step aside and allow for investigations. Dr Amollo said there was a gap in dealing with the legislative arm of the government since the Executive does not have absolute powers to eject them from office. "It has become difficult to compel leaders in Parliament and counties to comply with the Executive directive of the President because of a legislation gap. "The only legitimate remedy is for Parliament to re- examine the laws dealing with corruption and integrity and put into place mechanisms stating that when you have been accused of corruption, you leave office pending investigation," he said.

Four armed robbery suspects were shot dead yesterday by the police in Ugunja. Police recovered an assortment of weapons from the suspects. The four are said to have been planning a robbery at a supermarket in the town. The public alerted undercover officers who responded. Ugunja deputy county commissioner Kipkech Lotiatia said the four were trying to flee when they were gunned down. “On sensing danger the suspects engaged police in a fierce gun battle before they were felled at Ngunya market,” Lotiatia said. He said police recovered an AK-47 rifle, a Ceska pistol, fake vehicle registration number plates, a stolen driving license and 18 bullets. The bodies were taken to Siaya County Referral Hospital Mortuary and the vehicle they were using, which police suspect was stolen, was towed to Ugunja divisional police headquarters. Lotiatia called on the public to embrace ‘Nyumba Kumi’ to support police effort in tackling crime.