The Acting President

The deputy president of Kenya William Ruto took to his official new role as the acting president.  This comes after the president appointed him yesterday as he was heading to the ICC today for the status conference at The Hague based court in Netherlands. President Uhuru Kenyatta decided to delegate his duties as the president to his deputy so that he can attend his case hearing as Mr. Kenyatta and not the president of the republic of Kenya. The president in his speech said that, “To protect the sovereignty of the Republic of Kenya, I now take the extraordinary and unprecedented step of invoking Article 147(3) of the Constitution. I will shortly issue the legal instrument necessary to appoint Hon. William Ruto, the Deputy President, as Acting President while I attend the status conference at The Hague, in the Netherlands.”

 
Indeed it is an extraordinary moment in kenya and Africa at large as there has never been any president that has ever done what Uhuru Kenyatta did. The acting president will be in office as the president and deputy at the same time until when the president returns from Netherlands.

Acting president in his new office at Harambee house.

Fire tragedy in Nandi County.

A mysterious fire gutted down dormitories of Samoei Boys High School in Nandi county yesterday evening at around 8; 30 pm. The fire broke out at the dormitory area but luckily enough no one was injured as the students were in their evening preps.  The Uasin-Gishu county fire brigade went all the way to Nandi County to assist in extinguishing the fire but it was too late and the damages were beyond salvage. All the students’ belongings were completely burned without anything left. The fire incident has now razed three dormitories in the institution within one week.

This is the second incident happening, the first one happened barely a week ago. The cause of the fire has not been established as there are claims that there was an electric fault and some claim that it is arson because the place has been cited for the construction of a university in the institution. The students are now stranded without any help and pondering what next, the fear of being burnt inside the dorms while asleep is crippling their minds.

The lack of disaster preparedness plans in the county has largely contributed to too many tragedies befalling the county without the means of curbing them. The entire Nandi County doesn’t have a fire engine or even an active fire station. The governor and the county leadership should put in place measures to ensure such disasters are dealt with immediate effect.

Fire razing down a dormetry in the recent incident.

Aftermath of the fire.

One of the beds and the beddings burnt.

Happy Birthday baba Moi

Happy birthday Nyayo. These were the sentiments in the social media platforms being delivered to the Professor of politics. They were best wishes to our second president of the Republic of Kenya. Nyayo as he is commonly referred was celebrating his 90^th birthday yesterday on 2^nd September 2014. The celebrations were held at the Kabarak University grounds where he was welcomed by cheers from students from primary level to the university. Many leaders joined him to celebrate including his son Gideon Moi who is the current Senator of Baringo County.

Some of the photos on social media

To achieve the 90 years like Nyayo is what many are dreaming about. Probably it is next to impossible due to the lifestyles that most are living. The retired president said that his secret to coin the ninety years is through living a healthy life and most of all is to know God.  This is contrary to most because of the junk food full of fats and chemicals which threaten to shorten the lifespan.

Happy birthday our retired president, may you live to celebrate more and more birthdays each year.

Author;E K BIWOTT

Spit at own risk

To those who are fond of spitting anyhow at around Eldoret, Monday September 01, 2014 - The Uasin Gishu County Government  prepared a bill that will require all those found spitting in public to pay Sh 30,000. According to the Environment Executive, Mary Njogu, the bill is aimed at restoring cleanliness and hygiene in the County. Speaking during Moiben Sub-County Youth Fun Day, she said that the bill will be tabled on Tuesday in the assembly and if passed, its implementation will start immediately. She noted that many people especially in Eldoret town like spitting carelessly saying that it was high time this stopped.

Compensate Our Spouses.

As the Salaries and Remuneration Commission seeks to curb expenses especially on foreign trips and allowances by members of county assemblies, a member of the Embu County Assembly is pushing for more allowances. These are not ordinary allowances but are strange and weird in nature. This is about the compensation of their wives which is of pure rhetoric and lacks substance in its own self. How can a person of such caliber demand for his wife to be paid allowances for the loneliness they suffer while their husbands are busy serving the public? When you were campaigning didn’t you know what you were going for? With such a demand, the MCA means that he is unable to care for his wife and as such to have made a decision to request his wife to be cared for, should also mean that the bedroom matters (conjugal rights) should also but taken care of by anyone who has the guts to.

Runyenjes Central Member of the County Assembly (MCA) Steve  Munene argues that their spouses need compensation

Who will then compensate the poor village woman whose husband is working tirelessly to make sure his family doesn’t lack anything? To our dear MCA, you were not elected to go ad fight for the rights of your wife and family but to serve the electorate. Stand up as a man and take care of your wives’ needs and not shaming your own family with such remarks.

THE TWITTER CHIEF

Meet Chief Kariuki the twitter man. He is a simple, humble and most of all a God fearing public servant. The famous chief has managed to tackle insecurity at his village in Nakuru County. He has done this through the application of technology and twitter in particular, that’s when he attained the name the twitter chief.

Chief Kariuki hails from a humble background and family. He is the third born in a family of six. He went through ups and downs and a lot of challenges in order to attain his education. After which he became a primary school teacher for 21years to the level of a school headmaster. Feeling not contended with that, the chief wanted to interact more with all sorts of people from different backgrounds. This is when the post of chief came by, and without much hesitation he did the interview and passed. From then he became a chief.

The twitter chief has held various seminars and meetings in various counties and towns to educate other chiefs on the efficient use of twitter. He has managed to be invited to various conferences hosted and attended by the well known in the country and the continent at large. They include our Kenyan president, His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta and the Google CEO. He has travelled to various countries courtesy of his idea on tweeter.

“Make use of the platform you have for your own good”. That is a parting shot from the twitter chief.

Chief kariuki at Moi University school of information Sciences offering a lecture. PHOTO BY; Biwott Edwin