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BY DAVID MACHARIA

@[email protected]

AND BERNARD OGEMBO

@[email protected]

The former leader of the out-lawed Mungiki sect MainaNjenga survived death by a

whisker when gunmen sprayed hisvehicle with bullets.

However, four men and a womanin his company died on the spot. Twoother men were seriously injured

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with Mr Njenga suffering gunshotwounds.

One of the four slain men, DicksonMwangi, was Mr Njengas first cousin.The woman, Grace Wairimu Nyam-

bere, in her 20s, lived in his Kitengelahome as the woman of the house,according to sources. She moved inafter the burial of Mr Njengas first

wife Virginia Nyakio in 2011. Sheis said to be the daughter of gospelmusician Elizabeth Nyambere.

Yesterday, Mr Njengas entourage oftwo vehicles, a Subaru Forrester anda Premio which carried his securitydetail, was attacked at Ngirigacha, on

the Gilgil-Nyahururu road. Mr Njengawas in the Subaru. The scene of thebloody incident is about 10 kilometresfrom Nyahururu town.

Maina survives ambush as lover, drivGUN ATTACK |Motorcade of two vehicles was attacked at Ngirigacha area, along the Gilgil-Nyahururu road

Mr Njengas mission to Nyahururuwas not immediately known but closerelatives confided to the Sunday Na-tionthat some of his close associateshave a project in Nyandarua andLaikipia counties.

Mr Njenga suffered bullet wounds to

his left hand and right shoulder whenthe two vehicles were sprayed withbullets. Witnesses said Ms Wairimuwas not shot but was thrown out of the

vehicle, which rolled. One of the deadmen was driving the Premio.

A shaken Mr Njenga and the twoinjured men were taken to Nyahururudistrict hospital and then transferredto a city hospital last night.

The Subaru had 25 bullet marks

while the other vehicle had nine.The windows of the vehicles werecompletely shattered.

A witness at the scene said after theshooting, Mr Njenga walked out ofthe bullet riddled vehicle into the onethat took him to hospital. The othervictims had to be helped out.

Nyandarua County Police com-mander Hamisi Mabeya, who wasaccompanied by the county CID bossand Nyandarua West district deputyCounty Commissioner Paul Famba,said it was not clear what transpired.He appealed to anybody who mighthave witnessed the shooting to helppolice with information.

Scene of crime police officers col-lected items from the bodies in a bidto identify the victims. Soon afterthe shooting, hundreds of curiousresidents travelled from Nyahururu

town to the scene.The attackers may have chosen the

area because it is isolated. On eitherside of the road are two expansivefarms, one belonging to Kenya Ag-ricultural Research Institute and theother a new site for Animal HealthIndustrial Training Institute farm.

On arrival at the hospital, MrNjenga and the two survivors , a manand a woman, were taken for x-rayand admitted. The woman appearedto have been shot in the stomach andthe man had a broken leg.

Nyandarua Governor Daniel Wait-haka visited the scene but declinedto talk to the press.

Mr Njenga has in the past re-nounced Mungiki and is now apastor who runs his own churchin Kitengela. Recent reports haveindicated a power struggle betweenfactions of ex-Mungiki adherents andactive gang members.

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Police officers and residents of Ngirigacha area carry one of the four bodies to a police vehicle before they were taken to theNyahururu mortuary. RIGHT: A woman who survived the attack is wheeled to hospital.

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BY JOHN MUCHIRI

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The future of the regest reality show remawith reports that EaBreweries Limited (E

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BY BILLY MUIRURI

[email protected]

At least thre e pieces ofland, buildings and millionsof shillings in cash are atthe centre of a vicious war

between former adherents ofthe Mungiki sect and someland dealers in Kajiado andMachakos counties.

A fa llo ut betwe en ex-Mungiki leader Maina Njengaand the owner of the plotwhere his Hope InternationalChurch is situated in Kitengelaprecipitated the land clashesthat have now left at leastseven people dead.

Mr Njenga is alleged to havefallen out with the close as-sociate over a con game thathas seen some of his ardentsupporters lose money in landand property deals.

The land dealers collectedat least Sh60,000 from youthsto subdivide chunks of landwhich have now turned outto be private property.

Other youths were asked tobuy shares worth Sh200,000to own, among other things,three buildings in Kitengela.

The property in disputespread across Kitengela andOlooloitikoshi locations,according to documents ob-

tained by Sunday Nation.Most of Mr Njengas fol-lowers are now claimingtheir money back from theland dealers who in retalia-tion have hired some of theformer adherents of the sectas their defence forces.

Investigations show theproblem has persisted formore than 10 years but only

became public after Mr Njengaand his ally differed.

Some of Mr Njengas fol-lowers are already eking outa living elsewhere, hence theirability to pay for the shareswhile the group linked to theex-Mungiki leaders associate-turned-foe is yet to benefitfrom the sects exploits andnow want their share.

Central in the controversyis the ownership of KiandasLtd, an investment companyoriginally called Kianda kiaGema. The company had beenfounded by the early Kikuyusettlers in Kitengela andowned more than 10 primeproperties in the area.

About 200 yout hs werelured to buy shares of Ki-andas Ltd, which owned the

building that hosts the popu-lar joint Midas Restaurant inKitengela and another com-mercial building behind Kobil

Petrol station, formerly knownas City View building.Local administration of-

ficials who cannot be namedfor protocol reasons confirmedKiandas Ltd had failed to fulfillits part of the bargain, result-ing to the uprising among theshareholders.

Share certificates availableshows they were signed by,among other officials, MrNjengas former ally.

If the directors of Kiandashad allowed ownership of theproperties to the youths, thismatter would not have es-calated, said a governmentofficial.

The battle also emanatesfrom the rent of the church.The church pays rent to theestranged wife of Mr Njengasformer associate, according tomoney transfer records avail-able. The latest money sent toher was on Friday and accord-ing to the woman, the moneywas to pay for some of herchildrens school fees. She isa mother of three.

However, a source in MrNjengas rival camp disputesthis and says the church doesnot pay rent but compensatesfor destruction of some build-ings in the compound.

The place is not worth

Sh20,000 a month. We gavethem the church in good faithand did not know it wouldcome to this, he said .

Another con tro ver si alproperty is a rental house inMakadara estate in Athi Riverwhose incomes shareholdersof Kiandas Ltd do not enjoy.Both properties rake in morethan Sh100,000 a month,documents seen by the Sun-day Nationshow.

The secrets ofKitengela land wars

exposed as Njengasfollowers demandoccupation

BILLY MUIRURI | NATION

The Portland Cement land that former Mungiki members are fight-ing over, among other properties.

To many people who

know Maina Njenga, eachday is lived as it comes.

More than 20 of his clos-

est associates have diedunder a hail of bullets

and only a skeleton of hisinner circle from the 2002

elections, when he unsuc-

cessfully vied on a Kanuticket for the Laikipia

West parliamentary seat,are still alive.

Yesterdays incident re-

minded his associates ofbrutal murders that have

been visited on his allies.However, it also remains

the first time he has per-sonally been a target of

assassins.

He has lost close rela-tives in earlier attacks. In

fact, Dickson Mwangi, thedriver who chauffeured

him to Nyahururu and

who died in a hail of bul-lets, is his first cousin. The

slain woman, Grace Wair-imu, in her 20s was living

in his Kitengela home and

was said to be his partner.

The fate is not exactly a

new experience.

In April 2008, Njengas

close confidants Ndungu

Wagacha and NaftalyIrungu who managed

Mungiki affairs whilehe served a jail term at

Naivasha Maximum Se-curity Prison were shot

near Kwa Mathole a few

kilometres from Limuru asthey headed to Naivasha.

Wagacha was the actingchairman while Irungu

was the treasurer of the

sect.

But in 2010, Njenga ene-

mies would target his wife

Virginia Nyakio and herdriver George Njoroge.

The two are said to havebeen abducted along

Langata Road as they

headed to Ongata Rongai,killed and dumped at

Gakoe Forest in Gatundu.

Nyakio, Njengas official

wife and mother of his

three children, had herthroat slit open while

Njoroge had been hit onthe head from behindwith a heavy object.

Njengas soft voice anda seemingly harmless

demeanour disarms

those who meet him first erasing the image of

a man whose name waspreviously associated with

murder and brutality.

Even as a pastor, he issurrounded by smartly

dressed youth, cleanshaven and often in black

suits (he is said to abhor

long hair).

My team must be smart.

We moved away fromsniffing those stuff and

being dirty, he said threeyears ago.

A man who hates city

life, Njenga loves to hostvisitors in his homes and

will not easily go to posh

hotels in the city. He loveshotels in the rich Karen

suburb and wont stayanywhere for more than

two hours.

MAINAS FATE

Living dangerously, thatsNjengas everyday life

and bodyguard are shot dead

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BY SUNDAY NATION TEAM

@dailynation

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An ominous picture hitthe front page of the NewYork Timesnewspaper last

week.It captured a University of

Nairobi student with a bewilderedlook, caught between baton-wield-ing police officers called in to quella protest that had spilled onto thestreets and turned ugly.

It is no mean feat to get any-thing Kenyan covered by theNewYork Times. Its one of the highlyregarded newspapers in the US,

published out of the city afterwhich it is named and which isAmericas financial capital.

In Britain, theDaily Mail andThe Telegraphalso played up thepictures from the student riots.

Although they are independentnewspapers that make their owneditorial judgment, conspiracytheorists were quick to judge itas part of a wider conspiracy by

Western nations to punish theJubilee government in line withthe choices have consequencesstatement made by a former USdiplomat for Africa, Mr JohnnieCarson.

Western med ia have als oincreasingly been giving height-ened coverage to acts of terrorismand insecurity in Kenya whichthe government says is out of

proportion with the reality in thecountry.

Western diplomats in Nairobi

have strenuously insisted that theydid not mean to punish Kenya byissuing travel advisories and areonly acting in the best interests oftheir countries, a position that ishardly believable in governmentcircles.

Critics of the advisories say it isthe same diplomats 18 of them who closed ranks two months agoto write a joint commentary aboutcorruption in Kenya and that it isonly one part of a clever scheme todiscredit the government or bringit under their control.

Immediately after Londonissued travel advisories caution-ing their citizens against visitingcertain parts of Kenya, some tourfirms followed up by evacuating

hundreds of tourists. PresidentUhuru Kenyatta responded bystating that Kenya would lookfor tourists from alternativesources.

Tourism Cabinet SecretaryPhyllis Kandie knows the gravityof the problem in her in-tray onlytoo well. Tourist arrivals dropped

by about 15 per cent in 2013 com-pared to the previous year leadingto a revenue loss for the industryof about Sh2 billion and closureof no less than 20 hotels in theCoast, according to governmentstatistics.

Political scientist Peter Kag-wanja says that the West isundoubtedly out to punish the

Jubilee coalit ion and possiblycause Kenyans to drive the gov-ernment out of power for its open

association with China.The conspiracy is deeper and

practical than it is appearing. When

you begin to think of a campaign,the first thing that you factor inis the media. There is an effort tocreate an impression in the public

that Kenya is not working, that thetwo leaders are unable to govern.There is a consistent plan, saidProf Kagwanja.

He says that in his reading, thereis a connection between the uni-versity riots and the advisories andthen the assertion by the Opposi-tion that Jubilee is failing.

There is an Egyptian script.Whether it will succeed or not,they are trying it. Within oneyear of (former Egyptian Presi-dent) Morsis election, the Westsponsored a popular uprising. Yousmear and then move in for the kill

by getting Opposition politiciansto mobilise the people and bringthem out on the streets and thenpublicise it to the world. Withinthat chaotic environment, create

a transitional authority and thenan election follows and they canpick a person of their choice, said

Prof Kagwanja.According to him, the West is

reacting to the recent high-profilevisit by Chinese Premier Li Ke-qiang and the deepening of ties

between Beijing and governmentsin the East African region.

The Chinese leader coming toKenya would itself not have beena big problem. But for Kenya tomobilise the regions leaders and

bring them for a high profile eventwas read as an affront, Prof Kag-wanja said.

Mrs Kandie thinks that thoseissuing travel advisories and the

media coverage of recent events inKenya have been blown out of pro-portion. Our countrys image andreputation is being slowly eroded

by exaggeration of and over-reac-tion to these incidences by someof our foreign partners leading toextreme travel advisories, to thepoint of evacuation, that are caus-ing hotel closures and job losses,she said. But the most critical andmost hurtful aspect is the erosionof the confidence in this countryand this destination. Our reputa-tion as a tourism destination isat stake.

Mrs Kandie is also critical ofmedia coverage accorded to Kenyaabroad. It is a well-known andunderstood fact that foreignmedia rely heavily on our localmedia as reference points on thestories they report on insecurity.Naturally foreign media when lift-

ing stories from local often misrepresent thto our national detrim

I am not suggest

means that you divert the truth, or water doI am merely asking foened awareness of thour headlines, judgmeing them and a consnational interest, she

State House in pathat the advisories andmedia coverage the creceived lately from somedia houses is part conspiracy against Ke

The plan to justition of tourists and loembassies was evidesurprising to see last versity riots on the frosome major Western nyet the needless riotsget much of front pagin Nairobi, said a S

spokesman Munyori According to Mr B

lomatic rumours to mlook bad finally met tpress.

But Kenya will solsaid. This weeks m

boost local tourism antors from emerging m

bring a lasting answertics. Kenya will liberatdid when the tax collethe humiliating bowl-inof begging for aid.

Mombasa Senator Hdoes not believe therspiracy against Kenyapower but says it is pKenyas traditional Whave been rattled by Juliance with Beijing.

Maybe they are uthe Chinese but whis a conspiracy is som

Is there Western

conspiracy to endJubilee rule beforeits five-year term?Government and some political experts believe the traveladvisories, evacuation of tourists, negative media coveragein the USA and other local happenings are all part of anEgyptian like script aimed at crippling government andinciting Kenyans to rise against it

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | I fault the West because Kenya has been a traditional ally, Mr Hassan Omar says

On Friday, the French sought to justifytheir updated travel warning on Kenyabut reiterated support for the waragainst terrorism.

The Deputy Head of French Missionin Nairobi Emmanuel Renoult said theupdate was routine and added theFrench continue to collaborate withKenya to combat terrorists.

Without being able to give you de-tails, I can confirm that our security

services share intelligence and worktogether closely. I would like to addthat France together with its EU part-ners is substantially contributing to thesupport of AMISOM. We pay for thesalaries of the contingent deployed,including the KDF. For France alone,this financial effort represented $100million in 2013, he said.

France is a major source of touriststo Kenya behind the UK, US, Italy,

Germany and India. But a number of

French companies have also investedin Kenyas tourism sector in the Coast.

Kenya and France are both threatenedand we share a common and stronginterest in fighting Al Shabaab. Weshare the same determination. Ourjoint commitment to fight terrorismwas reaffirmed by President Kenyattaand President Hollande when they meton April 3 in Brussels, said the Frenchdiplomat.

JUST ROUTINE

France justifies decision to update travel warning to Kenya

Sh2bnAmount of money Kenya lost

last year due to drop in touristnumbers to the country

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It is not entirely clear what per-suaded the British government toissue a warning that its citizens

should avoid all but essential travel to

the coast on May 14. Mombasa wassimply added to a list of places inKenya that tourists should avoid alist that already included Eastleigh,Garissa, slum areas in Nairobi andany part of the country within 60miles of the Kenya-Somali border.Along with those areas, the UK is nowadvising against travel to MombasaIsland and within 5km of the coastfrom Mtwapa creek in the north,and down to and including Tiwi inthe south.

It is impossible to tell whether thisdecision was inspired by the recentspate of terrorist attacks in Kenya,or was the result of new informationregarding a specific threat to Britishcitizens that has not yet been madepublic. The wording of the alert notedthat There is a high threat from ter-rorism, including kidnapping andthat this threat came from extrem-ists linked to Al-Shabaab, a militantgroup that has carried out attacks inresponse to Kenyas military interven-tion in Somalia. But these words werenothing new almost identical phraseshad appeared on the UK governmentswebsite to describe the situation inNorth Eastern Province.

Given this, it is hard to interpret theaction of the British government asimplying that risks previously iden-tified in other parts of the countryhave now spread to Mombasa whichwould seem strange, given that theCoast has been subject to low levelattacks for some time or that theBritish have received informationabout a new and specific threat toBritish nationals at the Coast. Thisis part of the problem with terrorism

the need for secrecy and to protectsources mean that governments haveto advise their people on what to dowithout actually being able to tellthem why they should do it. In turn,this lack of context makes it hard forordinary people to be able to makean informed choice.

In the case of the statementby the UK government, a furtherproblem was that the details of theadvisory were largely lost in themedia reporting that followed. Fewtelevision stations or newspapersmade it clear that the warning onlyapplied to the Coast, and did notaffect Nairobi or the national parks.The BBC ran the headline: UK tour-ists evacuated from Kenya followingterrorist threat. CNN followed suit:Vacationers evacuated from Kenyaafter warnings of high threat of

terrorism. As a result, holidaymak-ers are now cancelling their trips toKenya whether they were planningto go to the Coast or not.

The basic numbers are extremelyworrying. It is estimated that around200,000 British travellers head to

Kenya every year, out of around 1.5million foreigners who arrive annu-ally. This makes the UK the numberone source of Kenyan tourists, fol-

lowed by America (107,800), Italy(87,790), Germany (63,000) andFrance (50,000). (Officially at least,there were only 11,700 Chinese visi-tors in 2013, just 2.8 per cent of allarrivals). In the days following theBritish travel advisory, 900 touristscut short their vacations. Two majorBritish based-operators, ThomasCook and First Choice, ordered theircustomers in Kenya to be evacuated.TUI travel, a British leisure group, hasnow cancelled flights to Mombasauntil October.

On its knees

The impact of these developmentshas been dramatic. Some hotel own-ers were forced to watch, helpless, asguests walked out part way throughtheir stay, leaving previously fullhotels empty. The Associated Pressreported that of the 157 guests stayingat Kampas Diani Sea Resort, only 20remained after the British exodus.According to Lucy Karume, the headof the Kenya Tourism Foundation,the industry is on its knees. It isestimated that Kenyan hotels andrestaurants will lose over $50 mil-lion between now and October.

Things were starting to get difficultfor Kenyan hotels and restaurantseven before the travel warnings is-sued by foreign governments. Thenumber of travellers recorded in 2013was 16 per cent lower than in 2012as a result of uncertainty around thegeneral elections and high profile at-tacks such as the Westgate atrocity.According to the Ministry of Tourism,total revenues fell by 4 per cent from$1.14 billion in 2012 to $1.02 billion

in 2013 as a result.The negative consequences ofterrorism for the tourism industryis bad news for the Kenyan economy.Around 600,000 people are directlyemployed by tourism, and the numberof people who indirectly rely onholidaymakers for their livelihoodsis likely to be well over 1 million.Overall, tourism represents Kenyassecond largest source of foreign ex-change revenue, and contributes anestimated 12.5 per cent to the GDP.The longer that fears over terrorismkeep people away from Kenyas hotelsand national parks, the more likely itbecomes that the economy will failto deliver the 5.5 per cent growthprojected for this year.

Sadly, things are likely to get worsebefore they get better. Shots of dis-gruntled and stressed holidaymakers

returning to the UK having had theirtrip of a lifetime cut short havebeen broadcast on prime time TVand radio. BBC Radio 5 Live, one ofthe countrys most popular stationswith over 6 million regular listeners,ran a two-hour phone on the story.

Shortly after, hundreds oplanned to visit the countheir reservations. Cleatrue that there is no su

bad publicity.In the wake of the B

advisory, stories abouattacks in Kenya havegreater prominence inmedia. Once again, Kendepicted as a countrviolence and instabilitus who know East Afrderstand that the danghigh as it is sometimes be, but it is difficult to cothis to people with littleof the country.

So what can the goveThe biggest challenge is develop a more credibltive plan for tackling tegovernments struggle tmodern terrorism, with icombination of suicide decentralised organisatresponse of the Kenyan so far has lacked clarity aSimply throwing more mmilitary and the security

the answer. Collecting mation, and developing to act on it, is critical. Ithat in both of the mostterrorist incidents in Alast 12 months Westgrecent kidnapping of sc

Nigeria by Boko Haramforces had advance wfailed to respond.

But this will take somthe tourist industry is ineed of help now. We knKenyan tourism industrand that numbers bouncthe embassy bombings in post-election violence in ever, in both cases it took and three years for tourisreturn to previous levels.done to help the industr

Three policies could mence. First, the governmdevelop a more effectivecampaign to paint a positaccurate picture of Kenenough to complain abtravel advisories therpositive story about the

be told, but it is the respthe government to tell i

Second, the 16 per Added Tax imposed on tyear should be suspendhas increased the cost othe worst possible time; would help the sector to

Finally, the governmemore to push forward reforming the East Afmunity to make it mofriendly. While the EAChave made some progrestablishing a stronger restructure, the proposal tocommon visa that woultors to travel throughouwith minimal red tape himplemented.

Dr Cheeseman is the DireAfrican Studies Centre atversity.niccheeseman@g

Theres hope, despite the chaosBAD PUBLICITY | Kenya is being depicted as a country beset by violence

The tourismsector isfacing yetanother badseason, butwith a littleingenuity,Uhuru can

turn thingsaround,argues, NicCheeseman

Sh4.3bEstimated revenue Kenand restaurants are exp

lose between now and

FILE | NATION

Tourists enjoy a sunbath at the White-sands Beach Resort

in Mombasa. Tour-

ists numbers havegone down due tothe recently issued

travel advisories bythe British and USgovernments.

FILE| DAILY NATION

Police corner

one of the riot-ing University of

Nairobi studentslast week. Inter-national media

have been givingprime time and

space to events inKenya lately.

reluctant to buy. These are our partners inother areas like security and counter-ter-rorism. You need to make an assessmentof what has gone wrong and then try to

share some fact and figures so that it be-comes the basis on which you can havea joint approach as partners, Mr Omartold the Sunday Nation. Mombasa is oneof the counties that has borne the bruntof attacks.

He however criticized the Wests re-sponse to terror attacks in Kenya.

I fault the Western because Kenya hasbeen a traditional ally. Also, this is aboutbusiness markets and business. Our reac-tion should have been; how do we sortout the problems so that the numbers oftourists can flow. It is a fallacy to think thatChinese will come where there is insecu-rity. Is there a way that we can improvesecurity so that tourists and indeed allKenyans are safe? The approach shouldhave been totally different. Advisoriesshould be preceded by consultation,said the Senator.

Tourism consultant Arthur Mahasi says

that the Tourism ministry must counterthe adverse advisories with a deliberatecharm offensive to woo tourists.

Appropriate strategies have alwaysworked for many unstable countries. Iftravel advisories are not countered, tour-ists will think what their government saysis the gospel truth, Mr Mahasi said.

He proposes that immediately a terror-ism activity occurs, the country throughembassies should organise conferencesfor industry players in the originatingcountries to supply hard facts about theactual status in the country.

If tourists dont want to visit Mombasabecause they fear being attacked, it is notthe whole country which is on fire. Theycan be re-routed to safer places such as

Western or the northern Kenya tourismcircuit, said Mr Mahasi.

Reported by Mugumo Munene, AbiudOchieng and Aggrey Mutambo

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Even pastorsmarry fromamong theirflock...

KuppetKisumu branchchair ZablonAwange

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Kenya National Union of Teachers chair Mudzo Nzili (left) with hGeneral Wilson Sossion and other officials. Mr Nzili has said tnot accept a new code that bars them from engaging in busine

Teachers opposenew code that banspolitical expression

Also contained in the code ofconduct are clauses that outlawsuggestive touching and engagingin for-profit business ventures

REJECTED |Union to lobby Teachers Service Commission to amend policy

Business: Provision bars

teachers from engaging inprofit-making ventures.

Physical contact:Teacherswill not be allowed to make

physical contact with col-

leagues of the opposite sexin a suggestive manner.

Political views: Teacherswill be prohibited from

voicing their political opin-

ions in public forums.

REACTION

Offensive

clauses

BY ANGELA OKETCH

@angieoketch

[email protected]

Teachers have vowed tooppose a proposed codeof conduct which, if im-

plemented, will bar them fromengaging in profit-making ven-tures or fund-raisers.

Kenya National Union ofTeachers chairman Mudzo Nziliyesterday declared they will notaccept the code which he said willalso bar them from voicing theirpolitical views in public.

Officials from the two teachersunions yesterday called for theremoval of the offensive clauses orthey will reject the document.

Mr Nzili described the rules ascolonial, saying they had been

fought by founding Vice-PresidentJaramogi Oginga Odinga Odingawhile a teacher at Maseno School

before independence.We are engaging the Teacher

Service Commission to have theoffending clauses removed beforethe final draft is produced andpresented before the National

Assembl y for deba te. Shouldthey fail to agree with our terms,teachers will definitely reject thedocument, he said.

According to the rules madepublic by the TSC during a stakeholders forum on Thursday at theKenya School of Government,teachers will not be allowed tomake physical contact with theircolleagues of the opposite sex ina manner that may be consideredsuggestive.

He said that they have engagedtheir lawyers, who are engaged intalks with the TSC, and that thedocument will not be finalised ifthe clauses are retained.

Mr Nzili said the clause bar-ring teachers from engaging in

business is something from thecolonial ages, and appealed todrafters of the policy to be moreimaginative.

It is not mandatory that whena teacher has a business s/he hasto be present to conduct it. As

long as the businesses do not in-terfere with my work, TSC shouldnot get involved he said.

He described individuals be-hind the proposed laws as tooconservative. We have many re-sponsibilities, and the little money

being paid to teachers is enoughto sustain them, he said.

Kenya Union of Post Pri-mary Education Teachers,Kisumu Branch Chairman, Za-

blon Awange, said that the newlaws will not see the light of day,and said they only are meant topunish the teachers.

Barring teachers from engag-ing in fund raising will jeopardise

their relationship witcommunity in which

because it will be harto get guests to cond

bees in their schoolsnot participate in caffairs, he said.

Mr Awange said thsuggestive physical cambiguous and in ba

Several people wthe same professionried. Where is the teachers do so as lonnot affect their work?Even pastors marriedflock and still preacchurches, he said.

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The Kenyan embassy in WashingtonDC is facing a crisis, with a com-

bination of factors threatening itsability to operate to capacity.

Inquiries by the Sunday Nation revealthat under-staffing, financial constraints,low staff morale and an apparent lack ofpolitical goodwill from Nairobi threatento compromise functions at the onceprestigious mission.

There have been increased complaintsfrom Kenyans living in the US on variousissues including delayed or unhelpful re-sponse to inquiries and lack of access tothe acting head of the embassy.

For almost a year now, this embassy hasnot had a full-time envoy. Ms Jean Kamauis referred to as acting ambassador but herroles and responsibilities are still restrictedto those of a senior consulate officer, saida source in the embassy who requestednot to be named.

Ms Kamau, who took over from MrElkana Odembo last year, is officiallyreferred to as the charge daffaires andhas less diplomatic influence than anambassador.

Mr Jacktone Ambuka, a socio-politicalanalyst based in State College, Pennsyl-vania, believes the current situation may

be a result of the frosty relations betweenthe two countries.

Ms Kamau finds herself between a rockand a hard place. The demands on her areso many yet she has not been given thepowers to act on them. The onus, however,is on President Uhuru Kenyatta. The soonerhe realises that America is an importantstrategic partner the better it would be forKenya, he said.

The failure of the embassy to honourinvitations for some important events in theUS points to a much deeper problem.

We were not surprised when the em-bassy was not represented at a dinner tohonour Kenyan athletes in Boston lastmonth. That embassy has gone to the dogssince Jubilee took over. We have also triedwithout success to get Ms Kamau to cometo our annual function in Allentown, saidMr Sam Njoroge, a Kenyan who lives in

Allentown.Mr Denzel Musumba, a presenter at

Border Radio, says the atmosphere atthe embassy has completely changedsince last year. The embassy used to bea busy, lively place but that is no longerthe case. I was there recently to attend ameeting and realised many of its staff hadgone back to Kenya, he said.

Two previous ambassadors Mr PeterOgego and Mr Odembo have been cred-ited with improving responsiveness at theembassy. Our source at the Washington DCembassy said the staff were overwhelmed

by demands from Kenyans living in the US,and visiting Kenyan Government officials

and politicians.The current number of staff cant

handle phone inquiries and letters of in-vitation from those living here, let alonethe never-ending stream of governors,senators, students and other governmentofficials from Kenya, he said.

He added that it was impossible to havelong-term plans as the terms of service formost ministry staff that had been secondedto the embassy ended late last year.

Next month, the Smithsonian Institu-tion in Washington DC will be focusing onKenya in its annual event that showcasescultures from different countries. The ac-tivities require a high level of co-ordination

by the embassy but, so far, there has beenlittle effort in mobilising the Kenya popula-tion in the US.

Since last year when it recthan 30 diplomats, the Jubilment is yet to fill the positiokey countries.

The Sunday NationcontactedAffairs ministry in Nairobi for two weeks ago but, despite pPrincipal Secretary Karanja Kresponse has been forthcomin

When contacted on Friday, Sspokesman Manoah Esipisu iniised to find out why the minisresponding, but he later disconcerns. They (Kenyans know the right channels to ucomplaints. The government dspond to complaints lodged in said Mr Esipisu.

Crisis as Jubilee neglectsits Washington embassy

Acting Ambassador to Washington DC, Jean Kamau

WASHINGTON | Kenyans living in the US lack basic assistance as mission is both understaffed and under-financed

The embassyused to be abusy, livelyplace butthat is nolonger thecase, MrMusumba

Jubileeignoresmissionthatthrivedunderthe grandcoalition

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BY BOB ODALO

@odalobob

[email protected]

AND STELLA CHERONO

@stellacherono

[email protected]

When police in Nairobi shotdead three suspectedgangsters in Westlands last

Monday, they may not have realisedtheir bullets marked the end of anera.

One of the suspects was a man whosecurity sources have described as thegrandfather of crime because of hisage and experience.

Mutua Maingi was a 68-year-oldmild-mannered man, who had theappearance of everybodys favouritegrandfather. But information piecedtogether by the Sunday Nationpaintsa picture of a man of many faces.

To the police who shot him deadafter a chase, and later released de-tails of his alleged activities, he was anotorious gangster wanted for manycrimes.

To neighbours in Ongata Rongai,Nairobi, where he lived, he was a smalltime trader selling roasted potatoesand maize.

But at his rural home in Kawaunivillage of Kangundo in MachakosCounty, Maingi was a philanthropistwho led an expensive lifestyle andwore designer suits.

He was neat, his hair well cut. Hewas quiet and was always ready tolisten, said a villager who declinedto be named because he was afraidof retribution from Maingis accom-

plices.Villagers used to associate him withcrime in the 1970s but this perceptionfizzled out after he moved much of hisactivities to Nairobi. He would comehome every weekend, say neighbourswho were, however, too scared to dis-close their names.

In Kangundo, he loved the companyof police officers or military person-

nel, who happened to be on leave oroff-duty. He posed as a police officeror some sort of security or intel-ligence man.

Many people believed he wasa police officer working in Nairobiwith the Flying Squad, said anotherneighbour.

A week before he died, he had beenseen drinking in a Kangundo pub witha police officer. His drinking mateswere all convinced that he was a po-lice officer, and his death has ignitedintense conversations on the secre-tive life he led, said a police officerin Kangundo.

He had a short temper, especiallyafter drinking. He would become

argumentative and, in the process,draw his gun menacingly and sincepeople knew he was a police officerand not a thug, many left it at that,says a villager.

But one aspect of his life puzzledthose who knew him. Maingi wouldgive a ride to any person who wastravelling to Nairobi, but would al-ways drop them off in Tala market,said a villager who gave his name asMusembi.

At the nearby Kawauni CatholicChurch, he was among the ardentfaithful, who was recognised by thechurch leadership and the faithful.

He had money and he contributedgenerously towards all church func-

tions. It is something he has donefor many years. Try telling the faith-ful here that he was a thug and theywill turn against you, said ThomasKengwa, a teacher in the area.

He was, however, very cautious.He would make and meet pledges,

but he always made sure his namewas not on the roll of those who hadmade contributions, said anothervillager.

Underground rooms

Married and blessed with children,Maingi lived in a house neighboursestimate has seven bedrooms andwhich others say has undergroundrooms.

Maingi used his proceeds fromcrime to invest in real estate. He issaid to own property in Nairobi.

Local women will always rememberhis generosity, which topped duringChristmas.

He would collect old women andshower them with gifts, recalleda journalist from the area.

For newspaper vendors,Maingi was a valued customer,who bought copies of all the dai-lies. He would take about fourhours going through the papers.

All that time, he would be in hiscar with the windows rolled up,said a vendor.

Maingi is said to have attended

school up to Class Seven. His fatherdied last year aged about 120 years.

When he met his death, Maingi wasliving with his mother, who is said to

be over 100 years.Police in Nairobi, especially those

operating in Westlands, Gigiri andKileleshwa, knew him as a swift manwho changed his looks by altering his

beard and hair. He was said to be theleader of a gang of seven robbers.

In mid morning on Monday, a gangof four, one armed with an AK-47 rifle,entered the Sarit Centre in Westlands.The gang was planning to rob a busi-nessman dealing in cameras, laptopsand electronics.

They were accosted by police offic-

ers who had been on their trail for aweek and three of them were gunneddown after an hours chase. Maingiwas among those killed.

Police had been on his case formore than

Grandfather of crime lived as a

maize vendor and philanthropist

Maingi roasted maize inRongai and elsewherein Nairobi but lived in aseven bedroom mansionin Machakos County

DOUBLE LIFE |The 68-year-old used his proceeds from crime to invest in real estate in Nairobi, where he owned property

STELLA CHER

End of the road: The vehicle which Mutua

using on Monday when he met his death inNairobi, following a botched robbery attem68, lived a double life, fooling police in Ron

neighbours in rural Kawauni, Kangundo.

four months and they susof masterminding a series in Nairobi. The suspect, aGigiri police boss Vitalis Odespite his age, one of thand most influential crthe city.

When police arrived at Sthey approached the criordered them to surrender

just located their target aning to steal money and from the shop, he said.

When police confrontedran out of the mall into a and drove off through Road. Plainclothes offiunmarked car followed t

onto the street which hashouses on both sides. Anotpolice vehicle blocked thethe other end.

One of the suspects harifle and was seated on thHe kept firing at the powhile another suspect whkilled drove the vehicle,said.

When the suspects savehicle at the end of the tried to make a U turn, bulet riddled vehicle landed

The suspect who had managed to get out of thhe kept firing at the pol

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BY MIKE [email protected]

It is 1.15pm, and before I havemy sumptuous lunch at theSarova Whitesands Beach

Resort and Spa in Mombasa, Idecide to put down a few thoughtsof my six-day visit to three differ-ent parts of Kenya with a Ugandandelegation.

This is a beautiful coun-try, I remember my colleagueEdgar Batte saying earlier. AbuMwesigwa had chimed in: Un-fortunately, some Kenyans dontknow what they have and that iswhy they let outsiders disrupttheir peace.

Here were Ugandans enjoyingwhat God gifted Kenya.

This was a dream holiday com-ing true. However, I could havefreaked out had I been faint-hearted. A day before my flightfrom Kampala last Saturday, a

bomb had gone off in Nairobi.A few days ear lie r, Bri tish

tour firms had evacuated theirclients fearing for their safetyafter some Western govern-ments issued travel advisories,especially against travelling tothe Kenyan Coast.

It is some of these places thatI was due to visit on invitation ofthe Kenya Tourism Board (KTB),

who are now looking to Ugandato boost the number of foreigntourists.

On May 17, I boarded a KenyaAirways flight from Entebbe andlanded at Nairobis Jomo KenyattaInternational Airport after a 50-minute journey.

The Immigration officer al-lowed me a six-month stay inKenya despite my telling him thatI was spending only six days.

During my stay, I have spentnights in four hotels: Stanley inNairobi, Sarova Mara in MaasaiMara Game Reserve, SwahiliBeach in Diani, South Coastand the Whitesands from whereI am working now. From the fourhotels, Whitesands seems to havethe highest number of guests,and guess what, the majority

are Africans.The friend who had warned me

on Facebook about travelling toKenya would certainly have beenput to shame by the number ofvisitors.

He had seen my photos as I

enjoyed swimming at the grandSwahili Beach. Cowardly attackswould not stop me from visitingthe Mara, the beautiful beachesin Diani, and enjoying swimming,scuba diving and watching dol-phins in the Indian Ocean at thereef near Wasini Island.

Now at the mainland in Mom-basa, I cannot imagine fear woulddeny me such an experience.

And forgive my language, onlystupid Kenyans could collaborateor allow foreigners to deny themto enjoy this immensely endowedcountry.

On Saturday, together withsix colleagues from Uganda, wespent a night at Stanley. The at-tention to detail of the staff wasmy highlight.

I was in a beautiful room facingKimathi Street. I later venturedinto the night, starting out atMojos and Tribeka, just oppositeNation Centre. I later relocatedto Club Rumours on Tom MboyaStreet. It was full-house in theentertainment spots as Arsenalfans celebrated their first trophyin nine years.

We danced to local music, andUgandan artistes like Jose Cha-meleone, Radio and Weasal alsoplayed through the night. I walked

back to my hotel room at 3.20amand slept for two and half hours

before I was woken up to catch aflight at Wilson Airport.Our flight on a Safarilink plane

to the Mara was filled with for-eigners. A few Europeans I spoketo dismissed the travel advisoriesand said they were having fun inKenya.

Sundowner in the wild

Kenyans have heard so muchabout the Mara and I am thewrong person to talk about it. Butits good to note the sundownerin the park, dinner in the wild inthe dark night, the tent bandas atthe Sarova Mara Lodge, and theanimals that were kind enoughto come out to be seen.

Uganda is increasingly becom-ing Kenyas friend in deed. Evenas the tourist industry is getting

a beating from travel advisoriesand terrorism threats, Ugandanshave not stopped visiting.

In fact, more are arriving, notfor business or jobs but for holi-days. According to KTB statistics,Ugandans have overtaken South

Africans as the continents topvisitors to Kenya with Nigeri-ans coming second. Last year,Ugandan tourists arriving by airnumbered 47,398, South Africanwere 36,409 and Tanzanians were28,561. Ms Ann Kanini, the pub-lic relations officer for KTB saysthey have rolled out marketingprogrammes in Uganda, South

Africa, Nigeria, China and Indiabecause those markets are lesssensitive and can take advantageof the low seasons to enjoy Ken-yas wonders.

Most Ugandans who come toKenya for honeymoon or holidayslargely go to the beach, says MsKanini.

Now Kenya wants to increaseawareness of more destinationsthey can visit such as the ma-rine parks in Wasini, the luxury

beaches in the South Coast, Na-kuru, Naivasha, and parks likethe Mara.

Cooperation between Ugandaand Kenya is picking up well andin the last two years, Kenya hasengaged more than 10 key touroperators from Uganda, MsKanini says.

Kenya wants Ugandans to visitmore than the regular sites. WhenI arrived at the Coast throughUkunda airport, a flight thattook one hour and 20 minutesfrom Nairobi, we checked intothe Swahili Beach Hotel near

the airport. The hotel can eas-ily be mistaken for a traditionalstructure plucked out of the 18thcentury Arabic-cum-Indian epoch.The rooms give a feel of the lifeof sultans of yesteryears and theswimming pool stretches downto the beach.

On our fourth day, we drove70km south, stopping at Shimoniin Kwale County. Here, we passedthe slave caves, and boarded theDolphin Dhow. We headed into theocean, towards Wasini Islands, aland of 3,500 residents. The islandsits on a coral reef with mangrovetrees as vegetation.

In the middle of nowhere, wesaw light blue water and our guide,Hamis Ali a young man whospeaks Arabic, German, Frenchand Spanish in addition to Englishand Kiswahili and his local Digolanguage told us we could swim.What? I asked. Here, he said,are beaches in the middle of thesea because of the coral reef thatrises and it is gifted with sandslike you find on the main beach.

As we swam on a reef in the IndianOcean, we could see the Tanzaniamainland in the distance. Not farfrom where we were swimming,we saw three pairs of magnificentdolphins.

Our guide told us that the Digo,the small tribe on the island, lookafter the dolphins. We dont swimwith dolphins but dolphins are al-

lowed to swim with us, he said.It is here in the middle of

nowhere but feeling like I amliving in paradise that I lookedaround and the only Kenyans on

board were the dhow captain, ourtwo guides and KTB representa-

tives. Down in the rall kinds of fish, andwhich are soft unlikeones on the mainlandcould only ask, do yoUgandans who end thMombasa miss? Sh

As the sun went rushed back to Shimo

before visiting Wasinwalked through the cois under the care of group on the islandwood bridge stretchthe mangrove forest antwo villages. We wereto walk barefoot on th

cause the corals wereAt Shi moni , as approached, we enhistorical slave cawhere those capturehinterland, as far awere detained in a and shipped to faraThat broke down myI appreciated it as p

Africas history.We later returned to

As I signed out on front desk manager

Whitesands told meUgandans have spenthe hotel.

And they know hotheir money, Jayne s

Ms Kanini only widans who come for whoneymoons at the W

venture into places likeexperience the marin

With my flight onlyaway, I tell my friend oWhat travel advisoritalking about?

EDGAR

Monitor publications Features Editor Mike Ssegawa at the M

Wasini, South Coast.

Kenyans dont knowwhat a beautifulcountry they have

NEW MARKETS |Kenya Tourism Board reaches out to South Africa, India, China, Uganda and Tanzania for tourists

Monitorpublicationjournalisttours theMaraand thebeautifulsandy

beaches atthe Coast

As we swam on areef in the IndianOcean, we couldsee the Tanzaniamainland in thedistance._ Ssegawa

From June 12, companieswould be allowed to pay for

their employees going on

their annual leave and deductsuch expenses in their taxes

The move is aimed at boost-ing the tourism sector,

which is under threat due to

increase in terror attacks by

Somali militants Al-Shabaab

Last week, British tour firms

evacuated more than 300

visitors from Kenya followinga warning by the UK govern-

ment of impending terrorattack

This has led to losses

CRUCIAL INDUSTRY

Boost for tourism

47,398The number of Ugandan touristvisited Kenya last year.

EDGAR BATTE | DA

The writer and his colleagues swim in the India

Right: Giraffes at the Maasai Mara.

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[email protected]

At least 350 former MPs have

been dealt a severe blowafter a judge declined their

plea to compel the governmentto pay them an annual pensionof more Sh400 million.

Six former legislators led byMr Wanyiri Kihoro had soughtorders to compel the Parliamen-tary Service Commission to paypension and gratuity amountingto Sh100,000 per month to allformer legislators.

Their argument was peggedon a report made on November12, 2009 by a tribunal on remu-neration of MPs headed by retiredappellate judge Akilano Akiwumirecommending that former legis-lators be paid pension as most ofthem were living in squalor.

The tribunal proposed thateach MP who served from 1963 to2007 be paid a minimum pensionof Sh100,000 monthly to meet

basic needs like food, clothing,medicine and transport.

Mr Kihoro was joined in thepetition by Mr Andrew Kiptoon,Mr Mohammed Galgalo, Mr MarkMwithaga, Mr Adam Bonaya andMr Robert Kipkorir to urge thecourt to effect the recommen-dations, saying some of themwere getting a monthly pension

of Sh2,685.Former MPs are part of the

face of the Kenyan leadershiplandscape outside Parliament,more so at the grassroots levels,where people look up to themfor all manner of support, guid-ance, leadership and just abouteverything, said Mr Akiwuni inhis report.

The retired judge further arguedthat former legislators held the

burden of social responsibility,meeting the challenges of basicneeds of local people imposed onthem by circumstances beyondtheir control, and it would only befair to pay them a pension.

Mr Akiwumis report wastabled in the last Parliamentand Speaker Kenneth Marendepresided over the debate that

adopted the recommendationswhich had a raft of benefits forserving and former legislators.

The former MPs argued in

the court that the recommenda-tions by Justice Akiwumi wereconsistent with the practice inthe Commonwealth and the East

African Community.On May 12, High Court Judge

David Majanja dismissed thepetition on grounds that the

Akiwumi Tribunal had no pow-ers to determine remunerationof any nature.

He said the Akiwumi team hadonly been appointed to review theterms and conditions of membersand employees of the National

Assembly and report to the PSCwhich, in turn, would table thereport to Parliament.

The judge rejected the formerlegislators argument that thetribunal was, in nature, a courtunder Article 170 of the Con-

stitution.Mr Justice Majanja ruled thatthe Constitution had empoweredthe Salaries and Remuneration

Commission to set the remu-neration and benefits of all stateofficers.

In his concluding remarks,however, the judge said thepetition evoked great sympathy,adding that since the former leg-islators had served the countrydiligently, it is only fair thatdue consideration is given totheir plight to enable them livein dignity.

Cushion former colleagues

He called on sitting MPs topass relevant laws to cushiontheir former colleagues againstpoverty.

Yesterday, Mr Kihoro saidthey would not appeal againstthe High Court decision but willsoon table a bill in Parliament toamend the Parliamentary Pension

Act, 1984.He said that under the umbrella

of Former Parliamentarians As-sociation, they will deliberate on

the matter in a meeting on June 4and thereafter seek audience withHouse Speaker Justin Muturi.

Judge saystribunalhad nopowers todeterminepay

Court rejects former MPsplea for Sh400m pension

BLOW |Legislators wanted to be paid Sh100,000 monthly

FILE | NATION

Mr Wanyiri Kihoro.

In November 2009, a

report by retired Justice Aki-

lano Akiwumi recommendedthat former MPs be paid

pension to enable them live

in dignity.

Former Speaker Kenneth

Marende presided over adebate in Parliament that

adopted the report

In his judgment, however,

Mr Justice David Majanja

said he was touched by theformer MPs plight and called

for a law to cushion them.

HIGHLIGHTS

Judge touchedby petition

FILE | NATION

Justice (rtd) Akilano Akiwumi.

Sh2,685Amount movers of the suit claimsome former legislators currentlyget in monthly pension

He managed to escapfirearm, on foot througfeeder streets, the offi

Maingi died after bethe head and chest. In police found a homethree supermarket loythree ID cards belonferent people, his owand cash.

From the car, policseveral fake car numunknown liquids in beral mobile phones, ucards, handcuffs and alite phone.

According to the pohad been involved in s

beries in Westlands,and Runda.

We have CCTV foduring a robbery on PeThe man was one of tIn the footage, he is sean AK-47, Mr Otieno

He showed journafootage of a robbery March 8 on Peponi RSh1.24 million was st

businessman.The man in the ph

holding an AK-47 riflblack metallic gate. Ha light blue shirt and aof trousers.

The footage, he saof those that have beenthe police by business

Police officers, wholooking for Maingi, shis accomplices, wh

gunned down, lived iOngata Rongai and sodisks.

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THIS AND THAT |Murithi Mutiga

One of the greatest challenges

to the implementation ofdevolution is coming froman unlikely source: The Judiciary.

The string of judgmentsupholding and then overturningthe election of governors over thelast year cannot have done much to

boost the process of taking servicescloser to the people.

Governors and the executivecommittee members they appoint preside over the managementof billions of shillings allocatedannually for a diverse array ofservices.

Toppling them after a petitionhas real life consequences unlikeremoving, say, an MP who is alegislator and whose replacement

by another man or woman will notmake a major difference.

This means that the petitions

challenging the election ofgovernors should be handled anddisposed of at least in the first threemonths after the General Electionso that these people can get on withtheir jobs.

As things stand, there has been amini-circus where the High Courtrules one way, the Court of Appealthe other and the matter ends upat the Supreme Court with no cleardate for final resolution, leaving thegovernors and county residents inan uncomfortable limbo.

Take the case of Nairobi. It is oftensaid that the capital city generatessix out of every Sh10 worth of thecountrys gross domestic product( GDP).

Today, it is unclear whether thegovernor will still be in office in thenext three months and whether all

the plans his executive team havemade will have to be torn up andstarted afresh.

Will the deals, for example, said tohave been struck with some Chinese

firms for mass transit trains have tobe binned if the governor is oustedand fails to win re-election? Howeffectively are the county executivecommittee members carrying outtheir duties as they await the final

judgment?In other counties, governors

lost their appeals and went to theSupreme Court seeking to reversethe judgments.

That means you have politicianswith billions of shillings at theirdisposal thrown into a corridor ofuncertainty as to how long they willcontinue holding office.

At best, you will see those officesused to campaign for re-electionand, at worst, you might witnesslarge-scale looting.

Chief Justice Willy Mutunga andhis team can do something to change

this state of affairs. One optionwould be to petition Parliamentto amend the Constitution so thatall governors petitions start inthe Supreme Court and end therewithin, say, 90 days after they arefiled.

This will give the counties aleadership that is freed fromendless court challenges and affordgovernors the space to carry outtheir mandates. The package ofchanges should include extendingthe timeframe within which apresidential petition can be heard

and disposed of to a sligperiod of, say, 28 days.

Most moderate appreciate that theCourt was faced with ansituation after the last elewas not of their own m

The drafters of the C and by extension all thwho did not urge an a over-reacted from the 2and demanded that ppetitions should be settled within 14 days.

Amend law

That is an incredibly sand the judges basicthemselves with their h

To prevent such a sfuture, Parliament shoullaw to provide for the ppetition to run for 28 dafor all the governors pet

heard within three mothe presidential petitiodisposed of, in the yearresults of the presidenttally are challenged.

That would mean allpetitions start and end incourt in the land.

The Supreme Court, not a very busy court,

be able to handle thosearise.

Such amendmentscounty chiefs to get sdone in the very shorwindow they have, evhopes that in time, as jutheir decisions, they Speaker Kenneth Marenthat the law does not ovacuum and that judgm

be examined against t

economy of the nation

[email protected]

CJ should find a way to halt circuin courts over governors elections

Counsel:

The lawdoes notoperate ina vacuumandjudgmentsshould be

examinedagainstpoliticaleconomy.

There has been a mini-circuswhere the High Court rules

one way, and the Court ofAppeal the other.

The office of the Attorney-General has in the

past few weeks come under intense scrutinyover its handling of two cases linked to thecontroversial Anglo Leasing saga. Critics, includingPresident Uhuru Kenyatta and the Law Society ofKenya, believe that had there been a strong defencethe government would not have been forced to paySh1.4 billion to two companies that won cases inSwitzerland and London against Kenya.

Before 2010, the AG was the governmentsnominal legal adviser, protector of public interestand prosecutor in all court cases. Besides, theoffice had security of tenure giving its holderextensive powers. But the office has sinceindependence been accused of behaving like anappendage of the presidency and the party inpower. By tolerating the breaching of the lawand failing to stop various human rights abuses,successive AGs have often been timid in exercisingtheir responsibility to Kenyans.

The 2010 Constitution was meant to repair

the damage done to this key position. When hewas sworn in, Prof Githu Muigai a man ofimpeccable credentials and extensive experience was expected to restore the image of theAGs office following what some thought was adissatisfactory two decades under Mr Amos Wako.

While the office of the Director of PublicProsecutions took over some powers, theAG remains the principal legal adviser to thegovernment, including in international cases. Heis, therefore, expected to protect public interestbefore all else. The recent criticism, which the AGand his senior officials have defended themselvesagainst, should provide an opportunity to examinethe way things are done in this important office.How Kenya is represented in international casesshould particularly be given attention to avoid pastmistakes.

Prof Muigai should make deliberate efforts toanswer his critics by restoring Kenyans confidence

in an office that has traditionally had a sulliedimage.

Githu ought to auditoperations in his office

Human-wildlife conflict has for years been adelicate subject whose ideal balance Kenyais yet to strike. But reports yesterday that

14 hyenas are suspected to have been poisonedto death by residents living near Maasai MaraNational Reserve in the last three weeks are a sadreminder that more needs to be done.

In the past, elephants and lions have also beentargeted after supposedly killing livestock anddestroying crops. Added to the increased poaching,the situation may soon get out of control if leftunchecked.

The Kenya Wildlife Service should particularly

look beyond the strategies it has used over theyears to ensure even-handedness in the protectionof wildlife and humans. Relying on the law is good,but it should not be the only basis to solve thisintractable problem. KWS and county governmentsneed to do more to engage local communities,some of which have genuine grievances.

It is important to emphasise that apart frombeing Kenyas natural heritage that attracts touristsand promotes the countrys image, wildlife alsoplays a significant role in ecological balancing.

We hope the authorities will take robust action toensure other animals do not suffer the same fate asthe Mara hyenas.

Act now to save animals

Do we want an Attorney-General who will

play politics with the law? I do not want toplay that kind of politics. Barbara Mikulski

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The mandate of gover-nors and the president isderived from the people;county commissionersare civil servants. Wetherefore ask them toconfine themselves totheir mandate ... Weshall acknowledge theirpowers to coordinate butnot to interfere. MeruGovernor Peter Munyacautioning county com-missioners to keep offcounty matters.

OPINION MAKERS | What they said

I have complied withthe legal provision onallocation of duties, andif anyone calls me to an-swer on why Rugut wastransferred, I am willingto clarify and respond toany questions Devo-lution Cabinet Secretary

Anne Waiguru defendingherself against claims

that she unlawfully hadformer National YouthService boss KiplimoRugut transferred.

I understand thatpeople moving across

borders owing to naturaldisasters are not likelyto qualify for refugeestatus ... Environmentalreasons are not recog-nised as grounds for theaward of refugee status The EnvironmentCabinet Secretary Judith

Wakhungu advocatingrecognition of popula-

tions made refugees bynatural disasters.

Manoah Esipisuis not the President.The only person whois mandated by law toorder the payment isHis Excellency ... Youare criminally responsi-

ble Public AccountsCommittee chair AbabuNamwamba to TreasuryPS Kamau Thugge on

the payment of Sh1.4bil lion to two Ang loLeasing firms without

the Presidents orders.

If Duale or Kindikihas not spoken, then

Jubilee has not spoken.Others are free to talk,that is healthy ... but interms of official script,then the leaders are theones who should givethe official position Senate Majority LeaderKithure Kindiki whiledismissing the motion

to impeach DevolutionCabinet Secretary Anne

Waiguru.

Affirmative actioIf its crime, plea

leave me out of iT

he liberal worlwoman is verilKhazari Jew

America. She insists her cake and eating it. I have italicised meanboth of two alternativecompletely incompatib

Like all human indivcommunities, the Khcommit every kind But Khazari propagan

fectively deployed Europes horrendous Hcrimes against Jewry to convince the entirintelligentsia that to criticise any act by individual or group is to commit anti-Sem

By creating a situation which raises a cerreligious community above criticism by thidiabolical stratagem the Khazari have pe

moored to the ground the entire faculty oflitical and critical choice of whole nations North America and Down Under.

This manner by which the Western Jew hand eats it thus jaundicing the faculty of juan entire geo-cultural continuum ever since World War ended has been described forKhazari Jewish individuals, including suchintellects as Noam Chomsky, Michael KiMoshe Menuhin.

In similar fashion ever since the triumAnglo-Saxon Suffragettes national womments have sought equality with men in asocial life while, at the very same time, dcertain distaff privileges which are unavmenfolk.

Throughout this week, we, in Kenya, hon account of the gender injustices whichsuffered for so long, women should be legato perpetrate everything which the Constitas criminal. We heard that no law officer slay his hands on Ms Charity Ngilu no m

she may do.We were told that no custodian of the lever touch Ms Anne Waiguru not even fposes of the due process simply becauswoman, she has automatically been cleanmany centuries of sexist injustices and cher father and brothers have perpetrated agender.

Even I support every effort that a societlectively make to enable all hitherto oppresstribes, races, sects, genders and individuaup rapidly with the rest of the national or insociety. If affirmative action is the name please enlist me among the soldiers in its

But if crime is among the items in youfirmative actions, then please leave me ouI do not know that Ms Ngilu and Ms Waused their official political positions to commEven if I had any tangible evidence againstto a process of inquiry and adjudication thsubmit it.

And that, it seems to me, is a ll that andone against Ms Waiguru. It is unfortunatliament itself an extremely controverted was the initiator of that action. But it is cwithin its supervisory duty to seek to invcabinet secretary suspected of a crime andhim or her guilty, to recommend dismissa

But, just as no black London criminal can ldemand acquittal merely because Londohave mistreated the black race for five centuwoman criminal can hope to go scot free jumen have mistreated womankind ever sincereared its hideous head three millennia ag

In the 21st century, I expect every properlmale human being to readily see the urgeliberate his mother, wife, sisters and daugthe mental straitjacket of bigoted patriarching so that all of them can contribute freelall their immense nature-given talents to huplift.

But among the best methods to achievweed all criminals women and men alikeour processes of preferment in service de

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OPINION |Nduva Muli

In some of the recent articles andbroadcasts in the local media,the Ministry of Transport and

Infrastructure has been subjectedto totally unwarranted and baselessallegations on its handling of certainaspects of road safety.

At issue, apparently, has been theministrys alleged insistence thatthe night travel ban on passengerservice vehicles (PSVs) was still on.

In light of these unfounded and mis-informed allegations, we feel it isnecessary to set the record straightand discount some of the miscon-ceptions that have festered aroundthis critical issue.

For starters, the Cabinet Secre-tary and by extension the ministryof Transport and Infrastructure isnot aware of any ban on nighttravel by Public Service Vehicles.To give the policy intervention itsrightful name, what the ministry hasdone, through the National Trans-port Safety Authority (NTSA), is tointroduce a much-needed regulatoryframework to govern night travel inthe country.

It is instructive to note that bycoming up with a regulatory regimefor night travel, what the ministrydid was perfectly in order and

within the laws of Kenya. The law,specifically under the NTSA Act,gives the Cabinet Secretary ex-ecutive authority, which he caninvoke to carry out the mandate ofthe ministry so as to ensure safe andefficient movement of goods andservices within our country.

This is exactly what the CabinetSecretary has done. And it is whatthe ministry will and must continueto do. The sanctity of human lifeand property on our roads and our

transportation channels is too criti-cal to be postponed or held hostagefor the convenience of a few.

Road carnage in our country wasgetting out of hand and the weightof responsibility was on our shoul-ders. We could not just fold our armsand whimper into acceptance of thestatus quo.

In any case, there has always beena plausible body of statistics to show

that most fatal accidents occurredduring the night because of theactions of unregulated operators,including long-distance truckers andPSVs. Driver fatigue as a result ofdriving over long distances withoutbreaks and the paucity of systemsof accountability such as a passen-ger manifests and fleet managementsystems was also to blame.

Abide by lawUnder the regulations, several

PSV operators have so far appliedfor and obtained licences for nighttravel.

The National Transport andSafety Authority is reviewing theseapplications. As a ministry, we shallcontinue to support those who abideby the law and ensure the violatorsare punished. It is important to

clarify that vehicles plying shorterroutes such as Nairobi to Kiambu

do not fall under the long distancespectrum. These distances aregoverned by commuter distancespectrum. What is classified as longdistance involves movement onlonger routes such as Mombasa toBusia or Nairobi to Kisumu. Theseare distances that cannot be coveredwithin the stipulated eight hours,including breaks.

A few months after the PSV reg-

ulations were introduced, we feelvindicated. Latest statistics showthat in absolute numbers, roadaccident fatalities are down 21 percent this year, compared to the sameperiod last year. More significantlythe loss of lives of passengers inPSVs has dropped by 47 per centwhen compared against the sameperiod last year.

Still, our job still remains largelyundone and a lot of challengesremain. We shall not rest on ourlaurels. Safety challenges regard-ing heavy commercial vehicles,motorcycles and pedestrians needto be addressed and we can assureKenyans we will address them indue course.

Earlier this week, the Cabinet Sec-retary Transport and Infrastructurelaunched a Highway Patrol Unit that

is fully equipped to address casesof violation of the traffic laws andregulations in all respects. Driverson Kenyan roads must realise thatimpunity on our roads must andwill come to an end. I urge all roadusers to drive by the rules or facethe consequences.

Mr Muli is the Principal SecretaryState Department of Transportin the Ministry of Transport andInfrastructure

Ministry acted within the lawon regulation of night travel

Loss of lives of passengers inPSVs has dropped by 47 percent when compared againstthe same period last year

Correction:Ministryis notaware ofany banon nighttravel byPSVs

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President Uhuru Keny-atta and Law Societyof Kenya chair Eric

Mutua have strongly criticisedthe State Law Office over itshandling of the Anglo Leasingcase that led to Kenya payingSh1.4bn to two firms.

A visibly angry Mr Kenyatta,at a press briefing at StateHouse, chided Attorney-Gen-eral Githu Muigai for sloppyrepresentation, while Mr Mutuasummed up the legal defenceas highly unprofessional, andhas demanded that Mr Muigairesign, even threatening himwith disbarment.

The Consumer Federationof Kenya holds no brief forthe trio in any way, but couldit be that both PresidentKenyatta and Mr Mutua are

being grossly insincere overwhat appears to be a decep-tive mob-justice against MrMuigai and his team?

Unlike previous Presidents,President Kenyatta had a de-tailed formal hand-over fromthe Kibaki administration,where he chose to retain MrMuigai, who didnt have to bevetted afresh.

The President has chairedCabinet meetings with Prof

Muigai as one of the mem-bers. It amounts to mischief,therefore, for President Keny-atta to feign ignorance on thesubstance of the briefs he has

either been getting or oughtto be getting from Prof Muigaion why and how the case wassupposedly bungled.

Indeed the President wasunconvincing to have publiclycriticised the SLO, knowing fullwell that, beyond his lamen-tations and suggestions, hewields exclusive power to acton the matter.

On his part, and with tre-mendous respect, Mr Mutua

and the LSK are being oppor-tunistic, overly reactive andplaying to the public gallery.Both have been around asthe Anglo Leasing cases were

running locally and interna-tionally. In this regard, it isunconvincing for Mr Mutuaand the LSK to be seen toreact to legal issues aroundthe case in the manner a non-legal NGO would.

In any case, Mr Mutua hasbeen adversely mentio nedin the Malili Ranch scandal,where shareholders werecheated out of their land, asa prime suspect, and should

stop issuing idle threats.Stephen Mutoro,Secretary-General, Consumer

Federation of Kenya.

Uhuru, Mutua criticism of theAttorney-General unwarranted

TALKING POINT

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Attorney-General Githu Muigai (left) and Solicitor-General Njee Muturiwhose handling of the Anglo Leasing case has been criticised.

The Cutting Edge

BY THE WATCHMANSTATE HAS FAILED LAND-OWNERS: Th

ment and law courts have totally failed Kenullifying bona fide titles to Nairobi Southby invoking the buyer-beware rule too libeWamahiu Muya, adding that they are lettwho conned others live to enjoy their lootIt is only the State that certifies whether genuine and if the Registrar of Lands issuecertificate, the State should compensate awho was loses money through its negligenruption. His contact is [email protected]

STOP THE NONSENSE: The plot by MPspeach Devolution Cabinet Secretary Waigallegedly sacking someone by SMS is uttesense, says Devere Mwangi. SMS is an advand acceptable mode of communication iworld. If you can use SMS to transfer moneexamination results, pay bills, and book hotravel, what is wrong with being sacked thSMS? Whatever the means, the informatiosame; you have been fired! His contact [email protected].

REVIVE LANDLINE SERVICES: When thOrange company took majority shares in TeKenya, landline owners had high hopes of imservices that have since been dashed, says Shah. Orange, he adds, completely ignored part of the agreement under the excuse tha

were stolen or vandalised, reaching a point hardly anybody has a workable landline. Thtorney-General should look into this. His [email protected].

CONFISCATE DIRTY PROPERTY:Havinsuch a commendable job of flushing out anforeigners living in the country illegally, Marsays the government should now investigatany of the ransom extorted from ship owne

vessels were hijacked by pirates in Somalia invested in Kenya. If any is traced, Mark proproperty should be confiscated by the govesend out a strong warning that our countryused as a haven by drug traffickers and pira

SIEGE MENTALITY: The directive by Instor-General of Police David Kimaiyo outlatinting of private motorists car windows tlater quashed by a court should have beerected at the mother of all tints, the walls buildings, says X.N. Iraki. He adds: That hiding behind walls creates a siege mentanegates freedom and innovation. His [email protected].

WHAT AILS KENYA: Attorney-General GMuigai has aptly summarised what ails Ke that we have more morticians than surgenotes John Mukui, adding: Examples are We have more critics than writers, more susors than workers, our professors we onlywhile they are reciting, Solidarity foreversquandering family resources on alcohol aroad hogs breaking all the traffic rules, anlic health personnel selling drugs. His [email protected].

Have a surgical day, wont you

E-mail: [email protected] MWatchman PO BOX 49010, GPO 00100, Fax 2213946

HANDS OFF WAIGURU: The male-dominment wont be allowed to impeach DevolutSecretary Anne Waiguru, warns Janet Kui. SIn the past year, two prominent women havshown the door, and many others were victjust bore the pain in silence. But the men gewith anything, including forging academic cthe Anglo Leasing-scandals and flouting thetion. Keep off Waiguru and let her do her wcontact [email protected].

To the editorThe editor welcomes brief letters on topical issues. Write on [email protected]. You can also mail to: TheSunday Nation, P.O.B 49010, Nairobi 00100. Letters may be edclarity, space or legal considerations.

Im an optimist, happy tosee something positively life-changing happening. This isone reason Im looking forwardto Brazil successfully hostingthe World Cup this year.

So when the Chinese agreedto finance the standard gaugerailway, I was cautiously elated.Im optimistic this project will

be key to economic and politi-cal developments in Kenya and

East Africa.Now, Im conversant with

the global politics of com-merce and economy, and wantto point out that China alone,while an important global po-litical and economic power, isnot enough. The US and her

allies in Europe, Canada, Aus-tralia, Japan and others cannot

be ignored. Incidentally, theseare also the biggest markets forChina, just as for Kenya.

The EU, for instance, con-sumes most of our agriculturalproducts, and accounts for the

biggest chunk of our tourists.The US market is an importantmarket to us in more ways thanone. Academically, the West re-

mains an important destinationfor Kenyan students.

Granted, investments fromChina are growing in impor-tance and so is her middleclass, which is important fortourism, but it would be fool-hardy just to look at China,

which, in turn, is trading withthe West we want to ignore which, by the way, still leads intechnological innovations.

China is rising and willmaintain the pace, yes, but ina highly globalised world, weneed everybody.

In a nutshell, our policiesneed to embrace dialogue andwork with both East and the

West. We need all the capital

and markets we can get. Theimbalance in trade betweenKenya/Africa and China aretoo huge and our minuscule ex-ports to the East require urgentnudging to significantly growto reasonable margins.

Harisson Ikunda, Nairobi.

Lets not kid ourselves; we need the West

May 25, 1984

The former MP for KitaleEast, Mr Frederick Gumo, haswithdrawn from the Kitale Eastconstituency by-election sched-uled for June 11.

Mr Gumo announced thesurprise decision in Nairobishortly after Kanu headquar-ters announced clearance of

six candidates, including MrGumo, for the race.

The names were released bythe Kanu national treasurer,who is also Minister of Statein the Office of the President,Mr Justus ole Tipis.

The six were: Masinde Muliro,Frederick Gumo, Julius KipronoBii, Wilson Koech, Daniel Kibi-wott Yeto and John Chege.

Announcing his decision, MrGumo said he was steppingdown for the sake of peaceand unity in Kitale East.

Mr Gumo said he was gratefulto the people of the constitu-ency for giving him the chanceto represent them in Parliament,and thanked President Moi forhaving appointed him assistantminister in his government.

Thirty Years Ago Compiled by Augustine Nyagah

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Mr Frederick Gumo.

Columnist Murithi Mutigas senti-ments last Sunday regarding the airingof X-rated content on local FM stationscannot go unsupported. Radio stationshave thrown caution to the wind and

bombard us daily with uncensoredmaterial that is, for all intents, por-nography and immorality.

As the bod y charged with themandate to oversee professional andethical standards in the media, theMedia Council of Kenya has failed inits mandate to ensure offensive contentis not aired. Radio journalists cannot

be allowed to operate without restraintyet its the councils responsibility tooffer accreditation to all bona fide localand foreign journalists.

James Murimi, Kwale.

Spare us the dailyvulgarities on radio

That Nairobi Senator Mike Mbuvi(Sonko) could place a direct phone callto President Uhuru and so easily ma-nipulate him against authorised action

by his own government was shockingand should not have happened.

Worse, the populist Senator put thepresident on speaker phone (withoutthe head of states knowledge) for all,including media, to hear. Imagine whatdamage this would have caused hadthe president tripped in his speech inthe belief that the conversation wasprivate! And what guarantee is therethat the senator wont use his new-found influence to his advantage? Whyis the president handling the senator

with kid gloves when it was Uhurusname that secured him the Nairobi voteand not vice-versa?

Francis Njenga, Nakuru.

Is there no policy oncalls to the president?

Its sad to learn that close to 4,000Kenyans have so far been declaredredundant since the USA, UK, Franceand Australia issued travel advisoriesagainst Kenya. If not contained, thismight cripple our economy which isalready struggling, and shift potentialinvestment to neighbouring countriesand the region.

More worrying is the sudden de-preciation of the shilling in relation tomajor international currencies. With

potential budget deficits in the 2014-2015 estimates, a struggling tourismindustry and a sagging wage bill, thiscould very well be the beginning ofsocio-economic and political unrest,which government must take pre-emp-tive measures to contain.

Enock Onsando, Mombasa.

Act now to pre-empteconomic sabotage

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It is not enough thknown Anura Pererjust extracted Sh1.4from Kenyans, but wants Treasury to pSh3 billion more. P

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Once, years back whentoo scared of Nairobi stcop invited me for a drGSU camp at Kenya Bing Corporation. Under

jungle tent, we were sebeer from AFCO storestraight from the bottlething I had never doneThe waiter was a GSU in jungle fatigues and wasked for a glass, he loowith that no-nonsense and mouthed jinga! u

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A former Libyan army unleashed a military opagainst perceived religitremists. The target is armed groups that sprathe merry days of the ANone of them is willingan inch to anybody, anSomalia could very welmaking. For the folk whof living happily ever afafi, the Arab Spring waambitious experiment thorribly wrong, or a cru

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In the recent past, copson the receiving end froquarters following the wunprecedented terrorisI, too, have hurled a fewin their direction from of my desk. But sometity stops you in your trweek, we learnt that poaverage of two litres of vehicle per day. Consertwo litres will give you good day. With some ofacts, it is delusional tomen and women in blutop of their game.

SALUTE FOR A CIVIL

And contrary to what sbelieve, I have many goin the police force. Oneis a senior cop whose sdrama sometimes makSome time back, I stopgreet him at a roadbloche recognised me, he frhis swagger stick undeand executed a smart sThinking that I was a bcop from somewhere, hfollowed suit. It felt gooI couldnt salute back for civilians to salute. Wturned to the car, the feling with me eyed me sHe is a businessmanguess what was going omind. Since then, he avlike the plague.

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