Bungoma senator Moses Wetangula,have urged Prime minister Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka to back his presidential bid in 2017.Wetangula claimed that,western people perish in poverty due to politics of exclusion.He said its time for Western Kenya to provide a leader who can change the lives of people.Wetangula said he cannot rule out working with his enemies in the jubilee coalition,because in politics the is no permanent enemies.
Saturday, 25 January 2014
Thursday, 23 January 2014
MEET LUPITA NYONG'O BOYFRIEND FRANK MAINA,A KENYAN BORN AND RAISED IN USA.
Kenyan actress Lupita,is dating a 28 year old Kenyan born and raised in the USA.Frank Maina is a banker by proffession and they have been dating since 2010 may.However,Lupita stays in Houston Texas while Franks stays in Los Angeles.As Kenyans,we wish her success to win the Oscar academy award.
YOUTHFUL MILLIONAIRE BABU OWINO WHO SPONSORS 713 UNIVERSITY STUDENTS NOMINATED IN TO THE TRANSFORM KENYA AWARDS.
Babu Owino,a young millionaire has been nominated in the Transform Kenya awards.The former student leader is sponsoring 713 university students in Nairobi and Kenyatta universities.Through his BABU OWINO FOUNDATION, many bright poor students have been given hope in future.Deputy president William Ruto commended the young millionaire recently at young leaders forum in Serena hotel." I want to comment Babu Owino for his efforts to help other needy students in kenya,may God grant him success. As government we need the likes of in government positions",said Ruto.
FORMER PRESIDENT DANIEL MOI CAN FACE JAIL OVER THE MURDER OF SERONEY.
Former president Daniel Arap Moi has been ordered to appear in court in persion, over the death of former politician Jean Seroney.The widow of Seroney, Mrs zipporah Seroney, sued the Government of Kenya and the former president for the murder of his husband.She said Seroney was arrested,tortured and detained in 1975 at the behest of Moi, who was then vice president.He later died in 1982 as a result of such torture. Moi is also expected to answer charges where he was accused of planning the gang-rape of Christine Chepkorir,the daughter of Seroney.He was reaped after they attempted to return back to their family home after their fathers death.Moi is expected in the dock on 25th march.Seroney was an MP from 1961 to 1975,where he faced numerous frustrtions with Moi.
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
STATE HOUSE OFFICIALS ADMIT UHURU WAS MISLEAD IN PARASTATAL APPOINTMENTS.
Sources in State House have admitted that President Uhuru Kenyatta is facing a dilemma over the recent parastatal appointments that are turning controversial.
According to the reliable sources, a senior official in State House went ahead and advised the President to make the appointments without taking the legal implications into account.
“That person was advised not to forward the names to the President but it was like they succumbed to pressure and did just that. I don’t know what will happen next,” said the source.
Among the notable names whose appointments are raising debate is Abduba Dida who was appointed the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Board Chairman and Samuel Poghisio, who was named the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority Chairman.
Dida’s academic credentials and the process of his appointment without Parliament’s involvement have been questioned, while Poghisio’s appointment should have been made through an open and competitive process.
The appointment of The National Alliance Secretary General Onyango Oloo as the Chairman of the Lake Basin Development Authority has also met criticism owing to the fact that he still holds and plans to remain a party official.
Deputy President William Ruto, while speaking on Citizen TV’s Cheche show on Wednesday morning, said that the officials behind the ‘mess’ would be held to account.
“It should not happen and I am sure that even those people who made the President do the signing of the gazette notice without proper diligence must be asking themselves questions and we will also be asking them very hard questions,” said Ruto.
The National Authority for the Campaign Against Drugs and Alcohol Abuse Chairman John Mututho was appointed in a similar fashion before the President revoked the appointment after the backlash that came from Parliament owing to the fact that he had not been vetted by Parliament as required by the Constitution.
The source however said that whether or not the President would cave in to the public pressure was uncertain.
Our sources also explained that the appointments were made using the State Corporations Act which governs all public bodies including the Constituency Development Fund without considering the arising legal bottlenecks.
This locked out public participation which is unconstitutional and allowed the President to appoint public officials without seeking Parliament’s approval which is also unlawful.
“The CDF Act is more superior to the State Corporations Act so the appointments should not have been made under it. It is actually illegal to invoke the State Corporation Act,” revealed the sources.
The CDF Act would have allowed public participation and removed the confusion that followed the gazettement of Dida’s appointment.
While the Act gives the line Cabinet Secretary (Planning and Devolution’s Ann Waiguru) the responsibility of appointing the Board’s Chairman and gazettement of the names, the State Corporations Act gives the President overriding mandate.
Waiguru had gazetted Dida’s name on December 24, last year, but about seven days later on December 31, the President gazetted the same name.
And on January 3, this year, Waiguru revoked her gazettement.
This means Dida remains the Chairman of the CDF Board just as the other chairmen remain the heads of their institutions.
UHURU REVOKES CONTROVERSIAL ABDUBA DIDA APPOINTMENT.
President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration has surprisingly revoked the appointment of Abduba Dida as the chairman of the Constituency Development Fund. The President’s appointment of his challenger in the last presidential elections had drawn a lot of interest from Kenyans, with some lauding it and others opposing. In a Gazette notice dated January 3, the Jubilee administration rewarded former Malindi Town MP Lucas Maitha – a political loser in the March 2013 elections – who becomes the chairman of National Standards Council of the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS). “It is notified for the information of the general public that Gazette Notice No. 15728 of 2013, issued under Section 5(4) of the Constituency Development Fund Act, stands revoked,” the notice, signed by Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru, reads. MPs had reacted angrily to Uhuru’s appointment of Mr Dida, saying he had violated the law in the appointment. Under the CDF Act 2013, only the Cabinet Secretary for matters dealing with CDF (Devolution in this case) has powers to appoint a chair of the board from among members who have been vetted by Parliament. The revocation will likely give Jennifer Barasa an opportunity to continue serving given that her term had not elapsed. This is the second time that the Jubilee administration has been forced to withdraw an appointment owing to public pressure.
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