The Nation (Kenya) articles from May 2010

The Nation (Kenya) archives from May 2010

Fishermen On Lake Victoria to Pay Fee.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Daniel Otieno Fishermen on Lake Victoria will soon start paying fees to be allowed to ply their trade on the water body. This is one of the ways that a joint fisheries ministers meeting between the three countries using the lake...

World Bank Lends Nation Sh26 Billion for Power Projects.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Jevans Nyabiage Kenya has received a Sh26 billion ($330 million) loan from the World Bank to expand electricity access and deepen investment in green energy. The Kenya Electricity Expansion Project aims to increase access to power...

Tourism Targets Sh80 Billion From a Million Visitors.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Justus Ondari The tourism sector expects over a million visitors this year with a projected earning of about Sh80 billion. "For 2010, our target remains more than a million visitors flying in; more than a billion US dollars revenue...

Banks Merge in Bid to Raise Core Capital.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Joseph Bonyo The need to run a financially stable institution and raise core capital has seen two commercial banks merge. The marriage between Equatorial Commercial Bank and Southern Credit Banking Corporation announced in March...

Barclays Bank Profit Falls to Sh2 Billion.(Financial report)
May 31, 2010... Byline: Mwaniki Wahome Barclays Bank of Kenya Ltd has announced a 9.1 per cent decline in its pre-tax profit for the first quarter ending March 31, 2010. The bank's profits fell from Sh2.2 billion that it posted over the same period in...

Judge Throws Out Case Against Kadhi Courts.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Eunice Machuhi A Mombasa judge on Monday struck out a case against the inclusion of Kadhi courts in the Proposed Constitution. Justice Mohammed Ibrahim ruled that the High Court had no jurisdiction over matters affecting the...

New Nurses Employed in Sh4 Billion Plan.
May 31, 2010... Three thousand nurses have been hired as part of a public healthcare reform programme expected to cost Sh4 billion. But Public Health and Sanitation ministry said recruitment of 700 additional nurses had been delayed after applicants ran into...

Nation Stamps Its Authority As Media for Continent.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Tim Kamuzu Banda and Robert Kalumba Nation Media Group exerted its position as the leading media house in the region by bagging four of the 15 awards at the CNN Multichoice Africa Journalist of the Year Awards. The awards,...

Truth Team Visits Chaos Hotspot.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Dennis Odunga The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission on Monday held a meeting with residents of Burnt Forest, the North Rift town which bore the brunt of the post-election violence. Chairman Bethuel Kiplagat, who briefly...

Chaos Over Bid to Eject Teacher.
May 31, 2010... Byline: John Ngirachu Violence broke out at a school in Kibera slums after a teacher allegedly forced her pupils to desecrate a Quran, the Muslims' holy book. Irate parents and residents stormed the school early on Monday in a bid to eject...

Six Killed in Raid By Toposa Attackers.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Barnabas Bii and Wycliff Kipsang Six people were killed and scores of others injured after suspected Sudanese Toposa raiders attacked a village in Turkana North. Those killed were four Toposa raiders and two Turkana villagers. ...

Awareness of Male 'Cut' High in Nyanza.
May 31, 2010... More women than men in Nyanza Province associate male circumcision with HIV prevention although awareness of the procedure is high among both genders. This was contained in the results of a survey by the National Aids and STD Control...

Judge Rejects Fresh Case On Kadhi Court.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Eunice Machuhi and Jillo Kadida A high court judge has thrown out a fresh bid to declare kadhi's courts illegal and to legislate on the right to life. Mr Justice Mohammed Ibrahim instead referred the group of applicants under the...

Eternal Vigilance Vital.
May 31, 2010... Eight years after bombing Paradise Hotel in Kikambala and attempting to shoot down an Israeli jetliner, new facts are emerging concerning the modus operandi of the terrorists involved - that they were, in fact, passing for Kenyans, having...

G4s Staffer Hands Over Sh8.5m to Stranger.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Dominic Wabala Detectives have detained a G4S Security Services employee after yet another mysterious theft of millions of shillings that was being moved from Kisumu to their headquarters strong room in Nairobi. The suspect was...

Fresh Battles Erupt in Central Town.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Abdulkadir Khalif Government forces in Hiran region in Central Somalia have early today launched an attack on the loyalists of Hizbu Islam, one of the radical Islamist groups opposing the Transitional Federal Government in Beleweyne...

Define Just Wars, Urges Museveni At ICC Meeting.(Conference news)
May 31, 2010... Byline: Solomon Muyita As world leaders reviewing the Rome Statute in Kampala condemned acts of impunity across the globe, President Yoweri Museveni challenged the meeting to first draw a distinction between just and unjust conflicts. Mr...

New Laws Team Owes Sh230m.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Oliver Mathenge And Bernard Namunane The Committee of Experts has run into a Sh230 million debt as Treasury said it has no money to bail them out. On Monday, the CoE revealed it contracted printers and suppliers of civic education...

National Alert Over Poison Maize.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Lucas Barasa A major alert has been issued over the presence of 2.3 million bags of poisonous maize in the country. And the Government on Monday banned the transportation of the contaminated maize within and outside 29 affected...

Questions Await Sevens Team's Return From Europe.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Ayumba Ayodi When Kenya exploded onto the world sevens rugby staged last season, they delivered a Rugby World Cup semi-final spot in Dubai and a maiden Main Cup final at the Adelaide Sevens. That was perhaps the peak of their...

Tusker Stay Sober As League Takes Break.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Sammy Kitula It's a dog-fight at the top for first place, and a dog-fight at the bottom to get clear of the relegation zone. Meanwhile, middle-of-the-pack clubs are also aiming for a podium finish, for that will get them the chance...

Country to Field Biggest Squad.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Chris Musumba Hosts Kenya will enter the highest number of athletes at next month's African Athletics Championships at the Nyayo National Stadium. Ibrahim Hussein, the championships' technical director, confirmed that Kenya has...

Saitoti Urges Calm in Campaigns.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Lucas Barasa and Caroline Wafula Kenyans have been assured of their security in the run-up to and during the referendum. And those intending to intimidate others on how to vote would not be tolerated, Internal Security minister...

Minister Denies Claims U.S. Directly Funding Process.
May 31, 2010... The United States is not directly funding the review process, a Cabinet minister has said. Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister Mutula Kilonzo said the US, like other donors supporting reforms, were channelling funds through the United...

Hunt for Matuga Votes Set to Begin.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Mazera Ndurya and Galgalo Bocha Ethnic arithmetic could be a key plank of the forthcoming Matuga by-election as campaigns start in earnest next week. At the same time, political parties are lining up their support for various...

Nothing 'Unusual' At Finger of God House.
May 31, 2010... Police did not recover anything unusual in a house where 13 people suspected to be members of an alleged unlawful organisation, a court heard on Monday. Mr Samuel Chumo said he and other officers who raided the upmarket Runda Estate house...

Farmers Count Their Losses As Board Stops Buying Maize Due to Aflatoxin.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Bob Odalo The government's order stopping the National Cereals and Produce Board from buying maize from Ukambani has brought misery to many farmers. The directive was issued last month on fears that maize from the region had...

Writer On the Caine Shortlist.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Caroline Wafula A book written by Kenyan fiction and children author Lily Mabura is having its very public moment under the sun right now. Ms Mabura has been shortlisted for the 2010 Caine Prize for African Writing for her work,...

New Open Space Public Offices to Tame Corruption.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Samuel Siringi Government ministries and parastatals are to spend billions of shillings to open up their offices in a new system aimed at fighting corruption. Head of Public Service Francis Muthaura has directed that all...

Hope for Breast Cancer Patients.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Gatonye Gathura It's good news for thousands of women in Kenya who suffer from breast cancer as scientists develop the first potential vaccine. The researchers -- whose findings are published in the current issue of the journal,...

Provincial Administration - Writer Way Off the Mark.
May 31, 2010... Byline: Jackson Mwalulu LAWYER Charles Kanjama's strong defence of Kenya's Provincial Administration system as far as the proposed constitution is concerned (DN, May 27) is at best intriguing. What one gathers after a critical look at the...

Hate Speech - This is the Right Way to Go.
May 31, 2010... The government's effort to curb hate speech during the constitution review debate is quite encouraging, and hopefully, will soon be followed by action. In the latest initiative, the National Cohesion and Integration Commission, the Provincial...

Next President Must Be Resolute.
May 31, 2010... Byline: William Ochieng WHATEVER REGRETS WE might associate with Kenya's first president, at heart we are grateful that he was a strong and resolute leader. Mzee Jomo Kenyatta was a formidable leader, who had a clear vision of the future...

Wife of Mau Mau Fighter Mathenge Claims Ethiopian Peasant's Remains.
May 31, 2010... The wife of freedom fighter Stanley Mathenge Mirugi is claiming the remains of Ethiopian peasant Lema Ayanu. Mrs Miriam Muthoni Mathenge claims Mr Ayanu was her husband Mirugi and has asked the government to help bring his remains from...

Anglicans Free to Back Green Or Red.
May 30, 2010... The Anglican Church of Kenya will not persuade its faithful to vote against the draft constitution. Speaking in Nakuru on Sunday the church's head, Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, urged ACK members to read and understand the document and make an...

Experts to Soldier On Despite Cash Hitch.
May 30, 2010... Byline: Kitavi Mutua and Lucas Barasa The ongoing civic education on the Proposed Constitution will be conducted to its full conclusion despite the funding shortfall from Treasury, Committee of Experts chairman Nzamba Kitonga has said. Mr...

Nation Staff Shine At Annual Journalists' Fete.
May 30, 2010... Byline: Tim Kamuzu Banda Nation Media Group journalists made a strong showing at the CNN Multichoice Africa Journalist of the Year Awards when its staffers won four of the 15 awards. South African journalist Sam Rogers walked away with the...

ODM Digs for More Votes in Mugirango.
May 30, 2010... ODM stepped up its campaigns in South Mugirango, with three separate groups soliciting for votes. Cabinet ministers Chris Obure, Anyang' Nyong'o, James Orengo and Otieno Kajwang' crisscrossed the constituency to seek support for party...

CDF Kitty to Fund World Cup Viewing.
May 30, 2010... Mumias constituents will be able to watch all World Cup matches live thanks to the CDF kitty. The Constituency Development Fund gave Sh500,000 to buy four LCD plasma televisions screens that will be installed at all divisional headquarters...

Govt Divided Over International Court Probe?
May 30, 2010... Byline: Oliver Mathenge The Kenyan delegation to the International Criminal Court's conference arrived in Kampala on Sunday amid claims of division in government over renewed attempts to stop war crimes investigations. There are claims...

Referendum Hate-Mongers Put On Notice.
May 30, 2010... Byline: Patrick Mayoyo and John Ngirachu An elaborate security plan has been put in place to check hate speech during campaigns on the proposed constitution. Officers from the National Security Intelligence Service, the CID, and the...

I Have No Regrets, Says Milingo.
May 30, 2010... Byline: Daniel Wesangula At 80, Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo may be running out of steam. His walk is a bit laboured and his breath is somewhat raspy. Some puff also seems to have gone from his cheeks, but his conviction, he says, has never...

Ministry to Table Own Tea Sector Bill.
May 30, 2010... Byline: Geoffrey Rono The Ministry of Agriculture will table its own Bill in Parliament to liberalise the tea sector, minister Sally Kosgei said at the weekend. She, however, regretted that the proposed private members' Tea Amendment Bill...

New Study On Fishing Methods.
May 30, 2010... Byline: Mazera Ndurya Although it may seem like a bitter pill to swallow for the fishing communities at the Kenyan coast, marine scientists and conservationists have proven through research that closure of selected fishing areas for a given...

Dairy Sacco Given Clean Bill of Health.
May 30, 2010... Byline: John Ngirachu and Eric Wainaina The management of one of Kenya's success stories in the cooperatives sector appears to have survived allegations of mismanagement and embezzlement of funds. Last Saturday marked the peak of simmering...

EABL Goes After Wines Market to Expand Revenue Streams.
May 30, 2010... Byline: Jevans Nyabiage and Joseph Bonyo After years of dominance in the beer and spirits market, East Africa Breweries Limited has added wines to its stable. The wine segment is expected to be launched on Monday and will feature the...

Milk Processors Finally Receive Sh300 Million to Mop Up Surplus Produce.
May 30, 2010... Byline: Muchiri Gitonga The government has finally released Sh300 million to enable dairy processors mop up surplus milk from farmers. Kenya Dairy Board managing director Machira Gichohi said the money will be spent on buying long-life...

Farmers Advised to Preserve Excess Fodder.
May 30, 2010... Byline: Mwangi Ndirangu Livestock farmers should preserve excess fodder during this rainy season, Agriculture assistant minister Gideon Ndambuki has said. The minister said that the country had more than enough animal feed, only a few...

Fresh Row Over Parking Fees.
May 30, 2010... Byline: Gitonga Marete A fresh row has erupted between truck owners and the Mombasa town council over parking. The truck owners' umbrella body, the Kenya Transport Association, on Sunday protested against alleged harassment of drivers by...

Councillors Sorry for Chaos At Meeting.
May 30, 2010... Nairobi councillors have apologised to the managing director of the city water firm for ejecting him from the company's annual meeting at a Mombasa hotel. Councillors Francis Rapando (Savana) and Hezekiel Nyabera (Kawangware) also condemned...

Meddling Threatens New Sugar Miller.
May 30, 2010... Byline: Eric Ngobilo An investor has threatened to move a Sh1.2 billion sugar factory from Malava constituency to Rift Valley Province as a result of political meddling. The highly awaited Butali sugar factory may not start crushing cane...

Central Region Worst Hit By Boys' Poor Learning.
May 30, 2010... Byline: James Ngunjiri The boy child education in Central Kenya is the worst hit in the country, according to Gender and Children's Affairs minister Esther Murugi. Addressing education stakeholders at Rurii stadium in Kiria-ini where she...

Jatropha - Let Us Hear Views From All Sides.
May 30, 2010... For some time now, attention has been focused on the biodiesel tree, jatropha, and its capacity to deliver on the promise that it can actually alleviate poverty among the poor in arid areas. The reports started appearing two years ago from...

Check Rugby's Decline.
May 30, 2010... Kenya's sevens rugby team has, for the last few years, done the country proud with its steady rise in the pecking order of the International Rugby Board Sevens Series. A semi-final place at the World Cup in Dubai last year provided the...

Claims Over Govt Push to Defer ICC Probe.
May 30, 2010... Byline: Oliver Mathenge The Kenyan delegation to the Rome Statutes review conference arrived in Kampala on Sunday amidst claims of division within government over renewed attempts to stop The Hague's investigations. There are allegations...

Document is in Every Sense a Majimbo Constitution.
May 30, 2010... Byline: Koigi Wa Wamwere KENYA HAS GONE FULL CIRCLE to the majimbo constitution of 1963. Unnoticed, an ethnic scramble for Kenya has been going on and has now culminated in an agreement that we shall ratify in a referendum on August 4. The...

Is the Good Governance Agenda Being Overrated?
May 30, 2010... Byline: Rasna Warah IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, "GOOD governance" has become a priority policy agenda among donors, multilateral organisations and civil society. A great deal of money is being poured into promoting issues such as democratic...

Errors Should Not Derail Review.
May 30, 2010... Byline: Michael Okelloh HOT ON THE HEELS OF THE illegal insertion of the words "national security" into the proposed constitution, the Kenyans for Justice and Development Trust recently unearthed a string of embarrassing errors in the draft....

The Cutting Edge.
May 30, 2010... Byline: The Watchman In what was said to be an effort to enhance efficiency and reduce corruption within government, Thomas Yebei recalls, President Kibaki some time back directed that all government offices adopt the open-plan system. He...

Gor Win As Mathare Held.
May 30, 2010... Byline: Sammy Kitula Zedekiah Otieno's Gor Mahia begin the month-long Kenyan Premier League season break with smiles after they reversed their mid-week 0-1 defeat by AFC Leopards, to give Karuturi Sports a 1-0 send-off at the City Stadium on...

Judges Accused of Settling Scores Over Law.
May 30, 2010... Some judges have been accused of settling scores because radical changes await the Judiciary should the proposed constitution be adopted. The vice chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the constitution, Mr Ababu Namwamba, on...

MP Alleges Plot to Rig Referendum Vote.
May 30, 2010... Lugari Member of Parliament Cyrus Jirongo Sunday alleged a scheme by the government to rig votes during the referendum on the Proposed Constitution. Mr Jirongo claimed the government has compromised civic educators to support the proposed new...

Why Kibaki is Casting the Die for Raila.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Gichinga Ndirangu Beneath the push for a united front in the campaign for the proposed constitution, there is obvious discomfort within the PNU brigade on President Kibaki's tacit support for Mr Raila Odinga's growing influence in the...

Judges Court Social Danger With Ruling.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Philip Ochieng Every properly educated mind knows that society is above the law. This should be obvious since it is in society's name -- it is for its cohesion and happiness -- that we set up governments and make laws to serve them as...

Why My Vote in the Referendum is a Big 'No'.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Mutahi Ngunyi My name is Mutahi Ngunyi, citizen number 4855678. I am previously from the Gema Nation, before becoming a Kenyan. And my vote is a big fat No. I am not ambiguous; I am not thinking about it. It is a No. If I can be...

For Most Local Fans, World Cup is Near Yet So Far.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Sam Wambugu Even without Kenya's national team in the world cup line-up, local fans are all set to catch the fiesta in South Africa. Match tickets and air-fare to South Africa is way out of reach for a majority. Given that event...

Ruling On Kadhis' Courts Was a Judicial Coup Attempt.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Lukoye Atwoli The constitutional court ruling on Monday last week concerning the place of Kadhis' courts in the constitution and in our national life was, of course, meant to be controversial. The timing of the ruling also raised...

Time for Pro-Reform Judges to Speak Out.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Ahmednasir Abdullahi "It was further urged by Mr Orengo, and again, with respect, we accept and agree with his submissions that section 82(1) of the constitution prohibits any provision in any law which is discriminatory either of...

Release Cash for Civic Education.
May 29, 2010... The continued withholding of funds meant for civic education is a disturbing affirmation of the theory that there are those in government who are performing a less than supportive role in facilitating the referendum on the proposed constitution....

Believe It Or Not, Raila Can Teach UK PM a Lot.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Murithi Mutiga Okay. Let's face it. We in the chattering classes were wrong to predict that the coalition government would be an unworkable, dysfunctional disaster. In fact, the grand coalition has worked rather well. Its initial...

Night Goings-On Will Be Made Public in the Day.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Kwendo Opanga A meeting of politicians last week asked politicians to divorce the drive for a new constitution from the 2012 presidential campaign. It was politicians Kiraitu Murungi of PNU or PDM and Anyang' Nyong'o of ODM who...

Courts Must Not Be Allowed to Derail Referendum.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Makau Mutua Unlike Gitobu Imanyara, the plain-spoken Imenti Central MP, I will not declare the ruling on kadhi courts "diabolical". However, I cannot but read sinister motives in the judgment. The ruling is inexplicable and beyond the...

Oil Firm in Deal to Sell Branded Lubricants.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Kennedy Senelwa Competition in marketing of lubricants is set to intensify with the entry of Galana Oil Kenya planned before year end. The pace was set in December 2009 when indigenously owned Hass Petroleum Group joined the field...

The Constitutional Court and Justice Nyamu Are No Strangers to Controversy.
May 29, 2010... Byline: George Kegoro The Judiciary has yet again attempted to strike a blow at efforts by Kenyans to achieve constitutional reforms they have long yearned and fought for. Unfortunately, this is not the first such attempt. In 2005, two...

Hellon Evicted From Runda House Over Rent.
May 29, 2010... Controversial jazz musician and Finger of God Ministries leader Joseph Hellon, his wife and friends were on Friday morning evicted from a Runda house after allegedly failing to pay Sh600,000 in rent arrears. Auctioneers in three trucks...

Kalonzo, Ngilu Mend Fences.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Kitavi Mutua Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka and Water minister Charity Ngilu on Saturday sought to mend fences, again, this time to push for the adoption of the proposed constitution. The two, who met in Kitui during the burial of...

No More Cash for Civic Education, Says Treasury PS.
May 29, 2010... The Treasury appeared to rule out the possibility of releasing more money towards civic education with Finance PS Joseph Kinyua saying they had financed all the activities agreed upon with the Committee of Experts (CoE). In a statement issued...

Seven's Dream is Blown Up.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Ayumba Ayodi Kenya sevens team's aspiration of wrapping up this season's International Rugby Board (IRB) World Sevens Series on a high went up in smoke on Saturday when they crashed at the hands of Samoa and Argentina in Scotland. ...

KFF Agrees to Dissolve, Join FKL.
May 29, 2010... Byline: John Ashihundu Kenya Football Federation has agreed to dissolve and merge with Football Kenya Limited but want the latter to change from a limited company. The resolution was passed on Saturday during a KFF branch meeting at...

Longosiwa Stars At Prisons Championship.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Chris Musumba Thomas Longosiwa won 5,000m title during the Kenya Prisons track and field championships at Nyayo National Stadium on Saturday. Longosiwa, a Beijing Olympics and Osaka 2007 World Championships competitor for Kenya,...

In Trail of New Seventh Wonder of the World.
May 29, 2010... Byline: David Mwaura In mid November 2006, a panel of experts and a major American television network declared the annual wildebeest migration in East Africa one of the new seven wonders of the world. Wildebeest are sometimes referred to...

Church to Fund-Raise for Campaign Through M-Pesa.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Oliver Mathenge Church leaders plan to set up an M-Pesa line through which they hope to raise funds for their campaign against the proposed constitution. The clergy are expected to use the pulpit this morning to circulate the...

Fear of Raila and the Draft Fallout.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Emeka-Mayaka Gekara and Njeri Rugene Concerns that Prime Minister Raila Odinga's star is rising ahead of the 2012 elections and the distribution of counties are the two biggest threats to the Yes campaign ahead of the August 4...

East Africa Upbeat As New Nation About to Be Born.
May 29, 2010... Byline: Murithi Mutiga Brigadier-General Augustino Ali Luwaya loves showing off the scar left after a bullet ripped through his shoulder in a battle in southern Sudan's long, brutal fight for liberation. But there is one thing he loves...