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19 Jun 2013 - Kirinyaga county commissioner Joseph Keter has threatened to sack his officers if they do not crack down on illicit brews and drugs in 90 days. He said the government will not condone complacency in provincial administrators. "Of late there have been very many cases...
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19 Jun 2013 - The ongoing heavy rains in Nyahururu and its environs have claimed one life. Residents of the town woke up yesterday and found the body of a middle aged man lying in a water trench along Nyahururu-Nakuru road. The man is believed to have drowned as he headed to his...
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19 Jun 2013 - The Uasin Gishu county government has been forced to hire extra offices to accommodate staff. Departments of the Eldoret Municipal Council have been relocated to the new offices hired at the 7th floor of the Kerio Valley Development Authority. The staff in the...
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19 Jun 2013 - Kapsabet will have a modern sports stadium to be constructed at a 25-acre plot at a cost of Sh250 million through the support of the International Olympics Committee. Nandi governor Cleophas Lagat said the facility is expected to replace the dilapidated Kipchoge Keino...
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19 Jun 2013 - Three suspects were shot dead and two others escaped with serious injuries yesterday morning at Tartar village in West Pokot county. West Pokot police boss Moses Owiti said they recovered an AK 47 gun with 20 bullets and a homemade gun from the suspects. Owiti said...
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19 Jun 2013 - Naivasha: Area DC Abass Hajji Mohammed has said the involvement of chiefs in the brewing of illegal drinks has made it difficult for the government to eradicate the vice. Mohammed said the most affected are Karagita, Kihoto, Nyakinyua, Mai Mahiu and Malewa.Speaking to...
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19 Jun 2013 - Naivasha: More than 20 workers at the local CDF office have been sent on forced leave following wrangles between the immediate former MP John Mututho and his successor John Kihagi. The move comes after Mututho failed to turn up for the handing ceremony of office on...
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19 Jun 2013 - Cabinet Secretaries Michael Kamau (Infrastructure) and Adan Muhammed (Industrialisation) yesterday made an extensive tour of Eldoret and parts of Western Kenya to asses infrastructure development and other projects aimed at improving trade in the region. They...
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19 Jun 2013 - More than 1000 farmers will benefit from a multibillion horticulture project by the Oserian Wildlife Sanctuary.The project will be a means to prevent the human-wildlife conflict in the area. The initiative will see farmers plant garlic, capsicum, pepper and onions as...
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19 Jun 2013 - Professor Teresia Akeng'a officially took over as the new Vice Chancellor at the University of Eldoret yesterday after the government directed that she be sworn in. Akeng'a went to the university accompanied by the council members who witnessed the handing over from...
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19 Jun 2013 - Two robbery suspects were arrested in Gilgil in a dramatic chase that saw police officers fire in the air to repulse a revenge crowd that wanted to lynch the duo. Sspected stolen property worth millions of shillings was recovered at Kikopey trading centre along the...
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19 Jun 2013 - Narok: Local leaders have asked the government to address the poor state of roads in the region. Led by Kilgoris CDF chairman Davis Dikirr, they claimed past regimes had marginalised the region in the distribution of national resources. Speaking to the Star in Narok...
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19 Jun 2013 - The Kenya Forest Service has won a Food and Agriculture Organisation award for its implementation of the sustainable livelihood development project in the Mau forest complex. The government through KFS and other state organs in 2008 stepped up the reclamation of Mau...
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19 Jun 2013 - KITALE: A suspected defiler has been released on a Sh200,000 bond with surety of a similar amount by a local court.Collins Wanjala was appeared before Chief Magistrate Maxwell Gicheru charged with committing the offence. The prosecution told the court on diverse dates...
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19 Jun 2013 - KAJIADO governor David Nkedianye yesterday moved to avert chaos at the Athi River Technology Development Centre where students barricaded roads and lit bonfires to protest the bad state of a bypass near their college. Nkedianye ordered the road closed and its repair...
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19 Jun 2013 - CHINESE investors will collaborate with the Kakamega county government to upgrade the Kakamega Provincial General Hospital to a referral status at a cost of Sh4 billion, governor Wycliffe Oparanya has said. Oparanya said his government has allocated Sh411 million...
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19 Jun 2013 - KISUMU residents have rejected the County’s budget proposal to purchase 22 Prados at Sh132 million and 14 Land Rovers at Sh98 million. Speaking to The Star yesterday in Kisumu, they cited a number of issues in the statement for the fiscal year 2013-2014 that need to...
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19 Jun 2013 - OVER two hundred TNA agents from Butula constituency in Busia County are planning to hold a demonstration over the delay by top party organs to pay them their dues for the role they played in the March 4 general elections. The irate party agents led by Ignatius Okello...
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19 Jun 2013 - Freedom struggle hero, the late Elijah Masinde's relatives now want the British government to compensate Bukusu freedom fighters' associated with Dini Ya Musambwa during the emergency declared by the colonial regime prior to Kenya's independence 50 years ago. Patrick...
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19 Jun 2013 - THE government should regulate sale of second hand books to stump out stealing of books in schools.Peter Magawe, the Migori Boys' High School deputy principal said yesterday that traders use students and teachers to steal school books. “We can ascertain that over 80...
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19 Jun 2013 - KISWAHILI teachers in Siaya county have been advised to change their teaching methods to improve academic performance. Kiswahili language specialist James Tsuma says most teachers use traditional teaching methods to guide students especially when teaching Fasihi....
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19 Jun 2013 - A man if fighting for his life at Ogwethi Hospital in Migori district after being slashed with a panga on the head after he was caught in bed with his aunt in her aunt's house. Denis Otieno Onsongo, a father of two,was beaten by his uncle at his uncle’s home in...
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19 Jun 2013 - REVENUE collection in Kisumu County has increased tremendously from Sh30 million to Sh53 million over the last two months.The County secretary Humphrey Nakitare said this has been achieved after re-strengthening the system of revenue collection. “There is increase in...
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19 Jun 2013 - A man has died yesterday while another is in critical condition after drinking illicit brew at Tagache area in Nyatike district after complaining of stomachache. David Owuor, 30, was pronounced dead at Tagache Hospital and his body taken to Migori district mortuary...
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19 Jun 2013 - A 48-year-old man drowned on Monday night as he tried to cross River Malakisi at Kocholia in Teso North.James Akou's body was discovered 2km away yesterday morning by school children. His colleague Quinto Karani said Akou had bought house items with his wife before...
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19 Jun 2013 - KNUT Siaya county officials have petitioned the Kenya National Examination Council to pay the teachers who supervised last year’s KCSE and KCPE exams. Through Knut Siaya branch executive secretary Gilbert Ndolo, the unionists asked why teachers who worked as...
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19 Jun 2013 - A petitioner challenging the election of Timothy Bosire as Kitutu Masaba MP yesterday failed to substantiate claims that Bosire bribed voters at Rigoma. During cross examination by Bosire’s lawyer Stephen Legunya, Mochorwa could not explain his claim that his agents...
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19 Jun 2013 - BONDO MP Gideon Ochanda has petitioned the government to settle the electricity bill arrears that has seen several towns in Siaya County going without water for the last three weeks. Ochanda was addressing journalists at his Bondo office yesterday where he appealed to...
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19 Jun 2013 - Bungoma Women's representative Reginalda Wanyonyi has called on the government to set up a rescue centre at a school where more than 17 school children were reported pregnant. Speaking at Chepkurkur Primary School in Mt Elgon, which was most affected, Wanyonyi said a...
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19 Jun 2013 - A voter who has challenged the election of Webuye East member of the National Assembly Alfred Sambu, has claimed he used the Constituency Development Funds to woo voters. Moses Lukoye, a Human Rights activist in his written affidavit alleges that Sambu used CDF funds...