If there are any editors assigned to KBC Channel One website, they should go home immediately.
How can the national broadcaster publish such atrocious writing for the whole world to see? Who pays these people? The taxpayer? Tell you what? We are screwed!
There was this story http://www.kbc.co.ke/igad-commissions-ksh-360-million-development-study/last week about IGAD commissioning a study. A fairly straightforward matter, one would have thought. But no, KBC Channel One must find a way of hitting its readers right on the head with gibberish.
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development has commissioned a study to identify infrastructure and financing gaps the trade bloc is facing, the website reported.
And then: “This will result to identifying possible financing options in order to realize multiple infrastructure gaps.” What, good heavens, is that?
“In a bid to increase trade volumes within the continent, 44 countries in the continent in principle have signed the Africa Continental Free Trade Area.”
“The Intra-Africa trade currently hovers around 12% but opening up borders for trade is however tipped could rise to more than 50% in less than a decade.”
Holy goat!
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We will not say a word about this one, appearing on the KBC Channel One website on May 1, under the title, ‘Kenya seeks to borrow the Cuban healthcare model’. Here you go: http://www.kbc.co.ke/kenya-seeks-to-borrow-the-cuban-healthcare-model/
Cuba Health Care system is rated among the best in the world with its citizens accessing free medical care including cancer treatment and organ transplant.
So organised is their provision of healthcare that the country is recording zero maternal deaths with an obligation that doctors whose acts or omissions result in death step aside.
Kenya seeks to borrow the Cuban healthcare model informing its engagement of 100 specialist doctors who will arrive in the country by end of June.
Not much is known about Cuba with its independence struggle spearheaded by the late Fidel Castro and its communist approach that is enshrined even in their constitution the most pronounced feature.
But the Latin-America country, an island between the pacific and the Gulf of Mexico has one of the best healthcare systems fully run by the government effectively locking out private practice and the operations of private clinics.
But why the success, one may ask? The system is designed with a hierarchal division, at the top being the Minister for Health and the lowest being the Family Doctors division.
The unique nature of the system is exemplified by the ‘polyclinicos’ division, which is the equivalent of a hospital providing services to people in an electoral ward in Kenya.
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Another KBC Channel One story headlined, ‘SGR construction at Mai Mahiu to proceed smoothly’ http://www.kbc.co.ke/sgr-construction-mai-mahiu-proceed-smoothly/ informed readers: “The project is expected to create job opportunities for the locals as well as foster socio-economic development.”
Is job creation not part of socio-economic development? Or what does the latter actually mean?
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Silly headline:
‘Pan African Conference on Education comes to end in Nairobi’
The embarrassment is not only in the missing ‘an’ but also, needless to say, in the fact that this is no story. Conferences anywhere on this earth always start and end. Or the Berlin conference of 1884-5 where mzungus partitioned and shared Africa among themselves would still be going on today, with the same delegates. So, what is the news about a conference ending?
People, we are losing money paying editors who simply can’t edit!
