Photo caption: Former Arusha Urban Constituency MP Godless Lema in a past parliamentary session. The opposition politician faces possible deportation by the Kenyan authorities after fleeing persecution in Tanzania (Standard online, November 9). NTV Kenya tweet: Ex-Arusha MP Godless Lema released unconditionally after spending a night at Kajiado Police Station; the Tanzanian politician has been allowed to live in Kenya under asylum program. Nairobi journalists rebaptised this guy. His name is Godbless, not Godless.
Githambu told police he had received help from a friend in strangling his father, Erick Githambu Mwangi, at Kiora in Kinoo, Nairobi (Star, November 9, p.9). Kinoo, a small muddy town on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway, is in Kiambu County.
Police in Naivasha have arrested a young man on suspicion of stabbing her girlfriend to death (Star, November 9, p.10). Young man stabbed “her girlfriend”? Kuna sida.
Although the two principals had been slated to attend the closing ceremony of the two-day Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report closing ceremony, their no-show left the county bosses searching for answers (People Daily, November 11, p.2). “Closing ceremony” twice in one sentence? Subbing gone south.
On inclusivity, the governors bosses proposed the creation of the position of deputy ministers picked from Parliament (People Daily, November 11, p.2). Who are “governors bosses”?
It is half-past two on a quiet Tuesday afternoon at Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Nairobi (Standard, November 6, p12). Keep it simple. It is Mater Hospital. Besides the owners, few other people know or care about “Misericordiae”, ala!
At the reception, patients patiently wait to be attended to, as busy medics in white scrubs shuffle back and forth along the corridors (Standard, November 6, p12). Look, there is nothing like “patiently wait”. If you are waiting, it means you are patient, or you would have left or yelled at the top of your throat demanding service.
Reports of unauthorized use of music belonging to Juliani in a political video has elicited animated debate on social media (Standard, November 6, p14). “Reports” blah, blah, blah “have”, not “has”.
Headline: Chief to serve 115 years in jail for inciting locals to violence (Daily Nation, November 6, p.13). Headline: Busia chief jailed for 23 years for burning home (Standard, November 6, p19). Same chief.
