Wiper resolves to drag Kalonzo back to Azimio (Nation headline, May 24, p.1). Same story inside: Kalonzo nudged back to Azimio (p.6). Drag: pull (someone or something) along forcefully, roughly, or with difficulty. Nudge: coax or gently encourage (someone) to do something. “Drag” and “nudge” are used here synonyms, when they are antonyms. So, what did they do to Kalonzo?
Across the country, lecturers and high school principals are leaving their calling to join politics, with most of them eyeing governor, deputy governor and senator, MP and even MCA seats (People Daily, May 26, p.8). Iko kiulizo: What makes teaching a “calling” but not politics? Or people are never “called” to politics, but simply storm in?
Operations at the county government of Mandera could ground to a halt after the High Court issued an order freezing its account (Standard, May 26, p.11). Operations could “grind to a halt”.
Journalists dominated the list of individuals nominated as running mates for governor candidates (People Daily, May 24, p.12). Really? IEBC said it had received 244 governor aspirants by the May 16 deadline for political parties and independent candidates to submit names. Each governor has a running mate. That means 244 of aspiring deputies. If journalists “dominated the list” of those prospective deputy governors, we should expect kitu 237 hapo. But the PD story listed only four scribes. Facts should not get in the way of a good story, uh.
Raila returns to Western in quest to reclaim lost ground (People Daily headline, May 24, p.13). So, Raila has “lost ground” in Western? Fact or opinion? Nowhere in the story was this claim supported.
The lakeside city of Kisumu defied all odds to successfully host more than 8,000 delegates for Africa’s single gathering of leaders at the 9th Africities Summit (MyGov, May 24, p.1). The story never listed the odds Kisumu defied to host the summit. The spectacle that Governor Anyang’ Nyong’o staged cost a whopping Sh600 million, of which Sh200 million was from the national government. A very strategic investment for 8,000 folks to talk about cities.
Nyayo Tea Zones scales up value addition to meet growing demand for tea (MyGov headline, May 24, p.12). Next page: KVDA scales up efforts to conserve key water tower. We gerrit. In a government paper, it is allowed to report about plenty of things being “scaled up”.
