“If we get him, we will kill him and burn his body. They won’t even get any remains to take to the morgue” (Star, August 15, p.21). This chilling threat by a resident of Kamuiru, Murang’a, was targeted at a thug nicknamed ‘Wagathanwa’. Reportedly heavily built and armed with an axe, he roams around barefoot terrorising residents. The fears and anger of residents are understandable, but the media should not publish such raw threats of mob justice. ‘Wagathanwa’ should be arrested and face the law.
Police guarding the standard gauge railway (SGR) have raised concern over increased cases of vandalism targeting the critical infrastructure (Nation, August 11, p.10). Wait, those are police guarding SGR raising concern over vandalism? Aje sasa? Aren’t they supposed to arrest the vandals? What or who is stopping them? Nation should have asked.
A police officer who spoke to Nation in confidence said the vandalism has been going on unabated despite night patrols. Maajabu ya Musa. What sort of journalism is this? Police are doing night patrols, but vandalism of the SGR goes on “irregardless”. Sasa Wakenya wafanye nini, jameni?
“The SGR infrastructure is under threat. Once they are done with the fence, the thieves will go for the train tracks,” said the officer who is attached to Oloosirkon police station. The same officer who is deployed to guard the SGR said this? Is this a joke? And the reporter left this funny story at that?
In 2014, then Kericho Governor Paul Chepkwony laid a foundation stone for stalled sweet potato factory. Although the county government has spent more than Sh6 million on the project located in Soin-Sigowet constituency, not even a single bag of sweet potatoes has been exported to the UK (Standard, August 15, p.4). Kwani the factory was supposed to export bags of sweet potatoes to the UK or to process them?
The visit by Coons is believed to have everything to do with the talks between Azimio and Kenya Kwanza (Star, August 14, p.4). Believed by who? Story does not say. Believed by the reporter, perhaps.
Orwoba’s allegations against senior House official rocks Senate (Nation headline, August 11, p.4). Nah. Orwoba’s allegations “rock Senate”, not “rocks”.
Ruto, Raila allies unite to lay ground for talks (Standard headline, August 16, p.6). Intro: Kenya is poised for another Building Bridges Initiative moment. What moment? BBI collapsed. Is that what will happen to the talks at Bomas? Is this news or speculation?
Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu said TVETs reforms are meant to align training with the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA) to enable youth acquire skills for green jobs and mitigate climate change. Prof Machogu said…. Is Kenya’s Education minister a professor?
The mediation talks between the Kenya Kwanza and Azimio la Umoja coalitions got underway yesterday with the negotiating teams holding a nearly three-hour meeting at the Bomas of Kenya to agree the ground rules (People Daily, August 15, p.4). You can’t have “mediation talks” without a mediator. Who is the mediator at Bomas?
Wrangles over payment of legal fees amounting to billions of shillings in Nairobi have taken a new twist after the county attorney general Lydia Kwamboka was sacked under unclear circumstances (People Daily, August 15, p.12. Unclear circumstances? What about “wrangles over payment of legal fees”? Those are the clear circumstances. If they aren’t, why link them to the sacking?
And as the government disclosed that stern measures would be taken against institutions found to have defied the set fees guidelines, it also explained it has allowed each of the 32 public universities to determine their own respective fees to enable them raise enough funds for their operations (People Daily, August 14, p.13). So? Government has “set fees guidelines” for public universities, but they are also free “to determine their own respective fees” to raise enough funds. Doesn’t make sense.
