When people helped Mr John Kamoshe Murimi after he was injured during the 2007/8 post-election violence, they unknowingly planted a seed that finally bore fruit on May 4.

It was that fruit that led him to disregard his safety to help others when a blast went off on a Githurai-bound bus on Thika Road, just 100 metres from his car.

Murimi, 32, a self-employed electrician was driving with a friend and had not realised what was going on until he saw a human leg on the road and immediately brought his car to a halt.

Crying for help

“During the post-poll chaos I was in a situation where I needed people to help me and so when I saw the victims of that blast, I recalled how I was helped at that time,” said Murimi.

He parked his car about 50 metres away and rushed to the scene to attend to the injured. He was met by people crying for help.

Heartless

Murimi said it was horrifying to see people whose legs had been blown off and who were bleeding profusely.

But thanks to his post-poll experience, he had hardened somewhat and — after the initial shock — quickly recovered and went into action.

He took off his shirt and belt to tie two critically injured victims to slow their bleeding.

“In less than five minutes there were several of us carrying the injured out of the bus,” he said.

They then stopped motorists on the other lane of the highway and urged them to take the victims to nearby hospitals.

“Some were unsympathetic and even asked us how they could carry strangers with blood all over them,” he added.

The father of two said they gave priority to those who had a chance of surviving.

“We were checking if the victim was still alive before putting him or her in available cars. What kept me going was the thought: ‘What if this was my relative?’” he said.

He added that he was encouraged when a woman he was carrying kept saying asante (thanks) brother.

By the time ambulances and police cars arrived at the scene, there were very few victims left. His actions have been described as heroic.

A motorist who only gave his name as David said there would have been more fatalities if Murimi and other rescuers had not taken action.

“I saw him doing all he could to ensure the injured were ferried to nearby hospitals,” said David.

Selfless

But Murimi said his actions were not heroic. He was only lending a hand where it was needed.

“We ought to be selfless and think of others as human beings who deserve our help. That is what enabled many victims of the blasts to survive,” he said.

-Nairobi News

South African Olympic silver medallist, Caster Semenya, is set to marry her girlfriend, according to a news report.

The Daily Sun reported that the 23-year-old athlete had sent her parents to girlfriend Violet Raseboya’s family in Polokwane to negotiate lobola.

The report said that both families were happy with the negotiations.

Semenya’s family will reportedly pay R25 000 for Raseboya’s hand in marriage.

Semenya was embroiled in a controversial gender testing row following her victory in the 800m at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin.

The athlete bounced back from the controversy to claim a silver medal in the 800m event at the 2012 Olympic Games.

Raseboya is also an athlete.

-iafrica.com

Kenyan native Divock Okoth Origi has been called up to the Belgian World Cup squad.

Belgium coach Marc Wilmots on Tuesday unveiled a 24-strong World Cup squad that included Okoth Origi.

The uncapped Lille striker Origi, 19, is the surprise call-up by Wilmots, who said the teenager would be best to replace the injured Christian Benteke, while Manchester United’s Januzaj is also included.

Kenya was hoping to have the hot striker play for his father’s home country. His father is former Kenya International Mike Okoth Origi.

Origi has scored five goals in France this season and had been approached by the Kenyan national team to play for them.

Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has ordered Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua to stop working with “rebel MPs” in the county. Speaking during a funds drive at Mitaboni AIC in Kathiani on Sunday, Musyoka warned Mutua against associating himself with MPs who are undermining Wiper.

The Cord co-principal asked Mutua to distance himself from county MPs who have publicly pledged allegiance to Jubilee. “I want the governor, who is a member of Wiper Democratic Movement, to get out of that cocoon of rebel MPs which is causing confusion all over Kenya. The governor needs to support his Wiper party,” Kalonzo said.

Since he was sworn into office, Mutua has had cordial relationships with MPs who ditched Wiper during party nominations accusing the party of rigging them out.The MPs vied on other parties and won on in the March 4, 2013 general election. The MPs include Victor Munyaka (Machakos Town), Itwiku Mbai (Masinga), Vincent Musau (Mwala) and Francis Mwangangi (Yatta).

The four have been accompanying Mutua as he launches most of his projects in the county and have on several occasions hit out at Senator Johnstone Muthama. Kalonzo said it is time to show who the true party members are. “We are calling everybody to order; order in the Wiper party and by extension order in the Cord coalition,” he said. However, Musau dismissed Kalonzo’s order as misplaced. He said the Wiper leader has no moral authority to order Mutua around as he failed to do a tenth of what Mutua has done in one year.

“He had 30 years to do so much but what has he done? He should let Machakos be and let Ukambani be. We have no problem with him. He is more senior than all of us and we respect him. But that should not mean that he should baby-sit Mutua,” Musau said.

- The Star

Operators of City Hoppa buses at the Kencom terminal now insist on being shown identity cards before allowing passengers to board their buses.

This is in addition to the usual frisking of passengers.

The bus company has hired a team of security personnel to conduct the checks. They are tasked with checking luggages and using metal detectors to screen passengers.

There is also an employee who checks on identification documents as passengers queue for the buses.

The security measures were introduced on Monday is response to the terror blasts on buses on Thika superhighway.

According to the company’s transport manager Gabriel Maina, the measures are aimed at ensuring that all passengers are in the country legally.

“For foreigners, we are checking their passports. For refugees, we are requesting for the alien ID or a letter from the Refugee Commission,” said Mr Maina.

The company is not too strict on those without identification documents.  Other forms of identification allowed include work IDs, waiting cards, driving licenses or a student IDs.

Passengers who claim to have forgotten their identification documents are excused, but with a reminder to carry them along next time.

“Through this thorough check, we hope to be able to identify criminal elements and forward them to the security officials for investigations,” explained Mr Maina.

City Hoppa is the first bus company in the city to introduce the new measures.

-Nairobi News

Carne Mururi Mwangi who was reported missing by his family has been located. (READ: Kenyan family seeking missing kin in US)

Jambonewspot.com was  able to get in touch with the Denver Police who directed us to the Denver City Jail where we located Mwangi.

He has been booked at the Denver City Jail as instructed by the Denver County Court. Mwangi had been arrested for various offenses which included destruction of property, disturbing the peace, and assault. He is being held on a $50,000 bond.

He was arrested on January 6th, 2014 at 8.50pm where he was also charged with kidnapping to seize/carry victim.

According to court records, he was arraigned  on January 8th where he pleaded not guilty.

He will appear in court for jury trial on Monday, May 19th, 2014 at the Denver County Court.

He was initially scheduled to appear for jury trial on March 11 but it was postponed to May 5th, 2014. On May 5th , Mururi continued the case which was then set for Monday.

His family has been notified.

A disabled bishop has reported to police claims that he was forced to crawl from the plane of a local airline.

Bishop Jackson Kosgei of Worldwide Gospel Church of Kenya has said he had to crawl from the plane at JKIA after staff said they could not help him get down.

After a 40-minute standoff, Bishop Kosgei says he was ordered to alight on his own by Fly540 attendants when it landed at JKIA from Eldoret in spite of his disability.

He complained about his treatment to JKIA police and OB No 18/11/5/2014 states that the airline staff refused to allow anybody to support him as he disembarked.

Eldoret lift The bishop, who is the father of gospel musician Emmy Kosgei, told NairobiNews he was helped by the airline’s staff to board the plane at Eldoret using a lift, only to be told by Fly540 staff at JKIA that such services were not offered.

“I was rudely told that they do not offer lift services disabled persons need. No one was also allowed to carry me down the stairs,” he said.

He went on: “I had to crawl down the stairs and used my pair of trousers to clean the stairs as I alighted and I found it outrageous and a direct assault on all persons with physical challenges.” He said attempts to get help from the airline’s management bore no fruit as the supervisor told him company policy did not allow them to carry disabled passengers.

Bishop Jackson Kosgei of Worldwide Gospel Church of Kenya with his daughter Emmy Kosgei, during the launch of her fourth album in Eldoret.

“It was a standoff that lasted 40 minutes; they could not allow anyone to carry me.

The officer who came to intervene made it worse as he casually told me that their company policy was never to carry people who cannot support themselves around,” he said “Even the officers at the Airport police admitted that this was a unique case; it is an assault on my personal dignity and it must not go unpunished,” he protested in a letter to the airline’s management.

The letter stated, in part: “I felt humiliated. I wish to inform you that this is against the law and I will take the necessary action within the confines of human rights provisions provided for in our Constitution and International Air Transport Association to protect the rights of persons with physical disabilities.” Bishop Kosgei contracted polio when he was five years old and has been disabled since.

Fly540 chief executive officer Don Smith commented: “We do not carry people who cannot physically support themselves; our terms and conditions are very clear on this. We are not allowed to carry them, people who cannot physically walk.” Asked how in that case the bishop was allowed on the plane in the first place, Mr Smith said: “I have no report on that but I have requested to be furnished with it by the operations director.” Excellent service Mr Nickson Ooko, the company’s operations director said he was not aware of the incident but stated that their operating licence did not allow them to carry people who were immobile. He denied that Bishop Kosgei could have been mistreated.

“We do not have the equipment to carry passengers who are on stretcher or those who completely cannot support themselves but this does not include persons who are on wheelchairs.

“Let me find out but we should tread with caution on this because we have an excellent customer service,” he said.

-Nairobi News

Senator Mike Sonko is a funny character who never ceases to amaze. A few days ago, he joined president Uhuru and his deputy at the JKIA to bid Chinese Premier farewell.

Characteristic of him, he was dressed casually in a trendy slim fit ripped jeans which couldn’t go unnoticed. The ripped jeans stole the highlight of the moment as the president and his deputy found it funny and laughed uncontrollably.

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For weeks now, I have been trying to write this piece. It has been agonizing. I worried about laying it bare – or starting to. You see this one is really important to me.

In reality, I have been trying to write this piece for the last decade. I popped my storytelling cherry a few months ago, and was preparing to tell Trupti’s story from John Sibi Okumu’s theatrical work, Role Play. I usually force my family to listen to me practice. They normally indulge me with a litany of polite oohs and aahs.

This time was different. By the end, my mother’s face was streaming with silent tears. Trupti tells the story of how her sister was raped by the military, in front of the whole family during the failed coup attempt against President Daniel arap Moi in 1982 coup.

“It was like that and worse Aleya,” she tells me. “So much worse. They went from house to house, forcing their way in. The stealing was one thing, but they raped every woman they found. Every single one. In front of their brothers, fathers, grandfathers. So many of our Asian women.”

It is the first time my mother has ever spoken to me about these things.

“A respected leader in the community stood outside his house, in only his underwear, wailing, crying, pretending they had stolen everything, just so the military would think his house had already been ransacked, and would leave them alone,” she continued. “Those were not fake tears Aleya. He was protecting his three daughters hiding in the house.”

What does it take for a man to do that? Stripped of his dignity. Forever.

I read about the coup, when junior rebel officers tried to overthrow the government of President Moi. Madness reigned the streets, and there was an orgy of looting and more. 1982: the year I was born.

I start digging and find this published in the New York Times in 1982:

“Many Asians say that in the hiatus between the start of the rebellion led by an air force private and the reassertion of government control, they came face to face with the unleashed hatred of some of Kenya’s 16 million African majority…. The silence is filled with whispered stories of gang rape and horror.”

Is that why I sometimes see fear in my grandmother’s eyes when a black man she doesn’t know enters the house?

My friend asked me once: “Why is it if I am alone in a lift with an older Muhindi woman, she shrinks back in fear, as if I am going to attack her?”

He asked me only after he had become comfortable enough with me to ask the uncomfortable questions. We both burst out in hollow laughter. The idea that he could attack anybody is simply absurd. He has the gentlest soul. Imagine. A whole community living like that.

But we inherit our fears, just as we inherit our prejudice.

But we don’t talk about the inherent fear so many women in my grandmother’s generation feel towards black men. This is the prejudice they pass on to their daughters and their daughters after that. It is ok to be friends with black women, but not ok to be friends with black men. Because you never know. The demonization of all black men. The fear of which, the basis we ourselves don’t understand, but we so often blindly adopt.

I am not interested in being politically correct anymore.

I have lived a truly sheltered life. My working class parents have worked tooth and nail for that privilege of shelter. My father does not hide his opinion that I should have settled abroad. That was Plan A. Work hard. Save. Send kids abroad to university. They settle abroad. They live life in a country where they aren’t scared of getting kicked out some day.

There are the memories from the 1990’s when there were anti-Muhindi pamphlets making the rounds. Whipped up frenzy around the slogan “Asians must go!” An entire campaign based around the fact that Indians were the scourge of Kenya, that they were stealing Kenya from Kenyans. There was a large enough visible consensus vocalizing these sentiments to shake the nerves of an already jittery community. Families advised each other to have a small bag packed. Ready to flee. Just in case.

But flee where?

I was born here. My parents were born here. My grandparents were born here and have never even been to India.

I have heated arguments with my father.

“The problem with us Muhindis, is that we just live in our own bubble and refuse to participate in the country’s governance, and then we cry foul when we are treated differently, when we are told we are not Kenyan,” I say.

“We tried Aleya. We tried,” he says. “When the country first gained independence, and started being cut up and doled out to relatives and friends, we raised our voices and on the front page of the national newspapers it said, ‘Asians if you don’t like it, get out!”

So, what was the response from many of my parents’ generation? Shut up. Burrow deeper into the bubble. Keep their heads down. Work hard. Make enough money so that their children have a choice.

They set down tentative roots. They made friends. They were buried here, and yes many of them gave Kenya their hearts, but always too afraid to love too much, because you never knew when your love would be stamped on by a steel boot. So they protect us from heartbreak, because they know our belonging here is tenuous. Because they know to give your whole heart is foolish.

I have given my whole heart. It lies nestled in Kenya’s mouth. I have nowhere else. I am alive nowhere else. But it is like having an abusive lover. One that beats you up, humiliates you, taunts you about whether you are worthy of belonging to them. But I love. And for that reason, I can never leave.

What does it mean to be Kenyan? For me right now, to be Kenyan is to feel helpless.

I watch this inane sweep of alleged illegal immigrants in the name of squashing terrorism, and it chills me to the core. It is illegal. Unconstitutional. Yet I don’t know what to do. I talk about it at the dinner table. It could be us. It has been us before. My father looks me at and says, that is why I told you to stay abroad. That was the plan A. I tell him, “Dad, there is no plan A. This is my only plan.”

A version of this article originally appeared on Aleya Kassam ’s blog. It has been reprinted with permission. Follow Aleya on Twitter @aleyakassam.

-Sahanjournal

Loiyangalani’s prettiest girl does not know what a wig is, or how to walk in high heels.

A Kajiado chief was produced in court but failed to take the plea in a 28 million shillings land case.

Simon Letiya Kirati, chief of Lentoko location in Kajiado county allegedly signed on behalf of land owners who obtained the cash from a USA based businessman in exchange for a piece of land that had already been sold to someone else.

A Kenyan man has been reported missing in the USA.

The family of Patrick Muchiri Gachua, 31, who also goes by the name Pete Garrison, has not seen or heard from him since 2009.

Muchiri’s family says they lost communication with him shortly after he moved to Seattle, Washington to work in an IT job with a Microsoft contractor. He lived in Lawrence, Kansas prior to moving to Seattle, his sister tells Mwakilishi.com.

Muchiri is described as 31 years old (born on April 1, 1983), approximately 5’6″ to 5’8″ tall and had short dreadlocks at the time of his disappearance. He is originally from the Kahawa Sukari area of Nairobi. and may have been driving a red Chevrolet Cobalt around the time he disappeared.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged to contact his sister, Rosemary Medina, by phone at 832-878-0070 or by email at nursemissy81@gmail.com. You may also contact his mother, Grace Gachau, by email at mamagachau@gmail.com.

-Mwakilishi.com

PRESIDENT Uhuru Kenyatta has spent the equivalent of two-and-a-half months out of the country in the last one  year since he assumed office in April 2013.

The President has made 28 foreign trips, a total of 70 days in 16 countries on official government business, or two trips per month, unlike his predecessors who rarely left the country.

Last month, Uhuru was in Kenya for only 11 days, the rest being spent in six countries on three different continents. This is the first time that Kenya has had a President who travels so much, toting up more frequent-flier miles than many top business people.

Presidential globe-trotting is associated with enhancing foreign policy, trade, industry and commerce and being the ambassador-in-chief of Kenya’s nation brand.

Uhuru’s first year is also easily the busiest first 12 months of a new president in terms of the number of visiting heads of State and Government hosted by Nairobi.

Most of Uhuru’s trips have however been around Africa and the sub-region spread across Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Burundi, where he has attended heads of State summits of regional bodies.

The President has also visited Nigeria, Angola, South Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Dubai, Qatar, the United Kingdom, Belgium, China, Russia, Turkey, and Kuwait.

Uhuru’s first trip out of the country as President was on April 27, 2013, to Arusha, where he attended the 11th Extraordinary Summit of East African Community Heads of State.

His second foreign trip as President was on May 3, 2013, when he attended the 21st Extraordinary IGAD Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Three days later, Uhuru made his first trip outside Africa as President, to the UK, to attend the Somalia Conference in London at the historic Lancaster House, venue in the early 1960s of Kenya’s Independence negotiation conferences. Uhuru addressed the conference on Somalia and later had bilateral talks with Prime Minister David Cameron.

From London the President visited South Africa on May 9, 2013, to attend the World Economic Forum. He held bilateral talks with South Africa President Jacob Zuma.

On May 24, 2013, Uhuru visited South Sudan on his way to Ethiopia for the African Union’s 50th anniversary celebrations, held on May 25 and 26.

On June 24 and 25, Uhuru joined Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Rwandan President Paul Kagame at State House, Entebbe, where they held tripartite discussions.

This meeting led to the “union” on infrastructure development within the East African Commission that has come to be known as the “Coalition of the Willing”. On July 1, Uhuru attended Burundi’s 51st Independence Day and also held talks with his counterpart, Pierre Nkurunziza.

On July 14, 2013, Uhuru attended an AU conference in Abuja, Nigeria, and also opened a Kenyan Chancery and residence of the High Commissioner in Abuja. He held bilateral talks with his host, President Goodluck Jonathan.

On July 18, 2013, he passed through Kinshasa on his way back to Kenya and held talks with DRC leader Joseph Kabila on regional peace and bilateral relations.

On August 4, 2013, Uhuru was in Uganda again, for the AMISOM Troops Contributing Countries’ Summit at Munyonyo.

Two weeks later, Uhuru made a trip to the East, where he visited Russia, China and Dubai, from August 16 to August 27, 2013, with the aim of expanding Kenya’s markets.

In Russia, Uhuru went to cheer the Kenyan team at the IAAF World Championships on August 18, before proceeding to China.

The China trip, which included a delegation of 60 businessmen and five county governors followed an invitation from President Xi Jinping. China’s Premier Li Keqiang visited Kenya last week and the two countries signed economic partnership deals worth over Sh500 billion.

On August 25, on his way back to Kenya, Uhuru stopped over in the United Arab Emirates for a three-day visit to woo investors.

On October 12, 2013, Uhuru travelled to Addis Ababa for a special AU summit, where he kick-started Africa’s onslaught against the ICC.

On October 28, Uhuru went on a three-day State visit to Rwanda, where he held talks with his host Kagame and various investors.

In November, Uhuru snubbed the Commonwealth meeting in Sri Lanka and travelled instead to Kuwait for the Africa-Arab Summit and spent three days. On November 30, he was in Kampala for a follow-up of the tripartite talks with Museveni and Kagame.

Uhuru travelled to South Africa on December 14 for former President Nelson Mandela’s funeral rites, with the burial held on December 15.

On January 15 and 16, Uhuru was in Angola for a State visit before going to Addis Ababa for a four-day AU summit, from January 29 to February 1.

In February he was in Kampala on the 19th and 20th and then in Juba on the 26th. In March, he spent four days, from the 10th to 14th, for a State visit and then two days in Arusha for an EAC summit.

April saw him visit six countries – spending 19 days out of the country. He attended investment summits in Belgium and the UK and went on State visits to Rwanda, Turkey and Qatar. He also went to Tanzania twice – the Union celebrations in Dar es Salam and an EAC meeting in Arusha. This month, Uhuru was in Nigeria on a State visit between May 4 and May 7.

Kenya’s first President, Jomo Kenyatta (in office 1964-78), did not fly out of Kenya after the 1964 Commonwealth Heads of State and Government Meeting, which he attended as Prime Minister, and for the rest of his life. Kenyatta seemed to take an attack in which he was manhandled by two pro-colonialism thugs in London as his cue for not travelling abroad again. He left the globe-trotting to his Vice Presidents and ministers, among them Daniel arap Moi. As Kenya’s second President (in office 1978-2002),  Moi toured all continents except Antarctica.

Kenya’s third President Mwai Kibaki (in office 2002-2013) travelled rarely and  favored the UN General Assembly  in    New  York.

-The Star

- DAILY NATION

KENYA’s 3000m Steeplechase World and double Olympic champion Ezekiel Kemboi has been sued for child negligence.

The athlete, who is not a stranger to controversy, has been summoned to appear in Eldoret’s Children’s Court on May 30, for the hearing of a case filed by his ex-girlfriend Terry Sawe. Sawe, who works in Nairobi with a leading telecommunications operator, alleges that the two have had a long-time relationship and that they have a two-year old son, whom Kemboi has neglected.

On Saturday, according to our sources, the couple caused drama at a Nairobi hotel, after a quarrel erupted between them, after “he forced me to have sex with him”.

“Kemboi has neglected the child for long. He has never supported him with anything. On Saturday, he tried to coerce me into having sex with him but I refused. We quarreled and fought for about 45 minutes but the security restored order. I can’t have sex with him,” she said in a phone interview with Word Is.

Terry alleges that she met Kemboi on Saturday in the CBD hotel, where they proceeded to have a long talk. She says that he verbally agreed to help the baby and also buy her a house and car, but on one condition – that she gives him another baby. A thing she refused to commit to. This resulted into a brawl until the hotel’s security intervened, after which Kemboi sped off in his green SUV.

A receipt seen by us confirmed that Kemboi had booked a room for two at the hotel, but when we contacted the skillful athlete, he denied all the reports.

“I don’t know the lady of such name. I went straight to Eldoret on arrival from Doha Diamond League. I have instructed my lawyer to act on the matter. Those are just con-ladies who want to tarnish my name,” he said.

- The Star

State House has pulled down a post from President Uhuru Kenyatta’s official facebook page after it sparked a furious backlash. The update, a picture of the president witnessing the swearing-in of Former State House Comptroller Nelson Githinji as the Director General of National Youth Service, replacing Kiplimo Rugut, attracted thousands of comments criticising the president’s appointment and accusing him of promoting tribalism.Users on the social media platform Twitter are using #STOPEthnicDiscrimination hashtag to share their opinions on the controversial replacement of Mr Rugut.

Githinji’s appointment and the manner of Rugut’s sacking has riled Deputy President William Ruto’s party, but Ruto is reported to have instructed URP MPs to stop meddling in the changes at NYS.

According to URP sources close to the DP, Ruto asked the MPs to keep off the matter as President Uhuru Kenyatta and himself are capable of addressing it.

Ruto was addressing Rift Valley MPs, senators and women’s representatives at a meeting before he left for The Hague, where his case at the ICC is set to start.

Rugut was on Monday instructed by Planning Secretary Anne Waiguru, through a text message, to hand over his office to a ‘Mr Githinji’ hours before Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang toured NYS headquarters in Nairobi’s Ruaraka area. Yesterday, the Nandi Council of Elders said Ruto is to blame for Rugut’s sacking.

Speaking in Kapsabet, chairman Benjamin Kitur and official of the Kalenjin Welfare Association Simon Ng’eny said caution should be exercised on the matter as Rugut is a respected person in the community.

He said his sacking is a big blow to the community as he served the government diligently and had not been involved in malpractices.

Kitur said the move will “seriously inflict political injuries” on the Jubilee administration. He said Waiguru’s action is “a witch-hunt”. “While our people have high respect and regards for Uhuru’s administration, we appeal to him to take charge so that he does not suffer because of mistakes made by others,” Kitur said.

Marusin Kogo and Joshua Sirma were with Kitur at the meeting. “We voted wholeheartedly for President uhuru Kenyatta because of the trust and confidence we had in him… what we are witnessing is a kind of impunity being done in the open and we refuse to be silenced,” the spokesman said. The officials said Ruto owes the community an explanation.

They said two road projects launched by former President Mwai Kibaki in 2011 in Nandi have been suspended. Mosoriot-Kaiboi and Chepterit-Baraton tarmac work had been suspended by Kabuito Construction Company after the government shelved funding to the projects. “What mistake have we made, as a community, to warrant all this,” Ng’eny asked.

Rugut was axed on Monday by the government under unexplained circumstances. His removal has drawn controversy and put uRP on the spot over what community leaders called the “sharing out of positions with TNA”.

- The Star