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INJUSTICE TO THE MERU COMMONERS By Glen Don This is the second time Meru Governor, Her Excellency Bishop Kawira Mwangaza has been impeached by the Members of the County Assembly. The assembly comprises 69 MCAs and out of total number 10 members were absent during the impeachment day. Last impeachment, 67 members of the house voted in favour of her ouster. As per the constitution, the governor's impeachment must get approval from the Senate house. Impeachment at the County level is not a strange issue as the county bosses seem to be at the mercy of the County Assembly members. This is where devolution is at its weaker point. The strangest of the kind is Meru County where within a year, Kawira Mwangaza is facing a second impeachment by the Assembly. The accusatory remarks against are like nepotism and misuse of office powers among other charges. The charges against Kawira by the MCAs are not new in sight as these charges are merely similar to the previous ones. Last time the Senate ...

 EAST AFRICA DEVICE ASSEMBLY LIMITED KENYA The President yesterday Monday 30, launched an industry that will manufacture Kenya-made smartphones.  The phones are expected to be selling at Ksh. 7,500 higher price compared to the initial price that was earlier said by the President His Excellency Dr William Ruto which was ksh. 5,000. If the company starts to run, then it will be the Kenya's first industry to perform such task. The smartphones are expected to be unleashed to the market in about less than a year. The phones will be available in Faiba shops, and Safaricom shops among other authorised dealers by the Government. The types of brand names will be Neon, and Smarta. The president also said that the gadgets will be available in installments.  This is the best point for Kenya to start for even a journey of one thousand miles starts with a step.  Could be the smartphone an individual's interest or it is out of goodwill, this a puzzle worth not be solved now. The pa...

SORRY NOT ENOUGH By Glen Don. Not Happiness at all. King Charles III and Camilla are on Tuesday 31 October expected to jet inside the country. It is 60 years since the monarch visited the country with the last one being of Queen Elizabeth who assumed the throne while staying in Kenya 1963. The late Queen Elizabeth II stayed in Kenya for about 10 years before embarking to her Kingdom. It is barely five months since King Charles III took over from his mother Queen Elizabeth II. It is not dream nor fictitious of the atrocities that were inflicted on Kenyan Africans by the Colonialists. Deaths, torture, land grabbing, heavy taxation, heavy works under poor conditions among other pains Kenyans underwent during the colonial era. Little is expected from His Majesty's speech on colonial brutalities and injustices. As he is just ceremonial leader and that can only be expected from Rishi Sunak who also has Kenyan traces. The word 'forgive us' might be good but it should be from insi...

By Glen Don THE INJURED INNOCENT PERSONALITY  No one plants a seed , see it germinating then abandons it without seeing any fruit from the tree leave alone the tree reaching maturity. In the farm when you plant a seed and if you expect to have greater yield from the plant, then tender care is mandatory, weeding, top dressing and other field maintenance practices must be achieved. When you plant your orange. seed then at maturity, the tree yields bitter fruit or smaller fruit the farmer should first judge his course. The journey. In any given family the child is the seed that couple sees and everyone sees as the product of the family. It is a proof of the seed that was planted. Domestic violence gains momentum in the current societies either passively or actively with the couple as the major perpetrators, whilst other violences reach extreme cases until the depart some persevere. The main question is ; what about the children? The Swahili proverb "how you raise a child is the way ...

By Glen Don GOWN IN DISGUST The students at the University go through a lot before graduation. As Kisii University alongside other Universities prepares to graduate students of their own, the students go through a lot. Recently, I met one who was looking for marks, which did but could not trace where the marks have gone to, he narrated to me how he have gone from department to department and from school to school being that the units he was in search of are common. The student whose identity is concealed, expressed to me how dejected he is since time is also another fact to consider as the marks for graduation lot were to be presented before the Senate and the graduation list to be printed in a few weeks. Elsewhere, I encountered a student who is yet to be graduated but was having an issue with the fee, where he found his fee adjusted yet he had cleared fees before sitting for his last papers. Last year, I conversed with a student who nearly missed graduation just because she thought ...

By Glen Don. HOW CORONA VIRUS CHANGED GREETING STYLE IN AFRICA . From curtseying crouching, handshaking to fist bumping COVID-19 changed every narrative in Africa's lifestyle.  photo courtesy:(google files) Even though the effects of the corona virus seem to reduce and effects are minimal within Africa, the pandemic marks seem to be difficult to erase. One of the corona-born culture is forms of greeting in Africa. Through my cultural experience and interaction with individuals from different communities before 2019 when COVID-19 stormed the country, greetings were either handshaking, hugging, or curtseying.  Every cultural community had different ways of greetings albeit some forms are also religiously induced. The corona virus pandemic have shown proof that change is inevitable and modernisation is real. During the pandemic, one of the measures that were put in place to avoid the spread of the virus was the style of greeting.  This was so, as it w...

T ENSION AND WOBBLING AMONG STUDENTS AS THEY RUSH TO BEAT THE DEADLINE. By Glen Don  Yesterday Kisii University students had hard times rushing to pay school fees to beat the deadline. The deadline for fee payment was extended to 27th October after the initial deadline which was 11th October caused much tension among students, the students claimed that the initial deadline which was communicated through a memo was suppressive and was sudden.  This prompted the Institution to extend the deadline for about two weeks for the students to have ample time as they lamented and also to give enough time for the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) funds to be disbursed. According to the Kisii University fee payment policy, for one to be able to sit for end-semester exams; the student must have cleared the fee, full percentage while registration of course units demands one to have paid 50 percent with a negotiable extension of 75%. Reporting for semester studies requires no payment of fe...

SINKING DREAM- SHIP OF BRIAN NJAGI For the love of education By Glen Don. Everybody goes to school to meet a goal.  When the goal is not met by the learner at any level, then he or she finds a better alternative, and in Kenya, the education system situationally places you in another cohort you belong to. That is through Kenya University and College Central Placement Services (KUCCPS) Like you cannot dream of becoming a doctor then when you fail and are offered Public Health as an alternative, you complete then automatically become a doctor. This is the weird world and Kenya is part of this world. My friend *Amata while we were in Secondary School desired to be a Lawyer, he could do anything just to make sure he was not locked out of University for Law studies. Despite all his efforts, he failed and never merited going for law instead he was given Accountancy. He had no other option but to bow down to the call of accountancy instead of law because he never met the standard for admi...

THE UNIVERSITY MESS IN HIGH SCHOOL By Glen Don Time for Kisii's Student Mess to upgrade. Change is sweeter and more difficult. The implementation of a policy is what takes time. During my orientation process at Kisii University, we were told of how the Students' Mess was working 24/7. That any time you go there you will find food and quality one. Today, to me all these are narratives of public relations where you better even the pigsty. Defending the wrong by giving a sweeter narrative and a fastidious picture. As it is now, no student can pop into the student mess and get food anytime and be served any classy scrumptious meal that is worthy of the pocket of sundry. The mess up to date is working like that at the precincts of a boarding school or secondary and primary school levels, operating three times a day by serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The University has no common timetable for every student as it was in the previous levels of studies. The standard time for teach...

  THE WRONG MISSION TO HAITI By Glen Don.                             Photo courtesy: People Daily The Haiti mission is Sacrifice and this is my take. Kenya is a republic constitutionally. However, this is not the case since there are some of the elements of colonialism. In the book Fathers of The Nations, Kenya is described as the 'feared' country because of America, her long-time immemorial friend. Our leaders, to be precise the top executives are just brokering deals to gain favor.  I am a human rights activist, and we are human rights activists. In as much as the legal threshold is used to render the bad decision by the Government valid, we shouldn't forget that humanity transcends all these legal thresholds, even though they exist for human beings. There is nowhere stated that Kenyan police are to be sent to another country to enforce peace. Even the law doesn't recognize that only if it exists in docum...

By Glen Don THE HIDDEN BLESSING IN AFCON                           Photo courtesy: Pulse Uganda  Kenya's Harambee Stars is ranked below the top hundred. They are being followed by Tanzania from Africa, their counterpart for hosting the Africa Cup of Nations 2027. Kenya jointly with the Eastern African Countries; Tanzania and Uganda showed their interest and submitted their bid to host the tournament come the year 2027. Kenya was first set to host tournaments in the years 1996 and 2018 after winning the bid but later got disqualified due to unpreparedness of the stadia or the venues for hosting such events. This time round their success has gone through with the virtue of being jointly submitting their bid. The coming of the AFCON's tournament is worth a blessing at hand to count on. Even though the tournament comes as a blessing in disguise, this is the best moment to improve the Kenya's football circle. In spite of K...

END OF THE ROAD FOR BRIAN AS LAWYER By Glen Don. ➤ Brian was charged with fraudulently obtaining a certificate for admission as an Advocate. ➤ He was arrested last week and spent the Friday holiday and weekend by extension, in the cell. ➤ He comes out to sanctify himself and defend his course through a video clip, before his arrest. ➤ Lawyer Danstan Omar and other lawyers lead in defending Mr. Njagi in Court.  ➤ Brian gets cash bail of Ksh.200,000, case is set to be heard on November 7.                                Photo courtesy: Mpasho.  Brian Mwenda fake city lawyer. Brian Njagi has been granted a free bail of 200,000 with his case set to be mentioned on 7th November this year. Brian Njagi Mwenda stormed the headline after the Law Society of Kenya raised a flag about his qualifications. The ambitious young impersonating lawyer now seems that he will be having trouble pursuing law as a professi...

By Glen Don I AM TIRED  Kill me but not with your hands, tell me to commit suicide, tell  your doctors to allow euthanasia, because I am not ready to die in your hands. Kill me not with your hands, we once worshipped in one church, your suit was elegant, I was in alb and the floor, it was cassock, I took french leave, to serve my stomach, before, we walked in same streets;  what i know is that you were inside chauffer-driven car, to me driving my footsubishi.  I  gave you job in exchange of my sympathy, and for your million tithe, For I am not ready to die gruesome death in your hands. Kill me not with your hands, I see heavy boots on tar coming for my live carcass, because I have frowning face for your bitter fruits, that were once sweetest seeds, yes seeds that made me to give job. You're my doctor, let me die not in your hands, euthanasia is illegal, and inject me not with the vipers to maim my body, treat me as your patient, because I have cancer that demand...

THE CONFUSION IN THE EDUCATION SECTOR || By Glen Don|| Education is one of the pillars of a nation. From education engineers, doctors, teachers, journalists, and lawyers among other professionals are born and made. When you want to ruin a nation, do not go far just destroy the education system and everything will be in shambles. Teachers will teach wrong to students patients will die, and justice will be undermined,..this is an extracted quote from one of the famous leaders. The Mackay Education Commission of 1982 gave room for an 8-4-4 system of education and within the recommendations, there were specified number of subjects to be done by students and pupils at various levels. Today, the 8-4-4 system is being shown exit as a new education system is being rolled out, the 2-6-6-3 system known as Competency Based Curriculum (CBC). As the old system is being shown to exit, new changes seem to affect it. Honourable Ezekiel Machogu, the Education Cabinet Secretary during the launch of the ...

STUDENT LVES AT DANGER |By Glen Don|| ➤ Students' safety is threatened getting killed, or injured for an item not worth even a million. ➤ Items on demand by gangs from comrades are mainly; phones and money, while those attacked and robbed in their households are attacked for other electronics and computerised gadgets. ➤ Call for justice due to insecurity reasons  ➤ Who should be held responsible for these heinous acts and inhumane happenings? Why should a fellow comrade attack each other, quite sad. ➤ Address the security concern for the lives of the comrades is at risk? to hell with the attacks, to hell with the gangs  In not less than a month, a Kisii University student survived from the hands of the gang who stabbed him in the stomach. The student, Douglas was allegedly stabbed for the money he had withdrawn from his account, he encountered the robbers who robbed him of the money he had withdrawn, which according to him was Ksh. 15000, the amount he received from the higher...

THE DODDER PLANT KILLING OTHER PLANTS. | By Glen Don| Photography: Glen Don. .    Photo: Dodder plant on the fence   The dodder plant also referred to as spaghetti weed is taking dominion over other parasitic weeds in the outskirts of Kisumu. photo. Plate Area in East Seme Ward  Along the roads or in the fence of the homesteads during the walk, you are prone to encounter leafless plants twinned or coiled on other plants. This plant is in the group together with alfalfa, flax, lespedeza, dahlia, helenium, and trumpet vine among others. P hoto: Dodder plant on host plant beside the road. The plant is becoming common in most parts of Seme  Sub County in Kisumu. The spaghetti weed has its origin in America and Canada and is mainly a survivor of temperate areas and its survival extends to tropical conditions. The greatest of the species diversify in subtropical and tropical regions. While the residents of Seme name it 'achuogr...

NEED FOR CEASEFIRE IN GAZA |By Glen Don|          Photo Courtesy: Vox The Israeli-Palestinian war heightened this October when Hamas made an incursion and strike missiles in the Israeli territory. The retaliation against the Hamas action by Israel has led to the destruction of properties and resulted in the death of many in Gaza, the crux area that is under siege and that has made the war reach this level. .   Photo courtesy: Google photos Gaza is the strip of land being fought for by both parties; Israel and Palestine. Every nation and continent is trying to have a stand, while some stand to support Israel for retaliating like the United States, Britain, and a majority of the Western world, some other countries like Saudi Arabia, Iraqi and a larger section of Arab nations stand with Palestine, in Africa country like Ghana seems to stand with Israel and South Africa with Palestine while some others are trying to abstain and be s...

When Civilisation meets Culture  | By Glen Don||  Civilisation is when one is educated and enlightened and culture is that which characterises humankind or a particular society or nation.  Photo courtesy: VectorStock Lifestyle depicts which part of the society one come from. culture seems to be  standing on the way of civilisation in Africa at tertiary education levels. Whether it is a point of tradition overruling modernity and modernity thrashing traditionalism in institutions of learning, it is hard question to answer. .  Photo courtesy: VectorStock  Africa have its culture, and dress code  characterised  part of our culture. Dressing code was an important amazing aspect. Before colonialism tainted our culture, an African would be seen donned in animal hides while some communities putting on clothes made from tree parts like Baganda of Uganda who had Ngonge clan as the craftsmen and the Mbuti men of Congo w...

AFRICA'S MISSING FOOTSTEPS |By Glen Don||  In the past Africans fought for their freedom, fighting against the shackles of the colonial atrocities. Heroes fought and were ready to shed their blood just for Africa to be free and independent.     Photo courtesy: Google image • Half a century has gone, colonial masters have engineered another mechanism jus to see Africa not coming out as the independent continent. •Our leaders are being swayed and shifted like chaff of the wheat. They serve two masters; the imperialists and the Africans who gave them power to govern.  • Who is to take blame, the African leaders or the whites who are ghostly ruling Africa, where to take blame remains a puzzle because even the grand parents managed to send away colonialists through their hard stand. The gone heroes, the slain dreams. Immediately after World War of 1939-1945, Africa gained momentum in fighting for her independence. Today, no African country is physically coloni...