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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...