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Uhuru and Raila
lawyers called to
set petition rules
By WAHOME THUKU and MARTIN MUTUA
The Supreme Court which now has only till
Saturday to rule on three elections petitions against
President-elect Uhuru Kenyattas formal assumption
of offce today convenes a status or pre-trial
conference.
This is the legal phase through which all the parties
to the petitions agree on how the cases will be heard
before the six Supreme Court judges led by the
President of the court, Chief Justice Willy Mutunga.
Top on the list of petitions are two by Prime
Minister Raila Odinga.
The conference is provided for under Rule 9 of the
Presidential Election Petition Rules and must be held
nine days after the fling of the petition.
Today the court shall deal with preliminary and
The Perfect Way To
Kick Off Your Week.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
Pope Francis leads Catholics
in Palm Sunday Mass, P.2-3
TOP ROW: The six members of Supreme Court handling three presidential election petitions at a
past sitting. Cropped out of the photograph is former Deputy Chief Justice Nancy Baraza. At the
foreground is a court offcial.
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By EvERlyN KWAMbOKA
and MIcHAEl WEsONgA
President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta
landed in Eldoret for prayers while
Prime Minister Raila Odinga who
is disputing his declaration as
winner was in Kisumu for the frst
time after the March 4 elections.
While Raila exuded confdence
his Coalition for Reforms and
Democracy would be happy
soon, while maintaining, without
truth there will be no justice,
Uhuru instead continued with his
call on Kenyans to uphold peace.
Without truth, there will be no
justice and without justice, there is
Kenyatta sticks to
peace message
as Odinga calls
for truth, justice
CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
With ruling expected by Saturday, CJ convenes status conference today
Raila Odinga
Japhet Korir wins the Senior Men
12km race at the World Cross
Country Championships in
Bydgoszcz, Poland. Emily Chebet
won the Senior Women while Faith
Chepngetich won the Junior
women title. Story Pages 43-44
Uhuru Kenyatta
Kenyas big win
Kenyans urged to preach, practice
By STANDARD TEAM
Catholics worldwide gathered in
church to celebrate Palm Sunday,
which commemorates the triumphal
entry of Christ into Jerusalem a week
before his death.
And the message that reverbrated
across the church was that of peace
ahead of the ruling by the Supreme
Court this week over a petition by
Prime Minister Raila Odinga chal-
lenging the announcement of Uhuru
Kenyatta as winner of presidential
election of March 4.
In Mombasa Archbishop Boniface
Lele appealed to Kenyans to maintain
peace and avoid fghting among
themselves despite being affliated to
different political parties. He said
there was need to maintain peace in
as we await the outcome of Supreme
Court petition.
We should wait for the outcome
of the court petition. We should not
fght even if the outcome does not
favour the side were are in, he said.
Lele spoke at the Holy Ghost Ca-
thedral during a mass to mark Palm
Sunday which is the start of the Holy
week within the church that will cul-
minate in Easter Sunday.
He asked Kenyans to learn how to
co-exist with one another regardless
of where one had come from during
his three-hour sermon.
MESSAgE foR ThE youTh
Kenyans should live in peace
among themselves like in the US
where immigrants from different
parts of the World have been living
with each other peacefully despite
having different backgrounds, he
said.
In Nairobi, President Kibaki joined
other faithful for a Palm Sunday Mass
at the Consolata Shrine Catholic
Church in Westlands. The service was
conducted by the Consolata Shrine
Parish Priest Fr Eugene Ferrari.
Also Archbishop John Cardinal
Njue led hundreds of faithful in a
mass at the grounds of St Marys
School at Msongari. Njue, who steered
clear of politics, appealed to the youth
to use the Easter special opportunity
to rededicate and reunite themselves
with Christ. The day coincides with
the 28
th
World Youth Day.
In Nakuru Catholics were urged to
be cautious of words they speak in
public as the church prepares for Eas-
ter. Nakuru Diocese Bishop Maurice
Muhatia Makumba said most believ-
ers are never careful of the words they
speak which have resulted to hatred
and violence in the society.
Killing is not only using a sword,
words are the worst killers, he said,
adding that Christians should always
speak words that bless.
In Makueni Kenyans were urged to
trust the Supreme Court as they await
its ruling on the presidential petition.
Makueni Catholic priest Fr Charles
Musyoki cautioned Kenyans and
politicians against making own judge-
ments as that would undermine the
expected outcome of the court.
People should not be pessimistic
about the ruling. We must prepare
ourselves for any outcome for the
sake of unity, he told a congregation
at the St Joseph the Worker Catholic
Church in Wote.
In Nyeri the message was the same
with Catholic priest Fr Joseph Kathu-
rima appealing to Christians to main-
tain peace as they wait for the out-
come of the case before the Supreme
Court. He urged Christians to ensure
they follow footsteps of Jesus
preaching and practising peace.
Stories by Lorna Kibet,Willis Oketch, Mercy
Kahenda, Onesmus Nzioka and Job Weru
Page 2/ NATIONAL NEWS Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
President Kibaki attended the Palm Sunday church service at
Consolata Shrine in Westlands, Nairobi. [PHOTO: PPS]
Glow, Sheila, Zippy and Leila make a sign of the cross from palm leaves
outside Kakamega St Joseph Cathedral Church during yesterdays Palm
Sunday service. [PHOTO: BENJAMIN SAKWA/STANDARD]
Catholic faithfuls in a procession along Nakuru town streets during the Palm Sunday; Palm Sunday is a Christian
moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus triumphal entry into
JerusalemBONIFACE THUKU
Catholic faithful from Holy Ghost Cathedral march along Mombasa streets to
mark jubilant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, a week before he was sentenced
to death on a cross. [PHOTO: OMONDI ONYANGO/STANDARD]
Event comes at a time
citizens are anxious
about a Supreme Court
ruling on presidential
petition, also coincides
with youths world day
PALM SuNDAy
NATIONAL NEWS / Page 3 Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
Catholic faithful in Kisii town streets to mark Palm Sunday, yesterday. [PHOTO:
ERIC ABUGA/STANDARD]
John Cardinal Njue delivers a
sermon at the St Marys School
Msongari church, yesterday.
Thousands of Catholic faithful
attended the mass. [PHOTO: MBUGUA
KIBERA/STANDARD]
By AGENCIES
Pope Francis celebrated his rst
Palm Sunday mass as pope in St Pe-
ters Square, encouraging people to
be humble and young at heart, as
tens of thousands joyfully waved
olive branches and palm fronds.
The square overowed with
250,000 pilgrims, tourists and Ro-
mans eager to join the new pope at
the start of solemn Holy Week cere-
monies, which lead up to Easter,
Christianitys most important day.
Keeping with his spontaneous
style, the rst pope from Latin
America broke away several times
from the text of his prepared homily
to encourage the faithful to lead
simple lives.
Palm Sunday recalls Jesus entry
into Jerusalem but the Gospel also
recounts how he was betrayed by
one of his apostles and ultimately
sentenced to death on a cross.
FORGOTTEN PEOPLE
Recalling the triumphant wel-
come into Jerusalem, Francis said
Jesus awakened so many hopes in
the heart, above all among humble,
simple, poor, forgotten people, those
who dont matter in the eyes of the
world.
Francis then told an off-the-cuff
story from his childhood in Argen-
tina. My grandmother used to say,
children, burial shrouds dont have
pockets, the pope said, in a varia-
tion of you cant take it with you.
Since his election on March 13,
Francis has put the downtrodden
and poor at the centre of his mission
as pope, keeping with the priorities
of his Jesuit tradition.
His name the rst time a pope
chose to be called Francis is in-
spired by St Francis of Assisi, who
renounced a life of high living for
austere poverty and simplicity to
preach Jesus message to the poor.
Pope Francis wore bright red
robes over a white cassock as he
presided over the mass at an altar
sheltered by a white canopy on the
steps of St Peters Basilica.
RECOUNTS JESUS DEATH
Cardinals, many of them among
the electors who chose him to be
pope, sat on chairs during the cere-
mony held under hazy skies on a
breezy day.
In his homily, Francis said Chris-
tian joy isnt born from possessing
a lot of things but from having met
Jesus. That same joy should keep
people young, he said. From seven
to 70, the heart doesnt age if one is
inspired by Christian joy, said the
76-year-old pontiff.
Francis said he was looking for-
ward to welcoming young people to
Rio de Janeiro in July for the Catholic
Churchs World Youth Day. So far,
that is the rst foreign trip on the
calendar of Franciss new papacy.
The faithful knelt on hard cobble-
stones paving the square, and Fran-
cis knelt on a wooden kneeler at the
point in the Gospel that recounts the
moment of Jesuss death.
Pope Francis with a palm frond during the Palm Sunday mass at St
Peters Square at the Vatican, yesterday. [PHOTO: REUTERS]
peace during Easter festivities
Pope Francis says Christians
mission is to care for the
downtrodden, poor
PALM SUNDAY
Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka with Kitui Senator-elect David Musila (cen-
tre) and Kitui Women Representative-elect Nyiva Mwendwa addresses the
Press outside the Nairobi Baptist Church on Ngong Road in Nairobi yesterday
after attending a Palm Sunday service. [PHOTO: COLLINS KWEYU/STANDARD]
National Assembly Clerk Justin Bundi says it could take a
record two days to swear in all 349 legislators.
Swearing in may take two days, clerk says
By GEOFFREY MOSOKU
The swearing in of 349 legis-
lators and the election of the
Speaker and his deputy is turn-
ing out to be a nightmare for
Parliament.
Though it is a simple exercise
of taking oath of ofce, Kenyans
may have to be glued to their TV
sets for a record two days or 24
hours nonstop to watch their
MPs transact the rst business of
the House.
If MPs will be sworn individu-
ally, each is expected to take at
least two minutes to recite the
oath before appending his/her
signature on the oath of afrma-
tion paper.
The 349 MPs against 2 min-
utes is equal to 698 minutes;
which when divided (by 60) into
hours is equal to 11.6 hours.
The election of the Speaker is
estimated to take at least three
hours as the legislators will vote
manually.
If no candidate garners man-
datory two-thirds majority (233),
then the vote goes to a second
round pitting the rst two candi-
dates against each other, with
another three hours required.
This will total six hours.
The election of the deputy
Speaker may also end up con-
suming another six hours if it
ends up in a second round. This
is compounded as the MPs will
vote manually.
This may turn out to be a
nightmare, as it may take almost
24 hours, meaning MPs will be in
the House until Friday evening.
FORMS OF OATH
Friday will again be a public
holiday as it falls on the Easter
weekend. However, the time may
be shortened if MPs resolve to
take a group vow after signing
the forms of oath individually.
Yesterday, National Assembly
Clerk Justin Bundi, said they
were prepared to work round-
the-clock, adding that a prece-
dent has been set where the
House extends its sitting past
midnight.
Bundi cited the 2008 swear-
ing in and election of Kenneth
Marende as Speaker and Farah
Maalim as his deputy, having
lasted up to 2am.
We will work until the work
is complete even if it extends to
a public holiday (Friday). Even
today is a weekend but I am in
the ofce to receive applications
for speaker, he said.
The clerk, however, said the
time may be shortened if MPs
accept his proposal to be sworn
in in batches as opposed to indi-
vidually. If the legislators take
this route, the clerk will distrib-
ute the forms of oath, and they
are called in batches of 20 or 50
to take the group vow.
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housekeeping matters before the ac-
tual hearing begins. The rules require
that the hearing must start within two
days after the pre-trial conference and
will continue uninterrupted.
The judges have in the past week
been holding long private sittings
with the Supreme Court Registrar, go-
ing through all the papers and other
material led in court since Saturday
last week.
By the time the parties are com-
ing to court for hearing, the judges
will be knowing what kind of case they
have, said Chief Registrar of the Judi-
ciary Ms Gladys Shollei on Saturday.
The court shall also formerly con-
solidate the three petitions and give
directions on how they shall be heard
and determined expeditiously.
It shall frame the contested and
uncontested issues in the petitions.
Some of the parties have led their
questions, which they want the court
to determine and make declarations
on. Raila has sought several declara-
tions from the Supreme Court, among
them those that could, if granted,
force fresh presidential elections
through invalidation of the recent
poll.
The Coalition for Reforms and
Democracy (CORD) presidential can-
didate in the just concluded race also
wants the court to declare the entire
voters register as well as the election
itself awed. The Prime Minister is
also seeking a declaration form the
court that it nds no presidential can-
didate met the threshold of 50 per
cent plus one vote to avoid a runoff.
Continued from P1
Case: Status hearing set for today
This is contrary to the IEBCs insis-
tence that Uhuru meet the threshold
and should be sworn into ofce.
Raila is also seeking to have the
court, which has the exclusive and
original jurisdiction to hear presiden-
tial election disputes, reverse IEBCs
declaration of Uhuru as President-
elect. At the same time the PM wants
the Supreme Court to declare that
voters constitutional rights were
breached and violated by IEBC right
from the time of organising the elec-
tions up to the end.
DECLARATION
He is also seeking to have the court
nd that IEBC committed electoral
offences under the Elections Act. If
this declaration is granted then it
means in the event that the Supreme
Court rules in his favour and probably
orders for a repeat of the polls then
IEBC might be found ineligible to
conduct the second round.
Raila has also led an application
in the same court seeking a forensic
audit of the entire process. But both
the IEBC and Uhuru have since re-
sponded to Railas application and
dismissed it with several arguments.
On its part the IEBC accuses CORD
of using incorrect provisional gures
to challenge the voters registers ac-
curacy. It dismisses allegations of ir-
regularities and say it declared the
Jubilee alliance candidate properly
and constitutionally.
IEBC argues the petition led on
behalf of CORDs candidate, challeng-
ing the outcome of the elections is
riddled with misrepresentations
and misconceptions about the vot-
ers register, the tallying process and
the legal framework guiding the elec-
tion.
The commission led by its chair-
man Mr Ahmed Issack Hassan further
says electronic technology was meant
for transparency and cannot be a sub-
stitute to the manual process required
by law. The electoral body further ar-
gues that Forms 36 (constituency to-
tals) were not manipulated and that
they contain no grave errors.
IEBC also says the voter identica-
tion results transmissions system was
not designed to fail and was not aban-
doned. They further want the judges
to nd that the Supreme Court has no
jurisdiction to set aside the entire
election as CORD wants.
In another petition led by three
voters, the court is being asked to
determine whether rejected votes
should be included when working out
the 50 per cent plus one vote rule.
ONGOING DEBATE
Another issue likely to be con-
tested is whether the court can issue
any other declarations in the petitions
other than dismissing the case, vali-
dating or invalidating the elections.
There is ongoing debate as to
whether or not the judges can order
for a run-off between the top two
candidates, or whether it can only
send the country into another presi-
dential election including all the
other presidential contenders.
The parties have led afdavits
and statements by various witnesses
whom they will be relying on to
strengthen their arguments. Uhuru
dismisses Railas petition saying it is
replete with falsehoods and is a robust
effort to exaggerate facts to secure
him an unfair advantage.
The President-elect argues that the
Constitution does not require IEBC to
use electronic election transmission
system as Raila argues. He further
notes that the petition is an expres-
sion of bitterness from Railas loss of
the poll and that the ultimate objec-
tive is to carry out a constitutional
coup through the Supreme Court.
Both Uhuru and his designated
deputy Mr William Ruto have pro-
duced video clips in which Raila and
his supporters are captured making
statements and comments on the
elections before and after ling the
petition.
By GEOFFREY MOSOKU
Six people who served in the post-
colonial Senate have been invited to
witness Thursdays historic swearing
in of 67 leaders in Nairobi.
They are Philip Toikam Lemein
(Narok), M Ali Msallam (Lamu), Julius
Muthamia (Meru), William Rotich
(Baringo), G N Kalya (Nandi) and Na-
than Munoko (Bungoma).
These are the only known surviv-
ing senators out of the initial 41 who
were in the rst Senate, anchored in
the then independence Constitution,
that formed one of the two Houses of
Parliament.
The rst Senate was abolished in
1966 and Kenya reverted to a unicam-
eral system of Parliament, with addi-
tional constituencies being created to
accommodate all the senators who
were amalgamated to the Lower
House as MPs for the remainder of
their terms.
PIONEERS
Yesterday, Senate Clerk Jeremiah
Nyegenye conrmed he had sent per-
sonal invites for the six pioneer sena-
tors to grace the occasion with the
State footing their travel and accom-
modation costs.
We want to make the day truly
historic by inviting the old men to wit-
ness those who will take over from
them, Nyegenye said at the Kenyatta
International Conference Centre
(KICC) where the Senate will be
housed temporarily.
The clerks reference to take over
was used symbolically since the Sen-
ate was abolished in 1966 only to be
reintroduced following the promulga-
tion of the new Constitution in August
2010, thus making the current sena-
tors as the only second in post-inde-
pendent Kenya.
Ex-senators
to attend
oath of ofce
ceremony
By the time the parties
are coming to court for
hearing, the judges will be
knowing what kind of case
they have Chief Registrar of
the Judiciary Ms Gladys Shollei
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard Page 5
Governors seek professionals
for county Cabinet posts
By EVELYN KWAMBOKA
Governors have an uphill
task in appointing members of
their Cabinets.
The governors, who are set
to be sworn-in this week, are
grappling with whether they
should go political or follow
merit.
Most of those who have
decided to go the professional
way are busy recruiting a panel
to serve in the countys Public
Service Board, a body that will
be mandated with recruitment
of county executive committee
(Cabinet) comprised of ten
people.
PSB is an equivalent of Pub-
lic Service Commission that is
mandated to employi and de-
ploy staff within the country.
Siaya County governor-
elect Rasanga Amoth said he
requires seven people to serve
in the board. They include
Transition Authoritys county
secretary, county ward repre-
sentative, the council town
clerk and some council senior
employees.
He said the board will ad-
vertise the Cabinet vacancies
to be flled by qualifed candi-
dates.
It is time to work, politics
aside. We want knowledgeable
and professional candidates to
apply for the jobs. A Masters
degree would be an added ad-
vantage, he said.
The governor and his ex-
ecutive committee are expect-
ed to focus on running the af-
fairs of the county.
Rasanga said he is in close
contact with the professionals
group in Siaya, adding that
serious candidates, who qual-
ify for the jobs would assist in
developing the area.
The County Assemblys im-
mediate task after the swear-
ing-in ceremony is to approve
the list of offcers to be ap-
pointed by the governor.
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no reconciliation. The truth shall set
us free. We are going to be happy
soon, Raila said. He was accompa-
nied by his wife, Ida, elder brother
Oburu Oginga and sister Ruth Odinga.
Uhuru who was welcomed to Eldoret
by his designated deputy Mr William
Ruto asked Kenyans to maintain the
peace and tranquility attained after
the elections even as they wait for the
verdict of the Supreme Court.
He thanked Uasin Gishu residents
for voting for him and the Jubilee Co-
alition and promised to faithfully de-
liver service to Kenyans in line with
their campaign promises. Both Uhu-
ru and Ruto reminisced how Kenyans
suffered as a result of the 2008 post-
election violence as they celebrated
Palm Sunday at the Sacred Heart Ca-
thedral that hosted 8,000 displaced
persons in 2008. Mass was celebrated
by Eldoret Catholic Dioceses Bishop
Cornelius Korir.
Raila who was at St Stephens An-
glican Church in Kisumu called on
residents to remain calm and con-
tinue praying as they wait for the Su-
preme Courts verdict.
His running mate in the March 4
race Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka
said the ruling on the CORD petition
by the Supreme Court this week was a
matter of great national interest that
would be followed keenly.
Kenyans will be keenly following
developments at the Supreme Court
to their logical conclusion, he said
after prayers at Baptist Church along
Ngong Road, Nairobi. The VP pointed
out that it was going to be an exciting
week as Devolution reality takes ef-
fect.
old system
The VP disclosed there would be
heightened activity within political
circles as coalitions and political par-
ties negotiate how to clinch various
positions. We are prepared for any
eventuality and are strategising to
emerge victorious, added the VP.
Like Uhuru and Raila, he urged
Kenyans to remain peaceful. Even as
we enter into a crucial week, we
should maintain unity of purpose, he
urged, adding that this is Easter Week
and, therefore, the country should
seriously refect on the latest happen-
ings. Raila also told County Commis-
sioners to stop interfering with Gov-
ernors elected by the people. He said
there was need for governors to resist
Continued from P1
Polls: Jubilee, CORD leaders visit political turfs
those trying to bring back the old sys-
tem, adding that unlike members of
Provincial Administration, the people
elected the governors.
Governors must resist attempts to
try to bring the old order back. Forces
of impunity must be shown the door,
he told 47 governors elected in the
March polls. The PMs remarks at the
cathedral came after Kisumu Gover-
nor-elect Jacktone Ranguma claimed
the area commissioner who operates
from the same building had instructed
him to wait until she shows him where
to operate from.
I wonder whether the governor
will report to the PC or the PC report
to the governor, he posed.
The Transitional Authority had
earmarked the building for the Gov-
ernors offces and County treasury, a
decision that has not been changed to
date. The High Court revoked the ap-
pointment of 47 county commission-
ers in June last year, on grounds that
President Kibaki had failed to observe
the Constitution in appointing the
offcers.
Palm sunday
In September last year, the PM told
Parliament that under the new Con-
stitution, those serving in the Provin-
cial Administration would have no
place in the new dispensation.
The PM pointed out that their ex-
istence would interfere with the run-
ning of county governments, adding
that they should instead be absorbed
in the new units within the devolved
government. Still in Eldoret, Uhuru
promised to improve the living stan-
dards of Kenyans through poverty
eradication by creating employment
for youth, deliver affordable health
care and better the infrastructure.
Five years ago this (church) was a
feld of agony flled with people who
were bitter for losing their beloved
ones and property. But today we are
celebrating Palm Sunday here in the
year of Jubilee, Uhuru said.
Ruto who was also touring his
home turf for the frst time since the
elections told Christians they were
back for thanksgiving and to build
togetherness, brotherhood, peace
and success. God heard us when we
vowed that Kenyans will not fght
gain, shed blood and destroy prop-
erty for political contestations again,
Ruto said. He said they had chosen
this particular church to celebrate the
overcoming of death, bloodshed, des-
peration and hopelessness witnessed
in the 2007-2008 chaos. It will be our
business and responsibility to forever
unite the people of Kenya beyond
tribe, religion, creed and political af-
fliation, he vowed.
He promised that next in line
would be the fght against tribalism,
hunger, disease and poverty. Bishop
Korir praised and thanked the two
leaders for working together for the
countrys unity.
I am joyful and at peace seeing
the two of you succeed and thank
residents for demonstrating to the
world that Kenya was indeed a unique
country, he stated. The bishop called
for respect for one another and
thanked other religious leaders for
working together in peace-building.
translates to Peace
What was formerly branded a
hotspot has, through Gods miracle,
turned out into an Amani (Peace)
Spot. This means peace in Uasin Gi-
shu translates to peace everywhere in
the country, he said. Uhuru and his
wife Margaret were later hosted by
Ruto and his wife Rachael at their
Sugoi home. Those accompanying
Uhuru included Nairobi Senator-elect
Mike Mbuvi Sonko.
Additional reporting by
Roselyne Obala.
TOP: President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy-elect William Ruto (sec-
ond right) with other worshippers at Sacred Heart Cathedral Catholic Church
in Eldoret, yesterday. Mass was led by Bishop Cornelius Korir. ABOVE: Prime
Minister Raila Odinga (right) with his wife Ida at St Stephens Anglican Church
in Kisumu, yesterday. [PHOTO: COLLINS ODUOR/STANDARD]
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National Cil reserves the riht to accept or reject any or all tenders either in whole or in part.
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NATIONAL NEWS / Page 7
BY PAUL WAFULA
The electoral commission boss Is-
sack Hassan did not chair the evalua-
tion or tender committees that
awarded South African frm Face
Technologies the Sh1.3 billion con-
tract to supply the controversial poll
books.
In an email to The Standard, Mr
Hassan noted that the procurement
law prohibits him from sitting in these
committees.
It is the law that I dont chair
evaluation committee or the tender
committee that made the award. The
management reports to the chairman
and commissioners on all procure-
ment matters, Hassan said in an
email to The Standard clarifying his
role in the process.
tendering ProcedUre
The Standard on Sunday reported
how the electoral commission, which
conducted the March 4 General Elec-
tion, bought voter identifcation gad-
gets, some of which collapsed under
unclear circumstances on Election
I didnt chair tender committee
IEBC boss Hassan
clarifes role in process,
notes procurement
law prohibits him from
sitting in committees
Day, and which are the centre of an
election dispute.
A review of the tendering proce-
dure by the Public Procurement Ad-
ministrative Review Board found out
the tender to supply poll books was
awarded to the South African frm on
September 29, last year, three weeks
before the technical evaluation among
the shortlisted bidders.
Its indicated that I, Mr Hassan
personally awarded the tender that
had many questions. The implication
is clear that I gave an award to a com-
pany under questionable circum-
stances. Nothing could be farther
from the truth, clarifed Hassan.
The public procurement regulator
came short of cancelling IEBCs ten-
der but allowed it to proceed for the
greater public good because of the
little time that was remaining to the
election day.
FAiLed to FUnction
The Election Observation Group
said in about 8 per cent of the streams
observed electronic poll books were
either missing or malfunctioning as at
11.30am on the Election Day and by
8.30pm, 55.1 per cent of the polling
streams observed the electronic poll
books failed to function properly.
This comes at a time when the
IEBC has been dragged to the Su-
preme Court by the Coalition for Re-
forms and Democracy (CORD) after
disputing the outcome of the recent
election.
CORD wants the electronic system
Tender dispute
IEBC chair Mr Issack Hassan. He has
clarifed that management reports
to the chairman and commissioners
on all procurement matters. [PHOTO:
FILE/STANDARD]
BY nAFtAL MAKori
An Administration Police offcer in
Nyamira County allegedly stabbed his
colleague in the neck after they dis-
agreed on how to share a bribe.
The two offcers based at Nyama-
sebe chiefs camp in Masaba North
District allegedly raided a changaa
den last Thursday where they arrested
the dealer who gave them Sh2,000 in
exchange for his freedom.
When the offcers arrived at their
work station, the junior offcer de-
manded a share of the small token
but the assailant objected to the de-
mands and a scuffe ensued.
The senior offcer, whose rank is
sergeant, took a kitchen knife and
stabbed his junior on the neck, ac-
cording to witnesses. Other offcers
working at the station rushed the vic-
tim, a constable, to a private hospital
in Kisii where he is recuperating.
Masaba North DC David Rop con-
frmed the incident and termed it
most unfortunate. He said the assail-
ant had been arrested.
Like any law breaker, he would
have to face the full force of the law. It
is uncouth for a police offcer to injure
another for whatever reason, Mr Rop
told The Standard.
He said investigation on whether
the two were fghting over a bribe was
going on.
Offcer stabs
another over
share of bribe
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
used by the polls body audited.
However, in its defence, IEBC has
maintained that the kits were not
faulty and that it never abandoned
the system for a manual one on
grounds that the law in fact demands
that the IEBC uses the manual system
to declare the fnal results of the elec-
tion.
Apology & clarifcation
In our sister paper the Standard on
Sunday yesterday, we published a story
headlined Minutes reveal how IEBC
bought faulty gadgets. In the story
we indicated that the IEBC chair, Issack
Hassan, had chaired a tender committee
meeting. In fact, the truth is that the
IEBC chair never chaired that or any
other tender committee meeting and in
any case the law bars the chairman from
participating in such meetings.
We take this early opportunity to
unreservedly apologise to Mr Hassan for
the wrong impression.
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard Page 8 / NATIONAL NEWS
Dock Workers Union draws radical
proposals to stop port privatisation
By PATRICK BEJA
Dock Workers Union (DWU)
has drawn radical proposals to
make the port of Mombasa ef-
fcient and avert privatisation.
These proposals include
amending the Kenya Ports Au-
thority Act to make the ports
managers more accountable
and their hiring transparent
and competitive.
In a statement issued in
Mombasa yesterday, the union
leaders came up with a seven-
point proposal to raise perfor-
mance of the port without re-
sorting to its privatisation.
DWU national chairman
Jefa Kiti Kalu, general secretary
Simon Sang, treasurer Patrick
Atinga, gender chairperson
Sharifa Mwamzandi and chief
shop steward Juma Thoya
signed the statement.
They want the Government
to support the review of the
Kenya Ports Authority Act
Chapter 391 to provide for bet-
ter governance including ap-
pointment of board of direc-
tors, managing directors, heads
CIC starts process of
amending laws on
National Police Service
By CYRUS OMBATI
There is a move to amend
sections of the National Police
Service (NPS) Act and National
Police Service Commission
(NPSC) Act in a bid to weaken
the commissions mandate.
This has elicited protests
from some police offcers and
members of the commission
who term the move unconsti-
tutional and ill-intentioned.
Apparently, the Commis-
sion for the Implementation of
the Constitution (CIC) is lead-
ing the campaign for the
changes on the pretexts that
the current status undermines
the implementation of Articles
238, 245 and 246 of the Consti-
tution.
CIC notes the urgency re-
quired in addressing the pos-
sible overlaps and ambiguities
in the aforementioned Acts
that may undermine the im-
plementation of Articles 238,
245 and 246 of the Constitu-
tion, adds a letter by CIC.
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It is our proposal that the
amendments to those Acts be
prioritised and tabled in Par-
liament as soon as possible,
says part of a letter by CIC vice
chairperson Elizabeth Muli
dated March 12.
The proposal to make the
changes to the Acts was de-
cided in February when the
Commission was in Europe on
an offcial trip to familiarise
Changes to
the Acts were
necessitated due
to a constitutional
confict
themselves on how they need
to operate.
The frst meeting was held
on February 19 at the CIC of-
fces and was chaired by chair-
man Charles Nyachae.
According to Mr Nyachae
the meeting was necessitated
over a constitutional confict
between NPSC and the Inspec-
tor Generals offce.
In a letter dated February
22, Nyachae notes their meet-
ing agreed through possible
amendments to the NPSC and
NPS Acts on the general neces-
sity to clarify the mandates of
the NPSC, National Police Ser-
vice IG and the Independent
Police Oversight Authority.
The meeting agreed on the
necessity to ensure indepen-
dent Command of the IG and
to ensure the service remains a
disciplined force, reads part of
the letter.
Part of the changes that the
offcials want effected are on
the provisions that give the
NPSC powers to keep under
review all matters relating to
policies and standards or
qualifcations required of
members of the service.
Further, the team wants the
commission to receive regular
reports from the IG on disci-
plinary matters and review or
ratify action taken by the po-
lice boss.
The team wants the provi-
sion that gives the NPSC pow-
ers to monitor the operations
of the NPS deleted.
They also propose changes
in the law on the provisions of
recruitment, appointment,
transfer, promotion and disci-
plinary process.
A section of members of
NPSC have accused unnamed
offcials at the Offce of the
President and the IG of being
behind the proposed changes
and are calling on stakeholders
to reject them.
By LINAH BENYAWA
Two patients have been di-
agnosed with symptoms of the
deadly dengue fever.
Coast Provincial Director of
Medical Services Dr Khadija
Shikely confrmed that tests
done by the Kenya Medical
Research Institute (KEMRI) in
Kilif County returned positive
results for the deadly fever on
two samples taken from two
patients at the Aga Khan Hos-
pital in Mombasa two weeks
ago.
Two cases of dengue fever
were confrmed from The Aga
Khan Hospital from specimens
taken two weeks ago, Dr
Shikely said in Mombasa and
announced that the patients
were treated and discharged
from hospital.
She also disclosed that fve
new samples from private hos-
pitals in Mombasa are under
investigation at KEMRI.
Five more suspects are be-
ing investigated, said Dr
Shikely who said all health in-
stitutions have been advised to
be on the lookout.
The fever is said to be the
most common mosquito-
borne virus in the world.
KEMRI tests
confrm
dengue fever
Commission for Implementation of the Constitution chairman
Charles Nyachae at a function. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]
ers on through bill of lading by
road concept.
Another radical proposal
was the establishment of a
proper logistics offce to be
headed by a professional logis-
tics offcer to be appointed
through vetting.
The union also roots for
urgent construction of Free
Port Facility in order to in-
crease the level of business in
the port to justify the con-
struction of a dual carriageway
between Mombasa and Nai-
robi.
National security
PROPOSED
changES
Changes in provisions
that give the NPSC pow-
ers to keep under review
all matters relating to
policies and standards
or qualifcations re-
quired of members of
the service
NPSC should receive
regular reports from the
IG on disciplinary mat-
ters
Delete provisions that
give NPSC powers to
monitor NPS
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of division by vetting or com-
petitive selection.
The offcials also proposed
the creation of the position of
Port Manager to who all port
stakeholders and organisations
such KPA and Kenya Revenue
Authority (port branch) are
answerable to.
REvIEW
The union wants the Gov-
ernment to liberalize transpor-
tation of containers from the
port to Inland Container De-
pots (ICDs) of Kisumu and
Nairobi by licencing transport-
what iS tO bE intRODucED
The union plans to prepare a Bill on governance of the
port through a review of the KPA Act
The Bill will create the offce of the Port Manager
They want the Government to liberalise transportation
of containers from the port to Inland Container Depots of
Kisumu and Nairobi
The establishment of a proper logistics offce to be
headed by a professional logistics offcer
Urgent construction of a Free Port Facility
NATIONAL NEWS / Page 9
BY VINCENT BARTOO
The lawyer for a witness who re-
canted his testimony against Deputy
President-Elect William Ruto at the
International Criminal Court (ICC)
rejected a request to meet with The
Hague ofcials in Nairobi.
According to the lawyer Mr Paul
Gicheru, the meeting was allegedly to
be held on either Thursday or Friday
last week, but he declined.
Yesterday, the Eldoret-based advo-
cate claimed he told ICC Prosecutor
Fatou Bensoudas representative he
did not have permission from his cli-
ent for the meeting.
I have told them my client stands
by his sworn afdavits and that there
is no need for a meeting over this,
said Gicheru. Meanwhile, the witness
has also come out alleging that people
claiming to be ICC ofcials who are
already in the country have made
frantic efforts to reach him.
Former ICC witnesss lawyer snubs
meeting with ofcials of The Hague
Gicheru says his client
had not given him
permission to meet
team of lawyers from
Fatou Bensoudas ofce
In a signed statement, he claimed
to have received 20 calls from among
others, a Mr Lucio, requesting a meet-
ing between him and the alleged ICC
ofcials.
Recent developments and deal-
ings by the ICC has forced me to break
my silence and go public as the deal-
ings are bordering on harassment,
intimidation and intruding into my
private life, he claimed.
INVESTIGATION
ICC Trial Attorney Cynthia Tai
wrote to Gicheru on March 19 inform-
ing him that representatives of the
Ofce of the Prosecutor would be y-
ing to Nairobi to investigate circum-
stances that led to the witness recant-
ing his testimony.
Bensouda has in the past claimed
ICC witnesses were bribed and others
intimidated against testifying. Wit-
ness found to have lied to the court
are also liable for prosecution under
the Rome Statute.
The Ofce of the Prosecutor re-
jects outright the allegations made
against the Prosecution in the (Wit-
ness) letter and attached afdavit and
also rejects many of the statements
contained within them, reads the let-
ter.
She said to fulll the courts man-
date of investigating such matters, the
Legal standoff
Lawyer Paul Gicheru says his client, a former ICC witness, did not want him to
meet ofcials from The Hague [PHOTO: KEVIN TUNOI/STANDARD]
Aenean pretium, facilisis
BY ALLY JAMAH
Civil society leaders have termed
as illegal the move by the Remunera-
tion body not to slash the salary of a
top Government ofcial.
The leaders argued the Salaries
and Remuneration Commission (SRC)
had allowed Commission for the Im-
plementation of the Constitution
(CIC) Chairman Charles Nyachae to
earn more than the incoming presi-
dent.
Speaking yesterday in Nairobi, the
leaders said it was unacceptable for
Nyachaes Sh1.24 million salary to
remain off limit while that of other
State ofcers had been brought
down.
They dismissed the argument that
his salary was xed before SRC came
into being. Mr Nyachae earns a basic
salary of Sh849,360 and a house al-
lowance of Sh140,000.
His monthly extraneous duty al-
lowance is Sh120,000. He is paid a
similar amount as entertainment al-
lowance while his domestic staff al-
lowance is Sh15,600 a month.
The commission is responsible to
Kenyans and not to CIC or any other
body. We call on SRC Chairperson
Sarah Serem not to engage in illegal
actions that undermine SRCs man-
date, said Morris Odhiambo, Presi-
dent of the National Civil Society
Congress.
Civil society
claims Nyachae
salary illegal
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
Prosecutors representatives would
like to meet with the lawyer.
The witness gave two local num-
bers from which he said he claimed to
have received 18 calls and two others
from a concealed number.
I have told them that I stand by
my sworn afdavits and no amount of
persuasion or harassment will make
me recant from my position, he said
from an undisclosed location.
The witness questioned why the
callers wanted to meet him alone
without his lawyer, and alleged that
his life was in danger.
By attending the meeting alone,
this can easily leave me vulnerable to
acts such as kidnapping or hijacking,
or even being maimed or worse, being
killed, he claimed.
Page 10 / NATIONAL
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
Hard task for top
court judges to
opt out of case
Disqualifcation of
a judge happens
only when court is
certain it will not be
incapacitated due to
lack of quorum
The writer is a court reporter with
the Standard Group
Email: iwahome@standardmedia.co.ke
Benchwatch
Republic of kenya
SUPREME COURT OF KENYA
PETITION 4 OF 2012
JASBIR SINGH RAI AND
THREE OTHERS... PETITIONERS
VERSUS
ESTATE OF TARLOCHAN SINGH RAI
AND FOUR OTHERSRESPONDENTS
BENCH: JUDGES PHILIP TUNOI, MOHAMMED IBRAHIM,
J.B. OJWANG, SMOKIN WANJALA AND NJOKI NDUNGU
JUDGEMENT: 06.02.2013
By wahOMe thUKU
The Supreme Court will this morn-
ing begin to hear and determine three
petitions challenging the results of the
March 4 presidential election.
Todays session will be a pre-trial
conference during which parties will
sort out preliminary issues before
starting formal hearings within two
days.
Under the Constitution, at least
fve judges must sit to hear the peti-
tions though Chief Justice Willy Mu-
tunga has indicated that all the cur-
rent six will be on the Bench.
For several days, there have been
debates as to whether any of the six
judges should or can be asked to dis-
qualify himself or herself from the
Bench for various reasons. Those
claims have been advanced in public.
Since it was set up in 2011, the Su-
preme Court has had to deal with the
question as to whether any of its judg-
es can be asked to disqualify him or
herself only on one occasion. Promi-
nent lawyer Pherozee Nowrojee made
the application in the high-profle
case. The lawyer wrote to the court
early this year asking that Justice Phil-
ip Tunoi disqualify himself from hear-
ing an appeal fled from the Court of
Appeal to the Supreme Court.
The reasoning was that while the
matter was at the Court of Appeal,
Judge Tunoi had disqualifed himself
from hearing it. Tunoi was promoted
from the Court of Appeal to the Su-
preme Court.
Mr Nowrojee argued that no rea-
son had been given when Judge Tunoi
recused himself from hearing the case
at the Court of Appeal and that what-
ever the reason, it should also apply
for him to disqualify himself now that
the case had found him again at the
Supreme Court.
caSt In StOne
The judges frame several ques-
tions on how, why and when a Su-
preme Court judge should be asked to
disqualify himself or herself from a
case.
The point of concern is that the
Supreme Court has a specifc number
of judges seven, as set by the Consti-
tution and the minimum number of
fve who can sit on any Bench.
Further, this is the court with the
fnal judicial authority on any matter
and has the responsibility to defne
the countrys development of the law.
The Supreme Court Act Section 8(2),
however, bars a judge from sitting in
a case in which he or she had previ-
ously heard at the lower courts.
The judges considered the defni-
tion of recusal, which is to remove
oneself as a judge or policy maker in
a particular matter because of a con-
fict of interest.
Calling for recusal of a judge is by
no means cast in stone. Perception of
fairness, of conviction, of moral au-
thority to hear the matter, is the prop-
er test of whether or not the non-par-
ticipation of the judicial offcer is
called for, the judges held.
The judges considered that the Su-
preme Court did not have one judge,
the deputy CJ. Also half of the current
judges had served in lowers courts
and there was a possibility of sitting
on cases they had heard before.
UltIMate devIce
Recusal, in these circumstances,
could create a quorum-defcit, which
renders it impossible for the Supreme
Court to perform its prescribed con-
stitutional functions, the judges
ruled. Such a possibility would, in
our view, be contrary to public policy
and would be highly detrimental to
the public interest, especially given
the fact that the novel democratic un-
dertaking of the new Constitution is
squarely anchored frst on the supe-
rior courts, and second on the Su-
preme Court as the ultimate device of
safeguard.
The judges held recuse for Su-
preme Court judge should not be
done without weighing the merits
against the constitutional burden of
the court and the public interest.
They ruled that a decision on the
application for disqualifcation of a
judge would be given after consider-
ing the merits of the claim, in the con-
text of the constitutional design and
obligations o the court.
And even the question as to when
a judge of the Supreme Court should
consider disqualifying him or herself
as a matter of personal conviction, or
objective ethical considerations will
be determined by other colleagues.
The recusal of a judge of the Su-
preme Court is a matter, in the frst
place, for the consideration of the col-
legiate Bench, whose decision is to set
the matter to rest, the court ruled.
Besides the unanimous decision,
Judge Mohammed Ibrahim wrote his
additional remarks emphasising the
point.
He pointed out that the only allow-
ance given by the Constitution of the
judges who may be away for whatever
reason, including illness or worse still,
death, is two.
hIgh lIKelIhOOd
If one of the remaining fve is re-
quired to disqualify him/herself, it
may be argued that out of necessity,
the judge would have to sit to ensure
that there will be no failure of justice
due to the Bench being below the
quorum set by the Constitution, he
added.
It would be of utmost importance
that the judges of the Supreme Court
sparingly and cautiously allow dis-
qualifcation to ensure that the court
is not at any time incapacitated due
to lack of quorum. Indeed, the court
should consider the high likelihood
that several judges may be required to
recuse themselves in the same case.
Any slight reason that would make the
number of judges fall below fve such
as illness means the functions of the
Supreme Court would stall.
In its conclusion, the court unani-
mously rejected the application for
Judge Tunoi to disqualify himself
holding that the doctrine of necessity
had to operate for the court to per-
form its constitutional functions.
Justice Philip Tunoi
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NATIONAL / Page 11
Seeking compensation
Junior police
offcers protest
violation of rights
They are against an
order issued by IGP
Kimaiyo telling them
to keep off social sites
like Facebook
By CYRUS OMBATI
Junior police offcers are up in
arms against what they term as viola-
tion of their rights by their seniors.
The offcers have produced an in-
ternal memo sent by the offce of the
Inspector-General of Police (IGP) tell-
ing them not to attend any interview
for a job without informing their se-
niors. Some offcers say IGP David
Kimaiyo has refused to clear them
even after landing jobs elsewhere.
They are also protesting against an
order issued by IGP telling them to
keep off social sites like Facebook
when presenting their grievances.
A memo issued by Deputy Inspec-
Security
tor General of Police to all senior po-
lice offcers dated March 12 says some
offcers are circumventing the stand-
ing police orders.
A case in point are the recent
transfers/deployments where offcers
have either defed or contested in
court the transfers, reads part of the
memo. The memo added that some
offcers have even attended interviews
in other Government organisations
and purportedly be selected to work
in those organisations without the
authority and knowledge of IGP.
dISCIplInARY ACTIOn
This is serious breach of the ser-
vice standing orders and discipline.
You are directed to warn personnel
under your command to desist forth-
with from acts that will attract severe
disciplinary action, adds the letter.
The letter signed by K.S. Kiptoo
explained that the service standing
orders have not been amended and,
therefore, the provisions therein are
still in force. The junior offcers have
now written to the Independent Polic-
ing Oversight Authority and other
Muslim for Human Rights offcer Francis Ouma (left) shows wounds driver
Hemed Abdallah suffered after being attacked by suspected Mombasa Repub-
lican Council goons while ferrying IEBC elections material on March 4 in Kilif
County. Abdallah wants IEBC to compensate him. [PHOTO: KEVIN ODIT/STANDARD]
By CYRUS OMBATI
Allowances for police offcers who
worked during the March 4 election
will be paid end of the month.
Inspector General of Police David
Kimaiyo said the money will be paid
through the payroll, as opposed to
past practices where offcers received
it in cash.
Arrangements to have the money
paid to offcers have been fnalised
and will be paid through their March/
April payroll, he said.
Kimaiyo was reacting to com-
plaints from a section of police off-
cers, who said they had not been paid
their allowances even after Indepen-
dent Electoral and Boundaries Com-
mission (IEBC), through Treasury re-
leased the funds.
The more than 99,000 offcers who
participated in the exercise were en-
titled to be paid allowances, which
vary depending on ones rank.
Kimaiyo said all monies are nowa-
days paid through respective payrolls
and bank accounts and urged for pa-
tience from affected offcers.
Some 23,681 special police offcers
were gazetted and deployed to serve
during the General Election.
They formed part of the 99,000 of-
fcers who manned the exercise coun-
trywide. They are also entitled to al-
lowances.
Police to get poll
pay end month,
says Kimaiyo
Government agencies seeking their
intervention on what they term as
violations of their rights and free-
doms. Some offcers who have re-
cently been transferred have moved
to court terming the moves illegal.
Kimaiyo gave an order last Thurs-
day telling police offcers to keep off
social media and added their com-
plaints would only be received
through conventional ways.
People believed to be police off-
cers on social media have been com-
plaining over unpaid dues for ser-
vices provided before and after
General Election.
O
F
F
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By KENNETH KWAMA

Recruiting staff is a costly
exercise but an essential part
of any business and it pays to
do it properly.
Though this principle is
seen as more application in
the private sector, the slow
race to recruit the countrys
next top technocrats is turn-
ing out to be taking the same
lines.
Going by activities at the
Public Service Commission
(PSC), the recruiting agency,
seem to be well aware that
poor choices at the recruit-
ment stage can prove very ex-
pensive.
The race to recruit the
countries next top techno-
crats to be named by Kenyas
fourth President is taking
shape and going by activities
at the Public Service Commis-
sion (PSC), which is the re-
cruiting agency, it is a hot race
that might yield only 22 indi-
viduals.
The professionals are ex-
pected to take over the cur-
rent roles of Permanent Sec-
retaries and will be referred to
as Principal Secretaries.
Applications for the jobs
should have closed by March
1, but was extended following
concerns that the countrys
next President, who is the ap-
pointing authority would
want to have more say in the
fnal choice of individuals.
But there are concerns that
the requirements for the job
might lock out hundreds of
top talented individuals.
Some headhunters have
pointed out the provision that
requires applicants to get
clearance from the Kenya Rev-
enue Authority, Higher Edu-
cation Loans Board, the Ethics
and Anti-Corruption Com-
mission and Criminal Investi-
gation Department as big
stumbling blocks.
It is a fact that many peo-
ple have submitted their ap-
plications without some re-
quirements like certifcate of
good conduct or clearance
from the Higher Education
Loans Board not because they
dont have these certifcates,
but because of the bureaucra-
cy involved in getting these
documents, says Wandigo
Clement, a director with Quin-
ton Recruiters Ltd.
Wandigo says the country
should have made effort to
ensure that bodies that issue
these important certifcates
are reformed to make the is-
suance faster and more cred-
ible before potential job seek-
ers are told to seek their
clearance to make the process
Tough new rules
for principal
secretary jobs
Applicants are
required to get
clearance from
Helb, KRA, CID
and anti-graft body
Page 12 / NATIONAL NEWS Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
By JAMEs ANyANzWA
The wave of new fnan-
cial services regulations is
causing deep changes in
the asset management in-
dustry, heralding a period
of transformation and re-
fning business models.
Seeking to sharpen their
competitive edge, many as-
set management compa-
nies are refning their busi-
ness models, placing
greater emphasis on inves-
tor-facing functions.
Asset managers will also
need to analyse how the
changing regulatory envi-
ronment would affect their
businesses and proftability
while developing products
for new investor needs.
With asset management
market getting bigger, more
dynamic and more compet-
itive than ever, asset man-
agement companies are try-
ing to achieve superior fund
performance, control oper-
ating costs, and manage the
risks of new product, ser-
vices and markets.
Locally, the situation is
not different and commer-
cial banks have started
building foundation as the
asset management industry
prepares for testing compli-
ance regimes.
The Cooperative Bank
group is one such institu-
tion, looking to strengthen
its fund management divi-
sion to sharpen its compet-
itive edge in the asset man-
agement business.
The institution is seek-
ing to fll the position of an
investment manager in-
charge of alternative assets.
Reporting to the Head, the
Manager will be responsi-
ble for identifying, analyz-
ing and if suitable recom-
mending investment
opportunities in the alter-
native assets space to cli-
ents.
The duties and responsi-
bilities will be to undertake
an in-depth fundamental
research on alternative as-
sets Private Equity, Un-
quoted stocks, properties
and REITS.
He/she would prepare
regular reports on alterna-
tive assets for presentation
at investment committee
meetings. The manager will
also be required to develop
and update models used in
valuing unquoted invest-
ments, property invest-
ments and REITS and main-
tain corporate action diary
of unquoted companies
and REITS.
The number of Americans
fling new claims for jobless
benefts has edged higher, but
a trend reading dropped to its
lowest in fve years and point-
ed to ongoing healing in the
labor market.
Initial claims for state un-
employment benefts rose
2,000 to a seasonally adjusted
336,000, the Labour Depart-
ment said on Thursday.
Economists polled by Reu-
ters had expected 342,000
frst-time applications mid
this month. The four-week
moving average for new
claims, a measure of labour
market trends, fell 7,500 to
339,750, the lowest level since
February 2008.
That could bode well for
job growth in March.
Mid month claims data
covered the survey period for
the governments monthly tal-
ly of nonfarm jobs. The four-
week average of new claims
fell 6 percent relative to the
survey week in February,
when nonfarm payrolls in-
creased by 236,000.
Still, while layoffs have
ebbed over recent months,
companies have been cau-
tious about ramping up hiring
and the Federal Reserve has
appeared worried that belt
tightening by the government
could dampen progress made
in the labour market.
The Fed is pressing for-
ward with its aggressive policy
stimulus, pointing to still-
high unemployment, fscal
headwinds out of Washington
and risks from abroad. The
Fed action comes despite a
rash of recent data showing
the economy gathering
strength. Retail sales have
been stronger than expected.
Reuters
Jobless claims
point to
improving
labour market
Openings galore as banks seek to increase investment revenue
more transparent.
Principal Secretaries will
serve on contract for a period
of fve years and salaries and
benefts attached to the posi-
tions will be determined by
the Salaries and Remunera-
tion Commission.
Vision 2030
To be considered for the
position, applicants must be
Kenyans who possess a Bach-
elors degree from universities
recognised in the country.
Other requirements for the
position include a Masters de-
gree or higher academic qual-
ifcations from a university
recognised in Kenya, at least
15 years relevant professional
experience, fve years of which
should have been in a leader-
ship position or at a top man-
agement level in the Public
Service or Private Sector.
Applicants are also re-
quired to possess knowledge
of the organisation and func-
tions of Government, have
thorough knowledge of the
structural, legislative and reg-
ulatory framework of the Pub-
lic Service and demonstrate
thorough understanding of
national goals, policies and
developmental objectives in-
cluding Vision 2030.
The new Constitution
mandates the PSC to recom-
mend persons for nomination
and appointment as Principal
Secretaries by the President.
This is what drove the
commission to invite applica-
tions from suitably qualifed
persons to be considered for
the positions.
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It is a fact
that many people
have submitted their
applications without
some requirements
like certificate of good
conduct or clearance
from the Helb
NuMBEr of
MINIsTrIEs
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jobcentre@standardmedia.co.ke
President Kibaki is shown around Kenya Institute of Administration by PSC chair Dr Margaret
Kobia (left), accompanied by Public Service minister Dalmas Otieno recently. [PHOTO: TABITHA
OTWORI/STANDARD]
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard Page 13
Page 14 / EDITORIAL
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
T
here is a very real danger that the
outcry against social media outlets,
Facebook and Twitter, by senior
State operatives and even journalists might
have gone overboard.
Regardless of which side of the political di-
vide one is, many Kenyans are rightfully
shocked and appalled by some of the com-
ments on Facebook and Twitter on the out-
come of the General Election.
prove your case
What the National Cohesion and Integra-
tion Commission should do is build its cases
against alleged hatemongers and charge them
in court rather than engage in fear mongering
regarding Facebook and Twitter postings. The
Bill of Rights in the Constitution extends the
same rights of freedom of expression, access
to public information and freedom of assem-
bly and association to the Internet, and these
must be protected. Because of the ethnic mo-
bilization by the two leading political alliances
to secure enough votes, the outcome of the
election has divided opinion down the middle.
Closet tribalists and ethnic bigots have thus
spotted an opportunity to spew their venom
on social media, poisoning what should be an
open debate about the conduct of the Inde-
pendent Electoral and Boundaries Commis-
sion and its handling of the poll.
Even the media as a collective has not been
spared. Many feel that in its effort to avoid its
mistakes in 2007, the media became too meek
and abdicated its watchdog role during the
election and afterwards. It will be interesting
to see what independent post-election audits
and a fnal review by the Media Council of Ke-
nya will say about these claims, and we should
wait for them, But to blame negative ethnicity
purely on social media while leaving out the
key perpetrators, namely the politicians, is
wrong and likely to open the door for greater
intrusion by the Government on freedom of
expression.
tool for good
Social media is only a tool that facilitates
easier communication. Like any other tool, it
can be used for malicious purposes. Neverthe-
less, the benefts of social media far outweigh
the negatives. Facebook and Twitter have
democratised media by giving everyone a
voice, regardless of their gender or social sta-
tus. The current reaction against the two is
akin to what happened in Britain in 2011 fol-
lowing the London riots.
Twitter and Facebook were accused of fuel-
ling the mayhem through the hashtag #lon-
donriots and the Facebook page Lets Get The
Riots To Liverpool. However, investigations
later revealed that most of the incendiary mes-
sages rallying rioters to fresh locations were
sent using bulk messaging via Blackberry de-
vices. Facebook and Twitter did more to warn
people on where to avoid and call for peace
than fuel the violence.
Encouraging the Government to go beyond
surveillance of social media to issue blanket
threats to users not only inhibits free speech,
but could lead to outright threats and harass-
ment of genuine human rights defenders and
increase the insecurity of information stored
in digital form.
The expression of an opinion not laced with
tribal hatred or other forms of prejudice, or
that does not target a community, group of
people or individuals is not hate speech. The
vast majority of users of Facebook and Twitter
abide by the law.
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Blaming Facebook, Twitter for ethnic bigotry not right
WHAT OTHER MEDIA SAY...
For Hillary Clinton, the time may
fnally be right: No matter what Barack
Obama does, he cannot escape the shadow of
his former political opponent.
The Big Question: Will Hillary run?
Sent away by this president upon his
unlikely victory in 2008 against the Clinton
machine and the inevitable frst woman
president, Hillary is back. Few people, and
far fewer women, have attracted so much
attention as Hillary Clinton.
She carries the unique burden of being
something to everyone: Loved, despised,
admired, feared, a role model, a terrifying
omen, politician, mother, wife, nemesis,
scold, muse. She is a conundrum of one. And
she is running for president. Isnt she?
Israel: Bits, Bytes and Bombs: In reading
the news from the wider Middle East and then
watching President Obama visiting Israel, the
president looked as if he were visiting an atoll in
the Pacifc, or maybe New Zealand surrounded by
roiling seas.
Israels ability to live as if it were disconnected
from the rest of the region is impressive and
necessary. Its also illusory and dangerous.
Israel is the only country in the world that has
nonstate actors, armed with missiles, nested
among civilians on four out of fve of its borders.
Yet Israel has managed to jneutralize its enemies
and nourish its economy. But there is a fne
line between keeping danger out and locking
fantasy in, between keeping your people alive
and keeping crazy dreams alive. Israel is close to
crossing that line.
W
hen pictures of Harambee Stars training in
very poor conditions in Nigeria were splashed
all over the social media on Thursday there
were faint hopes that Stars wouldnteven score against the
Super Eagles on Saturday.
However, the national team put up a brave fght and on-
ly conceded a last minute equaliser as the 2014 World Cup
qualifer ended 1-1 in Calabar, Nigeria.
The show by Harambee Stars was, however, not the only
bright spot for Kenyan spot at the weekend. While we were
wondering how Nigeria could be such poor hosts before a
World Cup qualifer the national sevens team were doing
what they know best, winning in the Hong Kong leg of the
IRB series. Mike Fridays charges put behind them the saga
of mercurial winner Collins Injera who was dropped ahead
of the Hong Kong leg. A fourth place fnish for the sevens
boys after being beaten by tournament favourites New Zea-
land in the play-off was not bad result as it puts them in good
shape ahead of the next leg in Tokyo.
We hope that as the team heads to Tokyo they will have
rectifed the small mistakes that saw them lose to Wales in
the main cup semi-fnals. And while we were still celebrat-
ing the 15 IRB points gained by the Kenya sevens team to
move to ffth in the IRB rankings, our cross-country team
crowned a good sporting weekend for Kenya.The show by
Faith Chepngetich in the 6km junior women followed by a
stunning fghtback by Emily Chebet to outsprint Ethiopias
Hiwot Ayalew, who had opened a huge gap was heartwarm-
ing.
Japheth Korir put the icing on the Kenyas sports cake by
reclaiming the 12km senior men title by beating Ethiopias
defending champion Imane Merga. We hope this good show
by the footballers, rugby players and our athletes, who ran
in freezing conditions in Poland, will be a stepping stone for
good things to come in future.
We want to bask in their glory and urge them to even do
well in the other competitions ahead of them including the
World Athletics Championships in Moscow in August.
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The French are taught to be gloomy:
France, once famous for its joie de vivre, is
suffering from existential gloom according to
research by Claudia Senik, a professor at the
Paris School of Economics, to be delivered
to the Royal Economic Society. The countrys
citizens are taught to be miserable.
Senick says her countrys education system
and its cultural mentality make the French
far less happy than their wealth and lifestyle
suggest they should be. The French are gloomy
and the World Health Organisation notes that
the suicide rate in France is much higher than
in any of the old European countries, with
the exception of Finland. Suicide is the second
biggest cause of mortality among 15-to-44-
year-olds after road accidents, and the primary
cause among 30-to-39-year-olds.
Athletes cap great
sporting weekend
OPINION / Page 15
O
n Wednesday last week, the
United Kingdom House of
Commons had a substantive
discussion about the current state of af-
fairs in Kenya for over one and-a-half
hours.
The discussion, chaired by Peter Bone,
a Conservative Party politician and Mem-
ber of Parliament for Wellingborough,
was not just an ordinary discussion but a
critical one as it will largely sharp how the
British government will interact with
President elect Uhuru if the Supreme
Court upholds his win.
The discussion comes amid an intense
public debate before the general elections
that British government would slap sanc-
tions against Kenya if Kenyans would vote
in Uhuru as their president and accusa-
tions that the British government was co-
vertly supporting the cord coalition.
In fact, as noted by Eric Joyce, MP for
Falkirk and mover of the motion on Ke-
nya, it is these feelings of foreign forces
interfering with the Kenyans choice of
who to vote for that made some Kenyans
solidly back Uhurus presidency.
According to him, the election results,
if confrmed by the Supreme Court, are a
form of strong statement by Kenyans that
if they were required to choose between
sovereign self-determination and the pa-
tronage of foreign powers, they would
choose the former.
Kenya and Britain have shared strong
relations economically, politically and
culturally and unlike before where Kenya
appeared just like a dependant of Britain,
dominic ODIPO}
UHURU & RUTO
Palaver
This is a beautiful week see-
ing as we have started prayer-
fully waving palm fronds. And
Pope Francis
continues to
dominate the
headlines with
yet another
frst. Now the
fellow who has
been living fru-
gally and using
the train is having the same
trouble as President-elect
Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy
President-elect William Ruto
whose security and means of
transport have had a major
makeover. The pontiff took
the papal car (popemobile)
then the helicopter to Castel
Gandolfo, where his predeces-
sor pope emeritus Benedict XVI
lives for a quick lunch. News
is, this is the frst time in 600
years that a serving pope and
a former pope have faced each
other. Wow!
And Palavers tweet of the
week is the one that went to @
SomeoneTellNigeria that Kenyans
are miles apart from Nigeria
with a former President in Mr
Daniel Moi, quietly enjoying his
retirement, a soon-to-be-retired
President Mwai Kibaki who does
not like people rega-rega-ring
(malingering), a President-elect
in Uhuru Kenyatta and even a ce-
leb President in CMB Prezzo who
almost considered taking some
Mogotio goats as dowry to Nige-
ria for the hand of his former Big
Brother Africa housemate Goldie
Harvey a.k.a Susan Oluwabimpe.
We demand respect for potential
in-laws. Psst!! We also have oil
now, Heh! Heh! Heh!
Our friend Mutula Kilonzo
could suddenly fnd himself
on the international lecture
circuit on the small matter of
hemlines. Its not just Rwathia
Girls High School-
who had to go on
strike to demand
that their school
allow them to
wear miniskirts
or the female
lawyers whose hemlines just
grew longer, courtesy of a
hawk-eyed Law Society of
Kenya. In fact, Mutula might
be needed to save the girls of
South Korea from donning long
skirts like the nun habit that
so amused Mutula. This comes
after President Park Geun-
hyes frst Cabinet meeting
decreed that beginning March
22, 2013, any overexposed
person will pay a fne of $45
(Sh4,000). Could South Korean
cops soon be brandishing a a
shoulder holster, truncheon
and measuring tape?
And fnally
We loved this tweet from Kim
Garst, and hope it opens up your
eyes too: There is no elevator
to success. You have to take the
stairs.
editorial@standardmedia.co.ke
dann mwangI} Heres why the British Government needs Kenya
mean? Could each side in this Jubi-
lee Alliance be interpreting them
differently? Could Ruto be reading
and seeing in them confrmation
that he is beyond a mere deputy
president?
Could he be seeing them as con-
frmation that he is effectively Uhu-
rus co-president, especially as it has
already been agreed that he will per-
sonally appoint at least half of the 22
new Cabinet Secretaries?
ONE LONG TRIP
Finally, there are two very omi-
nous dates looming for the Jubilee
Alliance. The frst of these dates is
May 28, 2013, which will be a Tues-
day. If the International Criminal
Court (ICC) does not change its goal
posts again, then Rutos case at The
Hague will start on that Tuesday in
May, only about two months away.
If the Supreme Court will by
then have confrmed Uhuru as
President and Ruto as Deputy Pres-
ident, will Uhuru allow or encour-
age Ruto to travel to The Hague
knowing very well that he might not
be allowed to return to Kenya for a
very long time?
The second ominous date for Ju-
bilee will be July 9, 2013, another
Tuesday, when Uhuru himself will
be required at the Hague. Exciting
times, these, wouldnt you say?
The writer is a lecturer and consultant
in Nairobi.
dominicodipo@yahoo.co.uk
W
hen American Presi-
dent Barack Obama
appears in the same
picture with his Vice President, Joe
Biden, there is usually no doubt in
the mind of the informed observer
about the matter of who is the boss
and who is the assistant.
The body language of the two
men speaks volumes. Students of
group dynamics easily notice that
there are certain distance codes
which are not broken. They notice
that the eyes of the deputy ordinar-
ily lock onto the leader, especially if
the leader happens to be speaking.
They notice that the deputy
takes greater care of the movement
of his limbs than his leader.
For example, whereas the leader
can generally do whatever he likes
with his legs, including swinging
one onto the other, the deputy or as-
sistant is much more restrained in
this regard.
Some of us have been watching
Mr Uhuru Kenyatta and Mr William
Ruto very closely whenever they
have appeared together on televi-
sion or in the print media.
Looking at these pictures
through the eye of a group dynam-
ics student, there are one or two
things that we have noticed which
could later explode into national
signifcance with the concomitant
national political repercussions.
But, as one could easily say in
mitigation, it is early days yet.
There are certain messages
which ones body language passes
that are very diffcult to mistake. If I
am sitting in a room with a person
whom I consider to be my equal, my
body language will say so, no mat-
ter what I actually say or do.
If I am sitting (or standing) in the
same room with a person whom I
consider to be my superior, again,
my body language will tell the whole
story. The point is that body lan-
guage when taken in whole, rarely
passes conficting messages.
If you have not been watching
Uhuru and Ruto together as critical-
ly and closely as some of us have
been doing, try doing so henceforth
and you will probably begin to see
where all this is going.
fIRE THE dEPUTy
What, anyway, is the main differ-
ence between a vice president and
a deputy president? What will a dep-
uty president of Kenya be able to do
that a vice president under the old
Constitution could not have been
able to do?
We all know that, under the new
Constitution, the President will not
be able to fre his deputy merely for
not standing up when he (the Pres-
ident) walks into a room.
That, however, is not the whole
story. Consider the question more
proactively. If the deputy president
disagrees very fundamentally with
his boss, just how far off to the pe-
riphery of the governance and po-
litical process will the President be
able to push him? Where, in effect,
will the elastic limit of their political
relationship lie?
Which then brings us to the oth-
er, rather closely related concept of
a Kenyan co-presidency.
Could it be possible that, even
though the Constitution very clear-
ly defnes the offces of president
and deputy president, what our po-
litical system might be producing is
actually a co-presidency in which
none of the two principals is actu-
ally superior to the other?
Consider just some of the perti-
nent political and electoral facts
that now underlie and inform the
Jubilee Alliance.
The total number of parliamen-
tary seats that the TNA or Uhurus
side of the Alliance won nationally
was 71, against the URP or Rutos
share of 63. In other words, Uhuru
won only eight more parliamentary
seats than Ruto across the whole
country.
If you take the governors tally,
the balance swings totally in favour
of Ruto whose URP won a total of 10
gubernatorial seats against only
eight for Uhurus TNA.
In the Senate sweepstakes, TNA
won 11 seats, only two more than
Rutos URP which won nine seats.
And in terms of the actual national
vote, both Uhuru and Ruto brought
a modal average of more than 90 per
cent of their traditional voters to Ju-
bilees national basket.
What, then do these fgures
Is it pos-
sible that,
even though
the Consti-
tution clear-
ly defnes
the offces
of president
and depu-
ty, what our
political sys-
tem might
be produc-
ing is actu-
ally a co-
presidency
in which
none of the
two princi-
pals is actu-
ally superior
to the oth-
er?
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the ground has tilted as elaborated by
the discussants in this parliamentary
session.
The relation between Kenya and
Britain is now symbiotic not parasitic.
The strategic position and signif-
cance of Kenya towards the British
government and peoples interests
cannot be wished away. As noted by
Eric Joyce, British government needs
to recognize that Kenya is far too im-
portant to be treated as if it were a mi-
nor and strategically unimportant
state.
mILITaRy OPERaTIONs
The strategic interests that Kenya
has towards Britain are many and in-
dispensable as discussed.
The Kenya Defence Forces defeat
of the Al Shabaab and securing Mog-
adishu is credited for helping to re-
store sanity in Somalia.
With a Somalia country that is on
a road to recovery, we now have Brit-
ish private equity investors who are
interested in investing in Mogadishu.
In fact, this interest by the British to
invest in Mogadishu is more that of
Kenyans who have largely stabilised
Somalia.
Moreover, the Kenyan govern-
ment support in fghting internation-
al terrorism in the sea lines did not go
unnoticed in this debate.
Further, over 10,000 British sol-
diers also access unrivalled training
facilities in Laikipia Kenya, and this
has helped them while launching
their military operations in nations
like Afghanistan.
The support of Kenya with these
facilities is credited for British army
ability to mount operation while de-
fending Falkland Islands 30 years
ago.
In addition, as discussed by Alistair
Burt, the parliamentary under-secre-
tary of state for foreign and common-
wealth affairs, the United Kingdom is
the largest commercial investor in Ke-
nya and home to half of the top 10
tax-paying companies in Kenya.
Obviously, when British compa-
nies make profts in Kenya, its a win
for both Kenya and Britain.
Kenya wins because these compa-
nies pay taxes and create jobs and for
Britain, the remitted profts are used
to build their country.
Unlike what the local and interna-
tional doomsayers have been ped-
dling, the House of Commons do not
see any need to sanction Kenya or
even isolate Mr Uhuru Kenyatta if he
is confrmed the President by the Su-
preme Court.
They actually want British govern-
ment to co-operate with Kenyatta
even more despite him facing charges
at the International Criminal Court.
They see great economic opportu-
nities in Kenya, as stated by Jim Shan-
non and are afraid that British gov-
ernment and people will lose out
these opportunities to the Chinese.
In fact, Jim Shannon is concerned
that despite British people having
construction skills, its the Chinese
who are doing massive road con-
struction in Kenya. He actually states,
We should be doing that sort of con-
struction work in Kenya. No disre-
spect to the Chinese, but why are we
not there?
PREsIdENT-ELEcT
Despite doing business in Kenya,
they also do not want to lose infu-
ence in any part of Africa and partic-
ularly in Kenya towards the Chinese.
In a nutshell, the House of Com-
mons would want their government
to work closely with Mr Kenyatta and
their share the same view with, New
York Times, the most infuential news-
paper in the United States which stat-
ed earlier that the US and Europe
should work with a government in
Kenya headed by President-elect Uh-
uru Kenyatta.
Nevertheless, Alistair Burt was cat-
egorical that the United Kingdom will
not reduce its co-operation with Ke-
nya even if Mr Kenyatta is confrmed
the President and strongly rebutted
claims that the UK has threatened
sanctions against Kenya before.
Actually, Burt agrees with Eric
Joyce that a more secure Kenya means
a more secured United Kingdom.
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Betty Kyalos story: I have always
known you to be a strong lady,
and now I know better where that
strength comes from. God bless you
girl and may you live to see all your
dreams come true. Edwin
Treasury swayed by Uhurus
ambitious economic goodies: Let
us not fail to be realistic because of
cake promises. How many Kenyans
can afford to eat a cake? Let us
face the reality by differentiating a
political manifesto and a realistic
manifesto. Bernard
More on Betty Kyalo: Betty you
are a living testimony. May Our Lord
give you enormous favour girl. You
are great. Anne
Harambee Stars hold Nigeria: @
SomeoneTellNigeria....Now you know
where Kenya is on the map....Way to
go coach you started your reign with
baptism of re and you overcame
it. Good things are yet to come.
Kijanacrnk
Post-poll deal with Uhuru splits
Musalia, Eugene: Well, it is very
clear from the story that after Eugene
realised that Mudavadi lost with a
bigger margin, he has decided every
man for himself and is standing to
gain by joining the ranks of Jubilee
Alliance. Akama
Criminal kills two CID ofcers:
The public have an obligation to
inform the relevant authorities
about the whereabouts of a wanted
criminal. It is a criminal offence to
withhold information that might
help the police in apprehending such
persons. Michael
Kenya achieves higher
diplomatic status: One of
Kenyattas greatest achievements
was to bring Unep to Kenya. One of
Kibakis greatest achievements is to
have Unep elevated to UNEA. Well
done Kenya and Kibaki! The only
Third World country to home UN
Agency is Kenya! KP
Chinua Achebe is dead: Prof
Achebe was a man of the people.
His literary works were conspicuous
in literary circles like the anthills
of savannah. Those who read them
would liken them to arrow of God
because of the indelible impact they
had on their study of literature. Now
that he is dead, his readers are no
longer at ease. The centre of his
creative works cannot hold. Surely,
things have fallen apart. Vinkham
Hats off, Harambee Stars,
for most superb performance
We salute our national football
team, Harambee Stars, for the bril-
liant and fantastic performance in
their match against Nigeria, the
current African champions, in the
2014 World Cup qualifying rounds.
By drawing 1-1 against Nigeria, one
of Africas soccer giants, our glam-
our boys have made us absolutely
proud and proved wrong all pessi-
mists who had prophesied that
Stars would be massacred in Nige-
ria.
Its painful to note that Stars
were just seconds away from secur-
ing a landmark and historic victory
on Nigerian soil, which could have
been the biggest upset for the Afri-
can champions.
This could have been a sweet
victory that could have silenced,
once and for all, the proud Nigeri-
ans who had belittled our players
and more annoying, mistreated
them by denying them training fa-
cilities.
As we celebrate the Stars mag-
nicent performance, we should
not forget the cruel and inhumane
manner our heroes were treated in
Lagos. This is an urgent matter that
should not be swept under the car-
pet by the Government and our
soccer authorities.
Nigeria must consider them-
selves lucky to force a draw in a
match that they did not deserve any
point at all.
We should teach the Nigerians a
bitter soccer lesson, during the re-
turn match here in Nairobi, that
would bring them down to earth
and remind them that they are not
the only men who know how to
play football in the African conti-
nent.
Once again, we say a big thank
you to our heroes for bringing im-
mense joy to the country. Such
magnicent performances, tempo-
rarily make us forget our crises and
even political differences.
{Enock Onsando, Mombasa}
Efforts by Football Kenya Feder-
ation (FKF) to improve football are
slowly beginning to yield fruit.
Our National team, Harambee
Stars, is back after many years of
registering poor results. Kenya drew
1-1 with continental champions
and giants the Super Eagles of Ni-
geria in a 2014 World Cup qualica-
tion match, beat Libya 3-0 in an In-
ternational friendly away in Tunisia,
and reached the nals of the Con-
federation of East and Central Afri-
ca Cup in Uganda late last year.
The Stars have started winning
games away from home, which is
encouraging. Local league sides
that are participating in continen-
tal championships this year have
also shown a marked improvement
in their performances by winning
their preliminary stage matches
comfortably.
The Kenya Premier league is
currently considered as one of the
most lucrative leagues in East and
Central Africa region and this has
contributed to the improved stan-
dards of football in the country.
Fans have started streaming back to
stadiums to watch local matches
while local clubs are getting shirt
sponsorships from corporates.
All indication are that the stan-
dards of soccer will improve further
and Harambee Stars will become a
force to reckon with.
{James Okongo, Nairobi}
Page 16 / READERS DIALOGUE Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
Resettle Mau Forest evictees now
The outgoing Government un-
der President Mwai Kibaki has
done a great job resettling internal-
ly displaced people and other Ke-
nyans who were evicted from Mau
Forest some time back.
However, the return of a group
of about 200 settlers evicted from
Maasai Mau Forest last year shows
that there still much to be done.
The group returned to the water
tower citing delayed resettlement
by goverment. These people have a
right to live a decent life just like
the rest of Kenyans.
In the same vein, there is need
to preserve our water towers.
What should be done? The Gov-
erment must move with speed and
look for any idle land and resettle
these needy Kenyans.
But even as the Government
does so, Kenyans should stop the
disgusting habit of resisting reset-
tlement of the landless in their ar-
eas, fuelled by fears that such a
move would affect normal voting
direction.
It is high time we come to our
senses and realise these are fellow
Kenyans our brothers and sis-
ters.
It is shameful and unacceptable
to see Kenyans who toil day and
night to make our economy pros-
per living as squatters in their
motherland.
The incoming Goverment
should continue from where the
outgoing goverment left and en-
sure that by the end of its ve-year
term, landlessness would be no
more in Kenya. Besides demarcat-
ing idle land and giving it to the
needy, the Government should al-
so build houses which Kenyans can
rent at low cost.
{Nehemia N Nganga, Maseno}
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Achebe death big blow
to literary world
Literature giant Chinua
Achebe will remain in the hearts
and minds of literature lovers
not only in Africa, but across
the world.
His death as many would
say, was untimely. Despite
his old age, many would have
wished that he stays around to
act as a source of inspiration.
He was a very intelligent
person in the world of literature.
His work which comprise novels,
short stories and poems will
forever rank among the best.
He had an active mind that
always produced something
that captured the minds of read-
ers, captivating them with the
variety of styles he used.
He will be remembered as an
author who wrote during colo-
nialism and after colonialism.
His books not only covered his
homeland Nigeria, but also the
world at large.
He also participated in liber-
ation of Nigerians from the jaws
of colonialism through his time-
less novel, Things Fall Apart.
Achebe, just like Kenyan
author Ngugi wa Thiongo has
gone through hell but has
emerged successful. He under-
went colonial mistreatment and
threats. This never weakened
his aspiration to produce more
work. No wonder, Achebes
death is a big blow to the eld of
{David Mwaura, Maseno
university}
Lesuuda good
choice for Senate
Stars deserved
better reception
On Wednesday, the Independent
Electoral and Boundaries Commis-
sion published, in the Kenya gazette,
the names of political parties nomi-
nees to the National Assembly and
the Senate.
Members of the media fraternity
and the Samburu community were
overjoyed after learning that Naisula
Lesuuda was one of the nominees to
the Senate. She was the rst person
in the TNA list of nominees.
Lesuuda being a journalist and
having been brought up in a com-
munity considered as a minority is
best placed to address the plight of
the suffering.
Being a journalist, I know she is in
a good position to address the needs
of those she has interacted with in
the course of duty. She has had en-
counters with the sexually abused,
those suffering from hunger and
even those who have suffered from
retrogressive cultural practices like
female genital mutilation.
Lesuuda is also well placed to ad-
dress the needs of the minority com-
munities.
{David Njihia, Kisii University}
Kenya is known for its hospitality
when it comes to accommodating in-
ternational teams. Sadly, this is not
the case for Nigeria. It was very un-
fortunate that our team could not get
a good training ground in Nigeria.
Ajai Primary School in Oshodi
wasnt good enough. Does it mean
that there are no stadiums in Nigeria
or was it a case of intimidation? In ad-
dition, the Stars was accommodated
in a two-star hotel, against CAF/Fifa
regulations. This was unfair and I
hope itll never happen in future.
{Meshack Kitema, Maseno}
Immortal lessons
from great writers
Lovers of literature received the
news of the death of one of Africas
greatest literary icons, Chinua
Achebe with great sorrow.
Matters were made worse by the
fact that recently, we lost another lit-
erary great, Prof Francis Imbuga.
The two are well known in Kenya
where their books have been peren-
nial set-books in secondary schools.
And although they have physically
departed, their legacy will live for ev-
er. Interestingly, even politicians
whom the duo criticised heavily,
were full of praise for them, meaning
that their lessons have been learnt by
all. Our hope is that their writings
will not only inspire new writers but
that their teachings will be immorta-
lised in our hearts
{Job momanyi, Nairobi}
ENTERTAINMENT: GOSSIP/ Page 17 Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
Shaffe: Susan
not my lover
Celebrity radio presenter Shaff-
ie Weru has refuted rumours that
he could be dating one-night-fame
Susan, her of much-hyped and
watched Tujuane Show. The two at-
tended a night event together last
weekend sparking speculation they
could be an item.
Talking to toMondayBlues
yesterday, Shaffe said he and Susan
are old friends and their pairing to-
gether during the Nairobi hosted
gig had nothing to do with love.
The two arrived at the Ngong
Race Course-hosted event together
and were under heavy security all
night with bodyguards keeping vig-
il over them as journalists were kept
at bay. I knew Susan long before
she was featured in the Tujuane
Show. She has been my friend for
years and our friendship has noth-
ing to do with her current fame. We
are not dating. We are just friends
and people should put those spec-
ulations to a stop, Shaffe told Mon-
dayBlues.
It is such a big joke for anyone
to say we are dating. That vibe is not
fowing, Shaffe added.
GOSSIP OF THE WEEK
Kenzo: I no longer hit the
bottle
Celebrated Ogopa Deejays
singer Kenzo has quit drinking,
an indulgence he says was
affecting his music career.
I know that most of my fans
did not know that I tried to hit
the bottle for some while but I
am now off alcohol. Drinking was
affecting my career, Kenzo told
MondayBlues on Friday.
My voice was getting hoarse
and my concentration was going
down, he added.

Nonini in studio launch
Genge godfather Nonini was
among celebrities who attended
the launch of the new Hornets
Studio, a new Mombasa stable
belonging to a foreign investor
and singer commonly known as
Mama Sizo. The studio was
launched during a ceremony in
Mtwapa, Kilif, on Saturday night
also attended by local politi-
cians.
This is a good move and a
step in enhancing local music
talent in the Coast. Mombasa
artistes should now take
advantage of the facility and
produce quality music that can
compete well in the market,
Nonini said.
The singer produced the frst
track in the studio during the
launch attended by among
others Ally B, DJ Delph, Hassan
Faisal, Kidis and producer Toti.

Zuku Hype is back
The regional reality TV show
Zuku Hype is back. The showbiz
event that showcases the best
clubs in the region with top
deejays battling on the decks will
host the frst event of Season
Two on Sunday in Mombasa.
Besides Nijjo who has been the
face of the show since its
inception mid last year, the
organisers have recruited a new
member in the hype team, who
will be unveiled on Sunday.
STEVENS MUENDO} MONDAYBLUES
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Kenyan international soccer ace MacDolnald
Mariga is said to have parted ways with his fance.
According to sources, the couple, whose relationship
has been in the public eye since Marigas family vis-
ited the girls Rwanda home for marriage negotia-
tions sometime back, parted ways two months ago.
The girl, a former Daystar University student has
since returned to her homeland.
An informer told MondayBlues she had differenc-
es with Marigas family, a thing that could have
stirred the separation. Our sources have it that the
woman was thrown out of Marigas uptown house by
people who are believed to be the footballers rela-
tives. She gathered her belongings and left the coun-
try after the drama witnessed by neighbours.
The two have been an item for over three years
and many people expected the couple to tie the knot
this year. Unconfrmed news have it that Mariga
could be warming up to another lover.
Mariga fance drama
The Dunda na Uhuru peace ral-
lies that attracted top celebrities
across the country during the just
ended political campaigns will go
on, Machel Waikenda, a former en-
tertainer now working for the Jubi-
lee coalition told MondayBlues on
Saturday.
Beyond politics, ours was a call
to unite the youth across the coun-
try in preaching peace. Campaigns
could be over but we all still need to
preach peaceful coexistence regard-
less our political affliations, Waik-
enda said, adding that Dunda, argu-
ably the most successful peace
campaign that directly involved ce-
lebrities and the youth at large
should be a lifestyle.
The celebrities who were par-
ticipating in the rallies were doing
so on volunteer bases and they are
willing to keep preaching peace
across the country even after the
politicking season comes to an end.
Peace talk is a process we must con-
tinue propagating until all Kenyans
learn to coexist together regardless
their ethnic, political and religious
differences, said the former Kenya
Airways pilot.
Among the celebrities who took
a key role in the Dunda na Uhuru
campaigns was Big Ted, Jaguar,
Ringtone, DNG, Ally B, Nyota Ndo-
go, Abass, Bamboo and Chiwawa
among others.
Meanwhile, Ringtone, who was
on the frontline of the Jubilee cam-
paign celebrity team has hinted that
he could be nominated in one of the
youth-related posts during the
aligning of the next government.
I am so available for nomina-
tion, would the Jubilee party leaders
fnd me relevant to hold any of the
posts in youth related sectors. As a
singer, I have been a role model to
many and I am ready to take over a
leadership as I have youth issues at
heart, Ringtone intimated toMon-
dayBlues in an exclusive interview.
Machel: We
will go on with
peace rallies
Machel: We
will go on with
peace rallies
Minister in court
battle with airhostess
A politician who confessed to MondayBlues having fathered
a child with a former beauty queen, now working with a leading
airline is back in court after the two failed to agree over child cus-
tody.
The air hostess went back to court last week, almost a year
after the politician, a minister got off the hook after the two
agreed to settle the child custody issue out of court following a
case flled by the hostess.
The woman claims the politician, a married man, has ne-
glected responsibilities of taking care of the child who is now
nine years old.
Since the case went to court, the politician has tried to keep
the matter off the media for fear of being exposed.
Keep it here as the drama unfolds.
Page 18 / NATIONAL NEWS
500 marks at Mapunga Primary.
The 15-year-old Said was the only
candidate from the region selected to
join Alliance High School, but were it
not for the school principal David
Kariukis intervention, his chance was
going to a boy from a well up family.
When The Standard met the boy
last week, he had just been admitted
to the school. He was the last boy to
report. He said his father could not
raise the fees.
Sources familiar with his story in-
dicated someone tried to take up the
boys place at Alliance, but Mr Kariuki
declined.
Overwhelmed parent
I insisted that I want my boy and
I contacted the DEO and we managed
to have him, said Kariuki.
The school provided Said with
school uniform and writing material
but one thing was missing fees.
We are still looking for a sponsor,
but in the meantime, we shall keep
him in school because he deserves to
be here, said Kariuki.
In a close interaction, the boy re-
vealed how he had dreamt to study at
Alliance since Class Five. I feel I am
where I belong, he said, with a slight
grin.
However, Onesmus story, who
was to join Nairobi School, is more
telling. He, who hopes to be a doctor,
said he had resigned to settle for less
after his father, Mwova Mutunga, was
overwhelmed.
Mutunga says he couldnt raise the
fees for a national school because he
has another child at Multimedia Uni-
versity, another just scored an A- (mi-
nus) in last years KCSE and is set to
join the university and another will be
sitting KCPE this year.
However, he describes it as big
relief when Kenya National Associa-
tion of Parents boss Musau Ndunda
asked the primary school head teach-
er to request parents who had na-
Principals turn away
illegal candidates
presented to replace
others from poor
family backgrounds
Dirty game that
almost locked
poor boys out of
national schools
Onesmus Makau (left) at Nairobi School and Salim Bajila Said after admission at Alliance High School. BELOW: Nairobi
School deputy principal Andrew Obanga displays the forged admission letter that would have denied Onesmus oppor-
tunity at the institution. [PHOTOS: BEVERLYNE MUSILI/STANDARD]
Education minister Mutula Kilonzo says all children are entitled to their right
to education, which the Form One selection criterion granted. [PHOTO: FILE]
By aUGUStIne OdUOr
Slightly more than 16,000 candi-
dates who sat last years KCPE were
expected to join national schools
this year. There are 78 national
schools.
While of the 811,930 candidates
who sat the exams last year, 628,051
were selected to join various public
secondary schools in an exercise
that saw close to 200,000 others miss
places. This translated to a transition
rate of about 76.7 per cent.
And for national schools, top four
candidates in every district, two boys
and two girls, were selected for ad-
mission bringing the total number
to this category to 1,148 candidates.
Selection of the remaining 15,017
candidates to complete the available
capacity in national schools was
based on equity and district quota.
Education PS George Godia said
with the revised formula of Form
One admission, national schools will
no longer be a preserve of the top
national performers only.
SchOOlS Of chOIce
He said all the national school
must refect the face of Kenya and
noted that all candidates must re-
port to their schools of choice.
Candidates were expected to re-
port between February 18 and 25.
About 600 candidates were se-
lected to join the 20 national special
schools. Another 36,115 were se-
lected to join extra-county schools
and 126,167 enrolled to county
schools.
The biggest number of candi-
dates, 389,300 candidates represent-
ing 61.2 per cent of the total candi-
dature, was however selected for
admission to district schools.
Education minister Mutula Kilo-
nzo termed the process a fair criteria
that will ensure all candidates irre-
spective of whether they sat the ex-
ams from public or private schools.
He said this years selection and
admission of Form One students was
Minister Mutula describes admission
By aUGUStIne OdUOr
The humility in them appeals to
your emotions. From their look, they
are innocent, respectful and hard-
working young boys whose hopes for
a brighter future is unmistakable.
One is from semi-arid Kitui Coun-
ty and the other from the confict-
ridden Tana Delta and by all means
deserve a reward for their hard work
in primary education level.
Yet some people are believed to
have colluded to deny the two their
only prize for defying all odds to post
good results in last years KCPE ad-
mission to national schools of their
choice.
However, their story is a glimpse of
how hundreds of bright candidates
may have been forced to surrender
their places in national schools,
through what many call fraud.
Onesmus Frank Makau, who sat
his KCPE at Kakuuni Primary in Kitui
County, scored 370 out of 500 marks
to emerge tops in his school. He was
selected to join Nairobi School. And
Salim Bajila Said also worked hard
amid the heightened tensions in his
Tana River County to score 369 out of
I insisted that I want
my boy and I contacted the
DEO and we managed to
have him
tional school calling letters to surren-
der them in return for sponsorship.
I gave the head teacher the Nai-
robi School calling letter and I was
given a cheque of Sh8,000 paid to
Kisasi Secondary School, he said.
The Standard is in possession of
the cheque (No. 000661) drawn by
KNAP (account No. 2060209900) with
a local bank.
Nairobi School deputy principal
Andrew Obanga said last week, he
turned away another candidate who
presented the original calling letter of
Onesmus. He said the letter had been
doctored and details re-printed.
The boys name had been crossed
and another written on it. It looked
suspicious because whoever can-
celled the name did not sign against
it, he said.
help cUt cOStS
Obanga said also raising eyebrows
was the fact that the boy to be swapped
with was from Hospital Hill High
School and not Kisasi Secondary
where Onesmus had already been
admitted.
The letter was accompanied by
another from the Ministry of Educa-
tion indicating Ndunda and the par-
ent were in agreement to swap places
to cut down on transport and other
costs.
Obanga said he declined to admit
the boy and instead contacted the
DEO and the quality assurance offce
who traced down Onesmus, who was
admitted to Nairobi School on Mon-
day, last week.
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
But Ndunda was not done yet. He
threatened to sue Nairobi School
principal for declining to admit the
other boy.
Through his lawyer Wanjohi
Gachie and Co Advocates based at
Nacico Plaza next to his offce, Nd-
unda said the principal was violating
Chapter Four 53(1) of the Constitu-
tion and Section 34 (1) of the Basic
Education Act.
mUtUla ShOcked!
Failure for which (admission of
the other boy) we shall move to court
for necessary orders at your own cost
and other incidents there in, read the
demand letter.
This is now subject to investiga-
tion by the ministry, but questions are
now being asked whether Ndunda
was right to take the boys calling let-
ter on ground he could not afford the
fees.
Education minister Mutula Kilon-
zo has already distanced himself from
the act and expressed shock at the
turn of events. It is wrong to deny a
child a chance in national school just
because they cannot afford the fees.
Education PS George Godia said
no school principal is allowed to send
away a child because of school fees.
He also said all school principals are
under instructions to admit all chil-
dren.
NATIONAL NEWS / Page 19 Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
Stakeholders want
ministry to audit
Form One selection
Offcials of teachers
unions want rot
uncovered and
culprits forced to
take responsibility
By AUGUSTINE ODUOR
Pressure is mounting on
the Government to audit Form
One admission exercise to es-
tablish if all the candidates got
places in schools they were
selected to join.
This is after revelations
some bright candidates from
poor families may have sur-
rendered prime positions in
national schools to unscrupu-
lous middlemen out to rake in
cash from the childrens vul-
nerability.
It also comes after two na-
tional schools Alliance and
Nairobi intervened and
turned away candidates ad-
mitted to their schools illegally
to take up slots for students
from poor backgrounds (see
story page 18).
Kenya Secondary School
Heads Association, the two
teachers unions and the Elimu
Yetu Coalition have asked Edu-
cation minister Mutula Kilonzo
and his PS George Godia to
institute thorough investiga-
tions claiming massive fraud in
the entire admission exercise.
ENTITlEmENT
In a letter to Godia, EYC
says the right to education as
guaranteed by the Constitu-
tion must be upheld.
And violation of it as per-
petuated by certain individuals
who had access to the admis-
sion process thus denying the
less fortunate to enjoy their
entitlements to learn in certain
cise. If the allegations some
parents are colluding to deny
other children chances are true
then it would be a criminal of-
fence, said Knut Nairobi
branch executive secretary,
Hesbon Otieno.
He said parents should be
responsible enough to care
about the plight of children
and warned against any at-
tempt to swap places with a
view of minting cash.
mINISTRyS AcT
Kuppet national chairman
Omboko Milemba put the
ministry on the spot for abet-
ting the fraud. It is wrong for
anybody to use his or her posi-
tion to frustrate efforts in edu-
cation sector.
Prof Godia told The Stan-
dard all national school princi-
pals have been instructed to
submit their returns indicating
who reported and who did
not.
We shall be making the
report public soon, he said.
public institutions is improp-
er, reads the letter.
The EYC national coordina-
tor Janet Ouko asked the PS to
audit with an aim to trace
those who did not report to the
schools they were merited.
WRONG hElp
Any perpetrator of the
malpractice must be brought
to book, she said.
Kessha outgoing national
chairman Cleopas Tirop said
hundreds of students may have
lost their places to illegal deals
under the pretext of cost and
distance.
He said the association has
received reports of imperson-
ation, bribery and collusion
and asked the ministry to move
with speed to arrest the trend.
It is bad to deny a child his
dream just because you are in
a position to infuence his or
her destiny the wrong way, he
said.
Knut has also asked the
ministry to re-look the exer-
Education PS Prof George Godia says national school principals
are under instruction to fle returns on who reported and who
didnt after Form One selection. [PHOTO: FILE]
unique as it is done under a
new legal regime and asked
schools not to hike fees.
He warned parents to be
wary of fraudsters out to mint
money by promising to cause
admission for their children
to public schools.
The selection process is
transparent based on merit,
school preference and equity
and, therefore, be wary of
fraudsters out to rake in mil-
lions from the placement ex-
ercise, he said.
Godia asked principals to
ensure all candidates were
admitted as he released ad-
mission timelines under
which the entire process
should be completed.
Selection to extra-county
schools and county schools
was to be conducted between
February 7 and 8. District
schools were to conduct their
selection on February 11.
DEmAND fOR AcTION
Parents were asked to keep
off Jogoo House, as no replace-
ment was to take place there
other than for national
schools.
Godia said parents wish-
ing to change schools to talk
directly to school principals
and not through proxies or
agents or even middlemen.
Principals have guide-
lines on that and parents are
advised to talk directly to the
schools, he said.
Replacement for national
schools took place at Jogoo
House in March 7 while re-
placement for extra-county,
county and district schools
was done in March 11 and 13,
respectively.
Principals of national
schools were expected to
make returns after the admis-
sion process by March 18.
to secondary schools as fairer
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard Page 20 / NATIONAL NEWS
By Edwin ChEsErEk
Women continued to be sidelined
in politics as their male counterparts
swept most of the County Assembly
Speakers seats.
Few women managed to secure
posts in the County Assembly Speaker
polls that were conducted last Friday
across the country.
This is purely cultural. It has
nothing to do with integrity and the
intellectual capacity of women, of-
fers Rehema Korir, United Republican
Party secretary general.
Ms Korir pointed out that women
did not secure substantial seats be-
cause of the mindset of the electorate.
Concerns are now being raised
whether the society is ready for wom-
en leadership in the near future.
In the March 4 elections, women
were the biggest losers after they
failed to secure some of the key po-
litical posts despite mounting spirited
campaigns.
They were relegated to county
women representatives and few MP
slots, as the more appealing governor
and senate positions remained a pre-
Women play second fddle to men
Few manage to secure
posts in the County
Assembly Speaker
polls despite gains in
new Constitution
The Nyeri County Assembly during the swearing in ceremony on Friday. [PHO-
TO: JOHN GATHUA/STANDARD]
serve of their male counterparts.
One of the ongoing debates in
Kenya today is centred on the realisa-
tion of the not more than 2/3rd gen-
der rule set out in the Constitution.
The rule requires that not more
than two-thirds of elective seats be
held by leaders of the same gender.
However, women continued to
lose as voter dynamics in all the elec-
tive positions tilted towards the men
despite gender empowerment gains
enshrined in the Constitution.
Equal opportunity
Only about 15 stand elected as
MPs in the current dispensation with
no single representation in the senate
and gubernatorial positions.
This means that only 14 women
currently stand elected as MPs out of
the 384 elective positions that were
available for grabs to either gender.
The population of men to women
was 19,192,458 to19,417,639, accord-
ing to the 2009 population census
presenting a ratio of nearly 1:1. This
means women have equal opportu-
nity to ascend to elective positions
and the capacity to elect their own.
But they simply lack interest in
their own and matters concerning
them and would vote for male aspi-
rants instead, said political analyst
and Moi University don, Masibo Lu-
mala.
Their numbers present a drop by
eight from 22 that served in the 10th
Parliament despite the signifcant
increase of the number of elective
seats by 160 from 224 to 384 slots.
By BoniFaCE Gikandi
Campaigns for various executive
seats have kicked off in earnest in
Muranga County.
Ambitious professionals have de-
clared interest in the seats and are
lobbying County Assembly Represen-
tatives, who will be crucial in deciding
who will be engaged.
The seat of the county fnance and
planning offcer, which is considered
highly competitive due to the nature
of the responsibilities attached to it,
has attracted a professional accoun-
tant, Humphrey Maina.
Mr Maina, who hails from Ma-
thioya, holds an accountant and man-
agement position in public offce and
is the frontrunner after being backed
by majority of the County Assembly
members.
At the same time, the County As-
sembly Speaker Leonard Nduati Kari-
uki has assured the electorate in
Muranga to expect better services,
saying elected offcials were equal to
the task.
Addressing the 35 County Assem-
bly members, Mr Nduati said he was
committed towards addressing issues
pertaining to health, agriculture, edu-
cation and environment, which have
been identifed as issues affecting the
residents.
Professionals
lobby for
various seats
By Edwin ChEsErEk
County governments have an opportunity to
put their counties on the right footing of devel-
opment by giving priority to the agriculture sec-
tor.
Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC)
Managing Director Lucas Meso expressed the
need to prioritise agriculture to set the pace for
economic take off of the devolved govern-
ments.
He said the sector, which employs a majority
of households in rural areas, has a multiplier
effect on all other sectors.
With declining agricultural productivity be-
ing linked to poor farm husbandry practices, Mr
Meso said farmers should be urgently facilitated
to address these challenges through adequate
fnancing.
He said his corporation has set in motion
programmes to empower farmers in each of the
47 counties to end food insecurity, generate
wealth, reduce poverty and create jobs for the
youth.
Our presence at the county level is impor-
tant in making sure that farmers can easily ac-
cess affordable loans to undertake their agricul-
tural activities. We, therefore, look forward to
working closely with the county governments in
attending to the needs of farmers, he said.
Meso was speaking at the weekend during
this years farmers forum held in Iten Town and
graced by the Governor-elect, Eng Alex Tolgos.
valuE Chain
Meso said the State agency will focus on the
entire agricultural value chain to ensure farmers
earn maximum returns from their farming en-
terprises.
The focus for each county is to be self-suf-
fcient as possible. This is only possible if cottage
industries are established to process and add
value to the agricultural produce in each area,
he said.
Noting that the county is an established pro-
ducer of cereals, dairy, beef and horticultural
crops, he said there exists potential to further
increase productivity and add value.
look to proCEssinG
It is indeed expensive for farmers to trans-
port their produce to Nairobi, milled and
brought back to Iten shops. It has to be done
locally for it to beneft locals, he explained.
Meso advised farmers to look beyond pri-
mary production to processing if they are to
realise full benefts of farming in the near fu-
ture.
He said AFC has enough money to lend to
farmers who have embraced the idea of farming
as a business so long they fulfll their loan repay-
ment agreement.
He said the corporation lends upwards of Sh1
billion to farmers in the North Rift.
AFC advises county governments to
prioritise agriculture for development
Importance of sector
AFC boss says sector, which employs
a majority of households in rural areas,
has a multiplier effect on all other sec-
tors
He advised farmers to look beyond
primary production to processing if
they are to realise full benefts of farm-
ing
With declining agricultural productiv-
ity being linked to poor farm husbandy
practices, Meso said farmers should be
urgently facilitated to address these
challenges through adequate fnancing
dEvolution
BOMB BLAST
NATIONAL NEWS /Page 21
By SAMMY JAKAA
and ERIC LUNGAI
As County Ward Representatives
took oath of offce on Friday, majority
of them still do not have an idea of
their roles in the new dispensation.
Unlike former councillors whose
duties were to oversee operations of
their local authorities, county assem-
bly roles under the current Constitu-
tion are to make laws for the county.
According to County Representa-
tives in Busia County, most of them
were not aware of what is expected of
them in the County Assembly. They
said it would be a big challenge for
most of the county assembly mem-
bers to fully understand their duties
and operations of the assembly.
Moses Ote, a county representa-
tive of Angurai South Ward, said a
serious induction on how the assem-
bly works and its standing orders was
needed to make them fully aware of
what was expected of them.
He added that short courses for
the members of county assembly
would enhance understanding, add-
ing that information that is already
County Reps dont know roles
Most members have
no idea how the
devolved governments
will operate and now
call for induction
available was limited.
There is need for serious induc-
tion for members to understand how
the county assembly works. It is clear
that most members have no idea of
how the county assembly will operate
because the information that is cur-
rently available is very limited, said
Mr Ote.
Observers argue that since most
members of the county assembly in
Busia County were former councillors
used to chaotic council meetings, it
would be a challenge for them to ad-
just.
Maurice Chetambe of Angurai
North Ward said the roles of the
county commissioners also needed to
be stipulated to avoid rifts between
them and the governor.
BIG CoNfUSIoN
According to him, the governor is
supposed to be their boss and they do
not understand where the county
commissioner falls in the county hi-
erarchy, a situation that he says causes
confusion.
We asked a lot of questions dur-
ing the rehearsals of our swearing in,
which still remain unanswered. There
is currently big confusion regarding
the roles of county commissioners as
they are not entrenched in the Consti-
tution, said Chetambe.
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Boniface Kitavi David being sworn in as Ward Representative for Laini Saba (in
Kibra Constituency) of Nairobi County at Charter Hall, Nairobi. [PHOTO: MBUGUA
KIBERA/STANDARD]
BY PETER ATSIAYA
Vihiga Governor-elect Moses
Akaranga wants the Transition Au-
thority to release Sh2 million for
completion of his offces ahead of the
swearing in ceremony.
Mr Akaranga said construction of
his offces at Vihiga District headquar-
ters had stalled because the Govern-
ment had delayed to release the
money allocated for the exercise.
My new offces should have been
ready by now for occupation by
County government staff, but delay in
releasing the money has stalled the
completion of the building, said
Akaranga.
He said much work had been done
on the new offces and if the money
was available remaining work would
end on time and have him and his
team occupy the premises before tak-
ing oath on Wednesday.
Akaranga was addressing the Press
after inspecting the construction of
the offces yesterday. His deputy Ca-
leb Amaswache, Vihiga County Com-
missioner Joseph Kanyiri and Transi-
tion Authority Legal Offcer Jackline
Omugeni and local OCPD Lawrence
Garama accompanied him.
The Governor later held a meeting
with MPs-elect and county represen-
tatives from the county at the County
Assembly premises.
Akaranga tells
TA to release
cash for offce
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
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DEVoLUTIoN
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
Freedom of assemby
By ALLY JAMAH
Inspector General of Police David
Kimaiyo has come under fre from
civil society groups for banning public
rallies and demonstration saying it
amounts to declaring a state of emer-
gency.
Speaking yesterday in Nairobi, the
groups insisted that they will not let
their hard-won freedoms and rights to
be abrogated by an person or allow
what they described as a return to the
old days of police state.
This action is akin to killing a
mosquito with a hammer. This is
high-handedness of the highest order.
The Supreme Court has already made
a ruling on this matter and the parties
in the case have agreed to abide by
that decision. There is absolutely no
need for high-handedness, said Mor-
ris Odhiambo, president of the Na-
tional Civil society Congress.
Mr Odhiambo added: The IGP
cannot arbitrarily issue a blanket ban.
In order for police to limit freedom of
assembly, they must convince a court
of law that any proposed assembly is
against public safety or security. Po-
lice cannot stop any gathering with-
out a court order.
NCSCs Florence Kanywa said the
ban on rallies was unconstitutional
since the country was not facing war,
invasion, general insurrection, disor-
der or natural disaster.
She also criticised Kimaiyo for
Groups fault ban on gatherings
They say police can
only limit freedom
of assembly if it is
against public safety or
security and only after
authorisation by court
By DANIEL PSIRMOI
and FRANCIS ONTOMWA
There is concern as HIV testing kits
ran out of stock in Bungoma County.
For the last two months HIV test-
ing kits have not been available, a
situation that is worrying stakehold-
ers in the health sector.
A spotcheck at hospitals in the
area including Bungoma and Kimilili
district hospitals revealed an acute
shortage of the gadgets.
Secretary of Mkenda Kola, a com-
munity based organisation involved
in the fght against HIV in Kimilili
expressed said the crisis is likely to roll
back efforts to fght the disease.
We carry out sensitisation
programmes and trainings; there are
a lot of people who want to know their
status but they are turned away be-
cause of the shortage of kits, he
said.
Kenneth Kamlamba, the chair-
man of Manaco CBO in Kamukuywa
expressed similar sentiments.
TuRNED AWAY
Our group does HIV and Aids
awareness and door to door counsel-
ling. Those we have referred to health
facilities in the last two months have
been unable to know their status. We
call upon the Government to supply
the kits, said Kamlamba.
Various District Aids Sexually
Transmitted Infection Control Pro-
gramme (DASCOP) coordinators in
the county, who spoke on condition
of anonymity, confrmed that the
Government had failed to supply the
kits after their depletion.
The Government should urgently
ensure that they are availed as soon as
possible. said one DASCOP co-ordi-
nator in Bungoma County.
Concern over
HIV test kit
shortage
Members of the Jukwaa La Katiba led by National Civil Society Congress President Morris Odhiambo at the 680 Hotel
yesterday where they criticised Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo for banning public gatherings and demon-
strations. [PHOTO: JONAH ONYANGO/STANDARD]
banning the public from the precincts
of the Supreme Court saying that is
not his job, saying he should leave the
matter to the Judiciary, which has
made its own arrangements to facili-
tate public access to the proceedings
of the presidential election petition
through giant TV screens outside the
court.
The Constitution is very clear in
Article 58 about the circumstances
under which a declaration of a state
of emergency can be made. The IGP
has not demonstrated that such situ-
ation obtains in Kenya, she said.
Page 22 / NATIONAL NEWS
Teenager goes berserk,
kills 50-year-old father
By ANTONY GITONGA
A 13-year-old boy went ber-
serk in a Naivasha village kill-
ing his 50-year-old father as
the mother watched.
The Class Six pupil was
later arrested as he fed from
Huruma area in Ndabibi and is
being held at Kongoni Police
Station.
Soon after the killing, area
residents held a demonstration
calling for the arrest of the
mother whom they accused of
having a role in the murder.
According to a neighbour
James Kingori, trouble started
after the man, who is a fower
farm worker, told his son, who
was playing loud music in his
room, to turn down the radio.
He ordered turn off the
radio but he declined and the
man smashed it into pieces
and a fght ensued, he said.
It was during the fght that
the teenager overpowered his
father and hit him on the chest
with a rock, killing him on the
spot.
Spirited efforts by police
and the public saw the suspect
arrested as he tried to fee.
Naivasha Deputy OCPD Paul
Korir confrmed the murder,
but said investigations were
still going on.
Initial investigations indi-
cated that the young man
committed the assault and he
shall be arraigned in court to-
morrow, he said.
Meanwhile, a motorcycle
operator was crushed to death
by a speeding bus along the
Nairobi-Nakuru highway.
TRAFFIC SNARL-uP
The accident near Karai
trading center adversely af-
fected the fow of traffc before
police cleared the road.
The operator was crossing
the road when the bus that was
heading to Nairobi from Naku-
ru hit him killing him on the
spot.
The body was taken to the
Naivasha district hospital mor-
tuary and the bus towed to
Naivasha police station.
Sheikh Ahmed Ramadhan of the
Nubian Rights Forum said they will
petition the Commission for the Im-
plementation of the Constitution and
Independent Policing Oversight Au-
thority to provide direction on the
matter.
DAYS OF REPRESSION
We remain determined that our
hard won freedoms and rights shall
not be abrogated by any person or
institution. We cannot go back to the
old days of repression. Institutions
must uphold the freedoms and rights
of all Kenyans,. Kenya must not be
allowed to become a police state yet
again, he said.
Meanwhile, Executive Director of
the International Center for Policy
and Confict Ndungu Wainaina has
criticised the decision by Head of
Civil Service and Security Advisory
Committee to outlaw political rallies
terming it a a repressive regime in
the making. In a statement, Wainaina
said Kenyans had expressed their
determination to pursue electoral
justice and rule of law through demo-
cratic and peaceful means.
Counties
FROM THE
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QuickRead
MACHAKOS: Matatu
owners decry return of touts
Matatu operators in Kangundo
and Matungulu Districts of
Machakos County have raised the
red fag over the re-emergence of
touts in Kangundo and Tala bus
parks. Speaking during an Annual
General Meeting at a Tala hotel,
members of the giant Kangundo-
Matungulu said the return of
the touts posed a threat to the
industry. Newly elected chairman
of the Sacco Langi Muthiani said
the organisation has been losing
thousands of shillings daily to
illegal gangs masquerading as
stage clerks at the bus parks.
KAPSABET: Shock as
man commits suicide
Shock gripped residents of
East View estate in Kapsabet
on Saturday when the body of
a middle-aged man was found
hanging on a rope in his house.
Kapsabet OCPD Nelson Okioga
said the deceased, who had
gone missing for three days, is
suspected to have committed
suicide due to domestic problems.
Cases of suicide in Nandi County
has been on the rise and Kenya
Red Cross Society in the region had
promised that it would work with
other institutions to curb them.
MOMBASA: MP-elect
roots for cultural tourism
An MP-elect in Mombasa County
is rooting for cultural tourism to
uplift the living standards of his
constituents. Jomvu constituency
MP-elect Badi Twalib said would
liaise with tourism stakeholders to
popularise visits to pottery making
sites in the area. He said the area
has some of the fnest pottery
makers in the country. I will hold
consultations with, among others,
the Kenya Tourism Board to come
up with village visits where visitors
can get frsthand information on
how to make pots, he said.
MAKUENI: Four poll losers
challenge election of rivals
Four parliamentary poll
losers in Makueni and Machakos
counties have so far challenged
election of their competitors.
Machakos High Court Deputy
Registrar Rose Makungu
confrmed the four had fled
their petitions with the court.
They include former Kibwezi MP
Kalembe Ndile, who is challenging
the election of Patrick Musimba as
the Kibwezi West MP. Others are
Thomas Musau, Stephen Muli and
John Makenzi, jointly challenging
the election of Stephen Mule
as the MP for Matungulu in
Machakos County.
Farmers to beneft from
fsh processing plant
Expensive facility in
western almost ready
for use to have holding
area, coldroom, an ice
room and a store
By BRYAN TUMWA
Kakamega County
Farmers in Western are set to
beneft from a fsh processing and
storage facility aimed at boosting
their incomes.
The Ministry of Fisheries Devel-
opment announced that the mini
processing plant, to be located in
Kakamega County, would be ready
for use next month.
Fisheries Secretary Charles Ngu-
gi, who was on a monitoring and
evaluation tour of economic stimu-
lus projects in the region, said the
plant was among only four in the
country that were expected to add
value to the fshing industry.
What this project aims to do is
to improve on the quality of fsh that
farmers deliver to the markets. As
they wait to access markets, farmers
from all the four counties in Western
region can bring their produce here
for processing and preservation,
said Ngugi.
SURPlUS PROdUCE
He said maintaining the quality
of fsh after harvesting would allow
farmers to transport their surplus
produce to areas like Nairobi, Mom-
basa and Kisumu where bigger mar-
kets exist.
He blamed the delay in complet-
ing the project on the weather and
funding.
Initially, the Government had
budgeted for Sh60 million to com-
plete the project but more funds had
to be sourced. The facility was also
supposed to have a capacity to hold
6 tones of fsh but this was increased
to cater for 50 tonnes, said Ngugi.
The multi-million shilling facility
will have a holding area, a cold room,
an ice room and a storage area.
Farmers would collect ice from the
facility and use it at their farms dur-
ing fsh harvesting and also when
transporting their produce.
Fish farmers in the region have
welcomed the project, saying it
would promote the venture in the
area.
This is idea could not have come
at a better time. I have two fsh
ponds in my farm and I believe that
the best way forward will be to invest
in more fsh ponds because I am
confdent of getting good returns,
said Veronica Wanyonyi, a fsh
farmer in Kakamega County.
Kakamega County was chosen
for the location of the plant because
of its centrality in the region. The
ministry said it was encouraging
more farmers to set up fshponds
since it was a lucrative economic
activity. The project is also aims to
promote pond-based fsh rearing as
one way of reducing pressure on
fshing in Lake Victoria.
By RENSON MNYAMWEZI
Taita-Taveta County
Six suspected poachers, including
Tanzanians, were yesterday arrested
along the Kenya-Tanzania border in
connection with poaching activities
in Taita-Taveta County.
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) per-
sonnel recovered two elephant tusks
and 80 kilogrammes of giraffe meat
from the suspects, as the war against
poaching intensifed.
The foreigners were arrested yes-
terday at Kuranze area at the porous
Kenya-Tanzania border while selling
un-inspected meat believed to be
from killed game animals.
KWS offcials said the suspects
have been sneaking into the country
to kill the wildlife and sell the meat to
Kenyans and Tanzanians living along
the border.
We arrested the suspects with
giraffe meat at Kuranze area near the
Kenya-Tanzania border. They have
been killing wildlife for subsistence
and commercial purposes, Tsavo
Conservation Area Senior Assistant
KWS offcers arrest six suspected poachers
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Counting the losses
Parents and
leaders examine
damage caused by
fre that burnt
down a dormitory
in Naivasha High
School. Over 80
students were
affected by the
midday incident
with initial
investigations
indicating the fre
may have been
caused by an
electrical fault.
[PHOTO: ANTONY
GITONGA/STANDARD]
Director Julius Kimani said.
According to KWS, two other sus-
pects were also arrested yesterday at
Rukanga trading centre in Voi District
by KWS personnel as they tried to
dispose of two elephant tusks weigh-
ing about 67 kilogrammes.
IvORY BUYERS
KWS intelligence personnel posed
as ivory buyers and pretended to ne-
gotiate the price of the trophies before
they arrested the suspects, said Ki-
mani.
He said the suspects would be
taken to court once investigations are
complete. The wildlife conservation
body has in the recent past been grap-
pling with increased cases of subsis-
tence and commercial poaching in
the Tsavo ecosystem, regarded as the
largest in the country.
The arrest brings to seven the
number of poachers nabbed in the
past one week.
Last week, a senior prisons offcer
attached to Voi Remand Prisons was
also arrested and four elephant tusks
recovered at Ndii area.
Page 24 / COUNTY NEWS
Muthaura plays down calls to be
reinstated as Head of Public Service
Muthaura also took the opportu-
nity to announce he had forgiven
those who had implicated him in the
case.
Meru Governor-elect Peter Munya
claimed some Kenyans were being
used by foreign powers to undermine
their own fellow countrymen.
Njuri Ncheke Council of elders
chairman Paul MEthikia who pre-
By JOHN MAJAU
and MUNENE KAMAU
Meru County
A common call by Mount Kenya
region leaders and Njuri Ncheke el-
ders to have former Head of Public
Service Ambassador Francis Muth-
aura reinstated to his former position
hit a snag when the latter publicly
turned down the request.
Muthaura said after working in
the public service for the last 40 years,
he was not ready to take up any sala-
ried public job in the country.
He said he felt he had done his
Former Head of
Public Service
Ambassador
Francis Muthaura
(wearing hide)
attends the
thanksgiving cer-
emony at Njuri
Ncheke Shrine
grounds at
Nchiru in Meru
County. He is
joined by Meru
Senator-elect
Kiraitu Murungi,
Meru Governor-
elect Peter
Munya and Njuri
Ncheke elders.
[PHOTO: JOHN
MUCHUCHA/
STANDARD]
He said after 40 years
in public service, he
was not ready to take
up any salaried public
job in the country
By LUCAS NGASIKE
Turkana County
Four people were killed when sus-
pected Pokot cattle rustlers attacked
them at Kakong area in Turkana South
District at the weekend.
The incident, that also left four
others with serious bullet injuries oc-
curred about 10 km away along the
banditry prone Kakong-Lokori road.
The victims among them one
Pokot bandit was shot dead in a ferce
gun battle between locals and the
raiders.
Turkana South OCPD John Bosco
Muutu said an unknown number of
heavily armed Pokot bandits waylaid
a group of Turkana herders who were
searching for water and pasture.
Muutu said a ferce fre exchange
ensued between the herdsmen and
the raiders for several hours before
the raiders overpowered them.
The OCPD added that the raiders
shot dead three herders and wounded
4 others while the herders managed
to fell one Pokot raider during a heavy
fre exchange.
He said two herders were shot
dead at close range during the am-
bush while another herder died near
Lotongot hill as he pursued the at-
tackers.
Muutu said the raiders managed
to escape with dozens of animals in-
cluding camels towards Pokot Central
District.
It is unfortunate that the incident
occurred when the herders were mi-
grating in search of water and pastures
for their animals. It seems the raiders
had prior information about their
movement when they laid ambush,
the OCPD said.
The OCPD said the injured herders
sustained serious bullet wounds and
arrangements had been made to
move them to Lodwar District Hospi-
tal for specialised treatment.
Muutu said they had mobilised
security personnel to pursue the raid-
ers and recover the stolen animals.
But our frantic efforts to track
down the raiders have been curtailed
by poor road network and rough ter-
rains in the area. We noted that the
raiders drove the animals towards
Pokot Central in a hilly area making it
diffcult for security offcers to pursue
them, added the OCPD.
By PHILIP MwAKIO
Kilif County
Kilif County Senator-elect Justice
(rtd) Stewart Madzayo plans to tap
abundant resources at the Coast for
the beneft of the people in the re-
gion.
In an interview, Madzayo said
that the entire Coastal belt had
abundant resources in fsheries,
tourism and agriculture which lay
untapped.
We are optimistic that if we pull
our efforts together as a region and
work together, we shall realise the
much needed zeal to reap maximum
benefts that accrue from tourism,
fshing and agricultural farming, he
said.
Madzayo said priority would be
to ensure coconut, cashewnut and
bixa farming are revived and farmers
given the necessary support like
proper crop husbandry, manage-
ment and marketing skills that will
enable them grow fast maturing va-
riety and harvest more for both local
and export market.
Madzayo said that he would seek
to compel the Government to radi-
cally carry out an audit of private
beach villas that have been known to
operate tourist hotel services thus
denying the nation of the much-
needed revenue through taxation.
Four dead,
several dozen
cattle stolen
By ROBERT KIPLAGAT
Baringo County
An 80-year-old man was shot dead,
another injured, and over 500 live-
stock stolen by suspected cattle rus-
tlers in Arabal location in Marigat
District, Baringo County.
According to witnesses, the over 50
armed raiders suspected to be from
neighbouring East Pokot District, at-
tacked Ngelecha village on the Satur-
day night.
The villagers said the man was
sleeping in his house when the raiders
fred several shots at his house killing
him instantly.
Marigat OCPD Otulia Kaunya said
the rustlers surrounded Ramacha
police camp and the chiefs home
before getting away with 127 heads of
cattle and 370 goats towards East
Pokot area.
The incident happened at around
1am in the morning where the bandits
locked our offcers in their houses,
shot in the air before raiding the vil-
lage ,Kaunya told The Standard.
80-year-old man shot dead as
500 others injured in attack
Senator-elect to tap coastal resources
Thanksgiving
sided over the ceremony said the
pain the case had caused their son
and the entire community was so
great to bear.
We as a Council have also for-
given our sons persecutors and his
acquittal should also herald the
acquittal of the remaining three
Kenyans at the ICC, he said.
Francis Muthaura and his British Lawyer Mr Karim Khan at the thanksgiving
function. [PHOTO: JOHN MUCHUCHA/STANDARD]
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
Senator-elect Justice (rtd) Stew-
art Madzayo. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]
part and others should also be given
a chance to contribute in nation
building.
Although every one feels that I
should get back my job as head of
civil service, I feel time has come for
me to call it quits and do something
else, he said.
Speaking during a thanksgiving
ceremony held at Njuri Ncheke
shrines at Nchiru market, Tigania
West District of Meru County follow-
ing his acquittal by the International
Criminal Court (ICC).
Mathaura said he is however ready
to support the current leadership in
any other un salaried position.
PUBLIC SERvICE
I would not want to enter into
salaried public work after 40 years in
public service, said Muthaura.
The leaders had called on the Gov-
ernment to reinstate Muthaura, not-
ing that he had only stepped aside to
allow the case to continue and now
that he had been acquitted he should
be reinstated.
By PATRICK BEJA
Mombasa County
Parts of Mombasa town are
stinking from uncollected gar-
bage after striking Mombasa
Municipal Council workers
staged a week long strike over
pay that paralysed essential
services.
The strike ended on Friday
after a pay dispute was resolved
but its effect on essential ser-
vices is still being felt.
Although garbage had been
collected in some markets in
the town by the close of the
weekend, many parts were still
choking with mounds of rub-
bish as workers who resumed
work on Friday were struggling
to clear the garbage.
A spot check of the city yes-
terday confrmed the Majengo
market on Mombasa Island
was being weighed down by a
huge heap of garbage although
the council had cleaned Mack-
innon and Mwembe Tayari
markets.
A resident of Majengo Mr
Ali Bakari said garbage had not
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
COUNTY NEWS / Page 25
Uncollected
rubbish leaves
city stinking
Council workers
staged a week
long strike that
paralysed essential
services in the city
been collected for days at the
market following the council
workers strike.
The market is flthy follow-
ing the piling up of garbage. It
has been a nightmare living
here, he said. The council
workers embarked on cleaning
the town immediately they
were paid but some parts of
the city were left begging for
the services, he said.
Interim Mombasa County
Assembly clerk Mr Tubman
Otieno could not be reached
for comment yesterday.
Mombasa and Coast Tour-
ist Association executive offcer
Ms Millicent Odhiambo said
uncollected garbage had
earned the industry a negative
image.
TOURISM
We are asking the county
leadership to assist clear up
the negative image by ensuring
systems work. If systems fail,
the industry will suffer,
Odhiambo said.
On March 14, Kenya Local
Government Union Mombasa
branch secretary Mr Rashid
Muteti asked the 2,650 council
workers to on strike to demand
payment of the January and
February salaries amounting
to Sh220 million.
The strike crippled council
clinics, garbage collection,
revenue collection and fre sta-
tion services before it was
called off last Friday.
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard Page 26 / COUNTY NEWS
By JOB WERU
Laikipia County
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) off-
cers in Laikipia County have arrested
two suspected poachers and recov-
ered 25 kilogrammes of elephant
tusks.
The suspects were arrested at
Chumvi area as they looked for buyers
for the ivory. Mountain Conservation
Area Head and KWS Assistant Direc-
tor Mr Aggrey Maumo said one sus-
pect escaped during the Saturday
evening operation.
We suspect they were on the way
to sell off the tusks when they were
accosted by our personnel, said
Maumo. Four elephant tusks weigh-
ing 25 kilogrammes were recovered
during the operation.
We are working in collaboration
with the police and Criminal Investi-
gation Department with the aim of
arresting more suspects. We believe
the suspects had left rifes which they
use to kill elephants since they were
going to source for a market for the
tusks, Maumo said.
He further said the suspects were
believed to be behind a spate of ele-
phant killings in Sieku area in Lai-
kipia North District. The incident
comes barely a week after poachers
killed an adult black rhino that had
just given birth to a calf at OlPejeta
Conservancy in the county.
RHINOS KILLED
The killing brought to three the
number of rhinos killed by poachers
in Mountain Conservation Area since
January. Maumo said the poachers
also shot and badly injured a resident
of the area as they escaped from the
security detail attached to the conser-
vancy.
According to Maumo, the poach-
ers raided the ranch and killed the
rhino but security offcers at the ranch
responded and started trailing them.
The gang was under intense pressure
escaped towards Matanya area where
they came across the victim identifed
as Washington Wamae, 24, said
Maumo.
Maumo noted the rhino was about
seven years old and was a mother to a
six-week-old calf. Tropic Air, a Nanyu-
ki-based airline operator, helped air-
lift the orphan to Lewa Conservancy,
where it is being taken care of.
Manhunt
By OSINDE OBARE
Trans Nzoia County
Police have launched a manhunt
for a suspect who executed two off-
cers in Trans Nzoia County at the
weekend.
Kitale OCPD Kimani Mitugo said
security agencies in the county were
pursing the suspect responsible for
Man is alleged to have
fed to neighbouring
Uganda after shooting
dead two offcers and
injuring a third one
HOW EVENTS UNFOLDED
The offcers on Saturday night allegedly pursued Omondi at his
hideout in Tiwan estate, Trans-Nzoia County
Police caught up with the suspect at a rental house in the area. They
ordered him to surrender but he refused, prompting the offcers to
lob teargas canisters into the room to force him out
A woman and child came out of the room while the man braved the
teargas and remained inside
As the offcers pondered the next course of action, the criminal
emerged from the house and sprayed them with bullets, killing two
on the spot and leaving a third one with gunshot wounds
Sources say the suspect had crossed the border to hide in Uganda
through Chepchoina border point
Police say Omondi is a notorious criminal behind a spate of robber-
ies and terror on residents of Kitale and its environs
the death of the offcers.
Mitugio said the suspect, identi-
fed as John Owino Omondi, escaped
after spraying the offcers with bullets
killing them instantly and injuring a
third one.
The offcers were shot dead on
Saturday night as they allegedly pur-
sued Omondi at his hideout in Tiwan
Estate, Trans-Nzoia County.
Mitugo said the offcers caught up
with the criminal at a rental house in
the area. The offcers, he said, ordered
the suspect to surrender but he re-
fused, prompting the offcers to lob
teargas canisters into the room to
force him out.
He said a woman and child came
out of the room while the man braved
the teargas and remained inside.The
offcers were pondering the next ac-
tion when he emerged from the house
By KIPCHUMBA KEMEI
Narok County
Acute shortage of wheat seeds and
fertilisers has delayed planting in
Narok County, two weeks into the
season.
Farmers desperation has made
them fall prey to dishonest traders
who package fake seeds and sell a 50-
kilogramme bag at Sh3,500 instead of
Sh2,900.
Even if fertilisers which we have
always been told will dock in the port
of Mombasa arrive, nothing much
would change to boost production.
The country is starring at a wheat
shortage which will be occasioned by
reduced yields, said John Lolchoki,
Large-Scale Wheat Farmers Associa-
tion spokesperson.
Lolchoki accused the Government
of not availing important farm inputs
in time for planting. He expressed fear
that small-scale farmers would not
plant this year due to increased costs
of inputs.
The absence of subsidised fertil-
isers and seeds has conspired to deny
farmers who plant between 20 to 100
acres to be in proftable farming ven-
ture. The cost of an acre has shot from
Sh11,000 in the last two years to more
than Sh17,000, noted the offcial.
Kenya Farmers Association (KFA)
Narok branch manager Ernest Kibet
said there was a severe shortage of
seeds and all brands of fertilisers,
adding that farmers were apprehen-
sive about the delayed arrivals.
REDUCED yIELDS
The shortage of seeds has made
unscrupulous traders to package fake
ones to unsuspecting and desperate
farmers. If not checked, there will be
reduced yields this year, said Kibet.
He added that KFA would stock more
seeds that will retail at Sh2,900 per
50-kilogramme bag from this week
which he hopes will end farmers suf-
fering.
He added that KFA had reduced
prices of maize seeds as per the Gov-
ernment directive from Sh180 per ki-
logram to Sh150 and asked farmers to
be patient as the association procures
more varieties of subsidised seeds
and brands of fertilisers.
A survey by The Standard has indi-
cated that stocks of popular varieties
of wheat and maize seeds at KFA, Pa-
nar Ltd and Kenya Seeds Company
Ltd (KSC) depots in most towns in the
South Rift region were dwindling
while at the National Cereals and Pro-
duce Board there were no stocks of
seeds and fertilisers.
KSC offcial Andrew Kipsaigut said
there was a huge demand for popular
varieties of wheat and maize seeds.
Farmers desperate for fertiliser, wheat seeds
Women decry poor showing in
elective county positions
By AWADH BABO
Lamu County
Women leaders in Lamu have
cried foul claiming unfair representa-
tion in all positions after the March 4
polls.
The leaders also said the election
of a male candidate for position of
County Assembly Speaker added salt
to injury. Sharing their sentiments
yesterday, Governor-elect Issa Ti-
mamy voiced concern about the near
absence of women in public life and
Government.
Timamy made the remarks yester-
day in Lamu town during his frst of-
fcial address that brought together all
heads of departments from different
ministries that would soon be recon-
stituted to operate under the county
and national governments.
I am really concerned with the
poor women representation in both
the government and the political of-
fces which is going to be a challenge
that must be addressed soberly as
required by the law, said Timamy.
SEVERE DISPARITy
Mr Timamy criticised the severe
disparity and gender imbalance
among the departmental heads in the
county, adding that the same trend
was also conspicuous in all the elec-
tive positions in the just concluded
General Election.
He said he was perturbed by the
acute gender imbalance among mem-
bers of the public service in the
county where women were poorly
represented.
Farmers at Kenya Seed shops yester-
day after they bought maize seed.
[PHOTO: KEVIN TUNOI/STANDARD]
Lamu County Governor-elect Issa Timamy tours the maternity ward of King
Fahd Hospital in Lamu Island yesterday. He promised to improve the state of
the hospital through the county Fund. [PHOTO: MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD]
KWS rangers
seize ivory,
arrest poachers
and sprayed them with bullets, killing
two on the spot and leaving a third
one with gunshot wounds, said Mi-
tugo.
He said Omondi was a notorious
criminal thought to be behind a spate
of robberies and terror on residents of
Kitale and its environs.
We have activated all networks
and resources to track him. We are not
going to relent until we get hold of this
criminal to face prosecution for his
criminal deeds, he said.
CROSSED THE BORDER
Sources said that the suspect had
crossed the border to hide in Uganda
through Chepchoina.
There is a group of criminals,
among them Omondi, operating be-
tween Kenya and Uganda. He could
have crossed to Uganda by now, a
source told The Standard.
At the same time, leaders and hu-
man rights activists in the county, led
by County Representative Simon Kip-
chirchir Toroitich, have urged Inspec-
tor General of Police David Kimaiyo
to send a special team to fght crime
in the region.
The deteriorating security is wor-
rying and there is panic among resi-
dents. We appeal to the Inspector
General of Police to post a special
squad to tackle the menace, said
Toroitich. Kiminini MP-elect Dr Chris
Wamalwa and Women Representa-
tive-elect Janet Nangabo condemned
the crime wave in the area.
They demanded for immediate
intervention from the Government.
We are saddened by the killing of the
two offcers and a local businessman.
We call for action from the Govern-
ment to tame the menace, said
Nangabo.
Police in search
of suspect who
killed two offcers
Page 27
Business
Tourism players upbeat
despite lukewarm markets
By Macharia KaMau
The political standoff is hurting
the tourism industry as internation-
al tourists adopt a wait-and-see at-
titude.
Mike Macharia, the chief execu-
tive of the Kenya Association of Ho-
telkeepers and Caterers (KAHC) said
the industry would have begun get-
ting bookings for the high season
that starts July by now, but the mar-
kets are still lukewarm, despite the
peaceful elections having warmed
up tourist source markets.
The level of bookings is low com-
pared to what we usually get... poli-
tics has resulted in people apprehen-
sive, he said.
Sam Ikwaye, the executive offcer
KAHC Coast Region said the indus-
try would rely on domestic and re-
gional tourists in the coming weeks
as they await for the international
tourists to start making signifcant
bookings.
Our projections are that we will
see many bookings from domestic
and regional tourists in the coming
By John oyuKe
Kenya Reinsurance Corporation
(Kenya Re) plans to develop a new
Sh1.5 billion commercial building in
Nairobi.
The ultra modern high-rise green
commercial building to be construct-
ed on a 1.6 -acre of land in Upper Hill
area will target corporate clientele
and multi national companies.
The frms Chief Executive, Jadiah
Mwirania, said the feasibility study
for the project is set to commence
anytime now, and will be followed by
fotation of tenders for the design
and construction.
He said the new building would
provide enough capacity for people
and vehicles, given the fact that the
city centre is no longer an ideal loca-
tion for most businesses due to con-
gestion.
We aim to keep in line with our
high quality standards and have the
best quality facilities, he added.
Mwirania made in the remarks in
a speech read on his behalf by Gen-
eral Manager, Property and Procure-
ment, Michael Mbeshi during the
Corporations tenants party held in
Nairobi.
Latest deveLopMents
Kenya Re held the maiden party
to keep the tenants abreast with the
developments at the corporation.
The Corporation currently has
four commercial buildings in Rein-
surance Plaza, Kenya Re Towers and
Anniversary Towers both in Nairobi,
and Reinsurance Plaza in Kisumu.
Mwirania said the new building
would increase Kenya Res total let-
table space to 568,292.08 sq. ft.
The building, which should be
completed within the next two years,
would be ftted with smart technolo-
gies to manage consumption of wa-
ter and energy, in addition to har-
vesting rainwater. It will also have
high-speed broadband connection
through a primary and redundancy
link for Internet access.
The internet has become a criti-
cal tool for business in this techno-
logically advanced environment,
said Mwirania. He observed that the
building will improve the frms rent-
al income, which was recorded as
Sh575 million in the last fnancial
year.
crisis centre
In 2011, the frms investment in-
come grew by 40 per cent to Sh979
million on the back of strong earn-
ings from its property segment.
Meanwhile, the Corporation has
also cast its eyes on the oil and natu-
ral gas market, following recent dis-
coveries of oil deposits in northern
Kenya.
We are already equipping local
underwriters on how to manage risk
and claims in this sector, said
Mwirania.
Kenya Re to increase rental space in Upper Hill
Bitter-sweet
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
QuickStop
Bogus Kenya power
workers invade Kisii
Kenya Power has issued
an alert over people
masquerading as its
employees but who are
out to defraud members of
the public seeking services
from the electricity supplier.
The fraudsters are mostly
targeting Kisii, Migori,
Nyamira and Homa Bay
counties where hundreds of
residents have fallen prey to
their schemes. Issuing the
warning, Kenya Power Kisii
Region Manager, Eng Kennedy
Nengo asked members of
the public to be wary of
any suspicious characters
presenting themselves as
Kenya Power employees and
report them to the police for
action. There are reports of
impersonators pretending
to enter into partnerships
with customers for securing
our transformers at a fee.
Such arrangements dont
exist and the aim of these
impersonators is to defraud
unsuspecting customers,
Nengo said. He advised the
public desist from paying
money to individuals through
individual M-Pesa accounts,
saying Kenya Power only
receives payments through its
banking halls, partner banks
and contracted institutions.
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and the EU says the east
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raise 5.8 billion euros on its
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billion euro bailout. Without a
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TODAY IN
Sector will rely on local tourists in the coming weeks as they wait for
international tourists to start making signifcant bookings.
Election petition has
left industry in limbo,
but despite this,
source markets
are warming up
weeks but may not be substantial
compared to what we had last year...
we do not expect many bookings
from international tourists, he ex-
plained.
peacefuL eLections
But even with the gloomy envi-
ronment, industry players are opti-
mistic about the prospects for the in-
dustry this year, following the
peaceful elections.
The politics has put the industry
in limbo but the markets are now
warming up. We hope the country
will transition without issues. Kenya
is getting positive reviews from the
source markets.
In addition to arrivals and earn-
ings for this year looking up, the in-
dustry also expects to attract new in-
vestments.
Major global hotel chains have
expressed interest in investing in Ke-
nya in the last few years, with a num-
ber of them currently in different
phases of setting up in the country.
We have seen that international
hotel chains are willing to invest. A
few of them have set up in the recent
past and we expect more chains to
come. Flights pulled out of Kenya
but we are seeing some that are ne-
gotiating for a come back... the out-
look is very positive for the industry,
Mr Ikwaye said.
Among the major hotels opened
in the course of last year include Eka
Hotel by Samco Holdings, Boma Ho-
tel by the Red Cross and Hotel Villa
Rosa that was put up by Simba Colt
and is managed by Kempenski.
newest entrants
Others that are fnalising include
Riverside Hotel on Riverside Drive,
Park Inn located in Upper Hill, Lei-
sure Park Hotel in Arboretum, Radis-
son Blu Hotel in Upper Hill and
Hemingways Nairobi in Karen.
A peaceful transition process is
expected to boost visitor and inves-
tor confdence among major hote-
liers.
Tourism earned Kenya Sh98 bil-
lion in 2011, with arrivals reaching
1.26 million.
While last years fgures are yet to
be released, the rise in insecurity and
the just concluded General Elections
are expected to have affected both
the arrivals and earnings.
Ikwaye noted there are high ex-
pectations that this year will be a
much better for the industry both in
terms of the number of tourists as
well as investors that are looking to
invest in the country.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Power generation
Page 28 / TODAY IN BUSINESS Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
KenGen seeking Sh429 billion
to fnance energy projects
By Frankline Sunday
Kenyas quest for affordable elec-
tricity gained fresh impetus last
week as the Kenya Electricity Gen-
erating Company, KenGen, inked a
$5 billion (Sh429 billion) deal with
a consortium to fnance 1600 MW
worth of electricity projects.
The deal, which is the largest of
its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, will
see the electricity generator estab-
lish power generating projects in
wind, solar, geothermal and hydro-
electricity over the next fve years.
This is expected to raise the coun-
trys installed capacity to a total of
3,000 MW from the current 1400MW
that can barely serve the growing
demand.
The consortium is led by Bar-
clays Group (composed of ABSA
Capital, Barclays Bank of Kenya,
Barclay Bank PLC), and consultan-
cy frms KPMG, Dyer & Blair Invest-
By andrew watila

Banks are raking in huge abnor-
mal profts from local operations
even as the cost of credit remains
high for the countrys citizens.
The unaudited pre-tax profts for
local banks show that proftability
has increased 20.22 per cent, from
Sh89.574 billion in 2011 to Sh107.685
billion for the period ending De-
cember 31 last year.
Heading nortH
According to the Central Bank of
Kenya (CBK) report titled CBK
Credit Offcer Survey 2013, the sec-
tors aggregate balance sheet in-
creased 14.72 per cent, from Sh2.052
trillion in January last year to
Sh2.354 trillion in December last
year. Gross loans expanded by 12.40
per cent from Sh1.21 trillion in Jan-
uary to Sh1.36 trillion in December
last year.
Meanwhile, bank deposits grew
by 14.29 per cent, from Sh1.54 tril-
lion in January to Sh1.76 trillion in
December last year, while total
shareholders funds increased by
21.16 per cent from Sh299.49 billion
to Sh362.87 billion over the same
period.
The banks gross non-perform-
ing loans also increased by 13.33
per cent from Sh54.33 billion in Jan-
uary to Sh61.57 billion in December
last year.
The quarterly survey shows that
demand for credit from the manu-
facturing sector increased from 29
per cent in the quarter ended Sep-
tember last year to 51 per cent in
the quarter ended December.
SigniFicant impact
The drop in Central Bank Rate
(CBR) from 18 per cent in June to
9.50 per cent in January this year,
and a decrease in the cost of bor-
rowing had the most signifcant im-
pact in increasing demand for cred-
it.
As a result, the demand for cred-
it generally increased in nine eco-
nomic sectors. However, demand
for credit from trade and mining
and quarrying sectors largely re-
mained constant in the year, states
CBK report.
Bank profit up 20 per cent
KenGen wants to increase geothermal power production by 560MW. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]
ment Bank, and law frm Hamilton
Harrison & Mathews.
Huge undertaking
Speaking at the deal signing at
KenGens Stima Plaza, Barclays
Bank new Managing Director Jere-
my Awori stated that the new deal
is a huge undertaking but one that
Money will go towards
power infrastructure
projects such as
geothermal, wind, coal
and solar power
Electricity
generation is
a big pillar of
development,
especially as we look
towards achieving
Vision 2030 and
the demand that
we are going to
have for energy will
be signifcant.
is inevitable given the demand
pressures in energy consumption
in the country.
Electricity generation is a big
pillar of development, especially as
we look towards achieving Vision
2030 and the demand that we are
going to have for energy will be sig-
nifcant, he said.
His sentiments were echoed by
Josphat Mwaura, the CEO and se-
nior partner at auditing frm KP-
MG, which has been picked as the
auditing partner for the project.
What we have begun here today
will go a long way in proving to the
rest of the world that Kenya and
East Africa has the capacity of run-
ning such capital intensive proj-
ects, he said.
not clear
It, however, remains unclear
where the massive capital is going
to be raised from and KenGen states
that it is open to all avenues to en-
sure the project matures.
We have traditionally relied on
direct foreign funding to raise capi-
tal for infrastructure projects, but it
is clear that we cannot continue de-
pending on DFIs alone, he said.
all optionS
Moving forward we are going to
be forced to look at all options both
local and international vis--vis the
time that we have to make this proj-
ect work.
The money that will be raised
will go towards fnancing power in-
frastructure projects such as geo-
thermal (560MW), wind (150MW),
coal (300MW) and solar power
projects all totalling to 1,600 MW.
Raising the stakes
TECHNOLOGY
Airtel Kenya to invest Sh8.5b in local operations
By KENNETH KWAMA
Airtel Kenya will invest Sh8.5
billion to improve its services and
grow its Airtel Money platform as it
seeks new frontiers for revenue
growth and an even bigger foot-
print in the lucrative money trans-
fer business in the next two years.
The company has already em-
barked on an ambitious plan to in-
crease the number of Airtel Money
agents from the current 6,000 to
8,000 by the end of the year.
The frm has also eliminated all
fees charged on Airtel Money. This
means Airtel Money customers can
now send money free of charge to
any network in Kenya.
The companys MD Shivan Bhar-
gava says the proposition will deep-
en the frms commitment to drive
accessibility and affordability of
quality products and services to its
customers throughout Kenya.
The offer will remove the bur-
den of traditional charges that cus-
tomers on mobile networks incur
while sending money to others
from their phones. The zero trans-
action charge applies to any
amount sent to recipients on any
network in Kenya, said Shivan.
Airtels new ambition follows a
report from the Communication
Commission of Kenya (CCK) that
showed that the total number of
subscribers using mobile money
services declined to 19.3 million in
the third quarter of last year, com-
pared to 19.5 million who were us-
ing the service in June last year.
DID NOT REFLECT
But the decline in customers did
not refect in the transactions on
mobile money. The amount of
money deposited in mobile money
accounts grew 6.7 per cent in the
quarter to September, growing
from Sh192 billion to Sh205 billion
Users of the frms
mobile money service
will be able to send
money to any network
free of charge
Despite a decline in the number of mobile money
users last year, mobile money transactions increased
from Sh192 billion to Sh205 billion.
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during the quarter.
This growth indicates that the
mobile money transfer service has
become a key payments and trans-
action tool, mainly due to its easy
use of applications, convenience
and low cost value propositions,
said the CCK report.
HUGE BENEFITS
According to the mobile provid-
er, regular money transfer users
send up to Sh10,000 per month. It
expects to lure in more customers
by drumming on the huge benefts
accrued as they will be making sav-
ings of up to Sh400 sending fees per
month, which translates to four per
cent savings on money sent.
The company is also expected to
invest heavily on the education of
its customers on the benefts of us-
ing Airtel Money mobile commerce
solutions. It has already announced
a linkup with Postal Corporation in
a countrywide partnership that will
see Airtel Money Customers access
services in all 465 Posta outlets
countrywide.
The vast dealer network has
now been complimented by corpo-
rate agents to enhance availability
and reliability of the services coun-
trywide, said Shivan. According to
the CCK report, all mobile opera-
tors gained customers with the ex-
ception of Telkom Kenya (Orange).
Essar Telecoms yuMobile was the
largest gainer, growing 12.9 per
cent in the quarter to add 343,651
new subscribers. Safaricom Limit-
ed gained 214, 228 while Airtel got
199,936 new customers.
SIMILAR FATE
Orange, however, lost 28,472
subscriptions, representing 0.9 per
cent decline from the previous
quarter. The companys fxed ser-
vice suffered a similar fate of de-
cline in number of customers, with
the total number of fxed lines fall-
ing 5.5 per cent to 248,300 fxed
lines from 262,711 lines recorded
during the previous quarter.
The offer
will remove
the burden of
traditional charges
that customers on
mobile networks
incur while
sending money
to others from
their phones.
REUTERS
Standard Chartered would con-
sider acquiring a bank in Egypt to
ride an expected boom in one of the
Middle Easts largest economies, the
frms regional head said. The bank
also plans to expand operations in
Iraq this year.
Many European banks are under
pressure to cut costs and bolster
their capital in the wake of the glob-
al fnancial crisis, but Christos Papa-
dopoulos said such pressures would
not deter Standard Chartered from
growing in the Middle East.
The Middle East is not only a re-
gional hub for us but a global hub
given its position as a trade corridor
between Asia and Africa, Papado-
poulos, chief executive for the Mid-
dle East, North Africa and Pakistan,
said in an interview last week.
He said of Egypt, The foreign re-
serves are at critical levels. Currency
is depreciating and I wont be sur-
prised if it depreciates further.
Standard Chartered eyes Egypt
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard TODAY IN BUSINESS / Page 29
NSSF reveals
plan to double
membership
By Standard reporter
The National Social Security Fund
(NSSF), has embarked on a promo-
tion to raise awareness on its servic-
es and mandate as it seeks to double
its membership roll. The campaign
will educate existing and potential
members on the funds products and
membership options through the re-
cently launched web based online
registration platform geared at driv-
ing the funds membership to 2.8 mil-
lion up from the current 1.4 million
level this fnancial year.
NSSF Managing Trustee Tom Od-
ongo said the initiative is part of the
ongoing corporate transformation
programmes aimed at clearing mis-
conceptions on the funds statutory
mandate.
He pointed out that the fund had
undertaken a series of strategic or-
ganisational development pro-
grammes to enable it effciently han-
dle a higher membership
complement.
automating functionS
Odongo also said the frm is in the
process of automating its adminis-
trative functions to be in line with
global standards, as the frm seeks to
transform itself into a customer-fo-
cused organisation,
NSSF has already unveiled a web
based online member registration
portal to provide a self-service re-
cruitment option for both the infor-
mal and formal sector members. It
has also activated an M-Pesa func-
tion that allows for convenient ac-
count top ups for existing members
through their mobile phones.
As an organisation, NSSF has
covered very good ground in our cor-
porate efforts to transform this or-
ganisation to a customer focused in-
stitution, providing value to its
members, Odongo explained.
The corporate awareness cam-
paign will also facilitate efforts to
convert the current NSSF from a
provident fund into a public manda-
tory social security scheme. The con-
version, Odongo pointed out will be
undertaken through the NSSF Bill
2012; set for parliamentary presenta-
tion and debate this year.
increaSe coverage
If successfully passed through the
pending parliamentary process, the
Bill will facilitate the statutory re-
pealing and replacement of the ex-
isting National Social Security Fund
Act (Cap. 258 of the Laws of Kenya).
The proposed NSSF Bill will provide
enhanced social security products to
existing members while increasing
social security coverage through
comprehensive benefts to all work-
ers in line with the new Constitution
and Vision 2030 ideals.
INVESTMENT
Management
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Uchumi in cautious mood ahead of Rights Issue
By James anyanzwa
Directors of the Uchumi chain
of super markets are cautiously
monitoring events in the local in-
vestment landscape as the compa-
ny prepares to raise cash from its
existing shareholders to fund its lo-
cal and regional expansion drive.
The retail chain wants to raise
Sh1.5 billion through a Rights Issue
by offering 100 million newly cre-
ated shares.
We are still doing the ground
work. We havent put up anything
yet, Chief Executive Jonathan Cia-
no told The Standard last week.
Received appRoval
The issue, which has already re-
ceived approval from the share-
Firm wants to raise
Sh1.5 billion through
a Rights Issue by
offering 100 million
new shares
Uchumi Chief Executive Jonathan Ciano. The frm plans to use the funds from
the rights issue to increase its outlets to 36.
holders, is expected to be launched
in the second half of this year.
In 2005, Uchumi Supermarkets
sold 120 million shares in its frst
ever Rights Issue at Sh10, which
managed to attract Sh1.3 billion, an
oversubscription of six per cent.
The company is seeking addi-
tional capital to fnance its cautious
regional growth and expansion
programme as the retail chain seeks
to consolidate its position in a mar-
ket that has attracted strong com-
petitors such as Tuskys, Nakumatt
ECONOMY
Way Forward
and Naivas. Ciano is optimistic that
the investors who have been loyal
to Uchumi during the dark times
would also respond positively to al-
low the company pursue its growth
agenda.
Uchumi is also looking to in-
crease its share capital by Sh1 bil-
lion through the creation of 200
million shares.
The funds to be raised through
the approved Rights Issue will be
used to open new branches as well
as refurbish it local branches.
new outlets
Uchumi has spent an estimated
Sh716 million on new outlets and
refurbishment of existing branch-
es.
A growing regional appetite has
also compelled it to consider break-
ing grounds to two new markets in
Rwanda and South Sudan.
Uchumi announced ambitious
plans to open 12 more branches
within the East African region dur-
ing the current 2012/2013 fnancial
year as part of efforts to bolster its
revenue base and reclaim its posi-
tion in the retail market.
Ciano said the retail chain would
be opening three outlets in Ugan-
da, one in Tanzania and eight in Ke-
nya during the 12-month period
(July 2012-June 2013).
The new branches earmarked
for Kenya, two would be set up
along the coastal region, two in
Nairobi and one in Kisii, Eldoret,
Kisumu and Maua in Meru.
Uchumi currently has 14 opera-
tional branches in Nairobi, six up
country branches and three
branches in Kampala and one in
Gulu Uganda, and another in Tan-
zania.
If successful, the cautiously
crafted growth and expansion strat-
egy would bring Uchumis total
number of branches to 36.
daRk peRiod
Uchumi closed 10 of its peren-
nially loss making branches in 2005
and in June 2006 the company was
put under receivership following
years of mismanagement and loss
making. Its shares were also sus-
pended from trading at the NSE.
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard TODAY IN BUSINESS / Page 31
Legal battle
By kenneth kwama
Farmers have expressed fear of
losing maize worth millions of
shillings and other property.
This follows a protracted legal
tussle between the National
Cereals and Produce Board
Farmers want
State to intervene
in NCBP woes
They say it would be unfair
for farmers maize stocks,
stored under the receipting
system, to be auctioned
due to the debt
Microsoft details global
police data requests
BBC team
More than 75,000 requests were
made by police forces around the
world for data on Microsoft users in
2012. The fgures were revealed in Mi-
crosofts frst transparency report,
which detailed how often police forc-
es sought data to aid investigations.
US police forces topped the list of
agencies keen to know who created
specifc images or other content.
In most cases, Microsoft only
handed over basic information such
as login names and IP addresses.
The transparency report from Mi-
crosoft follows similar efforts by
Google, Twitter and others to let users
know who is seeking data about what
people do online.
The requests covered more than
137,000 accounts on Microsofts many
services including Hotmail, Outlook.
com, Xbox Live, Skype and others. It
was hard to estimate how many indi-
vidual users that involved, said Brad
Smith, Microsofts general counsel, in
a blogpost, because many people ran
lots of separate accounts.
Content Control
Only 2.1 per cent of the requests
involved Microsoft handing over the
content people created.
This includes documents or imag-
es stored on servers or sent via email
as well as copies of messages sent
through its services.
More than 99 per cent of requests
for content data came from US law
enforcement agencies. Most of the
other requests were for non-content
data such as login names, IP address-
es or other low-level identifers.
Page 32 / TODaY IN BUSINeSS
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
ECONOMY
(NCPB) and a supplier.
Through their lobby, the Kenya
National Federation of Agricultur-
al Producers (Kenfap), farmers
claim the Sh522 million awarded
to the supplier for breach of
contract was a threat to the
Cereals body.
In a statement, farmers lobby
petitioned the Government to
intervene and save them from
imminent losses. This is after the
supplier, Erad Supplies and
General Construction Ltd, moved
in to attach NCPBs property.
Kenfaps chairman Nduati
Kariuki said it would be unfair for
ageNCYS rOle
The board offers third party
services within its network of
depots and silos countrywide
Some of these include weighing,
drying, pest control, Clearing
and Forwarding, grading, grain
cleaning, and afatoxin testing
The Board holds storage
capacities of more than 20
million 90-kilo bags.
Some of the facilities are offces,
houses and canteens and
undeveloped land
Farmers who
have been
storing their
maize with
the NCPB
under their
receipting
system could
lose millions
of shillings if
their stock
within NCPB
warehouses
is auctioned.
farmers maize stocks, stored
under the receipting system, to be
auctioned due to the debt. Mr
Kariuki said all debts owed to the
farmers for last years deliveries
should be cleared immediately.
He also asked the Government
and the NCPB to move with speed
and restock fertilisers, particularly
Calcium Nitrate and Diamonium
Phosphate fertilisers, mostly used
during planting.
Kariuki said over the years,
farmers, especially in the Rift
Valley, the grain basket of the
country, have been storing their
maize with the NCPB under their
warehousing system.
We as the farmers fraternity
seek comprehensive assurance
from the NCPB and the State that
the ongoing legal tussles will not
cause unnecessary pain, Kariuki
said. Farmers should not be
victimised or incur losses in deals
they were not party to.
food seCurity
He said in living up to its
promise of ensuring food security,
the Government should move with
speed and ensure that seasons of
planting are not interfered with
due to lack of inputs such as
fertilisers.
We are all aware of the
repercussions that delayed
planting or lack of it would have
on the economic and social
security given that agriculture is
the main stay of our economy,
said Kariuki. Meanwhile, farmers
have welcomed President Kibakis
order for the immediate release of
Sh3 billion to buy fertiliser and
seeds. Kariuki said the directive to
reduce maize seed costs from
Sh4,500 to Sh3,400 per 25kg bag
was timely.
THROUGH THE cORpORaTE LENS
BUSINESS PICTORIAL
Pan Africa Insurance Holdings Ltd, Chairman John
Simba, Frank Ireri Managing Director Housing Finance
listen to Group CEO, Sanlam, Johan Van Zyl during a
cocktail meeting with Major Shareholders of Pan Af-
rica Insurance Holdings at the Norfolk Hotel Nairobi.
(23/04/10) Photo: Jonah Onyango.
Mrs Rattan Channa (right) Chair of the United Reli-
gious Initiative of Kenya presents the organisations
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
Eveready East Africa Ltd Managing Director Jackson Mutua (left) congratulates the winners in the fnal
draw of the recently concluded Get Smart with Energizer promotion that was sponsored by the battery
manufacturer. Prizes included fat-screen TVs, home theatres and mobile smartphones.
Kenya Breweries
Ltd (KBL) Welfare
Union Secretary
General Boniface
Kavuvi (left) and
KBL Managing
Director Joe
Muganda (right)
exchange copies
of the freshly
signed Collective
Bargaining
Agreement
awarding the
unionisable
employees a 11.5
per cent wage
increment at a
recent ceremony.
Looking on is East
Africa Breweries
Ltd Group Human
Resource Director
Paul Kasimu.
Nairobi Safari Club
General Manager
Frank Neugerbauer
(seated left) and
Alliance Francaise-
Nairobi Kenya
Executive Director
Herve Braneyre
sign an MoU that
allows Alliance
visitors to be
accommodated
at the Club while
the Centre trains
the Clubs staff in
French. Looking on
are Nairobi Safari
Club Director Sales
and Marketing
Florence Marangu
(left) and Alliance
Francaise Cultural
Affairs Director
Harsita Waters.
Leisure Lodge
Resort Director,
Business
Development
Vijay Kantaria
(left) presents
a voucher of
full board
accommodation
for two nights
at the Lodge to
Annette Owidhi
of Uniglobe
Northline during
a cocktail held
by the hotel in
recognition of
Travel Agents.
Looking on is
Sales Manager
Liz Ayany.
The new Bata Kenya Managing Director Mr Alberto Errico (centre) accompanied by his wife
(holding fowers) cuts a tape to offcially mark the opening of the new retail store in Kitengela
while company staff cheer on. The frm is taking its services closer to customers.
Multimedia
University of
Kenya newly
appointed
Chancellor,
Catherine
Kimura (right)
receives the
Charter from the
Chairman of the
Council, Eng Jan
Mutahi during
the recent
Award of Charter
ceremony at
KICC, Nairobi.
The
Management
University of
Africa Vice-
Chancellor, Prof
Jude Mathooko
(left) presents a
certifcate to Ms
Bibiana Wanja
of Mount Kenya
University
during the
closing
ceremony of
the Executive
Certifcate
Course in the
Management
of Universities
and Tertiary
Institutions held
recently.
Florence Maina
(right) of Miles
and Beyond,
receives a
certifcate of
membership
from Vision
2030 Director-
General, Mr
Mugo Kibati,
during the Afrika
Business Club
event themed
Ignite Your
Thinking at a
Nairobi hotel.
Looking on is
Helen Kithinji,
the Clubs co-
founder. The
Club enables
leaders access
business
opportunities.
TODAY IN BUSINESS / Page 33
Government security forces drive past a demonstration calling for peace in the recent past. Rebels say they have taken
over the presidential palace in Bangui, Central African Republic. [PHOTO: AP, File]
Page 34
.
RoundUp
ABIDJAN: Militia
leader killed in raid
A regional offcial says a
notorious militia leader
accused of enlisting child
soldiers for cross-border raids
from Liberia into western
Ivory Coast was killed during
fghting Saturday. Claude Koff
Yao Kan, sub-prefect for the
western town of Blolequin,
said Sunday that Oula Tako,
known as Tarzan of the
West, was among three
assailants killed by soldiers
responding to the attack.
Ivory Coasts United Nations
mission says two civilians
and a traditional hunter were
also killed in the attack on a
village 25 kilometres outside
Blolequin. A report last year
from Human Rights Watch
implicated Tako in a series of
raids on villages.
RAMALLAH: Calls for
construction fr eeze
A senior Palestinian offcial
rejected on Sunday the idea
of a partial Israeli settlement
freeze as a way of restarting
peace talks, a sign of tough
times ahead for the Obama
administrations new attempt
to bring the sides together. US
Secretary of State John Kerry
met separately late Saturday
with Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu to talk about ending
a deadlock of more than
four years over settlements.
Abbas says he wont return to
negotiations without an Israeli
construction freeze.
MIRANSHAH: Suicide
bombing kills 17
The death toll from a suicide
bombing on a military
checkpost in Pakistans North
Waziristan region has reached
17, the military said on Sunday.
There was no immediate claim
of responsibility for the attack
on Saturday, which prompted
the regional government to
impose a curfew in the tribal
region near the Afghan border.
The military responded with
mortar and artillery fre
directed at positions held by
the Taliban. In a statement,
the military said 17 security
forces personnel embraced
martyrdom.
NICOSIA: Last chance
to save economy
Cypriot President Nicos
Anastasiades, seeking a last-
minute reprieve from fnancial
meltdown at talks in Brussels
on Sunday, has a very diffcult
task ahead of him if he is to
save the islands economy, a
government spokesman said.
With Cyprus facing a Monday
deadline to avert a collapse
of its banking system and
potential exit from the euro,
late night talks in Nicosia to
seal a bailout from the EU
and International Monetary
Fund had no result. He headed
to Brussels to continue with
meetings. Agencies
CAR leader fees country
as rebels seize palace
Antagonists say they
are planning on moving
to national radio where
their leader plans to
make a speech
BANGUI, Sunday
Rebels in the Central African Re-
public say they have seized the presi-
dential palace after President Fran-
cois Bozize reportedly fed the
capital.
The Seleka rebels advanced into
Bangui after an overnight lull in fght-
ing.
One report said Mr Bozize had fed
into neighbouring Democratic Re-
public of Congo.
Congos government asked the
United Nations High Commission for
Refugees on Sunday for help trans-
porting the family of Bozize, a UN of-
fcial said.
(Government of DRC) has asked
UNHCR to transport 25 family mem-
bers of Bozize from (Congolese border
town) Zongo to Gemena, the offcial,
who asked not to be named, said via
text message.
The rebels, who have been in-
volved in an on-off rebellion since De-
cember, accuse the president of fail-
ing to honour a peace deal.
One of the rebel leaders on the
ground, Colonel Djouma Narkoyo,
was quoted by AFP as saying: We
have taken the presidential palace.
Bozize was not there.
He said the rebels were planning
to move on to the national radio sta-
tion in Bangui where rebel leader Mi-
chel Djotodia planned to make a
speech. Intense gunfre was reported
as rebels advanced through Bangui.
The rebels control the town, said
a spokesman for the presidency, Gas-
ton Mackouzangba. I hope there will
not be any reprisals.
SeCuRe AIRpORt
A Paris-based rebel spokesman
said the rebel leadership was telling
its fghters to restrain from looting or
score-settling.
An unnamed presidential advisor
told Reuters news agency that Mr
GAO, Sunday
Islamist rebels have attacked Gao
in northern Mali, offcials say.
The rebels were repelled after two
hours of ferce fghting, a Malian army
offcial said.
He said the insurgents had slipped
past army checkpoints to enter the
town. Gao residents had raised the
alarm, saying rebels had entered their
neighbourhood.
Gao was controlled by an Islamist
group for several months before it was
liberated in a French-led offensive in
January. The MUJWA Islamist group
had attempted to impose an extreme
form of sharia on the town.
Gao Mayor Sadou Diallo said the
Islamist fghters had launched Satur-
days attack inside the citys Quatrie-
me Quartier, or Fourth District, and
retreated when they were engaged by
Malian forces.
There was heavy gunfre. The sit-
uation is under control now. The Isla-
mists entered via Quatrieme Quartier,
and the army went to meet them and
was able to push them back, Mr Di-
allo told the Associated Press news
agency. There is another group that
entered via the river, but they too were
pushed back. Its under control.
No death toll was immediately
available after Saturdays frefght.
CItIeS ReCAptuReD
Islamist rebels seized vast swathes
of northern Mali a year ago after a mil-
itary coup in the capital Bamako.
France intervened militarily in
January amid fears that the militants
were preparing to advance on Bama-
ko. It currently has about 4,000 troops
in Mali.
Malis army and troops from sev-
eral African countries, including 2,000
from Chad, have also been involved
in the fghting.
Since the intervention began, ma-
jor cities including Gao, Kidal and
Timbuktu have been recaptured but
fghting is still continuing in desert
mountains.
France plans to withdraw its troops
from Mali next month, with West Af-
rican countries expected to take over
in the run-up to elections due in Ju-
ly.
-BBC
Fighting breaks out after insurgents raid Mali town
World
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Bozize had crossed the Oubangi River
into DR Congo on Sunday morning.
Heavy fghting broke out in the
town and a Reuters witness said at
least six South African soldiers were
killed in the clashes with rebels.
I saw the bodies of six South Afri-
can soldiers. They had all been shot.
Their vehicles were also destroyed.
Other South African soldiers came to
recover the bodies, a Reuters witness
said.
Former colonial power France has
called for an emergency meeting of
the UN Security Council, and report-
edly sent troops to secure the airport.
On Saturday, French offcials warned
their nationals in the country to stay
at home.
The rebels joined a power-sharing
government in January after talks bro-
kered by regional leaders to end a re-
bellion they launched last year.
But the deal quickly collapsed,
with the rebels saying their demands,
including the release of political pris-
oners, had not been met.
-BBC and Reuters
NEWS OF THE WORLD / Page 35 Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
GANYE, Saturday
At least 25 people died when gun-
men attacked a prison, a police sta-
tion, a bank and a bar in an eastern
Nigerian town, police said.
The simultaneous attacks took
place in Ganye, a remote town near
Nigerias border with Cameroon.
The attacks happened on Friday
but the death toll was only reported
on Saturday.
No group has said it carried out the
attack but police said they suspected
Islamist militants Boko Haram.
We have 25 dead from yesterdays
attacks in Ganye which included a
chief prison warder, a policeman and
a prominent politician, Adamawa
state police chief Mohammed Ibra-
him was quoted by AFP news agency
as saying. The gunmen armed with
bombs, machine-guns and rocket-
propelled grenades set free an un-
specifed number of inmates from the
prison, offcials said.
Mr Ibrahim said seven people were
shot dead in the bar and six near the
bank, while others were gunned down
either outside their homes or on the
streets.
ISlAmIc StAtE
It was not clear how much money
had been looted from the bank.
In a separate incident, two sus-
pected suicide bombers died in the
northern city of Kano on Saturday
when their explosives went off prema-
turely, police said.
Three policemen were injured in
the blast, Kano state police chief Mu-
sa Daura said. Kano was the scene of
a suicide car bomb attack at a bus
stop last Tuesday that killed more
than 20 people.
Boko Haram says its members are
fghting to create an Islamic state.
The group has been blamed for the
deaths of some 1,400 people in central
and northern Nigeria since 2010.
It is believed to also have a pres-
ence in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and
Chad.
Nigerias President Goodluck Jona-
than had challenged the Islamist mil-
itant group Boko Haram to come for-
ward and state their demands as a
basis for dialogue. His remarks came
nearly a week after the group attacked
police stations in the northern city of
Kano, killing 185 people.
-BBC
25 killed after gang raids institutions
in Nigeria as two suicide bombers die
Vantage point
Spanish Catholics at a Palm Sunday procession in Pontevedra, northern Spain
yesterday. Hundreds of Easter processions take place around the clock in
Spain during the Holy Week, drawing thousands of visitors. [PHOTO: REUTERS]
Africa ties with
China in spotlight
as Xi visits
Expert says presidents
main aim might be
to tone down feeling
that his country is just
exploiting continent
DAR ES SAlAAm , Sunday
Chinese President Xi Jinping faces
growing calls from policymakers and
economists in Africa for a more bal-
anced trade relationship between the
continent and China as he arrives in
Tanzania at the beginning of an Afri-
can tour on Sunday.
Chinas ties with the continent
dates back to the 1950s, when Beijing
backed African liberation movements
fghting to throw off Western colonial
rule. It has built roads, railways, stadi-
ums and pipelines to win access to Af-
ricas oil and minerals like copper and
uranium to feed its booming econo-
my.
Many across Africa see China as a
valuable counterbalance to the Wests
infuence. But as the relationship ma-
tures there is mounting discomfort in
Africa that the continent is exporting
raw materials while spending heavily
to import fnished consumer goods
from the Asian economic power-
house.
He will be looking to tone down
the feeling that China is just here to
exploit resources, James Shikwati, di-
rector of the Nairobi-based Inter Re-
gional Economic Network think tank,
told Reuters.
Chinas new leader is due to land
in Tanzanias commercial capital, Dar
es Salaam, on Sunday for a state ban-
quet before delivering his frst policy
speech on Africa in a Chinese-funded
conference hall on Monday.
Xi will go on from Tanzania to
South Africa where leaders of the
worlds major emerging economies,
known as the BRICS, will meet on
Tuesday and Wednesday and could
endorse plans to create a joint foreign
exchange reserves pool and an infra-
structure bank at a summit.
StRAtEGIc ImpoRtANcE
Xis visit to Africa which ends in
the Republic of Congo on his frst
trip abroad is seen as a demonstration
of its strategic importance to China.
Nigerias central bank chief, Lami-
do Sanusi, said Africans should wake
up to the realities of their romance
with China.
But Zhong Jianhua, Chinas special
envoy to Africa, told Reuters in an in-
terview this month, that China at
least knows that we have to treat peo-
ple in Africa as equals.
-Reuters
different views
* China consumes Africas oil,
raw mineral resources which
is bringing discomfort to the
West
* Africa opening itself up to
new imperialism Nigeria
central banker
* West says China turns blind
eye to human rights
* Many across Africa see China
as a valuable counterbalance
to the Wests infuence
* Zhong Jianhua, Chinas
special envoy to Africa said
at least they knows that they
have to treat people in Africa
as equals
moScoW, Sunday
While the investigation into Boris
Berezovskys unexplained death
continues in Britain, in Russia for
now the focus is less on the circum-
stances surrounding it and more on
the signifcance.
Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Bere-
zovsky was found dead at his home
outside London.
A police investigation has been
launched into the death of the 67-
year-old a wanted man in Russia,
and an opponent of President Vladi-
mir Putin.
A former Kremlin power-broker
whose fortunes declined under Mr
Putin, Mr Berezovsky emigrated to the
UK in 2000.
On its website, the pro-Kremlin
newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda
described Mr Berezovsky as having
been clever, cunning, resourceful... a
master of chaos.
It said the fallen oligarch had been
a talented mathematician who be-
came the great schemer.
President Putin has not comment-
ed directly on Boris Berezovskys
death but the Kremlin spokesman,
Dmitry Peskov, reacted to the news on
Saturday. He said that two months ago
the oligarch had written to the presi-
dent apologising for his many mis-
takes and requesting permission to
return to Russia.
To many ordinary Russians, oli-
garchs fortunes are ill-gotten gains.
With the help of their political con-
nections, the tycoons had struck su-
per rich at a time when so many Rus-
sians had slid into poverty.
The fewer the oligarchs, the bet-
ter, factory worker Roman told the
BBC. Berezovsky... he tried to turn ev-
erything in Russia upside down.
-BBC
No tears as
Russian tycoon
dies at his home
BAGHDAD, Sunday
The US Secretary of State John Ker-
ry on an unannounced visit to Bagh-
dad urged Iraqs leaders to halt Iranian
overfights of weapons and fghters
heading to Syria.
He also asked them to overcome
sectarian differences that still threat-
en Iraqi stability ten years after the
American-led invasion that toppled
dictator Saddam Hussein.
In meetings with Iraqi Prime Min-
ister Nouri al-Maliki and other senior
offcials Kerry was telling them to stop
Iranian aircraft from using Iraqi air-
space to fy military personnel and
equipment to support the Syrian gov-
ernment as it battles rebels.
Iran and Iraq both say the fights
are laden with humanitarian supplies,
but the US and others believe they are
flled with weapons and fghters to
help the Assad regime.
In the absence of a complete ban
on fights, the US would at least like
the planes to land and be inspected in
Iraq. -AP
US offcial asks Iraq
to stop weapons
transfer to Syria
President Goodluck Jonathan had
asked Boko Haram to state their de-
mands. [PHOTO: AP]
Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
Page 36 / NEWS OF THE WORLD
Now, who gets my vote?
A Macedonian woman
prepares to cast her bal-
lot papers at a polling sta-
tion in Skopje yesterday.
Macedonia began voting
on Sunday on local elec-
tions widely seen as a test
of political maturity after
past violence raised fears
its slow march towards
EU membership could be
further delayed. [PHOTO:
REUTERS]
Former Pakistan president returns
home despite Taliban death threats
KARACHI, Sunday
Former President Pervez Mushar-
raf returned to Pakistan on Sunday af-
ter more than four years in exile, seek-
ing a possible political comeback in
defance of judicial probes and death
threats from Taliban militants.
The journey from Dubai to the
southern port city of Karachi was in-
tended as the frst step in his goal of
rebuilding his image after years on the
political margins.
But the former military strongman
was met by no more than a couple
thousand people at the airport, who
threw rose petals and waved fags em-
blazoned with his image a small
turnout by the standards of Pakistani
politics and a testament to how much
his support in the country has fallen
since he was pushed from power in
2008.
Musharraf struck a defant tone
when he spoke to his supporters out-
side a terminal at the airport, saying
he had proved those people wrong
who said he would never return after
he failed to follow through on previ-
ous promises. He also said he was not
cowed by a threat by the Pakistani Tal-
iban to kill him.
Syria opposition leader resigns weakening uprising against Assad
AMMAN, Sunday
The head of Syrias main opposi-
tion group resigned, in a blow to a di-
minishing moderate wing of the two-
year uprising against President Bashar
al-Assads rule.
Moaz Alkhatib, a former imam of
the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus
who had offered Assad a negotiated
exit, was picked to head the Western
and Gulf-backed National Coalition
for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposi-
tion Forces in November after leaving
Syria following persecution and sev-
eral stays in jail.
Al-Khatibs resignation came after
the coalition berated him for offering
Assad a deal and after the group went
ahead, despite his objections, with
steps to form a provisional govern-
ment that would have further dimin-
ished his authority.
I had promised the great Syrian
people and promised God that I would
resign if matters reached some red
lines, Alkhatib said in a statement on
his offcial Facebook page, without ex-
plaining exactly what had prompted
his resignation.
bIggeR Role
Im fulflling announcing my res-
ignation from the National Coalition
in order to be able to work with free-
dom that cannot be available within
the offcial institutions, he said.
A spokesman for Alkhatib con-
frmed his resignation.
Alkhatib, who had argued insuff-
cient groundwork had been done to
start forming a government, was
weakened considerably, along with a
moderate wing of the revolution as Ji-
hadist salafsts play a bigger role.
Basically Qatar and the Brother-
hood forced Alkhatib out. In Alkhatib
they had a fgure who was gaining
popularity inside Syria but he acted
too independently for their taste,
said Fawaz Tello, an independent op-
position campaigner. -Reuters
Musharraf who had
been in exile in Dubai
is said to be trying to
rebuild his image even
as his support seems to
be falling
tensions with Washington over drone
strikes and the May 2011 raid that
killed Osama bin Laden.
Musharraf represents a polarising
force that could further complicate
Pakistans attempt to hold parliamen-
tary elections in May and stage its frst
transition from one civilian govern-
ment to another.
deAtH SquAdS
He is viewed as an enemy by many
Islamic militants and others for his
decision to side with America in the
response to the September 11, 2001
terrorist attacks. On Saturday, the
Pakistani Taliban vowed to mobilise
death squads to send Musharraf to
hell if he returns.
Musharrafs supporters, including
elements of the military and members
of Pakistans infuential expatriate
communities, consider him a strong
leader whose voice-even just in par-
liament-could help stabilise country.
Musharraf also faces legal charges,
including some originating from the
probe of the 2007 assassination of for-
mer Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto,
who also spent time in self-imposed
exile in Dubai before returning.
-AP
former general
He is viewed as an
enemy by many Islam-
ic militants and others
for his decision to side
with America in the re-
sponse to the Septem-
ber terrorist attacks
His supporters con-
sider him a strong
leader whose voice
could help stabilise
the country
Musharraf (pictured)
faces legal charges, in-
cluding some originat-
ing from the probe of
an assassination
Im not scared. Im only afraid of
God, Musharraf told his supporters.
Since the former general stepped
down in the face of mounting discon-
tent, Pakistans civilian leadership has
struggled with a sinking economy, re-
silient Islamic extremist factions and
KAbul, Sunday
Afghan President Hamid Karzai
will travel to Qatar within days to dis-
cuss peace negotiations with the Tali-
ban, the Afghan Foreign Ministry said
on Sunday, as efforts intensify to fnd
a negotiated solution to the 12-year-
long war.
Karzais trip to Qatar would repre-
sent the frst time the Afghan presi-
dent has discussed the Taliban peace
process in Qatar, and comes after
years of stalled discussions with the
US, Pakistan and the Taliban.
The announcement was made on-
ly hours after another thorny issue in
the US-Afghan relationship-the trans-
fer to Afghan control of the last group
of prisoners at the Bagram military
complex held by US forces-appeared
to be resolved. The Pentagon an-
nounced on Saturday that a deal had
been clinched.
Karzais Qatar trip was announced
by Foreign Ministry spokesman Janan
Mosazai.
President Karzai will discuss the
peace process and the opening of a
(Taliban) offce for the purposes of
conducting negotiations with Afghan-
istan, he said.
Karzai was expected to travel to
Qatar within a week, a senior Afghan
offcial speaking on condition of ano-
nymity told Reuters.
The announcement comes several
weeks after Karzai delivered a fery
speech during the frst visit to Afghan-
istan by new US Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel, in which he accused
Washington of holding peace talks
with the Taliban in Qatar without
him.
Karzai also accused the Taliban of
colluding with America to keep for-
eign troops in the country, marking a
fresh low point in the relationship be-
tween the Afghan president and his
most powerful backer.
Mosazai confrmed the agreement
reached on the transfer of detainees
held at the military detention facility
at Bagram in Parwan province north
of Kabul. -Reuters
Afghan leader
to launch peace
talks with Taliban
Morsi warns
against inciting
violence in Egypt
CAIRo, Sunday
Egypts president warns he may be
about to take measures he did not
specify to protect this nation.
Mohammed Morsis warning came
in a series of tweets posted on Sunday,
two days after violent clashes between
supporters of his Muslim Brother-
hood and opposition protesters in
Cairo. At least 200 people have been
injured, some seriously, outside the
Cairo headquarters of the Brother-
hood, Egypts most dominant political
group.
Morsi also warned that appropri-
ate measures would be taken against
politicians found to be behind Fri-
days violence, regardless of their se-
niority. Anyone found to be using the
media to incite violence will also be
held accountable, he added.
-AP
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CRICKET: New Zealand
implode, lead England
New Zealand imploded at the
start of their second innings
as they set out to build on a
daunting 239-run rst innings
lead on the third day of the nal
Test against England on Sunday.At
stumps at Eden Park in the series-
deciding nal Test, New Zealand
were three for 35, leading by 274
after dismissing England for 204.
Opener Peter Fulton, who scored
his maiden Test century in the
rst innings, was unbeaten on 14
which included three boundaries,
with Dean Brownlie on 13. In a
chaotic nal session of play, eight
wickets fell for 39 runs as the
England tail collapsed and the
New Zealand top order followed s
uit. AFP
F1: Vettel of Red Bull
wins Malaysian GP
Three-time defending champion
Sebastian Vettel held off Red
Bull teammate Mark Webber in
a scintillating battle to win the
Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Vettel, who earlier in the race
complained to the team about
Webbers slow pace, battled the
Australian for much of the race,
with the cars almost touching as
the German grabbed the lead on
the 46th lap for his 27th victory.
The surprising run of Mercedes
continued, with 2008 champion
Lewis Hamilton coming in
third ahead of teammate Nico
Rosberg. Ferraris Fernando
Alonso crashed out. AP
ATHLETICS: Sprint king
Bolt beaten over 400m
Jamaican sprint star Usain
Bolt, testing himself again over
400 meters, clocked 46.44secs
on Saturday in a runner-up
nish to Nicholas Maithland at
the University of West Indies
Invitational. It was the third
400m of the young season for
Bolt, better known as the back-
to-back Olympic champion in the
100m, 200m and 4x100m. Bolt,
who also raced the 400m at the
low-key Camperdown Classic and
competed in the 4x400m relay
at the Gibson Relays in February
started out well on Saturday. He
led into the straight, but faded in
the closing stages. AFP
KENYA DOMINATE
Dennis Ombachi sprints to the try
line during Kenyas victory against
France in the pool stages of the
Hong Kong Sevens. [PHOTO: MARTIN
SERAS LIMA/IRB]
By BS MULAVI
Kenya National Sevens teams
jumped up one place to fth in the
International Rugby Board (IRB)
Sevens circuit after another im-
pressive performance at the Hong
Kong leg of the competition.
Speculation was rife that the
team will dip in form, with the ex-
clusion of Kenyas top try scorer
Collins Injera. However, the team
overcame all odds to reach the third
and fourth play-offs of the Main
Cup tournament where they were
beaten 36-5 by the circuit leaders
New Zealand.
Kenya had earlier qualied for
the Main Cup quarternals by beat-
ing USA and France in the group
stages and they extended their ne
luck by beating Portugal 17-15 to
qualify for their third semi nal in
the circuit this season.
Despite what many described to
be a lethargic display by the team,
Kenya were still able to give Portu-
gal a run for their money with Non-
dies centre Biko Adema proving the
difference in the game with a pen-
alty in the dying minutes of the sec-
ond half to win the game.
Kenya went on to meet Wales in
the semi nals where the eventual
cup winners proved too hot to han-
dle with Kenya struggling to get
hold of the game. The Welsh en-
joyed the bulk of the possession
and territorial advantage and Ke-
nyas long spells of defence forced
them into errors giving the Sevens
Rugby World Cup champions a
chance to reach their rst nal in
the IRB circuit.
The loss to Wales meant Kenya
were to battle New Zealand in the
third and fourth play off of the tour-
nament. Kenya had already lost
31-7 to the circuit leaders in the
group stages and despite a spirited
effort they still went on to lose 36-5
to the black shirts.
Kenya started off the match with
a new line up consisting of substi-
tutes Sidney Ashioya, Billy Odhia-
mbo and Eden Agero but even the
fresh players could not keep up to
the pace set by the circuit leaders
and they eventually succumbed to
their third defeat of the tourney.
Friday will have to look at the
team kickoffs as Kenya struggled to
retain their own balls in the tourna-
ment and for long spells they played
in their own half. This gave the op-
position an easier time to reach
their try line every time they turned
over the ball.
The team now heads to Japan
next weekend where they will be
hoping to take their game a notch
up and go for the top prize.
Sevens team weather storm in
Hong Kong to nish fourth
FEVERPITCH / Page 39 Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard
Mukhisa Kituyi tees off during the Jacons Cup tournament played at Vet Lab Club. [PHOTO:
MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD]

FastTrack
SCHOOLS: Maseno will
play St Kizito in Kisii
Maseno School begins their
defence of Lake and Highland
regions boys basketball
title Wednesday facing St.
Kizito Nyansiongo at Cardinal
Otunga High School Mosocho
in Kisii County. The defending
champs have been pooled
in group D which also has
Ambira High School. Kisii
Countys defending champions
St.Johns Nyamagwa Boys
will face Homabay Boys and
Kisumu Boys in pool A.Pool
B has Rapogi, Agoro Sare and
hosts Cardinal Otunga while
Pool C has Rakwaro Seminary,
St Marys Yala and Nyamira.
Kenan Miruka
ATHLETICS: Chebet wins
1,500m race in Bondo
Former World Junior 800m
champion Winnie Chebet won
the longer 1,500 metres race
during the second Athletics
Kenya weekend meeting
in Bondo clocking 4:59:10
followed by Quinter Anyango
(5:07:90) while Maryanne
Awuor clocked 5:47:20 for third
place. Abnelio Chesebe won
the men category in 3:43:70
followed by Elkana Yego
(3:58:10) third was Patrick
Chukur (3:59:10). In 3000
metres, Magret Achieng won
in 11:31:40 ahead of Mary
Daisy Odera (12:19:50) and
Mary Mituku (12:58:70). Isaac
Kiprono won men race timed
at 9:05:71 ahead of Gregory
Ngemu 11:13:9. Philip Orwa
GOLF: Siganga triumphs
at UAP Insurance event
Handicap 24 Eliud Siganga
posted a total of 40 Stableford
points during the UAP
Corporate Insurance golf day to
emerge the winner beating 89
golfers that were drawn from
Kisii, Kericho, Nairobi, Mumias
and Kakamega clubs. Siganga
rolled a bogey after tee off on
hole one and followed with
double bogeys on holes two to
fve. On holes six and seven he
posted bogeys and followed
with a scratch on hole eight
before summing up with a par
on hole nine for a total of 16
Stableford points in the initial
nine. Phillip Orwa
By Maarufu MohaMed
Mukhisa Kituyi posted an
excellent score of 43 stable
ford points to lift the 2013 Ja-
cons Cup at the par 71 Vet
Lab Club in Nairobi on Sat-
urday.
Playing off handicap 18,
Kituyi braved a chilly weath-
er in the daylong stableford
competition at the 6951
yards course, beating a team
of 100 golfers to claim the
win.
I have started the season
on a high note and hopefully
this could be the start of
many more victories, said
Kituyi.
He was fve points ahead
of handicap 4 David Tooke
Ongar, who scored 38 points
to take up the runners up
slot. Handicap 15 Arshee
Krishnan, claimed the third
place on a count back score
of 37 points, the same mar-
gin scored by handicap 10
David Kinuthia who settled
for the fourth place.
At the par 71 Muthaiga
Golf Club, handicap 12 Mo-
hamed Wanyoike emerged
the overall mens winner on
40 points (20-20) to lift the
Doctors 2013 trophy.
Handicap 17 Abid Gana-
tra scored a count back score
of 39 points (18-21) to take
up the runners up slot, after
tying with handicap 6 Kush
Nathwani who took third
place.
Lady winner
Tabitha Muhinga playing
off handicap 28 was the lady
winner in a score of 35 points
(16-19), beating handicap 13
Nancy Ndungu to the run-
ners up slot on 33 points (16-
17).
The par 72 Kenya Rail-
ways course that hosted its
Club Nite tournament on
Thursday saw handicap 25
D.Kaburi emerged the over-
all winner on 40 points.
Handicap 9 J. Kungu
claim the runners up slot on
38 points, a point ahead of
handicap 9, I. Gichia who
took the runners up slot on
37 points, tying with handi-
cap 12 P. Majau. The one day
stableford event attracted
140 golfers.
At the par 72 Kiambu golf
club, handicap 9 J. J. Gath-
umbi beat a team of 120 golf-
ers by 41 points to claim the
2013 Friends of Captain golf
tournament played on Satur-
day.
CountBaCk sCore
He beat handicap 15 Ki-
mani Njuguna to the runners
up slot on count back after
both tied on the same score
while handicap 5 John Ngure
was third on 40 points.
The par 71 Limuru Coun-
try club that hosted the 2013
CIC Insurance golf tourna-
ment last Saturday was won
by handicap 20 Esther Mbu-
ru McCarthy on 42 points.
McCarthy held on gal-
lantly to a two way count
back score that saw handi-
cap 10 Francis Kimani settle
for the runners up slot.
Handicap 27 Nancy Mwai
Mungai was third after all
tied on the same score.
At the nine holes, par 72
Nandi Bears Club, handicap
20 Moses Muge beat a team
of 140 golfers to emerge the
overall winner of the KCB
Golf tournament played on
Saturday.
Handicap 23 Real Kurgan
was the runners up on a
score of 43 points, while
handicap 17 David Sambai
took the third slot on 39
points, ahead of handicap 12
Chris Birgen who was fourth
placed on 40.
Sigona Golf Club on Sat-
urday hosted the Galana Oil
2013 golf tournament that
was won by handicap 27
Atish Malde on 47 points.
Handicap 17 Mishaal
Nagda was the runners on 43
points and Michael Kibi
playing off handicap 26 was
third on 42 points in the day
long event that attracted 100
golfers.
Wanyoike clinches Doctors
trophy at Muthaiga club
KITUYI SeIzeS vIcTorY
elite runners boycott track meeting in Bondo
By PhiLLiP orwa
Elite athletes from Iten,
Nandi and Mt. Elgon de-
clined to take part in the sec-
ond leg of the Athletics Ke-
nya track and feld weekend
meeting at the Jaramogi Og-
inga Odinga University in
Bondo because there was no
prize money from sponsors
National Bank.
In 100 meters women
Grace Kidaki of Posta clocked
12:20 to emerge the overall
winner followed by Diana
Aoko from Nyamarimba in
12:70 while Maureen Nalian-
ya from Western clocked
12:90.
Boniface Ombare from
Siaya clocked 11:70 to win
the 100 meter men category
followed by Daniel Oduor al-
so from Siaya in 12:00 while
Benson Ochieng from Nyago
came third after clocking
12:30 seconds.
In the 100 meters hurdles,
Lucy Langat from Western
clocked 17:20 followed by
Mercy Atieno from Lwak
(21:80) and third placed
Grace Mornica (22:10).
Grace Kidaki again won
the 200 meter race in 25:90
ahead of Nalianya Maureen
who clocked 26:80 while
third position went to Diana
Aoko in 27:20.
The 200 meter men race
was won by Kenya Polices
Newton Rotich in 22:10 edg-
ing out Elijah Manangoi from
Rongai (22:40) and Daniel
Oduor of Siaya (23:50).
Over to the 400 meter
women race Kidaki tri-
umphed again in 57:68 fol-
lowed in the second position
by Ebby Melly from Police
(62:06) while third was taken
by Jane Nandi from western
in 68:10.
Newton Rotich won the
one lap racetimed 48:20 fol-
lowed by Elijah Mwangoi in
49:50 while in the third posi-
tion was Stephen Onyango
from Thurdibuoro in 50:90.
The 800 meter women
race was won by Winnie Che-
bet in 2:12:10 followed by Eb-
bi Meli in 2:24:20 while third
was Miriam Tanui from Siaya
in 2:37:50.
The 800m men race went
to Timothy Kipkemboi of Po-
lice in 1:51:60 followed in the
second position by Elijah
Wanangoi (1:52:90) with
Dennis Cheruiyot third in
Thomas Kipkemboi wins the
800m race at Kasarani.
Page 40 / FEVERPITCH Monday, March 25, 2013 / The Standard

FastTrack
BERLIN: Jansen and
Herrmann called up
Midfelders Patrick Herrmann
and Marcell Jansen have
received late Germany call-ups
for their World Cup qualifer
against Kazakhstan tomorrow
to compensate for injuries
and suspensions, a team
statement said. Germany,
who beat Kazakhstan will be
without suspended Bastian
Schweinsteiger and injured
Julian Draxler when the two
sides meet again in Nuremberg.
Coach Joachim Loew had
already seen several other
players miss out through
injury including Toni Kroos and
Miroslav Klose.
FEAR: Gerrard expects
intimidating match
After what amounted to a
gentle warm-up in San Marino,
England move into the far more
hostile territory of Montenegro
for a vital World Cup qualifer
tomorrow with captain Steven
Gerrard warning of intimidation
from the Group H leaders. The
frst time England played in
Podgoricas City Stadium in
2011, Wayne Rooney was sent
off in a 2-2 draw, a red card that
meant he missed the start of
the Euro 2012 fnals. While that
result meant England qualifed
for last years championship,
their place at the Brazil World
Cup is still far from assured as
they trail Montenegro by two
points. Reports by Reuters
HOPE: Balotelli blast
renews Italy confdence
Italy head into tomorrows
World Cup qualifer in Malta
buoyed by a stirring comeback
in a 2-2 draw with Brazil and
the growing belief that Mario
Balotelli is fnally maturing
into a world class international
striker. The 22-year-old, who
has courted controversy on
and off the feld, netted a
majestic strike in Thursdays
friendly in Geneva when his
all-round play helped Italy
battle back from 2-0 down. He
has the potential to be among
the best fve (players) in the
world but to do that he needs a
lot of continuity, as he is having
at the moment, Prandelli
told reporters. Whoever
plays, Prandelli is being ultra-
cautious.
Paris
France will not change their approach to to-
morrows clash against Spain even if a draw at
home could eventually send the world and Euro-
pean champions into a tricky playoff tie for World
Cup qualifcation.
The teams currently in frst place were not ex-
pected to be, with France two points clear of
Spain and England lagging behind Montenegro
by the same margin.
It will be a diffcult match but we shouldnt
have any apprehension, France coach Didier De-
schamps said. We will take the battle to them.
After Tuesdays critical games, both England
and Spain could be fve points adrift and facing
the prospect of a playoff to reach next years World
Cup.
Elsewhere, teams like the Netherlands, Russia
and Germany can already hear the Samba beats
of Brazil as they hold comfortable leads in their
qualifying groups.
Most teams preparing to face Spain struggle to
come up with a successful game plan, but this
time its the Spanish who are uneasy after slipping
to 1-1 home draw with Finland on Friday and los-
ing the Group I lead to France, which beat Geor-
gia 3-1.
The squad is angry and we accept the criti-
cism, Spain defender Gerard Pique said. But we
still have margin to make it right.
After recording 24 straight wins in qualifers
dating back to 2007, Spain has been held to con-
secutive 1-1 home draws and heads to Stade de
France with a point to prove.
The result is a disaster. Now we face France
with everything on the line, Spains all-time lead-
ing scorer David Villa said. We have to go to
France looking to win.
Coach Vicente del Bosque hopes to have play-
maker Xavi Hernandez back from a nagging mus-
cle problem, and Xabi Alonso returns in midfeld.
But he will be without attacking midfelder David
Silva through suspension and left back Jordi Alba
who has a thigh injury.
France drew 1-1 away to Spain last October
thanks to Olivier Girouds last-gasp headed equal-
izer and dominated the second half a rare feat
against the Spanish.
Tuesday will be a completely different game,
France midfelder Blaise Matuidi said. They will
be even more motivated after their result against
Finland.
England warmed up for Montenegro with an
8-0 destruction of San Marino that felt like a train-
ing match as the players shared the goals. Mon-
tenegro had to fght much harder, needing a late
winner from Juventus forward Mirko Vucinic to
scrape a 1-0 win at Moldova.
It would be a great lift to win on Tuesday, but
if we dont get it I wont be getting the spade out
to dig a grave for the team, England coach Roy
Hodgson said. There are 15 points to play for and
the team is capable of getting a large number of
those points to see us through.
Hodgson welcomes back midfelder Steven
Gerrard and left back Ashley Cole, who were rest-
ed against San Marino, but will be without Gary
Cahill and Theo Walcott due to injury. Jermain
Defoe staked his claim for a starting place after
scoring twice on Friday.
Ukraine and Poland are both six points behind
England in Group H, with Montenegro leading
the way with 13 points. Ukraine faces Moldova
and Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewan-
dowski will be looking forward to target practice
as Poland faces San Marino.
Group A is much tighter, with Belgium and
Croatia level on 13 points.
Croatia has the tougher game away to Wales
which will be relying on Gareth Bale to con-
tinue his scoring spree while Belgium hosts
struggling Macedonia. Serbia faces last-place
Scotland in the other game.
Elsewhere, the Dutch and the Germans are fve
points clear of Hungary and Sweden, respective-
ly, in their groups while Russia has won every
match so far and are four ahead of Israel and Por-
tugal despite playing a game less.
Germany, which has played one game more
than Sweden in Group C, hosts Kazakhstan hav-
ing just beaten the Kazakhs 3-0 away from
home.
I believe our task is to improve our game fur-
ther and mould ourselves more as a team, said
Germany midfelder Sami Khedira. Agencies
...for France as they tackle Spain tomorrow in World Cup qualifer
NO APPROACH CHANGE
FROM LEFT: French team goalkeeper Hugo Lloris,
Christophe Jallet, Olivier Giroud, Mamadou Sakho and
Mathieu Valbuena run during a training session near
Paris on Friday after their victory against Georgia.
[PHOTO: FRANCK FIFE/ AFP]
Japan eye Brazil berth, Cahill calls for high tempo
TOKYO
Asian champions Japan
can become the frst side to
qualify for the 2014 World
Cup with victory in Jordan
tomorrow, while South Ko-
rea, Australia and Uzbeki-
stan are odds on to score
home wins and clarify the
crowded pool picture.
The Blue Samurai
thrashed Jordan 6-0 at home
in June, a result that has
helped them establish an
eight point lead over Austra-
lia, Iraq and Oman in their
Group B.
But Tuesdays clash in
Amman will be a tougher
prospect without the key
duo of playmaker Keisuke
Honda and attack-minded
fullback Yuto Nagatomo at a
venue where Jordan were
able to humble Australia in
September.
A 2-1 friendly win over
Canada in Qatar on Friday
involved some sloppy errors
by Asias best side and the
players know improvements
are required to see off Jor-
dan, who have bounced
back well from their Saitama
rout.
If we play like we did in
the frst half against Canada
then things could become
very diffcult for us, play-
maker Shinji Kagawa said
after the win over the North
Americans.
Shinji Okazaki should
start after scoring the open-
er against Canada with the
VfB Stuttgart forward de-
manding big improvements
ahead of the decisive quali-
fer.
It is good that we have
got this game out of the way
because we cant play like
we did (against Canada). We
allowed our opponents to
create a good shape and we
have to take a good look at
ourselves about that, he
said.
The Socceroos remain fa-
vourites, though, to grab the
runners-up spot and the
other Brazil berth from the
pool as they have a game in
hand on their rivals and host
three of their remaining four
matches.
Reuters
Japan goalkeeper Eiji
Kawashima. [PHOTO: AFP]
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