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  • Kenya MP distances self from pay rise demands

    MPs entered the house earning Sh50,000 and they got Sh500,000 which is quite big for them and they are contented with it. Some of us didn't join parliament so as just to earn money, we have worked for many years without pay serving the people," said Njuki. The MP stressed on the need for servant leadership and vowed to serve the country irrespective of ...

  • MPs Are Only the Face of Our Collective Greed

    Tuesday 14th May saw a demonstration outside Parliament to protest the MPs planned salary increment. While I was in solidarity with them on the notion of ensuring that as a nation, leader's salaries ought not to be a mill stone on the national GDP, their rage was misplaced and they failed to see our collective role in the MPs clawing at the budget. I think MPs ought to be given that salary ...

  • Priest Attacked By Employee

    The priest-in-charge of Christ the King Catholic Parish in Nanyuki town is recuperating at Huruma Mission Hospital after being hit with a hammer on the head by his employee. Father Franco Crabu was attacked by his long time driver Emmanuel Wachira on Monday following an unknown dispute. According to the Parish chairman Samson Mburugu, Wachira came to the Father's house on Monday evening, ...

  • Isiolo Woman Asks CJ to Intervene

    A woman has appealed to Chief Justice Willy Mutunga to intervene and rescind a court decision to have her pay a lawyer an outstanding bill until her case is complete. Lilian Nkirote has been ordered by an Isiolo court to pay her lawyer Mbaabu M'Inoti Sh48,076 failure to which she will be jailed. Speaking to reporters in Meru town, Nkirote said they had originally agreed with the lawyer ...

  • Kenyans Asked to Report Corrupt Procurement

    Report procurement malpractices in your county to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission. There have been reports of county governments being accused of illegal recruitment. Here is Irene Keino from the ...

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9 Songs [DVD]

9 Songs [DVD]

Almost as soon as it was possible to record motion pictures on flexible celluloid, someone had the idea of using it to record people having sex. Primitive one-reel stag films date back to the very beginnings of the cinema in the 1890s, thus the idea of depicting actual sex acts on film is nothing ... ...

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  • Lawyer Quits Bungoma Poll Petition

    A lawyer representing a petitioner in a case filed at the Bungoma High Court challenging the election of a Bungoma women's representative has sought to withdraw from the case. Lawyer Sichele sort to withdraw from representing the major Godfrey Masaba in a case challenging the election of Reginalda Wanyonyi. Judge Hellen Omondi directed that the petitioner appoints another advocate to ...

  • Six Murder Suspects Out of Tana Delta Police Cells

    Six murder suspects yesterday escaped from Gamba police station in the Tana Delta. Five of the suspects are accused of killing police officers in Kilelengwani last year. The sixth was allegedly involved in the killing of a schoolboy, who was shot with an arrow, at Chara last week. The boy died while undergoing treatment at Coast General Hospital. Sources said the suspects escaped through the ...

  • Kanunga High School On the Spot Over Missing Student

    The parent of a boy who went missing two months ago from Kanunga High School has written to the Ministry of Education PS seeking the government's intervention to have the school investigated. Speaking to the press outside the school compound yesterday, Kellen Wairimu said 17-year-old Obadiah Karanja disappeared after he was allegedly sent home on March 15 by the school deputy principal ...

  • Lost Pupil Found in Webuye

    A standard eight pupil who went missing 10 days ago has been found. Ibrahim Okwiri of Kakamega Hill school who disappeared from the school a day after the schools opened was found in Webuye where he had joined street families. His mother, Caroline Shichenje, said Ibrahim went missing from the school on May 6. The school management did not inform Ibrahim's parents or report the matter to ...

  • Kisumu Slums Children Get Sh21.1 Funding

    SOME 7,800 Most Vulnerable Children living in slums in Kisumu County have benefitted from Early Childhood Development Education. The programme targets MVCs who include school children who are at risk of dropping out. The project is designed to complement the Kisumu City Directorate of Education office's efforts to achieve the second millennium development goals. The Sh21.1 million project ...

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