Welcome To Lake Nairobi. Just stay in your flooded House and Car No Problem Because there is No Government in the Country.

By Adongo Ogony April 25, 2024

  

Kilimani residents evacuated, houses & cars submerged as floods wreak havoc in Nairobi [Photos]

The heavy rains pounding Nairobi and other parts of the country have left a trail of destruction across the city with several city residents evacuated as flood waters rise.

Heavy rains on Saturday night left most city roads flooded, with vehicles submerged in some areas, with traffic snarl-ups reported across the county.

Namanga road in Kitengela was among the roads affected by the flooding.

Reports indicate that cars were swept by surging floods caused by poor drainage systems in the rapidly growing cosmopolitan town.

Videos and images circulated on social media showed vehicles leaning precariously along flooded roads.

A bus that was ferrying passengers was also depicted maneuvering the flooded road before losing control and falling on its side.

In some estates, flood water found its way into houses, with access completely cut off as

Residential areas were left under water with fallen trees obstructing motorists.

The leafy suburbs of Kilimani bore the brunt of the heavy downpour with vehicles and houses partially submerged in water.

With the heavy rains set to continue in the coming days based on forecasts by the Kenya Meteorology Department (Kenya Met), residents were asked to move to safer grounds until the flood water subsided.

“Keep those umbrellas handy and stay prepared for wet weather throughout the week,” Kenya Met noted in an update to Nairobi residents.

An update issued by Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) urged motorists to keep off several roads, including Raila Odinga (formerly Mbagathi Road) and Langata roads in Nairobi, and Links Road in Mombasa in the wake of the horror.

Poor drainage in the city has in the past been cited as a major concern with most blocked, resulting in flooded roads whenever it rains heavily.

60,000 displaced by floods in Nairobi

April 24, 2024

Four people have been confirmed dead while over 60,000 residents were displaced by floods in different parts of Nairobi following the heavy rainfall in the city.

In a statement on Wednesday April 24, 2024, Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja explained that about 60,000 residents, mostly women and children, were severely affected by floods in the city.

“Unfortunately we have lost 4 lives, and the search is on to locate 6 others who have been reported missing. 

“The following areas have been adversely affected; Kibra, Lindi, Mathare 4A and Mathare North, Baba Dogo, Githurai and Zimmerman,” Sakaja noted.

Sakaja released a statement after touring different parts of Nairobi, such as Mathare, Utalii in Ruaraka area that were hardest hit by the rains.

Machakos Governor Wavinya Ndeti assists rescue operations in Athi River and Syokimau PHOTOS: TV47

“This morning together with Members of Parliament in Nairobi and local leadership toured several areas amongst them Mathare, Utalii in Ruaraka area which has been the hardest hit by the rains. 

“Our mission this morning was to see the extent of the flooding, to hear from some of the people affected, get a glimpse into the scale and scope of the response and interventions from the joint team provided by Nairobi county,” Sakaja explained. 

He added that several bridges in the city have been affected namely; Mathare NorthJohn Saga, Huruma – Gateway Bridge, Ngumba bridge , 4B near Utalii hotel, Ngomongo (it was swept away), Githathuru footbridge near police depot, Sara Ngombe footbridge.

The four bodies of suspected flood victims were retrieved from Mathare River following heavy rains witnessed in Nairobi on Tuesday.

According to Starehe Sub-county Police Commander Fred Abuga the victims include two men and two women.

The police boss further stated that six other people remain unaccounted for as a search operation continues in Mathare.

Meanwhile, the bursting of Ngong River banks affected many areas across the city especially downstream including the flooding of Mbagathi Roundabout, flooding in Ectoville Industrial Estate in Mukuru kwa Rueben Ward, and flooding in Mwiki Ward along Eastern bypass.

Most of the roads were also affected by the floods, disrupting traffic and human movement in the city. 

Various roads were affected including: Raila Odinga Road, Jogoo road, Enterprise road, Ole Odume and Langata Road junction (near T-Mall), Langata south road, Eastern bypass, Kenyatta avenue that flooded due to huge volumes of water as a result of Ngong River bursting its banks. 

Other roads affected include Ojijo Road, Uhuru Highway and Mombasa Road.

In the Mathare slum in the capital, Nairobi, at least four bodies were retrieved from flooded houses on Wednesday. Local media reported that more bodies were retrieved from the Mathare River.

A family uses a boat after fleeing floodwaters that wreaked havoc in the Githurai area of Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday April 24, 2024. 

Kenya floods leave 70 dead as truck is swept away in deluge

By Louis Mian and Larry Madowo, CNN

Residents sift through the rubble as they recover their belongings after the Nairobi river burst its banks and destroyed their homes within the Mathare Valley settlement in Nairobi, Kenya on April 24, 2024. 

Nairobi Roads Closed, Buildings and Permits Halted as City Floods

byBrian Nzomo

 April 24, 2024

in Infrastructure

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And below is Nairobi River which William Ruto said will be cleaned in 30 days sometimes in 2023 and gave that job of cleaning up the river to his DP Rigathi Gachagua.

They have done a very good job it seems.

The sorry state of Kenya’s Nairobi River

On an overcast mid-morning in downtown Nairobi, the roads are muddy and trenches strewn with garbage. That same garbage will invariably end up in the Nairobi River, which snakes through the city. In the informal settlements downstream. The river is so polluted with all manner of garbage and industrial effluent. Sometimes dead bodies wash up.

Rehabilitation initiatives have yielded minimal success. The capital of 4.3 million people depend on water from the neighbouring Muranga County, while ironically, the permanent Nairobi River is rendered unusable.

Standing on a restored riparian patch on the banks of Nairobi River where a dumpsite stood last year, Fred Okinda, a resident of Korogocho recalls his younger days with nostalgia. In the early 1990’s he would swim with his friends in the river a short distance from his home. “Every day after school, swimming was our sport and we would come here with friends. The water was so clean,” he said.

Various government bodies, including the Nairobi County government, Athi Water, Ministry of Water, and the National Water Management Authority, among others, have for years announced programs to rehabilitate the river. Last year, government officials promised to rehabilitate the river in 30 days vowing to resign if that wasn’t achieved. It never happened, and no one resigned.

How are you prepared to deal with this problem of Floods? Since January you haven’t gotten a good plan to fix Nairobi’s Drainage route? This is a city, it’s a Disgrace to live in such an environment where everyone feels unsafe when it rains. Bwana Governor you need to Fix that.

Is this not Harmful to human health Bwana Governor?

It looks like you’ve just abandoned Nairobi. What a mess!

Now here is the amazing thing about Nairobi City. They have the Nairobi National Park right at the city edge which makes Nairobi the only capital city in the world to have something so great in their city.

A paved walkway inside the refurbished Uhuru Park in Nairobi.

We have Uhuru Park which is by far the largest natural park at the heart of any city in the world. And then we have Nairobi River and if we made that into a fresh water river in Nairobi it would be a gem with no equals in the world.

This Giraffe in Nairobi and so many of them in that park are taller than the huge buildings behind them in the city. It is a very good thing for the city. It is amazing quite frankly. There is no other capital city with that. When I take my nephews and nieces there they ask me if they are still in Nairobi. And then they go too much because they want to go to the animals.

The guards at the park have rules but the kids don’t care when they want to have fun and see animals and their kids in front of them. Don’t go near a rhino with a kid the guards told us. The kids went there when they saw the young rhino with the mother and it was good action by our buddy who just managed to drive them out of there.

Nairobi National Park.

Welcome to Nairobi National Park “The World’s only Wildlife Capital” , located just 7 kilometers from the city center. It is the only protected area in the world with such a huge variety of animals and birds close to a capital city. Our capital city has the potential with that Nairobi River clean and running to be an exceptional place to live in or visit.

When I saw River Nile running through Khartoum, the capital city of the Sudan, while flying from Tanzania, it was the most stunning thing I ever saw. I was with my two great friends and comrades David Onyango Oloo and Githirwa wa Muhoro from Dar es Salaam as Kenyan exiles being shipped to Canada by air and we were looking at this river in Khartoum. It just kept going on. We couldn’t believe it. If they gave us a chance we would have said lets step down here in for a while. Imagine Nairobi River like that in Nairobi County our capital city.

Instead Nairobi River is the ugliest place you even want to look at because it is full of garbage and every piece of shit anybody can imagine of. Nairobi river happens to pass right next to Nairobi University on the way to Chiromo campus and one time as students we were being shot at the campus at night and we ran out and some guys jumped into the river so they could hide and just come out to breathe. I said to myself I am not jumping into that filth and we ended up in a warehouse to hide from the police bullets. When we came back we told the folks who jumped into the river to take a shower a hundred times if they want to stay alive. They listened to us and did just that.

With a population of almost 5 million Nairobi is bigger than many countries in the world and if that place was managed by a serious national and county government it could be the best place in the whole world. Instead it is a piece of junk house which is right now covered in complete shit and garbage. Elections and choices Kenyans make have consequences and we can see that as a country.

Raila Tells President Ruto To Declare Floods A National Disaster

Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition party leader Raila Odinga is now appealing to President William Ruto to declare the ongoing heavy floods a national disaster, amid rising cases in displacement and deaths across various parts of the country.

The opposition chief, addressing the press on Wednesday evening, urged the Head of State to dispatch military response units as part of an emergency protocol to help in mitigating the damage being caused by the floods.

He also wants an emergency fund set up in a bid to assist flood victims, noting that opposition-allied Members of Parliament have since jointly raised a Ksh.1 million donation which shall be presented to the Kenya Red Cross for the cause.

“It is our urgent appeal that the President and government hereby declare the floods a national disaster and immediately activate all emergency mechanisms, including military disaster response teams,” he stated.

“The Red Cross moves to launch an emergency disaster support kitty to assist families affected by the flooding, for urgent distribution on case by case basis. As we speak the Azimio MPs assembled here have already put together the sum of Ksh.1 million as a start which shall be given to the Red Cross in Nairobi for distribution to the affected people.”

Mr. Odinga went ahead to urge the Governor Johnson Sakaja-led Nairobi County government to undertake proper rescue efforts in areas most affected by the floods and provide relevant support to all victims.

He further told the Kenya Kwanza government to put in place long-lasting measures to deal with the prenennial menace, noting that “as a country, we can do better than crying for help when rains come and crying for help again when the rains fail.”

“While we continue to receive reports from other parts of Nairobi and access to some neighbourhoods remains critically limited, we appeal to the government and other disaster response agencies to launch thorough search and rescue efforts in all affected areas, and provide food rations, blankets and medication to affected residents,” he said.

“It is important to point out that all forecasts show that the rains will be pouring some more tonight and the coming days, which means the disaster is about to get worse. Preparedness is key to forestalling a crisis of larger proportions.”

The other day Ruto and his crazies were telling Kenyans that they have prayed so hard and that is why there is rain in Kenya. Can Ruto now pray even more hard to ask his god to stop the rains and the floods in Nairobi. Our country truly has a sick government in place today.

In the meantime President William Ruto is very busy staying away from the stinking Lake Nairobi.

President Ruto Departs For Tanzania, Zimbabwe

By Citizen Reporter Published on: April 25, 2024

President Ruto will leave the country on Thursday afternoon for visits to Tanzania and Zimbabwe. 

According to State House Spokesperson Hussein Mohamed, President Ruto’s first stop will be Tanzania, where he will attend celebrations commemorating the 60th anniversary of the union of mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar. 

Ruto will then embark on a two-day State Visit to Zimbabwe, with the goal of strengthening Kenya-Zimbabwe political, economic, and socio-cultural ties.

Ruto arrives in Dar Es Salam, Tanzania

He’ll Friday attend 60th anniversary of Union of mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar Island.

President William Ruto arrives in Dar es Salaam ,Tanzania, ahead of the 60th anniversary of the Union of mainland Tanzania and the island of Zanzibar, April 25, 2024.
Image: PCS

President William Ruto on Thursday evening arrived in Dar Es Salam, Tanzania.

The President was received by Tanzania’s minister for Minerals, Anthony Mavunde.

President William Ruto arrives in Tanzania ahead of the marking of the 60th anniversary of the Union of mainland Tanzania and the island of Zanzibar, April 25, 2024.
Image: PCS

Ruto will participate in celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the Union of mainland Tanzania and the island of Zanzibar.

State House said his participation underscores Kenya’s cherished relationship, good neighbourliness, steadfast partnership and solidarity with the United Republic of Tanzania and its people.

President William Ruto, Mama Rachel Ruto, Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi in Tanzania ahead of the 60th anniversary of the Union of mainland Tanzania and the island of Zanzibar on April 25, 2024.

President William Ruto arrives at Dar es Salam, Tanzania; received by Anthony Mavunde, Minister for Minerals.

Trump Is Not Facing a “Hush Money” Trial. Trump was having sex with somebody who does that for a living and he paid her to Keep Quiet.

By Adongo Ogony April 23, 2024

 3 min read

For the first time in history, prosecutors will present a criminal case against a former American president to a jury Monday as they accuse Donald Trump of a hush money scheme aimed at preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public.

A 12-person jury in Manhattan is set to hear opening statements from prosecutors and defense lawyers in the first of four criminal cases against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to reach trial.

The statements are expected to give jurors and the voting public the clearest view yet of the allegations at the heart of the case, as well as insight into Trump’s expected defense.

Attorneys will also introduce a colorful cast of characters who are expected to testify about the made-for-tabloids saga, including a porn actor who says she had a sexual encounter with Trump and the lawyer who prosecutors say paid her to keep quiet about it.

2:01Trump trial: What to expect from historic hearing of the century?

Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and could face four years in prison if convicted, though it’s not clear if the judge would seek to put him behind bars. A conviction would not preclude Trump from becoming president again, but because it is a state case, he would not be able to attempt to pardon himself if found guilty. He has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

Unfolding as Trump vies to reclaim the White House, the trial will require him to spend his days in a courtroom rather than the campaign trail. He will have to listen as witnesses recount salacious and potentially unflattering details about his private life.

Trump has nonetheless sought to turn his criminal defendant status into an asset for his campaign, fundraising off his legal jeopardy and repeatedly railing against a justice system that he has for years claimed is weaponized against him.

Hearing the case is a jury that includes, among others, multiple lawyers, a sales professional, an investment banker and an English teacher.

The case will test jurors’ ability to set aside any bias but also Trump’s ability to abide by the court’s restrictions, such as a gag order that bars him from attacking witnesses. Prosecutors are seeking fines against him for alleged violations of that order.

4:45Man sets himself on fire outside Trump trial courthouse in New York

The case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg revisits a chapter from Trump’s history when his celebrity past collided with his political ambitions and, prosecutors say, he sought to prevent potentially damaging stories from surfacing through hush money payments.

One such payment was a $130,000 sum that Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer, gave to porn actor Stormy Daniels to prevent her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump from emerging into public shortly before the 2016 election.

Prosecutors say Trump obscured the true nature of the payments in internal records when his company reimbursed Cohen, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in 2018 and is expected to be a star witness for the prosecution.

Trump has denied having a sexual encounter with Daniels, and his lawyers argue that the payments to Cohen were legitimate legal expenses.

To convict Trump of a felony, prosecutors must show he not only falsified or caused business records to be entered falsely, which would be a misdemeanor, but that he did so to conceal another crime.

The allegations don’t accuse Trump of an egregious abuse of power like the federal case in Washington charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, or of flouting national security protocols like the federal case in Florida charging him with hoarding classified documents.

But the New York prosecution has taken on added importance because it may be the only one of the four cases against Trump that reaches trial before the November election. Appeals and legal wrangling have delayed the other three cases.

The other charge of which Trump has been convicted is sexual abuse which as a horrible a crime as anybody who wants to be the president of the USA can be charged with.

If Joe Biden was convicted of sexual assault he would be a dead man politically and not even the democrats would vote for him. On the other hand Donald Trump is a hero to the conservatives for being a rapist. It is beyond shameful.

Jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse, awards accuser $5M

Trump Sexually Abused E. Jean Carroll. That is the Jury Verdict in the Court.

A jury found Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996. The jury awarded her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House. (May 9) (AP video: David R Martin, Robert Bumsted)Videos

NEW YORK (AP) — A jury found Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House.

The verdict was split: Jurors rejected Carroll’s claim that she was raped, finding Trump responsible for a lesser degree of sexual abuse. The judgment adds to Trump’s legal woes and offers vindication to Carroll, whose allegations had been mocked and dismissed by Trump for years.

She nodded as the verdict was announced in a New York City federal courtroom only three hours after deliberations had begun, then hugged supporters and smiled through tears. As the courtroom cleared, Carroll could be heard laughing and crying.

Jurors also found Trump liable for defaming Carroll over her allegations. Trump did not attend the civil trial and was absent when the verdict was read.

Trump immediately lashed out on his social media site, claiming that he does not know Carroll and referring to the verdict as “a disgrace” and “a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time.” He promised to appeal.

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Trump’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, shook hands with Carroll and hugged her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, after the verdict was announced. Outside the courthouse, he told reporters the jury’s rejection of the rape claim while finding Trump responsible for sexual abuse was “perplexing” and “strange.”

“Part of me was obviously very happy that Donald Trump was not branded a rapist,” he said.

He defended Trump’s absence, citing the trial’s “circus atmosphere.” He said having Trump there “would be more of a circus.”

Tacopina added: “What more can you say other than ‘I didn’t do it’?”

In a written statement, Kaplan said the verdict proved nobody is above the law, “not even the president of the United States.”

Carroll, in her own statement, said she sued Trump to “clear my name and to get my life back. Today, the world finally knows the truth. This victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed.”

It was unclear what, if any, implications the verdict would have on Trump’s third presidential bid. He’s in a commanding position among GOP contenders and has faced few political consequences in the wake of previous controversies, ranging from the vulgar “Access Hollywood” tape to his New York criminal indictment.

His GOP rivals were mostly silent after the verdict, a sign of their reluctance to cross Trump supporters who are critical to winning the presidential nomination. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, one of the few vocal Trump critics in the race, said the verdict was “another example of the indefensible behavior of Donald Trump.”

Carroll was one of more than a dozen women who have accused Trump of sexual assault or harassment. She went public in a 2019 memoir with her allegation that the Republican raped her in the dressing room of a posh Manhattan department store.

Trump, 76, denied it, saying he never encountered Carroll at the store and did not know her. He has called her a “nut job” who invented “a fraudulent and false story” to sell a memoir.

Carroll, 79, sought unspecified damages, plus a retraction of what she said were Trump’s defamatory denials of her claims.

The trial revisited the lightning-rod topic of Trump’s conduct toward women.

Carroll gave multiple days of frank, occasionally emotional testimony, buttressed by two friends who testified that she reported the alleged attack to them soon afterward.

Jurors also heard from Jessica Leeds, a former stockbroker who testified that Trump abruptly groped her against her will on an airline flight in the 1970s, and from Natasha Stoynoff, a writer who said Trump forcibly kissed her against her will while she was interviewing him for a 2005 article.

The six-man, three-woman jury also saw the well-known 2005 “Access Hollywood” hot-mic recording of Trump talking about kissing and grabbing women without asking.

The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll, Leeds and Stoynoff have done.

The verdict comes as Trump faces an accelerating swirl of legal risks.

He’s fighting a New York criminal case related to hush money payments made to a porn actor. The state attorney general has sued him, his family and his business over alleged financial wrongdoing.

Trump is also contending with investigations into his possible mishandling of classified documents, his actions after the 2020 election and his activities during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump denies wrongdoing in all of those matters.

Carroll, who penned an Elle magazine advice column for 27 years, has also written for magazines and “Saturday Night Live.” She and Trump were in social circles that overlapped at a 1987 party, where a photo documented them and their then-spouses interacting. Trump has said he doesn’t remember it.

According to Carroll, she ended up in a dressing room with Trump after they ran into each other at Bergdorf Goodman on an unspecified Thursday evening in spring 1996.

They took an impromptu jaunt to the lingerie department so he could search for a women’s gift and soon were teasing each other about trying on a skimpy bodysuit, Carroll testified. To her, it seemed like comedy, something like her 1986 “Saturday Night Live” sketch in which a man admires himself in a mirror.

But then, she said, Trump slammed the door, pinned her against a wall, planted his mouth on hers, yanked her tights down and raped her as she tried to break away. Carroll said she ultimately pushed him off with her knee and immediately left the store.

“I always think back to why I walked in there to get myself in that situation,” she testified, her voice breaking, “but I’m proud to say I did get out.”

She never called police or noted it in her diary. Carroll said she kept silent for fear Trump would retaliate, out of shame and because she worried that people would see her as somewhat responsible for being attacked.

The jury awarded Carroll $2 million for Trump’s sexual abuse and $20,000 in punitive damages. For defamation, jurors awarded $1 million for Trump’s October statement, another $1.7 million for harm to Carroll’s reputation and $280,000 in punitive damages.

Tacopina told jurors Carroll invented her claims after hearing about a 2012 “Law and Order” episode in which a woman is raped in the dressing room of the lingerie section of a Bergdorf Goodman store.

Carroll “cannot produce any objective evidence to back up her claim because it didn’t happen,” he told jurors. He accused her of “advancing a false claim of rape for money, for political reasons and for status.”

In questioning Carroll, he sought to cast doubt on her description of fighting off the far heavier Trump without dropping her handbag or ripping her tights, and without anyone around to hear or see them in the lingerie section.

The lawyer pressed her about — by her own account — not screaming, looking for help while fleeing the store or seeking out medical attention, security video or police.

Carroll reproached him.

“I’m telling you he raped me, whether I screamed or not,” she said.

There’s no possibility of Trump being charged with attacking Carroll, as the legal time limit has long since passed.

For similar reasons, she initially filed her civil case as a defamation lawsuit, saying Trump’s derogatory denials had subjected her to hatred, shredded her reputation and harmed her career.

Then, starting last fall, New York state gave people a chance to sue over sexual assault allegations that would otherwise be too old. Carroll was one of the first to file.

Imagine Joe Biden is convicted of sexual assault and has to pay $ 464 million for that. Dr. Jill Biden would be gone to begin with. That is not happening and here is Dr. Jill Biden.

As a classroom teacher for over 30 years, advocating for increased educational opportunities for all students, of all ages, is close to her heart.  From championing universal pre-school, teacher recruitment and retention, opportunities for career-connected learning, and more affordable options for education after high school, including free community college, Dr. Biden continues her work promoting quality education for everyone.

Cancer affects every community and it’s a common dark thread for so many, including the Biden family.  In recognition of World Cancer Day 2022, the President and First Lady reignited the Cancer Moonshot, laying out bold goals and a vision to end cancer as we know it.  As First Lady, Dr. Biden has continued to work on behalf of American families confronting cancer, focusing on supporting patients and their loved ones during their cancer journeys; urging Americans to prioritize their cancer screenings; and reducing health inequities in diagnosis, treatment, research, and outcomes. 

Finally Atwoli Has Realized Fazul had a Fake Degree because the Guy is Blocking His Money.

By Adongo Ogony April 17, 2024

Atwoli Wants PSRA Boss Fazul Arrested, Prosecuted For Allegedly Forging Academic Certificates

Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary General Francis Atwoli has called for the resignation and subsequent prosecution of Private Security Regulatory Authority (PSRA) Director General Fazul Mahamed over claims of forging his academic credentials to secure government employment.

This comes after Mahamed on Monday directed private security companies to stop deducting and remitting security officers’ fees to COTU, citing the union’s alleged failure to advocate for the rights of private security officers in Kenya despite receiving monthly contributions from them.

Mahamed, in the directive that caused him to butt heads with Atwoli, also threatened the revocation of licenses for security firms that would not adhere to the order.

In a Tuesday rejoinder, Atwoli questioned Mahamed’s credentials citing 2016 reports from the EACC and the Office of the Ombudsman which reportedly declared him as unqualified for public office having allegedly falsified a degree from Egerton University.

“At this point, COTU (K) urges the ODPP to expedite the prosecution of Fazul due to his alleged criminal activities, which led to his appointment as CEO of the NGO Board. If the ODPP fails to prosecute Fazul promptly, despite the evidence of his criminal activities, COTU (K) will engage a private prosecutor to protect Kenyan workers from this individual,” said Atwoli.

“Considering the lack of purpose and direction by Fazul, at the helm of PSRA, it might be prudent for him to resign so that the body finds a competent person who understands the role(s) of a regulator.”

Additionally, Atwoli faulted Mahamed for what he termed as meddling in the affairs of the Kenya National Private Security Workers Union (KNPSWU), Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and the Federation of Kenyan Employers (FKE).

“In a manner to profess his megalomaniac character, Fazul has christened himself as the Employer, Regulator, and Union, at the same time. Without a doubt, the path Fazul has taken can only come to a tragic end following his Hyena-like Dilemma,” stated the COTU boss.

“It must be remembered that COTU is a free and independent trade union that is neither regulated by Private Security Regulatory Authority nor any other government agency.  As such the demands contained in the letter by PSRA can only be made by the union members and/or the respective union.”

Atwoli further labelled PSRA, under Mahamed’s stewardship, as the greatest impediment to the enhancement of the rights and welfare of private security firms in Kenya.

“COTU has received numerous complaints on the same through our affiliate union, Kenya National Private Security Workers Union. PSRA has, for long, stood against the many reforms proposed by COTU (K) towards enhanced welfare of the Private Security Workers,” said Atwoli.

The COTU boss also highlighted the legal framework under which union dues are collected from PRSA.

“The union dues COTU (K) receives from Private Security Workers, through their Union’s Affiliation to COTU (K), is as a consequence of a Gazette Notice by the Ministry of Labour, dated 2nd September 2016, considering the labour laws and the requirements of the constitution of COTU,” he noted.

Happy Jamhuri Day To Comrades and Hustlers In The Country.

Francis Atwoli has been the most useless COTU and labour union leader ever in the history of the country. Right now he has been COTU Secretary General for more than twenty years making millions every month in payments and benefits and living large and never doing anything for Kenyan workers.

The flamboyant COTU boss owns various mansions which accentuate his opulence. 

An article by The Standard in 2018, the labour leader owns multi-million houses in Nairobi, Nakuru and Ildamat in Kajiado county, adding to his posh rural home in Kakamega.

Photos of Atwoli’s IIbisil home in Kajiado were first publicized in August 2016 when the Cotu boss hosted all delegates attending the 10th EATUC Summit at his home.

Set on the scenic planes that could pass for a canvass painting, the Kajiado mansion is Atwoli’s latest chill spot.

Speaking during a past interview, Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria once described the COTU boss’s home as therapeutic, with its manicured lawns, perfectly trimmed hedges and as well as its pristine location.

However, Atwoli maintains that he is among the few leaders who have toiled for decades to attain his vast wealth.

The worker’s boss famed for driving a Mercedes Benz-s300 model, once claimed that he pays for his cars by instalments and only brings them home after the last payment, for fear that his well-connected haters could order banks to repossess them.

Here are a few more photos of Atwoli’s Kajiado home:

And this super rich crook, Francis Atwoli, is supposed to be the leader of Kenyan workers. Is it any wonder Kenyans workers are going nowhere with their needs and have no hope. Get Atwoli out of there and do it quick.

At a time of great crisis in the Kenyan workforce with one of the most important unions in the country KMPDU on strike, Atwoli has nothing to offer them or even pretend to defend them. Atwoli is working with President Ruto now and the doctors and healthcare providers can go to hell as far as he is concerned and everybody can go get healthcare in Dubai like him and Ruto. What a shame for a trade union leader.

And who in Kenya really cares if these Ruto guys have university degrees. They can keep their nothing education because nobody cares. Dumb is Dumb.

At some point Kenyans had leaders like these in their workers unions.

Death of Dennis Akumu Former COTU-K & OATTU Secretary General

Death of Dennis Akumu Former COTU-K & OATTU Secretray General

It is with great sadness that the Central Organisation of Trade Unions, COTU (K) announces the passing on of a veteran politician and former Trade Union leader  both in Kenya and on the entire African Continent Brother Dennis Akumu.

DP Gachagua Claims He Has List Of Senior Gov’t Officials With ‘River Road Degrees’

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has claimed to know the people who issue fake academic certificates at River Road and some of the senior government officials who have benefitted from the illegal trade.

Gachagua, who spoke on Wednesday during the third National Wage Bill Conference at the Bomas of Kenya, divulged that some cartels in the business of issuing fake academic documents had approached him as a potential client.

He said the unnamed individuals revealed to him that they had been of service to many government officials who needed the fake papers to secure employment in public service on a whim.

These officials, the DP noted, are very well known to his boss, President William Ruto, and he is willing to expose them to him.

“Many people in the government, Governors, heads of department, even some who are sitting here with you, most of them their papers ziko na dosari,” he told the President.

“These people of River Road have been looking for me saying why are you, the deputy president, complaining? Tumesaidia wengi, tumesaidia fulani, fulani na fulani…I will give you the list which I was given of the people who have been helped.”

While insisting that he had always turned down the offers, Gachagua however cited his current educational background, reiterating that he feels lonely as most fellow senior government officials including President Ruto have more than one degree and higher education qualifications.

Nonetheless, he reaffirmed that he is content with his level of education, and that’s why he was adamant about taking the shortcut.

“When I have been complaining that I am feeling lonely at the top because my boss has three degrees, Controller of State House also three, and I have one,” Gachagua noted.

“As for me, I don’t care much about papers, because I don’t want to go to River Road; I am satisfied with the little I have.”

The DP thus expressed his commitment to the fight against fake academic certificates, urging his boss to step up and make hard decisions to root out all culprits in the public sector.

According to the DP, the number of people with forged documents in government goes to thousands and if weeded out, may save the country billions amid the ballooning wage bill debate.

“This issue of fake certificates, I think it is a quick win for us; if we make a decision to get rid of all the fellows and characters with fake certificates, probably we could knock 10,000 people from the wage bill and recover a billion or two,” he noted.

“In this matter of fake certificates, make hard decisions which will be beneficial to this country and it will form part of your legacy.”

Gachagua at the same time recalled the 2022 presidential race where President Ruto was selecting a running mate and it came down to himself and Interior Cabinet Secretary Prof. Kithure Kindiki as the last two candidates.

He joked how some people were advising him to forge even a single Master’s degrees to match up to his rival at the time, Prof. Kindiki, who many people had purported to be the favourite candidate due to his education qualification.

Gachagua lightly said he turned a deaf ear to the requests and instead, during his interview, assured President Ruto of his commitment to help him in moving the country forward if picked despite his academic status.

“As you were looking for a running mate and it was me and Prof Kindiki who were on the final shortlist, and my supporters were feeling probably I could be disadvantaged because Kindiki was at the top…A lot of my supporters were calling me telling me tunaeza panga haraka haraka ata kama ni ka Masters utafutiwe ndio ufike pale,” Gachagua explained.

“When you called me to the interview and asked me about my education qualification, I said I had one degree and you asked ata Master’s hauna? I said just accept me the way I am and I will struggle in the future.”

For me I don’t care about academic qualifications for politicians and state officials. If you are Ruto, Gachagua, Atwoli or anybody in that government all you have to do is steal public money from Kenyans. Do you need a university degree to do that? No you don’t. That is what Kenyans have to deal with.

I was talking to my niece on Friday last week. She graduated as a nurse last year. It was so hard to get her through the nursing Medical Training School and we had to pay so much tuition money. It was me and her brother who is a pharmacist in Nairobi and of course her mom in Uyoma. And we just said we have to get her through from 2020 to 2024. Now she is done. She is a Registered Nurse in Kenya.

She called and she asked me if she can apply for the nursing jobs for Kenyans in Saudi Arabia that are being promoted by the Ruto government. I was too scared to answer her. I told her I will talk with her good friend who is my son.

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So I told the young man his cousin whom he knows very well wants to go to Saudi Arabia and work as a nurse there after she graduated from Medical School.

The boy told me no way and he is going to deal with the issue himself. He told me Kenyans get killed in Saudi Arabia. No way he was letting his cousin go there. So I said fine they talk about it by themselves.

They are good friends so they will talk and sort it out. They are grown ups and they can deal with it.

My other niece who is the sister to this nurse is a teacher. My son and and her have a good story. The boy gives her his suitcase when she was going to Maseno University. Then I tell her if she doesn’t make it she has to give back the suitcase. She graduates and becomes a teacher and asks me if I want the suitcase back. She is now a teacher in South Nyanza. Her mother and me laugh about these things.

And then K and his so many cousins they told me to leave them alone because they are going to figure it out.

Kithure Kindiki makes a mess about Doctors Strike. Can he get some Legal Advice and Common Sense

By Adongo Ogony April 9, 2024

The rudeness and just outright ignorance of Ruto Cabinet Secretaries is now common knowledge to Kenyans because they see it everyday. Kithure Kindiki took it a step further when he banned doctors strike and ordered them to go back to work.

In the media reports, in a terse statement Tuesday, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki termed the industrial action by the health workers illegal for defying a court order to go back to work.

Consequently, he has directed police to ensure strict maintenance of law and order to protect the general public and the health workers providing services pending the resolution of the labour dispute.

“It is noted with grave concern that the participants in the industrial action by health workers continue to defy the aforesaid court order and to intimidate and threaten violence against health workers who have opted not to participate in the unlawful strike” he said.

“Gatherings, protests or whatever other action(s) in pursuit of grievances outside the law and in breach of court directives undermines the constitutional order of the Country and are, therefore, not permissible” he stated.

Kindiki should know that doctors are not like the cattle rustlers in Pokot where he uses threats as his only line of work. This is a different ball game altogether.

If Kithure Kindiki knew anything about the laws of Kenya (real laws not KK madness) he would know if indeed the doctors are acting in contempt of a court order there is no authority by the state to ban such actions. The only option in which any party is in contempt of a court order is to take them back to court and ask the judges to make a ruling on contempt charges and usually if you win the contempt case the courts will order the party in contempt to stop it immediately and follow the original court order or be sent to jail mostly for something like two months until they accept to do what the court order asked them to do.

So if William Ruto and his mob had any knowledge of the laws of Kenya and a little bit of common sense they would take the case back to the courts and file contempt charges. The real problem there is that the doctors may go to court and decide they are ready to go to jail for two months but they are not going back to work unless their demands are met.

That would be wonderful for sick Kenyans waiting for medical services if they can go to jail with the doctors and get healthcare services there. In reality this whole doctors strike is getting out of control and it is a matter days before Kenyans come out to join them in the streets.

So Ruto can start tear gassing them or put them in jail and you will have hundreds of thousands of Kenyans in the streets and whole situation explodes. Right now it looks like the matter is headed to the streets with mass action to support Kenyan doctors and other medical health providers. If that is what Ruto wants that is what he is going to get and the sooner the better for the whole country.

Azimio Threatens To Join Doctors In Strike If Issues Not Resolved

In the latest news the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition party leaders have threatened to join doctors in their ongoing demonstrations if the government will not move with speed to unlock the current stalemate.

Led by Wiper party boss Kalonzo Musyoka, the opposition faction said they are ready to show solidarity with the medics in the streets if push comes to shove.

The leaders, who addressed the press on Tuesday, also slammed President William Ruto for dismissing the doctors’ call to have their terms improved.

Interns are not being posted. Reports suggesting that over 1000 interns are currently unaware of their futures despite having completed their rigorous 6 year course. The required number of interns however is larger.

“This regime is failing its citizens. We’re consulting, and if they do not stop this strike, we as Kenyans will be free to join…(because) the only language they (government) understands ni kuenda kwa mitaa,” said Kalonzo.

DAP Kenya party leader Eugene Wamalwa added: “Interior CS Kithure Kindiki has outlawed the strike, meaning beginning tomorrow we might start seeing teargas. As Azimio we’re saying it is their (doctors’) constitutional right under Article 37, and if this government instead of addressing the root cause, is going to use teargas and force against the doctors, as Azimio we’re ready to come out to stand with them.”

Kalonzo went on to accuse President Ruto of double-speak in the matter, noting that the doctors’ issues should be addressed immediately.

He further decried that as a result of the ongoing medics’ go-slow, most families have been left exposed and are now suffering.

Ruto government has money for all sorts of expenses for themselves but nothing to pay for health workers who keep the citizens alive. This is just insane.

The most sensible thing for William Ruto and his fumbling cabinet ministers to do now is call for an immediate meeting with KMPDU and other health provider unions and have a honest and frank meeting and stop issuing useless media threats which have not solved anything so far.

At that meeting let both sides put everything on the table and come to a practical and fair compromise to get health providers back at work and sort things as we go along.

The funding formula for medical services in Kenya need to be streamlined. Right now counties like Nyeri are threatening to fire all the doctors in the county. On Monday Monday April 8, 2024 Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga declared he is firing all 59 doctors from Nyeri hospitals because of the strike.

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 – All doctors participating in the ongoing strike in Nyeri County face imminent sack

These idiots don’t even know that the doctors can walk out of those jobs and get better jobs elsewhere including in the private sector and you can keep your public hospitals as modern day morgues and hire morticians to work there. Those doctors who work in public hospitals that our politicians are insulting are some of the most experienced doctors in the country and they have been working right in the midst of very complicated health problems for Kenyans.

If Ruto and the likes of that Nyeri governor don’t want Kenyan doctors they can quit and go get jobs in a matter of days at health centres across the country and also open their own health institutions everywhere in Kenya. The rule usually for the doctors who go to Kenya Medical School is that they have to take jobs in the public sector if offered. Now if they are fired that rule is dead and they are free to get jobs wherever they find them.

Some counties want private union deals for each county. That is a recipe for total chaos because there will be strikes in 20 to 30 counties every week and the entire healthcare system in Kenya will be in ruins. The doctors have a national union called KMPDU because that means all health providers in Kenya work under the same terms guided by the same standards of care provided and paid the same so that healthcare providers do not refuse to work in certain counties.

If nothing happens in the next couple of days, Azimio and other Kenyans should be ready to offer support to the doctors and mobilize mass action to join the doctors. The opposition has done a good job keeping off so that the always grumbling Ruto mob do not start accusing doctors of working with politicians. Now it is the Ruto government leaving the opposition no choice but to do their job and help the doctors get a deal and go back to work for the sake of suffering Kenyans.

And things are only getting crazier.

One hundred striking doctors fired by Kenyan hospital as national strike approaches one month

A recent development in Kenya has led to a public hospital in Nairobi firing 100 doctors who took part in a nationwide strike that began almost a month ago. The Kenyatta University Referral Hospital has stated that new doctors have been hired to replace the striking doctors.

And the geniuses at the Kenyatta hospital has found a perfect way to replace the 100 doctors they have fired by hiring 5 foreign doctors. The whole country is in a sink hole going down the toilet in a hurry. Can President Ruto speed this up so that when the country hits the bottom of the toilet hole Kenyans can begin to rise and come back to normal. Opposition politicians need to stop talking and get into action before it is too late. If they need Raila to get out of the AUC race and help save the country they should tell him that now. Kenya is more important than a seat of AUC in Ethiopia and everybody can see that now.

KUTRRH Hires 5 Foreign Doctors, Serves Striking Medics With Dismissal, Suspension Letters

Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral & Research Hospital (KUTRRH) is seeking to enlist the services of foreign doctors to help avert a looming medical disaster at the 650-bed facility. 

According to Prof. Olive Mugenda, Chairperson of the KUTRRH Board, the strike has stranded scores of patients, including cancer patients who are about to begin chemotherapy and those already under treatment .  

“Some people have begun chemotherapy and are at home and for some these treatments are needed urgently,”  Prof.Mugenda told journalists on Tuesday. 

“After consultation with the board, we thought it wise–and we have permission from the government to hire some foreign doctors to help us,”

So far, the facility has enlisted the services of four oncologists from Ethiopia, Malawi, and Tanzania, allowing some critical services to resume. 

According to Prof. Mugenda, with the new hires, the facility was able to conduct approximately 40 chemotherapy sessions on Monday.

“They are clinical oncologists from East Africa, they are trained and are already doing a good job,” She added. 

Regarding the future of the hospital’s striking doctors, Prof Mugenda stated that the majority of them had received dismissal or suspension letters.

Yes Indeed Kenya Must Live Within Its Means Just Like Ruto is doing With Public Money

By Adongo Ogony April 8, 2024

President William Ruto has told doctors to understand that there is a limit to what the government can spend on their salaries and allowances.

Saying the government values the work doctors and interns play in the health sector, the President pointed out that the country cannot continue to live beyond its means.

“The resources we have are only sufficient to pay KSh70,000 for intern doctors. This is not a salary; it is a stipend for only one year. Afterwards, they will be employed,” he said.

President Ruto said the government is working towards reducing the country’s wage bill, which currently stands at 47 per cent, to the legal requirement of 35 per cent.

“We are spending KSh1.1 trillion of the KSh2.2 trillion revenue we collect every year to pay salaries and allowances. This is way above what we should be spending on salaries,” he said.

“As a nation, we must agree that we must live within our means. We cannot continue to spend the money we do not have,” he added.

The President announced that Kenya will host a conference to address the nation’s wage bill between April 15 and 17.

“I will continue the path of making the right decisions for the country because you can never be wrong if you make the right decisions even though they may not be popular or easy,” he said.

Here are vivid examples of how the Ruto government is living within its means. It looks fantastic for Kenyans. Doesn’t it?

At some level Kenyans have to admit that we have a truly incompetent, corrupt and just absolutely stupid government. Nothing makes sense. Ruto spends most of his time in the airplanes and foreign countries trying to look important. Ruto cabinet secretaries in every single area do nothing at all except for Kindiki Kithure who is permanently taking pictures making announcements.

120 Bags Of Suspected Fake Fertilizer Nabbed In Bungoma

Police in Bungoma have nabbed a lorry carrying 120 bags of top-dressing fake fertilizer on April 7, 2024.

They can’t even get something as simple as delivering fertilizers to farmers without allowing their crooks to sale fake fertilizer of garbage and rocks to Kenyans and now they don’t even know who sold them the crappy fertilizers. Of course the government knows who sold all that stuff because those are people working with the Ruto government.

Definitely William Ruto is not using fake fertilizers in his Koelel farm where he was on Sunday.

  

In photographs shared by the President’s communications team, Ruto is seen holding fertilizers.

    

President William Ruto working at his Koelel Farm in Uasin Gishu County in April 7, 2024

This is a sad show off where Ruto is telling Kenyans he has all the good fertilizer for his massive farms and Kenyans can have the donkey poo and stones for fertilizers in their tiny farms. Great president. Right?

Now Kenyans are dying or running to Tanzania to get desperately needed medical services and Ruto’s message to them is to just hang there and maybe use kienyeji medicine because the government cannot afford to pay doctors.

Empty wards.

We Aren’t Scapegoats For Wage Bill Reduction – KMPDU Fires Back At Ruto

The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists, and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has vowed that doctors will not back down from holding street protests despite a tongue-lashing by President William Ruto.

“We mind them (doctors), we value the service they give to the nation, but we must live within our means. The resources we have are only sufficient to pay Ksh.70,000 for intern doctors. It is not a salary, it is only a stipend for one year then they will be employed,” he said. 

Minutes after Ruto’s declaration, KMPDU Secretary General Davji Atellah said they will not accept to be the “scapegoats for wage bill reduction” and their demands still remain on the table.

“Despite government pressure, doctors’ salaries, anchored on CBA, are non-negotiable. We won’t compromise on fair compensation for our hard work. It’s unjust to target us for wage bill control while state officers enjoy hefty paychecks,”

“We stand united against exploitation.”

Barrack Muluka summed up the Ruto government perfectly in a media interview with KTN.

‘It Is A Rogue And Gangster Regime,’ Former ANC Secretary General Muluka Says On Gov’t

Former Amani National Congress (ANC) Secretary General and political commentator Barrack Muluka has termed President William Ruto’s government as a “gangster and rogue regime”.

In an interview on KTN News on Friday morning, Muluka alleged that the government has been embezzling public funds and splurging them on luxurious items like watches and chairs.

“It is a rogue regime, and it should be called what it is. Today, we can only term this as a gangster regime,” affirmed Muluka.

“Nobody spends ten million earned shillings on a watch; it must be stolen resources. Nobody splurges the kind of resources we have seen on the papers on a chair for their office,” Muluka stated.

He went on to condemn the government for selling fake fertilisers to farmers, arguing that the perpetrators should be brought to book, but the government has failed to do so.

“When someone is selling stones and donkey waste to farmers and calling it fertilisers, and are not arrested, it is because the entire thing is an organic system that is functioning the way it should be,” he said.

The political commentator additionally stated that those who elected the government into power owe the country an apology.

Fake Fertilizer Fake Probe by the Ruto Regime. What else is New

By Adongo Ogony April 7, 2024

Fake Fertiliser Probe: DCI Summons SBL Manager As Gov’t Unveils Compensation Plan For Farmers

By Serfine Achieng Published on: April 06, 2024

The Ministry of Agriculture has directed the National Cereals and Produce Board to replace all the substandard fertilizers that were distributed to farmers as it escalates the probe into the fake fertilizer scandal.

Agriculture Principal Secretary Paul Ronoh has confirmed plans for thorough scrutiny of the entire fertilizer supply chain warning of tough legal action against those found culpable.

His warning came, even as the Directorate of Criminal Investigations on Saturday summoned businessman Josiah Kimani Kariuki, the director of SBL Innovate Manufacturers Limited, to answer queries over the fertilizer saga.

“We are going to replace the fertilizer with the right fertiliser because it is under investigation for the farmers who have used the fertilisers already we have also analysed the missing component in those fertilisers which shall be addressed by top dressing fertilisers,” said PS Ronoh.

On the magnitude of the impact, he said: “The impact is very negligible, very insignificant because we arrested this very early. These are the counties which started planting in March counties in the South Rift or North Rift.”

His remarks come a day after the government suspended the operations of KEL chemicals and seized its fertiliser products following a report by KEBS that confirmed that it did not meet the required quality standards.

Ronoh has revealed plans to have a thorough scrutiny of the entire fertilizer supply chain warning of tough legal action against those found culpable of swindling innocent farmers.

“What you will be hearing are people in court, people in jail and some disappearing and the reason is we cannot allow our food basket to be messed by a few individuals,” he stated.

His warning came as businessman Kariuki, was summoned by the DCI to be questioned on the ongoing probe.

Accompanied by his lawyers, the businessman insisted that his company is duly licensed and produces legitimate fertilizer.

“We applied for the licence through KEBS, they went to the factory, took a sample and asked me to send a methodology of what I was doing; I sent it, they came back and said you can start your business and that’s how I started,” said Kariuki.

His Lawyer Danstan Omari added: “Ako tayari kupeana list ya wakulima ambao wanatumia mbolea yake ili taifa zima na vyombo vya habari viende pale vidhibitshe iwapo mbolea hii ni gushi.”

The businessman has in the meantime secured a court order barring the police from arresting and detaining him over the reported fake fertiliser scandal.

In a ruling delivered by High Court judge Justice Diana Kavedza on April 3, 2024, Kariuki was granted anticipatory bail of Ksh.100,000 and the matter was certified as urgent.

Through his lawyers, the businessman claims that he is being dragged into the fertilizer mess by his business competitors and those keen on concealing the truth.

“That competition is what has made them seek somebody to cling on to say that this is the person distributing fake fertiliser,” Omari claimed.

“The government should just do a cleanup process and go to where this fertiliser is to find out who sold to them this fertilizer and who brought it because a paper trail must be there.”

He was given a date with the DCI on Monday next week as he is also expected to appear before the Senate Committee on Agriculture on Tuesday.

The prevailing crisis in the agriculture sector attracted mixed reactions from a section of leaders who are now calling for increased awareness among farmers.