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Curfew to run until May 29, for the infected zone.

14Apr

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Curfew to run until May 29, for the infected zone.

Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i has said the ongoing curfew will run until May 29, 2021. This is both for the disease infected zone and the rest of the country. The infected zones curfew run from 8pm to 4am while the rest of the country from 10pm to 4am. The president in his directives last month did not give a timeline for the curfews only noting that the restrictions will stay in place "until otherwise notified." In the Gazette Notice dated April 12, Matiang'i said the curfew will be in place for 60 days effective March 29, 2021. The initial Legal Notice issued on March 29 had indicated that the 8pm to 4am curfew would run across the country and would be in place for 30 days. In the revised Gazette Notice, the CS also included Advocates as among t...

Abdulkadir Haji sworn in as Garissa Senator.

13Apr

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Abdulkadir Haji sworn in as Garissa Senator.

Abdulkadir Mohamed Haji has been sworn in as the Senator for Garissa county. He replaces his father, the late Yusuf Haji, who died on February 13 at the Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi where he had been undergoing treatment. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission declared Haji as the Garissa senator on April 6. IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati announced that there was “no contest” and declared Haji “duly elected as the Senator, Garissa County.” The Garissa by-election had been scheduled for May 18. He was to contest for the senatorial seat on a Jubilee Party ticket but was the only candidate in the race. Haji is a renowned businessman and featured among private arm holders who played a key role in the rescue mission during the Westgate Mall attack in 2013. I...

12Apr

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CJ Interviews to go on.

Justice Antony Mrima has declined to issue orders stopping the current Chief Justice interviews. In a short ruling delivered on Monday afternoon, Justice Mrima instead referred the matter to the acting CJ to appoint a three-judge bench to hear and determine the issue of granting orders. The judge ruled that the case raises substantial issues of law and should be heard by a bench. He also ruled that the decision issued by the bench will be used in future cases of that nature. In the case, Tolphin Nafula had sued the Judicial Service Commission, challenging Olive Mugenda's position as the chair of JSC during interviews. Nafula said DCJ Philomena Mwilu should be the person chairing the sessions and not Mugenda. She said Mugenda was elected as an interim vice chairperson...

Atwoli re-elected as COTU secretary general.

9Apr

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Atwoli re-elected as COTU secretary general.

The Central Organisation of Trade Unions has re-elected the incumbent secretary general Francis Atwoli for the fifth term in office. Atwoli was re-elected unopposed as Cotu's boss on Friday. The vibrant unionist will serve for another five-year term in office. Through his Twitter account on Friday, Atwoli expressed his gratitude to Kenyan workers for trusting him. "I promise to service you with all my mighty and strength and not betray the trust you have bestowed in me," he said. Kenya National Union of Nurses secretary general Seth Panyako had shown interest in the union’s top seat. Panyako and a host of trade unions accused Atwoli of using unorthodox means to elbow rivals from the race and get a smooth ride back to the office. The other unions are Kenya National Un...

President Suluhu new path on Covid, media

7Apr

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President Suluhu new path on Covid, media

Tanzania President Samia Suluhu is taking a drastically different path from the one charted by her predecessor John Magufuli, rolling back some of his controversial decisions such as on Covid-19 and curtailing media freedom. Yesterday President Suluhu announced plans to form an advisory committee to devise a new Covid-19 response framework for cooperation with the international community on how to fight the pandemic. She also unbanned media that had been shut down due to controversial laws. Her decision on Covid-19 was a dramatic about-turn on Dr Magufuli’s rigid stance, who stubbornly refused to acknowledge the disease. “We cannot continue to bury our heads in the sand. I shall form a committee of experts to look at it professionally and then advise the gover...

BBI proposal on distribution on 70 constituencies.

17Mar

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BBI proposal on distribution on 70 constituencies.

The IEBC has termed as unconstitutional the proposal in the BBI to allocate 70 constituencies to some 28 counties. Chairman wafula chebukati said while BBI promoters are right to create the constituencies they errared in allocating constituencies specific counties. The chairman said this before the Joint Justice and legal Affairs committees of parliament on the constitution of Kenya (Ammendment) Bill 2020. The bill has created additional 70 constituencies to push the number to 360. The constituencies are distributed among 28 of the 47 counties. He further said his team was never consulted by the BBI promoters on the additional constituencies. The IEBC boss at the same time defended the commission for the delays in the beginning the process of delimitation of the boundari...

MOTORIST DRIVES WITH UHURU INTO STATE HOUSE

8Mar

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MOTORIST DRIVES WITH UHURU INTO STATE HOUSE

There was a security breach at state house in Nairobi after a based businessman dramatically drove into the official residence of the president. The businessman car joined the president motorcade soon after the funeral of Juja Mp Francis Waititu. Following the incident, security around the president has now been enhanced whenever he is on the move. Even though the businessman was known to the security they were concerned about how he managed to breach the security movements to find his way to state House. However an official has said the issue has been handled elsewhere and is solved. No car is supposed to be on the move when the president alights or boards his car. President security is occasionally enhanced whenever he is on the move depending on the nature of threats ...

MUSALIA GIDEON ALLIANCE THREATNES HANDSHAKE COLLAPSE.

8Mar

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MUSALIA GIDEON ALLIANCE THREATNES HANDSHAKE COLLAPSE.

A new alliance by the system at the expense of ODM boss Raila Odinga at the centre of the unfolding disintegration of handshake. There are jitters in Raila camp that Raila maybe used by the president to amend the constitution through the building Bridges Initiative BBI and then isolated for another alliance in 2022. The trio of Musalia Mudavadi,Wetangula and Kalonzo worked together with Raila under the Nasa Coalition but they have regrouped and brought on board Gideon. The three have accused Raila of Political deceit and vowed to stick together in 2022. Raila allies now claim the strategy is to destabilize his most loyal support bases across the country including western and coast aiming to project him as a weak candidate ahead of 2022. Raila’s men claim the Matungu p...