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Saturday, 1 September 2012
American Embassy Nairobi and Green Card Lottery
By Guest Author | Tue, 05/01/2012 01:09AM -0400
The USA is a nation that prides herself in democracy, the rule of law and the application of the law equally to all. Should one of the laws that govern any specific arm of the government change or is amended, every effort is made to let everyone know about the change thereof. When a service is rendered it is rendered within the law and if there be any refusal, of any kind, it also is within the law. This is also true of all her embassies and consulates around the world. They all work within laws that have been put in place.
However, I'm afraid to say, that has not been so in this particular case that I am writing about. Sometimes the same laws that govern the conduct of government business can be flouted by the very people who should be upholding them as is the case in one green card case scenario at the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
A Kenyan citizen entered the green card lottery also known as the Diversity Visa Program or DV in 2010. In July of last year she was notified that she had been selected as one of those who can pursue their application further. She had to fill some forms with very specific details of herself after which she was to send in the forms together with passport size photos of herself to Kentucky Consular Center. She complied with all the requirements and sent the forms at the end of last year. After a few weeks she received a notification from Kentucky telling her that they were finished processing her case and will be sending her details to the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya where they booked her a visa interview appointment.
Before going for the interview, she was required to take a medical examination, get a good conduct certificate from the police and have all her Original documents like school certificates and birth certificate with her when she goes for the interview. She did the medical examination and meticulously got all the documents ready before the interview date. On the day of the interview she was early as it is required and went through the process. She had her documents verified, her fingerprints were taken and so she was very hopeful. To her disappointment the visa was denied and the reason given was that she did not meet the educational requirement. She had a D plain in her exam and the required minimum grade is a C plain as per what the interviewing officer told her. She was told that the requirement had changed and so they would not issue her the visa. This meant kshs 66,000(for that is what it had costed her to the interview point) went up in smoke.
When I got wind of what had happened, I wrote the Kentucky Consular Center requesting a clarification of what the laws says concerning educational requirement.
They replied as follows: The law creating the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program states: To qualify for a diversity visa you must have either a high school education or its equivalent, or two years of work experience. A high school education means successful completion of a formal course of elementary and secondary education comparable to completion of a twelve-year course in the United States.
Having read what the law states about educational requirement, I wrote to The Us Embassy Nairobi, Kenya asking them to explain the apparent contradiction of what the law above states and the C plain minimum grade requirement at the US embassy in Kenya. I also asked them to let me know when the law changed and how it could have changed in Nairobi without the knowledge of Kentucky Consular Center. I also wanted to know whether they had notified the Kenyan public so that those who did not meet this requirement should not even bother pursuing the process.
The US embassy Nairobi replied to only two of my emails and in both of those emails they avoided these questions like a plague. They only repeated the same thing twice. She did not meet the requirement and the visa was denied. I wrote the Kentucky consular Center with the same questions and they referred me to the US embassy Nairobi but no one answered any of my questions. This seemed suspicious to me as it would to anyone. They should have been able to give me a clear explanation and answers if there was any change whatsoever. The fact that they took me round in circles while avoiding my questions did not seem right at all and it did not feel very convincing to me.
After my round of emails with the Kentucky Consular Center and the US embassy Nairobi, I have decided to send this email to media houses so that the people out there, who have applied or are in the process, may know that the minimum grade requirement at the US embassy Nairobi, is now a C plain. Don’t waste your time and resources if you have anything lower than a C plain. You might end up spending as much as this Kenyan did and it all went down the drain.
At the same time these questions still remain and I hope that someone reading this will be in a position to answer:
Can you please explain the apparent contradiction between the Laws on educational requirement as it appears on the official website and the C plain requirement at the US embassy, Nairobi?
Where does the law requiring a C plain appear in writing on the laws creating the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program?
When did the Educational requirement at The US embassy, Nairobi change and was the public notified of the change?
Does every American embassy around the world have its own laws and requirements on the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program?
Does Kentucky Consular Center books an appointment at an American embassy or consulate for people who don't meet the requirements? Would they even process the case to begin with?
I do sincerely hope that this will be an eye opener to anyone out there oblivious to what is going on at the US embassy Nairobi Kenya.
By Gabriel Nganga (hereistand77@gmail.com)
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Original Author:
Gabriel Nganga
SOURCE
http://www.mwakilishi.com/content/bl...d-lottery.html
Friday, 31 August 2012
BIGGEST CORRUPTION SCANDALS IN KENYA EXPOSED
Just so we do not forget, here is a list of some of
the the corruption scandals plaguing Kenya, while on one hand its
citizens pay taxes into the same corrupt coffers, and on the other, some
die from the direct effects of these scandals. Since they are too many
to list here, do have a look at the almost complete list at wikipedia
1. The longest-running is the Goldenberg scandal, where the Kenyan government subsidized exports of gold, paying exporters in Kenyan Shillings (Sh) 35% over their foreign currency earnings. In this case, the gold was smuggled from Congo. The Goldenberg scandal cost Kenya the equivalent of more than 10% of the country’s annual GDP.
2. A Sh360 million helicopter servicing contract in South Africa. Military officers had argued that the contract was too extravagant and servicing the helicopters could be done locally. Kenya Air Force (KAF) went ahead to spend Sh108 million as a down payment for servicing the Puma helicopters, whose tail number is logged as 418 at Denel Aviation, a South African firm.
3. A Sh4.1 billion Navy ship deal. A Navy project was given to Euromarine, a company associated with Anura Pereira, the tender awarded in a process that has been criticised as irregular. The tender was worth Sh4.1 billion. Military analysts say a similar vessel could have been built for Sh1.8 billion.
4. Kamsons Motors tendered for the supply of Mahindra Jeeps to the Police Department in the mid 1990s for close to Sh1 million (US$13,000) each, at a time when showrooms would have charged customers a sixth of the price. Moreover, the vehicles were being bought for a government department and were therefore imported duty free. Few of the more than 1,000 units that were imported over several years are in service today.
5. The Prisons department lost $3 million after contracting Hallmark International, a company associated with Mr Deepak Kamani of Kamsons Motors, for the supply of 30 boilers. Only half of the boilers were delivered – from India and not the United States as had been agreed.
6. The construction of Nexus, a secret military communication centre in Karen, Nairobi. The Government, through the Ministry of Transport, spent Sh2.6 billion (US$36.9 million) to construct the complex. Three years later, military personnel have not moved into the centre. A phantom company, Nedermar BV Technologies, which is said to have its headquarters in Holland, implemented the secret project. The tendering process for the Nexus project was circumvented.
7. Between January 2003 and September 2004, the National Rainbow Coalition government spent about $12-million on cars that were mostly for the personal use of senior government officials. The vehicles included 57 Mercedes-Benz, as well as Land Cruisers, Mitsubishi Pajeros, Range Rovers, Nissan Terranos and Nissan Patrols. The $12-million substantially exceeded what the government spent over the 2003/04 financial year on controlling malaria — “the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Kenya”.
8. In 2005 plans to buy a sophisticated £20 million passport equipment system from France. Here government wanted to replace its passport printing system. The transaction was originally quoted at 6 million euros from François Charles Oberthur of Paris – the world’s leading supplier of Visa and MasterCards, but was awarded to a British firm, the Anglo-Leasing and Finance Company Limited, at 30 million euros, who would have sub-contracted the same French firm to do the work.
9. On 31 August 2007, The Guardian newspaper featured on its front page a story about more than GBP 1 billion transferred out of Kenya by the family and associates of former Kenyan leader Daniel arap Moi. The Guardian sourced the information from the Wikileaks article The looting of Kenya under President Moi and its analysis of a leaked investigative document (“the Kroll report”) prepared for the Kibaki government in 2004 in order to try to recover money stolen during Moi’s rule.
10. In June 2008, the Grand Regency Scandal broke, wherein the Central Bank of Kenya is alleged to have secretly sold a luxury hotel in Nairobi to an unidentified group of Libyan investors for more than 4 billion Kenyan Shillings (approx US $60 million) below the appraised market value. Finance Minister Amos Kimunya negotiated the sale, and was censured in a near-unanimous motion by the Kenyan Parliament, though he vehemently denied the charges.
11. More than 80,000 bags of maize valued at Sh150 million were allocated to briefcase millers and a defunct company in Nakuru at a time when the country is facing a serious shortage of maize. Some of the maize, which was meant to cushion Kenyans against rising maize flour prices and a looming famine, was sold in Southern Sudan for US$80 (Sh6,000) for a 90 kg bag. The allocation operation was running parallel to government efforts to avert a looming famine facing some 10 million Kenyans, as reported by Nation on the maize scandal.
12. More than $1 million is missing from the country’s free primary education program.
*Do not forget the above*
Nor should you forget that there are still IDPs in camps, and many bodies riddled by police bullets, some yet to be claimed.
The problem with Kenyans is that we are not tenacious, or we have the languor/ apathy that come over time due to year after year of unsolved issues. Recapping the last 10 years, not one year goes by without a scandal of such a magnitude that rocks the nation. However, less that 1% of them are solved, including the prosecutions that started rolling on the Goldenberg scandal (my favourite example) with the protagonist off and looking forward to vying for elections come next elections.
What has become of us Kenyans? What has become of every docket and office in the country? What happened to the judiciary? Every time there is a new appointment into the judiciary especially, our hopes go sky rocketing high believing that our problems will be solved.
This is for us the common mwanachi.The best thing would not be to sit on the side and watch all these unfold, have it as the topical conversations as we have our beers or teas, but to come together in a non-violent coup of civil society, taking to the streets as we did during the referendum. The hope should not be lost, and we have to demand this over and over without tiring. It is for example disappointing to see a growing middle class ensconced in their own protected worlds, with high walls and barbed wire, their little comfort zones that shield them from the rest of the country’s troubles. The middle calss have an education and a voice that can be hailed and make quite some addition in the discourse.
How about other organisations? There are legal brains and NGOs in our midst who can take up cases to the courts and keep up the pressure. We have the media which will keep all the past scandals and progress of them high o-n the national and international agenda. We have other individuals and organisations that can take up other non-legal issues. These, especially the NGOs are too fragmented in their agendas, wanting above all funds and recognition at the behest of their managers who are more interested in being competitive in raising funds for their little empires. Does anyone out there have any though for those of us who are dying from hunger from the maize scandal, or who cannot get good education for our children? There should be unity in action, and this needs to come now.
As for the leadership and politicians, there needs to be an overhaul of these corrupt tribal minions trying to make a quick buck and a big name before their term of office expires. Using these scandals (who knows to what extent they have engineered them and are using them to achieve their political motives), they go on a dog-fight to achieve their political ambitions. What to do about them? is a question that is currently in everyones mind.
Remember how when the current parliament held session for the first time after elections, the first thing they did was to raise their pay packages (converted into Euro, is more than what an MP earns in Germany), and push not to pay taxes? How worse can it get? We as the common mwananchi have the power to oust them. Let us not elect tribal leaders but well versed individuals, who understand Kenya and its problems, who want to change it for the best. We elected them and we should be careful not to make the same mistake repeatedly. Our vote holds tomorrow’s change.
1. The longest-running is the Goldenberg scandal, where the Kenyan government subsidized exports of gold, paying exporters in Kenyan Shillings (Sh) 35% over their foreign currency earnings. In this case, the gold was smuggled from Congo. The Goldenberg scandal cost Kenya the equivalent of more than 10% of the country’s annual GDP.
2. A Sh360 million helicopter servicing contract in South Africa. Military officers had argued that the contract was too extravagant and servicing the helicopters could be done locally. Kenya Air Force (KAF) went ahead to spend Sh108 million as a down payment for servicing the Puma helicopters, whose tail number is logged as 418 at Denel Aviation, a South African firm.
3. A Sh4.1 billion Navy ship deal. A Navy project was given to Euromarine, a company associated with Anura Pereira, the tender awarded in a process that has been criticised as irregular. The tender was worth Sh4.1 billion. Military analysts say a similar vessel could have been built for Sh1.8 billion.
4. Kamsons Motors tendered for the supply of Mahindra Jeeps to the Police Department in the mid 1990s for close to Sh1 million (US$13,000) each, at a time when showrooms would have charged customers a sixth of the price. Moreover, the vehicles were being bought for a government department and were therefore imported duty free. Few of the more than 1,000 units that were imported over several years are in service today.
5. The Prisons department lost $3 million after contracting Hallmark International, a company associated with Mr Deepak Kamani of Kamsons Motors, for the supply of 30 boilers. Only half of the boilers were delivered – from India and not the United States as had been agreed.
6. The construction of Nexus, a secret military communication centre in Karen, Nairobi. The Government, through the Ministry of Transport, spent Sh2.6 billion (US$36.9 million) to construct the complex. Three years later, military personnel have not moved into the centre. A phantom company, Nedermar BV Technologies, which is said to have its headquarters in Holland, implemented the secret project. The tendering process for the Nexus project was circumvented.
7. Between January 2003 and September 2004, the National Rainbow Coalition government spent about $12-million on cars that were mostly for the personal use of senior government officials. The vehicles included 57 Mercedes-Benz, as well as Land Cruisers, Mitsubishi Pajeros, Range Rovers, Nissan Terranos and Nissan Patrols. The $12-million substantially exceeded what the government spent over the 2003/04 financial year on controlling malaria — “the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Kenya”.
8. In 2005 plans to buy a sophisticated £20 million passport equipment system from France. Here government wanted to replace its passport printing system. The transaction was originally quoted at 6 million euros from François Charles Oberthur of Paris – the world’s leading supplier of Visa and MasterCards, but was awarded to a British firm, the Anglo-Leasing and Finance Company Limited, at 30 million euros, who would have sub-contracted the same French firm to do the work.
9. On 31 August 2007, The Guardian newspaper featured on its front page a story about more than GBP 1 billion transferred out of Kenya by the family and associates of former Kenyan leader Daniel arap Moi. The Guardian sourced the information from the Wikileaks article The looting of Kenya under President Moi and its analysis of a leaked investigative document (“the Kroll report”) prepared for the Kibaki government in 2004 in order to try to recover money stolen during Moi’s rule.
10. In June 2008, the Grand Regency Scandal broke, wherein the Central Bank of Kenya is alleged to have secretly sold a luxury hotel in Nairobi to an unidentified group of Libyan investors for more than 4 billion Kenyan Shillings (approx US $60 million) below the appraised market value. Finance Minister Amos Kimunya negotiated the sale, and was censured in a near-unanimous motion by the Kenyan Parliament, though he vehemently denied the charges.
11. More than 80,000 bags of maize valued at Sh150 million were allocated to briefcase millers and a defunct company in Nakuru at a time when the country is facing a serious shortage of maize. Some of the maize, which was meant to cushion Kenyans against rising maize flour prices and a looming famine, was sold in Southern Sudan for US$80 (Sh6,000) for a 90 kg bag. The allocation operation was running parallel to government efforts to avert a looming famine facing some 10 million Kenyans, as reported by Nation on the maize scandal.
12. More than $1 million is missing from the country’s free primary education program.
*Do not forget the above*
Nor should you forget that there are still IDPs in camps, and many bodies riddled by police bullets, some yet to be claimed.
The problem with Kenyans is that we are not tenacious, or we have the languor/ apathy that come over time due to year after year of unsolved issues. Recapping the last 10 years, not one year goes by without a scandal of such a magnitude that rocks the nation. However, less that 1% of them are solved, including the prosecutions that started rolling on the Goldenberg scandal (my favourite example) with the protagonist off and looking forward to vying for elections come next elections.
What has become of us Kenyans? What has become of every docket and office in the country? What happened to the judiciary? Every time there is a new appointment into the judiciary especially, our hopes go sky rocketing high believing that our problems will be solved.
This is for us the common mwanachi.The best thing would not be to sit on the side and watch all these unfold, have it as the topical conversations as we have our beers or teas, but to come together in a non-violent coup of civil society, taking to the streets as we did during the referendum. The hope should not be lost, and we have to demand this over and over without tiring. It is for example disappointing to see a growing middle class ensconced in their own protected worlds, with high walls and barbed wire, their little comfort zones that shield them from the rest of the country’s troubles. The middle calss have an education and a voice that can be hailed and make quite some addition in the discourse.
How about other organisations? There are legal brains and NGOs in our midst who can take up cases to the courts and keep up the pressure. We have the media which will keep all the past scandals and progress of them high o-n the national and international agenda. We have other individuals and organisations that can take up other non-legal issues. These, especially the NGOs are too fragmented in their agendas, wanting above all funds and recognition at the behest of their managers who are more interested in being competitive in raising funds for their little empires. Does anyone out there have any though for those of us who are dying from hunger from the maize scandal, or who cannot get good education for our children? There should be unity in action, and this needs to come now.
As for the leadership and politicians, there needs to be an overhaul of these corrupt tribal minions trying to make a quick buck and a big name before their term of office expires. Using these scandals (who knows to what extent they have engineered them and are using them to achieve their political motives), they go on a dog-fight to achieve their political ambitions. What to do about them? is a question that is currently in everyones mind.
Remember how when the current parliament held session for the first time after elections, the first thing they did was to raise their pay packages (converted into Euro, is more than what an MP earns in Germany), and push not to pay taxes? How worse can it get? We as the common mwananchi have the power to oust them. Let us not elect tribal leaders but well versed individuals, who understand Kenya and its problems, who want to change it for the best. We elected them and we should be careful not to make the same mistake repeatedly. Our vote holds tomorrow’s change.
Thursday, 30 August 2012
UNIVERSITY GIRLS TAKES PROSTITUTION TO FACEBOOK
Campus Divas For Rich Men is a Facebook page that has elicited lots of
interest especially after receiving special airtime during Kiss 100's
rush hour with Kalekye and Shaffie and this morning from Caroline
Mutoko. The page is dedicated to hooking up University girls under 26
with rich men of any age.
In a period of less than 2 months, the page has accumulated close to
10,000 likes, with 7000 of those gained less than 24 hours after Kiss
100 highlighted their plight.
The administrator of the page constantly posts pictures and descriptions
of University 'divas' and what they would want in a man. In all those
posts, rich is usually the bottom line. There is a very clear policy in
the page that sufferers and ugly chicks are not welcome, and this is a
point the admin keeps putting across. This is how he / she does it.
wow! divas and rich men who are invading our inbox that's very cool, we will reply your texts in time...As for the sufferers continue yapping
If you are a sufferer, a struggler you cannot find help here, you need divine help. Call on the lord to come 4 ur rescue. Here we only help rich men we do not tolerate hustlers here
This is PLACE FOR DIVAS!! UGLY apes go jump on trees this is not a place for you
Sufferers keep off the page. go wank elsewhere
It had been thought that the pictures posted
by the administrator are random internet images, but Kiss 100 callers
yesterday confirmed that they indeed recognize some of those girls. Some
said they were their friends who refused to heed to their advise and
not only joined the page but also sent the admin their details.
Despite the numerous negative comments the page receives, the divas rarely take notice. The admin always put on a brave face. He or she even organizes parties where they take the online hook ups offline.
Despite the numerous negative comments the page receives, the divas rarely take notice. The admin always put on a brave face. He or she even organizes parties where they take the online hook ups offline.
Here are some party notices:
SEX PARTY!! SEX PARTY!! on 7th September, where RICH men will have all the content of their gen*** milked out!
For the venue of the sex party where 300 pus**** will battle 100 di*** in a life or death struggle, hit our inbox.
YOU ! YOU! YOU! CAMPUS DIVAS WANTS TO INVITE YOU TO A SEX PARTY THIS WEEKEND.
Below are are some of the attacks directed at the admin and the 'divas'
campus
gals u must be the devil herself dont u have some
respect for urselfs and ur parents who spent a lot for u
yet u go and engage in prostitution, u need some delivery
and strong prayers
ROTTEN LADIES .......
delilah's are everywhere.go to hell ladies.a foolish man will spend money on you guys
ati divas? Do u knw what that means mko down tu sana
Crazy campus girls... hell is yo place!!!
If
campus chick can go to the extend of showing and selling off their
bodies for money,then kenyan men indeed we are that of value.keep
looking for rich men...N get used like a toilet paper coz thats all you
are....as the kenyan men...continue keeping your wallets and ATM's safe
from these bitches
WHAT THE FUCK? Y DONT YOU JUST CALL YOURSELVES CAMPUS GOLDIGGERS
Since
when did prostitutes become Divas?? Y'all are just a bunch of
prostitutes forget the fake glamour.. Y'all seriously are pathetic.
I cant imagine myself as a rich man wt class associating myself wt such cheapy lousy bitches,i go 4 my type,this beats logic!
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
I FORESEE ALL THE SYMPTOMS OF A GENOCIDE IN KENYA………….UNLESS…
I FORESEE ALL THE
SYMPTOMS OF A GENOCIDE IN KENYA………….UNLESS…
I have a feeling that this will not go down well with some
citizens who have no guts to stomach the truth.Unfortunately, I am not a sooth-sayer
neither do I have the time to please anybody.
March this year, we held students elections in my campus (Narok
University college,) an affiliate of Moi university and students, nay,
graduates, ganged up according to the tribes from which they come from so as to
elect ‘ their’ leaders. I thought that was the worst scenario, little did I know that I had not seen anything.The
campus being in Maasailand,the Maa students felt that it was there right to
have the university chairman and all the other leaders come from their community.
One of them who was a prominent student leader from the Maa even wrote on the
social media site asking fellow students
to stay out of the campus politics as his elders had donated the land to build
the university, mind you it was a national public institution for higher learning.
I stood strongly against that statement which came from a graduate who was
supposed to be a torch bearer for his community. I blogged a long lecture to him on why things were not expected to go
like that especially from him. At the
end of the day, my article had been printed, taken to the Maa elders to be analyzed ,taken to the lawyers to sue me, taken to the
dean of students to take a disciplinary action against me, taken to the
principal of the university college to analyze it and find a reason to chase me
out of campus, but at the end of the day, the dean of students called me and
shook his head sadly saying, “My son, I fear what you have written is the truth
and there is no way we can punish you for condemning tribalism ,unfortunately,
I am very much afraid for your life,
please be careful for there is nothing
much we can do, these people we are also
used to them and it is even very difficult to discipline a worker from the
community since the university is “theirs”. Just continue writing but don’t
write things that will make them mad “in other words he was encouraging me to
write lies to please them. The test of objectivity in journalism arose. Unfortunately,im
so bad in flattering and so I continued writing the truth that hurts and collided
with many false leaders and endured many a threats. At last, to cut the long
story short, What I was warning about all along came to pass.The student leader
who got elected was clobbered almost to
death just because he was from the “wrong
community” Armed Maa students entered the campus and terrorized fellow
students and I remember calling a few
friends in the media while in hiding as the armed goons took over the school.
The security personnel being a majority
from Maa even spoke with them in their native language as they run havoc in the university.
For those asking where media was, let me
answer you. I pity today’s journalism
and the media in general. I don’t know
if to blame the kiosks media schools or the corrupt journalists who lack even
the most basic ethics. There came one correspondent from the Star newspaper in
Narok who could have either been paid or
has never attended a single journalism class who wrote the story and the
clobbered chairman was the villain and those who clobbered him became heroes of
the campus..No other media house featured the story. Not that they never heard about it,
they choose to close one eye and looked
at it just like another small incidence..My point is this, That is a University
scenario, lets look at the ordinary folks now, some or rather a good number are
completely illiterate, broke, idle, bitter
and have all the time in the world and
tell me why Kenya will not burn down come March 2013.
As I write this, I’m holed up in the house down at Mombasa because I can’t venture out due to fear of
the raging mob and looters in town. A radical Islamic preacher who was shot dead probably by fellow masters
of terrorism for double crossing a deal
has given all the Mombasa looters, idlers and other criminals a reason to run the streets like we are in a
lawless state. I don’t support
extra-judicial killing, I loathe terrorism even more. The man Sheikh Rogo was
on the United Nations and USAs watch
list for international terrorists. Its open knowledge that he publicly declared
that the number of Christians killed in
the Mandela church attack was too small a number,17 people lost their lives. He
was later arrested with several weapons including 170 detonators which the
police claimed he wanted to use on innocent citizens at Kenya ferry crossing
and others at the Nyali bridge.I have seen the
way the ruling by the high court that made the Kenyan coast secessionist
group MRC a time bomb as far as Kenyan
national security is concerned. Politicians being the hyenas and scavengers
they are all now toying with the group as they try to woo them of coastal votes
even as they claim coast is not in Kenya and claim that the people at coast
should not vote in the oncoming general elections .They are behaving like the
proverbial mouse that plays with the cat to the extent of entering inside the
cats mouth to clean the pieces of meat
stuck in the teeth!
I get worried when churches are petrol bombed and I shiver at the thoughts of what
would happen if some radical Al shabaab extend their propaganda war to the
extent of bombing a mosque so as to make it appear like Christians have hit back.
What will stop us from going the Nigerian way? Religious orgy of massacre? We
have got so much used to the grenades such that these days we would rather
fight the police with grenades while rioting than using stones(I hear in some
first world countries they use eggs and tomatoes!)well maybe
Americans and Japanese are very poor and also lack the technology to make hand
grenades!!mark you, we are so advanced in technology that we are still
importing nail cutters and match sticks!!
Then enters Miguna.His theatrics aside, who has the right to
take his rights of assembly ,expression and association away? I wonder what new
constitution we are enjoying and marvel at our democracy that does not allow
constructive critics of those in positions of authority? All the signs of
disrespect of the rule of the law are there.
The other day, as the Kayole suburb of Nairobi touts were demonstrating,
they had the guts to scream that Kayole
is a Mungiki stronghold and nothing can
be done about it…If the MRC is for coast, Mungiki Nairobi and Chingololo Western what happens to
the rest of the country?
The leaders are all silent in pretence that all is well. All
is not well my brothers. They were busy enjoying some birthday in the name of a
constitution when all hell broke loose in Tana river, perhaps it was gods who
wanted to tell them to stop pretending that all is well. Tana river crashes
seemed like nothing and the government of course gave a strong warning to the perpetrators.
warnings are official part of national
governing policies now.
The formation of GEMA,GEMA2 and KAMATSA should have sent the right signals to all
concerned Kenyans for it was a strong reminder to Kenyans that they belong to
different tribes but not Kenya.I wonder what will happen if all the 43 tribes
decided to elect their own president. People? don’t you smell the fire? don’t you see the signs?
The media barons have either been paid to keep quiet, or to bury
their heads to the sands. There should be so much advocacy coming from the
media but all we get is politicians, politics, dramas, chaos, crime and opinion
polls!!i wonder whether politics appears anywhere in our vision 2030 or is it
3020?
Unless you change and try to change your neighbor,all is not
going to be well dear Kenyans,I see a
repeat of things worse than the 2007/08 violence, what are you going to
do as an individual to avert the oncoming crises?
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
PERFOMANCE REPORT FORM FOR THE 3RD NUC- SGC SO FAR.
Exactly one semester is coming down since the 3rd students
governing body of NUC assumed office after low-key swearing in ceremony in the
campus hall overseen by the top cream of the administration.
But the question on everyone’s mind is how much of the election period
promises have they achieved? How have they performed so far? Yours truly of
NESHCOURT brings you bit by bit how each of them has performed and what the
students perceive about it.
CHAIR-MANS/PRESIDENTS OFFICE.
The calm Starehe Boys alumni has been on and off but as usual,
it’s hard to know what plans he has had up his sleeves due to his quiet demeanor.
It’s not a surprise to see him lining up in the mess for food unlike some
fellas who even after their retirement from SGC feel that it’s their right not
to queue in the mess like the rest of students.
He started on a sad note after he almost lost his life at the start of his
tenure in office after he was clobbered by a savage over a dispute on the controversial
results of chief editor. Some members of SGC had been bribed to favor one applicant
by one of the failed contesters and hence when Thuo noted the unfairness in the
results, with some able applicants being awarded 01/30 he called off the whole
thing and wanted an independent body to do the interview (Initially it was
conducted by the SGC members.)That’s when hell broke loose and it lend to the
loss of Thuos blood and even loss of campus bus glasses.
After healing a lethal wound on the head, he allowed room
for peace dialogue with some of the perpetrators of the animosity done on him.
Away from that, he has been quiet on the issues dealing with students of the
Mara hostel and has not called a single public baraza to address any pressing issue,
but depending on the issues that got to him on the start of office, all we can
say is that lets wait and see what the Kiswahili loving lad has for us.
THE SECRETARY GENERALS OFFICE
This is one office the students expected a real students activism tornado from but it’s been
long coming. The office is held by my
fellow Arsenal supporter Okwiri Alex who doubles up as an aggressive face
booker and social networker. He is probably the only one who turned his
facebook page which was initially for wooing voters into an open forum for students to communicate their problems, the rest closed theirs or turned them into secret
groups after assuming office, what a shame! He has been trying to keep the
students updated but some students claim his activism is based on facebook
status while on the ground they want demos and action, For example water has
been a grappling problem for the last few days in campus but little is seen to have been done.
Once a fire brand fighter for students rights, the events that led to the
clobbering of the SGC president might have killed some morale in the SG as he
was the next on target and was got from his room by force(his door was
broken)and walked like some prisoner to the hall to swear in a Chief editor
under a rungu and sword. Nevertheless he has not fared badly but there is a lot
more he can do.
ACADEMICS OFFICE
The “Jatelo” holding
the office always makes me smile not just because he reminds me of the merchant
of Venice set book by William Shakespeare but also because he is doing
something worthwhile for the students body. Meet Biko Steve and true to his
election period promise (Have you ever seen him donning his black ‘deliver my
promise’ T-shirt?)he is delivering his promises for we now have roaming internet
around the library and some few class rooms. Library opening hours have been extended for people to
craft better miakenyas(Joke) over this exam period courtesy of this take-it-easy-attitude
lad. He only needs to deliver us more books, better transcripts and then a new
library and all we will say is that he came, saw and conquered. Kudos Biko.
ENTERTAINMENT DOCKET
held by hustle-boy Kenneth Kibata,the lad is doing quite good for he has organized a few gigs here and there and Kalonje has not dominated.He has organized things in the area including a cocacola street bash coming up this Friday in campus but all we can say is wait and see if he can fit in the huge shoes of the former Entertainment director,the biggest fan of Mseto Africa in Rift and Western Kenya Wesley Mkua AKA Mogaka.He has retired a happy man who likes to spot customized Fundi Frank designer shirts and of course a tummy!Someone tell him to get to the field please!!But Kennie,you need to tell us how it will be possible to have our cultural week with diffrent students being in session at different times!Or we get the money M-pesad to us at home!!
VICE CHAIRMANS
OFFICE.
Held by one of the only two
first years in the SGC, it’s the office
that is in charge of students affairs
and among the busiest. The man at the helm of this department is one Kennedy
Langat and word on the street is that he has got the job done, but half way. He
was elected mainly by the freshmen who were at that time under a lot of duress
in their new hostel and had banked on the bestacled lad to deliver them to the promised land but it
seems to be taking so long for with the advent of rain, constant blackouts and water
shortages the freshmen seem to be wallowing in more problems. Once an active
social networker on Facebook, especially on students affairs,he is now so
dormant and might as well have moved to twitter!!It is the same people who
elected him thinking he will be suffering with them that are asking him what
went wrong.
FINANCE OFFICE
Held by Wesonga,of the ‘stop pocketing!’ fame, has been a
dormant office. One of the most powerful posts in the SGC the office was
supposed to create an independent students account with any bank but that’s a
pipe dream up to now, he was supposed to
see the tendering of the students canteen but up to now, that’s yet to be done. He should have also prepared a
statement of account to inform students how much money is in the account but
that never happened. All he did was to ask for names of students from every constituency
so as to apply for bursary or something like that of which as far as
constitution is concerned, that’s the docket of vice-chair.Wesonga, can you
please deliver the promise!
HEALTH DOCKET
A popular saying goes that good health is your greatest wealth.
One of the only two ladies in the SGC
has tried but not done her best Im referring to Valentine Chelimo. She has facilitated
for constant fumigation of hostels to fight the ‘Nairobi fly’ menace in the hostels. She also facilitated for a
VCT exercise that saw students get tested and educated on how to stay
safe.However,the situation at the campus health unit has not
changed.Still,several students have been
asked to go and buy tablets for themselves and the use of cave-man ages filing
system to keep students record is not amusing! Water has been dirty all through
and the promise of boiled water for drinking has been a pipe dream. Up to now
it remains just that: an empty promise. She has also been seen as very
selective in socializing with students and the message is:girl,its not time to
sulk and ignore those that you think didn’t vote for you but it’s time to work
with them and prove to them that you did deserve their votes after all.
CATERING DEPARTMENT
Many a great ancient wars have been fought just because of food.
Maybe this explains the reason why food has been placed high on the echelons of
human needs. The department is held by once very sociable lady Emmaculate Onk’angi.The
question on many people’s lips is “Emma what exactly went wrong?”The only first year lady to make
it to the male-dominated 3rd NUC –SGC,She was seen as the most sociable
member of the SGC but down the line, she has not made a single improvement in
the students mess which is in a mess. The queue is getting longer as usual, food prices are hiking higher and higher, quality of food is
nose-diving, servers like kina Shikuku
are taking graduates for naughty kids in approved learning centers and hence zero respect and the
drainage outside the mess gets murkier and murkier every time it rains. I have not even mentioned the fact that the
dirty black box in the name of a TV never works anymore and that the water glasses are nowhere to be seen(Don’t tell me
they are with the students because there should be someone on the door watching
them unless someone from inside has
shipped them to his rural village as Easter gifts!)Over to you Miss! Sort the
mess in the mess before it messes us or
even you!
SPORTS DOCKET
Chelsea-loving Brian Muga is on the control panel and has
been doing every possible thing to remain relevant. Marches between schools, different
students have been organized but still the school is yet to start appreciating
the players by increasing their allowances and offering special meals and
training coaches for them. We want you to give us a gift, let some team, even
if its darts or any other game, be sponsored up to the national level, there is
still so much to do captain!
ACCOMODATION AND SECURITY.
Held by Saruni Edward this is one very sensitive docket for
to some level it determines who goes home courtesy of janators and who doesn’t,especially
on the case of those found cooking. The
lighting in the street from total to the campus gate and the pavements
have remained dark for the better part of the semester. Poor lighting in the
hostel corridors have been the order of the day and this has led to stealing of
students clothes. Villagers are enjoying campus services better than students especially
during games because as the students struggle with books in the lib and classes,
the idlers have already booked and filled the TV room 3hrs to the game! As if that’s
not enough, mark you they will have eaten in the mess, they leave with our
clothes in the hanging lines. The students who missed food in the mess goes to
fry an egg and before you can say Edu,they are sent packing!Edu you should do
something and try to improve the situation, I will drop you a hint: Ever heard
of flood lights? They should be placed high on strategic points within the
campus and oh yes, students need to cook in the hostels, over to you boss
ASSISTANT SEC-GEN
Held by the bestacled
Peter Mutiso,the lad is doing
quite good and working hand in hand with the Sec-Gen.But I need to remind you that part of your duty is
to communicate directly to students on any rumours,ie to clarify or refute them.
May they be from the ADMN or from SGC or
from the students body,so,once and for all, We want very official communication from you on the rumors
that a student has written taken 17 names of students she/he has infected
with HIV virus to the prof.Chacha!We are watching and waiting.
*Editors foot note.
The NESHCOURT wishes all the students a wonderful time over
the holidays, be it long or short holiday.
Don’t drink and drive your parents or older siblings’ car, for we need you next
semester, and not even on a wheel chair!
Avoid AIDS and other dangerous diseases!!
Thanks for reading NESHCOURT and lets keep in touch, if you
have burning news or issue you would like us to communicate or work on, let’s
keep in touch through,
0711587148 or morrismunenemugo@yahoo.com
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Friday, 6 April 2012
HOW TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIP…
Good
relationships are based on love, mutual respect and willingness to put effort
into the relationship. In a good relationship, both people are honest with each
other. Both people feel safe in the relationship and do not worry that the
other will betray their trust.
Both find
enjoyment and pleasure in the relationship, and neither person tries to control
the other or to pressure them into doing things.
Neither
person exploits or takes advantage of the other in any way. There are several
qualities that make a relationship healthy:
Respect: to
honour your partner, to hold them in high regard or esteem, and to treat them
as if they are worthwhile even if they are different from you.
Responsibility:
others can depend and rely on you, that you do as you say and you are able to
distinguish right from wrong. For example, you take responsibility for taking
care of your own health and well-being and that of your partner and your
family, including protecting them against HIV infection.
Understanding:
to be knowledgeable about another person, to try to understand his or her
position or feelings, or to listen and support someone.
Cooperation:
to put effort into the relationship, and not take the other person for granted.
It involves willingness to work with someone to be in a relationship and
sustain it.
Caring: To
be concerned and interested in another persons feelings and needs, and to want
what is best for that person..ama vipi mafans?
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