Archive for April, 2008

Rangwe bursary gains 1.8 million shillings

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Rangwe constituency has received 1.8 million shillings for the education bursary funds. Rangwe Member of Parliament Martin Ogindo says, the funds will be disbursed per location according to the list of the needy students submitted. Ogindo who also appointed the Rangwe bursary committee urged all the needy students in the constituency to apply for the funds so [...]

Eldoret town residents urge leaders to solve their differences and name cabinet.

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Eldoret town residents wants President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister designate Raila Odinga to solve their differences to avoid delay in naming of cabinet ministers. According to their opinion they want President Mwai Kibaki to dissolve the current half cabinet of 17 ministers to pave way for another coalition cabinet adding that it should not [...]

More calls for President Kibaki and ODM leader to form cabinet

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Calls for President Kibaki and prime minister designate Raila Odinga to urgently name the coalition cabinet continues with the two parties holding parallel parliamentary meetings today to discuss over the cabinet stalemate.A human rights activist in Eldoret David Koros says if the cabinet is not named soon, Internally Displaced Persons will not be resettled and [...]

KCSE results anomaly caused by programming error

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Minister for Education Sam Ongeri has finally released a report compiled by a task force mandated to investigate into the anomaly of Last Years KCSE results. Ongeri said the report indicated a computer programming error that led to the results anomaly. The task force chaired by Kenyatta University vice Chancellor Olive Mugenda presented the report to the [...]

Road accidents not connected to over speeding, says Eldoret OCPD

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Eldoret OCPD Muinde Kioko has disputed claims of rising cases of road accidents in Uasin Gishu district due to over speeding.  Kioko says the two recent road accident cases in the district are isolated cases and should not be seen as perpetual happenings.  Eldoret OCPD Muinde Kioko says that Uasin Gishu district this year had [...]

Pastors support military operations in Mt Elgon

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Mt Elgon pastors’ forum has pledged its support towards the ongoing military operations to flush out suspected militiamen in the region.  The pastors are however discontented by the manner in which the military is carrying out its operations claiming that its harassing innocent people.Speaking during the closure of a two days Mt Elgon pastor’s forum [...]

ODM DEMANDS EQUAL CABINET POSTS AS PNU REACTS

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Orange Democratic Movement says it will not play second fiddle to the government in the sharing of key ministries in the Annan agreement.Prime Minister designate Raila Odinga urged PNU to cooperate with the details of the accord which meant a 50-50 sharing.Raila said the resolution in the cabinet crisis needed the two sides to agree [...]

Cabinet stalemate persist

Monday, April 7th, 2008

ODM Pentagon team today delivered a message to President Mwai Kibaki in Harambee protesting PNU’s decision that it will not relinquish posts in contention.Earlier ODM wrote to government protesting what it terms unfair allocation of ministries.But the government according to reports says it was a decided deal that the monistries ODM was laying claim over [...]

Sony Sugar to pay debt owed to farmers.

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Sony Sugar has promised to pay farmers the debt it owes them, totaling to 30 million shillings at the end of this week.Company chairman Abat Ojwang says the payment will go to farmers who had not been paid for the last three months saying the company had restructured itself to pay farmers after thirty days [...]

Crucial cabinet meeting yet to take off

Monday, April 7th, 2008

The meeting between President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister in waiting Raila Odinga is yet to start.President Kibaki has already arrived at Harambee House Nairobi but it’s not clear whether Raila Odinga will be attending the talks.He is said to have been in a meeting with members of the Pentagon at the Orange House Nairobi [...]