Kibaki has shifted to Narc-Kenya, where Uncle is also.

Musikari was left pulsating for his life..is planning to move to ODM, where, they Welcome All.

Then, Mama Rainbow is planning to stay at the Statehouse alone even as the pressy left..

The Kenyan Fiasco continues.........................................

SHAABAN AND GUMO

There was uproar in the parliament sometime back when The Current assistant Minister for Local Government of the Republic of Kenya, Shaaban Ali Issack asked Mr. Fred Gumo, who was by then an assistant minister of Information Himself,


Read this...

It looks like a joke but it's a goverment statement from one of it's Ministers...

Appealing to The Nomads

Fidelis Gumo may not know Lady Antoinette. In fact, he may not care much about her besides wondering why a mere "mwanamke" should command a bigger jeshi than his.

But the two are really cut from the same insensitive cloth. Just as the French lady advised disaffected peasants rioting over bread shortage to try cake instead, the Information assistant minister thinks those who can’t access KBC shouldn’t complain.

They should try CNN. And showing genuine disbelief, Gumo wondered how come such simple logic has failed residents of Mandera and other northern regions.

"You mean you people don’t get CNN?" wondered a bewildered Gumo as he removed his glasses.

"May be it is because of your kuhamahama (nomadic lifestyle..you know nomads shift with their animals from place to place)" he told hopeful Mandera East MP, Isaack Shaaban.

The MP only wanted to know whether his constituents would ever receive KBC radio and TV(The Kenya's TV and Radio)

Well, not soon according to Gumo.

There has been a 10-year plan to reach out to the whole country. That needs at least Sh1 billion. And the fact is "hakuna pesa" (there’s no money).

The MP thought this unfair.

Starved of communication, some communities "still think Moi is the President," he muttered.

Rogue lions maul four in Garissa-Kenya
By Victor Obure

Four people were killed in two separate incidents after a pride of lions went on the rampage at the weekend.

Witnesses said the animals mauled three children in Modogashe division while another killed a farmer in Bura division, Garissa District.The attack brings to eight the number of residents killed by lions in two months.

The children, including a 28-day-old baby girl, had been left sleeping alone in a makeshift hut after their mother joined villagers who were scaring away the lions that were attacking their goats.

Local deputy police officer, Johnstone Limo, said villagers had confronted the rogue lions, but fled when more animals emerged from the thickets.He said the animals then invaded the manyattas, which had been left unguarded near Bulla Secondary School, killing 34 goats.
It was only after the pride retreated that the villagers emerged from their hideouts to count their loses.

Doctors at the Garissa Provincial General Hospital yesterday referred a girl, 11, who sustained injuries during the Saturday evening attack, to the Kenyatta National Hospital for specialised treatment.

And local civic leaders criticised the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) for failure to contain the animals.

They threatened to poison about 10 lions, which they said were on the loose, if action was not taken within one week.

Modogashe councillor, Siyad Sahal , said a pride of 10 lions was marauding the area.
Siyat Nuur, Banaane civic leaders, said lions from Kora National Park had forced pastoralists to abandon their grazing fields.

There is by-election going on in Northern Kenya contituencies of Moyale, North Horr and Saku all in Borana countries...

And Kick-Back(Kenya Prezzy) has defected to Narc-Kenya..

The picture above was taken during an LDP campaign for by-election in Nakuru town..
Mercenary claims still linger in Kenyan Politics..so is Narc-kenya a mercenary group???



Modern slavery comes via iPod and cellphone

Thank heavens the World Cup is over. Thierry Henry and Groucho Ronaldinho can now stop pretending to be such bosom buddies in those annoying Nike commercials.

In case you were wondering why, the reason you saw so much of the 15 companies below is that they paid Fifa very good money for the right to hound your television screen at every turn over the past eight weeks: Adidas, Anheuser-Busch, Avaya, Coca-Cola, Continental, Deutsche Telekom, Emirates, Fujifilm, Gillette, Hyundai, MasterCard, McDonald’s, Philips, Toshiba and Yahoo!

It’s not sour grapes either. After all, there is nothing that any of these companies is selling that is a life and death matter – say like oxygen, or basic nourishment.

They are all peddling ideas; the notion that their product or service is better than the other products or ideas on the market. No harm in that, of course, except that besides making us buy loads of stuff we want but don’t really need, advertising has turned watching television into the number one nightmare in the new millennium.

You cannot enjoy any bad TV these days (not even good old World Cup football) without some guy popping up in the corner or streaking across the bottom of your tube, cheerily egging you on to "try this!,'' "eat this,'' "use this,'' "pick me!'' It’s exhausting.

It’s not just television commercials, either. Modern existence is like a life-long diet of deep-fried chicken and French fries (yummy, great smell, but oh so dangerous to your health). So, while globalisation has brought the world closer – we’re all acutely aware of the civilian pain in the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict – it has also exposed its unpretty underbelly.

The Internet gave us unprecedented access to news, yet we’ve never been more inundated with garbage. Suddenly everyone (read anyone with a blog) is the designated town crier. In fact most people now prefer not to know what’s happening. The rich in every world capital have access to hundreds of television and digital radio channels, yet today’s most popular shows are of the voyeuristic kind where individuals compete for the right to be called the most shallow person on earth (The Bachelor; The Bachelorette; Big Brother; Fear Factor; WWE Smack-Down, The Apprentice; and what-not).

In the old days (feel free to imagine the 1970s or early/late 80s), music was stored on shiny black plates called vinyl. Anyone who cared about recorded music bought and kept vinyl. Today? You can only find vinyl in speciality museums, collectors’ homes or discotheques (where DJs scratch them against the stylus to create, well, new music.)

Today’s music comes in only one language – the iPod.

Apple’s digital music player is small enough to fit in most shirt pockets, but so funky it can store more music than was handed down through three generations of a family.

The larger ones hold up to 15,000 songs (or about 1,500 vinyl records) and have batteries that can play non-stop for a full day! So it is not enough that the iPod made vinyl, cassettes and compact discs obsolete. In today’s world, you must carry around all your music with you – apparently music is an essential ingredient of all life’s tasks.

Imagine then, a surgeon entering theatre (with your spouse on the operating table), with the iPod’s distinctly white earphones stuck into her ears and rhythm in her step. You’d be very distressed, no matter how highly recommended she comes. Nothing like a 50 Cent beat to make her harvest the wrong organ. So, the "music while you work'' motto is obviously not welcome in every work place. Correction, music is not welcome in most workplaces.

Who needs all that music on the go anyway? Really, you can only listen to one song at a time; so why 15,000?

But some of us (present company included) now pine for iPods; and Palmtop organisers; and wireless laptop computers; and digital cameras; and Skype on our computers so we can speak for free over the Internet; and cars with DVD players; and cellphones that have digital music players, organisers and cameras. Pray, when did it become fashionable to take pictures with a cellphone? What’s the up side of a phone that sends e-mail, takes pictures, plays music and is waterproof enough that it can go swimming with you? You know what that means of course. You must now have the little gizmo with you all the time. "See, I told you I was busy in the pool; I will talk to you later!" Just exhausting.

But it’s not all that bad though. Where snail-mail envelopes took months to travel from Africa to Europe or North America, all our friends and enemies (sorry, relatives) are a mere e-mail click away. So sometimes you’re in the middle of preparing the most boring report for the next boring board meeting when a friend sends an e-mail asking a mundane question. You gotta answer the question right away, right? Well, imagine seven friends asking you similarly mundane questions over the course of an eight-hour day.

It’s so much better to talk to your friends about football (men) or men (women), than to work a job you’re bored with. No wonder some companies have banned private e-mail.

Of course e-mail also has come with junk-mail, Nigerian scam artists and pornography. If your company doesn’t have a good enough firewall, you’re going to get a lot of inquiries about your penis size (with a view to increasing it), your sexual life (with a view to jazzing it up) and your bank balance (with a view to improving it).

But if you ever answer any of those inquiries, you’ll have started on a slippery road to hell. Penile enlargements are like those World Cup commercials – they are selling you an idea of a life that probably doesn’t exist.

The Nigerian scam artists who ask for your personal banking details after alleging that they fled Lagos or Kinshasa with a briefcase full of cash will definitely clear your account.

And the pornography that makes you wonder why wifey cannot get as freaky as the girls on your computer screen will be discovered by one of the two people you’re most afraid of – your boss; or your wife.

The thing to do is appreciate globalisation and all its trappings with a pinch of salt.

If you can afford the iPod, get it. But don’t throw out your vinyl. Sometimes, you can only truly reminisce with music from a record player that has a scratching noise. Get a cellphone by all means. But turn it off when you go to bathroom. And whatever you do, please don’t go swimming with it.

That’s just uncivilised.

10 children hospitalised as kalazar breaks out in Isiolo
By Boniface Ongeri

Ten children were yesterday admitted to Wajir District Hospital in critical condition, suffering from kalazar.

The disease broke out in a division in Isiolo District. Wajir Medical Officer of Health, Dr Ahmeddin Omar, said they were expecting more children from Malkagalla location in Merti Division on the Wajir –Isiolo districts border.

Ahmeddin said three children were admitted on Friday and the rest on Tuesday. Parents accompanying the children reported that 10 children who were reported to have died from malaria over the last week could have succumbed to kalaazar.

The death reports could not, however, be independently confirmed because the Isiolo MOH could not be reached for comment. By the time of this report more children were trooping to the Wajir facility and scores queued at the reception waiting for admission.

Ahmeddin, however, said the children aged between two and five had swollen abdomens and high fever. He expressed fears that the hospital may not handle the emergency as it was running out of medicine to treat the disease.

"The drugs could only cater for four patients and the swelling number of patients has overstretched the drugs. We have appealed for more drugs from Nairobi," he said.
Ahmeddin said the disease spread by sun flies was expensive to treat. "The disease is fatal if not detected early and treated. In most cases sufferers develop anaemia," he said.

Asked why they did not seek medical attention in Isiolo, Karo Bakasa who had brought his three-year-old grandson said the district hospital lacked medicine to treat the disease.
"Four children who were taken to Isiolo died during a similar outbreak in 2003 but those who came to Wajir survived," Bakasa told doctors at the facility. He said four other children died recently, forcing them to move to Wajir.

He said they thought the outbreak was malaria until doctors at Wajir confirmed it was the killer kalazar. Sunflies, which inject the parasite into the blood are found in ant hills, a common feature in the region.

Children die of hunger as relief food dries out
By Boniface Ongeri and Beatrice Obwocha for EAST AFRICAN STANDARD

Three more children have died of hunger in Wajir District(Kenya's North Eastern Province)

The minors’ deaths were reported yesterday as other reports said starving residents in some locations no longer receive relief food from the Government.

Erestino Location assistant chief Hussein Ali Katelo said malnourished children and the elderly were dying of hunger as aid agencies and the Government stopped dispatching relief food to the area.

He identified the children as Ali Noor Maalim, two months, Isack Hassan Maalim, seven months and Mohammed Maalim Adan, 2.

Their deaths, the chief said, brought the death toll due to starvation to eight in the last one month. The location is some 310km from Wajir on the Kenya-Ethiopia border.

Oxfam GB is one of the aid agencies that was tasked by the Government to distribute relief food after the provincial administration was accused of diverting the food.

Last year, the Government sparked public outrage when officials dumped relief food destined for Erestino at Danaba Location, some 40km away, and asked the residents to go and collect it.
An elder, Adan Abdullai Maalim, said the only time the location received relief food was in January when they received 340 bags of miaze and 16 bags of beans following a demonstration.

An Oxfam official said the area was insecure and they would not risk the lives of their workers.
He said the charity had instead delivered food meant for Erestino to the Government to be delivered under police escort.

The officer said the provincial administration was given March, April and May food rations for the area. Local DC Joseph Otieno declined to comment on the matter.

Five killed as rival Somali factions clash over contract
by Victor Obure (The EA standard).

Five people were killed at the weekend and several others seriously injured after rival militia clashed along the Kenya/Somalia border.

Fighting erupted at the Somalia border town of Dobley after the two groups differed over a contract to protect convoys of relief supply shipments to the southern part of the troubled nation.

Fighting ensued and spilled over to the common border, where a defeated faction had retreated to regroup before staging a surprise dawn raid on Sunday, leaving at least 14 people with bullet wounds.

Doctors at Garissa Provincial General Hospital on Sunday confirmed that three critically wounded patients were referred from Liboi dispensary for specialised treatment at the facility where most of the casualties were admitted.

Witnesses said forces allied to the Somalia Patriotic Movement (SPM) waylaid a column of trucks ferrying humanitarian supplies after World Food Programme (WFP) reportedly awarded a rival faction a security contract to escort the shipments.

Militiamen ambushed convoy

But the escort team from the Somalia National Front (SNF) returned fire and repulsed the attackers, before giving the convoy safe passage into the Kenyan side of the border as gunshots rent the air.

A truck driver in Garissa town said the militiamen, who ambushed the convoy some 18 km from the Kenyan border, were only interested in settling scores with their rivals.He said another column of 17 trucks ferrying relief supplies to the war torn country was later stranded at Liboi Police Station as the gun battle between the factions raged along the Liboi/Dobley road.

Customs officers said business along the busy border town came to a virtual halt as most transporters suspended operations along the troubled route, while others used Ammuma and Diff entry points to avoid the warring groups.

Villagers in border locations said hundreds of local herdsmen who had entered Somalia in search of pasture and water were forced to cut short their expeditions and return home.

The incident comes after WFP opted to ship its relief food consignment by road through Mombasa port via Garissa District after pirates frustrated their operations by persistently hijacking cargo in the high seas.

Is this Islam, Somali Culture, Sex slavery or big time business in Garissa-Kenya

Story by MUCHEMI WACHIRA Publication Date: 7/5/2006

My view: This is just too bad and un-Islamic...We should shun this...

Her dream of living a comfortable, hassle-free life after marrying a rich man has turned out to be just that – a dream.

The civil strife in the Horn of Africa country has spilled over into North-Easrern Province, worsening the food and security situation. Fifteen-year-old Asha (not her real name) married a man she thought would be dependable and responsible, having got a job in the US. He had been proposed to her by her parents, but the wedding took place in his absence.

"I thought I was running away from poverty which, coupled with the harsh climate at home, had made life very difficult," says the woman from Garissa District in North Eastern Province.
She had, on the instruction of her parents, abandoned school to get married.

The Somali husband who still works in the US, paid a dowry of $3,000 (about Sh219,000).
And the happy couple proceeded to organise a colourful wedding conducted by a local sheikh in line with the Islamic law.

A marriage certificate was subsequently issued by the local kadhi.
But when the man arrived from the US, Asha says they did not get along well with each other for long. "He was not prepared to take me to the US where I later discovered he had another wife," she recalls.

"And during the few days we stayed together in Garissa Town, he would always attempt to have sex with other girls. I realised he was not my choice."
The couple have since had a divorce granted by the kadhi’s court.

Is it a booming business to residents ???


Hundreds of other young women in the district have found themselves in a similar predicament. Parents are literally selling their underage girls to men working abroad, especially in the US, Canada, the UK and South Africa.

What is tantamount to sex trade has become booming business for the residents. Nation investigations have established that the trade is spearheaded by middlemen in Kenya and abroad.

The broker in a foreign country enters into a deal with a man desiring to have sex with or marry a beautiful Somali girl in Kenya. The broker sends the message and money to a fellow middleman in Kenya with the instruction that he take video pictures of a group of girls either dancing or just walking around.

So the Kenyan broker goes to a function such as a wedding ceremony where dancing takes place, or he organises a dance and invites girls and young women.
The videotape is then sent to the broker in the foreign country who delivers it to the man who has hired him for the job.

And when the man finally identifies the girl of his choice, he asks the broker to deliver the message to her parents. The message is delivered through the Kenyan middleman, who informs the girl's parents and tells them how much money their daughter’s suitor is willing to offer as the bride price.

Of course, the negotiations take place without the girl's knowledge(which is wrong)

This is the point at which most parents find themselves victims of the conspiracy hatched out by the rich Somali young men who have found greener pastures overseas.

And, as it has turned out, the sole interest of these men is sex.

"Of course, if one proposes to pay me more than Sh1 million to give him my daughter for marriage, I can’t decline to take the offer," a parent says, adding that it is impossible to earn such big money in the region where poverty is endemic.

"Or how else can I raise a million shillings while my income is only from my few livestock?

The lure of instant wealth has forced some parents to withdraw their children from school and marry them off to the rich, young men. And they gladly pocket the loot, not giving a hoot whether or not they have seen the face of the men soon to have a relationship with their daughters.

At least one wedding ceremony is held in the Kenyan Garissa Town everyday between a Somali girl and a strange man who does not have to attend it, such as in Asha’s case.

Most of the weddings which take place in the evening, begin with a convoy of vehicles which cruise around while hooting continuously. The honking alerts the local girls who flock to the venue for a dance in the hope of hitting a gold mine for the parents and possibly for herself.
A video picture of the procession and the entire bridal party is taken. Eventually, the motorcade of about 10 hired vehicles stops at the hired hall, hotel or private home where the wedding is to take place.

Although the wedding is somewhat private as only a few people are allowed in, all the Somali rites are performed, including slaughtering a camel or a bull.
And amid applause and cheers from the small crowd of relatives and friends, the bride is given a standing ovation as she says: "I do" to an absent bridegroom.

After the ceremony, the bride is led to her new matrimonial house where she will be forced to spend lonely nights until the groom arrives.

There are, however, other men who travel from abroad and conduct their weddings privately in big hotels in the town and leave immediately with their newly wedded wives.

But who really are these men? And why do they target only Somali girls?

The trade is peculiar to the Somalis, and has flourished for the past decade when the resettlement abroad of a large number of Somali refugees started, especially in the US and Canada.

This was after the political turmoil in the Horn of Africa country in the early 1990s, which saw the overthrow of President Mohammed Said Barre. This was also when Somalis started being settled in Kenya by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), especially at the Hagardere, Ifo and Dagahley camps in Garissa District.

Over the years, UNHCR has been resettling the refugees in the US and Canada as political instability continued to rock the country.

A civil rights activist in Nairobi says that some of the young men who have found their way to the US have limited education. "They are earning thousands of dollars in a month and they feel it is prestigious for them to marry all the beautiful women in the Somali community," he adds.
These young men, he says, want to be regarded as belonging to a higher class by compatriots at the refugee camps.

Thus, when they offer such a large amount of money to a poor family in Garissa, Wajir or Mandera as bride price, how many parents will turn it down?

The province is one of the poorest in Kenya as it is dry throughout the year, and the people depend entirely on livestock. And to compound their misery, the stocks were depleted by drought that ravaged the country last year, leaving most families depraved.

For such a family life has not been easy, making it easy prey for the predators from overseas.
Like in Asha’s case, most of the relationships do not last long. The man may come for his wife after two or three years of marriage. And even if he comes immediately, as happened to Asha, he will first expose the naïve girl to all sorts of perversion.

And he may not necessarily continue making love to his bride who, in any case, is a stranger. Once he has his fill he moves over to the next victim. So the unions invariably end in separation.
As happened in Mandera Town early this year, a civil servant married off her two secondary school daughters to young Somalis working in the US.

A resident recalls: "After the wedding, the men came and started doing all sorts of bad things to the girls. They would drink with them and mess up in public. The two guys then divorced the girls and went back to the US."

She explains that the girls could not go back to school as they had been stigmatised. This forced their mother to move to another area. The residents say the woman bought a house in a big town with the money paid to her as bride price.

Several other girls are said to have turned to prostitution after being dumped by their husbands in the US, Canada, the UK and South Africa. The same fate has befallen their colleagues in Garissa Town.

Some have hired rooms in the sprawling slums of Windsor, Bosnia and California on the outskirts of the town which they use as brothels.

The trade has become so sensitive in the region that few leaders wish to discuss it. It is the mayor, Mr Siyad Osman, who blew the whistle. He was quoted in the media as condemning parents who had fallen prey to the international cartel.

Since Mr Osman's remarks many other leaders have come out to condemn the sale of girls by needy parents.

But the local islamic Judge(kadhi, Mr Osman Abdi) says that although he has of late handled several divorce cases, he does not see anything wrong with a marriage between a young woman and a wealthy man. "As long as there is love between a man a woman, marriage between the two is allowed by the Islamic law," he says. "It does not matter where such a marriage takes place – whether in Kenya or in London."

The Government of Kenya has not taken action against the parents either.

And provincial commissioner Kiritu Wamae defends the impassiveness: "No one has been able to prove that the girls are being sold out."

What is Worrying Us Now:

But Ms Fatuma Kinsi, the executive director of the lobby, Pastoralist Girls Initiative, is worried: "What worries me is that these people who come to marry our girls do not go to the VCT centres to be tested for their HIV/Aids status."

Additional reporting by Issa Hussein in Garissa

The School of Nepad and Kenyan Presso, Kick Back..

There is shuare...a rot of improfment....

About Artur's brother conspiracy and rattling the snake the Standard Way...

Why Michuki has no business being in Government

We return prominently, albeit reluctantly, to the matter of the alleged Armenian brothers, their criminal act of drawing guns at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and the utterly and totally unacceptable manner in which the Government handled their recent exit from the country.
We revisit this matter not because the Government has instituted a commission to investigate the activities of the despicable duo, but because Mr John Michuki, the Minister for Internal Security, has decided to use our brilliant coverage of this unfortunate saga to threaten the media in general, and the Standard Group, in particular.
Despite the fact that this is not the first time that Michuki is threatening the media, we wish to state from the outset that on this, and on many other issues of huge public interest, that touch on or threaten to jeopardise or compromise the security of Kenya or the national interest, we will bend the knee to none.
We are not threatening. We are not boasting. We are just saying that Michuki’s threats, his misrepresentation of facts against us, and his threat to order a repeat of the illegal March 2 invasion of our downtown offices and Industrial Area-based printing press, will not stop us from seeking good governance and attacking bad leadership.

What is Michuki saying about the Standard Group in particular, and the media in general, in his paid-up adverts and what is the truth?

He implies that under the Narc Government the media have experienced an environment of expanded and consolidated democratic space, but they have failed to use this responsibly for the good of all, but have instead pursued vendetta and witch-hunting.

What is the truth? We pursue no vendetta or witch hunting. Neither do we have a political agenda nor are we beholden to one. Our position has been that the handling of the security docket by Michuki has been woefully and deplorably inept. It is why — and on the basis of the evidence available — we have called on the President to take decisive action against the minister.

Why? We believe the minister’s insensitivity and unbridled arrogance, best expressed in his remarks about the March 2 raid on the Standard Group and the admission that he sanctioned it, have done more harm to investor confidence, tourism and Kenya’s image in the world, than all the failures of the Narc administration put together.

Michuki accuses the Standard Group of allowing itself to be used as a mouthpiece of "certain not-so-well-meaning partisan interests" and calls us the "worst offender" in this regard. Having endorsed a certain standpoint, Michuki says, no amount of clarification, explanation or additional information would cause us to change our direction.

What is the true position? It is that we have been steadfast in our conviction that the entry of the Armenians into this country, their stay and recent melodramatic exit, point to a serious lapse in our security apparatus and cast serious aspersions on the powers of judgement of Michuki, his officers and others in positions of authority.

For the record, we wish to state that our sister title, The Sunday Standard, was the first publication to demand that the sooner the country was rid of the two Armenians the better it would be for all of us. And what had they done? One of them had arrogantly told Michuki to shut up!

But we were not surprised that the minister kept quiet about the slur and our rush to his defence. When we complained officially and legally that armed and balaclava-clad people believed to be State agents had raided our premises, shut down KTN, carted away computers, burnt newspapers and disabled the printing press, Michuki’s response was that we deserved it and had brought it upon ourselves.

The minister says editorial policies, visions and mission statements are exercised more in the breach than observance, resulting in gross disservice to readers, viewers and listeners. Indeed, Michuki says media are purveyors of ethnic hatred, civil strife, breakdown of law and order and anarchy.
Is that right? Hardly. The minister, who declares that the Government is obliged to strictly follow the law and will operate in an accountable and responsible manner, justified the raid on the Standard Group by saying its titles and station were about to broadcast and publish material injurious to State security.

If this had been the reason for the midnight raid, we would like to believe that the Group would have by this time been arraigned in court for the incriminating material the State sought to extract from the computers seized from our offices.

Then comes the inevitable threat. Michuki says the propagation of the alleged ills by the media "must come to an end". He says this must and will happen because irresponsible attitudes and outputs can cause untold damage to the vital national interest. What does this portend?
That the minister could, taking the cue from the March 2 raid on the Standard Group and the recent emulation of it by elements that attacked Hope FM, unleash terror on the media? That Government could champion laws to fetter operations of the media he and those of his ilk perceive to be hostile to the Government?

Our considered view is that whether through legislation or terror, Michuki will fail miserably in his misguided war against the media.
Finally, we are convinced that Michuki’s problem is that he does not like the intense scrutiny he has come under because of the manner in which he has handled the Armenians. He must know that as long as he is a public servant, he will remain under the searchlight of the media and public who pay his salary and upkeep so that he can look after their security.

It is this that informs the Standard Group’s quest and conviction that Michuki has miserably failed in his duties as Security minister. And this has nothing whatsoever to do with our neglecting our robust editorial policy, but rather because we are guided by it.