When do you cease to carry the title Honourable? When the electorate boots you or is it a life-long title? Radio stations keep on referring to former Nyeri MP Waithaka Ndirangu as ‘Honourable’, 15 years since he last set foot in the august House after a two-year stint. He was elected to Parliament in 1990 after the then Cabinet minister Waruru Kanja railed at the State following the death of Robert Ouko. Ndirangu made history as the first MP to defect in Parliament, from Kanu to DP, his clenched fist, the DP symbol, raised.
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Why are prominent Narc-Kenya members scrambling for the chairman’s seat and not the deputy party leader’s? The party constitution says the latter will be running mate. Aren’t they interested in being VP?
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Who said hope in politics lies in the youth? If you thought so, think again. Youthful parliamentary aspirants landed in Ugenya constituency in a chopper — the politicians’ stock-in-trade — and ranted how they would take over. They took over the event — donations for a school — and did not allow the wellwishers to even say a word.
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The clamour for a university at the Coast has been on for years. Plans to upgrade Mombasa Polytechnic to a degree-awarding institution have not curried favour with the impatient residents. Now, JKUAT Vice-Chancellor Nick Wanjohi says the university will take over the stalled Taita Teachers Training College in Voi as a campus. Mineral engineering, IT, tourism, medical studies, chemistry and physics will be offered. Will this quench the coastal thirst for a university?
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ODM membership is dual: Individual and corporate. The former curries favour with Raila Odinga and the latter Kalonzo Musyoka. Bishop Margaret Wanjiru joined ODM through corporate LDP. Is she in Brother Kalonzo’s ODM wing?
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And finally …
Hospitals, health centres and dispensaries in Kitui District are said to be better equipped than the Embu Provincial and Machakos District hospitals in ambulance and kits. Are you sure???
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ODM membership is dual: Individual and corporate. The former curries favour with Raila Odinga and the latter Kalonzo Musyoka. Bishop Margaret Wanjiru joined ODM through corporate LDP. Is she in Brother Kalonzo’s ODM wing?
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And finally …
Hospitals, health centres and dispensaries in Kitui District are said to be better equipped than the Embu Provincial and Machakos District hospitals in ambulance and kits. Are you sure???
