KENYA STORIES
Can’t eat a thing, can’t sleep a wink. These are the problems facing Ngecha’s Mr Hiram Kamunge, winner of Sh10 million in the Safaricom ‘Kwachua Milioni’ competition. He is at an undisclosed location in Nairobi organising his security. Perhaps he needs the services of those four APs who until recently were guarding a less deserving millionaire.
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Former Chepalungu MP, Mr John Kipsang arap Koech must be sleeping a lot easier these days. The prospect of fighting off 42 ODM aspirants to defend the seat has melted away as the official nominations list now shows seven. Or does that just make things more difficult? Faced with a rabble of 42, voters might have just tuned out!
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There might be more things falling off President Kibaki’s re-election vehicle than just inebriated supporters. Kanu, it seems, might wreck the deal for joint nominations following the Democratic Party’s declaration of independence... Stay tuned...
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The police force in Guinea must be one of the best-paying in the continent. Either that or they have the kind of unemployment rates that breed desperate competition. Three young men collapsed and died during rectuitment fitness tests. The candidates had to do an 8km run in 45 minutes but competition was so stiff, some came in half the time.
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Calling all part-time politicians/seed maize farmers: here’s an opportunity to make some quick money to fund your re-election campaign. Zimbabwe, courtesy of reforms that aren’t going as expected, wants to import 15,000 metric tonnes of seed maize. Chha-chinggg!
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And finally...
South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki is said to be casting himself as a latter-day Galileo Gallilei, muttering his doubts about the link between the HIV virus and Aids under his breath.
A biographer says Mbeki remains an ‘Aids dissident’ and regrets withdrawing from the debate. He has apparently sent a 100-page document arguing the science of Aids is entrenched in racist beliefs about Africans.
Dr Beetroot (the health minister who has faith in unconventional remedies) must approve.
