KERICHO TOWN SLOWLY RECOVERS FROM THE EEFECTS OF THE RECENT POLITICAL CHAOS

Life is slowly going back to nrmal in kericho town from the effects of the recent political chaos that rocked the country.THe chaos left life in this town abnormaly high with the basic commodities for survival be priced at tripple the normal prices .The worst affected was fuel and the basic food stuffs ,that is maize and the fish that are popularly known as omena or dagaa .The fish that normally go at ten shillings per one two hundred and fifty gramms tin of blue band magarine,were priced at twnety shillings for the same quantity .And the charcoal that used to cost only twenty shillings per a two kilogramme tin of kimbo cooking fat was until recently priced at forty shillings for the same quantity.Andthe maize flour that used to go at twenty shillings per a kilogramme in the slums ,was  priced at twenty five shillings for the same quantity of flour.

From between two and three weeks ago,things have changed and slowly by slowly the prices are getting back to normal .The prices of charcoal have gone back to the thirty shillings for the same aquantity of charcoal while the prices of maize flour have dropped down to where they were before ,that is at twenty shillings for the same quantity of flour.

The things that have not yet dropped in prices are houses which some of the residents have been heard complaining that ,some land lords have been claiming alot of money from them for very poor quality houses.

So,slowly by slowy ,the town is healing from the eefects of the chaos and it is expected that soon the life ,generally ,in this town will be back to normal.

KERICHO SCHOOL TOPS IN MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL

The kericho highlands primariy school came back home from the recently completed music and arts festivals that were held in kitale kenya with a tenth position in their classical music category.Mean while their neighbours,the Saint patricks primary school ,in the same town, did very well in their falk song and dance presentation .They got a first position in that category.The saint patricks primary school are the only hope for the district in the festivals .

A COWS SKIINED CARCASE STUFFED IN A BUSH IN KERICHO KENYA

The carcse of a jersy cow was discovered in the bushes along the rivere tha runs between the Nyagacho living areas of kericho and the town center.It was n't known instantly what the cause of the death of the cow might have been but the cow had been properly skinned ,but the meety was'nt carried away .It wasn't known whether it was a thief who had run out of the time to finish the preparation procedurs before he could carry away the meet or the cow had ddied because of disease .

There hasn't been any official information about the death of the cow from the authorities .

UNKNOWN WOMAN SECRETLY DUMPS DEAD INFANTS BODY INTO SOMEONES TOILET

There was drama in ainamoi town when an unknown woman gave birth to a baby the dumbed it in to another persons toilet secretly.Whe the owner of the toilet,a Mr. Bett., went to help himself in the toilet ,he discovered that there was a dead baby in the yoilet.It is not clear really how  he knew this ,but our sources told us that he discovered that there was a baby in the toilet and he the rushed to the Kericho towns Police station and made a report.The police the went to the mans home and removed the body of the infant and carried it away to the \kericho district hospitals mortuary where it was kept .The owner was never discovered and the police are going on with investigations.

PRISONER ESCAPES FROM KERICHO TOWNS MAIN PRISON ,KERICHO,KENYA

There was drama in kericho town on the sixteenth date of the month of june the year two thousand and ten when all the prison warders of the kericho main prison when running helter skelter allover the Jua kali part of the town in pursuit of a suspected runaway prisoner.

The mas passed through the jua kali charcoal selling shades of the town ,the shades that are situated beside the prisons camp and the administration police camp.A woman who suspected the man said that he had passed where she was seated selling her charcoal bare chested and his trouser rolled up to his kneees and he was carrying a piece of bar soap in his hand .The woman then had sounded the alarm and the whole camp of prison warders came out streaming running trying to cover all the roads in the area .
By the time we were writing tis story ,the chase was still on and it wasn't known quickly whether ,the man was a prisoner or not.

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A SERIES OF ARMED ROBBERY ATTACKS ON A SHPO IN KERICHO ,KENYA

There has been two armed robberies on the same shop in Kericho town .The shop is called the Raha Wholesalers .In just two days ,that is thursday and frida ,the shop has been attacked twice and each these armed robbers come ,they snatch millions of shillings and manage to run away un harmed.

According to eye witnesses ,they said that these armed robbers come and pose as motorcycle taxi operators ,and they slowly sneak at the staff of the whole sale shop and then they santch the money that goes in sums of millions and then the walkout and jump on to their motorbikes and ride away very fast that the police are not even able to trace them .

They are said to have made away with seventeen million shillings on thursday alone ,the sum that was stollen on the following day,friday is still not known yet.

The shop which is among the towns biggest wholesalers has suffered several robbery attacks in which ,other times ,the members of staff have lost their lives .

The incidents take place around lunch time.

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ASKARIS WANT JUA KALI MECHANICS TO EVACUATE THEIR WORKING PLACE AFTR AN ACCIDENT

There was drama at the kericho Kenya co-operative creamerise depot of kericho town when the municpal council askaris confronted the Jua kali mechanics who run their work on the sides of the roads here and told them to stop and look for elsewhere to operate their garages.This was beacuse of an accident that happened at the same palce on monday morning when a nissan shark taxi hit a motorcylce ride at the round about and ran away .The motorcyclist was the carried away to hospital by the jua kali mechanis of the area.
Situations here are slowly coming to normal though .Up to friday morning ,the council askaris were seen struggling for the gass cylinders with the mechanis ,they were trying to take them away to their offices while the mechanics went on to defend themselves .They later left without taking any of their tools though.
Things are slowly cooling down here.

CRACK DOWN ON UNROADWORTHY VEHICLES IN KERICHO, KENYA

Police on tuesday this week carried an operation to get rid of unroad worthy vehicles from the roads of kericho disrict .This was aimed at making sure that the drivers of the matatus and other road users stuck to the Kenyanhighway code for sfaety and order on our roads.
The operation caused a hitch in the normal functioning of the transport systems in the district .Travewllers had to cancel their journeys or bear with the problems that go with the lack of enough vehicles on the roads .
The situations are going back to normal though