The African institute of research and technology ,Kericho campus .hosted all the non government colleges and universities in the town to a sports and athletics meeting on the twelfth date of the month of february at the Kericho green stadium. Among the colleges that took partin the event were the Kericho schoolof professionalstudies ,The sikh NSPSI schoolof business studies,the southwestern Teacherscollege An the three African instituteof research campuses of Nakuru,KerichoAnd Kisumu .
The organisers of the Event ,Mr.Ken Kibet Koskey and martin Mutai ,both o fthe kricho schoolof professionalstuddies said that it was the first time that the event was atteended by institutions fromoutsidethe Kericho disstrict .Previously,the events only involved institutions from within the district.
They said that because of the good results of the previous events ,the organisers hoped toimprove it sothat it involved allinstitutions in the country.
THeresultsof the games were as follows;
Mens' Volley ball titlewent tothe Kerichoschoolof professionalstudiies
Ladies Vollyball title went to the African instituteof research studdies
Andthe mens football title went tothe NSPSI university
There were athletics events alsobut they didn't attract alot ofattention as the other games did but it is hoped that in the future ,the athleticsevents will be improved so that it reached the requiredstarndards sothat they attractedthe attention of the bodiesthat ggorvern the functionning of the sports in this country.
The organizers of the events said that they intend to hold such an event every after each two weeks
The sports were said to have been very successful though and the students from all the involved institutions were very happy about it and everyone who attended enjoyed themselves to the most and were fully satisfied with the event. .
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
WHICH SIZE OF CUPS SHOULD BE USED IN THE KERICHO CAFETERIAS?
We have watched the recent trends in the serving of tea and coffee in the cafeterias and came to realize that there has got to be an official mode of serving food in this places .A good example is the royal hotel that is situated at the Kericho Kenya co-operative creameries depot .
First ,the tea and coffee and porridge and perhaps soup was served in good and decent African type mugs that had a capacity of carrying up to a half a liter of liquid ,then ,Came the introduction of some co wry kinds of cups that had a capacity of carrying slightly lesser liquid than the previous types of cups .And the presently,they are using slim and tall types of co wry cups that ,sincerely speaking ,can not carry more than a third of what we used to have in the first place,that is the olden types of mugs .
Now the question here is ,are we,the customers that is ,getting what we deserve for our money really?Sincerely speaking ,someone has to do something about this .Don't you people think that it would be wiser if the government controlled the quantity of this beverages that we get for a specific amount of money?
For some of us,going to those places for a meal means extending your own life though for others it could be just some luxury in their lives .When things look like they are going too far this way ,we always need someone to rescue the situation.
Don't callus any names ,but what is happening is really not fare and it seems that the hoteliers are really enjoying it because everyone of them is now going for this new types of cups Thirty or fifty milliliters of tea or coffee for a handcart pusher is sincerely too little to keep us going.
First ,the tea and coffee and porridge and perhaps soup was served in good and decent African type mugs that had a capacity of carrying up to a half a liter of liquid ,then ,Came the introduction of some co wry kinds of cups that had a capacity of carrying slightly lesser liquid than the previous types of cups .And the presently,they are using slim and tall types of co wry cups that ,sincerely speaking ,can not carry more than a third of what we used to have in the first place,that is the olden types of mugs .
Now the question here is ,are we,the customers that is ,getting what we deserve for our money really?Sincerely speaking ,someone has to do something about this .Don't you people think that it would be wiser if the government controlled the quantity of this beverages that we get for a specific amount of money?
For some of us,going to those places for a meal means extending your own life though for others it could be just some luxury in their lives .When things look like they are going too far this way ,we always need someone to rescue the situation.
Don't callus any names ,but what is happening is really not fare and it seems that the hoteliers are really enjoying it because everyone of them is now going for this new types of cups Thirty or fifty milliliters of tea or coffee for a handcart pusher is sincerely too little to keep us going.
Friday, January 29, 2010
THE WORLD WIDE SIKH RELIGIOUS LEADER TO VISIT KERICHO TEMPLE
A word has reached us that the world wide leader of the Sikh religion will be visiting the Sikh Temple and University College in Kericho,Kenya on the thirtieth day of the month of January.This was told to us by the University's Principal during an interview with him on the morning of the twenty ninth day of the same month in the morning as he went on with the preparations to receive his guests.
It was said that the leader will be arriving in the country from the UK and that he will be here on Private and religious business only .
The religion has been contributing a lot to the bettering of the lives of the small Kenyans .They have built bridges ,the university college,and much more in this region alone .There could be much more out there in the other parts of the country.
It was said that the leader will be arriving in the country from the UK and that he will be here on Private and religious business only .
The religion has been contributing a lot to the bettering of the lives of the small Kenyans .They have built bridges ,the university college,and much more in this region alone .There could be much more out there in the other parts of the country.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
PETROL TANKER LOSES CONTROL AND BURSTS INTO FLAMES
A petrol tanker lost control at masarian crashed in to a saloon injuring the trucks driver and conductor plus the saloon cars driver on the twenty seventh date of the month of January the two thousand and ten .Masarian is about ten kilometers from Kericho town center..The tanker bust in to flames immediately it stopped rolling and burned a half way and also burnt a half an acre of a teas plantation .
The casualties were admitted at the Kericho district hospital.The cause of the fire was not clearly known but eye witnesses guess that it could be because of the sparks form the trucks batteries.
The casualties were admitted at the Kericho district hospital.The cause of the fire was not clearly known but eye witnesses guess that it could be because of the sparks form the trucks batteries.
TREE OF DEATH IN KENYA
There was a story in the kenyan press in the nation news paper about this tree .It was a weird and blood chilling story that is not far from the voo doos and human sacrifices that we have been hering about ,and the truth is that the story can not be far from witcraft ,soucery and religious miinformation.
A tree at Chaka trading centre in Nyeri has earned the reputation of the ‘tree of death’. Troubled people, some from as far as 20km away, are trooping to the trading centre to hang themselves from it.
Local police don’t know what to make of it. Villagers claim seven people have hanged themselves from that one tree in the past year. Police said they could only confirm two. Officers said Peter Muchiri, 25, and Stephen Gathara Kaburia, 40, hanged themselves on that tree within a month of each other.
The two came from Ruring’u, Nyeri, although they did not know each nor were they related, according to relatives. Mr Kaburia, a butcher, left home on a Friday to go and look for a cow for slaughter. He even called his wife, Ms Monicah Gathara Karaya, to say he would be home for lunch.
Four days later, he was found hanging from the tree of death, 20km from his home. The rope around his neck was the one he had carried to lead the cow back home. Police said nothing was stolen from him; even his phone was still in his pocket.
Locals said he was dropped off by a taxi a few metres from the place where his dangling body was found, although police investigators could not confirm this. Last week, Mr Karaya, 25, a lorry driver, was found hanging in the same spot.
According to his mother, Ms Tabitha Karaya, Mr Karaya had said he was going to Nairobi on the day he died. His lifeless body was later found on the tree of death. According to witnesses, his shoes were neatly arranged and the rope carefully slipped over the top of his pullover collar.
Same spot
In his pockets, police found a puzzling, roughly scribbled suicide note, thanking his young wife for giving him a baby boy before signing off with the words “Dhambi ni dhambi” (A sin is a sin).
Are the two deaths related or was it by pure coincidence that the two were found dead on the same spot? That is what police are trying to figure out. Relatives are mystified too. “As far as I know, the two did not know each other, and we are not related in any way,” says Ms Karaya.
“Now we know each other very well, although we are not related,” says Ms Monicah Gathara, Gathara’s wife, now a widow with three little children. Nyeri police boss Kirunya Limbitu described it as a strange coincidence. “It is puzzling. Normally, suicidal people kill themselves within their home area. These ones, it seems, travelled 20 kilometres to kill themselves,” he said.
Locals maintain five more bodies have been found hanging from that tree. Inevitably, it has become a source of fear and superstition. Some want it cut down, others swear never to touch a leaf of it. “I have seen four bodies removed from this spot. I think these trees here are cursed,” area resident Nderitu, 22, says. Police are asking the locals to volunteer information to help solve the case. They have opened inquest files, but there is not much in them.
A tree at Chaka trading centre in Nyeri has earned the reputation of the ‘tree of death’. Troubled people, some from as far as 20km away, are trooping to the trading centre to hang themselves from it.
Local police don’t know what to make of it. Villagers claim seven people have hanged themselves from that one tree in the past year. Police said they could only confirm two. Officers said Peter Muchiri, 25, and Stephen Gathara Kaburia, 40, hanged themselves on that tree within a month of each other.
The two came from Ruring’u, Nyeri, although they did not know each nor were they related, according to relatives. Mr Kaburia, a butcher, left home on a Friday to go and look for a cow for slaughter. He even called his wife, Ms Monicah Gathara Karaya, to say he would be home for lunch.
Four days later, he was found hanging from the tree of death, 20km from his home. The rope around his neck was the one he had carried to lead the cow back home. Police said nothing was stolen from him; even his phone was still in his pocket.
Locals said he was dropped off by a taxi a few metres from the place where his dangling body was found, although police investigators could not confirm this. Last week, Mr Karaya, 25, a lorry driver, was found hanging in the same spot.
According to his mother, Ms Tabitha Karaya, Mr Karaya had said he was going to Nairobi on the day he died. His lifeless body was later found on the tree of death. According to witnesses, his shoes were neatly arranged and the rope carefully slipped over the top of his pullover collar.
Same spot
In his pockets, police found a puzzling, roughly scribbled suicide note, thanking his young wife for giving him a baby boy before signing off with the words “Dhambi ni dhambi” (A sin is a sin).
Are the two deaths related or was it by pure coincidence that the two were found dead on the same spot? That is what police are trying to figure out. Relatives are mystified too. “As far as I know, the two did not know each other, and we are not related in any way,” says Ms Karaya.
“Now we know each other very well, although we are not related,” says Ms Monicah Gathara, Gathara’s wife, now a widow with three little children. Nyeri police boss Kirunya Limbitu described it as a strange coincidence. “It is puzzling. Normally, suicidal people kill themselves within their home area. These ones, it seems, travelled 20 kilometres to kill themselves,” he said.
Locals maintain five more bodies have been found hanging from that tree. Inevitably, it has become a source of fear and superstition. Some want it cut down, others swear never to touch a leaf of it. “I have seen four bodies removed from this spot. I think these trees here are cursed,” area resident Nderitu, 22, says. Police are asking the locals to volunteer information to help solve the case. They have opened inquest files, but there is not much in them.
Monday, January 25, 2010
ANOTHER KENYAN WINS THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
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Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, a peace activist from north Eastern Province, is the winner of a global award, the 2009 Hesse Peace Prize which she received in Germany last week.
Her peace activism is long and chequered, having started the Wajir Peace Committee in the early 1990s to try and end persistent clan wars in the region.
A the time, her passion was to see peace prevail in a region where hostile clans were in a permanent war mode. It did not occur to her that the world was watching. And last week on Thursday, Ms Abdi scooped the global award that told her that her efforts were not in vain.
Wajir was under emergency law from 1963 to 1990, with government forces fighting an active guerrilla movement (the Shifta war). When the emergency and quasi-occupation ended, the security situation deteriorated even more.
There was an open conflict which claimed 1,500 lives, and which resulted in a lot of hatred between different clans.
In 1992, Ms Abdi and other women as well as concerned men started a grassroots peace initiative, bringing together people from all clans.
Despite opposition from the traditional clan leaders, they began to organise mediation between the warring parties (with representatives of minority groups acting as moderators).
When an agreement was in place, they set up the Wajir Peace Committee, with representatives of all parties — clans, Government security organs, Parliamentarians, civil servants, Muslim and Christian religious leaders and NGOs — to implement the agreement.
Ms Abdi, who had been working as coordinator for a mobile primary health care project for nomadic people, was elected as secretary of the peace committee hence undertaking dual roles.
The model developed in Wajir, which Ms Abdi describes as “a peace and development committee - a structure for responding to conflict at a local level”, was used again in 1998, when the Christian community in Wajir experienced some violence.
Ms Abdi assisted in the formation of a disaster committee of Muslim women to assist and make amends with the Christian community. They held prayer meetings with Muslim and Christian women, in which both shared their experience and thereby strengthened their relationship.
Subsequently the Wajir Peace Committee began to include Christian women, leading to the formation of an inter-faith committee for peace which has undertaken further activities to intervene in religious conflicts.
Fostering inter-faith dialogue and attempting to resolve tensions and conflict between religions has been a central focus of Ms Abdi’s activity since her first involvement in working for peace, and her methods have now been copied not only elsewhere in Kenya, but in Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, and South Africa.
In addition, Ms Abdi has taught in Somalia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Canada, Cambodia, Philippines, Ghana, Nigeria, Netherlands, Zimbabwe, and the UK.
Ms Abdi now lives in Mombasa and works on peace, conflict and development issues with a number of organisations. She also raises funds to support community groups in peace-building and communication infrastructure and continues to work for the Wajir community with young people to create economic development.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
A FILM MADE IN KENYA AND ANGERED SUDAN
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An IDP with a child strapped on her back against the backdrop of Kikopey camp for the internally displaced. Photo/FILE
An IDP with a child strapped on her back against the backdrop of Kikopey camp for the internally displaced. Photo/FILE
By EDDY NGETAPosted Friday, January 22 2010 at 18:48
Even as dark rain clouds pepper the skies over the barren hills overlooking Kikopey in Kenya’s Rift Valley province, inhabitants of these vast plains are unaware of an even larger shadow looming over their heads, occasioned by a possible international standoff over their participation in a controversial film.
The government of Sudan has petitioned its Kenyan counterpart to intervene and stop Danish film makers from releasing a movie. The movie blames Kenya’s northern neighbour for widespread genocide in the Darfur region. The film, Havnen (Danish for revenge), is centred around the war in Darfur and the vicissitudes of life for a group of refugees living in a town on the banks of river Funen in Denmark, and is scheduled to be released in August, this year.
According to media reports, the director of Sudan’s Department of Conflict Resolution and Management, Omer Dahab, has allegedly submitted complaints to the Kenyan embassy in Khartoum, saying that the film has racist contents. He contends that it will negatively affect ethnic harmony in Darfur.
The same reports quote S. Somaya, the Sudanese government spokesperson at its embassy in Nairobi, as saying that it is misleading for the film producers to shoot the movie in Kenya using 2007 post-election violence victims, and then claiming that the location in question is Darfur.
Ms Somaya claims also that the IDPs were lured with low pay, and taken advantage of because they could hardly afford to reject the offer. But IDPs who participated in the film beg to differ. Take 15-year-old Esther Nyambura who has called the IDP camp in Kikopey home for nearly two years now.
She and her parents were displaced from their Narok home at the height of the 2008 post-election violence and fled to the Naivasha showground, from where they were moved to the Ebenezer camp in Kikopey.
Absentee parents
Her mother Ann Waithera, and father David Maina are virtually absentee parents. They have been gone for weeks now, and she doesn’t know where they are. They occasionally drop by to give her money for food and then disappear again for days on end without telling her where they are.
The diminutive but energetic teenager, who at her tender age acts as both father and mother to her five siblings — feeding, clothing and taking care of their every need almost single-handedly — bubbles with enthusiasm and absolute joie de vivre, or the joy of living. True, life has been hard for the Standard Seven pupil at Mukinduri school, but when the film crew dropped by in October, bringing with them an unprecedented financial windfall, Esther was right in the thick of things.
For her trouble, she got five full days of sumptuous dishes and more money than she had ever had in a single day — enough to buy herself a new pair of shoes, a school bag and a new pen, besides presents for her brothers and sisters. It all started in early October when a bus-load of strangers drove up to the camp, clutching an introductory letter from the Naivasha district commissioner’s office and asked to see the IDPs.
The film crew first arrived at the camp on October 1 after scouting the country for an ideal location for their movie. After explaining their mission, they drew up and signed a written agreement with the IDPs, saying that the IDPs understood the purpose of the film shoot and that they had agreed to take part in it for a daily wage.
The crew then pitched camp on the hillside, peppering its slope with a sea of dark green tents. They stayed there for almost a month building the movie set, only leaving on Sunday November 1 after the shooting. For power, the residents say they used a heavy-duty generator which lit up the whole camp.
They brought with them also hundreds of tall, dark strangers whom the IDPs claim were of Nubian origin. “They spoke fluent Kiswahili and Sheng, so I think they are Kenyans,” says Lucy Wambui, a 30-year-old mother of three who was also chosen for a role as supporting cast.
“They told us that they had been picked from Kibera (slums) in Nairobi,” she adds. “I think they picked our camp because it looks like a desert. It is dry and windy, and has a lot of dust,” says John Mwangi, the Ebenezer IDP camp committee, who acts as their spokesman. The film was shot between October 20 and 24.
Internal refugees
An IDP with a child strapped on her back against the backdrop of Kikopey camp for the internally displaced. Photo/FILE
An IDP with a child strapped on her back against the backdrop of Kikopey camp for the internally displaced. Photo/FILE
By EDDY NGETAPosted Friday, January 22 2010 at 18:48
Even as dark rain clouds pepper the skies over the barren hills overlooking Kikopey in Kenya’s Rift Valley province, inhabitants of these vast plains are unaware of an even larger shadow looming over their heads, occasioned by a possible international standoff over their participation in a controversial film.
The government of Sudan has petitioned its Kenyan counterpart to intervene and stop Danish film makers from releasing a movie. The movie blames Kenya’s northern neighbour for widespread genocide in the Darfur region. The film, Havnen (Danish for revenge), is centred around the war in Darfur and the vicissitudes of life for a group of refugees living in a town on the banks of river Funen in Denmark, and is scheduled to be released in August, this year.
According to media reports, the director of Sudan’s Department of Conflict Resolution and Management, Omer Dahab, has allegedly submitted complaints to the Kenyan embassy in Khartoum, saying that the film has racist contents. He contends that it will negatively affect ethnic harmony in Darfur.
The same reports quote S. Somaya, the Sudanese government spokesperson at its embassy in Nairobi, as saying that it is misleading for the film producers to shoot the movie in Kenya using 2007 post-election violence victims, and then claiming that the location in question is Darfur.
Ms Somaya claims also that the IDPs were lured with low pay, and taken advantage of because they could hardly afford to reject the offer. But IDPs who participated in the film beg to differ. Take 15-year-old Esther Nyambura who has called the IDP camp in Kikopey home for nearly two years now.
She and her parents were displaced from their Narok home at the height of the 2008 post-election violence and fled to the Naivasha showground, from where they were moved to the Ebenezer camp in Kikopey.
Absentee parents
Her mother Ann Waithera, and father David Maina are virtually absentee parents. They have been gone for weeks now, and she doesn’t know where they are. They occasionally drop by to give her money for food and then disappear again for days on end without telling her where they are.
The diminutive but energetic teenager, who at her tender age acts as both father and mother to her five siblings — feeding, clothing and taking care of their every need almost single-handedly — bubbles with enthusiasm and absolute joie de vivre, or the joy of living. True, life has been hard for the Standard Seven pupil at Mukinduri school, but when the film crew dropped by in October, bringing with them an unprecedented financial windfall, Esther was right in the thick of things.
For her trouble, she got five full days of sumptuous dishes and more money than she had ever had in a single day — enough to buy herself a new pair of shoes, a school bag and a new pen, besides presents for her brothers and sisters. It all started in early October when a bus-load of strangers drove up to the camp, clutching an introductory letter from the Naivasha district commissioner’s office and asked to see the IDPs.
The film crew first arrived at the camp on October 1 after scouting the country for an ideal location for their movie. After explaining their mission, they drew up and signed a written agreement with the IDPs, saying that the IDPs understood the purpose of the film shoot and that they had agreed to take part in it for a daily wage.
The crew then pitched camp on the hillside, peppering its slope with a sea of dark green tents. They stayed there for almost a month building the movie set, only leaving on Sunday November 1 after the shooting. For power, the residents say they used a heavy-duty generator which lit up the whole camp.
They brought with them also hundreds of tall, dark strangers whom the IDPs claim were of Nubian origin. “They spoke fluent Kiswahili and Sheng, so I think they are Kenyans,” says Lucy Wambui, a 30-year-old mother of three who was also chosen for a role as supporting cast.
“They told us that they had been picked from Kibera (slums) in Nairobi,” she adds. “I think they picked our camp because it looks like a desert. It is dry and windy, and has a lot of dust,” says John Mwangi, the Ebenezer IDP camp committee, who acts as their spokesman. The film was shot between October 20 and 24.
Internal refugees
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