MAN COMMITS SUICIDE FOR BEING UNABLE TO CONTINUE COOKING AND SELLING ILLEGAL BREW IN KERICHO,KENYA

A man known by name as a mr.Kilel of ainamoi division of kericho district was reported to have commited suicide by jumping into his own water well at his home.The man decided to end his life after the police would not allow him to continue cooking and selling the traditional wine known as Chang'aa by the locals ,which he depended on for his living.He didn't have any other way of getting an income.

Before the day when he decided to end his life ,the man had been introuble with the police.The police had gone to the site where he cooked and sold the brew illegally .They didn't aresst him though ,they got even after he had given them a bribe.It is said that the police weren't satisfied with the bribe and so they went away back to their station where they sent back to the site fellow policemen who terrorised the brewer and arrested him and took him to the station where he spent about a week before they released him .When they released him,he decided to end his misery by jumping down his own well .He died.

TRUCK RUNS IN TO A HOTEL IN KERICHO TOWN,KENYA

A truck that was downloading cargo at the tuskys supermarkets only branch in kericho town ran into the Bethel hotel that is stuated opposite the supermarkets store behind the tengecha  street in the town.The truck is said to have lost control after the brakes failed to hold when the driver tried to move it out and then it overpowered him and went staright throug the walls of the hotel up to the inside .There were no injuries that were reported except for one lady who was a customer at the hotel  who had a bleeding scracth on her head but was rushed to hospital for checking of the extend of the injury .The incident took place a short while after the lunch hour at fifteen minutes past two o'clock in the afternoon

CON MEN SELL WATER FOR DIESEL TO LONG DISTANCE TRUCK STAFF

A truck driver and his turn boy caused a stir on tengecha road in Kericho town when they got stuck on the street after their truck engine went dead after they were coned of money equivalent with twenty litres of diesel and given tap water instead of diesel .The truck developed problems but when they got to the street on their way to the Jua Kali garages at the kenya co-poerative creameries depot of kericho town ,the engine went dead completely and they went nad called mechanics from those garages to go and help them.

The con men filled the vehicles tank to capacity and demanded payment after which they parted peacefull with the trucks staff.The trucks fuel tank hand to be removed and then cleaned thoroughly and dried in the sun to get rid of all the watervapour and then the fuel filters had to be changed plus anything to do with the fuel before it reaches in to the engine,
They spent about twenty hours in the town trying to repair the truck.
There was nothing that they could do about the con men though,because thy were too smart for them that they couldn't even trace them.

SHARP RICE IN CHARCOAL PRICES IN KERICHO ,KENYA

Prices of cahrcoal have reached an all time alrming high in Kericho town.One Big bag now costs between nine hundred and one thousand kenyan shillings while the small bags go for half the price.
When we asked the charcoal dealers in the town they answered that the rise is due to the bad weather and the polices'tight security in the Mau forest.It has been reported that the police has been very harsh at charcoal burners in the forest . They are reported to have interrupted the burning of charcoal in the forest which has led to a servere shortage of charcoal in the town and it's environs.
Kericho has been experiencing heavy rains recently.

RESIDENTS OF KERICHO TOWN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE HOUSE RENTS

Residents of The nyagacho living area of kericho town have complained bitterly about the steep rise in the rents of the houses in these estates .They waid that the quality of the houses is very low yet they pay amounts equal to those of stone house well electrified plus water and all the other services.They said that in the houses in question ,there is nothing more thatn just iron sheets for the walls and the timber frames that hold the iron sheets standing upright .
Mr. Gerald Ochieng who is a resident of the area said that the rent of these houses starts from two thousand shillings and onwards which is very high for houses of that standard and the standards of life in this town in general .He also asked for the authorities to step in and help the poor tenants of those areas to bargain for the amount of the rents to be lowered up to five hundred shillings per month>

SYLVIA LOVE-SUDAN(DAKAR SENEGAL)

VICTORY BEMBA TOMSY-DAKAR, SENEGAL