AS the debate about majimbo continues catching fire in kericho, more and more people are continuing to take an interest in it and to speak out their minds out and to declare their stand about it.
We talked to one Kericho business man, Mr. Lawrence Bet, about the debate and he talked strongly about his stand on the debate. He said that he strongly advocated for the ODM backed debate .The businessman said that with this system of government, there would be a fair distribution of the country’s revenues. He said that according to the current system of government ,some areas of the country lacked behind in development because of others while they had the natural resources to enable them to catch up with civilization .They produced enough to feed ,educate and provide employment for it’s populations ,yet ,because of the other non-productive areas of the country, they lacked behind with them.
He also said that he strongly supported the increase by the government of the number of counties to twenty five and the regional governments in general .Kericho is Kenya’s main tea growing area and the people here have been strongly supporting this debate .They say that the areas populations are suffering from all these economic problems yet, the tea industry provides a lot of jobs but they are taken by people from different places in the country.
It looks like the ODM will again get a stronghold in kericho like it was in the past general elections.
There has been complaints from the community that lives around Chelilis girls high school in Bureti constituency, the area that is under the MP ,Hon; Franklin bett.The people have complained very bitterly of the behaviors of the schools principal towards the schools surrounding community in general .The people have complaint that the principal doesn’t have any respects for them yet they are the ones who made the decision that lead to the building of the school .They are the ones who provided the funds that built the school ,they also provided the land on which the school was built . They are the ones who caused the existence of the school.
The people complained that this principal is treating them as if the school was not their own. He gives all the tenders to people from out side the area while they themselves can provide all the manpower that the school will need to run. The people complained that all the jobs from teachers to the sub-ordinate staff of the school have all been taken by outsiders, yet the people of the area have people who can teach in the school. The people that we talked to said that even the cabbages and beans that they can supply to the schools are fetched from places as far as litein and sotik, yet they have enough .The people said that all these jobs have been taken by the people from the principal’s homeland. Every time a job opportunity appears, he goes for his own people instead of advertising and employing people from this area. The areas community wants the schools driver to be expelled from work.
A spokes man form the area told us that recently, elders from the area held a meeting to discus about this matter .The main topic of the discussion was to press for changes in the school .The meeting decided to press for the school to be given back to that community. They want everything about the school to be decided by the community and not outsiders. They want all the tendering for the supply of food and everything that the school will need ,the staff and sub-ordinate staff ,all to be taken by the people of that area, and they demanded for respect form the current members of the school staff up to everyone who will come to work in the school in the future .
They said that the schools principal doesn’t respect them, yet they are the ones who built the school. Because of this treatment from the principal, the group of elders agreed together that everyone who will go to work In the school to maintain good relations with the areas community and not like the current hostile relations that exist now. The wanted the school staff to be consulting the either the group of elders before carrying on with any projects or any other members of that community.
The group of elders said that the schools performance in the national exams was very poor and so they wanted the board of governors to investigate the cause of the poor performance and find the solution to this .They also said that They wanted the board of governors to help develop the primary school which the land was divided and the high school was built on. They wanted them to help to build more classes and, laboratories, lavatories and much more that the school lacks.
For years, scientists have used the energy in laser light to drill microscopic holes or as tweezers or traps to direct and maneuver small pieces of matter. Guiding entire cells, though, has proven difficult because the lasers used for manipulation tend to damage the structural units of living organisms.
Now Aristide Dogariu and colleagues at the University of Central Florida in Orlando have developed an optical procedure that does not harm cells, but affects their skeletons – an ensemble of slender rods made out of an abundant protein called actin. The actin rods are constantly growing and shrinking inside of cells. The direction in which they grow changes the cell's membrane shape and dictates where the cell moves.
Dogariu and colleagues use the polarization of optical waves to create a field around the cells in which the growing actin rods line up like a compass in the Earth's magnetic field. These optical fields can be used to guide large groups of cells to line up and move in the same direction.
The technique could be useful for cancer assays, which test the motility of cells, or as a non-invasive, non-toxic boost for regenerative medicine. Though cells have complicated and intriguing mechanisms to sense and communicate where an injury occurs, the possibility of using photonic scaffolds to stimulate and guide cells' motility to accelerate tissue repair, is now quite promising.
This research is scheduled to be presented during the 2009 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/IQEC) May 31 to June 5 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore.
Adapted from materials provided by Optical Society of America, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.
There have been reports in the press that Kenya is under a threat from multi drug resistant strains of the tuberculosis disease. Reports say that there could be more than three hundred patients with multi drug resistant tuberculosis bacillus disease (TB) roaming the streets of the country
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cities freely.
The estimates were taken according to the records at the Country's' main hospital in the capital called the Kenyatta national hospital. The said three hundred patients are those who managed to report in to that hospital for help but there could be more people suffering from this drug resistant strains of the disease in the Slums of the country's' cities and the villages.
This free and roaming patients are feared that they could be spreading this disease to the rest of the public in the country .They mix with other people in public places and ,there is a chance that they could infected them through the normal ways of infection by the disease.
This report was supported by the statistics that were given to the press by the doctors from the hospital.
There has been no formal report by the doctors so far that there is a hope for a remedy for the disease soon in the country or the availability of drugs such as the ones that are used by the acquired immune deffiency (AIDs) patients, the ones that are called the antiretroviral therapy (ARTs)
Kenya has been running an effective campaign to eradicate the disease through the ministry of health .The ministry has been trying very hard to educate the public about the disease and how to be safe from being infected by this disease. The ministry has been going up to the villages with the information about this disease just to make sure that every Kenyan has access to the information about this disease. These multi drug resistant strains of the disease have gone on top of these lists of the most dreaded disease after the HIV/AIDS disease.
Those who have already been infected with these strains of the disease have no hope of healing for there is still no effective drug against these strains of the disease.
Farmers were left stranded at the national cereals board ,Kericho depot on Friday morning when reports came from the depots main offices that the DAP type of fertilizers was finished .The news caught many of the farmers who needed the type of fertilizer specially for the various methods of farming unawares .There were wasn't a quick solution to the problem and so everyone of them had to go back home in the villages without fertilizers ,forcing them to postpone their farming activities .
The loaders at the depot whispered to us when we visited the place that the fertilizer stocks come ones every year and therefore those farmers who were left out this year will never fertilize their farms until the coming year.
The Kenya Tea packers limited are carrying out a very aggressive promotion of their ice tea soft drink product .The company has flooded the streets of the town with the soft drink and they are giving it away at a very cheap price of only ten shillings per a half a liter bottle which normally costs fifty shillings for the same quantity of the soft drink.
The promotion seems to be doing well because very few people knew about the availability of the drink until recently when the company cam with it on the streets of the town .Now,every resident of the town is aware of the existence of the ice tea drink and they are really enjoying it.The company has created a good market fro their product by giving the people the chance to taste it instead of looking at it on the supermarkets shelves and shying away from it .
The techniques that the company used seem to be the right ones in this country because everyone can witness it's impact on the people .
Though the company might be having high hopes of luring the peoepl into drinking the ice tea ,but the price is too high for the average class of people who make up the majority of the population in the country .They will have to do something about the prices or ,otherwise ,the small people will leave it for the rich ones .
Kenya Tea Packers ice tea is ,indeed ,a very good drink.
The Residents of Nyagacho living areas of kericho town were shoched when an elderly woman died after she AIDS drugs and a local brew popularly known as changa'aa.THe woman was undergoing treatment from the aids disease but she is said to have mixed the two drinks and ended up dying.
The woman lived at the big Baptist church that is situated along the edge of the the Nyagacho river.
Rumours have it differently though.She is said to have been heard complaining painfully severaly that she wasn't satified in life because she hadn't givenm birth to a male child in her life and because of this ,she is suspected to have ended her own life.
By the time we visited the scene ,she was lying in her her school awaiting for the police action about her case.