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CARDINAL NJUE RESIGNS

 John Cardinal Njue  resigned as the Archbishop of Nairobi Diocese.

Cardinal Njue resigned in a letter to Pope Francis.

The acceptance letter of Cardinal Njue’s resignation was sent to the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) on Monday by the Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya, Archbishop Hubertus van Megen.

Archbishop Njue, who has been serving the Archdiocese of Nairobi since 2007, resigned after attaining the age of 75 in conformity with the Canon Law that requires Bishops, including Cardinals to step aside at 75.

Pope Francis has in the meantime appointed Nairobi Auxiliary Bishop David Kamau as the Apostolic Administrator of Nairobi Archdiocese.

Bishop Kamau has been serving in the archdiocese since December 1999 when he was appointed the Auxiliary Bishop of Nairobi.

Currently, there are three other Archbishops in Kenya; Archbishop Antony Muheria (Nyeri), Archbishop Martin Musonde (Mombasa) and Archbishop Philip Arnold Subira Anyolo (Kisumu).

Njue took over from the Late Archbishop Ndingi Mwana a’Nzeki who retired in October 2007 after attaining the retirement age of 75 years.

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Later in a Consistory, on 24th November 2007, the Pontiff elevated Most Rev. John Njue as Cardinal, becoming a member of the Sacred College of Cardinals.

His Eminence John Cardinal Njue is the second Cardinal in the history of Kenya after Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga.

He served as the Chairman of the Seminary Episcopal Commission for Major Seminaries in Kenya from 1987 to 1991.

He became the chairman of the Kenyan Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) from 1997 to 2003. He also served as the Chairman for KCCB – Catholic Justice and Peace Commission and Chairman of Development and Social Services Department Kenya Catholic Secretariat (KCS).

He was appointed Co-adjutor Archbishop of Nyeri on 9th, March 2002.

He was appointed the Apostolic Administrator of the Vicariate of Isiolo from 2005 – 2006 following the death of the Late Rt. Rev. Luigi Locati in the year 2000.  

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Kenya Now Exports it's first Crude Oil.

President Uhuru Kenyatta announced that Kenya has exported its first crude oil. The crude oil had been sold in a deal that has seen the country earn Ksh.1.2 billion.

“So, I think we have started the journey and it is up to us to ensure that those resources are put to the best use to make our country both prosperous and to ensure we eliminate poverty,” said Kenyatta.

The news is also expected to create excitement in the Lokichar oil fields where Tulllow Oil and its joint partners continue to explore more blocks for oil.

Kenya discovered its first oil deposits in 2012 and since then, explorations have continued in the Lake Turkana Basin with more deposits being reported.

In previous media reports, Tullow Oil estimated some 560 million barrels in probable reserves.

Tullow further indicated that this would translate to 60,000 to 100,000 barrels per day of gross production, which is said to be insufficient to warrant the construction of a refinery locally, hence the export plans.

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Happy Birth Day Mr. President H.E Daniel Arap Moi on your 94th Anniversary.

• President Moi ; a man has has his low and high moments ,God been gracious. We join you in celebrating your 94th Birthday Mr President . Happy Birth Day H.E Daniel Arap Moi. 
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Governor Alfred Mutual dealt blow as election is nullified

Machakos County is headed for another election after the Court of Appeal nullified the August 2017 win of Governor Alfred Mutua.


 His competitor Wavinya Ndeti appealed High Court decision that upheld Mutua’s win.

Will Wavinya bounce back as court nullifies Governor Alfred Mutua's election ? 

Snakes-slither-their-way-to-global-health-talks

Snake bite, normally a low priority health issue, this week received top treatment at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. For the first time, the assembly -- the top decision-making body of the World HealthOrganisation (WHO) -- recognised snakebite as a health issue of global concern.

Member states, at the annual meeting which ends today endorsed a 2017 resolution listing snake bite as a neglected tropical disease. “We are very excited about this development,” said the non governmental organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) soon after the resolution had been passed. “This is an opportunity to finally get serious about tackling snake bite,” said Julien Potet, policy adviser on neglected tropical diseases for MSF’s Access Campaign. About 20 health conditions fall in the WHO list of Neglected tropical diseases found in 149 countries and affecting more than one billion people, but attracting little financial or research attention. In 2012, the WHO published a roadmap targeting to eliminate 17 of these diseases by 2020.

Last week, Kenya was celebrated globally for eliminating guinea worm, one of the neglected diseases. The adoption of snake bite, while not a candidate for elimination, Potet says, will galvanise the world into mobilising resources to respond to an estimated 2.7 million snakepoisonings every year. According to WHO, snakes rank second to mosquitoes in the number of human deaths caused by animals globally. In the resolution, WHO says it has already developed a strategic roadmap for confronting snake poisoning to reduce an estimated 79,000 deaths caused by venomous snakes in 2016.

 The WHO Roadmap is estimated to cost about Sh1.6 billion up to the end of next year. WHO also estimated that about 400,000 people a year face permanent disabilities, including blindness, extensive scarring, restricted mobility and amputation following snake bite poisoning. Last year, MSF admitted 3,000 patients for snake bite mainly in Africa despite lack of good quality medicines, also called antivenin. The largest number of patients, MSF says, was from Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Yemen. Other countries with significant number of cases admitted in MSF clinics were Tanzania, Kenya, Cameroon, Sudan and Sierra Leone. Many people who cannot afford quality medicines -- where they are available --MSF said, turn to local healers or substandard products. WHO has blamed the lack of quality antivenin to weak regulatory systems that allow the entry of unsafe and ineffective products into the markets. Such products, the health body says, enter the market with no pre-clinical or clinical evaluation before registration. For example, last year it took the efforts of several foreign institutions to establish that all antivenins sold in Kenya were ineffective.

 Researchers from the UK and Costa Rica, who roped in the Kenya Snake Bite Research & Intervention Centre, found the antivenins being stocked in Kenya were not meant for this market and hence ineffective. “The fact that none of the six anti-venoms is effective against all the East African snakepoisons was of greatest concern,” says the report appearing in the journal Plos: Neglected Tropical Diseases. However, it was only in March this year that the Pharmacy and Poisons Board moved to warn Kenyans of the presence of irregular antivenins in the local market. A study published last month (April) on snake bites in Kabarnet, Kakamega, Kapenguria and Makueni areas, estimated to have high rates of poisonous snake bites in Kenya, recorded poor availability of antivenins. A team from several local universities led by Mitchel Okumu, of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital, says antivenin was rarely available in hospitals in the study areas. The study published in the Pan African Medical Journal and the latest on snakebites in Kenya attributed the lack of antivenin to delayed procurement and supply shortages. But even when the medicines are available, the team says, victims -- majority aged one to 15 -- are first likely be presented to local healers before going to hospital, if at all.

The investigators recorded 176 bites in all the study sites over the three-year study period. Most of the bites occurred in the one to 15-year age group. Puff adders, black spitting cobras, black mambas and the pretty-faced boomslang were the main snake species associated with the bites in the study area. Most of the bites, according to the report, are on the lower limbs, during the dry season and most likely in the evenings, with patients reaching the hospital two to six hours after the bite. “But it is not uncommon for victims to present themselves 24 hours later due to the long distances to hospitals in these areas,” says the study. www.rocketscience.co.ke

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Arsene Wenger to step down as Arsenal manager at the end of the season.

Arsene Wenger is to leave Arsenal at the end of the season, ending a near 22-year reign as manager. ... Wenger, 68, won three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups, including the Double in 1998 and 2002.

What is your reaction to Arsenal's manager Arsène Wenger stepping down at the end of the season?


Sir Alex Ferguson: said "He is, without doubt, one of the greatest Premier League managers and I am proud to have been a rival, a colleague and a friend to such a great man."

Antonio Conte: "He’s had a great influence on football and we are talking about one of the best managers in the world.”

Good news as Facebook to allow users 'unsend' their messages

Facebook announced on Friday that it will allow all users to pull back sent messages in the coming months.

But the questionable timing follows news that Mark Zuckerberg has already been deleting his private messages off the popular social media site.

"We have discussed this feature several times. And people using our secret message feature in the encrypted version of Messenger have the ability to set a timer — and have their messages automatically deleted," Facebook said in a statement to Business Insiders.  

"We will now be making a broader delete message feature available. This may take some time. And until this feature is ready, we will no longer be deleting any executives' messages. We should have done this sooner — and we're sorry that we did not."

Facebook received a lot of flack after some of Mark Zuckerberg's private messages were deleted off their servers.

Three sources claim old Facebook messages from Zuckerberg have disappeared from their inbox.

The recipients were not notified - raising concerns about what the Facebook CEO could be hiding.

Facebook claims the change was made after the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, when a mass data breach at the movie studio resulted in embarrassing email histories being leaked.

However, the lack of disclosure has angered some users, along with the absence of a similar tool to recall messages for normal users.

An email receipt of a message from 2010 seen by TechCrunch proves some messages from the Facebook CEO no longer appear in chat logs or Facebook files.

The removal of these messages was not disclosed publicly and users were not informed.

Although Zuckerberg may be CEO of the company, the ability to remove messages from Messenger - now used by 1.3 billion people - is not allowed under the company's terms of service.

Users can only delete messages from their own inbox and they would still appear in the inbox of the recipient.

The fact the the company is prepared to make exceptions makes a mockery of its statement that it wants to 'make the world more open and transparent', say experts.

Facebook claimed these messages were deleted due to concerns about corporate security.

"After Sony Pictures' emails were hacked in 2014 we made a number of changes to protect our executives' communications," a spokesperson told MailOnline.

"These included limiting the retention period for Mark's messages in Messenger. We did so in full compliance with our legal obligations to preserve messages."

The Sony hack targeted the emails of Sony film executives, revealing the inner workings of the industry.

Other Facebook-owned companies such as Instagram and WhatsApp have functions that mean users can delete messages.  

Earlier this week the company was further embroiled in the scandal over user's private data.

It was revealed Facebook scans the contents of messages that people send each other on its Messenger app, blocking any content that contravenes its rules.

What users write in messages may also be read manually if it's flagged to moderators for breaching Facebook's community guidelines.

While the intentions behind the practice may be well-meaning, the news is likely to add to users' concerns over what the social network knows about them.

It follows revelations that the Trump-affiliated consulting firm obtained data on at least 50 million unsuspecting Facebook users.

This information was used to target voters in the US, based on psychological profiling, with political adverts spreading disinformation.

Facebook is also facing criticism for collecting years of data on call and text histories from Android users.  

CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the policy during a podcast interview with Vox's editor at large, Ezra Klein.

Zuckerberg told his host a story about receiving a phone call from staff at his Mountain View firm.

He was informed that their systems had blocked attempts to send inflammatory Messenger instant messages about ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.

About the experience, the 33-year-old billionaire said: 'In that case, our systems detect what's going on.

"We stop those messages from going through."

The news has been met with mixed reactions on social media, with a number of users expressing concern.

Messenger says that it doesn't use data from messages it has scanned for the purposes of advertising, according to reports in Bloomberg.

The company told the website that it uses the same tools to prevent abuse in messages that are in place across Facebook as a whole.

Users are also able to flag posts or messages that they feel are in violation of the site's house rules.

This will either cause one of the social network's community operations team to manually review the content, or automated systems can also make decisions.

HABENGA PETER OKONDO . KENYA'S GOOD HISTORY NEVER BE ARCHIVED WITHOUT HIS NAME FOR HIS IMMENSE CONTRIBUTIONS .

PETER HABENGA OKONDO’S GIGANTIC IMPACT TO NASCENT KENYA’S DEV’T MIGHT BE BURIED IN LATE BISHOP MUGE’S DEATH. HE WAS A SCAPEGOAT. EVERYTIME HIS NAME POPS UP IS JUST ABOUT THAT MYSTERIOUS DEATH. HE CONTRIBUTED QUITE A LOT FOR THIS COUNTRY AT NATIONAL LEVEL !

* Late Hon Peter Habenga Okondo, did not kill or involved in the death of outspoken Anglican Bishop Alexander Kipsang arap Muge’s death which remains a mystery to date.

* Late Okondo was a victim of bad politics of following blindly still prevalent even today 

……..Death threat Like all the Kanu boys of the time, Okondo took the war against those who were fighting for democracy personally,  to show how loyal he was to the regime for top positions he held then

 *   Kenya's good history should never archived without his name ....from constitutional making , governance , Commerce and Industry etc .....

* Bunyala should name one main Road and permanent landmarks after his name …Current MP should spearhead that .

 * Thro’ the MP ….we should organize a public event to remember him as a community .

On August 20, 1990, Kenya’s Labour Minister Peter Okondo did the unimaginable - he offered to resign during an era public officials were not known to quit. Okondo was bathing in criticism following the death of the then outspoken Anglican Bishop Alexander Kipsang arap Muge.

About three days before the bishop’s death, Okondo told Muge that he would not return home alive if he dared visit Western Kenya. The daredevil bishop took on the challenge, but true to Okondo’s threat, he did not return home alive. Some of those who were born at the time of Muge’s death now have their

Many Kenyans still remember him for his efforts in championing for democracy, fight against corruption, ethnicity and land grabbing. The clergyman was born in 1948 in Nandi County and became the first bishop of Eldoret Diocese. He joined a bandwagon of clerics who were critical of the excesses in government and as a result, became a marked man.

The fight for democracy intensified in the late 80s and early 90s when the call for a multi-party system of government reached fever pitch. Death threat Like all the Kanu boys of the time, Okondo took the war against those who were fighting for democracy personally, perhaps to show how loyal he was to the regime.

There has been speculation that Okondo did not mean it when he issued the death threat to Muge who perished in a road accident along the Eldoret-Turbo road after a visit to Busia.

 A former intelligence officer, James Lando Khwatenge, who worked with the Special Branch in Eldoret at the time, reportedly told the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) that the clergyman was killed by police officers who were sent directly from Nairobi to “finish” the outspoken bishop and to use an accident used for cover up. Khwatenge was widely quoted in the media as saying that the bishop’s death on August 14, 1990, was the final job on what police called Operation Shika Msumari.

 He said Kanu loyalists who wanted to assassinate Muge merely seized threats issued by the

former Labour minister against the bishop and used him as a scapegoat. TJRC listened to the former intelligence officer while conducting hearings on unresolved political murders since independence. The bishop was killed when a milk truck crashed into his car as he was returning home after visiting Busia. No evidence was, however, presented to show that his death was anything but an accident. The driver of the truck was charged with causing his death through reckless driving and sentenced to seven years in prison, but he died after serving only five years.

 The attorney general ordered an inquest in response to the public outcry over his death and widespread suggestions of foul play, but nothing came out of the inquiry. The clergyman was famous for fighting corruption, land grabbing, political assassinations, bureaucracy and other social ills and did not confine the fight for what he believed in to Kenya’s borders. Bishop Muge is also remembered over his open stand against homosexuality made on May 17, 1990 during a visit to the USA. He based his condemnation on classical understanding of the scriptures.

 * Additional Excerpts from The Standard sections felt gave

correct account .

Antony Muhuma

Bunyala Residence .

Larry Madowo Lands BBC Job ...God is Good

Madowo set to  work for the UK government-owned media entity, BBC.

Madowo is set to join the BBC as Business Editor for Africa, a position that was recently advertised.

The new job comes a relief to Madowo, whose alleged frigid relationship with Nation Media Group’s management and editorial leadership forced him out, with Madowo citing lack of editorial independence at the media house.

Madowo’s woes began after covering Raila Odinga’s ‘swearing in’ ceremony at Uhuru Park on January 30th, defying a government directive to give the event a media blackout.

He was forced to stay in the office alongside anchor Ken Mijungu and the then Managing editor Linus Kaikai to avoid arrest by law enforcement officers.

BREAKING NEWS: South Africa's Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is dead.

BREAKING NEWS: South Africa's Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, an anti-apartheid stalwart and wife to Nelson Mandela when he was imprisoned on Robben Island, has died her personal assistant Zodwa Zwane said. She was 81.

NTV's Larry Madowo bows out of Nation Media Group

NTV journalist Larry Madowo has announced his departure from the media house .
In a tweet, Larry stated: “I leave NTV as I came: humbled & grateful. The job was one of the great honours of my life.”
The journalist went on to convey his gratitude to the Nation Media Group (NMG) and his fans for their contributions to his career.
“Thanks to everyone who watched, and to Nation for the privilege of the opportunity. I’m proud of my amazing colleagues & everything we accomplished. Farewell, my friends. Stay woke,” the tweet conveyed.

NRM’s General Miguna Miguna’s Statement from Dubai International Airport, March 29, 2018

I am at the passenger waiting area at the Dubai International Airport. I have gone through basic tests which have confirmed that I was forcefully placed aboard EK722 Emirates Airline flight from Nairobi to Dubai that arrived this morning.

About 50 heavily armed thugs led by the uniformed Somali policeman who had commanded them on Monday, violently broke into the toilet I had been detained incommunicado in at the Jomo Kenyatta Airport, didn’t identify themselves, wrestled me to the ground, held onto and sat on me as a group of four different thugs injected substances to both my soles, arms, hands, both sides of my ribs and basically all over my body until I passed out.

Today, at around 5:25am, after the Emirates had landed and passengers were disembarking, I regained consciousness and asked a person seated next to me who also appeared like a flying squad officer, “where are we?” He told me that we were in Dubai.

Three burley men dressed in Air Emirates yellow reflector jackets approached me and rudely demanded that I disembark from the plane. The most obnoxious one introduced himself as “Njihia”, he claimed that a bunch of loose papers he held in his hands were my “documents.”

I explained to him that I wouldn’t go anywhere with him; that he didn’t have my valid Kenyan passport and that he is a criminal who had not only abducted, drugged and forcefully removed me from Kenya against my will and in violation of numerous court orders.

I told the Air Emirates crew that flying an unconscious and drugged man like me from Kenya to Dubai without any documents was a criminal act.

Despite their desperate attempts to force me to the police station and/immigration department at Dubai, I refused and demanded to see a medical doctor.

After much wrangling, I was granted access to a doctor who conducted basic medical tests and confirmed my story. Additional toxicology tests would require exiting the airport, which I can only do with my valid Kenyan passport - a document the despots illegality confiscated and destroyed in violation of Justice Kimaru’s order.

I have severe pain on the left side of my chest, my left wrist, my right elbow and my feet. I believe that the despots must have injected me with noxious substances.

Anyway, I have made it crystal clear to the United Arab Emirates immigration authorities that I cannot and will not fly anywhere with them except to Kenya.

I have refused to leave the international section of the airport.

I will and must return to Kenya as a Kenyan citizen by birth as various courts have ordered.

The Honourable Justice Odunga issued an order on March 28th that convicted Matiang’i, Kihalangwa and Boinett among others of criminal contempt and ordered that they appear before that court for sentencing today at 10:00am. Justice Odunga also ordered that I be released unconditionally and to attend court today at 10:00am.

I had planned to give a victim impact statement during Matiang’i’s, Kihalangwa’s and Boinett’s sentencing by Justice Odunga. I hope that I will be given a chance to do so soonest.

I am innocent man. My only crimes are that I swore Raila Odinga in as The People’s President on January 30, 2018; I head the National Revolutionary Movement (NRM) in order to bring electoral justice, end bad governance and accountability in governance and we are determined to remove the despots from their illegitimate positions of power!

As I return to Kenya either today or tomorrow, I strongly encourage all patriotic Kenyans to remain firm, focused and fearless in the face of an outlaw, authoritarian and illegitimate regime of Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto.

The despots must fall.

No retreat! No surrender!
Forward ever!

NRM General, Miguna Miguna
Dubai International Airport
March 29, 2018.