Highlights of the week: What you need to know
Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i interacts with Keveye Girls High School students in Vihiga County on February 25, 2016. Dr Matiang’i has ordered swift punishment for teachers who were filmed caning students. PHOTO | TOM OTIENO | NATON MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
TNA has asked those implicated in the NYS scam to carry their own cross amid fears that the claims could split the Jubilee coalition.
It was a bad week for DP Ruto's pilot as he had a day in court following an allegation that he assaulted a female police officer.
The storm over disappearance of more than Sh790 million at the National Youth Service continued to rage. As former Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru swore an affidavit associating key aides of Deputy President William Ruto with some of the deals, the National Alliance Party came out to ask those implicated in the scam to carry their own cross amid fears that the claims could split the Jubilee coalition.
The National Alliance party executive director Joseph Mathai (right) with the secretary-general Onyango Oloo during a press briefing on the National Youth Service scandal on February 25, 2016. They said that those mentioned in the various affidavits should follow the due process of the law. PHOTO | ANTHONY OMUYA | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Kenya’s wallet is about to get a Sh520 million boost following an order by the Royal Court of Jersey that accounts belonging to Windward Trading Limited be seized. The company had pleaded guilty to money laundering. The court’s directive meant that the sum that had been deposited on the Jersey Island by former Kenya Power boss Samuel Gichuru and former Nambale MP Chris Okemo will now be returned to Kenya.
Former Kenya Power managing director Mr James Gichuru in a Nairobi court when he sought to stop a case seeking to block extradition to Jersey Island. PHOTO | PAUL WAWERU | NATION MEDIA GROUP
The controversy around claims that Supreme Court judge Philip Tunoi received a bribe from Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero during an election petition kept evolving. Besides President Uhuru Kenyatta appointing a seven-member tribunal to probe the judge, Dr Kidero’s opponent in the case, Mr Ferdinand Waititu, received some good news on Friday after Mr Justice Jackton Ojwang reversed his earlier decision that Mr Waititu’s bid to review the judgment of the petition had no merit. He instead referred it to Chief Justice Willy Mutunga.
Kabete MP Ferdinand Waititu (left) addresses the press at Parliament Buildings on February 5, 2016. Mr Waititu said he would move to court to seek review of Supreme Court ruling on the petition he filed and lost against Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero following Justice Philip Tunoi's bribery allegations. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
It was a bad week for a pilot of Deputy President William Ruto as he had a day in court following an allegation that he assaulted a female police officer and that he was captured in the act by a video camera. Captain Alistair Patrick Llewelyn denied the accusation and he is in remand awaiting a ruling on his bond application on Monday.
Mr Llewelyn Alistair (right) and his lawyer Mr Stanley Kang’ahi (left) at the Engineer court in Kinangop, Nyandarua County on February 24, 2016. The pilot denied assaulting a police officer and will remain in custody for five days until the court makes a ruling on his bond application. PHOTO | SULEIMAN MBATIAH | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Still on matters video, a clip of teachers beating up students at Keveye Girls High School caused a furore that saw Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i visit the institution where he ordered that the teachers be swiftly punished for their conduct.
Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i interacts with Keveye Girls High School students in Vihiga County on February 25, 2016. Dr Matiang’i has ordered swift punishment for teachers who were filmed caning students. PHOTO | TOM OTIENO | NATON MEDIA GROUP
What should have been a harmless role play by kids who were out playing in Kakamega County turned tragic as the playmates of two-year-old girl buried her in a shallow hole which they had filled with water. They would later retrieve the body which they threw at a banana field.
Villagers from Mulwanda in Ingotse in Navakholo sub county converse in low tones near a sugarcane farm after learning of the death of a two-year-old girl, Ms Susan Ayuma, who was buried alive by her play mates in Kakamega County. PHOTO | BENSON AMADALA | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Just what has devolution achieved in terms of what county governments are mandated to do?
That was one of the questions that begged for answers this week as Kisumu made headlines for the filth that is choking the bus stop.
A picture shows garbage clogged drainage system in Kisumu city. Garbage in the city has not been collected for weeks following a row between the county government and the city management over cash. PHOTO | TOM OTIENO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
