The Star 01/09/2017

The national government and governors will meet for the first time today to try and resolve the ongoing doctors strike, which has entered the 36th day. However, the state said it will not implement the 2013 Collective Bargaining Agreement, because it was nullified by the Labour Court in October last year. “Doctors should not expect the implementation of the CBA as it is at the moment, because it was not registered. It lacked input from the Salaries and Remuneration Commission. Matters of salaries cannot really be agreed without the input of the SRC,” State House spokesman Manoah Esipisu said. He said the government is hopeful today’s meeting will end the strike. Health CS Cleopa Mailu said today’s meeting in Nairobi will consider the terms of recruiting new doctors who might…

WAFULA CHEBUKATI No petitions against nominees The seven IEBC commissioner nominees are likely to be appointed as a parliamentary committee vets them tomorrow. They are Wafula Chebukati, Conso- lata Nkatha, Abdi Guliye, Boya Molu, Margaret Mwachanya, Paul Kurgat and Roselyn Akombe. The legal affairs committee has not received any memo challenging their suitability. See Page 7 MANOAH ESIPISU State highlights Coast projects Less than a week after President Uhuru Kenyatta and Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho clashed over the Jubilee administration’s development record at the Coast, State House yesterday listed projects the state has initiated . State House spokesman Manoah Esipisu underscored the billions of shillings invested in massive projects. See Page 8 KITILI MBATHI Four rhinos killed in a month The Kenya Wildlife Service has intensified its anti-poaching operations across…

A German tourist on holiday in Kilifi has been found dead. Anderseck Gunter, 66, drowned at the Kilifi Bay Beach Resort private beach yesterday morning. His body was found floating about 500 metres from the hotel he had been staying in since January 2. Mada Hotels Kilifi general manager Peter Njoroge said the deceased left his hotel room at around 6am for a swim. Njoroge told journalists he received a call at 9am that a visitor had been found dead at the shores of the beach. “Since his arrival, Gunter would go to the beach very early in the morning to swim. When I went to the scene after the call I identified him through an arm band,” he said. Kilifi OCPD Alexander Makau said investigations are underway. “Initial investigations…

JUST what informed the withdrawal of the police bodyguards attached to Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho (pictured) and his Kilifi counterpart Amason Kingi? Though the withdrawal has been blamed on their perceived political positions and the recent remarks against the Jubilee administration, this may not be the real reason at all - at least according to insiders at Vigilance House (National Police Service HQ). Corridors has it that the authorities took the decision because the security officers withdrawn have not been giving NIS enough information on the two governors to make proper decisions, including preemptive actions. For instance, President Uhuru Kenyatta did not expect to be told off by Governor Joho over the particular project he was inaugurating in Mombasa last week, and the reaction generated from the crowd. The trick…

IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIS APPOINTMENT AS CJ, MARAGA ADMITTED THAT THERE ARE JUDICIARY STAFF, INCLUDING JUDGES AND CLERKS, WHO ARE CORRUPT, AND VOWED WEED THEM OUT A High Court clerk and a secretary attached to a judge have been arrested by EACC detectives for receiving part of a Sh2 million bribe at the Milimani Law Courts. The two are alleged to have collected the cash from a member of the public who wanted to influence the outcome of a case. The secretary and clerk attached to High Court and Judicial Review Judge Roselyne Aburili were on Friday afternoon arrested, detained and questioned after receiving treated money believed to have been demanded for a yet-to-be-established reason. The EACC has not confirmed whether the money was to be handed over to the judge,…

THE latest graft disclosures in the Judiciary, in which it is alleged a clerk and secretary to a High Court judge were caught with cash totalling more than Sh1 million, underscores just how complicated the war on corruption is. This unfortunate incident is a painful reminder of a reality that points to a general collapse in the war on corruption in this country. The war on graft in the Judiciary is not isolated from the national war on corruption that has been waged in the recent past. For effective war on corruption to be waged, we need all the three arms of government working in sync: This is because, for effective delivery of service, these arms of the state must interact. For example, if the Executive decided to fight corruption…