The Star 12/19/2016

President Uhuru Kenyatta and DP William Ruto should stop taking credit for projects initiated during the Grand Coalition Government, the opposition chief has said. Cord leader Raila Odinga said the projects Jubilee are commissioning were initiated by him as Prime Minister and President Mwai Kibaki. He urged Uhuru and Ruto to show Kenyans the projects they have achieved in their four years in office. Raila accused Uhuru and Ruto of fooling Kenyans on achieving development. The ODM leader spoke yesterday during the Boda Boda Network Forum in Kisumu, where he met more than 1,000 operators. Leaders at the forum included Kisumu Senator Anyang’ Nyong’o, Governor Jack Ranguma, woman representative Rose Nyamunga, MPs Timothy Kajwang’ (Ruaraka), Opiyo Wandayi (Ugunja), Silvance Osele (Kabondo-Kasipul) and Fred Outa (Nyando). Raila said the standard gauge…

VINCENT SHIMOLI To close unlincenced liquor dens At least 23,000 bars, clubs and other alcohol drinking outlets in Nairobi could be shut down by March for operating without licence. Nairobi has about 30,000 such establishments, but it needs only 7,000, county Liquor Licensing Board chairman Vincent Shimoli said. Some of the joints are too close to learning institutions, he said. See Page 23 BONIFACE MUCHERU Eyes 2017 IAAF gold medal The Olympics 400m hurdles silver medallist has started training for the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London. He is eyeing the gold medal after missing it by a whisker in Rio this year with a national record of 47.78 to get second place behind Kerron Clement (US) who won with a time of 47.73. The World Championships is set for…

Cord should shelve its criticism of the electoral agency and support it, as they cannot be supervisors of an election process they are competing in, Deputy President William Ruto has said. “Those rejecting supervision of the elections roster by the IEBC should apply for jobs as clerks in the IEBC if they want to manage the elections. But if they are seeking elective posts they should come and compete with us because you can’t be a referee of your own game to supervise the elections,” he said. Cord has opposed the audit of IEBC voter registers, saying there are many voter registers each with varying details. The coalition has claimed that the IEBC and Jubilee are using the audit to rig next year’s election. Ruto spoke at Global Abundance Church…

A Member of Parliament, fond of using his Continental House office as a bedroom to quench his lust, is at it again, taking full advantage of the ongoing recess. The flamboyant middle-aged lawmaker from Western Kenya who had slowed down considerably after his tricks were highlighted by Corridors early this year, has shamelessly slipped back into true character. He is sneaking curvaceous university ladies into his office. Last Friday, on a quiet evening without the usual hustle and bustle, the smooth operator had a guest in his Continental House office sneaked in through the rear entrance overlooking the main Parliament Buildings. What surprised the security orderlies who have softened the rules barring strangers access after 6pm is the overstay which went beyond midnight. Fearing consequences, the orderlies let the gorgeous…

‘ODINGA WANTS TO USE HIS LAST BULLET SO THAT HE CAN CREATE A ‘NUSU MKATE’ GOVERNMENT. YOU PEOPLE SHOULD TELL HIM THAT ‘NUSU MKATE’ GOVERNMENTS DO NOT EXIST’ MPs will tomorrow hold a Special Sitting where they will make major changes to the use of technology in the general election. The legislators will seek to change the law to give room for the IEBC to use other means of identification of voters and transmission of results where technology fails. The issue has already pitted President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee Party against the Opposition led by Raila Odinga. The two are presumed to be the key presidential candidates on Election Day. Yesterday, Majority Leader Aden Duale led Jubilee MPs in accusing Raila of opposing the proposed amendments without any justified reason. Cord…

AS a country, we all agree on the need for a free and fair election in 2017. But beyond that there is need for a credible and transparent process, where we can tell how people voted and respect their democratic will. In its report on the 2007 general election, the Kriegler Commission concluded that the reasons why the will of the Kenyan people was always subverted was because of the manual way of identifying voters: That dead voters routinely rose up from the graves, voted and returned to the graves. Adopting a technology that allows for electronic identification of voters is one of the ways of moving forward. But the IEBC does not seem to be serious on this matter. Whereas the advert for the tender for the Kenya Integrated…