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APPEAL TO THE LAMU COUNTY GOVERNMENT

              LAMU COUNTY GOVERNMENT LISTEN TO THESE...

We need a multi sectoral approach to deal with the youth in Lamu County.... In my considered view we need to address the drug./underdevelopment menace in a phased out program in this order:
1) Research support to inform decisions and intervention targeting new recruits....and prevention of the same.
2) Social support for the sick youth...rehab and skills empowerment.
3) Innovation and value addition in Enterprise targeting the youth. ... agriculture for mainland and fishing and tourism for the Islanders.
4) Career development for those who don't have access to in demand professions yet they got requisite educational aptitude.
5) Credit facilities for SMEs.....don't teach fishing alone but provide fishing gear to feed the hungry...

 6) Give youth over 18yrs land. Under their names and empower them to exploit it...
7) form a monitoring and evaluation task force led by experts.( AND NOT G9 TYPES)
8)PRAY!

9) Involve every needy student in Scholarship and sponsorship if any.

10) Form security committees in every location to hold security meetings and write reports.

In the light of the above am sending a 5yr plan to the new county government. Inputs will be highly appreciated.

Good evening Lamu. 

From: Kiongozi Johnny 

JOBS CREATION IN THE COUNTRY SUBJECT TO OUR LEADERS INVOLVEMENT

ACCOUNTABILITY OF OUR LEADERS ARE IN OUR HANDS NO LET IT GO...

A PULL OUT OF THE NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT OF THE CIH

 The Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology and its partners, through the Ajira initiatives, will avail digital opportunities to the youth in all the constituencies.

Through the Constituency Innovation Hubs, the youth will have access to the internet and thus earn a decent living.

“The Constituency Innovation Hubs will expose the youth to the world of online work,” said Mr. Joe Mucheru.

Mucheru, Cabinet  Secretary for Information, Communications and Technology, in an article to the press, said the Constituency Innovation Hubs will form a key component for the implementation of the government efforts of digital inclusiveness across the country.

 “The provision of free internet will help spur growth and innovation amongst our youth and increase their income earning capacities,” he said.

Huduma centres and Constituency Innovation Hubs in our constituencies will boost economic growth; create new jobs and a vibrant knowledge-based society.

 While speaking at a Nairobi hotel, ICT and innovations Principal Secretary, Eng. Victor Kyalo, said digital transformation will revitalize the Kenyan economy, and boost the efficiency of process engineering and production process engineering and production processes.

Digital transformation can revolutionize supply chains, disrupt conventional business models and create entirely new business models.

The digital economy carries the promise of unlimited opportunities, as the latest solutions for tomorrow’s economy.Members of Parliament have a responsibility through the constituency development funds kitty by ensuring their constituents gets the hubs to enable them start digital learning and employment. The task of the Mps other than representation, oversight and legislation, as leaders of the country must collaborate with the national government to create opportunities for our youths who, majority of them are jobless. The government of Kenya led by His excellency Uhuru Kenyatta promised to deliver 6 million job for the youths, and to reach unto these figures, there should be a correlation between the national government, the parliament and the county governments. To my constituency representatives (mps) , The constituency Innovation Hubs will create more jobs in our respective constituencies. To establish a CIH a member of parliament once sworn- in should do the following;

•  Members of parliament are expected to prioritise the CIH project

• Complete order forms and submit funding proposal to NG-CDF board

• Make one off-payment for the supply,installation, testing and commissioning of the internet equipment.

• Identify appropriate sies for construction of the innovation hubs

Operationalize and manage implementation of the innovation in collaboration with the CDF committee

 

                  What is the cost of setting up a CIH in the constituency ?

• Cost of each innovation hub is KES. 1,169,256 (incl of VAT), since each constituency is expected to have four hubs, Mps will need to set a side a total of KES 4,677,027 from their CDF budget for the project.

• Therefore, let us monitor our members of parliament as they start the projects. For those who have not yet got the information, there its is in the public. Do not allow your Mps to sleep of theri job..our is Accountability.......

• Lamu county on the rise............................Hon Muthama you have to set up these... 

  

KIONGOZI WETU KAMAU JOHN A.K.A KKJ READY TO INSPIRE

KIONGOZI KAMAU JOHN READY TO PUT LEADERS UP TO TASK OVER DEVELOPMENT SCALE .

Criticism is a natural part of leadership. If no one is criticizing your leadership – you are not leading correctly. Leadership is not a popularity contest. Leadership is about always doing what is in the best interest of the organization you are serving. Leaders get paid to make difficult decisions. But many leaders don’t really know how to lead; they waste time trying to satisfy the agendas of others – rather than focusing on the goals and objectives of the organization and people they serve.

This is why leadership is in a crisis management mode. Authority is being over leveraged as a personal benefit to advance hidden agendas, rather than as a privilege and a responsibility to wield influence over adverse circumstances and turn them into opportunities. But the latter takes hard work and strategic focus.
Leadership requires mental toughness If you are not being criticized, you are not leading and guiding the organization to grow, innovate and explore endless possibilities. You need to be strong and objective to whatever criticism people throw your way.

Much of what ultimately happens is out of your direct control. However, if you can see what others don’t and anticipate the unexpected -- as a leader you will find ways to influence outcomes that benefit those you serve. Effective leaders stay focused on confronting conflict head on – and move on to the next opportunity.

When you get too personally vested, it becomes difficult to handle criticism and you eventually become stereotyped and your authority weakens. You lose momentum as you begin to make poor decisions trying to reestablish and validate your leadership to yourself and others.

As you find success in your leadership journey, some people will try to take you down. The leaches and loafers that are envious of your success may attempt to slow down your momentum. This is actually a sign that you are on the right path. Being a 21st century leader requires you to be a change agent and people don’t like to change -- especially old-school leaders now focused on retirement or anyone else that has grown complacent and lost their momentum.

Everyone wants to experience success. Unfortunately, momentum is disrupted by those who want the individual credit; the recognition that benefits them comes at the expense of earning the respect that reverberates and multiples throughout the organization for the betterment of a healthier whole.
As you lean-into the challenges and new opportunities that come with them, remember that criticism is a natural process of the leadership journey.Therefore, its fundamental to criticize leadership of the day to ensure the concern leaders up their game and work towards the betterment of their people.
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ACTING INTERIOR Cs MATIANG'I IDENTIFIES THREATS TO ELECTION

ACTING INTERIOR CS FRED MATIANG'I  READINESS DURING ELECTION PERIOD.

Interior acting cabinet secretary Dr. Fred Mating'i in a past function. photo courtesy Goggle.

Terrorism, organised criminal gangs and banditry are among the key threats security agencies are struggling to deal with to ensure the electioneering period is peaceful.

Hateful and inciting statements on social media have also attracted the attention of security agencies.

This emerged as Acting Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i started a countrywide security inspection tour to assess preparedness for the General Election.

Dr Matiangi started off the tour in Rift Valley where he dispelled fears of disruption of voting in parts of the region.

Accompanied by Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet, Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho and Security and Operations Secretary Amos Gathecha, the CS held a closed door meeting with security chiefs from the Rift Valley at the regional coordinator’s office in Nakuru.

Security agencies, he announced, were on high alert and were combing all insecurity-prone areas to ensure voting takes place smoothly on August 8.

• IEBC officials also attended the meeting. Security deployment to areas perceived as hotspots in the Rift Valley region was also mentioned in the meeting.

“The security sector is ready for the General Election including in insecurity disturbed areas of Rift Valley. Our role is basically to support IEBC to deliver free and fair elections. Anybody planning to disrupt the exercise will face the full force of the law,” said Dr Matiangi.

“We will make sure election material has been secured in all parts of Rift Valley from Lokichogio to Oloitoktok. We want an incident free 2017 General Election,” he added.

Dr. Matiang’i said the ongoing security operation in Laikipia and Baringo will continue. The security operation is being conducted jointly by the police and Kenya Defence Forces.

Mr Boinett said police are ready to ensure Kenyans are given an opportunity to exercise their democratic right on August 8.

“The government has deployed enough security officers and armoured vehicles to the insecurity hit areas to deter any criminal activity,” said Mr Boinnet.

Daily news updates has learned that part of the strategy to ensure voting takes place peacefully in insecurity-prone areas could be hiring of helicopters to deliver elections materials in areas where it is unsafe to use roads.

As the country prepares to go to the polls, which are less than two weeks away, Dr Matiang’i has been engaging top security chiefs, the administration, diplomats, individual elections observers and groups, religious leaders and other groups in consultative meetings.

Over the last few weeks, sources say Dr Matiang’i who assumed office on July 8, has held more than 50 meetings with his main focus being on the possible threats to citizens and property before, during and after the elections.

Of main concern are hate mongers, rogue politicians, porous borders, terrorists and organized criminal gangs.

On Tuesday, before heading for Nakuru, Dr Matiang’i met top police chiefs at the Wilson Airport to launch the newly refurbished MI-17 police helicopter at the Kenya Police Air Wing hangar. He later met with religious elders and the clergy. He will on Wednesday meet diplomats and European Union observers in separate meetings.

Under the command of Mr Boinnet, seven disciplined services that will provide special officers will be at the forefront of enforcing measures to ensure there is no breach of law and violators are arrested.

Within the police, undercover of officers as well as uniformed officers will carry recording gadgets to capture statements that may be deemed either hate speech or incitement.

Police have also launched partnership with other government agencies, including the Communication Authority, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the National Cohesion and Integration Commission.

They will help police in identifying “misuse” of the social media.

In volatile areas that are marked terror prone, especially in Mandera, Garissa and Lamu, officers will use armoured personnel carriers to provide protection in the event of attacks. The vehicles will also be used in areas prone to banditry and cattle rustling.

Additional police officers will also be sent in those areas as reinforcements in the event of chaos.

Mr Boinnet will also depend on an extra team of special police officers, whose names he will gazette before they begin their new role.

The officers will come from Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya Prisons Service, Kenya Forest Service and the National Youth Service.

The military will also be on standby to help in the event the situation escalates.

 

THIS IS HOW NICHOLAS BIWOTT AMASSED WEALTH PRIMITIVELY

NICHOLAS BIWOTT 'TOTAL MAN' WEALTH

Nicholas Biwott in a past Function. Photo Courtesy

There were powerful men in the Nyayo regime; and then there was Nicholas Biwott.

Mr Biwott, who died on Tuesday aged 77, was part of a political and commercial network that in the 1980s and 90s bestrode the national political landscape like a colossus, creating fear and peddling influence.

By using his State House and international connections, Mr Biwott transformed himself from a simple MP for Keiyo South to a billionaire with an enviable business empire touching almost every sector of the Kenyan economy.

He owned an airline, a bank, an oil company, a construction firm and Nairobi’s Yaya Towers, among others.

In his hey day Mr Biwott, who once described himself as a ‘Total Man’, faced a myriad of corruption allegations but he still gained a reputation for generosity — contributing hundreds of thousands of shillings every week in Harambees

The diminutive politician once worked as a personal assistant to Jewish Mossad spy in Kenya Bruce Mckenzie, the only white Cabinet minister in Jomo Kenyatta’s government until 1969, when he resigned.

Regarded as an intelligent man, Mr Biwott started his career as a junior information officer in Eldoret under Mr Kendagor Bett, the Alliance High School alumnus whose newsletter Kalenjin would help rally the community behind the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU), whose Rift Valley kingpin was Daniel Arap Moi. It was during this period that Mr Moi met Mr Biwott.

On Tuesday, Mr Moi described him as an “astute businessman … a philanthropist … and a dependable friend” — tracing their friendship to the 1950s. But unknown to many, Mr Biwott was a student at Tambach Intermediate School when Mr Moi was its principal.

After Tambach, he joined Kapsabet Government African School, leaving in 1958.But while Mr Moi has a high opinion of Mr Biwott — his former Minister for Energy — the US government didn’t think much of him and in some of the Wikileaks cables, former US ambassador Michael Ranneberger revealed Mr Biwott had been banned from travelling to the US due to allegations of corruption and a link to the still-unresolved murder of Foreign minister Robert Ouko.

The rise of Nicholas Biwott and how he ended up in Australia on a government scholarship is credited to the intervention of Mr Kenneth Matiba, the Makerere University graduate who was in charge of scholarships at the Ministry of Education.

As Mr Matiba recounted later, Mr Moi approached him and said he had a “bright, young man”, who turned out to be Biwott.

Mr Matiba says in his book Aiming High  that he gave Mr Biwott a scholarship.

In 1993, Mr Biwott told Parliament that Mr Matiba was lying.

“When Mr Matiba was touring Banana, he said he gave me a scholarship. 

 He himself was only a student looking for a part-time job at the Ministry of Education. He said that Moi introduced me to him, something he never did …”

Mr Biwott studied for a Bachelors degree at the University of Melbourne between 1962 and 1964 and during his  second sojourn to Australia in 1966, he returned home with a Masters  degree in economics and a wife, Hannie — a Dutch of Jewish origin.

It was after his return that Mr Biwott immersed himself into the Jewish circles in Nairobi, earning the confidence of Mr Mackenzie, the politician whose commercial interests in Kenya included shareholding in pivotal companies such as Cooper Motors Corporation (CMC), Wilken Air, and Wilken Telecommunications, which had won the tender to build Kenya’s first satellite earth station in Kenya.

Before 1971, Mr Biwott was Mr Mackenzie’s personal assistant and later became Mr Moi’s until 1974 when he tried his luck in politics but was defeated by Mr Stanley Kurgat. 

According to Charles Hornsby, the author of Kenya: A History Since Independence, Mr Biwott “had been intimately involved in Moi’s rise”.

More than anything, it was his discreet nature that endeared him to Mr Moi, who appointed him a senior assistant secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture before transferring him to his docket, the Ministry of Home Affairs, on the recommendation of Mr Duncan Ndegwa, the first African governor of the Central Bank.

Moi was then looking for a person he could trust and Biwott fitted the bill.

The entry into the big league for Biwott would come in 1979, when Moi persuaded Mr Kurgat to give up the Keiyo South seat for him.

He was then elected unopposed and retained the seat for 28 years. It is within that period that he became a billionaire.

Immediately he entered Parliament, Biwott was appointed Minister of State in the Office of the President alongside GG Kariuki – and the two became the most powerful politicians besides Charles Njonjo.

It was here that his big break came and Parliament was told that he earned kickbacks from the construction of Turkwel Hydro-Power Project and the Kisumu Molasses plant.

 Every time he was mentioned in bad light, Mr Biwott would rise in Parliament and defend himself.

“Nicholas Biwott is the cleanest man in the Republic,” he once told Parliament after Kikuyu MP Paul Muite asked for investigations into the Turkwel project.

“We will find out when time comes,” Muite replied.

With the help of Jewish and French friends, Mr Biwott set up a huge business empire as he also helped their companies win lucrative tenders in Kenya.

He invested in construction, property development, and the oil importation business and was a shareholder in HZ Company, which monopolised road contracts in Kenya. His other company, Lima Ltd, would later on try to seize part of Karura Forest, triggering a bitter war with environmentalist Wangari Maathai. Lima had been given 16 acres of the forest and was selling them at Sh60 million each.

His other companies included Air Kenya, Yaya Centre, and a huge stake at the oil company Kenol-Kobil where he has been divesting.

His son in law, Per Nils Jacobsson, who had been a director in the company since 2007 resigned four years ago.

JUBILEE REACTION ON NASA'S MANIFESTO

          JUBILEE REACTS ON NASA'S MANIFESTO

NASA PRINCIPALS DURING THE LAUNCH OF THEIR MANIFESTO YESTERDAY -Photo courtesy D Nation

The Jubilee Party has termed the National Super Alliance’s manifesto as a "borrowed extract" from its policy blueprint.

Nasa’s plan, Jubilee leaders told Daily News Updates on Wednesday, is not meant for implementation but just as a campaign tool.

Kiambu Senator Kimani Wamatangi said the opposition principals hurriedly compiled the document to boost their vote chase.

“It is a hurriedly compiled and borrowed extract from the Jubilee blueprint with a few additions that are not intended for implementation but for campaign window dressing,” he said.

Senate Majority Leader Kithure Kindiki welcomed the manifesto but noted there was nothing tangible or revolutionary in its content.

“I only saw a photocopy of what Jubilee unveiled, especially in terms of what we offered to deliver on free secondary education,” he said.

He added: “There was nothing extraordinary in the whole thing. No timelines and no key performance indicators to ensure that things happen or are implemented as they should be.”

Prof Kindiki said Nasa's manifesto lacks a superior agenda that would have made the Raila Odinga-led outfit the better option.

He specifically criticised the opposition for saying that it would open up National Cereals and Produce Board centres to collect and store maize, saying there is no maize to be collected.

Collection of maize, he also argued, is not the solution for food security.

He held that the hunger problem was not well thought out as the solution offered hardly addresses the root cause of maize shortage in the market.

“For Jubilee, we have traced the problem from its root cause and given very clear measures on how to tackle it along the value addition chain,” Prof Kindiki said.

He further faulted the Nasa manifesto, saying it did not extensively address the issue of infrastructure and energy, which he said are critical in spurring the manufacturing sector and eventual industrial take-off.

“The manufacturing sector can only thrive as long as there are good roads, railways, airports and proper supply of power,” he said.

“This are what creates conditions for industrial take-off.”

Kiharu MP Irungu Kang'ata said the manifesto failed to provide specifics on how it will achieve the pledges.

On the opposition proposal that it will change the Constitution to allow for the selection of ministers from among MPs, the Kiharu lawmaker said that would go against the spirit of the 2010 law that sought to make Cabinet secretaries technocrats.

“The manifesto failed to address how it would tackle food shortage. It did not mention irrigation, which is one known way of alleviating food problems in the country,” Mr Kang’ata said.

Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichung'wa did not have kind works for Nasa: “A document long on empty rhetoric and short of any specific deliverables to the people of Kenya.”

He added: “It has contradictory pronouncements that run counter to the Constitution.”

Kajiado North MP Joseph Manje said the opposition concentrated more on the country’s problems instead of the solutions.

“They kept on saying they would do this and that….but they failed to tell Kenyans how they would do it.”

Mr Manje said on issues of food security, education and security, the opposition heavily borrowed from the Jubilee manifesto.

“Jubilee has been talking about free education and the deputy President retaliated that on Monday. The opposition just repeated the same things on free education,” Mr Manje.

The lawmaker also faulted the opposition for playing a video showing Kenya’s dark past.

“It is not good to keep reminding people of the dark past but the focus should be on the bright future that we are building,” he said.