Andy Michael Munyiri from Thogotho Primary School has emerged the Golden boy of KCPE 2019 with 440 Marks.
In the results released on Monday by Education CS George Magoha, three candidates; Flavian Onyango, June Cheptoo and Sean Ndung’u had 439 marks.
1,088, 986 candidates sat for the exam this year.
The results come just 18 days after the candidates completed their exams.
More to follow…
The Central Organization of Trade Unions (Cotu) secretary general Francis Atwoli has been hitting the headlines with his prophecies, some of which have come to pass.
Do you remember his prophesy on Kibra by elections? Should we eve talk about former Sports CS Rashid Echesa?
Well, Atwoli has once again made another prophecy on 2022 politics.
The COTU boss now says that President Uhuru Kenyatta is destined to be the Prime Minister come 2022, after a new constitutional dispensation.
Speaking on Saturday during a funds drive at Evangelical Bible Church-Ilula in Uasin Gishu County, Atwoli said that the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) would give way to an expanded government that would accommodate leaders from different tribes hence kill the menace of post-election violence and tribalism.
He also said that Uhuru was too young to retire, and that he had a lot to offer the country.
“I said about three years ago that this country needs a constitutional amendment because those in leadership are still young to retire and a new law will accommodate them in leadership. I said that about six slots should be created to accommodate more leadership positions and prevent the usual politically instigated skirmishes experienced every election year,” he stated.
According to Atwoli, the BBI report, born following President Uhuru Kenyatta’s handshake with ODM leader Raila Odinga, would be passed with a landslide to give Kenya a new face.
“Kenyans will have an opportunity to give their opinions on the draft and I am very optimistic this is the best document that will address challenges that have been affecting the country every five years,” he stated.
Three people died on the spot while twenty others suffered serious injuries after they were involved in a road accident at Mida area along the Malindi-Mombasa Highway on Saturday night.
The accident involved a matatu and a private Toyota Wish car.
Confirming the accident, Malindi Traffic Police Commander George Naybei said the matatu, which was carrying 14 passengers, was heading to Mombasa from Malindi and collided head-on with the saloon car heading in the opposite direction.
The traffic police boss said the driver of the saloon car was trying to overtake another vehicle at high speed before colliding with the matatu.
Naybei said the driver died on the spot and confirmed the injured were rushed to Malindi subcounty hospital.
The hospital’s Medical Superintendent Doctor Evans Ogato said the 22 had serious injuries including broken limbs, arms and ribs.
He said the bodies of the deceased were taken to the hospital’s mortuary.
Naybei urged drivers to be cautious while driving on the road to avoid such accidents
Raila Odinga-led Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party has issued a statement following Prrsident Kenyatta’s Friday meeting with Mt Kenya leaders at Sagana State Lodge in Nyeri County.
In a statement written by the party chairman Hon John Mbadi, ODM says it has had the benefit of reviewing the importance of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s recent political activities especially his Friday meeting with leaders from Central Kenya region as part of the on- going effort to unite the country.
While thanking President Kenyatta for remaining focused on the Handshake and Building Bridges Initiative (BBI ), ODM say they are keen to see a united country at peace with itself .
They have also extended their gratitude to president Kenyatta for seeing the recent Kibra by election for what they thought it was: a strong indication that with unity and interest of the country at heart, a peaceful election is possible, not only in Kibra but in any part of the great Republic of Kenya.
Read the full statement below.
We have now had the benefit of reviewing and fully understanding the import of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s recent political activities especially his Friday meeting with leaders from Central Kenya region as part of the on- going effort to unite the country.
On behalf of the Orange Democratic Movement and all Kenyans who are keen to see a united country at peace with itself, I wish to thank President Uhuru Kenyatta for remaining focused on the Handshake and BBI, which are fundamental instruments in the effort to remake the Kenyan nation.
We also thank President Kenyatta for seeing the recent Kibra by election for what we in ODM thought it was: a strong indication that with unity and interest of the country at heart, a peaceful election is possible, not only in Kibra but in any part of the great Republic of Kenya. We join the president in thanking the people of Kibra for the significant role they played in ensuring that the elections were peaceful. With that, the people of Kibra won their place in history for taking a leading role in the remaking of the Kenyan nation. Everyone including the president took note, and history will surely record it that when this country decided to mend its ways, with Uhuru Kenyatta and Rt. Hon Raila Odinga providing leadership, Kibra acted affirmatively thereby making it clear that no part of this country is too volatile to know peace.
With Kibra having shown the way and now behind us, I urge Kenyans in general and ODM supporters in particular to remain focused on BBI and the new Kenya we expect it to give birth to.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and his brother Raila Odinga have said it before and the president said it again in Sagana; the handshake and the BBI are never about 2022 and any individual leader’s presidential ambitions. It is about Kenya and it’s posterity. It is about the country staying united and focused in addressing its pressing needs and urgent challenges through a consultative and inclusive process of national rebirth, now and into the future. We encourage President Kenyatta and Rt. Hon Odinga never to lose sight of this high goal they set for themselves. The two leaders must refuse to be distracted by side-shows. On behalf of all elected leaders in ODM and the people we represent, I assure the President and Rt. Hon. Odinga of unwavering support in this once in a life time journey of national rebirth.
God Bless Kenya.
Activist Boniface Mwangi has slammed renown blogger and social media influencer Xtian Dela after he defended President Uhuru Kenyatta’s daughter Ngina Kenyatta following the backlash she faced after making her youth empowerment speech on Saturday.
Ngina was criticized by Kenyans on Twitter after making a speech about empowerment on behalf of the Kenyatta Trust. She was delivering the speech during the African Philanthropy Forum held on Saturday.
In her speech, she talked about how the Kenyatta Trust is empowering the new generations of Africans through education. She went on to give an example of a Turkana student who is currently studying Petroleum Engineering in China.
Kenyans, however, were not convinced by her speech. They took their opinions to the Twitter platform with some citing that she has no right to lecture the youth as she was “spoonfed”.
It is at this point when Xtain Dela intervened, arguing that “it is stupid attacking Ngina Kenyatta!”
According to Xtina Dela, it is not Ngina’s fault that she was born privileged.
Xtian Dela believes Ngina is doing the most she can do to make Kenya a better place.
But activist Mwangi did not take any of Xtian Dela’s argument. He attacked him, arguing that Kenyans respected Xtian’s right to be stupid.
According to the activist, Ngina was told the truth, “her papa is the reason why young Kenyans are unemployed.Her grandpa is the reason we have entrenched land issues and tribalism”.
” We respect your right to be stupid @xtiandela.Ngina Kenyatta was told the truth,her papa is the reason why young Kenyans are unemployed.Her grandpa is the reason we have entrenched land issues and tribalism.Her grandma was an elephant poacher.Her mama scammed us with Beyond Zero.,” posted Mwangi.
Gatundu South Member of Parliament Moses Kuria is crying foul after being denied a VIP treat at President Uhuru Kenyatta’s meeting with Mt Kenya leaders at Sagana State Lodge in Nyeri on Friday.
Kuria has expressed his disappoint in the meeting, terming it a flop and a waste of time.
The MP who flew from Nairobi on a chopper to attend the meeting has told the Sunday Standard that those who spoke were predetermined and had been told what to say thus negating any effort at unity.
“Which unity are we talking about? I flew from Nairobi on a chopper, when I got to Sagana I was shown where to sit on the grass in the sun as if one needs to be shown where to sit in an open space. The meeting flopped,” said the Gatundu South MP.
Mr Kuria who had arrived in a chopper after the President was not even allowed into the VIP podium.
Tigania West MP John Mutunga who arrived late was also barred from the red carpet area even as Igembe North’s Maoka Maore who arrived after him was rushed through the red carpet and given a strategic sitting position.
Details of a meeting convened by Deputy President Dr William Ruto’s allies immediately President Uhuru Kenyatta left Sagana State Lodge meeting on Friday have emerged.
It is understood that Ruto’s tanga tanga brigade coalesced once again to re-look their strategy after President Kenyatta contradicted Ruto on the Kibra by-election, the essence of the handshake and the 2022 deal with Opposition leader Raila Odinga.
According to the Sunday Standard, a late lunch at the Ngorano village home of Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua was hastily convened where 15 Ruto allies conducted a quick postmortem of Uhuru’s event.
Besides the host, those who attended the meeting were Susan Kihika (Nakuru Senator) and MPs Jayne Kihara (Naivasha), Mary Wamaua (Maragua), Moses Kuria (Gatundu South), Kimani Ngunjiri (Bahati), John Kiarie (Dagorreti South) and Ndindi Nyoro of Kiharu.
Others were Woman Reps Catherine Waruguru (Laikipia) Beatrice Nkatha (Tharaka Nithi), Purity Ngirichi (Kirinyaga) and Rahab Mukami of Nyeri.
“I regret attending it. It was a waste of time and nothing was achieved. It was choreographed to achieve the organisers intentions,” Mr Kuria said of the Sagana meeting, lifting the veil of the disappointment among his colleagues.
Moses Kuria told the local daily that those who spoke were predetermined and had been told what to say thus negating any effort at unity.
According to sources who attended the Gachagua lunch date, the team discussed their alleged humiliation by the President and how to counter the same in the coming days.
Besides missing out on speaking slots, the bad chemistry between them and the President’s men was on full display in Sagana.
Sources in Tangatanga told the Sunday Standard that the Gachagua lunch floated the idea of popularising the rejection of BBI ahead of the anticipated presidential tours of the region.
Tough-talking Kakamega County Senator Cleophas Malala has dared Musalia Mudavadi-led Amani National Congress Party to expel him.
Malala who was speaking at a press conference in Kakamega town on Saturday said that he was not apologetic for campaigning for ODM candidate Bernard Imran Okoth in the November 7 Kibra by-election.
Malala said he would rather face a by-election than apologise to party leader Musalia Mudavadi.
During ODM’s campaigns for Kibra candidate Imran Okoth, Mr Malala said he attended a rally on November 27 as ANC’s “highest-placed leader”.
He claimed that ANC candidate Eliud Owalo was Deputy President William Ruto’s ‘project’.
He described the move by ANC disciplinary committee to suspend him from the party as malicious and a waste of time.
“I want to tell my party leader Musalia Mudavadi that I have no apologies to make for campaigning for Kibra MP-elect Bernard Okoth in the November 7 by-election just as he did for ODM leader Raila Odinga in the 2017 presidential poll,” said Mr Malala.
Taking a swipe at the party leadership, he said: “The party had been hijacked by self-centred individuals incapable of accommodating divergent views.”
He said it was unfortunate that leaders with divergent views in ANC were being branded as rebels and moles.
Mr Malala, who was accompanied by nominated MP Godfrey Osotsi, said the move to suspend him from the party was meant to humiliate him.
“I know there is a scheme to frustrate me but I want to tell my party leadership that I’m not afraid of facing the electorate afresh in a by-election,” said Mr Malala adding that he is yet to receive a letter of suspension from the party.
In a letter dated November 15, ANC Secretary- General Barack Muluka said the party’s National Disciplinary Committee had suspended Mr Malala from membership of Amani National Congress with effect from November 14.
He said the decision had been reached after the disciplinary committee reviewed Senator Malala’s conduct against the party.
Watch the video below courtesy of Daily Nation.
It is not less than once President Uhuru Kenyatta has gone or spoken against his Deputy President Dr William Ruto. The two have on several occasions differed on different issues.
On Friday during his meeting with Mt Kenya leaders at Sagana State Lodge in Nyeri County, President Kenyatta noted that he had for once witnessed the most peaceful campaigns in Kibra constituency, contrary to his deputy who has been attacking ODM leader Raila Odinga over what he claims to be violence witnessed during the just concluded Kibra by elections.
Well, President Kenyatta is again said to be dodging pressure from his deputy to have a major cabinet reshuffle.
It’s understood that Uhuru has been showing reluctance towards the topic even as Ruto camp insists on the need to effect a reshuffling that would also pave way for a new person at the Treasury docket.
The Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection, Ukur Yatani has been the acting CS National Treasury and planning since Henry Rotich was dropped on corruption allegations.
According to a local daily, Ruto has been arguing that Yatani is overburdened by the virtue of holding the two sensitive dockets.
However there are talks that, the DP is ordinarily pushing for his tribesman man to assume the position, which according to him is a reserve for the Kalenjin, as dictated in the power sharing agreement between him and President Uhuru.
Mt Kenya Council of Elders has asked Deputy President Dr William Ruto to pick Agriculture cabinet secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri as his running mate ahead of 2022 President Uhuru Kenyatta succession battle.
The council through its chairman Paul Mwati said Kiunjuri has all it takes to be the running mate of Ruto.
“Kiunjuri is no doubt a career and seasoned politician who joined active politics in 1997 as a MP for Laikipia East at a tender age of 30 years and for all these years, he has made a name on Kenya’s political landscape as a fearless and candid speaking political leader,” noted Mt Kenya Council of Elders boss, Mwati.
He advised Uhuru Kenyatta to begin grooming a spokesman for Mt Kenya communities and in this case, Kiunjuri is the first among equals because in terms of leadership and experience, he is shoulder and head above many other politicians in the region.
Mwati added that if the president fails to pick a spokesman for the communities in Mt Kenya region at the right time, there is a likelihood he might leave them as political orphanage upon his retirement after the 2022 transitional election cycle.
A saying was once said ,”Politics is dirty game” and there is no one who can oppose or debate about this saying, especially in African nations.
African leaders are so greedy and selfish , they just want to rule the country and exert so much pressure on it’s citizens.
Look at the like of the late president of zimbabwe ,Mugabe ,who ruled the country as if he was a dictator.
He made the lives of the citizens so hard and miserable because he didn’t want anyone else to rule the country until he was removed forcely from power by military.
Politicians before they get to power ,they convince citizens of how they’re going to improve the economy ,improve the social well being of the people build hospitals e.t.c and so many other empty promises to lure the minds of the citizens to vote for them ,but when they get to power they forget about all this and start working on how they will grab land , misuse public funds, and secure a good position in the next general elections.
Africa cannot develop if their leaders cannot unite ,Africa has so many resources which it can use to compete with other European countries in terms of economy , but with the kind of leader we have who only think about self gain instead of service to the nation ,we can’t develop.
Kenya produces very good coffee which sent to USA as a raw material and comes back to Kenya fives times expensive more than it was exported.
Angola has oil which is supposed to benefits it’s citizens of which it doesn’t. We ,Africans, are suffering economic crisis because of the leaders we elect.
This means that the blame is on us ,we are the reason why we’re suffering,if we choose good leaders then,there will be no tribal clashes , boarder disputes , ,terrorism , corruption cases e.t.c.
African leaders are rushing to borrow loans from China ,world bank and other European nations not because the continent is poor but because they have failed to utilise their resources .
I wish we had many and more Africans leaders like Nelson Mandela who was very concerned with uniting people from different races(white and black),he had no greed for power and he was always ready to serve his people.
Every African should think before electing any leader let us not be lured by their empty promises ,let us be moved by their good actions
West Pokot governor John Krop Lonyangapuo has been earning popularity day in day out with his comic speeches, where some have been turned into comedy.
Do you remember the “Kijana fupi nono round huwezi jua tumbo ni wapi mgongo” remark?
Well, Lonyangapuo has once again left his county residents in stitches as he narrated to them about his foreign trips.
Lonyangapuo kicked off the talk with his trip to United States of America as he passed President Donald Trump’s regards to his West Pokot people.
He noted how his popularity has earned him celebrity status in the US as he narrated how white people were struggling to take photos with him.
He noted that his foreign trips mean a lot to his people, noting that the fruits of his trip to Israel will soon be witnessed in West Pokot County.
Funny as he is, Lonyangapuo narrated how he met with President Uhuru Kenyatta at the office of the president in Nairobi when he toured back.
“Jana nimekuwa na baba wenu wa taifa Nairobi, pokeeni salamu za Mzee Uhuru Kenyatta, mmepokea? Nilikuwa office of the president, inaitwa OP, nikakunywa chai na Matiang’i,” he said.
He further noted that Kenya has earned respect abroad courtesy of President Kenyatta.
Watch the video below courtesy of Daily Nation.
Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala has responded to a suspension letter from his party Amani National Congress that was issued on Friday as a result of his support for ODM candidate Bernard Imran Otieno Okoth in the just concluded Kibra by elections.
In his response, Malala defended himself saying he supported Imran for the Kibra by-election on the basis of the NASA coalition.
Malala who spoke to Citizen Digital argued that the National Super Alliance (NASA) statute allows members to support any candidate from the affiliate parties.
The Senator further claimed that he has not received any official communication from the ANC.
However, a letter from the party disciplinary committee said Malala acted against the party and Statute laws.
“We have established that Malala indeed attended the rally and that in fact he made the offending remarks,” the letter from Committee Chairperson Yare Mohammed reads.
Capt. Mohammed termed Malala’s remarks as impugning, thoughtless and tragic noting that the statements were widely shared on social media.
He was referring to an ODM rally which Malala attended and told voters that as the “highest-placed leader” present from ANC, they should rally behind him and support Okoth.
During the October rally, Malala further alleged that the ANC candidate Eliud Owalo was a ‘project’ of Deputy President William Ruto.
On Friday, Nominated MP Godfrey Osotsi defended Malala over the party suspension terming it as ‘a big joke of the year’.
“ANC party has sunk to its lowest by using uncoordinated hirelings with no official status in the party to stifle internal democracy in the party through cheap intimidation tactics that continually erodes Hon Mudavadi political capital and public image,” he said in a statement.
Osotsi was also suspended from the ANC party in March following allegations of misuse of party funds when he served as secretary-general.
Security was high in and outside Sagana State Lodge on Friday as President Uhuru Kenyatta held a meeting with Mt Kenya leaders.
The meeting was attended by over 4,000 leaders drawn from the larger Mt Kenya region. Others came from Nakuru, Lamu, Eldoret, Kajiado and Nairobi.
However, guests were barred from entering the meeting venue with their mobile phones, wrist watches, wedding rings, earrings, bangles and goggles.
This is to ensure no proceedings of the meeting, whose agenda remained a highly guarded secret, are recorded.
Further National government administrators such as regional and county commissioners, sub-county commissioners and chiefs were not present in the meeting where journalists were denied access.
Despite indications that Cabinet Secretaries from Mt Kenya region were supposed to attend, none of them was seen in the venue.
This is the first time President Uhuru Kenyatta is meeting Mt Kenya leaders amid bitter succession politics, which have seen the leadership split into two groups.
The head of state denied promising opposition leader Raila Odinga 2022 support and gave indication he is open to Prime Minister position.
He pleaded with Central leaders not to abandon the government agenda through pressure to endorse candidates and early political campaigns
President Uhuru Kenyatta has indicated that he is open to a Prime Minister position should it be created.
While denying promising opposition leader Raila Odinga of his support come 2022, the head of state pleaded with Central leaders not to abandon the government agenda through pressure to endorse candidates and early political campaigns.
He was speaking in a meeting at Sagana State Lodge in Nyeri County attended by more than 3,000 leaders on Friday.
He pleaded for calm and said leaders from the region started to discuss the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report too early.
“I do not know the contents of the BBI report yet I hear people claiming Uhuru Kenyatta wants to become the Prime Minister of Kenya. I wouldn’t mind being in leadership in such a post, though let us deal with the current situation first,” Mr Kenyatta said.
The President told the leaders to “analyse and understand” the past in order to secure their political future. He defended the handshake saying it was all about political stability and not 2022 politics.
Wajir woman rep Fatuma Gedi has hit back at Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa after sexual misconduct accusations.
Barasa on Friday accused Gedi of being sexually involved with younger boys including her bodyguards and drivers.
But in a quick rejoinder, Gedi accused Barasa of being a “conman”.
She included a copy of the public notice by Sportpesa dissociating Barasa from any business with them.
The two have been involved in bitter exchange since the Kibra by-election two weeks ago.