Why Uhuru and Ruto will depart soon

In politics, they say there are no permanent friends or enemies. This is the poignant statement that Prof Makau Mutua in his weekly column published by Sunday Standard has laboured to illustrate.

Times are getting tough for deputy president William Ruto who the International Criminal Court (ICC) seems to have t ightened its case against him when they allowed
recanted statements to be used as evidence by the prosecutor.

It is reported that Ruto has gone into a panic mode with this development, and Mutua doesn’t seem to be making
it easier for him while advancing his theories on why Uhuru may drop him altogether.

Here are Mutua’s reasons.
1. Ruto no longer commands the Kalenjin vote which has been his key bargaining chip.
“… Ruto was only useful to Kenyatta as the Kalenjin kingpin. But alas, Ruto’s reign atop the Kalenjin
Nation has become wobbly, ” he writes saying that the dynamics of the Kalenjin politics have fast shifted
with governor Isaac Rutto becoming a key threat to Ruto.

2. President Barack Obama’s visit proved that Kenyatta does not need Ruto.
“.. Kenyatta kept Ruto largely closeted, although he did let him out on several occasions to meet K’Ogelo’s
most famous scion .”

3. With Kenyatta no longer wanted by the ICC , Ruto is now seen as ‘a liability’ and paints a bad image to the former.

“ Ruto’s ICC woes make him a liability — a diplomatic embarrassment — to Kenyatta. Going to the ballot in
2017 with Ruto is akin to taking a malaria-ravaged patient to the battlefield. It would be foolhardy for
Mr Kenyatta to go to war with a lame duck. “

4. No one wants Ruto to become president in 2022.

“Ruto has served his purpose for Kenyatta. He can now be discarded. It’s like the law of gravity —
whatever goes up must come down. Politics is a utilitarian game, not a sport of sentimentality. The coalition of Kenyatta and Ruto is limping to the finish line — 2017 — and they both know it. Don’t be fooled by public expressions of fidelity to each other.
It’s over — gone and done with. It’s time for divorce — coming soon,” Mutua writes in closing remarks.

We all need each other to strive as a community

Numerical size doesn’t make any tribe in Kenya more important than the other. Neither financial strength, nor intellectual and oratory prowess, makes one superior to the other.

Every nation thrives on the strengths
as well as weaknesses of its composite tribes.

We can’t all be professors. Universities need janitors. We can’t all be doctors. Hospitals require the services of nurses. We can’t all be traders. Businesses need security guards to keep potential thieves at bay.

We can’t all be top athletes. Someone has to keep any eye on the clock to check the timings; another on the finishing line to determine who came first, second, and third.

Manifestoes

Priorities
1.Good schools - to make education available and affordable to everyone
2.Provision of clean and safe water
3.Capacity building on good business practices
4.Improved farming
5.Employment of our youths 6.Opening of training institutes to cater for std 8 and form four leavers
(Having in mind a good structure at Shartuka)
7.Making proper use of our God given work force to initiate development projects.

NAROK WOMEN POST Up for GRASP

"Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

As a wishful and service committed leader, Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

There goes the will of a leader i wish to elect. S/he should be committed and persistence in her or his way of doing normal duties

Representative of Women in national assembly need people who see beyond their circles of relations and deeds of wishes and service before self.

Nothing comes on a silver plater not even in investing on your genuine and potential opponent mistakes or undoings, Lest you forget.

It goes noticed in wisdom and public cycles that Lydia Naneu Ntimama will be on the ballot comes 2017 December if the MPS ammendment the constitution that gives the people to exercise their democratic right of voting on 2nd Tuesday of August in the fifth year.

She has justify her ability to lead in what can be said behind the royal family which people are agreeing that she made a mistake of running against her father final years of leadership. Surface Politician and analysis argue the patronage drains got the declining of able leadership narok.

Lydia in equal terms got desires to lead as Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process.

And truely If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement which all goes on an assumption portal of prejudice. I can call it in its real name for purposes of its magnanimity to ensure the narok people are not coerced to make a regrettable adventure.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen which according to many people here who say could be electing Entito orkingi comes 2017 if she shelfed her interests 2013 for 2017.

The double loss of election 2013 in ntimama family is a determinant the future confidence of narokians to bestowe leadership mantle to the Lydia.

By virtue of and in accrued knowledge of kenyan democracy it is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is
impossible to rehearse life.

Lydia is hiding in the Muthaiga 5 cocoons for a sympathetic gesture to see herself on the women Representative post which is minimal to the expections of many people in narok.

The entrance of Rebecca Tonkei in the race of women representative in narok county is a game changer and it has already shifted the post and has send sparks to the fellow aspirants.

Rebecca Tonkei who is Human resource personnel in Parliament has declared the interest in the seat and already gunning huge and unprecedented support in her home Mau narok and Transmara where she was born and raised.

The interest on Muthaiga 5 has been out in black and white that yes its "Governorship" post that is their main concern and anyone thinking of taking advantage for MP seat or something of that sort is living a lie.

And any person assuming this fact is living a big lie. The comments around arouse the virtue analysis of narok leadership could be better than it is.

I thank kilgoris people for showing interest in women rep post. narok East and loita are commendable too.

With Lydia "Entito orkingi" it was best placed to have foretell not running with able maasai king who actually was the man to watch in Maasai politics William Rongorua Ole ntimama.

The article in Kenyan constitution doesn’t reason like what the actual maasai kinship politics of inheritance could wish to be but rather guarantee people a right to vote, vie and even boycott the election.

A fault in the politics scenery, a face slap in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much in putting our future in order.

Letter to William Ruto the Anti-Gay Deputy President

By ABIGAIL ARUNGA

Dear Deputy President,

My best friend is gay. She is also Kenyan.

She lives in a country where the majority of people are homophobic, and the other day you proved that the leadership is as well.

You made a rather ignorant statement the other day about how there is no room for homosexuals in Kenya, almost as if you think that being Deputy President gives you
licence to speak with authority on what people like in the bedroom.

Tell me sir, do you like whips? Or chains? Or 'strange things' in the bedroom? And then, tell me, do you think it is any of my business? It really isn't.

WHY WE CAN’T PROSPER
Instead of discussing the numerous Kenyans who died recently, Parliament is busily forming anti-gay caucuses. This is why we, as a nation, cannot prosper, because we are
busy debating things like whether people should be allowed to fight for their basic, human, inalienable rights.
What a waste of valuable time.

For the record, sir, being homophobic does not mean that you are scared of
homosexuals. It means you are a terrible person who does not care about basic human welfare, and you are of the belief that anyone who does not agree with you has no place here.

This is a scary trajectory. After sexuality, what next? Tribe? Religion? Will there be no room for other 'types' in Kenya? It sounds like an oncoming holocaust to me, because all forms of oppression are linked.

TRY AND UNDERSTAND
Look, I can understand being scared of something you do not understand, but the automatic and logical reaction to something you are scared of is to try and understand it, not burn it to the ground.

You claim to be a Christian. Where would you be if your kinsmen had burnt all the missionaries to ash?

Speaking of your Christianity, Christianity itself tells us to love one another; to not pull out the splinter in someone's eye before pulling out the log in ours.

If we are going on the basis of Christianity and if indeed homosexuality is a sin, then it follows that whatever sin you, the Deputy President have committed, is equal to that of the people you are apparently trying to kick out of their country.

It is their country just as much as it is
yours.

It is my country as much as it is yours.
A country you are supposed to be a servant of.

You are supposed to be a servant of the people. All people who are Kenyan.

BASIC EMPATHY

Even if you separate people on the basis of leadership — a separation of church and state — what you have made is a blatantly irresponsible statement.

Do you think people are not already
victimising those who are homosexual, or thought to be homosexual? Your comments made it infinitely worse.

Your role, as a leader of this wonderful country that clearly has homosexuals in it, is not to condemn and judge. Your role is to make sure that as Kenyans, they get the rights they deserve.

As a human being, I am insulted that you would make such an obviously biased and insensitive comment about another human being – to make them feel unworthy, when they are not.

As a Kenyan, I am deeply offended that this is how you go about protecting the rights of people you claim to lead.

It is unfortunate that you lack basic
empathy — which means you do not
understand or seek to understand issues you cannot relate with, like poverty, homosexuality or an increase in fuel prices.

And so you have proceeded, with your
hateful speech, to alienate and distancevyourself even further from my vote.

I dream of a Kenya where the idea of rights for all is not debatable but a norm for me, for my best friend, and for anyone who lives within our shores.

Because one day you'll take away my rights too, if we keep going on like this. Just as you want to take away hers.

Thank you for continuing to show me who you really are.

Yours,
Abigail Arunga
Twitter: @AbigailArunga

Brief KANU History|| KANU fresh

BRIEF HISTORY ABOUT KANU
Kenya African National Union (KANU) is a mass movement. Its background rests on the British Colonial history in
Kenya. That is why KANU is credited as the Party that brought political independence to our country Kenya.

As far back as in the 1920s and 1930s, the Kenyan Africans had started to agitate against the settlement of British people in Kenya. This was a result of the fact that some of the Africans who raised these questions had earlier served of fought in the 1st world war in the German East Africa(Tanzania). They started forming Political Associations,
which agitated for representation in the legislative council.

In 1940, the British colonialists banned most of the African political associations. It was at that stage that the few remaining tribal based Political Associations started to
broaden membership countrywide. In 1944 Kenya African Union (KAU) was formed by the late James Gichuru. Mzee Jomo Kenyatta returned from Britain where he was agitating for independence and assumed the leadership of KAU.

By 1950, the Africans had already become impatient with the colonial rule and the clandestine movement called Mau Mau was started as an armed struggle for independence.
It unleashed plenty of violence and a state of emergency was declared on October 20th 1952. (This is the day we now and celebrate as Kenyatta Day).

Our political leaders led by Mzee Jomo Kenyatta were detained. All political activities were banned. This vacuum was filled by African Labour Federation (ALF) led by the late Tom Mboya as the head. It is this union that eventually played a crucial role in the legalization of African Political Associations in the late1950s.

In 1959, political activities were in full swing. On March 27th 1960, a leader conference was convened in Kiambu. After proposing a formation of a countrywide political party to be called Uhuru Independence Party of Kenya, leaders eventually agreed to form Kenya African National Union (KANU). The first national elections were done on14th May 1960 in Kiambu with James Gichuru as acting
President pending the release of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. The colonialists started to work out how to limit KANU from commanding countrywide support. They encouraged the leaders of smaller tribal Political Associations to form a common front against KANU. These associations held their
meeting at Ngong on 25th June 1960 and formed Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU) with the late Ronald Ngala as the head. The first multi-party polls were held in
1961. KANU won but could not form a coalition government until Kenyatta was released. Kenyatta was released on 14th August 1961. KANU and KADU formed a coalition with a view of strengthening African unity on the road to full independence. The coalition did not last long. KANU wanted a strong central government with a unitary constitution while KADU wanted a weak central government within a federal (majimbo) constitution.

A compromised situation was settled for a strong central government with moderate powers vested in the regional assemblies.

The coalition only lasted from April 1962 to May 1963. General Elections were held between May 18th to 26th 1963 and KANU trounced KADU by winning 83 of the 124 seats in the House of Representatives. It also won a majority in the senate and in three of the 7 regional assemblies namely
Nyanza, Central and Eastern. KANU proceeded to form the internal self-government on 1st June 1963 (Madaraka Day).

On November 10th 1964, the leader of KADU Hon. Ronald Ngala announced the voluntary dissolution of KADU. Thus we started the road to Political, Social and Economic development under single Party system until 1990 when section 2A of the constitution was removed paving way for the reintroduction of multi-party system which is prevailing in Kenya till present.

My government has a place for orphans and widows; Re-affirms Governor Tunai

Fundraising in Rongena led by Governor Samuel Kuntai Ole Tunai and Governor Isaac Kiprono Ruto , Was a step forward to empowering the widows in the region.

Empowering a woman is empowering the society.Other leaders than to
engage in endless political bickering should emulate this illustrious examples.

The Sh 10 million that was raised should be put to use prudently and ensure the objects of the fundraising are met.

Governor Tunai said the county assembly will enact a bill that
will ensure widows, orphans, disables and widowers are well taken care for in order to cut the teeth of poverty and ignorance in our society.

The fund drive was in narok West constituency. The people of narok West promised to work with governor Tunai and comes 2017, they will show the door leaders who are opposing development.

Time is up! My people need answers. Cattle rustling buck stops at the leadership

You may have thought cattle rustling was a thing of the past , a common theme in old western movies, but nothing could be further from the truth .

In Kilgoris central particularly the border between Transmara west and East it is really disheartening to note that the people live in a society hopeless.

The probability of your cows being stolen overnight and it being save is very high. The leadership arms seem to be getting incentives of the culprits because they are on routine diaries.

The government should come to help the people from frequent stock theft and even use KWS to remote brand and detect the cows on the border to minimise the menace and give people living peace of mind at least for once.

As old fashioned and outdated a practice as it  may seems , branding is still one of the best ways to protect our animals, Even with all the technology today , Romote branding is the best way to permanently identify
cattle .

Leadership with local administration has proven it's inability to curb the regular stealing of cows where the known culprits walk scot free after the press of poverty light to a family.

Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is never excusable under any certain circumstance.

A leadership that ignore this fact is living a lie of which it should be addressed. It's either for a leadership to end cattle stealing or we end their term of office.

I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

Our young people die while trying to guard their homestead against goons and bandits who the government ignores and give them soft bonds which i see it as encouragement the ritten vice.

Every cattle stolen, everu gun that is made, every conflict launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed, are constituent and not given the right services like protection of life and property but the government.

In kilgoris there is a culture of a  growing humanity of research suggests that our brains are wired to resist change, to be content with the status quo. “It could be that humans
are wired to be natural naysayers, Or do i say

Sometimes those we look to for leadership can let us down. When King Saul and his officers faced the
belligerent insults of the Philistine giant Goliath, they responded with fear and timidity.

(1 Sam. 17:11). But a young musician and shepherd boy named David had faith in God that transformed his
perspective on this threat. David said to Goliath, “You come to me with a sword But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts” (v.45). David
defeated the enemy and turned the tide of battle (v.50). He did not look to earthly leaders for his strength but to the living God.

When others like our leaders who we trusted them with our votes lets us down, God may be calling us to provide leadership in His strength and for His honor.

To the Narok leadership a Collective inquiry is nothing more than identifying your administration collective lack of knowledge (ignorance) and doing
something about it.

As a leader, you should guide your officers to discover the unknown. Next, leaders must empower them to
make a plan to learn about the unknown, and finally implement what they have learned. The leader must be current on leading research.

The more the local community and administration learns to work together, the more trust is solidified.

The more trust that is built between the teams and the government, Evidently, the more your leadership is respected.

Hey Governor Tunai; A hint on Public Health Sector; We need Toilets

"Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and able & concern leadership and important limitations any community can determine its own health"

I don't mind paying a doctor more for helping to make me healthier. To help me live a longer life with more well-being. I'd pay them gladly. My problem is paying someone repeatedly to simply treat my symptoms, because they aren't actually compensated to solve my problem.

Too many people fall short of their potential in the leadership game, and also fail to enable or enhance the
leadership circles to(of) others.

Mr Governor My passion for good leadership often leads me to observe
and reflect on what happens in the grassroots, workplace for individuals and teams. I listen out for mixture of comments and frustrations, and have concluded that there are some
common misunderstandings about leadership issues

One of them being the need for public defecation in nourishing and civilised society. People need not only toilets but decent public toilets. I know many of these problems are systemic. They are old. And we will need considerable long periods of time and loads of energy to counter them. I believe we must start from somewhere.

The battle to end open defecation in kilgoris and in narok county needs to be fought on two radical fronts; on the ground with toilets and sanitation infrastructure, and in the hearts and minds of the people by repositioning toilets so that latrine use becomes the norm.

Mr. Governor, you have a golden
chance to brash ink your public name in our hearts and minds. Just build toilets!

Until we drive demand for toilets, we will not see the uptake and usage of toilets in narok county, even as toilets
become available.

We need to understand what motivates people, and position toilet use as aspirational, associated with a sense of pride and dignity, in order to encourage toilet use as a personal preference, and drive demand for toilets.

As a county we all measured for greatness by the virtue that we regard setting asside the place for defecation. Equivocally, We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

Ever wonder why good leaders turn into bad ones almost over night or in a twinkle of an eye?

Or why an otherwise good person goes to public office genuinely committed to becoming an authentic public servant, only to emerge a short-time later as a totally self-interested, self-absorbed, pure-play politician?

You are there, calm as I brush you that it all makes sense. Not necessarily what you and I might call good sense, but sense enough for us to understand.

To understand, so that we can then nurture a new generation of leaders that don't do this. This is a short-version cheat-sheet on why even good
leaders step-in-it , and as a result, why the kenya we live in is increasingly all screwed up by politicians who think right outcast of their circles of who-we-know

This is also a short-form leadership bulletin on what you and I can do about it .

To sum up leaders should talk the say and walk the say to evidently work out devolution cries of our people.

Sadly and needless to say its hard to get someone to agree to the truth, when the lie is paying their paycheck.

Aspiring leaders must Create and nurture a new generation of young leaders that (i) know who they are, (ii) mean what they say, (iii) say what they mean, and (iv) actually do what they believe.

Governor Tunai a toilet is the tarting point of serious and committed public health.

WE NEED TOILETS

Corruption must End in Public Office

Let's call a spade a spade: Corruption is theft. Those who bank on it are thieves. In fact, very dangerous thieves.

It is only a satanic mind that finds happiness in cornering what is destined to uplift a people subdued
by many years of state-sponsored neglect. More so, it is a scandal of gigantic proportions when home-grown sons and daughters are the team leaders of these power teams.

TARETO MAA NGO in Transmara and what it does; Enough reason why our leaders MUST Support it.

Giving shelter to girls in danger and running campaigns for child health
Our relief project provides support to girls who refuse to be circumcised or married without their consent. We protect these girls.

We talk to their parents. We try to find a solution for the children, working closely with the civil society in Kilgoris, the local congregation of the African Inland Church, and the local authorities.

If a girl does not want to be circumcised, she can ask Tareto Maa for help. The pastor and other team members will try to convince the parents not to have the girl cut, but
rather send her to school. But in some cases a family refuses and casts out their daughter. Tareto Maa has set
up a rescue center for these children in need.

If no mutual solution within the family can be found, Tareto Maa
registers the girl at the local police station (the police help to protect her), and admits her to the rescue center. Tareto Maa takes care of the costs for food, clothes, and education.

Furthermore we shelter orphans from the local community, and provide a new home to them. Due to the help of many supporters from the community but also from a lot of countries worldwide, we were able to build houses for the rescue center, and complete it with a water supply, two solar modules, a security fence, and a bridge.

At present, we are sheltering 122 girls in the Tareto Maa Center.

The group’s campaigning focuses on the region where Tareto Maa is seated: Osupuko, Kilgoris and the surrounding area.

We inform the public about child rights, child health and general issues of sexual and reproductive health. Members of the group go into schools as well as into community assemblies, and explain the injuries resulting from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), and the importance of school
education for girls. They distribute information brochures (written in Swahili), and offer personal talks to inform about health and HIV/AIDS.
Naitawang Riverside Academy

Together with the local community we founded a primary school which opened in January 2012. The name of the new school is Naitawang Riverside
Academy. The word “Naitawang“ comes from the Maasai language and means: “Light of the community“.

The idea of the school is to strengthen education in Kilgoris and to reduce expenses for Tareto Maa.

Instead of sending the girls of Tareto Maa to public schools, which are quite far away and involve fees, the private school offers a better and “free” education to the Tareto Maa girls, charging tuition for the other
children sent there by their families.

Plans and hopes for the future
What happens if the girls from the Tareto Maa Rescue Center graduate in school? What can they do then to make a living? To help the girls in an enduring and sustainable way, Tareto Maa plans to set up a training center, offering courses on computer skills, and office work.

Furthermore we want to establish basic medical care for the community. At the moment, the nearest doctor is 4 hours away! It is a very realistic possibility that FGM in Kilgoris and the surrounding villages can be overcome in a period of three to five years. The team in Kenya already observes that the people are starting to rethink the traditions of circumcision and child marriage. This is due to our work in the community.

But it is also due to government bodies which are increasing the pressure to abandon FGM. As soon as we conquer FGM in our area, we want to join forces to overcome it as well in other villages in Transmara, and the
Kenyan Rift Valley.

7 day of Glory starts today at Narok Baptist Church in Narok Town.. #Attend

Narok Baptist Church night of glory is today starting from 9pm till dawn.

The main aiaim of the prayer is to pray for the national  healing and coming together to serve the Lord.

The function is happening at the NBC sanctuary, the church is behind Maralink Hotel just before palmers gardens.

Don't miss and remember to invite your friends see u there.

We Want Photoes of DP Ruto with Obama, Rift Valley MPS tells State House

Rift Valley MPs have accused President Uhuru’s media handlers of wilfully hiding photos of Deputy President William Ruto and US President Barack Obama.

The MPs also claimed state house hid the photos of meeting between President Obama and Opposition leader Raila Odinga, despite
being the only known entity who was allowed access to the meetings in order to take photos ‘on behalf of Kenya’.

For DP Ruto, the MPs allege a well
choreographed manoeuvre to lock the DP out of critical meetings between the Kenya government and the US leader. For the first time, the MPs reveal the DP had to force
himself in some of the meetings where the sitting arrangement completely omitted his participation.

“From the beginning, we knew what was going on. We were well aware that a group of people wanted to prevent the DP from meeting Obama. It was an attempt to humiliate the DP,” said Marakwet East MP, Kangogo Bowen.
The MP further claim there is a ploy to lock DP Ruto out of the 2022 as Mt. Kenya has already picked Peter Kenneth.

The MP said: “We are prepared. We know our friends from Central will not be supporting Ruto in 2022. This is in black and white from the actions and utterances by our colleagues from the mountain (Mt Kenya).”

Sombre: A 5 month old baby dies as her mum is injured by lightning in Transmara, Narok county

A 5 month old baby boy died yesterday and his mother was left nursing burns after lightning struck their home in Oldonyorok village in Trans Mara.

Emmanuel Kiplagat was with his mother, 22 year old Miriam Ng’eno, inside their house when the tragic incident happened.

The area police boss, Alfred Muthua, said that Ng’eno sustained stomach burns and was rushed to Angata
Health Center where she is undergoing treatment.

Alfred said that such incidences were common in the area and asked the County Government to install
lightning arrestors on tall buildings.

Narok Governor Samuel Tunai cleared on graft and fit for office another term

Narok County Governor Samuel Tunai has been cleared of any corruption allegations.

This comes after the Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko accepted recommendations by the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) exonerating the governor from any corrupt deals.

Mr Tobiko had ordered for the inquiry into alleged human resource, financial and procurement irregularities by the governor.

EACC conducted the investigations and recommended the closure of files for lack of evidence of criminal culpability.

On Friday, Tobiko accepted recommendations to close files
on the three allegations;

1.Mara triangle revenue collection,
2. hire of helicopter,
3. procurement of Kenya Airports Parking Services (Kaps) Ltd, for lack of evidence and other about five other allegations facing Tunai and two senior county officials were closed.

EACC investigations into allegations of Tunai's directorship in Mara conservancy together with his brother, Ole Kijabe, revealed that the governor and his sibling resigned from
the positions before the 2013 General Election.

Another allegation concerning the employment of Charles Gitau as County Finance Officer was also dismissed after the commission's inquiry found that Mr Gitau had been hired by the Transitional Authority.

Other allegations investigated included
1.procurement of legal services, 2.Oloololo game ranch gate collections
3.creation of Mara Trust Fund.

The commission found that the procurement of legal services was properly done, and Sh52 million paid was commensurate to services rendered.

40 Boys of St Patrick’s Iten Raid Sing'ore Girl's Dormitory, 12 Arrested

A schoolboy is in hospital and 12 others in police custody after they allegedly raided a girls’ dormitory in Elgeyo-Marakwet on Saturday night.
Iten County Referral Hospital Medical
Superintendent Gastro Mugala said the student, who is badly injured, would undergo knee surgery.

Keiyo North Sub-County police boss Fredrick Ochieng said officers received confusing reports, which indicated that the intruders at Sing’ore Girls High School were gangsters.

“However, we were later told that boys from the neighbouring St Patrick’s Boys High School had sneaked into the compound with an intention of
raping the girls,” said the police boss.

Screams by the girls attracted neighbours, who thought gangsters had raided the school.

FORCED WAY INTO GIRLS' DORM
But, it emerged that a group of 40 schoolboys from St Patrick’s, six kilometres away, had forced their
way into the girls’ dormitory, allegedly after being sent short text messages by some girls.

However, when things got out of hand, the girls raised the alarm, alerting neighbours.

In the ensuing melee, the boys were attacked by watchmen.
One of them suffered a panga cut on the knee, while others sustained injuries as they escaped through the barbed wire fence.

Some girls were also reportedly injured in the stampede that ensued.
Mr Ochieng said a roll-call conducted by teachers at St Patrick’s established that a large number of Form Three and Form Four students were missing.
He said police found the group of boys on the Iten- Sing’ore-Kapsowar road as the rains pounded away.

12 ARRESTED, OTHERS FLED
“Our officers managed to arrest 12 boys, while the rest fled into the bush.
“They found six packets of condoms. The boys are in the cells,” said Mr Ochieng.

Elgeyo-Marakwet County Director of Education Sabina Aroni said the two principals, Mr Wilson Yego of St Patrick’s Iten and his counterpart at
Sing’ore Girls, Mrs Rose Koech, would be summoned to her office.

Mr Yego told the Nation the management is handling the matter internally.

Mrs Koech regretted the incident, saying it happened while she was away in Nairobi.

According to police, officers were stunned when the boys said they carried the condoms to protect their
girlfriends after the girls invited them to the school.

The boys allegedly told police that they visit Sing‘ore once a year, particularly during the cold
season, in a practice that dates back to the 1980s.

“The students in Form Four pass the mantle to their juniors once they complete their secondary school education,” said a police officer.