GOVERNOR TUNAI TOURS NAROK EAST WITH DEVELOPMENT GOODIES.

Its a great week for Narok East Constituency as Governor Samuel Kuntai Ole Tunai took a development tour of Ongata Naado Primary School in Mosiro ward, Narok East sub-county, and used the occasion to meet the residents of the ward.

The County Government had financed the construction of classrooms in various schools in the ward, including Kotiko Primary School, Ilkiremisho Primary School, Aramat Secondary School, and six classes at Mosiro Boarding School, all of which are now complete and ready for use. 

Governor instructed the CEC for Roads Department to ensure that the Ntulele - Kormoto road, Ntulele - Mosiro road and Ntulele - Ongata Naado road are re-graded with immediate effect. 

The county government under the leadership of Gov. Tunai have highly invested in schools’ infrastructure and education support through the bursary programme. County have hired over 600 Early Childhood Development Education teachers, who are now deployed across the county. 

In addition, Governor Tunai issued cheques to fund the following projects;

1) Oloika ECDE

2) Oloikumkum ECDE

3) Kormto ECDE

4) Ole Koonyo ECDE

5) Ongata Naado Primary School

6) Nturumeti Secondary School

7) Ntulele Dispensary

8) Ongata Naado Dispensary

Governor was accompanied by area MCA Hon. Salankat Nchoe  and  MP Hon. Ken Aramat among other opinion leaders.

BOOST FOR THE OLOLULUNG’A ISOLATION CENTRE AS HON SOIPAN MAKES DONATIONS.

The County Executive Committee Member for Health Morgan Siloma received an assortment of equipment made by the office of Narok's Women Representative Soipan Kudate to help in the equipping of Ololulung’a Isolation Centre.  

The donation included patient waiting benches, lockers, water dispensers, medicine, food trolleys, desktop computers, microwaves, blenders, heaters, face masks among others. 

The CECM thanked the Women Representative for her consistent support towards the Narok County COVID-19 Preparedness & Response and Coordination Committee terming it as a big encouragement to health workers and a demonstration of true leadership in a time when health facilities across the country are strained.

The Health County Executive also lauded Governor Samuel Ole Tunai for a clear vision and leadership that has seen Narok County confidently build the 300-bed Isolation Centre in addition to other measures taken to increase capacity of the Health Department as the country continue to face an increase in corona virus infections.

Also present was the Public Health Chief Officer Geoffrey Sang, Medical Services Chief Officer Sahara Ibrahim among others. 

Governor Tunai meets Education experts, county leaders & security team ahead of schools re-opening

Governor Samuel Kuntai Ole Tunai have convened a consultative meeting that brought together the political leadership of Narok County (Members of Parliament and Members of the County Assembly), the Narok County Commissioner, officers for the sub-county level, and County Education Experts to deliberate on, and consolidate efforts towards supporting the preparation of schools in the count, which are scheduled to re-open on January 4th 2021.

The leadership have committed to work hand-in-hand with all stakeholders in the education sector, jointly with the heads of primary schools, secondary schools and tertiary institutions to help them meet and sustain the guidelines for re-opening as provided by the Ministry of Health.

Hon Samuel ole tunai's administration will work closely with relevant officers from the National Government’s Ministries of Health and Education, to help schools overcome or manage the possible spread of covid-19 once schools re-open.

Take it or leave it, Pain of Sweet, DP Ruto asked Legitimate question on his address.

Ruto the proposal for a judiciary ombudsman appointed by the executive is a claw back on the constitution. We don't want to go back to the era when judges were called at night.

On the IEBC, the DP questions the fairness on the proposals on the appointment of a referee by a section of the players.

On the police force Ruto questions the proposal for the chairing of the police council by a  CS. We must be careful that the laws we make serves you now and when you are not in a position of advantage.

Ruto says the proposal on the Senate not to oversee the division of revenue will be a downgrade of the Senate.

On women, if we move them to a downgraded senate we're making them nominal.

Ruto: the real elephant is what was identified as a Winner Takes it all,  Prof Oloo, explain to me, with the proposed structure of government how have you sorted the issue?

Ruto: I want to be persuaded. Forgive me if I'm slow but I want to be persuaded.

A mix of heckling and cheering in the hall.

Now complete heckling.  Ruto tries to calm down the audience.

Ruto now welcomes President Kenyatta.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, WE MUST SAVE OUR GIRLS~ Vows Gov Tunai

Governor Samuel Kuntai Ole Tunai has called on the residents of Narok to ensure that all the children return to school according to the recent released timetable by the Ministry of education. Tunai was emphatic when addressing wananchi during the Mashujaa day celebrations at Ole Ntimama stadium on the none transferable responsibility that the parents have over their children. “As parents/guardians, the care of children is our primary duty in this world”, the Governor said. 

The Governor also assured parents that every Ward will receive their bursary share such that no candidate in form Four will remain at home for lack of school fees. According to recently released statistics of a baseline study on child marriage, teenage pregnancy and Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya, Narok County has some of the highest figures.  

According to an update by the National Chairperson of Anti-FGM board, Agnes Pareyio who is also from Narok County, child marriage, teenage pregnancy and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) are manifestations of deeply rooted gender inequalities and social norms. 

Finally, Governor Tunai asked the County Commissioner Mr. Evans Achoki to work closely with the County Government through the Sub-County administrators and other leaders to develop and adopt commitments to ending child marriage and FGM and sensitize community members to report cases of FGM and child marriage in the County.

EDUCATION CS Magoha briefing Kenyans On Reopen of Schools

“No child should be sent home because they did not engage in online classes, that is criminal and we will come for you” - CS Magoha reiterates that learning in both private and public schools should resume from where it stopped in March.

"Schools must ensure mandatory use of face masks and monitoring of body temperature" -

For those children who are pregnant, I assure them that they have nothing to fear and should come back to school. Teachers should be empathic to them and give them assistance. - 

Should there be an emergency, and a child needs help, every parent and every teacher should act as a guardian. We cannot wait until you figure out who the parent of the child is; this is our African culture. -

No child should be sent home on account of school fees, both in the private and public sector.

"Although physical distancing shall remain a challenge to us, it should not be a bottleneck to the resolve of reopening schools."

Mara Ngeche Hotel shut down over non-compliance

 

 

Speaking during an assessment tour in the camp, National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) Chairman John Konchella said the camp dubbed ‘Mara Ngenche’ had violated the standards set for the world-famous Maasai Mara Game Reserve.

Konchellah regretted that the camp worth over Ksh 300 million was established in the year 2008 and has been slowly expanding hence blocking the path of the stunning wildebeest crossing.

"The camp started with few camps and has since expanded blocking the path of the animals. We should give the animals the first priority,” said the chairman.

He reiterated that at least four tents had been erected on the path of the animals flouting NEMA rules.

“We will be looking on to whether to relocate the camp in full or part of it before making a full report on this,” said Konchella.

The camp director, Nagib Popat, however, said he has placed a court order to bar the closure of the camp alleging to have met all the criteria required for its establishment.

Narok Executive Member in Charge of Tourism Joseph Koila regretted the incident saying the closure of such magnitude had never occurred in the recent past.

He reiterated that the welfare of the animals at the world-famous game reserve come first hence promised that the county government will do anything possible to protect the 

“This is a problem we inherited from the defunct county council that we are trying to fix now. We are however committed to ensuring we give the animals the best,” said Ole Koila.

Wildebeest migration occurs between the month of July and September where millions of animals migrate from Serengeti Park in Tanzania to the Kenyan side across River Mara.

A clip showing the incident that occurred on 14^th August this year where wildebeest movement was interrupted by the camp that stands at the meeting point of River Talek and River Mara went viral over social media.

This led Tourism and Wildlife Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala to ask the county government to close the camp for interfering with the animals’ movement.