ODM KILIMANI OFFICES RAIDED

#BreakingNews ODM offices in Kilimani broken into and almost everything stolen. Police are currently at the scene. More to follow.....

ITS BUSINESS AS USSUAL FOR WINES & SPIRITS IN MURANG'A

As we approach festive season Murang'a county alcoholic board has licensed back wine & spirits outlets. This come barely one week after the government through the Cabinet Secretary ministry of Interior Gen. Joseph Nkaissery listed number of licensed manufacturers of wine and spirits across the country after a tough crack down on fake brands in the market.

THE INTER-AGENCY TASK FORCE ON CONTROL OF POTABLE SPIRIT AND COMBAT OF ILLICIT BREWS
Report on Inspection of Premises Manufacturing Alcoholic Drinks in Kenya
Manufacturing firms cleared to manufacture alcoholic drinks subject to compliance with specified regulatory requirements

JOE KADHI ANALYSIS TODAY DAILIES HEADLINES

By: Joe Kadhi
SAMUEL KARANJA’S “DEEP THROAT”
MADE THE SUNDAY NATION
OUTSHINE THE STANDARD ON SUNDAY
As expected today’s front pages of national newspapers featured the resignation of Anne Waiguru; but the readers who bought the two newspapers expecting to be given an in-depth analysis that would reveal the real reasons for the powerful Secretary to the Cabinet’s departure must be absolutely disappointed this morning. Of the two papers the Sunday Nation came closer to revealing the truth than its competitor the Standard on Sunday. It is in the Nation that we get to know of a telephone conversation between the departed CS and the President. Many journalists came out to write stories about Anne Waiguru in the two papers; but it was the story by Samuel Karanja in the Sunday Nation that really spilled the beans about the resignation of Anne Waiguru. Reading between the lines of the Karanja’s story one gets the impression that Waiguru was probably shown the door rather than voluntarily resigned. That impression come when Karanja tells his readers that for weeks, it had become apparent that it was more a matter of when and not if she would resign. Karanja is the only reporter who got his story from “a government insider” who told him there was an agreement among President Kenyatta’s close allies that her departure should not be at the time when the Opposition and the Media were calling for it, “to avoid the perception that it was forced rather than voluntary”. Showing a superior ability to dig into a story of this high sensitivity, Karanja quote’s his own “Deep Throat” from State House revealing a telephone conversation between Waiguru and the President. We are told the conversation was about Anne’s health but reading between the lines this conversation must have been the one in which Uhuru either asked Waiguru to step aside or resign. Though the Standard on Sunday had four full pages full of the Waiguru stories and pictures each one of those stories was basically based on what Waiguru had said at her press conference or what the Opposition leaders had to say about her resignation. The Sunday Nation’s six pages on Waiguru had Samuel Karanja’s analysis as the most brilliant piece of in-depth analysis which proved that among all the people who were analyzing Waiguru yesterday he was the most outstanding journalist.

MANGITI MUST RESIGN

A day after CS ministry of Devolution and Planning Ann Waiguru resigns, now the pressure has been mounted on PS Peter Oganga Mangiti who is been urged to follow the suit and resign. UDF Nominated Senator Martha Wangari asked Mangiti to resign to pave way for the investigation of the scandals surrounding the ministry. Senator Wangari accused Mangiti for presenting misleading documents to the parliamentary committee terming it as fraudster.

MAKONGENI MARKET BURNED TO ASHES

Traders at Makongeni Market in Thika are counting losses after their stocks were burned to ashes. The market caught fire at around 3 am where many traders lost their properties to fire. Its not know the source of fire although the traders blamed Kiambu county government for poor emergency managements for it took them hours to send fire engine to put off the fire.