Monday, June 16th, 2008
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| • | We Have to Work Hard to Achieve Budget Goals: On Thursday, Finance Minister Amos Kimunya told the country that Kenya had experienced the most consistent and buoyant growth in 30 years, over the last five years. He was right.
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| • | Cessna 210 is Darling of Global Light Aircraft Operators: In the absence of flight recorders on the Cessna 210E aircraft, investigators trying to established the cause of the crash will rely on analyses of the wreckage and its pattern, the point of impact in relation to the intended track and any radar...
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| • | Country Could Borrow From the Germans: The initial period in any new political dispensation, more often than not, is a time for unqualified pandering.
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| • | Witness Tells of Close Brush With Death: Konjong'a village in Narok North district is one area motorists find horrible to drive through during the day owing to heavy fog.
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| • | No Clear Winner As Parties Renew Rivalry: Looking at the bigger picture, who between ODM and PNU really won Wednesday's by-elections? Naturally, both PNU and ODM are claiming overall victory, this being the first test of strength between the two since their showdown last December.
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| • | Central Region Crafts Plan for Post-Kibaki Era: Central Kenya is heading back to the political drawing board to make out a plan for a future without President Kibaki at State House.
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| • | Judges Press for Judicial Reforms: A major storm is brewing in the Judiciary with some of its most senior officers, the High Court judges, questioning how the institution is being run and calling for radical reforms to reverse what they term a worrying trend in management style.
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| • | Budget Allocation for the Police Force is Sh6.5 Billion More Than Last Year's: Police have been allocated about Sh6 billion more than last year, according to the Budget presented by Finance minister Amos Kimunya on Thursday.
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| • | President Mourns Kones, Laboso: Nigerian president Alhaji Yar'Adua on Saturday sent a message of condolence to Kenyans following the death of Roads Minister Kipkalya Kones and assistant minister Lorna Laboso in a plane accident.
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| • | Golf - Impressive Indiza Claims Fourth Leg of KCB Pro-Am Tour: Mumias-based Dismas Indiza on Saturday hit a string of birdies for his second 65 to eventually claim the fourth leg of the 2008 KCB Pro-Am Tour golf series at the Nakuru Golf Club.
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| • | In Emuhaya, Some Said 'No Bribe, No Vote': Last Wednesday a group of voters hovered like vultures around Ebusiralo polling station in Emuhaya constituency waiting for the parliamentary aspirants.
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| • | By-Elections Sound the Alarm for ODM: The results of Kilgoris and Ainamoi parliamentary by-elections have sent a warning to the Orange Democratic Movement that it might be losing its grip on Rift Valley Province.
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| • | President - Violence Was a Wake-Up Call: President Kibaki told African heads of state they should embrace dialogue and emulate Kenya which has emerged from post-election violence a much stronger nation after the formation of a grand coalition government.
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| • | Bitter Truth: I fully agree in principle with ODM about the matter of Kilgoris. Which is, anybody who is a Kenyan is free to contest any parliamentary seat anywhere in the Republic as long as he or she meets the legal criteria to contest in such a place.
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| • | Rugby - Sevens Squad Resumes Training: The national seven-a-side rugby team resumed training at Brookhouse School on Saturday after a 10-day break.
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| • | Waki Panel Set to Begin Its Work: The commission of inquiry into the post-election violence is now set to begin its work after publishing in the Kenya Gazette the rules of conduct and proceedings on Saturday.
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| • | Last Word On Sunday - Is Raila a Turncoat Revolutionary?: The tragedy of the last election is not that we killed - this is how nations are made. The tragedy is that we continue to miss the point.
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| • | World Bank - Going Soft On Corruption?: Is the World Bank about to downgrade the importance that it attaches to the issue of corruption in sub Saharan Africa?
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| • | Leader Indicts World Community Over Somalia's Situation: Speaking to the reporter at Kenyatta international airport on his way to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa where IGAD regional summit opened Saturday the Kenyan president Mowai Kibaki who is the current chairman of IGAD has declared that the world...
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| • | Citizens Sound Alarm Over High Food Prices: The spiralling prices of basic food commodities fuelled by inflation, the post-election crisis and high production costs are forcing Kenyans to cut down on their meals every day.
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