Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
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| • | Police Champing at the Bit to Gun Down Simba in the Park: Two top sides in the Kenya Hockey Union league are in action Sunday in Nairobi and Mombasa.
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| • | Thika Road Expansion to Cost Sh24 Billion: The reconstruction of Thika Road into an eight-lane superhighway will now cost the Government Sh24 billion, the Ministry of Roads has announced.
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| • | Amnesty Panel to Be Set Up for the Repentant: A special committee will be set up by the Government to lead the process of granting amnesty to people named in past cases of corruption.
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| • | Static Safaricom Share Price Raises Worry Among Investors: Why has the Safaricom share price failed to appreciate?
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| • | The Judges Are Independent, But Who Judges Them?: In 2001, long before the famous or infamous 2003 purge of the judiciary, a young lawyer freshly graduated from the University of Nairobi school of law, published The Black Bar, a daring and ground-breaking indictment of some Kenyan judges and lawyers...
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| • | Kibaki Gives Dates for PNU Polls: President Kibaki on Friday set dates for the Party of National Unity grassroots elections as he left out key names opposed to the merging of constituent parties.
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| • | Opposition Bill Will Be Passed, MPs Say: MPs seeking to establish an Official Opposition on Friday claimed to have the numbers to see the Bill passed.
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| • | MPs' Meeting Bodes Well for the House: Plans to change the workings of Parliament have been on the cards since the 1990s to conform to the realities brought about by multiparty politics. A lot of ground has been covered over the period.
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| • | Nation Marks Death of Founding Father: President Kibaki on Friday led Kenyans in marking the 30th anniversary of the death of the nation's founding father, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.
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| • | Four Drown in Water-Filled Quarry: Four people drowned after a swimming expedition turned tragic at Timboroa in Uasin Gishu District.
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| • | Central Bank to Be Probed in Hotel Sale: The Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission will investigate the Central Bank of Kenya over the controversial sale of the Grand Regency Hotel, a senior official disclosed on Friday.
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