HELB DENY DEFAULTERS MARRIAGE RITES

Kenya’s Higher Education Loans Board (HELB), the country’s main financier of students in institutions of higher learning, plans to block couples from getting married until they get clearance from the loans board, local media outlet CapitalFM reports.
According to the reports, HELB’s CEO Charles Ringera says the Board is working together with the Attorney General’s office to compel defaulters to pay their loans before they can get married.
The plans will see beneficiaries of the HELB loans fail to get their marriage certificates before they obtain clearance from the Board.
‘I beseech those who are working to get in touch with our office in order to be aided to start the reimbursement process so that others can also benefit,’ Ringera is reported to have said.

UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI TO CONSTRUCT ANOTHER NEW STATE OF THE ART TOWER BY CHINESE GOVERNMENT

The University of Nairobi has signed an implementation agreement on the construction of the state-of-the-art Confucius Institute Building at the university by the government of China.
The signing ceremony at which UoN was led by Vice-chancellor Prof Peter Mbithi took place in the office of the Executive Bureau of International Economic Cooperation Ministry of Commerce, Beijing, China, last week.
The agreement is as a result of exchange notes between the governments of Kenya and the People’s Republic of China dated July 22, 2015, stipulating the Chinese government undertaking the project. The cost of the development will be Sh2 billion.
The building will consist of teaching theatres, office facilities, students’ dormitory and other public function areas. It will cater for at least 2,000 students. The construction of the buildings is scheduled to commence before March 2017 and will take not more than 18 months to completion.
Those who accompanied the VC to China during the signing ceremony included Prof Isaac Meroka Mbeche, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration & Finance); Prof Guo Hong, director, Confucius Institute; Tracisio Thuita, estate manager, Arch Jarrett Onyango Odwallo, manager construction and maintenance and who is also resident architect; Fredrick Collins Omondi, senior legal officer on the Kenyan side; and the Executive Bureau of International Economic Cooperation Ministry of Commerce, China.

CYRUS JIRONGO TALKS OVER THE RETURN OF ASSASSINATIONS IN KENYA

"Today's discovery in Machakos County of the bodies of lawyer, Willie Kimani; his client, Josphat Mwenda; and their taxi driver, Joseph Muiruri is a huge stain on the conscience of this nation.

The death of the three who were last seen returning from a hearing at Mavoko Law Courts, on June 23rd, is frightening as it is alarming of a dangerous path this country is taking. The brazen disappearing and murder of a witness, a taxi driver and a well-known human rights defender is well beyond any known boundaries for any country that talks about the rule of law. Of serious concern is the fact that the court hearing had raised questions of police misuse of firearms and threats against witnesses.

I have severally alerted Kenyans to be aware of the growing pattern of violence and assassinations as a means of solving disputes, silencing commercial and political opponents, and defeating the course of Justice.

Today's discovery cannot and should not be seen in isolation of similar events. Several deaths have occurred in the last one year that point to the phenomenon I have warned about. The complicity of organs of government in either the deaths or the subsequent cover ups must be interrogated urgently before we all sink into the abyss of bloody violence as means of resolving disputes between citizens and those in authority who legally control instruments of violence. The evidence of psychopathic torture on the bodies of the victims is as sickening as it is a wakeup call for us as countrymen to ask ourselves deep serious questions.

The murder of the three Kenyans while in pursuit of justice against official malpractice, the murder and cover up of Jacob Juma's death as a response to his revelations about economic crimes, the murder of my daughter's friend on June 1st as a warning to me for pointing out the cover up in Jacob Juma's assassination, must be condemned by any sober person who cares for this country.

We as citizens of Kenya must demand accountability from our government with a clear reminder that not one Kenyan is above the law, no one has a right to terminate another citizen's life extrajudicially, and those mandated to be in charge of our security must never be excused or let off when they turn the weapons they hold in trust against Kenyans to protect selfish personal interests."