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COUNTY REVIEW
briefs
November 2014
Parents of limbless boy seek assistance
Go indigenous, farmers urged
Dilapidated schools to see light
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huka Igambang’ombe constituency has launched a project to upgrade the schools where teaching is conducted under trees and in mud-walled classes. Speaking in Mwanani Primary school after laying a foundation stone, Patrick Munene said that funds have been released to various schools in both Igamba Ng’ombe and Mariani wards to start work. Mr Munene is the Personal Assistant of the area Mp. Some of the schools set to benefit from the imitative are Nairobi ndogo, Kanyongo, Mwanani and Mikame primary schools. “We have allocated Ksh 500,000 to each school to start building of new classrooms,” he said. The project comes after County Review highlighted the worst primary schools in Tharaka Nithi, where learning takes place in dilapidated classes. This was in its September issue. - KEVIN NGAI
Minor hangs in grandma’s bedroom
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bout 500 farmers in the drought hit areas of the county have received indigenous seeds for planting this season. Speaking in Tunyai after distributing the seed, Gradiff Kenya Project Manager, David Mugambi, said introduction of indigenous farming in the arid region will do away with the need for relief food. The environment expert said that various varieties of sorghum that grow well in the area have been introduced in a bid to fight famine. A research by the Agricultural Support Development Program and the metrological department indicates that Tharaka and the lower Igambangombe are likely to receive below normal rainfall this rainy season. This threafore calls for adoption of drought resistance varieties. “We want the farmers to change the perception of agriculture they are used to and ensure they respond to climate change and focus more on crops that suit their areas,” - KEVIN NGAI
photo by mbogo morris
David Mugambi
A 11 year old girl committed suicide by hanging herself in Kirege village of Chuka-Igambang’ombe constituency. The class 6 pupil who attended Highland primary school was living with her Grandmother at the time of the incident. Confirming the incident, Tharaka-Nithi police boss Johnston Ipara said the juvenile was found hanging on the roof of her grandmother’s bedroom. “The grandmother was outside attending to various chores and on returning back to the bed room found the body of the minor hanging on a rope from the roof of the house,” he said. - KEVIN NGAI
Assembly sacks county workers
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family in Chuka is seeking help to enable their limbless son can join school next year. Mr James Rwanda, the father of the four year old from Kiamucii village said he was worried that the kid may not attend school come January next year unless well-wishers came through. “Our child is now four years old we wish he attends school like other kids but he can’t walk
or do anything by himself,” Mr. Rwanda said. According to Chuka Hospital Medical Superintendent, Dr. Sarah Gichuku, the child can live normally if he gets prostheses equipment which will enable him to move around without hitches. “The child can be fixed with artificial limbs and they can help him move to and from school,” she said. This cost is approximated at Ksh 200,000, inclusive of equipment and orthopedic surgery. - KEVIN NGAI
Members of the County assembly unanimously have adopted a motion moved to nullify appointments of director of county accounting unit and director of supply chain management made by Governor Samuel Ragwa on October 17. Moved by Member for Nkondi ward Mr. Augostino Ngaku Mr Ngaku, it proposed sacking of the two. This, according to the mover, was because the county public service board contravened the law when they employed the directors without going through a competitive process. “Interviews ought to be conducted to have fair competition of the job vacancies,” Ngaku said. Seconding the motion, Mr. Karani Laban said the vacancies should be re-advertised and county assembly be involved in the recruitment oversight exercise. He is the MCA, Mwimbi Ward. “I second the nullification of the appointed directors,” he said. The speaker of the assembly John Mbabu ruled that the appointments be nullified pending further investigations by the labour committee. - KEVIN NGAI
>> From elsewhere
A male driver found pregnant
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male Egyptian bus driver was shocked after doctors told him he was PREGNANT after undergoing a random health checkup. The man had been randomly selected to provide a random urine sample along with other public bus drivers - as part of the country’s routine drugs checks. But instead of using his own, the bus driver submitted his wife’s urine, reports the Al-Yawm al-Sabi website. Unfortunately, his trick was foiled after it was revealed that his wife was actually two months pregnant. Before breaking the news to the driver, it was reported by presenter Tamir Amin on political talk show Bottom Line, that officials asked the man to confirm the sample was his own. When he agreed, they allegedly responded: “Congratulations you’re pregnant.”
Mum who keeps scorecard of her men’s performance Sandy Nardo, 53, from Dublin, rates men in a spree of random romps. The mum who has racked up 140 notches on her bedpost remembers every single one - because she keeps them on a scorecard. Sandy Nardo, 53, gives each bloke a mark for ‘emotional state, sex or kissing, looks, solvency and duration’. Ms Nardo, from Dublin, went to a strict Catholic convent school and lost her virginity to Luciano, 21, an Italian musician, while she was hitch-hiking in Milan, aged 19. More than 30 years later she has 140 scorecards giving marks to married men, threesomes and even the husband she ditched after six months of marriage. Sandy said: “There have been 140 so it would be easy to forget. “I wanted to remember them all - even the rubbish ones. “I have no regrets of what I have done. Sometimes it was mind blow-
ing sometimes it was mind numbing but they are all experiences that made me the woman I am today. “I have travelled the world all my life and sampled men from over 30 countries.
School sends 200 home for incorrect uniform A school has sent home more than 200 pupils for failing to meet its uniform standards. Hanson Academy in Bradford, West Yorks, introduced a strict enforcement policy after the half-term break and turned away 152 pupils on the first day. A further 63 pupils were sent home following day for a variety of reasons. They included wearing hooped earrings, having unnatural hair colour, failing to display school IDs correctly and breaching strict footwear rules. Fuming parents hit out on the school’s Facebook page to complain. But the 1,600-pupil academy claimed it “com-
I have travelled the world all my life and sampled men from over 30 countries. municated clearly” its expectations for this school year and staff were simply enforcing existing regulations. Principal Elizabeth Churton said in a statement: “We explained that students who arrived to school with a uniform issue that could be resolved would be sent home to rectify. “The majority rectified this immediately and returned to school.” Source: Mirror Newspaper