Kenya's cabinet secretary for health is asking for USD 20 million (KSh2.6 billion) to prepare for the first 100 Ebola cases.
Which Ebola cases? From where?
Ebola Billionaires.
The young people of this country are the ones that will save this country. Once we return to the values of meritocracy in public service, such talent will not go to waste.
Two people have been shot dead in the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki amid protests against US plans to establish an Ebola isolation centre at a military base nearby, the BBC has learnt. https://t.co/6rSTLSU3un
Idi Amin's first wife Sarah Kibedi. She went against her parents's wishes and married Amin at the age of 22 in March 1962, just seven months before Uganda's independence.
As required by the Koran, she converted to Islam and became known as Mariam. However, it didn't take long before she discovered Idi Amin's sexual escapades with different women.
Incensed with Amin's infidelity, she hatched a plan to catch him by lying that she was going to visit her parents in Busoga. To her surprise, Amin did not only encourage her to undertake the trip because she needed a holiday, but also encouraged her to stay longer.
She sneaked back and found Amin with another woman called Kay Adroa. A fight ensued between the two ladies, as Amin tried to calm the situation. Amin later apologised to her and promised never to repeat ,only for him to marry the same woman as his second wife the following week.
In fact, Miriam was not aware of the wedding until she saw her husband and his new catch Kay Adroa exchanging vows on TV in May 1966.
In his book, the Dungeons of Nakasero Apollo Wuod Okello Lawoko recalled how Amin once requested him to give Kay a job at Radio Uganda. She got the job, and Amin would pick her up in the evening after work. One time, Kay came to work with a swollen face and told Lawoko that Amin had beaten her. She then warned Lawoko to keep his distance from Amin because he was capable of doing anything harmful to him.
According to Lawoko, who was serving as the manager of Radio Uganda, one day Amin stormed the Radio Uganda premises, demanding to see his wife, who was presenting a live programme. He promptly punched the programme manager, who tried to explain to him why he could not enter the live studio. He proceeded to the studio yelling madly, grabbed Kay by the collar of her dress and dragged her to his car, and drove off. Henceforth, Lawoko tried to keep his distance from the volatile Amin.
In 1967, rumours began to emerge about Amin having another mistress called Norah.
Both Miriam and Kay decided to confront Amin to explain to them who this Norah was, but Amin gave them a thorough beating.
The following month at a party, Miriam and Kay had just taken their seats when Amin strode in with Norah, his new catch. The two co-wives decided to attack Norah, leading to a serious fight. That evening, Amin took three women (Miriam, Kay, and Norah) home and gave them a thorough beating for embarrassing him in public. The following week, he officially married Norah as his third wife.
But it didn't take long before Amin met another beauty called Madina Najjemba and married her as a fourth wife in 1972. In Madina, Amin believed he had eventually found the right woman. He consequently chased away the other three, telling them they were free to remarry elsewhere. He made this official in a cabinet meeting when he told ministers that henceforth Madina was his only wife.
Unfortunately, he didn't have control over his insatiable lust for women. Just two years after marrying Madina, he fell for a military dancer called Sarah Kyolaba, whom he married in a fancy wedding attended by diplomats and foreign government officials, including Yasser Arafat and Vice President Daniel Arap Moi.
When Kyolaba left Amin in 1982, who was living in exile in Saudi Arabia, she took with her the third of her four children, Faisal Wangita. She spent some time working as a lingerie model in Germany before settling in London, where she opened a restaurant. In 1999, she was arrested and charged under the Public Health Act after customers expressed concerns about cockroach and mouse infestation in her London restaurant.
In 2007, her son Faisal was arrested by the London Metropolitan Police for being part of a London gang that murdered an 18-year-old Somali man in Camden. Feisal was convicted of conspiracy to wound, jailed for five years, and later deported back to Uganda. Sarah died in 2015 in London.
President William Ruto has pledged 50 mega dams and millions of acres of new farmland, declaring irrigation the engine of northern Kenya's economic transformation.
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Kenyans deserve justice that is transparent, reasoned, and accountable.
Today, I have petitioned the Judicial Service Commission @jsckenya to investigate three Court of Appeal judges who suspended High Court orders blocking the Kenya-US Health Cooperation Framework, but withheld their reasons for doing so until October 2026.
My concern is not that they ruled against me. It is that an immediately enforceable decision was issued without reasons, effectively frustrating a timely appeal to the @THE_SCOK and denying Kenyans meaningful access to justice.
Judicial independence must be protected. But independence and accountability must go hand in hand. No institution is above the Constitution.
THE HUMBLE PETITION OF OKIYA OMTATAH OKOITI LINK>
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The Ruto government is just too much. These guys wake up every single day just to conjure up more ways to cause pain to Kenyans. I know we are expected to keep government in check as opposition but it’s literally impossible to keep up with the breadth and depth of the capacity for evil these guys have. It doesn’t have to be like this bwana. When we tell you just kicking Ruto out solves 80% of our problems you best believe! Just like he did with Haiti and now Ebola, for the right amount, this one can sell us to the devil himself!