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State must apologise over harassment of Butere Girls
Anti-riot police officers at Melvin Jones Academy where Butere Girls were to stage their play.
County looting • The looting of millions of county funds is quite shocking, says Jim Webo. “Just after two years in their jobs, employees, including finance officers and others, earning about Sh50,000 have been able to amass hundreds of millions of shillings. Aren’t there any controls? What is the job of governors as the heads of the county governments? Or are the proxies of these big shots?”
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Shameful act • The tear-gassing of schoolgirls for staging a play has soiled the country’s image, says Daniel Oyugi. “This should not be happening as the Constitution guarantees the freedoms of speech and expression. The play wasn’t meant to be propaganda but to reflect real happenings. An apology should be issued for the harassment of the students.” His contact is
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Echoes of history • The repression over Butere Girls School’s play Echoes of War, Godfrey Kanyagia says, reminded him of apartheid South Africa’s brutality against black students in 1976, which became the theme of the film Cry Freedom. “The disquiet over the clampdown can be a time bomb. The massacre of young learners and the death of rights icon Steve Biko is grim history.” His contact is [email protected].
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Theft puzzle • The theft of solar street lamps in Westlands, Nairobi, has baffled Prof Jayanti Patel. “Starting right from the Waiyaki Way junction, 79 solar street lamps have been stolen on the Waiyaki-Red Hill link road in the last few months. The lampposts are quite high up and could only have been reached by using large cranes.” If anyone has an idea, Prof Jayanti’s email address is [email protected].
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Drugs impact • The recent arrests of Kenyans travelling abroad in possession of narcotic drugs could easily make “our people targets for security checks in transit and overseas homes”, says Joe Ngige Mungai. “The government must be seen to be actively fighting the drug cartels within our borders. The excuse of traffickers being tricked to push drugs will not work.” His contact is [email protected].
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