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Death Tunnel: Uhuru Highway-The story of Martin Gitahi Njuma

Posted by Administrator on January 29, 2010

From Standard Group report

At twenty-nine, Martin Gitahi Njuma was bubbling with life, full of promise. He was probably the youngest Kenya airways pilot flying a boeing 777, until one Saturday two weeks ago when his car broke down along uhuru highway, exposing him to an attack by street urchins that rudely cut shot his life. Martins death adds to the statistics of victims of street urnchins and gangs who have turned the tunnel along uhuru highway into a den, from where they kill, rape and maim their victims.

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Mariga set to join Man City

Posted by Administrator on January 29, 2010

Hot property: Parma and Kenya international midfielder McDonald Mariga

Hot property: Parma and Kenya international midfielder McDonald Mariga

Parma have accepted a €10 million offer (about Sh722 million) from Manchester City for Kenyan international McDonald Mariga, according to reports from Italy and England.

Mariga had been linked with Italian champions Inter but Parma sporting director, Pietro Leonardi, apparently met with City on Thursday.

He was able to convince the English club over 22-year-old Mariga’s €10m fee during a series of talks which untangled the move.

Once the transfer is compelete, Mariga will become Kenya’s richest sportsman and the first ever to play in the English Premier League.

City turned to Mariga after seeing negotiations stall with Real Madrid in their attempts to sign Fernando Gago. City were ready to bid £6million for Mariga, according to reports in Italy, and could offer Valeri Bojinov as part of the deal.

Bulgaria striker Bojinov, 23, has scored four goals in 15 appearances since joining Parma on loan at the start of the season and he is keen to stay in Italy.

Harry Redknapp tried to sign Mariga for Portsmouth from Swedish side Helsingborgs three years ago, but work permit issues scuppered the deal.

But the 6ft 2in marauding midfielder has cemented himself as a regular at Parma, winning many admirers after joining the club in 2007.

Signed four-year deal

Mariga would be an alternative to Gago, who was keen to sign City only for Madrid to block his exit.

Mariga started his playing career at Pipeline FC. He was a member of the Kamukunji High School ‘Golden Boys’, which also included Dennis Oliech (Auxerre), that won two consecutive national championships in 2002 and 2003.

The central midfielder went to Sweden in 2005 to play for third Division side Enköpings SK. After only one season at ESK, he signed for Helsingborgs IF before the 2006 season. His success at Olympia was immediate.

Following initial interest from Redknapp, Mariga looked set to sign for the Premier League team, but work permit issues held up the deal which was supposed to have cost around €2.7 million.

He moved to the Serie A club Parma on loan in August 2007. Mariga agreed to a four year deal to keep him at Parma for four years until the end of June 2012, after the club paid a transfer fee for €1.94 million. The deal was brokered by former Swede great Martin Dahlin.

Mariga played 35 times for Parma in the Serie B during the 2008-2009 season scoring three time to help them back to Serie A for the 2009-2010 season.

Elsewhere, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has hailed Wayne Rooney as a “world class” player ahead of his side’s crucial title showdown with Arsenal.

The 23–year–old England striker netted his 21st goal of the season against Manchester City on Wednesday night to book United’s place in the Carling Cup final, just days after his four–goal salvo against Hull.

And ahead of the showdown with old foes Arsenal, Ferguson was left to drool over Rooney’s latest heroics. “It was much better than Saturday,” Ferguson said of Rooney, ho played up front on his own.

“I know he scored four goals but his control leading the line and his link-up play was fantastic. Overall it was a wonderful performance. World class.”

Arsenal, who currently sit in third place in the league ladder, will vault over United with a win, but their overall title ambitions suffered a setback against Aston Villa on Wednesday night.

The Gunners were held to a 0–0 draw by Martin O’Neill’s Champions League hopefuls, and they lost Eduardo and Thomas Vermaelen to injury.

Wenger, though, was pleased to see his side come through a physical encounter at Villa Park, something they have not always been able to do.

“We didn’t always find our passing game (against Villa),” he said. “They play a very efficient English game with long balls and very physical.

“Although Villa were physical, it was not a dirty game. It was a committed game. It was a fair game but not dirty at all. For me, it was physical in a positive way.”

Source: Daily Nation. Photo from Daily Mail-UK

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Bad drivers to pay higher premiums

Posted by Administrator on January 29, 2010

By MUCHIRI KARANJA Posted Friday, January 29 2010 at 20:27

Careless drivers will be penalised under the new motor vehicle insurance underwriting guidelines.

Under the rules that are to come into effect on March 1, drivers who cause road accidents will be required to pay double the insurance premiums that careful drivers will pay.

According to the Insurance Regulatory Authority, the new rules require that owners seeking insurance for their vehicles disclose their motoring history.

Insurance companies will first assess the accident risk exposure of individual motorists before agreeing to cover their vehicles.

Inexperienced drivers as well as those who have been involved in accidents in the past will be rated as high risk and charged higher premiums.

On the other hand, experienced drivers who have a clean driving record will get up to 50 per cent discount on the payments under the No Claim Bonus guidelines.

This means that matatu owners will need to vet their drivers more carefully and employ only the best in order to qualify for lower insurance premiums.

According to the Insurance Regulatory Authority, the new guidelines will go a long way in restoring sanity on Kenyan roads.

“This is meant to reward good drivers and penalise careless drivers,” said authority boss Sammy Makove.

Welcoming the new rules, economic secretary Geoffrey Mwau said the current system, where all motorists pay the same rates for motor vehicle insurance, had failed to reflect specific risk exposures faced by insurance companies.

At the same time, the insurance regulator has assured motorists that Invesco Assurance, which was recently bought by matatu owners, is back on its feet.

Attributing the collapse of the insurance company to bad management of claims, Mr Makove said the new owners had a better understanding of motor vehicle insurance risks. “We do not see any reason for fear,” he said.

Source: Daily NATION

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KENYAN DIES IN MARYLAND

Posted by Administrator on January 29, 2010

Maryland (USA)-The hand of death has snatched another young man in Maryland. Mr. King Wilson Mungai, 25 years old of La plata Maryland, U.S.A died in a road accident which occurred on Fri. January 22, 2010. According his best friend James Mwangi of Alabama, who has received a police report on the accident, King was making a left turn when a truck coming from another direction crashed into his car. He was taken to the hospital in a coma and never recovered. He died later as the doctors tried to revive him.

King came to the US in 2002 and lived in North Carolina until 2006 when he moved to Maryland. He was husband to Joyce Wilson-Mungai of La Plata, MD, beloved first and only son of Rev. Pastor Samuel Mungai & Rose Bella Mungai of Naivasha in Kenya. Brother to Sharon Mungai & Purity Wanjiku, Uncle to Beatrice Lewa, all of Kenya.

Memorial Service will be held from 5-7pm (With service beginning at 7pm) at:


Thornton Funeral Home Chapel

3439 Livingston Road Indian Head, Maryland 20640 Rev. Lowell H. Hancock, Officiating

Date: Tuesday, 2/2/2010

The family needs prayers and financial assistance. Contributions may be deposited to

Name: Joyce Wilson Mungai/ King Wilson Mungai

Bank: B B & T

Account #: 0005156120539

Routing #: 055003308

 

We are living in a global community and King’s marriage happens to be a cross cultural marriage. For us Kenyans living in the US, it is customary to send monetary gifts to the family. For Americans, it is more customary to send cards and flowers. Cards may be sent to Joyce Wilson-Mungai at 111 Mallard Lane, La Plata, MD 20646. Flowers may be sent to the Funeral Home at Thornton Funeral Home, P.A. 3439 Livingston Road, Indian Head, MD 20640. Phone number (301) 375-7855.

For those Kenyans who would like to make donations, monetary contributions may be sent to:

-Dorcas Marekia:    404-944-5017           dmarekia@yahoo.com  Georgia

-Lillian Njoroge (Iddie):    832-455-9639  Linjoro-05@yahoo.com   Texas

-Timona:                       612-217-3115      Dtimona@gmail.com Minnesota

-Michael Wanjogo:     616-589-3057    mwanjogo@yahoo.com    Michigan

-James Mwangi:        205-916-0009 mwangiwagura@gmail.com   Alabama

-Purity Wanjiku Mungai                                        254-721-558-167   Kenya

Details for the funeral will be communicated later, for further information please contact:

James Mwangi     205-916-0009

Dorcas Marekia     404-944-5017

Source: Diaspora Messenger

THOSE WHO COME FROM NAIVASHA AREA ARE KINDLY REQUESTED TO CONTACT JAMES MWANGI ON 205 916 0009 OR EMAIL diasporamessenger@gmail.com TO HELP COORDINATE KING’S FATHER, PASTOR SAMUEL MUNGAI’S ACCOMMODATION AS HE ARRIVES ON 01/29/2010 FROM KENYA.

THANK YOU

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Kenyan woman sentenced to prison for scamming nuns

Posted by Administrator on January 29, 2010

Angela-Martin-Muli who was sentenced to 41 months in jail

Angela-Martin-Muli who was sentenced to 41 months in jail

The Carmelite nuns in Pewaukee were planning to use their health fund to remodel the monastery’s infirmary, fitting it to be wheelchair accessible for the order’s elderly members.

Instead, the cloistered order gave $815,000 to what the nuns thought were a down-and-out brother and sister from Africa who said they had fled political oppression.

The pair really were a married couple who made $55,000 a year and rented a pair of apartments in Illinois, including one on Chicago’s swank Gold Coast. They took the nuns’ money and about $300,000 from other religious groups, blowing most of the cash in casinos, according to records.

The couple also damaged the trust the nuns, priests and others will have for those who next knock on their doors looking for help, according to the federal judge who sentenced Angela Martin-Mulu on Thursday.

“You have undercut the trust of each of your victims,” U.S. District Judge Charles Clevert said, “all for the fleeting pleasure of gambling and enjoying the bright lights, noise and commotion of casinos.”

Clevert sentenced Martin-Mulu to 41 months in prison.

Martin-Mulu, 36, and her husband, Edward Bosire, 40, have agreed to pay $981,000 in restitution. Bosire will be sentenced in February.

Martin-Mulu and Bosire came to the U.S. in 1999 under temporary visas and were granted asylum in 2007. They targeted monasteries, churches and other religious groups, saying they were homeless siblings who would be killed if they were deported to Kenya.

On Christmas 2004, the couple visited a Pewaukee monastery of the Discalced Carmelite nuns. A month later, they visited again, asking for money to pay rent, medical bills, tuition and an “international fine,” according to documents.

A head nun asked to make payments directly to medical providers, but Martin-Mulu said the doctors would not provide bills because the two were in the country illegally.

Martin-Mulu said their father was a government official in Kenya who had been assassinated along with two bodyguards, which was untrue.

The couple also scammed a dozen other groups, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Giampietro.

“Given an opportunity for a new life, she cynically took advantage of the faithful,” he said.

Giampietro presented a letter from a priest in Kenya who said Martin-Mulu ran a scam there. He also read from a letter of a religious leader here who said his 11-year-old daughter had taken money from her piggy bank to give to the fraudsters.

Martin-Mulu’s attorney, Susan Karaskiewicz, said her client suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. She was born into privilege, but her father repeatedly had to protect his daughter from his tribe’s brutal ritual of female genital mutilation. Martin-Mulu was kidnapped, beaten and tortured, Karaskiewicz said.

After her father died, Karaskiewicz said, Martin-Mulu grew desperate and found comfort in gambling.

Martin-Mulu told Clevert “the walls collapsed” on her and her husband in the U.S. as they struggled, waiting for naturalization. She apologized.

“I have done things that are not proper for a human being to do,” she said.

Martin-Mulu may be deported after prison, but her crime does not mandate removal.

 Source-The Milwaukee Sentinel

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