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  • Kenya Banks on the US market in push for international tourism recovery

    Hon Najib Balala addressing media in a past event

    NAIROBI, DECEMBER 09, 2021: Kenya is banking on the North American Market to boost its international tourism numbers and hasten the sector’s recovery, Tourism and Wildlife Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala said.

    The country is among destinations promoting their tourism products and offerings in this year’s United States Tour Operators Association (USTOA) Annual Conference & Marketplace that will close its curtains tomorrow at Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego.

    The conference with 144 active members across the globe provides a forum to meet with top tourism executives, Tour Operator members on a one-to-one basis. Participants also get the chance to gain invaluable insights into the North American travel market and the latest factors and trends affecting the industry and travellers across the globe.

    In his recorded message to the conference, CS Balala said the Covid-19 pandemic has taken toll on the travel sector and called for concerted efforts towards its mitigation even as travels resume.

    He said the conference comes at a time when more synergies were required among players in the sector to protect the gains recorded in the tourism business in the recent past. “With most people from the US and the larger Europe vaccinated, there is now a great urge for travellers to venture out and experience the world. We want to be at the forefront during these considerations.

    As North Americans look to travel to Africa during their next big vacation, there is an opportunity to create greater travel interest in Kenya. This interest will be the basis of returning our numbers or even improving them in the future” commented the CS.

    The CS also noted that Kenya would leverage the opportunity to rally the US travel trade and stakeholders participating in the event to support conservation efforts, highlighting the Magical Kenya Tembo Naming Festival which aims to raise funds towards the conservation of Elephants in the destination.

    The destinations marketer, Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) which is a keynote sponsor of the 2021 USTOA Annual Conference & Marketplace will have an opportunity to address the gathering during the opening session and will have a full appointment schedule with tour operators present. KTB CEO Dr Betty Radier says “participation in this event presents us with an opportunity to influence greater consideration for Kenya as a tourism destination among U.S travellers. We shall also have an opportunity to speak about Kenya’s unique selling propositions including the direct flight to New York and other developments in the destination such as improved transport infrastructure,” said Dr Radier.

    The USA is traditionally Kenya’s leading tourism source market. The market recorded the highest arrivals into Kenya with 108,072 visitors contributing 16.3% of the total arrivals between January to October, 2021.

    Kenya enjoys non-stop access from the market with 5-weekly flights from JFK to Nairobi scheduled by Kenya Airways from December 2021.

    Airline access remains critical to the sector’s growth, with several carriers offering one-stop services into Nairobi from US gateways including Qatar Airways.

  • Governor Ottichilo care turns drastic reductions in infants and mortality rate in Vihiga County

    Group of People in Vihiga County celebrates the launched initiative.

    Three years ago Vihiga’s maternal mortality rate was 531 per 100,000 women but now it stands at 122/100,000 women. The number of infants who died stood at 19 per 1,000 infants but now it stands at 3.2/1000 live births according to Vihiga Gov Dr. Wilber Ottichilo who presided over the third anniversary event for Boresha Afya ya Mama na Mtoto program dubbed Ottichilo care at Bugina Health Center in Sabatia Speaking during the occasion Ottichilo was overwhelmed noting that when the program was launched in November 2018 it had an enrollment of only 50 women but three years down the line it has an enrollment of 8,774 mothers.

    He congratulated mothers and expectant women who have embraced the program that has enabled them to access quality healthcare services in different health facilities in the Vihiga.

    He assured that his government has put more plans in place to make the Boresha program more successful and make sure Vihiga registers zero maternal mortality in the next two years.

    Gladys Lihanda, a Hamisi resident one of the beneficiaries lauded the initiative saying her journey from pregnancy to delivery was smooth owing it to Ottichilo Care.

    Gov Dr Wilber Ottichilo dancing with other members during the lunch

    The thousand shillings financial token per hospital visit from the program she says has supported her and other mothers to acquire basic needs.

    Chief Officer for Health Services Dr. Mary Anyienda clarified that her department had sorted the delay in the tokens the expectant women and mothers receive usually occasioned by wrong contacts.

    Dr. Anyienda assured the beneficiaries that they would be receiving it promptly after every ANC visit. Health Minister Prof. Inonga Mwanje gave his commitment to the passage of the Community Health Volunteers bill that seeks to recognize them as county workers so that they can be motivated to refer maternal cases from the villages.

    During the function the women also received early Christmas which consisted of Sugar, cooking oil, diapers, baby towels, masks to mention but a few.Ottichilo care’s county program coordinator Salome Sumba appreciated the support from the County that has seen the program seamless. She also noted that apart from 24 facilities offering the program at the moment she would make sure it is scaled to all facilities across the County to reduce the distance mothers travel to seek Antenatal Clinic services.

    A group of women celebrating the Ottichilo Care initiative in Vihiga County during the launch

    As of 2014, 1st Antenatal Clinic (ANC) attendance was at 60% while skilled delivery at 60% but with the intervention of Boresha program but by now, 1st ANC stands at 90% while skilled delivery at 70%.Ottichilo Care program aims at enhancing the capacity of the vulnerable women and children to access quality ANC services and Mother Child Health (MCH) services, support mothers with an incentive/token to assist them to meet their basic needs which are given on the 1st Ante-Natal Clinic (ANC), 4th ANC visit, skilled delivery at health facilities, between 4-6 weeks post-natal care and at 18 months of child’s age.

    That notwithstanding the program improves the quality of care for mothers and their babies through monitoring, encouraging Male involvement in parenting, family planning and promoting skilled delivery at the health facility.

    In adherence to World Health Organisation, nobody walks more than five kilometres to a health facility in Vihiga County. Also present during the ceremony were, James Otari (Chief of staff), Mary Amalemba (CECM Water, Environment and Natural Resources), Caroline Wawire (UNICEF), Joy Kiruntimi (Deputy Country Director Nutrition International), MCAs Gladys Analo (Busali), Manoah Mboku ( Tambua), Venna Kaisha (Nominated), Alex Kevogo ( Sabatia Sub County Administrator and Ben Muhando ( Busali Ward Administrator).

    Gov Dr. Wilber Ottichilo hold a baby during the Ottichilo Care initiative launch in Vihiga County

  • Naivas unwaraps 2 new outlets ahead of 2021 Christmas

    Nairobi, 06.12.2021 Kenya’s number one retail chain, Naivas Supermarket will this week be opening doors of its newest outlets in Malindi and Embakasi on 9th and 10th December, 2021respectively.

    The Malindi outlet becomes the second branch in Kilifi county after the retailer opened shopfor the first time in the county in Kilifi Town along Bofa Road.

    This new store covering 28,000 square feet of trading space is the new anchor tenant at the Oasis Mall in Malindi along Lamu Road as the Embakasi outlet located along Road B off Airport North Road just opposite Nairobi Bottlers covers 27000 square feet of trading space which is the 7th store within the greater Eastlands region and the second along Airport North Road with the other being Embakasi Express which opened its doors in July of this 2021 “We are excited that this double store opening comes just in time for the kick off the Kenyan festive period traditionally marked by Jamhuri Day.

    The excitement has been further expounded by Naivas annual Christmas campaign which the year, 2021 is dubbed Krismas Kilocol gave shoppers opportunity of enjoying the best offers in store and every day 400 Reward Card holders winning gift vouchers.

    The 12 days since 1st December 2021, they have also been winning the Naivas signature Mbuzi,” said Willy Kimani Naivas Chief Commercial Officer. “As always, our commitment is to Kenya since our DNA is Kenyan and we will remain focused on the Kenyan consumer. We are elated that our store openings have been greatly enhanced through the support of our stakeholders and investors who have strengthened and improved corporate governance, increased accountability and professionalism within the business,” concluded Willy Kimani.

    Naivas plans to open an outlet at Greenspan Mall in Donholm, Nairobi before the 2021 year closes.

  • Marsabit ethnic conflict continues to languish peace in the area

    Marsabit ethnic clashes have reached an epidemic proportion as it’s on the rise with the 2022 general election barely eight months as the prospect of lasting peace is not in even sired nor sight.

    The county is fast losing the gains realised in the last 9 years of devolution in addition to its strategic national importance.

    In marsabit , the most basic right is the right to survival ,but now is trampled in this age of great affluence of devolution.

    In the last one month alone, 10 people have lost their lives through reprisal attacks and daylight assassinations in towns especially Marsabit Town.

    According to Ismail Adan Khalif CEO Liban bus service Limited says that Human rights violations are not accidents they are not random in distribution or effect.

    He however adds that rights violations are rather symptoms of deeper pathologies of power and are linked intimately to the social conditions that so often determine who will be shielded from harm.

    Adan says that Human disparity should not be Human predicament.He makes comparisons that If preventable diseases can be prevented,curable diseases can be cured and controllable maladies controlled , rather than lamenting the adversity of nature and therefore he clarifies that the authorities should have to look for a better comprehension of the societal causes of horror and also tolerance of societal abomination .

    The business mogul laments that there is nothing wrong with underlining personal urgency , but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who have been blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives probably the politicians.

    The Ghare Council of elders with rare exceptions he narrates that all of your most important achievement on this planet will come from working in partnership .

    It’s true that the different communities living in Marsabit need each other to survive the harsh realities of the world as there is no single tribe that is sufficient to her self.

    Communities are all interdependent and live a homogenous life a semblance of a true civilisation is the provision of a decent livelihood for the poor and societal harmonious coexistence .

    Neither the government nor the political leadership will bring lasting peace to Saku constituency which the common man does.

    The frontier engineer says that laws are not science; they are normative ideology tightly tied to power serving different imperatives as one predicament society .

    Everyone wants to be in the winning team,but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers which is not worth it ending up fighting the long defeat and have no regard for each nor appreciate our diversity becoming a selfish society with no social fabric ending up having nothing in common , not even humanity.

    He finally hints out that if one is hungry is either material problem or spiritual problem causing convergence issues.

    Hon Ismail Adan Khalif CEO Liban service management and frontier engineer he has fought hardly to bring in environmental sanitation in Marsabit Town where there has been rampant accumulated garbage which cause alot of trouble to the sorrunding communities.

  • Industry Stakeholders Mark International PwD Day with Banking Industry

    Nairobi, 1st December, 2021 Stakeholders drawn from various sectors of the economy will this year mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities with the launch of a banking industry online platform that has been designed to train bank employees on bank-environment Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) vocabulary.

    Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Gov Dr. Patrick Njoroge is confirmed as the Chief Guest during the unveiling of Kenya Bankers Association’s Deaf eLimu Banking Website and Mobile Application scheduled for tomorrow. The innovation will be the first bank-environment sign language self-training application in
    Africa.

    As at launch on December 2nd, 2021, the Website (www.deafelimubanking.africa) and
    Mobile Application (Google Playstore) will feature 100 words and common banking
    environment phrases with video demonstrations and notes.


    The platform will also have a moderated community section, where users can upload videos on how to sign additional words, thereby providing a dynamic way for the vocabulary to be increased over time and with participation from the banking community and Clients with
    Disabilities. The software has been developed and will be moderated by Deaf eLimu Plus Ltd,
    with funding from KBA and FSD Kenya.


    Themed “Expanding Inclusion for People with Disabilities Through Innovation,’’ the forum will
    feature discussions during which speakers will explore private sector-led initiatives that can be
    implemented across industries towards enhancing the participation of People with Disabilities in the socio-economic development agenda of the country. Invited guests include various bank chief executive officers and industry stakeholders.


    Among the speakers for the virtual event are KBA Chief Executive Officer Dr. Habil Olaka; FSD
    Kenya Chief Executive Officer Tamara Cook; Deaf eLimu Plus Founder Hudson Asiema; Kenya Private Sector Alliance Chief Executive Officer Carole Kariuki; KBA Public Affairs Director Nuru Mugambi; Kenya Society for the Blind Executive Director Samson Waweru; Safaricom Foundation Senior Manager Henry Kilonzo; Federation of Kenya Employers Projects Manager Catherine Naserian; inABLE Founder and Executive Director Irene Mbari-Kirika; and Bruce Cahan( Founder and CEO of Urban Logic, Stanford University lecturer on Ethics of Finance
    Sustainable Banking, and Co-founder of the Sustainable Banking Initiative at Stanford).

    Dr. Olaka said the KBA has worked with banks to chart an industry roadmap which will help
    banks to follow international best practice in disability inclusion. “People with Disabilities
    constitute one of the most underserved segments of the population across jurisdictions.

    Despite gains achieved through initiatives geared towards promoting access to financial services in the last two decades, financial inclusion has not sufficiently impacted our Clients with Disabilities,’’said Dr. Olaka.

    He noted that the Deaf eLimu Banking App and Website is an innovation arising from recommendations adopted in November 2020 by the KBA General Body following the Association’s PWD Digital Accessibility Project.


    “The Project proposals are broad in scope, and touch on a wide spectrum of challenges faced
    by bank customers with disabilities, including independently accessing mobile banking
    applications, online banking channels, bank Websites, bank statements, and ATMs,” said Dr.
    Olaka.

    Among the KBA recommendations was a requirement that banks train customer-facing
    branch staff on Persons with Disabilities Etiquette and basic Kenyan Sign Language (KSL). To date, 31 KBA member banks have developed internal roadmaps that identify milestones towards digital accessibility.

    Bank initiatives include Kingdom Bank, which partnered with the Kenyan Paraplegic Organization to enhance inclusion and diversity responsiveness across the bank.

    Meanwhile, banks such as KCB, DTB and Absa have taken to social media to promote KSL via the hashtag #SignLanguageChallenge. KBA has also partnered with FSD-Kenya to promote International Day of Persons with Disabilities which is observed annually on 3rd December.

  • Malabo Montpellier Panel unveils practical guide to accelerate progress towards

    Kigali, November 30 2021 – The Malabo Montpellier Panel at AKADEMIYA2063 recently concluded the 9th edition of the biannual Malabo Montpellier Forum to offer a roadmap of policy innovations for food systems transformation, building resilience and adapting to climate change.

    The Forum promotes stakeholder dialogue against the backdrop of the
    COVID-19 pandemic and increasingly frequent and extreme climate change related weather
    events across the continent.

    Following the UN Food Systems Summit and the recently concluded COP26, the virtual Forum unveiled Recipes for success: policy innovations to transform Africa’s food systems and build resilience, a report summarizing seven of the
    Panel’s reports and over 50 country analyses published between 2017 and 2020, with renewed stakeholder appetite to absorb and implement the evidence-based guide for sustainable food systems transformation.

    With the continent poised to host COP27 next year, and amid the ongoing Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, now is the time to align the goals and ambitions of the continent’s food systems transformation and climate change agendas.

    “There is no greater urgency right now than to fix our food systems,” said Dr. Ousmane Badiane, AKADEMIYA2063 Executive Chairperson and Malabo Montpellier Panel Co-Chair.“Mindful of the advances over the last couple of decades, there is still so much more to be done in terms of the quality of progress, spanning ecosystem health, equality of growth and living conditions, reduction of vulnerability through for example social safety nets, improved health and nutrition and safeguarding livelihoods in the context of changing climates.


    Achieving these requires a lot of joint effort from various groups of actors, and this explains
    the mission of the Malabo Montpellier Panel in apprehending these intricacies through
    evidence-based research as the report provides a practical, evidence-based guide to support
    African countries’ efforts to accelerate progress towards ending hunger and transforming
    their food systems,” he said.

    “Recipes for success: policy innovations to transform Africa’s food systems and build resilience is not just a title of the volume released during the Forum; it captures our mission and strategy at the Malabo Montpellier Panel,” said Prof. Joachim von Braun, Malabo Montpellier Panel Co-Chair from the Center for Development Research, Bonn University in Germany. “We like to learn from successes, but we do take note of problems.

    The seven themes addressed in the monograph – nutrition, irrigation, mechanization, trade, digitization, energy, and livestock, are cornerstones of a well-functioning food system. But we do not treat them in isolation; we connect them to systems issues. Going forward, the true costs of food need to be identified and considered; the costs of malfunctioning food systems to public health and the environment must come down everywhere, notably in Africa. What we need are sustainable, efficient food systems that deliver on the African Union Agenda 2063 and
    the Sustainable Development Goals,” he said.

    The convening ended with a resounding call to action from Malabo Montpellier Forum Co-Chair, H.E. Assia Bensalah Alaoui, Ambassador-at-large of His Majesty Mohamed VI King of Morocco. “The centrality of food systems transformation and its multiple interconnections with key areas for the sustainability of mankind will offer more opportunities to our youth and populations at large, because they will stay on our continent and contribute with their talent to the transformation of Africa and the implementation of Agenda 2063,” she said.

  • Liban Bus management tough statement on accumulated wastes in Marsabit Town

    Liban Bus management tough statement on accumulated wastes in Marsabit Town

    Heap of garbage accumulated in Marsabit Town

    Attentions has been drawn to a public notice issued by Marsabit Municipal Manager, Mr Boru Golicha regarding collection of accumulated solid waste in Marsabit Town which has elicited public outcry in the last one week.

    Mr. Golicha has in the same public domain requested the management of Liban Bus to clarify the motive behind the allegation of involvement in the collection of solid waste in Marsabit Town on 30th of Nov 2021.

    The Municipality categorically stated that the collection of the accumulated waste was solely undertaken by the county and no other entity was involved in any way.

    More clarifications were made that Marsabit Town experienced waste accumulation deterioration in the recent times among other towns.

    The speculations on the situation reached an alarming proportion and elicited public outcry on several social media groups highlighting the issue as the county administration was requested to intervene to forestall disease outbreak during this wet season.

    Inner information to the Crossfirenews newsroom revealed that several culverts were blocked as a result and led to waste spill on major streets.

    The Liban management led by renowned businessman and the group CEO Ismail Adan Khalif shared the accumulated waste pictures with HE Mohamud Ali, the governor of Marsabit County.

    Through the authorities the situation has reached alarming proportion with the onset of the rain and subsequent flooding of major Street roads.

    A group of Marsabit business community members volunteered to salvage the situation and mobilized own resources to compliment the county effort.

    Liban Bus Service spearheaded the initiative as a critical stakeholder in line with social responsibility obligation thanking the county administration for taking action to finally dispose off the accumulated waste in collaboration with other stakeholders.

    Further the urge has been made to national government to complement the effort of the county government in the effective management of solid waste in marsabit Town through provision of enhanced security service as an important stakeholder in security service provision.

    Marsabit County government has been advised to review their current waste management strategy to align it to changing circumstances to adopt an appropriate, better and sustainable solid waste disposal method.

    Marsabit has a a number of several businessmens which adversary leads to economy growth therefore it is an apparent need to develop a proper waste management infrastructure in Marsabit Town to ensure a healthy, safe and secure environment for Marsabit residents as a constitutional basic right.

    The county is fully of numerous opportunities available to establish convenient recovery sites and transfer stations to provide a temporary relief in the event of difficulty in accessing the designated dump site as alleged for security reasons.

    Finally the management under the successful businessman Ismail Adan khalif CEO Liban bus service Limited and also a director frontier Engineering Limited chairman , Ghare Council of elders Nairobi chapter has encouraged such similar stakeholder collaboration in future for synergy.

    Accumulated wastes in Marsabit Town center

  • I will return home shortly after CS Matiang’i order

    Embattled lawyer Miguna Miguna who could soon return to Kenya after the Interior ministry directed immigration officials at Kenyan embassies in Berlin, Germany, and Ottawa, Canada, to issue him with travel documents.

    Embattled lawyer Miguna Miguna could soon return to Kenya after the Interior ministry directed immigration officials at Kenyan embassies in Berlin, Germany, and Ottawa, Canada, to issue him with travel documents.

    In a letter to Law Society of Kenya president Nelson Havi, Solicitor-General Kennedy Ogeto said his office had advised the ministries of Interior and Foreign Affairs to obey court orders and allow Mr Miguna to return to Kenya.

    This advice, Mr Ogeto said, was anchored in a November 22 court order issued by Justice Hedwig Ong’udi allowing Mr Miguna to return.

    The judge directed that Mr Miguna obtain emergency travel documents from any Embassy or High Commission close to him within 72 hours.

    Aware that Mr Miguna’s passport was never returned to him when he was forcibly deported to Canada in February 2018, Justice Ong’udi ordered that he be allowed to use his national identity card for the journey.

    The High Court added that Mr Miguna should apply for a new passport as soon as he landed in Kenya. Officials had used the fact that he did not have a passport to block him from entering Kenya.

    Mr Miguna had always argued that an ID was enough to allow him to travel as it proved he was a Kenyan citizen and the State needed to facilitate his return.

    The court also directed Air France and other airlines to allow Mr Miguna to fly back to Kenya aboard their planes. This was a big win for the lawyer, whose last two attempts to return were hampered by red alerts issued by the State to the airlines, effectively blocking the planes from carrying him.

    But Mr Miguna’s struggles could now finally end if the Interior Ministry’s directives to Kenyan immigration officials in Germany and Canada are put into effect.

    According to Mr Ogeto’s letter, the only thing that Mr Miguna needs to do in order to get his travel documents is to fill out the required forms.

  • Crisis as IEBC’s WAFULA CHEBUKATI withdraws from election committee chaired by CJ KOOME raising alarm

    IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati

    Tuesday, November 30, 2021 – A crisis is looming over the 2022 elections after the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) pulled out of the Election Preparedness Committee, citing alleged infringement of its independence.

    In a letter dated Monday, November 29, IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati informed members of the National Multi-Sectoral Consultative Forum on Election Preparedness and its Technical Working Committee that the polls’ body would not conform to the pressure to give up on its election mandate as stipulated in the Constitution. 

    Chebukati raised concerns with the terms of reference of the election preparedness committee.  

    “After consultations and in-depth critical appraisal of the terms of reference, IEBC, would wish to respectfully withdraw from further engagement in the activities of the said committee,” Chebukati stated.

    He cited Article 88 of the Constitution which outlines the mandate of the Commission, and Article 249(2) which provides that the commissions and the holders of independent offices are subject only to the 2010 Constitution and the law; and are independent and not subject to direction or control by any person or authority.

    Chebukati further alleged that the committee was pushing out the IEBC while attempting to hand over its powers to the other aforementioned institutions. 

    The lawyer alluded to an alleged plan to tamper with the election as he was adamant that IEBC was mandated to ensure that whatever voting method is used, the system is simple, accurate, verifiable, secure, accountable and transparent.

    He noted that IEBC was of the opinion that the NMSCF on Election Preparedness, apart from infringing on the independence of the Commission, had assumed the role of other institutions, notably, the Parliamentary Departmental Committees, particularly the Justice and Legal Affairs (JLAC) of the National Assembly.

    Prior to IEBC withdrawal, the committee comprised of the IEBC, Attorney General Paul Kihara Kariuki, Chief Justice Martha Karambu Koome (Judiciary), Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani (Treasury) CS Joe Mucheru (ICT), Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Philip Kameru – Director-General National Intelligence Service (NIS), Inspector General Hillary Mutyambai (National Police Service) among others. 

  • Former 2NK Sacco driver lands a new lucrative county job

    The 2NK driver fired by the Sacco after reporting bhangi smoking students to the police secures a Government job

    he Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has issued a statement after John Muthoni, a driver with the 2NK Sacco courageously drove to Sagana Police Station upon realising that the high school students he was carrying were smoking bhang and drinking alcohol.

    In the statement, DCI said Muthoni was transporting students from Nyeri to Nairobi for their mid-term break.

    “After failing to contain the rowdy and highly intoxicated students, the driver resorted to driving them to the nearby police station. Sadly, the 14 students (seven boys and seven girls) jumped from the windows of the moving matatu before Muthoni could reach the report desk. In his own Facebook account, Muthoni has reported that he was sacked for his act of bravely,” part of the statement by DCI read.

    The 2NK Sacco driver who decried frustrations after attempting to have high school students who were abusing drugs in the vehicle he was driving arrested, has landed a county job.

    John Muthoni will now be part of the team of drivers at the Nyeri County government. His appointment was announced by Nyeri governor Mutahi Kahiga.

    About two weeks ago, a PSV driver grabbed the headlines after he drove the vehicle to a police station when he discovered that the students he was ferrying home for midterm break were smoking bhang and drinking alcohol inside the matatu.

    His selfless act landed him in trouble with the Sacco management and in the process, he was fired.

    Kenyans protested online after he announced on Facebook that he had been fired from 2NK Sacco.

    The responsible driver is now having the last laugh after he secured a job with Nyeri County Government.