The 21st edition of the Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon has received over KES 173 million in support from sponsors ahead of the race, which is set for October 27, 2024, at Uhuru Gardens.This substantial support, comprising both cash and in-kind contributions, promises to enhance the experience for participants and further empower community initiatives. Since its inception, the event has attracted over 300,000 runners, cementing its status as one of the region’s premier athletic events.
“We are excited to collaborate with our sponsors to promote community engagement, boost local economic growth and empower youth through the FutureMakers initiative by Standard Chartered. Proceeds from the marathon help young people—especially women and persons with disabilities—learn, earn, and grow,” said Peter Gitau, Chair of the local organizing committee, Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon.
The marathon has attracted more than 40 sponsors and partners, an increase from 30 sponsprs in 2023, reflecting a collective commitment to transforming lives, nurturing talent, and fostering sports globally.Standard Chartered has made a significant contribution of KES 100 million towards the event.
Prudential Insurance has contributed KES 10 million as the official sponsor for the 5KM Family Fun Run in cash and in-kind support, playing a crucial role in ensuring comprehensive insurance coverage for all participants.”By partnering with the Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon, we reinforce our commitment to initiatives that positively impact communities. Our goal is not only to support emerging and elite athletes in launching their international careers but also to inspire families to embrace a culture of fitness and well-being,” said Gwen Kinisu, CEO, Prudential.
Stanchart Marathon aims to promote Diversity and Inclusion within and beyond the event. It is the only marathon in the country that has a special category for persons with disability(PWDs).
Most Kisii residents want President William Ruto and his estranged deputy, Rigathi Gachagua, to put their act together or ship out together.
They singled out for censure the bill being floated to impeach Gachagua against the pressing concerns the country was facing at the moment.
They told Ruto to reconcile with Gachagua and begin to focus more firmly on how to move the country forward.
“We elected them together and should pack and leave together. It that is what they are up to,” said George Magange, an activist.
He said if parliament was serious on its intent then it should impeach both Ruto and his deputy.
More others that had turned up at the Agricultural Training College for the public participation exercise termed flimsy and weak the grounds being presented as evidence to impeach the embattled Gachagua.
They told the duo to work together and stop the drama.
“ Let them work together for now, we are only two years shy of the main polls, the President can pick another running mate in 2027” added Magange.
Thomas Keraka and Benjamin Atemba, described as of ‘low material value’ all the grounds being fronted as evidence to indict Gachagua.
“From any standpoint, the grounds lack substance and are weak,” stated said. Keraka
They accused the Kenyan Kwanza government of losing its focus and directing all its primitive energy on non-issues.
They’re called on their MPs to vote No to the bill.
Wilfred Monyenye, Kisii Township Ward Rep said the health and the education sector were in a mess and challenged the Head of State to rise to the challenge.
He said the university funding model, the Social Health Insurance Fund ( SHIF) was dysfunctional, stressing, that they are more important than the impeachment of Gachagua.
“ Our people cannot access health care services since their National Hospital Insurance Fund ( NHIF) Cards are not being recognized after the shift to the new Fund,” Monyenye told the press.
Only Darius Mosoti, a youth leader, supported the impeachment claiming Gachagua in his tenure revived the spirit of tribalism in the country.
Gachagua is facing abuse of office charges and violation of the law as the impeachment threatens to end his political career.
Unclaimed Financial Assets Authority (UFAA) has launched a new digital platform to facilitate easier filing, processing and disbursement of funds and assets.
UFAA Chairman Richard Kiplagat said that the monies in the trust are invested in the government to ensure there is no risk.
Kiplagat said that UFAA looks forward to doubling the number of claims for reunifying.
The authority said that it aims to provide customer-friendly services and to make their service available in Huduma Centers across the country.
He said the authority intends to do away with manual filing of claims to facilitate easier processing and disbursement of unclaimed financial assets in cash, bonds, stocks and other financial assets.
The Authority is also deploying an online holders’ reporting and surrenders system that will make it easier for holders to submit and surrender unclaimed financial assets in their possession.
UFAA Chairman said that the authority will be working with the office of the Auditor-General to facilitate audits of public sector agencies on compliance with unclaimed financial assets reporting and surrender.
UFAA is an authority created under the Unclaimed Financial Assets Act, No 40 of 2011 to administer unclaimed financial assets. UFAA’s primary focus is to receive unclaimed financial assets from the holders, safeguard the assets and reunite the assets to their rightful owner.
A baseline survey report on the current state of unclaimed financial assets was released by Unclaimed Financial Assets Authority (UFAA) has revealed that the current unclaimed financial assets in the country are estimated at Sh241,105,748,942.
The survey which was conducted to determine the number of holders and estimate the volume of unclaimed financial assets held by each holder and cumulatively across all sectors in the country showed that the current estimated unclaimed financial asset holders who include institutions in the country are 477,112.
Announcing the findings of the survey in Nairobi, UFAA Chief Executive Officer, Mr John Mwangi, explained that the Authority’s mandate is to bring closure to ‘lost and found’ financial assets, receive unclaimed financial assets, safeguard and re-unite the assets with their rightful owners, who at times are not aware of their abandoned treasure.
“UFAA’s performance is based on the number of claimants re-unified. So far the Authority has collected a total of Sh20.3 billion in cash, Sh1.2 billion unit of shares, received 6,000 claims and issued Sh1 billion payouts in 2021,” said Mwangi.
He expressed that the Financial Services Sector has the highest holding of approximately 62 per cent of the total unclaimed financial assets and the projected unclaimed financial assets over the next 5 years is estimated at Sh156 billion.
Explaining that financial assets are declared unclaimed when there is no active involvement by users for a period of 2 years, the CEO said the unclaimed money by the Authority is invested in government securities so as to accrue interest that is channelled to unclaimed Assets Trust Fund.
“UFAA is urging all citizens to claim their financial assets and that of relatives by dialling a short code of *361# or visiting their website,” said Mwangi.
He said the code will help citizens find out whether they have unclaimed financial assets as an original owner or on behalf of a minor, business entity and deceased persons.
In his remarks, UFAA Chairperson, Richard Kiplagat, announced that the Authority has introduced Unclaimed Financial Assets Management (UFAM) System that is designed to facilitate easier filing, processing and disbursement of unclaimed assets through the internet, as well as provide compliance services where UFAA can carry out audit procedures to holding institutions.
“The reunification process has been made easier through the self-service UFAM system to allow a claimant to search for an asset, file a claim, download the required documents and track the claims,” said Kiplagat.
The Chairperson said to favour those with no access to the internet, UFAA has partnered with Huduma Kenya to make asset claiming services available in all Huduma Centers across the country.
“Through a partnership with government entities and technology companies, the Authority will continue with sensitization efforts that help target holders and claimants increase declarations to the authority and re-unification of unclaimed financial assets,” he said.
Kiplagat further urged all institutions that are holders of unclaimed financial assets to submit reports of unclaimed finance that they hold before November 1, 2021.
Three suspects were Monday night arrested in Mwingi town after they were found selling narcotic drugs including heroin.
The suspect’s John Musya, Paul Mumo and, Julius Musya all aged between 23-24 were arrested as they hawked the highly addictive illegal drug that was carefully concealed in seven sachets.
Over 10 rolls of bhang were also recovered from the suspects, who had contravened curfew orders to ply their illegal trade in Mwingi town.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, the suspects sell the illegal drugs to twilight girls who moonlight in the busy town.
The suspects were placed in custody pending arraignment in court for being in possession and trafficking in narcotics.
Meanwhile, a 29-year-old man committed suicide on Saturday night at deliverance court in Umoja estate, following a disagreement with his wife over an unknown issue.
His wife had made good an earlier threat to quit their marriage, despite him pleading that she doesn’t desert him.
After the argument, the woman is reported to have packed her belongings and gone back to her parent’s home in Dandora.
The man only identified as Brayo was so heartbroken that later in the night, he wrote a text message to his estranged wife informing her that he had left her the world, ‘nimekuwachia Dunia.’
Worried, the woman tried to call him frantically to dissuade him from taking his life but the man’s phone went unanswered.
Overwhelmed by emotions, she returned to the house early Monday morning accompanied by Brayo’s brother to check on him, only to be confronted by his lifeless body lying on the bed.
Bray had taken a poisonous substance that killed him instantly.
Scene of Crime detectives documented the scene and moved the body to Mama Lucy Lucy’shospital mortuary awaiting postmortem.
Jumia Kenya have sealed a strategic partnership with Naivas Foodmart to give consumers a better shopping experience with access to a wider range of products when shopping online as shopper now is mobile driven, using mobile to do his/her shopping, using their smartphones more frequently to place orders.
Kenya’s’ Leading retailer Naivas supermarket has inked a strategic partnership with Africa’s e-commerce leader and Kenyas number one Jumia, to give consumers a better shopping experience with access to a wide range of products.
Customers or Consumers who will benefit immediately are those within or along Ngong Road, Community Area, Hurlingham, Mbagathi, Kileleshwa and Lavington areas will now be able to order from Naivas Foodmarket (Prestige) on Jumia Food for a wide range of products.
Chief commercial officer has hinted that its a best way to create opportunities and make products delivery easy to customers and that’s the reason they’ve been able to partner with Jumia.
“We want to make fewer trips to the stores and our aim is to serve Kenyans at every possible opportunity by providing a mobile experience that makes it as easy as possible for them to acquire products as quickly as possible at their own convenience,” said Willy Kimani, Chief Commercial Officer, Naivas Foodmarket.
He also added that Today’s online shopper is mobile driven, using mobile to do his/her shopping as its using their smartphones more frequently to place orders.
On the other hand Jumia commercial boss stated that the partneship will assitt and promote a contact-free shopping exprience. “The partnership will enable shoppers a contact-free shopping experience as we ensure that everything the consumer wants is delivered to their doorstep.” said Kenneth Oyolla, Chief Commercial officer, Jumia Kenya.
The partnership will first feature Naivas Food Market at Prestige Plaza along Ng’ong road, before rolling out to its other outlets nationwide. Naivas enjoys a strong market share in the region, with over 70 branches in Kenya as the now the retail giant is banking on its wide variety of products and affordable price offering and its large customer base, to make the online venture successful.
Now its evident that Customers can now begin shopping for Naivas Foodmart in wide range of products on Jumia, through regulary visiting there website or online forum to oder and get the products delivered instantly and friendly through https://www.jumia.co.ke/
Ugenya Member of Parliament, David Ochieng is calling on investigative agencies to bring to book the killers of four security guards who were allegedly hacked to death at Siranga trading centre in Ugenya.
Speaking during a funeral service for the four at Siranga Primary School grounds the lawmaker lamented that close to two weeks since the incident happened no suspect has been apprehended.
Mourners including a section of area leaders accused the security apparatus of being too slow in their investigations.
Led by Ugenya Member of Parliament David Ochieng, the leaders called on the relevant bodies to fast track investigations to ensure the perpetrators face the full force of the law.
Ugenya Assistant County Commissioner Rufus Kihara assured residents that authorities were doing all they can to unravel the mystery surrounding the frequent killings in the area.
The deceased security guards were George Agara Opuch aged 68, 59 year old Patrick Oduor Ondoo, 49 year old Benard Odhiambo Opondo and Thadeus Ochieng Radido aged 43 years.
1,263 people have tested positive for Covid-19, from a sample size of 8,680 tested in the last 24 hours bringing total confirmed positive cases to 225,663.
The positivity rate is now 14.6% while cumulative tests so far conducted are 2,287,443.
According to a statement by the Ministry of Health, out of the new cases 1,234 are Kenyans while 29 are foreigners with 640 males and 623 females.
The youngest is an eight-day-old infant while the oldest is 101 years.
26 patients have succumbed to the disease, all of being late deaths reported after conducting facility record audits in the month of August 2021 pushing the cumulative fatalities to 4,404.
´´719 patients have recovered from the disease with 607 from the Home-Based Isolation and Care program while 112 are from various health facilities countrywide.Total recoveries now stand at 208,169 of whom 167,484 are from the Home-Based Care and Isolation program, while 40,685 are from various health facilities.´´ Read the statement.
A total of 1,982 patients are currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 9,845 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.
146 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 79 of whom are on ventilatory support and 67 on supplemental oxygen. No patient is under observation.
Another 782 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen with 720 of them in general wards and 62 in High Dependency Units (HDU).
Vaccination
As of August 18th, 2021, a total of 2,221,704 vaccines have so far been administered across the country. Of these, total first doses are 1,454,102 while second doses are 767,602.
The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose is at 52.8% with the majority being males at 55% while females are at 45%. Proportion of adults fully vaccinated is 2.8%.
The uptake of the second dose by Priority Groups is as follows: Aged 58 years and above 233,005, Others 227,334, Health Workers 129,202, Teachers 114,705 while Security Officers are at 63,356.
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