Release of the 2011 KCPE Examination Results

Posted on 21 December, 2011

1.0 The Kenya National Examinations Council wishes to inform parents/guardians, candidates, stakeholders and the general public that the 2011 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination results will be released on Wednesday 28th December 2011.

The ceremony will be officiated by Hon. Amb. Prof. Sam K. Ongeri, Minister for Education, at Mitihani House, off Denis Pritt Road, opposite St. Georges Secondary School starting from 9.00 am.

2.0 All Provincial Directors of Education (PDEs) are requested to be present during the ceremony and to pick the results for the schools ¡n their provinces for distribution to their respective District Education Officers.

Invitation to relevant stakeholders has been sent through separate letter and they are advised to confirm their availability to the address given in the letter.

3.0 Candidates are advised to collect their results from the respective centres where they registered for their examination.

The examination results will also be available on the KNEC website: www.knec.ac.ke and can also be received by sending the candidate’s index number through a short text message (sms) to 5052 immediately after the announcement by the Minister for Education on 28th December 2011.

Please note that each sms will be charged and subscribers are advised to send one SMS and wait for the results before sending another one to avoid jamming the system.

4.0 Upon receipt of their results, the candidates are advised to thoroughly scrutinize them for correctness.

In particular, they must ensure the accuracy of the following:

4.1 Candidates’ particulars i.e. names, index number and gender;

4.2 school names and codes;

4.3 Individual subject grades and mean score.

5.0 Any discrepancy MUST be communicated to the Council within one month (30 days) after the release of examination results. This includes appeals for remarking. The Council will not accept any queries on the 2011 KCPE examination results after 31st January 2012.

6.0 Candidates who have their results withheld will receive a letter through their head teacher explaining why their results have been withheld until they submit the required documents e.g. birth certificates for their results to be released.

Such candidates must submit the documents through their respective school and NOT directly to the Council, by 31st January 2012 failure to which it will be deemed that the candidates does not have the required document and their results will subsequently be cancelled.

7.0 The Council does not issue result slips for KCPE candidates. Instead the result slips are issued by respective schools.

8.0 All candidates must note that a result slip is not a certificate. The Kenya National Examinations Council reserves the right to correct the information given on result slips which will be confirmed by the issue of certificates.

COUNCIL SECRETARY/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
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Nyandarua County: A county without a single court

Posted on 05 December, 2011

Nyandarua county should have courts of law

Access to justice and fair administration of justice is one of the fundamental rights of the citizens as envisaged under Article 48 of the Constitution of Kenya. It is inconceivable that Nyandarua County with a population of 596,268 (per the 2009 census) has no single court of law.Nyandarua county is one of the five counties of the former Central province.

Compared to the rest of the other counties namely Nyeri, Kiambu, Muranga and Kirinyaga, Nyandarua is the least developed in terms of institutions and infrastructure despite its vast geographical size and economic potential particularly in agriculture.

Nyandarua County residents remain a troubled lot as they look for justice in the neighboring counties. The county headquarter situated at Olkalao has no single judicial institution to adjudicate emergent social economic and political conflicts.

None of the four county parliamentary constituencies namely Kipipiri, Kinangop, Olkalao or Ndaragwa has a single court of law establishment for provision of judicial services to the locals. The resident travels hundreds of kilometers to Nakuru and Laikipia counties to shop for justice.

The nearest court is at Naivasha or Nyahurururu depending on the end of county one resides.

This is unfortunate. Such a scenario depicts a high water mark of underdevelopment.

Institutions and agencies of Justice should be proximate and within the governance and administrative units of each region. Lengthy distance from seats justice provides room for gross miscarriage of justice and waste of vital hours of production. Residents arrested for various allegations are held long hours before they are transported to neighboring counties courts for prosecution. The situation is made worse by horrible impassible roads.

Lack of institutions of justice facilitates sprouting of primitive mechanism of conflicts resolution such as kangaroo courts and repugnant cultural practices.

Courts are symbols of justice in areas they operates. They guarantee adherence to law and order. Importance of forum where citizens can prosecute and defend their interests cannot be emphasized more.

Poor people who cannot afford judicial services due to long distances, travel costs and other logistics find their rights trampled on becoming victims of discrimination.

The administration of justice takes into account the social economic dynamics of specific areas in pursuit of equity and fair application of law. In criminal jurisprudence the severity of sentencing considers realities and challenges facing the locality and its people. Neighboring county courts may not be able to appreciate the unique needs of Nyandarua residents.

The ever increasing land disputes, poverty related incidences and general civil disputes must be adjudicated within the County. The local residents cannot afford to make long journeys to Laikipia and Nakuru for elusive justice.

For purposes of comparative analysis Kiambu County with a population of 1.6 million people have six magistrates’ courts located at Kiambu, Githunguri, Kikuyu, Gatundu, Thika and Limuru towns. Muranga County has courts in Maragua, Kigumo, Kangema and Muranga for a population of 942,581.

Kirinyaga County has not less than four court stations in Kerugoya and Baricho for a population of 457,054.Nyeri with a population of 661,156 has courts in Nyeri, Karatina, Othaya and Mukurweini towns not to mention the High Court.

While the aforesaid counties are now demanding for establishment of High court stations, Nyandarua County has no single magistrate court. It is time that courts are established at Olkalao, Engineer, Ndaragwa, Njabini and Magumu towns of the Nyandarua County.

The current Kenya constitution rules out discrimination in so far as distribution of state institutions, establishments and opportunities are concerned and indeed it give the citizens right to demand and agitate for equal opportunities without relaying on ineffective political leaderships whose priorities may not be development but other considerations. This is the reason I will not
shy away to seek solution within the law for the concerned residents who have sought my legal service on the issue.

It is of no value for Nyandarua residents to blame the under development and lack of vital infrastructure on the past or present political leadership, however it is pertinent that they seize the opportunity to discard the unfortunate culture of subservience and take advantage of constitutional guarantees to demand equal opportunities .

The people of Nyandarua have all the rights under the law to petition for creation of court network within their county. This process has begun in earnest. Justice and development goes hand in hand. No region can boast of development without established institutions of justice. To the concerned authorities, take justice to the Nyandarua people.

George N. Kimani, Nairobi (The writer is a lawyer of the High court of Kenya-Email –
gkihingo@yahoo.com)
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The Tribulations of a Kenyan Doctor

Posted on 21 November, 2011

Kenyan doctors and health professionals are set to go on strike citing poor pay and deplorable working conditions. They are demanding a 300% pay increase from the government. This strike closely follows the recent strike by University lecturers that led to the closure of some universities.

It is only recently that the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret was closed due to lack of essential supplies and management wrangles which made the specialists there to stop offering all specialist clinical services as a result.

Public health facilities in Kenya are deplorable. It is notable that the Medical Services Minister could not trust Kenyan hospitals and doctors to treat him after he was diagnosed with prostrate cancer and had to go abroad for treatment. Ironically, the government (via the Medical Services ministry) expects Kenyans to rely on the same health services and expects the poorly paid doctors (and other health professionals) there to be happy and content.

Got this comment by Allan from The Informatics Daktari Blog written by a Dr Judy, a Kenyan Doctor on her post Letter to the Kenyan patient…….(from the Kenyan Doctor)

" Am a doctor too and this is well too familiar a story. Apparently the profession is noble but to be honest Ii don’t feel appreciated or noble. We are unfairly under remunerated compared to our fellow professionals. I could get better terms if I quit today and become a house help in an MP’s house.

We have to toil to make ends approach not even meet and for that we sometimes shamefully run all over town to work for private hospitals that pay as low as 200 bob an hour, even the oldest profession pays more surely, no pun intended. I have never seen a KCB employee doing locum at Equity on weekends or nights.

We are human beings, we need safe and conducive work environments and better terms to motivate us so that we can spend our little time off work to read and do research to improve health care. we need motivation not condemnation.

I have been loyal to the public sector this being my seventh year of practice but all I have is a few shillings at a Sacco and loans to clear. My banker says am not credit worthy. We are paid very late. Our minister doesn’t listen to us. We serve in remote areas and am frustrated every timeI have to give up on a patient because there is no ICU facility and the nearest doesn’t have a space for my patient.

If I have two who need the only available bed at the referring facility you can imagine what am made to do…to decide who to give the bed to based on who is likely to benefit from it…who am I? God? NO!!!!!!!! am a human being. What do I tell the relatives and loved ones of the patient who loses in my God play? That he is going to die because I picked someone else? And worse still am bonded( yes this is bondage) to the government so I cant really leave since they trained me…I was one of the lucky ones since now they don’t.

My fiance being a colleague is stationed 654 kilometers from me and there is nothing I can do about that. We are expecting our first baby and I would just wish she can move to a facility near this one. The ministry of medical services has some really nice staff but as many will testify, most of them will make you dread visiting there to make such requests….

Enough said…we just need some respect from our caller( this is a calling I heard a long time ago), our employers, our patients who are the clients who give us something we love to do and we need better working conditions so that we can serve them better and look at what other people are doing in the currently rapidly changing world of medicine, surgery, pharmacy, nursing and dentistry"
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Ahmednasir Abdullahi on K24 Capital Talk with Jeff Koinange

Posted on 05 November, 2011

Ahmednasir Abdullahi is a commissioner with the Judicial Service Commissioner (JSC) and the editor of Law Monthly Magazine.

On the Ocampo Six ICC cases at the Hague he had this to say:

"I have always said and I am saying it, I mean, the Hague is a political process, it is a European court for Africans and if you look at the legal issues, I don't think there is a case really.....there was no investigations. I think that came out very clearly in terms of the evidence or alleged evidence that he (Ocampo) has is very poor, very poor.......Ocampo should be charged with professional misconduct, because he hasn't done a proper job as a prosecutor.

When you are prosecuting you must have a water tight case. If you don't have a water tight case, you must not prosecute and I think that history will judge him very harshly in my view no matter how the case goes because I think he has let down both the suspects and the victims in terms of what kind of investigations he did.... He is a drama queen really, he really enjoys when he talks on camera, but as a lawyer, I think he was very poor."

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Miguna Miguna on K24 Capital Talk - Raila is a political conman

Miguna Miguna is a former political advisor to prime minister Raila Odinga who was recently unceremoniously suspended from his duties by the office of the prime minister without pay. This may be informing his recent outbursts against the presidential candidature of Raila Odinga. However as a former insider of Raila political machinery, his interviews and articles exposes the weaker side of Raila Odinga. Will Kenyans listen?

Sample this:

"What I regret is the fact that to be honest Raila is a conman, a political conman. Yes, the facade that he puts forward, the quips, the soundbites, this theatrical performance on the stage is all but a facade. There are contradictions that are so fundamental, that unless Raila resolves and untangles them, it would be dangerous if such a person actually ascends to the presidency of this country....and I am not the only one talking about them (contradictions). His own strategists are talking about it, behind closed doors....and I have said in my article, resolve the contradictions, otherwise you either end up nowhere or if you do, you will be a dangerous person to be there."

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Shortlisted Applicants for the Position of Chairperson of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission

The Selection Panel for the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, having reviewed the applications to determine their compliance with the provisions of the Constitution and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2011, shortlisted for interview a total of nine (9) candidates for the position of Chairperson as follows:-

1. Bishop Dr. Bonifes E. Adoyo

2. Mumo Matemu, MBS

3. Mary Kimotho M’Mukindia

4. Dr. Arbogast K. Akidiva

5. Dr. Sarah M. Kilemi

6. Erastus Iguna B. N. Rweria, MBS

7. Catherine A. Kola

8. Erick O. Mogeni

9. Job Ogonda

It is notified for general information that the Selection Panel for the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission will be conducting interviews for the post of Chairperson of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission on 8th and 9th November, 2011 at the Public Service Commission of Kenya, Commission House, Off Harambee Avenue, next to KICC.
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Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Commissioners

Isaack Hassan - Chairman

Commissioners

1. Yusuf Nzibo

2. Mohamed Alawi Hussun

3. Abdullahi Sharawe

4. Lilian Mahiri-Zaja

5. Thomas Letangule

6. Muthoni Wangai

7. Albert Bwire and

8. Kule Galma Godana
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