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It’s human nature to question ICC
Former Bosnian Serb army commander Radko Mladic went on trial yesterday in The Hague accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He is accused of ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims and Croats between 1992 and 1995.Mass killings in Rwanda and the Balkans led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court in 2002. There are some similarities between the various cases in The Hague.Some critics consider Mladic a butcher, while to...
2012 election will be make-or-break
ON Monday an IEBC office at the Coast was attacked and its local staff have been receiving threatening text messages, presumably from the Mombasa Republican Council. Tension is high. Uhuru and Ruto may soon be summoned to the Hague. Western Kenya has been split by the defection of Mudavadi. The Limuru 2B meeting was forcefully broken up by police. The NSIS has warned that the return of Gema and Kamatusa can lead to election strife. This is not...
University lecturers must be paid equally
THE Universities Academic Staff union will reject payment of lecturers according to the subjects they teach rather than their job grades . Under the Universities Bill 2012, the proposed funding board will establish 'differentiated remuneration' for different programmes. Public universities will be funded according to the courses they offer rather than the number of students enrolled as at present. This has led to speculation tha...
MPs Sh15m gratuity unjustified
MPs are proposing that they each receive Sh15 million instead of the previous Sh3m as gratuity pay. This simply means that the ever suffering taxpayers will fork out Sh3.3 bn to sever ties between the electorate and their MPs— five times more than the Sh666m that they would have been paid. This amount is over and above all the other dues that MPs have awarded themselves over the years.We say this enhanced severance pay is unjustified.&nb...
Now let the fight against corruption resume
On Thursday this week, parliament approved the list of top officials who are to serve in the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, ending a months-long stalemate which had crippled the operations of this all-important commission. We should note that during this period, there have been a number of new scandals emerging, all of which require the urgent attention of the EACC. Among these is the question of how the National Hospital Ins...
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