Friday, October 12, 2018
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Kenya: 56 die in horror road crash
The Homeboyz bus that crashed and killed 56 people at the Fort Ternan black spot in Kericho county was on an illegal night run, Police Inspector General Joseph Boinett said yesterday.
Kericho county police commander James Mugera said the accident occurred after the brakes failed and the driver lost control of the bus descending the black spot area.
It rolled several times, tumbling into a steep valley along the Londiani-Muhoroni-Kisumu road, witnesses said.
“It is suspected the driver of the ill-fated bus lost control as it was going downhill a few metres before the flyover. He was attempting to negotiate the sharp bend at the flyover but failed, Mugera said.
The roof of the bus was ripped off due to impact as the vehicle rolled downhill. The accident scene was littered with bloodied luggage and belongings of passengers, and debris.
Mugera said villagers and the rescue team responded swiftly but it took more than one hour to retrieve some bodies trapped inside the mangled bus.
The Kakamega-bound bus operated under the Western Cross Express but the sacco has no office at the Machakos Upcountry PSV terminus.
None of the saccos officials were at the yard where the six Homeboyz buses park.
The accident seems to have been jinxed from the word go, with survivors talking of a long delay, overloading and dizzying speeds as they hurtled toward death.
Preliminary investigations indicated that the 52-seater bus was carrying more than 70 passengers.
A tout at the Machakos bus station said most of the passengers were open-air market traders and hawkers who buy goods in Nairobi to sell in markets in Kakamega.
Drivers and touts at the station recalled the final moments with the bus driver, saying he was jovial. They said he was experienced, competent and always sober.
Other passengers were touts travelling for the funeral of their friends killed in another accident involving a Climax sacco bus that killed 12 people in Nakuru on September 30.
The 5 am accident yesterday occurred at the Tunnel Flyover area. Fifty-two passengers died on the spot, while others died on the way to various hospitals.
The police initially put the death toll at 50 but Kericho chief medical officer Dr David Ekwam said 52 bodies were received at Kericho County Referral Hospital mortuary. By last evening the number had hit 56.
The facility, with a capacity of 24 bodies, was overstretched, forcing the morgue attendants to pile bodies on the floor.
Dr Ekwam said the bodies of 29 men, 14 women and nine children were at the mortuary, awaiting identification by relatives.
“We have received 52 bodies of the passengers from the accident at Fort Ternan. We have established a desk outside the hospital where relatives of the victims can seek information concerning their loved ones, he added.
Sixteen survivors were receiving treatment at various Kericho hospitals.
“All the patients we are treating in our health facilities are in stable condition and responding to well to treatment, Dr Ekwam said. Fourteen patients were being treated at Kericho County Referral Hospital, e two others were admitted at Fortenan Subcounty Hospital, he said.
The wreckage was towed to the Fort Ternan police post, a few kilometres from the accident scene.
With this latest grisly accident, Kenya appears to be entering its bloodiest year of road carnage.
Kenya is ranked among countries with the worst road safety records.
The World Health Organization in 2015 said Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda — with 29.1, 32.9 and 32.1 deaths per 100,000 people, respectively — are amongst the 10 worst in road safety.
While statistics show that as many as 3,000 people die annually from road accidents in Kenya, this year’s toll is likely to be higher as the festive season draws near.
Traffic Commandant Samuel Kimaru said the latest statistics indicate an eight per cent increase in road crashes, compared to the same period last year.
He said 2,345 lives have been lost in accidents since January, compared to 2,153 lives lost last year.
The National Transport and Safety Authority reported that 3,539 lives were lost between December 2016 and December 2017. That covers victims who died at the scene or shortly afterwards.
However, the WHO places the average number of deaths in Kenya at 12,000 — including those who die months or years later of their injuries.
Many accidents are attributed to faulty vehicles, minimal or total lack of enforcement by authorities who are compromised by bribery.
The UN report says that in Africa, only South Africa meets any of the UN’s seven main vehicle safety standards.
Thursday, October 11, 2018
#BuhariChallenge: 14 questions Atiku wants Buhari to answer
Politics
Buhari vs Atiku
The Presidential Campaign Organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar has thrown 14 questions at President Muhammadu Buhari and challenged him to provide answers to them.
The campaign organisation said the questions became necessary following attacks from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Presidency against the former Vice President ever since he (Atiku) emerged candidate of the PDP.
In a statement by the spokesman of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation, Segun Sowunmi, Atiku said, “It has come to our attention that the Buhari government and the All Progressives Congress have been very idle of late, which explains their abandonment of the vital duties of running the government in order to focus on hurling insults and false accusations on the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar.”
He then proceeded to say, “In order to give Nigerians the answers they want, we urge the Buhari Campaign Organisation to take the #BuhariChallenge and answer the following questions:
1. Name one project initiated, started and completed in the last three years by the Buhari administration.
2. Name one youth in President Buhari’s cabinet.
3. Name one campaign promise President Buhari has kept.
4. Name one Southerner heading a National Intelligence Agency under Buhari.
5. Name one terrorist arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned by the Buhari administration.
6. Name one Buhari government official arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned by the Buhari administration over their many budget padding scandals.
7. Name one member of the Buhari administration fingered in corruption that was fired, arrested and currently facing trial.
8. Name one former President or Head of State that has not been blamed by President Buhari for the precarious state of the economy he led us into.
9. Name one year that Nigeria’s GDP grew faster than her population under Buhari (for 16 years of PDP administrations, Nigeria’s GDP always grew faster than population growth).
10. Name the initiatives the Buhari government has put in place to address Nigeria being named the world headquarters for extreme poverty under Buhari.
11. Name one initiative the Buhari government has put in place to address Nigeria having the world’s highest number of out of school children (13.2 million according to the United Nations Children Fund).
12. Name the date the Ogoni cleanup will begin.
13. Name what President Buhari has done with the ₦13 trillion loans he has taken in 3 years (compared to the ₦6 trillion borrowed by the PDP in 16 years).
14. Name the real owners of the Ikoyi Apartment billions.
“These are the issues the Nigerian people want to hear about, not insults from a Presidency and a party that have spent three years in office only to preside over Nigeria’s first ever recession in 25 years.
“We urge the Buhari administration to remember that it is this disinterest in real governance and focus on trivia that caused Bill Gates to look President Buhari in the eye and tell him that ‘your economic blueprint does not address Nigerians’ needs’.
“The Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation runs an issue based campaign where refined language and cerebral arguments founded on facts are used to disseminate the vision of our candidate which is why we call on the Buhari Campaign Organisation to waste no time in taking the #BuhariChallenge in clearing the air on these knotty issues bothering the minds of Nigerians.”
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Saudis discussed plan to lure Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, US intercepts show
(CNN)The
US has intercepts of Saudi officials discussing a plan to lure
journalist Jamal Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia and detain him,
according to a US official familiar with the intelligence.
Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist and critic of the regime, has been missing for more than week after
going to the Saudi consulate general in Istanbul to obtain wedding
papers. Turkish officials privately believe he was killed at the
consulate, an allegation denied by Saudi Arabia.
The
official said it is unclear if the original plan was to murder
Khashoggi or if something went wrong at the consulate and that he might
have been killed during an attempt to kidnap him. The official said that
getting Khashoggi to the consulate appears to have been a backup plan,
because he couldn't be persuaded to fly back to Saudi Arabia.
The official said there is no hard evidence as to whether Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post, is dead or alive.
Missing journalist's fiancée 'in a state of deep confusion an
The source did not say when the US became aware of the discussions. As CNN reported earlier this week, intercepted communications were being reviewed in the wake of Khashoggi's disappearance.
The
official would not go so far as to say Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman ordered the operation but said that, although he may not have
known the specifics such a plan couldn't have taken place without his
approval.
US officials think it's
possible the Crown Prince wanted Khashoggi silenced, but miscalculated
the global impact his disappearance would have.
The Washington Post first reported the details of the intercepts.
US President Donald Trump is facing increased pressure over the Khashoggi case. Late Tuesday, a bipartisan group of senators wrote to the President, calling
for the White House to determine what happened to Khashoggi and whether
sanctions should be imposed on whoever was responsible for his fate.
The
letter, penned by the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, triggers an investigation under legislation that
allows the President to impose sanctions on individuals or countries
that are deemed to have committed a human rights violation. The White
House must respond within 120 days, setting out what actions it proposes
to take.
Trump
told Fox News in an interview on Wednesday night that "so far it's
looking a little bit like" the Saudis are behind Khashoggi's
disappearance but said it was too early to say how the US might respond.
Blocking further arms sales to Saudi Arabia "would be hurting us," he
said.
Trump said that US economic
success was due in part to "what we are doing with our defense systems,"
and added: "Frankly I think that would be a very, very tough pill to
swallow for our country."
Investigation continues
Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters Thursday that Turkey
"cannot remain silent" on the disappearance of Khashoggi.
"We
are currently investigating the event in all its dimensions. The event
took place in our country. We cannot remain silent in the face of an
event like this because it is not a normal occurrence," Erdogan said
while returning on a flight from Hungary. He said security and
intelligence forces "have been looking at all dimensions of this" and
are looking especially closely at the country's entry and exit points.
Timeline of Khashoggi's disappearance
Friday, September 31
Khashoggi goes to consulate to obtain papers to allow him to get married
The papers weren't ready and he leaves consulate after a couple of hours
Tuesday, October 2
3:00 a.m.:Private jet arrives in Istanbul from Riyadh
1:14 p.m.: Khashoggi arrives at the consulate
5:00 p.m.: A second jet arrives in Istanbul from Riyadh
6:00 p.m.: Second flight departs Istanbul for Cairo, en route to Riyadh
11:00 p.m.: First flight departs Istanbul for Riyadh
Wednesday, October 3
Turkish officials first report Khashoggi is missing
Khashoggi goes to consulate to obtain papers to allow him to get married
The papers weren't ready and he leaves consulate after a couple of hours
Tuesday, October 2
3:00 a.m.:Private jet arrives in Istanbul from Riyadh
1:14 p.m.: Khashoggi arrives at the consulate
5:00 p.m.: A second jet arrives in Istanbul from Riyadh
6:00 p.m.: Second flight departs Istanbul for Cairo, en route to Riyadh
11:00 p.m.: First flight departs Istanbul for Riyadh
Wednesday, October 3
Turkish officials first report Khashoggi is missing
Turkish
officials have said that a 15-man team flew from Saudi Arabia into
Istanbul on the day Khashoggi entered the consulate, and were present in
the building at the same time the journalist. The investigation has
focused on CCTV footage which showed the men arriving at the consulate.
A
Saudi source familiar with four of the 15 men told CNN that one is a
former diplomat in London and an intelligence officer, and another is a
forensics expert.
In
a statement to CNN on Wednesday, a Saudi official said the kingdom
"categorically" denies "any involvement in Jamal's disappearance."
"At
this stage, our priority is to support the investigation, as opposed to
responding to evolving comments not directly related to those efforts.
Jamal's well being, as a Saudi citizen, is our utmost concern and we are
focusing on the investigation as a means to reveal the truth behind his
disappearance. Our sympathies go out to the family during this
difficult time," the official said.
