Friday, October 12, 2018
WS Melania discusses Trump’s alleged infidelities
Melania Trump has more pressing matters on her mind than allegations of infidelity by her husband, she insisted in a no-holds-barred interview that airs Friday.
“I’m a mother and a first lady, and I have much more important things to think about and to do,” she told ABC News when asked whether President Trump’s alleged straying has put a strain on their marriage.
“It is not concern and focus of mine,” she told correspondent Tom Llamas in an interview conducted during her recent solo tour to Africa.
The president has denied porn star Stormy Daniels’ allegations that she had a fling with the future commander-in-chief more than a decade ago – though he has admitted reimbursing Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney, a $130,000 hush payment.
Rudy Giuliani, the president’s current personal lawyer, said in June that the first lady “believes her husband, and she knows it’s untrue,” referring her thoughts on Daniels’ claims.
But the first lady brushed aside the former New York City mayor’s remarks.
“I never talked to Mr. Giuliani,” she said. Asked why he made that claim, she added: “I don’t know. You need to ask him.”
Melania said the constant barrage of embarrassing stories in the last year is “not always pleasant.”
“But I know what is right and what is wrong and what is true and not true,” she said, adding that the first couple’s marriage is solid.
“Yes, we are fine,” she said. “It’s what media speculate, and it’s gossip. It’s not always correct stuff.”
In her wide-ranging interview, which airs in full at 10 p.m. Friday, the first lady also addresses the infamous jacket she wore as she visited immigrant children along the border with Mexico.
“Let’s talk about the jacket,” Llamas says about the parka, which carried the mystifying words “I really don’t care, do u?” across the back.
“The jacket,” she replies in the snippet, which doesn’t give away de
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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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