Thursday 09th July, In bits………….by Webster Wechuli
?Presidential escort officers residing within their camps barred from chewing miraa and muguka due to health risks
?President Uhuru Kenyatta signs into law the Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill 2020 and five others. The President ordered chiefs to register all pregnant schoolgirls across the country to ensure they access free pre and post-natal care.
?Kenya records 447 new Covid-19 cases from 3,803 samples tested in the last 24 hours bringing the total to 8,975. Number of recoveries rise to 2,656 after 64 more patients are discharged, as four more people succumb to Covid-19 bringing the total fatalities in Kenya to 173
?Lamu records the first Covid-19 death after a 60-year-old woman succumbs to the virus, County Health Executive Anne Gathoni confirms
?Health CS Kagwe urges counties which have not met the requirement for minimum 300-bed capacity for isolation to comply. Meanwhile, Governor Mutua has announced that Machakos is ready for covid-19’s worst-case scenario with 463 isolation beds so far, and is expanding to 700
?80 extended family members quarantined in Konoin after one tests positive for Covid-19, Bomet County Medical Services CEC Joseph Sitonik says.
?President Kenyatta endorses CS Amina for WTO top job, says she’s uniquely qualified to lead the global organization
?Delvine Enock Moses, a nurse at KNH, charged with making fake Covid-19 certificates. He was freed on a Sh150,000 bail.
?Suspected Shabaab militants destroy communications mast in Korakora area, Garissa County.
?Mombasa Governor Sultan Joho and Suna MP Junet Mohammed left for Dubai to visit recuperating Raila Odinga
?Impeachment of Governor Ngilu to go on as High Court dismisses with costs the case challenging the process. Justice Korir says the petition lacks merit.
?A Kiambu resident files acourt petition seeking to remove MP Moses Kuria from office over alleged graft and nepotism in awarding CDF tenders.
?The State has imposed a 6pm to 6am curfew on the Makueni-Kajiado border to end violence after pasture related clashes led to the death of four people. The communication was made through the Makueni County Commissioner Maalim Mohammed
?Renown activist Moses Lukoye has issued a notice of enjoinment to the petition on the impeachment of the Bungoma Governor Wafula Wangamati
?The Jubilee Party has placed Kimani Ngunjiri, Susan Kihika and other Nakuru leaders who have been defiant of the party and its leadership on notice.
?Bobasi MP Innocent Obiri has been acquitted of incitement charges he was facing at the Kisii law courts.
?The Naivasha woman who murdered her four children has been committed to a mental institution.
?A High Court in Mombasa has ruled that the Sports Disputes Tribunal (SDT) has jurisdiction to determine sports matters and cases against Football Kenya Federation (FKF).
?Malawi’s new President Lazarus Chakwera, who previously accused his predecessor of nepotism, has named some of his relatives as ministers in his cabinet. His wife Abida Mia is the deputy minister for lands in his cabinet.
?Boda boda riders in Uganda have sued the Government over continued lockdown on their operations.
FACTS:-
1. In January 2017, Morocco rejoined the African Union after a 30-year absence, making it the 55th AU member State.
2, In 1893, Daniel Hale Williams an American heart surgeon performed the first successful open-heart surgery in the United States without anesthesia ???♂.
3. In 2019, Zambia banned an energy drink called “Natural Power High Energy Drink” made in Zambia. This was after a Ugandan man complained that it had caused him a prolonged erection. Uganda later found that the drink had sildenafil citrate, an active ingredient in Viagra.
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