By Roselyne Obala and Karanja Njoroge
MORE than 50,000 displaced people in Western Province have returned to their homes.
Western PC, Mr Abdul Mwasserah, said of the 55,000 IDPs in camps at the start of the year, only 4,400 remain.
He said the Government would ensure the remaining IDPs were not affected by the current rainy season.
“Their basic [...]

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NYAKACK MP ON POLICE RECRUITMENT SCANDAL.
By MajimboKenya Correspondent: Nyando-District-Nyanza
BARELY a month after the members of the tenth parliament were sworn, an ODM Party Mp is already setting corruption standards for the new comers in the August house after the MP was reported to have fruitlessly bribed a con man to secure chances for his constituents [...]

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By Dickens Wasonga-Journalist Kisumu
wasongadick@yahoo.com 
 Tel.+254721784774.
   
Nyanza police boss Antony Kibuchi has  now sent a passionate appeal to people living in flood prone areas   within the province to move to higher grounds to avoid loss of lives.
Speaking to the press in his Kisumu office  the PPO said already 40 families have been displaced in east Kabondo division of [...]

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By Dickens Wasonga:
Email: wasongadick@yahoo.com   
Residents of Kisumu now want the no-nonsens Nyanza PPO Antony Kibuchi to tackle
the rising insecurity which has rocked the lake side city in the past few weeks.
  
In less than a week three violent robberies were reported within the violence
prone Kondele area alone.
  
During one such incident a prominent doctor attatched to new Nyanza [...]

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By Dickens Wasonga; FREELANCE JOURNALIST KISUMU -KENYA.
Email: wasongadick@yahoo.com  
Tel. +254721784774.
  
With the recent signing of a historic  power sharing deal between president  Mwai
Kibaki  and Raila Odinga,relative calm has now  returned to many parts of the
country.
  
It is true that many  Kenyans were anxiously waiting    to  begin to  settle down
after the  month- long  violence which rocked  the country following [...]

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By Dickens Wasonga-Kisumu-Kenya
email: wasongadick@yahoo.com    
  
Fresh fears has now engulfed thousands of fishermen on the Kenyan side of Lake
Victoria a head of a three month ban on Omena fishing.
  
The ban which is intended to allow for the breeding of the fish species comes into
effect yearly from the 1’st  April.
  
Each year thousands of Omena fishermen are thrown out [...]

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BY   DICKENS WASONGA
Wasongadick@yahoo.com          
                               
THE government  has set aside Kshs. 300 M to construct a correction facility in
Nyanza’s  Rachuonyo  district.
  
The project brings to six the number of the penal institutions in the province.
  
According to the area provincial prisons commandant Mr.  Benjamin  Njoga the
facility will accomodate 500  inmates and will have 150 warders when it becomes
fully operational.
  
Mr. Njoga [...]

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BY DICKENS WASONGA: Freelance Journalist-Kisumu-Kenya
wasongadick@yahoo.com,            
         
At least 86 administration police constables based in Nyanza province are yet to
recieve the ksh.10,000 awarded to police officers in similar rank countrywide
after the disputed general elections.
  
The money had been paid to the officers as allowances  for having participated in
polls last December.
  
At the Kisumu district headquaters, five officers who talked to [...]

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WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama has won the overall delegate race in Texas thanks to a strong showing in Democratic county conventions this past weekend.
Obama picked up seven of nine outstanding delegates, giving him a total of 99 Texas delegates to the party’s national convention this summer. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the other two, [...]

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