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By Jeff Kizzilah

Director of Public Prosecution of Kenya Hon. Noordin Haji has said his will continue to enhance its strategies in addressing illegal financial flows.

“The lessons learnt in Kenya is that both prosecutors and investigators and judicial officers have to work together with the Witness Protection Agency in order to secure evidence for effective prosecution of terrorism cases”,he explains

Speaking during the 16th Africa Prosecutors Conference in Mombasa he said as the (ODPP), we have handled cases on illicit financial flows.

According to Mr.Saitoti Ole Maika Director General Financial Reporting Centre,
One of the key roles of the Financial Reporting Centre is to ensure compliance of international practice in financial reporting,” he adds

President William Ruto yesterday acknowledged that, Africa has the muscles and potential to fight financial online fraud and the office has reported tremendous job going forward.

Ruto has also recognized the role played by Attorney Generals, Prosecutors and Solicitor Generals from Africa.

Currently the ODPP is also working with stakeholders to develop an inter-agency Guideline to address terrorism and violent extremism.

However,at times, people who get out of violent extremism go back to it. This needs to be tackled,Haji has explained.

Mr Michael Sang, Director Senior Ass.Public Prosecution said, “We continue to sensitize the public on terrorism and violent extremism. We have also built the capacity of prosecutors on handling these cases,” he said.

By Nicholas Manduku

Deputy Director of Public Prosecution of Kenya Mr Victor Mule said the (ODPP) will continues to enhance its strategies in addressing illegal financial flows.

“The lessons learnt in Kenya is that both prosecutors and investigators and judicial officers have to work together with the Witness Protection Agency in order to secure evidence for effective prosecution of terrorism cases”,he explains.

Speaking during the 16th Africa Prosecutors Association Conference in Mombasa he said as the (ODPP), we have handled cases on illicit financial flows.

According to Mr.Saitoti Ole Maika Director General Financial Reporting Centre, said one of the key roles of the Financial Reporting Centre is to ensure compliance of international practice in financial reporting,” he adds

President William Ruto yesterday acknowledged that, Africa has the muscles and potential to fight financial online fraud and the office has reported tremendous job going forward.

President William Ruto has recognized the role played by Attorney Generals, Prosecutors and Solicitor Generals from Africa.

Currently the ODPP is also working with stakeholders to develop an inter-agency Guideline to address terrorism and violent extremism.

By Jeff Kizzilah

ICT Committee of COG, Chairman H.E Stephen Sang Nandi Governor said the platform is created to serve all counties with information.

Launch a digital Maarifa Centre is one of those platform to share best practices in various sector to provide best practices.

The platform was launched when they signed a partnership with the media to get smooth flow from the counties.

“We are tasking directors also to draft a platform for information flow and helps to engage with different patners.”Sand added

He said however there has been challlenges but free flow of information is key to our growth.

The counties are asking the national government to be treat equal and its unfair and requesting the government to provide enough funds.

County governments are struggling and this is because of late and less money disburse to the counties,Nandi Governor says.

By Jeff Kizzilah

He has call opposition power hungry and greedy politicians who only wants for themselves.

Hon Edwin Mugo has asked Opposion Leader Raila to respect President Ruto and accept the opposition office to be created in parliament.

He said that Opposition leaders are up for nothing but old politics to polorous the nation.

The Mp has urged the leaders to support the formation of official Opposion office to help them address issues in parliament.

According to Hon.Mugo , opposition leaders should stop inciting their supporters to stop paying taxes, he said its an old school type of politics.

“Taxation is a continuous contribution of everyone for the benefit of development and if you exempt from such a process you should face the law”.he adds

Mathioya constituency is schedule to give bursary to more than 8000 graduates.

By Jeff Kizzilah

Matayos MP Hon.Geofrey Odanga has today explained that the ongoing meeting in Mombasa is geared towards inducting Members of Parliament to understand their mandates in parliament.

“ We are here in Mombasa to do induction on our mandates of Parliamentaries Commitees in Parliament,”Hon.Geofrey Odanga.

While addressing journalists in Mombasa hotel Hon Odanga has said that one of the things that has earned a lot of heat during their induction here in Mombasa is the CDF which is anchored in law and was discussed in Paliarment.

Because of this,the well thought Mp noted that Leaders and Citizens must understand that law making is a continuous process.

Section 8(1) of the NGCDF Act 2015 as amended in 2016 provides for funding of emergency projects. Emergency is defined as an urgent, unforseen needs.

Besides this, he noted that there are some weakeneses that must be noted to correct on the gaps that are parallysing the disbursement of Funds In the constituency.

“I have seen alot of weaknesses such as accountability and wastages of funds.”He said.

“There are times money has been given to universities when students have already cleared schools. That money automatically goes to waste.

Sometimes students have rapport with finance department and engage themselves in mischievous behaviors that also leads to corruption,he adds.

Julius Kipleting, Member of Parliament for Kesses, has told the press that the county expects to receive approximately 2 billion Ksh from the treasury.
Hon. Julius Kipleting was speaking at a Mombasa hotel in Shanzu, where he urged the government to continue prioritizing education matters to provide students with access to education.
The constituency has 21 secondary schools, and approximately 15 000 students are expected to benefit from CDF funds.
On January 24, 2023, all primary and secondary schools officially opened.

Treasury CS risk being first to go through impeachment motion by N.A ,says Mandera East MP

Mandela East Mp Hon. Hussein Weyta says if the Treasury will not disburse the 100% of CDF by 14th next month, he risk being impeached as the first Cabinet Secretary in the hustler government.

He said upto now the fund is still little and below the expected target by all constituencies.

Therefore, he has advised the Treasury to first be careful and critical when disbursing the fund to all constituencies because not all are the same population.

Hon. Hussein said the debt economy has gone higher and their are some projects you can’t do with the CDF alone.

” I will urge the government to increase more funds within the specified time to help the constituency in doing some projects.”, he adds

He says the President Ruto promised to ensure counties or constituencies get enough funds and on time,he said let the government put it as a priority.

However the constituency is also getting the supported from the county government.

Mandera East constituency plans to issue bursary to over 2000 to 5000 students mostly secondary schools and primary.

By Staff Reporter

Nyaribari Masaba Member of Parliament Hon Dr. Daniel Manduku has come to the rescue of CDF kitty.

Hon. Manduku said the CDF is the best kitty and which is well managed since it became implemented in 2015.

Since 2015, implementation of the fund has been used to support different projects across the country before it became National Government Curriculum Development Fund (NG-CDF) kitty for all constituents.

But this hasn’t taken long before the project became legally after the court said its unconstitutional.

“CDF is the most visible and vibrant fund that Kenyans can count when it comes to projects it has done including building schools amongst other infrastructures in each and every constituencies, therefore it will be help in a big way if the government put a lot of money being disbursed on a timely basis,” he adds

Therefore it is the responsibility of Parliament and Treasury to make it a constitutional law for the benefit of Kenyans.

Dr. Manduku plans to give the bursary to more than 5000 students and through vetting on who should receive the fund.

President Ruto has of late supported the CDF and said it should be legalised as one of the laws of Kenya.

by Tum David

The firm has opened NairobiEurope’s longest established shoe manufacturers, Josef Seibel -founded in 1886 in Haunstein, Germany -has today opened its first Nairobi outlet as it begins expanding presence in Kenya.

The company is targeting the country’s burgeoning middle and upper class consumers with European comfort standard shoe brands made from Kenya’s highest quality genuine leather and designed for different age groups and occassion.

“We are bringing to Kenyan market the same quality, fitting and designs as we have it elsewhere in the world. Nairobi is where most middle and upper class populations live and where we also have big multinational organisations including the UN headquarters,” said Josef Siebel Africa, Chairman, Carl-August Seibel during the opening of Nairobi shop.

He added, “We want to show that good quality shoes can be made and sold in Kenya.”

The local leather the firm uses to make its huge array of shoe brands has been tested for Chromium VI chemicals to ensure the leather is safe for use.

Some of the shoes already being made at its two-year old Ukunda factory include ShuShu and Nolan range under brand name-Romika.

Under Shushu range is a set of high quality, lightweight school shoes for the active child, while its Nolan range covers low-heel slip on shoes with double elastic bands that are quick and easy, yet stylish and comfy. All these are designed in Germany and made in Kenya.

“ We are priced in the segment between Ksh 4,000 to Ksh 7,000. In market comparison, we are competitive,” said Seibel.

As part of its expansion plan, the company is looking to train more local staff and increase its production capacity from current 120,000 – 130,000 pairs of shoes annually and broaden its shoe offering range.

“A hundred people are currently employed at the Ukunda factory. we are targeting to increase the number to 200 by end of next year as we look to produce more shoe designes in the market,” he said.

The move, Seibel said will help to relieve the company from high import taxes when demand exceeds its local production capacity.

The company trains local staff- without knowledge of shoe making- from scratch, which it said has proven as a better system to meeting the high international quality, comfort and safety standards.

The company will leverage on franchise model to expand presence in Nairobi with plans to open more outlets in Mombasa and other coastal towns near its factory.

Chesumei constituency Member of parliament Hon. Paul Yego a Member of Finance committee asked the Treasury to ensure the funding reaches the constituency as they promised on time.

Speaking to journalists in Mombasa during Parliamentarian Induction in Mombasa, which was to discuss possible bills for 2023,he said ,”we have applauded the Treasury for partial payment “he adds

He said that Mps protested witnessed during the first day of the induction meeting in Mombasa, was as a result pressure from the constituency and need to take children going school.

He said CDF is one of the key milestone to all constituencies and well achievement to most of the projects in the constituency.

Therefore,he said if well supported by all stakeholders it will serve kenyans well.

“I have requested Mps and the national government to implement the fund in full.”he said

He has appreciated the president who has been supportive to the CDF allocation.