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Interesting things to know about the towel

How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut.  No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut).  Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori,  salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...

Raila odinga has been known as father of democracy in kenya.He will be remembered in kenya history as an individual who greatly fought for realisation new constitution, which was promagated in the year 2010.This new constitution saw the birth of county goverments(Devolution).only three years after constitution was realised,Raila is now advocating for a referundum to change kenya from a presidential to a parliamentary system of governance.Does it mean Raila never knew the best system for kenya before the new constitution?As a nigerian writer referred to him as an Engima in kenya politics,Raila odinga is the smartest politician in kenya.After supreme court upheld uhuru kenyatta election which Raila claimed he had been rigged out,he respected but disagreed with the ruling and vowed to use other means.Might the call for refundum be the 'other means' he talked about?The truth of the matter is that Raila being a very bright politician,he is using the issue of referundum to pressure the uhuru administration to fully implement devolution, failure to which they will loose public faith and this might trigger a referundum.Otherwise it is not practical for Raila to call for a referundum ofwhich will be conducted by Iebc,the body he got no trust with.

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