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...
BY Hon Koigi Wamwere For a long time I have agonized over who should have been second president of Kenya. Though Kenyatta was hardly perfect and was a dictator, before he assumed power, he was such an icon of freedom and symbol of African struggle for independence along with other African freedom fighters like Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere that the position of first president in their country was theirs automatically. In Kenya, Oginga Odinga already led the African campaign for the release of Jomo Kenyatta from prison and his assumption of Kenya’s first president. Of all Kenyan politicians, Odinga was the most committed to the notion that Kenyatta should be the first president of Kenya and there is no evidence that he ever contemplated challenging him for presidency. When it comes to the second president of Kenya however, I believe Oginga Odinga should have succeeded Kenyatta, not Daniel Arap Moi. If Oginga Odinga never become the second president of Kenya, it is not because he did not qualify for it but because Kenyatta did not reciprocate the loyalty that Odinga had demonstrated for him. Had Kenyatta supported Odinga the way Odinga had supported him, Odinga would easily have become the second president of Kenya. Oginga Odinga should have become second president of Kenya because he was more qualified for it than Moi. Despite the hell I suffered at the hands of President Moi, I have no personal grudge against him. It is therefore for no personal grudge that I say that between Odinga and Moi, Odinga qualified for the second presidency of Kenya many times more than Moi. In fact, on account of his unparalleled courage and admission of Kenyan leaders’ failure to take Kenya to the Promised Land, at the time of Kenyatta’s death, no other Kenyan leader qualified more for second presidency of Kenya than Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. Finally, to use the words of Johnny Carson that choices have consequences, our choices of Kenyatta as our first president, Moi as our second president, Kibaki as our third president and Uhuru as our fourth president all have consequences that explain what Kenya is today – a land of unending calamities of terrorism, hunger, road carnage, deadly brews, incurable corruption, negative ethnicity and death of the national soul
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