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...
Prior to the president's action on Lamu, land reform in Kenya was treated as an initiative of popular revolution. During the campaigns in 2013, Cord, said land reform was a campaign issue and was going to be a problem for the next administration. Jubilee responded that it was emotive, divisive and should not be an issue. Yesterday, President Kenyatta acknowledged land is an issue but appeared to blame the predecessor. Cord wishes to state that blaming the predecessor is not what people are looking for in their president. It is not going resonate for long, if it does at all. Kenyans are looking for somebody who’s not blaming somebody but is going to solve their problems. Now, it's the President, who comes from a family that is a major land owner and publicly accused of acquiring most of it illegally, that has started canceling titles of allegedly illegally acquired land. Land reform is therefore no longer about land revolution. It is now a matter of justice, recognized and endorsed by the highest Executive authority. This must go full cycle. There exists the Ndung’u report and the TJRC report that have both laid out extensive audits of illegally acquired land and how they are causing tension and wars across the country. Both reports have called for cancellation of titles. The president’s move is perfectly in line with what both Commissions and the general Kenyan public expect as the way to implement the recommendationsof both. What reason would the president give not to issue similar orders in respect of all land acquired illegally? The CORD leadership demands that the president becomes consistent and adopts the same approach to the Ndung’u and TJRC reports. As Opposition, we are pleased that overall, the Referendum call is bearing fruit even before it begins. The Government has now accepted that land is at the centre of the chaos in Lamu and the Coast in General as we said before and after the elections. We feel energized that if the fear of a Referendum can bear so much fruit, the actual Referendum will deliver much more? Kenyans can look forward to good times ahead. In the meantime, we ask that a President who has acted “without fear” in canceling titles must now act “without favour”. The Ndung’u report and the TJRC report must be implemented in the same way, swiftly and without fear or favour. The Rt Hon Raila Odinga. Hon Kalonzo Musyoka. Sen Moses Wetangula. August 1, 2014.
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