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...
People, we must tell Prof Nyong’o that the County Development Boards they created in senate is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. We are bashing Ababu Namwamba over ‘party affairs’ but seem to have forgotten that people like Nyong’o are also political opportunists to whom the letter and spirit of the constitution ends when their interests sets in. We must reject County Development Boards as much as we reject county commissioners. The constitution is not just threatened when it is Jubilee/Mumbilee doing it, actions by CORD elected leaders can also threaten it. One of the 10 points that the Isaac Rutto led referendum push has proposed is to give senators real powers so that they stop hovering around governors like pit latrine flies. Senators should strengthen national institutions and make laws which give life to devolution, not power and relevance to themselves. Senators who feel they are doing too little should wait till 2017 and vie either as governors or as MPs. One would have expected people like Nyong’o would be the first to oppose the creation of a board that duplicates the work of the governor and county assemblies. We can’t set systems only to fail them due to political hypocrisy and chicanery. Nyanza rejects County Development Boards. I wait to see how Hon. Kajwang’ will chair his in Homa Bay, or Dr. Machage in Migori. Hongera watu wa Kisumu. The constitution, in the final analysis, remain a property of the people, not senators, not parties, and not the national #mumbilee government.
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