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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...

The Real Land Grabbers In Kenya

The Jubilee Government should stop playing populist politics with the land equation.Having lost the support of the Muslim community and failed to gain foothold in the coast Province despite attempts at artificial development initiatives,President. Uhuru Kenyatta has now resorted to futile populist public utterances aimed at not only hood winking Kenyans but also diverting the attention of Kenyans from the Referendum. The President no longer has powers to allocate land or revoke any titles,which is the preserve of the National Land Commission.There can be no short cut to arriving at a solution to the land equation.The remedy is full implementation of the Ndungu Report and the ORIGINAL TJRC report. The history of land grabbing is well-documented and already lies in the public domain.The real land grabbers are well-known. It starts with Jomo Kenyatta and ends with William Ruto.

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