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’s “Mweupe kama pamba” cliche may soon be a thing of the past if some serious allegations on his conduct as a Prime Minister is anything to go by and he may be banned from setting foot in the USA, Britain and other European Union Countries. This comes as allegations emerged concerning his conduct as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya between the year 2008-2013 . In these allegations, the former Prime Minister becomes the latest high-ranking politician to be entangled in the ongoing revelations of bribery involving British American Tobacco (BAT), Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) officials and Mastermind Tobacco. According to a British newspaper the Independent, Whistleblower Paul Hopkins says in his latest revelations that high-ranking officials in Mr Odinga’s office intervened to stop the KRA from freezing Mastermind’s accounts over non-payment taxes worth billions of shillings. Further, Mr Hopkins told the UK newspaper that the senior officials in Mr Odinga’s office ordered the KRA to freeze multi-million shilling tax demands issued to Mastermind Tobacco – the maker of the Supermatch brand of cigarettes. Mr Odinga’s office wrote to the then KRA boss Michael Waweru asking him to immediately suspend agency notices issued to Mastermind’s bankers. The involvement of Mr Odinga’s office in the BAT bribery scam are contained in a dossier Mr Hopkins forwarded to the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO), according to the Independent. Mr. Odinga becomes the third opposition leader to be heavily mentioned in the BAT saga after his coalition partners Moses Wetangula and former Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Martha Karua. The allegations leaves Mr. Odinga with an egg in his face as he has been accusing the government of graft. If the accusations are proved to be true, Mr. Odinga and his team may be banned from visiting most of the Western countries and possibly be charged in court.
Comments