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 LANGAT MATHEW
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) lost its trust with a majority of Kenyans and is facing integrity crisis; corruption, scandal, Voter registration & a body that can easily be compromised. Which begs the question on its commitment to fulfill its constitutional mandate of conducting a flawless, free and credible elections next year.
The sustained calls and campaign by CORD coalition,c Churches, Civil societies, private sector etc.. for commissioners to leave office is not founded on flippant allegations but realities on ground shared by most Kenyans.
In 2012 the lack of impartiality of IEBC commissioners was exposed in the registration of voters for the last general election, the IEBC distributed BVR machines unequally. This wasn't actions of an innocent commission. They're people in business clothes operating under instructions.
The result of the registration exercise conducted by the IEBC in 2012 is the infamous “tyranny of numbers”. It was not that Jubilee areas did a better job pushing people to register. It was that the IEBC made it easier for people in those zones to register through skewed distribution of registration kits.
Free, fair and regular elections are enduring foundations of every democratic state, not just as episodic events, but as an integral part and societal infrastructure of civilized nations.
Kenyans note with concern the silence, secrecy, denial and general incompetence surrounding the IEBC three years after the last election in which all the equipment failed within the first hour of the opening of the polls.
Kericho mighty hangover still fresh in our minds. IEBC colluded with Jubilee skunks to generate tyranny of numerics. Some of the commisioners have admitted being controlled by government agencies. To add salt on injury, there are allegations that Kericho was sampling ground and the same system is likely to be used in next general elections.
#IEBCmustFall.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) lost its trust with a majority of Kenyans and is facing integrity crisis; corruption, scandal, Voter registration & a body that can easily be compromised. Which begs the question on its commitment to fulfill its constitutional mandate of conducting a flawless, free and credible elections next year.
The sustained calls and campaign by CORD coalition,c Churches, Civil societies, private sector etc.. for commissioners to leave office is not founded on flippant allegations but realities on ground shared by most Kenyans.
In 2012 the lack of impartiality of IEBC commissioners was exposed in the registration of voters for the last general election, the IEBC distributed BVR machines unequally. This wasn't actions of an innocent commission. They're people in business clothes operating under instructions.
The result of the registration exercise conducted by the IEBC in 2012 is the infamous “tyranny of numbers”. It was not that Jubilee areas did a better job pushing people to register. It was that the IEBC made it easier for people in those zones to register through skewed distribution of registration kits.
Free, fair and regular elections are enduring foundations of every democratic state, not just as episodic events, but as an integral part and societal infrastructure of civilized nations.
Kenyans note with concern the silence, secrecy, denial and general incompetence surrounding the IEBC three years after the last election in which all the equipment failed within the first hour of the opening of the polls.
Kericho mighty hangover still fresh in our minds. IEBC colluded with Jubilee skunks to generate tyranny of numerics. Some of the commisioners have admitted being controlled by government agencies. To add salt on injury, there are allegations that Kericho was sampling ground and the same system is likely to be used in next general elections.
#IEBCmustFall.
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