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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...

Jimmy Wanjigi Claims His Life In Danger, Requests For Police Protection

Businessman Jimmy Wanjigi has written to the Inspector General of police, Joseph Boinnet saying his life might be in danger.
Through his lawyers Githinji and Karoki advocates, the billionaire has said that he has noticed persons unknown to him follow him.
Wanjigi strongly believes that the systematic onslaught against him is due to his political affiliations. He has been seen to be supporting NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga and was at one time purported to be a key financier of the NASA campaign.

In one of the incidents he is said to have confronted the people following him which was reported on August 7th by The Standard News paper captioned ‘Business comes to a standstill after Jimmy Wanjigi confronts mystery car.’
He claims that a senior State House official also visited his residence and warned them of imminent threat to his life.
He has since reported the matter to the Gigiri Police Station under OB Number 14/10/9/2017.
He has asked the office of the Inspector General to expeditiously and with urgency intervene an provide him with police protection at his cost.
Source:kahawatungu

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