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By THE WATCHMAN Posted Thursday, February 24 2011 at 19:20

IMPUNITY. Kenyans are setting themselves up for disappointment if they believe that sending the six post-2007 election violence suspects to The Hague will end impunity, warns Crescence Karanja. A pessimistic Karanja cites the case of a senior Ministry of Education official, who reportedly ensured that a boy who did not qualify to join a national school was admitted. “There is also a politician who owned up to a Sh30 million fake currency conspiracy. All these are people Kenyans look up to as leaders.”

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HOPE, STEP JUMP. The City Council of Nairobi has terribly neglected roads at Jamhuri 2 estate, moans Judy Chege. The worst is the short stretch leading to Harmony Court, which is so bad that a “dam” has formed, thanks to the recent rains. Pedestrians have had to master the hop, step and jump. If they can’t tarmac the road now, they should simply use a caterpillar to level it,” says Judy. Her contact is judyjchege@gmail.com.

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USELESS PURSUIT. The directive by Transport Licensing Board chairman Hassan ole Kamwaro to the owners of Public Service Vehicles to instal litter bins is a clear case of pursuit of the wrong priority, remarks Maureen Mumbi. She doesn’t quite see why the Kamwaro team is more concerned with litter disposal, yet “looking around, one will see that three quarters of all PSVs have no First Aid boxes and this is mandatory”. Some have only semblances of those boxes, which are either empty or obsolete.

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SHAPE UP. Postal services have never been so poor, declares Jackline Chebet. Someone sent her a parcel from overseas on November 20, last year, and when she went to the second floor of City Square Post Office to inquire, she was told to search for it herself through some 15 books. “Can the Postmaster-General act?” pleads Jackline. The tracking number is LC 741110248US and her address, P.O. Box 25574-00603, Nairobi. Her contact is jchebeti@gmail.com.

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A THOUSAND APOLOGIES. Telkom Kenya technicians have restored service to Nairobi-based NGO Labour Awareness & Resource Centre, whose landlines, Nos 2714022 and 2714023, have been out of order for a while, says Angela Ng’ang’a-Mumo, the head of corporate communications, sincerely apologising for the inconvenience suffered by the organisation. In response to cable vandalism, she adds, the company has introduced a wireless platform through which all the landlines are routed.

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TOP OF THE WORLD. Josephine Weru-Awili is elated that “Kenya is among the top again”. Though many will certainly disagree with Josephine, she’s over the moon that a photograph taken in Kenya by one Lynn Johnson titled, ‘Burden of Thirst’, made the top 10 list of great photographs picked by the National Geographic channel. It’s a photo of women and children trekking in arid northern Kenya in search of water. She adds: “We can revel in being among the top again!”

Have a celebratory day, won’t you!