ODM’s ‘Men in Black’, who are best remembered for disrupting the party’s internal elections early this year, on Monday declared that they had ditched the Orange party, and were ready ‘join’ President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee coalition. On the same day, comedian Eric Omondi was named the new rhino ambassador at Lake Nakuru national park.
On Tuesday, there was news that battery-making company Eveready had closed shop, affecting hundreds of workers in Nakuru town. The closure was blamed on the entry of cheap dry cells from foreign markets. Elsewhere, two drug traffickers were given life sentences by a Nakuru court.
The controversial decision by Nakuru Governor Kinuthia Mbugua to ban Cord’s pro-referendum campaigns in the county was on Wednesday supported by Kiambu Senator Kimani Wamatangi, who accused the Opposition leaders of inciting the people. Meanwhile, the Nakuru council of elders demanded that the cash transfer to the old people be suspended.
As a Nakuru court on Thursday handed a life sentence to a woman who killed her husband’s mistress, elsewhere in the county, parents stormed a school to ‘cast out demons’.
Boda boda riders rescued an Egerton University lecturer who was the victim of a robbery attempt. Still on Friday, a government official revealed that plans were at an advanced stage to expand the Nairobi-Nakuru highway, to reduce the number of accidents occurring on the dangerous road.
There was news on Saturday that the US had partnered with Kenya on the education sector. Meanwhile, the Nakuru deputy governor opposed calls to devolve education.