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THE SHAME OF MUMIAS, KAKAMEGA COUNTY, WHERE LEARNERS SWIM ACROSS A DANGEROUS RIVER TO SCHOOL FOR LACK OF A BRIDGE

Citizen TV has chosen to shame us, by beaming a story of kids dressing in their school uniform, then undressing before the cameras as they jump into the river.. swim across, then dress up and run to school. Wololo... aibu kwetu!!

Imagine starting your school day by swimming across a dirty cold river, to school?

This has become the norm for some school children in Mumias East, Kakamega county.


The journey to school for pupils of Petros Primary School requires them to have swimming skills.

30% of these pupils literally swim to and from school everyday, a task that is slowly affecting their performance.

“Hawafiki shuleni wakati unaofaa kwa sababu ya kukosa daraja… wanaanza masomo karibu saa tatu, saa tatu na nusu,” said Wilberforce Wabuti, the school principal.

One of the students spoke to Citizen TV and narrated how they have to swim across without their uniform, holding their school books above the head so that they don’t get wet.

“Tunatoa uniform tunavukisha, alafu tunarudia vitabu, tunarudi tunavukisha wale wadogo ndio twende shule,” Tekla Lumbas said.

Her schoolmate Dorcas Awinja added: “Saa zingine asubuhi tunapata kama maji iko mingi tunangoja kidogo ndio tupite.”


Other routes have proved challenging not only for pupils of Petros Primary but also other schools in the area.

CONCLUSION
This story which has repeatedly been beamed on Citizen TV for the last one week has made us so ashamed. That as the sanator of Kakamega ... one Cleo Malala yaps on TV about.. BBI... Building Bridges.. initiative...the same tv shows how our future as mulembe nation have no Bridge to connect to that future. Shame on you politicians of Kakamega, shame on me... shame on all of us.
#AmungaPeter
*HOW PRIVATEER HOSPITALS ARE MAKING A KILL FROM TEACHERS MEDICAL COVER*

Today's front page in the Sunday Nation gives us the worst story I have read in the recent times. The writers begin a part one story of how doctors are making a killing from patients. I personally do a lot of work behind the scenes assisting teachers get medical attention. But what has always shocked me is that many teachers DO NOT KNOW that there medical insurance cover just like ALL MEDICAL covers has a limit. A p1 teacher for example cannot have a medical cover equivalent to a chief principal at Tho gotoThogoto TTC. Each teacher according to your job grade and experience, has limits ranging from inpatient of 500,000 to 2 million.

NOW, according to today's Nation, hospitals like Nairobi Women's and Mediheal, use bloggers and various marketing gimmicks to lure teachers to visit their hospitals. Once at their facilities, a teacher is subjected to various tests and investigations in their labs. A teacher who may not be seriously ill will then be booked in for a forced admission so as to meet targets. And on the day of discharge from hospital, what Mediheal or Nairobi Women's do is they lie to you that the Internet is NOT working or the lines are down or simply, AON MINET are NOT authorizing your discharge. Truth is.. THEY HAVE NOT EVEN send your discharge bill to MINET. That means you spend another 2 or 3 or even 1 week in hospital waiting to be discharged. As this happens, the very hospital is milking your account dry because you pay heavily for every night spent in their hospital. By the time you are discharged your limit is over, or you are forced to do a harrambee to clear your bill. Worse is.. it means for the entire year, you or your family will never enjoy the inpatient medical cover since you have exhausted your limit.

*CONCLUSION*
The overzealous private hospitals paying bloggers to market them with spender and glorious pictures are the biggest thieves of teacher insurance cover. They are fraudsters. When a deal looks to good.. THINK TWICE. SHAME ON U NAIROBI WOMEN'S HOSPITAL and MEDIHEAL for stealing from poor teachers.
#AmungaPeter
Grief has engulfed Mba Secondary School in Makueni County after the school principal died after allegedly taking poison.
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MEDIHEAL HOSPITAL GROUPS THAT UNKNOWN TEACHER BLOGGERS ARE TRYING TO SELL AS THE PROPRIETOR IS MINTING MILLIONS THROUGH FICTITIOUS BILLINGS

Teachers have been treated to some drama in the recent days by Olivia Pope, Ongoro Miruka aka the Conman, Janet Nzisa and Joseh about one Health Facility . Mediheal Hospital Group has been quoted immensely by teachers for wrong reasons. The aforementioned bloggers are copy pasting the brochures and posting on teachers wall in the name of marketing the facility, while not being creative and original with their own ideas.

Teachers who advocate without double speak have in many occasions enlightened teachers about evils committed against their unsuspecting colleagues by Mediheal Hospital group. But what surprised me is how teachers are advocating for their fellow comrades to fall sick and get medication at Mediheal in exchange for kickbacks. #HawaNiwanjingaSana.Why allow your stomachs to buy your reasoning and integrity?

The teething questions that teachers should seek answers for is Why Not Nairobi Hospital,Kenyatta or Aghakan , and well established hospitals to market themselves. Mediheal is a scandalous, with cartels controlled by Mugwe Macharia Executive Secretary of Knut Nairobi Branch .

Mediheal for instance use bloggers to popularise their facilities while they offer substandard services and frustrate teachers who have gone for medication.
Finally, as team sanity we shall be revealing in real time the scandals within the Mediheal hospital that has been stealing from the teachers medical cover. Some people have been insinuating that a deal went sour and that precipitated some bloggers to go offensive. Nothing of the sort can be further from truth as some cartels wanted to use those bloggers to tarnish their image. They decided to give it a wide berth. MEDIHEAL HEIST loading for the evils committed and still against teachers

*Onyango Otieno,PhD*
President Uhuru Kenyatta has given government officials until February 29th to ensure that all the 2019 KCPE candidates within their jurisdiction have joined to secondary school, adds parents will also be held accountable for not taking their children to join Form 1.
*AN EVIL HAND MISLEADS 54 WOMEN TEACHERS TO ADDRESS THEIR EMPLOYER THROUGH AN ADVOCATE*

THE 54 Kiambu women Teachers misplaced anger against KEWOTA. They should stop blaming KEWOTA and TSC. Infact it's the said Teachers who are on the wrong side of the law and the demand letter from their advocate Julius and Advocates company is laughable. The counsel is illegally weaponizing the teachers against their employer with the so called "illegal deductions" which are only fictitious *#StopBeingCowardsAnd ApproachYourEmployer WithoutUsingAdvocates AsThisMayHaveDireCo sequence.*

The employer has clear rules on the channel of Communication with her employees through correspondence and not through processed servers and by taking such unorthodox step may have unwarranted outcome on the said Teachers. Teachers are their worst enemies and shouldn't blame anyone.

Finally, we're privy to the revelations that the master of court orders conservatory ordes has a hand in the matter and may want to sink with many teachers who are not kin to his malicious and mischievous character.
*#KewotaDoesntControlTSCIPPD*

*Onyango Otieno, PhD*