From: Salah Sheikh
Date: Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:47 AM
Subject: What Judge Mchelule told Kiplagat

“He cannot sit in judgment when the issues are being discussed. Justice will cry if he were allowed to sit in judgment, be a witness and an accused all at the same time. My advice is that he should do the honourable thing.”

Justice Aggrey Muchelule

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From: maurice oduor
Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 10:40:31 AM
Subject: Re: For me this is still bad politics

Okapu Janeko,

This is what politics has done to our country. We have things going to wrong places because of political considerations. Look at car assembly or manufacturing. This industry uses a lot of water and in Kenya should be situated around Lake Victoria. But where were these industries taken to during Kenyatta? Thika of course.

While the East african countries were forming a trading block which would mean more air travel between them, the Moi government was expanding and modernizing the Eldoret Airport instead of the Kisumu one since Kisumu is centrally located in E Africa.

Next thing we’ll have a coconut processing factory in Njoro !!! And a wheat processing plant in Lamu !!

Go figure !!

Courage,
Oduor Maurice Wod Ugenya Ukwala

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From: Okapu Janeko
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 10:27:40 +0300
Subject: RE: For me this is still bad politics

Jakamburi,

Why would the government after so many years install a full blown plant in Kiambu and nothing as yet in Kisumu or the shores of lake victoria up to port Victoria and sio Port including Mbita point,Homabay Muhuru bay, Sindo and evenDunga

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Subject: Re: For me this is still bad politics
From: mauricejoduor@ . . .
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 07:23:08 +0000

Ja’Kamburi thura,

Isn’t marketing Kenya’s products the duty of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry? Or which ministry wanawajibika to do this? I find it interesting that fish has no market when a lot of countries are exporting fish to Europe and the Middle East.

Is there an agency/parastatal charged na wajibu huu?

Courage,
Oduor Maurice Wod Ugenya Ukwala

Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network

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From: “Eric W. Mburi”
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 07:13:03 +0000
Subject: For me this is still bad politics

Plenty of fish in Kiambu ‘but no one to buy’

Fish farmers harvest their catch in Tetu. Photo/FILE

By NATION CORRESPONDENT
Posted Monday, May 9 2011 at 16:41

Tonnes of fish worth millions of shillings are being held by farmers in Kiambu County due to lack of market.

About 4,000 farmers from eight districts in the county said since the project was launched through the Economic Stimulus Package last year, they have no market for their fish.

Mr John Njuguna, the chairman of Kiambu Fish Farmers Association also said they have no harvesting equipment such as nets.

“Most farmers have eight-month-old fish, which is the recommended rearing period but we do not have fishing nets or market for the fish,” Mr Njuguna said.

He attributed the difficulty in marketing to poor fish consumption by local communities.

Early this year, Kiambu District fisheries officer Raphael Kasio said the government was planning to put up a fish processing plant in the area at a cost of Sh5 million.

The factory, he said, would have a cooling plant, storage, transport as well as a marketing department.

Mr Kasio also said they is a huge market for fish, but added that his office was facing challenges connecting farmers with potential buyers.

Mr Josiah Mureithi, a fish farmer in Thindigua village said many fish farmers have now abandoned their ponds.

“Extension officers never come to check on our progress, birds are eating the fish and tadpoles have invaded the ponds,” Mr Mureithi said.

Ja’kamburi