The Cutting Edge

Nearly three months after graduating from Moi University, a group of students say they have not been issued with degree certificates, making it hard to look for jobs or other opportunities.

“As an ISO certified institution, our university is doing badly. Kenyatta University has already issued certificates to those who graduated on December 18 and January 4. You can do better,” say the former students.

Their email is graduates10@yahoo.com.

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Since last December, Geoffrey Ochieng’ moans, Telkom Kenya has failed to restore his company’s telephone lines, Nos. 2715461 and 2715490, “and yet they know that communication is vital in any industry”.

He says he shouldn’t be punished as he has never been in the company of the vandals they keep complaining about.

It will be a pity, he declares, if Telkom Orange lapses back into the kind of inefficiency that characterised the old lethargic parastatal.

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Telkom, Brian Ngare says, is to blame for the collapse of his Internet café business, which he had operated since 2006, on Tel No. 8710078.

“My competitors are still in business and I’ve been given endless reference numbers, the latest being, N/0210/73609. I will only be too happy to resume if the ISP could stop telling him, “we’re repairing a node”, and sort out the problem once and for all,” says Brian, whose email is bwngare@gmail.com

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Richard B. Jones flew with Kenya Airways from Bamako to Nairobi on March 5, and was surprised to learn later that his luggage was not loaded!

“We suffered the same inconvenience from Nairobi to Bamako. The office in Bamako was unhelpful when we sought compensation, and none was volunteered in Nairobi. Why spend money boasting about punctuality when you can’t transport passengers’ luggage?” asks Jones.

His email is r.jones@cgiar.org.

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One of the roads in Lari constituency, Daniel Kibunja says, is so dilapidated that it’s savaging the legacy of the big political name it carries.

He adds: “In Kiambu West District, the major link between Githunguri and Kimende is in a sorry state, despite having the name, Moi Road. Can our MP persuade the Ministry of Roads to fix it or simply use the CDF cash so that farmers can easily and affordably transport their produce?”

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The Maili Tisa-Moi’s Bridge stretch of the Eldoret-Kitale road has been in an appalling condition for over eight years now, says Dan Wabuge.

“I remember when I was a little boy, it used to be a smooth ride going upcountry. But since 2002, the road has been full of potholes.

I wonder if no one has ever realised this or it’s just being blatantly neglected and yet the Recruit Training School is along this road. Can’t something be done about this?” asks Dan.

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A peculiar habit of Kenyans, which has always baffled Creasey Ikoa, has something to do with ambulances and the rush to get the seriously ill to hospital.

Says he: “Motorists will quickly give way to an ambulance, blaring the siren, even when there is a heavy traffic jam, but all of a sudden, you will notice sometimes up to eight cars fall into line and speed after it. Isn’t it immoral of these very “bright” drivers to dash behind the ambulance at full speed?”

Have a sane day, won’t you!

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