The Cutting Edge - July 1, 2014
What you need to know:
- A section of Mombasa’s Magongo Road up to the junction to Jomvu has been in a deplorable state since trenches were dug to lay cables and water pipes, says motorist Virginia Wangui, who regularly uses that road.
- The report indicating that many headteachers are likely to die of stress is far from the truth, remarks X.N. Iraki.
ELATED BY ROAD WORK
An elated resident, David Mbindyo, says the contractor working on Lang’ata Road has done a good job of modifying the roundabout near the Kenya Wildlife Service headquarters.
“Hats off to the contractor. It was such a menace and threat to the safety of motorists and their passengers.
In fact, many drivers would smash into the kerb because of the sharp turns.” His contact is [email protected].
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NO, NOT THAT WESTGATE
For the information of Jim Webo, the naming of the Westgate Shield School off Naivasha highway at Kikuyu, had nothing to do with last September’s terrorist attack on the shopping mall in Nairobi with a similar name, Felister Kivisi clarifies.
The school, she adds, was there long before the terrorists struck at Westgate Shopping Mall in Westlands.
“It is, therefore, incorrect to suggest that the owner was inspired by the attack to choose that name.” Her contact is [email protected].
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SURCHARGE CONTRACTORS
A section of Mombasa’s Magongo Road up to the junction to Jomvu has been in a deplorable state since trenches were dug to lay cables and water pipes, says motorist Virginia Wangui, who regularly uses that road.
The Kenya National Highways Authority, she adds, should ensure better supervision of contractors carrying out such projects to ensure high standards of workmanship.
She wishes such companies could be surcharged for shoddy work. Her contact is [email protected].
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GO ON AND SHOW THEM, GOV
Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua deserves praise for the completion of the Kithimani Road in a record three months and quite remarkably at half the projected cost, says a thoroughly impressed Pius Kigunda.
A native of Meru County, Pius wishes other governors and members of county assemblies could borrow a leaf from Machakos on the prudent use of public funds instead of wasting taxpayers’ cash on “unnecessary foreign trips”. His contact is [email protected].
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WHY TEACHERS DIE
The report indicating that many headteachers are likely to die of stress is far from the truth, remarks X.N. Iraki.
The main cause of the stress afflicting the school heads, according to him, “is lack of delegation; they want to do everything and control everything”.
The solution, he adds, is to encourage them to delegate and come up with succession plans. “And by the way, shall we ever get great headteachers like Carey Francis (Alliance) and Geofrey Griffin (Starehe)?”
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ORIGI NOT OURS
Kenyans should be ashamed of taking pride in Belgium’s teenage striker Divock Origi at the World Cup in Brazil, says Ephantus Kamau.
Had Origi, the son of former Kenyan international Mike Okoth, been born and brought up in Kenya, “the closest he would have come to the World Cup is watching it on television”.
However, he advises, this should serve as wake-up call to the officials that there is plenty of talent waiting to be tapped, “instead of rushing to claim what they have not nurtured”. His contact is [email protected].
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