MPs say move opens window for more talks ODM wants plum State jobs advertised House Speaker Kenneth Marende referred the ruling on Kibaki nominations to two House Committees Showdown as Raila, Kibaki ‘put record straight’ Face-off: House clash over Kibaki list of nominees Executive must respect spirit of new Constitution By Martin Mutua Speaker Kenneth Marende tactfully avoided being sucked into standoff between the President and the Prime Minister by giving them a ten-day window to resolve their disagreement and referring the dispute to two House committees. One member decribed it as a ‘Solomonic judgement’ while others praised him for the manner he disarmed both sides to the dispute and brought in a different group to delve into the crisis, which has driven the Grand Coalition into a spin. The Speaker who bore the burden of ruling if the four nominations Mr Raila Odinga accuses President Kibaki of making without regard to exhaustive consultations were within constitutional threshold, passed over the task of verifying the truth of the claims by both sides to the Justice and Finance committees. Underpinning his ruling to the post-election experience that was pacified with Kibaki-Raila power-sharing deal, Marende warned Kenya’s leadership: “It will be a pity and a severe indictment of our collective leadership if in time to come, history shall record of our country in general and of our leadership in particular that we learnt nothing from history.” While excusing himself, on the grounds of law and House Standing Orders, from giving the ruling sought in the controversial nominations, he referred it to the Justice and Finance House Committees. “If I were a judge sitting on the Bench in a court of law, I would rule that the matter proceed to hearing and that the objections raised be heard and determined at that stage,” he said. Withhold any determination The backbone of his ruling lay in three crucial paragraphs in the 29-page statement on a matter raised by Central Imenti MP, Gitobu Imanyara: “I accordingly withhold any determination or comment on the veracity and weight to be accorded to the letter received from Prime Minister.” Kibaki (right) and Prime Minister Raila Odinga (left) may now have to go back to the drawing board. [PHOTO: File/STANDARD] “I accordingly decline to make a determination as to whether or not the nominations transmitted to my office by the Office of His Excellency, the President, were or were not constitutionally arrived at nor whether there was or was not consultation within the meaning of the Constitution.” “I further direct the two letters (Kibaki’s and Raila’s) be forwarded to the departmental committees on Justice and Finance … for disposal as provided for in the Standing Orders and the Law.” There was a sigh of relief in both sides of the House, both of which had been bracing for battle of numbers, as the ruling fell short of annulling or upholding the Kibaki appointments. The two committees, Justice headed by Mr Budalang’i MP, Ababu Namwamba, and Finance by Nambale MP, Chris Okemo, has up to next Thursday to make the report. Will be scrutinised Three of the nominations — Chief Justice (Alnashir Visram), Attorney General (Githu Muigai) and Director of Public Prosecutions (Kioko Kilukumi) fall under Namwamba’s docket while that of the Comptroller of Budget (William Kirwa) will be scrutinised by the Okemo committee. Many had expected Marende would say he finds the nominations irregular or at least to reject some while allowing others to be tabled for debate. But few anticipated his ruling yesterday, and that Kenyans would have to wait longer to know the fate of the nominees. He ruled on a day the High Court found the nominations unconstitutional. Justice Daniel Musinga yesterday said it would be unconstitutional for any State officer or organ of the State to carry on with the process of the approval and eventual appointment to the four offices based on the nominations made by Kibaki on January 28. With the declaration, he effectively put the process on hold until the hearing of the petition or further orders of the court. Marende, however, sidestepped the court decision, saying Parliament would make its own determination when the committees table their reports. House Speaker Kenneth Marende on Thursday withheld ruling and referred President Kibaki’s judicial nominations to two House Committees. After saving the two principals the agony of having Parliament judge them, the Speaker made it clear they still have opportunity to reach an agreement. “Needless to say, the window remains open, and it is to be hoped, that developments may occur that make this important nomination process uncontested on the basis either of constitutionality or otherwise and thereby render such guidance and directions unnecessary,” he said. The Speaker said the request by Imanyara for a ruling on the constitutionality of the Kibaki nominations was premature because by the time he asked for the ruling the names were not properly before the House. Intercepted correspondence “I have not been able to find any precedents of this House in which the Speaker intercepted correspondence addressed to the House and unilaterally made a determination as to its legality or validity, and returned it to the nominating authority,” he said. Last Friday the President, through Head of the Civil Service, Francis Muthaura, sent the list of the nominees to Marende. Raila later wrote to renounce the process. The PM challenged the nominations prompting Imanyara to request for the Speaker’s ruling. Marende reflected on the state of the country in 2008 as it burned because of disputed presidential election saying: “We were on the brink of the precipice because a dispute relating to an election was not referred to the Judiciary because of a lack of faith in the Judiciary. It is this very Judiciary whose head is now sought to be appointed by a process, entrenched by the New Constitution resoundingly enacted by the people of Kenya for themselves.” He warned few countries have had the opportunity for a second chance like Kenya and events happening around the world that could have been easily avoided or acted upon while there was an opportunity can rapidly deteriorate and become unmanageable. Several MPs shouted back ‘Egypt! Tunisia!’ at this point.
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Pocket media
Definition
It’s a portable medium/means of transmitting information from one station to another(other stations) either one-way(simplex, two way(half duplex) or simultaneously(full duplex).
Pocket media house:
Definition.
It’s a virtual established institution that collects, acquire, organize, repackage and provide mostly current information based on relevant fields of knowledge in respect to the targeted audience.
Characteristics
- Doesn’t hold permanent premises.
- Information provided is mostly on softcopy
- Provides mostly current information
- Easily updated
- Requires less labour force for its maintenance
- Doesn’t require legislation
- Virtual in nature
Working
Borrowing from the formal media house, the basics are reporters, editors, sub editors, correspondents, contributors, authors, news anchors and administrators. reporters, contributors and correspondents acquire information and forward it to authors in raw form. In turn editors and sub editors check any errors, grammatical and others and submit the amended draft to authors/typesetters/administrators. It is then the duty of authors/typesetters to transform the draft copy into acceptable form-according to the standards required by the pocket media and in the territorial boundaries- before giving room for the administrators to assent and post the article for consumers/customers/users to read on the proffered media( provided not tangible) it is also the duty of an administrator to design the textual appearance of the document(font. colour, hading style e.t.c)
Merits
- Minimal censorship
- Easily updated
- Less costly
- Requires less labour force
- Requires no permanent premises for its existence(i.e. Pocket)
- It’s a training ground for amateur and upcoming journalists
- It’s the best platform for online journalism
- Keeps a database of recorded information
- Information can easily be updated
- Environmentally friendly(no or minimal tangible materials that might be harmful to the environment)
- Surpasses geographical limit
demerits
- Doesn’t provide multi copies
- Poor source of confidential information
- Prone to attacks by terrorist and hackers
- Information can be misused
- Copying can hardly be controlled
Compare and contrast Formal media houses and Pocket media houses.
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By James Chege
members of the Kenyatta University
Students Journalism Club (KUSJC)
visited a leading media house in the
region where they got valuable lessons on
communication.
The visit to the Standard Group Centre,
the home of the Standard Group was an
eye opener to the 20 KUSJC members. The
Centre, on Mombasa Road, comprises various
sections, including the studios of the Kenya
Television Network (KTN), Radio Maisha, the
Publishers Distribution Service (PDS), Standard
newspapers, and the printing press.
The students were taken around the
premises by Mr. Michael Kivindyo a senior
Corporate Affairs official with the Group. The
five-hour tour on November 4, 2010, saw the
KU team tour key areas including the creative
section (where the KTN graphic designers and
animators were busy developing new ideas);
the security section; the editorial library; and,
the newsroom ,where they interacted with
experienced journalists at work. In fact, Lenny,
the Group’s cartoonist, was at had to draw and
autograph caricatures for the students.
Perhaps the most memorable part of the visit
was the printing section where the budding
journalists were taken through the automated
press process of printing, packaging and
loading newspapers into vans ready for
delivery.
Mr. Kivindyo encouraged the potential
journalists to strive to become great scribes.
“Good is the enemy of great,” he said.
| Luis Moreno-Ocampo | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1952 Buenos Aires |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Title | International Criminal Court Prosecutor |
| Term | 2003-present |
Luis Moreno-Ocampo (born 4 June 1952)[citation needed] is an Argentine lawyer who has been the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) since 16 June 2003. He previously worked as a prosecutor in Argentina, famously combating corruption and prosecuting human rights abuses by senior military officials. He has also lectured in criminal law and practiced law privately.
Career in Argentina
Moreno-Ocampo graduated from the University of Buenos Aires Law School in 1978, and from 1980 to 1984 he worked as a law clerk in the office of the Solicitor General.
From 1984 to 1992, Moreno-Ocampo worked as a prosecutor in Argentina.[2] He first came to public attention in 1985, as Assistant Prosecutor in the “Trial of the Juntas“—the first time since the Nuremberg Trials that senior military commanders were prosecuted for mass killings.[2][3] Nine senior commanders, including three former heads of state, were prosecuted and five of them were convicted.[2] He served as District Attorney for the Federal Circuit of the City of Buenos Aires from 1987 to 1992, during which time he prosecuted the military commanders responsible for the Falklands War, the leaders of two military rebellions, and dozens of high-profile corruption cases.In 1987, he helped United States prosecutors extradite General Guillermo Suárez Mason to Argentina.
He resigned as a prosecutor in 1992 and established a private law firm, Moreno-Ocampo & Wortman Jofre. He defended several controversial figures, including Diego Maradona, former economics minister Domingo Cavallo, and a priest accused of sexually abusing minors.He represented the victims in extradition proceedings against Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, and also in the trial of the murderer of Chilean General Carlos Prats.
During this time, he was also an Associate Professor of criminal law at the University of Buenos Aires and a visiting professor at Stanford University and Harvard Law School.[1] He has acted as a consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations.[1] He is a former member of the advisory board of Transparency International and a former president of its Latin America and Caribbean office.
During the late 1990s, he starred in a reality television programme, Fórum, la corte del pueblo, in which he arbitrated private disputes.
The International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court’s headquarters in The Hague
On 21 April 2003, Moreno-Ocampo was elected unopposed as the first Prosecutor of the new International Criminal Court.[2][3] He was sworn in for a nine-year term on 16 June 2003. As of February 2009, he has opened investigations into four situations: Northern Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and Darfur.[6] The court has issued public arrest warrants for fourteen people; seven of them remain free, two have died, and five are in custody.
Moreno-Ocampo also led an investigation against leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army, who in 2005 faced arrest warrants by the ICC for crimes against humanity. In October 2006 a media spokesman in the prosecutor’s office filed an internal complaint accusing Moreno-Ocampo of sexual misconduct.A panel of three ICC judges investigated the complaint and found that it was “manifestly unfoundedbut Moreno-Ocampo generated a controversy when he summarily dismissed the staff member who made the complaint. The Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization subsequently awarded the employee almost £120,000 in damages, ruling that Moreno-Ocampo had breached due process and seriously infringed the employee’s rights.The ILO held that the original complaint against Moreno-Ocampo had been made in good faith, and that Moreno-Ocampo should not have participated in the decision to fire the employee as he had a personal interest in the matter.[
Moreno-Ocampo directed an investigation against Germain Katanga and Matthieu Ngudjolo Chui,[10] who received arrest warrants in 2007 and 2008 respectively for crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo.[11] In March 2008, according to an Argentine online news report, Moreno-Ocampo explained the FARC, the largest guerrilla group in Colombia, was plausible for an investigation by the International Criminal Court.Moreno-Ocampo began implementing preliminary tests in Colombia, which involved evaluating prosecutions of paramilitary commanders in Colombia, interviews with victims of the FARC, among others.Moreno-Ocampo explained the FARC could be investigated for crimes against humanity. He paid a visit to Colombia in August, after which the ICC launched an investigation on the “support network for FARC rebels outside Colombia.”
The ICC’s first trial, of Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga, was suspended on 13 June 2008 when the court ruled that the Prosecutor’s refusal to disclose potentially exculpatory material had breached Lubanga’s right to a fair trial.[13] The Prosecutor had obtained the evidence from the United Nations and other sources on the condition of confidentiality, but the judges ruled that the Prosecutor had incorrectly applied the relevant provision of the Rome Statute and, as a consequence, “the trial process has been ruptured to such a degree that it is now impossible to piece together the constituent elements of a fair trial”.On 2 July 2008, the court ordered Lubanga’s release, on the grounds that “a fair trial of the accused is impossible, and the entire justification for his detention has been removed”but an Appeal Chamber agreed to keep him in custody while the Prosecutor appealed By 18 November 2008, Moreno-Ocampo had agreed to make all the confidential information available to the court, so the Trial Chamber reversed its decision and ordered that the trial could go ahead but Moreno-Ocampo was widely criticised for his actions.
He was also criticised for his decision in July 2008 to publicly charge Omar al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Antonio Cassese,[22] Rony Brauman[23] and Alex de Waal[24] argued that there was insufficient evidence to charge al-Bashir with genocide. Cassese, a former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, had chaired the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Darfur, which concluded in 2005 that the government of Sudan had not pursued a policy of genocide in Darfur. De Waal argued that “for nineteen years, President Bashir has sat on top of a government that has been responsible for incalculable crimes [...] Two weeks ago, Moreno Ocampo succeeded in accusing Bashir of the crime for which he is not guilty. That is a remarkable feat.”Cassese also argued that if Moreno-Ocampo were serious about prosecuting al-Bashir, he should have issued a sealed request and asked the judges to issue a sealed arrest warrant, to be made public only once al-Bashir traveled abroad, instead of publicly requesting the warrant, allowing al-Bashir to avoid arrest simply by remaining in Sudan.[ In November 2008, Moreno-Ocampo requested arrest warrants for rebels responsible for the murder of members from an international peacekeeping force in Darfur.
Leaders from three Darfur tribes, said to be the victims of war crimes, sued Ocampo for libel, defamation and igniting hatred and tribalism
On Wednesday, 15 December 2010, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo held a press conference at 12:00 (The Hague local time, 14:00 Nairobi local time) to announce the six prime suspects in the Kenya post election violence of 2007. He named suspended minister of Higher education William Ruto, Minister for Industrialisation Henry Kosgey,Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Former police chief Maj Gen Ali Hussein, head of public service Francis Muthaura and journalist Joshua Arap Sang.
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The scaring scare crows
In our lives always bring lust
Being characterized by rows
World wimps wailing unjust
We often tend to forget
We have somewhere we can get
Undivided love so pure
Somewhere in the hustles of life
A poacher comes, in sheath is his knife
Tenderly we go kind
Forgetting the lesson of caution
And tears us to shreds of no kind
And often we wakes up to the notion
Aah! gone…….with pure love
Shreds tend to attract
Fate forces to subtract
But with last kick of a lion
Just as an atom of neon
Somehow we manage to pull things together
And even perhaps snatch
Some……undivided love
We know it wasn’t his wish
Just being in the devils reach
Maybe it couldn’t have gone that way
Had we followed his lay
O lord dear God
For me to get this, I need you nod
A nod for undivided love, so pure.
Love on its true form doesn’t depend on things but
plain truth no matter how painful it is
too unfortunate society advocates
to parent, was a bad omen
we were never to taught reality
poverty of skills in bonding
though white, forgive me
for staining shining sheet
perhaps post- practice outcome
would have been different
had we contained our emotions
had we avoided sweet ‘nothing’ talks
physical contact. it wasn’t my wish
to reap off your innocence
we could have played together
we could have hugged each other
had we built our principal’s in Christ
we could have done so much
had we maintained the basis
of genuine friendship
I allowed illusion
to hinder solution
harboured in my mind
sprouted, germinative kind
It did more harm than good
slow killing,no build
In my dreams
discouraging scenes swims
you’re of loose moral
too cheap even for ‘royal’
No rethinking
fun living
In my vision
You held my mission
But i made a mistake
Falling in love,no one to take
I am tired
of destroying designed
of hunting one specie
of straying bullets to each
of limbing lioness and tigress
I am Ashamed
I am willing
to embrace change
to mould, build and construct
to save my bullets for battle days
to repair, heal and mend
i want reform
I am ready
for public ridicule
for prosecution and persecution
- neglect of duty
- abuse of power
- misuse of resources
for conviction,jail term
for rehabilitation
Not priviledged,i deserve this
i am rejoicing
being part of transition
rebuilding mother Kenya
protection,love and care
Killing uncertainity with assurance
Who will marry her?
Am reformed
Dedication: kenyans
anyone can afford ambitions
everyone cannot succeed
lest success bar will rise
anyone can afford dreams
everyone cannot get fulfilled
lest hard work will be norm
anyone can afford vision
everyone cannot achieve missions
lest motivational talks will cease
be contented with what you have
and celebrate you brothers success
remember diligence pays.
realities beyond observable realities – arthur luvai(UON)
I wanted to tell you sweet heart
That my life was no more
I wanted to tell you dear
There was no meaning of life
I wanted to touch you hand
So that I give it a farewell kiss
I wanted to hug you dear one
And I may give you a friend to leave with
I wanted to stare into your eyes
So that we may make promises
I wanted to tell you I loved
So that you feel good
I wanted to live with you so that
We may bear
Sons and daughters
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