Palaver

From the tears streaming down the face of the darling of the 2000 Olympic games after winning five medals, sprinter Marion Jones is an all-time poster girl of all that is wrong in sport. She shared glory in the world’s most popular racing distance, the 100 metre dash with another incorrigible cheat Ben Johnson who disgraced the 1988 Olympic Games. In the next few days, they shall be joined at the hip in their Hall of Shame by disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong who has reportedly confessed to Oprah Winfrey of using performance-enhancing drugs. Trouble is they trio, as with many others, have spent years in denial. Good riddance.

 

And still on the matter of confessions, Prophet David Owuor Owuor has stricken criminals with the slap of a conscience and they are busy returning illegally-held guns. While some preachers merely use their high office to demand tithe, harvest sinners to swell the numbers on their pew, we now have one who is definitely more practical! Guns kill and should be confined to the warfront and soldiers.

       

Remember what I told you about the life of a goldfish in a fishbowl? The Duchess of Cambridge (nee Kate Middleton) must rue the day she said I do” after her charming Prince William in the scenic and enchanting Mount Kenya’s Lake Alice. Her engagement and subsequent courtship received more hits than the ongoing Kenyan presidential campaign. Every dress she wears is taken apart thread by thread and can set up a designer for life. She could not even suffer “morning sickness” in peace and had to endure crank callers from as far as Australia! Freshly out of hospital, her first official portrait is a headline snatcher. Wow! Talk of a roller-coaster ride, Your Highness. Tell you what? My employer won’t sell any newspapers this week if we dedicated it to fashion and high society. Around here, politics is King!

 

And finally...

Wonder how 2013 will turn out now that it has not only impostors hogging the first month’s headlines, but a 50th birthday bash in the works. The last one had so much: Nancy-Kerubo, Saitoti-Ojode, Sonko-Githu, vetting boards, commissions of inquiry, miniskirts, stripping, party-hopping, all manner of certificates, Bensouda, and of course, KDF.

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