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Some clerics will not see heaven, thanks to graft

Someone must have rigged us out. We surely deserve better than this. Number four is not good enough. Someone probe the methodology used by Transparency International to rank Kenya number four on the global corruption index!

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Kenya should issue US travel warnings as well

The US has done it again. It has warned its citizens against travelling to Kenya due to security risks posed by terrorism and “high rate of violent crime in some areas”.

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Don’t yoke locals together with evil-minded terrorists

Truly, choices have consequences. We risked bringing terror group Al-Shabaab and invited spate of terror attacks in our land, especially in Coast and North Eastern regions. However, the goal of our intended mission in sending our defence forces to Somalia had to be achieved. Operation Linda Inchi was a noble move the Government took to protect our sovereignty.

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Politics is dirty; players shouldn’t make it dirtier

Politics is a dirty game, and Jubilee and CORD don’t have to make the Kenyan game dirtier. At least they are, if their conduct in the run up to the Makueni senatorial by-election scheduled for July 22, is anything to go by.

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Teachers waited, persisted and perspired, now make them rich

Napoleon Hill, an American author remembered for his bestselling literature on success, once remarked: ‘Patience, persistence and perspiration make unbeatable combination for success’.

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KP boss never grew tired of listening to customers

If he hasn’t done so yet, Engineer Joseph Njoroge, should be moving to his new office in the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum soon. The Kenya Power Managing Director was appointed recently as the ministry’s Principal Secretary. PointBlank congratulates him. But why him?

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Scrapping metal business will save our infrastructure

Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero has finally done what should have been done long time ago. He has banned trade in scrap metal, a booming but very hurtful business.

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‘There was no post-election violence in Kenya in 2007’

In 1991, Jean Baudrillard wrote three essays before, during and after the Gulf War with the titles; The Gulf War will not take place, The Gulf War is not really taking place and The Gulf War did not take place. While there is no dispute that the war took place, Baudrillard argued the was no war in real sense because the US was militarily superior than Iraq. The war as a whole was a non-war.