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Former Budalang’i MP Raphael Wanjala is a busy man and does not want all Bunyala District residents bugging him about ‘unfulfilled’ campaign promises. Wanjala told them to channel their complaints to his successor, Ababu Namwamba. He reminded them that in 2007 they expressed their desire for change but didn’t specify what kind. "I urge locals to stop complaining and allow the MP to complete his term in office."0 What magnanimity!

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Senior taxman Bengeria Korir is a puzzled man. Some Ukambani-based lawyers are into real estate big-time. They are also not driving Dubai junks. It is true strange things have been known to occur in this region, but the lawyers’ annual returns to KRA do not reflect the source of this newfound opulence. Mr Korir has given them 14 days to pay up.

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Like we have always suspected, there was something amiss about George W Bush the politician. When his successor, Barack Obama, sought his fundraising support for the Haiti earthquake devastation, George claimed he doesn’t miss the spotlight. Which politician doesn’t? Unless of course he was masquerading as one all along. So, who was really in charge of the White House all those years?

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Montenegro’s only hippopotamus winged it from the nation’s zoo during floods last week. The two-tonne female called Nikica, native of Africa, broke out of her cage and swam away after seasonal floods hit the zoo just outside the capital Podgorica. Palaver’s plea is: please send Nikica back home to Kenya.

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And finally...

The Press can account for the absences of some of our leaders in national affairs: Guinea’s Captain Dadis Camara was in hospital in Morocco after a failed assassination; Mwai Kibaki typically prefers hands-free type of management; Nigeria’s Umaru Yar’Adua is convalescing in Saudi Arabia but where is Haiti’s Rene Preval? Can someone tell him his people are suffering and he should at least make a public appeal for assistance?

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