Someone has been ‘eating’ from security-related contracts in the US: A fleet of 28 choppers being manufactured for Cousin Barry is ridiculously over budget. Turns out the Pentagon took European-made helicopters valued at Sh4.8 billion then aggressively added improvements and security measures that cost Sh39 billion for each whirlybird! And, no, even with Obama decrying this as "procurement run amok", nobody is stepping aside...
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A truck carrying wheat rams into one carrying electronics and which do villagers loot? The one with the wheat, naturally. It appears there is some complex code among highway communities as to what is understandable angukia-ing and what is plain thievery!
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Business makes the world go round. The Americans are busy palling around with the rights-violating Chinese, Western arms to Sri Lanka have helped crush the Tamil Tigers, and we’re firming up ties with nuke-loving Iran. As for all those high-minded ideas like human rights and an end to impunity, nobody lets them get in the way of balancing the national chequebooks. Just ask the donor-funded court too broke to bring Charles Taylor to justice.
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A certain insurance company owned by a politically connected family is allegedly dragging its feet when it comes to paying out claims. Competitors are unhappy that the Insurance Regulatory Authority appears oddly reluctant to apply regulatory foot to backside. The joke going round is that clients are trying to find out whether a newly launched political risk cover would help!
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And finally...
A jobless Taiwan man released from prison two years ago asked police to send him back so he could eat, a grim sign of hard economic times on the island. When police found the 45-year-old convicted arsonist lying on a street in a popular Taipei shopping district, he requested a return to life behind bars, nostalgic for the 10 years he had already served. The officers bought him a boxed lunch but declined to send him back to prison.
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