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Barbra Achieng
Dennis Ndung’u has been determined to hold onto the joys that life offers, but the past three years have given him little to celebrate.
He was born with a spinal injury that robbed him of the ability to walk. A pressure wound that develops time and again due to prolonged sitting on his wheelchair has also meant that the Form Three student has never completed a school year since joining Salvation Army Joytown Secondary School.
Bedsores are injuries to skin and underlying tissue resulting from prolonged pressure on the skin.
He reckons that things would have been worse had he not been enrolled in Equity Bank’s Wings to Fly Scholarship Programme, a signature initiative of Equity Group Foundation’s Education and Leadership Development pillar that sponsors bright needy students through high school.
Kenya: World Press Freedom Day 2021 – attacks against journalists continue
Summary
Today, on World Press Freedom Day, Article 19 Eastern Africa, highlights just a few of the cases of attacks against journalists that have occurred since the last World Press Freedom Day on 3 May 2020.
On 24 April 2021, police beat and injured nine journalists in Makumi, Mbeere South, Embu County. The journalists were covering a story regarding the forceful eviction by police officers of families from a contested land, said to belong to Tana and Athi River Development Authority (TARDA). This was the second time police beat journalists covering stories over the same disputed land. On 13 May 2020, police assaulted and arrested three journalists reporting on a demonstration by residents over the demarcation of the land claimed by TARDA.[1] In the two incidents, the arrested journalists were later released without charge.
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Taita Taveta County Governor Granton Samboja. [Renson Mnyamwezi, Standard]
The Auditor-General has recommended an investigation into the expenditure of the Covid-19 grant by Taita Taveta County.
In a special audit report, the auditor revealed anomalies and contravention of procurement procedures in the use of the funds by the county.
“As far as we are concerned no money has been stolen in the procurement of goods and services. I will go through the report to acquaint myself with its contents,” he said.
The special audit report done in March 2021 shows that the county irregularly procured beds and mattresses in contravention of the procurement law.