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By Bola A. Akinterinwa
Nigeria was a problem unto herself before, at, and after, independence. Before independence, the prevention of Southerners from settling down in the old cities of the North, was the epicentre of the problem. The ultimate objective of the prevention, by then, was to avoid the corruption or contamination of traditional culture, values and patterns of behaviour by foreign or strange elements. As explained by Nigeria’s former plenipotentiary High Commissioner to Botswana and Lesotho and Professor of Political Science, Dr. Alaba Ogunsanwo, ‘after the amalgamation of Nigeria, certain policies, adopted by the colonial administration at the behest of some of the traditional rulers, inadvertently created migration centres designed to ensure the non-contamination of traditional culture, values and patterns of behaviour by foreign or strange elements. The phenomenon first emerged in the northern part of the country, where the traditional rulers succeeded in persuadin
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By Nderitu Gichure | February 12th 2021 at 12:00:00 GMT +0300
Jane Wambui plucks tea leaves at Wamagana Village in Tetu, Nyeri County on January 13, 2016.
Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) has dismissed claims it has been using farmers hard-earned money to set up eight of its subsidiary companies. In a statement, the agency said no money from farmers had been used to set up the entities. It said the subsidiaries were established using external funds from local and international financial institutions.
The new entities include KTDA Management Services, KTDA Power, Greenland Fedha, Kenya Tea Packers Ltd, Chai Trading Company Limited, Majani Insurance Brokers, Tea Machinery & Engineering Company Ltd, and KTDA Foundation.
1. Preamble
This article is prompted by the recent announcement that the Cabinet will soon consider a proposal to conduct Provincial Council (PC) elections without delay. The article is intended to urge that the PC system should be abolished and replaced by constitutional devices to ensure: (a) genuine sharing of political power among all primordial, áscriptive and associational groups that constitute the nation of Sri Lanka; and (b) the statutory protection of Sri Lanka’s sovereignty and territorial integrity which the PC system, as long as it is permitted to last, will remain in dire peril. The article is also intended to stimulate the memory of those who appear to have forgotten the circumstances that culminated in the enactment of legislation in 1987 to establish PCs. There appears to prevail a measure of complacency among some of our present political stalwarts based on the notion that, with their two-thirds majority in Parliament, and with the 20th Amendment in place, they