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Give Mohammed Ali Iteere's Post And Expect Great Results

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T he KTN’s award winning investigative journalist Mohammed Ali of the Jicho Pevu fame has become a household name lately.Many Kenyans have been mesmerized at just how smart and organized the soft spoken journalist is. He validates Martin Luther King Jr words that, "If a man is called to be a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well.'" Watching  Moha doing his job,one cannot avoid to notice how interested he is in his job and the great passion he puts in what he does.Passion refers to energy,which can be physical,emotional,mental or spiritual.The fact that he captures every single detail and pursues all clues he is convinced will lead him where he wants to get shows passion.It is also obvious that he works outside the 8h-5h normal workin

Central Kenya Lacks Role Models and Mentors

It has been established that the number of  bars in Central Kenya is higher than the number of schools in the area.The few existing schools have been found to be almost deserted.There have been cases of incentives being offered to accelerate reproduction,with one Councillor from Murang'a on record for offering Ksh500 to any woman who conceives and later visiting the women after birth with baby-showering gifts and a token of Ksh2500. To support all these facts,there have been the now so popular husband battering cases,a phenomenon that has been attributed to irresponsible drinking and abandonment of duty.It is not uncommon to see haggard looking men hanging around in shopping centres,some leaning on the shop walls as if they were preventing them from tumbling down. These men are later to be seen before dusk in a  drunken stupor and in tattered cloths.Some look wobbly and their trousers barely hold to their waist.One wonders what kind of a woman would accomodate such an eyesore of