Breakthrough as Kenyatta University Students can make 50 Ventilators in a week.

Kenyatta University, through their innovation and incubation centre, has developed ventilators to help in the fight against Covid-19

A group of students from Kenyatta University have developed the much needed ventilators to assist in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. These students drawn from different departments and faculties embarked on the venture to develop the ventilator's prototypes within a week putting in 18 hours a day.

"The urge to make this machine is due to the shortage currently being experienced in the country," says Karanja, a fifth year pharmacy student at Kenyatta university.

According to the students, the prototypes are still awaiting certification and approval from the ministry of Health and Ministry of Industrialization while expressing optimism that it would be done by Monday, April 13, 2020. 

Kenyans on Twitter have hailed the Kenyatta University students for their innovation and hardwork

YOU CAN NOW LAND IN JAIL OR FINED KSH. 20,000 FOR NOT WEARING MASK

Kenyan wearing mask

The government this week gazetted hefty penalties and fines for Kenyans, including a fine of KSh 20,000 or a six months’ imprisonment or both if found in public without wearing mask.

In a Kenya Gazette notice No. 41 signed by Health CS Mutahi Kagwe, failure to wear a mask while using public or private transport and failure to maintain social distance are among the offences that will attract the penalties.

"Users of public or private transport and public transport operators shall wear a proper mask that must cover the person’s mouth and nose and also maintain a physical distance of not less than one metre.”

According to these new regulations, organisations, business entities, traders whether in a market or enclosed premises are required to provide at their business location or entrance to their premises, a handwashing station with soap and water or an alcohol-based sanitiser which is approved for use by the Kenya Bureau of Standards.

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe

Ruto Warns Against a Plot To Illegally Change Jubilee Party Officials Through the Back door

Deputy President and and also Deputy Party leader for Jubilee

Deputy President William Ruto yesterday accused a section of individuals in Jubilee Party of hatching a plot to remove National Management Committee members from the party.

In a protest letter to the registrar of political parties Ms. Ann Nderitu, the DP has rubbished the gazzette notice dated 6th April 2020 which purported to remove three members of NMC namely Fatuma Shukri, Pamela Mutua and Veronica Maina and replacing with Lucy Nyawira Macharia, Prof. Marete Marangu, Walter Nyambati, Jane Nampaso and James Waweru.

“The National Executive Committee has never been re constituted by the party, neither have we convened NEC to constitute or re constitute the National Management Committee, in light of the foregoing, the intended changes of the NMC membership is therefore illegal and fraudulent, ” Ruto said in a letter to the acting Registrar of Political parties, Ann Nderitu.

Other members of Jubilee Party including Senate Majority leader Kipchumba Murkomen, National Assembly Majority leader Aden Duale, Mps Kimani Ichungwa, caleb kositany among others have also come out in protest.

US Church Praise and worship, naked

A church in the US has taken to a very unique understanding of the biblical sentiment to come as you are.

Some of the parishioners have chosen to attend some of the services completely naked. The logic behind the unconventional form of worship is that possessions are of this world, and not important when coming together for God.
In an interview with WWBT NBC 12 News the pastor, Allen Parker, says that he is "baring" his soul to Christ, the way that we all arrived on this earth, naked. "We're humans, we have scars, we have what we have…it's learning to love and accept that."
The congregation is just as enthusiastic as he is. NBC reports, "Every Sunday in the front few rows of White Tail Chapel, you'll find Katie and Robert Church. Katie wasn't a nudist when they first met, but quickly fell in love with both Robert and the resort."
The couple attest to finding a sense of community at the church.
The congregation says that it is a misconception that they go because they find the idea exciting, or enjoy the attention.
Being naked seems to make them feel closer to God, and able to let go of the notion that human beings should be better than others whether it is financially or physically.

11 people arrested in cannibal hotel discovery

Following the discovery of human heads at a hotel restaurant in Anambra, Nigeria last week, eleven people have reportedly been arrested by police.

According to reports, those arrested include the hotel owner, six women and four men.
Police allegedly also seized AK-47 guns and other weapons.
This comes after the Osun Defender reported that, acting on a tip-off, police found two human heads wrapped in cellophane during a raid.
The restaurant which allegedly sold dishes made with human flesh and had 'roasted human head' on the menu has since been shut down.

Man kills wife for selling his chicken

A man has given himself up for arrest after allegedly beating his wife to death for selling one of his chickens.

Standard Digital reports that the 70-year-old man beat his 60-year-old wife to death with a piece of firewood after she sold one of his prized hens to buy food.
According to the report, the woman had not eaten in three days.
The man reportedly tried to defend himself when surrounded by Kakamega County villagers by saying that he frequently beat his wife when she did something wrong.

Maker of faulty French breast implants jailed

The founder of a French breast implant company has been sentenced to four years in prison by a Marseille criminal court on Tuesday for hiding the true nature of the sub-standard silicone used in the implants.

The sentence of 74-year-old Jean-Claude Mas, founder and Chief Executive of Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), capped a scandal that fuelled worldwide panic in 2011 after France recommended that women with implants manufactured by PIP must have them removed due to an abnormally high rupture rate.
Once the third-largest global supplier of breast implants, the company was shutdown in 2010 and its implants ordered off markets after inspectors pursuing a tip-off discovered vats of industrial-grade silicone outside the PIP factory in southern France.
Mas, who had been pursued for aggravated fraud, was also ordered to pay a €75,000 fine.
His lawyer, Yves Haddad, said he would appeal.
Four other executives, including the chief financial officer of the company were also sentenced to between one and a half and three years in prison, some of it suspended, and fined.
"It's a strong signal. This decision is what victims were waiting for," said one of their lawyers, Philippe Courtois.
Mas had admitted using silicone that was never approved by regulators but insisted that the gel used since the founding of the company in 1991 was non-toxic.
The two-month trial in April and May was held in an exhibition centre to accommodate the 7,400 civil plaintiffs and 300 lawyers.
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