Meru youth beats odds to become a star dancer

Elvis Kubania watches his friends dance for three minutes.

Like the group, he slowly starts snapping his fingers and nodding to the beat.

He counts one, two, three in his head.

He shifts his weight to one leg and raises the other.

And, as the rest of Alpha Dancers Crew, he breaks into freestyle dance—throwing his hands in the air and shaking his torso and bottom in perfect synchrony.

For over 20 minutes of the musical action, nothing makes Elvis different from the rest of the dancers practising new dance moves at Nteere Park in Meru Town.

It is during break that we realize the 19-year-old from Muringombugi Village in Meru is talented differently: He can neither hear nor understand the sound of music but he is a very good dancer.

VICTIM OF BEDBUGS

First Lady urges miraa farmers to diversify to other crops to sustain their income

First Lady Margaret Kenyatta has urged miraa farmers in Meru to diversify their farming to other crops so as to sustain their income.

Mrs Kenyatta further asked the farmers to put the crop’s proceeds to good use in order to uplift their livelihoods.

Speaking Wednesday at the Meru Technical Training Institute where she took her Beyond Zero campaign and donated the 28th mobile clinic, the First Lady said she was happy that the Meru people were hardworking.

“I urge the miraa farmers to put the proceeds of their business to good use for the benefit of the society and the county at large.

Improved healthcare major successes of devolution

Improved healthcare is one of the major successes of devolution, Council of Governors Chairman Peter Munya has said.

Mr Munya said service delivery in a majority of hospitals, especially in Meru County, is now efficient and beneficial to citizens because of devolution.

Speaking at the Meru Technical Training Institute Wednesday when First Lady Margaret Kenyatta took her Beyond Zero campaign and donated the 28th mobile clinic, the governor said counties have made tremendous achievements in the health sector in the last two years.

“For instance in Meru, we have prioritised provision of healthcare and committed the necessary resources.

“About 40 per cent of our annual budget goes to healthcare. It is for you to judge if health has done better under devolution compared proportionately to the last 50 years under the National Government,” Mr Munya said.

Police ambushed in Garissa

Al Shabaab militia on Monday night ambushed police officers and burnt their four vehicles in Yumbis. It is not known whether there we any deaths but officers in Garissa told the Star no deaths occurred. Police had gone to rescue four cops who were hit by a landmine.

The officers were on their way to Yumbis area of Fafi sub-county when the incident occurred.

Deadly Love Triangle

DEADLY LOVE TRIANGLE

A Kenya Police Service officer on Sunday evening shot and killed his colleague and a General Service Unit officer before killing himself at a bar in Kinisa Market in Igembe North, Meru County.

The GSU officer, who is a chief inspector, and the female officer were drinking at the bar when the enraged officer shot at them, killing them instantly before turning the gun on himself.

The killer officer, who was based at Laare Police Station, is said to have been angry at the woman, with whom he claimed he had a relationship before she left him.

Detectives were Monday morning trying to piece together the events that led to the 11pm incident.

PANYA WALA BATI

PANYA WALA BATI

(Nimetunga ushairi huu kwa heshima ya marehemu Omar Babu Marjan alituacha wiki jana_Mungu ailaze roho yake mahali pema peponi)

Malenga nimeshaketi,nimekabidhiwa cheti
Naiongoza kamati,inayotoa ripoti
Nimeshaikunja shati,tayari kula kaimati
Hawa panya wala bati,wanitia hatihati

Jombi kapewa kontrakti,na kukatiwa tikiti
Akanunua simiti,na vile vile mabati
Tulidhani kismati,tukamwachia penalti
Hawa panya wala bati,wanitia hatihati

NIKIPEWA NAPENDELEWA?

NIKIPEWA NAPENDELEWA?

Nineshindwa kujuwa,ni kipi kinachokuchoma
Mambo yangu sawasawa,zamu yako kunisema
Nduguyo ‘mefanikiwa,kwako wewe ni husuma
Ukipewa wastahili,n‘kipewa napendelewa?

Mwenzangu wanidhihaki,kwa yale wanitendea
Tangu jadi una chuki,kisasi waniwekea
Utendayo sio haki,laana wajiletea
Ukipewa wastahili,n‘kipewa napendelewa?