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Harmorapa refers to himself as a Woman!

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Brian Osweta
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Controversial rapper Harmorapa PHOTO COURTESY

Controversial Bongo rapper has left his fans amused after he reffered to himself as a strong woman.

Harmorapa who was being interviewed on Kikaangooni(The hot seat) a show on  East Africa TV was answering a question from a fan who asked him what kind of a man he is to which he answered.

“I am a strong women”

A screenshot of the post by EATV
A screenshot of the post by EATV

The rapper also talked about his knowledge of the queens language saying that he could understand the queens language very well though he could not speak fluently.

”Lugha ya Kiingereza naifahamu vizuri lakini ile kuongea ongea ndiyo siwezi” Harmorapa said.

The controversial rapper whose hit single “Kiboko wa mabishoo” in which he features legendary rapper Juma Nature is receiving massive airplay has become tabloid fodder in Tanzania following his controversial remarks on  during interviews and on his social media pages.

A few weeks ago the rapper got into an Instagram fight with Tanzanian actress Wema Sepetu after declaring he had crush on her and was ready to marry her and that did not go down well with Wema who called him out asking him to respect her brand.

Harmorapa’s remarks came just  days after Tanzanian heavy hitter Diamond Platinumz was mercilessly trolled online for writing in grammatical errors.

 

Police officer charged over defiling a minor

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Sita Lawrence
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Kwale,KENYA:A police officer has been charged at  the Kwale  law for courts for defiling a minor.

It is alleged  that between February and 16th of April 2017 the accused Mr. John Kerich who is stationed at Burani police post in Matuga Kwale County  unlawfully and intentionally defiled a 15 year old  girl.

The accused denied the charges before the resident magistrate Mr. Paul Mutai .

He was released with a 150,000 bond or a cash bail of 80,000 and a surety of similar amount.

The case is set for mentioning on 4th May and hearing on 13th June.

The same court has  sentenced  to Mr. Nyamawi Mwahui to four years imprisonment on charges of livestock contrary theft  to section 278 of the penal code.

The accused is said to have stolen 8 sheep worth sh.40,000 belonging to Beja Mnyika.

It is alleged he committed the action  together with others who were not in court during the sentence.

The accused accepted the charges before resident magistrate Paul Mutai despite that  fact that he could not defend himself.

He has 14 days to take a plea before his sentence commences.

Tennis star Serena Williams pregnant

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Wyclif Okumu
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Serena Williams in action PHOTO COURTESY

American female Tennis great Serena Williams will be out of action for the rest of the season due to pregnancy.

The 35-year-old disclosed the message when she posted a picture of herself on Snapchat posing  in a mirror selfie with the message: “20 weeks”, before deleting the post on Wednesday.

The World number two who is expected to top the rankings next week is in a relationship with an American internet entrepreneur and investor Alexis Kerry Ohanian aged 33.

Serena’s spokesperson, Kelly Bush Novak confirming the good news, said: “I’m happy to confirm that Serena is expecting a baby this fall.”

She added that Serena won’t be playing again in 2017, but is looking forward to playing again the following year.

Serena won the record for Open-era major titles, when she claimed the Australian Open with victory over her elder sister Venus in January.

President Uhuru Kenyatta denies endorsing Peter Kenneth

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Baraka FM Team
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Nairobi gubernatorial aspirant PHOTO COURTESY

Nairobi,KENYA:President Uhuru Kenyatta has denied endorsing former presidential candidate for the Nairobi gubernatorial seat.

While speaking at state house ,Nairobi ,the president has termed the reports as misleading saying he remained neutral on the issue.

While speaking during the burial of former Gatanga Mp’s father David Murathe,the president told the residents to pray for Peter Kenneth to win the Nairobi gubernatorial race.

‘Don’t be restricted by anybody from voting  leaders of your choice,pray for your son(Peter Kenneth) so that he wins the Nairobi governor seat’he said.

Peter Kenneth told the residents to vote for president Uhuru Kenyatta in the  August 8th  general election .

Kenneth is expected to battle it out with with the Nairobi senator Mike Sonko in the nominations which are set to take place on 21st April in Nairobi county.

The president has insisted that the Jubilee party nominations would be free and fair.

‘The decision would be made by the citizens and everyone would get the ticket depending on the nomination results’he said.

The president has also warned those who  planning to cause chaos during the party primaries saying such violence would not be tolerated.

‘My government is committed  to enforcing the rule of law and ensuring the safety and security of all  citizens and communities during this primaries and the general election’said the head of state.

Legendary dancehall star to perform in Nairobi

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Nina Njeru
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Vincentian star Kevin Lyttle set to perform in Nairobi, PHOTO COURTESY

Legendary  dancehall star Kevin Lyttle is set to perform in Nairobi on 23rd April.

The turn me on hit maker will  be performing at the Diamond plaza rooftop alongside Kenyan songstress Victoria Kimani who is set to curtain the event for him.

Charges for the concert will are  sh.2000 for ladies and  sh.3000 for men.

Some of the brands who have sponsored the event include Belair and B-club.

The after party  will be held at the affluent B-club where the concern goers will have the opportunity to mingle with the stars including Kevin Lyttle.

Lyttle started his musical career in the early 2000’s currently lives in Miami, Florida where he runs his record label Tarakon records.

Lyttle joins a growing list of international superstars  who have performed in Kenya.

Kenyan economy on steady growth as world GDP decelerates

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Baraka FM Team
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Nairobi,KENYA:Kenya’s economy has reported a 5.8 per cent growth in 2016 as compared to a revised growth of 5.7 per cent in 2015.

This is according to the Economic Survey Report whose results were released on Wednesday.

Zachary Mwangi the Director General  of Kenya National Bureau of Statistics KNBS attributed the growth to ICT, real estate, transport among other sectors.

“Persistent drought hampered growth in the fourth quarter of 2016 impacting negatively on agriculture and electricity supply. Growth in construction, mining and quarrying, financial and insurance activities decelerated in 2016. From the demand side, growth was buoyed by consumption in both the public and private sector, “Mr. Mwangi said.

Annual average inflation decreased to 6.3 per cent from of 6.6 per cent recorded in 2015.

“This can be attributed to a decline in prices of transportation, housing and utilities, and communication, “Mr. Mwangi noted.

Devolution Cabinet Secretary Festus Mwangi Kiunjuri confirmed that the government had created over 832,000 jobs of which 85,600 were from the modern sector and 747,300 emanating from the informal sector.

The KNBS Director General added that the agricultural sector recorded a growth of  4 per cent in 2016 as compared to 5.5 per cent in 2015.

“The manufacturing sector recorded a growth of 3.5 per cent. The Export Processing Zones EPZ experienced growth in most of its performance indicators. Sales from the enterprises increased by 5.8 per cent to Ksh. 68.7 billion in 2016,” he continued.

According to the Economic Survey the construction industry grew by 9.2 per cent in 2016 while Financial and Insurance Activities recorded a deceleration from 9.4 per cent in 2015 to 6.9 per cent in 2016.

The survey revealed that the tourism industry is recovering from the yesteryear shocks of insecurity.

“Growth was mainly supported by increased international visitor arrivals from 1.2 million in 2015 to 1.3 million in 2016,” the report said.

World Bank’s Outlook

According to the World Bank Kenya’s GDP growth was projected to decelerate to 5.5%, a 0.5 percentage point mark down from the 2016 forecast.

“Consistent with its robust performance in recent years, once again economic growth in Kenya was solid in 2016.This has been supported by a stable macroeconomic environment, low oil prices, earlier favourable harvest, rebound in tourism, strong remittance inflows, and an ambitious public investment drive,” said Diarietou Gaye, World Bank Country Director for Kenya in a statement.

Mr. Gaye added that the ongoing drought which has led to crop failure, dying herds of livestock, and increased food insecurity was likely to dampen GDP growth in 2017.

World economy

According to KNBS to the world’s real Gross Domestic Product decelerated to 2.9 per cent in 2016 from a revised growth of 3.1 per cent in 2015.

“This slower growth was occasioned by constrained global trade, subdued investment, heightened policy uncertainty associated with Brexit and the US elections,” KNBS Director General explained.

He added that the real economic growth in Sub Saharan Africa slowed from a revised growth of 3.4 per cent in 2015 to 1.6 per cent in 2016.

“This was attributed to lower commodity prices for metal exporting countries and domestic shocks from a generally less supportive global economic environment. Noted also was an accelerated growth of 6.1 per cent growth in the East Africa Community that was fuelled by public infrastructure investment and low oil prices, ” Mr. Mwangi concluded.

Jubilee splits primaries into a two day  affair due to demands

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Christopher Nyamuta
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Nairobi,KENYA:Jubilee party has split its party nominations scheduled for the end of the month into a two day affair due to demands  that arose from the increase  in the  number of counties where the exercise will be undertaken.

In a media briefing in Nairobi  the national election board chair Andrew Musangi said that  the decision was reached at after the counties where initial party primaries were to be conducted increased from 33 to 45.

He said that the primaries in 22 counties  will be conducted on the 21st of April while  the supplementary session of 23 counties will be conducted on 25th .

Counties from the coast whose primaries are scheduled on 21st include Taita Taveta while in Lamu,Kilifi  ,Tana River ,Mombasa and Kwale counties  the exercise would be conducted on 25th of April.

Kisumu and Siaya counties have been excluded from the party primaries after it emerged that candidates in those counties do not have competitors .

The party warned the candidates to avoid  acts of violence adding that those who will be culpable of such acts would face the full force of the law

“Aspirants are reminded that acts of violence before ,during and after the primaries will lead to automatic disqualification .Our disciplinary committee has commenced sittings today on reported acts of thuggery we await their verdicts.”Musangi said.

He added that the announcement of the results will be done at the polling station ,county level and at the party headquarters in Nairobi in order to enhance efficiency and accountability.

Mwanengo and Taru win wiper party primaries in Kilifi county

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David Ngumbao
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Wiper gubernatorial aspirant in Kilifi county Gabriel Katana PHOTO COURTESY

Kilifi,KENYA:Alphonce Taru and Shaban Mwanengo won the wiper nominations to fly the flag for Mnarani and Sokoni wards  respectively in Kilifi county.

Taru won with 476 votes beating his rival Anthony Kazungu with almost half of his total votes (289) and Mwache Roze who got 195 votes.

Shaban Mwanengo defeated Christine Akinyi and Omar Mbaruk in the Sokoni ward member of county assembly aspirants’ primaries that encountered irregularities as names of members could not be found in the party’s register.

Speaking to the media in Juwaba after the announcement of the winners for the two wards, Kilifi County wiper party Coordinator Saida Famau said the nominations faced irregularities which which were resolved in the end.

She said the irregularities came about due to missing of names from the register and the use of membership cards.

“We experienced some irregularities in process but later on we managed to resolve that we have now have our flag bearers,” said Famau.

Mnarani ward nominations’ returning officer Evans Osiri said the competition was tough but due to the confusiuon on the names of voters which were missing.

“Many people could not vote as their names could not be found in the register,” said Osiri.

“The problem was not with us but I think on the side of the national party’s office as the registers came from them. We had hard time to settle things down but in the end all went as planned,” added Osiri.

Mwanengo and Taru will join the gubernatorial aspirant former lecturer,  Gabriel Katana and  the senatorial aspirant Charles Chigiri both who received direct nominations  to fly the Wiper flag in Kilifi county on the August 8th general elections

This comes as Orange Democratic Movement primaries were postponed to Saturday.

 

How to cook fried rice and peas

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Baraka FM Team
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The Fried rice when cooked PHOTO COURTESY
Ingredients
½ kg cooked plain rice or leftover
1 carrot diced
½ cup boiled green peas
2 fried eggs nicely chopped
Soy sauce (opt)
Procedure
  1. Put oil in your cooking pan and on medium heat, fry in your carrots for 2 mins.
  2. Then, add the green peas and stir for another 2 mins.
  3. Add in the already cooked plain rice and mix until well combined.
  4. Then add the chopped fried eggs and mix well.
  5. If you want the rice to be colourful you can add ½ tsp of soy sauce and stir until the sauce dries out.
  6. Serve hot with fried chicken.     

Kisilu and Zam Zam to fly the wiper flag in Mombasa

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Baraka FM Team
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Zam Zam and kisilu PHOTO COURTESY

Mombasa,KENYA:Accountant Lawrence Kisilu and Zam Zam Mohamed are set to join the wiper secretary general who is also  senator for Mombasa county Hassan Omar Sarai to fly the wiper flag in Mombasa in the August 8  general elections.

The tallying exercise which took place at the Star of the Sea  high school hall saw Lawrence Kisilu  clinch the Mombasa county wiper senatorial ticket  beating his close opponent Jabess Oduor  who is the Kongowea ward representative with less than 1,000 votes.Lawrence managed to get 4, 072 votes while Jabess got 3, 409 votes.The Kongowea MCA was arrested and charged at the Mombasa law courts on allegations of trying to cause chaos.

On the other hand Zamzam Mohamed will fly the Women representative wiper flag after garnering  5, 750 edging out her closest opponent  Afiya Rama who is the current chair-lady for Maendeleo ya wanawake in Mombasa County  who got  2, 210 votes

“I want to thank all those who voted for me and I want to urge my friend Afiya to accept the defeat and work with me.”said  Zamzam.

Zam Zam might  be battling for the seat in August with fashion designer Sadaf Deen who is seeking the ODM party ticket and the former women wing chair for the Jubilee party in Mombasa Amina Abdalla who is seeking the seat on a jubilee party ticket and Margaret Ambasa.

Daniel Mwange who is seeking to unseat the Incumbent MP for Changamwe Omar Mwinyi will fly the Changamwe constituency flag after winning the party primaries.

Mombasa senator Hassan Omar Sarai   received a direct nomination  is seeking to unseat the incumbent governor Hassan Joho.

 

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