WTF????


I have an awesome Board of Directors, their talents to numerous to enumerate here. We are in the process of getting ready for Harambee, our annual fundraiser. Tonight I'm hanging with one of them and he's even brave enough to join me in May as we enter hostile territory.

Ok, I've written a lot about that topic, and I was joking with B about some of the things that have befallen me during my various excursions. I've been hounding him to get his shots ( hey what's the rush?We leave in 4 weeks and you can't get back into the U.S without your yellow fever certificate. He could be like Charlie on the MTA).

Hostile can mean anything from bugs to dysentery to armed gunmen. However on the last trip it was nothing more that Kibeki's revenge on the way home. That was before Somalia and I guess the uprising in Western. So B and I are hanging and I go to the Nation as I do most days. And there in front of me is this article about the police alert in Busia. WTF? The road I travel every time I go to Nambale is riddled with heightened security? Truly can't they just stay contained on the Indian Ocean while I TCB?

So if you're reading this here's what you can do. 1. Buy a ticket to Harambee so that we can feed the children. 2. Pray like hell

Mambo Mazuri (all good things in Swahili)
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AND NOW FROM TODAY'S PAPER"THE NATION" (KENYA'S NEWSPAPER)


Police in Nyanza and Western provinces were on high alert on Saturday following reports that youths in the two regions were planning to block trucks carrying goods destined to and from Uganda over the Migingo island dispute.


In the morning, police dispersed youths who had attempted to block the Kisumu-Busia road to stop trucks heading to Uganda.

“Our security personnel are monitoring any attempts to disrupt the smooth flow of cargo between Kenya and Uganda,” Nyanza police boss Anthony Kibuchi said.

The row over the ownership of the tiny Migingo island in Lake Victoria intensified as the Law Society of Kenya and a section of church leaders criticised the stand taken by the government in resolving the issue.

Speaking separately, LSK vice-chairman James Mwamu and the National Council of Churches of Kenya Nyanza branch officials opposed government plans to use Sh140 million to survey the one-acre isle, calling for military intervention.

The officials asked the government use the money to buy food for the hungry.

Mr Mwamu described Uganda’s stance on the controversial island as aggression and called on President Kibaki to deploy troops there.