Support Nasa and you’ll get State jobs, Raila tells Tharaka-Nithi residents

ODM leader Raila Odinga has told residents of Tharaka-Nithi County to support the National Super Alliance (Nasa) in the coming elections, promising them that they will get State jobs if the coalition takes over power.

Mr Odinga was speaking Tuesday during a meeting at Marimanti with leaders from the county.

He was accompanied by Mr Kalonzo Musyoka (Wiper), Mr Musalia Mudavadi (ANC) and Ford Kenya’s Moses Wetang’ula.

Mr Odinga said they will deploy monitors in all polling stations to ensure there is no rigging during the August 8 elections.

He also welcomed Senator Kithure Kindiki's elder brother, Prof Isiaih, to the coalition.

Prof Isiaih says he does not agree with his brothers political ideologies and hence his decision to support the opposition.

uk-firm-discovers-gold-worth-sh171-billion-in-kakamega

By mbuvi mtoto wa sonkoh
 A UK firm has announced the discovery of high-grade gold at its mines in Kakamega County. Acacia Mining said yesterday that it had discovered an estimated resource of 1.31 million ounces of gold at its mines in the Liranda Corridor in Kakamega, whose grade, Acacia added, is one of the highest in Africa. Mining Cabinet Secretary Dan Kazungu estimates the discovery could be valued at Sh171 billion ($1.65 billion). The firm, however, said the scale of the find is small and it would need to undertake more tests and drill more exploratory wells. This is with the aim of increasing the resources to upwards of two million ounces, which would make the mines economically viable. It added that it is too early to assign a value to the find. Acacia said it had found an Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate of 1.31 million ounces of gold at a grade of 12.1 grammes per tonne on the Liranda Corridor within the company’s West Kenya Project. “This is one of the highest grade projects in Africa today, and we believe that this initial resource is a first step in the delineation of a multi-million ounce high-grade corridor,” said Brad Gordon, the firm’s CEO, in a statement yesterday.