Who is Mututho

John Michael Njenga Mututho (EBS) is a Kenyan politician and the current Chairman of the National Authority for the Campaign against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) Board. He is a former Member of Parliament  and was elected to represent the Naivasha constituency.

Education

Hon. Mututho has a Diploma in Range Management from Egerton University, Kenya and a Bsc in Range Management and Agriculture from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Resource Economics and an Msc. in Environment Economics from Latrobe University, Australia.

Career
Before his service in Parliament, Mr. Mututho worked in the civil service for 11 years and was a coordinator of the International Agencies and Government of Kenya projects in Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASAL) for 2 years. He designed a water harvesting systems implemented by FAO in Kenya and Ethiopia using shallow pit systems. He was also Chairman of Board of Governors Naivasha Girls Secondary School for 7 years and helped transform the school into a top performer. He founded Computers for Schools Kenya (CFSK) in 2002, an NGO through which more than 70,000 computers have been distributed to schools countrywide.

Career in parliament

John Mututho was elected Member of Parliament in the 2007 general elections and later won an election petition with a High Court decision declaring him the winner of the 2007 parliamentary elections for Naivasha Constituency.In February 2014, a court ordered Mututho to deposit KES 6.4 million or have his property auctioned after he lost a case seeking the court to review the costs of his 2007 election petition. As a Member of Parliament, John Mututho served as Chairman Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Lands and Natural Resources which was later renamed the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives that then oversaw 6 Ministries. Mututho is also known for introducing the Alcohol Control Act which among other things limits the operation time of bars and others alcohols selling outlets to 5:00 PM till 11:00 PM on weekdays and 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM on weekends and legalizes consumption and sale of traditional alcoholic beverages. The Alcohol Control Act was enacted in 2010.

As Chairman of NACADA

President Uhuru Kenyatta appointed John Mututho as the Chairman of NACADA on 20th November 2013 after parliament approved his nomination. Soon after his appointment,he reinforced alcohol laws commonly known as mututho law.

2017 ELECTIONS

Hon mututho is gearing up to battle gubernatorial seat whereby he wants to unbeate the incumbent Kinuthia Mbugua, Among other aspirants who are eying Nakuru gubernatorial seat are Lee Maiyan Kinyanjui, and Gicanga Wa Kariuki 

WHY #WATHIMBA IS YOUR CANDIDATE OF CHOICE FOR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT 2017-2022 BAHATI CONSTITUENCY, NAKURU COUNTY

 I am resident of Bahati constituency, born in 1980. A last born of two retired teachers in Nakuru County, Mr. Elias Maina of Jamhuri primary school, Nakuru town & Mrs. Jane Maina of Kagoto primary school, Bahati constituency. I attended Moi primary school and Menengai high school, and sat for the KCPE exams in 1994 and KCSE exams in 1998 respectively.
I am a Bachelor of Science degree holder, in Civil Engineering from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
(JKUAT), 2005, and masters degree holder in Executive Business Administration from the Eastern and Southern Africa
Institute of Management (ESAMI), 2011, Arusha, Tanzania.
I have with me over 10yrs wealth of experience in: Project Management in Kenya, DR Congo and South Sudan. Head of business-Uganda, senior executive corporate manager-Kenya, board member. Insurance brokerage, Uganda, and currently a major shareholder and CEO of a construction company with presence in Kenya and Uganda.
I believe with my engineering education background, wealth of experience in managing and running successful business and my passion to serve the good of the people I will surely make a difference in Bahati and Nakuru county. I am very passionate about the Bahati constituency. It is my home, moreover the people of BAHATI are my people and now it is my time serve them.
I urge you the voter to consider my candidacy because I am one of your own and I believe that I have the right ideas that can fix our problems, bearing in mind that I have grown up in these very same neighborhoods with you and I know exactly what you go through, I have the will, commitment and passion to serve my people. So give me your vote and I will give your my service.


Yours Truly
Crispus Wathimba

Gikaria to sponsor 60 students who got over 350 marks in KCPE

A total of sixty pupils from Nakuru East constituency who got over 350 marks in KCSE will get full scholarship in their secondary education.

The sixty pupils, 10 from each of the six wards in Nakuru East Constituency will get the scholarship courtesy of the area MP David Gikaria.

This was revealed to the press at Afraha stadium during an exercise to give CDF bursary forms for 2016.

“We have been doing this even in the past and the first lot that benefited is now in Form Three,” said Mr Naftali Nyambegere the personal assistant to the MP.

The beneficiaries must be residents of Nakuru East constituency and come from needy families. A team from the office of the MP usually visits the home of the applicant to verify that the family is needy.

“It would be sad if these pupils were to fail to attend school due to lack of fees and that is why the office of the Honourable MP is trying the best to see they are admitted. All a parent does is the shopping for the child,” explained Naftali.

Naftali also revealed that the MP’s office has set aside Sh23.8 billion for the year 2016 bursaries which will be awarded to both secondary and college universities.

Mbugua congratulates pupils who excelled in KCPE

Nakuru Governor Kinuthia Mbugua has congratulated all county students who performed well in this year's Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examinations whose results were announced on Wednesday. 

Education CS Fred Matiang'i presided over the exercise at Mitihani House.

Mbugua wrote a congratulatory message on his Facebook wall to parents, teachers and all who ensured that the students achieved great success during their examinations and time in primary school. 

"Nakuru has outstandingly great talent and our schools have potential to be the best,provided they can apply themselves constantly to the task of improving the quality," read part of the post.

The Governor urged teachers along with other staff from Nakuru schools to continue striving towards the continued development of students into global leaders.

Nakuru County: How crime can be controlled in the county    

Nakuru County being a metropolitan county faces many different types of crimes from crimes against persons to victimless crimes and violent crimes to white collar crimes. Crimes against persons which include murder, aggravated assault, rape and robbery are brought before Nakuru court each day.

White collar crimes are committed by people of high social status who commit their crimes in the context of their occupation. The Nakuru county government should put a strategy to incubate these and other forms of crimes from occurring. There is a need to enact and adopt some criteria that might scoop away crimes occurrence and if exist there is a need to have a proper channel to control them.

The county government should distribute resources equally. Everyone in the society has the equal opportunities to use the resources allocated which include land, water, minerals, fuel and wealth. The CDF should be distributed equally to every constituency. The resource needed in Nakuru town for instance is also needed in remote areas like Solai, Bonita, Marram and Kuresoi.

The key leaders in the government should note that the same roads used by the governor along M. Umoni estate in Nakuru is the same road required by the farmers to transport their produce from Ndundori to the market.

Due to poor equal distribution of resources, people have moved from remote areas and squize in urban in order to get job or randalize resources so as to acquire some wealth. When the county government distribute resources equally up to remote parts of Nakuru County, the level of crimes in urban will reduce. People will get job opportunities and also get intouch with income generating activities e.g. when provided with good infrastructure roads and water, then they will tend to adopt farming and thus will be self-employed.

This equal distribution of resources will not only help in reducing crimes but also will help in deolalization of industries.
Nakuru County consists of youths who are unemployed. The county government should help curb this by providing this young government with initiative like fish pond, fish rearing and chick hatchery among other strategies. The problem with on leader is they only lay down foundation but does not implement or enact. If youths employment can be advocated, their crimes such as illicit brewing, drug trafficking, gambling and any anti-social behavior can be deterred.

An idle mind is the devil’s workshop. I see a situation where youths forms a group and seeks Uwezo funds. Yes, that’s alright, where will they take the money? If the government won’t monitor where and how the funds will be used, then Nakuru county will experience the next attacks. Some may go and buy crucial weapons and chemicals by forming a militia group because they have been given the funds without being monitored.

The Nakuru County government should bear in mind that those involved in violent crimes is by involving them in income generating activities.
Hypothetically we cannot eradicate crime tomorrow simply by sliding all of its criminal statutes because it would probably cause the behavior to increase since it could be no longer punished the gap between the poor and the rich is another cause that leads to devil crimes.

Another implication is that some societies found in remote areas are by definition “crime tree”. This small neither foraging society found in remote areas because the members of these societies neither read nor write. They have no formalized criminal statute.

MP Launches counselling initiative for illicit brewers in Nakuru

Police from Bahati police station have been blamed by Bahati member of parliament Onesmus Kimani Ngunjiri.
Ngunjiri is blaming the law enforcers for over-reacting and lack of use of counseling skills and psychological knowledge when dealing with illicit brewers.

Njunguri who spoke over the weekend at Menengai hill secondary school in Kirima, noted that the police in Bahati do not give counseling to those who are caught up in brewing but instead they take bribe and the vicious circle of poverty continues.

“I want to put the police on notice and encourage them to give counseling to illicit brewers and drinkers so as to change their lives”. Said Njunguri.

He was addressing a group of 30 people from the area who were changaa brewers and drinkers but after counseling was done to them they abandoned the chang’aa activity.

Monicah Nyambura, a mother of 7 who brew chang’aa to the residents got counseling from Ngunjiri and helped the members to become law abiding citizens.

“We are happy for the Kimani Ngunjiri counseling initiative which helped me leave the chang’aa business now I am a farmer and y children are in school despite the odd days when I could not educate my children”, says Monicah.

Monicah has benefited from the counseling and it is this that has made her 24 year old son get into the university after getting an A plain in KCSE last year.
The abandoned drinkers engage in a merry-go-around chama which gives members Kshs.4,000 every month.

Kimani thanked the group and promised to help them so that they can be good examples from Bahati constituency and Nakuru county at large.

The group which operates 3 incubators, has got milk goats and arc in the process of purchasing a land. Kimani gave the group 6 milk goats, added them incubator and urged them to seek Uwezo funds.