Monday, October 8, 2018 / PEOPLE DAILY www.peopledaily.co.ke // www.epaper.peopledaily.co.ke 12 .HQ\D·V )5(( 1HZVSDSHU House team moves to regulate land prices This far-reaching proposal is among a raft of constitutional changes including seven- year single term for president being pushed by Finance committee >> pg 13 PG 9 News Beat PG 2 News Beat Migori voters go to Obado, Jowie poll to pick date with People Daily senator in court over NO.06565 Monday, October 8, 2018 by-election murder cases Human trafficking: Kenya caught up In an in-depth expose, our in Sh15tr web writer REBECCA MUTISO comes face-to-face with the scars, pain of thousands of minors and young women, who have fallen prey to evil of a thriving multi- trillion shilling modern day slave trade driven by faceless, callous sex merchants across the globe >> pages 4-8 2 NEWS BEAT Monday, October 8, 2018 / PEOPLE DAILY News World Business Sports New Saudi Tea body KCB syllabus journalist worried re-open on course, ‘killed’ in over US KPL POINTERS says KICD sanctions account consulate Bankers beat P14Director Dr Julius P17Jamal Khashoggi P18 EATTA says move P27 Jwan assures likely to hit Iran Talanta to earn went missing after top flight return curriculum’s roll out visiting the Saudi exporters as they within acceptable will face difficulties after three -year mission in Istanbul absence standards last week getting payments 7KUHHNLOOHG DVULYHUZDOO FROODSVHV 2EDGR-RZLHEDFNLQ LQ0DULJDW E\1RDK&KHSORHQ #FKHSORHQQRDK Tragedy struck Marigat town in WKHGRFNIRUEDLOUXOLQJV Baringo county on Saturday after three children died when the wall Justice Lesiit held that only after of a dry river collapsed on them Migori Governor has been the committal bundle was sup- while playing. in remand after court gave plied it can fully exercise its discre- Three of the five children, who tion and apply factors for consid- were playing at the river, died after police more time to complete eration in determining whether or the ground collapsed killing them not a compelling reason exists to instantly. Area acting chief Titus girlfriend’s murder probe deny him bail. Katikit said volunteers rescued In an affidavit filed at the High two children and took them to Court on Friday, the embattled Marigat sub-county hospital. E\%HUQLFH0EXJXD governor says that he has a severe #%HUQLFH0XKLQGL back problem known as Nerve 6SHFLDOLVHGWUHDWPHQW Two suspects in separate shock- Compression Disc lesion on the The two survivors; Cicilia Loka- ing murder cases are expected lumber spine which started affect- bonyo and Josphat Yatich both back in court today after spending ing him in 2013 and his condition aged three, were later taken to at least two weeks behind bars. has gotten worse since his remand. Baringo County Referral Hospital At Milimani Law Courts, Migori Through his lawyer Rogers in Kabarnet for specialised treat- Even Governor Okoth Obado is expect- Sagana, he says even though he ment after receiving first aid at the though ed today for review of his bail ap- was admitted at Kenyatta Na- local health centre. plication. tional Hospital, his condition has “It is sad. We couldn’t save the he was Elsewhere in Kiambu, investiga- not improved. He says he is not a other three. They were already tors are expected to arraign Joseph flight risk and he has cooperated dead by the time we reached admit- Irungu alias Jowie, who is accused with investigators in everyway by them,” the administrator said. ted at of killing 28-year-old Monica giving his DNA samples and mo- All the children were below 10 Kimani in Nairobi’s Kilimani area bile phones. The governor states years and pupils in the nearby Kenyatta three weeks ago. that from the committal bundle, school. The incident happened Kiambu Senior Principal Mag- he notes that all the 24 witnesses at Labos River in Kampi Turkana National istrate Stella Atambo ordered that were summoned and had their village at around 4pm, he said. the suspect be detaimed at Muth- statements taken before his arrest Hospital, and without any interference. The bodies were taken to Baringo aiga Police Station to allow police GOVERNOR WOES county hospital morgue. his con- complete invetigations. She also The Governor further claims Migori Governor Okoth Obado that the committal bundle shows ordered that the suspect be taken Migori Governor Okoth Obado dition to hospital for treatment of a gun- (centre) with his lawyers at Mili- that all the exhibits and documen- has been at the Industrial area tary evidence were obtained with- shot wound. Irungu was arrested remand prison for two weeks mani Law Courts on September has not out any hitch or interference from over a fortnight ago and police after he was charged with the 27. 1)050$)"3-&4."5)"* improved have since established strong links murder of his girlfriend Sharon him before his arrest. The matter is to the killing. Otieno last month. scheduled to be mentioned today - Sagana which cannot allow him to stand before Justice Lessit over several is- Obado, who was charged last for long. The Governor was de- month with the murder of Rongo He was rushed and admitted sues, among them consolidation. to Kenyatta National Hospital nied bail on September 27 by High The prosecution intends to con- University student Sharon Otieno, Court judge Jessie Lessit because will be seeking a review of his bail after he reportedly fell sick solidate Obado’s case with that while in remand at the Indus- the prosecution had not supplied of his personal assistant Michael application on grounds that he to all the parties witness state- suffers a chronic back problem WULDO$UHDSULVRQÀYHGD\VDJR Oyamo and Caspal Obiero, a clerk ments and the evidence. in Migori county. WEATHERTODAY .HSVDXUJHVVWLIISHQDOWLHVIRUJUDIWVXVSHFWV s.AIROBI 25° that improving governance and con- tice action. “Public, private dialogue E\$QWKRQ\0ZDQJL trolling corruption could increase in- s-OMBASA 30° should also be strengthened for in- DQG%RQQ\0XVDQJL come per capita by 400 per cent. formation targeting those who pose #3HRSOH'DLO\.H Speaking in Mombasa during the s+ISUMU 30° greatest risk,’’ she said. Speaker’s Roundtable between the pri- Corruption, high taxes and bureau- Kariuki urged the government pro- vate sector and Parliament, she urged s.YERI 23° cracy are the major impediments to tect local industries from unfair com- the government to intensify the war doing business in the country. petition from cheap imports and pro- on corruption and other economic Kenya Private Sector Alliance (Kep- liferation of illicit goods. s7AJIR 34° crimes and strengthen law enforce- sa) chief executive Carole Kariuki (pic- “Cheap and illicit goods are killing ment, prosecutorial and criminal jus- tured) said yesterday research shows local industries,” she said. PEOPLE DAILY \ Monday, October 8, 2018 #WhackyWorld 3 ZLWK.LPDWKLZD0XWHJL #NLPDWKLPXWHJL Of perceptions, Prayer itinerary varies. Off to the toilets... hype and quirky differences between sexes Men and women have some obvious differences in what Blame the makes thyem tick. This is not referring to the birds and cataracts? the bees here, but the weird things that just won’t make sense to the other gender. So, let’s just celebrate our quirky differences! ‘Turning on, can be as complex as it can be simple. The bed is equitably shared to his disfavour. When you haven’t checked your Facebook for a week. The reason for watching titanic. Perception of time gets nutty. How they see themselves in the mirror. 4 SPECIAL REPORT Monday, October 8, 2018 / PEOPLE DAILY HUMAN TRAFFICKING 0LOOLRQVVXIIHUFXUVH Kenya is at the centre of Sh15 trillion human trafficking industry as a source, destination and transit point for underground cartels 6WRULHVE\5HEHFFD0XWLVR estimates that at least 328,000 #UHEHFFDPXWKHX people in Kenya are victims of modern slavery. This translates Saumu Juma*, 30, jumped to seven out of 1,000 people. headlong at the chance to earn- A recent report by the Interna- ing Sh46,000 every month work- tional Organisation for Migra- ing as a tailor in Jeddah, Saudi tion (IOM) singles out the Coast Arabia. The job had been prom- region as one of the areas that People ised by an informal employment human traffickers target. agent who was a friend of her The assessment report on the who are mother. human trafficking situation in Three months into the job, she the Coast region cites poverty, il- arrested was “auctioned” . She was raped literacy, drug abuse, loss of par- are and forced to have sex with her ents, harmful cultural practices employer’s male friends and rela- and radicalisation as some of usually tives. the factors that contribute to in- those Saumu is just one of the esti- creased cases of trafficking. mated 20.9 million adults and While many trafficking agents who are children who are bought and escape justice, survivors of traf- sold worldwide into sex slavery, ficking are often treated as crimi- being forced or bonded labour. nals. traf- Jedidah Waruhiu, a commis- 6H[XDOH[SORLWDWLRQ sioner with the Kenya National ficked— The United Nations office on Human Rights Commission Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says (KNHRC), says they regularly re- Wa- an estimated 27 million people ceives petitions from trafficking ruhiu are caught up in modern-day survivors who have been jailed slavery while about 800,000 peo- for being in the country illegally ple trafficked across internation- while those who financed and al borders annually. About one smuggled them get off scot-free. million children are exploited This year alone, KNHRC has by the commercial sex industry. received 242 petitions from peo- “A majority of the women and ple who are victims of trafficking girls — 80 per cent — are traf- but are languishing in custody.