By Marvel Ochieng

Maasai in kenya are using their love for games to raise awareness of social injustices in their community. They are actively campaigning against practices like female genital mutilation and early childhood marriages. Though some Maasai communities still believe that FGM should be continued because some see it as cultural rite of passage marking when a girl become a woman and can marry. Maasai cricket warriors captain Sonyanga Ole Ngais spoke to KTN News and told them how he and his team mates are trying to discourage the custom by refusing to marry girls who have undergone the brutal procedure.

They relate the sport to their traditional hunting techniques where the ball is the spear, the bat is the shield and their flowing red robes in full flight are an awesome sight. Even though maasai are male dominated women have fewer rights even to their bodies and so the cricket team are using their new found unity on the field as an inspiration to those off it, attempting to educate and give young people a sense of belonging support and hope. However, they face resistance from the elders of their community who hold maasai traditions practices dear. But then can cricket really bring change to the region?

Shannon Wenani

FATHERLY  LOVE

By Shannon Wenani

Diamond Platnum has finally seen his two kids after Zari Hassan bowed to pressure and unlocked him

The  singer  Diamond  Platnum  has  mentioned  several   times  that  he  has  been  denied  access to communicate  and  even  see  his  own  children  Tiffer  and  Nillan  because  they   are  not  in  Tanzania  with  him

Diamond  Platnum  even  decided  to  sing the  song  Inama  to  explain  and  express  his  feeling  of  how  he  cant  see  his  children  because  of  love  and  hate  between  him  and  Zari  Hassan.

Mapenzi  imeleta  kwa  wanangu  vita,  siku  hizi  siwaoni,  naishia  kuwa  like  insta.  (Love  has  brought  beef   between  me  and  my  childrens  these  days  ,  I  can  only  like  their  pictures  in  instagram  but   I cant  see  them  face  to  face)  He sing  this  on  the  song  Inama.

He is seen so happy having fun with his chidren.

Hezron Kute

NTV exposes chemical ridden supermarket meats

By HEZRON KUTE

An investigative report compiled by Dennis Okari of NTV exposed supermarkets for using sulphite chemical preservatives dawa ya nyama  that might  be harmful to human beings. While holding interviews with a supermarket attendant, Okari unearthed the unspeakable act done to make meat appear fresh and juicy in the eyes of an unsuspecting customer.

“Every morning before the doors open for customers, we take packaged meat that stayed overnight, remove the cling film and change the date labels to reflect the current date. If the packaging is stained with blood, we change it and put a new wrapping,” said the attendant.

Seeing as it might be a huge loss, the supermarkets have adopted this practice to make sure their meat have a longer shelf life. In the course of his exposé, Okari conducted his own experiment on two cuts of meat to find out whether the food sulphites really worked. He easily purchased the dawa at Nairobi’s Industrial area and mixed it with one cut and left the other cut untouched. After a couple of day the meat mixed in with the dawa stayed fresh and juicy while the other cut begun to rot and smell.

Supermarket managers expect a sale on meats even after they have exceeded the recommended two to three day shelf life. “Meat, including beef, chicken, fish and mutton, that is not sold after a week, is cooked and served to unsuspecting customers in in-store cafeterias,” the source revealed.

Food experts advise that sulphites are generally safe if used within recommended limits, but they can cause negative side effects like nasal congestion, itchy throat, runny nose and skin rash.

Although this practice was revealed to be done by supermarkets alone there is no telling whether butcheries in town use sulphites preservatives or not.