THE STANDARD
RIFT VALLEY
The 10-year-old Collins Kipkurui who is suffering from a mysterious disease that is eating away his lips and nose.[Nikko Tanui,Standard]
The family of a ten-year-boy is appealing for help to treat a mysterious disease that has terribly disfigured his face over the last four years.
The affliction began when Collins Kipkurui was bitten by an insect while taking sugarcane from their farm at Yalla village in Kipkelion West Constituency.
“After the insect bit me on my upper lip, I got a small itchy pimple which developed into a wound that oozes pus,” he said.
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COUNTIES
Kericho Senator Aaron Cheruiyot. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]
A stinging letter by Kericho Senator Aaron Cheruiyot to the Executive and the Legislature over the slashing of health department funding has led to a ceasefire between the two arms of the county government.
Cheruiyot, in a letter seen by
The Standard to Governor Paul Chepkwony and copied to the Clerk of the County Assembly Martin Epus, noted that the ward representatives had reduced the health service delivery allocation in the supplementary budget. The reduction poses direct and indirect impact on the operation of the County Health Department, he said.
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NYANZA
Investigators visited the home and recovered a blood-stained knife. [Courtesy]
Police in North Mugirango, Nyamira County, have launched a hunt for a 15-year-old boy said to have stabbed his father to death.
The boy allegedly pounced on his father after he retired to bed and attacked him with a kitchen knife during Wednesday night s incident.
The 45-year-old victim is said to have been taken to Kericho County Hospital where he was treated and discharged only for him to die about 12 hours later.
County Commissioner Amos Mariba said the suspect s mother told the police that her husband was already asleep, around 9pm, when he was stabbed on the left shoulder by the Standard Five pupil.
Kenya Police in North Mugirango, Nyamira County, have launched a hunt for a 15-year-old boy said to have stabbed his father to death.
The boy allegedly pounced on his father after he retired to bed and attacked him with a kitchen knife during Wednesday night’s incident.
The 45-year-old victim is said to have been taken to Kericho County Hospital where he was treated and discharged only for him to die about 12 hours later.
County Commissioner Amos Mariba said the suspect’s mother told the police that her husband was already asleep, around 9pm, when he was stabbed on the left shoulder by the Standard Five pupil.