Mututho Laws are Back
If you consume alcoholic beverages, you will still have to be out of the bar by 11 pm and the earliest you may start drinking remains at 5 pm during weekdays and 2 pm over the weekend. This is after the high court lifted a temporary injunction against the implementation of the alcoholic drinks control act, commonly known as the Mututho law, after a group of traders moved to court to challenge the new law. Evelyn Wambui with more on this story.
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High Court suspends 'Mututho laws'
www.ntv.co.ke It is likely that many lovers of alcohol are toasting at the news that the High court has suspended the Alcoholic Drinks Act 2010. This is after an Association of Murang'a bar owners moved to court challenging the so-called Mututho Laws. Mark Masai has more.
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Mututho on Gichangi, Kimunya
ktnkenya.tv Naivasha member of parliament John Mututho is accusing transport minister Amos Kimunya and National security intelligence service boss Michael Gichangi of propagating impunity. Mututho says that the two who hold top government positions have set bad examples by defying regulations by parliament and the judiciary.
Kapondi bill seeks to amend 'Mututho laws'
www.ntv.co.ke Bars could operate for longer hours should a bill seeking to amend the Alcohol Control Bill of 2010 be passed in Parliament. The bill has already gone through the first reading. Its mover, Mt. Elgon Member of Parliament Fred Kapondi argues that practical challenges that have arisen out of the so called Mututho laws, will be catered for by the envisioned amendments.
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Support for 'Mututho' laws
www.ntv.co.ke A group of women in Murang'a have held a demonstration in the town protesting against the recent High Court's decision to suspend the controversial Alcoholic Drinks Act 2010. The women say that the suspension of the laws, which came in to operation during the December festive season, helped maintain order in their homes.
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Mututho:Food prices to blame for the rising number of strikes
www.ntv.co.ke The Parliamentary Select Committee on Agriculture now says the rising cost of food is to blame for the growing number of strikes in the country. Its chairman John Mututho also raised new questions on the government's much publicised livestock off take, in which he says the government lost nearly 8000 cows to corruption.
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Mututho maintains GMOs not good
MUTUTHO www.ntv.co.ke The Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture John Mututho has reiterated his call to the government to stop the importation of Genetically Modified Maize. The Naivasha MP said the variety of maize that is being imported from South Africa is unfit for human consumption claiming that they are used as bio-fuel. Mututho spoke soon after a private mission in South Africa to get facts against the GMO maize
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Raila, Mututho Clash Over GMOs
The raging controversy over the importation of genetically modified maize played out in Parliament yet again with Prime Minister Raila Odinga clashing with Naivasha MP John Mututho over reports that the GMO maize was already in the country. While Mututho tabled documents he claimed showed that GMO maize was already being distributed in parts of the country, the Prime Minister countered with his own set of documents from the Kenya Bureau of Standards showing that no such maize had been cleared for circulation. From Parliament, Chris Thairu reports.
Contaminated maize in Kenya: Mututho
www.ntv.co.ke The parliamentary committee on agriculture is raising the alarm over what it says is the illegal entry of 40000 tonnes of genetically modified maize into the country. The committees chair John Mututho claims that at least 10000 tonnes of the contaminated maize is already in circulation.
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Raila, Uhuru sued over IDPs
Naivasha member of parliament john Mututho and Embakasi MP Ferdinand Waititu have taken prime minister Raila Odinga and finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta to court over their alleged failure in resettling internally displaced persons. Mututho says there are still thousands of people living in deplorable conditions, KTN's Betty Kyallo reports.
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Tusker gets new bottle
www.ntv.co.ke East African Breweries has spent a billion shillings in the re-vamp of its flagship 'Tusker' brand. But, as the company tries to raise sales of its well-known beer brands, Group Managing Director Seni Adetu is saying that the company has experienced a dip in sales following the introduction of the Alcoholic Drinks control act, popularly known as the 'Mututho law'.
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Rome Statute Debate Continues
A motion seeking to withdraw Kenya out of the Rome Statute was dramatically stopped in parliament, after the speaker ruled that it was inadmissible due to errors in drafting. The motion, tabled in parliament by Chepalungu mp Isaac Ruto had sought the immediate withdrawal of Kenya from the Rome Statute. But as soon as the speaker ruled the motion inadmissible unless it was re-drafted, Naivasha mp John Mututho moved an edited version of the motion for debate. However, hawk-eyed mps cited violations of the house procedures, prompting deputy speaker Farah Maalim to rescind his earlier decision to allow debate on the Mututho motion. Francis Gachuri reports on the game of wits on the floor of the house.
2012 elections: Nakuru legislators target AP Commandant Mbugua
www.ntv.co.ke A section of politicians in Nakuru County is calling on public officers eyeing positions in the 2012 general election to stop using tax payers money in their campaigns. The politicians , led by Naivasha MP John Mututho singled out Administration Police Commandant Kinuthia Mbugua as one of those allegedly using state resources to campaign in Nakuru for the position of governor.
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Tragic Drinking Competition
Perhaps it was due to the effects of prolonged periods without illicit brew due to the recently introduced Mututho law that saw a group of young people take to a drinking contest that turned tragic in Kisumu. With 500 shillings prize money to boot it was too good a deal to ignore. However, the winner of the contest passed away from the deadly effects of the brew while the runner up went mad and the third is receiving treatment at the Nyanza General Hospital in Kisumu. And as Chris Wang'ombe narrates the episode has left a bitter taste in the mouths of those lucky to have lived to tell the story.
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Saitoti vows to rid Kenya of illicit brews in 100 days
http:/www.ntv.co.ke Internal Security Minister George Saitoti now says that within 100 days, the government will have cleared the streets and drinking dens across the country of illicit brews, and reduce the carnage on the roads as a result of car accidents. And whereas Saitoti made the government's intent look very serious, the pledge to rid Kenya of illicit brews is one the nation has heard before.
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Raila:Do Not Tannish My Family's Name
Prime Minister Raila Odinga says the parliamentary report implicating his family in the maize scandal has been authored by those he described as criminals tarnishing other people's names. Speaking in Kisumu during the launch of Uzima University in Kisumu, Raila said the truth about the motive of the report tabled by agriculture committee chairman John Mututho will soon come out. Elsewhere Ikolomani mp bonny Khalwale challenged the prime minister to defend himself on the floor of the house instead of attacking the report in public.