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By Reuben Abati Lucy Kibaki and her husband, ex-Kenyan president, Mwai Kibaki Lucy Muthoni Kibaki was buried yesterday, 9.12 am, Nigerian time, in Othaya, Njeri County, Kenya in the presence of about 300 guests and family members, after a requiem mass attended by over 3, 000 dignitaries and 20, 000 mourners. She was the wife of President Mwai Kibaki, the third President of Kenya, in office from 2002 -2013. She is definitely, one of Kenya’s most controversial public figures in the last 50 years. There has been no other First Lady like her in the history of Kenya and perhaps in the whole of Africa. It was indeed not suprising that her casket on its journey back to Nairobi, from Bupa Cromwell Hospital, South West London, where she died on April 26, was draped in national colours and that she received the equivalent of a state burial. Mama Lucy was that type of First Lady who had she been denied such state recognition and if the dead could rise and return to sleep, would have stormed...

Yahaya Bello, Kogi State governor Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi has appointed and inaugurated a five-member caretaker committees for each of the 21 local government councils in the state. The governor said at the inauguration in Lokoja on Friday that the heads of the caretaker committees will be addressed as Administrators. He charged them to be diligent in the discharge of their duties, saying that they would be strictly monitored by his office and their opponents. “You owe a lot of salaries. Mr President has graciously released part of our bailout fund. Ensure it is disbursed strictly for the purpose it is meant. “I will hold you responsible for any security issue from your local government. Flush out criminals from amongst you. Every kobo of councils’ funds must be accounted for. “I, Yahaya Bello, will not send anyone to get money from you. Disregard any request for money from anyone no matter how highly placed in my government“, he said. He told them to handle the affairs ...