Kipsigei Araap Lelei

CABINET NOMINEES:

1. Kithure Kindiki- Interior
2. Soipan Tuya- Defence
3. Alice Wahome- Lands, Housing &Public Works
4. Dr Julius Ogamba- Education
5. Aden Duale- Environment
6. Dr Andrew Karanja- Agriculture
7. Dr Debra Mulongo Barasa- Health
8. Eric Muriithi- Water and Sanitation
9. Davis Chirchir- Roads and Transport
10. Dr Margaret Ndungu- ICT
11. John Mbadi - National Treasury
12. Salim Mvurya - Investment, Trade & Industry
13. Rebecca Miano - Tourism & Wildlife
14. Opiyo Wandayi - Energy and Petroleum
15. Kipchumba Murkomen - Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports
16. Hassan Ali Joho - Mining, Blue Economy & Maritime Affairs
17. Alfred Mutual - Labour & Social Protection
18. Wycliffe Oparanya - Cooperatives & MSME Development
19. Justin Muturi - Public Service & Human Capital Development
20. Stella Soi Langat - Gender, Culture, Arts & Heritage

NB/ The position of CS Foreign Affairs is held by Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi.

EAC and ASAL pending.

BREAKING NEWS:
President Ruto nominates 10 new cabinet secretaries, bringing opposition members into his government:
1. John Mbadi – National Treasury
2. Salim Mvurya – Investment Trade & Industry
3. Rebecca Miano – Tourism & Wildlife
4. James Opiyo Wandayi – Energy and Petroleum
5. Kipchumba Murkomen – Youth Affairs, Creative Economy & Sports
6. Hassan Ali Joho – Mining, Blue Economy &
7. Dr Alfred Mutua – Labour and Social Protection
8. Wycliffe Oparanya – Cooperatives, MSME Dev’t
9. Justin Muturi – Public Service
10. Stella Soi Lang’at – Gender, Culture, Arts & Heritage

Residents of Tinderet especially our youths, please check on these job opportunities.

We are still in the NYONGI age set.

Congratulations Dr. Eliud Kipchoge ,
Well deserved.

Getting tougher ⛽

Arabica vs Robusta Coffee ☕

14 LESSONS NO SCHOOL WILL TEACH YOU;

1. You don't need anyone's permission to chase your dreams.
2. Time runs out quickly.
3. You are not born to work a job you hate.
4. 9 months equals 1% of your life.
5. Don't quit your job without a plan.
6. The perfect time to start was yesterday.
7. Don't follow your passion, follow your purpose.
8. Don't waste years chasing the wrong goals.
9. If you don't love the process, you won't love the result.
10. The goal is not multiple income streams, the goal is to get paid for your purpose in multiple ways.
11. Most people don't even think about you.
12. Wrong decisions don't exist when you have purpose.
13. Your potential is far greater than you can imagine.
14. Comfort is the single greatest threat to growth.

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ADVICE OF THE MOMENT

1. If you have a dream, go chase it because it's not coming your way without effort.

2. You can not move forward if you are stuck and focused on the past.

3. Be so busy improving yourself that you don't have time to pay attention to anything or anyone that distracts you from your growth.

4. Don't use your Energy to worry.
Use your energy to believe, create, trust, glow, grow, and heal.

5. Most times you have to go through something that destroys you so you can figure out who you really are.

6. Speak less, observe more. Not everything needs a reaction.

- Remember
Your attention is a currency. Use it wisely.

7. Never be embarrassed to struggle. There is entirely no shame in working hard to get what you want.

- Remember
People's opinions don't pay your bills.

8. Some people will judge you for changing. Others will be celebrating you for growing

Choose your circle carefully

9. Work on things people can't take away from you.
Things like your Mindset, Character, Personality, Transparency, and entire being.

10. Struggle is temporary, sacrifices are like investments. Give up the short-term comfort for the long-term win. Be Focused and stay patient.

The Proposed Finance Bill 2023.
Goodies in it:-
Tax exemptions like Zero-rating of supply of maize corn flour, wheat flour, and maize flour;
Tax exemptions for fertilizers and farm inputs or raw materials;
Exempt LPG from VAT;
Reduction of the applicable income tax rate on monthly rental Income;
Tax exemptions for various medical products;
Tax amnesty on penalties and interests for taxpayers;
Tax relief for retirees; and
Promotion of local jobs and industry by imposing a heavy tax on certain imports (e.g fish, furniture, plastic, steel, cement, etc).

Better Sugarcane prices to Farmers

FACTS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT TOO MUCH

1. If you speak too much, you will lie.
2. If you think too much, you will be depressed.
3. If you cry too much, you will lose your sight.
4. If you love too much, you will be lost.
5. If you care too much, you will be taken for granted.
6. If you play too much, you will not be taken serious often.
7. If you trust too much, you will be betrayed.
8. If you work too much, you will die of stress.
9. If you eat too much, you will be obessed
10. If you sleep too much, you will be idle.
11. If you spend too much, you will have no future.
12. If you wear make up too much, you will lose your beauty.
13. If you look too much, you will lose your focus.
14. If you pursue life too much, you will lose everything.
And lastly...
15. If you expect too much, you will be disappointed.
Don't be too much because that too much can hurt you so much.
Have a Splendid Weekend.

Good mornings

Congratulations

Basics on Apiculture 🐝🍯🐝

Apiculture is basically the rearing of bees for products like honey, wax and propolis. Some African communities keep bees with the sole purpose of providing security to their homesteads and farms.

Bee keeping was initially perceived as a traditional enterprise commonest among the hunter/gatherer communities of Kenya. The animals were considered wild where they scavenged for their own feed away from their shelter (open space on tree branches, in underground holes/caves atc).
Bee colonies on tree branches

With current innovations in agricultural sector, bee keeping is becoming a large scale venture and it has proved to have a much significant role in addressing the issue of food security and income sustainability. For instance, research has proved that bees play a very crucial role in pollination of the crops and this is important for agricultural crop yields.

The invention efforts have been geared towards changing the perception that bees are wild insects and cannot be farmed just like any other conventional animal.

Starting bee keeping

Just as many other enterprises, it is important to do valuation for the suitability/viability of the enterprise before investing your cash, time and effort.
Among the important factors to consider are together with:

Bees availability

This is the question of the ecological conditions of the place. Bees will prefer some places from the others. The factors of great concern are temperatures, humidity and rainfall which will determine the availability of important resources like water and feed. The simplest method to populate the hives is by the use of the catcher boxes which are put in the path of the swarming bees to attract them. Some honey combs can be put into this boxes to lure the bees into the catcher box.

Capital

One has to determine if he/she has the required amount to start bee keeping. This is in terms of the cash for the purchase of the equipment like bee hives, catcher boxes, artificial feeds, labour, power honey comb spinners, smokers and all related cost.

We always recommend that the farmer should consider starting small and make use of locally available material. This will minimize on the cost and ensure good returns to a growing farmer.

Site selection

Siting the apiary is very important to a bee keeper to minimize the conflict between these animals and the famer/public/other animals. Below is an outline of the important considerations when siting an apiary:

The apiary should be away from noisy places like near a working machine. Noise excites bees and motivates them to sting.
Site the apiary at the place far from homestead and the animal yards/grazing areas. Site the bee hives closer to watering and foraging points. This will minimize the distance travelled to look for feed and water and the same is converted to productivity

Avoid situating hives closer to the busy roads/paths. Bees are easily disturbed my strong wind and air current. Avoid siting the hives directly facing the wind direction.
Site the hives at a point that makes supervision easy for the farmer/manager.

Make provisions to minimize the chances of predation to the bees. Most bee farmers are using the wire mesh to enclose the area so as to keep away birds and animals that prey on bees. You can as well use scare crows to keep in check the predators
Market for the final products

Every farmer wants to get the profit at the end of his/her labour. This is only attainable if the market for the final products is very much known and well organized. Considerations has to be made on how easy it will be to transport the inputs to the farm and the produce to the market.

The farmer has to understand what are the legal policies affecting the market for the products. How is the product affected by the forces of demand and supply in the final market? This determines the amount of the profit one can realize from it all.

Social and Cultural consideration

It is important to understand the cultural believes of the people you target as the final market. For instance say a farmer wants to keep bees for honey among the people who believe honey is a product from insects and they are not interested to feed on such, it won’t work for this farmer to achieve the goals.

Bee is a social insect and will prefer living in a family like structure we are calling a colony. Each single bee colony can be made up of up to 3000-9000 bees or even more depending on the availability of the water and feed material around. The largest proportion of this is the worker bees (about 90% of the colony).

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Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.
Happy Christmas 🎄 holidays.

Smile for the day,
Good mornings

The journey of Success, begins with Believe then the STEPS...
Happy Blessed Sunday

Many years of blessings ✨

Yesterday, I shared grief with the family and friends of the late Mama Rael Chebitok Biegon at their home in Kapchilei village, Nandi Hills ward. May the Almighty God give the family enough fortitude and strength to bear the heavy loss.