• Prime Minister Raila Odinga, has announced that the government may soon reward or sanction public servants and institutions based on their performance when related legislations were enacted.
• He said a comprehensive paper on incentives and sanction system was almost complete but entailed the review of the Public Service Commission Act to accommodate the performance parameters.
• He said excellence based on negotiated performance targets would continue to be the basis for retention of officers in the public service to ensure customer satisfaction was guaranteed.
• Raila also served notice to ministries with cross cutting mandates to prepare to take responsibilities for directly failing others in achievement of their individual targets and warned they risked being penalized.
  

• Members of Parliament elected on the Party of National Unity ticket risk losing their seats if they fail to comply with the party's laid down regulations.
• This is in accordance with the new political parties' act which came into effect on July 1 this year and which requires that MPs who withdraw from the parties that sponsored them to parliament should seek fresh mandate from the electorate.
• Cracks between PNU and its affiliate parties emerged earlier this week following a PNU's council meeting, which formed a 15 member committee to streamline the party's structures as required by the political parties act.
• So far NARC K, Ford-Kenya, and DP have maintained that they will remain independent under the PNU coalition in preparation for the 2012 general elections with NARC Kenya insisting that it would not send representatives to the committee.

WAKI COMMISSION TOURS KIBERA 18 JULY 08

• The Waki Commission led by its Chair Justice Philip Waki toured Kibera on a fact-finding mission in connection with the post election violence that rocked the country.
• The Commission's officials visited several areas in the sprawling slums that bore the brunt of the violence. 
• The team first visited Darajani area where the local market was entirely set ablaze by demonstrating youth moments after the Electoral Commission of Kenya announced the presidential results last year.

NATIONAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH POLICY LAUNCHED 18 JULY 08

• The Ministry of Health and Sanitation has launched the National Reproductive Health Policy.
• The Reproductive Health Policy is among the health programmes geared towards the realization of Millennium Development Goals.
• Among the practices to be given top priority is improving safe motherhood, reducing unmet needs for family planning and preventing unplanned births.
• The reproductive health policy is among the health programmes aimed at the realization of the millennium development goals.

• Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka said Kenya will back whatever decision the African Union takes with regards to an arrest warrant issued against Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir.
• The VP warned that the matter should be treated with caution, to ensure the security situation in the Horn of Africa nation does not degenerate completely.
• He said Kenya has been at the forefront of securing lasting peace in Sudan and would not like to see the rocky nation plunge into total turmoil.
• The International Criminal Court at the Hague on Monday accused the Sudanese leader of sponsoring genocide and sent out a warrant for his arrest to face those charges in court.