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Miguna Rattles Teachers at Makini

Despite his public profile as Raila Odinga's Advisor on Coalition affairs, no one at The Weekly Citizen knows exactly how Miguna Miguna looks like and I had to fill in for his image with my brand New Year photo! Hilarious!

Teachers at the prestigious Makini School in Nairobi are up in arms against Miguna Miguna over what they term uncalled for hostility towards them. The teachers say that they have never known peace ever since Miguna’s children were enrolled in the school.

Miguna, the teachers claim, insists that his children be treated special and woe unto any teacher who as little as tells the children to work harder. Miguna who personally drops the children to school every morning will storm the school and give the teacher a dressing down infront of the pupils.

Miguna, who is Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s advisor is also said to call teachers as late as 9.00 p.m to warn them against mistreating his children. The children are said to carry their own packed lunch although everyone else eats at the school. The lower primary school children carry their own soap and towels to avoid sharing with the others who use the soap provided by the school.

Now teachers fear that Miguna’s children will have a bad influence on other pupils who might start thinking that teachers are mistreating them when they are merely correcting them for their own good.

Ironically, the teachers say, the children who are from Miguna’s second marriage are not at the top of class as one would expect of such highly regarded children.

A grand child of President Mwai Kibaki, the teachers say, was attending the school until last year yet they have never seen Lucy saying that he be treated specially.

Weekly Citizen, February 9, 2010.

Note: Despite contacts with the Weekly, they have not yet carried a correction. Instead, they published the same picture in their latest Edition (February 22nd 2010) with a new and damaging letter from an unnamed Kenyan based in Canada claiming that Miguna is a rapist. Apparently, they have not yet figured out who Miguna Miguna is although they continue to mount accusations against him!

February 23, 2010 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | 5 Comments