 All right. Absolutely amazing. Good morning to you. We're glad that you've joined us. There's the hashtag going in the morning and Brian Sackler. This is the 19th day of December. Definitely the holiday mode is finally here and Merry Christmas to you. Not a happy new year yet, but also I can say it in advance. Okay. As always, you can find a way to interact with us on our socials and that includes eggs, Facebook and Instagram. I try to fulfill channel and the hashtag to use to interact with us is hashtag Y in the morning. And mine, that means my socials is at Brian Sackler 101. Today being a Tuesday, it's all about health and entrepreneurship. So definitely I'm going to be taking you through the newspaper daily. Today I have a copy of the People Daily newspaper and it has interesting stories and updates for you. The splash once again, Journalism 101, the headline or the highlight of the newspaper is it has been revealed at the big fight for former onslaughts. It's also a day when over 40,000 students KCPE students have finally been selected to join their favorite high schools. Are they joining their favorite high schools? That's the question as well. But then there's an interesting update on that that shows schools overwhelmed and this includes election exposes the yawning gums in quality of schools as KCPE candidates crumble for places in the national institutions. On that also include counties slunking enough classrooms, spilled to neighboring ones, and then slum children get some relief. The story is on page number four. On top of that, it talks about Ohuru denouncing the DRC military pact and then next to it is the Kenya-EU signed trade agreement and the deal is expected to boost local manufacturing and enterprise as European Union also gets access to the regional bloc. Down there they're saying as the facilitator that is a comment from the former president Ohuru Kenyatta says that he repudiates these developments particularly the military character and the accompanying political charge and provocative rhetoric. And then the education CES that is Isekyama Chogu says a specific issue this is in regards to yesterday's KCPE result. It says a specific issue is worthy of the mention and some candidates despite having high schools did not make any school choices. And then down below they are talking about some of the schools that are actually being fought for. I think I saw it on the copy of the Daily Nation newspaper where it talks about some of the most fought for high schools and it includes they've listed several I wonder why alliance is at the bottom but it says Kabyanga High School that has a capacity of 672 but applicants were 186,357 followed by Nanuki High School that has a capacity of 480 but their play counts were 158,741 followed by Pangani Girls with a capacity of 384. Their play counts are 144,542. There's Copsabit Boys, Alliance Girls, Masano School, Nakuru High, Butere Girls, Mangu High and then Alliance I believe it should be Alliance Boys okay because the fifth one on the list is Alliance Girls and then there's Alliance High with 384 capacity and then applicants were 110,839. This in regards to yesterday's selection of form one a high yes form one and then my KCPE candidates joining form one right there and if you're a parent back at home did your child get his or her favorite high school please tell us if they got it or not and maybe what are some of the issues especially the discrepancies and the inconsistencies that came through of course we had previously primary schools that did not get the best results and they had to file for petition for them to maybe remarked which they said was not a good thing but then also there's those who received wrong marks and wrong units or wrong subjects in the instead of what they sought for they got something else. Now in January 15th the day when the Linus are also expected to join the high school or report to form one in their schools this is that marked day a total of 42,927 candidates who are selected to join the national schools and 22,051 boys while 20,876 girls still the gentlemen the boys are leading now the total number is 3,500 this is the number of classrooms to be built in Nairobi schools to reduce shortage of places and now when I look here I've not seen Nairobi school which is among should be among anyways Sa Sa we'll talk about that later on but on top of that they're talking about Ruto Ruto's role president Ruto's role on internships the beneficiaries must serve for two years he says and the president in answer to teacher unions the story's on page number six and then there's an interesting update here of course it's all about the festive season and the costly careless driving this is in results to the road carnages that we are being experiencing the country right now I think as of yesterday I was checking on the update where they said this year from January till right now which is end of the year December a total unestimation of around 3,919 and accidents have been recorded in short road carnages and close to 4,000 died on Kenyan roads in one year this according to cabinet secretary roads and infrastructure that is Kipchumba Mokomen the story's on page number three of the people daily and I'm gonna take you through it very very very very very very fast and as always open to here and see your feedback all right let's talk let's let's get deeper into it it talks about the story on the road carnages now that is the festive season it says this is because of high numbers of people traveling to upcountry for rushago if you want to it talks about transport CS cabinet secretary Kipchumba Mokomen has cited drunk driving use of mobile phones by both motorists and cyclists in other form of distractions are some of the reasons that have led to the increase in road accidents and the CS also said and also called upon motorists and other road users to change and unsafe road users behaviors that endanger lives so is basically called upon you to be cautious especially at a time like this and those that you know boarding buses Matatu's or cabs that are already fully loaded please don't do it and then don't drink and drive he pointed out a total of 3,999 lives who are lost as a result of road accidents between january 1st and december 7th down from 4,352 people who died in similar circumstances during the same period last year this is according to the official data transport cabinet secretary that is Kipchumba Mokomen also said that those led to to celebrate because the number of serious injuries increased from 8,974 to 9,698 when he spoke yesterday during the Kenya's highway cordon drivers handbook he said slight injuries have also increased from 6,497 to 6,971 according to him the increase in the pedal cyclist death can be attributed to speeding vehicles dangerous cycling and safe changing of lanes and lack of motorist transport and empty facilities on our roads okay all right down there he talks about the new rules that will be implemented especially during this first two season it takes into consideration the new rules and guidelines for driving in east Africa as well as the international standards for self-driving the safety is guaranteed to us if we understand and internalize these guidelines and elsewhere as well four people died yesterday in a road accident involving a Nakuru bound Matatu and a bus on Eldred Nakuru road the Matatu belong to Ms. Maria Chattel which was heading to Nakuru with 16 passengers on board and he said to have lost control and rammed into the 60 seater bars the debt included the Matatu's driver and three passengers nine other passengers sustained serious injuries and were rushed to Eldamara winds up county referral hospital where they're currently receiving treatment it's just a cautionary tale again and take precaution don't drink and drive like they've highlighted here don't board an overloaded Matatu car or bus and then also do not switch lanes you know Manhattan's a lot on thicker road I don't know if at some point you're on those sides of the highway somebody just swabs a land without indication and it is it's a busy it's a busy highway anyways so please do not drink and drive and observe traffic rules okay now let's talk about the story current story of the day that is the big scumber for for one places in select schools and I had I lighted this to you it includes some 288201 candidates that have been placed in county schools 274,746 students will join extra county schools of this 141,591 590 are boys and 133 156 are girls still boys leading okay and then the overall 42,927 students who start this year's KCP you are placed in national schools out of this 22,051 are boys and 20,876 are girls Kabyanga and Nyuki High are the most preferred secondary schools among pupils who start class eight examinations this year right right this come when the education cabinet secretary Zekama Chougu announced that the competition of the formal selection in Nairobi yesterday this is because learners should be expected to join their respective schools in January 15th of 2024 according to my Chougu that is the cabinet secretary education he says 186,357 candidates rather selected Kabyanga as their first choice yet it had a capacity of only 672 students Nyuki the capacity of 180 learners which also received a number of applications that included 158,741 followed by Pangani girls which is the third most sought after school it received a total of 144,542 applicants yet it's only able to absorb only 384 meaning that they'll not be able to take in all of those and I'm pretty sure there's those that got disappointed I also won the Waika-Bianga High School yeah okay last exams through affirmation action the ministry placed 130 learners in national and 167 in extra county schools with 150 of the beneficiaries being girls and 147 boys okay besides the affirmative action on needy and vulnerable children the placement also considered the 217 Djibouti December declaration on regional refugee education and placed learners from primary schools and refugee camps this year the number of KCP candidates thrust by 180,000 to hit a historic high of 1.41 million as Sanjay attributed to the fact that this was the last class under the 844 system by the way it's also end of an era and that meant this year offer the last chance for all those who wanted to see the KCP examinations to do soar okay so meaning it's also an end of an era goodbye to the other education system and hello welcome to the CBC and now the joining instructions are as follows during the selection principles would pick candidates manually under the guidance of education officers and then generate lists for their respective schools then prepare joining instructions for onward transmission to primary schools where the candidates collected them the first computerized placement of the KCP candidates at the national level was carried out in 2006 and progressively extended to extra county and county schools by 2016 to sub county level by 2020 that's when just COVID was coming in and a lot of you definitely first the wrath of the pandemic but it's now a story of the past the oldest gone the new has come now let's talk about interns the stories on page number six interns to work for two years ahead of state jobs and this means those that applied for government jobs I believe so probably also in government peristals and many other government institutions the president president's ward on that is he has affirmed that interns must only take two years before being absorbed on permanent and pensionable time I think this again also was highlighted by the teachers service commissions for teachers that had applied for jobs that had temporary contracts you know you can be employed on contract but it's not permanent it means when your contract is done after two years or two months or six depending on the institution or depending on the type of the contract it's done you go but the teachers wanted for them to be to have contracts but permanent ones so and also pensionable not just permanent but pensionable as well meaning you're benefiting okay and he said that the government policy that will be adopted in all sectors not only for the teaching profession even as he assured the junior secondary teachers that their contracts will continue in general of course there's those that their contracts had come to a close but then they'll have to re continue in 2024 the jesus teachers have been demanding that they be absorbed on a permanent and pensionable basis as their unions called for their restraint okay right they're talking about once they complete their internships after two years as the president assured they want to be retained not to be sent home and now that it's a very tough economy and separately the education cabinet secretary talked about it and said that the government has employed at least 50 over in fact over 56 000 teachers so far and out of this he said some have been employed in the junior schools and also retooled those who are in existing primary schools and also on pedagogical skills that word is it pedagogical or pedagogical please you can shout me out english classes 101 pronunciation okay he added that they've been also able to absorb quite a number of them and progressively go to another year yeah then they also remain that jesus teachers who are on internships because of the criteria for employment is now that you must start as an intern in order for you to be able to qualify for permanent and pensionable i believe starting yes for starters but not for i think i believe with starters intermediary immediate and then oh this amateur you can tell me you can help out apple all right so so let's talk about matters drc before we get to the entrepreneurship page it talks about president uhuru hating former president uhuru hitting out at drc opposition alliance and uh he talked about the drc polls and this includes um former head of congo's electoral commission carnell naga now an opposition leader announced during the meeting the formation of a military alliance dubbed alliance du fleur congoal all right uh eastern drc bordering ronda where over 120 armed groups are in control leading to up to 3.8 million residents who are living okay and then immediate former uh right that that is the former president he talked about uh the electoral commission here kenya too is also a facilitator of the east african community led the narobi peace progress for drc condemn he also condemned the formation of the nanga led the alliance saying it is a threat to uh the country's stability and according to nanga who is now the leader of opposition he talks about uh a move to save drc noting that there's need for the political social and military forces to unite in bid to rebuild and restore peace in the country which has endured decades of political strife characterized by the civil war the situation is now once in the eastern drc bordering ronda where over 120 groups are in control leading to 3.8 million residents living as internally displaced persons right that's just that on uh martyr's stories that are breaking headlines now we have to shift to the entrepreneurship page but as i do that please uh tell us what are some of the stories that right caught your attention especially when it comes to what is making headlines in our country right now i don't know if you caught the update yesterday where the pope uh has uh is it pope frances is it the second or the third or the fourth i'm out to you and as i quote the 20th or the thousand please tell me he finally signed uh a bill is it a bill a proposal that suggests that now same-sex marriage will be accepted actually the move comes from the vatican but of course the vatican is like the head of all catholic churches so it definitely it's going to be a battle whether same-sex marriage should be blessed in charge or it's i don't know the next word because here in africa i don't know if we can hear that but you can tell you can tell us i saw this i saw cnn and bbc reacting to that including forks news and the rest including sky news as well some of the inter and al jezeera including other international media platforms that had a lot of sentiments and echo on that tell us do you agree with the pope's move to sign a petition that will allow the blessing of same-sex marriage in charge especially now the catholic space right talk to us and let us know now on martyr's business and entrepreneurship page on page number 15 of the people daily newspapers uh president ruto is determined to sell state farms and this again includes some of the buildings that were highlighted to be sold including k icc the legendary which is a landmark of kenya right at the k icc including uh is it kenya pipeline kenya creamaries and then uh even including uh the moira is the moira is uh facility as well and it had a lot of uh feedback and a lot of reaction from the netizens but it talks about the kenya pipeline can make up to around 30 billion kenya shillings in profit if return yet is only making around you know five billion which is insignificantly in the returns are computed at the rate of ten percent net value this has repeat this repeated as the season why the government is keen to sell such farms to large investors who will have to bid in on the process and of course a lot of people fought it and in the joint media dress he said it's in bid to just sell the country's economy because some of these buildings are not serving much in terms of their profit you can see here's a lighted here that kenya pipeline can give a profit of 30 billion but it's only giving five billion so i don't know what you think about that please let us know on that comment section at white two four four channel he says he's looking at saving about 60 to 70 billion of the 250 billion spent on running the farms and plow back to cash the infrastructure development projects such as healthcare worlds education or housing among others i remember when he was asked about the g2g deal and he said if it didn't happen probably the dollar would be 250 dollar exchange rate to kenya would be 250 kenya shillings and then also he pointed out the economy right now is on the road to goodness so he estimated it to be at five point six percent the growth of the economy right now and also recovery meaning we are not at a bad place we are on recovery and he finally said that we are certainly out of debt i remember the previous government had an estimation of up to 9.5 when they came in and his money to clear right we are yet to see what amount has been cleared but definitely they'll update us as we go by this is 2023 ending 2024 karibu sana right he talked about reassuring kenyans that he menswell for the state run farms and he only wants to make them more vibrant and profitable and opening doors he said the intention is to commercialize k icc that is the legendary k icc and make it profitable not a place of tourists taking pictures the way it has been famed over the years do tourists come to take pictures at k icc or it's even us maybe domestic domestic tour is not international i really doubt if all right uh on post bank rotor disclosed that uh each day when it opens its doors it loses three million kenyans shillings and why did why an option close would serve more losses running close to one billion a year is not the way to go that's according to the president's sentiments and i definitely know you'd agree or disagree please let us know now down below they're talking about the auditor general putting treasury on the spot over the 16 billion kenyans shillings loan to our national carrier k q this is a path of a grand plan to navigate the airline back to profitability the government has even set a deadline to end the bailout support by k q by december 2023 this is just this month about to end the dummy the damning information is contained in the special audit report by the o a g on the supplementary budget expenditure and withdrawals under article 223 of the constitution of kenya 2010 on april this year on 26 the public accounts committee of the national assembly in a letter asked the auditor general to conduct a special audit to scrutinize oil expenditure made under article 2223 of the constitution during the financial year 2023 2022 2022 rather 2023 the letter revealed that the national government had spent a total of 130 billion kenyans shillings attributed to various initiatives including fuel stabilization subsidies for flour and fertilizer provision for relief food and enhanced security operations right and the national treasury also dispensed a shareholder loan amounting to 16.3 billion kenya shillings to kenya aways during the financial year 2021 2022 and 2022 2023 without a valid loan agreement that's according to a new report by the office of auditor general that revealed those details right there okay i don't know if you remember of late we we've been experiencing a lot of hiccups at the jk i remember last week there's a plan that i was actually following the plan on the gps there's a plan that took off at around nine p.m and then it it hard it had i think when when it went airborne it it developed mechanical issues and it was actually heading to dubai and they had to use the mandera route and they had to come back again around at the river they rotated around at the river for like 40 minutes just to you know they call it um what the there's a word in aviation uh it's it's running out of my head what do we call fuel yes fuel disposing they they decided to dispose fuel to just lessen the weight because uh the the the flight was fully loaded with people and luggage heading to dubai and also loaded with fuel remember when a plane is taking off it the amount of fuel is estimated for the amount of hours and also the destination so it can't just come back instantly so they had to dispose fuel within i think at the river so they stayed in the air on the same route so i can only imagine the panic of the people in that plane and how they felt i was i followed it up on gps but the good news is it came back i think after one hour 45 minutes or so and landed back safely and they had to fix i think it was landing gear that was a problem thanks to technology you can see some of these things now you know and then also we had leaking roof at the jki air when it was of course we still continue to experience floods and you don't expect any international airport an entry to kenya like the jki to have a leaking roof what if jki has a leaking roof what is happening in kibra you know i don't know if you're able to contrast that jki kibra leaking roof where should where should we talk about leaking roofs mostly i'll leave that to you okay right uh there's a story here that talks about farmers urged to form cooperative societies and especially in kisi county where kisi is our all right uh cooperative societies enable to enable them again for prices for agricultural produce and products to boost their earnings this according to the 90 deputy governor your leader mitei he said the societies will cut costs of middlemen who buy goods from the farmers cheaply and sell them at high prices elsewhere leaving the latter swallowing rather in poverty the farmers see your vikanya bokeh appeal to envoys to market local product products in the diaspora for the country to earn foreign exchange to boost the economy okay right uh that's just part of that and then an upgrade on confi talks about coffee growers call for elimination of brokers to access the global market uh this again includes farmers who added that the poor marketing of their produce infiltration of the sector by incentive brokers uh high amounts paid in form of agent fees among other challenges that have continued to see them receive low returns as cartels in the sector enjoy their toy led by danson kelonza from the machancos county the farmers at the same time lamented that payment of farmers in shillings while in the coffee is sold in dollar currency by the way is a situation that has seen them work more in the farm but get less just like you're putting in a lot of work and effort and then you're not getting the equal and uh all right getting an uh an equal reaction to the amount of effort and time you're investing in which i feel like it's really unfair so it needs to be checked all right uh kenya hopes again for duty free access to the EU on trade deal and this according to the european union is one of the kenya's largest trading partners and most important export market bilateral trade between kenya and the EU which is worth 3.3 billion pounds an estimation of 594 billion kenya shillings kenya mainly exports veggies flowers and foods on its part the european union exports minerals chemicals products and machinery so uh there's a photo there of the president of the uh of kenya and the president of the EU commission osla von de leyen witnessing the signing of the kenya european union economic partnership agreement at state house in europe okay this will again just help kenya to boost the economy and trade lastly oh this is an international update it talks about over 2000 perish in a field bit to cross the Mediterranean this again is the story of immigrants there's a story on shares the europe security's exchange and they've they've highlighted the highs and the lows from the e-guards limited to williams and t kenya plc but have you realize you have a lot of tea farms in our country and now that uh we are trying to recover our economy i think those are some of the local stories that are trending on a page number 17 and 16 of the people daily maybe a last one down below it talks about uh the kenya maritime authority both making shipbuilding priority it talks about importance of real-time tracking through registration and database that not began said he said they're looking at shipbreakings he said they got a shipyard and they also want to build a shipbuilding to support services that will propel the shipbuilding industry and probably they're welcoming new homes and this again this is an opportunity that will create jobs or job creation opportunity so the new the newly appointed director general said his focus is on empowering stakeholders to actively contribute to the job creation which aims to invigorate the region's economic landscape among the transformative initiatives is the integration of water transport to alleviate congestion and traditional transport system okay so it's basically just aimed to boost the marine uh services at the cost right on the last uh page of uh the people daily there's a highlight of ebonyosimio who sets a record time at the Tata steel in Kolkata that is in india uh he the selected results as well of the Tata steel Kolkata 25 kilometer road race right uh he produced a superb last kick to set a new course record and win at the Tata steel Kolkata 25 kilometers a water athletics elite level a road race in india on sunday elite level not level right in doing so the 28-year-old ebonyo who closed the finishing line with a time of one hour 11 minutes and 30 13 seconds was closely followed by kenya's viktor kiputo togom who also surpassed the previous event record with one hour 12 minutes and 26 seconds followed by theopias to svaya demike who finished third with one hour 13 minutes and 36 36 seconds and two of the fastest 25 kilometer performances of all time those are just some of the uh trending stories right here on the people daily but before we actually take a break and then i'm gonna be coming back in just a bit to tell you what move we're gonna take next there's a question of the day let me get it let me get it a some yeah it's yeah uh what's one of uh what's one piece of advice you received from this year sense of began this year right that you've applied in your own entrepreneurship journey this year what's one piece of advice you received from our show that you've applied in your own entrepreneurship journey this year i'm really interested to see and hear your feedback i'll tell you one piece of advice and this comes from one of the guests i go to interact with right here on y in the morning especially today on entrepreneurship tuesday at y 2 for four channel facebook instagram and x the hashtag is y in the morning and then also mine sees a brand so corner on time for us to take a break and we're going to be coming back with much more stick around