WHY DR. WILLY MUTUNGA IS RIGHT ON A BANDIT SOCIETY

Day by day Kenya is sequentially undergoing metamorphosis to adapt to an Island that could probably be well described by Tony Cruise in some of his literature work. Despite the efforts by few Kenyans to sanctify the peak of the tower to appear to the world as well as viewers as clean, there are few dwellers found at the base who continue with the combustion of this tower forcing the smoke to emerge despite the cleansing at the peak.

It is recently that the chief Justice was on world news, including BBC Swahili for describing us as a bandit economy. Though the reception of these words was not warm enough at home, it was apparent that there was some truth in it. Mike Sonko. once warned politicians on yapping about everything that Raila came out to say.

Peter Kenneth once said there was some truth in everything that someone says including Raila. The time is proving these sentiments to be right. The scandals that have been rumors at one point after a matter of time turn out to be the truth of the society. It is less than a month when Duale treated us to theatrics with a bunch of MPs with a series of press statements defending Waiguru.

The press statements sanctified the NYS scandal suspects with intention to counter the the powerful statements from the opposition. It is recently again that the same Aden Duale came publicly to another press release, though this time with no "tyranny of numbers", to tell us how Ann Waiguru should pay the public money.

Before the storm calms down, H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta all the way from Israel reminded us that as Kenyans we are best experienced in stealing, hatred, tribalism and other myriad of vices. So exactly, what is the fabric of our society? Who are we?

By the way, is it by coincidence that top URP officials are always implicated in the corruption scandals mentioned in government? Is it by chance? why does it seem like the ruling coalition is between two faces of a coin. A corrupt face, and a holy side.

To make it simple, Leaders have at last agreed with what Mutunga said. Ours is a bandit economy. Who shall salvage this economy?

I rest my case.

A voice on the Neglected Justice; OKOTI Aluora Patrick

WHY THE WORLD MAY NOT ELIMINATE OUTBREAK OF VIRAL DISEASES SOONER.

Today I would like to share with you about something that my brains is engaged with daily. Something I am always thinking about. And these are viral infections.

It is apparent that nowadays doctors and paramedics can easily fool around patients with statements "You have a bacterial infection". This is usually to cut short the long questions that may need the professional to explain what is ailing the patient. The whole society, therefore, knows about bacterial infection.

It is evident that if there is any viral terminology that everyone knows is HIV/AIDS. It is apparent that if today I told my old mother that you have a viral infection, she will call my sister, who is a nutritionist, immediately and report I have told her she has "UKIMWI".

What is a viral infection? These are infections only caused by viruses. Viruses are some of the micro-organisms that took scientists relatively a longer time to understand. They caused a lot of suffering before people started learning these.

Sadly, the only better way that viral infections can be dealt with is through vaccines. Unlike most infections that are curable, viral infections are slightly different. Scientists agree that there's only one way to deal with this, do away with the affected organ, or manage it (Let us leave this topic for another day).

What should worry us now?

Several methods exist so far about control of viral infections and Viruses. Summarily, the challenge is that some of these viruses do not die. So where do these viruses go?

For easy comprehension, let me put it this way, Viruses exists as either DNA viruses or RNA Viruses. The most interesting and dangerous part is for the RNA viruses. This is not the end, there is this part where there is what we call Positive sense Single-stranded RNA viruses and Negative Sense Single-stranded RNA Viruses (I have cut short discussion on classes of viruses. Soon I will tackle that).

Now, what we call Positive sense ssRNA viruses have something that should worry you. These viruses do not necessarily require developing to full virions to cause infections.

At one stage in our formal education, we must have been taught about the genetic material. This is what we call DNA in humans. You must have heard in so many cases including where people are burnt to ashes, that their genetic material is retrieved and these people identified. This tells you that it can be a challenge to destroy the genetic material. Then you are told, this material can cause infection.

So, What Next?

As the world battles with some of the deadliest viruses in history, it can be recalled that after the celebrated eradication of polio, more lethal viruses have continued to strike, one after the other. These viruses have had one striking feature among them. Most of these viruses are RNA viruses. Starting from the Polio virus, HIV whose origin has remained entangled in theories, Ebola virus, Marburg virus and the now new story Zika virus. All these, I repeat, are RNA viruses. Sadly, Africa has always been involved. Africa has hosted trials of various virus vaccines and many discoveries have been made on this very continent.

The way we destroy these viruses is what may not satisfy any critical thinker. The end steps we take as a continent cannot guarantee 100% elimination of this menace. Remembering that genetic material can still interact, we cannot rule out the fact that these materials can still interact and create more new organisms, which we shall still call viruses.

Viruses can transform anytime to forms that remain infective regardless of the conditions. Unlike bacteria which can easily be handled by a change in environments, Viruses are a problem. Viruses can withstand extreme temperatures. They can withstand extreme conditions. These are viruses.

So, how shall we precisely eliminate this? How shall we?

I don't have an answer yet. Your contribution can be as good as mine.