Gor Mahia Football Club Chairman Ambrose Rachier revealed what it takes to join the secret world of Freemasonry in the country and the initiation process.

Speak up on Sunday October 2nd NTVRachier scattered reports that Masons are a cult of devil worshipers that involve human sacrifices to gain wealth.

He argued that the Biblical King Solomon, son of David, was the first Freemason and that some of their values ​​are borrowed from his achievements, including building a temple.

However, Rachier maintained that Freemasonry is not based on a religion that brings together members of Christianity, Buddhism and atheists.

accession process

According to the city’s attorney, one must be recommended by a member to join the secret society. It is not an open space like a church where every believer comes in and is willingly embraced.

The member would then go to their meetings, held in designated halls, to propose the name of a new person interested in becoming a Freemason.

Just like an application process, several interviews and background checks are conducted prior to joining to ensure a prospect meets their qualifications.

Other checks are also taken into account, including family background and individual characteristics.

“The first thing is when you hear about it, and you’re lucky to get in there — I say lucky in the sense that if you don’t hear it from someone else, you might never care,” Rachier said.

“So I would give you a talk and then go to a meeting and suggest I have someone to introduce. We will then invite you to an interview; we’ll talk to you about a few things. In particular, we are concerned for your family, what they will think of you because of all these negative views and if there is rejection,” he added.

After background checks, Freemasons later meet and decide whether to accept or reject a new member based on their qualifications.

Initiation process after joining Freemasonry

Freemasonry involves a series of initiation ceremonies similar to traditional ceremonies such as marriages and circumcision. However, Rachier noted that their initiation practices are secret and only members are allowed to know about them.

“No, there is no such thing as an oath, but there’s nothing wrong with taking an oath anyway. There is no strange oath that anyone takes in Freemasonry,” he insisted.

Ranks in Freemasonry

Freemasonry in Kenya is threefold. Others in the secret society serve as juniors while others are in the apprenticeship.

Before becoming a master of Freemasonry, one becomes a fair tradesman.

“There are others who are reaching the highest grade that can be reached, which we call the 33rd grade,” the Gor Mahia chairman explained.

rules and secrets

File photo of a Masonic Temple in Nairobi.

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In Kenya, only men are allowed to practice Freemasonry. However, Rachier noted that members have started thinking about ways to allow women to join the secret society.

Members are prohibited from engaging in any activity that undermines the values ​​of the Society, such as B. Corruption and Mediation.

All members of society can be admitted. According to Rachier, influential people such as former chief justices, business magnates and politicians are part of society.

Must be willing to participate in charity projects in the country.

“We join Freemasonry to spread charity. There are some wealthy people in Freemasonry, and there are these people who live ordinary lives like me.

Some of them are business people, some are medical professionals and some are lawyers, and there is no distinction as to what kind of person you are. Some of them are judges of our courts. The common denominator is not wealth but charitable practices,” Rachier pointed out.

Aside from Nairobi, they have Masonic temples in Mombasa, Nakuru and Nyeri, among others, where members attend their 6pm services on certain days while donning their special attire.

corruption

New Delhi:

The Supreme Court takes serious note of the “fraud” he is accused of by a Kenyan national of Indian origin in a custody dispute and has requested the CBI to report on the steps he took to secure his presence and transfer of custody secure his underage son to his estranged wife here.

The Supreme Court also ordered the Registrar of Assurances of Rajkot to provide details of another person’s rights and interests in two of convicted suspect Perry Kansagra’s properties by Oct. 8 so that it can proceed with their seizure.

A bench composed of Chief Justices Uday Umesh Lalit and PS Narasimha had convicted Mr Kansagra on July 11 of his contempt for playing “cheating” by securing custody of his son from his estranged wife and failing to return to the Supreme Court was.

The bank on Friday last reminded the CBI that it had given assurances that all possible help and assistance would be given by Union agencies and the Indian Embassy in Kenya to ensure the presence of Mr Kansagra and his minor son before that court.

“Rajat Nair, a learned attorney acting for the CBI, requests that the status report be filed on or before October 8, 2022. Let what is necessary happen,” the bank stated in the order.

It noted the minor child’s mother’s application for attachment of two properties in Rajkot belonging to her estranged husband, who does not appear before the Supreme Court.

After Mr. Kansagra was found guilty of violating his orders and contempt of court, the CJI-led jury adjourned the matter to hear the convict a number of times on the question of punishment.

“However, since the suspect has not appeared or been brought to court as a last chance, time has been given and the matter has been ordered to be made public on August 18… After some delays, the matter is now made public before us. Even after being granted such relief and adjournment on a few occasions, Mr. Perry Kansagra has not appeared before this court,” it noted.

It has now published the Suo Motu contempt case on October 10 because it is considering the issue of the verdict and its delivery after reviewing the CBI report.

The bank would also consider the mother’s request that a CBI officer or “any responsible official working in either the State Department or the High Commissioner’s Office in Kenya” be assigned to accompany Smriti Madan Kansagra to Kenya to meet the child and /or initiate appropriate proceedings in Kenya.

It has also sought the assistance of Additional Attorney General Aishwarya Bhati in the case.

Mr Kansagra, who has dual citizenship of Kenya and the United Kingdom, fought a custody battle over his son with his estranged wife in Indian courts and vowed to honor the terms, and later won custody of the Supreme Court in 2020 by allegedly having a falsified or false “mirror injunction” issued by the Kenyan High Court.

He later refused not only to obey orders granting the mother visitation or assembly rights, but shockingly asked the Kenyan court to “repeat Indian jurisdiction and/or laws and/or judgments, grant them.” violating and/or violating fundamental rights of minors through alleged and unenforceable judgments and orders in relation to minors pursuant to Article 23(3)(d) of the Kenyan Constitution”.

Considering Mr Kansagra’s “fraudulent” “unruly” conduct, the Supreme Court had overturned its judgment and issued a series of orders against him, including registering a Suo Motu contempt case.

(This story was not edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

According to Chinese Ambassador Zhou Pingjian, China will seek to strengthen diplomatic ties with President William Ruto’s government.

Speaking at the University of Nairobi (UoN) on Saturday October 1st, Pingjian stated that his country will support Ruto’s government with partnerships in the education system as a top priority.

He indicated that the Chinese government will increase its investment in the education sector through its scholarship program.

“We also appreciate the importance and value of education. It is one of the focal points of our bilateral cooperation.

“I hope our partnership can do more to encourage this collaboration. The Embassy started this scholarship program 10 years ago and we can do more. It’s the only natural thing for us,” he said.

He noted that the scholarship has benefited thousands of students in the country and that fostering diplomatic ties will help Kenya‘s economy grow and develop.

“We’re just a family. In the Embassy, ​​it is natural for us to find ways to show our friendship. The embassy started the scholarship program ten years ago and was pleased that we can make a small contribution to reward Kenyan students,” he said

The Chinese ambassador’s statement comes days after he was received by National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula, who allayed fears that Ruto’s government would cut ties with the Asian country.

“China is one of Kenya’s key national development partners and has provided significant support to our infrastructure development over the past decade.

“I assured him that the new administration of President William Ruto has no plans to limit our cooperation with the ROC,” Wetangula said at the time.

In recent years, China has been one of the country’s largest investors in the infrastructure sector, with most of the major projects being carried out under the rule of former President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Some of the projects undertaken include the Nairobi Expressway and the Standard Gauge Railway.

A police car on the Nairobi Expressway.

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All eyes were on Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua this week after he was “misquoted” when he said the new government would give back the “Shamba system” that allows farming in forests.

He said eventually trees would grow and drive farmers out of the forests. For a moment, DP Gachagua seemed to be the only stranger in Jerusalem aware of the existence of a farmer who could be evicted from a forest by a mature tree.

He forgot the long and short term effects of a Shamba system on water towers, forest and tree cover, agriculture, tourism, livelihoods, health and whether there would still be forests by 2030.

And do forests have only trees? What happens to the insects, birds, animals, peat, honey and attachments of the indigenous communities, the medicinal and aesthetic values ​​of the forests?

This week I attended a symposium calling for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty, led by people of different faiths around the world, where I also addressed the following: “We share this earth… Our survival is not negotiable , when thousands of biodiversity are lost; we need them all (for us) to stay alive… No religion says we should destroy the planet… How we live in a few years depends on how we fight desertification”.

Reintroducing the Shamba system will undermine President William Ruto’s plans to tackle climate change by reducing deforestation and ensuring a faster and fairer transition to renewable energy, as he promised in his inaugural address.

The Shamba system is a no! Not now that we want to hold on to good news about nature; even as small as a nature reserve like Lewa, which reports on the growth of the rhino population. Not when The State of the Climate, a report by the World Meteorological Organization released this week, projects the risk of water stress-induced conflict, displacement, destabilized economies across the Horn of Africa and a degrading ecosystem. Up to 700 million people in Africa are said to be at risk of being displaced by climate-related water shocks by 2030.

I want to believe that DP Gachagua, knowing how interconnected the ecosystem is, was misquoted, or did he misquote himself? Because we have to go in the right direction with our calls for climate funds from elite nations that make global warming worse by profiting from fossil fuels.

Going in the right direction requires closing all the loopholes that climate deniers see through policies and actions, building community capacity on global warming and best locally-led practices to increase adaptation and resilience, more Fund research to implement the revised Nationally Determined Contributions sent to the UNFCCC in December 2020, improving infrastructure and technology for early warning systems, working with neighboring countries in joint efforts to address the crisis, and mobilizing Africa to address elite nations regarding Hold climate finance to account, especially at COP27.

Just as Vanuatu, a small Pacific island nation, was the first country to call for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty and even pushed for it at the recent UN General Assembly, Kenya can be proud of taking bold steps towards the transition to renewable energy and to help place Africa in the right place in the climate puzzle.

Kenya has evidence of the effects of harsh climate conditions that have killed thousands of people, destabilized hundreds of thousands of others and caused untold suffering from drought, floods and pollution.

Knowing this, we must urge and speak louder to avoid global inequalities on the issue of climate change, but without forgetting our core responsibilities.

The author is interim communications manager at GreenFaith. [email protected]

• Azimio’s top leadership has questioned the relevance of the Supreme Court in judging presidential election petitions
• Led by Raila Odinga, Azimio wants the Kenyans to evaluate the Apex Court as to whether it serves its intended purpose
• They heavily criticized the Supreme Court’s reasons for rejecting the 2022 presidential election bid

Azimio la Umoja A leadership of the Kenya Coalition Party led by Raila Odinga has urged Kenyans to reconsider the role of the Supreme Court in Kenya’s electoral process.

In a statement to the newsroom on Thursday, September 29, Azimio’s top politicians called the Martha Koome-led bank the weakest link in the quest for democracy.

“Kenyans need to examine whether the Supreme Court is serving the purposes for which it was established,” the report said.

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In her critique of the Supreme Court’s reasoned ruling, Azimio questioned the language used by the judges in delivering the verdict.

They called the reasoning of the seven-member judges’ chamber “hot air” and said the verdict lacked both factual and legal integrity.

“In our view, and we feel entitled to use the language of the court, the full decision is unfounded and just ‘hot air’.” We therefore reiterate our objections to the judges’ reasoning. It lacks integrity in both fact and law and is based on no discernible logic,” Raila said as reported by Citizen.

The ODM leader, while insisting that the results of the 2022 presidential election remain illegitimate, urged Kenyans not to give up hope in the fight for democracy.

“We consider the election result to be completely illegitimate and call on Kenyans not to lose faith in the fight for democracy,” Azimio said.

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Azimio is demonstrably lamenting the dismissal

The Azimio leadership criticized the Supreme Court for rejecting their evidence relating to alleged unauthorized access to IEBC systems, alleged interference with Forms 34As by outside parties and alleged forgery of Forms 34B as opposed to the original Forms 34As

Azimio further wondered why the Koome-led bank found the alleged suppression of the numbers by postponing the gubernatorial elections in Mombasa and Kakamega irrelevant in its ruling.

Raila’s team insisted that President William Ruto did not receive 50% +1 of the votes cast, as required by the Constitution.

Supreme Court ruling

The development follows the move by Supreme Court justices to dismiss the petition on the consolidated results of the presidential election challenging Ruto’s victory in the State House race.

In the landmark judgment of Monday September 5, the Chief Justice dismissed the evidence submitted by the petitioners.

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Koome, for example, said there was no evidence the Forms 34A were intercepted and processed before they were uploaded to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) portal, as claimed by Raila.

“There is no credible evidence to prove RTS’s access to intercepting and altering Form 34A before they were uploaded to the IEBC portal. There was also no evidence that the forms uploaded were tampered with,” Koome said.

Koome also dismissed Julie Soweto’s connection of Jose Carmago with election interference, calling it “double hearsay and hot hair”.

Source: TUKO.co.ke

girls volleyball

Abington 3, Hatboro-Horsham 1: Kenya Lucas had 11 kills, including a career 1,000th, and eight aces in a SOL American win on Thursday.

The Ghosts won in four sets 25-11, 25-12, 19-25, 25-22.

Sasha Moody added 13 kills and Mary Carter had 24 assists.

field hockey

Abington 1, Springfield-Montco 0: Erica Devlin scored in overtime to lead the Ghosts to a SOL crossover win over the Spartans on Thursday.

Devlin’s game winner came at 9:58 in overtime and was assisted by Maeve Link.

“I was really proud of how the whole team came together in overtime,” said Abington coach Katie Small. “It was our first of the season and they dug really deep, although you could tell they were tired. Caitlin Murcur did a great job at the net, scoring her third shutout in five games.”

Wissahickon 6, Lower Moreland 0: Kendall Crowley scored two of her three goals in the first quarter to lead the Trojans to a SOL crossover win on Thursday.

Riley Ball added two goals while Caroline Kirkpatrick had four assists and Ella Hummel had two assists.

North Penn 12, Bensalem 0: Laura Albert scored four goals and Caleigh Sperling added three in Thursday’s Knights SOL crossover win.

North Penn built a 5-0 lead in the first quarter and a 7-0 lead at halftime. Grace McGeehan had two goals in the first quarter, including the first goal of the game.

The Knights, improving to 6-5 with the win, beat the Owls 22-0.

girls tennis

Methactone 6, Owen J. Roberts 1: Hana Nouaime won the first singles 7-5, 6-3 to lead the Warriors to a PAC victory on Thursday.

Lauren Montgomery won the third singles 6-0, 6-0 while Methacton won all four doubles in straight sets.

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Kenya‘s newly elected President William Ruto on Thursday promised to overhaul the country’s income tax system and introduce reforms that would require high earners to pay more to reduce inequality.

The 55-year-old leader, who posed as a pro-poor in the Aug. 9 poll, said in his first speech to parliament since becoming president that he intends to introduce a progressive income tax system.

“We overstrain trade and underestimate wealth,” said the businessman, who went from rags to riches, before the parliamentarians.

“I am determined and determined to ensure that our tax system is responsive to the needs of the economy,” he said.

“The economic principles of fair taxation require that the tax burden reflects ability to pay.”

Ruto also pledged to curb borrowing to boost Kenya’s economy, which is creaking under the weight of a $70 billion debt mountain.

East Africa’s most dynamic economy is facing major difficulties as around a third of the country’s roughly 50 million people live in poverty.

Prices for basic necessities have skyrocketed in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, and unemployment remains a major problem, particularly among young people.

Inflation rose to a 65-month high of 8.5 percent in August, while the Kenyan shilling hit a record low of around 121 shillings to the US dollar.

Ruto, who was deputy to former President Uhuru Kenyatta, had a bitter dispute with his boss during his tenure and criticized his policy of mounting debt.

Ruto cut food and fuel subsidies introduced by Kenyatta last month.

British charity Oxfam said in a report earlier this year that the two richest Kenyans own more wealth than the bottom 30 percent of the population.

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By Ayenat Mersie

It is starving Kenya‘s famous wildlife from normal outdoor food sources, driving them into deadly conflicts with humans as they roam farther to the outskirts of towns and villages in their desperate search for food.

Without intervention to protect wildlife, or if the approaching rainy season fails again, wildlife could face an existential crisis in many parts of the east African country, conservationists say.

“This is a serious threat to us,” said Andrew Letura, a surveillance officer at Grevy’s Zebra Trust (GZT). Grevy’s zebras, which are larger than a normal plains zebra and have narrower stripes and broader ears, are the rarest of the species: there are 3,000 specimens left in the world, including 2,500 in Kenya.

Drought has killed about 40 Grevys since June – that’s how many would die in a full year, said Letura, squinting under the scorching sun in Samburu National Reserve in arid northern Kenya.

“If we lose 40 in three months, what would that mean for the remaining population?”

GZT has started feeding Grevy’s zebras hay poured over a mixture of molasses, salt and calcium, which is helping to reduce deaths but not eliminate them, the Trust says.

The situation in southern Kenya is also bleak.

The carcass of an endangered Grevy’s zebra that died during the drought is seen in Buffalo Springs National Reserve, Isiolo County

The carcass of an endangered Grevy’s zebra that died during the drought can be seen in Samburu National Park

Endangered Grevy’s zebras search for food during drought in Samburu National Park

“Rangers counted eight times as many dead or weak animals compared to a normal September. The Amboseli Trust for Elephants has registered 50 dead or missing elephants,” said Benson Leyian, executive director of the Big Life Foundation, which works with local landowners to protect wildlife sanctuaries and open rangelands of the Amboseli ecosystem.

At nearby Kitenden Conservancy, the stench of decomposing animal carcasses is so strong that some tourists have started wearing protective masks, a local ranger said.

Some wild animals die at the hands of humans.

“Compared to other dry seasons, we’re seeing a five-fold increase in incidents of people poaching for bushmeat,” Leyian said.

Save the Elephants, meanwhile, said it is finding growing numbers of elephants that have been killed by guns or spears but with their tusks intact – a sign they have fallen victim to conflict with people in populated areas rather than poaching.

According to experts, the crisis is not solely due to the drought. Overgrazing by livestock is depleting rangeland and making it harder for ecosystems to recover from drought, said Save the Elephants field operations chief David Daballen.

Just the thought of the possibility that the next rains, which are expected in October-November, fail to materialise, is frightening, GZT’s Letura said. “The situation is already bad. But that would make it a serious crisis,” he said.

“The first word anyone says now is they are praying for rain.”

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Kenya risks US sanctions if it buys Russian oil

Nairobi, Kenya – In a recent interview with the BBC, Kenya’s President William Ruto announced that his government was open to doing business with Russia.

Kenya‘s head of state said he was more than willing to buy Russian fuel after scrapping fuel subsidies, prompting a sharp rise in pump prices. He went on to say his goal is to ensure Kenyans have access to lower fuel prices.

“I will now move on to the agenda to ensure we have relationships between governments who will now gradually begin the journey to bring fuel prices down. East Africa would be a good option, but Kenya is who we are. The strategy we have is to make sure we work with market forces on how we can build a government-to-government relationship that fuels us to probably 20 to 25 Ksh per cent cheaper than what is on the market. ” said President Ruto.

Pressed by the question of whether he would keep an eye on Russian oil, Dr. Ruto added that his government has every opportunity to work with Vladimir Putin’s government for the benefit of Kenyans.

Russia became internationally isolated after invading Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

The President defended his decision to scrap fuel subsidies, arguing that it would drain state coffers.

“I had to scrap the subsidies because they put a huge drain on resources that would be used to develop the country and yet prices didn’t go down and generally distorted fuel prices in the country and created unnecessary shortages,” he said.

But should Kenya go ahead and do business with Russia, it will surely put the country at odds with the West, particularly the US government, which has imposed sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s government.

Earlier this month, Biden’s administration threatened sanctions against buyers of Russian oil.

According to the US Treasury Department’s Sept. 9, 2022 statement, individuals making “significant oil purchases above the price cap” and individuals providing false information about those purchases could be a target for sanctions enforcement action.

The warning is that the Joe Biden administration will closely monitor any African state that trades with Russia to become a target of sanctions.

The US Treasury Department’s guidance came after G7 finance ministers reached an agreement to set the price cap after months of discussions. The aim is to limit Russia’s earnings from the export of crude oil and refined products without triggering a global price hike.

The US and UK had persuaded other Western countries to remove Russian from the SWIFT system, a move that could force Kenya to use an alternative means of payment for Russian oil.

SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) is the global financial artery that enables smooth and fast money transfers across borders.

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