In Kenya, it is a time of mourning, reflection and soul searching as nearly a hundred and fifty unarmed and innocent civilians are slaughtered. In Sierra Leone, with more than three thousand dead that need not have died, the government of the rat is busy trying to wish away the audit report which firmly implicates the uncaring and shameless cabal of the rat. They would rather see more die as they appeal for help to fight the deadly Ebola Virus Disease as they see the terrible impact of the disease on the people as another money-making venture. And we know in a system where even the head janitor at the Youyi building has to be approved by the rat, we are not surprised that all those criminal and illegal contracts were given the go-ahead by him.

The Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has declared three days of national mourning starting today Easter day as the country comes to terms with the slaughter of some one hundred and fifty people when Al-Shaabab gunmen attacked Garissa University College. The Daily Nation online news outlet edition in Saturday's edition stated - "President Uhuru Kenyatta has declared three days of national mourning in honour of the 147 people who were killed in Garissa University College by Al Shabaab terrorists. During the three days, the national flag will fly at half mast, the President announced yesterday in an address to the nation after meeting the national security team at State House, Nairobi. “As we mourn together and pray together for the fallen and for this our precious Republic of Kenya, I declare three days of national mourning during which our flag shall fly at half-mast,” he said. He also promised government assistance to the families of the victims."

Meanwhile as investigations continue into why the security forces were ill-prepared for the onslaught on Garissa University College, one report says that one man has been linked to the attack - a former teacher in that part of the country - "One of the Garissa attackers has been identified as a Kenyan national. Interior ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka named the attacker as Abdirahim Abdullahi, saying he was "a university of Nairobi law graduate and described by a person who knows him well as a brilliant upcoming lawyer." The spokesman said Abdullahi's father, a local official in Mandera County, had "reported to the authorities that his son had gone missing and suspected the boy had gone to Somalia". Describing Abdullahi as a high-flying A-grade student, Njoka said it was "critical that parents whose children go missing or show tendencies of having been exposed to violent extremism report to authorities". Abdullahi was one of the Al-Shabaab gunmen involved in the massacre at Garissa University College during which non-Muslim students were lined up and executed. The massacre, which was the deadliest attack on Kenyan soil since the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, claimed the lives of 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers.

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Tonight's Daily Nation newspaper reports that the bodies of forty eight students killed in the attack have been brought to Chromo Mortuary in a Kenya Air Force plane from where the task of identifying the victims would begin. Health Cabinet Secretary James Macharia said the government has set up a National Disaster Operations Centre to assist families and friends of victims with information on the status of their loved ones. “The families can get the list of victims who passed away (read were killed) during the attack and where their kin can receive the body. Also, there is a manifest of students who survived the attack, where they are at the moment and how they can be linked to their families,” said Mr Macharia. At Nyayo stadium, he said, there will be information and assistance for processing transfer of bodies from Chiromo Mortuary, receiving and transfer of survivors. The crisis operations centre is being run by officials from various ministries, and it is also offering psychosocial support and counselling services. He said the 500 students who survived would be ferried to Nairobi using National Youth Service buses. Further, the CS said since facilities at Garissa Level Five Hospital have been stretched, the ministry had dispatched a truck with medical supplies. “We have also sent a total of six medical staff, two surgeons and four doctors and nurses, to help,” Mr Macharia told journalists at Wilson Airport. He said the government would pay the medical bills of all victims. “No one will be required to pay anything for whatever services provided,” he said.

The BBC reports that even as Kenya mourns the tragic loss, questions are being asked about the preparedness of the security forces given that rumours had been circulating about a planned Al-Shaabab attack. "Kenyan newspapers say there was intelligence information of an imminent attack on a school or university. Locals question why security was not heightened, with only two guards on duty at the time of the attack. Four more people have been found alive on the campus, but two are suspects and have been arrested, sources say. One is said to be a Tanzanian national with no known links to the university. Kenya's interior minister declared the recovery operation over. Joseph Nkaiserry identified the victims as 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers.

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Monday March 30, 2015 - It is with great relief and a sense of joy and victory that we have to join all those who wished a UK medical nurse who was infected with the Ebola Virus Disease well. Those prayers have been answered and Corporal Anna Cross has now been discharged from hospital after a fortnight of treatment.

Corporal Anna Cross a nurse serving with the UK medical contingent in Sierra Leone has been declared free of the Ebola Virus Disease after she got infected while serving in Sierra Leone. According to a BBC report the brave 25 year-old nurse from Cambridge is the first person to be treated with the experimental Ebola drug MIL 77. During her illness she's reported to have lost ten kilograms/22 pounds but her remarkable discovery in just about a fortnight of treatment at the specialist Royal Free hospital in the UK again highlights the point we have always stressed. As soon as somebody is confirmed as having the disease, all resources should be made to bear that would see every available medical help being made available to those helping the afflicted. The Ebola Virus Disease has shown over and over again that it is a vicious, treacherous and extremely cunning killer that would use every deceptive move to hoodwink as it rips apart its victim's immune system thereby opening the floodgates of attacks against life-sustaining tissues, breaking down resistance to its attack. Again we say - time is of the essence and any time lost in administrative and other peripheral but quite unnecessary procedures without paying attention to the victim could well have resulted in our losing so many health care and delivery workers including porters, drivers, technicians, nurses and doctors and of course patients from the poor and unconnected section of Sierra Leone society.

Meanwhile yesterday Sunday March 29, 2015 should have seen the end of another 3-day lockdown aimed at totally containing a virus that appears to be on the decline as far as new infection rates are concerned. It is hoped that revelations made in the report of the Auditor General will help make this a success and reports that some sections of the Western area community were being supplied food during the lock-down again points to a lack of planning. While the last time round in September last year a great show was made of volunteers handing out soap to a hungry populace forced to stay at home while contracts were illegally handed out to those favoured by the rat and his thieving cabal, this time round there was an attempt made to feed the people. How many of the poor got fed is quite another matter but we would not be surprised to hear of "hundreds of thousands if not millions" fed by the lying and thieving cabal. In some parts of Freetown, it was reported that rogue security forces were freely discharging canisters of tear gas in a bid to scare off hungry residents. Last time round, according to the audit report, even though some nine hundred million leones were dished out to the police and the same amount to the military, the report exposed double payments to security personnel who were given a part of the stolen funds for which they signed as health care personnel!!!

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