Nairobi citizen Jared Omondi is much concerned about the threat mosquitoes pose to our health. And he says he was particularly concerned to find that the two most heavily advertised products to deal with them, Doom and Raid, simply don't seem to work, he says. However, experience tells him that the air freshener Tropikal does work. He reports that it kills the little chaps stone dead!

We live in a global village and should learn from each other, says Maina Nyamu. For instance, we could learn from the South Africans about transparent elections.

And they could learn from our ruling party about how to organise defections and thus push their majority above the magic two-thirds mark; thus giving them power to change the Constitution without reference to anyone but their own MPs!

Reuben Ambenge lives in the US and writes regularly to his family here, but his letters seldom arrive. "What is going on?" he asks. "If you tamper with mail in the United States you end up behind bars - surely the same should happen in Kenya."

Christine Ndegi (566722) has an interesting proposition for the PR wizards of KPTC: she says she has concrete proof that technicians at Jamhuri exchange are actually sabotaging telephone lines and that if they contact her she will name names and provide the evidence.

A receptionist, she says their lines go off at the end of each month and it is put down to aq cabling fault. Then someone from the exchange always calls to suggest that the cable could be fixed with the help of TKK. "Because we are in a tight corner we pay up, but now we've had enough," she says.

Eliud Mailu complained that Machakos diocese had failed to pay him for designs he produced for their silver jubilee. Now from England Reg Wood writes to say how much he admired the designs and that he would like to hear more from Eliud.

Reg's address is: 52 Suffolk Road, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 2JX, United Kingdom. Reg and his wife are visiting Machakos in a couple of weeks time and might even catch up with Eliud then!

Have an exciting day, won't you!

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