Men impregnate school girls will be forced to live with them in their homes, to feel the pain of additional burden. Murang’a Town MCA Jecinta Ng’ang’a said investigation has revealed married men were responsible in abusing the minor, after they lure them into sex into promise to buy sanitary towels. She spoke at Mjini primary…
Safaricom Foundation has listed 24 counties to receive Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for health workers. Foundation’s official Peter Njioka said Murang’a is one of the counties lined up to benefit with the Sh36 million donation, for the safety of the health workers. Speaking at Murang’a Level Five Hospital, Njioka said Murang’a is listed among the…
A 65 acres of land under eucalyptus trees in Gituamba village in Kinyona has been a thorn in the flesh with community demanding it be reverted to them. The property presently under the management of Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) was initially an agriculture research centre before it was converted to planting trees for…
National and County Governments have an outstanding debt of Sh2.1 billion to Water and Sanitation Companies. Fifty-three water service providers have listed accumulated bills to the governments dated as of April this year. In a list of debts in our possession, companies are owed bills to a tune of Sh Sh1,199,827,682 by county government, while another Sh Sh386,855,387…
Laikipia MP Catherine Waruguru is back on the ground with a bang, after she decamped from Tanga Tanga wing of Jubilee Party.
Leadership at the troubled Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) has been summoned by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations for interrogation. The management led by Chief Executive Officer Leonard Tiampati, Company secretary John Omanga, Lincon Munyao, Brown Kanampiu and Simon Rugut has been summoned to appear DCI investigators on August 24. The summons were delivered…
Two middle aged men have died after falling into a pond in Kauriro market in Mbeere North sub county. The two were escaping police arrest after they were found taking beer in one of the bars in the market last night thus violating government directives that closed all bars to contain spread of corona virus. Mbeere…
Health workers in Kirinyaga County have over the last one week been trained on Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) as a way of combating the corona virus. The training that targeted technical and nontechnical staff from selected health facilities was conducted by IPC experts from Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). Governor Anne Waiguru has said that…
Away from politics, Senate Majority Whip Irungu Kang’ata has been involved in food distribution to Murang’a people current experiencing challenges following the outbreak of Covid 19. Every weekend, the senator cools his heels by being with the electorates, while strategizing for the next maneuvers of the third revenue allocation formulae that has met stiff opposition…
Stakeholders in tea sector have continued pleading with government to review some of the proposed reform. The directors of tea factories in Embu County made a passionate appeal to Ministry of Agriculture to consider reviewing some of the reforms in the regulations to save the sectors from losing the international market. They said whereas…
