Tea factories are back to operations after plucking boycott came to an end with growers plucking 4.428 million kilogrammes of green leaf, up from 3,994,000 kilogrammes of green leaf registered last month. In Murang’a county, farmers affiliated to KTDA factories have produced 906, 005 kilogrammes of green leaf, up from 594,294 kilogrammes harvested last…
Maendeleo Chap Chap party leader, Alfred Mutua has challenged political leaders drawn from upper Eastern region to shelve national politics and redirect their efforts towards addressing economic issues affecting the local people and especially the marketing of Miraa and tea. Mutua who addressed a forum of Democratic Party leaders at a Meru hotel Friday morning…
Jubilee party nomination for Gaturi Ward, Kiharu, Murang’a started on a low note after the polling centres opened late. By 11 am some of the polling centres among them Kibuu had not received the ballot materials from the Jubilee headquarters. The party by election has attracted Esther Mwihaki Kamau, Joshua Mwangi, Esther Wakuthii and…
Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) got a green light to conduct directors’ elections, after a petition by the Ministry of Agriculture to suspend directors elections was thrown out. Judge Antony Mrima ordered the agency was free to conduct the elections. In the suit contested by KTDA managing 54 tea factories, Ministry of Agriculture and…
Maendeleo Chap Chap party leader and 2022 presidential aspirant, Alfred Mutua has called for overhaul of the national energy sector and in particular demonopolization of Kenya Power as the sole distributor of electricity in the country. Dr Mutua said monopoly of the power parastatal in the country for many years had resulted to inefficiency, poor…
Murang’a University of Technology (MUT) will establish agriculture and environmental campus at Mareira agriculture training centre. Ina pact with Murang’a County Government, the varsity will establish the campus on a 50 acres of land with the first bunch of 44 students. Varsity Vice-Chancellor Prof Dickson Nyariki entered into a pact with Murang’a Governor Mwangi…
Clergy sets to block politicians from addressing the congregations in their churches in Murang’a, in efforts to tame hate speeches. Evangelical Churches Ministers led by Bishop Gilbert Maina, said they have been forced to take action following the Sunday incident where two lives were lost. Speaking after the clergy held prayers outside Kenol AIPCA…
A financial expert Julius Kaberere has thrown his interest to contest Kandara parliamentary seat. Mr Kaberere who contested Murang’a County Governorship in 2013 and lost to Mwangi wa Iria said he will be contesting the Kandara parliamentary slot in 2022. “I will be the Kandara parliamentary race and ready to work with all the residents…
Gatundu North MP Wanjiku Kibe has lost her parliamentary seat after the court nullified her election. High Court declared the seat vacant to allow IEBC to conduct a fresh by-election after her 2017 win was nullified. Justice Weldon Korir gave the order on grounds that Wanjiku was not eligible to vie for the slot,…
Tea farmers lobby groups have distanced themselves from the stand of Council of Governors’. The growers expressed their disappointment with the COG following their decision to rubbish the proposed tea reforms. The growers in Mt Kenya region, led by growers association Wambugu Gachunje and Samuel Njunu said the council was playing politics instead of coming…
