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…
Maraga roots for arbitration to end backs logs Arbitration of succession matters have been rated as the best mechanism to end backlog in law courts, Chief Justice David Maraga the arbitration and mediation in succession matters will keep the families united. He said the alternative dispute resolution will help speed up justice and help…
Over 300 traders in Embu Marikiti are counting losses amounting to Ksh 500, 000 after their stands were confiscated by the county government of Embu. The angry traders who marched to county enforcement offices demanding the release of their stands said some of their stock was destroyed in the process of confiscation. Led by Francis…
Economy of three counties will be improved with the revival of Gilgil- Nyahururu railwayline. The line will connect several trading centres between the two major towns in Nyandarua, Laikipia and parts of Nakuru county. The revival of the line that stopped to operate 30 years ago is coordinated by Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) after the…
