By The Mountain Journal Murang’a county government has offered full scholarships to three thousand secondary school students in efforts to increase the number of professionals. Through Nyota Zetu Initiative, the educational intervention programme that started in 2019, has been hailed as the first in the country that has shown interest in the children from the…
By The Mountain Journal Major highway passing through Mathira Constituency remained inaccessible after marauding youth supporting MP Rigathi Gachagua lit bonfires. The youth played a game of hide and seek with law enforcers drawn from police stations in the constituency as they protested the arrest of their MP by DCI early in the morning. The youth blocked the Nyeri-Nairobi…
By The Mountain Journal Two MCAs in Kigumo, Murang’a caught a rude shock after their mission to sideline a contestant flopped. During a funeral service in Karinga secondary school in Kinyona Ward in Murang’a County MCAs, John Ruoho Wangechi and his nominated colleague Wangari Kigo were shocked after the locals demanded Liz Mbugua address them….
By The Mountain Journal Team With only a year to the general election in Laikipia county several people have started making in roads eying to contest against Governor Ndiritu Muriithi. The leading lights in the contest are Miriam Mwangi head of Human Resource department at Laikipia County Assembly, and former Governor Joshua Wakahora Irungu. Others…
By The Mountain Journal crew Despite challenges associated with Covid 19 pandemic among others, Laikipia County Government has been rated among those who have excelled in local revenue collection. Under the management of Governor Nderitu Muriithi, in the year 2020/2021 the county collected Sh840,396,633 up from the Sh730,967,503 of 2019/2020. This week, the county celebrated…
By The Mountain Journal Murang’a is the first county to set up a guaranteed price of coffee to save the local farmers from manipulation by middlemen. Governor Mwangi wa Iria said the guarnareted price of Sh70 per kilogramme of cherry will empower the local farmers to focus on increased production. The new price was celebrated by…
The government has bought over 80,000 bags of rice estimated at Sh85 per kilogramme from the giant farmers backed Mwea Rice Growers Multipurpose Co-operative Society Ltd (MRGM). The produce was sold at Sh700 million through the Kenya National Trading corporation (KNTC) that entered pact with the society based in Kirinyaga county.Society chairman Mr Ndege Muriuki said that…
By The Mountain Journal crew in Kiambu UDA smiles as it embarrasses Jubilee in the hotly contested Kiambaa By Election. Ibn all the polling centres, the UDA candidate John Njuguna took the lead as the Jubilee’s Kariri Njama came second. The hustler nation celebrated the win saying in the campaign period they felt intimidated by the rival….
At least 21 percent of women aged between 15 and 49 in Central Kenya have undergone Female Genital Mutilation, a trend that has forced rights groups to start a campaign to eradicate the practice. In the past three days, talks to discourage the traditional culture have been rife in Murang’a after a woman two weeks…
By The Mountain Journal Kirinyaga governor Mumbi Waiguru has reconciled with his deputy Peter Ndambiri,after the impeachment fell out. Speaking at the Kiadumu African Independent Pentecostal church ofAfrica (AIPCA) in Gichugu constituency, the governor said that she is ready to work with the deputy for the interest of the Kirinyaga people. The meeting between Ndambiri and Waiguru was…
