By The Mountain Journal Crew Eastern Aberdare Coffee Mills (ECOMILL) in Murang’a has been idle for eight years exposing the growers to manipulation by the commercial millers. To avert the losses estimated at billions of shillings the farmers’ representatives have resolved to relocate the Sh40 million facility from Maragua town to Ikundu Coffee Demonstration Farm….
By The Mountain Journal Laikipia will get Sh5.1b of the Sh409.9 billion equitable share that will come to counties. It will be a relief to the counties after eight years of struggling with the little allocation that has failed to meet the devolved demands. Chairman of the Finance, Planning and Economic Affairs Committee, at…
By The Mountain Journal crew Mt Kenya youth perceived to be behind anti BBI campaigns have made an about turn, abandoning Deputy President William Ruto’s Camp. More than 100 youth who were at the centre of the anti constitutional amendments reforms spearheaded by the deputy president in the past four days have moved in the…
Mt Kenya youth estimated at 100 have decamped from camp allied to deputy president William Ruto to support BBI. Led by Joseph Chege, the youth sought to be assisted to interprete the constitutional amendment document which they had not read. “Mt Kenya youth have reliased the importance of the document thus need to decamp from…
Agriculture CS Hon Peter Munya has put on notice unscrupulous traders who are illegally importing dairy products through the porous border points of Lodwar, Kacheliba and Ororo and others who are trading with illegal imports in Mombasa and Eastleigh. The CS also warned dairy dealers adulterating milk and using non food grade containers, producers…
The Mountain Journal Crew The entry of the government-backed New KPCU has stabilized coffee prices with farmers getting lucrative returns. In the past few cooperative societies paid their growers above Sh50 per kilogramme for the delivered product, a trend which has changed for the better following the entry of NKPCU. Samuel Muchai Mungania says the…
We have supported President Uhuru Kenyatta government until Raila Odinga meddled with internal affairs of our party, says Nyoro The Mountain Journal crew in Murang’a town Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro has said Jubilee Party was presently focusing on people who campaigned for it to please its politically found friend. The MP said it was regrettable…
By The Mountain Journal Murang’a county leaders have set a road map to passing BBI to clear there was no opposition when it will be on the floor of the county assembly. In a meeting convened by Governor Mwangi wa Iria and Transport and Infrastructure Cabinet Secretary James Macharia, the leaders endorsed the support for…
By The Mountain Journal team Jubilee party has expelled six nominated senators who have defied orders. The six are Isaac Mwaura, Mary Yiene, Waqo Naomi Jilo, Millicent Omanga, Victor Prengei, and Iman Falhada Dekow. The six are among the leaders in the senate and the national assembly backing Deputy President William Ruto who is…
By The Mountain Journal Science team There is a ray of hope to the mango farmers in Kenya following a research pact between Mount Kenya University (MKU) and the University of West of Scotland on the management of the fruit fly. In the past, Kenyan farmers have been going at a loss following an…
