The Mountain Journal Kirinyaga County Government has established an exclusive fish market that willenhance the marketing system for fish in the county.The market that has been established at Kiaga, will be the county’s aggregation center for fish thus providing farmers with a reliable facility for domestic fish bulking, preliminary processing and one-stop fish shop.Governor Anne Waiguru has…
The Mountain JournalThe County Government of Kirinyaga has commenced the process of taking fullownership of water service providers in the county in compliance with anadvisory from the Water Services Regulatory Board (Wasreb).The advisory dated April 6, 2023 had given all water service providers inthe country 90 days’ notice to comply with the regulatory framework.The Water…
The Mountain Journal Kirinyaga County Government is laying about 6,000 square meters of cabropaving in Sagana Town as Governor Anne Waiguru positions the town asan Industrial City.During an inspection tour of the project on Wednesday, Governor Waigurusaid that on completion, the project will provide conducive parking spacesfor about 200 cars. It will also address the…
The Mountain Journal On Friday, it was a great day for the administration of Governor Irungu Kang’ata when President William Ruto launched various development projects initiated by his administration in the past 10 months. Ruto President Ruto hailed the programmes describing them as a game changer designed to transform Murang’a County. In Kangari ward under MCA Moses…
Water Cabinet Secretary Wahome require peace to develop The Mountain Journal Spirited water wars in Murang’a county have frustrated implementation of projects in the past 10 years. Between 2015 and 2017, despite billions of shilling set aside, no project was implemented as the former Governor Mwangi wa Iria was at war with the national government…
The Mountain Journal A gang specialized in breaking into coffee factories is back in Murang’a county. On Monday morning, a gang of unknown number struck at Karurumo coffee factory in Gathera village, collecting more than 20 bags of coffee from the drying tables. During the incident, CCTV camera system was disabled as the gang took…
The Mountain Journal The embattled Chairman at KTDA David Muni Ichoho has been replaced. In a statement, the board of the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) Holdings Limited appointed Mr. Enos Njiru Njeru as its national chairman effective Monday, July 17, 2023. Njiru is a Certified Public Accountant with over 15 years’ experience in finance…
The Mountain Journal Operations at the Murang’a Level Five Hospital have been digitized in efforts to stamp out theft of drugs and money paid by the patients. Governor Irungu Kang’ata said revenue at the facility has shot at Sh400,000 per day up from Sh80,000 after the payment system was automated. Speaking during the…
By James WakahiuThe government of Japan, in collaboration with Kenya’s ministries of educationand health, have inaugurated a state-of-art malaria research laboratory at MountKenya University (MKU)’s main campus in Thika town.The Centre for Malaria Elimination at MKU is part of the Project forInterdisciplinary Research for Integrated Community-Directed Strategy forSustainable Freedom from Malaria being implemented at…
The Mountain Journal At least 3,800 farmers in Kirinyaga County have benefitted from subsidizedArtificial Insemination (AI) services that seek to upgrade the county’scattle breeds to increase milk production.The AI services being offered under Governor Anne Waiguru’s WezeshaKirinyaga empowerment program targets to have over 50,000 cows servedwith semen for high milk producing cattle breeds.Governor Waiguru says the…
