Kenyan farmers today launched a court challenge to laws that prevent them from selling and sharing unregulated seeds. Smallholder farmers make up 70 percent of the East African country’s agricultural sector and rely on the informal sharing of seeds when they are in short supply. But some fear that rules introduced in 2012 and 2016…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke A legislator has cracked a whip into the Treasury over forcing NSSF to divert workers’ contributions worth billions of shillings to fund road construction projects. The fiery Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro, and a former budget and appropriation committee chairman revealed that the government had forced the NSSF to invest workers’ retirement…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Nairobi Chief Magistrate Court freed Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya on a bond of Sh1 million, with an alternative bail of Sh500000 following charges of corruption. The Anti-Corruption Chief Magistrate Charles Ondieki barred Natembeya from accessing his office for a period of two months. Earlier, the DPP had objected to Natembeya…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya has been charged with two counts of conflict of interest and one count of unlawful acquisition of public property. in the Milimani Chief Magistrate’s Courts. Before Chief Magistrate Charles Ondieki, Natembeya pleaded not guilty to all the charges. In the first count, the state alleges that…
Jacqueline Waihenya, Chairperson of CIArb-Kenya and MKU Vice Chancellor Prof. Deogratius Jaganyi sign the new MOU at MKU Thika campus. By James WakahiuMount Kenya University (MKU) has signed a Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MOU) with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators(CIArb) Kenya Branch and a South Africa-based institute, InternationalLaw Institute – South African Centre for Excellence (ILI-SACE) that…
