The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Kenya Kwanza Administration has reiterated its pledge to uplift low-income earners, reaffirming its campaign promise to prioritise a “bottom-up” economic model. Deputy President Kithure Kindiki emphasised this commitment during an empowerment event in Kiawara village, Kieni West constituency, Nyeri County, where he supported small-scale traders and boda boda operators with a…
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…
Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has said the government was firm in implementing coffee reforms, ahead of the oncoming coffee season 2025/2026. Kindiki said the government was working to ensure timely availability of fertilizer to farmers, subsidized pesticides and availability of certified subsidized coffee seedlings through better resourcing of the Coffee Research Institute. he added that…
The former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has camped in Murang’a for two days castigating Kenya Kwanza government leadership saying it was ineffective in the national administration. He expressed non confidence with IEBC chairman Erastus Ethekon, on grounds he is an ally to State House Deputy Chief of Staff Josphat Nanok. “ Ethekon is a compromised…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Senior Counsel Martha Karua has decried being denied entry into the neighbouring Tanzania alongside o lawyers, Lynn Ngugi and Gloria Kimani at Julius Nyerere International Airport Taking to social media on Sunday morning, the vocal opposition member claimed that her passport had been taken and referred to a supervisor at the…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Members of the Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP) strongly condemn the recent acts of violence, harassment, and intimidation directed at our party and its supporters. These cowardly and criminal acts strike at the core of our democratic ideals—freedom of expression, freedom of association, and the fundamental right of all Kenyans to…
