The Mountain Journal As consumer demand for pork continue to rise, beneficiaries of Wezesha Kirinyaga pig project launched by Governor Anne Waiguru last year are upbeat of good earnings. The beneficiaries drawn from 20 farmers groups says piglets given by the county government have grown to maturity besides the sows giving birth and are now ready…
The Mountain Journal Team It is an abuse for a leading hotel in Kenya to be importing tonnes of potatoes for its outlets countrywide when the local produce is being fed to livestock following alleged substandard product. KFC revealed it was importing potatoes used in the outlets from Egypt citing quality of the produce alleging…
Administrator reveals generation gap looming as men turns to liquor, leaving women to shoulder family burden. The Mountain Journal Walking into many shopping centres in the rural and urban areas, pictures of men lying in ditches, intoxicated features, revealing the coming back of the cheap liquor. In Karung’e locality in Mathioya, Murang’a women have…
Fellow Kenyans, Patriots and Usawa followers The year 2021 presented to us a national, global and unprecedented year 2021 heavily borrowing from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that started in the year 2020. Our Nation weathered the covid-19 storm in both 2020 and 2021 with resilience, courage, and unwaivering hope to emerge stronger than…
The Mountain Journal Crew Usawa Kwa Wote Party leader Mwangi wa Iria will hit the ground in January to popularize his Presidential candidature saying he has done enough interaction with the people from the mountain. Iria said he has managed to convince the mountain voters to support his presidential bid in the footsteps of the late Kenneth Matiba…
The Mountain Journal A water company has set aside Sh500,000 to waive bill incurred by the elderly and persons with disabilities in Murang’a. The management of Murang’a Water and Sanitation Company (Muwasco)said the decision was reached in efforts to support the venerable persons in the community have access to the commodity to support government efforts…
Police in Nanyuki have launched a manhunt for a four-man gang after it threatened to set ablaze a Kenya Forest Service Camp following seizing more than 120 cedar poles. The gang under the police watch is living in Kanyoni village at the edge of Mt Kenya Forest where it is involved in felling down…
The Mountain Journal A manhunt for the owner of the ill fated hotel building that collapsed in Gatanga, Murang’a has been ordered. Central Regional Coordinator Wilfred Nyang’wanga said the hotel owner and a Meru businessman Abraham Karuti Itabari is a person of interest in the investigations alongside his engineers and foreman on the cause of…
Scores missing after a four storey building collapses The Mountain Journal A building that collapsed in Gatanga, Murang’a was a result of negligence by the contractor after he defied the structural engineering procedures. The part of Sun Star Hotel under construction came down as the locals questioned the speed at which the work progressed ignoring…
By James Wakahiu Daniel Sifa Wanje, one of the best students from Kilifin county, has completed his university education through a full scholarship at MKU. Sifa hit headlines in the dailies after he came out to sell his kidney to support his university education after his parents and community could not raise the required amount….
