The local government funds accounts committee has embarked on a countrywide mission to meet with local authorities’ chief executive officers to share with them what is expected of them when they are summoned to appear before the committee to give their financial audit.
Speaking in Eldoret during their tour to the Eldoret municipal council, the local [...]
Farmers from the North Rift region have been asked to engage in other income generating farming like the growing of passion fruit other than the maize farming which has been hit by low rainfall this season.
The fruit is reported to be doing well in Uasin Gishu district with 10 to 12 tones produced daily in [...]
For true reconciliation to be realized in the country, the peace builders are being called upon to work with each community separately.
This is according to Babu Ayindo, a peace building activist in Kisumu who states that disaster is bound to happen if politics will take the centre stage in the process.
Ayindo added that reconciliation is [...]
Parliament Wednesday voted for two reports by the house committee calling for the nullification of the re-appointment of the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission director.
Aaron Ringera and his two deputies Fatuma Sichale and Smokin Wanjala might now be sent packing after the members of parliament disowned their appointments.
The house voted the two reports to annul the [...]
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of information and Communication, Dr. Bitange Ndemo has said that the stage is set for Kenya to migrate to the digital television.
The PS said that due to the advantages that come with the use of the digital TV as compared to the current analogue television, Kenyans will embrace the [...]
In an aim to promote horticultural sector in the North Rift region, an exhibition has been organized for all the passion fruit stakeholders including nursery operators and manufacturers of juice for export.
According to the Eldoret station manager for Horticultural Crops Development Authority Barnabas Kiprop Kiptum, the exhibition to be held tomorrow at the Eldoret Sports [...]
Members of the public today afternoon burnt to death an unknown suspected thief at Section Six Estate in Kitale town.
Confirming the incident, Kitale deputy OCPD Eliud Okello said that the suspect was lynched by the area residents for allegedly stealing bedding from a certain house in the estate whose owner was not present.
Okello stated that [...]
Government Ministers have admitted that the poor government policies have contributed to shortage of food in the country.
Agriculture Minister William Ruto and his water counterpart Charity Ngilu however announced that besides construction of a dam in Yatta, Eastern Province will be among the proposed one million Acreage of land to be put under irrigation.
Ruto, accompanied [...]
Kapsara Maize Growers Sacco has received a boost of 150,000 shillings from the ministry of agriculture to facilitate a programme dubbed “Njaa marufuku Kenya”. Speaking at Sinyerere scheme at his office in Trans Nzoia East district, the Sacco chairperson Stephen Karanja said the money will be used to purchase Irish potatoes that will be distributed [...]
Justice Hannah Okwengu has disqualified herself from hearing a case challenging the reappointment of Justice Aaron Ringera as the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission-KACC- director. Justice Okwengu said she served under Ringera at the defunct Kenya Anti-corruption Authority – KACA. She referred the file to Justice Hatari Waweru for further direction. The civil society moved to [...]