Busia police defy Uhuru roads order
TRAFFIC police officers in Busia County still mount road blocks along the major roads despite a government directive stopping the same. President Uhuru Kenyatta directed last week that all road blocks...
View ArticleCourt calls for Eseli
Lady Justice Hellen Omondi has summoned Ford Kenya party secretary general Eseli Simiyu to the High Court in Bungoma. The court wants to determine the party’s alleged involvement in the failed petition...
View ArticleRasanga denies former PM Raila Odinga endorsed him for Siaya Governor seat
SIAYA county Governor Cornel Rasanga who contested on ODM ticket has denied being endorsed by the former Prime Minister Raila Odinga for the position. Rasanga said his popularity in the region was the...
View ArticleBoy killed over Mushrooms
A 13-year-old boy from Teso North died yesterday after being beaten by his neighbour over wild mushrooms.Ishmael Idoyo Otwane-the Akibui Primary School Standard Four pupil-died at Kocholia District...
View ArticleLusaka's Sh50 million porn budget scrapped
BUNGOMA county assembly has amended governor Kenneth Lusaka's proposed budget that had allocated Sh50 million for pornography awareness. The Budget and Appropriation Committee scrapped the allocation...
View ArticleOparanya bribed the voters, witness says
KAKAMEGA governor Wycliffe Oparanya bribed supporters in a church during campaign, the High Court was told yesterday. Witness Stanslause Anami told justice Said Chitembwe that Oparanya gave out the...
View ArticleBondo DO hangs herself
A District Officer has committed suicide inside her office. Usigu DO Simon Mokua said Dorine Ogutu’s body was found in the morning hanging on the window with a rope on her neck. Mokua said Ogutu had...
View ArticleNo water for police quarters
Junior officers have asked Police Inspector General David Kimaiyo to help them get water at their lines. The officers have been fetching the commodity from nearby streams after Kisumu Water and...
View ArticleCounty plans waste project
The county government in collaboration with the African Development Bank will use solid waste to produce perishable and non-perishable manure. An environment department executive member Rhoda...
View Article130 to attend Kisumu show
More than 130 local and international exhibitors are expected at the regional agricultural show. The ASK show branch chairman Charles Owelle said the expo which will be held from July 31 to August 4...
View ArticleRowdy teachers disrupt camp
About 1,000 teachers who are on strike accompanied by villagers stormed Uriri High and disrupted a provincial event. Police had to eject the demonstrators who had milled at the school gate to block...
View ArticleCourt to rule on Siaya governor vote scrutiny
The High Court in Kisumu will on Wednesday rule on whether the governor's votes cast in Siaya should be scrutinised. Justice Aggrey Muchelule, who is hearing a petition challenging the election of...
View ArticleBusia allocates Sh0.4 billion for governor's office
ABOUT Sh400m has been allocated to Busia governor’s office in budget estimates for 2013/2014 that were unanimously adopted yesterday. The budget committee chairman Godfrey Odongo urged the government...
View ArticleCounty won't buy limousines
MIGORI The county government will not use public funds to buy fuel guzzlers like in Kisumu and Homa Bay. “We have allocated funds for buying vehicles which will not be fuel guzzlers or high engine...
View ArticleLusaka fires official in spat over stipend
Bungoma governor Kenneth Lusaka has sacked the his secretary Musyoka Nyamai over failure to pay county representatives allowances to pass his proposed names for the county public service board. The...
View ArticleKakamega school feud halts Sh300m hospital construction
THE dispute over the ownership of a piece of land next to Kakamega Primary School threatens to stall the construction of a Sh 300 million hospital by a private developer. The national Land Commission...
View ArticleNine students, four teachers killed as Kisii school bus rolls
A somber mood has engulfed Kisii county after 13 people including nine students and four teachers died in a grisly road accident. The accident occurred the school bus belonging to Rioma secondary...
View ArticleState asked to address strike
THE government was yesterday told to revise its strategy to end the teachers strike. The East Africa Law Society president James Mwamu told President Uhuru Kenyatta that he has been using wrong...
View ArticleNo security, ward reps told
RESIDENTS of Kisumu county have dismissed the demand by ward representatives to have armed bodyguards assigned to them. The residents told the ward representatives to make good use of the municipal...
View ArticleCourt detains county rep
A Siaya county ward representative was yesterday detained for six hours at a court cell for defying court sermons. Siaya resident magistrate Jared Sani ordered for the arrest of Leonard Oriaro (Central...
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