France funds Sh4.5 billion Kisumu projects
THE French Development Agency has financed projects worth Sh4.5 billion in Kisumu county. Kisumu Urban Project t echnical implementation unit member Patrick Nyamita said the four-year projects are...
View ArticleKisii denies returning Sh925 million
The Kisii government has rubbished reports that the county failed to spend Sh925 million in this financial year. County assembly leader of majority Protus Moindi yesterday said the figures published in...
View ArticleBusia county slashes the wage bill
Busia county has formally launched the HIV beyond zero campaign. Governor Sospeter Ojaamong's wife Judy said the aim of the programme is to fight the killer disease by increasing awareness at local and...
View ArticleOjaamong's wife fights Busia HIV
THE Busia county assembly Budget and Appropriation Committee has reduced personnel costs in the 2014-15 financial year. The Sh5.5 billion budget estimates was presented to the assembly by committee...
View ArticleMumias market shut for lack of toilets
The Mumias market has temporarily been closed over poor hygiene. Area public health officer Peter Ondari said the market was closed following two notices issued to subcounty administrator in June 2012...
View ArticleTaskforce to probe coffee sector problems
Kisii Governor James Ongwae has formed a taskforce to look into problems facing the coffee industry. Gusii Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union owes several creditors Sh138 million. In its report, chairman...
View ArticleStop claiming you are marginalised and poor, Mt Elgon MP tells residents
Residents of Mt Elgon constituency, Bungoma county, have been asked to exploit agricultural to empower themselves economically and stop complaining that they are poor and marginalised. Mt Elgon MP John...
View ArticleState urged to revive Webuye Pan Paper Mill
The national government has been accused of doing little to revive the collapsed Webuye paper mills. The government should quickly salvage the factory, said National Assembly Committee on Trade,...
View ArticleTwo dare Jubilee to reject them
TWO governors from Jubilee have dared the alliance to reject them because of their support for the governorsā āPesa Mashinaniā referendum push. Bomet Governor Isaac Rutto and his Meru counterpart Peter...
View ArticleTrans Nzoia, varsities to build college
THE Trans Nzoia government will partner with three foreign universities to help establish a medical training at the proposed referral hospital. Governor Patrick Khaemba said the county government...
View ArticleNGOs query hospital’s Sh45 million brooms
CIVIL society groups in Bungoma have called on the Ethics and Anti-Corruption officers to investigate how Sh45 million was used by the county Health department to buy brooms and brushes for the Bungoma...
View ArticleFarmers in Busia to earn Sh300m from mechanised food production
FARMERS in Busia county are set to earn Sh300million from harvests, Governor Sospeter Ojaamong has said. He said the introduction of mechanised agriculture has increased the county's food production...
View ArticlePolice mount manhunt for Bungoma 'killer' trader
POLICE in Bungoma are searching for a businessman who shot dead a resident last Friday. County CID boss Peter Mabeya said they have not arrested Henry Waswa, the owner of Etonia Club in Kimilili...
View ArticleFarmers protest low cane prices
WEST Kenya Company farmers in Bungoma county yesterday demonstrated at the Misikhu weighbridge over reduction of cane prices by the firm. The farmers said the company has cut the price per tonne from...
View ArticleWe will sue you for spoiling our name, lobby warns Bungoma board member
A civil society group has threatened to sue a member of the Bungoma County Public Service Board for defamation. Peter Masengeli has been quoted in the media saying the rights group demanded Sh5 million...
View ArticleRaila to launch Okoa Kenya referendum drive in Busia county
CORD leader Raila Odinga is expected to officially launch the Okoa Kenya referendum bid in Busia county on Saturday. The county's ODM coordinator Noor Mohammed yesterday called on residents to turn up...
View ArticleCars won't make us abandon Cord vote, say MCAs
SOME MCAs in Kakamega have said they support calls for a referendum by Cord and governors. They said Jubileeās offer of car grants and mortgages will not change their minds. Swaka Limera (Kisa North),...
View ArticleMCAs want state to pay Nzoia boat burial costs
TWENTY MCAs from Busia county have appealed to the national government to foot burial expenses of the six people who died in a boat accident in River Nzoia, Bunyala subcounty last Sunday. On behalf of...
View ArticleEbola screening centre at Lwakhakha border point
THE Bungoma government has launched an Ebola disease screening point at Lwakhakha border point . This is informed by fears that travellers from Uganda, South Sudan and DR Congo who may have had contact...
View ArticleOparanya to lead referendum campaigns in Kakamega county
KAKAMEGA Governor Wycliffe Oparanya has promised to lead all elected leaders in the county to support the proposed Cord's calls for a referendum. He said the vote will get an overwhelming support from...
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