Year: 2025
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University Dons Endorse Kalonzo for the 2027 Presidential Race
By Vincent Matheka Yatta, Machakos County — A group of 200 dons drawn from 23 public universities across Kenya on Friday, September 5, 2025, declared their support for former Vice President Dr. Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka’s bid for the presidency in the 2027 general election. The dons convened at Dr. Musyoka’s Yatta Farm home, where they…
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Alarm as Machakos Lands Department Becomes a Bastion of Graft
By Lilian Kakuvi The Department of Lands and Physical Planning in Machakos County is once again under the spotlight, with fresh allegations of deep-rooted corruption, extortion of staff, and abuse of transfers for personal gain. According to insiders, a racket is thriving in which county staff are forced to pay kickbacks to retain lucrative postings…
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UPDATE: New Assembly Clerk Gazetted as Kiusya Cracks the Whip
By Anchor Writers Machakos, Tuesday — A shake-up has taken place at the Machakos County Assembly with Mr. Peter Mbatha assuming office as Acting Clerk, replacing Acting Clerk Mr. Dennis Mutui. The changes were effected during a session of the County Assembly Service Board (CASB) chaired by Speaker Anne Kiusya. To seal Mutui’s fate, the…
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Makueni Father Gets Life Jail Term for Defiling Four Children
By Wambua Love KILUNGU, Makueni County — A Kilungu court has sentenced a 56-year-old man to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of serial sexual offences against four children, including his own. The convict, Mule Maundu, was convicted for defiling four minors aged between six and 13 years in Kitaingo village, Mukaa, in 2023. Two…
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Rot at the Top: The Sorry State of County Accounting Laid Bare
COMMENTARY By Martin Masai COB Exposes Litany of Machakos Budget Failures, Showing Wavinya’s Government on the Brink The Controller of Budget (COB) has torn apart Machakos County’s 2025/26 financial blueprint, exposing Governor Wavinya Ndeti’s administration as a government living on borrowed time. The action by COB has now become an emblem of official evidence that…
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Exposing Wavinya’s Glaring Incompetence and convoluted Priorities
By Martin Masai COB Slams Machakos Over Unsustainable Budget, Questions Development Priorities The Controller of Budget has issued a damning verdict on Machakos County’s approved 2025/26 budget, warning that glaring gaps and questionable allocations could plunge the county deeper into financial crisis. In a hard-hitting letter to Finance Executive Onesmus Muia, the COB faulted the…
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COB Freezes Wavinya Budget, Cites Kuyu’s Chaotic Actions
By Martin Masai Machakos, Saturday, August 30, 2025 — The Controller of Budget has frozen approval of the Machakos County Government’s budget after Finance CECM Onesmus Kuyu failed to provide comprehensive and time-bound responses to accountability queries raised by her office. In a letter addressed directly to Kuyu and copied to the Clerk of the…
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Nurses Strike Ends, Wavinya Caves in To Strict Implementation Timelines
By Anchor Writers Machakos, Thursday, August 21, 2025 — The Machakos County Government has finally bowed to pressure from striking nurses, signing a return-to-work formula that for the first time ties payments and promotions to strict timelines. In what union officials hailed as a rare climb-down, Governor Wavinya Ndeti’s administration ceded ground by abandoning its…
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Top Machakos County Officials Snub Assembly Summons Yet Again
By Martin Masai The defiance of Machakos County’s top officers against Assembly summons has now morphed from mere absenteeism to an audacious display of executive arrogance, laying bare the rot behind Governor Wavinya Ndeti’s administration. On Monday, for the second time, the County Executive Committee Member for Devolution Dr. Joel Kilonzo, the Chairman of the…
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Wavinya Fans Flames of Nurses Strike, Links them to Politicians
By Martin Masai Machakos Governor Wavinya Ndeti has today fanned the embers of the raging nurses’ strike, accusing union leaders of colluding with local politicians to frustrate her government.Furious throughout the press conference, Wavinya used the moment not only to lash out at union leaders but also to sidestep her own failure to honour agreements…