Year: 2025
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Nurses Strike Enters 10th Day as Doctors Prepare to Down Tools
Machakos Health Crisis Deepens as a Cornered Governor Runs Out of Tricks By Anchor Writer Machakos County is staring at a complete shutdown of its health system as doctors prepare to down their tools, just 10 days into a strike by nurses that has already crippled services. The looming doctors’ strike marks the clearest sign…
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EDITORIAL COMMENT:
Mutula’s Slap From the Bench and the Rotten Politics of Wote Municipal Board When a High Court judge dismantles your flagship urban board and declares it “unconstitutional, unprocedural, null and void,” it is not a technicality. It is an indictment. Governor Mutula Kilonzo Jnr’s humiliation over the Wote Municipal Board is not about a paperwork…
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The Anchor Factbox
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Editorial Comment
Devolution’s Greatest Shame: When Counties Parade Stolen Glory The 8th Devolution Conference in Homa Bay was meant to be a stocktaking of Kenya’s most ambitious governance experiment. Under the banner “For the People, For Prosperity: Devolution as a Catalyst for Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice,” counties were expected to demonstrate concrete achievements — the kind…
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Selling Machakos Old Glory as New Achievement at 8th Devolution Conference
NEWS FEATURE By Anchor Writers At this year’s Devolution Conference in Homa Bay County, Governor Wavinya Ndeti took to social media with a celebratory post, painting a glossy picture of Machakos County’s “value-added agricultural transformation.” The post, wrapped in the conference theme “For the People, For Prosperity: Devolution as a Catalyst for Equity, Inclusion, and…
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The Anchor Factbox:
Key Failings Cited by the Court: No Proof of Proper Nominations: No signed or stamped evidence that the legally required professional, private sector, informal sector, and neighborhood associations actually nominated members.Missing Representation: No demonstrated inclusion of youth, persons with disabilities, or marginalized groups — a constitutional requirement.Illegal Reappointments: Members who had already served a five-year…
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High Court Collapses Gov.Mutula’s Wote Municipal Board
Why the Fall of the Board was Inevitable By Martin Masai with Daniel Mutinda Governor Mutula Kilonzo Jnr’s Wote Municipal Board is in a disarray after the High Court in Makueni declared its recruitment process unconstitutional, unprocedural, and null and void. The ruling, delivered on August 11, 2025, by Lady Justice Teresia Mumbua Matheka, struck…
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No Let-Up in Nurses Strike as Waita Slams Upbeat Wavinya
By Anchor Writers Machakos Governor Wavinya Ndeti has moved to project confidence and defend her administration’s record on nurses’ welfare, even as the strike by the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) continues to cripple services in county hospitals. In a detailed statement posted on her Facebook page, Wavinya outlined what she termed as “tremendous…
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Mother,Baby Die in Private Clinic Amid Machakos Nurses Strike
By Anchor Writer Kathiani, Machakos County — Tragedy struck in Isyukoni Shopping Centre on yesterday morning when a 32-year-old woman and her unborn child died under questionable circumstances at a private clinic, as the ongoing strike in all Machakos public hospitals entered its seventh day. According to a police incident report from Kathiani Police Station,…
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A Governor Dances, Nurses Strike, Union Fights and Patients Suffer
By Anchor Writers The standoff between Machakos County Government and striking nurses has escalated after the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN), Machakos Branch, flatly rejected fresh instructions to resume work. In a strongly worded letter to the Chief Officer for Medical Services Rashid Kala dated August 11, 2025, KNUN Branch Secretary Michael Saka accused…