Year: 2025
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Kawaya’s Day of Reckoning as Irate Youth Boo Him to Silence
When the crowd turns, even the microphone can’t save you. By Marion Mbithe Mwala MP Vincent Musyoka, better known as Kawaya, walked into Machakos Teachers’ Training College on Friday to sell government policies. He left with his ego in pieces after boda boda riders drowned him in boos. The UDA top honcho had barely started…
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Outrage as Chronic Water Shortage hits Wote Municipality
Wote Residents Demand Action in a Hard-Hitting Memo to WOWASCO By Wambua Love WOTE, MAKUENI — A scathing public memorandum has been submitted to the Wote Water and Sewerage Company (WOWASCO), demanding immediate action and legal accountability over the long-standing water crisis plaguing Wote Town and its environs.Authored by Alexander Kyalo Maingi, a resident of…
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Assembly Approves Move to Evict Court, Fire Station from Plot
By The Anchor Reporter The Machakos County Assembly has adopted a decisive report that classifies the Judiciary and County Fire Department as irregular occupants of prime public land earmarked for the Assembly’s own use — setting the stage for their potential eviction. The report was tabled by Daniel Ndwiki, who chairs the Committee on Lands…
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High Court bars County Governments From Collecting Borehole Levies
By Martin Masai The High Court of Kenya has delivered a sweeping conservatory order halting the enforcement of county laws that impose fees, levies, or permits for borehole drilling and water abstraction across all 47 counties — including Machakos — in a landmark suit filed by the Rig Owners Association. In orders issued on June…
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Why Wiper is Rebranding From Democratic Party to Patriotic Front
Wiper Rebrands in Bold Political Shift to Rescue the Nation By The Anchor Writers In a bold and symbolic move ahead of the 2027 General Elections, the Wiper Democratic Movement has officially changed its name to the Wiper Patriotic Front (WPF). This signals a deep ideological shift and a renewed sense of urgency to “rescue…
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KPLC’s Paltry Sh 19k Payout for Widow’s House Crushed by Power Pole
Mutula Rebuilds House for 80-Year-Old Victim of Fallen Power Pole By Love Wambua | Katunyoni, Makueni An elderly woman whose home was crushed by a fallen electricity pole in Katunyoni village, Mbooni West, is finally smiling again — not because of Kenya Power, but thanks to the intervention of Governor Mutula Kilonzo Junior, who has…
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Tension as Bishop Rebukes Leaders, Bars Wavinya from Speaking
By Anchor Writers MACHAKOS, July 20 — A solemn church event turned politically charged on Sunday when AIC’s Presiding Bishop Abraham Mulwa used the consecration of Machakos Area Bishop Benjamin Kalanzo and his deputy Amos Ndunda to publicly rebuke local leaders. His actions sparked tensions between the church, Governor Wavinya Ndeti, and President William Ruto.…
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The Return of Food Handouts in Makueni
By Daniel Kituku KATHONZWENI, MAKUENI COUNTY — The long, winding queues for relief food are back. So are the tears of hungry children and the pleas from local administrators. In what now seems like a grim cycle of dependency, government officials in Makueni have renewed calls for emergency food aid—marking yet another chapter in the…
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Thange Oil Spill: A Detailed Case of Impunity and Human Rights Abuse
COMMENTARY By Martin Masai, EDITOR/PUBLISHER A decade-long cry for justice by the people of Thange in Kibwezi East, Makueni County, has finally been answered. Not from the Government of Kenya, the Polluter-in- Chief Kenya Pipeline Company, nor the National Environment Management Authority. It came from a judicial action after years of a scathing fight by…
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Judges Order KPC, NEMA to Pay Kes. 3.8b. Damages for Thange Oil Spill
WOTE,MAKUENI By Daniel Kituku Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) and the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) were today ordered to pay a total of Kes. 3.8 billion in compensation for environmental destruction at Thange River in Kibwezi East, Makueni County. It is the consequence of a massive oil spill in 2015 that the two state agencies…