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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…
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…
Exposing Wavinya’s Glaring Incompetence and convoluted Priorities
By Martin Masai COB Slams Machakos Over Unsustainable Budget, Questions Development PrioritiesThe Controller of Budget has issued a damning verdict on Machakos County’s approved 2025/26 budget, warning that glaring gaps and questionable allocations…
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…
Nurses Strike Ends, Wavinya Caves in To Strict Implementation Timelines
Union,County, and Labour officials immediately after the signing of a deal to end the strike By Anchor WritersMachakos, Thursday, August 21, 2025 — The Machakos County Government has finally bowed to pressure from…
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…
Wavinya Fans Flames of Nurses Strike, Links them to Politicians
Governor Wavinya during the press briefing, flanked by County Secretary Dr Muya Ndambuki(L) Health Minister Justus Kasivu and Finance Minister Onesmus Kuyu on the Governor’s right and extremely right respectively. By Martin MasaiMachakos…
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…
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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…
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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,…
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…
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Justice Teresia Mumbua Matheka 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…
High Court Collapses Gov.Mutula’s Wote Municipal Board
Why the Fall of the Board was Inevitable By Martin Masai with Daniel MutindaGovernor Mutula Kilonzo Jnr’s Wote Municipal Board is in a disarray after the High Court in Makueni declared its recruitment…
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…
Mother,Baby Die in Private Clinic Amid Machakos Nurses Strike
By Anchor Writer Kathiani, Machakos County — Kathiani Hospital, one of the top Machakos County Public Hospitals paralyzed by ongoing strike. Tragedy struck in Isyukoni Shopping Centre on yesterday morning when a 32-year-old…
A Governor Dances, Nurses Strike, Union Fights and Patients Suffer
Governor Wavinya at the ongoing Devolution Conference in Homa Bay County. By Anchor WritersThe standoff between Machakos County Government and striking nurses has escalated after the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN), Machakos…