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Land & Environment

New Team Takes Over at Katelembu Society

By Anchor Writers Katelembu Farming and Cooperative Society today ushered in a new era of leadership after a court-ordered Special General Meeting (SGM) swept aside the long-standing team led by Wilson Muema, popularly…

18 September 2025 · Read story ↗
Land & Environment

Katelembu:Why Cooperatives Court Vetoed Sham Katelembu Elections

By Martin Masai Day When A Cooperatives Commissioner Conducted Elections Where Non-members Were Elected The Cooperative Tribunal has nullified elections held on February 20, 2025, by a contested society, citing flawed vetting, participation…

7 September 2025 · Read story ↗
Health & Education

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…

21 August 2025 · Read story ↗
Health & Education

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…

12 August 2025 · Read story ↗
Politics & Governance

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.…

9 August 2025 · Read story ↗
Politics & Governance

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…

6 August 2025 · Read story ↗
Health & Education

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…

15 July 2025 · Read story ↗
Land & Environment

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. How the Daily Nation reported the matter in 2015…

12 July 2025 · Read story ↗
Land & Environment

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…

11 July 2025 · Read story ↗
Community & Livelihoods

Herdsboy Finaly Crowned as Machakos ACK Bishop

By The Anchor Team Bishop Munuve The Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) Diocese of Machakos has ushered in a new era of leadership with the enthronement of Ven Canon Patrick Kyalo Munuve as…

19 May 2025 · Read story ↗
Land & Environment

Ngai Ndethya Reserve Management Plan Gets Underway

By Onesmus Nzioka Gov.Mutula. KWS DG Launch Team to Draft Ngai Ndethya Reserve Land Management Plan The process of developing a Land Management Plan for Ngai Ndethya National Reserve is officially underway following…

22 February 2025 · Read story ↗
Land & Environment

Tycoon Draws a Dagger in Messy Makindu Land Row

By A Special Correspondent Land Dispute in Ziwani: A Case of Governance Failure and Rising ImpunityThe Ziwani area  near Makindu township in Makueni County is offering a troubling glimpse into the systemic failures…

18 December 2024 · Read story ↗
Land & Environment

Breakthrough for Miwongoni Dam

By Anchor Writer The County Government of Machakos is emerging as the biggest impediment to the construction of the long stalled Miwongoni Dam project after it skipped a key meeting to unlock the…

2 December 2024 · Read story ↗
Public Money

Machakos County Revenue Loss Rages On

Finance Minister, Onesmus Kuyu. Image source: Machakos County Assembly The revenue collection system of the Machakos County Government has entered its third week of dysfunction, resulting in a significant loss of revenue from…

3 October 2024 · Read story ↗
Community & Livelihoods

Remove kiosks, county orders Wangondi

By Martin Masai Majority Leader Nicholas Wangondi is in the middle of a storm as works on a World Bank project come under threat.Mr NziokaThe threat is posed by  structures on a road reserve…

16 September 2024 · Read story ↗
Justice & Rights

Ngilu confronts insecurity in Kitui County

Ngilu meets IG Boinet over Endless killing of Kitui people GOVERNOR Kaluki Ngilu today took up insecurity concerns in Kitui County to the office of the Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinet. Governor…

31 October 2018 · Read story ↗

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