Public Money.
Budgets, borrowing, procurement, revenue and public spending.
Wavinya Caves in to Pressure,Pays Sh 10m to Movata Designs
By Martin Masai Machakos Governor Wavinya Ndeti has, at last, yielded to mounting public pressure and initiated payment—albeit partially—to Movata Fashions & Design. The firm supplied Inspectorate uniforms, a contract that had long…
Salary Crisis Erupts Days After Wavinya’s Deceptive Address
By Martin Masai Eleven Days into March, February Salaries are Yet to be Paid after the Governor Declared Delays are Over Days after Machakos Governor Wavinya Ndeti confidently told the County Assembly that…
County Askaris in the Spotlight Over Cash Fights
By Lilian Munini Tensions are rising over physical fights by County Inspectorate as they fight over cash and dominance. The fights have triggered a strongly worded letter from County Secretary Dr. Muya Ndambuki…
Machakos County Procurement Scandal: EACC Investigates Staff
By Martin Masai theanchormedia.org Anti Graft War Widens in Machakos as Scores of County Staff Record Statements Over ‘Air Supplies’ Scandal A quiet procession has been streaming into Kiamba Mall, 3rd Floor, Machakos…
Staff Go for Holidays Without Pay, County Scales Down Operations
By Anchor Writers The Machakos County Government has announced a scale-down of operations over the December holiday period. Dr. Muya Ndambuki: Memo was Silent on December salaries The move unfolds against a familiar…
Wavinya Finally Begins Paying November Salaries For County Workers
By Anchor Writer Machakos County Government began paying November salaries on 16 December, a day after The Anchor published a report on the arrears owed to County staff. Governor Wavinya holding her latest…
County Workers Face Gloom Over Delayed Pay as Wavinya Splashes Cash
Delayed Salaries, Power Cut, Ballooning Debt, Tournaments and a Children’s Party Expose the County’s Contradictions By Anchor Writers Machakos County staff are trudging into mid-December without their November salaries, the silence from the…
Unpaid Power Bills Push Machakos County Structures into Darkness
By Martin Masai The Machakos White House: Electricity was disconnected over one month ago due to a pile up of bills from KPLC Machakos County has been thrown into literal and administrative darkness …
Behind a Comedian’s Claim Lies a Deeper,Troubling County debt Crisis
By Martin Masai The public exchange between comedian and businessman Sammy Kioko and the Machakos County Government over a claimed Kes 19 million debt has peeled back the curtain on a deeper fiscal…
A Three-Year Vacuum by Design — and the Price is Paid in Human Lives
The Anchor Comment For three years, Machakos County has operated its hospitals without Boards of Management — a governance void that is not by accident but by design. It is a deliberate vacuum,…
Patients Skip Dialysis as County Sweeps Away SHA Millions
By Martin Masai Tensions are boiling in Machakos over Sh130 million disbursed by the Social Health Authority (SHA) to county hospitals — money that was meant to save lives but is now at…
Machakos County Rates Itself Highly, But the Ground is Strikingly Different
By Martin Masai As Machakos County celebrates glowing performance ratings of its County Executive Committee Members (CECMs) and Chief Officers, the assessment reads like an alternate universe. Governor Wavinya presents a trophy to…
Machakos County Staff in Panic as Pay Delay Hits 15 Days: Wavinya,Muya Silent
By Anchor Writers Machakos county workers are in turmoil after salaries failed to hit their bank accounts, with September’s pay now delayed well past the mid-month mark. Governor Wavinya Today marks the 15th…
Governor Ndeti’s Graft Purge of 36 ‘Small Fish’ Sparks Outcry
By Anchor Writers Residents troll Governor Ndeti on Social Media, Demanding Action Against Rotten Big FishMachakos Governor Wavinya Ndeti today stood before cameras to announce the suspension of 36 revenue clerks accused of…
Alarm as Machakos Lands Department Becomes a Bastion of Graft
By Lilian KakuviThe 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…
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…