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WASREB Declares Wavinya’s ‘Water Reforms’ an Illegality
County Dismissed Six Water Companies MDs Outside the Law, Precipitating Chaotic Water Regime By Martin Masai Machakos County’s water sector is in turmoil — and Kenya’s national regulator has now said so, publicly…
Makueni Workers Give 48-Hour Ultimatum to Mutula Jr.
Governor Mutula Kilonzo Jr. Union says “Dysfunctional” Medical Insurance Cover Assures Workers more of Death than Life By Anchor Writers The Kenya County Government Workers Union (KCGWU), Makueni County Branch, has issued a…
VERBATIM: Judge Pins Down Wavinya’s Flaws
Editor’s Note: In a judgment that draws a hard line against arbitrary executive power by GovernorWavinyaNdeti, the Employment and Labour Relations Court Judge Stella Rutto ruled that the dismissal of Machakos County Executive…
Judge Awards Kes. 4.2m Damages to Minister Wavinya Sacked Illegally
By Martin Masai Justice Rutto The orders A definitive court ruling has sent shockwaves through the Wavinya Ndeti Government over irregularly dismissal of a Minister.Justice Stella Rutto declared the dismissal of former Education…
DG Set to Wrestle Wavinya at the 2027 Ballot as Feuding Reaches Boiling Point
Governor Vs Deputy: When Power Turns Petty and Government Becomes a Siege By Martin Masai What is unfolding in Machakos is no longer a quiet disagreement between a governor and her deputy. No.…
Wavinya Moves 6 Ministers,10 Chief Officers in Sweeping Govt. Changes
By Martin Masai Some Officials Re-appointed back to their previous dockets amid a new unannounced Government Structure Governor Wavinya Ndeti this evening announced a sweeping reshuffle of her government affecting 6 ministers and…
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…
Assembly Rejects Executive Reports in Unprecedented Rebuke
By Anchor Writers The Machakos County Assembly today turned into a chamber of frustration as Members dismissed nearly every report tabled by the Executive as hollow, incomplete, and unfit for purpose.In a day-long…
Uniforms Saga: A Peep into County’s Leadership and Integrity Standards
ANALYSIS:By Anchor Writers: Gov.Wavinya wearing a piece of unpaid uniforms, Letter of Offer and letter of Notification of Intent The County Government of Machakos flat denial over allegations of non-payment linked to the…
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…
Sex Traders Stage Bold ARVs Shortage Protest, Demand Action
Protesters captured at the Mtito Andei march. By Robert Muuo Commercial sex workers in Mtito Andei Market, Kibwezi Sub-county, have staged a bold daytime protest over the growing shortage of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs…
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…
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,…