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 county government8 already extinguishing hopes of a festive season. By December 14, it has become increasingly clear that December pay may also…

Garbage Crisis Deepens, as Governor Overrides Mandate of Municipalities By Mary Munini Machakos Governor Wavinya Ndeti has suspended five senior county officials for 60 days, opening a fresh chapter in a long-simmering crisis that has left the county’s municipalities drowning in garbage even as budgets meant to keep them clean were quietly dismantled. Those sent…

By Martin Masai A deepening garbage crisis has brought Machakos County’s three municipalities—Machakos, Mavoko and Tala–Kangundo—to a near standstill, exposing what insiders describe as a carefully engineered collapse of public service delivery to pave the way for a private takeover. At the centre of the crisis is a fuel budget that once sustained routine garbage…

By Martin Masai Machakos County has been thrown into literal and administrative darkness  for over a month now as the Kenya Power and Lighting Company cut supply to all county offices over unpaid bills standing at a staggering Kes 156 million. The blackout, leaves a trail of exposed failures in financial planning, governance, and accountability…

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 session that exposed the deep cracks in service delivery, committee after committee faced humiliation as their reports were branded unsatisfactory and sent…

By Regina Muneene Machakos Governor Wavinya Ndeti has had a bumper year for mantelpiece maintenance. Between regional pageants of praise, voter-choice rankings, and continent-wide salutes, the Governor’s name has appeared on more certificates than a cybercafé printer in exam season. Some are grand, some are local, and some come with websites you’ve probably never bookmarked.…

ANALYSIS:By Anchor Writers: The County Government of Machakos flat denial over allegations of non-payment linked to the multimillion-shilling uniform tender awarded to Movata Fashions & Designs lifts a lid on integrity and leadership. By dismissing the claims as “politically motivated” and asserting that no contract, no delivery note, and no invoice exist in county records…

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 problem — one that the Controller of Budget (COB) has already called a threat to the county’s financial stability and integrity. While…

Party Declares Maeke Disloyal, But CCU Nominee Retains Seat By Martin Masai | The AnchorMachakos, October 30, 2025 The Chama Cha Uzalendo Disciplinary Committee has ruled that Kalama Ward MCA Boniface Maeke Musyimi acted disloyally to the party by campaigning for a rival candidate, a move it says violated the Political Parties Act. In a…

By Anchor Writers CCU Finds Kalama MCA Maeke Guilty of Disloyalty as Vacancies Loom for 8 Machakos MCAs Machakos, October 13, 2025 —A new front has opened in the escalating power struggle within the Machakos County Assembly after the Disciplinary Committee of Chama Cha Uzalendo (CCU) found Kalama Ward MCA Boniface Maeke guilty of disloyalty…