Sudden collapse stalks Makueni Govt. Speaker Ngelu: He is accused of running an alternative government By Martin Masai Makueni County Government will collapse in a matter of days after a defiant County Assembly voted for salaries and allowances instead of approving the 2014/2015 budget. In a swift response to the vote, Gov Kivutha Kibwana hit…

IEBC ratifies petition to disband Makueni Govt. By Martin Masai The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has verified over 40,000 signatures petitioning the dissolution of the County Government of Makueni. In a statement, IEBC  Communications Director Tabitha Mutemi said the petitioners had surpassed the constitutional threshold of 10 percent of registered voters by a three…

Is Police Command teetering towards collapse? THE killing of over 20 Administration Police officers at Kapedo now indicates that the Kenya Police Service is sliding irreversibly to catastrophic levels. Accounts being told, coming from the police , indicate that basic operational procedures were ignored, leading to the ambush.Observers are questioning why the operation to recover the…

Jitters in Dr Mutua’s Cabinet A reshuffle is in the offing within Dr. Alfred Mutua Cabinet in Machakos County Government.The strongest signal about the impending reshuffle is contained in a FB post Dr Mutua posted on his page, promising radical changes in the Department of Health and Emergency Services. “…I will soon be making radical changes in…

Obituary Celebrating the life of a patriarch By Brian Masai The Late D.M.Masai Hundreds of family, relatives and friends turned up to give a befitting send off to Mzee David Morris Masai, a second world war veteran, retired civil servant, accomplished farmer and patriarch.His funeral service, also attended by Cabinet Secretary Mrs. Charity Ngilu among…

Big rush as banks Scramble for Machakos By Brian Masaibriosai@yahoo.com As the end of the war of words between the governor and the senator seems to have died off, atleast for now, investors both from within and without the county seem to have engaged gears and put in their resources in a bid to not…

The Anchor (Web Edition): Poor showing in KCSE 2013: Top and Bottom Ukambani Schools  in KCSE 2013 By Martin Masai MUCH as there are celebrations going on over the 2013 KCSE perfo… Stay Anchored!… Journalism of the future.

Top and Bottom Ukambani Schools in KCSE 2013 By Martin Masai MUCH as there are celebrations going on over the 2013 KCSE performance in other parts of Kenya, leadership in Ukambani ought to urgently return to the drawing board and take drastic action to stop decline in academic standards. For it is shameful that the top…

Kalonzo’s shame over  the Western Sahara issue By David Lumbasi THE Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) purported to open a diplomatic mission in Nairobi at an event shunned by government officials. The only prominent person present at the function was  the former Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka, who is no longer in government and must have attended…

KCSE Shocker for Ukambani By Martin Masai A Shocking trend has emerged from the  KCSE performance by Schools in Ukambani, with indications that matters are going from bad to worse. So shocking is the outcome such that one of the region’s National School- Machakos Boys struggled to remain in the Top 100 schools nationally by…