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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 Ndeti’s administration as a government living on borrowed time. The action by COB has now become an emblem of official evidence that…
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Exposing Wavinya’s Glaring Incompetence and convoluted Priorities
By Martin Masai COB Slams Machakos Over Unsustainable Budget, Questions Development Priorities The Controller of Budget has issued a damning verdict on Machakos County’s approved 2025/26 budget, warning that glaring gaps and questionable allocations could plunge the county deeper into financial crisis. In a hard-hitting letter to Finance Executive Onesmus Muia, the COB faulted the…
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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 responses to accountability queries raised by her office. In a letter addressed directly to Kuyu and copied to the Clerk of the…
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Nurses Strike Ends, Wavinya Caves in To Strict Implementation Timelines
By Anchor Writers Machakos, Thursday, August 21, 2025 — The Machakos County Government has finally bowed to pressure from striking nurses, signing a return-to-work formula that for the first time ties payments and promotions to strict timelines. In what union officials hailed as a rare climb-down, Governor Wavinya Ndeti’s administration ceded ground by abandoning its…
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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 Ndeti’s administration. On Monday, for the second time, the County Executive Committee Member for Devolution Dr. Joel Kilonzo, the Chairman of the…
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Wavinya Fans Flames of Nurses Strike, Links them to Politicians
By Martin Masai Machakos Governor Wavinya Ndeti has today fanned the embers of the raging nurses’ strike, accusing union leaders of colluding with local politicians to frustrate her government.Furious throughout the press conference, Wavinya used the moment not only to lash out at union leaders but also to sidestep her own failure to honour agreements…
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Nurses Strike Enters 10th Day as Doctors Prepare to Down Tools
Machakos Health Crisis Deepens as a Cornered Governor Runs Out of Tricks By Anchor Writer Machakos County is staring at a complete shutdown of its health system as doctors prepare to down their tools, just 10 days into a strike by nurses that has already crippled services. The looming doctors’ strike marks the clearest sign…
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EDITORIAL COMMENT:
Mutula’s Slap From the Bench and the Rotten Politics of Wote Municipal Board When a High Court judge dismantles your flagship urban board and declares it “unconstitutional, unprocedural, null and void,” it is not a technicality. It is an indictment. Governor Mutula Kilonzo Jnr’s humiliation over the Wote Municipal Board is not about a paperwork…
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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, For Prosperity: Devolution as a Catalyst for Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice,” counties were expected to demonstrate concrete achievements — the kind…