Some members of Kisii clergy Kisii have urged for sobriety in the use of social media as a tool of communication. Speaking separately, the clerics said the abuse of the platforms, especially by the youth, was reason fueling the growing number of abductions in the country. The latest disappearances have been primarily young men who have criticized President William Ruto online. Some of the victims have been released traumatized. Police have denied involvement, but activists have questioned why they appear not to be investigating the disappearances. “Social media is open to all of us, let there be honest efforts to…
Author: Magati Obebo
The Auditor General Report has flagged Kisii County for suspected imprudent expenditure of funds channeled from the exchequer. It further fingers suspicious payments to unauthorized staff among them a senior officer employed irregularly. In most incidents, Governor Simba Arati was at pains explaining the expenditure of funds allocated to him in 2023-2024 fiscal year. He breached the law by also supplying to auditors doctored records on spending. For instance a staggering Sh14 million could not be accounted for after the administration reported using Sh96 million on domestic travel and tea. The Auditor however reported variation in the data captured in…
President William Ruto is expected in Kisii late Tuesday where he would usher in the New Year 2025. Ruto would be breaking the tradition where other presidents had been hosting the new year fetes in Mombasa. He last year ushered in the new year in Nakuru. In Kisii, South Mugirango MP Sylvanus Osoro, also Majority Chief Whip, in a tweet, welcomed the head of State to the County Capital. “We are looking forward to hosting the President, this is definitely a special gesture to the community at large,” he later told this journalist in a text. By late Monday, the…
A political activist in Kisii was Friday left nursing injuries after a suspected attack by goons. The Juhudi Africa communications executive, Benard Nyamwaro, was however, rescued by police officers after raising alarm through a proxy. Speaking to journalists, Nyamwaro claimed the goons had descended on him while visiting the office of a senior Kisii County executive Friday afternoon. He was accompanied by Cephas Tungai, also an activist. “We were visiting him with a friend when a group of goons sauntered into the office and viciously attacked me,” he told journalists outside Kisii Central Police Station where he went to file…
A church deacon Thursday night slaughtered his wife and two children before taking his life in Nyanturago in Nyaribari Chache in Kisii. The wife and children were stabbed with a knife, villagers and local administration officials confirmed . The amorous elder identified as James Mose was rushed to hospital with machete injuries. Bodies of the dead were found sprawled on the floor of their house Friday morning. The killer suspect was reported to to had picked a quarrel with his father early late Thursday attacking and injuring him with a machete. Later, he stormed his house in rage, butchered his…
Residents and traders across Kisii County towns say they are running risk of contracting diseases following piling garbage near their premises and markets. At Mwembe, in Kisii town they said the mounds of garbage along the access roads have remained uncollected for more than a week attracting flies and rodents. In some swelling heaps, cows and goats from the neighborhood villages leisurely munch the food remains dumped there. Gesare Osero, a shopkeeper, she keeps the door to her house closed all the time to keep flies away. “I had bought sprays but there are are expensive, they are already eating…
Cabinet Secretary for Education Migos Ogamba Thursday said the government is committed to address the problem of pending bills in universities. He said no pain was being spared in the broad efforts aimed at ensuring no university is left struggling with debts by 2027. Already the new university funding model has helped most universities significantly slash their pending bills, stated the CS. Already Sh41 billion has since been disbursed to universities under the contested model easing pain among students struggling with fees challenges. Migosi was speaking at Kisii University during its 13th graduation on Thursday. The University alone has been…
Staff working in Kisii County now fear heading home for Christmas, days away, with empty pockets following biting delays of pay. By Wednesday, the employees said they are now mulling a strike to pressure Governor Simba Arati to pay them their dues. They said they have gone without pay for more than two months pushing them deeper into misery. So dire is the situation, angry staff said, that most work stationaries are now reporting dismal turnout of staff due to lack of fare. “This is the second month am reporting to duty without salary. Back in my house all essentials…
A hired goon Monday set loose bees at a crowd attending a political event in Kisii sparking momentary panic. The meeting was underway when the goon set loose the insects which he had stashed inside a polythene bag. The event resumed after the goon was cornered, clobbered and forced out of the venue. The event held at historic Nyanturago playground in Nyaribari Chache was aimed at galvanizing unity the larger Nyaribari region unity. Sitting local MPs Zaheer Jhanda (Nyaribari Chache) and Daniel Manduku (Nyaribari Masaba) skipped it despite invites extended to them. County Deputy Governor Elijah Obebo also sent apology…
Participants at Kicosca sports in Kakamega from Kisii County want Governor Simba Arati to release allowances meant for their participation in the tournament. The County, said an aggrieved staff, had sent army of more than 500 staff empty handed to the sports event. The event is held rotationally among the participating devolved units across the country. Protesting staff from Kisii and who played in Kakamega said the governor had promised that the allowances were to be paid shortly before leaving for Western but by Tuesday there was no money reflecting in their accounts. “Today is the second week and nothing…
Goons Monday waylaid and brutally manhandled a Kisii politician leaving him with injuries. Brian Nyamweya alias Ensaria Mache reported injuries to his head and torso during the Monday noon incident at Mashauri area in Central Kisii. The youthful politician doubles up as a bodaboda leader. He has been conducting door to door campaigns setting sights on Nyaribari Chache parliamentary seat. “I have already reported the matter to the police and expects them to undertake through investigations into the attempted assassination on me,” Nyamweya told journalists outside the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital where he had sought treatment and discharged. He…
A whopping Sh6 billion is lying unutilized in Kisii County coffers risk being returned to the National Treasury. Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka made the disclosure Tuesday at the Senate amid a growing storm at home over poor services from the County administration. Onyonka said a staggering cache of billions was lying dormant as wananchi cry and as the “governor loiters in the villages lying to voters that he had no money to do development” . He said much more still is likely to pile up as unused with fresh annual fiscal allocations from Treasury to devolved units in this fiscal…
Kisii Governor Simba Arati Tuesday fought off claims of lethargy shifting blame on former governor James Ongwae. Speaking in Suneka Tuesday, Arati accused James Ongwae of fighting proxy wars against him when he himself had failed as a governor. “There was garbage everywhere, sleaze in every corner of the County when i came to office. These are the same people loitering around lecturing me and calling me an excrement. They are the very human waste they are abusing me around,” retorted Arati. The County boss spoke while visiting Suneka market, a project that had remained stalled for years. The Governor…
A court in South Mugirango, Kisii sent to jail an elderly male suspect for defilement for 50 years. John Mauti, 53 was found guilty after weeks of appearances at Etago court. Magistrate Violet Moguche said the suspect constantly appeared ‘unremorseful’ for the beastly act. The charge read that the suspect sexually assaulted a minor aged eight contrary to section 8 (1) as read with section 8 (3) of the Sexual Offences Act No. 3 of 2006. The particulars are that on July 14 2024, at Nyabera Sub location at Etago Sub-County within Kisii County the appellant sexually assaulted the minor…
Soapstone dealers in Kisii want a statue erected in honor of the late veteran Sculptor, Elkanah Ongesa, 80, who died last week. They described Ongesa as a legend who put stone sculpture in the global map and thus the need to recognize him and his works. “Ong’esa was a hero who marketed our country through gigantic sculptures dotted in cities in Europe and the USA. He was an icon,” said Daniel Apepo, group leader. Onge’sa died of cancer at the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital, family sources told journalists when he passed on Friday November 29. Apepo said they have…
Kisii Governor Simba Arati will now appear before two Senate House committees in a row for grilling. Already the Senate Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations has slotted him an appearance on December 4, 2024. The County Public Accounts Committee, on the other hand, has committed to host him the subsequent day of December 5. On both appearances, Arati will be grilled on development expenditures. The Devolution Committee is especially searching for answers on the County’s dismally low budgetary expenditure on development. They had since sent Governor Arati to return with relevant documents during the December 4, 2024 invite.…