At least 19 teachers invigilating ongoing national exams at a school in Bobachoge Borabu in Kisii County were Tuesday interdicted following the discovery of more than 30 phones at the exam centre. Kebabe SDA secondary school principal and his deputy are among those interdicted as officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations started a probe. A staggering cluster of 31 phones were seized from the school’s boys dormitory. An additional three others were recovered inside the exam room, officials said. Also impounded were short notes which were handed over to the detectives. A police report said a Kenya National Examination…
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Some Kisii County Ward Representatives want Kisii Governor Simba Arati to direct more efforts towards improving service delivery across health facilities in the region. The Ward Reps decried what they termed as the deteriorating level of health care at the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital. Services at the facility, they added, were deteriorating at each passing day causing agony to patients seeking treatment there. Nominees Lilian Gor and Dolphine Bwari said Kisii residents deserve more than lip services. “As an assembly we allocate Sh4 billion of the Sh13 billion of the shared revenue to the health sector. It startles greatly…
ODM party chair Simba Arati says the party would still field a candidate against President William Ruto in 2027 adding they are optimistic they would floor the United Democratic Alliance candidate in the polls. “Yes, as we do the membership registration the focus still remains the same, going for the top job and am sure we shall defeat them,” the Kisii Governor spoke at a burial in Kisii. “We have to try them… We must and we shall emerge winners this time,” Arati told mourners in Bonchari. The party plans to undertake massive registration from 27 this month across the…
A local construction agency Monday dismissed talk that its affordable projects in Nairobi had stalled. Jobavu Village Limited top officials instead said the firm’s operations were steadily on on course contrary to reports in a section of the local media. Among projects cited as stalled were Jeevanjee Housing estate in Ngara Estate. The agency said the project was firmly on course further dispelling media reports of stalling. . It also denied using a title deed belonging to Nairobi County Council to procure a loan for the projects.. “We want to clarify that project is still on despite initial delays caused…
Combative Kisii County Administration Executive Alfred Ndemo called it quits Monday. Dr Ndemo, a victim of a botched impeachment by the County Assembly, tendered his resignation citing frosty relationship with his boss Governor Simba Arati. He spoke of a deliberate scheme by Arati to refuse to improve the working environment making it ‘untenable’ for him thus the option to check out. “You have deliberated refused to address my grievances despite my efforts in reaching out to you.” “Working with you has proved frustrating, demeaning, humiliating, untenable and impossible,” Dr Ndemo stated in the resignation letter. Ndemo had at one time…
Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka wants compressive audit done on labour practices by Shivling Supermarkets in the country. In a statement read at Senate by Nominated Senator Essy Okenyuri on his behalf, the Senator fingers the superstore for alleged mistreatment and harassment of staff. Citing Kisii, Onyonka spoke of receiving reports on the chain’s management ‘exploiting the human capital contravening both the local and interns Labour laws’. “The practices if not addressed will lead to the exploitation of employees and injure their welfare,” the Kisii Senator stated in the statement. He asked the Senate’s Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare,…
Ward Representatives in Nyamira have overwhelming voted to send their speaker Enock Okero packing. At least 23 cast their votes early Thursday to sack the embattled Speaker. Okero is said to had had frosty relationship with the MCAs sparking ugly skirmishes at the square outside the Assembly. Several Country staff were injured during the melee when he attempted a forceful return to office days after the MCAs suspended him. Nyamira County Assembly has been the Centre of high dramatic with tensions escalating between MCAs and the Speaker. In one incident, Okero was forcefully ejected from his office after a heated…
A family in Nyamira is distressed after fire swept through its timber house Wednesday morning killing three children as they slept. The deceased aged four, nine and 12 were burnt beyond recognition in the 1 am incident, police and locals said. Villagers at Nyangori , Gachuba Kitutu Masaba were by Thursday morning trying to come to terms with the gory deaths. Naftal Mogai, their father, also a bodaboda operator was beside with grief contacted. Police from Keroka have launched investigations into the incident. The cause of the fire is yet to be established. The remains of the children were moved…
Police in Nyamira are hunting for suspects in connection to arson on Bomoigamo Ward MCAs house Wednesday morning. Tobias Nyangana was, however, not in when goons visited and torched his house at around 3.am in the morning. A worker who was in at the time also escaped unhurt as fire engulfed the one story house. Police in Nyamira are already hunting for the arsonists. County Commissioner Erastus Mbui said they are zeroing on four suspects whose phones track their presence to the scene when it occured. “We shall leave nothing to chance until all those responsible are held accountable for…
The US Government says it has significantly slashed down time for visa issuance to Kenyans. Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman said though still not sufficiently good enough, the three months waiting time for a single application marks an important step in boosting movement between the two states. “When i was posted here the waiting time was two years, a considerably long time.. We are still doing more to enhance and improve the visa issuance,” Whitman said. The Ambassador said the US has also continued to partner closely Kenya on humanitarian assistance and also help in expanding job opportunities for the…
Casual laborers in Kisii Monday spoke of growing anger and desperation life in the face of delayed pay. Many of them now lament being kicked out of their rental houses by the landlords for failing to remit rent fees. They have survived without pay for more than four years. One woman, a janitor, said the already rent has piled to over Sh300,000. She cannot afford drugs for her blood pressure condition also, she stated “I wake up daily staring at death but the mercies of the Lord bring back to my house.. Not long though for i know i will…
A popular Kisii County based lawyer has rubbished the ambitious bid by Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei to extend the term of stay in office of the President. The proposed law further seeks to elongate the term of service for the Members of Parliament (MPs), Members of County Assembly (MCAs) and governors. Cherargei, in his bill proposes that they serve a seven years term upon election. “The Bill proposes to amend Article 136 of the Constitution, which provides for election of the President, to increase the term of President from five years to seven years,” the Bill states. The Senator claims…
CS Education Migos Ogamba says the government has stepped up surveillance to curb further exam cheating incidents in the country. Already, it has outlawed the use of mobile phones in all the examination centers across the country. Instead, the ministry would provide one satellite phone for use by the supervisor. Migos was speaking in Siala Technical College in Rongo Migori County on Tuesday during a tree planting exercise. He said the ministry has since enhanced additional penalties for exam cheats including teachers and principals facilitating the vice. Going forwarding, he warned, those found culpable would be locked out of public…
Nyamira Senator Okongo Omogeni has described as ‘gravely low and demeaning ‘ tea bonus payments made out to farmers from the region. He said it still begs questions on why farmers from the larger Gusii region continue to suffer with low bonuses every other year. This year’s bonus rations oscillated between Sh 20 and Sh 30 for Nyamira farmers while their counterparts from Central earned as high as Sh 60. Nyankoba factory’s farmers earned a high of Sh35 while most others factories dished dismal earnings. “This definitely shows that we as leaders have some homework to do . Personally am…
President William Ruto and his estranged deputy, Rigathi Gachagua should put their act together or begin to pack together. Residents of Kisii who turned up to share their sentiments on proposal to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua rejected as baseless the grounds being presented to hound out Gachagua. Instead they told to Ruto to reconcile with him. “We elected them together and should pack and leave together. It that is what they are up to,” said George Magange, an activist. If parliament was serious on its intent then it should impeach both Ruto and his deputy, stated Magange. Many more…
At least four women were killed Monday in a long night of gang land style slaughter across Nyamira County. The killings have since sparked fear of a gang on the lose targeting women. The four victims were killed in separate suspected murder incidents spread across three Sub-Counties. In the first one, the body of a middle aged woman was stumbled on near a wonky bridge at Nyakongo in Kitutu Masaba. Local assistant chief, Duncan Mogaka said they are investigating if deceased may had been killed elsewhere before the body was hauled to the scene. The body was transferred by police…