THE KAKAMEGA BULLY

THE Office of Deputy Minority Whip comes with goodies. As Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala exits after being removed, these are the goodies he will miss.    1. His salary to be Slashed by Ksh.300,000/= after losing the Deputy Minority Leader Seat in the Senator.  2. Cleophas Malala will have his Sh1,056,000 monthly salary trimmed and will now earn Sh710,000, the pay for normal senators. 3. He will also lose the KSh.100,000/= and 50,000/= car fuel and communication allowance respectively given to senators in leadership positions.  4. The two luxury cars assigned to him withdrawn. All the motor vehicles are above 4500cc and bear GK number plates.  5. He will cease to enjoy Ksh. 200,000/= allocated to the Office of Deputy Minority Leader for hospitality per month.  6. The mandatory police escort that he was entitled to, three police bodyguards attached to him will be withdrawn. 7. In addition, his staff including a researcher, a legal counsel, a fi...

By James Mwaura.  The body of missing National Lands Commission (NLC) official Jennifer Itumbi Wambua was found yesterday at City Mortuary, having been strangled to death. Police reports indicate that her body was first found in a thicket in the Ngong area on Saturday, about 30km from the Nairobi city center before it was ferried to the mortuary. Details have now emerged with police trying to piece together her murder with an Sh122 million graft case that she was to testify in. For instance, she was set to be cross-examined tomorrow, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. According to a local publication, the case dates back to when Lugari MP Ayub Savula and former Principal Secretary Sammy Itemere were charged alongside 16 others with conspiring to defraud the government of Sh122.3 million in 2018. At the time, Itemere was the PS at the Ministry of Information, Communications, and Technology where together with his co-accused, they reportedly paid out money to fictitious companies...

Story By Ayub Ayub.  KAKAMEGA is a county endowed with natural resources and very suitable climatic conditions with stable rains across the year. The county receives close to Ksh 10 billion as its sharable revenue from treasury and collects close to Ksh 300 million in local taxes. The headache is how to manage all these after the exit of the current Governor Whycliffe Ambetsa Oparanya arguably the best governor these sides of the country Kenya. In 2022, we go to the polls to elect all office bearers a county boss included and that is where the headache begins because the elite know where to put their ballot. There is whole lot of a population out there that needs guidance on how to vote prosperity and not popularity, suitability and not hotheadedness, skill and not noise. On the menu to succeed Gov. Oparanya are politicians most who have absolutely no track record of prudent management of public finances in their current or previous offices. Party affiliation not withst...

4TH MARCH 2021                                                      THE BEAST OF A POLICE OFFICER. This is a video of how Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala was robbed off Ksh 2M by the Mumias DCIO Mr. Michai. Muchai is seen struggling with the Senator as he grabs bunches of notes from Senator's bag that the police had recovered during fracas in the Matungu By elections.  Malala is seen shouting.. "why are you stealing from me... He is taking my money this is my money"... As Muchai stuffs the money in his jacket and passes the same to individuals identified as police officers. This is the highest form of theft and impunity amongst police officers expected to be custodians of the law.

TODAY Marks the end of the campaign period for the Matungu By-election as per the IEBC Gazetted laws. As candidates made a last minute pitch to appeal to voters, a sampled opinion has seen an upset on the table of candidates on the ballot. Those interviewed from across five wards of Matungu place ANC's Peter Nabulindo as a favourite to win the seat following his forages across all the polling stations. According to respondents, Nabulindo enjoys the support because of being in the right party and resonating with a majority of voters of all walks in the Constituency. "He was in the last elections, he never abandoned us, he stayed with us untill the by Election happened and we have decided to return the seat to ANC and we have the right candidate" Said a male respondent. According to the sampling, ODM's David Were dropped to position three behind UDA'S Alex Lanya who due to weekend activities rose to position two.  Were's drop is attributed to the vis...