THE KAKAMEGA BULLY

By Caleb Kinyanjui.  Two bodies of four friends who have been missing since April 19 were found in two public mortuaries. One was found in Murang’a and the other in Thika, Kiambu County, which is about 50 kilometers away from Kitengela, where they had been abducted. Benjamin Imbai 30, Elijah Obuong 35, Brian Oduor 36, and Jack Ochieng 37, had been missing for two weeks. The body of Obuong was found near Mukungai stream in Murang’a and taken to the local mortuary last week. Obuong’s young brother Michael Amollo identified the body Thursday. Police said they were notified by sand harvesters of a body stashed in a gunny bag under the bridge of Mukungai River along Murang'a-Iyego-Kangema Road on April 20 around 10am. The body had no visible injuries. This was a day after they went missing. The body of Imbai was also identified at the Thika Level Five Hospital mortuary by his family and friends on Wednesday. They used beards and a tattoo he had to identify him. The body had ...

Tongues are wagging, pressure is mounting, Youth and women groups are cajoling to have the KETRACO Chief Fernandes Barasa on the ballot in 2022 as a Governor.  A renowned manager, Barasa could regret his entire life if, at the end of his tenure at the Electricity body, he fails to be on the Kakamega gobernatorial ballot.  For Barasa his main strong hold is in the rich Wanga voting block of Mumias East(45380voters), Mumias West(47492voters) and Matungu(61728voters). He also commands parts of Navakholo(53620 voters) and Butere (62,956 voters). Through the Barasa Foundation; a charitable organisation, he has been able to reach many people across the county and many perceive him to be a manager and not a politician. Mr Barasa has seen the formulation and launch of the Ketraco's second five year strategic plan. He has also overseen the completion of 132kv Kindaruma-Mwingi-Garissa, the energization of 220kv Rabai- Malindi-Garsen-Lamu line and launched the 400kv Kenya -Tanzania proje...

The IRREDEEMABLE political brokers; MOFFAT MANDELA & COMPANY are opportunistically capitalising on the PANIC MODE that Deputy Party Leader of ODM Wycliffe Oparanya is in, after meeting Deputy President WILLIAM RUTO to cut political deals in Maasai Mara at the back of Party Leader Raila Odinga to siphon money from him for purposes of conducting stage managed and or choreographed interviews/shows on radio stations across western tomorrow to blackmail the public, that Governor Oparanya was just meeting DP Ruto the way Raila Odinga meets Uhuru Kenyatta, Gideon Moi, Kalonzo Musyoka etcetera politicians. It is not a secret that MOPHAT is a good for nothing youth advisor with zero strategy and only served to hasten Oparanya to a disastrous political defeat at the battle of Matungu, for failing to mobilise and facilitate the local Matungu ODM youth to protect David Were's votes on March 4th election day. The likes of MOPHAT MANDELA are political BED BUGS who care less about...

By Our reporter. Every country needs its whistleblowers. They are crucial to a healthy society. The employee who, in the public interest, has the independence of judgement and the personal courage to challenge malpractice or illegality is a kind of public hero. This is a cry for help to save the Kakamega County Assembly from acts of mismanagement, bullying, sexual harassment and massive embezzlement of funds. We are a group of 5 anonymous insiders of Kakamega County Assembly  who don’t like how things are happening at the County Assembly. The Assembly has been taken hostage by two members and their groupies who have continued with impunity to treat the County Assembly as their property. We have watched from far and hoped that things will get better, only for life to continue getting worse at every turn. We have decided to pay this ultimate price by speaking out. Because if we continue to keep quiet we will also be part of the problem. We know we run the risk of being victimized Inc...

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...