Some farm hands were injured Friday as ethnic violence escalated from Kiango into Mosocho areas in South Mugirango along the Kisii-Transmara border. Those injured had been recruited to cut cane at a farm in Enosaen area, in Transmara West Sub-County, Narok County, witnesses and police said. Some fled into the vast sugarcane farms to evade attacks from marauding youth armed who attacked. One person suffered injuries, officials said. He sustained minor injuries to the head, legs and hands and has already been discharged from hospital. The skirmishes were particularly intense at Mosocho area, a restive region stretching from Geteri, Nyamaiya…
Author: Magati Obebo
Nyamira County Senator Okongo O’Mogeni Friday asked President William Ruto to be more swiftly and make the Social Health Authority and the Social Health insurance schemes functional to stem spiralling deaths of patients. With the choruses of objections being raised against the scheme it could be proper that Ruto does some soul searching and amend it once and for all, the Senator stated. “We cannot say we are moving forward as a nation in the face of a bungled health insurance scheme like SHA, already we are losing too many lives unnecessarily,” stated Omogeni. He said the problems afflicting the…
Police in Marani, Kisii shot and killed four suspected robbers at Sombogo area in Kitutu Chache North. The deceased included one woman, police said. At least two others fled on foot in the Thursday March 6 morning incident. The gang had attempted to rob a bakery owner of cash Thursday at 1 am when he alerted the police who responded and gave chase. The gang of six had stormed Progress Bakery at around 1.45am, armed with a firearm, axes and knives. They demanded the day’s sale, but the owner managed to alert police officers at the Marani camp. Upon arrival…
ODM Raila Odinga Thursday downplayed the bid by former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi to go for presidency. He said at the moment he was not aaware Matiangi was interested in the country’s top political seat. He said it would be fool hardy for him to rely on the Mount Kenya vote to catapult him to presidency. “You cannot run for presidency on the basis of the Kisii vote, the Luo vote or even the Mount Kenya vote. You would be elected by Kenyans across the board,” the former Prime Minister said. Odinga had landed in Kisii to hear views…
Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka and his nominated counterpart, Essy Okenyuri , Wednesday called for dialogue as means to ending cross border squabbles between communities living along Kisii-Narok border. The two issued statements hours apart as one cow and its calf that were stolen Friday from Kiango area, sparking skirmishes, were recovered and handed back to their owners. Two more cows are however, yet to be recovered, officials said. The single recovery early Wednesday appeared to revive fresh hopes of the recovery of two more others still on the loose. Earlier, elders from both sides had agreed that all three cows…
Nyamira’s West Mugirango MP Steve Mogaka called on the government to give immediate salary increases to teachers in newly gazetted municipality zones of Nyamira County. Raising it in the National Assembly, Mogaka requested that the government roll out the 2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with improved house allowances for teachers working in urban areas. In 2021, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) signed a CBA that provided for better allowances for teachers in municipalities. However, even after Nyamira County gazetted new municipalities in 2024, which include Nyamira Town, Tinga, Nyamaiya, Miruka, Kebirigo, Ekerenyo, and Keroka, teachers in these municipalities have not…
Health Principal Secretary Mary Muthoni Tuesday said investigations into the mysterious disease ravaging some parts of South Mugirango were still going on. At least 56 people have since been treated in various health facilities in the region of the infection. On Tuesday, Muthoni ordered for a temporary closure of a spring at the epicenter of the epidemic as samples go through further lab analysis. Some preliminary samples already taken from the spring early in the week had returned positive of fecal deposits raising suspicion that it helped trigger the break out. “We have established that this water is contaminated and…
Intermittent cross border raids marked the better part of Tuesday at the restive Kiango township along the troubled Narok – Kisii County border. A resident, Hesborn Oyagi,said fighting was still going on latevinto late hours Tuesday at some fertile valley outside Kiango township. Kenyenya Deputy County Commissioner William Bett, however, denied the claim saying no fighting ever takes place at night. “There had only been sporadic encounters between the two sides for the better part of early today,” said Bett by phone Tuesday night. He also disputed rumors that have been circulating online claiming to a student returning to school…
Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka Tuesday flagged former Kisii Polytechnic Tom Mulat for a probe on financial dealings at the insititution during his tenure. Mulat was hastily transfered from the insititution a fortnight ago following an outcry from the students and a section of the local political class. At the Senate Tuesday, Onyonka asked for enhanced accountability of the Polytechnic’s funds in the face of Mulat’s disgraceful departure. He especially queried the litany of discrepancies in the revenue collection by the Polytechnic in the short span Mulat was in charge. “Despite the increase in student enrollment from 11,517 to 13,017 in…
The government Tuesday rejected accusations that it was battering abroad local skills in the ongoing public facilitated labour mobility. Principal Secretary at the State Department Technical Vocational Education and Training, Dr Esther Mworia, however underscored the commitment by the state to improve service delivery in all of its technical institutes. “This notion that we are exporting labour should stop, we are only encouraging labour mobility. The same way our youth move from the rural to urban centres to look for jobs is the same way our people are encouraged to look for employment out there, nothing should stop them from…
At least two people were confirmed killed in the ongoing violent skirmishes at the restive Kiango border point at the Kisii-Transmara border. MPs Julius Sunkuli (Transmara West) said he had been briefed of two deaths so far. The MP and his Bomachoge Borabu counterpart Obadiah Barongo also convened separate barazas to preach peace to avert more possible blood shed. Speaking in Kilgoris, Sunkuli said the two fatalities were from his constituency. They succumbed as they were being attended to for arrow injuries at separate health facilities in Kilgoris Town. One was shot Saturday and the other Sunday as violence engulfed…
At least two more youths sustained critical arrow injuries in the latest bout of skirmishes spiraling along the volatile Kiango area between Narok and Kisii Counties late Sunday. The figure of those injured on Kisii side has now climbed past six even as tension grow. Police said they had deployed more personnel to quell the skirmishes. Villagers said fighting was still going by Sunday night making a mock of the night patrols by police. More sugarcane farms were also torched in the revenge attacks by youth from Kiango side as skirmishes escalated into the night. Kenyenya Deputy County Commissioner William…
Several sugarcane farms were set ablaze as fighting between waring Kisii and Masai youths escalated late Sunday at Kiango along Transmara West, Bomachoge Borabu border. The loses were estimated to run into millions, officials said. At least four people were reported to had suffered arrow injures as the two sides engaged in vicious skirmishes in the open fields and farms. Tom Nyamasege, a resident, said at least six cane farms went up in smoke Saturday with several more torched Sunday. “As we talk the fighting is still going on and police are having hectic time controlling the violence. We are…
At least four people were by Sunday nursing arrow injuries following intense skirmishes along the troubled Kiango border flashpoint dividing Transmara West (Narok County) and Bomachoge Borabu (Kisii). The four were rushed to various hospitals in Magena and Kisii town for treatment. By late Sunday, armed youth were squaring it out in the open fields even as security chiefs from both sides were meeting in Kiango township to hammer out a peace deal. No fatality was reported by Sunday afternoon. Villagers said a spate of cattle rustling incidents between the two the Masai and Kisii had sparked the fresh tiff…
Former Kisii County Senior Administrative Executive Dr Alfred Ndemo would now be taking on Kitutu Chache North MP Japhet Nyakundi in the 2027 parliamentary poll. The announcement made Thursday scales down the early governorship bid he had earlier vowed to make. He promises dynamic political leadership in the constituency if elected. Kitutu Chache North, he said, continues to suffer a crisis of transformative leadership from the past and present leadership. He said he would be prioritizing on education and infrastructure as he starts to consolidate the Abagetutu vote if elected. “Yes, it is true i wanted to vie for Governor…