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THE STANDARD CENTRAL Kirinyaga County Commissioner Jim Njoka (L), and other officers at PI Police Post in Mwea East Sub-County. [Kariuki Mwangi, Standard] The Kirinyaga County Security and Intelligence Committee has moved swiftly to save six police officers deployed at P.I. police post in Mwea East from forcible eviction. This is after the 10-year lease on plot where the six police officers have been residing for the last 10 years came to an end, and the owner of the plot started bringing in b...

THE STANDARD CENTRAL Kirinyaga County Commissioner Jim Njoka (L), and other officers at PI Police Post in Mwea East Sub-County. [Kariuki Mwangi, Standard] The Kirinyaga County Security and Intelligence Committee has moved swiftly to save six police officers deployed at P.I. police post in Mwea East from forcible eviction. This is after the 10-year lease on plot where the six police officers have been residing for the last 10 years came to an end, and the owner of the plot started bringing in b...

THE STANDARD KENYA Richard Odhiambo at his rice farm, Lower Kuja Irrigation scheme. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard] Rice farmers are abandoning huge tracts of land in the Lower-Kuja irrigation scheme, threatening the survival of the three-year Sh5.4 billion national government project that was commissioned by ODM leader Raila Odinga in May 2019. Kevin Omondi, who has 10-acres in the scheme, said that despite harvesting 200 bags during the last season, he had not been able to find a buyer for his pa...

THE STANDARD By James Wanzala | April 7th 2021 at 06:21:54 GMT +0300   One of the new Japanese made tractor ploughing the rice field in Mwea during the demonstration on Wednesday 10,2021.(James Wanzala,Standard. Rice farmers in Mwea Irrigation Scheme, Kirinyaga County, are set to enjoy cheaper and efficient agricultural machinery, thanks to two Japanese firms Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd (MOL) and Karasawa Agricultural Machinery Service Company Ltd. Speaking during a demonstration of the three types...

THE STANDARD By Dominic Omondi | March 17th 2021 at 09:24:44 GMT +0300 CS Ukur Yattani (PHOTO: FILE) Japanese workers and companies will be laughing all the way to the bank after the government exempted them from paying income tax for projects valued at Sh328 billion. In a legal notice, National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani directed that the income that these businesses and workers earned from 15 projects will be exempted from income tax. Mr Yatani said this was according to Section...

THE STANDARD By Moses Nyamori | March 16th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 ODM Leader Raila Odinga addressing Likoni residents at Caltex Grounds in Mombasa County on Thursday 4th March 2021.  [Kelvin Karani, Standard] Proponents of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) have crafted a new strategy to popularise the Bill that will see top leaders and experts dispatched to radio talk shows. BBI Secretariat co-chair Junet Mohammed said they may seek a review of some of the Covid-19 protocols after Pr...

FARMKENYA INITIATIVE Smart Harvest By Boniface Gikandi | March 14th 2021 at 02:00:00 GMT +0300 A rice nursery in Gakonya village in Kiharu, Murang’a where farmers have transformed the former swampy area into rice fields using irrigation water fetched from Rutune river. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard] A newly established rice irrigation project has brought a smile to farmers in semi-arid Gaturi ward in Kiharu, Murang’a County.  Thanks to the project started five years ago, the formerly pover...

THE STANDARD By Judah Ben-Hur | March 11th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Children abusing drugs will be admitted into rehabilitation facilities instead of serving jail terms if Parliament passes a proposed law . The Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) (Amendment) Bill 2020, which proposes changes in the 1994 Act, seeks to slay the dragon by the head by focusing on drug traffickers as opposed to users. “This young generation needs not be put in prison. This young generation n...

Court Hears How Karoti Teacher Slashed Colleague Over Female Trainee Teacher A teacher who attacked his colleague in a bitter love triangle at Karoti Girls High School in Kirinyaga County was Monday charged with attempted murder. Timothy Musembi Mutie was charged that on March 3, 2021 at Karoti Girls High School, Mwea East Sub-County, he unlawfully attempted to murder his colleague Alphonse Orina Omwenga by cutting him with a panga on the head and both hands. The court heard that on the said da...

In Kenya, a youthful teacher from Mwea in Kirinyaga County is fighting for his life in hospital after he was on Wednesday slashed in the head, arms and fingers by a male colleague. The victim and the suspect — both teachers at Karoti Girls’ High School — were eyeing the same woman, an intern on teaching practice, their colleagues alleged. The rivalry came to a head Wednesday, with the two confronting each other. The suspect is said to have reached for a panga and hacked his love ...