Treasury freezes addional funding to counties as revenue shortfalls bite

By Kepha Muiruri,

The National Treasury is set to retain funding to counties from the national government’s equitable share at Ksh.316.5 billion for the 2020/21 finan...

Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) , Counties , National Treasury

Police officer arrested over prisoners’ daring escape from cell in Kirinyaga

By Johnson Muriithi,

A police officer has been arrested over the suspicion of aiding four suspects who escaped from the Sagana Police station in Kirinyaga on Saturday morn...

Kirinyaga Prison break: Four suspects escape cell using a hacksaw

By Johnson Muriithi,

Police in Kirinyaga County are pursuing four robbery with violence suspects who escaped from the Sagana police station at 3a.m on Friday. According...

Kirinyaga prison break

Coast, North Eastern FKF CR aspirants hand in nomination papers

By Agencies,

Aspirants from Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale, Taita Taveta, Wajir and Garissa counties have today submitted their nomination forms to the FKF Electoral Board...

coast , FKF , north eastern

Uhuru speaks about Ferdinard Waititu’s ouster

By Tonny Ndungu,

President Uhuru Kenyatta during a rally at the Wanguru stadium in Kirinyaga appeared to reference Ferdinard Waititu's Wednesday night ouster. In hi...

Fednard Waititu

Waititu impeachment: How Senators voted

By Tonny Ndungu,

Ferdinard Waititu ceased being the Governor of Kiambu County after the senate voted to uphold his impeachment on Wednesday. The senate which was ho...

Governor Waititu impeachment , Waititu impeached

Bodies of tomato traders who drowned in Masinga Dam retrieved

By Johnson Muriithi,

The bodies of three tomato traders who drowned as they were crossing Masinga Dam on Thursday have all been retrieved. The three deceased traders an...

Kirinyaga: 62-year-old watchman kills self after he was forced to pay stolen property

By Johnson Muriithi,

Police in Kirinyaga county are investigating an incident in which a 62-year-old watchman who went missing on Thursday was found dangling from avocado ...

29-year-old woman kills drunk husband using socks

By Johnson Muriithi,

A 29-year-old woman was on Tuesday arrested and detained at Kianyaga Police Station in Gichugu, Kirinyaga County, for allegedly killing her drunk husb...

Kianyaga Police Station , Kirinyaga County. , murder , OCPD Anthony Mbogo

Kirinyaga County jubilant over Kiunjuri ouster

By Johnson Muriithi,

Led by their deputy Governor Peter Ndambiri, residents of Kirinyaga county have heaped praise on President Kenyatta for CS Kiunjuri's ouster. The c...

CS Kiunjuri , Kirinyaga counties

‘Those are grasshoppers’: Kirinyaga County Gov’t rubbishes claims of locust invasion

By Johnson Muriithi,

Kirinyaga County government has dismissed reports that insects recently spotted in the region are locusts. According to the Governor Anne Waiguru-l...

Governor Anne Waiguru , Kirinyaga County. , locusts , Peter Ndambiri

Panic in Kirinyaga as locusts spotted

By Johnson Muriithi,

Panic has now gripped farmers in Kirinyaga County after a swarm of locusts were on Sunday spotted in Mwea. Isaac Ndung’u, one of the farmers, was...

cs mwangi kiunjuri , James Kamau , Kirinyaga County. , locusts

‘Anabweka bweka huko nje’: Raila on Miguna travel saga

By Citizen Reporter,

ODM leader Raila Odinga has finally broken his silence over the travel woes of his former aide Miguna Miguna. According to him, no one has blocked ...

BBI , miguna , raila

Man arrested for allegedly kidnapping two girls in Kirinyaga

By Johnson Muriithi,

Police officers in Mwea, Kirinyaga County, are holding a middle-aged man accused of kidnapping two girls. The suspect was arrested on Saturday afte...

Kidnap , Kirinyaga County. , mwea

Missing Kirinyaga man found dead at businessman’s home

By Johnson Muriithi,

Police in Kirinyaga County are investigating circumstances under which a 42-year-old man was found dead at the home of a businessman at Mirichi sub-lo...

Kirinyaga County.

Kirinyaga Jubilee leaders tell off MP Alice Wahome over Uhuru-Raila rant

By Johnson Muriithi,

A section of Jubilee Party leaders from Kirinyaga County in Central Kenya have come out to defend President Uhuru Kenyatta from recent attacks by Kand...

Alice Wahome , BBI , James Muriithi , Kirinyaga County.

A Prado, 13 Ethiopians and bhang: Police chase ends up in Kirinyaga

By Johnson Muriithi,

13 Ethiopians were intercepted on Thursday evening onboard a Prado vehicle in Kirinyaga. Reports indicate that Sagana traffic police officers notic...

Ethiopians , PRADO

Man, 30, arrested for allegedly forcing 2-year-old boy to drink beer

By Johnson Muriithi,

Police in Kirinyaga have arrested a 30-year-old man who allegedly forced a 2-year-old boy to drink beer during Christmas. Nguka location chief Davi...

Kirinyaga

72 babies born on Christmas Day in Nairobi, Kirinyaga counties

By Duncan Mutwiri,

Christmas Day was a particularly joyous occasion in Nairobi and Kirinyaga Counties as 72 successful child births were recorded in separate hospitals w...

Christmas Day , Kirinyaga , Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital , Mbagathi Hospital , Nairobi , Pumwani Maternity Hospital

Kirinyaga: 700,000 papers used for rolling bhang recovered at MCA’s shop

By Johnson Muriithi,

Sleuths in Kirinyaga County are probing an incident where two cartons of paper used for rolling bhang were found within Kabare Ward MCA's premises in ...

bhang , Chomba Nyaga , kabare ward