An audit report on the financial operations of the Machakos County Executive in the 2013/2014 fiscal year has revealed grave financial irregularities ranging from blatant flouting of procurement procedures, unsupported expenditure, huge pending bills, un-surrendered imprests to a tampered...
The National Alliance (TNA) Party of Kenya has thrown a rotten egg on its own face by the verdicts of the party's disciplinary committee on legislators Senator Joy Adhiambo Gwendo and MPs Moses Kuria and Priscilla Nyokabi. The committee...
By Asha Kadura Bakari
After attending a training on youth and democracy organized by the Institute of Education Democracy (IED), some feedback on how they took their lessons to their community from a Kwale County participant is below.
The objectives were:
To find...
By George Githinji
The Auditor General reports that the County Assembly of Homabay had an unsupported expenditure of sh51 million during the 2013/2014 financial year. That is, the Assembly reported to the Auditor General’s office that it had spent the sh51...
Today Thursday August 27th 2015 marks exactly five years since the promulgation of the new constitution. As Kenyans take stoke of the document that heralded the legal reforms that had for long been desired in the country, there is...
The latest move by the National Assembly to extend the timelines to pass key Constitutional Bills is not new. Since the passage of the Constitution in August 2010 which set specific timelines to pass specific laws, the August House...
An assessment of the records of the County Assembly of Kisumu by the Auditor General has revealed that the Assembly's expenditure for the 2013/2014 financial year was characterized by anomalies.
According to a recent report of his office, officers did...
Daniel Kituku
Forty seven heads of the Nyumba Kumi initiative from Mithumoni sub location, Makueni County have benefited from a paralegal training organized and funded by Resources Oriented Development Initiatives (RODI ) Kenya.
The program aims at equipping the village heads with...
Auditor General Edward Ouko has shone a spot light on Tharaka Nithi County Assembly for its poor budgetary expenditures during the financial period 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014. The report states that the assembly could not explain some...
Hundreds of residents in the three counties of the North Eastern Province today took to the streets protesting against the worsening situation in the education sector in the region.
Led by civil society groups in the region, the placard waving students, parents and angry residents presented their grievances to the local education offices.
Education in the region came down to its knees after non-local teachers fled the region following increased terror threats climaxed by the Garissa University attack on April 2 in which 147 people most of the students lost their lives.
