COTU renews calls to have the SRC disbanded
The Central Organization for Trade Unions COTU, now wants the Salary and remunerations Commission (SRC) to be disbanded for failure to ensure transparency and fairness when addressing various salary issues in public bodies. While addressing the steering committee on the implementation of the building bridges Initiative (BBI), Deputy secretary-general for COTU Benson Okwaro, said that […]
DPP to replicate banking laws to fight contraband at Mombasa port
The office of the director of Public prosecutions in collaboration with other government agencies has launched a plan that seeks to replicate the Anti-money laundering laws in Kenya to curb the entry and exit of contraband goods at the port of Mombasa. The ambitious plan that is at the discussion stage is set to be […]
IPOA investigates fatal shooting of bodaboda operator at Mama Lucy Hospital
Nairobi, KENYA: The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has launched investigations into an incident where an Administration Police (AP) officer allegedly shot dead a bodaboda operator at Mama Lucy hospital on Tuesday in Nairobi. According to witnesses, the bodaboda operator Daniel Mburu Wangari, had rushed a two-and-a-half-year-old child and his mother to the hospital after […]
99.7% of students who sat KCPE last year joined form 1
Only less than 0.3 percent of students who sat their Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations last year have not joined secondary schools. Speaking at a forum in Nairobi, Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha said that as of 16th February, 2020, the transition was at 99.7 percent. The CS now says he will […]
2,500 households to access electricity in sh.15 billion solar project
The government in partnership with the world bank has set aside Kshs. 15 billion to facilitate an off-grid solar power access project to 2,500 households across the country, President Uhuru Kenyatta, said on Tuesday. The project will also see 800 public facilities access low-cost power in 14 counties, in what the president said was part […]
Mudavadi wants BBI to create National Debt Authority
Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi has said that in order to manage debt diligently there is a need for the government to create National Debt authority which will put modalities in which the borrowing of debt will be thriving. Speaking when making a submission of the party’s input to the BBI steering committee in […]