Musembi Nzengu

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Reporter at The Star (Kenya)

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I'll support Ruto until his term ends, says Kitui South MP

1 week ago | the-star.co.ke | Musembi Nzengu

Kitui South MP Rachel Nyamai in Mutomo last Thursday /MUSEMBI NZENGUKitui South MP Rachel Nyamai has vowed to support and cooperate with President William Ruto’s administration so that her constituents benefit from government development programmes. The third term MP who was re-elected on a Jubilee party ticket in 2022, pointed out that her hobnobbing with Ruto and his government has so far proved gainful as her constituency is reaping big in terms of development.
Kitui leaders uproar over exclusion of snakebite victims from compesation

2 weeks ago | the-star.co.ke | Musembi Nzengu

The Secretary in the State Department and wildlife Shadrack Ngene is joined by leaders, including Kitui South MP Rachel Nyamai, as he hands over the Sh52 million dummy cheques for Human Wildlife conflict compensation to Kitui Deputy Governor Augustine Kanani at Mutomo in Kitui South on May 22, 2025/PHOTO:Musembi Nzengu. Leaders from Kitui County have protested against the discontinuation of compensation for snake bite victims by the government.
Bees disappearing from Kitui due to degradation of environment - official

2 weeks ago | the-star.co.ke | Musembi Nzengu

Beehive artisan Patrick Kiteto explains how a modern beehive works during the World Bee Day celebrations at Kalivu youth polytechnic grounds on Tuesday /MUSEMBI NZENGUThe bee population in Kitui is falling, and there is a need to increase the numbers, the county director of livestock and apiculture Joseph Kamonzo warned on Tuesday. Kamonzo lamented that wanton environmental degradation through farm chemicals and charcoal burning had caused bee numbers to drop worryingly.
Leave county with zero pending bills, Senator tells Malombe

2 weeks ago | the-star.co.ke | Musembi Nzengu

Kitui Governor, Julius Malombe, with Senate Finance and Budget committee member Boni Khalwale on Monday /Musembi Nzengu. Senate committee on Finance and Budget vice chairperson Tabitha Mutinda wants Governor Julius Malombe to leave a legacy of a pending bills-free county when he leaves office. Speaking in Kitui during the committee’s meeting with the governor on Monday, Mutinda said it was Malombe's responsibility to ensure the payment of all contractors and suppliers who worked for the county.
Kitui stares at crisis as budget making in limbo

3 weeks ago | the-star.co.ke | Musembi Nzengu

Kitui speaker Kevin Katisya, Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen and Kitui Governor Julius Malombe at the Jukwaa la Usalama town hall session meeting at Kitui High School /MUSEMBI NZENGUKitui County could be headed into a budgetary crisis as the assembly does not have an active budget committee to deliberate on the 2025/26 annual budget estimates, leading to its approval.
I spent close to Sh10bn on life-changing projects - Malombe

3 weeks ago | the-star.co.ke | Musembi Nzengu

Kitui Governor Julius Malombe with members of his county executive in Mombasa on Friday /MUSEMBI NZENGUKitui Governor Julius Malombe has invested Sh9.6 billion in life-changing projects since he assumed office, according to the devolved unit. The more than 1,000 projects cut across health, water, agriculture, education, transport infrastructure, sports, trade and commerce and security sectors.
Kalonzo can be president without Uhuru’s support, says ally

1 month ago | the-star.co.ke | Musembi Nzengu

Former Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala, former CS Fred Matiang’i, ex-DP Rigathi Gachagua, Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka, People’s Liberation Party leader Martha Karua and DAP-K’s Eugene Wamalwa, among other leaders, during the interdenominational thanksgiving ceremony at Wamunyoro, Nyeri county on Sunday /DENISH OCHIENG' Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka is not desperate for endorsement and support by former president Uhuru Kenyatta to beat incumbent William Ruto in 2027, a Kalonzo ally has...
Kitui reforming B2 Yatta Ranch to make Sh200m

1 month ago | the-star.co.ke | Musembi Nzengu

The Kitui government is supporting the B2 Yatta Ranching Cooperative to return to profitability. Livestock executive Stephen Kimwele on Friday said a modern feedlot will be set up at the 23,109 acre ranch for fattening cattle, whose meat will be for export market. “If this feedlot is well managed, it will earn the rangers and cattle owners in Kitui more than Sh200 million,” he said. “Every three months between 300 and 400 heads of cattle will be slaughtered.
We’ll deal with wanton sand harvesting in Kitui, says CEC

1 month ago | the-star.co.ke | Musembi Nzengu

A lorry is loaded with sand at a river bed in Kitui County/MUSEMBI NZENGU. Kitui County government has asked residents to be patient as they address the issue of wanton and destructive sand harvesting. Kitui Environment, climate change and mineral resources executive John Mwendandu said the matter would soon be addressed as a law to that effect is now in place. “Yes. I know there has been an outcry over the issue, but we are working on a long-term solution for it,” he said.
Singapore firm to help communities in Kitui, Baringo earn carbon credits

1 month ago | the-star.co.ke | Musembi Nzengu

Tiva River Environmental Youth Group secretary Danlewis Mbula and Adra project manager Micheal Imujaro inspect a tree seedling bed on Tuesday /MUSEMBI NZENGUCommunity groups in semi-arid Kitui and Baringo counties are set to earn carbon credits courtesy of landscape restoration and livelihood project supported by an investment firm in Singapore.