Month: June 2021

Kisumu County Government has issued scholarships worth Sh45 million, benefiting 9,772 disadvantaged students in the district. The scholarships will benefit the 2020 Kenya Certificate for Primary Education (KCPE) graduates to join public and additional auxiliary schools in August. While awarding the scholarships, Kisumu Deputy Governor, Dr Mathew Owili, said that the Maritime Province had awarded 160,722,826 shillings as scholarships and grants to students in schools, colleges, universities and driving school universities in the last two years. Owili added that the region had expanded its scholarship allocation by 100% from Sh105…

Mrs. Dorothy Nyong’o, the First Lady of Kisumu County, has launched three day care centers in Kisumu for low income mothers as a strategy to help young mothers pursue their education during motherhood. While launching the project, Mrs. Nyongo said that the effort was the result of collaboration between the Department of Education in Kisumu and Kidogo Innovations Limited. As a pilot project, the three day care centers will be located at Akado, Obange and Ahero Vocational Training Centers (VTC) in Nyakach East and Nyando Sub-counties. The centers will provide…

President Uhuru Kenyatta has appointed 34 judges and rejected 6 out of the 41 judges presented by the Judicial Service Commission in 2019. Rejected are: Justice Professor Joel Ngugi, Justice Chacha Mwita and Justice George Odunga, who were all part of the five-judge bench that dismissed BBI document as unconstitutional thereby stopping reggae. This dramatic development is the strongest indication that the President was angered by the decision of the Judges to retire BBI after more than 14 billion Kenyan shillings was spent on the BBI process. Secondly, the move…

Remarks by President Uhuru Kenyatta during the June 1st Madaraka Day celebrations  in Kisumu has plunged the president into trouble with the court system in Kenya. On Wednesday, June 2nd, the remarks were brought to the attention of the Court of Appeal which warned the President to refrain from commenting on the issue. The wording of the President’s remarks suggested renewed attack on Kenya’s Judiciary.  At the Supreme Court in Nairobi, Lawyers representing all four parties congregated  to deliberate on how the hearing of the appeals should proceed. President Uhuru…