Suspected police officers on Monday night arrested a Limuru grassroots politician and took him to an unknown destination. The officers in several Subaru cars and a Toyota Prado raided Peter Kinyanjui’s rental house at around 9pm, causing panic in the densely populated area. The plainclothes officers broke into Kinyanjui’s house on the third floor after his wife refused to open the door, demanding to know their identity. “The men carrying metal bars, guns ransacked the house. They threw my child on the floor as they turned the house upside down. My child cowered under the blankets. They asked me where…
Author: By George Njunge
A road in Gatuanyaga Ward in Thika with solar-powered streetlights. [George Njunge /Standard] Amid concerns from the Office of the Auditor General about the unsustainable costs of electricity for grid-powered streetlights, counties are turning to solar alternatives to ease the financial burden. Kiambu County is among the first to take the lead, with Governor Kimani Wamatangi recently completing the first phase of installing solar streetlights in all 60 wards as part of his ‘Angaza Kiambu’ initiative. The county has so far installed 6,000 solar-powered streetlights. The governor has further declared a complete halt to the installation of electricity grid-powered lights, aiming for full off-grid street lighting by 2026. Governor Wamatangi announced that an additional 8,000 solar streetlights will…
A road in Gatuanyaga Ward in Thika with solar-powered streetlights. [George Njunge /Standard] Amid concerns from the Office of the Auditor General about the unsustainable costs of electricity for grid-powered streetlights, counties are turning to solar alternatives to ease the financial burden. Kiambu County is among the first to take the lead, with Governor Kimani Wamatangi recently completing the first phase of installing solar streetlights in all 60 wards as part of his ‘Angaza Kiambu’ initiative. The county has so far installed 6,000 solar-powered streetlights. The governor has further declared a complete halt to the installation of electricity grid-powered lights, aiming for full off-grid street lighting by 2026. Governor Wamatangi announced that an additional 8,000 solar streetlights will…
Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi when appeared before the Senate CPAC committee at the Bunge Towers, Nairobi, July 29th, 2024 [Elvis Ogina, Standard] Kiambu County may have lost over Sh15 billion in the past decade of devolution due to successive administrations’ failure to grant municipality status to deserving areas. Despite having 12 constituencies and a population exceeding 3 million, the county has operated with only six municipalities—Thika, Ruiru, Kiambu, Karuri (in Kiambaa Constituency), Limuru, and Kikuyu. Each municipality qualifies for at least Sh250 million annually under the World Bank’s Kenya Urban Support Programme (KUSP) to fund infrastructure projects. “Had that happened, every one of the other…