When a county is spending more than half its income on payroll, there is almost nothing left for the roads, the medicines, the dispensary equipment and the development projects that feature so prominently in press releases.
According to the Media Council of Kenya, the assault was directly linked to Onyango’s investigative work exposing fraudulent employment schemes targeting Homa Bay residents.
Homa Bay County, once poised to benefit from a Sh1.4 billion World Bank-funded informal settlement improvement project, now faces the grim prospect of losing this critical investment. Insiders within Governor Gladys Wanga’s administration have voiced concerns that pervasive tender corruption orchestrated by influential cartels threatens to derail the ambitious project. Project Jeopardized by Tender Corruption […]
August 9 general elections are drawing closer and all Kenyan politicians and new entrants seeking elective positions are all out with well-oiled propaganda machines to sell fake ideas to the voters. Leaders who have been occupying offices for the past five years or more are lining up for re-election without any track records to show. […]
Corrupt workers of Homa-Bay county government have been frightened by the High Court’s decision to freeze bank accounts belonging to phony companies they used to siphon millions from county coffers through irregular contracts. Hartland Enterprises Limited accounts which is registered under James Mumali Oyuka and Mary Pauline Oduor had its accounts frozen for six months […]
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