MAN WHO ‘MISLED’ MEDIA THAT MURANGA PEOPLE WORE PANTIES TAKEN INTO FORCED QUARANTINE

BY KK ONLINE NEWS EDITOR

PHOTO TWO:Mr Gedion Muriu being ushered at Maragua police station where he had been summoned for Mathare panties story. He has been taken into a forced quarantine of 14 days after Governor Mwangi Wa Iria's claims that he misled the slum dwellers to wear panties. PHOTO ONE Mr Muriu wearing a pantie.

 

 

 BY KK ONLINE NEWS EDITOR

Gideon Muriu, a man who led media to a slum in Maragua where locals allegedly wore panties to avoid being arrested and charged has been taken into forced quarantine at Muranga Teachers and Training College.

Muranga Governor Mwangi Wa Iria broke the news to journalists on Thursday said a team from both the County and the National Government probed the matter and found that the man duped villagers in wearing the panties for his own political interests.

The County boss on Thursday said Mr Muriu will have to stay at the quarantine center for 14 days and will pay for the expenses which the KK online News has established to be between Sh20000 to Sh28000.

He said by luring locals to wear panties instead of masks, Mr Muriu risked his life and those of the villagers saying all other people who will risk the lives of the residents of Muranga will have to be quarantined for 14 days and pay for the expenses.

We are not punishing the man, he is paying for his mistakes, he will have to stay at the quarantine center for 14 days and then subjected for testing, if he does anything fishy, he will have to stay at the center for a longer period,” he told scribes.

 Last week, the country woke up to sensational news that a section of Murang’a residents have been reduced into wearing some rather unorthodox masks after they were duped by unscrupulous traders.

Residents of Mathare village led by Mr Muriu told the journalists that they bought the panties Sh20 with residents saying they only realized they were wearing panties long after they had bought the masks.

Maragua Assistant County Commissioner also waded in the debate castigating Mr Muriu for ‘feigning ignorance’ and inviting media to Mathare slum to ‘seek publicity’.

He claimed to have handed some masks, sanitizers and reflectors to Mr Muriu before the story aired and disclosed that he (Mr Muriu) had even texted him over relief food.

Panties that the residents of Mathare bought at Sh20 saying poverty forced them to buy to avoid police beating

“Mr Muriu wrote a text message over relief food need for Mathare people and I told him that the government would address the issues, I had given him the sanitizers and the masks for the people but to my surprise, he went ahead and bought five panties and took media at the slum for fake publicity,” the State officer said.

Residents of Mathare wearing panties.

WHY KARANJA WAMATANGI IS KIHARU’S MAN OF THE MOMENT DURING CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

BY Allan Wanjiku

Due to the government’s directive on social distancing and curfew as ways of combatingf Covid 19 pandemic, many families who depend on casual labour for survival are sleeping hungry, since the middle class can’t entertain them in their homes.

Some of the parents hawked food, clothing and snacks, a business that thrives from 7pm the time that government directed the police to be on the look out to ensure no human being is roaming freely.

A section of the people in Kiharu who have been affected by the measures in combating the virus, however, have a reason to smile after philanthropist and Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor project director Karanja Mburu dispatched food items to his team who in conjunction with local administrators have been going door to door, NOT TO CAMPAIGN but to offer food to the less fortunate and at the same time creating awareness of the dangers of the pandemic to the homesteads.

The exercise started on Thursday April 23 at the areas of lower Gaturi an arid and semi-arid area of the Constituency where his team was able to traverse to at least 150 homes donating food and non-food items to the hungry people.

Many of them told KK online News that they have had to cope up with hunger sleeping hungry and watching their children cry of hunger thanks to the unexpected guest who assured them at least meals for a couple of days.

“We did not expect that a stranger would come knocking to our homes with food donation, we lack words to thank him, we eat faith and sleep by faith, government can only copy what Mr Wamatangi has done to us and provide us food, there is no casual labour that we depended on to feed our family,” Joseph Kamau told journalists.

Mr Wamatangi appealed to government to subside the prices of essential commodities so that families may purchase food items at cost friendly prices and also for the well-wishers to use less to purchase more to the less fortunate.

“Government should lower the prices of food items so that with little money families can afford several essential commodities and also those willing to support may buy more with less money, this is the best tax relief for the poor who do not enjoy the tax loan period offered to small and medium enterprises,’ he said.

The Constituency’s coordinator for the program Mr George Gathuru Kariuki said they partnered with chiefs and the assistant chiefs because they know the deserving cases in their respective jurisdiction areas.

“We may not know the people who deserve the relief food, that’s why we have partnered with the local administrators who are taking us to the most deserved people’s homes for the donation, we target to assist about 1000 families and we call upon other well-wishers to assist where they can,” he said.