WHY MUWASCO TECHNICAL TEAM SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS WARRIORS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID 19

By Allan Wanjiku

Some Muwasco staff repairing the main pipe destroyed by a landslide at Kamaguta area

Even as government continues in its fight against Covid-19, a special group of technical staff at Muranga Water and Sanitation Company (Muwasco) has offered themselves to ensure steady supply of water which is an integral commodity in taming the pandemic.

Immediately after a landslide occurred at Kamaguta area destroying a main pipe that takes raw water to Muranga town and its environs, Muwasco Managing Director Engineer Daniel Nganga dispatched a team as team of dedicated staff to repair the pipe and after accessing the damage, they would have taken a week to repair it.

The main pipe destroyed by the landslide terminating the supply of water to Muranga town and its environs

However, with zeal determination and passion, the officers agreed that they would camp at the site and only come out after the work was done, they repaired the pipe for 24 hours, enduring the rain, hunger, cold while most of us reading this story were caressing our lovers probably due to the heavy rains during the night.

With rumbling stomachs as there was nowhere to buy food due to curfew, the team spared no efforts to ensure the main pipe has been repaired to ensure smooth supply of water without interruption as water was the only known remedy for combating the coronavirus pandemic.

“My officers agreed that they would spare no effort until the main pipe was repaired, it was not a walk in the park but we managed it after a whole night, all of us know the importance of water especially during this period and that is the spirit that informed us to forego resting with our families in our homes,” Engineer Nganga said.

Muwasco has been the leading water service provider from across the country with several water companies visiting the water firm to benchmark on how to connect water to household and how to avoid water wastage.

Its Managing Director as been serving as the Water Service Providers Association Chairperson and through his reign, the association has received accolades from the top government officials due to its efforts in sanitation and water connections.

Muranga Water and Sanitation Company (Muwasco) Managing Director Daniel Ng'ang'a (clapping) when visitors planted a tree at Muwasco offices in a past function. The visitors had visited the water firm to learn about the non revenue water. PHOTO BY KK PICTURE DESK

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BY Ndungu Gachane

Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro. he wants government to use the same vigour it used to reposes Ruai Land to probe how Kenyatta family got it land. PHOTO BY KK ONLINE NEWS PICTURE DESK 

The ‘Ruai land repossession’ has taken an ugly political twist after Deputy President lieutenant and a fearless MP Ndindi Nyoro dismissed the move as political gimmicks and dared the same government to use the same force and vigour to interrogate how Kenyatta family and a few others got more than half of the land in Kenyan soil.

The vocal MP who do not shy away to declare his political stand to Deputy President wants the government, if it is serious in repossessing government land, to probe how less than five families bought their land, from who and when saying failure to do that then the so caslled government efforts were ‘a child’s play’.

He added that “when we have a country that so many have nothing to lose, and where inequalities are so glaring, neither the aristocrats nor the dominated are safe. At one point in our Republic, we must demand for land expropriation without compensation and for the corrupt gains from the same over the years,” the pragmatic and savvy MP said.

In an apparent juxtaposition, the self-declared Matiba spirit inheritor wondered how only a few families owns bigger parcels of land while the many Kenyans who fought for independence are still suffering and renting houses in their own country.

“My grandfather owned 5 acres of land, with 12 sons, we as grandchildren barely have anywhere to build (and this replicates to so may other children of the real people who actually fought for independence). I don't buy the crap that this generation of men and women were not hardworking; some few elites who colonised us after Mzungu took advantage of them, took all our land and resources and thereby got all the right to dominate us probably until a revolution to right all these wrongs. Until we revisit such injustices, the rest is child's play,” the MP said in a vitriol tone.

Just this week, the National dailies carried a story detailing how Deputy President William Ruto allegedly grabbed the Ruai land which the government through Principal Secretary for Water and Irrigation Joseph Wairagu claim it was meant for sewerage expansion.

The move did not auger well for Dr Ruto’s foot soldiers who have now launched an onslaught against a section of government officials who they accuse of unfairly targeting Dr Ruto.

Mr Dennis Itumbi wants government to candid and discuss the Truth Justice and Reconciliation (TJRC) report that details on the land ownership in Kenya.

The report is rumoured to explain how rich families such as the Kenyatta’s got their land.

“The Ruai land has been repossessed. Now let us build the sewage as was claimed. As we do that, let us discuss Land ownership in Kenya. TJRC and Ndungu Land Report are good starting points. Political Innuendo & Conjecture does not change #SystemYaFacts on Land ownership in Kenya,” Mr Itumbi former Digitial Director at State House said.

While Dr Ruto may seem to be a man under siege, the ‘political onslaught against him’ could be a well thought out political card that may attract public sympathy and shock the top government officials who could be out to frustrate him and his 2020 Presidential card.

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.