THE STANDARD By
Josphat Thiong’o |
January 28th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
NMS Director-General Mohammed Badi, (left) and Deputy Governor Anne Kananu during the handover of Nairobi City county pending bills to NMS. [Samson Wire, Standard]
City Hall has handed over Sh1.3 billion pending bills files to the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) for payment to suppliers and contractors.
This means that contractors and suppliers who did business with the Nairobi County Government in the 2018/19 financial year under the four dockets of Health, Transport, Public works and Planning will now receive their dues from NMS.
Anne Kananu, the Nairobi Deputy Governor yesterday presided over the handing over ceremony at Charter Hall. She revealed that a list of suppliers and contractors to be paid was arrived at after a request by the Office of the Auditor General to undertake a special audit in line with the Public Finance Management Act.
Kenya Railways Announces Delays Over Theft
Police officers at a Kenya Railways terminal.
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Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) has announced delays after recording vandalism cases of the ongoing rehabilitation of various railway lines.
A report by
Business Daily on Monday, January 25, indicated that three metre-gauge lines that were under rehabilitation would take longer to be completed than earlier expected.
KRC Managing Director Philip Mainga confirmed that the completion of the three railway lines, Nakuru-Kisumu, Gilgil-Nyahururu and Longonot-Malaba, will suffer setbacks after various equipments such as sleepers, nuts and clips were stolen by vandals.
Nakuru-Kisumu (216 Kilometers) and Gilgil-Nyahururu (78 Kilometers) were scheduled to be completed by March 2021 while Longonot-Malaba (465 Kilometers) was set to be done by September 2021.
Nairobi Deputy Governor nominee Anne Kananu Mwenda during a past event.
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Nairobi County Government has announced that it will vet Anne Kananu Mwenda for the position of Deputy Governor after a petition filed against her nomination in court was withdrawn.
Kananu was nominated by former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko before he was impeached in December 2020. Peter Agoro, who had petitioned a Nairobi court in January 2020 to stop Kananu s assumption to office withdrew his petition on Monday, January 4, 2021.
The Clerk of the County Assembly through a notice published on Thursday, January 7, said that they will vet Kananu on Friday, January 15. If vetted and approved, she might be the next Governor of Nairobi
THE STANDARD By
Jael Mboga |
January 8th 2021 at 13:38:02 GMT +0300
The woman at the centre of the next-Nairobi-governor storm, Anne Kananu (
pictured), was not a household name before she was nominated by impeached Governor Mike Sonko as his deputy governor early 2020.
Kananu was previously the Nairobi County Disaster and Emergency Management Department chief officer before she caught Sonko’s attention as one who fit the number two city job.
He nominated her in a letter to the County Assembly Speaker Beatrice Elachi.
However, Peter Odhiambo Agoro obtained conservatory orders from the High Court which put a stop to her vetting by the County Assembly.