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.
This now leaves the governorship office vacant for assumption by Ms Mwenda pending her swearing in later this week.
Speaking during the ceremony at the governor’s office in Nairobi, Mr Mutura said he now vacates the post after Ms Mwenda was last week sworn in as the substantive Nairobi County deputy governor, a development that affects his continued holding of the governor’s office.
He explained that his assumption of office on December 21 was based on Article 182 (5) of the Constitution because the county government lacked a substantive deputy governor who would have occupied the office thus putting him in charge albeit in an acting capacity.
Mambere School: Where Jomo, James Gichuru learnt how to read
Mambere School now Musa Gitau Primary School in 1936.
Mambere School was established in 1901 in Kikuyu, Kiambu County. The journey of the school started when Scottish missionaries arrived in Kikuyu in late 1890s. A jovial Munyua wa Waiyaki, son of the famous Kikuyu leader Waiyaki wa Hinga, offered them 100 acres of the forest in Thogoto highlands. The missionaries built a church and Mambere school for boys and girls. Here they were taught Christianity as well as formal education. Girls would attend classes in the evening after working for whites. Later in 1909, the school put up dormitories for both boys and girls. Classrooms were however shared.
Masonic Links That Shaped Nairobi s Story
A masonic temple.
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Nairobi s ties to the freemasonry world are well documented with some of its posh estates known to have been built by the society s members. However, the why behind the highly secretive organization s decision to leave its mark across the Kenyan capital has not been examined.
A quick walk around the capital city and one can’t miss the uniqueness of buildings that were erected by Freemasons who put up structures like the All Saint’s Cathedral in the early years of the 20th century.
According to historical records, the secretive society put up churches as well as colonial institutions and extensively incorporated their signs and symbols even in Anglican churches.