KRA Goes After MCAs Ksh2 Million Car Grant
A Toyota Prado stationed at a parking lot with the lights on.
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Members of County Assembly (MCAs) were in for a rude shock after learning that the Kenya Revenue Authority is eyeing their car grant offered by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
KRA is seeking 30% of the Ksh2 million loan facility that was transformed into a grant, leaving the MCAs with Ksh 1.4 million each.
MCAs are now appealing to President Kenyatta to intervene, arguing that the money will not be adequate to purchase vehicles of their choice.
President Uhuru Kenyatta at a meeting with Mt Kenya region MCAs at Sagana State Lodge on January 29, 2020.
New Multi-Billion Roads Breathing Life into Quiet Kenyan Towns
Ongoing construction on an access road in Thika town.
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Kenya s little-known towns are turning into business hubs with accelerated infrastructure development by the government over the past years.
According to the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA), there are 40 ongoing road projects in the country under the agency.
All these projects amounting to billions of shillings are part of the government s plan in building 4,120 kilometres of roads countrywide, of which an estimated 1,413 kilometres were completed by end of 2019.
Ongoing construction along the Mombasa, Mariakani road.
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The South Sudan Link road project is being undertaken by the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) at a cost of Ksh37 billion.
Umra Omar is an award-winning social entrepreneur, community leader, and the founder of Safari Doctors, a mobile medical clinic serving underprivileged communities in Kenya.
Omar and the Safari Doctors travel by boat, road and air to bring medical care to people living along a remote area of islands, the Lamu Archipelago, near the Kenyan-Somali border.
She spoke to CNN International’s African Voices Changemakers programme about how the organisation has grown from humble beginnings: “When we first started it was mainly about getting immunisations out to rural areas and making sure that a woman who wanted access to family planning could get it. So just providing that primary care of your cough syrups, your pain medication, and then advancing from going to about a hundred people a month to now up to like 2,500 people every month.”
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Hassan Barisa |
February 3rd 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Kanu chairman Gideon Moi at a BBI rally at Garissa primary on January 31, 2021. [Abdimalik Ismail, Standard]
The Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) will end the marginalisation of pastoralist communities as every region will get an equitable share of national resources, Baringo Senator Gideon Moi has said.
He asked Kenyans to reject those spreading propaganda that BBI was about creating positions for the political class, saying the document would spur economic growth and foster cohesion in the country.
“I am here today to make a passionate appeal to you the people of Garissa and North Eastern at large to join other Kenyans of goodwill in passing this document. We shall have failed as leaders if we don’t point out areas of benefit to you,” he said.
January 25, 2021: Somalia is limping towards national elections in February that not all parts of the country agree with. This is nothing new, but it is a major problem for neighboring nations. Somalis in general have a problem with being answerable to anyone not in their extended family or clan. This is why massive corruption persists and a growing number of foreign aid donors are cutting their aid or halting it entirely. This includes the United States, a major provider of food, as well as the main support for the Somali Army. Military aid is plundered more frequently and extensively than food and medical aid, but the extent of corruption in general throughout the Somali government never seems to appreciably decline. Corruption in the military is obvious because so many Somali Army units, when facing combat, seem to fail miserably. What is really happening is that an infantry company with about 150 troops on the payroll (that fore