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In 2011, Kinyua got a job with Equity bank where he worked as a field officer in Kitui and Embu counties. But he resigned last year to venture into ornamental bird rearing. Kinyua got the idea of rearing ornamental birds after a visit from a friend who had also ventured into the same business. Kinyua, 35, used his savings to buy the birds and set up the structures in Rukuriri village, Embu East sub county. The ambitious entrepreneur said he started with a capital of Sh20,000. He used Sh5,000 to buy the first birds, Sh3,000 for a male goose and Sh2,000 female one. The rest he used to construct housing structures. ....
THE STANDARD By Muriithi Mugo | February 20th 2021 at 19:06:08 GMT +0300 Body of a class three pupil at Gikuuri Primary School retrieved from a swamp in Embu East Sub-county. [Muriithi Mugo, Standard] Emotions ran high at Ivari Village in Embu East Sub County when the body of a class three pupil who drowned in a swamp while swimming with three other boys was retrieved on Saturday morning. Preston Mutugi Kivuti, a nine-year-old class three boy at Gikuuri Primary School in Embu East Sub County failed to turn home on Friday evening. Anastacia Wanjira, an aunt said Mutugi had been sent away from school on Friday at around 10 am in the company of three other pupils. ....
‘Bangi Ni Mboga!’: Embu Weed Farmer Says He Has Been Using Cannabis As A Vegetable For 49 Years A man who was arrested for growing marijuana on his farm at Mugui village in Embu East sub-county pleaded his case saying the plant has medicinal value. Gerald Njiru Ireri said he has been using Cannabis as a vegetable for nearly half a decade. He said he was introduced to the “holy herb” by a man identified as Gacathi Mbui. Njiru said Mbui used to live in the forest in the early 1970s and claims to have used it to cure a woman who had a large cancerous wound sometime back, the Standard reports. ....
THE STANDARD By Muriithi Mugo | February 9th 2021 at 11:17:02 GMT +0300 Gerald Njiru (pictured) was arrested for growing cannabis in his farm. [Muriithi Mugo, Standard] A man from Mugui village in Embu East sub-county who was arrested for planting cannabis in his farm said he has been using it as a vegetable since 1972. Gerald Njiru Ireri accused the area chief of uprooting his plants without his consent saying they have medicinal value. I am a God-fearing man and the chief has uprooted my plants without my consent. This is a traditional herb which needs to be adopted for its medicinal value,” he said. ....