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On May 18, Kisumu surpassed Nairobi County in the number of Covid-19 cases reported in the country. It recorded 102 cases. On May 19 the county recorded the second-highest number of cases (64) in the country.
Dr Patrick Amoth, the Ministry of Health acting Director-General, on May 5th, reported that 5 cases of Indian variant been discovered in the country before the country banned flights from India.
“We picked this from a sample of Indian travellers who are doing some work in the western part of Kisumu. Health teams are doing contact tracing,” he said. Covid 19 Time Series
“This variant has been picked in Kenya and because of connectivity, it was just a matter of time. You cannot put barriers to prevent a virus from accessing your territory.” added Amoth.
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A former Kisumu Chief Officer Lucy Atieno Matengo has been awarded Sh2.5 million in lost salary and gratuity for being wrongfully dismissed.
The Labour Court in Kisumu ruled that the Gender, Culture and Sports officer who sued the County’s Public Service Board alongside Governor Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o was indeed unfairly sacked.
“The county did not afford the her an opportunity to make representations before arriving at the decision to bring her contract to an end, and the Court finds that this was unfair,” said Justice Stephen Radido of the Labour Court.
Matengo was confirmed in the position for a 5-year term on January 26, 2017 and was sent on compulsory leave on August 24, 2017 by Governor Nyong’o who wanted to “evaluate her performance and reorganize the county government.”
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Harold Odhiambo |
January 18th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Spilling garbage at Kachok dumpsite. Garbage has started piling again in the area rehabilitated in 2019. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]
Kisumu County Government has embarked on the second phase of decommissioning the Kachok dumpsite. which has been at the centre of unending controversies.
The parcel of land where it sits has been the subject of a protracted legal tussle that has dragged on at the courts for more than 10 years.
Last week, the county secretary Godfrey Kigochi advertised tenders for the decommissioning of the dumpsite, with interested bidders expected to submit bids by January 28.
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Kepher Otieno |
January 16th 2021 at 11:51:37 GMT +0300
Kisumu Governor Peter Anyang Nyong o (R)
KISUMU, KENYA: A phone vendor Mary Atieno and Grace Anyango knew their mobile phone shop was about to be demolished when they got a call at breakfast from the city authorities to vacate their premises.
Later on a Tuesday evening last year, the city bulldozers arrived to flatten everything in the name of makeshift structures on the streets of Kisumu. Theirs was among them.
Located in a park near Akamba bus station, the phone vendors were part of a huddle of small shops and cafes that formed over 200 makeshift shopping centres declared illegal by the city and razed down.