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Story By Shimaka Media.  Stakeholders in Kakamega County are exerting Pressure on Mombasa Lawyer Leonard Shimaka to contest as Kakamega Governor on ODM ticket. Speaking over the weekend at a Malava hotel, a caucus of Malava Professionals declared their support for his candidature in the race to replace Kakamega Governor Whycliffe Oparanya in 2022.  "We will support Leonard Shimaka to go for the top seat because as the Kabras with the biggest voting block, we have tasted Deputy Governor fir 10 years" Said Patrick Lucheveleli.  The professionals argued that Honourable Shimaka who had two months ago declared his interest in UDA ticket stood no chance due to closeness of Former Senator Bonny Khalwale to the Deputy President William Ruto. "We feel Hon. Shimaka's candidature is under threat because the former Senator who is Deputy party Leader will automatically be given the ticket thus a let down"  They said DP's UDA is a party with questionable chara

Governor H.E Dr FCPA Wycliffe Oparanya has today made changes to his cabinet in a bid to strengthen his Government for effective service delivery. In the changes announced today, Dr Oparanya has appointed Finance Chief Officer Ambassador James Ochami as the new County Secretary (CS) replacing Madam Jacinta Aluoch who is now the Director Lake Region Economic Bloc (LREB) Resource Mobilization and Partnership. Madam Rachel Okumu has been moved from Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives to Public Service and County Administration. Madam Rodah Masaviru is the new CECM for Water, Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change replacing Mr Fanuel Kulati Wangia who is the new CECM for Roads, Energy and Public Works. Mr Geoffrey Omulayi moves from Roads to head Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives.  Mr Isaac Omungo is the new Chief of Staff a position that has been vacant since the death of Mr Robert Sumbi. The Governor also made new appoint

President Uhuru Kenyatta listens to Mr. Rai at a past function. Sources indicate he could bag MSC as an investor.  BILLIONAIRE Businessman and the brains behind Kabras and West Kenya sugar companies Jaswant Rai is on the verge of taking Mumias Sugar Company.  An inside source has disclosed to  @eshikumo2030  that the business man could bag the leasing gift after he broke down his Ksh 3.5 Billion bid.  Our unofficial source sates that Rai intends to inject the amount quoted at bidding into MSC investment every year unlike others who did not specify.  Our source further divulged that the receiver Manager PVR RAO is under external preasure and has hinted at ignoring the tedious court cases to "be done with this".  With the announcement expected on Tuesday 19th October of 20th Thursday.  In the meantime, the much hyped Tumaz and Tumaz Enterprises the Butere billionaire Julius Mwale who has never been featured by Forbes has threatened to go to court.  We have establish

Julius Mwale at a meeting Senate Speaker Kenneth Lusaka, Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala and an unidentified male white man at one of the US dinners. Julius Mwale Investigation s have unearthed a series of court matters from his days in the United States that point to the kind of man he was and still is. But most importantly, they give telling details on the man's relationship with money, or rather, the lack of it. Before he came back to the country, Mwale had put his loan guarantor in trouble in the US after he failed to pay Sh15million he had acquired. His guarantor, a Ms Fiona Graham was dragged to the Nassau County Supreme Court which ordered her pay the debt that had been defaulted on. Court records show that in 2007, at the suggestion of Ms Graham, Mwale was lent Sh15million ($150,000). His company, SBA Technology, guaranteed repayment of that loan. "When the loan was not repaid, plaintiff (lender) obtained a Judgment by Confession ("Judgment" agai

DISTRESS LETTER FROM A TEACHER.  Edited by Joel Eshikumo.  Teachers are silently suffering and so when the employer TSC sends them Happy Teachers Day it sounds like mockery.  Tsc is the most ungrateful employer under the sun.  It began with the medical scheme. They were taken to Aon minet against their will while at the same time they were nhif contributors.  Yes after falling sick the teachers was diverted to makeshift clinics called Bliss which gave teachers less than satisfactory medical services.  Even as we talk there is nothing as uncertain as the teachers health coverage. They keep on shifting the goalposts to ensure that the teacher doesn't score.  Then came delocalization. The head teachers who performed exemplarliy well, or were in Union or Sacco, kepsha/Kessha leadership were targeted.  Old men and women in their fifties were mercilessly and mindlessly torn from their families and flung to remote areas to start life afresh. CBC was forced down their throats w

Story by multiple sources. Tumaz&Tumaz is the company that allegedly won the bid to resurrect Mumias Sugar Company- MSC with Ksh 27 Billion. At @ eshikumo2030 , we delve deep into activities of Julius Mwale and Tumaz & Tumaz from the fairy city in Butere, to the land owners who are owed millions and contractors with over 300 court cases.  In the SIX part series, we expose and debunk the erstwhile investment, the Mwale Myth as pushed by crooked politicians and now small time shadowy business people.  We seek to tell you how this bid to take over was orchestrated and woven overseas and in Kenya. You will read about 16 politicians who have been cozzy with the erstwhile business man Julius Mwale.  Using multiple sources both in Kenya and USA, we seek to unravel the game plan in the run up to 'the bid that never was'  BACK GROUND  In 2000, six years after joining the Kenya Air Force, Julius Mwale had severe differences with the top brass in the government that his life was i

ANC leader Honourable Musalia Mudavadi and Uhuru Kenyatta in a past picture.  By Mwalimu Akhanyalabandu  A proper meeting to make key decisions affecting Mulelmbe Nation must at least have quorum.  The meeting at Golf Hotel Kakamega was to bring all the 48 elected leaders from the region. Only 18 turned up. 18 people who include outgoing and irrelevant governors like Ojamong and Khaemba cannot decide our future as Luhyas.  Any meeting without H.E. Musalia, Wetangula, Celophas Malala, Ayub Savula. Tindi Mwale, Sakwa Bunyasi, Omboko Milemba, Beatrice Adagala,  Bishop Khamala and my area MP Aseka Miradi, is null and void. It is just a wet dream. The following gave the meeting a wide berth.. Hon Nica Mumias West Hon Ben Washiali Mumias East Hon Aseka Khwisero Hon Injendi- Mala A Hon Ayub Savula- Lugari Hon Kibunguchi-Likuyani Hon Khamala - Lurambi Hon Tindi- Butere Hon Nabulindo-Matungu BUSIA Hon Bunyasi -Nambale Hon Kaunya Teso East Hon Emase Two West Hon Oyula- Bu

FACADE; The main gate of Mumias Sugar. The company collapsed due to mismanagement. ANALYSIS BY Musa Ekaya  Mumias Sugar company- MSC was supposed to be a showcase small-scale agricultural enterprise. Yet it has become the sad story of a failed scheme. Perhaps.   Dateline 1967 : The Kenyan government had decided to open up vacant land in Mumias in a land transfer program funded by the British government. It was the largest scheme by the standards of the day, with the UK giving a soft loan of £2.9 million (Sh400m). The government had approached a British foods company, Booker McConnell, to do the feasibility studies and advise on how satellite small-holder sugar plots could sustain a sugar factory in the midst of the scheme. SWEETNESS; Sugar on the shelves of shopping malls With all the planning done, Mumias Sugar Company was registered in 1971 with the government owning 71 per cent while the rest of the shareholding was taken up by Commonwealth Development Corpor

The much awaited public bidding for Mumias Sugar company, which is under receivership managed by PV R Rao was held on Thursday October 6 2021 at Westlands in Nairobi. A total of eight bidders submitted their bids in a public effort to lease the troubled sugar factory, with top three bidders offering more than Kshs. 10 billion for the factory's leasing. Tumaz and Tumaz enterprises, the company associated with Mwale City investor Julius Mwale topped the bids with Kshs. 27.6 billion over a 20-year lease period. The second highest bid was Kruman Finances with Kshs. 19.7 billion for a 25-year lease. Kruman Finances is associated with French and Turkish investors. Transmara Group (Sarai) closed the top three bids with Kshs. 11.5 billion over a 20 year lease period. Other bidders were Pandhal Industries with Kshs. 9.7 billion over 20 years lease. Kibos Sugar bid came in at Kshs. 8.8 billion. Devki at Kshs. 8.4 billion over 20-years lease and West Kenya Sugar was Kshs. 3.5 bill

Opinion by George Mulama.  On December 31st 2016, before a mammoth crowd in Bukhungu Stadium, Kakamega County, the self-proclaimed Luhya elder Francis Atwoli installed former Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi as the spokesperson of the Luhya people in an event attended by many politicians from the region.  However, the absence of a section of influential politicians such as Bungoma senator and Ford Kenya leader, Moses Wetangula poured cold water on the whole event and aggravated the debate on who truly is the Luhya Kingpin.  After Atwoli’s coronation, Bungoma Senator and Ford Kenya chairman rubbished the whole event claiming Atwoli did not have the mandate to crown a Luhya spokesperson while former Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale warned the COTU boss that he would not succeed in imposing Raila Odinga on the Luhya people through moulding Mudavadi to be his pawn. To date, many years after the event, there is still a fierce debate on who rightly deserves the Kingpin tag go

If you  are doing Mpesa Businesses or any money transfer in these towns, you should be extra cautious you could be conned by fraudsters easily.  1. Mumias  2. Harambee  3.Kabula  4.Sio Port  5. Funyula  6. Amagoro 7. Odiado 8. Butula  9. Bumala  10. Sega  11. Koyonzo  12. Mayoni  13. Shiakula  14. Munami  15. Ogalo  16. Namisi 17. Ejinja 18. Lung'anyiro 19. Nambale  20. Shibale  21. Busia Town  22. Makunga 23. Shianda  24. Kakamega 25. Malava  26. Malaba 27. Mbale  28. Maseno  29. Majengo  30. Khayega   31. Shieywe  32. Ingotse  33. Mungatsi 34. Mungore  35. Mirere  36. Omondi Market  37. Matawa 37. Musikoma  38. Kanduyi 

STREET LIGHTING PROGRAM FOR MATUNGU CONSTITUENCY.  The Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Energy in conjunction with Kenya Power and the Member of Parliament for Matungu Constituency Hon. Peter Nabulindo has initiated an elaborate Street Lighting project in several market places and shopping centres in Matungu Constituency. This is an Initiative started by the Member of Parliament Hon. Peter Nabulindo with the aim of encouraging a 24 hour economy and enhancing security around the Constituency. Phase 1 of the Street Lighting program has started in the first week of October 2021 in the following market centres;_ 1. ✓Munami 2. ✓Ejinja  3. ✓Koinange  4. ✓Ogalo 5.✓Koyonzo 6.✓Matungu Market  7.✓Mayoni  8.✓Indangalasia  9. ✓Musamba  10.✓Mungore 11.✓Ratego 12.✓Lutasio 13.✓Shiakula  14.✓Mirere  15.✓Wananchi 16.✓Lubanga 17.✓Lung'anyiro 18.✓Harambee Market  19.✓Shikhondi 20.✓Emanani _Hon. Nabulindo identified Market places and shopping centres that will benefi

         Wanga King Nabongo Shiundu MUMIA.  CULTURE TALK COLUMN By Musa Ekaya  (Guest Contributor)  Nabongo Wabala, Nabongo Murono and Nabongo Musui.  After the death of Wanga, there was a dispute between his sons over succession. Wabala, Wanga’s appointed successor quarreled with his elder brother, Murono over succession rights. Wabala was assassinated in Bukhayo, allegedly at Murono’s instigation. Murono was briefly Nabongo before Wabala’s son, Musui defeated him in battle. Following his defeat, Murono crossed Nzoia River and established a separate centre near present day Matungu around 1679-1706.   Nabongo Netya Nabongo Netya reigned over the Wanga Kingdom c.1760-1787. During this time there were several clans in the Wanga kingdom. They included Murono’s clan on the right bank of River Nzoia, Abamuima’s clan at Imanga (Between modern day Mumias and Butere) another at Matungu and Netya’s in Elureko (modern day Mumias). Netya attempted to bring all these centers under his

AN Octogenarian who volunteered land on which Nyambula Primary school in Matungu stands 12 years ago now wants his land back. 85 years old Isaya Okiya claims he was dupped into signing an agreement in December 2009 by the local assistant chief Roselyda Awino. Speaking in Mumias, Mr. Okiya who was accompanied by his son said someone at Matungu CDF could have taken advantage of the situation during the Late MP Omurunga's tenure. "We were told that the school was going to be built on that land and that the government would pay us for the land" he said. Mzee Okiya said his efforts to follow up the matter had bore no fruit as everytime the local administration takes to threatening his family.  " I have heard CDF officers claim money was paid for the land and I wonder who received the money on my behalf because I did not" he said. Okiya has threatened to move to court to sue the provincial administrators who he claims were part of the big fraud, he says th

By Amunga AKHANYALABANDU. Collins Oyuu the SG at KNUT is at war with his  his deputy  Hesbon Otieno and National Treasurer James NDIKU and they are not seeing eye to eye over several issues including KNUT constitution and how the billions collected from teachers should be spent. Hesbon is pushing for those who have reached retirement to retire on time.  Oyuu wants to be sg for life. To achieve this Oyuu is assembling his bloggers to fight NDIKU AND HESBON. Hesbon Otieno on his side is said to be preparing to fight back and has contacted bloggers. It is claimed Hesbon Otieno will work with Kikuyu and Luhya bloggers including those in Nairobi like Amunga.  Oyuu has moved and met his team at the KONDELE  Lake BREEZE hotel  last weekend was attended by bloggers from nyanza region with following aims. 1. prepare bloggers to help change the KNUT CONSTITUTION as follows. a) Get rid of school administrators from holding office in KNUT branches. b).  RAISE AGE LIMIT of serving KNUT