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Waziri Mwendandu (Centre) with team Our Reporter Kitui  County Minister for Energy, Environment, Climate Change, Forestry, Natural and Mineral Resources, Mr. Richard Mwendandu, Wednesday hosted a team from Strengthening Forestry Sector Development and Community Resilience to Climate Change through Sustainable Forest Management and Landscape Restoration (SFS-CORECC) project.  The five-year project, which is being implemented in eight counties, including Kitui, aims to promote sustainable forest management, landscape restoration, and climate change mitigation and adaptation in Kenya. A key focus of the project is to promote commercial forestry in pilot counties and to strengthen technical support for Melia volkensii, also known as the Mukau tree, which is native to the region. Additionally, the project aims to study value addition and marketing of Melia volkensii products, with the goal of enhancing the economic potential of this valuable resource. The team explored the developm...

Governor Malombe with Kitui judiciary team on 31st Jan 2024 Our Reporter   Governor Julius Malombe has said that County Governments play a critical role in helping the Judiciary discharge its duties in settling disputes.  Of particular, the Governor termed Alternative Dispute Resolution as a significant milestone in facilitating the Judicial process of settling disputes among different parties. Governor Malombe who spoke during the rollout of the court annexed mediation ceremony at the Kitui Law Courts noted that both the National and County Governments have a duty to cooperate and consult in service delivery because they are inter dependent.  The Governor said that his administration had facilitated the judiciary to establish two more courts at Manyenyoni area where a  two acre piece of land has been donated.. The Judiciary has mooted a plan to have at least one court at each subcounty in Kitui County by acquiring land through the county department of land.  Th...

Our Reporter   Kitui County government has commissioned a fully functional hemophilia clinic at the Kitui County Referral Hospital (KCRH) to take care of patients affected by the rare blood disorder. The hemophilia clinic is a partnership between the county government led by governor Julius Malombe and Novo Nordisk Haemophilia Foundation, World Federation of Hemophilia and Kenya Hemophilia Association. The hemophilia clinic at KCRH is poised to become a focal point for individuals affected by this rare blood disorder, providing a range of specialized services including diagnostic facilities, treatment and comprehensive care programs. Speaking during the commissioning of the facility yesterday, the county chief officer in charge of medical services Dr Benson Musyoka said that the establishment of the clinic represents a significant step in addressing the healthcare needs of those living with hemophilia within the county and the larger lower eastern region. Musyoka said that the fac...

Our Reporter   In a bid to boost food security in Kitui, the County Government led by Governor Julius Malombe is set to initiate and operationalize 26 irrigation clusters in different Wards across the county in the Financial year 2023/2024.  This was revealed by Water and Irrigation CECM Peter Nkunda who Indicated that only 3,091 hectares out of a possible 11,095 hectares of irrigable land is currently under irrigation. Nkunda cited plans by the County Administration for expansion to 7,800 hectares over the next five years. " Governor Dr. Julius Malombe's administration is working tirelessly to address food insecurity in the County through ambitious initiatives among them promotion of irrigated agriculture," Waziri Nkunda who was flanked by Irrigation chief officer Bretta Mwangangi said.  He further said his Ministry was in the process of reviving 18 stalled irrigation schemes in different parts of the county besides putting land along the major and seasonal rivers (Tana,...