The Government has spent over Sh 11.1 billion to construct about 176 Kilometres of tarmac road in Kericho County in the last seven years. In a report presented to the Kericho County Development Implementation and Coordination Committee (CDICC), Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) Regional Director Eng. Gibson Nyamuta said the government spent Kenya Sh 5 billion to construct over […]
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Leaders and Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), have expressed concern over an increase in Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Kericho County. The leaders noted that GBV targeted at women and young girls had increased, with the majority of the cases going unreported to police or concerned authorities and organizations that could assist […]
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Kericho County is working on modalities to increase forest cover by planting at least 47 million trees. The county’s forest cover now stands at 22 per cent in its 63,000 hectares of forest land. The move was mooted after the area started experiencing erratic rainfall pattern occasioning perennial water shortage. Speaking during the launch of the […]
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Kericho County is among the leading Counties in Kenya when it comes to affirmative action with representation of women in leadership positions and employment, more in number as compared to men. According to Kericho Governor Prof. Paul Chepkwony, 65 per cent of all Kericho County government employees are women with the remaining 35 per cent […]
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Kericho County Assembly is set to conduct vetting exercise of Lily Chepng’etich Ngok who was last week nominated to take up the post of Deputy Governor. In a notice to the nominee and members of public, the Kericho County Assembly fixed the date for conducting the vetting on Tuesday April 13, 2021 at 9.30 am […]
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