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  CIVICLENS GAZETTE | Saturday, 10 October 2026 As Hon. Winrose continues engaging residents of Thingithu Ward and receives a warm welcome during her grassroots visits, her promise to tackle youth unemployment places a pressing question before local leadership: how can the ambitions of young people be turned into real opportunities, decent work and economic independence? There is a particular kind of frustration that settles into a community when young people are willing to work, ready to learn and full of ideas, yet the path to earning a living remains frustratingly narrow. It is the frustration of qualifications without employment, talent without a platform and ambition that repeatedly collides with the question of where the next opportunity will come from. It is against this backdrop that Hon. Winrose has promised to tackle youth unemployment in Thingithu Ward, placing one of the most consequential questions facing local communities at the centre of her grassroots engagement....

  By Jediel Muthomi | 6 October 2026 For months, Kenyans were told to prepare for a disease that had not yet crossed the country's borders. Now the warning has become reality — and the most unsettling part may not be that Kenya has recorded its first imported Ebola case, but how a sick traveller who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo managed to arrive in Nairobi, pass routine health screening and board a commercial flight with dozens of other people. Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale on Tuesday confirmed that Kenya has recorded its first imported case of Bundibugyo virus disease , an Ebola virus disease associated with the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The patient, a Kenyan citizen who had lived and worked in the DRC for about seven years, died in Nairobi on Monday night after being admitted for treatment. The Ministry of Health says the patient had fallen ill about a month earlier while in the DRC and had received treatment at several health ...

 CIVICLENS GAZETTE Wednesday, 30 September 2026 Africa's richest man, five leaders and a Sh2 trillion dream. But beyond the speeches, what does the refinery really mean for Lamu, Kenya and ordinary citizens? By CivicLens Gazette Team There are moments in history that arrive quietly, almost disguised as ordinary ceremonies. A few speeches. A few handshakes. A groundbreaking event in a coastal town many Kenyans know mainly for tourism, fishing and the long-promised LAPSSET corridor. Then, suddenly, you realise something much bigger may be unfolding. On Wednesday, 30 September 2026, Lamu became the centre of an ambitious African industrial dream as President William Ruto joined Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote and regional leaders to launch construction of the Sh2 trillion Dangote East Africa Petroleum Refinery, a project expected to process 700,000 barrels of crude oil per day when completed. Supporters say the refinery could transform East Africa's energy landscape and reduc...

  CIVICLENS GAZETTE Tuesday, 29 September 2026 There is a moment in Thingithu when the rain begins to fall and the road suddenly becomes everyone's concern. Water gathers where it should not. Drainage channels struggle to carry the flow. Potholes become pools. A journey that should take minutes can become an exercise in patience, caution and improvisation. For residents of Thingithu Ward, this is not a new story. For years, residents have raised concerns about poor roads, inadequate drainage and the condition of infrastructure in different parts of the ward. The complaints are familiar because the problems themselves have been familiar: roads requiring regular maintenance, drainage systems that struggle during heavy rainfall and sections where water runoff contributes to the deterioration of already vulnerable roads. But there is another side to the story. Government documents show that roads and drainage have not been ignored in Laikipia County's planning and budgeting p...

 CIVIC LENS GAZETTE | MONDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2026 A political war of words has opened another front in Kenya — and this time, the battlefield is the church pulpit. Jubilee Party has issued a strongly worded statement accusing the Kenya Kwanza administration of using religious spaces to lecture Kenyans on morality and political conduct while, in Jubilee's view, failing to confront its own record in government. The statement, issued on Monday, carries a tone that is unusually direct even by the standards of Kenya's increasingly heated political debate. Titled “Statement on the Regime's Hypocrisy, Power-Blinded Rhetoric, and Desperate Revisionism,” the document was signed by Jubilee Party Secretary-General Hon. Montel Ole Kenta and dated September 28, 2026. Jubilee's criticism centres on remarks President William Ruto reportedly made from a church setting, where the Head of State addressed questions of political conduct and what the party describes as inappropriate public ut...

 CIVICLENS GAZETTE | WEDNESDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 2026 There is a number on Kenya Power’s latest financial results that has caught the attention of investors — Sh1.50. That is the total dividend per share the electricity distributor has proposed for the financial year ended June 30, 2026. For Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro, who is reported to hold 21.5 million Kenya Power shares, the same figure translates into approximately Sh32.25 million in gross dividends if his reported holding remains unchanged and the proposed final dividend is approved. But behind Nyoro’s eye-catching figure is a much bigger story about Kenya Power’s return to profitability, the Government’s dividend income and the thousands of other shareholders who are also set to benefit. Kenya Power announced on September 18 that its profit after tax had risen to Sh24.99 billion for the 2025/26 financial year, up from Sh24.4 billion in the previous year. The company said the improvement was supported by higher electricity sales, mor...

  CIVICLENS GAZETTE | TUESDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER 2026 Justice Bahati Mwamuye declares key sections of the Presidential Retirement Benefits Act unconstitutional, protecting former presidents’ retirement benefits and removing the statutory restriction on holding political party office — days after another High Court judge upheld the same restriction. The legal battle surrounding retired President Uhuru Kenyatta has taken a dramatic turn, with the High Court delivering a judgment that changes the statutory rules governing the political participation and retirement benefits of former presidents. The decision, delivered by Justice Bahati Mwamuye on Monday, September 21, has struck down provisions that had been at the centre of a growing dispute over Uhuru’s retirement benefits and his continued role in political party leadership. For Uhuru, the ruling arrives at a particularly significant moment: only days earlier, another High Court judge had upheld the very restriction that Justice Mwamu...