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Despite a display of abundance due to its prime location between two mountains, a collective anger has been building up in Nyeri over the past weeks after Water Service Providers in the region hiked water tariffs, making the commodity not only affordable but inaccessible to common citizens. Scores of the 750,000 people living within Nyeri…
Ndiritu Muriithi The pioneering, but stalled Laikipia Infrastructure Bond has been in the news the last few days. That prompted furious ongoing debate on social media. Young Laikipia professionals asked me about it in a Spaces forum, Monday night. At 1.16 billion shillings the bond is relatively small. Being novel, it has attracted a lot…
Ndiritu Muriithi That although the speed of increase in prices has slowed down, it will take many months before peoples’ incomes increase sufficiently to recover lost ground. When you go to the shops you are still paying more for your groceries, only that the increase is not as high as before, and your income has…
By MUCHIRI GITONGA Sandwiched between two of the nation’s critical water towers at an elevation of approximately 1,740 meters (5,700 feet) above sea level, Nyeri would be the last county to complain about access to quality and affordable water. The county’s climate and ecology are influenced significantly by its proximity to Mount Kenya, the second-highest…
A conversation with one of our seniors in politics this last weekend got me thinking about political leadership. What is it? How is it practiced? What is the best way to assess it? Medieval author, diplomat and philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a famous treatise on it. The Prince was published in 1532. In it, Niccolo…
The national antigraft agency, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission has turned its spotlight on savings and credit co-operative societies which are suspected of being used by individuals to launder dirty money unknowingly. Crooked government officers are said to be of stashing stolen public funds in unsuspecting saccos to clean it. The focus of EACC has…
Kenya’s vision is to be a middle income, industrializing, democratic country, with a high quality of life by 2030. With four years to go, progress has been mixed. At US$ 2,000 per capita, we are low middle income, a democracy (flawed according to some), but we are not industrializing. The share of manufacturing in GDP…
Some of the panelists at the OSR Growth Conference 2025
-Muchiri Gitonga muchiri.gitonga@ecocappcapital.com While on a mission in Nyanza region in February 2024, a team of four experts led by former Laikipia Governor Ndiritu Muriithi wondered how best they could help counties shore up their revenue shortfalls constantly dogging them. Unlike your run-of-the-mill consultants, Mr Muriithi’s team was using practical experience to advise a number…
CHICAGO, IL – Midwest Financial Group and Prairie Bank Corporation announced plans to merge in a $4.2 billion all-stock transaction, creating the region’s third-largest banking institution with combined assets of $95 billion. The merger, expected to close in Q3 2025 pending regulatory approval, promises to enhance digital banking services and expand lending capabilities for small…
