Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja has ordered an immediate probe into a security breach that occurred during a National Youth Opportunities Towards Advancement (NYOTA) funds event in Wajir County attended by President William Ruto. Ruto briefly paused his speech in Wajir County after an unidentified man breached security and ran toward the podium while
President William Ruto concluded the national roll-out of NYOTA’s Business Start-Up Capital component by disbursing Ksh 63 million to 2,520 beneficiaries in Wajir County. In a statement, Ruto said a total of 121,800 beneficiaries across the country have received a grant of Ksh 2.5 billion in the first phase of the programme to start or
The government has announced the reopening of the Mandera Border Post scheduled for this coming April after a fifteen-year closure. Speaking during the disbursement of NYOTA funds in Wajir Stadium, the President emphasized that this decision comes after years of closure that left residents in Mandera isolated from their kin and neighbors in Somalia. “It