Friends of River Ezava-Forezava

Power, Comfort, and the Quiet Exclusion of Vihiga’s Youth There are moments when public outrage is not born of shock, but of recognition. When a story emerges and citizens respond not with disbelief but with a tired nod— of course —it signals something deeper than a single incident. It signals a pattern. The recent reports concerning the use of KSh 5,000,000 of county funds on a house-warming event at the Speaker’s official residence in 2023 have provoked such a response in Vihiga County. The matter, already entangled with other unresolved audit questions surrounding the same residence, was later addressed before the Senate Committee on Accounts . Yet the explanations offered by the county administration felt incomplete, carefully worded, and ultimately unsatisfying. They answered around the issue, not into it. This was not an isolated concern. In the same breath, questions were raised about KSh 6,000,000 used in a manner inconsistent with the law to facilitate car mortgage arrangemen...