Locals say it is difficult for citizens to afford many basic items. Even travelling to towns has become a luxury owing to high fuel prices.
Single mother cannot afford to pay her children’s school fees, which is over Sh400,000. Partial blindness has affected woman and four children.
Parents accuse the county government of duping them and demand a refund of the millions of shillings they paid to have their children study abroad.
Current governor, Bii, says the programme was initiated by the previous administration and challenges his predecessor Mandago to come clean on the scandal.
Mandago says he handed everything to the current governor after last year's elections and that he is ready to carry his cross if found at fault.
The overseas programme was started by then Uasin Gishu governor Jackson Mandago. In the programme, 150 students would join various Finnish and Canadian universities.
EACC sleuths have already recovered key documents from three signatories of the trust bank accounts implicated in the scandal. The documents will be crucial in the investigations.
Widow says businessman never married any other wife in accordance with Hindu religion. But mistress claims he married her under Kikuyu customary law and sired a daughter.
Brian Kiprop, 23, was studying Information Technology at the University of Manitoba. He was said to have looked disturbed before he went missing.
Uasin Gishu County leaders have blamed some parents whose children are studying in Finland and Canada for the troubles facing the county’s overseas study programme.
The High Court in Eldoret has warned the fourth widow of late businessman Jackson Kibor against meddling with the deceased’s multi-billion-shilling estate.
While the leaders pleaded with the parents to clear the arrears, the parents blamed the County leadership for what they termed as poor communication and lack of transparency in the program.
Mandago says registering study programme as a scholarship would ease the process for students. But parents hit out at leaders for failing to come clean on the programme.
While the leaders pleaded with the parents to clear the arrears, the parents blamed the county leadership for what they termed as poor communication and lack of transparency in the programme.
The courageous 24-year-old expressed herself as her parents demanded refunds for payments made to the botched overseas scholarship program.
EACC North Rift Regional Manager, Charles Rasugu, said the investigations, which began in March, have been complex.
Parents and students affected by the troubled Uasin Gishu County overseas study have vowed to disrupt the upcoming devolution conference if their refunds are not effected.
Rubayita Siragi, 34, was in a relationship with Nelvin Ajuma, a 28-year-old Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) student, and this relationship had set in motion the tragic chain of events.
Police say Siragi had a girlfriend who was also seeing a gym instructor. Initial investigations show, the two fought over the woman and the athlete was fatally injured.
We are wondering why Ruto is silent when we are suffering. Chepchirchir has become untouchable, and we have no one to turn to. Our county has become a den of cartels - Leah Ng’etich.
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