MERU DAILY

Anti-Riot  police officers keep watch at the Meru National Polytechnic after a meeting attended by both Mr. Kiraitu and Mr. Munya  turned chaotic on 12 December 2016. Photo/Felix Kinyua. A drowning man will clutch at a straw, that what the wise men said. Wise men who were here before these hooligans masquerading as leaders came along. As I write this, am deeply concerned by the recent pockets of violence that has been witnessed in Meru County. These leaders have sucked us in their circus, and in their trail to get votes they are living footsteps of distraction that may haunt the Ameru community for a long time. Personally, I am one of the people they call generation y, people who until these campaign period did not know the difference between a person from Igembe, Tigania or Imenti, to me all these people were the great people of Meru. Having grown up in the suburbs of Meru town, I grew up with clusters of friends from every corner of the county, I went to school...

Chuka University Students take pictures of a snake that was killed by security personell as it tried to feast on a goat from the campus farm.Photo/getty images. Comrades in Chuka University are in fear after security guards’ from the Tharaka Nithi-based campus killed a python close to 3 metre long. According to some students who were at the scene, the reptile was caught trying to feast on one of the goats from the farm, few meters away from the university's school of media. It is not clear where the snake came from, but the security personnel at the institution believe that the reptile may have sneaked from the nearby mango plantations. "Such large snakes are found in bushy environments, and the thick mango plantation may have been used for hibernation by the snake", said one of the guards at the institution. At the same time, the campus administration has warned comrades to keep off the plantation for fear of some more family members of the dead r...