MERU DAILY

Happy 2019 to everyone, I hope the New Year is taking you well. I have also been well. Njaanuary was not as bad as some had predicted. Happy we can see the Month of love on the horizon. Meru RFC Players having a team talk before the start of their league match. Photo/Felix Kinyua First things first, I salute the Meru entertainers, I once did an article about the Meru artists making Meru 'Grate'. Almost 2 Years later, some are in the game while others have hanged up their boots.   I would be so unfair if I fail to mention Vinnie Mkali. I met him recently and he played me some of his tracks of Meru renditions to popular Bongo hits. The kid got talent, do not lose focus. http://merudailies.blogspot.com/2017/05/meru-people-can-also-sing-these-are.html Nassizu Murume (left), one of the Meru's performing artist at a past event.Photo/Getty Images Apart from Music, there are numbers of talented young people in the ever growing town of Meru. Just like any othe...

Meru County Team after disagreements with officials over allowance.|Photo Courtesy A team that has been representing Meru  in the just concluded inter-county games in Siaya have cried foul over what they term as mistreatment from the officials who had accompanied them. According to sources from the camp, the players slept on the streets after they were kicked out of Maranda High School were they have been hosted since the games started last Friday. The players allege that the officials who had accompanied them went site-seeing to the neighboring Uganda only to resurface a day before the official return date. The team further claim that the officials failed to offer the necessary facilities including essentials such as a first aid kit. Meru County Team camps outside Maranda High school|Photo Courtesy The team further claims that in one of the events they were disqualified under unclear circumstances but with no officials in sight to follow up their cases they ended bow...