The Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company (NWSC) has announced a mass recruitment drive targeting professionals across various fields, including technical jobs.

In a notice on April 27, Nairobi City Water invited applications from professionals in various fields, including engineering, legal services, technical operations, and support functions.

“As part of continued growth and team strengthening, NCWSC is looking for qualified, competent, seasoned, and talented professionals capable of operating in the fast-paced and demanding environment to fill the following positions,” the notice reads.

The open positions include Civil Engineering Officer (4 posts), Mechanical Engineer Officer (3 posts), Electrical Engineering Officer (3 posts), Survey Officer (1 post), Legal Officer – Corporate Services, Legal Officer – Dispute Resolution (2 posts), and Meter Testing Technician (On-site).

Others are Leak Scouting Technician, Meter Testing Operators (3 posts), Flow Measurement Operators, Bulk Metering Operators, Leak Scouting Operators (54 posts), Leak Detection Operators (3 posts), Data Verification Assistants (18 posts), and Drivers (70 posts).

NWSC is also seeking to recruit Survey Assistants (2 posts), Water and Wastewater Operators (80 posts), Artisans – Water and Wastewater Operators (8 posts), Artisan Plumber (19 posts), Mechanical Assistants (2 posts), Artisans Mechanical (General) (3 posts), and Artisans Mechanical – Welders (4 posts).

Other open positions are Electrical Assistant (3 posts), Artisans Electrical (4 posts), Flushing Unit & Exhauster Operators (5 posts), Excavator Operators (5 posts),Building Works Assistant, Artisan Building – Masons/Tilers (3 posts), Artisan Building – Carpentry & Joinery (2 posts), Artisan Building – Painting & Signwriters (3 posts), and Labourers – Water & Sewer (Regions) (25 posts).

How to apply

Interested and qualified candidates are required to submit applications to the Managing Director’s office by May 11, 2026.

Applications must be accompanied by supporting documents, including a curriculum vitae, copies of academic certificates, other relevant testimonials, and the contacts of three (3) referees, one of whom must be a current or former Employer.

Additionally, applications must be clearly marked with the respective job position and reference number and sent by hand delivery, registered mail, or courier services to the Managing Director, Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Co. Ltd, Kampala Road, Industrial Area, P.O. Box 30656-00100, Nairobi, Kenya.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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When the current fiscal year ends, the cost of presidency under President William Ruto will hit Sh100 billion in under four years. This means that currently, President Ruto is running the most expensive presidency in Kenya’s history.

A contrast with the previous administration of former president Uhuru Kenyatta under which president Ruto served as deputy president shows that in under four years, the current presidency has spent more than what Uhuru’s presidency spent in ten years.

The previous administration’s cost of presidency was Sh89.9 billion in ten years starting from 2013 to 2022, while the current presidency has already gobbled up more than Sh89 billion.

Currently, the presidency is made up of the State House, Office of the President, Office of the Deputy President, Office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary, and State Department for Parliamentary and Cabinet Affairs.

State House alone has led the pack in ballooning the cost of presidency with huge expenses. In the current fiscal year, President Ruto’s State House blew an astonishing Sh10.4 billion in the first seven months. The whole State House budget for the current year has now been ballooned to a staggering Sh17 billion. This allocation is more than what is allocated by developed countries such as the United States and Germany for equivalent offices.

According to the disclosures by the National Treasury, the house on the hill had initially received a full year allocation of Sh7.7 billion. This allocation was meant to cover the period that will end in June 2026.

However, by the end of January 2026, Sh10.4 billion had been blown away. Shockingly, it has been revealed that in the month of January, Ruto’s residence had spent Sh1.3 billion. This amounted to spending Sh42.6 million every day for the 31 days of January. This reckless spending of public resources was the continuation of a trend that was seen in the first three months of the current fiscal year.

During that period, State House blew Sh4.32 billion against the target allocation of Sh1.92 billion that State House had been given to spend in the first quarter of the current 2025/26 financial year. This meant that the budget had been overshot by 125 percent in three months. If State House goes on to blow the full amount of Sh17 billion, it will have spent approximately Sh1.4 billion per month or Sh47 million per day for 365 days.

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Between the fiscal years 2022/23 and 2025/26 of spending under the presidency, Sh88.8 billion has been exhausted, with the largest share being consumed by State House, and the offices of the President and Deputy President.

State House has taken Sh36.4 billion, Office of the President Sh35.1 billion, Office of the Deputy President Sh12.5 billion, and the Office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary Sh3.3 billion. The State Department for Parliamentary Affairs has taken Sh900 million while the State Department for cabinet Affairs has taken Sh700 billion.

As at the end of March 2026, the largest share of the total amount amounting to Sh83 billion was allocated to recurrent expenses. This was equivalent to 93.7 percent. These expenses included paying salaries, hosting delegations, fuel, and per diems for travels.

A Kenyan truck driver is being detained by the United States’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The truck driver who has been identified as Cyrus Thairu was captured and detained by ICE on March 26, 2026.

He was on a journey heading towards New York which is located on the east when he was stopped by ICE at a checkpoint near the Mexico border west of the country.

Upon interrogation, Thairu was found with an expired B2 visitor’s visa. He was arrested and put under detention by ICE. He then filed an asylum claim from the ICE facility in the State of Illinois. He is however facing deportation proceedings with a hearing for his case set for May 4, 2026.

Thairu’s sister Joyce Mumbi Thairu who lives in the US says that they have hired an immigration lawyer known as Irene Mugambi to defend Thairu and are seeking to raise about Sh2 million to secure his release pending the hearing and determination of his case.

“Thairu has been in removal proceedings for over one month now. If we can’t raise the bond, he will have to remain in ICE detention. The Kenyan community is in fear for his welfare as he has a wife and kids in Kenya and is in hazardous detention facilities,” Mumbi told a local daily.

Over the recent weeks, ICE has increased crackdowns on major highways targeting undocumented immigrants and holders of commercial driver’s licenses which were improperly issued. One of these crackdowns has been the Operation Highway Sentinel which was launched in December 2005 by ICE. The operation targeted trucking companies and truck drivers in Central and Northern California and resulted in the arrest of over 100 truck drivers who were in the US illegally.

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On February 5, 2026, ICE arrested a semi-truck driver who was accused of causing an accident that claimed the lives of four people on February 3. The driver had been issued a commercial driver’s license by the State of Pennyslyvania.

“In recent months, we’ve seen a disturbing pattern of criminal illegal aliens driving commercial vehicles on American roads, directly threatening public safety and resulting in senseless loss of life,” the department of Homeland Security said in a statement.

Some Kenyans who are out of status in the US have taken gone as far as self-deporting themselves to avoid being captured and detained by ICE. Take Sam Kang’ethe. He self-deported from the United States in the summer of 2025. He took this bold decision when it dawned on him that he was facing two choices: to either return to Kenya on his own volition or face ICE which was itching to arrest and deport him.

Moving from the United States to Kenya was no easy choice at all. He left behind a wife and three children aged 13, 11, and five years at his home in Lansing, Michigan.

“I resigned to go back to Kenya in May 2025,” he told the media, adding that his wife had prepared their kids about their father’s imminent departure from the United States.

Mr. Kang’ethe told the media that although he chose self-deportation from US, he has no criminal record in the country. However, he was facing removal from the country after an immigration official ruled that a previous marriage that he had entered into in 2014 was fraudulent.

He had a court case in court whose hearing was scheduled to take place in January 2026. He was planning to present evidence that the ruling by the immigration official was wrong. However, having a pending court case could not prevent ICE from going after him. Apparently, with the ruling by the immigration official, Kang’ethe was legally deportable.

“You see people being picked up when they drop their kids off at school. And these were the kind of things I used to do. I cannot imagine myself taking my kids to school and then being picked up by the ICE,” said Kang’ethe during an interview with local media.