Machakos governor Wavinya Ndeti has challenged young people in the Ukambani region to take care of their elderly parents. 

Speaking on June 27, 2025, at Masidonia village in Matungulu sub-county, during the commissioning Matungulu housing Project in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity, Kenya, said young people who have elderly parents, especially in rural areas, should offer them basic needs, including food, clothing, shelter and healthcare. 

“It’s very bad for elderly people to suffer from a lack of basic needs while they have children or close relatives who are able to offer care and support in order to improve livelihoods so that to can age gracefully,” the governor said. 

She also urged the women to form Saccos to access loans from the government, saying this would help them to start businesses and eradicate poverty. 

She encouraged women and youths in the county to form groups and register companies in order to benefit from the County Government tenders and other opportunities. 

The governor also encouraged them to wake up and effectively engage in wealth creation. 

She also called on Kenyans to maintain peace and also embrace the hardworking and to drop their ethnic and religious differences, and also preach peace and unity among themselves, saying this is the best way to solve the various problems in our country. 

Meanwhile, residents of Koma in Matungulu in Machakos County have called on their county government to open the Koma Hill Bus park along the Nairobi -Kangundo Road in order to boost trade and enable vehicles to operate with ease. 

The residents, led by Koma Hill Market Chairman Antony Mutungi, on June 27, 2025, said the bus park was built and completed by Chinese contractors when they were building the Koma-Kenol-Machakos road over six years ago, but the bus park has never been commissioned for use by the public. 

Mutungi said many vehicles from Nairobi and Machakos were now turning at Koma, and there was a need to open the bus park to enhance the safety of passengers. 

He said the vehicles were parking and picking up passengers by the roadside, thus endangering the lives of pedestrians and hawkers along the road. 

“We are wondering why this bus park, which was completed over six years ago, has not been opened for use by the public,” said Mutungi.