{"id":101811,"date":"2024-11-10T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T11:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/10\/machakos-chaos-erupts-after-county-officials-close-down-mining-quarries\/"},"modified":"2024-11-10T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T11:03:25","slug":"machakos-chaos-erupts-after-county-officials-close-down-mining-quarries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/machakos-chaos-erupts-after-county-officials-close-down-mining-quarries\/","title":{"rendered":"Machakos: Chaos erupts after County officials close down mining quarries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-paragraph-padding-1\">\n<p><strong>Chaos erupted in Athi River when a section of agitated Ngelani residents confronted Machakos County officials for forcefully closing down several mining quarries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The action prompted a scuffle where police officers and county Askris faced the wrath of the residents.<\/p>\n<p>The county officials escorted by a contingent of armed Administration Police officers and county askaris had completely paralysed operations in at least 10 quarries in an operation to close down the multi-million enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>Trucks that usually ferry machine cut stones and other building materials from the community\u00a0quarries were blocked from accessing the mining sites.<\/p>\n<p>Assortments of mining\u00a0machines were carted away using the county tippers.<\/p>\n<p>County officials\u00a0alleged the owners had\u00a0commenced a project\u00a0without an environment impact assessment license and failing to comply with environmental conservation orders.<\/p>\n<p>However, locals engaged police officers in a melee that lasted for an hour prompting the police officers to fire in the air and\u00a0 lobby teargas canisters to disperse them.<\/p>\n<p>Residents cited intimidation by relevant authorities despite a court order barring the county government and police officers from interfering with the quarries operations.<\/p>\n<p>They questioned how such an operation was conducted on a weekend.<\/p>\n<p>At least 1,500 families are said to depend on the quarries with more than 500 trucks sourcing the building materials from the quarries daily.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/machakos-chaos-erupts-after-county-officials-close-down-mining-quarries\/\">Machakos: Chaos erupts after County officials close down mining quarries<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/machakos-chaos-erupts-after-county-officials-close-down-mining-quarries\/\">Machakos: Chaos erupts after County officials close down mining quarries<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaos erupted in Athi River when a section of agitated Ngelani residents confronted Machakos County officials for forcefully closing down several mining quarries. The action prompted a scuffle where police officers and county Askris faced the wrath of the residents. The county officials escorted by a contingent of armed Administration Police officers and county askaris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}