Comprehensive Media Coverage – Lower Nzoia Irrigation Project

Outlet / Date	Format	Focus	Link
Kenya News Agency (Mar 8, 2025)	📰 Newspaper	Sh 5.3 bn scheme begins: 34 km dykes, 4,000 ha irrigation, Sh 450 m student compensation	KNA – Works begin (kenyanews.go.ke)
KNA (May 4, 2025)	📰 Newspaper	Phase 1 nearing completion; 56,000 t rice; call to establish county irrigation unit	KNA – Boost economic growth
KNA (Apr 27, 2025)	📰 Newspaper	Devolution CS urges completion to solve Bunyala floods; Sh 5 bn project	KNA – Solve floods
KNA (May 2, 2025)	📰 Newspaper	First phase completing by September; benefits 12,600 farmers, gravity irrigation	KNA – Completes by Sept
KBC (May 20, 2025)	📰 Newspaper/Video	Project on track for 2025 completion; KSh 4.8 bn annual benefit; 10,000 acres	KBC – On track for 2025 completion
The Star (Feb 2, 2024)	📰 Newspaper	Sh 3.8 bn project: 10,914 acre irrigation, 56,000 t rice; flooding protection	The Star – Sh3.8 bn project
Capital FM (Mar 2025)	📰 Online Radio/News	China-built scheme transforming livelihoods; left-bank 10,000 acre + phase 2	Capital FM – Transforming livelihoods
PowerChina / China Daily (Jan 22, 2025)	📰 News Release	President Ruto groundbreaking; 74 km canals, 3,901 ha, benefits 12,500 households	PowerChina – Groundbreaking
Kenya Insights (Jul 2024)	📰 Online Investigation	Audit: Govt paid Sh 285 m idle time to SinoHydro; delays costing taxpayers	Kenya Insights – Idle time losses
NIA Blog (Feb 1, 2023)	📄 Press Release	Project scope: begun in 2018, 2 phases covering 20,000 ac, 65.8 % done phase 1	NIA – Food security release
NIA Blog (Feb 5, 2024)	📄 Press Release	CS Zachariah Njeru visits site; phase 1 sees 2,535 ha Siaya, 3,730 ha Busia	NIA – CS site visit
China Daily (Global) (May 23, 2025)	📰 Newspaper	Farmers thriving; 4,000 ha phase 1, 4,000 ha phase 2; yields business rice/veg	China Daily – Revives farmlands