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Activist Okiya Omtatah will today move to the High court to raise questions on the validity of the October 26 elections.Justice Mativo will answer the following questions that Okiya Omtatah has raised. Read: The activist seeks clarification from the court with regards to whether the IEBC  is organised to conduct the fresh presidential elections on October 26 as ordered by the Supreme court. He seeks clarification on the validity of the October 26 elections and if the IEBC should conduct fresh elections as ordered by the supreme court. Okiya Omtatah also wants to know the impact of withdrawal of Nasa presidential…

International commission of Jurists (ICJ) chairman Kenyan chapter Njonjo Mue has called for the President to vacate the presidency on October 26 to allow the stakeholders appoint a caretaker president that will hold office for a period of one year. The person who will be appointed as the caretaker president will qualifY to be a president but has not been a member of the Executive, Legislature, Judiciary, County government or leader of a political party prior to the appointment. He said that proceeding with the elections on October 26 would be contrary to article 3 of the constitution that states…

Kenya’s Athletes continue to fly the country’s flag high despite political tension. Budding Athlete Lawrence Cherono  easily surpassed the Amsterdam Marathon record clocking 2:05.09 hours. Read:#NyoaKiProNaGillette : Kenyans to Attempt Guinness Shaving RECORD Courtesy of Gillette he led fellow Kenyans to scoop first position in what was clearly a Kenyan affair.He shed off 12 seconds of the previous record that was last year st by compatriot Daniel Wanjiru. Nobert Kigen and Abraham Kiptum were first and second runners up respectively. In the women category Kenya’s Gladys Chesir emerged second after Tadelech Bekele of Ethiopia. Do you have a story you…

Two staff working for Kenya airways are among have been caught in a drug trafficking circle by a multinational agency. The Agency intercepted four kilograms of narcotics disguised as Kenyan coffee in the staff restroom in a flight destined for Hong Kong. The Kenya Airways crew members Daniel Koech and Paul Omondi who are in flight attendants are suspected to have been trafficking drugs to China,Netherlands and India. Read:RACIST White Woman Bully Clients at Carrefour Supermarket at The Hub, Karen The multinational agency received a tip off from foreign security who noticed an influx in trafficking of narcotics from Kenyan…

IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati excluded presidential candidate Cyrus Jirongo who was popularly known as Shakhalaga Kwa Jirongo.The chairman said that he does qualify to be a presidential candidate under Article 137 and 99 (2) (f) of the constitution Cyrus Jirongo was declared bankrupt by the High court due to 700 million shillings debt. The two articles both allude that a person cannot be a presidential candidate if they are undischarged bankrupt. Read:Raila Odinga Officially Withdraws From The Elections The IEBC gazetted names of five presidential candidate who vied during the August 8 polls after Justice John Mativo said that all…

Seven people have been confirmed dead and several others injured as unknown assailants attacked Lokichogio AIC Secondary school. The Assailants shot at the victims and raped the female students. The assailants attacked the school at around 4AM  this morning https://twitter.com/sekuwom/status/919037819213017088 Residents in the area suspect the Toposa from South Sudan to be behind the attacks in the school in Turkana county. Read:Homabay Student Arrested For Being In Possession Of Illegal Firearm Due to the bad state of the road network in the area attempts to rescue the students difficult.The residents took to twitter to seek for assistance from the red…

Police in Kisumu are said to have teargassed nursery school pupils at the Mount Carmel Academy in Nyalenda. There was heavy police presence in the lakeside city during the day to prevent the anti IEBC riots that have been witnessed in Kisumu for the passed two weeks The affected pupils who were teargassed received First Aid from the  Red Cross and those who were badly affected taken to the nearest hospital. Read:Gunmen Open Fire At Technical University Of Mombasa Campus, Several Students Injured Kenyans on twitter have condemned the police for meting this kind of violence on minors. Some however…

A 70 year old woman and a bodaboda operator have been shot during the anti IEBC demonstrations that turned ugly and chaotic. They were rushed to Ombo Hospital within the county. Read:Gunmen Open Fire At Technical University Of Mombasa Campus, Several Students Injured In Kisumu there is heavy presence on the streets as police have lobbed teargas canisters at the areas near the Central Business district. The Acting Interior CS yesterday banned the protesters from protesting with the CBD In Nairobi NASA leaders are currently traversing the central business district but the police have quickly dispersed them and the protesters…

Police Officers this afternoon lobbed teargas at Raila Odinga’s Capitol Hill office as the NASA leaders who had gathered there to prepare to head to the demonstrations in the CBD. A journalist who was covering the incident was harassed by the officers who stripped him of his camera. Read:North Eastern Jubilee Mps Threaten To Buy Guns Sighting Insecurity There is police is heavy police presence around the CBD following the directive by Acting interior CS Fred Matiang’i banning the NASA demonstrations from taking place. James Orengo however maintained that the protests would go on as planned. Do you have a…

Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) and Equity bank’s basketball teams emerged champions and runners up in the just concluded Zone five championship that took place in Kampala, Uganda. The two top tier ladies teams represented the country well thrashing teams from arch rivals Uganda,Tanzania and Rwanda Kenya Ports Authority emerged the zone 5 champions after beating Equity bank Hawks in an all Kenyan finale. KPA redeemed themselves after slipping to Uganda Christian college and loosing with half a basket. Read:Kwese TV Launches Three Day Entertainment Package In the Mens category KPA emerged third after beating Betway Power of Uganda. Kenya National…

Embakasi East member of Parliament Babu Owino incited a crowd to call Uhuru ‘mtoto wa mbwa’ again.In a video that has emerged from a rally held at Uhuru park on October 11 that preceded the Anti IEBC demonstrations. He repeated the same statement but did not complete leaving the crowd to chant. He said that if Gaddafi was removed,Yahya Jammeh was removed, Laurent Ggagbo was removed then who is Uhuru, after which he left it to the crowd to call Uhuru ‘Mtoto wa Mbwa’ Babu Owino finished by telling the crowd that it is them that said and not him…

Cotu Secretary General Francis Atwoli has taken former presidential candidate Cyrus Jirongo over a 100 million loan that he granted him in August 2016. He had loaned Cyrus Jirongo the loan that was supposed to be payable within 50 days with an interest of 10 million. Francil Atwoli also indicated that he had given the loan on assurance that the UDP leader was owed money by the Nairobi City council.Jirongo who was recently declared bankrupt asked the court to plead with Francil Atwoli to give him more time or pursue the Nairobi County council. Read:CS Fred Matiang’i Now Says Assaulted…

Moses Wetangula has said that Acting CS Fred Matiang’i should explain why the government allowed the ‘Nairobi Business Community’ to act as security during the demonstrations and that he should resign if He fails to do so . Wetangula also said that he personally sent a text message to the Interior Cs asking him why he did not consult lawyers before banning the demonstrations in the CBD. Read:Matiang’i Orders Closure Of KU, JKUAT Tanzania, Rwanda Campuses He said that Fred Matiang’i replied with one word ‘Nonsense’ which he replied by saying ‘That is exactly what you are’ Moses Wetangula said…

Starehe MP Charles Njagua Kanyi popularly Known as Jaguar has asked IEBC to move their headquarters from Anniversary Towers to Bomas of Kenya. He said that the demonstrations by NASA are hurting business and lives. The government through Acting Interior CS Fred Matiang’i reiterated the same sentiments saying that he has banned demonstrations in the CBD since they cause disruption of businesses. Read:Raila Odinga Officially Withdraws From The Elections The NASA team are however relentless about the demonstrations with Babu Owino saying that only Raila can call off the Anti IEBC protests. Do you have a story you want told?…

Babu Owino has responded to Acting Interior CS Fred Matiang’is ban in demonstration saying that it is only Raila can call off the demonstrations and that any other communication should be treated as statistics. https://twitter.com/Babu_Owino/status/918433466550808576 This comes after the Cs banned demonstrations in the Central Business District in Nairobi,Kisumu and Mombasa. Read:Clergy Condemns Police For Using Live Bullets On Demonstrators The NASA coalition whose presidential candidate withdrew from the elections had said that they will  demonstrate daily for reform in IEBC to take place before they can participate in the fresh October 26. Do you have a story you want…