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Kenyans took to social media platform Twitter to complain about the lack of development by governors despite the huge budgets that counties have been allocated for development. A report recently revealed that some of the counties received funds but there was no development track record. The twitter users  said that most of the governors had their priorities wrong in term of development. They questioned why governors used a convoy of fuel guzzlers to go and launch mediocre project. https://twitter.com/JeffreyKosgei/status/1087940567898701824 Youthful Nandi Governor Stephen Sang has been accused of hiring ladies for non existent positions . It is alleged that he…

Some Kenyans have come forward accusing lawyer Apollo Mboya of selling them short by entering into a consent order with Kenya Power and Lighting Company Ltd (KPLC). They said that they felt betrayed by the decision by the lawyer to settle stating that the consent did not address the original prayers. They felt betrayed as the Kenyan people still bore the burden on account of over billing by KPLC. The applicants swore affidavits indicating that Apollo Mboya filed the suit as a representative under article 22 (2)(b) of the constitution on behalf of the customers as a class action. One…

President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed all police and public administration to treat corruption as a threat to National security. He said corruption was threatening the unity and well being of the National and directed the regional and county commanders to take action immediately in such cases. He gave the newly appointed regional and county commissioners his expectation for the year 2019. He urged the county bosses to embrace the multi sectoral approaching their daily undertakings . He said that he expected the regional commanders to chair the weekly regional development implementation committee. He directed that the county commissioners should the…

A Kenyan born journalist Kabir Dhanji has allegedly been selling bloody pictures from the Dusit D2 terror attack. Dhanji who has worked for some of renown international media houses put up the gory photos of victims and terrorists  and is selling them through Getty images. He has posted a total of 175 images from the attack. One image goes for Sh50,000 and the picture credits have been given to Associated foreign press. The sale of these gory images comes barely days after Kenyans on Twitter attacked New York times for publishing images from the attack. Kenyans also demanded for the deportation…

The inspector General of police  Joseph Boinnet has appointed new county police commanders (CPCs). They include Momamed Maalim for Machakos, Benson Musembi Maweu for Kisumu,, Jackson Tumwet for Nairobi, Wilkister Vera who will be in charge of Kakamega and Lydia Ligami who has been deployed to Kitui. Read:Kenya Power Acting MD Jared Omondi’s Term Extended Mr Tumwet who was also appointed as the the Regional commander will also serve as the county commander. https://twitter.com/NPSOfficial_KE/status/1087272170655408128 The IG was speaking during the police conference on Security which currently on going in Mombasa. The deployment takes effect immediately. Here is the full list:…

An Administration police officer in Naivasha shot his girlfriend nineteen times before turning the gun on himself. The officer identified as Gideon Emanman confronted his girlfriend, identified as Margaret Nduta while she was at work. It is alleged that the AP officer was drunk when he attacked his lover. “Thinking he had killed her, the officer retreated to the camp where he shot himself on the head dying on the spot,” he stated. Margaret Nduta survived the shots but is in critical condition at the Naivasha sub-county hospital. The Naivasha Deputy County Commissioner John Opondo confirmed the incident  stating that…

Six employees of digital company Cellulant who perished during the Dusit Complex attack have been revealed. Cellulant, a leading digital payment platform in the region said that the requiem mass of the six employees who held senior positions would be held on Tuesday. The six died while trying to save their colleagues from the attack by the terrorists who attacked their office block shooting randomly. https://twitter.com/Cellulant/status/1086570022909161472 The six included 1.Dennis Mwaniki, Head of Information Security The company described him as a “very humble and intelligent man. His intellect and quick thinking got Cellulant our ISO27001 information security. 2.John Ndiritu, Quality…

Wiper leader Kalonzo and Embakasi South candidate Julius Mawathe have been camping outside Raila’s Capitol Hill office to lobby for his support against ODM candidate Irshad Sumra. The seat fell vacant after the the court declared the election null and void ordering for fresh elections. The two appeared with the former Prime Minister during the press briefing condemning the Dusit D2 attack from his Capitol Hill Office. Mawathe seems to be having cold feet after it was established that he has been loosing ground in Embakasi South. Kalonzo is alleged to have implored Raila to have NASA field one candidate …

Singer Naiboi was arrested in Mombasa while attending an interview at a radio station. the singer was in the company of a fellow musician Kristoff and their cameramen The two revealed that the police disrupted their interview and demanded that they delete a video they had taken at the entrance of the building. “We were just filming, we did not know there were police officers at that entrance. One of them asked why we were filming them which we replied we were not,” Naiboi was quoted by a local newspaper. Naiboi explained that they had taken the video to hype…

The Kenya Defence forces have revealed the identity of the suicide bomber who blew himself outside the Secret Garden Restaurant at the 14 Riverside Drive complex. The bomber has been identified as a twenty five year old Mahir Khalid Rizik. The young Al-shabaab operative is said to have grown up in Mombasa and was recruited at the Musa Mosque in Mombasa. Read:15 Feared Dead In Deadly Attack At Dusit D2 Hotel Complex KDF also revealed that Rizik had been in Somalia for training for the last year but came to Kenya on January 13, 2019 where he linked up with…

Justice Chacha Mwita has ruled that Justice Warsame should be facilitated into his office as representative of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) by Chief Justice Maraga. The court found that section 40(1) of the JSC Act does not require oath of office for someone serving a second term. Justice Mwita also  said that the term of Justice Warsame would start immediately. The High court also ruled tha President Uhuru Kenyatta breached the constitution for failing to gazette Warsame’s name therefore causing him not to be sworn in. On March 9, 2018, Justice Warsame was elected to JSC to represent appeal…

Wajir West MP Ahmed Kolosh Kolosh has lost his seat after the Supreme court nullified his election. The petition that was filed Ibrahim Sheikh who cited irregularities during the August 8 election. The court ordered fresh elections in the constituency.  Kolosh said that he was ready for the By elections and told his opponents that he would be elected again. The Supreme court made several rulings on decisions that that had been made by the High court and court of appeal. The highest court in the land upheld the election of Embakasi East Babu Owino. The court stated that the…

The IEBC has put up an advertisement for the position of the Chief Executive Officer previously held by Ezra Chiloba. The position was put up in their website and eligible candidates have been asked to apply before January 31. Chiloba was sent on compulsory leave and later fired. He was accused of gross misconduct and failure to follow the commission’s decisions. Read: There Is No Place For You At IEBC, Chebukati Tells Resigned Commissioners “In tandem with fair administrative action, the Commission subsequently invited Chiloba to appear before the Disciplinary Committee so as to provide responses to the charges levelled…

Investigative journalist Ahmed Husein has been shot dead in Accra by unknown assailants. He was killed as he was going home. Hussein had complained after a local TV station aired his photos. A police spokesperson told AFP the journalist was shot in the neck and the chest by unknown gunmen on his way home on Wednesday night. Journalists from Ghana have condemned the killing of Husein who was very instrumental in uncovering corruption. He was one of the journalist that had highlighted the rot in African football that led to the resignation of the head of the Ghana Football Association…

Meru Sentor Mithika Linturi daughter Brenda Mwendwa Mithika has defended her father by an affidavit stating that Ms Maryanne Kitany was only a guest in their Runda home. She said that her father had introduced her as a friend who was in distress and needed a place to stay temporarily. Linturi had earlier declared that he had only one wife and that it was not Ms Kaittany. “On December 2017, my father introduced Marianne Kitany to my siblings and I at our Runda home when my mother, who was estranged from my father, was not staying with us,”  the affidavit…