Author: Eva Nyambura

The government has refuted claims that DNA samples will be taken during the Sh6 billion digital registration exercise that seeks to give everyone in the country a unique code dubbed “Huduma Namba.” The scope of data collection is allegedly restricted to external personally-identifying information (PII), including a digital photo, fingerprints and background information. The state will roll out the mass biometric registration across the country from March 15, 2019 and will run for 45 days after which data cleansing will begin. The kits will left in the care of Assistant Chiefs who will then on register newborns. Speaking in Mombasa during…

Caroline Mwatha was murdered. Police have presented their version of what transpired and identified the murder suspects, yet many questions still beg for an answer. We don’t know how she ended up in the clinic, for example. Did she walk there by herself? Was she threatened, or coerced to go to that clinic? To date, her phone is still missing. A human rights defender, Caroline Mwatha, spoke for the voiceless. The very ones on the receiving end of police violations. As a founding member of Dandora Social Justice, she defended the rights of young people who were subjected to constant…

Kenol Kobil chief executive David Ohana has been excused in the on going insider trading investigations at the company after he voluntarily cooperated with the Capital Markets Authority (CMA). In a court document seen by Kahawa Tungu, Ohana apparently consented to the raid that happened on January 30 and takes “no issue in the manner in which the orders were sought, granted and executed against him…” On the material day, CMA officers seized personal ICT devices; Mobile phones, laptops, and Desktop computers. He allegedly erased text messages and call logs just hours before detectives raided his office. “It is the belief…

A man, 30, was positively identified by three girls who he allegedly raped together with three others on Wednesday morning in Leiten, Kericho County. The thugs broke into their Leiten home, hacked a 73 year old woman to death and injured her husband, 78. According to DCI George Kinoti, the gang also made away with unknown amounts of money before raping the couple’s granddaughters aged 11, 13 and 20. Also injured during the ordeal was the house maid who was allegedly hit with a blunt object. Read: Students Captured On Camera Drunk, Chewing Miraa In A Matatu Kahawa Tungu has however…

Popular Radio presenter Betty Opondo on Wednesday morning lost her son, Tevin. Opondo works at Radio Lake Victoria and previously at Radio Jambo. The bereaved mother mourned her son on Facebook, indicating that before his passing away, Tevin had been taken ill in December for two weeks. “I am trying to get a better picture of you Tevin. I am too weak to go through my pictures…..asleep or dead??… Am I dreaming? You were only sick for 2 weeks in December, recovered and went back to school… What happened??….wake up n explain to me. ‘My baby, my handsome… our ‘pet’,……

Tension is high in Litein, Kericho County after a family of an area businessman was attacked in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. The man and his three daughters plus their maid were rushed to Litein Mission Hospital with severe injuries. His wife did not survive the ordeal. The daughters and maid were sexually assaulted by the thugs whose motives remain unknown. Read: Kenyan Woman, Mary Marion Working In Dubai Murdered By Employer Neighbours are said to have called for help but momentarily disallowed the police from moving the deceased’s remains decrying the rising levels of insecurity in the area. It…

Murdered lawyer Robert Chesang’s marriage to Maisy Pauline Omungala Chesang, a magistrate who works in Nyeri was allegedly in shambles, reports indicate. A local daily reports that last year Chesang who was shot three times in the chest on Sunday at his Moke Gardens home in Lukenya, Machakos county was arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife. In an application, Maisy accused the deceased of being violent. On his part, Chesang’ said his estranged wife was working with “Athi River OCPD, OCS, deputy OCS and two individuals — Fred Too and Caroline Seet — to oppress him.” He would later file a complaint…

DPP Noordin Haji will appeal the light sentencing of a former Ministry of Education cashier Perminus Njoroge Kamau. Mr Njoroge is said to have stolen Sh12,980,000 in 2011. On Tuesday, he was fined Sh600,000 with an alternative of serving one year in jail. This Kenyans thought was lenient. Taking to the official ODPP twitter page, the DPP maintained that he will be appealing against the ruling. “Former cashier with Ministry of higher education, science & technolog Perminus K. Njoroge fined sh 600,000 or 1 year imprisonment for unlawful acquisition of sh 12, 980,000 from Ministry in 2011. DPP to appeal against the sentence,”…

A Kenyan man accused of embezzling Sh3.6 billion from a US company has been extradited to the United States from Costa Rica. Paul McDaniel alias Edward Martin Karuku is said to have stolen the funds from Hypermedia Systems, a media technology services firm based in downtown Los Angeles. He then resided in the City of Orange before fleeing to Costa Rica in early 2017. The monies, the US Attorney General’s office said were used to “pay off tens of millions of dollars of his credit card debt.” “… arrived this afternoon in Los Angeles after extradition proceedings in Costa Rica. McDaniel is scheduled to…

K24’s Betty Kyallo can be described as one with a bubbly personality. But internet users seem to think that the TV siren is way too happy for someone whose ex-husband just said “I do” to some other woman. Just last week, her ex-spouse Dennis Okari exchanged vows with Naomi Joy at the Ridgeways Church. Needless to say, his wedding was the talk of town and somehow netizens managed to drag Kyallo into the drama surrounding Okari’s newly found love. Two days before the much talked about wedding, the mother of one had wished the fellow journo well. “No pain whatsoever,…

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji is on the spot after a Mombasa businessman accused him of threatening him with a gun during a raid at Reef Hotel two years. According to Stephen Vicker Mangira, Haji who at the time was an intelligence officer also stole from him some Sh2 million on February 11, 2017. Mangira told a Mombasa court that the DPP was part of a squad that raided the hotel in search of drugs. Haji and one Hamisi Salim Masha are said to have illegally conducted a search on the tycoon’s person. “I accuse Mr Noordin Haji and Hamisi Salim…

A Tanzanian court on Tuesday found a Chinese national popularly known as the “Ivory Queen” guilty of smuggling elephant tusks to Asia. According to BBC, Yang will be spending 15 behind bars. In 2015 Yang Feng Glan denied smuggling 860 pieces of ivory between 2000 and 2004 worth 13 billion shillings. She was charged alongside two Tanzanian men; Salivius Matembo and Manase Philemon. The 69 year old businesswoman has been living in Tanzania since the 1970s. She also owns a Chinese restaurant in the country’s capital of Dar es Salaam. Today, Kisutu Court Magistrate Huruma Shaidi sentenced the trio to fifteen…

Things seem to be going well for Wema Sepetu after the Tanzanian Film Board finally allowed her to get back into the entertainment industry, after a few months of being banned. In a press conference on 18 February 2019, the board’s Executive Secretary, Joyce Fissoo said that they are lifting the ban on Wema due to the effort that she has put in to show changed behavior. Things got thick for the former Miss Tanzania after she got into trouble with the board for posting intimate photos of herself and her ex “conman” boyfriend. She was then arrested and arraigned…

After her break up from Diamond Platnumz, Zari Hassan had decided to keep her next relationship on the DL(down low) for a while before introducing him to the world. On Valentine’s day, she shared gifts that she had received from her man, spoiling her rotten, ranging from a Louis Vuitton Flower Hobo shoulder bag, a teddy bear, balloons and chocolates. The Brooklyn College director gave us sneek peeks of who her man may be, only sharing small bits of his physique. Last year Zari announced that she was staking a break from the dating scene as she does not want to…

Four men on Friday, 15 February robbed a gaming cafe in Kasarani’s Sunton area. The incident took place at exactly 9.17 pm at Afrik Gaming Cafe near the bus terminal. First to walk in were three men, one wielding a gun followed by a fourth man in a helmet, also carrying a pistol. As one mans the door, the others ransack the place and steal valuables of at least 15 customers present. They are able to walk away with four television sets, a laptop, hard disk drives and 25000 from the counter within five minutes. Kahawa Tungu understands that the matter…