Author: Eva Nyambura

Nyeri County Assembly Speaker John Kaguchia’s Nyeri home was on Monday morning broken into by unknown assailants. The armed thugs are said to have raided the Speaker’s home in Nyeri’s King’ong’o area at around 2 a.m. “At around 2 am this morning, the thugs gained access into my official residence and on discovering that I and my family were not around, they harassed the security person, from a local security company, who was there,” he said. Kaguchia was however not present during the raid as he and his family had traveled to Nairobi on Sunday. He says that a vehicle…

The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) on Friday signed a cooperation agreement with HEVA Fund to advance credit and technical assistance in a project worth Sh.90 million in a bid to unlock the potential of the creative and cultural economy in Kenya. This signing marks the beginning of the fund’s next four-year strategy, looking to drive Sh.500 million in growth investments for enterprises in live music and events; fashion/apparel manufacturing retail; film, television and audiovisual content; and gaming, e-sports and entertainment. These enterprises will be able to access working capital and asset financing, as well as strengthen their internal systems…

Nakuru Town West MP Samuel Arama will face abuse of office and land-related corruption charges, DPP Noordin Haji has said. The legislator, Haji noted, will be arraigned in court on Monday to face uttering a document with intent to deceive, obtaining registration of land by false pretenses, knowingly misleading an investigator, conspiracy to defraud and making a document without authority. “The outcome of investigations revealed that Arama in collusion with officers in the Nakuru lands registry unlawfully and deceitfully caused illegal registration and issuance of a certificate of lease in relation to plot no.6/95 to an alleged individual who has disowned the…

The Shujaa team has given an account of events that led to their blanking out of the Brand Kenya Logo during the Paris 7s in May. “In this statement, we will give our side of the story and answer some of the unanswered questions. We just want to add that we are doing this for the love and respect we have for this game,” the statement signed by 19 members reads in part. On Thursday, Kenya Rugby Union (KRU) board relieved the 7s head coach Innocent Simiyu of his duties after he defended his players. The team on its part…

Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji has ordered for the arrest of 9 Madras Security Printers Private Limited directors following the importation of Sh800 million of unfit standardization mark purchased by Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS). According to Haji, the government paid over Sh800 million for the supply of the mark which upon investigations turned out to be sub-standard. As the DPP embarks on the fight against fake goods, he ordered DCI boss George Kinoti to apprehend the suspects as they wait to be arraigned in court. The directors are accused of conspiracy to defraud, breach of trust, abuse of…

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) CEO Ezra Chiloba has dragged his boss, Wafula Chebukati and two other commissioners back to court. The embattled CEO has filed contempt of court proceedings against Chebukati, Abdi Guliye and Bobu Molu. He wants them jailed for six months for denying him access to his office. Chiloba wants the court to set aside the commission’s decision to suspend him for three months. “The commissioners and chairman’s actions, conduct, endeavors of sending the applicant on further purported suspension in effect removes him from his employment and are without any basis in law, malicious, high-handed, capricious and calculated…

Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) MD Charles Ongwae has been arrested alongside six others over the contraband sugar scam. Others include quality assurance and inspection director, Mr Eric Chesire, and head of the inspection department, Mr Eric Ochieng. They have apparently been taken to the DCI headquarters for grilling after being invited to record statements. Their lawyers say that they have been denied access to their clients. Ongwae on Thursday said that the sugar was not laced with mercury but had traces of lead and cooper, contradicting CS Adan Mohammed and Fred Matiang’i. Read: Contraband Sugar Has Mercury, Copper – CS…

A Member of Parliament is on the spotlight for apparently handing his undeserving clandestine lover a Sh.91,000 bursary check. According to a local daily, Kitui Rural legislator David Mwalika wrote a Kenya Water Institute (KEWI) student the enormous check while other needy students got Sh.5,000 only. The student in question, Ziyad Hassan received the check (No.4732) on May 31, 2018, signed by Salim Hussein, the fund account manager. But the MP denied the allegations and vowed to probe the fraudulent awarding of money. “That person was not on the list of beneficiaries. Someone deliberately wrote the cheque for unknown reasons,” the MP told the…

NRG radio station is being accused of not paying their brand ambassadors, models, influencers and ticket sellers who worked with them during the NRG Wave concert that saw rapper, Rick Ross bring down the house. It has been more than a month since the sold out concert took place, and the radio hosts have since been on a media tour where they showed off their posh cars. They have so far hosted the who and who’s in the industry and hired influencers to run their show. Twitter user, @TerryLeakes_254 revealed that the station was paying their influencers using credit. The…

The Kenya Rugby Union (KRU) Board has reportedly dismissed Kenya 7s head coach, Innocent Simiyu hours after Brand Kenya sponsorship withdrawal. Earlier on in the day, Tourism CS Najib Balala castigated the team for ’embarrassing Kenya’ during the Paris 7s held last month. Simiyu is said to have defended his players who he on Wednesday said should not be victimized for their actions. But word also has it that at the time the Shujaa Rugby players concealed Brand Kenya message on their jerseys, they had already received Ksh.4 million through KRU, which was misappropriated. In fact, KRU officials admitted to have…

French Retailer Carrefour will in July open a new hypermarket at Galleria Shopping Mall, along Lang’ata Road. This will be its sixth store in Nairobi, with the other five located at The Hub in Karen, Thika Road Mall, The Junction, Two Rivers Mall and Sarit Centre. “We will open the new store at Galleria at the end of next month, using a partial selling model of 1,000 square metres. This is similar to what we have successfully implemented at our Thika Road Mall and Junction Mall stores and allows us to cater to some of the most immediate shopping needs of…

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji has asked DCI George Kinoti to ascertain that the securities and funds presented by the NYS suspects are not proceeds of crime. In a letter dated 20 June, 2018 Haji said that the Assets Recovery Agency had raised concerns that some of the funds intended to be use are not only suspect bus also the subject of current cases. Judge Hedwig Ong’udi on Tuesday released the 48 suspects on Sh.5 million bond, Sh.2 million surety each, and a cash bail of Sh.1 million each. The suspects were freed on condition that they deposit their travel…

Kibera Residents were on Thursday morning woke up to chaos as the Kenya Railway Company tried to evict those living near the railway line. Police lobbed teargas canisters in the wee hours of the morning waking up residents who say that the plan was to relocate them not demolish their homes. “What is happening is a surprise and inhumane… If there is a handshake that happened, Raila Odinga should know very well what to do over this issue,” a resident said. The exercise that kicked off at 4 a.m saw at least 1,000 people left homeless. Read: Governor Sonko Scores A D+ In…

National Assembly Majority leader Aden Duale has implied that Kabras (West Kenya Sugar Factory) and Ndhiwa Sugar factory owner, Jaswant Singh Rai is the importer of the contraband sugar nabbed by the government. Speaking on the floor of the house on Tuesday, the Garissa Town MP said that the businessman sits in the Kenya Forest Service Board yet he is the biggest logger in the country. The legislator told the house that Rai is enjoying protection from high ranking government officials. Duale also admitted to having been named as among those involved in the illegal business but assured other MPs that his family…

Perspective Healthcare, a locally-based SME pharmaceutical firm, on Tuesday unveiled a new anti-malaria drug into the Kenyan market, pyramax for the management of uncomplicated malaria. The once-daily, 3-day therapy is the first in Africa for South-Korean based Shin Poong Pharmaceuticals. The fixed-dose combination of pyronaridine and artesunate was co-developed by Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) and Shin Poong and is the newest ACT combination to be approved by a Stringent Regulatory Authority. The drug, Dr Winnie Gitau (Perspective Healthcare Kenya) noted, has been in the works for at least 17 years and has been pre-qualified by World Health Organization (WHO). “Our…