Author: Eva Nyambura

Vodacom, 35 per cent owner of Safaricom is yet to settle a law suit against them by the ‘Please call me’ inventor, Kenneth Makate, nine years later. Reports by Business Daily indicate Mr Makate came up with the idea about 16 years ago while working at the South African firm as a junior accountant. He initially asked for a 15% share in revenue if the concept worked which as of 2016 amounted to billions of shillings. That is the revenue related to the “induced” phone calls after people receive Please Call Me messages as well as the advertising that is…

Francis Muriethi, Embakasi East MP aspirant on Monday told the High court that his opponent during the hotly contested August 8 election, Paul Ongili aka Babu Owino scared his supporters into not showing up to vote. Mureithi, who garnered 39,805 votes against Ongili’s 43,862, said that his supporters feared for their lives hence the low turn out. He also told Justice Joseph Sergon that the former student leader had his goons assault Amani National Congress (ANC) candidate, Joseph Obiende at Lower Savannah Soweto Social hall. Obiende, also a member of the National Super Alliance (NASA) as is Babu is said…

An Orange Democratic Party politician from Kilifi was on Sunday, according to locals arrested for handing out National Resistance Movement (NRM) branded T-shirts. Nicholas Mrima Wanyepe was accused by the police of being in possession of material that could incite the people against the government. Mrima vied for the Kilifi South constituency seat but lost to Ken Chonga in the August 8 elections. He, according to the police knows where NASA leader, Raila Odinga will be sworn in. “The politician will be arraigned in court today (Monday)”, said Ben Kogo, Kilifi county police commander. But opposition youth leaders from the…

President Uhuru Kenyatta is a proud grandfather after his son, Jomo Kenyatta and his wife, Fiona Achola Ngobi welcomed a daughter, ‘Wanjiru.’ Ms Achola gave birth to their first born daughter on Sunday night at the Aga Khan Hospital through a cesarean section. Achola and Jomo tied the knot in a Kikuyu traditional ceremony, ‘Ngurario,’ on October 22, 2016 her parent’s Miotioni home in Nairobi’s Karen estate. Read: Beatrice Kones Beats Son, Kipng’etich For Bomet East Mp Seat Only last week, pictures of a heavily pregnant Achola rocked the internet. She was in the company of her husband and now…

Garissa town MP Aden Duale has said NASA should call off their Tuesday rally to a later dayterming it as “no big deal.” Duale argued that they (NASA) were trying to sabotage the swearing in ceremony and that the “dead could be mourned on any other day apart from Tuesday”. He added that Kenyatta’s swearing in date was constitutional an wondered why NASA must hold a memorial for departed supporters on same day. Suba MP John Mbadi however downplayed Duale’s calls saying ”We have been clear, we will not be part of the swearing in on Tuesday. Why should Jubilee…

Boda boda operators on Friday set on fire a hostel at Embu University after the students lynched one of the operators. They are said to have gained entry into the learning institution where they roughed up students. This however is not the first time the students at the Institution and boda boda riders are beefing. In September however, a boda boda rider is said to have taken advantage of a first year student from the Rift Valley. He pretended to ferry her to the school but instead stopped in a bush near Don Bosco High School. Read: KU Closed Indefinitely Following…

CEO Brand Kenya, Mary Luseka is conceited and exhibits questionable leadership skills, according to staff members who have further described the 34 year old who took over the board in February 2016 as condescending. The board was formed under the Trade, Industry and Co-operatives ministry in 2008 with Ms Mary Kimonye as the Chairperson, who Ms Luseka now refers to as an ‘analog grandmother.’ An employee of the board says that the young CEO has made it her mission in life to belittle and insult her juniors every so often. She allegedly throws words like ‘f**k, bull crap, useless good…

Nairobi’s Kayole residents on Friday protested the killing of a garbage collector by the police. While seeking justice for the deceased, the residents blocked roads and engaged the police in running battles. Bonfires were lit in the middle of roads, paralyzing transport for the better part of the morning. Only last week, ten bodies were dumped at the city mortuary as a result of ‘mob justice,’ the police said. But postmortem results showed that some were shot while others were hacked to death. Opposition leaders are today (Friday) holding a fundraiser at the Laico Regency for demo victims. They have…

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s swearing in ceremony will cost a whooping Sh300 million. Kenyatta will be sworn in on Tuesday, November 28 after the apex court upheld the disputed October 26 election. Joseph Kinyua, head of  the planning committee asked the opposition to shelve its ‘mega rally’ also set for same day. Also invites list is Raila Odinga and 6 other presidential candidates and their running mates who ran in both the August 8 and October elections. ”The swearing in of the President on Tuesday is a historic day. Any other function will be like me choosing to have tea, which…

The auditor general, Edward Ouko has questioned the manner in which Sh1.2 million was used by Vihiga ward representatives for lunch. The MCAs, he says were double paid as they also got their sitting allowances, noting that the payment was irregular. ”Consequently, the lunch allowances of Sh1.2 million were not a proper charge to public funds,” Business Daily quotes him. ”It was not clear how the rates were arrived at or why they were paid the lunch allowances yet they were earning sitting allowances,” Mr Ouko said. In the 2015/16 financial report, the auditor general also notes that the county…

President Uhuru Kenyatta will be expanding his cabinet from 19 to 22 members soon after he is sworn in for a second term on Tuesday. The President has made it clear that in his second and final term, it will not be business as usual. He, according to sources plans on cleaning house and forming an all inclusive government unlike the one he has now. The Jubilee government as is composed, consists of mainly Kikuyus and Kalenjins and a few Somalis, Luhyas. Names tipped for the axe are; Jacob Kaimenyi (Lands), Hassan Wario (Sports), Judy Wakhungu (Environment), Phyllis Kandie (EAC),…

Britain on Friday warned its nationals against traveling to Kenya as there might be clashes on November, 28 throughout the country. On the said date, President Uhuru Kenyatta will be sworn in for a second term in office. But the opposition has threatened to swear in their leader, Raila Odinga on the same day as the People’s President. The government, through its spokesperson Eric Kiraithe on Thursday warned NASA against unlawful assemblies but gave them the go ahead saying that ‘swearing in Odinga does not make him President.’ In August, Britain issued yet another travel alert on Kenya due to…

It was an all male affair during President Uhuru Kenyatta’s economic transformation meeting at the National Treasury, on Wednesday, something that has been met with a lot of criticism. In the economic team, were three women; Aidah Munano PS Housing, Zeinab W Hussein PS, Gender Affairs and Ruth Kagia Advisor, Social sectors who were conveniently seated at the back. Many felt that even in Kenyatta’s team, women were under represented and yet make up the largest population. The photo that stoked controversy online was captioned: ”Met members of my economic team and partners at National Treasury as we continue with…

The government has declared Tuesday, November 28 a public holiday. According to a gazette notice, the President elect, Uhuru Kenyatta will be sworn in at the Moi International Sports Center, Kasarani at 10 am. Government spokesperson, Eric Kiraithe said 20 heads of state have confirmed their attendance. 1,600 VIPs were expected, among them former US President Barack Obama. Opposition leader, Raila Odinga is allegedly going to be sworn in on the same date as Kenyatta at Uhuru Park. Odinga has insisted that the Jubilee government is illegitimate and rigged him out of the August 8 election in collaboration with the…

The National Super Alliance (NASA) is free to swear in their leader, Raila Odinga as President as long as they do not interfere with the normal operations of the country, Government spokesperson Eric Kiraithe has said. Speaking at KICC, Kiraithe noted that the opposition’s inauguration ceremony would not affect that of President Uhuru Kenyatta. ”They can go ahead and swear in Raila. If they do so without interfering with the people, the government will not be concerned,” he said, adding that one can sit with friends and declare self pope without using public resources. He did however caution the opposition…