Author: Eva Nyambura

Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko was on another rescue mission in Nairobi’s Parklands area where two families risked losing their land to ‘cartels.’ The families of Mohan Singh Dhanjal and Satwant Singh Dhanjal contacted the Governor on Sunday saying that they have been living under constant threats lately from cartels who want to grab their land. The two families tried reporting the same matter to the area chief who allegedly proved difficult and instead asked them to ‘deposit with him the original title deed by 10:00am today, allegedly over a debt against the title of Ksh.350,000.’ The families on Monday following…

Gatundu South Mp, Moses Kuria on Monday evening said that he was only collateral damage in Johnston Muthama’s arrest. Kuria was arrested on Monday morning over hate speech remarks made over the past week. Muthama too was apprehended at his Kangundo home before being taken to the DCI’s office for questioning. The Kiambu legislator says the said hate speech comments made were over a week old. He says that he met with NCIC Chair, Francis Ole Kaparo who according to Kuria did not find his comments ‘distasteful.’ Read: Junet Mohammed Arrested Over Hate Speech Allegations (Video) In his defense, the…

NASA presidential candidate, Raila Odinga has vowed to spend the night with Gatundu South Mp, Moses Kuria and Johnston Muthama at the Pangani Police Station if they are not released by the end of the day. A source has disclosed that Baba is willing to make good his word should the two not be released. Muthama and Kuria were arrested on Monday over hate speech remarks and taken to the DCI offices for questioning. Also present at Pangani was Sabina Chege, Millicent Omanga, James Orengo, Esther Passaris, Babu Owino, Ken Okoth. Read: Muthama Now In Charge Of NASA Nairobi Campaigns…

NASA Presidential candidate Raila Odinga has accused the government of administering in 2014 a tetanus vaccine that is causing infertility in women. The vaccine was according to the Catholic church illegal and could cause permanent infertility among women and girls. In his address, Odinga said that the Church was right in its findings. ”We can confirm that the Catholic church was right. Hundreds of thousands of our girls and women aged between 14 and 49 will not have children because of the State-sponsored sterilization that was sold to the country as tetanus vaccine.” The former Prime Minister said the vaccine…

Safaricom’s Lipa na M-Pesa services are unavailable after M-Pesa underwent a systems upgrade over the weekend. The systems upgrade lasted for approximately 15 hours and will provide the customers and partners with more features and capabilities in the future, said Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore. The telecommunications company made the announcement on their social media platforms after customers could not access the ‘Lipa na Mpesa’ service. https://twitter.com/SafaricomLtd/status/907205982325010433 Also experiencing difficulties is the telco’s Mpesa banking, Mshwari and the Paybill services. https://twitter.com/SafaricomLtd/status/907218177951764480 https://twitter.com/SafaricomLtd/status/907216646070206465 Do you have a story you want told? Do you know of a sensitive story you would like us…

Former Machakos Senator, Johnston Muthama has been arrested by the police around Kangundo area over supposed hate speech remarks. He is being questioned over at the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters in Nairobi. Read: Lempurkel Appears In Court Over Hate Speech, Released On 100,000 Bail Gatundu South Mp, Moses Kuria was also earlier on in the day arrested over uncultured remarks made over the past week. More follows

President Uhuru Kenyatta has threatened NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga with impeachment should he win in the fresh polls scheduled for October 17. The President was addressing Jubilee elected leaders at the State House where he said his party would impeach Odinga as it has the majority in both houses of Parliament. Uhuru also dared the NASA legislators to miss the 12th Parliament’s first sitting saying the ruling party has enough numbers to conduct house business. https://twitter.com/ntvkenya/status/907200186887290880 Read: IEBC Commissioners Lives In Danger – Raila Reveals (Video) ”Even if he (Raila) is elected, we have the opportunity in Parliament. Two,…

Gatundu South Mp, Moses Kuria has allegedly been arrested over hate speech remarks made over the past week. The legislator was taken in on Monday morning and is being held at the Pangani Police station. Kuria was on the limelight last week after he made threatening remarks towards NASA’s Raila Odinga. The Mp is said to have also called for a man hunt for the 70,000 Kiambu voters who voted for ‘that other demon’ and the 200,000 who did not come out to vote. Kenyans accused Francis Ole Kaparo led National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) of being partisan in…

A Facebook user is looking for Safaricom’s staffer only identified as ‘Sharon.’ Haroun James in a hilarious post tells of his woes after his wife went through his phone and then just like the Supreme Court judges retreated before coming up with the judgement. In the lengthy post James explains how his ‘wife’ clobbered him leaving his ‘two front teeth floored.’ ”She pounced on me and clobbered me thoroughly. She violently broke every breakable thing in our house, including the bed. My two front teeth were floored. Eventually she fled.” Haroun then goes on to look for ‘Dear Sharon’ who…

Nakumatt Supermarkets has closed its Next Gen mall outlet until further notice. In a notice doing rounds on the interwebs, the outlet remained closed from Saturday 9 September. ”Nakumatt NextGen will be closed from September 9 until further notice,” the notice read in part. The store was only opened 9 months ago and was meant to attract the many customers using the ever busy Mombasa road and the South B and South C estates. Read: Moses Kuria Asks For 15 Per Cent Pay Cut As Other MPs Oppose SRC Move The retailer has been facing cash flow problems over the…

Former Senator Jonston Muthama has said that they (NASA) will inaugurate Raila Odinga as the President should Jubilee swear in President Uhuru Kenyatta illegally. Muthama pointed out that the Jubilee camp was planning to secretly swear in Kenyatta. ”This time we are not taking chances. If they swear Uhuru into office illegally, we will also move in and swear Raila into office,” he said. Speaking on Sunday in Kajiado, the opposition pointed out that it was not going to participate in the October 17 election unless IEBC got rid of CEO Ezra Chiloba. Read: Muthama, Wavinya Condemn Distribution Of ‘Raila…

NASA on Sunday lifted its month long ban on Nation Media Group (NMG) products; NTV and the Daily Nation. Speaking in Kajiado county, Siaya Senator James Orengo said the media group was now ‘reporting events well.’ ”Earlier on I asked you to stop consuming Nation Media Group products but they are now reporting events well. Now you can read the Daily Nation and watch NTV.” Read: Veteran Newspaper Columnist Betty Caplan Dies of Cancer in LONDON The NASA camp accused the NMG of being biased in its reporting. They believed that they were favouring the Jubilee side and was not…

IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati has hit back at Deputy President William Ruto over night meetings with NASA claims. In a statement, Chebukati asked Ruto to make public, evidence of the ‘so called meetings’ and venues where they were being held. Responding to the DP’s claims, the commissioner said the rumours were baseless and reckless. https://twitter.com/WChebukati/status/906971023844749312 “They shall not succeed to derail me from the immediate goal I have of delivering to Kenyans free, fair and credible election,” read the statement in part. Ruto on Sunday evening while speaking to Citizen Tv said he had information that Chebukati was meeting with…

14 year old girl behind the Moi Girls fire that killed 9 students on 2 September is being framed for a crime that she did not commit, her parents have said. Her parents reckon that their child is being blamed as she is an easy target. According to them, she sounded the alarm when the fire broke out and started waking up the other girls. Her parents have said that their daughter had left her bed when the fire broke out. She was in the washrooms and on her way back to the cubicle was met by a girl she…

St. Georges Secondary School was on fire on Saturday evening. The 9 pm fire razed down the kitchen but Nairobi County firefighters controlled it. No casualties have been reported, said Pius Maasai, a Public relations officer at the National Disaster Management Unit. “It is unfortunate that fire incident has been reported at St. George’s Girls High School, kitchen. So far no injuries have been reported and the cause of fire still remains unknown,” Maasai said in a statement. The unfortunate incident comes a week after a fire at Moi Girls Nairobi killed 9 students and leaving others severely injured. Read:…