Author: Francis Muli

Protesting Ekeza Sacco members were treated to a tearful Monday morning after they paralyzed transport at the Kiambu Road where they had been called to record statements with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations. The members are protesting the loss of more than Ksh1 billion which they had invested with Ekeza Sacco, ‘owned’ by Bishop David Ngari alias Gakuyo. Last week, the DCI invited the members to record statements with them over the loss. In a statement on Wednesday, the DCI noted that it had received “numerous” complaints against these organisations. The agency asked of the sacco to report to its…

Assa Nyakundi Kibagedi,a city lawyer is under police custody for ‘accidentally’ shooting his son in their car while coming from church. In a police statement seen by this writer, the lawyer says that he left ICC church Mombasa Road while driving his Toyota Axio (KCE 753B)  with his son Joseph Nyakundi aged 29 years seated at the backseat. “As he neared his house at Muthaiga North, near the Judicial Training Institute, at about 0100 hrs, he reached back to retrieve his Glock firearm loaded with 15 rounds of 9mm ammunition from the right  pouch of the said motor vehicle to…

Kenyans have reacted to the Magical Kenya opens event that has been happening this weekend. Kenyans took to social media to criticise the government for neglecting the escalating cases of starvation-related deaths in Turkana and Baringo counties. President Uhuru Kenyatta, CS’s Amina Mohammed and Najib Balala graced the event, in which an Italian Guido Migliozzi on won the 2019 Magical Kenya Open tournament at Karen Country Club. The 22-year-old will pocket the top prize of Ksh20.5 million. Here are some reactions from Kenyans online: https://twitter.com/bonifacemwangi/status/1107236705260765185 https://twitter.com/mwasmwas/status/1107280413385469952 https://twitter.com/itsotienomokaya/status/1107295498153676801 https://twitter.com/kiptorefelix/status/1107290919676588033 https://twitter.com/Babu_Owino/status/1107169667251138562 Also on the receiving end of Kenyans’ bile was Turkana governor…

Last week, Kenyans were treated to the news of a gang of five robbers killed by police in Juja, after a tip-off of planned robbery. One escaped. However, reports emerged later that one of the ‘robbers’ killed was city lawyer Jeremiah Kinyua, who was in the company of his four other friends. Announcing the news, the police said: “Today, 12/3/2019 1930 hours, police officers received information of an intended robbery at Lexo Petrol Station. The six robbers on board a Tuareg Volkswagen alighted brandishing an AK 47. Police challenged them but they defied. They were overpowered and five of them…

Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen and Deputy President William Ruto were this morning on the receiving end of Kenyans’ wrath after launching an ICT and Resource Center at Sambirir Girls School. The Senate Majority Leader posted photos of him and the Deputy President launching the computers, which looked too old for the modern technology. The computers, most of which are Pentium II and III were dusty and using CRT screens and ‘ball’ mice, and old generation keyboards. Some lacked some basic parts like mice and and keyboards, and were placed on old dusty tables. Kenyans could not hold their anger,…

A feud between gospel artistes Alex Apoko alias Ringtone and Willy Paul is ensuing, after Rintone accused Paul of not being genuine in his gospel music career. In his latest posts, Ringtone accuses Willy Paul of bearing satanic tattoos which he did not have at the start of his career. Willy Paul I want to address you. If you want to call yourself you gospel artiste, you must shave your colored hair. Take off your earings. Number three when you came into the industry you had no tattoos and now you have demonic signs on your hand. You can’t call…

The government is set to start an online portal for information sharing, engineered by the ministries of environment and tourism. The move was announced during the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi by the two Cabitet Secretaries in charge of the ministries, Mr Keriako Tobiko (environment) and Najib Balala (tourism). “We have an obligation to leverage on technology and promote sharing of knowledge and best practices that can provide solution to environmental challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation,” said Tobiko. According to Tobiko, the portal will be used to integrate and visualize data on key sustainability themes like…

Pastor Shantelle Jepchumba of Glorious Heaven Ministries, Kimwarer, has been on the receiving end of Kenyans’ wrath after her photo went viral, showing her thighs while preaching. The photo which showed the pregnant pastor wearing a dress with a long front slit did not augur well with the online Kenyans, who felt that the dress was indecent. Most Kenyans felt that the ‘woman of God’ expressed too much of her thighs, that could lead to moral decay and sexual harassment of her congregants. ” Waah,,,, all fake,,how do you go to church dressed that way,,on the pulpit,” said Maria Ondiso. However,…

The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) has employed electronic claims processing in their system in the latest update. The development entails an Electronic Health Management Information System (EHMIS), a web based health information technology that allows health providers to submit claims electronically on behalf of the patients. “Besides saving time and reducing the claim processing turnaround, this system has also reduced the cost of processing claims by eliminating paperwork, and helped the Fund curb fraud,” said NHIF in a statement. Read: House Gifted To Nakuru Woman By President Handed To Another Family After She Rejected It Announcing the development, NHIF…

Laws setting interest rate caps are unconstitutional, the High court has ruled. In the ruling delivered yesterday, High Court judges Francis Tuiyott, Rachel Ngetich and Jacqueline Kamau ruled that the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) will continue regulating the rates for 12 months after which the judgement will take effect. “Mindful of the possible ramifications and disruption on existing contractual relationships between banks and their customers, the court suspended the effect of the declaration for 12 months from the date of this decision to give the National Assembly an opportunity to reconsider the provisions,” the judges ruled. Of the sections…

Investment Company, Cytonn, has launched an asset management arm, Cytonn Asset Managers Ltd (CAML), in a diversification move. This follows its approval as fund manager by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA), approval as Fund Manager for pensions by Retirement Benefits Authority (RBA), and approval by Capital Markets Authority to operate as a licensed Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Manager. “This should finally put an end to the question, ‘does Cytonn offer regulated products?’ The answer is yes, we have a regulated arm; CAML is regulated by the Capital Markets Authority and the Retirement Benefits Authority,” said Cytonn CEO Edwin Dande.…

Business mogul Peter Muraya and his wife Sue Muraya are set to lose property worth Ksh384 million in Lavington following a defaulted loan amounting to billions. The property which entails luxury residential houses sits on a 0.809-acre parcel of land. The auctioneer, Garam Auctioneers, in an auction notice Ksh48 million for each of the Suraya houses. “Under instructions from the chargee’s advocates, we shall sell by public auction the properties together with buildings and improvements erected therein. Each town house has five bedrooms, all en suite. The title is freehold interest,” announced the auctioneer. Read: Magoha Apologizes For Lifting Ban…

Gatanga CCM School is on spot over the death of a form one student who succumbed in school. Ebbie Noelle Samuels is reported to have been pronounced death by Naidu Hospital medical practitioners in Thika, upon her arrival at the facility. In a long post, highlighted by former Starehe parliamentary candidate Boniface Mwangi, the activist noted that the girl’s parents were called into her school only to find their daughter’s “lifeless, ice cold, body with a swollen tummy. She also had foam in her nostrils.” However, when the parents inquired what happened to their child, the school principal Ms Veronica…

The visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Kenya came with a Ksh300 bond meant for a rail project and the military. The deal will be signed at the end of the two-day visit which ends today. The rail project will involve a commuter rail-link between Nairobi’s Central Business District (CBD) to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) by 2021. The money will also be used to upgrade the military equipment. The projects will be done by a consortium of French companies under the umbrella body, French Business Confederation (MEDEF), which has said that it will invest in other projects…

The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) cannot account for over 51 million litres of jet fuel for Moi and Jomo Kenyatta International airports. A consortium of oil marketing companies (OMCs) have laid their blame on KPC which they allege is responsible for the loss. This puts the total amount lost by KPC in a spun of six months to over Ksh3.4 billion, even as forensic auditors are investigating the loss of fuel worth Ksh1 billion. KPC, led by chairman John Ngumi, have been attributing the loss to evaporation and leakage, which the OMCs term as fraud. The OMCs say that they…