Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

The Commission on Administrative Justice (CAJ) laid bare deep-rooted corruption, negligence, and systemic failure within Nairobi City County’s planning and development control departments, following an investigation into an illegally approved multi-storey development in Eastleigh. In a damning report, the Office of the Ombudsman found that senior county officials deliberately approved, endorsed, and protected a non-compliant building in violation of the Physical and Land Use Planning Act, 2019, and long-standing building by-laws, despite clear technical objections and active enforcement notices. The Commission has now recommended criminal prosecution of five senior and technical officers by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), disciplinary…

Detectives are investigating an incident where an electronic technician was found murdered on the balcony of the Corner House along Kimathi Street, Nairobi. The body was found on the balcony of the mezzanine floor long after his murder and lying in a pool of blood. He was identified as Gideon Kuria, 29. The motive of the murder was not immediately established, police said, adding the body had injuries in the forehead and mouth. His left wrist had dislocated when the body was picked up to the mortuary pending an autopsy. The deceased was a tenant at the building and the…

A 60-year-old woman was electrocuted as she mopped her house in Elukhogo village, Vihiga County. Police said Margret Timina was found dead in her house with the mopping tools next to the body long after the incident. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures, police said adding the family was advised to seek compensation from the Kenya Power officials in the area. Officials blame such incidents on illegal power connections and use of quacks in wiring processes. Elsewhere in Voi, Taita Taveta County, a man was electrocuted as he tried to vandalise a power…

Detectives and public health officials in Juja, Witeithie, Kiambu County are investigating the discovery of 30 donkey heads and 120 legs in a thicket. The products were delivered and dumped along Ndarugo Majahi road after the animals had been killed elsewhere. It is not clear where those behind the slaughtering of the animals took the meat. Officials from the public health department and police said they are investigating the incident. They added that an unscrupulous gang behind the incident could sell the meat to unsuspecting buyers and consumers in disguise as that of a cow. The heads and legs were…

A 65-year-old man was found dead in a thicket after he had been attacked by an elephant in Garsen, Tana River County. The deceased, identified as Katana Safari, had been a farm in the Kibusu area when he was attacked on February 7, 2026, witnesses, police and Kenya Wildlife Service officials said. The body had an injury in the abdomen and the animal behind the incident had escaped by the time it was picked up to the mortuary pending an autopsy. His family was advised to file for compensation. Such human-wildlife conflicts have been on the rise leaving dozens of…

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time show was one big love letter to his native Puerto Rico. The 14-minute set included guest performances from Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, along with cameos from the likes of Pedro Pascal, Cardi B, Karol G and Jessica Alba, who could be seen dancing on the porch of his famous casita, a staple of his shows designed to look like a traditional Puerto Rican home. It was expected that Bad Bunny, real name Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, would use his performance as an opportunity to make a political statement against the current US administration, but…

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoonand a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city’s dissent. Judge Esther Toh said 18 years of Lai’s sentence should be served consecutively to his jail term in his fraud case, for which he received a sentence of five years and nine months. Lai can appeal his case. His co-defendants received jail terms between 6 years and 3 months and 10 years. Three government-vetted judges spared the 78-year-old…

A Kenyan truck driver was sentenced to six years in prison for causing a fatal road rage crash on the New Jersey Turnpike that killed another truck driver. Joseph M. Nyandwaro, 41, originally from Kenya, and previously a resident of Minnesota, was sentenced on Friday after pleading guilty to second-degree reckless vehicular homicide. Nyandwaro, who was living in Pearland, Texas at the time of his arrest, was also charged in the case with leaving the scene of a fatal accident and tampering with evidence. The crash occurred on the evening of June 22, 2025, in Woolwich Township, Gloucester County. According…

Venezuela has freed Juan Pablo Guanipa, a political ally of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, after eight months in detention, his son has said. The former vice-president of the National Assembly is among several political prisoners to have been released since the US captured Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in January. “Our entire family will be able to hug again soon,” Ramón Guanipa wrote on social media, cautioning: “There are still hundreds of Venezuelans unjustly imprisoned.” Opposition and human rights groups say the government under Maduro had for years used detentions of political prisoners to stamp out dissent and silence critics.…

The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported the deaths of more Kenyan citizens who were recruited by Russia to fight in the ongoing war against Ukraine, with their bodies recovered near the city of Lyman in the Donetsk region. According to the Ukrainian intelligence agency, the latest bodies identified are those of Ombwori Denis Bagaka (born January 30, 1987) and Wahome Simon Gititu (born May 21, 1991). Their remains were found close to the body of another Kenyan national, Clinton Nyapara Mogesa, who had earlier been confirmed killed in the same area. Ukrainian officials say the three men were recruited while…

A man clobbered to death his wife in a domestic fight in Marakaru, Bungoma County. Police said the suspect was on Friday February 6 on the run after the incident. Debora Nafula, 32 died in hospital on February 5, 2026 where she had been admitted after the assault at her home on January 30, 2026. Police visited her residence in Mayanja area but did not find the husband. The body was moved to the mortuary pending other procedures, police said. In the Mungani area, Kitui County, a man died after being attacked by an arrow. Police said Benson Mukiti, 39…

Panic gripped many residents when cylinders at a gas depot exploded on Friday morning causing a huge fire in Donholm estate in Nairobi. Residents woke up to loud noise after a gas station next to a popular eatery exploded, sending shockwaves across the neighbourhood. The explosion is suspected to have been caused by one of the leaking gas cylinders that was full. It then caused a massive fire as workers there dashed to grab fire extinguishers to fight it off. Witnesses reported hearing multiple loud blasts followed by a raging fire that lit up the sky. Flying gas cylinders and…

A decomposed body of a man was found floating on Mathare River in Nairobi. The body was discovered on February 5, 2026 by locals who informed the police. Police said the man may have either drowned or murdered and thrown into the river elsewhere before the body was swept to the scene. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and identification. Meanwhile, police in Siakago, Embu County are investigating an incident where one John Murimi, 25 was electrocuted in a shallow well while trying to pump water from the scene. It was discovered the deceased was trying…

A middle-aged man was found dead after he had been killed and his body abandoned on the roadside in Kaanwa area, Tharaka Nithi County. Police said the body of the man was found a few meters away from Weru Market with injuries in the ear, face and arm. The motive of the murder was not established. Police said they did not identify the man and the body was moved to the mortuary pending others procedures. Murder incidents have been on the rise amid efforts to solve them. In Embu, police said they recovered a human leg from a river after…

At least two miners were found dead after they suffocated in a gold mine site in Masara area, Suna, Migori County. The two had ventured into the site when they suffocated and died on February 5, 2026, police and witnesses said. According to the police and other miners, the two identified as Ina Okuku, 22 and Vincent Owuor had ventured into a tunnel to dig for gold deposits when the incident happened. They died in the tunnel before other miners ventured there and retrieved the bodies. The bodies were later moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures.…