Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

A 32-year-old man was hit and killed as he tried to separate a couple that was fighting in a village in Malinya, Kakamega County. Police said Owen Savai had responded to a neighbour’s house where there was commotion and an altercation between a couple. It was then that the man in the fight used a wooden stick to hit Savai in the head and fatally wounded him, police said. He was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Police moved the body to the mortuary pending an autopsy. The assailant escaped the scene and was…

The US justice department is filing a lawsuit against California over new congressional maps that voters approved in an election last week. The new maps favour Democrats and aim to cancel out gains made by Republicans through recently redrawn voting districts in Texas. Attorney General Pam Bondi accused California Governor Gavin Newsom of a “brazen” power grab using racially gerrymandered maps. California voters overwhelmingly approved the redistricting bill known as Proposition 50, giving Democrats an advantage in five new congressional districts. “These losers lost at the ballot box and soon they will also lose in court,” a spokesperson for Newsom…

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt granted clemency to a death row prisoner, commuting his sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The clemency notice came just before Tremane Wood, 46, was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 2004 for his role in the fatal stabbing of farmworker Ronnie Wipf during a robbery. The victim’s family told a parole board they opposed Wood’s execution. “After a thorough review of the facts and prayerful consideration, I have chosen to accept the Pardon and Parole Board’s recommendation…

California is revoking 17,000 commercial driver’s licences after an audit found they were given to thousands of immigrants who are no longer legally allowed in the US. The Department of Transportation said California officials confirmed they “illegally issued” those licences “to dangerous foreign drivers”, and the holders were notified their licences will expire in 60 days. In August a truck driver who was not in the US legally killed three people in Florida, spurring the Trump administration to increase its efforts to keep undocumented immigrants out of commercial trucking and bus driving. California Governor Gavin Newsom largely brushed off the…

Starbucks Workers United launched an open-ended strike in more than 40 cities Thursday on Red Cup Day, one of the chain’s biggest sales days of the year. The protest, which the union says involves more than 1,000 baristas in over 65 stores, comes after Workers United voted to authorize an open-ended strike after baristas and the coffee giant failed to reach a collective bargaining agreement. The strike could hurt business during Starbucks’ busy holiday season, which typically provides a sales boost and will be key to the chain’s plan to turn around performance in the U.S. under new CEO Brian Niccol.…

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen on Thursday announced the creation of three new subregions in Nairobi and posted County Commissioners to manage them. He explained that during the recently concluded Jukwaa La Usalama public forums, he promised to restructure and reinvigorate the National Administration to better serve the people of Kenya. “We are committed to bringing services closer to wananchi through deliberate decentralization and efficiency enhancement,” he said. He announced the creation of Nairobi North, Nairobi East, and Nairobi West Service Delivery Coordination Units has been made necessary by the high population of the capital city, now estimated at more…

Summit brings together industry leaders with a focus on strengthening Kenya’s digital resilience

There is a failure to allocate Authority to Incur Expenses (AIEs) to all police stations in the country, a report by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission says. This has limited their operational independence. There is also a non-allocation of independent AIEs to specialized and devolved units, constraining their operational capacity, delays in the disbursement of AIE, a lack of a comprehensive database for land parcels owned by the National Police Service, and a lack of ownership documents for the land owned by the police. This, according to the report has led to informal arrangements to undertake official duties, where officers…

There is no police management board on fleet management, tools and equipment, a report says. The report by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission found there is failure to constitute the Fleet Management Board and allocate suitable motor vehicles for operations; Failure to allocate motor vehicles to certain police stations and Sub County Administration Police Units, and to install motor vehicle tracking systems on GoK vehicles. There is also inadequate fuel allocations to police stations, which creates room for extortion, and soliciting of bribery by police officers to respond to incidents. The report recommends the constituting and operationalizing the Fleet Management…

There is a routine collection of protection fees by police from business operators, particularly bars, wine and spirits shops, and pool table establishments. A report by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission also found that there is a failure to record detained persons in the cell registers and occurrence books, creating opportunities for abuse of police powers and extortion; Inadequate provision for separate holding facilities for women and juveniles, leading to co-mingling and increased risk of abuse and exploitation. Further, there is poor sanitation in lock-up facilities, including a lack of proper toilets, limited clean water, and overcrowding, posing health risks…

Detectives are investigating the murder of a scrap metal dealer whose decomposing body was found dumped on a backstreet of Holo Market, Kisumu County. He was identified as Rogers Shishiali, who had been working at a local scrap metal dealer. The motive of the murder was not immediately established, police said. The decomposed body was discovered on Wednesday, November 12 afternoon, long after the man had died. Police suspect he was killed elsewhere and the body was dumped at the scene. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures. Meanwhile, police in Kapletundo, Bomet County…

Police are investigating an incident where a one-and-a-half-year-old boy died in a family borehole in a village in Kituli, Bungoma County. The boy was missing from the house before he was traced to a neighbour’s borehole. He had drowned therein, police said. It is not clear how he strayed to the well where he drowned, police said. The body was retrieved and moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures. The parents of the child said he was playing outside their home when he strayed to the neighbour’s house where the incident happened on Wednesday evening. In Kapsokwony,…

A team of senior police officers met and held highly engaging, productive partnership discussions with Amani Counselling Centre and Training Institution (ACCTI) at the Amani Regional Office, Nairobi, on how to address mental health challenges in the service. The Kenya Police Service was led by Officer in Charge Counselling and Psychosocial Support Department, Evelyn Mbugua. The discussions focused on strengthening mental health systems in policing, enhancing professionalism in counselling and supervision, building a sustainable, evidence-based wellness framework, fostering research and innovation in police mental health, and expanding trauma response, clinical supervision, and psychoeducation Mbugua observed that police officers operate in…

A 65-year-old man was shot and killed in an attack at his house in Bura, Tana River County. Police said Yussuf Lalafa Buya was shot on Wednesday, November 12 shot by men who had visited his house at dawn. The motive of the fatal shooting was not immediately known. He was shot four times at close range and died on the spot. The assailants had visited his house and called him. When he opened, they dragged him out and shot him at close range, police said. The body was later picked up from the scene and taken to the mortuary…

Detectives are investigating the murder of a 63-year-old woman in a village in Khwisero, Kakamega County. The incident happened on Wednesday November 12 in Mundobelwa village and left one Mary Muyokhwe dead. Her body was found on a footpath near her house. The body had stab wounds on the upper hip and was naked. There were also bruises on the back of the body. The woman stayed alone in the house. It is not clear what the motive of the murder was. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy. Police said on Thursday no arrest had been…