Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol could try to impose martial law again or undermine constitutional institutions should he be reinstated, lawyers for parliament argued on Tuesday as his impeachment trial entered its final phase. After weeks of testimony by high-ranking current and former officials, including some facing criminal charges for their role in the brief imposition of martial law on December 3, lawyers for both sides summarised their arguments and evidence at the Constitutional Court. “Declaring martial law in a situation that doesn’t fit a national emergency is a declaration of dictatorship and military rule,” Kim Jin-han, a lawyer…

The prosecution wants a bond given to a Somali national accused of personation be canceled.  Abdirizak Mohammed Hassan is also accused of sending threats to the key witnesses and the complainant who he purports to be his mother. State prosecutor Kennedy Kamau Tuesday February 18 urged Kahawa Principal Magistrate David Kiage to cancel the bond terms of Abdirizak Mohammed Hassan for threatening the main witness and the complainant in the case of personation. While submitting to the court to consider his application, Kamau said the acts of the accused are a violation of the bond terms. “Your honour, the actions…

Two former Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) employees have been sentenced to pay a fine of Sh10 million each or serve nine years imprisonment. The two were sentenced alongside Joseph Mbugua Maina, a truck driver who was sentenced to pay a fine of Sh5.3 million or serve seven years imprisonment. Kisumu Law Courts Chief Magistrate D.O. Onyango sentenced Reuben Andolo Aseneka, a former loading Island operator and Mutai Micah, a former ICT employee after they were found guilty of conspiracy to commit a felony, theft of petroleum products, illegally tampering with the KPC fuel monitoring systems (Fuelfacs and Acculoads), unauthorized access…

Juja MP George Koimburi was Tuesday arrested by police in a probe into allegations he made.  The MP was apprehended outside his home on Tuesday morning and taken to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters for questioning. Koimburi, who had previously claimed that the government spent some Sh13 billion campaigning for Raila Odinga in the African Union Commission (AUC) elections, was apprehended shortly after leaving his residence on Kenyatta Road in Juja. Speaking before his arrest, the MP claimed that two Subaru vehicles were stationed outside his house, and that DCI officers apprehended him before driving him to Kiambu…

Kibera High Court denied Sarah Wairimu Cohen bond after the prosecution opposed her release. Wairimu, the widow of the late Dutch tycoon Tob Cohen will be remanded at Langata women’s prison until two key witnesses testify. She is alleged to have murdered her husband on the July 19, 2019 in the Lower Kabete area within Nairobi County. In a ruling delivered on Tuesday by Lady Justice Diana Kavedza, the court ruled that the prosecution proved with sufficient evidence the likelihood of witness intimidation and interference. Justice Kavedza stated that Wairimu’s case is of public interest where a life was lost…

A team to recruit the new members of the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) was sworn into office with a call for integrity in the process. The commission chairman is also being sought. Their recruitment may take up to two months after which a recruitment drive for police will be announced. The former commissioners led by Eliud Kinuthia exited office after the expiry of their six-year term. A selection panel was on Monday February 17 sworn into office to start the process of recruiting the new commissioners. The seven-member panel comprises of Arhur Osiya (Executive office of the President), Moses…

Two suspects were arrested after a villager was stoned to death in Olontoto village, Narok County. The victim was accused of stealing a rooster in the area before he was confronted and killed in the Sunday evening drama. Police said Simon Kasaine, 39 was killed by a mob after he had been accused of stealing a rooster from a home. The owner of the rooster told police the deceased confronted him attempting to harm him when he found him with the chicken. This prompted him to raise an alarm, which attracted locals. A mob later stoned him to death. Police…

Anti-terrorism police in Mandera East arrested two suspected al Shabaab operatives, who had planned the abduction of a team of foreign nationals working at a sewer line construction site within Mandera township. Acting on intelligence, the ever-agile sleuths swiftly arrested the prime suspect, Isaac Abdi Mohamed alias Kharan Abdi Hassan, 29, who had recently sneaked his way into the country from El-ade in Somalia and forged several documents to identify as a Kenyan. On keen scrutiny and thorough interrogation, it was discovered that the suspect was to pay Sh100,000 to his local associate, who would assist in the abduction exercise…

Detectives in Namanga arrested four robbery suspects who invaded the home of an elderly Korean couple at Elmarba within Oloililai, Kajiado County, subjecting them to hours of anguish before making away with valuables. The incident happened on February 10, 2025 The suspects were arrested in Mlolongo in Machakos County and Mukuru Kwa Reuben in the city almost 100 kilometers away from where the crime happened. According to police, one of them is an ex-convict. A gang of about six men broke into Elmarba Full Gospel missionary church grounds, which hosted the couples’ residence, before cutting the grills of a window…

A brother to the late Malava Member of Parliament Moses Malulu Injendi is dead. Samuel Injendi died a day before his younger brother passed on in Nairobi. Malulu died on Monday at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi. Samuel died while undergoing treatment at the Kakamega County General Hospital on February 16. It’s now double tragedy for their kin who are coming to terms with burying two of their sons. The MP’s death happened just as the family was organising a fundraiser to foot his elder brother’s hospital bill. Samuel’s burial plans were yet to commence. The harambee was…

One child and two adults were critically injured after a plane crashed and overturned while landing at Toronto Pearson airport in Canada, according to emergency services. Images shared on social media show a plane which appears to have flipped over and is lying on its roof on the snow-covered tarmac. It appears to be missing at least one of its wings. Toronto Pearson airport said the crash involved a Delta Air Lines flight arriving from Minneapolis, and that “all passengers and crew are accounted for”. The flight had eighty people on board – 76 passengers and four crew – Delta…

Meta has announced plans to build a 50,000km (31,000 mile) sub-sea cable across the world.  The tech giant said Project Waterworth – connecting the US, India, South Africa, Brazil and other regions – will be the world’s longest underwater cable project when completed. Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has sought to extend its presence in technology beyond social media, including in artificial intelligence (AI) and the infrastructure that supports it. It said its new cable project would provide “industry-leading connectivity” to five major continents and help support its AI projects. “This project will enable greater economic co-operation, facilitate…

The director of Kenya Union of Savings and credit Cooperatives limited (KUSCCO) who was wanted in Sh82 million union theft presented himself before a Nairobi court for plea taking.  George Otieno Ototo had been summoned by the court over the issue. Ototo had failed to appear in court last week on Wednesday where four other KUSCCO officials pleaded to the charges. He went underground after learning he was wanted. The court issued summons for his appearance. He appeared before Milimani senior principal magistrate Dolphina Alego with his lawyer Apollo Mboya and denied the charges. His lawyer told court that he…

Baringo Senator William Cheptumo will be laid to rest at his Tunoiwo home in Bartabwa Ward of Baringo North Constituency on Saturday March 1, 2025. A funeral committee at his home said a requiem mass is also set to be held at AIC Milimani, Nairobi on Thursday February 27, 2025. Meanwhile, family, relatives and friends are meeting daily from Tuesday February 18 to Tuesday February 25, 2025. Cheptumo died at the Nairobi Hospital where he had been battling undisclosed disease. His family said he had been sick for some time until his death on February 16. He had been discharged…

A section of residents of Standard Media Group Sacco in Mavoko Sub-County have petitioned the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to probe some documents emanating from the Machakos County lands office.  They argued the documents have been used to fuel a dispute over a controversial access road pitting them with their neighbours at Arusha Court. The residents some of whom have lived in the gated community since 1997 when the media house sacco bought the parcel of land want the DCI to probe the authenticity of the documents which they say smack of fraud and forgery. In a formal complaint…